Johann Low

土曜日, 3月 24, 2007

[shit X 2]

This week @ work has been rather ok until yesterday evening. Bosses were away in China and I was quite free to do some other misc stuff. @ ard 5+pm, I received a hella of a bomb mail from my Jpn agent. Basically, it sums up that he will be asked to go Osaka to handle other business and there will be no one to take care of the net cages business. Then the end user from Hokkaido (that troublesome uncle 面倒臭いジジ) will be looking to liase with factory directly for their products and one of the higher potentials will be our factory. Well, the thing is, the factory is considered to be a subsidiary of my COY and my boss will not allow it to directly liase with a customer....so this means that we will not be doing any net cages biz with the Jpn agent, meaning that I might lose my job. Nice eh? when I was intending to save up to buy a Wii ard next month. Same thing happened when I was saving to buy a mac in 2005.

Second shit was when I reached home. My relatively new Samsung lcdtv is showing weird colors esp on the skintones of the people. Besides this, it shows weird color lines for some colors, the rendering of the colors is incomplete it seems. I saw this happened b4 when I was playing games, sometimes it is ok, sometimes not...now this extends to TV images. I made arrangments for the serviceman to come next Monday. Mum made noise again, blaming me that my gaming on this tv caused the problems. yeah right. Anyway, was not in the best of moods thanks to these 2 shit that came outta nowhere.

Well at least a pc of gd news, one of my old sec sch friend got himself a gf who is 10 yrs his junior, haha.

As of yesterday, I do realise I really have no one to talk to sometimes. Some friends find me an irritant when I talk or share some silly stuff to them, ok I dun really blame them, cos im probably a whacko in their eyes. So I think it is better I learn to curb myself from talking to people and learn how to talk to myself instead, which is something I have been doing because sometimes, there are issues or things I wanna talk about and there is simply no one to talk to! Well at least I dun think i will irritate myself by talking to myself, AHHAAHHAHAHAHAHA.

Oh next Fri might be my last day of work, if so. I will really miss the several babes I saw working ard my workplace, WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ahem..

Oh no wonder im deem as a 'whacko' look at the way I 'talk'. So I really dun blame people, I do not.

But honestly, beyond this breezy facade lies someone who is quite the opposite but I do wonder how many people can see it. Guess no one anyway, no one who is physically around me.

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日曜日, 3月 18, 2007

[kfshit]

the onslaught of OMFG lousy tv ads from KFC is....

Ad 1-Fish Oleh
Guy mumbles:
FISH OLEH IT TASTES SO GREAT
ergiegjt'epjgpe jg'jg'jg;shg;h;;r;lgkgfwagfl
fdigfigfigflsgfeutupwfj

Gal mumbles:
ghghfwhf;vl a;ahf;ahfa sauce very nice?
nanflawhflahfohff;sf;sfahfhgllelbavfiawviwv

FISH OLEH!!!!!!!

Ad 2-I dunno wat was it about
CHIRRRUPPPPPP PUUUUUT CHIPUUUUTTTTTTT KRRRUPPPPPP DOM CHI DOMPRRRKKUPPPP PUTTTTTTTTT
(some geeks spinning ard)
FISH OLEH?

Ad3
Auntie singing KFC is cheap and economical and tasty while her 2 little cute grand-children prance ard.

-_-,wah lao how bad can ads get?

Work has been bz and almost filling to the brim. I cannot believe there are SOO MANY things to do...Well besides work, things are rather ok. Learning to take things in my stride and learning to be more forgiving and learning how to let go of things that can hurt u. I dunno how to explain but the moment u can know how to let go or u have already done so, the feeling of a 'new life' or the fresh breathe of live is purely amazing. It is akin to having something which weighs u down, suddenly u drop these burdens and naturally u soar to freedom.

Other than work, more of my freetime is spent on slashing Mobile Suits with my PS3, whhahahaha. It is very fun and exhilarating. Dashing and slashing a bunch of Zakus is pure fun. My highest record til today was over 5000 Zakus being slashed. I have completed the Official mode, now I can have a selection of different MS to play as well as different characters. Anyway besides playing for the past few days I was also looking for a surround sound system for PS3 since alot of games are encoded in doby digital..but the set of speakers I set my eyes on is not cheap (about $650) but comes with a built in doby digital and DTS decoder, so it saves e moolah of getting a seperate receiver. This thing weighs 27KG and the sub is so huge I wondering if I have enough room to place it, haha.. Ah, this will be shoved til a later date.

Now I am....lemming for....wii!!!!!! WHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Well it is definitely affordable and the games seem fun, esp the sports games. Imagine bringing tennis into ur living room or bedroom! Or doing golf, or boxing or bowling. The innovative thing abt wii is that u need to execute almost the same moves in the real sports in the game itself. I think this feature beats everything that is out there in the market now. 2 of my gamer friends r nt keen in getting wii and they have not got their ps3. at least 2 of my ex-polymates r interested in getting wii, WHEN it is officially released in sg, like end of this yr or something zzzzz..

I hope work can be more evenly spread out for this week.

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月曜日, 3月 12, 2007

[The early and expensive birthday present (from myself to myself)]

Last yr, I got myself a psp for my birthday present. This yr, I got myself..............a.....

PS3!!!! WHHAHAHAHAHAHA, with a 3rd party HDMI cable from Atake and the game which made me to buy PS, ガンダム無双, Gundam Musou

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Upwrapping this big n heavy baby (box says 7KG)

Hooking it up to my hdtv via HDMI

So after asking and contemplating if I shld go ahead n buy this expensive and high-tech toy...in the end after watching the gundam musou trailer, that enticed me enough to go ahead and buy. And in the sweltering heat, I went down to Funz Center (the boss Chris offered me the best price among some of the retailers) @ AMK Hub. Once I reached there, I talked to him, wah he still remembered what he told me on Monday night, so the deal was set, I went to the counter to pay up after waiting for awhile.

Saw some nice demos on some basketball game on his 40" LCD hanging on top at the back of his shop..woah very realistic lighting...anyway the games now getting more and more realistic. I think by the time of the next generation of consoles, we probably cannot differentiate already.

I was worried abt hooking up via HDMI cos I did read some articles whereby some people in the States had problems with the handshake btwn PS3 and the display...it all boils down to this stupid shit called HDCP (High Definition Copyright Protocol), meaning if ur display is not HDCP compliant, u will not get a display at all, if u connect via HDMI which is a pure digital connection of sound and HD display. I did somewhat confirm with Samsung that my hdtv is HDCP compliant..and it really is cos I had no problems connecting via HDMI. Thus now I am playing this excellent action game in HD 1080i! WHHAHAHAHAHA...very sharp n detailed...but the game is only in 720p not full 1080p..anyway I have a small tv, so does not matter.

This game is mainly slashing,dash and destroy. There can be so many enemy mobile suits until u dunno where are u...how many are there? Well for my 1st mission, I destroyed about 1000 Zakus, single-handedly haha..2 mission I slashed lesser. The game also runs with no lags even when there is a few hundred Zakus or robots on ur screen. Too bad I dun have a surround HT system, if not the experience will be better.

Setting up was quite a breeze, some minor hiccups with the wireless connection but nothing much. Then I did one dangerous thing which was to update my system via wireless. The thing is my wireless connection is cranky, it does d/c at times when there is a wireless connection being made to it. But luckily for me, this time it did not d/c while my PS3 was downloading the update, IF it d/c, it will corrupt the updating and....i will have to send it for servicing..

Still there r somethings I need to explore into this super high tech toy. Oh yeah it runs hot too..my wooden tv console was warm cos it was blowing out hot air at the right side. Anyway now I placed it vertically. Next game to get shld be Motorstorm, it has excellent reviews for its gameplay and graphics.

Anyone wanna sponsor me this game for my BD? hehe

elow at 12:49 午前 | (0) comments

木曜日, 3月 08, 2007

[work work n work]

hmm, for the past 3 days, work has been rather hectic. There seems to be ennnnnndlesssss work to do and there's hardly a moment for a slight breather. Anyway it helps to keep my mind occupied from other stuff. Besides seeing that sweet gal (among a few others hehe) in the bus I travelled in to work every morning...there's nothing much to occupy my mind now. I think there's really nothing! Daytime is work, night time is rest, TV and internet.

Usual day in the office will start with emails....lunch....browse thru newspaper....online for awhile if time permits.....then work then KO....then travel home in the mrt (and taking a short nap)....dinner.....TV......internet.....slp

Ok, so.......shld I dump ard $900 to get myself an early BD present? should I? should I? should I???? then again, i might need to fork out some extra moolah for a new router.

tsk

elow at 12:13 午前 | (0) comments

火曜日, 3月 06, 2007

[weird dreams]

Have u ever dreamt abt scenarios and things before and then one day u find urself exactly in a situation which matches ur previous dream? I rem I once dreamt about going to China for some fishing exhibition...and guess what, it came true.

Anyway, I had one of the most bizarre dreams last night. Nonetheless it was a sweet dream but it seems almost impossible. Ok, so there were 2 gals, I think not bad looking to my standard. Then I was like in love? I also was hugging the 2nd gal whom I think she sorta agree to be my gf...and when I hugged her, I felt her pulse racing. WHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA. Ok, she is not bad looking, quite tall I think and quite slim. WHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ahem.. i was running my fingers through her long hair and.....

Then I woke up with a weird aftertaste of the dream.

And that dream is......just a dream which will not come true.

elow at 11:36 午後 | (1) comments

日曜日, 3月 04, 2007

[just something]

I feel numb or almost nothing when I see couples on the streets and I have forgotten what is the feeling of 'falling in love' and 'being in love' is. How was it like? All these seem to be shoved all the way back....so back until I cannot feel them anymore. I guess this is a good thing cos I probably will not get hurt/bruised by these things called 'love' and 'relationship'. Anyway, I know things just cannot work out anymore, even if there's someone suitable. I just feel so.

Pretty amazing, huh? Thus I feel invincible. muahahaha

My skin condition on my legs has not improved much, they look rather grotesque and I was on MC on Fri. They do itch.

Latest lemming:-
PS3, local set 60GB. Cost:$799
Game I wanna play:Gundam musou, $92 Asian version which comes with a small Gundam kit/toy. (this game is some excellent shit)
Accessory:HDMI cable $39.

If I buy them all, total damage will be $930. And I will be $930 poorer..not that I cannot afford but....my friends are holding back. AND 799 is not expensive for a PS3 considering it is also a blu-ray, dvd,cd and SACD player.

Lastly, the latest KFC TV Ad sux so badly I cringe when I watch it. Why on earth did they get 2 pigs to ramble some rap crap (which I can hardly understand), gawd the gal is fugly, whose niece is that? How much were they paid? How much is the ad?? $100?

Weekend will end in 20min.

elow at 10:59 午後 | (0) comments

金曜日, 3月 02, 2007

[beijing trip (rats included)]

So there I went to Beijing for the China Fish 2007. We reached Beijing at ard 11pm, by the time we reached the hotel, it was coming to 12..so anyway the next day we went to the center to setup the booth.

Summary: this yr's event not too good cos there were confrontations from my side and with the rat team from China, particularly this rat manager and her rat henchman. This rat balantly tried to grab one of the client i was attending to infront of me, so there the fuse was blown and I pointed at him and asked why the fark did he butt in for...and there went his lanjiao face turning into a bey song and there went him rattling on...Chinese saying, a dog's mouth can never give ivory. Anyway I did prove to them, we Singaporeans are not to be trifled with!!!! I am not saying the rest of the Chinese team was bad, most were ok, except for the 2 pc of shit. Even their colleagues could not stand their unscrupulous way of getting business. The rat manager has the backing of the male Chinese boss, who knows what went on under his table. She can balantly stole her colleagues' clients list to grab them and the Chinese boss sided with her..so u can roughly know what is happening...and she is married loh to another man of cos. Well being aggressive is one matter, being unscrupulous is being another.

Anyway when I told that rat dog off even my boss praised me, Well done! hahahaha I RULEZ! _|_ to the rats..tiu gao lei! I dun respect rats, so dun expect me to give u any, u piece of low-class shit. PUI! KNN!

Speaking of 'pui', I cannot comprehend why mainland Chinese like to spit so much, is there so much phelgm for them to spit? Or maybe the air in Beijing is so bad, that they have to cough up phelgm or saliva or whatever concoction every 5 min?

General observation, they dun follow rules. They simply DO NOT FOLLOW RULES.. or most of them do not. So the Chinese government can have 1000000000000000000000000000 rules but the people dun follow them! yay! Also the streets are dusty and dirty besides the air and some people. And I cannot believe that the air in Beijing will clear up for the Olympics next yr, I pity the sportsmen n women going there...they might have serious lung infections hahahahahahaha. Beijing people,though being the capital seems to have alot of catching up to do compared to their countrymen in Shanghai. We have some nice Shanghainese colleagues there..very nice and our mentality matches. At least they do not use underhand methods like rats and cockroaches. A line from Dowager Cixi from a Chinese drama " our people can copy every darn thing from the westerners but somehow they simply can copy whatever is superficial, they do not know the ropes behind their products", this goes the same as today, pretty much.

The breakfast from the hotel which we were staying sux. They consist of warm orange juice, milk, some lousy veges, hard boiled eggs ( one of the few palatable), some mantous, rice noodles with 10 ton of salt added, porridge etc. We had them for 2 days, then e rest we went to have nice hot wantons at a famous (I think) and nice hot noodles. Well at least the rooms are clean.

Oh, try not to have macdonald's in China cos every darn thing is in Chinese! It is just hard to order for me..and their french fried once again has like 20 tons of salt added and their staff dun seem to be very polite, most prob due to the lousy pay I believe. But thank goodness, one restaurant, we went to on Tues night was one of the best! Total cost is ard SGD20+! Well what can I say, 6 stars service! The dishes were not bad too, besides the nice babes =x On the last day, we had Beijing steamboat, the difference is they dun use stock to boil the stuff, they use water. The main thing is the sauce which they dip the food into. Anyway not bad, quite good actually but the proportions of each dish is huge and they use hot coal to heat their steamboat........so when we were all full, I added some sliced paper thin chicken into the center part of the 'chimney' which houses the coal, WHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, I wanted to add the sotong balls but hahahahahahaha, guess one of the waiter saw and his eyes went O_O WJJAJAJAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....anyway some of the meat got stuck near the chimney and they look like char siew! This is how char siew is done anyway hwhahahaha

On the way back, I watched James Bond Casino Royale on SQ as well as Happy Feet and an array of new movies.Pretty cool stuff in krisworld. Oh some Chinese dork smoked in the plane's toilet. FARK, they really DUN follow rules!

And me being gey kiang nv bring any moisturizers, so in the end the skin on my legs got very dry and now they have red spots and streaks and they do itch. It got to a point where I felt pain when I was walking.

Anyway here's some pics, (rats included, guess we need arsenic? AHHAHAHA)

View from hotel room window:

Reception area (above is the place where lousy breakfast is served):

Center (notice the blardy red coat? yeah tats e rat ang gongong manager who likes to dress in loud colors):

Rats(lady facing front is a nice local colleague. Try to find the rats, they r near):

Labels done by Yours Truly:

Nice booth behind us:

Century Square (something like our Paragon?):

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