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Archive for June, 2006
Alec finished his exams yesterday. In the afternoon, M took him to our local recreation club for table-tennis. After that, we decided to go and watch X-Man The Last Stand.
Since it was already 6:30pm by the time Alec got home from the club and he had yet to take a shower, we thought we could catch the 7:55pm show at The Festival Walk and have hot dogs from the cinema’s food stand. We got to the cinema by 7:30 but took us about 10 minutes to get the tickets without a line-up as the ticket printer had a paper jam and it took them a while to correct the records and have the tickets printed out.
Even though I bought the tickets with the credit card that could get us one hour of free parking, the tickets alone were not enough to cover the minimum spending. So we head over to Marks and Spenser’s to get me some new briefs to replace the worn-out ones. Realizing it was close to the show time, I asked M to take Alec back to the cinema and buy the food and drinks as I registered the purchase for the free parking.
When I got to the cinema’s food stand, M and Alec had just arrived. It was 7:45pm but all the hot dogs were sold out from both food stands on both floors! I know it’s no Stadium Dog, which I long for, but it was dinner time and more shows to come, why on earth would they let hot dogs sell out?! They had one “Holland Sausage” and had to go downstairs to get two more for us, otherwise there was just popcorn.
After ordering the 3 sausages, I was about to order the drinks and popcorn, the other server had already tallied the amount in the cashier’s machine but I carried on ordering a set A with the one medium drink and small popcorn and one more small drink and I told him no ice for both drinks. He didn’t catch that so I had to repeat the order, and as soon as I finished ordering he had already forgotten my order so I had to repeat them again, and once again I asked for no ice for both drinks. He took a medium cup and started scooping the ice, so I had to remind him no ice again. When he finished with that, he crapped another medium cup, so I had to remind him it was a small drink. After changing the cup he went and scoop the ice! So I had to remind him no ice again! All these happened with no one ordered ahead of us and only one other party behind us. So much for a high pressure job.
Into the show, it was a “medium” hall that’s not so big but it turned out our seats which I though might have been too close were perfect distance from the screen. The movie came on and… chromatic aberrations all over and soft sides (not just corners) on all for sides! Noise (or grain?) all over. Sound was on par, and the seats were clean and had ample leg room so at least we were sitting comfortably.
Once again, with the 80″ projected screen at home, I feel there is no need to go to the cinemas anymore. If however Alec insisted on going the next time, we would order Ruben Sandwiches from Dan Ryan’s instead of taking chances a the food stand.
The show itself was good with a good story, great effects, and good acting performances. Recommended; and it is not necessary to have watched X-Man 1 or 2 prior to this show though their are also recommended.
Cellular phone service providers and manufacturers are utterly useless when it comes to setting up a new phone to be used with all its functions. Something as simple as setting up a new phone for GPRS and MMS use are sometimes bounced between the service provider and the manufacturer. If your phone happens to be one of the grey market ones, then not even the retail company you bought the phone from could help.
Bought a clamshell flip phone to replace the soap bar phone recently for its safety from accidentally answering a phone call in your pocket without knowing. Ever receive or placed calls that the caller/receiver is talking to someone else on the other end and completely ignoring the phone call? They have accidently pressed the phone keys. Don’t think for a second that that keypad lock is going to protect you. Answering a call from a locked keypad only needed one single press on the send button. Jeans are worse than flannels. A flip phone without any send button on the outside is the only way to prevent that. Slide phones that have send key on the outside have the same problem.
I bought a Samsung SGH-E870. Not listed at the service provider site naturally as it is so new it is only available in the grey market recently. What to do about the GPRS and MMS setup? Look for a similar phone on the list. The Samsung SGH-E648 has almost identical spec as the E870. Took a chance and voila, it works.
Upon transferring the contact list and other files from the soap bar phone to the clamshell flip phone, I found six 3 minute voice recordings in the soap bar phone with nothing but what sounded like walking with the pants rubbing on the phone sound and my talking sound which I had never intentionally recorded; and my soap bar phone has an keypad lock which automatically activates after 5 seconds of inactivity!
Note for phone manufacturers: Contact list Grouping is pretty well useless without the ability to setup Profiles, and it seems like only Nokia has it among Samsungs, SonyEricssons, and Motorolas that I have seen and used.
Last time I watched a full soccer game was 4 years ago during last World Cup’s semi-finals with Korea vs Germany. I watched 2-1/2 games over the weekend and can’t help but wonder why I even bother. I watched 1-1/2 of those games with my cousins and it was still boring as hell. I don’t know if I’d start throwing bottles at the screen had I watched them in a pub.
I’d bet England and Germany won’t win.
Some “healthy suggestions” being suggested in the news that one should not sleep-in but take a nap after work only and do not eat excessively watching the 3:00am’ish World Cup games.
Why not go to bed early like 10pm’ish, tape the game, and then get up at 5am and watch them before the news and work like a truly healthy sleeping habit?! One can even skip the halftime ads and save ample time. If it’s the crowd, the beer, and the smoke they were after, a diet coke is not gonna help 40 bags of chips!
again just now. Absolutely nobody left the building. I hope no one wants to experience the feeling of getting burnt just for the hell of it.
Some explained that there are too many false alarms in this building with a cold smile, when in fact only less than 5% were due to faulty system. The other 95% were indeed smoke triggering the smoke detector. If they were counted as “false alarms” then why do we even bothered forcing new buildings to have smoke detectors installed under regulations?! What do you want, a Towering Infernal before triggering the alarm?!
We have notices for the tenants explaining the reasons for the alarms after each and everyone of them. Suppose there were an airplane proximity alarm at the World Trade Center before 9/11 warning off airplanes and tenants, would you not want that alarm to go off well before the plane actually hit the building?! Or would you only deem the system is working properly if and only if the plane had actually hit the building with tenants already on fire?
Fashion is not just limited to following new trends on what to wear, the mind must evolve along with new experiences and educations. Otherwise one would just become an “Old Fly”.
Bunch of empty headed animal food trough wipers!
It’s been raining for quite a few days now. And I can’t remember how many years it’s been in a roll row (Oops, spelling mistake that’s been checked through the spell checker*) that I had planned to go out and shoot the dragon boat races only ended up canceled and stayed home. I was all ready for it this year with a raincoat and all but planning to go out with the family happens to be different from planning to go out on my own.
We were all set to go to Discovery Bay and visit a friend who lives there this year. The eve was semi clear and we planned to go on the 8:00am ferry. At 6:00am, it was just pouring. M and Alec didn’t want to go in the rain, and I didn’t want to leave them home for the holiday, so we all stayed home and did nothing. Well…, Alec studied.
Looks like it’s gonna be another rainy weekend coming… and it feels like Robinson Crusoe writing this.
* Take note, Toby and MoLoi, I’d just made the same mistake. You can row your boat but be sure not to roll it though.
WhaUSay?!