a whirl.

What do you do when everything depends on you?

If you were the penalty taker of the 90 minute penalty in the World Cup Finals that is currently tied 2-2... how would you feel?

If you were in a collapsing building in an earthquake and you see a collapsing beam and you quickly reach out and manage to hold on to it.. if you release it the entire building is going to go down. How would you feel?

If you were leading a blind troupe through the jungle and your compass spoils.. what would you do?

If in a poll, the results are dead even before you vote, so your vote would decide the winner.. how would you feel?

I hate being the deciding factor. But i guess there are times when i have to be it.

Somebody help me.

$205

I’m broke.

Some of you may know that my com has been experiencing some problems for some time.. about 2 weeks? Or less. And my biggest mistake is not taking my com for servicing when the problems started occurring. Like I use halfway then the com switch off by itself.

Well last night it switched off by itself again, and this time, it couldn’t be switched back on. So.. gone case have to send for servicing. Called my uncle who fetched me to simlim today .. brought my heavy heavy CPU lor.

Then right.. I had the receipt and warranty card from the shop I bought from. So I followed the ‘address’ on the card. 6th floor.. 06-27. Then I took the lift to the 6th floor and looked at the shop numbers.. 06-20… 06-21 … walk walkwalk. 06-27..

ZOMG!

THE SHOP IS GONE. NOW IS SOME HANDPHONE SHOP.

ZOMG.

So I walked up closer to the shop.. looked in and hoped that the shop was like hiding behind in the backroom or something. Or I was hallucinating. And that stupid handphone shop remained there. And the address #06-27 was printed big and clear as if to taunt me.

So I continued walking around in a daze.. then suddenly this girl from inside a shop asked ‘You looking for a shop?’
(wa psychic.)
“Er yea.. b---- computers”
‘Oh.. they moved away already. You want to fix your computer is it? Want me to take a look?’

=) ok . so I let her take a look and she dismantled my com and started testing the different parts.. blabla. Her male employee who was significantly pro-er came back and helped her, and they concluded that
1) My computer fan was spoilt
2) One piece of the RAM (I had 2 pieces of 256) was spoilt
3) The mainboard was spoilt.

2) and 3) were probably the result of 1). Dammit. I should have heeded the earlier warning signals when my com switched off by itself – i.e. overheating. :/

So while he was still acting pro and going through the parts in the computer I casually asked ‘how much ah’.
Then he pulled out this big fat calculator which I notice all sim lim square owners have (is it some free gift when you move into sim lim square) and started pressing buttons.. then showed me the number

215

-faints-
SO EXPENSIVE! Zzz. I was expecting at most 100 plus. Then he gave me the breakdown.. 120 was for the mainboard replacement, 35 for RAM, 35 for fan, 35 for labour cost/installation. Then I asked for discount and he brought it down to $205.

There goes my money.

The good thing was that all my files were intact magically. I was already like in despair and thinking of all the files and stuff that were gonna be lost if he reinstalled everything. But I dunno how he did it but everything was intact. =D my shows =D

Oh and I lugged that heavy CPU back from Sim Lim by myself cos my uncle not free anymore. It was at least 20kg man that freaking heavy thing. And I took bus somemore. My back felt like it was gonna breaaak.

Ok , who wants to donate to the Alan Charity Fund?

dance dance (and other random stuff)

Saturday, 31st March.

Woot. Went to "Dance Dance - Can you feel the heat?", a dance competition that was organised by MGS. John (my classmate), his friend, and some other SAJC guys took part in it.. and WON! =D


Ok before that, i went to KFC to have dinner (couldnt buy my usual cheesefries/popcorn chicken cos i was having some sort of cough) so i decided to go shrooms meal. But while in queue i changed my mind to try the OR Fillet burger cos i never try before.
Bad mistake.















Firstly, it's super super small. It's like the same size as the small mashed potato. It's the size of.. aiko's fist. I'M NOT EXAGGERATING.
Secondly, i thought it'll be some sort of fish meat cos well, it said 'filet', and i always thought filet meant fish cos of 'filet o fish'.

BUT. apparently filet just means:
–noun
1.
Cookery.
a.
a boneless cut or slice of meat or fish, esp. the beef tenderloin.

So what it was was a hard chewy piece of chicken that tasted worse than any KFC chicken i ever tasted and was terrible . Don't ever buy OR Filet Burger. -_-


ANYWAY. Back to the dance competition.
The winner would be decided by votes, and initially i thought it'll be damn biased because i think half the auditorium was MGS girls and 1/3 were ACS guys. Then there were some ACS/MGS participants as well. But in the end.. John's group 'The Innocent Boys' clinched first place in a landslide win apparently, about 370 - 80 or something like that. =)

Some parts of their dance were kinda unsynchronized and all, but considering they only practised this the night before the competition.. :p not bad at all. I like john's barney part haha.
Oh yea and in the middle somewhere when you hear the heartbeat thing.. the guy in the red bandana is actually doing a chest popping thing to look like heartbeat. but because i think he didnt do it very obviously and the angle then can't see.

Here's their performance:

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-5402248936415091920&hl=en



And the SA group photo taken after that. I was hidden by that guy!! argh irritating. the MGS girl who helped us take was kinda impatient too so didnt really let us get into position.






















oh yea. then i took 151 home.. and it's some special bus super cool one.



See. The seats are like.. couches. (very shaky though) And there is this very.. classy feel to the bus.

It's a normal SBS bus! not some nightrider or what. Just re-decorated by Nokia apparently.



















On a side note, i bought new shoes! =) Pretty cheap got from some shop near Heartlandmall for $12.50. Quite lousy too haha.
















OKKK. that's all i have for you.
Grats to innocent boys. =)