*bloop*

I have a slight stiff neck, my earlobes smart and my shoulders too. Wakeboarding with the guys was AWESOME. I said I was going to get some air this time, and I did. Ed the instructor/boatman, was as usual excellent. My third time riding and he’s teaching me air. He warned me however that this is when the fun begins BUT it’s when you get hurt the most. Hence the stiff neck. I executed a small leap that was supposed to take me from (my weaker) toe-side to the the middle of the wake directly behind the boat. First I had to get used to riding toe-side, since I ride goofy (my master leg is in front) that’ll mean riding on the port side. That was quite the thing, and my most valuable lesson for the day. Ed was telling me that my posture was pretty fucked up early on in the day, once I realised that I had to keep my chest and hips in line and moving as one in the intended direction, everything took off from there! (pun intended!)

So I rode on heel side a little, getting used to riding again, pick up speed, slow down, come into the wake, out, and finally just riding the wake. Up,down, up,down, up, down…. then the crossing over and finally how to lean out, pick up speed, round out the power bend, come back in hit the wake as perpendicular as I can and *pop* AWESOME!! So initially, I tried to launch from atop the wake and promptly face planted on landing. I got told off nicely for that, “too advanced, don’t try to launch yet, just stiffen out and come in slow.” Call me retarded, I couldn’t get the come in slow part, but I did lay off the launches. So instead of landing in the middle of the wake, I managed to clear the wake and hit the second one on the starboard side. Wheeeeeeee! The feeling was bloody marvellous. We took videos but I haven’t decoded them yet, besides, E got a little seasick looking through the lens so he didn’t capture me “flying.” Next time! At least I managed to get 3 more guys hooked to the sport! YAY! So the rest of my time on the board was spent trying to fly, and land properly. The second last time I flew I landed tip in the water, hooked it and somersaulted. Ed said, “You remember the guy I told you about who burst his ear drum?” Yes? “Well that was exactly how it happened, fortunately you had the instinct to turn your head in….” Hence my stiff neck on one side. At first when i tried to jump, I chickened out quite a bit, coming out of my comfort zone of just riding on heel side was tough. But then I told myself, “Screw it. I’m out here to learn and to have fun and if I wipeout, so I wipeout! If I get hurt I get hurt… LET’S GET HURT!” Very smart of me! Awesome!! wheeeeeeeeeee! So I managed to get air. I’m so frickin’ happy.

I’ve been hanging out with M, E, Emm, and P quite a bit the last 2 weeks. E just POP-ed from BMTC so he’s on leave for a while. Come Monday he goes to OCS. It’s been excellent, friends are certainly wonderful aren’t they? Emm took some shots as I was attempting all my jumps and some how they came together almost perfectly. The following pics are not in sequence chronologically but they look grrrrrrrrrr-eat!

Laptop’s running out of batts but more on this later! wheeeeeeeeeeee!

feelin’: accomplished

saturday going you know?

whip out the cam, the sunblock and the noseplugs. it’s time for face plants, and pain! Where can I borrow a video cam from? Oooooh YEH!!! let’s see if I can land this time!

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

oh. and i sold my wifi card. some sod bought it for 90 bucks. i bought it brand new for 80. i think the shop sold me at the wrong price.

Bought the silly PalmOne WiFi SDIO card for my Treo yesterday believing that the stupid hack from Shadowmite might work. Actually it did work. What I failed to realise was that this was the typical American who hacks away with brute force. Sheesh. No bloody finesse. The hack made the WiFi work for the Treo¹ but it killed the GPRS functionality for the Blazer web browser function AND it buggered the Bluetooth function. I can’t have that can I? I’m already driving on the brink of a cliff wall when I sms with this phone² while driving. Anyways it doesn’t really work very well. The crap that I had to go through included the following:

• unannounced and unwarranted resets. (and sometimes i didn’t even touch the stupid thing)
• it crashes like crazy
• it wouldn’t detect my wireless AP even if I was sitting right in front of it
• it wouldn’t register changes in the SSID
• sometimes it registered changes
• sometimes it worked

So the bottomline is, go ahead and get the fucking hack from Shadowmite if a) you don’t need bluetooth
b) you don’t use GPRS
c) you don’t mind fucking around with your Palm Treo

That is to say, if you treat your Treo like a fracking toy and not a tool. Americans! BAH!

So what happened? I lost about a month’s worth of calender data, because coupled with this shit that happened, my stupid laptop has problems recognising USB shit. Go figure, it’s Windows. Not much got lost, some unimportant numbers which I managed to get back and a weeks worth of calender data for future appointments. I remember them so “mehhh!” (frick. I smell bacon, ham and eggs and I haven’t gotten out of bed since I woke up at 12! haha. I was working on my laptop in bed last night.) Now I’m selling the silly WiFi card on Yahoo Auctions. SOMEONE PLEASE BUY IT! FRICK! >:/

I have this massive blister the size of a 5 cent coin which I woke up with. It’s the stupid new SAF New Balance shoes that I bought. I used them in the gym yesterday. I only had a short workout. It was kind of an experimental workout for me, short because I had to meet Chris at Bedok to buy the 42″ Plasma TV for the office. *drool* I get to set it up with the presentations that are going to be on it. yippee. I guess I just have to get used to the stupid shoes. Tried the rowing machine yesterday, it’s a fantastic workout if you don’t mind looking like an idiot. I don’t it’s a farking good workout. And you burn calories like mad. The back and arms get a pretty decent workout! I swear!!

3779m in 15mins

average watts per hour

calories per hour

time per 500 m

Random Pics from my phone

premiums!

walking Lego Star Wars AT-AT walker

this guy has a sense of humour.

¹ Apparently Palm caved in to the bitching of the American mobile telephony companies.
It seems that if WiFi were enabled, it’d mean that telcos can’t charge their slaves
addicts apparently unseemingly unwitting “customers,” thousands of dollars a year racked
up in GPRS packet data. Not to mention GPRS data plans and perhaps even PCMCIA cards for laptops and
other various accessories!

2: Think tiny QWERTY keyboard
Wordsworth was probably high on opium again. Wheee!

Daffodils

I WANDER’D lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch’d in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
- William Wordsworth. 1770–1850

mood: content

Brilliant indeed. I was reading this to Gabs last night. We read some other ones but this one really stood out. Blake brilliant here. And it struck the right chord. Isn’t it brilliant too, what the "Del" key does? Hee hee.

<pre>
<b>A Poison Tree</b>

I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I water’d it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,

And into my garden stole
When the night had veil’d the pole:
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch’d beneath the tree.

  — William Blake
</pre>

Someone stole my apple!

So anyways after leaving the office last night I popped over to Nav’s to return him his iPod Shuffle. Apparently he hurt himself at the gym coz some chick went "Boo!" to her boyfriend who was just behind Nav. Nav was in the midst of raising 30kg dumbells to do his flys. The effect was that he dropped the dumbells on his hips and wrenched his shoulders and his wrist. Then he called me and blamed me. "If I was plugged into my iPod I wouldn’t have been hurt!" He was kidding. After Nav’s I went and said a quiet prayer. Then it all went away today. So that was it.

Went to the office early today, set up the machines and got to know the new assistant over coffee. Afterwhich I went to collect premiums from a client and headed down to Esplanade. I got a call from Ramli who told me that Fendi was performing at the concert hall. It’s this Lunchbox thing that happens on the last Tuesday of the month. It was good! Munir was playing the guits and generally the band was cohesive. Excellent! I went to the gym after that.

At the gym I met this guy who I recognised as my junior in secondary school. He’s a PE teacher and get this: he’s the one that engaged the company that does the outdoor camps that I instruct at. The next time they want this camp done, they’ll request specifically for US! Hah! is that like awesome or what? I’m now at Balaclava waiting for N and A, and Ramli to arrive.

Sigh. Things have been mixed today and generally good. My mind’s clear and my prayer’s answered. It’s all good once I decided that little people and little things only make up white noise. Irritating but inconsequential. Patience is a skill that’s hard to prefect but it’s worth it! I’m in a good mood. What did Freddie Mercury sing? "Don’t stop me now….I’m Mr Farenheit…." Wheeeeeeee!

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