Friday, June 27, 2008 11:26
If you have visited Shum's blog, you'll find this familiar. I thought it was funny, so it warrants a column here. Here it goes.
Dear Tech Support:
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a slow down in the overall performance, particularly in the flower and jewellery applications that had operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0. In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, but installed undesirable programs such as NFL 5.0 and NBA 3.0. and now Conversation 8.0 no longer runs and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. I've tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do?
Desperate
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Dear Desperate:
First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an entertainment package,while Husband 1.0 is an operating system. Try to enter the command: C:/I THOUGH! T YOU LOVED ME and download Tears 6.2 to install Guilt 3.0.If all works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the
applications Jewellery 2.0 and Flowers 3.5. But remember, overuse can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0, or Beer 6.1. Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will create Snoring Loudly. WAV files. Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-law 1.0 or reinstall another Boyfriend program.
These are not supported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.
In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have a limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. I personally recommend Hot Food 3.0 and Lingerie 7.7.
Good Luck,
Tech! Support
I was very amused when I read it.
Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:45
I am taking a break. For MY EYES!!! For almost an hour I could not take my eyes off the colourful array of chiffons and cottons under the influence of Miss Shopaholic, such that for a moment I nearly forgot about my Singapore account balance that screams "critical".
In any case, there are a few lines to be said.
Time zooms past, and it's already five months. My stay in this ants-infested apartment is coming to an end. As much as I've complained, time and time again about the vicious carnivorous ants and the terrorist of a cockroach appearing every now and then in the kitchen, I've regarded this place as home as well. Of course not the home I call home in Ipoh, yet 'tis the place I've resided for close to half a year.
Of course, I'd very much wanna end my working life and resume to being unemployed, so that I can wake up at eleven and slack on my couch in a hot afternoon. Yet by the time I'm able to slack on my couch in a hot afternoon, I will have already bade goodbye to PJ, detached myself from the days without nights schedule.
Will it then feel unfamiliar, to be unemployed and slacking my afternoons away?
Sigh. Time and tide really waits for no man. No. It does not wait for no man either, for I am no man.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 23:00
Okay! After being away for... WHAT?!?! Only
six days?! It felt like it's been forever!
Alright nevermind, so after being away for
six freaking long days, this is what I've got to say:
Soon kuey is the BEST damn thing in the world - for TODAY. I ditched my fried rice of a lunch for a small soon kuey and I felt like the happiest girl in the whole wide world. Buy me soon kueys and I'll love you. Today.
I was redecorating my yahoo mailbox today, giving it a whole new colour, when I caught sight of a folder I created some years ago entitled 'Memories'. It's been so long since I last looked at the folder, that somehow I've forgotten its existence (albeit always being there). So I thought maybe there's some old hidden treasure waiting for me to be uncovered (again).
And what treasure it was indeed!
I seriously don't know how many people still remember or even KNOW the existence of this picture. Frankly speaking, had I not been reminded by the picture itself, I would not even remember I have taken such picture before.
What an old picture, was it not. We were merely still adjusting to a whole new class, getting acquainted with one another, eventually finding the people who shared our channels. And if you count the number of heads in that very picture, you'll realize that there are (surprisingly) 25 heads! Exactly the number of people in 27/06, which makes this picture, the (only) rightful class photo because this was the only picture we ever took AS A CLASS.
It was during the first few Civics lessons, was it not. It was the beginning for us, to familiarize ourselves with the 24 others around us, because they were going to be the people who would walk through the two years of JC life with us.
Looking at that picture makes me horribly nostalgic, and consequently makes me just wanna stare at it some more. Things were so different then, and things changed just so, so much as two years past us by.
I used to get irritated by that school tie wrapping itself around my neck, that I was initially amoung those the first to rip it off our necks when the clock struck 0930. But in the end I loved the way school tie made me look smart with the school U, that I didn't even take it off after school ended, and had it on all the way back to hostel.
Kylie was still in her specs in this picture, but shortly after that she RARELY appeared with glasses for the rest of the two years.
Mao still had short, ruffled streaks of hair which made her look like 'Tweety bird' - according to Cheeky's imagination, of course.
Of course if you were to pick on each and everyone there are always things you can say about us. So I shan't elaborate on that. So many things happened in the space of just two years.
I remember Mickey Mouse, and how seeing a Mickey around the school compound will leave me breathless.
I remember wearing Yongyi's skirt to see Mr Tong (sampah), because I got caught for short skirt. And I actually wore it for a few more days, for fear of repercussions.
I remember the once-a-month hundred metre dash, the early morning wake-up-call, or some regarded that as mega spirit drainer, depending on how you look at the issue, special credits to the ever so erratic bus 12 which happens to be the ONLY preferred bus to school.
I remember then, the mass late-coming, and was told to stand by the school gate. More than half of us who stood there did not say the pledge, you know why.
I remember the random yet spontaneous bridge sessions, with the ever-so-available bridge kaki's.
I remember the jungle trekking just to see fireworks. Damn, how could one forget that adventure, which proved to be very cost effective and immense satisfaction at the end of the day.
Oh, not to mention the 'little' embarrassing Econs lecture incident. Ask me and I'll tell you. Hint: it involved my phone, a random SMS, and a MORE random person.
Then, he comes into the picture. What is my JC recount without mentioning 'him'. He was an exceptional good friend, good confidante, and I was actually thrilled at how much in common we shared. And for a very short-lived period, I felt so blessed with him in my life. Yet things took a nasty flip, and that's how it concluded my JC years.
SIGH~
And in a month's time, I'll be tuning into uni life. How much longer will it take then, for me to discover nearly-forgotten treasures like this?
Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:56
Just in case your speakers fail you, I've changed the song to 'Better In Time' by Leona Lewis. This is done in response to Shum's recommendation (look at my taggboard). Since she's so kindly suggested it I should change it, so that Shum knows Ivy values what she says, and Shum better feel both honoured and delighted seeing her BIG NAME mentioned here.
PRINCE GEORGE'S PARK RESIDENCESWhen Junjie told me over MSN this morning that he's received PGP's offer, I could only congratulate him with envy. Because I thought, if I had not remembered wrongly, application results for local students will only be released after 30June. And being an SPR, I reckoned I qualify as a local student and hence, I thought my good news wouldn't be here soon - IF there's good news at all.
But Lady Luck must really adore me, because when I checked my mailbox (a daily routine) after that, the first mail I saw bore the title "NUS Hostel Results for Freshman Undergraduate Students of AY2008/2009"! Looks like NUS thinks I'm an international student this time. No time to waste, I told myself, and found myself waiting for the link inside the email to load in a new tab.
"You have been offered
PRINCE GEORGE'S PARK"
I blinked my eyes a few time to check that my myopia hasn't got worse and it was really PGP stated there, that I really got into PGP, that PGP is really gonna be my home for at least one more year, before hyperventilating.
A good thing about being alone in the apartment is that I can hyperventilate all I want without tarnishing my image. So after sending SMS-es telling people how much Lady Luck loves me, I met Junjie online and we discussed, for a long long time, about what we have to do after this. Things such as when we are gonna be in Singapore, what the best arrangements will be, and which day to check in. And after all the admin stuffs, we drafted our letters for request for early check in and sent them all out to the respective people in charge.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank YOU for smiling at me once again. I LOVE YOU Lady Luck!!
This is for Shum - to answer your burning question, I am going back to Singapore TENTATIVELY on 15th for my camp on the 16th. Then I'll go back to Singapore again on 28th for my registration on 29th and I'll stay in Singapore until December.
How about a date with the bridge kaki's between 28th July and 4th August, eh?
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 19:21
If you happen to chance on this post, good for you and good for me.
Good for you, because the once noisy and opinionated MissyIvy is back again.
Good for me, because this means I still have a loyal and faithful reader who still comes back here even when there's no new updates.
Actually, my absence is not entirely out of indolence. What is there to
update when there's almost NO
updates around, am I right? Yet my ego can not risk losing my viewership and I do not wish to disappoint you faithful and loyal readers out there, and thus here I am, telling you stories again.
During my absence I have pondered much about life - its meaning, its purpose, and what I'm supposed to do with it. Of course, THAT was just a big fat
LIE. Please - would I even have the time to think about
LIFE when I did not even have the luxury to sleep adequately? Haha, gotcha.
So after near-to three weeks of slavery (yes, I bowed to slavery in the name of MONEY) I have finally succumbed to ill health and thus explains my long absence.
THAT, of course, was a LIE as well.
Alright, so I was NOT diagnosed with some terminal disease (CHOI!), but for almost half a week I decided to go on a strike, and stayed home. YES, stayed HOME. Now this, is NOT a lie. Because home provided much temptation my ten fingers could not finish counting, blogging has hence moved down the hierarchy of importance, and was thus, ignored.
So my little self-declared holiday was full of little discoveries that illustrated how beautiful a life of simplicity can be.
What is the probability of digging out a
WORM from the very bowl you've been eating from?
To have woken up from a long afternoon nap and see a reindeer right in front of you...
and sometimes try to figure out our genetic similarities which are apparently, unexpressed...
still, genetic similarities can be observed in certain individuals when they have the same expression...
and this is my evidence of my theory, that one will shake a few years off one's age after spending some time with children, preferably those who share
some genetic make up...
and my brother's first attempt in photography revealed the million-dollar face... in
slumberland
Actually I would pretty much love to lament, to complain, to pour my woes, in response to the pig-brain decision of the government to raise petrol prices by the biggest margin ever in history - RM0.80 more per litre. Yet, now that it's already close to a week after its implementation date, I suppose everybody got quite used to the RM2.70 per litre petrol, and there isn't as much hype about the matter as there was when it was first implememented.
So when they say prices always shoot after an election, they are always right. Singapore raised GST by 2 percent following their previous election, and it appears as the Malaysian goverment follows suit. First, it was flour. And then, a global rice price hike. Then, the loud decision by the goverment to prohibit foreign registered vehicles from filling up petrol within 50km from our national borders. And when the decision created an uproar of protests from our neighbours and our people alike, they (goverment) slammed all of us with just the right piece of news - subsidies to be withdrawn and fuel prices to hike by 80 cents.
Every decision involves spending more by the people. Yet what happens to our wages? Great, nominal wage remains constant. Which means, our REAL wage decreases. At an alarming rate that corresponds to the avalanche of alarming price hikes.
And just when people are recuperating from the RM2.70 per litre petrol shock, the goverment has just another surprise for us - electricity billing rates to rise. An average household may just have to pay about RM11 more under the new rates. Let me see, that means I will see a figure that looks something like a 110 in my electricity bills in future.
That's not just it. The goverment has set petrol prices to follow world prices with effect from August, which, according to speculation, amounts to a freaking RM4 per litre!
But I don't understand. What the government is doing now clearly brings NO GOOD out of its people. Food inflation aside, I shall talk about transportation.
Do we have a nation-wide transport network that is extensive?
No.Do we have a convenient public transport system?
No.Do we even have a GOOD public transport system IN THE BIG CITIES?
NO!What do we have?
Highways and roads and CARS.
We do NOT have an extensive public transport system, let alone a satisfying one to be just a nice substitute to driving. And this is precisely why in Malaysia, everybody NEEDS a car. Then am I not right to say, that instead of helping its people, which is the main objective of a GOOD governance, the goverment is smacking every one of us through its various policy changes?
Perhaps then, when oil prices float freely with the world market, we will find it more worth it if we just stay home and NOT go anywhere. Perhaps then bicycles or bus 11 becomes the prefered mode of transport, since public transport will definitely cost more by then.
But whichever the case is, I will be out of this country by then. Yet if such "surprises" continue to surface, I'm sure the goverment will see throngs of Malaysians leaving the country for good.
I used to be VERY pround of my country, yet what have YOU done to a country I once called my pride?
