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Ultimately, I’ll have to resign myself to the conclusion that though it isn’t for me, Apple does not need my business to thrive. For all my scoffing at it, they will still come out of this victorious at the next earning’s announcement.

Great. Not only does Steve Jobs have new liver, he also owns a piece of everyone’s heart.

The other night I had a startling dream. I would suppose I dream up weirdstuff all the time, but this one disturbed me so much I had to wake up and take a pee, so I suppose I remember it vividly.

In my dream, I saw a large bee on the ground just minding its own business. It was huge, the size of a chihuahua. It’s head was round, fuzzy and black, the size of an orange. I remember thinking, We gotta chase it away, it might be dangerous.

So, armed with the windshield wipers in my hand – it’s a dream sequence, randomness happens – I throw it at the bee, not hoping to stab it, but hoping to hit it a little and scare it away, failing which hopefully weight it to the ground (if I hit the sweet spot between the head and the torso). I miss. The bee is oblivious to my efforts to chase it.

So I try again with the second windshield wiper. It’s the larger one. Again, I miss.

But this time, the bee notices the windshield wiper. It eyes the limp wiper on the ground, then eyes me. And thats when I guess I decided that maybe it wasn’t such a good idea after all.

I remember a little voice going “Uh oh” in my head. Uh oh indeed. Because the giant mutant bee is coming straight for me. I turn and duck, but its got its aim straight for me. And it looks pissed. I pick up a soft piece of cardboard lying around, frantically trying to cover myself, but it’s flapping away, and I leave a gap, and there’s a really pissed off giant bee staring at me from the corner where I missed a spot.

I think at that point I try to scream and wake up. I was a little relieved it was a dream, mostly because it probably is something stupid enough for me to attempt while I’m awake.

Anyway. That’s my bee story.

Remember when I mentioned I had a tiff with my domain provider?

Well. I sat on it for so long that my domain has now expired with them.

What this means is you might experience a few disruptions in service (or a big giant one, depending on what I’m thinking/feeling) so if this 404s in a few days, that’s why. If it 404s for more than 3 months, it’s probably cos I’m using another domain.

I’ve not fallen off the planet (yet), I’m just moving. Until then, you can catch me on other channels (email, flickr, facebook) till I find another (semi-)permanent residence.

Qoo Out.

It’s the eve before the eve before the eve of the Lunar New Year.

My day
Inspired by lil’momma, I managed to sneak myself a manicure/pedicure over at Summer Nails at Great World City. Not the world’s best manicure/pedicure – I’m sorry but it was a little ill-equipped for my liking – but like most small outfits, the girls there were really nice about things, and they use OPI colours.

If you’re so inclined, Summer Nail Salon (tel: 6732 5449) is at #03-05, Great World City.
Classic Manicure – $25
Classic Pedicure – $35
CNY extra – $5

The classic includes a massage and a scrub, but if you don’t mind doing without (you won’t be missing much) the Basic version is $7 less.

My other half’s day
KF started out with a pit in his stomach. While leaving for work, he couldn’t find his GBA. KF never leaves the house without it, and has even lost it twice. But each time he squirms his way until he gets a replacement – he’s only too willing to pay for it, it’s usually me that’s throwing the hissy fit about spending money on another one – and this morning when he couldn’t find the one he named “Latest Edition”, even he was about to give up.

We had dinner at Great World City last night, and then we went to the supermarket. So he went over to look, but no luck. He came to the office all downcast.

I came home before he did, and checked under the bed like he asked. No luck. I searched the kitchen, looked in the fridge, followed his trail from last night, no luck.

I decided to take a shower right about then. I went to the room and turned on the water heater and noticed he stacked a bunch of things on the night table again. This time, he stacked a plate precariously on a stack of stray documents on a small base on a book, on another stack of documents. Typical.

And there, sandwiched between the documents holding up the plate and the books, was Latest Edition.

Another mystery solved.

By the time Apple unveiled their iPhone at CES yesterday (or their this morning), KF and I were kinda sure it would be a late entrant with too much ground to gain after Nokia and Motorola.

And it doesn’t look all that great. Sure it’s completely touch screen and looks sexy as hell in the demo. Hey it’s only 11.6mm thick! But it’s still a wide-ass large clunker.

I haven’t really watched Steve Jobs selling it yet, we just read the minute by minute account, so it wasn’t all that exciting, I guess we’ll change our minds after watching Job’s webcast.

Anyway. The clunker boasts some really fine features, touchscreen controls, a 2mp camera, an 8gb iPod to go along, iTunes which will manage everything – notes, contacts, and all, it’s quad-band, wifi and all, for now in my books it’s just a souped up blackberry.

In recent days a seemingly random group of individuals has emerged with what can only be described as special abilities. Although unaware of it now, these individuals will not oly save the world, but change it forever. This transformation from ordinary to extraordinary will happen overnight. ~ Heroes

Been watching Heroes, a new series about a bunch of random people (not really around the globe, but mostly just Americans and a Japanese dude) who suddenly discovered superhuman abilities in themselves. Am really liking these new TV shows with large casts, cos it’s fun to see them tie it all back together nicely. That’s one thing the Korean dramas aren’t great at – they don’t always tie up the loose ends they drudge up in the middle, either because of editing or bad writing, so it gets really annoying.

Anyway, Heroes starts off pretty normal in the first couple of episodes, until the scene where the Japanese tourist suddenly appears to Peter in a train. Then it really picks up the pace! Loves it.

I want I want I want the Nintendo Wii. I think it’s fantastic that the controller is now a handheld pointing device – that’s thinking out of the box for you!

When I get the Wii, I would probably get a slash ‘em up game to go along with it, like a first person RPG where you get to go around hacking ghouls or ninjas. Like a Samurai Time Crisis.

I can’t spell “scissors”. I knew there was a “c” in there somewhere, but the whole of last week I just couldn’t figure out where it went. And stupidly I refused to have it checked (on the internet or physically) so I couldn’t download Scissor Sisters music off iTunes.

Went to the IT Show again today
Conclusion: I’m not going to get a Compaq. I probably never will.
Why: Because they advertised a notebook for $1,099 – some guy with a large signboard plied the hall – but when I got to the booth, it was nowhere to be seen. I kept being given the run-around by the salespeople. It’s there, said one. It’s back there, said another. It’s was freaking ridiculous.
What else: Saturdays are by far the worst days to go to fairs like this. Really.

Anything else
I’m looking forward to voting this year! Yay! Please, please someone contest in my ward.