Happenstance is also a 12 letter word

Whilst the meaning of life is set at a constant of 42 (who here knows where that’s from?  I don’t need you to tell me … as long as we both know, that’s enough) - I have discovered something that’s even more confusing.

Friendster doesn’t allow you to turn off Blog updates. 

I hear your wails of despair.  I know you don’t want to know what I get up at at 1:23am on Monday morning, nor what I’m thinking while you’re deep in REM sleep - but obviously Friendster does.  Who am I to argue with this gazillion-member sized monolith? 

What I do know however, is that you can turn ALL of your notifications off.  Yes avid reader, that’s correct.  In your futile efforts to avoid my annoyingly irregular updates, you are forced to silence all your real friends.

All or nothing (is that a song?).  There IS no spoon.

If you can prove me wrong (and I hope Friendster Corp. changes this) then please please please do so.

In any case … back to the original reason I’m posting again.

Why the heck do they put raisins in cereal?  It ruins the overall milk and crunch effect with chewy sogginess.  Grim.  Typically, when I run out of cereal, the only thing that’s left is the Fruit and Nut I bought like 10 years ago because I felt an urge of healthiness overcome me at the Sainsbury’s Metro.  Or Local.  Or Express.  Whatever it was called at the time.

I’d leave you with a picturesque image of the mush, but I’ve gobbled it all up like the healthy fat bastard I am.  Except I’m not really fat.  Or healthy.

Yesyes, I made you think in that direction.  Don’t post that comment… I’m just toying with your mind while I consider if I should continue this post.

And the answer is no!  Hah.

Cramped movie marquees make for funny titles.
Sometimes, you just have to laugh out loud - or perhaps it’s just my sense of humour…

The only other thing I’ve cackled about recently (and it’s somewhat geeky, so I’m not posting the link here) is the LoTR / World of Warcraft animated gif.  If you’ve played the game, and you like LoTR - it’s definitely worth checking out… seriously…

Imaginary cookie to anyone who can tell me how to turn the ‘Waidat has updated his blog’ emails off. 

Gaze ye in awe upon the diet of fake mango drink with e-numbers and somewhat less fake soft, resealable mango fruit.  Mine base hunger has been appeased with this simple fare.  Faint of heart, beware!  Lest you too succumb to such wrongness.  And now, I sleep, perchance to dream =)

… Boredom at 4.30 is a fearsome thing.  So is not knowing how to turn the blog alerts off.  Damnit.

My mood today … is annoyance!  Where are the emoticons when you need them?  I’d soon find one that suits my general demeanour!  (Is that how you spell it?  I’ve never had to write it before… 

*stomps foot*  First, I had to get up at 8am - which I haven’t done in like … errr, a few years I reckon.  How does everyone else do it?  I suspect that going to bed at an appropriate, predetermined hour (which isn’t 4am) is the key.  One that I mislaid somewhere along the line.

I’m tired, and having problems keeping my eyes open… while waiting for a couple of packages from UPS - which were supposed to be delivered on ‘next day courier’ on Wednesday!!! (for those of you not up to speed, at time of blogging it’s Friday). 

So … the whoooooooooooooooole of Friday passes, and I’m waiting patiently for this thing… then calling them, then chasing, then chasing some more (costing me pennies on the phone!) … and it’s rescheduled to ‘next day Thursday’.  So Thursday comes round … and I wait some more.  Is this the taste of futility?  I don’t like it.  I complain some more, and get it set to priority, ‘next day before 12pm’. 

Which brings us back to Friday, waking up at 8am to wait for a parcel.  Have you ever wanted to go to the bathroom and not actually done so because you thought that Sod’s Law would have the delivery arrive at the very moment you were inconvenienced (no more, no less?).  Well … I had a whole shower and everything like that.  Not best pleased!

…

And now it’s 5pm.  On the ’special priority next day, pre-12pm, we’re-very-sorry’ day.
Still nothing.

OMFG! "(£*&£"($Y£"($&£($&£("$*&£"($&(&!""£*!(&$)£"*)*!!

*pantpant*

I don’t know why teenage girls blog to get thiings out of their system.  Does it work?  I’m going to tell real people instead.  That’ll work a lot better.

Oh.  And - for those of you who have me on MSN - Daniel Chiang has now failed to make 3 meetings (all of which he set up).  Is he unreliable?  Look him up in the dictionary.  I’m sure he’s there as an example under that very definition.

He’d also be under other words - but it’d spoil things if I listed them here.  He still needs to pay me back the not-insubstantial amount of money he borrowed from me for a 2 week period early in 2004.   Don’t ask.  Long story. 

He’s either very poor (he’s flying to the UK from Singapore… how poor is that?), or he’s with-holding money that I lent him in good faith after thinking he was honest. 

Hmmm.  There’s no option C!  Oh dear - that narrows things down somewhat.

17.02!  Still no parcel!  zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Now, the title is really un-pc of me - but I figure I can use it because I’m chinese…

I don’t usually have much to blog about - people I see, places I go, things I end up laughing about - if you know me, you’ll find out about them soon enough.

However.  On occasion, things come up which are true gems.  Unexpected ones too - and that makes them oh-so-much sweeter.  Sooooooooooooooooooo…

It’s 4.30am in the morning on a Sunday, and I’m thinking about going to bed - when my Skype starts ringing with an ‘Unknown Number’.  I’m thinking it’s one of my friends calling me up for a chat at some weird hour - so I pick it up.

In the background, I can hear clattering, and some kind of music - and then this guy goes: "Wei?"  I kind of blink, and answer back in chinese, not recognising the voice - which then proceeds to ask whether he can speak to the manageress for the mah-jong store. 

Errrr.  Errrr… Uh …

Wow.  That’s weird.  I have a Hong Kong skype number that people can call me on - but I’d never thought about wrong numbers…

That’s too cool for school :D  And now I’m going to bed :p:p

PS.  Bet you thought that was semi-interesting.  I’m going to turn you off completely now and tell you that I’m watching a World of Warcraft movie with funky music.  If you’ve ever played the game, go and find the ‘World of Roguecraft’ movie.  It’s wicked.

PPS. I watched the film ‘Nightwatch’.  Like hell is it the ‘Lord of the Rings but horror’.  I don’t know who fed me that tagline, but if they got it off some marketing blurb then damn them.  It’d be okay if I had no expectations at the start - but don’t go and see it if you have any exceptional (mis)expectations.