Fourth Filming

I did filming for the fourth time yesterday. The show was “Tian Tang Niao”. I got to know Tommy who got to click well with me. We acted together with Huang Shinan and Chen Hongyu, who were very professional. All the staffs including the producer were very nice people.

Huang Shinan was the friendliest actor so far whom I had met throughout my trip there for he greeted us politely, unlike others who were cold. He was a workaholic and seemed to do more than only acting, which was very admirable. On the bus, he taught both of us more about acting.

Skai Chan @ http://sillydumb.com

One Click for Two

Gilbert recommended me to get A4Tech mouse. I checked the internet and saw that all the new series had an extra button on the left click button beside the wheel. It was for the purpose of “no more double click”, so that you could open a file with a single click. That was really creative but it reminded me of my Logitech mouse.

I don’t really need the button since double clicking has been a habit but it seems that I can’t kick the new feature away. It appears randomly on my Logitech mouse and I have been slowed down by it for more than two weeks already.

Imagine when you are dragging a file to another folder halfway, the file drops and soon you realise you are opening another file which your mouse pointer is at. Sometimes when I close a file, the file or folder behind will be closed as well. Highlighting texts is a major issue as well. So much time has been wasted.

I came across the Logitech mouse which Kachua recommended but I didn’t buy it. However, A4Tech mouse seemed so rare at Sim Lim Square and I really didn’t want to get another Logitech mouse, having the same problem again after a few years…

Skai Chan @ http://sillydumb.com

Belated Farewell Dinner

My belated farewell dinner was finally up on Friday, together with Terry, Ashqi and Weiyeow’s. I was very disappointed that both Siewming and Liza didn’t join us, especially Liza, for she had tasted much nuisance from a few of the assholes.

I was given a card, an umbrella, a tube of sunblock lotion and a blue towel; these people were so sweet and cute to come up with the ideas as they thought my current umbrella was lousy and that I frequented the beach often. However, they didn’t realise that I would probably be unbearable to use the new and pretty items.

I heard there were quite a number of changes, which could be considered as improvements but I was thinking if some people were doing kind just for the sake of gaining popularity. I simply hoped that the remaining people would have better lives.

Anyway, I didn’t get to take individual pictures with them since I was sitting at the centre by the wall and it was extremely difficult to get out. Ashqi was the lucky guy who got to take photos with all the girls.

Skai Chan @ http://sillydumb.com

Server is up but not Really Up

I was so amazed by the server management company who took more than twenty-four hours to reformat and install the server. For the past few days ever since the big chaos was created, I had been fighting against the downtime of the FTP. For a couple of times, I even woke up by the thought of the server would be ready.

I have somehow lost trust in IT companies due to their efficiency. I believe the entire market in the world is like a disgusting company which I have worked in, that manpower shortage has somehow been delaying the delivery of work for clients.

Some companies are considered well-established but they may not provide the results.

I have been really hardworking for the past few days and persisted to work on PHP. The server has also been determined to slow down my work by not letting me log in.

Luckily, I’m not the one paying for the server and the management.

Skai Chan @ http://sillydumb.com

So Damn Free

Different people have different expectations from me. Each wants a piece of my time, thinking that I’m totally free and idling every day.

It’s tremendously exhausting to explain what I’m doing each day when I receive doubts that I can never have enough energy to debate.

The main reason why I’m home during weekdays is to follow my plan to study and do up websites but people can’t see it. When I was working those for those stingy assholes, I didn’t have enough time to expand myself; when I’m home, so many people are distracting from my work as well.

It’s useless to write down everything online since most people don’t care and moreover, I don’t have the time anymore.

It’s totally depressing when you can never get to see the person you want to meet but some others are expecting more from you.

Skai Chan @ http://sillydumb.com

Reformatting Web Server

The server management company picks the best time early in the morning to reformat the server. It will probably take two hours and after which, we have to transfer all files back to the server, including the databases. It gives me the excuse to stay up till daylight again.

Mike: “after this format…we will have a faster, more stable, security server !”

During the process, however, all the sites will be down. Even for my blog, which is currently hosted in Blogspot or Blogger, will be affected since a couple of scripts and files are linked from my main site.

Skai Chan @ http://sillydumb.com

True Friends

It has been a few days since I started advertising for . With a Friendster account of more than 400 known contacts and MSN list of 300 friends, only around 10 of them signed up as members.

Thanks to those who signed up without me prompting and also those who reposted the Friendster bulletin. It’s clear enough to see which my worthy friends are.

Skai Chan @ http://sillydumb.com

Foolish Night

I did the stupidest thing hours ago. Weiyeow asked me to find candles for him and it was already 9.30pm, I got panic as Cherie might be disappointed.

Since Payar Lebar was near Chung Cheng High School Main and it could be Ruoci’s territory, I tried calling her to seek for help.

I scroll down my contact list and typed “Payar” and realised I did it wrongly. After erasing it, I typed her nick instead of nick. “She” picked it up fast and I thought her friend was holding to her phone. After repeating my name so many times and “she” could not get it, “she” told me to hold on. I checked my phone and realised I should be calling “Ruoci” instead.

After hearing suggestions from Ruoci, I went to the Singpost building’s NTUC supermarket but the lady told me they used to sell it. I went to Watson’s but had no luck. Just as I was standing outside Coffeebean, I made a call to Weiyeow in case he had already gotten the candles. As he told me he had not found it, I went inside and pleaded with one of the staffs to give me a candle for free. I was walking back to the pasar malam and made calls to Weiyeow. Minutes later, he called me back and told me he was at Coffeebean. I didn’t mind being fooled to enter Coffeebean through the main door and exit by the side door since I managed to see two sweet girls, however, Weiyeow told me he had ordered a cake through Coffeebean and thus we could easily get the candles. I was already in sweat.

As Terry arrived, we finally went into Coffeebean for my third time. We ordered some drinks while collecting the cake and I happily took four straws. I almost went berserk when I saw my drink was a hot one. Then I realised I should have ordered “Belgian Chocolate” without “Latte” behind.

More ex colleagues arrived and we had great chats in two groups. The four of us continued to test our stomach muscle when the newcomers left. It was until the staffs told us they were closing, I realised the last train was left long ago.

Skai Chan @ http://sillydumb.com

Dear Friends

We get to know more friends but each day we get lonelier and lonelier. This is the fact which not many get to realise it.

How many friends can always remember you when they are out there having fun? How many friends have been telling you that they are busy and yet you find out they can afford to spend time out with others? How many friends can tell you that they have to stay at home because they are broke but you know they continue to enjoy splendid meals or celebration with others?

How busy can a person be that you never deserve even a date for donkey years?

You treat them as great friends but they probably treat you as a hi-bye friend or simply someone who they can seek help online for their convenience.

You keep quiet.

There are also friends who have braved through thick and dirt with you for years; until one day you realise they have been treating you well, but not any better than the rest. At times, you are naively a replacement, or someone to fill a position whenever needed; you have to be sacrificed when necessary.

How do you have to feel when nobody cares to ask for your comments? How do you feel when your group of friends make discussion only among themselves when you are around? How do you feel when you always try to say something yet nobody seems to have heard you?

You remain silence.

You can easily identify friends who think you are funny or simply mock at things you say; you never know it can be the difference of heaven and hell.

How about friends who know your stories and can actually lend a hand to change your life for the better, as simple as letting out a yawn, yet choose to abandon you? It would be better to keep your secret to yourself if you don’t have any buddy close enough to help you.

They always think you are ignorance or everything or they don’t realise it themselves; you can eventually feel it one day. And this day, you realise you have already given up on so many things in order to maintain your lonely status.

Be alone.

Skai Chan @ http://sillydumb.com