Monthly Archives: January 2005

No Shopping Spree

★ Posted on at 09:15 am ★

You know how sales assistants in shops like to come up to you and ask how are you, can I help you etc? I avoid them by listening to my iPod and just ignore my surroundings except the things I look at. 95% of the time I get away with it, with some people still coming up to you and asking you questions even when you can’t really hear them. Heh. (I’m supposed to do this at my shop as well, to entice people into buying something, although I’m not as good at it, so shoppers beware!)

I get the chance to finally go shopping and all the sales items are gone. Not that there was really very much I’d like to buy to begin with. Only thing I’ve been dreaming of lately is a 1400W espresso machine like what my friend’s using. That and a stack of lenses for the Durian* I’m gonna acquire. Been looking at all these wonderful lenses, those within my budget, and those I’d probably only buy if I was a serious photographer or a multimillionaire. Got some input from pros in a Malaysian photography forum and they all had valid points, although some of them I can’t put into practice because I can’t afford them so called lenses. A 180mm prime Nikon lens? You have to be kidding me, these lenses cost more than the D70 and the kit lens combined. Sure you get the image sharpness and the speed with a 2.8F lens, but do I need such speed and sharpness? I probably do, but not at the kind of price where if I coughed up the money, I’d be eating instant noodles for an entire year.

Sort of settled on the Nikon 28-200mm G lens. It’s a relatively cheap lens that covers the focal length I need for spying on pretty girls taking closeups of people without being too obvious to get candid shots. It’s a light (not to mention small, most importantly), travel kind of lens, good for me to carry around and not get a back ache.

Today I intended to do more than window shopping, to actually take out my wallet and spend my hard earned cash. However, nobody had anything I wanted to buy. Oh well…

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* The funny story to this was that I had the D70 on my MSN nick a month ago and my cousin thought it was some new durian species, like the tasty D24s. So now I will just call it the ‘Durian’

Dudes and Dudettes

★ Posted on at 06:35 am ★

Heh, the following does not represent the world’s population of boys and gals in any way, as this review is only based on a small sample population of people I’ve had the chance to notice over the past couple of years. So I hereby proclaim that I am not accountable for any of the things said here.

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Girls when bored, and can’t get their hands on any other thing to do, generally like to look for food. There is just this need to continuously find something to ingest.

Boys are attracted to pretty girls. It’s a natural norm of evolution. Even yours truly here, a brick by most guy’s standards, can tell that a girl is pretty from time to time. Boys tend to be nicer to girls, and especially nice to the pretty ones.

Boys can lose sleep over a girl. They can get all irrational and irritable over a girl, even the most logical and reasonable ones are fallible from time to time. Well, I guess this applies to girls as well, getting worked up over a boy, so it’s probably a human trait more than a gender specific one.

Boys will either tell you that they like a girl openly or admit to liking a girl by not saying NO when asked whether they like a girl. So either way, you will still find out if they like a particular girl or not. Usually everyone else except the girl knows, and guys will wallow in their own sorrow (if rejected) for a couple of days until they knock sense into themselves.

Girls usually can’t tell a guy likes them until one of their friends mention it to them. Guys usually like girls based on feel and don’t question anything further. Girls on the other hand, may like a guy but not admit to it and will have all sorts of excuses not to like a guy (some do) until they’re absolutely sure or convinced (by themselves or by the guy).

All girls would love to shop, if they had the money for it. Some control their habits more than others do. Some spend a few hours a day on one shopping spree, others can spend an entire week on it. General selection of items to purchase include clothing (she said whatever looks fashionable, I’m like , “How the heck do you know what’s fashionable and what’s not?”), makeup and little trinkets that are cutesy but have no intrinsic value whatsoever, and they end up broke after a while. Guys like to focus their money on specific items, a camera or a phone and go broke later.

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And I reiterate that this is just a personal view of the world, and is in no way, representation of how the world works and thinks. Heh, I do like to point out that this is a very interesting subject matter to ponder about.

Game of the Week

★ Posted on at 04:48 am ★

Tis already mid month and only just realised it.

Wanted to go watch the Liverpool vs Manchester United match yesterday, but due to tiredness from work, I slept for quite a while until my friend woke me up with a call and a question about his computer. By then it was already too late to get a decent spot to stand to watch (and with my legs hurting like mad from all the standing at work, decided against it anyway).

Heh, it’s kind of funny. Initially at work, I’d wear the hat (or headgear or cap) that they provided. It was just an elastic band on a round piece of a cloth to keep it steady on your head. Since last month, I’ve taken to wearing my United cap to work and I get a lot of comments from different customers at times about my soccer team affiliation. There’s this Indian dude who’s an avid Liverpool supporter who frequents our store. Heh, even a month ago when he first saw me (can you believe that this guy can see the emblem on my cap from 4 metres away through the work area glass that was covered with fog and water droplets when I was cleaning stuff inside?!?!?), he already pointed to the 15th of January, with the battle between Liverpool and Manchester United at Anfield. I saw him again yesterday and served him some fish. When I ask (as a usual question), “Would you like anything else, sir?”, he just replied, “Yes, Liverpool win!”. I was amused and just smiled at him. We all know the outcome of last night’s game, anyway. Heh.