Very emo, very anime.
Interesting, but not impressed. Unsurprising for a f2p MMORPG.
Still waiting for f2p Star Trek Online.
There was such a huge storm last night, probably the remnants of a frickin typhoon that managed to crawl its way to our island.
The wind was so strong it blew one of our window panes beyond the angle it was supposed to go.
We use the sort of windows which has to be pulled in and pushed out (casement window?), and we normally leave the ones at the balcony slightly open at about 30 degrees (one-sixth pi) out.
Last night when the wind woke me up by shaking my door (came in through the windows of the living room), I got out to close them. That was about 3am.
I pulled the first one in to almost close it, then left it there so that I could close the rest before locking each one. I didn't think locking was important since it never was. The joints of the mechanism holding the panes above and below were so crappy they are hard to move with or without oiling them.
But as I closed the second window an extremely strong gust came and blew it wide open. I immediately locked the second window and tried to close the first one again.
Couldn't. It felt like I was going to pull the entire window out. The steel things holding the window was moving together with the pane as I nudged it when they were supposed to rotate.
In the end I locked the third window before going back.
On the way back I also noticed the second window was being dragged out by the wind, so I opened it a bit, hoping the same wind won't come again in the meantime, and locked the left pane securely using the metal rod lock thing that's inside the frame of the window pane that moves vertically.
That did the trick.
The first one was still a problem.
Wind was blowing in all the rain and I was feeling the full force of the storm while trying to close the window. The frequent lightning did nothing to make me feel safer.
I never unlocked the grills throughout, even though that would allow me to stretch out more to get a better grip on the outer part of the pane.
Finally, I came up with a makeshift solution.
Our curtain is really just a very large piece of light fabric that was supposed to be sewn into curtains but my mum never got around to doing that. Instead, we just use large pegs to peg it to the grills.
Hence I folded the curtain into a rectangle slightly larger than the window, and pegged it back onto the grills.
Stopped most of the rain from invading my home but lots of water dripped down onto the tiles of our balcony. Luckily they were ceramic tiles and not wooden boards like the rest of the my home.
So I took out a spare rag and placed it where the tiles ended and the wood started, to dry the feet of anyone who steps over and back.
Through the entire night I was worried that the pane might get blown away by the wind.
Never did.
At about 7am I woke up again. I think the worry was making me a light sleeper.
Came out to check, and the window was still whole.
Called my bro who was cooking breakfast to get there once he was done.
He came out to the balcony and immediately noticed one of the hinges had been pushed beyond the angle it was supposed to go.
This is pretty similar to ours. The leftmost L-shaped part was never supposed to bend the other way (into an inverse L), but it did last night. To make it go that way, the lower part of the L would have to be compressed for a split-second with a strong force. That same force could also snap the joint holding the two bars together or the one holding the shorter bar to the black part.
This morning, we had only 2 choices - risk breaking it and call a repairman if it does, or just call a repairman.
My bro picked the first, and with brute strength managed to pull the window back. I'll never open that window wide again, and I'll close the windows every night. For all I know he could have caused a minor crack somewhere inside.
IIRC repairing each window would cost us S$200, and that's just for a broken handle. No idea what a broken hinge would cost.
And it was pretty scary, I have to admit. Getting the window pulled out is pretty normal in this part of the year and for about 5 months from now on, but getting it pulled this hard isn't.
This is the first time. I consider myself lucky that everything turned out okay, not to mention happy to be alive.
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Oh wow I think I got a flu from the rain :\
Indoor tanning in Singapore.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
S$44 for 12-15mins of indoor tanning session.
It's been around for 2 decades!
And as if this wasn't enough, I was about to make a joke about selling freezers in Greenland when I googled it and discovered there really is a market for them there.
Capitalism is such a wonderful comedy.
Life is never easy only because the term "easy" is subjective.
My life isn't easy because of all the problems I have, but my life is also extremely easy because I'm confident that I cannot possibly starve.
I know with my crappy academic qualification I can still get a shitty deskjob somewhere and get less than a thousand dollars a month.
Compare this with the life of the Tuareg described in this month's National Geographic magazine. I think it's one of the worst things in life to have your entire race be notorious for being untrustworthy, even for amongst themselves.
War and starvation is a daily concern for them, and mere teenagers have to get out to fight for their freedom. Even for the civilians, making a living can mean walking across the desert barefooted for an entire month just for a trade. I have yet to walk for more than an hour continuously in years.
Compared to them, I must be living an almost impossibly comfortable life.
So the readership of this has been floating around 100, staying pretty constant at this level. The difference, currently, is that I'm getting several daily views from China.
I caught like one from Hong Kong too, so it's possible my cousins have found this blog. Places with only one pageview get pushed out of the Day (ie 24-hr) list very quickly.
It might have been because I accidentally gave the two sisters the email containing this nick a few months ago.
I wonder if they're able to understand what I'm saying here. I know the younger one probably doesn't but I don't know about the older one.
Anyway, even if they have, I don't think it's that big a deal to them.
After all, this is just a very uninteresting blog about a very uninteresting guy.
Oh yeah, and I got some views from Trinidad and Tobago. Seriously, people come here from everywhere around the world, probably for stuff I posted back when I was a more interesting person unburdened by anything but school/army. Or at least I'd like to think I was a more interesting person in the past.
Now that I've completed Lonesome Road, there's no longer anything for me to explore. I've thoroughly explored all the places in the Mojave desert that contains anything interesting and my level's already 40 going to 41.
There really isn't anything more I can do in the game but turn it into a porn studio.
Hopefully someone comes up with some good mods that provide extra quests.
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