Rant 1092 / Too Much, Too Late

Timing. I just cannot get the timing right.

I have too few sweaters in the last few months; now I have too many. I'll have to space out my future orders for now.




















This year's Steam sale has been disappointing so far. I've seen nothing that I want and I don't think I will be buying anything.

On the other hand, even GOG has something I'm interested in: a fantastic bundle of classic RPGs.

75% off on all if I buy the bundle!

Journal updated!






















Went to IMM for the 40% off at Giordano only to find that they no longered had my size for the $20 plain polo shirts! The cheapest I could get were over $20 each despite the discount!

The other thing I was planning to check out was the Watsons members-only sale today but there was nothing I was interested in.

Took a bus and train to get to Jurong East MRT hence I went to the Watsons at JCube before taking the free shuttle bus to IMM.

I thought I was going to go home empty-handed, and this made me explore the rest of IMM just to see if there's something I could buy. Buying absolutely nothing after coming all this way would really suck.

My target was $15 per polo shirt at most, and none of the shops offered it until I found Bossini. Minimum 3 pieces was easy, although the colour range wasn't that great. Not enough dark colours and I didn't need black. In the end I just settled for what I thought was burgundy, in addition to navy and light grey.

Bossini calls it "plum", not burgundy, probably because burgundy is a shade or two lighter. On the other hand, I had thought that plum was closer to purple. According to Wikipedia, Persian Plum is probably what Bossini meant. However, I still feel that wine is closer to the colour of this shirt I'm holding.

Anyway, what a relief! Bossini was really the last shop I was going to try - it's the last clothing shop along the route to the taxi stand in that mall on that floor.

I also checked out the membership but there is no way I'm getting it. At the counter, a sign said I needed to spend $150 for it. When I asked how long I had to accumulate the $150, the cashier told me I needed to spend all that in a single receipt.

What??

I'd have to fill my entire wardrobe with several to spare (10 shirts) just to get that!

No way I'm doing that.






















Finished Geneforge. It's pretty good, so no wonder it spawned 4 sequels.

Took me far too long to realize that this game was meant for Shapers to use many creatures. I tried to keep my creations to the minimum as a Shaper and focused all the points on 1-2, but this was apparently not the right way.

I did not know that the points did not scale well that way.

By late-game I was getting blocked everywhere I went by mobs that I couldn't defeat with a drayk and a glaahk, both the most powerful third-tier creatures I could get. Today, I tried to have crappier, cheaper versions of this two... plus two crappy terror vlisks, mere second-tier stuff.

The game was so much easier after that. Couldn't make even more inferior versions of them because I needed them to be tough enough to take a 2 hits from enemies minimum.

Anyway, it worked, and eventually I upgraded the glaahk to an ur-glaahk which made things even easier, and I finished the rest of the game that night.

The ending wasn't really what I expected though.

Rant 1091 / Generally Not There

I'll admit that the greatest flaw of the game is that it is impossible to have a consistent leadership, if at all, in the game, causing it to be an uncoordinated clusterfuck most of the time. Therefore having the game to assign leaders to each faction this way is IMO a great idea.

The problem is, how will they coordinate all the forces among so many servers?

One leader per server per faction would have been better.

...

Anyways I still feel that 50 certs a day is a little slow. I can't wait to get a better primary weapon for my Magrider. Or maybe I should get a better weapon for my Heavy. I don't know.

300 certs and counting.

I'll decide once I hit 750. I'm tempted to get the 750 cert weapon for my Magrider, but I also want the Lasher for my Heavy. I like to use the Magrider but it can get boring sometimes during sieges when we're dominating the ground but the enemies are still clinging on at their final line of defense way inside the base which is inaccessible for tanks.

I use the Heavy more often than the Magrider, so over the longer term it could be more cost-effective.

Hence my dilemma.


























Whoa, the body butter I tried at Vardi & Migdal lasted pretty long on my hands - I could smell it even at night.

Anyway, after reviewing what happened there, I think that the salesman was the best I've seen in a long while. He was so smooth! Like instead of waiting for me to tell him if I wanted it after he let me sample the body wash and body butter on my hands, or directly asking me whether I wanted something, he would open all of the different bottles and let me smell them before asking me which bottle I wanted.

That's good. That's really good.

And that's not the only thing I noticed.

From my google search, I discovered that this shop is indeed known for its sales tactics.

One of Vardi & Migdal's regular customers, Ms Christin Lok, a 40-year-old sales manager, said she appreciates their 'sincere efforts' to explain and demonstrate their products.

Ms Lok, who has spent at least $600 on Dead Sea creams, gels and scrubs, said: 'Our locals should learn from them.'

I know right? I'm definitely keeping that visit in mind for quite some time.

It also helps that the products are actually good. No idea if this Dead Sea minerals thing actually works but the products do feel better than the standard anti-bacterial stuff I usually use.























Snow is overrated. I thought it was just me but my ex-teacher also agreed with me during the conversation yesterday.

She had been spending the last five months in Boston because her daughter-in-law just gave birth to her second grandchild, but returned this month to escape the winter.

Turns out I'm not the only one to realize that snow is hugely overrated by people like me who have been living most of our lives in the tropical zone.

The first thing that annoyed me wasn't the slipperiness but the fact that when I'm walking into the snow-laden wind, it frigging itches! I'd rather have rain than that. I was scratching my face every so often whenever I walked against the wind.

The slipperiness was the more major problem though, hence it deserved a mention previously. The half-melted sludge really made me appreciate the wonders of rough concrete pavements. Since I don't have snow here ever, I usually walk quickly outside.

Hence I keep almost slipping there. It's just a habit of mine to walk quickly when I'm not browsing through shops. I think it took me a day and a half before I started to walk slowly by instinct.

She was having trouble with snow too outside. Worse, since she was living there, she had to deal with the snow problems of people who actually live there. Things like cars and hardened snow aka ice.

Cars can be parked outside normally and when there is only a light snow, but when the media announce a snowstorm incoming, that's when the cars must be moved into a garage, or else they're doomed.

That's because snow hardens when pressed by more snow on top. This brings me to the other problem, ice. I've seen people scrape snow and ice throughout my Korea trip, and I don't envy anyone of those who held a shovel in the streets. Fresh snow looks easy, but those that were stepped on and compressed and refroze looks pretty different. It's easy to tell because snow does not crack into chunks.

No wonder everyone was so generous with the salt sprinkles everywhere I went.

Now, I very much prefer rain to snow. All snow has over rain is appearance.

Rant 1090 / Epoxy?

Tiring business, this Christmas Eve thing.

Nah, not really. I just made it tiring.

I had actually been searching for the address of my english teacher from my primary school but no one seemed to have it. The one who organized the last trip to her place only had a road name and her email.

After waiting for a month for a reply, I decided to find her place on my own.

It just so happened that a few days ago I suddenly had this idea of looking at my old photos (I used to take a hell lot of photos every time I go out with friends) to search for clues about her address.

Then I found one that showed us walking passed a house number 42. Searching for this house number with that road name on Google Maps gave me an address. Through the SingaporeMaps app, I found a way to reach it by bus.

Then I alighted one stop early. Then it rained in short bursts. I found the address between the bursts but it did not look right at all. The house looked completely different from the one in the photo. Moreover, even if the residents had done some renovation work, the fact remained that the house was at the very end of the road, ie we couldn't have walked passed it on our way to anywhere.

Yet I knew it was in that area because I recognized the bus stop and one of the roads there from my photos. Since I couldn't understand why that was not the right house, I just went for the one that had the same rock tiles and grills in the photo. Unfortunately it was really not the right place and the person living there did not recognize the name.

I walked around that area three times before giving up and went for the other method - brute force. I just combed the area systematically and soon found that there were at least two houses numbered 1 along the same road. Clearly, the numbers repeat.

However, when I looked at the photos more closely during one of the rain bursts while waiting under a public shelter, I saw that directly opposite of her gate was number 40. Walk past 42 and opposite 40, now these really narrowed down the list.

While searching, I was wondering how many number 40s and 42s I was going to have to try until I got the right one, but luckily it only took another one. I found the correct 40 and 42 after 15 minutes.

Even double checked by looking at the photo again just to confirm. Sure I have no qualms with asking strangers if there was a person with her name living there, but I know how it's like to have your afternoon nap interrupted, and it was around 3pm then. A rainy late afternoon is perfect for that.

Next thing was to find her doorbell and that was easy. And when she got out, it was clear she was indeed having an afternoon nap.

Oops.

I just pretended that I didn't notice and waited while she got dressed.

All the walking was tiring, but after the chat and stuff I still had to go to Giordano for more shirts, since it was having 40% off for all polo shirts in all outlets.

The plan was to go to a nearby mall for it and get some turtle food from a nearby well-known pet shop, since my terrapin loves the dried shrimps my bro got from them.

Then halfway through the journey I suddenly realized that mall was not under CapitaMall. That was important because CapitaStar members are currently getting double points. In that case, I might as well go back to the one I went to previously, the IMM outlet.

But since that was so far away, I decided to postpone it and just get some stuff from the Guardian pharmacy in the mall near my home instead. I had checked the Guardian website and saw that there were some promotional stuff that I could use. In addition, I wanted to make sure my supply of health supplements could last until June while the sales were still on.

All that walking and wandering were tiring, but then I got pulled into this Israeli shop that sold body wash and stuff. That made me stand even longer, but at least the salesman took the bags off my hands and put it somewhere else.

I like that gesture. In fact, I'll keep it in mind in the future when people visit my office. As for the products there, they're actually pretty good but the prices are way too high. Too luxurious for me. But I did buy a few anyway, just to see what that Dead Sea salt thing was about.

Also got a wooden floor varnish thing that is supposed to protect it. I remember my mother used to get it for the housekeeper for a while when we first changed to this floor, then she stopped for some reason.

Now that some of the boards are warping, I think it's time I start this habit again. Who knows how many years it's going to be before we finally get a new flat?







I think I'm getting the hang of this ache. I mean, I get it often now and it's always due to the sudden change in physical activity. My work is highly irregular compared to my school days, so I can go for weeks without doing much walking. My trips to and from work require minimal physical exertion because I take cab.

It's only when I go shopping or if I decide to do anything out of impulse like today that I have to walk much.

I got this ache too on every first day of my overseas trips, so it's getting really familiar.

The ache is mostly in the shin area, ie it's from my weight and the walking.

Rant 1089 / It Is Not That I Have Nothing Better To Say.

Been lazy and not buying anything for food at home. I think I haven't cooked any vegetables for an entire week and my bowel movements have become noticeably different lately.

That, however, wasn't enough to get me off my ass because of Geneforge, Dr Who and Stephen Chow.

But today I had no choice. The wet market's closed on Mondays and it's Xmas on Tuesday. Meanwhile, my fridge and freezer have been empty for some time. The last two dinners I made were chicken soup and beef stew.

The soup was made from bones that had spent at least a month in the freezer, together with an onion, some ancient shallots I had forgotten about (picked out the rotten ones) and the two cobs of corn I had bought before my Korea trip. The corns were just somewhat shrunken from dehydration, not spoilt.

The stew was more interesting. The beef was definitely expired - the expiry date was a month and a half ago. Even the freezing couldn't save it, although I didn't find out till after the stew was done. There was no discolouration. The stew did not taste funny and the hours of boiling killed everything. However, the beef did taste a little off. For beef that's this old, I was glad it wasn't all mushy or even dissolved completely.

Anyways, I ended up still not buying any vegetables and decided on getting a whole watermelon and a bunch of grapes instead. They don't need cooking.

And the chicken vendor somehow removed all the skin even though I stated that I wanted them on :(

Not really important since I've never really cared. I only ask for the skin to be left on in order to speed things up - it takes forever to debone 10 chicken torsos.

Bought some fishballs as usual.



Then later in the afternoon I finally got the motivation to go down again to Shop N Save for some laundry powder. After checking the website for the promotions, I added dishwashing liquid to the list.

Also found out that there isn't 3% cashback on Saturdays and this promotion had ended last year.

Derp.

So now I don't have to shop there only on Saturdays.

Had a whole shopping list here next to my keyboard and I forgot to bring it with me. I ended up missing the sweetener and coconut milk.

Bought some kang kong though, so I will still some vegetables after I finish the fruits in 3 days.

May be a busy week next week, so I also added a lot of ham and bacon since they're all on promotion at the supermarket this week. And bread. My food supply is now set for the week :D





















Geneforge is so hard now. It's almost impossible for me to reach the Geneforge at my level. I've already changed my strategy from relying on a single drayk plus lots of mana for heals to having a drayk and a glaahk. Not really getting the synergy I hoped for but I love the drayk and I needed a second creature that could take at least two hits from any enemy. I'd get a vlish but it looks really weak.

Them Sholai are so tough!























Planetside's player population has been dropping despite the coming major event. Probably for Xmas.

During the daytime in my timezone, the VS is constantly getting raped by TR, yet we somehow retain at least one continent everyday.

Not really fun when the TR zerg us to death, so I haven't been playing it that much.
























I can't make a system image nor a backup of my hard drive.

For some reason, it gives me some error every time.

Fortunately I've already backed up the important folders on various cloud storage and my external hard disk, so if shit really happens, I'll still be able to cope with having a competely new OS.

Rant 1088 / Ne Ne Chicken Delivery

So Ministry of Supply gave me a response on my request for an exchange.

Not only do I get to keep the shirt I wanted to change, I was given enough credits for three shirts.

I hope this wasn't a mistake on their part.

This is remarkably generous if it wasn't an error, which really makes me wonder about their profit margin. It must have been a lot bigger than I had thought!

EDIT: he replied to tell me it WASN'T a mistake. Holy crap!





















Tried Ne Ne Chicken, a Korean fried chicken store that specializes in fried chicken soaked in sauce. Eating there completely removes the need for ketchup or chilli - everything has been completely soaked in a vat of their own sauces or have pots of them poured onto them.

Yea, not a very positive description.

Although they tasted good, it was practically eating the sauce with the texture of fried chicken.

I don't know about everyone else but I thought this beats the point of eating chicken.

Sauces are supposed to compliment the meat it is dipped in. Here at Nene Chicken, the chicken is supposed to compliment the sauce it is covered with.

Then again, there are plenty of things that are not the way they were supposed to be and still are popular.

Moreover, it's not expensive. For S$45 I can get more than enough for my bro and I. These days, it isn't common among food delivery services.

So I guess I could give it another try next time.

However, this is definitely not recommended for anyone who really wants to know what their chicken should taste like because they are meant to be eaten while still crispy, which is impossible by the time it reaches anyone's home.

For mine, only the larger pieces of chicken still had some crispy parts within, but all the wings and were complete soggy.

Regardless, the sauce is the main point of eating Nene Chicken. Everything else is, ironically, just gravy.

Hmm... maybe they could give me the sauce separately in one of those disposable containers meant for the sides. I'll ask them next time.




















I really need to clear up that big shelf outside my room and get a new wardrobe. Most of the clothes we wear regularly are hung right next to the east-facing window due to the convenience of it being right between our two rooms. The housekeeper irons them nearby and hangs them. Great for everyone.

Except for the clothes, that is.

I've thought about it but have always been too lazy to do it. It just never seemed urgent and thus has never been high on my priority list.

Then today, as I was searching for my pants (which turned out to be still wrinkly probably because it was still too wet when the housekeeper arrived), I found 3 pants of varying sizes hung at one edge of the bar.

They were hung on top of each other, and the top one had been slightly bleached by the sun.

Or it might have been the dust.

That pair was so new the price tags were still on, and it was Goldlion.

The pain!

It was only bleached very slightly so it's not visible in the shade after some rubbing to get the dust off, but I think I'll need to wash it to know for sure if it's just dust.

As for the other two pairs, I left the smallest one for him and kept the other in my own personal wardrobe that contains all my lesser-used clothing like jackets and army uniforms.

My bro didn't even bat an eyelid when I just left it back in the sun.






















Suddenly felt like watching Stephen Chow's old movies and found an entire collection of his movies from 1989 onwards, including those in which he was only a supporting actor (ie all his movies in 1989).

Now I don't have to worry about finishing Dr Who, which I've already watched till Season 5.

It's actually kinda hard to resist the temptation to watch all the episodes in a single marathon. I think what differentiates this series with American TV series I used to watch is that it always has some kind of continuity, like the crack in the fifth season. Moreover, a number of Dr Who episodes are halves of single episodes (part 1 as one episode and part 2 in another) so these forms of continuity makes viewers want to keep watching.

This makes we wish I had discovered Dr Who later, but at least I'm not one of those fans who started watching when the pilot episode was first broadcasted. That would have sucked.




















Other than Dr Who and Stephen Chow, I've also been spending a lot of time on Geneforge 1.

The game plot was designed quite well and overall, it's very nice. My only gripe is that the difficulty level is old school and thus isn't really a smooth slope up. Often, I either gain access to really difficulty areas or I find myself not gaining a shred of experience from almost an entire zone because my level was too high.

The former is easy because in such areas, I save after every single fight. The latter is a little annoying though.

The game is unique in that it keeps throwing surprises at us. First, just when I thought there were only serviles on the island, I discover there were also humans. Second, the humans weren't as united as I thought they were. Third, the Geneforge wasn't the only mystery in the game (at least where I am right now in the game anyway).

It's not a single surprise after a long period of building up like most games are today.

Rant 1087 / Gmail, I Am Disappoint.

The Grant of Administration is finally done. Now I can go on to change everything still in my mother's name to my bro's and mine.

It's been about 7 months since I went to the lawyer, so I wonder how long it will take before everything is settled.


Some of them are going to be easy - the insurance companies, although technically should ask for the Grant of Administration before handing me the money, have already done so when I asked them months ago.

The rest are going to take much longer.

First, I'm supposed to set up a bank account under the name of the Estate of my mother.

Next, CDP just replied my enquiry with a rather lengthy process that I have to go through to get the few hundred dollars' worth of Singtel shares (the freebies the government gave all Singaporean adults years ago). That's going to be a pain because it requires my physical presence at some parts.

Our home is most likely going to be another difficult part. I had already call HDB a long time ago to ask about what I should do, and the answer I got was the reason I went to a lawyer to help me get this Grant.

From what I can remember, I will need to bring this to the HDB office and then, I'll see what happens then.

And this bank in Hong Kong, I have no idea what to do with it. I think I'll pay them a visit next year. Hopefully they will be lax with the rules and not ask for a Resealing of the Grant.





















Oh crap ION Rewards changed its requirement for membership renewal (and new applications) from a minimum of $200 spent to $1000. That's huge because I don't think I can renew mine anymore.

Oh well, I'll just have to shop elsewhere after it expires.

Holy crap! We got all three continents! VS is now OP as fuck!

...

And then it took 2 days for TR to get 2 continents back.

NC is still fucked.




















Tried Curiosity on the iPad. Didn't know it was released until yesterday.

An extremely simple game.

It's all about getting to the core of the cube by smashing the tiny cubelets that form layers of the gigantic cube.

Each layer has to be cleared away completely before the next layer can be touched, so we can't just mine a shaft down to the core.

Each cubelet gives the player coins. Coins are also awarded for clearing the screen (screen size is up to the user but the award is proportional to the cubelets cleared) and for having multiple successful taps (wasted taps that don't affect any cube break the chain and taps are gradually worth more as the number of successful tap rises).

Coins can be used to buy tools like special chisels so that your taps break more cubes, or bombs.

There is only 1 cube for all Curiosity players, therefore only 1 player will receive the reward at end by having the last tap. Nobody knows what is in the core but that's the point of the game.

Very boring, although when one is bored enough, erasing stuff can feel like fun too.





















Got Geneforge 1-5 because the set was at 75% off on GOG. It's one of their daily promotions for the season and I somehow stumbled upon it.

Heck, I didn't even know what it was about until it was on sale.

Basically, it is a classic Western RPG with turn-based combat. System is simple because the spells are simple, and back then, games in general were simple anyway.

So far the first game has been quite interesting. The protagonist is a Shaper initiate on what can be considered his "final examination" which involves travelling to certain areas to complete tasks.

A Shaper is a user of some kind of life magic. He/she studies and practices this magic which really sounds like genetic engineering. In the field, a Shaper can create lifeforms designed for specific tasks.

In other words, summoning.

Three class are available actually - the Shaper (summoner), the Guardian (warrior/summoner hybrid) and the Agent (rogue/wizard hybrid).

In his journey, our protagonist was attacked by an unknown ship. Both were sunk in the short fight but he was brought to safety by his dying living boat.

"Safety" is really subjective here because it was an island that was marked "Barred" by his guild, and this meant nobody was allowed to go there for unknown reasons, usually good ones.

Thus the game began.
























Damn Gmail!!

When I use the Gmail app on my iPad with my mobile broadband modem, it somehow becomes impossible to send emails that have photos attached.

Next, I would try to use Safari to send it, except I'd discover that the draft wasn't even saved at the end, only the incomplete version saved from way back.

Even if I complete the email, I'd then find out (because I always forget... until now) that the mobile browser version of Gmail does not allow the attachment of images, only pictures drawn by hand on its MSPaint-clone within the Gmail itself.

Fortunately, I never have anything really urgent, so I can usually leave it till I get home before sending it at home.

Today, I was lucky enough to have left my PC with exactly this sort of crap in mind, so I could use Teamviewer to access my PC to send it.

Gmail, I am disappoint.

Rant 1086 / Of Blood And Shirts

And this is how you can have something for nothing.




































Planetside 2.

Just when I was thinking that maybe the Terran Republic (TR) were overpowered, two things happened that changed my mind.

First, I spoke to my bro and what happened in my server didn't happen in his.

Basically, I logged on one day only to find that 2 of the 3 continents on my server turned red overnight, leaving one for us and poor New Conglomerate (NC) had nothing.

The next day, NC had one and us, the Vanu Sovereignty (VS) had nothing. 2 continents remained under the control of the TR.

What else was I supposed to think other than that the TR was so totally OP??

But on my bro's server, the 3 were split evenly among the 3 factions and had always been that way.

Not very exciting but it also meant that the TR wasn't really that OP.

Today, things went very differently on my server.

When I logged on, we already had one and was about to take another. I joined in the fun and watched as we got the bonuses for conquering two continents.

Maybe the TR wasn't that OP after all.

It was mostly about teamwork, about those platoons that stayed around really long to do organized raids.

Logic says that this just shows that the TR may have more of such players than the rest of us. However, at least for today, the VS is the most organized faction.

Anyways, I'm now spending a lot of time driving a Sunderer since it's fun and it's a great support for raids.

But because it's so hard to see anything below and behind, I keep rolling over my teammates in crowded areas.

The good thing is that when I'm not doing that, the Sunderer is a 12-seater van that can be deployed as a spawn point.
 
This means I am both a mobile spawn point and a transporter, but only one in each attack. The thing about these two roles is that I can only be one of them at a time.

To be a spawn point, I have to get to the destinations first. This is due to the fact that the Sunderer can only be deployed a certain radius away from other deployed Sunderers, and being a well-positioned spawn point is extremely rewarding. When I'm the closest spawn point to the important targets, the whole faction would spawn at me, giving me tons of exp just for being at the right place at the right time.

Hence, Sunderers tend to rush to the good locations. Other than racing each other, some would even go as far as to roll over anyone and anything just to get there first. I've seen Sunderers flipping light tanks over during the course of the races and that's really terrible.

Still, they can't do anything about it. Teamkillers get only warnings for friendly fire on the first few deaths, so they got warnings and not much else. Finding them over such a huge map and the huge mess at the raids is close to impossible and is not rewarding at all.

Personally, I have run over quite a few people but only because I didn't see them. Once I got killed by one of my victims for it when he spawned back (coincidentally at my Sunderer). I didn't fault him for it since I could also spawn back at the same location and I knew I killed him.

But I've also wasted a lot of ingame currency over upgrades that I can't use. For example, I got the repair upgrade (for repairing tanks around me), ammo resupply upgrade (also for any tanks around me), armour upgrade and a mine defense upgrade, only to find that I could only use one of them at a time.

That was about 200 certs spent and 100 of them wasted.

I only had 300 at that time.

That was a painful lesson that I now remember all the time.

Anyways with this increasing proficiency at using Sunderers, I'm making about 50 certs a day. I don't play that much, so 50 certs a day is enough.

























Visited the dentist. Surprisingly little blood. The dentist also used a saltwater spray which I don't remember from my last visit.

I had stopped flossing and brushing twice a day about two months ago, so this was not what I expected at all.

In addition, I was not prescribed any special mouthwash, probably because of the lack of bleeding.

Because of this, I was charged only S$65 this visit. Really didn't feel like it was worth the price but then again, it was probably worth the good news.























Showed this person whom I might as well refer to as my mentor my harvest from Korea. Most of them were good, the rest merely acceptable.

Good, because this means I didn't waste my time and money. The flights and hotel cost S$1k already, and the clothes and food and stuff another S$1k.

$2k spent over four days is quite a lot IMO.

The only problem is that I did not get any men's clothing and my current stock of men's stuff is pretty low.

Still, I'm glad the 240k-won jacket was good. At first I liked it, then I got a bit of a shock when I saw the price tag. I stared at them and walked around for a bit over this little dilemma and eventually left Lotte Young Plaza without buying.

That night, I just couldn't get it out of my mind, so I decided the first thing I would do the next day would be to get back there and buy it.

Hence I got there too early the following morning.

240k wons is probably almost S$290 (also around US$240, since 1k won is US$1). I have never, in my entire life, paid that much for any single piece of clothing, much less one that I was never going to wear.

But buy it I did, and it was not wasted.

*Commencing hip-thrusts*






























My shirts have arrived...

and they were too tight for me.

Clearly these were meant for slim men so now the two meant for me could fit my bro while the one for my bro is going to be exchanged for their biggest (the ones for me were the second biggest).

The problem is that even though the lengths were right, they were too tight around the torso.

That's a bad problem. Obviously they had too much engineering talent among them and not enough tailoring experience.

Still, I like them, but only if they fit me.





















Doctor Who is such a great show; I just can't stop watching it.

But so far I've only watched the first three of the new seasons. At my current rate, I'll need to find the old 20-over seasons soon. Shouldn't be a problem, given the apparent popularity of the series in the UK.

Basically it's about a time traveller. I can't believe it took me this long to find out about it.