Ooh, shiny

Yeah, things have been dead in here for a bit, haven't they? Work's been kicking my ass, but that's nothing new. Nothing new in politics, though it's nice to see that the idiot cow head protesters look like they're going to be charged. It'd be nicer if the government didn't flip-flop so much over it earlier on. Will anything actually happen? I'm not holding my breath.

I'd make a solemn vow about more regular blogging, but we all know how that'd turn out.

Ramadan's been pretty solid, though. I've been doing this for 15+ years, and it's really no big deal at this point; it's really just like having a really early breakfast and skipping lunch, or even no breakfast at all for some people. Nice thing about the office is that if you stay in to work during lunch hour you can get off an hour early. But I usually like to head out anyway. I can't do the "spend the whole day in the office non-stop" thing like some people.

Was supposed to head down to KL... today actually. Work stuff. Never driven down to KL before, or even around KL, and was kinda looking forward to the adventure of accidentally missing the KL exit and ending up in Johor or something. But real life reared its ugly head and it's been postponed for now. The tricky part is that the original trip was supposed to be for 10 days, which was the maximum number of days needed to finish this work thing. Now it's been cut short because of Raya, and I have to go back for Raya. Because my mother will murder me if I don't. (I'm only half-kidding.) So... yeah, tricky, but I guess it's playing by ear time. I've been hearing a lot of that lately.

On the plus side, I did get a shiny new toy:


Spent the whole weekend with Kean and Alicia (who, incidentally, hooked me up on this guy named Paolo Nutini, and now I can't get enough of the guy) agonising over what laptop I'll be spending the rest of my life with. Kean's actually a hella lot more particular about my laptop choices than I am, so he's a good wingman to have around. This one has nice specs and retailed for RM3,999, not counting the extra two-year warranty. A bit pricier than what I was targeting, but what sealed the deal for us was when the salesgirl asked us to touch the top area of the laptop lid. This happened:


It glows when you fondle it.

Even Apple never made anything so gloriously useless. God bless the Japanese.