4. Okay, enough about the bike already. Something I really really do want though, is a MacBook Pro. Sigh.
5. Well there are the other trivial things too, like a trip to the Maldives, a car, a house.... but I won't list them all out. On to the next (and perhaps slightly more realistic) list!
The stuff I don't really think anyone's gonna get for me, but I just keep hoping for anyway
1. A Soul S3.0 Wheelset. Seriously need a good set of training wheels so I don't butcher my Zipps on training rides.
2. A new pair of berms.
3. A dress watch
4. A new iPod. Specifically, an 80 GB one, because 40 GB is proving to be insufficient.
5. A new pair of earphones. Am considering the cheaper but pretty stylish Etymotic ER-6i and the slightly more expensive Shure E3c. My E2c's are falling apart, as is the case with all my wired electronics.
The others (or, the list that I know you cheapskates are gonna choose from)
1. A new mouse for my laptop
2. My handphone (02 XDA Mini) desperately needs a new battery cover. The current one's in not too fabulous shape after repeated falls.
3. A good book.
4. Anything, really. I'm not fussy.
So anyway I pretty much know that no one's gonna buy me anything from my first two lists, it's really more or less a shopping list for myself, so I don't forget what I need (yeah, right. Like I ever will). Well all you silent readers who've been here for ages, time to make your presence felt, in a big way!
Christmas is almost here, and I can't stop listening to Christmas songs even as I study. It's sad, because then I can't do much other than bounce around and grin like an idiot in anticipation of Christmas coming. I've got 3 papers over the first 3 days of next week. So far, I've studied 1 chapter of law. As that familiar household (at least in mine it is) tune goes, I'mmmmm deadddddd.
1:03 AM
Friday, November 17, 2006
Heh.
Some complaint letter that apparently won some "Complaint Letter Competition" in the UK. Enjoy.
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Dear Cretins,
I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your 3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone. During this three-month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I had not previously considered possible, as well as ignorance and stupidity of monolithic proportions.
Please allow me to provide specific details, so that you can either pursue your professional perogative, and seek to rectify these difficulties - or more likely (I suspect) so that you can have some entertaining reading material as you while away the working day smoking B&H and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog in your office:
My initial installation was cancelled without warning, resulting in my spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat arse waiting for your technician to arrive. When he did not arrive, I spent a further 57 minutes listening to your infuriating hold music, and the even more annoying Scottish robot woman telling me to look at your helpful website....HOW?
I alleviated the boredom by playing with my testicles for a few minutes - an activity at which you are no-doubt both familiar and highly adept. The rescheduled installation then took place some two weeks later, although the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools - such as a drill-bit, and his cerebrum. Two weeks later, my cable modem had still not arrived. After 15 telephone calls over 4 weeks my modem arrived... six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay for it. I estimate your internet server's downtime is roughly 35%... hours between about 6pm -midnight, Mon-Fri, and most of the weekend.
I am still waiting for my telephone connection. I have made 9 calls on my mobile to your no-help line, and have been unhelpfully transferred to a variety of disinterested individuals, who are it seems also highly skilled bollock jugglers. I have been informed that a telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that no telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been cut off); that I will be transferred to someone (and then been redirected to an answer machine informing me that your office is closed); that I will be transferred to someone and then been redirected to the irritating Scottish robot woman...and several other variations on this theme.
Doubtless you are no longer reading this letter, as you have at least a thousand other dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another one of those crucially important testicle-moments to attend to. Frankly I don't care, it's far more satisfying as a customer to voice my frustration's in print than to shout them at your unending hold music. Forgive me, therefore, if I continue. I thought BT were shit, that they had attained the holy piss-pot of godawful customer relations, that no-one, anywhere, ever, could be more disinterested, less helpful or more obstructive to delivering service to their customers. That's why I chose NTL, and because, well, there isn't anyone else is there?
How surprised I therefore was, when I discovered to my considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless shower of bastards you truly are. You are sputum-filled pieces of distended rectum incompetents of the highest order. British Telecom - wankers though they are - shine like brilliant beacons of success, in the filthy puss-filled mire of your seemingly limitless inadequacy. Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and foolhardy quest to receive any kind of service from you. I suggest that you cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me for the services which you have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver - any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps bemused rage.
I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my cats litter tray, as an expression of my utter and complete contempt for both you and your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they have not become desiccated during transit - they were satisfyingly moist at the time of posting, and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider them the very embodiment of my feelings towards NTL, and its worthless employees.
Have a nice day - may it be the last in you miserable short life, you irritatingly incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of twats.
John
11:21 AM
Monday, November 13, 2006
Well I didn't quite mean it literally...
But you know what I said about me being dead? I think it's just about coming true. My vision's gone blurry, my head kinda hurts, my left arm went numb for a while (OK, I kinda...slept on it), and my left eye feels like it wants to roll out of its socket already. Oh and, there's this odd vein on my left temple which is throbbing and threatens to just explode.
Oh yeah, and that report? Nowhere near done. Sigh.
3:57 AM
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Challenge of the Day
What: 5000 word report on Income Tax
When: Tomorrow, 11.30am
Current Status: 0 words
I am dead.
4:04 PM
Saturday, November 11, 2006
To whoever stole my Tim-Tams
Screw you. You will rot in Spinach Hell, where all men sleep on broccoli beds and only get to eat asparagus and capsicum for breakfast and lunch. Oh and for dinner? Brinjal, brinjal and brinjal.
3:55 PM
Friday, November 03, 2006
So.
I found out yesterday that I've still been getting hits even in this... temporary-sort-of downtime on this blog. It's quite cute because I'm getting not like, 2 or 3 hits a day... a little closer to 20-30 actually, which is somewhat close to what I used to get WHILE I was writing (though that was... 2 years ago).
So anyway, it's really be a crazy week or so. New cracks, old stories, more secrets, rediscovered... friends. I guess it wouldn't be the wisest thing to write about everything in detail here, so... yeah. Whee.
Well, if you must know, I am a really closed person. Which makes the people I share secrets with a pretty privileged (ha!) bunch.
So... to be honest I don't know if I'll keep updating this place... it's become a bit of a chore really, since I've stopped being so ranty and I nowadays use my free time more on training. There's always something new to train for, the big goal on the horizon being the Singapore Ironman 70.3 next September. Of course there are the bigger (and perhaps much more impossible) ones like the Kona Ironman (a total dream, really). So... I'll update when I do.
