Lost In Translation

I know it sounds stupid, but over the weekend, I got myself my very first electric toothbrush! Not the expensive ones like Braun of course, where it's supposed to make you climax as you brush your teeth or something. Just the cheap double-A batteries operated one. Like this Colgate thingamagic.

Curious about what the fuss is all about, I thought it's hightime I tried one out myself. Of course, if I were to say it isn't much at all, someone might just come along and tell me "Of course lah, you buy the cheap one not syok! Must get the good ones." But nevermind that. I'm not that curious. I just thought it'd be cool to brush my teeth without having to really, well, brush it. And seeing that it was only selling for 9 bucks in Safeway, why not?

And really, I must admit, it is pretty cool.
Whoever invented this must've been super lazy. But nevertheless, clever. It is pretty efficient if used properly. Except for the part when I put my toothpaste on it and then turned it on, only to find out that the physical forces of inertia applies to toothpaste as well as all other material thing in this world. You don't know what that meant? You don't deserve to be reading this blog.
Nah, I'm just kidding. And the sad thing was that I only found out a bit later that there was a manual provided with the toothbrush as well, and it explicitly warned that I shouldn't turn it on until I'm actually brushing my teeth to avoid splashes.

Oops...

Nevertheless, like I said before, it is a cool toothbrush. You should see its super rotating action with mini vibrations. Totally rocking sensation as you brush your teeth.

the second photo's blurry, illustrating that the brush is rotating

How cool is that?! Oh well. I've only been using it for 2 days or so and am still getting the hang of having my toothbrush vibrating in my mouth.
Okay. So that sounds wrong.
But you get the point. I just hope for now that I won't get electricuted or something. In my mouth. How funny would that be? And not to mention painful or fatal as well. Which makes me wonder now: Has that ever happened to anyone?? It is powered by simply 2 AA batteries, after all. How bad can that be?

Oh well. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

It's here!
We got a call yesterday saying that the sofa would arrive between 9:00a.m to 12:00p.m today. So I woke up at about 5 to, made my breakfast, and as I was just about to sit down in front of my PC to eat/surf/play game/print notes, the buzzer rang.

9:00a.m.

Whoa. Talk about efficiency.

Excited, I barged into kg's room and asked him to wake up, telling him that the sofa's here. Fuzzily nodding and grunting, he rose for a second with a promising look that he's waking up (which is rare, if you know him just a bit).

Not being able to wait for him, I headed downstairs to help guide the delivery guys bring the box up.
Got it up. Signed the documents. And the guys left. Thank you.

......

Feeling stupid to even had the hope that he'd wake up the first time, I tried waking him up again. This time, with a half decent conversation.

"Kg, please wake up. The sofa is here. Plus it's 9-something already, you're gonna be late for uni (class at 10:00a.m)."
"Mmmm?"
"Kg, pleeeaassseeee. We need some help. The sofa is here, it needs to be assembled."
"What time is it?"
"9:20."
"Mmmmm."(nodding)

By this time, Lydia (who had slept over the previous night) had woken up and decided to give a hand.
The sofa was bigger than I remembered. I never thought the body was so wide when spread opened as a bed (this was how it came in the box). We decided to tear the sides of the box so we could simply drag the sofa out of it. Carrying it out of the box had proven useless as it would simply click its way around to become a sofa instead. Well, read my previous post if you don't follow.

And yet...

Starting to get impatient, I decided to blast his room with his iTunes. Recently developing a crush on the Lion King Soundtrack, I decided to turn it up on his never-off PC. You know, as some incentive to wake up.
Nevertheless, I got back to work. Time was precious. So I got around to assembling some parts of the legs.

And before I knew it, it was up and ready.

And still...

Sigh. When's he ever gonna change.
And the most annoying part is when he wakes up. He's just gonna find the sofa readily assembled and exclaim something like, "GASP! It's ready!"
And when I tell him about how many times I tried to wake him up and how hard Lydia and I had to work to assemble it, he's just gonna say something like, "Har... reaaalllyyy? How come I don't remember wan?" while taking a nice seat on the Zoom.

Sigh.

This is my coffee table in my living room. As you can see, it's got my notebook wide open, a couple notes shuffled across the table, and a few bare essentials to keep me going like H20 and a nice pillow. All signs showing that I'm already in my exam preparation days, burning the midnight oil because I've been slacking off all semester long.

Wrong.
But still, quite close.

I'm actually in the middle of writing up an essay for my Organizational Behaviour assignment that's due in 2 days' time. Why now, at this hour of the night you ask? Well not because I've been slacking off, fortunately (half truth). But rather I've been bombarded with heaps of other work from other subjects in uni as well. This week alone, I've had to cover over 90+ pages of reading, which after doing most of them, I found out that only about 30 were relevent. And as of right now, I'm struggling hard to summarize over 20 pages of a social experiment into 400 words.

And I've barely started my 4th week in uni.

Well, I guess I can't and shouldn't really complain, now can I? Considering the fact that I am living with a 4th year double-degree student who's got a project lsating the semester long. And there are also others like Winnie, whom I bet works 10 times the load of what I do and only breaks a sweat after a singular workload which to me would be worth a whole semester's.

Still, who am I to compare with them anyway, eh? Who asked them to do Science or anything related to that in the first place?
I'll just grab my right to a sympathy while I can.
And while I'm at it, maybe some time to procrastinate as well.

Like now.

Seriously.
What is wrong with the weather? We are now in the midst of autumn (well, supposedly), and it is friggin' 30 degrees outside right now. The laundry done this morning which isn't even placed outside is crispy-dry right now. All of it. What is it like outside?

I can't see anything. Why? Because I'm blinded by the friggin' sun!!!

So hot that I've finished my 2L Coke that I just bought early this week (barely touched it till the last few days).

i swear i saw a mirage inside the bottle

So hot that kg decided to finish my Homebrand Vanilla Ice-cream.

ok, so there wasn't much left anyway

So hot that Esther decided to open up a can of lychee with ice and it evaporated in less than 12 minutes!

before


after

So hot that when I drove down to St. Kilda, all I saw was this:

Okay. So maybe I made that last part up...

That's right, folks.
"Fook Yuen"... Whoever Yuen is.

Of lately, I think I owe one to a few people. People whom I've turned down for catch ups, coffees, and the rest alike. I know that they may only need to be a short session. Say, half an hour. But I've been turning you guys down for a while now still, and with that, I'd like to apologize.

Uni has certainly been a drag and I'd like to say that that's the only reason why I haven't been able to spend much time out. Just after finishing up my OB assignment last Thursday, I found out, stunned, that with the submission of that assignment, it was only the beginning to a far longer semester.

In exactly a week's time from now, I have a mid semester exam for my Intermediate Financial Accounting. A week after that, another mid semester exam for Cost Management. AND THEN, on the week after that, I have two assignments due on the same day. The two assignments I'll have to work on for the following two weeks, in the midst of my mid semester exams.

There's a lot to do, and it doesn't help that I'm behind in certain subjects.
So as for now, I guess I won't be having much of a life. Of course, I do take a couple of breaks every now and then. How I spend those breaks?
Sudoku.
I know - Loser. Geek. Nyang.

Sigh... What to do? Go to Pudu, look for Muthu.