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Am sitting in bed watching My Name Is Earl, which I'd forgotten how well it ages. My second viewing, and every episode is as great as it was the first time around. Unbelievably funny, and it's not even my favourite episode yet. On television this minute: Season 2 ep 4, the the "Time After Time" sequence. Sheer brilliance! And yay!

Was so sick all day today that I completely forgot my tooth was aching. Had horrible KFC food for dinner. I'm avoiding so many people on chat it's not even funny (interestingly, nobody likely to read my blog, so this is all good). Read a play after ages today, which is always nice.

There's a Flickr meetup this Sunday, so um, yeah. Might go in the interest of being a bit more outgoing or whatnot. Let's see how much I change my mind by Sunday.

Two other things: am getting Brazil on Saturday. Brazil! The other thing involved Mars being as big as the moon in Aug 2003, but I guess that's not really important at all.

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A vague list

1. I paid mucho mucho money for .Mac, and promptly felt very guilty. I'm not going to pull the move-all-my-money-out-of-my-account-before-they-debit trick this time, though, I have to stop making spontaneous online purchases with the power of my mind. Was very disappointed that I could publish my calendar but not make it private. Anyway, it came in use with an hour, because of me sending TaxonDNA somewhere by e-mail (just under 800kb), and Gmail refused to send such nonsense (probably because it contained an executable, not because it was too big), but .Mac was happy to do it. I guess it's nice having paid-for e-mail again, after years of free e-mail :).

   Of course, if iWeb is nice and I finally move my blog off Blogger ... well!

2. I found out OMG somebody has made a Saramago movie! It's Blindness, which I'd definitely like to watch, particularly the latter half of the book, but I'm glad there's atleast one out there now. It premiered at Cannes, and will release in Singapore in September. Initial reviews are disappointing, alas. Can't have everything, and something's better than nothing!
3. Another of my friends' folks are moving to Singapore. Everybody's doin' it!
4. Twitter is sweet. This post began (in my mind) as a Tweeter post, before expanding to present form.
5. Watched Indiana Jones and the Forgettable Title on GVmax. Good things: watching all that effects on a nice, big screen, which nice sounds and all; most of the acting was handled okay (I found the Shia kid irritating as usual, but he kinda stops talking halfway through the movie, and then he's okay), there were cool walking-around-in-caves-finding-things scenes, and the camera work was nice. Bad things: the skull was "magnetic" (no it wasn't, atleast not consistently), the underlying plot idea wasn't so much plotted as vaguely scribbled, and every single CGI animal just looked weird. But I thought Karen Allen looked hot, so what do I know.
6. Got stomach-sick eating movie food. Was too slow getting from theatre to bus-stop and missed bus, had to take cab. Didn't have cash, and NETS and Credit Card wasn't working. So I had to go the MRT and withdraw from the ATM. But the cab-driver-uncle was really sweet about it, and offered to drive me from the MRT back to my home without charge. Didn't take him up on it, but thanks all the same cab-uncle!

Okay, doesn't have anything to do with anything, but I always thought that Wallace Line was creepily cool. Now: on to tomorrow!

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1. No, haven't written anything on "my story" yet.
2. No, haven't done my taxes yet either.
3. Clean up my room?! Oh, dear ... look, just look at points 1 and 2 above and then tell me if that's on any sort of priority.
4. I have taken photographs on my new Olympus E-510; haven't had the time to polish them off and upload them onto Flickr yet, though. Maybe in the next few days? (the photos were taken yesterday, but Haven't Blogged Since Then - HBST - so it doesn't count).
5. I have 5,907 photos on Flickr at the moment, which have apparently been viewed 56,003 times since uploading! That comes to an average of 9.48 views per photograph, thus showing clearly which side of the quality-v-quantity equation my online photo collection is on at the moment. Hopefully, I'll have better photographs up in the future, as I have started investing my time in Adobe Lightroom. Well, hopefully - they couldn't get much worse.

That'll be all.

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