LASIK Postponed

So it was, a day before the LASIK operation, the hospital called to say that the Intrase machine was spoilt. Alternatively, I could use the microkeratome, which is $1,000 cheaper, but Intralase has less risk. Being the kiasi me, I opted to wait for another one to two weeks whilst the machine is being repaired.

Operation Better-Vision-at-a-cost-of-$4,700 postponed by another week or two.

Nah Beh, I'm just not meant to go for the operation.

Sucker for all things afro.

Yes, I think I am a sucker for all thing afro.

First it was Lindy Hop, an Afro American dance.

Then it was salsa, an Afro Cuban dance.

And now, it's gonna be capoeira, an Afro Brazilian martial art dance.

I'm a geek, so date me.

So being a geek is in now.

And a geek makes better a lover, or at least so this article proclaims.

So date me. =)

Excerpt:

The reasons why geeks are unparalleled as lovers are simple and many:

Geeks don't sleep around. Geeks, through their higher IQ and therefore greater understanding of the tragedy of human condition, know that the grass only seems greener on the other side of the fence. Hence, they instinctively stay loyal to their lovers through thick and thin. Their social skills are also not well developed enough to support an affair, and frankly, geeks generally aren't quite sure how they ended up with the lover they have attracted. When you date a geek, you know the geek will be yours until you are done.

Geeks are good at the things they try. When's the last time you met a geek who didn't have some secret skill just simmering below the surface of their lives, honed in the wee hours of the night? It could be hacking, playing video games, or the ability to insert and remove those stupid computer power plug things from drives without cursing or breaking a finger. Let sex become their new favorite late-night hobby, and you know that a geek won't quit until he or she has learned how to hack into your brainstem through specific genitalia interfacing in parallel with general dermal and oral bonding.

Geeks are not interested in status. Geeks became geeks because they chose to spend their time doing things that would not necessarily make them popular with everyone else in school, like sports and fashion. The ability to resist peer pressure is important to a geek. This means that a geek is more interested in their or your happiness than looking good to others, which is an important trait in a relationship.

Geeks haven't formed bad habits. After years of dating other women, many socially successful guys have become too confident to be intimate, think of women only for sex, and don't have any intention of letting what in their minds is "just another girlfriend" enjoy the last spring roll. Let us not even pry into the diabolical, dark, twisted, and depraved mind of the girl who has dated many men. None of this is true of the geek, however. The lack of past romantic partners allows the geek to approach lovers with the zest of the neophyte. Geeks are not full of romantic confidence; however, once coaxed from their emotional holes like tame bunnies, they are eager to please and enjoy their newfound relationship.

Geeks can concentrate. Geeks can focus their energy on one task with the intensity of a hunting cheetah. Granted, the task they are focussing on may have more to do with hunting orcs with 12-sided dice rather than hunting gazelles with claws, but the fact remains that a geek, once set upon a task and given Mountain Dew, becomes a tireless slave to their goal. Put a six-pack of Dew on the bedside table and a geek between the sheets, and you have found yourself one relentless lover.

Geeks have excellent finger dexterity. Geeks roll dice. Geeks play video games. Geeks flip pages in books. Geeks type a lot, and use characters like ~ and ^ and | that no one else has any use for. Geeks use calculators and personal digital assistants. The sum total of this is that a geek knows how to use his or her fingers to greatest possible effect. Whether you have a button that needs pushing or a joystick that needs joy, a geek is the person for the job.

Geeks have imagination Once you have found your amazing lover, you wouldn't want things to become boring. That is where geeks prove their worth. Replayability is important to the value-conscious video-game playing geek, and this translates to relationships as well. Wouldn't you want to date someone who has created a Quake 3 mod? Wouldn't you want to date someone who has written steamy Everquest fan fiction involving elven incest? Wouldn't you want to date someone who wished they were Morpheus rather than someone who wished they were Barry Bonds?

There are plenty of other reasons why geeks are the best lovers around, but don't just take my word for it. Find the nearest sexy geek and coax that person into asking you out, even if you have to do so using instant messanger. Remember: the only non-sexy geek is a single geek.

Support call.

In my present job, I have a duty every alternate week to mend the support phone line, which is switched on 24 x 7. This phone is routed to my handphone.

And I just got woken up by a wrong call made to the support phone.

It's 3:43 am now, and I am having difficulty sleeping again. 0_0.

Time for a glass of Macallan.

A father's duty

And I remembered my last promise to my dad on his deathbed. To take care of the family and bring up my then 9 year old younger brother.

It has been a long 9 years. Dealing with his teenage angst. Cutting short my student life to support and be less of a burden to my family. Struggling to be the emotional pillar of the family.

Of sacrificing the one that mattered most to fulfill the promise. The bitterness of the sacrifice that had to be made.

But today, when I talked to my younger brother, the promise has been fulfilled. He has grown and matured. And I have imparted the same one important lesson that my dad had passed down to me. Summarised in two words.

No regrets.

Look not to the past, but to the future.

My duty has been fulfilled.

Wherever you may be, dad, happy father's day.

Paya Lebar Airbase Runway Cycling event

As part of operation reduce flab,I went with ex-co-lindy-instructor-turned-friend and Y to the National Runway Cycling and Skate event at Paya Lebar Airbase.

The event started off with a slight gloomy weather. After a few minutes of skating, there was a slight rainpour. Even the weather are against me losing weight.

Long way ahead

Well...at least I caught the rainbow after the rain.

Rainbow

The route was 15km long, half of my normal weekly skating session in East Coast. Easily in under an hour. The organisers roped in Bowen Secondary Marching Band for a short performance, which reminded me of my secondary school days. I must be getting old reminiscing times like these.

Bowen Sec Band

I was busy snapping candid photos away of my two skating kakis, when Y asked "Hey, can you send me the photos that you took?"

"Sure," I replied.

"Please do not post our photos up on the blog,"ex-co-lindy-instructor-turned-friend pleaded.

"Why?," I asked.

"Because your blog is quite tiko. I don't mind if Y posts the pictures on her blog," she replied without thinking.

Well done ... so now I have a reputation of having a tiko blog. Maybe I should point her in the direction of sggirls.com. But then again, maybe not.

I'm flabbergasted.

CommunicAsia 2005.

This year's Communique Asia saw Sony cashing on the Star Wars craze:

Darth Vader
Got no force to communicate? Use Sony Ericsson instead.

Storm Trooper

The Storm Trooper got stormed by the photo taking mobs.

Motorola hired a huge bunch of professional looking models. They had a daily catwalk show.

Models for Motorola
Slim handphones requires slim models

An exhibition piece with another model, this time by LG. This is the only time you can take photos of cheo bus blatantly without being accused of being a chee ko pek.

Models for LG
Say cheese for the chee ko peks.

Eureka!

After a few days of reflection, I finally saw light. The explanation was so simple. It was a simple misunderstanding.

Looking at it from a third perspective, it was so silly. I should have seen it coming.

Girls, are after all, girls.

Despite her tom boyish and loud behaviour, and the fact that I treated her like a drinking buddy, she was after all, a girl.

Despite the fact that she has many buddy guy friends, and I treated her as the chick with a metaphorical dick, and we laughed about it, she was after all, a girl.

Despite the fact that she figured out my liking for another, and joked about starting a match making consultancy, she was after all, a girl.

And a girl would feel uncomfortable even if we arranged to meet up with my group of friends that sometimes do not turn up, and we ended up alone. A guy wouldn't.

And a girl would feel uncomfortable meeting up for lunch often even though it's because her office is just next to mine. A guy wouldn't.

I should have seen it coming, when invited to go to a dive trip with her group of dive friends. I should not have accepted it.

I should have seen it coming, after the dive trip, she refused to meet up for lunch during work days, citing her busy schedule. And being a goofus who takes answers at face value, I believed her.

And now word has gotten round, that I asked her out with some friends, and on several occasions, my friends fly aeroplane , leaving just me and her alone. And that made her uncomfortable. Even though the truth is, most of the time, it's me, her, and her jazz enthusiast sister. And she showed no signs of feeling uncomfortable.

And now word has gotten round, that I promised to introduce her to more friends, on these outings, but have not done so. But the truth is, I wanted to introduce her jazz enthusiast sister to another jazz trumpeter who jams on weekends.

And now it seemed like I'm one big buaya going after two girls concurrently, when in actual fact, I have not even made (or plan to make) any move yet.

And yet, when word got round, and I asked to clarify matters with her, knowing how words could get twisted from person to person, she refused. Asking me to SMS her instead. Even though I could just pop by after work to speak for a few minutes.

This kind of clarification, how do you expect me to SMS?

Nah beh. I'm just gonna let them think what they wanna think. No use explaining.

Time for a few shot whiskeys before going to dreamland.

Why I read blogs.

Sometimes, when you're feeling down in the dumps, some blogs will wander along that will lighten your day, and let you have a good laugh. And today, it was Kenny Sia's article on the Sarong Party Girl controversy. (Incidentally, I do not think that it was such a controversy. Poor girl got exploited featured across the chinese gossip newspaper, what's the name of the paper again? Lian He Zao Bao?)

Excerpt:

Look we're not talking about a 60-year-old ah pek flashing his wrinkly virtual kuku-chiaw on his blog here ok. We're talking about a sweet 19-year-old girl baring her equally sweet pair of papayas on her blog.

Gee thanks for treating a woman's naked body like tits its the most disgusting thing on Earth. Pretend feminism never happened. Obscenity laws my arse.

Obscenity laws? I'll teach you obscenity laws!

Oh by the way Kenny, nice red boxers. =)

On Friendships

"You can't expect all friends to be truthful and tell you straight in your face what they actually feel about you. Your bad traits, and what they are unhappy with, like the LHE," platonic gal friend told me over beer.

"Maybe so, but that's the basis of a friendship; to be truthful if you feel slighted, and honest about your feelings, no matter how bad. That is why until today, I am still so dedicated to the LHE performing group. Their truthfulness, and sincerity in their friendships," I said.

And it suddenly hit me; that being able to see and find out the truth in the situation, to clarify any misunderstandings and clear things out in a level headed way are true qualities of any friendship. And these are hard to come by. And now I know what the jazz guru meant when we were discussing on the topic of seeking truth.

To all those who had been honest and sincere with me, thank you, I really appreciate that gesture.

Tired.

Hell hath no fury like a woman, or rather, several woman scorned.

I have seen it happen to my friends. And now it is happening to me.

I am tired. Very tired. Tired of not knowing what hit me, or second guessing what is happening around me. Even friends whom I treat or thought were drinking buddies.

I'm gonna have a beer and just forget about the whole episode. Let them think what they all want to think.

From now on, when I arrange a get together with friends, and some friends backs out halfway, and I am left stranded alone with just another girl, I will cancel and not go for the whole damn outing, just to avoid any misunderstanding anymore.

Life at work dealing with politics is stressful as it is, I don't need all this.

I've got a Cowboy Personality

And so I followed in Finicky Feline's footsteps and took Kenny Sia's test. I've got the personality of Leisure Suit Larry of Singapore Cowboy Caleb.

Congratulations Urban Male Bitch, you are...

Cowboy Caleb of cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com

You are smart, loyal and sensitive. You are also very caring towards other people and you help them out whenever you can. You are very passionate about your line of work. You fight for your beliefs and if someone doesn't agree with you, you argue your point of view across in a very convincing yet diplomatic manner. For that, you earn respect.

Which Singaporean Blogger Are You?

The Cowboy + tomorrow.sg Effect

It never fails to amaze me the amount of hits I get from being Caleb ed and tomorrowed.

From a measly 40+ hits per day to 1000+ hits!

The Cowboy Effect
Originally uploaded by urbanmalebitch.

Sarong Party Girl Un-saronged.

One of my weekly blog reads is Sarong Party Girl.

I have morbid fascination with her bare all and tell all blog posts.

Her post about preferring white dicks, up to today, still tickles me.

Today, she made my day she outdid herself and posted one of her nude shots, which I would say, for a Singaporean is very daring.

I am sure if she had advertised for an online date, the response will be overhumping..er.. i mean overwhelming.




Photo from her blog.