star wars episode 3 spoiler
check out this link for screenshots from episode 3. also has the main plot in the form of captions. don't know how long it'll be up, so check it fast.
via mr brown
via mr brown
of muggy weather and irritable immigration service
it just rained, yet i am feeling all sticky. that's sg for you. all muggy. it's that feeling i get the moment i step out the door of changi airport. when i'm no longer enveloped in that alternate climate that air-conditioning provides. it's like walking into a wall. a wall of sticky, clingy air. it'll take the starch out of your collar in an hour. you try and remedy the situation by having cold showers, but they only work as long as you are standing under the water. 5 minutes after you step out, i.e. by the time you dry off, you start to feel the first beads of perspiration forming. but i guess the humid weather is good, since then you don't get drastic temperature changes like in the deserts.
on another note, governmental bureaucracy (with specific reference to the ausrtralian immigration department) is something to bring smiles to the faces of just about everyone, isn't it? especially when they only accept online applications for visas, and guess what?? their friggin' website takes yonks to load if at all. and when yours truly finally proceeded to the entering credit card details bit and did so and clicked "enter", the next screen did NOT load. which means that i have no idea what my receipt number is. as a result, i can NOT proceed to the next step of getting my health check. this was on tuesday night. i submitted a request for my reference number on wednesday morning, and i have yet to get an answer. it is end of business on thursday, in australia by now. so i play the waiting game. oh ya, on the same note, the australian high commission only has humans answering calls between 2.30 and 4.30 on mon, tue, thu and fri. i shall go fume in my corner now...
on another note, governmental bureaucracy (with specific reference to the ausrtralian immigration department) is something to bring smiles to the faces of just about everyone, isn't it? especially when they only accept online applications for visas, and guess what?? their friggin' website takes yonks to load if at all. and when yours truly finally proceeded to the entering credit card details bit and did so and clicked "enter", the next screen did NOT load. which means that i have no idea what my receipt number is. as a result, i can NOT proceed to the next step of getting my health check. this was on tuesday night. i submitted a request for my reference number on wednesday morning, and i have yet to get an answer. it is end of business on thursday, in australia by now. so i play the waiting game. oh ya, on the same note, the australian high commission only has humans answering calls between 2.30 and 4.30 on mon, tue, thu and fri. i shall go fume in my corner now...
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since the last post..
my grandfather went for surgery. a partial hip replacement. the surgery went as well as could be expected. since he is, as the doctor put it, "cognitively deficient" he was under close supervision post-op. and unless you're willing to a pay a bomb, the hospital doesn't station a nurse to one patient 24/7. which meant that i'd been spending quite a lot of nights at the hospital.
two wednesday nights ago, the day after thaipusam, i along with the family, went off to india for a short pilgrimage/ shopping trip. car rides in india are an adventure all on their own. highway code?? what's that?? it's all about adjustment and understanding. as our driver was explaining to me. what you really need to learn is how to avoid getting into an accident. which means going really slow when you have an idiot coming from the opposite direction in your lane, because he's trying to overtake that huge bus that is tilting to the left, due to the added weight of 10 people hanging from the door. adjustment also means making a U-turn in extremely heavy traffic.
as for shopping, i got 5 tops sewn and bought 2. they might be unusual, but i like them, the tops i bought, that is. might upload pics of them if i feel up to doing it. it's quite hard to find simple stone ear studs in the jewellery shops there, because earrings there tend to be large chunky affairs. so i ended up getting 2 nose studs, which have now substituted for ear studs.
got back to singapore yesterday, and here i am... had a few thoughts that i was mulling over on the long car rides in india. might write about them here sometime in the future
two wednesday nights ago, the day after thaipusam, i along with the family, went off to india for a short pilgrimage/ shopping trip. car rides in india are an adventure all on their own. highway code?? what's that?? it's all about adjustment and understanding. as our driver was explaining to me. what you really need to learn is how to avoid getting into an accident. which means going really slow when you have an idiot coming from the opposite direction in your lane, because he's trying to overtake that huge bus that is tilting to the left, due to the added weight of 10 people hanging from the door. adjustment also means making a U-turn in extremely heavy traffic.
as for shopping, i got 5 tops sewn and bought 2. they might be unusual, but i like them, the tops i bought, that is. might upload pics of them if i feel up to doing it. it's quite hard to find simple stone ear studs in the jewellery shops there, because earrings there tend to be large chunky affairs. so i ended up getting 2 nose studs, which have now substituted for ear studs.
got back to singapore yesterday, and here i am... had a few thoughts that i was mulling over on the long car rides in india. might write about them here sometime in the future
