Wantunn mee

Had an extended discussion in the office yesterday after I mentioned the term SFLM. FYI, SFLM stands for see-fatt-long (which means a-hole in cantonese) mow (hair)… it’s a long running joke.
Anyway, one thing lead to another and I found out the a merkin is actually a pubic wig. I’m like… what??? these things actually exist??? Well, apparently they do and now I know. Kinda odd considering the amount of ads in the papers, magazines etc nowadays advertising brazailian wazes and what have you to take it off.. and once upon a time, people wanted to put it on. Go figure.
P.S. maybe someone can start a full service salon where they take it off… then offer you a wig so that it looks like you have it on! Genius!

Today we dropped by funan during luch as a collegue had to get some inkjet paper. Let me tell you that is a baadddd baadddd place.. almost as bad as Sim Lim Square… even worse when you consider that it’s next to peninsula plaza with cathay photo, eastgear etc.
Anyway, a short short walk through some of the shops have left me with a craving (not necessarily a need though) for the following:
1. Graphics tablet. The one I’d been eyeing (Wacom graphire 3) seems to have dropped about $40 to just over a hundred bucks now.
2. Canon’s new pixma printers. As the ad says, pro features at low prices. I’ll probably get this when the ink in my current bubblejet printer (also a canon) runs out. The ipx3000/4000 looks tempting.
3. Creative Soundblaster Live USB. No idea why this is tempting me.. maybe because it’s fairly cheap.. about $89 I think.
4. USB Bluetooth thingy.. so that I can surf the web using my ipaq via bluetooth .. no idea why anyone would want to do such a thing though.
5. A Chai Latte… cos as my collegue said.. “if you gotta buy something, buy me a chai latte”
Good thing we didn’t go to cp.

After much thought and helpful(?) advice from collegues, I finally decided against getting the new 17-85 IS EFS lens from canon. Couldn’t justify spending >$1k for a lens thats not pro-grade glass and only works on 2 canon bodies at the moment.
Therefore I picked up one of the (many) 2nd hand 28-135 IS lenses instead for about half of what I would have had to pay for the other lens. Condition was great and now I just have to get a wide angle to cover all focal lengths.
On a seperate note.. got a craving for luncheon meat these few days… l.u.n.c.h.e.o.n. m.e.a.t…….

Ok, I’ve gone and done it. I sold off all my lenses in a sudden flurry of “I need to consolidate my stuff so that I can carry less”.
I am now left with the 80-200/2.8 (too big to carry around) and a slightly wonky 50/1.8 (throws up an Err 99 on my 300D every third shot…according to Canon Singapore, it’ll cost me $60-70 to fix it. Not sure if it’s worthwhile for a $140 when new lens).
So now I suddenly find myself with no lens that I can carry around comfortably and trying to decide what to get in replacement. You’ve heard of compulsive buying. Bet this is the first time you’ve heard of compulsive selling huh.

Just realised that my pictures from HK are still IN-THE-CAMERA. It’s been like nearly a month .. how lazy is that

Last 2 days at my current workplace.
Doing some packing up and handing over…..boringg…..
On a brighter note. Will be going to HK next week…mmmm….dim summm
Too bad couldn’t scare up more time as the wife has to start work soon.
Otherwise could have gone for a longer (and further) trip.

Had a national day bbq at my sisters place. Ate too much as usual…. oooo…. unlimited satayy n chicken wings…..

Yayyy… I can almost taste the long weekend coming up….

Finally made it back to SG from KR. Lessons learnt this trip:

1. Don’t take the redeye flight and start the tour the next morning after touchdown if you’re not the type to sleep on planes.
2. Don’t take a rush-rush 5 day (well, actually just 4) 3 night tour that makes you wake up at 6am (thats 5 am SG time) everyday
3. Don’t bring your 80-200/F2.8 when you’re going on an extended sightseeing tour.  Especially if you’re using a sling bag rather then a backpack
4. Bring a compact camera.  It’s no fun going shopping with your wife and carrying a few kilos of equipment and walking around for a few hours.
5. No 3 is especially relevant if you’re taking a 30 minute climb (one way) into some god forsaken ^%#&%*@ tunnel dug by north koreans to invade the south.
6. Don’t take the 5pm flight and touch down 11pm in SG
7. Especially take note not to arrange to start work the next day! Hopefully the large double shot expresso from McCafe works it’s magic.
8. P.S. Don’t take a haunted hotel room (according to wife) if you can help it

Bitching aside I’ll upload some of the photo’s later when I’m more awake.

Yeah… Finally managed to book a tour to Korea…will be there from Sat till Tues.
Any advise from the folks who have been there before?
Heard this is the worst time of the year to be there but what the hey.. any break is better then no break. And best of all, different telco network