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Almost forgot.

- A.M. 180, Grandaddy
- Everybody’s Changing, Keane
- Fair, Remy Zero
- Hewlett’s Daughter, Grandaddy
- High Cost of Living, Watchmen
- Hold On, Jet
- Hurt, Johnny Cash
- I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You, Colin Hay
- Know Your Onion!, The Shins
- Lady Picture Show, Stone Temple Pilots
- Let’s Get Loud, J-Lo
- Look What You’ve Done, Jet
- Nonphenomenal Lineage, Grandaddy
- Nothing Better, The Postal Service
- One of These Things First, Nick Drake
- Pressed in a Book, The Shins
- The Sound of Settling, Death Cab for Cutie

lust!!

now if only i were earning USD, $1899 really isn’t too much to pay for a 20″ version with 160GB hard drive and DVD burner…

Repeat to self: working for an incompetent builds character.

Some form of particularly murderous character, but character-building nonetheless.

I do, of course, suffer from a tendency to always think I’m in the right, but this fool isn’t even worth the impartial self-reflection, or even some rude name-calling. Poo-poo on him, that stupid motherfucker. Uh, oops.

Anyway, on a brighter note, I actually got an invite for Skinner’s wedding in October! Though it’s ever so slightly crumpled by USPS Airmail on its journey from Florida. Can’t make it, of course, but all the very best to her and Adam.

Because of the occasional Kinokuniya 20% sale and their relatively ridiculous prices on graphic novels from the major publishers (Marvel, DC at 1.5x the US$ price - 20% = 1.2x! OMFG), there are occasional weekends when I end up splurging over $200 on graphic novels. Anyway, a selection of those from the National Day weekend sale:

Cover images from Amazon.com, which kindly gave me a link to “POLO RALPH LAUREN The Ultimate Cotton Sweater” when I tried to find the cover image for Ultimate X-Men: New Mutants. Hmm. Kinda bleh comic anyway.

	Empire, Mark Waid and Barry Kitson Chilling stuff, but not as chilling as how I left the book lying around and now the back cover’s been folded in half thereby damaging my nice paperback. The horror!!!
	League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Part 2, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill Better than the first, I thought, which is pretty impressive. The usual clever references which I don’t get, too, so I can look them up on the internet and feel smart about knowing what random literary trivia Alan Moore is teasing us with this time.
	Less Than Heroes, David Yurkovich I’d been eyeing this one for a while based on the glowing reviews on the blurb (by Warrren Ellis, no less!), but… I don’t know. After the great start with the over-snacking non-heroes (or, umm, less-than-heroes), I thought it just lost its way somewhat. Also I was annoyed that the artist drew military officers with humongous chevrons on their uniforms — bleh, poor research. Not that I’d have noticed if I’d read this, say, 6 years ago before enlisting.
	Powers: The Sellouts, Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming Read it before, still worth the re-buy. Story’s a bit decompressed but… it’s Bendis, man.

(11:53:31) eektertainment: gee
(11:56:32) popbrained: gee?
(11:56:45) eektertainment: STOP QUESTIONING GEE
(11:56:49) popbrained: sorry

Yeesh, stuck in camp because of some duty screwup. Ah well, not like I’d be doing anything other than sitting in front of a computer at home anyway.

Once again, viewer discretion is advised:

(10:49:16) eektertainment: gee
(10:49:22) eektertainment: i feel so unworthy
(10:49:26) popbrained: yeah
(10:49:31) popbrained: you’re such a Quitter
(10:49:39) eektertainment: you’re such a stayer
(10:49:52) popbrained: Buffy the Vampire Stayer
(10:50:05) eektertainment: gee
(10:50:34) popbrained: gee?
(10:50:40) eektertainment: gee whiz golly
(10:50:46) popbrained: good gosh
(10:50:56) eektertainment: great googaly moogaly
(10:52:17) eektertainment: poo poo bananas i can’t find a tracklist for erratic anywhar
(10:58:59) eektertainment: it’s bakmala
(11:00:04) popbrained: yay
(11:00:15) eektertainment: he’s so sexual
(11:00:22) popbrained: sexual cowdinosaur
(11:00:28) popbrained: and flexibutticks
(11:00:46) eektertainment: gee
(11:01:36) popbrained: gee?
(11:02:48) eektertainment: big boobs mcgee
(11:03:08) popbrained: whoooaaa
(11:03:18) eektertainment: dude
(11:03:53) popbrained: yay harold and kumar is opening
(11:05:03) eektertainment: have you seen shaun yet
(11:05:20) popbrained: wong?
(11:05:43) eektertainment: who?
(11:06:34) popbrained: shaun wong
(11:06:35) popbrained: yknow
(11:06:38) popbrained: he of fattox fame
(11:06:42) eektertainment: oh that kid
(11:06:43) eektertainment: no no
(11:06:47) eektertainment: i mean the british shaun
(11:06:49) popbrained: oh
(11:06:51) eektertainment: with the zombies and shite
(11:06:51) popbrained: of the dead
(11:06:54) popbrained: i downloaded it
(11:06:56) eektertainment: yeah that thing
(11:07:04) popbrained: i’ll watch it sometime i guess
(11:07:43) eektertainment: gee
(11:09:15) popbrained: gee?
(11:09:34) eektertainment: genome research
(11:09:36) popbrained: you’re so Fatty McFatsaLot
(11:09:41) popbrained: where’s bakmalla
(11:09:42) eektertainment: man
(11:09:50) eektertainment: you’re so hurtful and not-watching-shaun-yet
(11:10:25) popbrained: well i’m in kamp d00d
(11:10:40) eektertainment: but it’s a five day work weak
(11:11:40) popbrained: not yet
(11:13:04) eektertainment: gee
(11:13:11) eektertainment: they’re so teasey mcweenie
(11:13:57) popbrained: yeah sizzeriously
(11:14:13) eektertainment: we should Protest
(11:14:16) eektertainment: Reformasi
(11:17:27) popbrained: well now that
(11:17:28) popbrained: i eman
(11:17:32) popbrained: i mean, i mean
(11:17:34) popbrained: now what
(11:17:37) eektertainment: you’re so mean
(11:17:38) popbrained: oops
(11:17:45) eektertainment: i weep at night because of you
(11:17:54) popbrained: oh
(11:17:56) popbrained: woohoo
(11:18:03) popbrained: if this conversation gets more ridiculous i’m posting it
(11:18:15) eektertainment: tim said you posted the last one
(11:18:21) eektertainment: you’re so sneaky mcfreaky
(11:18:26) popbrained: but i warned you
(11:18:42) popbrained: that’s more warny mc… umm.. swarny
(11:18:51) eektertainment: but you didn’t even warn me where to post it
(11:19:01) eektertainment: i mean where you were going to post it
(11:19:18) popbrained: i did too
(11:19:19) popbrained: didnt i
(11:19:29) eektertainment: i dunno
(11:19:34) eektertainment: it’s not on your old webpage
(11:19:40) popbrained: what old webpage
(11:19:55) eektertainment: the thing you salvaged and linked to me
(11:20:00) eektertainment: with all your old rant mcpants
(11:20:25) popbrained: oh that mcfat
(11:20:40) eektertainment: where’s bakmala
(11:21:02) popbrained: i dunno
(11:21:07) popbrained: he said he had a lot of beer
(11:21:08) popbrained: root beer
(11:21:09) eektertainment: where’s johnny for that matter
(11:21:15) popbrained: i dunno
(11:21:18) popbrained: everyone’s ignoring us
(11:21:23) popbrained: it’s your fault

Once again, in the realm of “it’ll be all over the news tomorrow, but…”, we finally have the announcement of the five-day work week.

Our dear Prime Minster did have to take an ass-long time getting to it, though. After the relatively short Malay and Mandarin segments, followed by repeating various components of each in the English segment, followed by a vaguely promising lead-up (”too much work to want to have kids,” at which point I SMSed Hansen “holy shit”), followed by a five-minute tirade against e-mail (”Is he giving a five-day work week or banning e-mail?”), then bam! And the crucial words, “including the Army and schools.” Yay!

Anyway, time to sleep and face the new (shortened) week.

The former over recent developments at work (listen, fools, you might be able to effect change with no good reason just because of the nature of military structure and regimentation, but it’ll do you no good whatsoever to live out your infantile power fantasies but remain floundering for some real respect), and the latter over our country’s Olympians’ dashed hopes (one can only imagine how crushed — though hopefully unbroken — the spirit can be after such hopes and subsequent disappointments; nonetheless, the determination warms the heart).

Anyway, powerless as I am over any of these developments, I can fix the one thing that’s been missing from my life for a couple of months now — the MIW ORD countdown timer. For some reason, all disruptees receive a “your record is not in our database” error when we log in to check how many more days we have till (perceived) freedom. So I guess we have to use our own, see right.

From the counter, I’m almost 2/3 of the way there! As for where, I really got no clue.