Haven’t really been updating this blog for the longest time. Been busy.

Anyway some updates as usual.

1. 3G iPhone coming out on the 22nd of August, news first uncovered by MacRyu, then confirmed by Reuters.

2. Selling Macs at the Matriculation Fair/YIH Roadshow until August end.

In fact, I’m typing this at Yusok Ishak House now. Those of you who need help with your Macs come look for me lehz. Freaking bored standing here all day without much sales. Argh.

I found this from a forum that I regularly frequent to read up on audiophile stuff…

M: That explains the delivery. $33 + nice female delivery ._^ HAHA ok never ever discuss about bros’ gals. Anyway how do they sound? Up to your liking?

TJL: haha she’s my friend only…got bf too. They sound bloated. I wonder what’s wrong. The high freq bass is much emphasized over the true bass but that is expect of a 2.0 system. The problem is I cannot hear the highs and mids clearly at all. Gone case. If you interested can PM to discuss more. hehe but again, I just bought these so maybe not run in yet. might be different then. will keep you guys updated!

“Haha she’s my friend only… got bf too. They sound bloated”

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What the?

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Sorry, didn’t mean to make fun of them. But.

WAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

Apple replied me with a generic email reply today, after all the casual talk on Friday which originally, actually made me a little hopeful that they will send me for certification in return for work that I will do for them, for free, at the NUS Mac Corner. Argh. Guess you can never trust these sales/marketing peeps after all.

Here’s the bulk of the letter;

“Hi Ryu

Thanks for taking time out to meet us. All training schedules can be found on www.apple.com/training.

Copy XXXXXX, FYI.

Thanks & Regards”

On 26 Apr 2008, at 10:49 PM, Ryu wrote:

Dear XXXX,

With regards to what we casually talked about that day, I am really interested in getting certification, and helping out in any events. Do inform me if it’s possible or if XXXXXX needs help in any way that I can assist in.

Thanks.

Yours Sincerely,

Ryu

My new S bible!!

…but seriously failing. I suck at PHP and CSS.

Darn.

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Love make people irrational. Even the most rational person will become irrational when he or she is in love. When a courtship/relationship is no longer able to make the parties involved irrational, there are only two possibilities; the relationship has evolved to an extremely stable state, which is more commonplace with couples with long relationships, or simply, one or both of the parties involved do not really care, which implies that they should not be in a relationship in the first place.

Wow. What a long introduction.

I know I am definitely not the correct person to be writing this piece, I only had two (okay maybe three) serious relationships so far, I have below-average looks, I am not a millionaire, I do not own a fleet of sports cars (non-Singaporeans probably cannot imagine how important a part these “qualities” play in Singapore for getting attached). However I am currently in the mood to write something on this topic, and here I am.

Disclaimers first. People following me on twitter probably have some ideas on what is going on in my life, so I am not going to deny that this piece is partly influenced by the recent happenings.

I personally define having a relationship as having a serious one, one that I am willing to commit heavily into, one that I am willing to sacrifice heavily for. My friend H has his own theory about what a relationship is, being the popular and handsome Mr. Nice Guy he is, but I shall not go into that.

Very rare do I actually fall for someone. Of course, being a 24-year-old hot-blooded male infatuations are aplenty, and I have been blessed with the fortune of getting to know and being able to work with quite a big number of lovely ladies over the past four years in school and at work. It’s not rare that I “like” this girl or I “like that girl. There’s a big difference between simple infatuations and serious affection, as many of my peers are aware of. I am not denying that simple infatuations can lead to serious affection in the long run, just that in my case they never have.

When I know that I found someone that I really like, a sense of fear and dread falls over me, simply because I know that that someone will eventually cost a serious disruption in my life in the short run, at least in the first few months of courtship and if I do succeed, the first few months that we are together. Why is that so?

I am a irrational person. I am very passionate about things I like, and I go all out to achieve I want and love. In the negative sense, that sentence translates into “I am extremely temperamental, and I WILL get what I want, by hook or by crook”. Since I am very passionate about what I like doing, I am only able to only focus on one thing when I am very serious. The tradeoff for that is that I will be extremely focused on that very thing in my attempt to get it done. This is where serious affection is a boon to everything I do.

When I have someone I really really like, I will be so focused on the courtship that I will not have the mood/energy to focus on anything else.

It sucks because I will not be able to concentrate on my work, or do everything else I want to do. Being irrational in the first place worsens my situation when I fall for someone. I became very irrational, very temperamental.

Is that a bad thing?

It depends really. For me it is bad only because it will affect my work, but on the other hand, it also mean that I am very very serious in my wish to start a relationship with the girl involved. And that is good.

When you come across as being very serious right from the start, you give the girl a very strong signal of affection, of your wish for something committed and serious. And if the girl is not willing, it shows very quickly, making it easier for you to stop the courtship and start trying to forget the girl, thereby shortening the painful process to the minimum.

Being serious right from the start also ensures one thing, that you are willing to move fast in the courtship. You will be able to pull out all the “tricks” you have, show your extreme sincerity, all in the hope of starting the relationship as soon as possible. After all, the earlier you start the relationship, the earlier it stabilizes, the less time you spent being irrational. Being serious thus comes across being sincere, after all.

And since being serious comes across as being sincere, it is often easier to tell if your target is feeling the same way as you do by her own levels of irrationality. If she is able to go through her normal life without any signs of being even the slightest irrational in any way, it may often signal that she is not as committed or as serious about this possible relationship as you are. And that poses a big problem for the future stability of the relationship.

I am not going to propagate my own ways of handling such a situation, simply because I do not know how to. If your target of affection is not feeling irrational while you are, if she does not want to see you as much as you do, if she does not want to contact you as much as you do, you may be in for serious agony. And if this happen months into the courtship, it may signal that the relationship may not be worth having. No relationship is fun if it is unstable and promotes a high level of irrationality on the part of only one of the parties involved. And this is where being irrational sucks. If you are the only one being irrational.

Relationships can be such a pain.

I am lazy. Lazy to blog. Lazy to file my taxes. Even lazy enough to skip meals these days.

Laziness usually cause me to become desperate, cause me to do things at the very last minute. Like filing my taxes. I had to wait until the very last day to file my taxes. I am just hoping that the system does not go down immediately at 6am when it opens. After all, at least 1/3 of the local population file their taxes on the very last day. I wonder what are the penalties for late filing.

I am also way to lazy to blog these days. Never had a day passed without new ideas for a blog post, yet I just cannot discipline myself to put those ideas down into typed words. This form of laziness will make or break my latest attempt into starting a new business, and while I certainly hope it does not break my attempt, I still cannot seem to get up to speed on my current project.

I always tend to attribute my laziness to my horoscope, Sagittarius, since laziness is a strong character trait of a Sagittarius. Obviously I am just too lazy to even admit that the sole problem lies with myself. I really need someone or something to push me from behind, to give me deadlines, so that I will feel the urgency strong enough to push myself into working.

I have been lazy all my life. I was lazy in primary school, lazy in secondary school, and lazy in junior college. I did not like studying for my exams (note that I specifically mentioned studying for exams, and not just studying on the whole), and eventually developed a very bad habit of studying for my exams just days before the actual exams, a perfect example being the A Levels. Had O, F, F, for the prelims, and with only a week to go, for the very first time in my life, I actually found out the boundaries of the syllabus for the A Levels (I went through 2 years of Junior College without ever bothering to find out what I was supposed to be tested on). The miracle one-week-last-minute-power-study-sessions worked, and I ended up with a decent B, B, B for the actual exams. Woohooo~ Not to mention the frequent last day studying for most of my modules in NUS. And scoring very very decent scores (A, A-) for those modules too.

Which brings me back to my main point. Laziness for me, I feel, is both a powerful weapon and a destructive force for my work. I can be lazy and complacent, but when the going gets tough, the lack of time and the high levels of urgency can force me to give my best. However, and this is a very very big however, I have to be in a situation where I am pressed for time, when the urgency levels are high, for me to shine through with my last minute work. And a sense of urgency is exactly what you do not have the privilege of enjoying once you are freed from the system known as “University Education” and free from supervisor through freelancer and having your own business/work.

How can I solve this problem? This lack of urgency?

Sometimes I look at myself and wonder what the heck I am doing with my life. I originally envisioned myself to be working for Apple Singapore, toiling away doing marketing/sales work while earning a pathetic pay. That has changed due to my various interactions with Apple SG staff, and eventually finding out how not-so-ideal a workplace Apple Singapore might be after all (@wanidakok, if you want to refute this, please go ahead! I am really still open to the idea of working for Apple. Not sure if they want me though). I try to force myself to get out of my room, get out of my house, to try and get some work done outside. But working out means you have to spend money on parking/transport, on food and the such. And that sucks. Furthermore, due to a recent small disruption I am having in my life, my biological clock is turned upside down. Now I sleep in the day and become alive at night. Which in all makes the problem a harder one, since I love to slack and relax at night. If only there is someone who will force me to start working, to give me the sense of urgency that I sorely missed……

Anyone has any great suggestions?