Friday, August 26, 2005
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(49) whose fault is it?
ACT 1/SCENE 1:Jon is doing his chemistry groupwork project on Computer A. For reasons I do not know, he decides to do it on Computer B. So he saves his work in Computer A into his group member's thumbdrive. He then plugs this thumbdrive in Computer B and continues with his project.
ACT 1/SCENE 2:Emily finishes her bath, comes downstairs and says she needs to do her work on Computer B. Jon asks her to do it on Computer A but she says that all her NJRC stuff are in Computer B. Jon vacates the seat at Computer B and goes back to Computer A to continue his work.
ACT 1/SCENE 3:The house is quiet as both Em and Jon work diligently on their projects. Jon completes his project work, saves it in Computer A and prints something. By then, Ben gets home from night study in CJC. So Jon gets off Computer A, packs his bag before raiding the kitchen for snacks. He goes off to bed at 11pm (??)
ACT 1/SCENE 4:Laogong and Ben go to bed at 11.45pm. Em is still working on her NJRC stuff on Computer B. While waiting up for Em, I play mahjong on Computer C in the study room. I feel drowsy so I go to the living room to take a nap on the sofa.
ACT 1/SCENE 5:I see an unfamiliar thumbdrive in Computer B but Em says it is not hers nor her friend's. I guess it must belong to Jon's classmate. I tell her to unplug it and place it on top of Jon's wallet before she goes to bed. I fall asleep on the sofa. Em finishes her work at 12.45am and wakes me up to go upstairs.
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ACT 2/SCENE 1:I oversleep the next morning. Jon wakes me at 6.45am cos they are ready to leave the house. I rush downstairs. Then I ask Jon if the thumbdrive in Computer B is his friend's. Then I ask Em for it. She has saved her NJRC work in it. It is in her schoolbag which is already in the car. She goes get it.
ACT 2/SCENE 2:Jon switches on Computer A to transfer his project work into his friend's thumbdrive. Jon also transfers Em's work from it into Computer A. Em asks for a thumbdrive. I ask her to save her work into her MP3 player. She says it is full. I ask her for our thumbdrive. She says it is still with big-mama's fan No 1, who is my niece and also Em's NJRC team-mate. She says No 1 fan is working on the NJRC stuff that is stored in it.
ACT 2/SCENE 3:I searched frantically in laogong's drawers for his personal thumbdrive. I cannot find it. I tell Em to wake laogong up. He tells her it is in his top drawer. I look through all the drawers again but still cannot find it. It is getting later and later. Em goes up to ask laogong again.
ACT 2/SCENE 4:Laogong comes down but cannot find it too. He panicks cos all his important and private & confidential stuff are stored in it! Then he asks me for the USB thingy that Judith uses for wireless internet connection whenever she's home for her holidays. I have forgotten that it can be used as a storage device. It is in one of his drawers. PHEW!
ACT 2/SCENE 5:Em hurries over to Computer A. Meanwhile Jon hops into the car and almost forgets his shoes. The maid, who is good at reading the situation, helps by putting Jon's and Em's shoes in the car. Yulica, our neighbour who takes a lift every morning, is still stoning at my dining table. I had to tell her to go to the car instead of waiting in the house for Em to finish transferring the data.
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THE GRAND FINALE:
WE LEAVE HOUSE AT 6.56AM!
NAGGING COMMENCES IN THE CAR...
Each of them has his/her own MP3 player. There is also the spare thumbdrive (which is with No 1 fan), laogong's personal thumbdrive and that USB thingy! Why do they not ask or have their work and stuff properly organized and sorted out before they go to bed? Why doesn't No 1 fan use her family's own Sony MP3 to store her data? Because second uncle bought it in China and they do not know how to reconfigure it to English? Hello... Ben managed to figure his out all on his own and No 1 fan's sister and brother are Higher Chinese students! Blah blah blah blah blah blah...
But, AS USUAL, these teens must always have the last word...
Jon: Why does Em use something that is not hers? Why does she not delete some of the songs from her MP3 player? Pics use up less space than songs...
Em: Why does Jon not remove the thumbdrive when he got off Computer B? How do I know that Jon is taking that thumbdrive to school today? Anyway Jon has gone to bed, how to ask him?SHEEEESHH! CAN'T I NAG WHEN THINGS
GO WRONG DUE TO THEIR OWN TARDINESS?
the pig oinked at
2:18 AM
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
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(48) teenage angst...
There are so many things parents have to teach their children...
We teach them LOGIC... 'If you fall off that swing and break your neck, you can't go shopping with me.'
We teach them TO THINK AHEAD... 'If you don't pass your spelling test, you'll never get a good job!'
We teach them TO MEET A CHALLENGE... 'What were you thinking? Answer me when I talk to you... and don't talk back to me!'
We teach them to BECOME AN ADULT... 'If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up.'
We teach them about the WISDOM of AGE... 'When you get to be my age, you will understand.'
We teach them about ANTICIPATION... 'Just wait until your father gets home.'
We teach them about RECEIVING... 'You are going to get it when we get home.'
The list is never-ending BUT I think I'll just teach mine about JUSTICE...'One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like YOU... then you'll see what it's like!'
the pig oinked at
1:58 AM
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Monday, August 22, 2005
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(47) it keeps going, and going, and going....
Remember the pink Energizer Bunny in the 1989 commercial where the guy proudly announced: 'If you want a battery that keeps going, get Energizer. They keep going, and going, and going...'
Yep... laogong figured out it was a battery problem. He brought home a spare cpu battery from the office and VOILA!TOO BAD guys, no new super-duper high-powered computer for you! You are still stuck with this pentium III!
the pig oinked at
6:38 AM
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Sunday, August 21, 2005
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(46) excuse me, are you a computer repair whizz?
My computer crashed!
It has been 'dead' for 2.5 days!
There are 2 other computers in the home ~ newer ones, less than 1-yr-old ones, very powerful ones!
But I can't get my work done efficiently cos all my stuff are in that old computer!
When laogong gets home later, will he try to resurrect it or buy me a new one?
I'm sure the kids will want a new computer...
With 3 powerful computers in the home, there'll be no more fights... unless Ben's and Jon's friends come over to play DOTA
But I still need my stuff in that old computer... HELP!!!
the pig oinked at
6:28 AM
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
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(45) can you raed tihs?
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid!
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't
mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt
tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset
can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by
istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt!Heh heh, the school teachers are going to kill me for this! No, I didn't find this article myself... I ripped this off Petrina's blog!
the pig oinked at
10:38 AM
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Friday, August 05, 2005
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(44) why God made women so dumb...
The moral of my previous post was 'Behind every man is a smart woman'.
Maybe that was rather mean of me...
Ok, I take back my words...
MAN: God, why did you make woman so beautiful?
GOD: So you would love her.
MAN: But God, why did you make her so dumb?
GOD: So she could love you. 
the pig oinked at
2:48 PM
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