let the sun SHINE

after gloomy days, where it seemed the gods let go and wept for the disaster they caused, they have found hope in humanity and decided to let the sun shine...

a good part of my time is spent online, but online doing nothing.. i log on, surf skating forums which have a pathetic few visitors per day, look at my online comics of sherman's lagoon, get fuzzy, baby blues, check my email for dilbert, and.. yah.. chat with anyone who is willing to reply... but i hope all this comes to an end soon when going online will be for recreation, instead of how i try to pass time...
cnet requested for my resume, so i sent it in, was woken up by a phone call from HR telling me to go down for an interview at 3pm.. for the position of senior web developer.. sounds cool doesn't it.. but well, it's a programming job at the end of the day, which means sleepless nights, coffee, eyebags, and unhealthy snacks at the workstation.. keke.. i'll just go for the interview, to try and grab some more interview experience.. it's always nice to speak to managers and people of authority, they have pretty skewed opinions which are refreshing, if not bizzarre at times.. keke..

the weather has been kind today, a rainy cool morning, which gave way to the sun that burnt the lands with fury and force, drying up the morning's rain.. it was too good to miss and i went down to ecp for a fun filled day on skates... i got a new bottle of uncle charlie's magic oil, and finally my trusty old set of swiss bones stopped squeaking and gave in.. all lubricated and happy...
managed to try a few new moves i caught from the skaters in china.. but alas.. the new set of wheels i changed to isn't as rockered as before, so it took me awhile to get used to them.. and having new wheels, argh, means no sliding.. no sliding = nothing to do between slalom! but it was still fun, with ahming there, and kelvin having lots of lessons, the crowd was good, not too many, enough for me to run around in the rink without looking out for haphazard beginners... the worse are those who can already skate, but don't bother going for proper lessons, and can't stop.. they need like a big hazard sign on them.. with blinking strobe and all.. "KEEP AWAY, DANGEROUS SKATER WHO CAN'T STOP BUT CAN GO REALLY FAST".. but i doubt that'll fit on a signboard.. so we shld just make them wear a "HAZARD, STAY AWAY" sign.. okay.. i'm griping already..

there was a new all powerful signboard put up by nparks at the rink i like to skate in, declaring the rink off limits to anyone except beginners, nobody allowed to teach inside, no slalom no freestyle no skate dancing... which is absolutely draconian and illogical.. a lot of pent up frustrations will lead to more accidents on the track.. they should listen to the skaters, all of them, and get everyone in the same place, the beginners have people to look at, feel impressed by and get some more motivation to skate and improve, the better ones have a place to train!.. shot an email off to nparks.. but it seems, the offending signboard was mysteriously ghosted away... hopefully it was the doing of nparks who realised they made a mistake, not vandals..