music soothes the savage beast

in this case, i'm the savage beast.

some last minute requests came in and i stayed till 8 to finish them up. while waiting for the cab i decided to listen to some music, and surprisingly, the upbeat tracks lifted my spirit. starting with lady gaga, rihanna, akon and so on.. i was grooving and nodding like a fool while waiting.

made it to the hotel in good time. the weather's been crazy. 10 minutes of sunshine, and 10 minutes of rain, but eventually it gave way to a nice breeze and beautiful wispy clouds in the sky.

i was still nodding and shaking like a fool when i got back to the room. made my way to new sum ye and got myself a dinner. and then i made my way back to the hotel bar. it's my last night here, why not i thought, and there were two clients there having their drinks. beer banter and two pints later, (3 for them), they decided it was dinnertime (10pm then), and i retired to my room...

i'm going home! i just hope there's no funny strike, or engineering works that's going to hold up the circle line from euston to paddington tomorrow.

a week or two

the email came out of the blue and here i am back again in birmingham.

good to be back without the lag from propagation delay. can't say much.

the trip here was mostly uneventful. having a plane that wasn't too full was a bonus. got off the plane, made my way to the heathrow express into paddington, and managed to catch a train out of euston to birmingham. the decision to not sleep on the plane finally became a bad idea when i arrived in birmingham new street station. i was cold, tired, and aching. i had strangely sprained my finger too. checked in without much hassle.

got a nice room from the holiday inn this time round. almost as big as the room at the IC tokyo bay, comes with a proper desk and the wifi connectivity's been improved as well. not sure if it's cost cutting, but there's no more complimentary chocolates or wine, but the water is still there.

was only supposed to be here for a week, but it ended up becoming two. not knowing how to spend the weekend, i paid a visit to the birmingham museum. it was an interesting experience, learning about birmingham, the bull ring, looking at stained glass up close. they have real mummies too! creepy.

well, since i'm back here, it was time to go stock up on bodyshop products. bought quite a fair bit. thankfully i'm not going to incur excess baggage charges this time round. the wii sports resort happened to launch here too. got myself the game and two motion plus add-ons. can't wait to give it a go back home. :D

when i'm back, it's time to continue shopping for a new place. getting a house in singapore is really difficult. and expensive. :(

going to the UK for a week. *fingers crossed.

not more than a week.

when superheroes grow old

by Donald Soffritti

can you identify all of them?

hello kitty rifle... -_-

X-Men relationship map

Woah. Wolverine has so many links. Credits http://www.uncannyxmen.net/images/article/relationship/relationshipmapv1.htm and http://www.clubcarisma.com/viewthread.php?tid=19357