the wacky wombat weblog

Nope, it’s called hibernation.

So, I haven’t been blogging lately. And I’ve been ignoring everyone asking me to blog, even tsewei. And they’ve all been asking why is tsewei taking over the blog, and even posting a Geek Speek blog post! Alright, calm down people. I won’t let this happen again. I shall hibernate less.

Here I am, giving an update of what’s been going on in my life since I last blogged. Was in Hong Kong early December last year to attend ITU Telecom World 2006 expo. Food there was nice, albeit a lil overpriced. Didn’t have much chance to go around HK though, stupid expo was held at the AsiaWorld Expo right next to the airport at Lantau Island. And then Benet came to visit in Tokyo. Spent a week going through some training and showed him what I know of tokyo (which is not much, btw). He’ll be joining me in Tokyo once the Immigration approved his work permit.

And then I went back home the week of Christmas. Flew into Singapore, and then travelled back to KL with tsewei. Met up with relatives and some friends. Ate, ate, ate. Everything I craved for. Ate and ate somemore. Bak kut teh, wantan mee, char siew and roast pork rice, mamak food and of course, mom’s home cooking. So sorry to the friends I couldn’t find any time to meet up. I had a strict eating schedule to stick to. Then checked out my dad’s latest venture into the fish farming business. Nice place. Refreshing. Retirement-friendly. And he’s only 50 this year. I’ll try to do that in 1 decade less! LOL!

Enough about back home. Kinda makes me miss it and want to go back again. Oh yeah, can’t find a Nintendo Wii anywhere here. Does it exist? I dunno. Wanted to buy one to bring home for the family - but just couldn’t get it anywhere. Gonna try this weekend at Kawasaki Yodobashi Camera outlet. Perhaps can find one out of Tokyo - wish me luck!

And Playstation 3 is everywhere. Boxes of it piled up at every store I’ve been. Poor Sony, first the blowing up lithium-ion batteries and now bad sales on PS3 barely 2 months past launch. Heads are starting to roll at Sony, I’ve heard. And let’s not get started about Blu-ray. Oh boy, sucks to be Sony right now.

Also, went for my annual medical check-up yesterday. No likey needles. No pain, just no likey. Luckily the nurse was quite pretty looking, distracted me from the sight of the syringe. So yeah, got pretty nurse here - then again, it was a private clinic. YMMV on public hospitals. Didn’t occur to me when she asked me which side would I like to get jabbed. So I chose my dominant arm. I’m a lefty, btw. Then it hit me when having lunch right after the check-up. How the fsck am I gonna eat hot soupy soba noodles with chopsticks on my numbing left hand? Smart move, luckily I’m almost ambidextrous when it comes to using chopsticks. Phew!

Alrighty, will write more over the weekend, especially if I scored a Nintendo Wii :p

P/S: Renault F1’s new car livery is hideous! I thought McLaren’s livery this year kinda sucked, but Renault knocked that one out of the park with a non-matching colour scheme. And what’s worse is when they continued letting Fisico have green colour on his helmet. Oh yeah, what’s with the fugly sidepod side mirrors, Pat?