[22:44] Domomo: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html
[22:44] Domomo: This is hilarious
[22:47] Ema Shingai: weird
[22:47] Ema Shingai: that defeats the purpose of email
[22:47] Ema Shingai: i cannot do htat in the office
[22:47] Ema Shingai: dude
[22:47] Ema Shingai: i just downloaded the stupid guide by accident
[22:47] Ema Shingai: haha
[22:47] Ema Shingai: funny
[22:48] Ema Shingai: “Star Message”
[22:48] Ema Shingai: HAHAHA
[22:48] Ema Shingai: “A baby girl?” <– wtf?
[22:49] Ema Shingai: how is that a common phrase hahaha
[22:49] Ema Shingai: they should just do this motion thing with ur mouth instead of whole body…
[22:50] Ema Shingai: PRANK
[22:50] Ema Shingai: PRANK DAMNIT
[22:50] Ema Shingai: U
[22:50] Ema Shingai: U FOOLED ME
[22:50] Domomo: ……………….

I actually wasnt trying to fool her, I just wanted her to watch it… and I stepped away from the computer for 6 minutes and I came back, and she had clicked on “Try Gmail Motion”. orz (Apparently she read the whole guide below as well…)

Happy April fools.

Spent the day bowling, playing pool and walking around chinatown today. The picture above? Yeah, from some bakery in chinatown.

So I had mentioned earlier I have internet. Let me tell you something, STARHUB SUCKS. I’m on their mobile prepaid boardband (7.2 mbps) and I can’t even browse Facebook nor check email without being disconnected every 5 minutes (lets not even talk abot how I can’t Skype).

What infuriates me the most is that I went into their customer service counter today the conversation went like this (and by the way, the rep didn’t believe me when I told her what kind of plan I had. She was like “sorry sir, we don’t have that plan?” and I couldn’t convince her I was on theplan until I showed her the leaflet HER OWN COMPANY puts out”) :

“Hi, I’m on the mobile prepaid broadband and for some reason my internet is really really slow”
*10 minutes trying to convince the CS rep that I had a 60 day prepaid plan. She kept insisting I could only get a 7 day plan from Starhub*
“ok sir, so what is the problem?”
“my internet is really really slow and disconnects me every 5 minutes”
“did you bring your modem and laptop?”
“yes”
“ok I’ll have  a tech look at it”
*10 minutes later*
“Sir, everything seems to be fine, it can connect”
“I know it can connect. I’m just saying it is so slow I can’t Skype and I have trouble even browsing!”
*I go to google. It can’t reach google. I hit refresh 3 times before it works*
“See!?”
“Sir, there’s nothing we can do about that”
“That’s ridiculous.”
“I’m sorry sir, there’s nothing we can do”
“F*ck this, I’m going to use SingTel next time”

So yeah… use SingTel

Like this bottle of Coke

In fact, lets make it two bottles of coke.

A can of coffee is fine too

An A.Oryzae in a cup also works

My brick of a 360 is actually useful!

Psh! Who needs bookends! In related news, Surfer Girl reports that the new 360-Natal bundle will be slim, and black. Not that I need another bookend, but this bit is intersting:

And Natal? Let’s just say you’ll probably be both very surprised and very pleased by one of the games revealed… what is it?

Might Get Shot if I were to tell.

Oh and this.

You see, I’ve been known to purchase strange beverages and they usually don’t result in anything good. Case in point:

1. this bottle of random liquid from 7-11 for $19 HKD. It smelled like gasoline, and didn’t taste any better (unless, of course, you like the smell of gasoline).
2. Pirate beer. I bought it because of the pirate. In its defence, it wasn’t terrible.
3. Random Korean drink with a mushroom in it. It was terrible.

So I was down at the Park n Shop near my apartment the other day and with the price of bottled milk up 25% in recent weeks, I had to resort to buying milk in cartons for home (I still drink bottled milk only because I think it tastes better, just less often now). So imagine my surprise when I saw this in the milk aisle:

Milk from California? That went straight into my shopping basket. It doesn’t look sketchy at all. I mean its a “MILK BEVERAGE” (milk can come in non-beverage form?) and “MADE FROM FRESH MILK”

Hilarity ensued.

What I learned from all this? Apparently if you send an email with the words “LOL” to me, I’ll probably call it, even if it’s long distance. In my defense, I’d probably trust her if my life depended on it.

On a completely unrelated note, the last parts of my computer should be arriving tomorrow (1TB WD Black Caviar RE3 x2 and my 24” LG monitor). I’m pretty stoked about that!

Ps. That number is, 647-476-2995. I have no idea if there is a charge for calling this number, I definitely hope not, but please call at your own discretion!

apparently it’s only for google.ca as far as I can tell