Injured Digits…
This post was inspired by Eileen’s as we were discussing about injured digits on the ping.sg shoutbox.
As you can see from the pictures below, my last finger on the left hand looks a little crooked and swollen on the joint because it dislocated during a fight in my primary school days. At the time of injury, it swelled to the size of my thumb, and the pain was so bad my entire hand was trembling. (This is one of those things you never forget.)
Unfortunately it didn’t heal very well, so that’s why it looks like it swollen at the first joint nearest to the hand. [See comparison with right hand last finger.] And here’s the best part: From time to time, it still trembles on its own as if it remembers the days when it’s still painful…
 Left Hand, Last Finger |
 Right Hand, Last Finger |
Life is too short…
There’s definitely the spirit of conflict in the air today. Several fights broke out – some on blogs, some on the ping.sg shoutbox and even as I was walking home, a literal fight between an old couple outside Boon Lay MRT. And they are an old couple, not the usual teenage couple have a tiff or something.
* sigh * There’s definitely much I wanted to write about, and a decade ago when I was much more foolish than I am now, I would perhaps write an angry (and usually not very smart and definitely dumb) retort. However, being less foolish than before, I have decided not to bother at all, simply because I have stopped giving a rat’s ass about what someone deliberately writes anymore.
My energy level is inversely proportional to my age and my heart and blood vessel could no longer take the spike in pressure that normally comes with my flash rage. More often than not it leaves me drained and tired. (Now that explains to me why Palpatine looks that hagged after he zapped Mace Windu with Force Lightning.)
So, even though my slight advance in years has not gained me much wisdom, I’ll try and make up for my lack of that by acknowledging that I am no longer young. I’ll at least try and live according to my age, and for my own good, I’ll do what I preached and ‘hate’ [-] a few blogs.
Yaaaay! Out of sight, and definitely out of mind. That’s not mentioning that, poofing on ping.sg do take up some effort, and there are some who are just not even worthy of that effort.
Life is just too short. If God permits, I want to live until 70 in good health, not half paralyzed with a stroke and life support on a sick bed.
I am number 187 on the million blog list!!!
Seems like everyone’s doing this so I’ll join in. According to the creators of this site: ‘This is an experiment to see how long it will take to get 1,000,000 blogs to list themselves on our site.’
I am currently #187 on the list, not really so spectacular since not even top 100, or top 50, or to 10, but I am willing to trade positions with someone further down the list… as long as you give me $1 per position. (Incidentally, my mei xinyun is just one position above me.
So if you are in position 1000, I’ll trade position with you for $1000 – 187 = $813. The price is negotiable though I really won’t mind if you want to pay more.
Let me know if you are keen. I’ll pass you my bank account number so you can transfer me the money. Once I verify the money has been transferred, I’ll modify the page for you and change our positions. HAHAHAHAHA….
Hopeless Users (II)
‘The stupid deserves no more kindness than a lightsabre through the mid-section.’ – Darth Grievous.
Well, this came through the mails to one of the users.
Exerpt:
From: Liao, Danai (name changed to protect the innocent)
Sent: 09.04.2008 12:45 GMT
To: * CopperToe users mailing list *
Subject: New CopperToe official release – 5.1.26.00 (name of product changed)Dear Users,
Tomorrow night we are releasing the next official version of CopperToe: 5.1.26.00 Please see the release notes here: [link removed]
To use the latest version, simply close down CopperToe and restart it – the updated version will be automatically downloaded to your PC.
As usual, start CopperToe by going to the CopperToe Application Launcher [link removed] and clicking on Official. You can also click on your CopperToe Official release icon or add a link on your Global Intranet homepage by adding the CopperToe Application Launcher button – see the instructions at the bottom of this email for details.
Remote users: Please do not use the new mechanism. It will work fine, but you will suffer a performance penalty due to querying over the network. A Citrix solution is currently being put together and will be available for you shortly.
Advanced users: The Experimental version is also available via the launch page. If you only see Official then please let us know and we will add the necessary permission for you.
If you have any problems installing or running the new version, please contact [name of mailing group removed]
Thanks
Danai
The email was clear and concise isn’t it? And the instructions were pretty straight forward. But it started going downhill after one user forwarded this to another who wasn’t in the mailing list. And I couldn’t figure why it was forwarded to the moron anyway!!
Exerpt:
From: Daffy Duck (name changed to protect the stupid)
Sent: 10.04.2008 05:36:43 GMT
To: Desktop and Server Support
Subject: New CopperToe official release – 5.1.26.00can you find out how we get the new release – 5.1.26.00 please…
Doh! Which part of the above mail you do not understand? But without being rude, I reiterated from the email the instructions on how to get this, even though the mail is sent to to the wrong guys – us – in the first place!
* ptui * I wish I could have just said, “This is not applicable to you since you are not a CopperToe user.” But if I did, I would have lost my job.
And guess what I get for being a nice guy? The proverbial ‘lightning strike for showing kindness’ [好心遭雷劈] and going the extra mile! I should have either just ignore the dumb mail of the blind (or stupid) dog barking up the wrong tree!!
Exerpt:
From: Daffy Duck
Sent: 10.04.2008 06:07:38
To: Desktop and Server Support
Subject: New CopperToe official release – 5.1.26.00it still downloads the old release?? obviously i checked before i asked….
Look here, genius! Which part of ‘Tomorrow night we are releasing…’ do you not understand? Did I even in my mail said you should try it out right away, you fumb duck?!
Is it not also blasted obvious that since the mail was sent on 09.04.2008 and from someone in Europe, they would be referring to their own time zone or else the deployment would be in the middle of office hours when everyone needs it on their part of the world. In other words, it will be done something in the evening of 10.04.2008 in Europe (i.e. early morning in Asia-Pacific), and by the time our guys start work, the deployment will be completed!
Good grief! Were you never taught about time zones or something as basic as the world being round? Or perhaps they never gave you comprehension classes when you were in elementary school?
The next time, just admit you are too stupid to understand any instructions containing more than 5 -and that’s FIVE – words in any sentence. Comprendez, you vociferous muthafxxka?!