the top spin affair

rafael nadal won the olympic gold!

wow i'm so ecstatic, i'm practically in cloud-nine mode. ok i know it was not like i share the winning money or the gold, but still it was such a big deal for me.

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especially considering nothing much else happening in my life right now. nothing that big a scale anyway. on the application, nothing has been confirmed yet. would it be my happy ending? i certainly hope so but for now it's all still grey.

i just bought myself a notebook, a sleek white acer aspire one with intel atom, 120G hard drives, 1G RAM, windows XP, for SGD799.


the acer is that small, not my hand is that big

i had wanted a notebook from like ages ago. every person i know has one. ok every cool person i know has one. not having one is just like not having a handphone! or a botox fix...

just plain wrong.


ed's top 5 reasons why he needs a notebook:

1. can blog and chat anytime anyplace
2. useful while travelling to upload all the camera photos in the run
3. it was on sale, at a totally rip-off price so i was actually saving money
4. makes me look cool and business-like
5. ..err what else? ..to give something to do at starbucks?
   

so i bought it. in fact, i'm so happily typing this from the notebook right now, almost oblivious to the fact that the particular notebook is part of past week's costly expenditure.

seriously, the money has been flowing out like water. it was scary alright...


ed's past week's major expenses:

1. above acer aspire one notebook $799
2. wireless router to get it connected to the internet $82
3. wireless receiver adaptor that the shop person said i need, but didn't $50
4. house master bedroom's water heater replacement $580
5. kitchen's water heater servicing $50
   

hmm..

well i don't have much choice.

what am i supposed to do? bathe in cold water? surely that is a health hazard. look at the japanese, they always soak in hot ofuro and they live like a gazillion years long.

anyway, those sums up are still cheaper than, say.. a DLSR camera which i drool on despite having a G7. or maybe an LV bag for the ladies (which i don't understand the handbag brand craving but again, maybe i just don't have the proper hormones to digest that).

the point is, it's not like i'm throwing out money irresponsibly...

still, it would be marvellously wonderful if i have the ability to win an olympic gold medal and get all that prize money, while having some unknown stranger in some corner of the world gloating over my victory...

i wish..


...ed