Friday, July 18, 2003  

Where: My flat, Brisbane
When: 10:32pm local time

Aggravation consumes me.

As you might have noticed by the location, I now have net access in the flat I'm staying in, thanks to a wireless link to my uncle's house. So why am I all annoyed? Because despite the excellent signal strength... the link dies anytime anyone picks up his cordless phone. And people use his phone all the time. This makes the net a very... annoying experience. I can't connect to any IM service (MSN, AIM etc) or IRC because I get disconnected every few seconds. I can surf the web just fine -- kinda, because every so often I'll have to wait a bit for someone to get off the phone so my page can load -- but anything else just won't work. Which is, you know, annoying.

Also annoying me is the quack doctor I went to. Medical care in Hong Kong is rather expensive, and with good doctors here we figured it was a good time for everyone to get check-ups. He gave five minutes over to checking me through physically and then spent twenty lecturing me about spirituality. And then he goes to tell my mom quietly that I'm depressed. Of course I'm depressed! I had to sit there listening to him drone on about spirituality for twenty minutes!

In happier news, the Lakers signed Karl Malone and Gary Payton! Go LA! Go LA!

Posted at 10:59 PM

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