Friday 8pm, Old Town Kopitiam Cafe, Cheras:
Start boardgaming session.
Saturday 4am, Old Town Kopitiam Cafe, Cheras:
finish boardgaming session. Games played: Mystery of the Abbey, Cafe International, 1870.
Picked up my 18EU (WWWWWHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!)
Saturday 5am, Home, Selayang:
Reach home, converse with mum, check emails, prepare laptop for Interschool Finals, shower, breakfast.
Saturday 7.30am, Home Selayang:
Leave home for Bukit Bintang.
Saturday 8am, Bukit Bintang:
Arrived, park car, go to office, update last remaining software and download virus definition, go to BTS.
Saturday 8.45am, Berjaya Times Square:
Arrived, loiter, double check with registration, update players list, walk around with laptop, check final details with Mrs Yap, printout pairings for first 3 rounds and we are roaring to begin!
Saturday 9.30am, Berjaya Times Square:
Inputting round 1 results.
Saturday 10.15am, Berjaya Times Square:
Inputting round 1 & 2 results.
Saturday 11am, Berjaya Times Square:
Inputting round 2 results, nodding off with results slip in hand, inputting round 2 results, err, round 3 results in the box piling up (I am slow due to boardgaming fatigue)
Saturday 12noon, Berjaya Times Square:
Wolfing down Big Mac, still keying in round 3. printout pairings for next 2 rounds.
Saturday 12.45pm, Berjaya Times Square:
Crash on stage in public (chairs too uncomfortable), drifting in and out of sleep with mumblings and giggles. Wonder how many people choose to record my public indifference.
Saturday 1pm, Berjaya Times Square:
Woke up, waddle to laptop, INPUT! input! input! input. input. input, input, input...input...
Saturday 1.50pm, Berjaya Times Square:
input...input...printout R6 pairings...input...input...input...
Saturday 3pm, Berjaya Times Square:
input...input...input...input...input...input...
Saturday 4.45pm, Berjaya Times Square:
input...input...input last result slip from R6. Hooray. printout R7 & R8 pairings. stayed behind and zyzzyva.
Saturday 5.30pm, Berjaya Times Square:
Halfway through zyzzyva, head back to hotel, get back in car, drive home.
Saturday 6.15pm, Home, Selayang:
Crash on bed, AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhh!...........................
Sunday 6.30am, Home, Selayang:
Wake up, change, check laptop, drive.
Sunday 8.50am, Berjaya Times Square:
Park car elsewhere, arrive, setup, waiting for random dropout to screw pairings, random guy does dropout, screw pairings, don't reset pairings, bye-bye in the system (at least John Chew program can switch the guy "off -50").
Sunday 9.35am, Berjaya Times Square:
input. input. input. input. input. input...more helpers (good slaves actually). input...input...input...
Sunday 11am, Berjaya Times Square:
Photo op, doesn't buy time, still trying to catch up on backlog of results slip (about 50+ of them), GO ME!
Sunday 11.05am, Berjaya Times Square:
starting repeat rounds, printout pairings, relegate 41+kids onward to RR groups (again) just to keep them out of my hair.
Sunday 12.30pm, Berjaya Times Square:
Finally inputted R9, printout pairings for top 40 kids, troubleshoot.
Sunday 1.15pm, Berjaya Times Square:
Finally get my Big Mac, input...input...input...input...
Sunday 3.45pm, Berjaya Times Square:
input 5...input 4...input 3...input 2...input 1...FINISHED!!!!!! printout, printout, printout...
Sunday 4pm, Berjaya Times Square:
Mrs Yap announces results, prize-giving
Sunday 4.15pm, Berjaya Times Square:
Discover boo-boo in keying in result.
Sunday 4.17pm, Berjaya Times Square:
Boo-boo rectified (Go ahead, Tony, gloat!)
Sunday 4.30pm, Berjaya Times Square:
Zyzzyvaing, edit .tou file, zyzzyvaing, calculate ratings, zyzzyvaing until 7pm, leave for Oversea Restaurant Imbi.
Sunday 7.30pm, Oversea Restaurant Imbi:
enter room, order, eat...eat...eat...converse...eat...eat...eat...nibble...eat...eat...eat...
Sunday 9pm, Oversea Restaurant Imbi:
eat...eat...eat...converse...eat...eat...eat...stuffed...eat...eat...eat...converse...eat...eat...eat...dessert
Sunday 9.45pm, Bukit Bintang:
drive 5 SPECs boy to Subang
Sunday 9.47pm, Bukit Bintang:
detour through Changkat Bukit Bintang
Sunday 9.52pm, Bukit Bintang:
got pulled over by police for overloading my car. (Threw money out of wallet first!)
Sunday 9.57pm, Bukit Bintang:
Policemen pity students (& me), let me go, note to self: try to look more penniless next time if don't have student.
Sunday 10.13pm, Federal Highway:
Raining, road wet. (Retrieve money and put back into wallet)
Sunday 10.34pm, Subang:
Drop them off, head home, tidy up, update blog.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
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2 comments:
wat..u were at old town coffee without a call from u? hahaha i am virtually a 3 min drive away
me...........*fainted
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