simple pleasures for simple minds

Dear God help me - i've recently become addicted all over again to Bounce, my all time favourite arcade game other than space invaders. Children of the Atari generation - come rejoin the flock: (http://www.arcadetown.com/bounce/index.asp)

some days i just loathe myself

9am - I am in syariah court waiting for the court clerk to call out my file number. I rarely go to court, I had always been a corporate lawyer and prefer spending time in an air-conditioned office where I don't have to wear black and white/jacket/robe. Nobody gives a shit what I wear so long as I deliver the work on time and since it's our own office with just the 4 of us here and no one to impress, the only days where I have to dress up properly is if there's a meeting with clients. But somedays like today I have to show up with my jacket blah blah blah and sit among other lawyers waiting for the court clerk to call out our file numbers. And as I wait, I get bored....I have a really good book in my bag but it's called "Bright Lights Big Ass" which is so not a proper reading material for syariah court....and because I feel a bit self conscious sitting there in front of the public gallery where members of the public are staring at us because they too are probably bored out of their minds, I start scribling things in my note pad - as if am writing important notes when actually was just jotting down stupid things like my grocery list. God I hate lawyers...we're such posers.

I Am Such A Sucker - Part Deux

This is an update to my earlier post - I Am Such A Sucker.

I went to the Unleash Your Marketing Genius (UYMG) seminar. I listened to all the hoopla. I did all the exercises. I even paid to get my own domain! Yet I am back at sqaure one. UYMG taught me already knew. What it did NOT teach me are the intricacies of internet marketing. They told me to succeed in internet marketing, you need to build a mailing list. Fine, I knew that. What they did not tell me is how the hell do I build that list?? Sure they said that you need content, to post on forums, to advertise bla bla bla to drive traffic to my site so that people will sign up to be on my mailing list. But they did NOT tell me how the hell do I actually draw those tiny boxes for people to input their email addresses, and when people input their address, where the hell are the addresses stored, and how on earth do I send newsletters to these people? Damn.. apparently it involves some .php, MySQL and other acronyms that I do not know stands for what. And if I really want to know, I have to sign up for anpother course, pay another few thousand dollars, and get suckered again.

What I was surprised at was that there was plenty of people willing to part with up to RM10 grand to join these programs. The apex of the seminar was the "Become A Consultant" program that cost RM35,000 to join!! And 25 people actually signed up on the spot!! Damn.. where do these people come from??

Sheesh.. since I've already bought a domain name and space, I might as well find out how to do that damn thing. Right now I am still trying to find out how auto responder works.

Anyone out there willing to be a mentor to a somewhat sceptical internet marketeer wannabe?

spaceman

To be honest, I didn't think I would be watching the launch into space of Malaysia's first astronaut/cosmonaut/whatevernot - I personally feel it is a waste of taxpayers' money which could be used for so many underprivileged people, education for so many children whose families can't afford for them to continue schooling, orphanages etc, so so much more. But last night at 9.21pm, I dutifully turned to channel 990 to watch the launch and to my surprise, found myself getting caught up in the countdown - pointing out to Amani "tengok, tengok - rocket & dalam rocket ada astronaut" and hearing her repeat back to me "ha, tu - rocket" and watching her face as she look, entranced and in amazement as the rocket took off.

I love seeing the world through her eyes.

If This Is A Guilty Indulgence, Why Don't We Ever Feel Guilty?

OMG this so yummmmmmmmyyyyy.. Lets go after Raya.. Screw the calories.. we would have wolfed down enough ketupat and rendang during the first two days of Raya to negate all the fasting we did for 30 days anyway, so screw it and lets indulge some more..