The 2nd Epsiode- The USA Trip

it was good. for a few days.

i did not realise this before, but upon reflection and discussion, we realised that the Princess was usually the one that dash to the bathroom first upon reaching the hotel.
without due concern for others.

2ndly, on the 1st day, she used up the entire bottle of shampoo without caring whether the rest would need it. Again i not obvious to this.
she's simply blind to her own selfish manners.
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going Grand Canyon was very out-of-the-way from Las Vegas.
The original plan was to drive from Denver to Las Vegas, and along the way, we can drop by Grand Canyon and stay for 1 night.

The Knight refused to drive, citing safety concerns. (someone may say he has no balls, but i reserve comments on this, since I've small balls.)

So in what i termed later as the Grand Strategy of the Grand Order, the princess who is overwhelming in favour of driving for Grand Canyon, the Lady who knows that a car is a must in USA, and the Jester who obviously prefers a car....

All 3 of us wanna drive.
All 3 of us followed the Knight's decision to abandon the car for the plane.
How he managed to convinced 3 of us, amazes me till this day.
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So in LV, i felt that driving to Grand Canyon was pretty bad.
its a 4hours drive to, so a daytrip would consist of 8hours of driving.

(i used the Grand Canyon Information Centre as a landmark, which gave me 4hours away. i was later corrected by the Knight that that is the most eastern part of Grand Canyon. we can see the western part in 2hours of driving)

Both the Knight and me seen it before, so we can miss it.
In our private conversation, we thought of convincing the girls to abandon Grand Canyon. The drive was simply not worth it.

The Lady was disappointed but she accepted it.
The Princess was disappointed but she accepted it (i think).

Not to fear, the Knight in shinning armour came to her rescue!
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We were going to check out the helicopter packages to Grand Canyon when the 2nd incident happened.

The Lady was browsing the postcards when the Princess and the Knight just decided to forge ahead, abandoning her. At first, the Jester was blur. He followed suit, forgetting about the Lady. (my bad)
But how can we abandon a Lady?

He protested, but the Knight and Princess said they will be just in front.

The Jester and the Lady went to the next building, the M&M building (M&M chocolate themed 4 stories building)
While the Lady was posing for photos with 2 M&M live models, the Jester went to call back the front scouts.

"hey come back leh, we wanna go to the M&M"
"i wanna take pictures!"
"take later lah, we go M&M first"

she forged ahead. but i managed to pull her back and three of us walked to the M&M.
See. so selfish. We always wait for her, and she can't even wait for us!

"dont worry, i ensure you that its worth it. you will have a good photo opportunity later" (i was thinking of the 2 live M&M models)
"i take already"

wah liew. I can't put the tone in a blogpost, but basically the tone, and this conversation was in mandarin so very hard to duplicate it here in this post....
wth is this? you take already then cannot wait for us to take izzit??

I got very angry for the 2nd time.
But i endured, thinking that its still a long USA trip.

i fumed to the top floor.

And then I simply lost my cool when the Knight approached.

"jester, you stay here with the Lady, Princess and I go to the next building ok"
"NABEI!!!!!"

okok, i did not mutter nabei. or else it would have been funny.
but I really lost my cool because this is soooo Princess!!
we always wait for her! and she can't wait for us.
And the Knight always go for her wish, while unconsciously diminishing the Lady and the Jester's importance.

HELLO!! THIS IS A GROUP TRAVEL!!

NOT YOUR OWN ROYAL OUTING.
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We split for the next few days.
Princess and her royal Knight went for excursion to the Grand Canyon (i tot the knight also not interested in Grand Mountains, maybe he interested in the Grand Peaks.)

The Lady and Jester went around Las Vegas.


By the last day of LV, we got back and only do small talks.
Let me remind everyone that there was no sorrys from anyone.
Only the Knight told us that he did screw (verbally lah) the Princess.

"I told Princess, 'Jester thinks you're very selfish!'"

I kept quiet that time when I heard it, but hello mr knight, so I think that she's very selfish but you don't lor.
So its just "jester think..."

think only mah.

So even without the sorry, we slowly cooled down.
the last day of LV, the princess behaviour crops out again, even annoying the Knight in Shinning Armour.

But thats for another blogpost.

The 1st Episode- USA Trip

At first, it was good.

4 people sharing a bathroom.
So in the morning, obviously there is a need to wait.

On the 1st day of MDRT, we were supposed to reach the centre early.
So the Princess & the Knight washed up, and they left.
Called and suggest they go book seats for us.

Please don't say till like we are late and you guys are waiting for us.
We were waiting for you two to finish your turn at the bathroom!!

The Lady was angry, I was fine.
But the very 1st anger burned into me on the last day of MDRT.
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Irrationality upon me.

So the Princess, lost her official tag.
Without the tag, you cannot enter the premises.

Fair enough, so we decided to enter separately.
For example, the Lady, the Princess and the Knight would enter with 3 passes (including my pass) and then the knight would come out with 2 passes and bring me in.

So after the main talk, we wanted to go the sales area.
The Knight went in 1st, so I took the Knight's pass and went out for the Princess.
Instead of just appreciating, she declined, saying that the Knight would need the pass.

"i can't take it, the knight needs his pass"
"nooooo, he is already inside."
"its his pass, i can't"
??????
"just take it and come in, we are all shopping inside."
"no, i do not want to wear someone's else pass"
*exasperated*
"can u just take it and come in, we can't be shopping in peace if you stay here alone!"

and she storms off.

IRRATIONALITY.

The Jester abhors irrationality.
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The Final Storm

We went to the hotel's internet room to plan, to settle our car rentals, to print maps.
So knowing full well that the Princess contributed very little in the planning days, I opened a website and asked her to book the car rentals for those days we are in Las Vegas.

"how to book"
"just follow the steps there, its easy"
"i dunno the dates"

*exasperated*

I opened the gmail to open our excelsheet, with all our dates. she sat there, face-black.

The knight took our bags and suggested bringing up the bags up for us. In that second, the Princess stood up and rushed off, "I will bring it up"
and abandoned the workplace.

I GOT DAMN BLOODY ANGRY.

The final storm in the MDRT days triggered our 1st confrontation. A confrontation that the Knight was so reluctant to attend. Can you believe the 3 of us took 40minutes to decide to confront the Princess?

The confrontation ended positively. But it was only temporary.

bad trip

This has been a bad trip.

Worries about a girlfriend.
quarrels with a travelling colleague.

pondering of the career.

I'm really happy

Rainbow.

I found the most wonderful girl in the world.
My life is full of sand.


=)

Economics made easy

This is why I love economics.

economics made easy.

Pilot vs Funny Mechanics

Remember it takes a college degree to fly a plane but only a high school diploma to fix one. Reassurance for those of us who fly routinely in their jobs. After every flight, Qantas pilots fill out a form, called a "gripe sheet," which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems, document their repairs on the form, and then pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight. Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humour. Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by Qantas' pilots ( marked with a P ) and the solutions recorded ( marked with an S ) by maintenance engineers. By the way, Qantas is the only major airline that has never had an accident.


P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.
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P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.
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P: Something loose in cockpit.
S: Something tightened in cockpit.
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P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order.
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P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent.
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.
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P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.
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P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.
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P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That's what they're for.
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P: IFF inoperative.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.
+++
P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you're right.
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P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.
+++
P: Aircraft handles funny. (I love this one!)
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and be serious.
+++
P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.
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P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.
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And the best one for last..................
P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget.

Why I gave up

The emperor has abdicated.
Cursed by the golden flowers, the princess has left.

the rainbow has ceased and the emperor is back to being the Jester of life.
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(this post is for neofik, and numerous others. i just remember one of the reason for blogging is coz I'm lazy to repeat & repeat on msn)

I'm a misogynist at heart.

One of the key plank of my dislike is that girls are irrational.

girls hate something about their boyfriend, whines about it.
the guy can be vulgar, violent, scold or hit the girlfriend.

the girl sobs about it.

But at the end of the day, she'll go running back to her boyfriend.

a period later, she will come and complain again.

sigh.
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This must be the part where they say "love is blind"
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So I saw her in overseas. I saw the way she looks at him.
there was a twinkle in the eyes.

And I thought to myself, why would she be any different from all the girls I hate.




And in that moment, I took off the Crown of Love.