Dilly Dalliance

I missed my tuition session with my cousin today because I was late leaving my place (Chye, I blame you for this because you called me!), and so now I'm at home, in limbo for the next half-hour or so before I leave the flat for my next assignment - Test-driving L'Oreal hair products! Hey, someone has to do it.

It's a deal I got from one of the girls I met at the mysterious interviews I've been going to, and apparantly, at the end of the one-week test period, I will receive $30 worth of L'Oreal hair products. Woo~hoo! Too bad I didn't snag the deal by virtue of the fact of how famous I've become due to my internet exposure (unlike another fellow blogger I shall not name), or else I'll bet I'll be getting more than what I've been promised in exchange. Ah well, one shouldn't lament one's position too much. It ain't bad really, though I'd much rather receive cash. (Who wouldn't?)

Now I know my blogs have been getting fewer and farther between, and the content more and more mundane. I can't help it! I'm a jobless slacker. I hope, however, that all this will change soon, once I get through that last interview with management and sign on the dotted line.

And I wish I have some interesting new photos to post, but the fact is I've been home vegetating in front of movies and various reality/documentary series playing on my screen. I've just finished the first series of the fantastically bo liao but hilariously funny Mythbusters, currently playing on Discovery Channel. In it, the hosts do all sorts of stupid, money-wasting things, like finding out if the engine of a 747 can blow a car over (it can), if the daddy longlegs is actually the deadliest spider alive (it isn't), whether running or walking in the rain will get you wetter (it's running to them, but inconclusive to me) and if a duck's quack actually echoes (it does). Most of the things they do on the show are total time-wasters, but it's so funny to watch, I'm hooked! Imagine going through 45 days of trouble just to find out if golfish have a memory of more than 3 seconds, or putting your life on the line trying to prove that escape from the waters of Alcatraz is actually possible. The infinite amount of care and consideration put into recreating these myths are laudable, while watching their sheer delight in duplicating them (when the myth doesn't work, but they want to see the results anyway), most times to dramatic effect (cue plenty of explosions) is pure entertainment.

And now, I reckon I have said more than enough on the subject. 'Nuff random typing.