There's something wrong with our water, it smells like an old sock... it stinks.. it has this salty feeling to it. Heck I fel unsafe just TASTING it and spitting it out.

Maybe something died in the water reservoir but you'd need something pretty big to make the whole tank stink I think.

So I went over to a Dopod user group gathering on Saturday to talk to other Dopod users and also mee tup with the technical service people to see if I can get some questions answered.

Unfortunately the attituide of those techincal service people was exactly what I expected as demonstrated by the following scenarios.

• One of the users where having a problem with his 838 was not synching with the desktop, on a quick check of his device something was amiss. His Inbox app wasn't working properly. His Remove Programs applet was completely screwed up and wans't displaying ANYTHING installed on the device, which wasn't normal at all. I asked him what was the last thing he did before he couldn't sync, he said he went to one of the PDA shops and they helpfully installed a few apps for him. Aaaaa... the follies of piracy... I told him that it would seem that something they installed must have screwed up his 838, and the only thing I could think of now is to hard reset the device. But he didn't feel like it, well I too also don't like the idea but I told him if he asked those tech support ppl that were present they would just tell him to hard reset. So he goes and tells the tech support person about his problem and without skipping a beat tech support says.. "Have you tried hard reseting yet?"
• Another user was having a little problem with Outlook which I didn't catch, the only thing which I caught was tech support saying "Have you tried reinstalling Outlook?"
• When users pressed tech support about new features, tech support person turned marketing and said "Microsoft will release second edition then you'll have to upgrade to a new device probably!"

With this incident I'm never ever gonna believe ANYTHING these distrbutors say about their products again, the last time was the Sagem marketing person saying O2 was not coming to market with the XDA Mini and that O2 has given up the Malaysian market.

Well... O2 HAS quit the Malaysian market officially (Now there's only a distribution channel via SiS) BUT... they did release the Mini to great success.

So one of my friends delivered today and it was kinda an emergency delivery. So the interesting thing to learn about the incident was.

• Cesareans costs a lot of money
• There's an extra surcharge for operations on weekends.. Guess the peak rate thing is well and alive in the private medical industry.
• There's an extra surcharge for paging the doctor back to do the operation... as much as I understand that you need money to live but this just creeps me out a little.

Just gives you something to think about...

Well, on a whim I decided that hey.. I should go down and join in the festivities of the Singapore 360 launch. So I've already booked my AirAsia ticket which hopefully the flight won't be delayed. But I'm just worried about how the heck am I supposed to get back from Singapore to JB on the next day.

*shrug*

The net, and DVDs have allowed us to take a step back through history to see old movies that we've watched as kids and watching them again will tell you one of the following things.

• The movie is ageless, and you enjoy it just as much as you did when you were young.
• You realised that they just don't make movies like this anymore.
• You realise that the above fact is a GOOD thing!

Right now I'm rewatching The Wizard and... if you've never heard of it before just picture a video game advertisment the length of a movie and you'll pretty much got the idea what's it about.