I have to take the GRE on Thursday. Yeah, in 1.5 days. I looked at the GRE site last night and there are only two more dates to take it before February 2007: Thursday, and next Monday. I can’t take it Monday, because I’ll be in Cambodia. So Thursday it is. Wuh oh.
The strange thing is, I checked two weeks ago, and pretty much every day was open for the next 90 days. I mean, it’s a computer-administered test, what the hell is the problem? The worst thing is that it cost US$165, and I didn’t get any free score sheet sends (they’re $15/ea). Ugh.
Time for some emergency after-work studying.
I really, really need a haircut. I haven’t gotten a haircut in months. We’re talking one step away from pseudo-mullet—it’s already Late 80s length.
Update:
Here’s what I looked like just before I traded all that hair for a flat-top buzzcut.
I looked tired… and indie! Also, they don’t sell Oxy Pads in Singapore.
There was a press conference for the Dubai tower yesterday, but more importantly, my design was on the news! The TV news! At 8:30 PM! I just heard the, uh, news a few minutes ago—some of colleagues saw it on the tube and SMS’d me. (Update: It was also in the newspaper.)
Of course, I won’t get any credit outside the office, being just a lowly intern, but dem’s the apples. Meanwhile, I’m busting my balls to get the presentation boards/booklets on this thing out in time for the developer’s expo on Monday.
Here’s some renderings—it’s come a ways in just a week, eh? They were professionally done, so there’s some errors, but they give an okay idea of what the tower should look like if there aren’t any major changes (which there will be, of course). The biggest error is that the large hexagonal facets on the three facades should be strips of copper, not… uh, whatever that material is. Also, the vine wall looks like some kind of green sponge.
(Be sure to look at the renderings full-size!)
Things are happening in America:
- First up, a miracle: Alberto Fernandez, on Director of Public Relations at the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, told al-Jezeera “I think there is great room for strong criticism, because without doubt, there was arrogance and stupidity by the United States in Iraq.” HOLY FUCKING SHIT, FINALLY. This man would be my semi-hero if it wasn’t for that fact that he, of course, backtracked, saying the next day that “upon reading the transcript of my appearance on al-Jazeera, I realized that I seriously misspoke.” No, no you didn’t, in fact you said exactly the right thing. Not only was it the right thing to admit, it’s exactly the sort of humility the U.S. needs to show if it wants to regain some credibility in the Arabic world, which largely sees America as, yes, arrogant and stupid. In any case, the right cat is out of the right bag.
- Next, Barack Obama might run for President in 2008! Folks, being in Singapore has made me realize that I love America—I just hate that it’s run by fucking idiots. Obama represents the greatest ray of hope this country will have seen in a long while—if you love what America was founded to stand for, you’ll vote for Obama. Why? I’ll cut to the chase: one, he’s honest (for a politician). He’s human. He admits that not everything he’s done is a shining example for every little boy and girl in the country, and that’s okay—it’s part of what makes us people and not ideals. Did he smoke weed? “When I was a kid, I inhaled,” Mr. Obama said here to an audience of magazine editors. “That was the point.” Two, he changes his mind. When he was first elected Senator of Illinois, he stated he wouldn’t run for President in 2008. “That was how I was thinking at that time.” But, “given the responses I’ve been getting… I have thought about the possibility.” Bush famously called this “flip-flopping” while running against Kerry in ‘04, which would have blown me out of the water if it came from anyone but ol’ Dumbshit. Bush, mate, when new facts surface, when situations change, you need to rethink your position and, indeed, sometimes change it. Now, I know this is hard for you, probably because you didn’t think in the first place, but that’s precisely Obama is so very, very much better than you!
Why is “Penny” even a name? Why would any parents name their daughters after the nation’s most disposable currency? I mean, is that even a good idea?
Wife: “Let’s call her ‘Cassandra’!”
Husband: “But didn’t…”
Wife: “You know how much I like prophetically dark names, dearest.”
Husband: “Ah, ya-huh. (I bet that was the name of an Evanescence song.)”
Wife: “Sorry, what did you say? It was hidden under your painfully sarcastic mumbling.”
Husband: “Oh nothing (dammit why did I marry a goth) HEY, I’ve got an idea! An idea! Let’s talk about my idea!”
Wife: “No good can—”
Husband: “—come from this? That’s where you’re wrong! I think we should name her ‘Penny.’”
Wife: “Erm, is that even a name? So, what, are ‘Tea Cozy’ and ‘Björk’ on the docket now, too? What about ‘Vagina’?”
Husband: “Well, those are all good suggestions—myself, I like ‘Vagina.’
Wife: “(Although when we make love you never—)”
Husband: “It seems so feminine… but anyway, of course ‘Penny’ is a name! I mean, if you think about it, ‘Penny’ is so rich with meaning!”
Wife: “Rich?”
Husband: “Yeah! It tells the world, ‘hey world, our daughter is so potentially worthless to us that we named her after the smallest denomination of currency possible!‘”
Wife: “…”
Husband: “And what’s it say of us? Well, we’re obviously so incurably shallow and materially-obsessed that we named our own daughter after money in the first place!”
Wife: “…”
Husband: “So, what do think? Pretty with-the-times, eh? Contemporary, you could say!”
Wife: “Honey?”
Husband: “Yes?”
Wife: “The divorce agreement, did you sign it?”
Husband: “Um, y-yes.”
Wife: “Good. Now, how about ‘Medea’?”
*No offense to all the girls out there named “Penny”—I’m sure you’re all, in fact, very well-endowed.
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