k r i s a n d r o

Which wall am I talking about?

Not this.

Not this either but it’s close.

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I am talking about pedestrians who walk about in Singapore in LINE FORMATION a.k.a The Singapore Wall or in short, I will like to call it the SingWall.

Qn) WHERE can one find this SingWall?

Ans) The SingWall is found everywhere in our sunny island. You will see it at the train doors before you enter. You will see it at the train doors when you exit. You can find it in our buses. You can certainly find it on overhead bridges. And you will most likely see it on pathways!

Qn) WHEN can one see this SingWall?

Ans) Anytime actually! And the appearance of such walls have been widely speculated that its related to how hurried you are. If you are in a rush, you’ll most likely see the SingWall!

Qn) Who can be a part of this SingWall?

Ans) Anyone! Even you! The usual SingWall is made up of inconsiderate people like a-holes, deekheads, beeeches, farkers and all sorts of names that will make your Mum blush when heard.

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So how does a typical SingWall looks like? Let me illustrate!

1. You(Red) are in a hurry.
2. SingWall(Grey) is strolling along in the same direction you are heading at a toddler’s pace.
3. You are huffing and puffing and almost breathing down the neck of the member of the SingWall on the extreme right.
4. They are oblivious to you.
5. You attempt to squeeze through the small space on the right.
6. You fail and have to step to the side again because a guy(Blue) walking from the opposite direction approaches.
7. You watch as the extreme right member(E.R.M) of the SingWall steps back and lets the approaching guy pass.
8. You see the window of opportunity and sprints towards the gap.
9. Agony and disgust fills you up as the E.R.M walks BACK TO WHERE HE WAS.
10. You mutter a meek “Excuse me…” and E.R.M doesn’t hear it.
11. As you mentally control adjust your volume in your head to let out a big one, another random guy from the opposite direction approaches and the same thing happens all over again.

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Have You Seen the SingWall?

I was at KuKuNehNeh’s place after work and rested on her bed, Cleopatra style, when she turned over and asked,

“DEAR!”

(By the way, she likes to grab my attention just like that and it always seems as though she will say something shocking that will rock my socks off)

Me: “Yes?”

“Time pasts so fast! We are together for almost 11 MONTHS!“

“YEP!”

“And we haven’t even quarrel before hor?”

“Hmmmmm…. No leh. But there was once when you were super dulan (pissed) at me for something that I blogged.”

“Yah… But we never quarrel what!”

“So you want to quarrel lar. Can lor.”

“No lar! SIAO!”

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It isn’t the first time that she said it out loud that we don’t quarrel and it’s quite amazing looking back at my past relationships. It’s easy to just say that KuKuNehNeh is easily pleased but I think it’s more about her being a very appreciative woman. I can’t be that different of a person from my past relationships and now and so it is highly likely that I am doing the same as a boyfriend.

It dawned upon me that if any couple doesn’t quarrel, it can also mean that they try to hard to accomodate each other and keep all their unhappiness inside and it isn’t good because such bottled feelings might accumulate over time and burst out when you least expect it.

I also know of too many couples who quarrel frequently and through it, they totally understand each other but the relationship also gets strained over time. And do note that ‘understanding each other’ doesn’t mean that the problem is solved. Understanding your other half hates the fact that you always stay out late doesn’t mean that you will stop your partying life.

For both extreme cases, there are always examples of couples who stay together without ever quarrelling or those who fight it out regularly but they are so rare!

What’s the best solution IMHO? If there is something that is bothering you, talk it out NICELY. If both of you can come up with an agreeable solution, adopt it. If there is something that cannot be agreed on…

Agree to disagree. And move on.

I think KuKuNehNeh and I are mostly working on this principle so far. I may be mistaken though. If I suddenly disappeared and stopped blogging. You guys know who to prosecute.

I once said that carelessness is one of the biggest drawbacks of me as a person as I am one who can sometimes be so deep in thought that without realizing it, I have already crossed the road. Countless number of times when this happens and I will suddenly be aware of my body and go,

“Eh?!?!?! I DON’T REMEMBER CROSSING THE ROAD!!!”

It’s sometimes pretty scary to think that I am on ‘auto-mode’ when doing things like crossing the road but it’s a good skill to have provided that it is fail safe. I don’t want to be roadkill.

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One of the biggest problems I have as a blogger would be my memory. I have such bad memory. Some who know me personally might say otherwise but I think I have ‘selective memory’. My brain registers infomation ‘permanently’ on certain subjects and the rest goes into my ‘RAM’ which gets cleared every 3 seconds or so. For example, if it’s the first time I meet you and you tell me your name, I will forget almost instantanously. I will only remember the conversation and especially if you tell me interesting things like how you like to dig your nose… with your thumb.

I am not implying that anybody I’ve met at the HP TouchSmart PC Event that I went to yesterday likes to dig their nose with their thumb. But if it JUST SO HAPPENS that I met you yesterday and you REALLY like to use your thumb. Well… erm… do reconsider your other options.

While I am on that anyway, I will like to extend my gratitude to Waggener Edstrom for organizing and Daryl a.k.a UniqueFrequency for inviting me to the event.

[Screenshot from here]

The TouchSmart PC looks great and I shall have another entry of it when I find more time. It’s great to also meet up with more bloggers at the event like…

er….

…like…

YOU SEE LAR!

I DON’T REMEMBER THE NAMES OF EVERYONE I MET!!!

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I do remember the conversations that I had with each of you guys though. I think I got to either improve my memory or make it a habit to jot down everything I want to remember. If I jotted down stuffs yesterday, some of the things I would have written down were…

1. I took a picture with Jacelyn a.k.a daintyflair and apparently, I look humsup (lecherous). I never looked at the picture properly but maybe I was drooling or something.
2. Claudia has a humsup for the HP TouchSmart PC.
3. Juzzywuzzy has his humsup goatee back.
4. Hillary couldn’t recognize who I was and probably thought I was a humsup trying to pick her up.
5. I helped Daphne take a picture with two other ladies and the camera auto-focused on her left boob. The camera was humsup. If the picture turned out shaky, I am sorry. I was trying to contain my laughter.

WAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAAHA!!!

The very first popular blog that I came across was Xiaxue‘s back in the days when she was funnier and less commercialized(IMHO). Blogs at that time were a form of entertainment and a way to keep myself updated on my friends lives. Having a steady income back in 2005, I got a webhost and the URL ‘krisandro.com’ without going through what most bloggers go through; Having a free blogging platform like blogspot/wordpress/xanga and then realizing later that they want a self hosted blog.

It wasn’t my intentions to use it as a blog in the 1st place but I eventually hopped onto the bandwagon and started to write. I used dreamweaver/frontpage to design and code my blog and it wasn’t powered by any blogging platform. I don’t have any friends who had a self hosted blog during those times, and without the knowledge of blogging platforms for self-hosted blogs, you can imagine how stupid it was for the period between March 2005 to Feb 2008. I was basically coding everything manually like my archives.

LOL

My traffic back then was mostly made up of my ‘offline’ friends and colleagues and then I start to hear good comments that I was ‘funny’. I then started to write a little more frequently and got ‘tomorrow-ed’ a couple of times. Unfortunately, after migrating to wordpress, you guys won’t be able to see the old entries that I had before Feb 2008.

I had a very long blogging hiatus for a period of almost 6 months because of personal reasons and there are 3 reasons that made me come back to blogging in February this year.

#1 – Friends

KuKuNehNeh knew me better through my old blog archives and after we got together, she kept badgering me to revive my blog. Friends like DX, Ade and my WLNY pals also popped by every once in a while through my shoutbox and say things like…

“YOUR BLOG IS DEAD!!!”
*REMOVE COBWEBS*
“KRISANDO!!! COME BACK! I LOVEEEEEEEEE YOU!!!”

Okay, it’s obvious that I made the last one up but the point is, these people gave me the confidence that they would like me to write again.
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#2 – WordPress

Seriously. Without wordpress, there is no reason for me to update my blog as often as I can now. Everything is great about the platform to the point that I only need to concentrate mostly on content, content and content. Well, in krisandro’s blog, it’s actually rubbish, rubbish and rubbish. But I know you guys like rubbish and rubbish is gonna stay!
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#3 – Ping.sg

I don’t think the traffic for June can match the traffic of May though

Without Ping.sg, my blog’s growth would not have been what it is now. Nice folks do submit my works to tomorrow.sg every now and then but it is Ping.sg that gives me constant traffic. It’s also the folks at Ping who are very supportive of my blogging style and they make up a majority of the ones who leave comments whenever I post something up and it feels bloody nice to have people leave comments.
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This is my 100th wordpress post, and I’ll dedicate this to the 3 reasons I mentioned and all my supporters, including those who are SILENT READERS. You know who you are.. (Cuz nobody else knows who you are…)