Machines are calling me on my mobile

Adv smses which i never subscribed to and yet give me options to unsubscribe always pissed me off. But those are nothing compared to today. Instead of machines smsing me, they are calling me. It goes like this:

1) Ring Ring Ring - my phone rings.
2) Me Answer - Hello.
3) "This is an auto mail box service from starhub. For English, please press 1. Hua Yu Qing An Er." - note. The machine's voice is singlish auntie voice. really nice.

I was like. WTH?? A machine calling me, asking me whether i wan english or chinese? and, I dun even know for what!

My first thought was to hang up. But i still pressed "1"

4) If you are a starhub subscriber, please press 1, if you are not a..
5) "1"
6) You have a message in you mail box. Please enter your 7 digit NRIC number
7) i hang up

I am not interested in listening to the message, and I am not bothered enough to enter my NRIC no, moreover.. hello.. you are the one who called me u stupid machine. U should know me.

8) Ti Ti, Ti Ti. Ti Ti, Ti Ti. - That was 2 smses
9) told me that my starhub contract ending soon, %50 off if i sign on for 2 years etc.

So that was the message. Ok, so i thought thats it. But i was still tramutised that machines can call me now.

Lunch time, phone ring again

10) Hello
11) "This is an auto mail box service from starhub. For engrish, please press 1. Hua Yu Qing...

Yes, itz the same machine calling me. And itz still saying I have a message in my mail box. I was thinking, ok, can, let me enter my nric, and get this done with.

12) entered 78****1#
13) - paused - "You have entered an invalid NRIC number. Please re-enter your 7 digit nric followed by the # key"
14) 78****1# - by now i was boiling
15) - paused - "you have entered an invalid NRIC..
16) Hang phone
17) Ti Ti, Ti Ti - sms received, itz the same sms.

I decided to call back the number to try enter my IC again cuz i really wan to hear that voice again.

18) (please read point 11 to point 16, cuz the same thing happened)

Ok, so too bad, there is nothing i can do. I went back to work.

3pm.

19) Ring Ring (looks like tat number)
20) Hellow
21) this is an auto voice service
22) hang phone
23) call 1633, held on 20mins for the operator to answer. The other machine keep saying "All our operators are busy at the moment, yr call is impt to us, please hold on..." "Yes, dun worry", i was thinking to myself, "I will never hang until you operator is not busy an answers my call."


Finally, someone by the name of Snoop answered, and i managed to control my anger, and told him wat happened. He said he will call me back after he check and help me unsubcribe to that weird service.

10mins later, he called back. and said he already help me unsubcribe, but, if i should still receive the call, he is very sorry, i hv to jus reject it.

Since he sounded sincere, i decided to let it be. But I told him nicely, that if he can, please feedback this to his management, that, this service is not for humans, and, otherwise, please ask those marketing ppl who started this to try it on themselves first.

He said he will feedback.

After that, i still recieved the sms that I had msgs in my mail box. But i never hear from the machine aunti again. God Bless.

In conclusion, to those marketing ppl who started all these sms advs, and now these calling machines, I hope after you die (naturally), you will go to hell (though it might sound like tat, but i dun mean "Die and go to Hell la!"), be locked in the room with nothing but a mobile phone, and all the smses you received are ADVs asking you to unsubscribe if you do not wan to receive them anymore. And when you hope that your ghost friends will call you, all that calls you are machines from hell asking you to key in your NRICs in hell for verification. And when you want to call anyone jus to talk, all you can reach is "Our operators are all busy now, please hang on an we will attend to you shortly.."

P.S. talking abt smses, i received smses from 100Plus that night. Welcome to 2010.

Page one

The below is an extract from a story book i borrowed from San. Itz the most impromtu and speediest loan, ap went toilet in Plaza Sing, then i say i go in San wait for her, so I went in, saw this book, went loan, and before AP come out, i already got the book in my bag.

Anyway, itz got a very page one for the story. Here goes:

The Chemistry of Death [Simon Beckett]

A human body starts to decompose four minutes after death. Once the encapsulation of life, it now under goes its final metamorphoses. It begins to digest itself. Cells disolve from inside out. Tissue turns to liquid, then to gas. No longer animate, the body becomes an immovable feast for other organism. Bacteria first, then insects. Flies. Eggs are laid, then hatch. The larvae feed on the nutrient-rich broth, and then migrate. They leave the body in orderly fashion, following each other in a neat procession that always head south. South-east or south-west sometimes, but never north. No-one knows why.

By now the body's muscle protien has broken down, producing a potent chemical brew. Lethal to vegetation, it kills the grass as the larvae crawl through it, forming an umbilical of death that extends back the way they came. In the right conditions-dry and hot, say, without rain-it can extent for yards, a wavering brown conga-line of fat yellow grubs. It's a curious sight, and for the curious what could be more natural than to follow this phenomenon back to its source? Which was how the Yates boys found what was left of Sally Palmer.

Disclaimer: booboo dun know alot of the chim engrish inside also. But got the general idea la, and i like the way he started this book. And just like how miraclous life is as it begins, it is also as unexplainable when it ends.

Twisties

And, it did turn out well! What a twist!

I went to pick up the car still with a heavy heart. Was stressed abt driving the Kia Forte. But, really, there is nothing to be stressed about, itz like driving my sis's honda stress, except there are only 2 doors.

Weather was threateningly cloudy, just like the last shoot, but, was more threatening. So me and Kenneth went here and there to find good/interesting spots after discussing on my storyboard. Then the model came with boss(playing nice to both model and stylist) and stylist (she's happier today after deciding to live with it, and i really appreaciate both of that)

Model look serious as usual, I briefed them abit of the flow, and there were changes here and there. Still ok, we proceeded with the first set. Pics were jus 'OK'. Not really what i like, look abit posed. Then we went into the cafe. This time round it was better. Abit feel. Then we changed a set of clothes.

Then. It started to pour. There goes our planned car shots. But we decided to do plan B. Which involves stucking up their hotel lobby. Which we did. And the chauffure was really helpful. The shoot looks abit like a red carpet setting, abit cinematic (i know still far from that, but ok la. got a bit feel) And it was still pouring outside, I was holding the mac in my hand and we did the shots with cars wanting to move inbetween us, kenneth's wife in the middle of the road.

In short, the shots after the rain starts turn out really good! it was dark, gloomy and abit mysterious look. The first set of sunny shots really look dull compared.

So, it was a happy ending, boss happy, model happy, stylist (looked)happy, photographer happy, and ME happy!

After that Like Real Nan Sheng drove the 2 door car back to Kia, and boss dropped him at Orchard, and he went to take a kopi break, eat some bread, went up Kino, look for books, see magazines, brought August which is backdated (arrg!) and 8 days which is extremely good, and went home happy, chat with wife thru phone, and mum at home.

What a day!

Sandwiched

It was a day of being a vegetarian patty of a Tangi Tar Tar.

the day before a photoshoot can never be this bad. The stylist is inexperience with fashion shoots, and I had 1 experience with it, which I was not involve in anything the models wear. Now, I am like having to even help sort what what kind of hairdo the model should do.

In a short summary:
Boss dun like stylist's choice
Model dun like stylist's choice
Model angry with boss and wants to be compensated (initially she was free of charge)
Stylist dun like boss interference "you all dun need a stylist, you jus need some one to run yr chores" - wow
Stylist dun like model's attitude


Me? I dun like stylist choice of clothes, too
I dun like boss last min descision on model and stylist.
I am worried about the model's behavior tmr at the shoot.
And, I dun like being sandwiched between all these!

Stylist called me after the fitting to express her unhappiness and I had to try tell her nicely it was partly bec she cannot make it. And yes, and the time frame given to her was not enough. And yes, the model was not easy.

I did not want to tell Boss about stylist's complains in fear that things will turn damn sour tmr.

Ok, last thing is I was on mc today, and had to deal with al l these shit. But i guess itz a reality check that fashion shoots are never meant to be smooth all the time.

And, yes, pay peanuts, get monkeys. And i am one of the monkeys now.

Lets hope tmr turns out fine. God bless me

Best Car

Finally, after 3 months of work, the mag is launched 1st Dec. And yes, you will find me loitering around the bookstores, looking at anyone who picks up the mag, see their reaction.

Paul says today 9 were sold from 7-eleven downstairs. I was very surpirsed as I had this bad feeling that no one might buy.

To the millions of readers of my blog, go find the mag at the bookstores the next time u go out or come to Singapore (for overseas readers), meanwhile, go be a fan here : www.facebook.com/bestcar.sg

hoho

Itz been some time..

wow. itz a year since my last post.
Time flies.

a short run thru of what happened this year:

asap got married 28 feb 2010 TOUR JAPAN TOKYO OSAKA KYOTO tried transfer to sph but failed JOINED BESTCAR 1SEPT(bye bye SI)

lets see how far this can go again