At least today was a funny day. I've just returned from the daily outing with my village friends and we had a friendly humours discussion on the merits between males and females. The discussion coincided with today's Ally McBeal's episode; a woman sued her employer because he promoted other colleagues who slept with him instead of her. She accused him of sexual abuse against her because she didn't want to sleep with him. The whole episode was hilarious especially when Ally kicks a prodigy child because she though he was her 'usual' fantasy child.

Work was not that bad either. I asked for the one month leave in September and it was not refused. I had to spend an hour and a half bullshitting my boss and faking interest in her holiday, but at least she didn't bitch too much. Hope she relaxed and did her job during three days closed in a four star hotel.

I've been researching the multitude of shopping options in Singapore. From my general impression Singapore has two things - food and shopping. Prices for the digital video camera are about 230€ cheaper than home. I think I've settled for the Canon Mv700i or Mv730i, being MiniDv cameras with a good 18x / 20x digital zoom respectively. Unfortunately Sony (the other major player in camcorders) doesn't produce MiniDv cameras with a zoom greater than 10x. I was in a big dilemma between the MiniDv and Digital8 format but at last I favoured MiniDV. It is more modern and very slightly better than Sony's proprietary Digital 8, although Digital 8 works out cheaper. I'm still undecided from where I'm going to buy the camera since buying it in Singapore doesn't give me enough time to learn how to use the camera properly. On the other hand 230€ is quite an amount of money.

I've been doing some origami models and yesterday I've used 'real' origami paper for the first time to fold a squirrel. I had to remember the basic folds once again but it seems I've regained the hang of them. Now I'm practicing some airplanes for tomorrow at work.