No entry in May partly because I was busy with work (!), including a week-long interpretation, in the second half of the month.
On May 14, I had dinner at Paragon after work with
people from my client company in Fukuoka. Then I moved on to CC, my first time
to do so since late March. There I met that guy who apparently can’t stop
showing how intelligent he is by claiming or insisting, again, that he
understands Latin. I could have clobbered him right there then because I am
sure that he doesn’t know probably anything about how Latin words and phrases
are used in today’s English, but I was rather restraining myself without commenting
on his claim. The reason of his claim is that he is aware of medical terms of
Latin origin, and it doesn’t mean at all he knows the language. To be able to
say one knows any language, he should have enough knowledge of it which allows
him to read a book written in the language without much difficulty. He is so
far from it. I’ve never seen him read (or simply carry) any kind of book or any
kind of printed material in Latin or use any Latin words or phrases in his
talk. This is another example of showing disrespect to language and showing how
pathetically ignorant he is. Does he really think saying “I know Latin” makes
him look intelligent?
And he said to me, “I respect you.” I don’t need to be
respected by him or anyone. He started talking to me by complaining, “You
refused to accept my friend request on Facebook!” I didn’t refuse it. I just
ignored it. Facebook is really becoming too much if only because I can’t keep
up with all those uploads. And I have no intention to be controlled by anything
like Facebook. The guy is vulgar (rough, boorish, even violent), jealous,
ass-kissing, boring, all-penis-no-brain. Oh, he was mentioning that he (and his
wife and baby girl) would be going back home though I don’t know when.
In March, I received a letter from Singtel notifying
the termination of the 3G broadband plan I had been subscribing for so many
years. The company was suggesting a new 4G plan which would be much faster and
cheaper (and 50% off for 24 months on top of it). I duly switched to this new
plan and one night experienced a connection speed which became impossibly slow.
I filed a complaint to Singtel and the reply said that the switch to the new
plan was successful. Then, the bill came for April which showed an amount more
than three times bigger than before. I filed another complaint demanding
explanation, which said I had exceed the data usage available for the plan, and
an extra charge system kicked in. And then the bill for May arrived which was more
than four times larger. I checked my data usage of the past few months and
found that my usage habit, as I knew, had not really changed much. Singtel
answered my old plan was for 50GB and the new one for only 10GB. This is how
they make money.
I don’t remember since when, but my right middle finger
“jerks.” It’s as if it had some kind of spring mechanism. My left wrist is
better but no pushups possible. My right index finger still looks funny though with some
improvement.
After two months, I have yet to receive news of an
arrest. I think that the police force of that country is incompetent or corrupt
or both.
Alcohol intake record:
April 21 (Thu.) – May 13 (Fri.): none
May 14 (Sat.): a lot of beer
May 15 (Sun.) – 18 (Wed.): none
May 19 (Thu.): beer
May 20 (Fri.): beer, white wine and shochu with
water/hot tea
May 21
(Sat.) – June 16 (Thu.): none
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