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From New York, the greatest city in the world, THIS! IS The Late Show! with David Letterman

Well no, I’m not going post an entry about David Letterman, despite his show becoming my favourite show at the moment, together with The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Late Night with Conan. And The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert.

These shows are just perfect after a long day at wherever it was the day’s long.

New York. New York is a not so old Martin Scorsese’s film starring Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli. Both actors had won Oscars a few years before (De Niro in The Godfather, Liza Minnelli in Cabaret).

In line with his trademark role with unstable character, in this film De Niro portrayed a selfish saxophone player, who despite at times could be likeable, often burst into rude behaviour. Combination of these two opposing tempers makes us wonder on many scenes whether he’s actually mad or glad about the particular situation in the scenes.

Set after the end of WWII, De Niro coming back from the war, trying to settle and pursue his love for music. Trying to sweet-talk Liza Minnelli for a date without much progress early on, but eventually he succeeds. Liza herself has a great singing career ahead of her, and at times they struggled to cope with their careers’ conflicts.

This is the third collaboration of Scorsese and De Niro (they would go on to work together on five others, as of Aug 2007). The movie was widely reported to be a commercial failure (and rumor has it that it played a part in Scorsese addiction in late 70s). But personally I think the movie is entertaining.

Trivia: I didn’t know that Liza Minnelli is the daughter of Judy Garland. The first mother and daughter to be nominated for Oscars, and the only child whose both parents won Oscars, won Oscar herself.

perhaps the waiting is worth it.
because….
I registered that nostalgic domain name today! YAY!!

I wonder what was really going on last week. The day the domain was supposed to be deleted from the registry, I swear I saw that somebody else had re-registered it. Could that be just some temporary assignment by the registry authority? I have no idea.

Well, at long last. The domain name is now mine, once again. My precious. After what, six years? Wow. This calls for celebration.

Celebrate I did, that’s why I bought an “ergonomic keyboard” today. It’s a split keyboard; well, a normal keyboard, but split in the middle line between the alphabet T-Y, G-H, B-N, and so on. The idea is, to practice left and right hand to press their “assigned keys”. Oh well, it goes without saying that I’m now busy pressing backspace once every five characters. LoL. It happens everytime I buy a different keyboard design. It takes time to getting used to. With this one, I hope I am able to learn to type with ten fingers in a more effective way.

Kinda exciting. But maybe because it’s a new toy.

I have actually been looking for this type of keyboard all over the IT malls downtown. The one and only one type that is available is that EXPENSIVE Microsoft Ergonomics keyboard. The design is sure ergonomics, but at $85 it’s way beyond my budget. This keyboard I got today is $30. Granted, it’s second hand, but actually it’s still new, never been used. The guy who sold it said that there are at least 20 new computer systems with him that come with this type of keyboard, but no one wants it because it is not usual; the keys arrangement and all.
I’m thinking of getting a second one from him to use in the office. But only after I get the hang of it.

You know you’ve been saying it a dozen times day since you don’t know when. How clueless you are what else to do.

Nobody’s going to turn back, not now. Certainly not you. And certainly not me. Certainly not me.

There is this one domain name I had been recently watching out for.
I mean really watching out for it. It expired a couple of months back, and I had been in high hope of securing the name once it’s released by whatever domain-name authority.

I checked its status like once every half an hour for the whole of last couple of weeks! I could’ve paid for backorder service, but I figure the domain name would be nice to have, but not worth the backorder fee.

Six days ago, the status had changed to Pending Delete. Wouldn’t be long now. I read that the Pending Delete status will hold at most for five days, afterwhich, the domain name will be free to be registered by anyone.

Boy, how since then I checked its status once every five minutes. I even dreamed about it a couple of times already, each time always about somebody else already beat me to it, taking over the domain.

Four hours ago, it’s still Pending Delete.

Well, this morning, good news. The waiting business IS OVER.

Somebody else already took over the domain. I was such in shock state I couldn’t even utter the word ’shit’. Maybe the guy placed a backorder, I don’t know. I am disappointed beyond words.

What’s special about this domain name is that it’s the first domain name I have for my blog, six years back. The trouble surrounding the expiration of it back then caused my inability to renew it, and it’s always been registered by somebody else ever since. And it’s not even used for real site! They took it only to put it ONSALE!

So some time last month when I happened to check the availability of the name, I was very delighted to see it has expired the month before, and I only need to wait for “Domain Expiration Period” to elapse, which could last between two to three months. Wait I did.

In vain.

Hot. Hot. Hot. I thought last week (or was it the week before) was raining nonstop, and for the first time I could sleep without turning the fan on. No trace of rainfalls. Hot. My room thermometer constantly shows 33o
On top of that I caught a little fever yesterday, 36.5. Well, maybe not fever, perhaps just the heat.

It’s so hot today that Burger King decided to change their slogan to ‘Want it your way? Cook it yourself’
- Johnny Carson -

I think I walk the way David Letterman walks.

A night express train. Took off last night. Will never stop for the entire black night. Come morning, it will happen to exit the underground tunnel, heading east. The sun will be rising by then. I sure as hell hope it will. For I jumped on this train when it took off last night.