today is just not my day!! had to do a technical setup in J.W Marriott for a press conference with some singaporean celebrities. of all things, we can only commence setup at 8pm onwards. oh well, not that it's something within our control. when we were loading up the van with all the technical stuff, then only did we realise that everything couldn't fit into the van and my car, so we had to come back again for another pickup. oh well, no biggie.
done with that and we were on our way. left the office around 8.30pm. traffic wasn't too good either. got to the hotel and started setting up. then my colleague left with the technicians for the second round pick-up and i was all by myself to continue with the plasma setup. well, everything went on smoothly. then came a bunch of people, 5 to be exact. luckily my colleague informed that these singaporeans would be dropping by to have a look at the function area. i've got no problem with that, but what got me worked a bit was them coming in and asking for this and that, to add chairs, change arrangements, etc. thank god they didn't bark those orders to me, else i would have given them a piece of my mind.
i went about doing my stuff and waited for my colleague and the technicians to come back from their pick-up. as i was fiddling with some of the equipments, couldn't help but heard them talking out loud bout some IT and gadget stuff. thought to myself, "hmm...these people sounding like very pro with all these laptop stuff and gadgets like the iPod and all". oh whatever! coming from the land of kiasu, they should know better, I GUESS.
anyway, by the time my colleague and technicians arrived, the whole bunch of singaporeans had left as they couldn't wait and needed their beauty sleep. got the minus-one CD that would be used for the PC from my colleague and immediately i got into action to check on it. here's the chronology of it:
1. insert minue-one CD into DVD player
2. display on DVD player: mp3 but no track number
3. pressed "PLAY" but nothing happens
4. thinking that maybe that player couldn't read the CD, changed it to another DVD player
5. display on plasma screen: "No audio data"
6. repeated whole process and the same results.
there i was screaming with a loud sigh, "god dammit! what's the problem with these singaporeans??!!" explained to my colleague about the problem and told her to get them to send it over via e-mail, but then looking at the time, nobody's in the office at this time. so she called this singaporean guy who "knows" about audio and told him about it. his argument was he could play the CD just fine. then i had to take over the phone and inquire what format is the audio track known as, for eg. .wav or .mp3 or .cda. of all things, he went to click on "properties" via his windows media player and told me that it's a CD Audio file. gosh! is this fella blur or what? had to even guide him step-by-step on how to get info of what the track file is. when he finally got it, the answer was "it's a .cdfs file". WHAT???? what the hell is that? haven't come across extensions like that. unless it's some professional audio format.
took a deep breath and calmed myself down. "ok VoRTeX, remain calm and think of a solution". in that short moment, he said that he has professional audio editing software on his laptop. ah ha! solution! told him to convert the file to .wav to standby and burn it on a CDR before the PC, while i get back to the office and try to figure out how can i convert the files on the CD.
here i am in the office again at 1am trying to extract the minus-one CD that would be used for the press conference later this morning. as i insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive, it doesn't even autoplay like other CDs. ok...no matter...maybe it's data. explored the CD and this is what i see:
gosh! i really don't know whether to laugh or get furious at this fella. talking like one helluva pro with computers. doesn't even know how to burn an audio track! it's obvious that whoever burned the CD doesn't know that audio files cannot be dragged and drop and burnt to the CDR directly. *sigh* waasted my time rushing back from kl trying to get this worked out and this is what i get from the CD. GGGGRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!! UUUUUUURRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHH!!
okok...calm down VoRTeX...."goosefraba"....deep breaths..... 2 things i can think of now:
1. singaporeans are not as smart as they TRY to potray to be
2. i NEED a laptop!! i wouldn't have to rush back to the office just to check what's the status of this CD, and even if it was some weird audio format, i could have done it on the spot. dammit! why the hell doesn't the company EVER listen to my grievances??? been asking for a laptop for more than a year, yet nothing even materialise...not even a cable for it.
ok...think it's REALLY time for me to get out of the office and head on home, on the way maybe get some food or just have some cup noodles when i get home. haven't ate anything since 1pm. don't even know whether to sleep or have a heavy meal and just stay awake watching "Philadelphia" till 6am and get ready for the PC......decisions decisions...... all these frustration ain't helping with my sleep or hunger..............................................................................................
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