more random thoughts - 4 days to go

and now we have a flower girl! thanks peony!

and a last-minute dancer replacement for random school facility too! thanks jen! what malaysia took away, indonesia has replaced. thank you, ASEAN.

i realise i don't have the AIM/MSN details of a lot of younger singaporeans, so when i arrow them i end up having to go through email. this is rather inconvenient (additional clicking to compose mail, type name, subject, send and of course additional formality) but in retrospect, has the added benefit of leaving a virtual paper chain. most of my organization is visual-stimuli based, i.e. i run off an excel spreadsheet with multiple tabs and everything on it that once used to look pretty with many colors, but structurally and administratively, a lot of the organization actually takes place with gmail, with its conversations and unparalleled searchability. i personally think conversations are the number one addition to email that gmail brought when it first went beta - not highly trumpeted, nor tha-aat pioneering, but so simple and so good for organizing information flow. you don't even need labels! now if only there was some way to increase the accessibility, to improve the visual organization. some kind of tab-based system within google that allows me to manipulate my info fields with the speed and ease of excel, that directly links to email.