Leaky Air Conditioners, Ikea & Bad Instructional Videos

A Saturday of mixed feelings.

Yesterday, for no apparent reason, our the air conditioner in our new bedroom started to leak. We called up the property agent who also acts as Landlord for the owners of this apartment, and told him about it, and he said he’d send some people down the next day to fix it. Today, they came in and they fixed it. Sort of. The leak in the air conditioner does not come from the air conditioner itself, but from a pipe that runs along the wall. They banged on the pipes, put in some sealent and promptly said it was fixed and left. Fifteen minutes later, TWO leaks sprung up from the pipe, both worse than ever, and when the agent was informed, he said he’d take care of it on Monday. Hopefully this won’t create four leaks and flood the apartment.

We also went to Ikea to pick up a few knick knacks.

I am surprised to report that Ikea is THE place to go on a Saturday night. We thought we’d just show up, get a shoe rack, a new end table, maybe some shower curtains, and have a quick dinner in the Ikea cafeteria. When we showed up, it seemed like half of Singapore had had exactly the same idea. The cafeteria itself was so packed it took us fifteen minutes to find some free seats, and after that we wandered through the tidal wave of humanity that were sitting on sofas, looking at the jointwork on coffee tables, running hands across the fabric of throw rugs, and lining up at the cashier counters to be billed by very gay cashiers.

I had no idea that Ikea was such a hip place to be.

We also checked out the awful video I had to put together for the Wife’s Illustration exhibit. Well, I didn’t put it together. I only wrote the script, oversaw the video shoot, conducted the interviews, and sat in on the edit for a few hours and picked out the content that was to be presented. The music, cut-aways and graphics were put together by a couple of guys with a small video company called Video Forge. For a nearly non-existent budget, we managed to pull something informative together. Good? No. Educational, maybe.

Back to transcribing and gaming…