Came across this website and it kept me amused for a while. =)
Especially liked this one as it reminds me of typical Singaporeans! ie cannot say good one. LOL
It seems that a young man volunteered for military service during World War II. He had such a high aptitude for aviation that he was sent right to Pensecola skipping boot camp. The very first day at Pensecola he solos and is the best flier on the base. All they could do was give him his gold wings and assign him immediately to an aircraft carrier in the Pacific.
On his first day aboard he took off and single-handedly shot down 6 Japanese Zeroes. Then climbing up to 20,000 ft. he found 9 more Japanese planes and shot them all down, too.
Noting that his fuel was getting low, he descended, circled the carrier and came in for a perfect landing on the deck. He threw back the canopy, climbed out and jogged over to the captain.
Saluting smartly he said, "Well sir, how did I do on my very first day?" The captain turned around, bowed, and replied, "You make one velly impoltant mistake!"
Tuesday, 27 December 2005
an extra second for everyone!
Cool! We all get an extra second for the coming year! What can happen in a second? Well, more time for merry making or spreading good cheer or even eating. For me, that's one more second of sleep.... ahhhh. =)
Friday, 23 December 2005
S'poreans travelling
I read with dismay that yet another S'porean was the victim of a robbery up north, and this time, shots were fired. The new method used was to fake an accident, then try to steal the car via robbery at gunpoint.
zeenie's solution: get a couple of commandos/SWAT/rugby players to drive around in an SUV with S'porean plates with a m'sian van following as backup. Should an attempted carjacking be made, the lads would jump out and introduce them to the wonderful world of grievous bodily harm, old school style. Bloody ridiculous. I never thought i'd see the day when we need American-style anti-carjacking and anti-theft devices.
zeenie's solution II: rig up an SUV and let them have the damn car if carjacked. Immobolise the engine and electrocute them (just in case they try to break out of the car) via contact pads in the car seat. What the hell, just electrocute the whole bloody car, the rubber should insulate itself from innocent bystanders. GRrrrrr....
zeenie's solution: get a couple of commandos/SWAT/rugby players to drive around in an SUV with S'porean plates with a m'sian van following as backup. Should an attempted carjacking be made, the lads would jump out and introduce them to the wonderful world of grievous bodily harm, old school style. Bloody ridiculous. I never thought i'd see the day when we need American-style anti-carjacking and anti-theft devices.
zeenie's solution II: rig up an SUV and let them have the damn car if carjacked. Immobolise the engine and electrocute them (just in case they try to break out of the car) via contact pads in the car seat. What the hell, just electrocute the whole bloody car, the rubber should insulate itself from innocent bystanders. GRrrrrr....
zeenie's christmas gift of the year
This cool toy wins zeenie's christmas gift of the year award. What a neat idea! =)
Maybe i can jury-rig a normal RC car (which i've been thinking of getting, if anything, it would frustrate my dog) with an MP3 player.... hmmmmmmmmm.....
Happy Holidays to all!
Maybe i can jury-rig a normal RC car (which i've been thinking of getting, if anything, it would frustrate my dog) with an MP3 player.... hmmmmmmmmm.....
Happy Holidays to all!
Thursday, 22 December 2005
King Kong
Jeepers, now they want to nominate the big black beast from the ..errr...east as best actor! What next? King Kong 2? I know, we can call it "King Kong 2: Return of the King Kong" or "King Kong strikes back" or "Pung or Kong" a HK production by Stephen Chow about a mahjung playing gorilla (Andy Lau making a cameo appearance) or even "Son of King Kong: the untold story" starring a giant hulk of a monkey/gorrilla/fur covered muscles, with a pechant for hugging tourists, the product of a one-night stand between KK and Ah Meng. I think i need to take a break from thinking now. LOL
Wednesday, 21 December 2005
Wow, car of the year (NZ) results are out!
And the winner is: The Volkswagen Golf GTi. Been seeing quite a few of these here in Singapore, and it is a beautiful car. Can't believe it only costs NZ$50k there, while we've got to pay an arm and a leg here (how to drive like that, you tell me lah).
Link to the article.
In other news, crufty has been messing around with his car again (lamda settings....ha!) and managed to get a huge amount of boost from a standstill. Check out his video! =) His other posts could teach Johnny a thing or two, but ssssshhhh, you didn't hear that from me 'cos i'm still waiting for Johnny to Zhng my car. lol
btw, i would need Johnny to procure me a car as well, since i'm currently public transport user. LOL
Link to the article.
In other news, crufty has been messing around with his car again (lamda settings....ha!) and managed to get a huge amount of boost from a standstill. Check out his video! =) His other posts could teach Johnny a thing or two, but ssssshhhh, you didn't hear that from me 'cos i'm still waiting for Johnny to Zhng my car. lol
btw, i would need Johnny to procure me a car as well, since i'm currently public transport user. LOL
Monday, 19 December 2005
External influences
I read with dismay that Australia is going to resume training of an Indon military unit, especially one with such a shady history.
What with recent events, i guess i can say that i just dun understand the aussies. They seem to be the masters of illogical thinking these days.
What with recent events, i guess i can say that i just dun understand the aussies. They seem to be the masters of illogical thinking these days.
Tuesday, 13 December 2005
Border collies dun win all the time
A nose for winning
A german shepherd up against two border collies and a farm dog (a huntaway?) and the german shepherd won! Wow.
A german shepherd up against two border collies and a farm dog (a huntaway?) and the german shepherd won! Wow.
Homebrew CPU Home Page
Simply amazing. A homebuilt (not assembled ah!) computer!
Way cool. I especially liked his comments at the end regarding his social life. =)
Way cool. I especially liked his comments at the end regarding his social life. =)
Saturday, 10 December 2005
Maybe i should record this for future use
Interesting, the sound of dog's 'laugh' calms other pooches. Maybe I should record jeanie's laughter for days when she gets upset about the thunderstorms we get here in Singapore. =)
Friday, 9 December 2005
One Sat night
I just remembered something that happened one Saturday.
Wibblewamble and I were headed out to dinner when we were approached by a guy and a girl looking rather breathless and clutching a few items in their hands. They approached us and explained that they were part of a team in a competition that was modelled along the lines of the TV show "the apprentice" and that they had to sell some products by a certain time. Their sales pitch consisted of "will you help us?" and "please help us?" and they said that they could not tell us about the competition as they were sworn to secrecy and were not allowed to.
In the midst of their explanations, i asked "so what's your sales pitch?" to which they offered a couple of crackers and packets of instant coffee, EACH going for 5 bucks. Which led to "so what's your sale pitch?" again, 'cos I was thinking that this pitch has got to be special if they think they can convince me to pay 5 bucks for a couple of crackers or a packet of instant coffee.
"Erm, you see ah, i had this tie on just now and we are really in a rush due to the time restrictions from the competition" Man, what stress does to some people's hearing.
In stepped ww, "Look, I really want to help, and from what I gather, you are supposed to sell things correct?" He nodded enthusiastically, smelling a potentialsucker buyer. "So? Sell it to me, convince me." "No you see…" and he went on again about the competition. I was about to give up and lower the price down to 2 bucks just 'cos I happened to have 2 bucks in my pocket, but ww (bless her) persisted.
"You really ought to have a gameplan ready before approaching people, as opposed to coming up to them and hoping that they'd support your scheme." An valid point with S'poreans who can be world-class armchair skeptics, especially since it was Saturday evening in the midst of Shenton Way, so people they meet tend to have just come off doing overtime work, not really in the best of moods to face a "can you help us by giving us 5 bucks for something that costs 100 times less?" kind of approach.
"Let me give you an example," i chirped in. "Take this coffee ah..." as i turned to ww. "Miss ah, this one ah, really good coffee, better than the kopi tiam's kopi gao siu dai. i can see that you're headed out after a hard day, well this is just the thing to perk you up! Believe when i tell you, energy will flow through your veins ah. Look at me, i had a cup 6 hours ago, and i'm still going! And i will keep going because i know i have a few more of these in my pocket. Now ordinarily i wouldn't sell this special coffee, but today, we are supporting a competition, so i am forced to do so....." and so on.
"You see? That is a sales pitch. It does not consist of you telling me your problems and asking me to help you, but of you asking me about my problems, identifying a problem or a need to which you have a solution and selling me that solution." continued ww the marketing lecturer. At this point, we could see the pained look on their faces, i think they were wondering how they could get out of this one. LOL. ww solved it by buying the packet of crackers with an "i hope you learnt something today."
We found out at the end that the guy was 24 while the girl was 19, but they demonstrated the sales capability of a depressed hedgehog. How disappointing to know that our youths these days care so much about results but not about the process of getting those results. I'd bet that if i started on some random pitch, i might have been able to get him to pay me back ten bucks instead. LOL
WW: promptly got scolded by parents for buying the crackers after returning home and telling the above story. Hope the guy and the girl learnt something though. (If anything, they probably would have learnt that approaching people in the CBD on Saturday night equals getting a lecture from crabby office workers :P
Wibblewamble and I were headed out to dinner when we were approached by a guy and a girl looking rather breathless and clutching a few items in their hands. They approached us and explained that they were part of a team in a competition that was modelled along the lines of the TV show "the apprentice" and that they had to sell some products by a certain time. Their sales pitch consisted of "will you help us?" and "please help us?" and they said that they could not tell us about the competition as they were sworn to secrecy and were not allowed to.
In the midst of their explanations, i asked "so what's your sales pitch?" to which they offered a couple of crackers and packets of instant coffee, EACH going for 5 bucks. Which led to "so what's your sale pitch?" again, 'cos I was thinking that this pitch has got to be special if they think they can convince me to pay 5 bucks for a couple of crackers or a packet of instant coffee.
"Erm, you see ah, i had this tie on just now and we are really in a rush due to the time restrictions from the competition" Man, what stress does to some people's hearing.
In stepped ww, "Look, I really want to help, and from what I gather, you are supposed to sell things correct?" He nodded enthusiastically, smelling a potential
"You really ought to have a gameplan ready before approaching people, as opposed to coming up to them and hoping that they'd support your scheme." An valid point with S'poreans who can be world-class armchair skeptics, especially since it was Saturday evening in the midst of Shenton Way, so people they meet tend to have just come off doing overtime work, not really in the best of moods to face a "can you help us by giving us 5 bucks for something that costs 100 times less?" kind of approach.
"Let me give you an example," i chirped in. "Take this coffee ah..." as i turned to ww. "Miss ah, this one ah, really good coffee, better than the kopi tiam's kopi gao siu dai. i can see that you're headed out after a hard day, well this is just the thing to perk you up! Believe when i tell you, energy will flow through your veins ah. Look at me, i had a cup 6 hours ago, and i'm still going! And i will keep going because i know i have a few more of these in my pocket. Now ordinarily i wouldn't sell this special coffee, but today, we are supporting a competition, so i am forced to do so....." and so on.
"You see? That is a sales pitch. It does not consist of you telling me your problems and asking me to help you, but of you asking me about my problems, identifying a problem or a need to which you have a solution and selling me that solution." continued ww the marketing lecturer. At this point, we could see the pained look on their faces, i think they were wondering how they could get out of this one. LOL. ww solved it by buying the packet of crackers with an "i hope you learnt something today."
We found out at the end that the guy was 24 while the girl was 19, but they demonstrated the sales capability of a depressed hedgehog. How disappointing to know that our youths these days care so much about results but not about the process of getting those results. I'd bet that if i started on some random pitch, i might have been able to get him to pay me back ten bucks instead. LOL
WW: promptly got scolded by parents for buying the crackers after returning home and telling the above story. Hope the guy and the girl learnt something though. (If anything, they probably would have learnt that approaching people in the CBD on Saturday night equals getting a lecture from crabby office workers :P
Thursday, 8 December 2005
words that should be in the dictionary
via riceandsoup
The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
I especially liked
7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
LOL
The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
I especially liked
7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
LOL
Wednesday, 7 December 2005
Not restricted by country?
From Stuff: Customs denies forcing woman to do 'nude sit-ups'
Funny how things seem to surface at the same time. Nude sit-ups? Nude Ear squats i can kinda vaguely understand, since anything hidden in a body cavity would fall out. Dun see the logic of sit-ups though.
Funny how things seem to surface at the same time. Nude sit-ups? Nude Ear squats i can kinda vaguely understand, since anything hidden in a body cavity would fall out. Dun see the logic of sit-ups though.
Monday, 5 December 2005
more ideas for christmas =)
Wow, I can almost imagine this in the office. That would make my cubicle a no-fly zone. =))
Friday, 2 December 2005
great toys to have!
Christmas is coming... run out of ideas? Here are a few choices ones.
ThinkGeek :: R/C Laser Tag Shocking Tanks
Airzooka
Excellent... =)
ThinkGeek :: R/C Laser Tag Shocking Tanks
Airzooka
Excellent... =)
Judge Sides With Starbucks in Name Dispute
Judge Sides With Starbucks in Name Dispute
What utter bollocks. If she has always been known as Sam, does this mean she has to change her name to have her cafe named after her now? I dun even see what's the fuss, since i can clearly distinguish the Seattle coffee company from Sam's cafe.
What utter bollocks. If she has always been known as Sam, does this mean she has to change her name to have her cafe named after her now? I dun even see what's the fuss, since i can clearly distinguish the Seattle coffee company from Sam's cafe.
Thursday, 1 December 2005
update
Day 4 into my afternoon caffine withdrawal symptoms. Prognosis: not good. Keep dozing off after staying up most of last night. Endless schedule of meetings to attend, not looking good at all.
Amount save for Run for funds: 2 dollars (50 cents for each coke)......what the heow!?! this is going to be a long month methinks. Maybe i should give up buying New Paper too..... hahahaha.
Must thnk positive, think big, think marathon proportions...
Amount save for Run for funds: 2 dollars (50 cents for each coke)......what the heow!?! this is going to be a long month methinks. Maybe i should give up buying New Paper too..... hahahaha.
Must thnk positive, think big, think marathon proportions...
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