My quirks!
Trying to clean up the clutter in my hard disk….. Springcleaning for the new year. Also trying to make some sense of all the photos which I have taken over the years, during my travels.
Decided to put some of them up at Shutterpoint to earn some passive income. Hehe. Take a look at them. Spread the news, spread the news. I will just twiddle my thumbs while money pour into my coffers.
Oh yeah, some comments on them please….
Received the links in my email a century back. Just thought that it’s a perfect rainy day to clear them.
For those who simply love a puzzle, try solving this one. Petals Around the Rose. According to this article, the smarter you are, the longer you take. Right. That makes me not that smart after all. Hmm… *ponder* Then again, as Pig fondly puts it, high IQ doesn’t mean a successful life ahead. In fact, most of the down and out people are those with high IQs, as they wallow and dwell in their past glories.
So, if you can’t solve the puzzle or think you have a high IQ, don’t hurry to the wall to bash your brains out. I will give you a treat when I make it big with my high EQ and low IQ. Muahahhahahaha…..
Ah Hah! Caught your attention, didn’t I?!
Can you imagine screwing 2 tiny brackets onto your nose (Ouch! I was shuddering as I was reading this article. Can’t imagine piercing any part of my body, except my ears!) and hanging a pair of spectacles on the bridge of your nose? Well, I can’t. All I can think of is, what if some bloody idiot decided to tear them off your nose!!!!
Check it out, if you dare…..
*Proud contributor of the Link – Who else… Duma!!
So here I am, on a New Year’s Eve morning, in the office, typing a boring blog with a dead boring title. *Yawn* My boss postponed the 10am interview to 11am. Argh! I knew it! Should have slept longer AND it’s a grand rainy day too!!! *Triple Argh!*
After the frustrating experience of bashing my way through crowds at *Orchard Road on a Tuesday night, just 4 days before Christmas, I wasn’t that keen to repeat that ordeal again last night. Besides, I figured that yesterday would be even more chaotic than ever, it being Christmas Eve and all! So, we decided to chill out at Changi Village with 100 other cats. (Well, I didn’t really count, but in the dark, the number of strays there did seem like 100 to me.)
Christmas Eve at Changi Village was not as chilly as I initially expected. Cars Cars Cars! Darn! The carpark was full! Argh! Couldn’t even find a decent lot. So Ah Long decided to park the car illegally along the double-yellow lines and guess what! He actually bothered to peel a parking coupon and display it at the dashboard! DUH! I mean, if I were the carpark attendant, I would have given him a ticket for parking illegally, with or without carpark coupon! His theory was – he could give the excuse that there wasn’t any lots available so the fault didn’t lie with us?! Never could understand the Geminis!
Dinner was great, value for money, with fun company. But it wasn’t spectacular enough to warrant more than 3 lines in blog. Hah!
Now for the more interesting part. We adjourned to Vic’s house for a game of Malarky. We ended up watching bits and pieces of “Band of Brothers”. We wanted to begin the game at Christmas sharp. Nah! We were just intrigued by the gory scenes. Shrug. Probably would borrow the dvds from him to finish the whole mini series.
Anyway, yes, here comes Malarky. (Review over here.)
Basically, it’s a game in which great storytellers would thrive in (have no doubt, this is one of my favourite games!). It’s something like trivia pursuit, yet instead of asking the others to guess the answer, you give them the answer and let them guess if it’s true of false. Therefore, you need to possess a certain level of imagination (Me me!) and a straight face. To earn points, you need to either weave believable tales, or tell the truth with a shifty look. Not only that, you need to have a hound’s nose to sniff out a lie. Hey! You are talking to a master over here! 30 points ahead of no.2, with the rest differing from one another by few mere points.
One example here.
What’s the difference between skimmed and non fat milk?
My totally logical answer told with a straight face : Well, the difference is, for skimmed milk, the fat is removed by scrapping away the milk curds at the top, while, for non fat milk, the fat has been clinically removed from the beginning.
Totally plausible answer, right?! (ok ok, some of you giving me skeptical looks….. I had full marks for this ok!!!! Do you know how hard it is to convince EVERYBODY in the game? You wouldn’t understand my skill unless you have played the game for yourselves. *fold arms*)
Anyway, the real answer is – No difference.
Haha! Fooled you! Didn’t I?
*Orchard Road – Being a miniscular country, people tend to flock to Orchard Road, our main shopping strip, when they can’t think of anywhere better to go.
Before I forget (remember? All my history exams? There! I see you nodding your head.), I need to tell you about the blabber tag at the end of each post. It’s really a comment form, but apparently, all the comments sort of disappeared when the layout has been changed. So now you see the egghead beside it, which means that nobody is writing any comment.
Therefore, you are highly encouraged to blab and of course, that will influence the egghead to transform itself to a pert little number (1,2,3,4,5,6….). Ok??
That’s 2 entries for today. I’m chalking up buffer for myself. *grin*
Opps! I have recently made a new resolution (that’s right, just after I have revamped the look of the blog), that I would write a blog a day. Sigh! I can only blame it on my hideous lack of discipline and failing memory (why do you think I failed most of my History exams/tests/whathaveyous??).
However, I must redeem myself, however slightly, for this (hehe, more excuses). Why?! Because…. the stupid IT support (yeah! Excuse module 101, always find someone else to blame) for my company is changing the server, erm.. modifying something here and there (he gave me a 10 mins torrent of uncomprehensible IT jargon, I gathered that he’s changing SOMETHING) and it caused my laptop to be unconnectable to the internet! See!! Look at the frustrations that I’m going through?
Right, so now that I’ve established this routine and with an iron will, I will endeavour to delight you with more bitching.
Finally! The days of floating around like a spectre are over, over, over! I don’t have to jostle with 100 other people for half a table and half a telephone. I have my very own table, very own phone, 2 stabilo ball-point pens, a stapler and a handful of paper clips. Not only that, I now don’t have to squat pathetically outside the front glass doors, pray and beg that the cleaners would show some sympathy and let poor little me in. Now I can practically sail in with my access card and let the other pathetic souls in.
Sigh! Ok. Skiving time is over. Now to put the table, chair, telephone, pens, stapler and paper clips to full use, besides writing blogs…..
Guess what? It’s an antquarium.
Another contribution from the Guru of Links, Duma! (Yes, you are probably right. That’s his main job and IT consulting is probably his side line!)
This is a great website to go to if you are really running out of ideas for gifts, or if you are simply a gadget freak. They have stocked up creative what-have-yous in their inventory. Well, it’s not exactly a budget shop, so expect to pay a premium for them. However, it makes fun sense to go up there whenever you are bored and see what technology, or simply innovation can do for you in the current space age.
Right you are! You can find a link on my sidebar. Another one of my schemes to shore up the hit rate of my website when I’m lacking in inspiration.
Does this ring a bell? If yes, congrats *shake your hand*!! We belong to the same nintendo Mario butt kicking generation!! Never mind the 3D games which are available now. Super Mario Brothers (SMB) still has that magnetic draw for me. Images of shelled geese, evil mushrooms, the red and green little men with moustaches etc.
I have played the game for hours and hours during my teething years, however, I do not ever recall ever completing it.
However, now, thanks to Yy, I now have a short media file on how to complete SMB3 within 11 mins! Do I hear someone mumble, “Nah! It’s impossible!!” Well, this jaw-dropping demonstration will certainly prove that nothing in this world is impossible.
So, marvel at the player’s impeccable timing and superb knowledge of the SMB world.
By the way, one more thing to take note of, whenever I managed to get a 1 up (increase in life), I could feel tears of joy and satisfaction forming behind my eyelids. BUT, for this guy, he accumulates lives like nobody’s business!!!!! In fact, he has even accrued more than the max. number (which is 99, for that matter) allowed! Life is just so unfair! Hmpf!