Cows...bull...beef

With the recent rise of petrol price, I don't think I want to go anywhere and so I made a joke about driving (can I say driving?) a bullock cart instead. I mean all you need is a couple of cows and some hay to feed. Then my friends that were in the conversation via Yahoo Messenger, Judy(at the background giggling), William (got disconnected halfway) and Joel (the one who laugh last), made more jokes out of driving a bullock cart... here's the edited converstion clip.

ME: need to buy hay for my cow
ME: I wonder if I need a driving license to drive a cow powered vehicle or not...
joel: try western...
ME: western grass is more nutricious right?
ME: hmmm...
ME: produce better...bigger cows...
ME: I wonder if I have to pay for parking a bullock cart if park in the parking bay or not
William: hahahah
ME: if I get a ticket...where would the authorities put the ticket? on the horns of the bull?
ME: I'm afraid that the bull might eat the ticket though.
William: haahhaah
William: of course..
joel: you can try to push your cow to move to the max driving speed of 110 kmph
joel: must be a madcow to drive THAT fast
ME: must be a British breed
ME: Japanese breed is synthetic one
ME: darn...I'm enjoying this conversation
joel: YEAH
ME: Malaysian cows never follows the speedometer...so can move very fast..but the cows may have frequent coffee breaks....breakdown mah
William: ahhahahah
ME: australian cows only knows how to go South...
ME: Singapore cows however...needs more hay for motivation...hence kiasu cows
joel: MUAHAHAHA
ME: geeze...I should put these in my blog
joel: HAHAHAHA
ME: Indian cows are too holy to move
ME: chinese cows...are not cows...but imitation...from goats...
ME: French cows won't listen to you when you say "move" in any other language...you have to talk to the French cows in French
ME: American cows...they are big, fat, and produce waste often
joel: MAUHAHAHAHAAA
ME: American cows are primarily meant for fertilizer...not good for pulling a bullock cart
ME: Canadian cows? Too cold to move fast if move at all
ME: good eh? I can almost hear Suresh's laugh from here
ME: I'll post this conversation in my blog
joel: :p
joel: right


Okay folks. Just a joke and nothing more. I hope I won't get flamed TOO badly though. I edited a fair bit (slang and local language are modified) but yeah, please don't flame me too much. Have a good time folks.

March 1st, 2006

I'm looking forward for tomorrow. Hopefully the cheque (or check if you prefer North American spelling) won't bounce. You see, I'm work for a small company and so they (the almighty management) would give my payment in cheque (or check). Unlike others which their company would pay them by transfering the money into their account. Hmmm... The bad thing about my situation is that I don't get the money instantaneously, I'll get it a few days after. The good thing is, I can choose which ever bank I want because most of the time a company that transfer money into their staff's account, would need to be in the same bank otherwise the company would have more administrative work and cost. So if you happen to have the account of the same bank that your company is having, then you're in luck otherwise you have to find time to open another account (time is money).

Anyway, that's my grumbling for the day.

Today is seven of ten. I've done most of the stuff and trying to pound the things that I needed to remember into my brain (not very big you know). I've also sent my badminton racquet for repair and I'll be able to wreck havoc and cause fear into my foes in badminton....bwahahahahha (evil laugh). But first I got to cough out 40 bucks to repair it. Then I'll be able to play on next Tuesday.

Oh yeah, my nutritionist/dietition (a.k.a. Esther), told me that the reason why I gained weight is I have too much carbohydrate in my diet and so I need to cut down on my carbo intake. Hmmm....does this means that I should be on Atkins diet program? So no potatoes, bread, etc. Nah....I still love pau (steamed bun) in the morning with a cup of hot coffee. That doesn't mean that I forego all carbo food just reduce my consumption. This also means reducing ice-cream and such. Sigh. I'm crazy about ice-cream eh. So I'll eat less rice too (hmmm...and rice is THE staple food for Malaysia). Sigh. No pain, no gain.

Till next blog session. Over and out.

Contact Found

It is really, really a good day for me. I manage to track down my ol' friends from Canada. Nancy, if you manage to read this, I want to say "Hallelulia". I manage to track down Carolyn Minor too but have yet to get a reply from her though. Anyway, today is good. I rate it about 8 of ten. Okay 8 and a half of ten. Got my things done, objective met. Pay is in the account. What more do I need (besides a million bucks for me to fix my car, etc)?

Back to my ol' grumblings. Sigh. For those people in Malaysia and still unaware of the gas hike, well...shame on you. Petrol price rose 30 cents per liter(Malaysian currency to those non-Malaysian readers). This means I got to cough out about 12 RM bucks just to maintain the same amount of petrol into my car. Sigh. This stinks. It vexes me. Sigh. SSSIIIGGGHHHH. I guess I won't be turning on my air-conditioning in my car now. Do you know that air-conditioning takes up a fair amount of petrol? Sigh. Either that or I need to buy a new belt, preferably with more holes for me to tighten when things gets worse. Yup. Petrol increase means transportation cost increase this, in turn, would cause EVERYTHING else go to up. So we got to brace ourselves for the inflation of everyday items. This situation reminded me of the joke I saw in a cartoon ad once. It went like this:

"I had it all. A beautiful wife. A nice big house at the sub-urbs. Insurance. Three kids, all planning to go to college. Two great cars....then I went to pump gas at the gas station. All gone."

Another one.

"Hey! I could increase the value of my car just by filling my tank to full!"

Sigh(one last time). Till next blog folks. Till next blog.

Feb 27, 2006

A few announcement before I continue my blog.

1. Happy Belated B'day to Gemi Yap (I hope you're reading this)
2. Happy B'day to Andrew Peh (I don't think you're reading this)

Okay. On with my blog.

Where shall I begin? I'll begin by what happened during the weekend and how come I have no entries for both the weekend. Well, first and foremost, I did wished a 'Happy Birthday' to Gemi who is all the way in Preston, England, via e-mail. It's just that I didn't put it up on the blog site. Where was I? I was in a cafe playing computer games with William, yup, I was there until about two in the morning. I went home and I crashed. Didn't know what time it was when I woke up, and I really feel old. I can't get up like I use to. My mind is not willing and so is my body. When I was a little younger (and probably more in shape) I could get up and be alert in moments. The past few months I've come to a conclusion, I'm getting old and me being unfit doesn't help in having a "up-and-at 'em" vigor.

The day went on where I need to help with cleaning of the house, shopping with my ball-and-chain, doesn't leave me with very much energy to go on-line and post some entries. Then it was Sunday.

Sunday was fun. Met with a dear friend, sister Vernie. I wish I have a picture of her but I don't so I can show you what a marvellous person she is. Esther and I went with Vernie to a Presbyterian Church and it was a good. The sermon was short, preached by a pastor (can't remember the name) from Minnesota. The sermon was only 20 minutes long. I was expecting more but it was still good. Met some new people there, and manage to rekindled an old lecturer of mine. Now I know where to contact her. Oh well. The sharing with Vernie was good too, oh yes, before I forget... Vernie's driving a new car. This is for all you folks who knows Vernie. She ditched the old car and now driving a new MyVi.

Came back, did more chores and yes, physically tired out too. Then the good news came, I have a chance to get my butt into shape (I still believe round is still a shape). I am going to play badminton again. Starting next month. This gives me time to restring my racquet. I broke the strings last time I played it (somewhere end of last year September if I'm not mistaken). So whoohooo.

As for today, it's a seven and a half out of ten. It's not bad today. Manage to accomplish what I had set out to do and will continue tomorrow from there. Till then. Bye.