Weekend chats with girlfriends can be interestingly nonsensical at times. Well, at least some do think so. This weekend we spilt out issues from women’s mags and “Dear Someone-who-listens-to-my-problems-but-somehow-I’m-in-bigger-trouble” kind of letters. Not that I detest these kind of columns but some cases are really melodramatic. *pfffth* too much emotions sometimes.
Anyway, we yak-yak-yakkiti-yak till… first, loyalty issues. Right. So my girlfriends think everyone is not loyal even if that person has someone else in hand. I chose to differ. Really, nobody can measure loyalty with some measuring tape from Ikea, is this not true? Nor can you compare and say “Nini has a loyalty of fishbowl but Fifi’s loyalty’s only half a ricebowl”?! Tell me the formula if you have it. Then someone just asked,
“Okay, say… Brendan’s your boyfriend, and Charlie just came about in the scene with every bit of quality Brendan has that you luuuuurve. And, you found out that Charlie has something better over Brendan. Leave B and go for C?”
Now, what could be something that C has and B might not have that’ll make me go ga-ga over C?
Someone just went, “okay, so unless Charlie is better than Bren in bed… wait! anywhere would do, so as long C’s sexually better, I’d rather keep B. I’m loyal.”
There, we yak-yikkiti-yak-ed till digging stories about sex. Honestly. Simply look into “Dear Thelma” from Sunday Star. When you’re high in your resource, lifestyle magazines reveal more. At some point in marriage scenes, some spouses complain about their other spouse’s lack-of-libido, or dysfunctionallity, or simply… “not sexy enough”. Husbands and wives altogether. There are cases when the women complain their husbands’ lack of drive and having sexual fantasies with other men. Some even engage with the other men. Men often complain bout their wives “not desirable in bed” and, (oh well) thus, the emotional tumbles and marriage wreckage. Okay, so these are the stereotypical cases we hear about. Ahh, the spices of marriage… some may say, “the need for good sex.”
Aah, so back to the sexual battle between Charlie and Bren, or in other way of saying, the loyalty value for Charlie and Bren, what trully matters? Charlie just suddenly pop into the pic, right? Let’s say she already had sex-es with Bren, the only way to find out whether Charlie is better is to have sex with Charlie. And to be fair, the same amount of sex-es?! hmm… Somebody just go get laid and tell me if that sexual experience was a blast. I’ll tell if that person’s a loyal lad or lass.
A lady once said, “My husband cannot runaway. He won’t be a happy man in other beds.” She was said to be a very sexy teacher. Totally W-O-W
Oh by the way, to my homies who are reading this, check this out! Is the girl in the centre Skay or someone who looks extremely like Skay?
This week’s been all good. An outing with Tim, Jayzen, and Rainier can never be plain boring as there is always something to think about and talk it out. Oh well, this time Tim sparked out something for me to explore.
The Touch ‘n’ Go (TnG) service
Just yesterday, Chia Yee went on the TnG lane at the Kesas Sunway Toll and the car in front of her could not go through as he was having a card with “baki kurang” (insufficient balance). So what this guy did was… he went out his car gave CY a ringgit and took her TnG and touched it onto the reader there and placed it on the reader for her and zoomed off. (continued below)
Anyway, this CY’s case ain’t the first time. Case #1: One time Helen went through a gate and gave the other friend behind her the TnG at Shah Alam Toll, the other friend could not go through too. Ah, this happened at the flat-rate toll. Case #2:Nicholas took some pitiful guy’s TnG, also due to shortage of his own TnG and left the other guy cluelessly stucked alone at the NKVExpressway. Now he lives by not lending anyone anything anymore… all because of this incident with Nicholas.
Since it’s already the third time I hear ’bout this, before CY could even end her story I asked her “So? You got stucked there?” Right, obviously, when it was CY’s turn to “cliq cliq” there, the reader somehow could not read it. Now, this toll was a flat-rate toll system too, that is, every vehicle passing there pays a standard amount. Basically, that guy was a lucky guy, leaving CY unluckily stucked in between the gate and angry-drivers-who-can’t-wait-to-get-home at the peak hour of 5.30pm. End of Case #3.
The whole good conversation further progressed when CY thinks that there was a time-programmed system, that is, when the card serial number was sensed, the same card cannot be read again in such short period of time. Tim thought it is pointless that the company producing TnG regulates this way since the toll was a flat-rate type. I thought about it, and told him that if a card can be used multiple times continuously in such short time, Rangkaian Segar Sdn Bhd would not make any profit out of the card. I put up a quick-but-not-so-likely senario: Say if I have 100 family members who goes out the same time to the same toll. If RSSB did not put up such regulation as mentioned, then we just need to buy one card, load it up and I can just “cliq cliq” away, so as long the card balance’s sufficient for the 100 family members to go through in a file.
Oh well, after giving him that couple of explanations which unfortunately he deemed “makes no sense at all“, I told myself that I would investigate this so that I do not end up kena owned like anything. After some light readings here and there, I have to say I owe Tim an apology, since I found out that there is a refundable deposit to the card, so he was right afterall that RSSB does not make anything out of the card. Darn! I hate being wrong this way… hmm… I guess RSSB does not make much too IF everyone who owns the card now returns the card suddenly, ay? My say? Absolutely unlikely. With the prepaid feature and wide range of usage from toll centres to family parks, from the LRTs to convenience stores, who would wanna return the card and go through the agony of queueing up at slow traditional lanes under the the evening blazing sun at peak hours or messing up purses just to find some loose change, ay?
For goodness of mankind, all users of Touch ‘n’ Go, pleeeeease remember to reload your balance before getting the sign “baki kurang” blinking right on your face and of course, the next time the person before you comes to you and asks to borrow your TnG card, just tell the person that whatever happened to their card is just too bad and you’ll wait and be nice to remind him/her to reload. You do not want to end up being honked behind, do you?
Touch ‘n Go is an electronic card initially used only at toll gates, similar to China’s Q-Free system and E-Z Pass used in NJersey, USA.
Aaaaaargh! I am totally broken down with dissapointment! Willy Wonka’s only appearing on the big screens in July! Gosh! I hate it when I know I am missing the great Johnny Depp this coming July! Damn…
Somebody pinch me… Otherwise, just post me Willy Wonka’s bar when I am in Scotland. Also, if convenient, do kidnap Johnny Depp and enclose with the Wonka chocolate! *sluuuurrp!*
Not that I am an obsessive fan of the Great Depp, but I personally think Johnny boy here carries a certain kind of attitude no other actors have. See him in “what’s Eating Gilbert Grape” and “Edward Scissorshand”. Now, imagine the golden Brad Pitt with those bits of razors on his hands and looking completely BLANK yet having the sophisticated look right there… “Maybe not, ay?” Pitt has his better characters with the most-intelligent looks (in Ocean’s Eleven) or the most-schizophrenic looks (in Twelve Monkeys). Bah, whatever! I adore them both equally anyway… No issue or whatsoever.
Ahh, the sexy thAng for the ladies… a oh-so-fine looking chap… Really, can’t wait for the Mr Wonka Depp to appear with the kids and his chocolate factory.
I might just melt Wonka chocolate all over Johnny boy and slurp him to the last bit! Now that’s what we call sweeeeeeeeeet temptations…
but since my page really needed some pictures so here I am again…
I recall sometime ago I’d put up the pictures of the Unispecto in action. Mind me, but the name was a last minute planning when Fei asked to get us a group name. Since all of us did not expect to dance another sequel from the last *Friday Nite’s Bootie Call, we sorta came out with Unexpected -> Unexpecta -> Unespecto -> (thinking that we’re gonna do this UNIsonly, so finally) Unispecto…
Notice the backdrop Exuberance was fantastically displayed there? That was all the best effort of Dexter and his crew…
Aah, the chair part. Unforgettable…
And of course, the essence in us… our quality poses.
Open your eyes wide, look closely… then adore us! Ain’t we just so cuddly? Love these gals loads!
“re”-introducing us for the final time before two dancers of the group leave Malaysia, from left to right: Audrey, Jaclyn, Priya, Chia Yee and of course, yummy me!
and… also reintroducing another great friend Z-kay and the ever-s0-splendid-and-beautiful best friend Chia Yee .
*Friday Nite is IMU’s annual talent night event, and as the name of the event states, it’s always on a night of a December Friday.
Aaah, found Sarah McLachlan’s “World on Fire” playing. Being me who have this not-so-ordinary-type of hobby to watch music videos and think about what I’ve watched, I think besides the music “What’s going on” (originally produced by Marvin Gaye) and remade by the Bravo All Stars in 2001, McLachlan’s videography is yet another thought-provoking piece.
Hearts break, hearts mend
Love still hurts
Visions clash, planes crash
Still there’s talk of saving souls,
still the cold is closing in on us
And of course, the none other than Good Charlotte’s “Hold On” was one I remember they’d made a relatively good delivery of a message. Conveniently made for the suicidal youth nation. Imagine this; at every 17.2 minutes somebody dies of suicide. The music featured the true family members and friends of suicide victims. The video, unmistakenly had sorta became a “wake up” message to many people in the States to care and reach out to the ones who need help.
But we all bleed the same way as you do
And we all have the same things to go through
Hold on if you feel like letting go
Hold on it gets better than you know
Came across this blog which has a number of interesting pictures, and the winner pic is of course the blogger’s own at his profile. Seeing him so fit in the scenery+self pic, in addition with his tattoo, (appeared to be momentarily speechless)… Anyway, probably I’ll go pick up some Latin to understand what Mr Junior had written…