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last night i waited an hour for the bus, and when it arrived, it was full, so i took the mrt instead. i took over one and a half hours for a journey that takes less than half an hour.



but enough griping about public transport.



so i went swimming this morning, with a pool full of old men. fit old men i might add. only later other age groups started appearing. toa payoh swimming complex is still about the same as i last went which was years ago. the biggest improvement is that the changing room shower cubicles actually have doors now. though this hot shot father decided to not close the door while he rubbed himself under the shower. sure everyone loves to see your pale ass contrasted with your tanned body mate.



after that i went to toa payoh central and decided to try the chicken foldover that's so hot and hip right now. you know what, it's nothing fantastic. it's just...another menu item in macdonald's. anyway, true to the saying that macdonald's gives you malnutrition and indigestion at the same time, my stomach has been feeling gurgly and weird since lunch, and i wasn't particularly satiated either. ugh. bollocks to macdonald's. and as usual, the actual product doesn't match the adverts. my foldover lacked all them vegetables in the tv adverts. i had a sorry cut (it wasn't even a slice) of tomato. and the fucking foldover is being promoted everywhere. on signboards at the door, on the flat screen tv in macdonald's and on the pa system outside macdonald's cleverly disguised as a radio show. wtf man, i was bombarded with chicken foldover propaganda the whole time i was near and in the premises, and right now too as my stomach struggles to make some sense of it. by the way, macdonald's employees refer to the foldover as cfo. i know cos i heard the auntie over the counter say it. and she even said it to me. "your cfo will be brought to you in a while". ugh no more macdonald's.



anyway, i just switched on the tv and that fantastic show heartlanders is on. and i just heard the funniest line on it. some crime boss is talking to a kah kia on the handphone -



"Make him (Vincent Ng) a pariah cop! Make everyone hate him! Har?! I pay you to ask me how?!"



and Vincent Ng just said -



"Auntie, Dere is a lot of shood dis and shood dat. Like, parents shood be arert of deir chilren."



Screw you heartlanders. even steph song and the other chick couldn't save the show.



by the way here's some more amusing dialogue courtesy of jiwwo. here's some context, we're talking about the clocks in my room. the wall clock always moves faster than the rest of the clocks in the house, ever since secondary school. that's as far back as i remember. also i have a lot of clocks in my room -



logical fallacy says:

my room always has too many clocks

logical fallacy says:

i have about..4-5 clocks in my room

logical fallacy says:

and only the wall one is moving faster.

logical fallacy says:

hmm

where's the bloody star?! says:

I FOUD THE STARRRRRRR

where's the bloody star?! says:

you have so many for wat siao

logical fallacy says:

it just always ends up that my room has a lot of clocks

logical fallacy says:

not on purpose

logical fallacy says:

quite mysterious innit

found it! HEE says:

yeah finall y done

found it! HEE says:

wats so mysterious

found it! HEE says:

it just means the batt nto workign

logical fallacy says:

er..i do not even understand your reasoning

missing koala bear says:

your batt not workig lor

missing koala bear says:

maybe

logical fallacy says:

yeah. its not working thats why got a lot of clocks in my room. yep sure explains it

missing koala bear says:

harhraharh

missing koala bear says:

I DUN CARE

missing koala bear says:

maybe gravity

logical fallacy says:

yeah sure that fucking explains it too

missing koala bear says:

explains everything

logical fallacy says:

gravity pulls all the clocks into my room

missing koala bear says:

theres more grabity in that area

logical fallacy says:

yeah. and it attracts only clocks

missing koala bear says:

only THAT clock

logical fallacy says:

yeah so gravity attracted one clock into my room while the others just sauntered in

missing koala bear says:

harhar thats really dumb

logical fallacy says:

im glad you realise what youre being

missing koala bear says:

shut up pest

missing koala bear says:

YO IMNG

logical fallacy says:

i promise you this is going to be posted on my blog

missing koala bear says:

waht?!?!

missing koala bear says:

YO MING only wat

logical fallacy says:

you and your great gravity theory

missing koala bear says:

just like how

missing koala bear says:

gravity affects me MOST strangely enough

logical fallacy says:

what has it got to do with you now.

missing koala bear says:

see?

missing koala bear says:

thats why im in taf

logical fallacy says:

dont give your appetite euphemisms

missing koala bear says:

hARHRAHARHAR

logical fallacy says:

moron

missing koala bear says:

bwahwah

logical fallacy says:

find it amusing do you

logical fallacy says:

see how amusing you find it on my blog

missing koala bear says:

WAT DID YOU SAY



yeah that's it. my stomach still feels weird. ugh.

download it before it gets banned.



i went jogging today. i almost passed out. after 2 rounds around the track. holy shit i am super fit.

so last night i was on my way back home from town. i'm in the bus and for some reason it's reached maximum capacity (or not. maybe just some morons near the back who aren't moving to the back). so i have to think small and stay really still in order to not get slapped with any lawsuits. so this guy sidles up to the pole which i'm holding onto and proceeds to lean against it, pressing his whole back onto the pole, getting comfortable settling against the goddamn pole and my hand.



now i'd like to take a moment here to say to all you goddamn moron pole-leaners out there: fuck you.



it's not like i don't fucking do it, but i only do it on the mrt when there's like no one in the fucking carriage who seems like he/she's going to grab onto the fucking pole next to me in the near future. i'm fucking holding on to the goddamn pole when this moron comes to lean against it for fuck's sake. that's like, double the inconsideration and triple the moronity if these attributes can be measured.



so i'm standing there, carrying my bag of purchases in my left hand, bag slung across my body and my right hand being violated. the sweetest thing is, the goddamn moron doesn't even realise he's leaning against my fist. my knuckle ridges not prominent enough for you fella? how bout if they were in your goddamn face? maybe the sensation of my fist against your mouth would be of a more pleasing nature?



yes of course now if it were some hot girl who were pressing herself against my hand i wouldn't be as bothered by it. well not in the way i'm bothered about this. i would be all gentlemanly about it and be like ahem excuse me you are pressing your hot self against my rapidly melting hand. ho ho ho what a charmer i am. BUT this is against moronic pole-leaning in general, focused upon one male perpetrator. shit like hot girls pressing themselves against me don't happen.



anyway so i tried to move my hand higher up the pole so that i won't have any corporeal relation with him and the moron turns his head about and looks at me sideways from the corners of his eyes like i'm some goddamn fool who got his hand trapped there. i'm sorry mr moron. i'm sorry my hand got in the way of you being an inconsiderate asslicker. so he kinda shifted his weight about and i moved my hand higher up the pole and guess what, he fucking settles down again now that he really has the pole to himself. hey schmendrick, the bus is fucking filled with people, i'm sure they love seeing how you're being a goddamn stripper against that pole right now.



anyway i look around, and i see that every pole near me has a moron leaning against it.



seriously, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?



are we a goddamn society of retards. cos it sure feels like i'm in one. only thing is, i'm not as retarded as the rest of society is.



yes yes you'll probably say why didn't you say/do something about it? i'm a very non-confrontational person, which is like a nice way of saying i'm yellow. not skin colour you fucking moron, stay with the context here. anyway i was too tired and zoned out to even be a sentient being last night. so get off my case, i'm not the one i'm prosecuting here right now.



oh yeah and more thing, this is for microsoft. why do the motherfucking windows updates always not install themselves immediately after they've been downloaded, and only try to install themselves immediately after you switch on your computer again? making it so that the computer has to be restarted immediately after it has just been restarted? every fucking few minutes the fucking cheebye windows updates reminder window pops up and says this shit has to be installed to take effect. hey fucking microsoft fuckhead program, why didn't you just fucking install yourself last night when i downloaded you you goddamn motherfucker. now i have to fucking restart so that i can be free of your fucking annoying reminders. thanks for giving me the fucking gorgeous choices of 'restart now' and 'restart later', when all you're going to do is fucking annoy the bile out of me every few minutes by reminding me again.



by the way, fuck service pack 2. i award service pack 2 the golden middle finger award for Dec 16th 2004. moron pole-leaners got the award last night for the 15th in a late last minute surge to victory, overtaking people who expect you to move out of the way without saying a goddamn thing to indicate that you are in their way. fuck those people too.

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