Google Thy Name

I was so bored just now with no programs on a happening saturday night that I went to google my name. Yeah man, and you people should try it too, you'd be surprised by what you find.

I must have a damn common name cuz there was 30,800 results. But most of them yielded results of people with similar names or names which contain a part of my name. Sheesh.

Anyway I found 3 relevant pages after searching the first 10 pages of searches (yeah I was THAT bored!)!

Not bad by my standards. Though its more because of my Scrabble past than anything. So it goes to show that playing Scrabble in official tournements yields positive Google results. Hehe.

1) http://www.toucanet.com/ytsoc06c.html

Wow. Didn't know that I'm part of the cut-off and I can only play Intermediate category. Dammit, cannot go there fake fake that I can't play liaoz. Xianz.

2) http://members.ozemail.com.au/~rjackman/results2003.html#2CSCO

This is even more remarkable. My playing record during my only overseas Scrabble stint! In Johor at the Causeway Challengeback in 2003. I still have the campy t-shirt they gave for free. As you can see, I didn't fare too well there, but 8 wins wasn't all too bad, especially if Hubert is once of the top rated players in Singapore right now(isn't he Beth?). Anyway this tournement was perhaps the height of the fun we had with scrabble back with the Hall 8 Scrabble team.

3) http://members.ozemail.com.au/~rjackman/RBFN.html

I have no idea what this ozemail thingy is all about, but I'm actually rated! And I didn't even have to pay Singapore Scrabble for this! Haha. Well it's nice to be in the company of big name players, but if they've got my record down under, does it mean I can't play as a beginner there too?

Haha.

Happy googling.

Army Boo Boo

Guys, if you have a reservist recall, please call up your unit or check with your friends a couple of days before you report to your camp/unit.

KNN.

Angry.

I just reported to Maju camp this afternoon for a supposed half-day detachment IC briefing, then got there and there was a crowd of other NSmen only to find out that the location was changed to Jurong camp! Grrr...

Then after spending another 20mins getting to Jurong camp, they realised they made ANOTHER mistake. People like myself were the advanced party, not detachment IC! Like what the !@$#S&^*%A@#%$^(#F$@^%& is going on man!

Cannot even have the courtesy to cancel our online call up meh! SMS me so many times and email me so many times for flying fuck!?! Argh. Angry.

So now I'm back home after an hour's MRT ride from Boon Lay ranting away.
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The only good thing to come out of all this is that during reservist callup, you never fail to make more new friends. In our distress, a few of us who got to Maju camp early only to realise the army's mistake actually hitched a ride with one nice guy from a different unit. I think his name was Amin. A teacher at Yew Tee Pri Sch, really nice guy, offered us a ride. So there was nothing much 4 grown-up strangers could do in a tiny Hyundai Matrix other than to get to know each other.

This other guy works at IT, and another guy(I totally can't remember names) works as a shipping analyst. At least it makes you feel like an all-Singaporean macho soldier all over again when the only thing we have in common was the complaints about the lousy army call-up system. We bitched about the army, then bitched about the 2.2months bonus civil servants would get, and then bitched about working in the private sector, and then bitched about how expensive cars were in Singapore.

And now you know why there's racial harmony in Singapore. There's always something that we all have in common to bitch about!

Ha.

Singapore Motorshow 2006

It sucked.

If you had intended to waste $10 to go there and look at chio cars, and tons of chio babes, you hardly missed shite(see my top 3 below enough liao!), so you're lucky you didn't get off your lazy ass for nought.

And for me to be there almost 6 days in a row made it even worse. Luckily I had good company and good eye-candy.

Our booth was so out of place. A financial institution(that didn't offer loans nor credit cards) in the middle of a motorshow. Sheesh.

Anyway luckily I had the good company of fellow car model buaya colleagues haha.

I know the girlfriend ain't gonna like this but below are my top 3 car models(and I took all the photos off my Olympus)!!!

Guys, don't nosebleed to death hor!

#3 - Lexus model

She looks abit fat, no, poofy in this picture and her bye-bye arms being so terribly obvious, are waving bye-bye to the #1 spot, but in person she's really saucy and kei. I didn't see a bigger crowd of ogly men happily snapping pictures of her on the first day of my manning the booth...

...until Nissan got jealous of the attention and brought in model #2 on day 3...

#2 - Nissan model

Before we saw her at the Nissan booth we were wondering what the fuss was all about, then we saw her, from far away, blocked out by 10,000 other hot-blooded pervs. I mean, there were guys queuing up just to take pictures with her(what car?)! Edmund refused to let me take pictures with her because he likes her and wants only his picture with her in my camera.

*roll eyes*

Oh by the way, she's only 18.

I know, there IS a paedophile in each and every one of us.

But the ultimately prize went to my personal favourite...

#1 - Subaru model

This was my all-motorshow fav(and not just because she took photo with me).

*blush*

She wasn't as popular among the photo-happy drooling perverts but she definitely was the sweetest of the lot IMHO!

OK, so thats it for the motorshow, it was fun lah actually, not as bad as I first made it sound.

Pru-ned

Suddenly, the agent said,

"You look really familiar, have I seen you somewhere before?"

I was taken aback.

In front of the rest of them.

All the light chatter immediately went silent.

Immediately everyone focused on our conversation.

"Were you from Dunman High?"

Stunned.

"Erm, how'd you guess?", I said.

"Oh! I remember liao! You were in scouts! Right?"

Stunned. Again.

Like, what the f...?!

"And you were in 1B and 2B right?"

... ... ...

"You are Zhiyang right?!"

Shocked.

Triple stunner.

"I played basketball with you guys before! And I was in the class beside you!"

Blank face.

*blink*

And I didn't know who the fuck she was.

Seriously.

*shudder*

A Very Short Blog

Just back from Borneo Motors at Leng Kee.

Finally got my first car. Whoooo!!!

Can't wait to collect it in a month's time.

I got a Toyota Altis weekend car!

Metallic red!!!

Whoooo!!!!

Feels great.

Yes, Joe, I finally did it.

1 year later than planned, but better late than never.

I'd love to plant a nice picture here but I couldn't find the right colour.

*sobz*

Weakness First

Went for a tour at Fitness First today.

For a club touting exclusivity for 3 times the amount I currently pay for Cali, its One George St branch was a complete disappointment. Sure it had the most talked about swimming pool - a panoramic unblocked birdseye view of the Cityhall/Esplanade area by the poolside, and they provided sweat shirts and pants for workouts, but everything fundamental was a letdown.

For starters the gym was terribly small, probably half the size of the smallest Cali outlet(I assume it to be the Bugis one). I think there were 10 treadmills at most. Its layout was terrible, with the lounge smack right in the middle of the gym(some might like it that way), giving the loungers a voyeuristic view of everyone else working out, and there seemed to be a shortage of equipment. The classroom was about half the size of the Bugis Cali outlet and it didn't even have a secondary bike room whatsoever. Finally the changing room was super small and cramped, shampoo dispenser was spoilt and only 8, yes 8 showers *gasp*.

Shaun had a funny incident where his bag clip got stuck in another locker and couldn't be removed(its hard to describe). But it just made our experience there even worse when the staff didn't help much.

I think I'll stick to Cali for the time being...

M6 Cleared

Wow. Can't believe it.

Managed to clear M6 Securities Products and Analysis, one of the toughest papers with the highest failure rate.

Damn heng.

The past year papers were a huge help.

All's cleared now so I'm moving on to doing housekeeping and preparing for work to start proper.

Whee!!!