JayWalk

FAIL #2

Sunday, 15 November 2009 8:46 P GMT+08

We were at Wala Wala last SaThirstday* when we spotted this and took this picture.

Can you see what's wrong with this picture?

Answer is in the comments. Click to find out.

* kudos to Thiang for coining that new word.

- Voxeros

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FAIL #1

Saturday, 14 November 2009 12:00 A GMT+08

OK, I know we have Fail Blog for this sort of pictures but I got these from my cousin Nick (still no Facebook account. Oi! Faster hurry lah!) which I thought some of them were hilarious.

Thought I share them here even though they may have been circulated to death on the intarwebs.

... and he steadies his breathing as he is about the take out the bad guy currently holding the little girl hostage....

You give me Trojan Horse??!! Limpeh send you one Airbus 320 give you die!

....and the Kenwood ProTalk TK-2200LV2P joins the ranks of formidable weapons like 圆月弯刀，屠龙刀，倚天剑 and 孔雀翎。。。

Must be x-ray binoculars.... coz can see through the lens cover one.

USA would have been a better place had the girl on the left been President instead.

Speowling FAIL.

I think his insurance premium next year confirm sure hong kan liao.

Food stupor after a donut binge.

Note to self: Stay away from coffee.

Image Credit: Unknown

- Voxeros

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The Player-Manager

Friday, 13 November 2009 7:36 P GMT+08

A football player over the age of 35 was due for retirement from the top flight as the player returned home from playing in overseas leagues for more than a decade.

Wanting to extend his career further, the player accepted the appointment of a Player-Manager in the lower echelons of the domestic league.

It was like a breath of fresh air as the Player relished the idea of hanging up his boot, albeit not fully retiring yet, and continue to be involved with his first love.

Football.

The now Player-Manager came in with lots of fanfare and the spirits within the club was uplifted by leaps and bounds.

The Player-Manager was a very hands-on person who would not hesitate to put himself in the Starting Lineup whenever injuries and suspensions got a bit too heavy. Alas, it was a club in the lower league and the team did not have the squad depth of the big boys.

The club was doing well as the Player-Manager started to string victories consistently and started to climb out of the relegation zone.

It was at around mid-table, mid-season that the Player-Manager figured that they needed to bring in more players in order to keep the momentum of advancing to the Promotion Playoffs at the very least.

The Player-Manager went up to the board to ask for a bigger transfer kitty in anticipation of the coming transfer window in January. Alas, it was shot down citing lack of funds.

As the injuries and fatigue started to take its toll on the club, the club started to drop points home and away resulting in a slide towards the relegation zone. Transfer requests from the players also started to stream in, added to the immense pressure that the Player-Manager was already facing.

Then came the shocker when out of the blue, the Board of Directors decided to call for a press conference. It was the announcement of two new signings to reinforce the squad. The irony was that the Player-Manager was totally kept in the dark of the two new transfers. His position was totally undermined and made to look bad.

Did the Player-Manager not already spotted the need to bring in fresh legs in the first place? Then now the Board of Directors are all high-five-ing and patting themselves on the back for a savvy maneuver in the transfer market with trumpets blaring and all???

WTF???

The Player-Manager decided enough is enough and walked.

The club continued its spiral into the relegation abyss.

Image Credit: http://domeheid.blogspot.com

- Voxeros

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A Tale Of Two Runs

Wednesday, 11 November 2009 10:20 A GMT+08

It was the New Balance Real Run 2009 and it was a fantastic run last Sunday at the Changi Exhibition Centre where I clocked 1 hr 43 mins to clear the tri-terrain 15km run. The sea breeze early in the morning was most refreshing and quality of the air was good. Ironically, it was the shady Casuarina trees path that proved to be one of the hot spots as the neatly lined-up trees blocked the wind and we were like running through a tunnel of still air.

I am surprised how people were saying how fast my timing was as the folks at SGRunners.com were all claiming to clock around 1 hr 30 mins. Then again, the bar (no pun intended) of the CowBoyBar is certainly set much lower.

Truth to be told, I believe I could have easily clocked a better timing if not for the 2 factors.

This is the first time I am running the New Balance Real Run and I have no idea what the route is like and hence I was very conservative in my speed as I kept worrying about running out of steam before I reach the finish line.
Given what happened to the previous Mizuno Wave Run where I did run out of steam at the 10km mark, I was not sure if I am trained up to tackle 15km.

Well apparently, I was wrong on both counts. I shall return next year and will clock a better time. 1 hr 30 mins perhaps?

And speaking of the Mizuno Wave Run 2009, I clocked the 16km run in 2 hrs 18 mins.

Anyway, the Mizuno Wave Run sucks monkey balls.

I cannot believe HOW BADLY ORGANISED it was.

First, the road marshal at the YioChuKang-Casuarina junction send us the wrong way. By right, we should have just made a simple right turn and run along the road. Instead the errant road marshal sent us up the Peirce Reservoir hill which is an a uphill-then-downhill route of 2 additional km.

Many of us ran out of steam as we did not "budget" this climb into our run plan.
The toll it took to run that extra hill was evident as the water points right after the hill ran out very early. I didn't get any water for 2 subsequent water points after I cleared the hill.

In fact, all that was left at the 2nd water point was buckets of ice but no water. I had no choice but to just grab two handfuls of ice cubes and run with them in my hands.
The last point that really pissed me off was the final stretch from Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1 back to Nanyang Polytechnic where they were unable to get the permit from the Traffic Police to seal off the road for running. We ended up having to stop at almost every traffic light. What kind of a stupid run is this if running have to start stop start stop?

I am still ok with the first two obstacles where extra distance is just merely an extra challenge and I could always get a water belt (which I did for the New Balance Real Run) to tackle the water shortage situation.

But not sealing off race route is just simply unacceptable. It is miserable to run and it is also a safety risk to the runners.

I will not return to the Mizuno Wave Run. Other than the very nice backpack, everything else sucks monkey balls.

- Voxeros

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Bizarre Suicide Attempt In China

Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:00 A GMT+08

I got this in the email from my Cousin Nick (whom I am hoping the fella faster hurry set up his facebook account).

It is a set of photos whom the source is unknown. Sure there are watermarks on the pictures trying to stake a claim to it but I think the source of these photos traced back even further.

So anyway, here they are:

So one fine day, some lady decided to crawl all the way to the end of the bridge railing hovering over the river.

Apparently, she came prepared as she took out a knife to fend off any attempts to rescue her.

And when I said "prepared", I really meant "prepared" as she brought drinks along with her. Won't be surprised if she is no stranger to this as she kinda knew that this is going to be a long drawn out drama. Come to think of it, maybe she brought fruits along in that plastic bag of hers and hence the knife. *shrugs*

Then suddenly stood up much to the gasps of the people watching and you would've noticed that the knife, drink and plastic bag are gone by now.

And then she started to take off her panties??!! WTF??!!!

And then she started to PEE??!!! WTFBBQ??!!
Ok, I take that back about she be no stranger to this weird-assed shite. She obviously didn't do bladder management prior to this. FAIL.

And they finally got her safe and sound.

Moral of the story.

- Got pang jio before you attempt suicide.

- And I suggest that goes for Pang Sai too..... whoa.... cannot imagine that!

- Voxeros

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MacDonald's Monopoly Game

Monday, 9 November 2009 8:13 A GMT+08

So I was hearing about this Monopoly game organised by MacDonald's as part of their promotion, which I was totally clueless.

As per my earlier entry, we had Faith's birthday party at MacDonald's. When it came to settling the bill, we were given this kan dua stack of these MacDonald's Monopoly peel-away thingies which I saw for the very first time.

To be honest, I still don't know how this game works and it certainly doesn't look very interesting.

So out of boredom, I decided to just open them to see what is inside.

Eh. Very boring leh......

HOW COME ALL SENTOSA COVE ONE??!!

- Voxeros

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Faith Is 7 Today!

Sunday, 8 November 2009 9:30 P GMT+08

Today is Faith's birthday!!

After running 15km in the morning in the New Balance Real Run, I had to rush back home to shower and pick up grandpa and grandma to the birthday party.

Good idea to hold it at MacDonald's and let the restaurant run the show for you.

OK, so MacDonald's isn't exactly my favourite junk food joint but who am I to stop the kids from having a good time?

Yeah, that's 2+ hours of screaming kids running amok all over the place with a couple of bawling thrown in for good measure.

Oh and what is the thing about tattoos on kids these days? We were taught from young that tattoos are for bad people i.e. secret society gangsters type. Even when we were young, our rebellious nature goes only as far as the water tattoo on the underside of the 10-cent bubble gum wrapper.

Somehow, fun cartoon tattoos are SOP items at kids' birthday parties.

Sigh. Times have changed.

Thereafter, it's Andrea's birthday party at her place as both girls have the same birthday.

Yeah. Not 1 session of screaming kids but 2.

Man, what I give to run another 15km.

Still, it's Faith's birthday lah. So must positive a bit lor.

Happy Birthday!

- Voxeros

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