Friday, July 27, 2012

Tastes like Chicken

I wanted some greasy, commercial-tasting, PMS-relieving, comfort food. So i traipsed over to KFC after work to buy my $5-coupon-get-able 2 piece meal.

There's a lady in front of me who looks like she's kinda smart- educated, speaks well- so I figure it shouldn't take too long.

I was wrong.

Dear lady, when u ask if it's a meal and the girl says it isn't - that means no drink, no sides, no nothin'!

When u ask if it's a la carte n she says yes, that means no meal. It doesn't mean u only get 1 piece of chicken. Especially when she tells u there are 3 drumlets in every box.

When she says there are no "original" drumsticks it means u can either choose crispy drumsticks or original other bits. Or u can wait- 10 minutes like she says. You do NOT get to yell about how your husband doesn't eat crispy nor does he eat any other chicken part. Really? Chicken is chicken. If he can't eat any other part, then wait. If u can't wait then get the crispy and peel off the skin. It's that simple. This is KFC. Quit making a fuss. It's dinner time and they are allowed to run out of parts.

What is bloody wrong with people?

Earlier in school a parent came in asking for a new guitar bag for a guitar he purchased last week. Because the zip had fallen off the one he has. There's nothing wrong with the guitar. Nor the function of the zip. The metal bit had fallen off. That's all. So go put a freaking paper clip on it. It'll still work. Or tie a piece of string. Or something. Surely, sir, you can't be THAT useless?

Oh what did you say? You paid a whole 50 bucks for the instrument? It's not a 20-dollar purchase? Really? That's your argument?

Sir, this isn't LV. You dont get a one-to-one exchange on a guitar bag that came with your 50-dollar purchase. By the way- it was $49. And you know, we sell bags. They're called accessories. For when your old one tears or breaks or gets lost. We don't keep them lying around just to hand them out to people like you who can't handle the fact that you 1) manhandled it enough to break it (we don't have complaints about the zip) OR 2) just happened to be unlucky enough that you got a lemon. But hey the zipping mechanism works, the guitar is fine, you checked it yourself when you bought it a week ago. So what's the f***ing problem here? You. That's what.

I'm going home now. To eat my chicken and watch TV. At least the idiots in movies always get their comeuppance!

Batman Kosong

That's what it felt like. No condensed milk. No evaporated milk. No sugar. Plain. 

OK I suppose some people will say it follows the Dark Knight graphic novels quite closely ( I don't know, I don't follow the comics, but that's what I read...) but as far as I'm concerned, if I'm going to watch a superhero movie, I'd like to see more Splat, Bangs and Kapows!

The Dark Knight didn't Rise to my expectations tho. Not enough gadgets, not enough high speed chases, not enough sexual tension between the Bat and the Cat, I DID however like Hathaway's tush on the too-big-wheels motorbike canon thingamajiggy. (The scene where she's blasting a hole in the tunnel...the movie was worth watching JUST FOR THAT!)

There was just too much psycho stuff, emo stuff and what happened to the confident, almost-arrogant, "zai" batman? I suppose I will be criticised for saying so, but I think I prefer the Tim Burton / Joel Schumacher series. 


There is an obvious sequel to this installment of the Dark Knight series - and I'm hoping it'll be better than the current movie. In order not to give away too much, I'm just gonna say this: I might enjoy watching Joseph Gordon-Levitt a little more than Christian Bale the next time around.

Enjoy this spoofy poster. Get it?

Batman : The Dark Knight...........................                     ...........................The Dark Knight Rises





Thursday, July 26, 2012

Bits and Pieces

It's late.

Mum and dad are at my place this week. And sometimes they go in to bed early but wake up hungry again around 2am. Like babies.
Teen Wolf Season 2 Promo

So the mother and I have been sitting around watching Teen Wolf. She raises an eyebrow at me when I tell her I actually like the series. Her reply is "And that show about the Vampires too I suppose... what diary? something diary..."

She's referring to Vampire Diaries. Well. She's not wrong. I LIKE that  A LOT.

Ian Somerhalder
Ian Somerhalder... what's there not to like? So you know they say he's slated to be cast as Christian Grey in the movie version of 50 Shades. And speaking of that I'm actually reading that now. It has its moments. But I'm not going to start recommending it to anyone or anything like that.
Matt Bomer

Oh, Matt Bomer was/is in the running for the lead too... I'm not sure he'd make a good Grey tho. But  he sure is hot.


In other news, I haven't been shopping in forever. Well, not REAL shopping anyway. I DID go to TM on the Monday past to return my Hubstation power cable to Starhub. The fella kept asking me for the paper, the paper. What Paper lah? NO PAPER I tell him.

Then he says if I hadn't returned it I would have been charged for it in the next bill. What? Yeah. And I was supposed to have gotten a piece of paper instructing me to return the cable within 7 days. Well, no surprise there - Starhub CS kinda is da suck.

Then I go to M1 and the router I'm supposed to get is sold out. Only available in their Compass Point branch I'm told. Er, no thanks. I think I'll just go to Courts and get me another router. After all, Father of my Godson aka My Personal IT Hero says any router will do. Cheap and good is good enough. Don't need all that fancy shmancy stuff.

My Belkin router looks like one of these.

So I go. And get the router. And a stand fan- cos the parental units were coming over this week and their room fan died a while back but since they haven't been here I didn't get round to replacing it. So there I am, router and fan in tow. And I see The Body Shop having an up-to-70%-off sale in the atrium. So of course I lug my packages with me while I browse for bargains.

I end up buying $200 worth of stuff. For the awesome price of $96. You all know where your Christmas presents are coming from this year. Oh wait. So I guess I have been shopping. Hah. I feel cheated somehow. Like by-the-way shopping doesn't quite count.

*mutters*

For those of you who DO want to go REAL bargain hunting shopping at the expo, here's what's on right now. I have two words for you. Robinsons Sale.


Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Old School

I got on the bus. As usual the front portion was just terribly packed. Up the 2 steps to the back half of the bus, all seats were occupied but there was lots of standing room.

So I wove my way through er non-sweet-smelling school kids to go to the back.

An elderly man was just getting up to alight. And as he saw me coming, he took a couple of steps farther back to make space for me to get into his recently vacated seat. Only then did he continue on his way towards the exit door.

Now how many of u would just continue moving forward and then suffer the crossing over of one person behind the other? Cos I think I would have. *shame*

And this older uncle? I suspect he might be from the old school of gallantry, chivalry and good manners!

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Mid Morning Rant

So someone I know is off on vacation. With the other half. Except I know they're not even faithful to the other half. But while the partner doesn't have their fidelity, they DO get the vacations, the presents, the jewellery...

My question and dilemma is this - would I be willing to settle down with someone who could give me material luxuries and comforts knowing that he is fully capable of cheating on me, and probably already is?

I suppose the answer to that would be no. But sometimes it just irritates me you know? Real Life. Yeah. It irritates me.

Love this tee shirt! LOL
So I hold out. Knowing full well that if I don't find the person whom I can give my all to, that I may very well never marry. And that's a choice I make. Given the situation and knowing what I know of myself. Do I have to be happy about that choice? Mostly I am. Unfortunately, once in a while I get irritated. 

Perhaps I'm feeling particularly sore about this because I've always felt like I've been cursed never to holiday with my significant other. Ever. Not a single one of them. (And no, going out of the country and coming back in the same day does NOT count - neither does travelling for a particular purpose - wedding/funeral/medical procedure.) 




Tuesday, July 10, 2012

On a Budget

Treble Clef Tote $5
Bright Purple Handbag $15
Shoes $10 each.

I'm an awesome shopper! 'Nuff said.




Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Magic Mushroom

So you HAVE to read this article about a sex-toy being mistaken for a mushroom. Like seriously?

Hilarious!

Unfixable

Sometimes things break down. You try and find a way to fix the problem and hope it'll be ok after that. But sometimes you can't figure out what the problem is. OR you THINK you've figured it out, only to realise a little but later on that that wasn't it.

My doorbell had been on the blitz. I changed the batteries in the receiver. Then it was ok for a couple of days. But it got wonky again. This time I changed the battery in the transmittor. It didnt look like that was it but lo and behold, by day 3 it was back to normal.

That was a few weeks ago. Today it died completely.

$10 and a short walk later, I had myself a new doorbell.

If I'da done that at the start I would have saved at least 5 bucks in batteries.

You know, come to think of it, thats what happened to my last few relationships too. Ah well. Now I know.