Happy Target

I saw this when I was on the way home one day. Of late there have been quite a few "energy enhancement" remedies being advertised all around residential areas but I must say this advertisement certainly conveys the message very clearly. It doesn't take one to understand the written language very well to know what they are selling. So to me that's one effective creative advert.

All you need to do is to stare at the targets and the respective arrows to figure it out. For the benefit of those innocent minds, it's solely for men and "sebelum" = before "selepas" = after. But you knew that right? :)

Marriage Fights

I guess when you've been married for a while, it doesn't take much to start a fight. Take for example some of the "asking for it" fights below :



After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to
apply for Social Security. The woman behind the counter asked me for
my driver's license to verify my age. I looked in my pockets and
realized I had left my wallet at home. I told the woman that I was
very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later.

The woman said, 'Unbutton your shirt'. So I opened
my shirt revealing my curly silver hair. She said, 'That silver hair
on your chest is proof enough for me' and she processed my Social
Security application.

When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my
experience at the Social Security office.

She said, 'You should have dropped your pants. You
might have gotten disability, too.'

And then the fight started...




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My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school
reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as
she sat alone at a nearby table.

My wife asked, 'Do you know her?'

'Yes,' I sighed, 'She's my old girlfriend.
I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many
years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since.'

'My God!' says my wife, 'who would think a person could go on
celebrating that long?'

And then the fight started...




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I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some
reason, took my order first.

"I'll have the strip steak, medium rare,
please."

He said, "Aren't you worried about the mad
cow?""

Nah, she can order for herself."

And then the fight started...

Anniversary

Yup today hubbs and I are celebrating our 4 years anniversary. Four years of wedded bliss? That's the million pound question. The funny thing is that this is the first time in 4 years since we've been married that we are actually in the same country. So the plan was to squeeze in time for dinner at this place I've been wanting to go for a while. But unfortunately all plans fell apart. So here I am blogging after having cornflakes for dinner. Oh well, the story of my life. I guess I should have seen it coming. Yesterday was no better.

Anyway, thanks to all who remembered and wished us. It has been an interesting 4 years.

New toy!!

Happy New Year to all. I've just realised that I've not blogged in 2009 yet. So here's my first post for the new year using my new toy. Yes yes, whatever new year resolution of not buying any new toys for the year has totally gone down the drain.

After much contemplation and back and forth between Mid Valley and Low Yat Plaza, I've finally decided to give into temptation and gotten myself a Macbook. The aluminum casing Macbook. Yes, I've moved to the Mac side of things. A few years back I remember telling Hubbs that it would take a really silly person to spend so much money for a Mac just because it looks cool when one can get much higher specs on a PC at fraction of the cost. So now I'm eating my words. Why did I decide to get one? Well, like my good friend's husband said on why he got a Mac "Want to look cool cannot meh?" (by the way his mac is still collecting dust and he has switched back to PC :)). Nevertheless, I'm determined not to let my Macbook end up like his.

So the plan so far is to use my windows laptop for work and the Macbook for fun and for Sunday School, of course :) I got the 2.0MHz and 160GB hard disk version but upgraded to 4GB ram. The 2.4Mhz version with 250GB hard disk and lighted keypad was RM1000 more expensive and I figured that I should be able to live with the lower version. After 1 day of use, I won't go as far to say that I wish I switched earlier but I have to agree that doing things on the Mac, such as uploading photos, installing software and the startup and shutdown seems faster and much easier. I totally love the LED display though there's a possibility that the headache I'm experiencing now could be due to the brightness of the screen. As for the keyboard, it took awhile getting used to because the keys are spaced about 3mm apart from the usual keyboard keys on the normal pcs. But it is quite a joy to type on once you get used to it. What irks me a little is that the keyboard doesn't have a separate backspace and delete key. There's only one delete key which functions as a backspace key. The other thing is that it doesn't have an "end" key which I find can be quite a pain when blogging. On top of that the Mac can't fully sync with my Palm Treo Pro which runs on WM6.1 Apparently I've to purchase a separate software "Missing Sync" which cost RM200+ to overcome this. But for the time being I'm putting that on hold. Other than that, I have to say that so far I'm quite happy with the switch. Let's see how it goes after a week of playing around with it. Nevertheless there is certainly no doubting the "cool" factor.

Here are a few shots I took of the box and the machine.




Gotta really give it to the people at apple. Even the package looks sleek.












Even the power cord looks cool and compact.




How much sleeker can a laptop get?? I totally love the apple logo that lights up when in use.




The spaced out keyboard and super bright screen.