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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

A little humour...

Lab Results:The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, 'Hello.'

'Mrs. Sanders, please.'

'Speaking.'

'Mrs. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at Saint Agnes Laboratory. When your husband's doctor sent his biopsy to the lab last week, a biopsy from another Mr. Sanders arrived as well. We are now uncertain which one belongs to your husband. Frankly, either way the results are not too good.'

'What do you mean?' Mrs. Sanders asks nervously.

'Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and the other one tested positive for HIV. We can't tell which is which.'

'That's dreadful! Can you do the test again?' questioned Mrs. Sanders.

'Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time.'

'Well, what am I supposed to do now?'

'The folks at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

An elderly couple, Margaret and Bert, moved to Texas . Bert always wanted a
pair of authentic cowboy boots, so, seeing some on sale, he bought them and
wore them home.

Walking proudly, he sauntered into the kitchen and said to his wife, 'Notice
anything different about me?'

Margaret looked him over. 'Nope.'

Frustrated, Bert stormed off into the bathroom, undressed and walked back
into the kitchen completely naked except for the boots.

Again he asked Margaret, a little louder this time, 'Notice anything
different NOW?'

Margaret looked up and exclaimed, 'Bert, what's different? It's hanging
down today, it was hanging down yesterday, it'll be hanging down again
tomorrow!'

Furious, Bert yelled, 'AND DO YOU KNOW WHY IT'S HANGING DOWN, MARGARET?'
'Nope', she replied.

'IT'S HANGING DOWN, BECAUSE IT'S LOOKING AT MY NEW BOOTS!!!!'

Without changing her expression, Margaret replied, 'Shoulda bought a hat,
Bert. Shoulda bought a hat.'

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

An elderly couple was attending Mass.

About halfway through, the wife leans over and says to her husband,

'I just let out a silent fart; what do you think I should do?

He replies, 'Put a new battery in your hearing aid.'

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Tom had been in the liquor business for 25 years. Finally sick of the stress he quits his job and buys 50 acres of land in Alaska as far from humanity as possible. He sees the postman once a week and gets groceries once a month. Otherwise it's total peace and quiet.

After six months or so of almost total isolation,someone knocks on his door. He opens it and a huge, bearded man is standing there.
'Name's Lars, your neighbor from forty miles up the road. Having a Christmas party Friday night. Thought you might like to come. About 5:00.'
'Great', says Tom, 'after six months out here I'm ready to meet some local folks. Thank you.'
As Lars is leaving, he stops. 'Gotta warn you. .....be some drinkin'.'
'Not a problem' says Tom. 'After 25 years in the business, I can drink with the best of 'em.'
Again, the big man starts to leave and stops. 'More 'n' likely gonna be some fightin' too.'
'Well, I get along with people, I'll be all right. I'll be there. Thanks again.'
'More'n likely be some wild sex, too.'

'Now that's really not a problem' says Tom, warming to the idea. 'I've been all alone for six months! I'll definitely be there. By the way, what should I wear?'
'Don't much matter.. Just gonna be the two of us

Friday, September 26, 2008

Abolish ISA


If i continue to sit on my posterior and do not sound out my disgust and total disagreement that 'laws' allowing random detention of citizens under pretext of being a threat to 'national security' to continue unabated, then I am failing my children, my fellow citizens, my family and myself.

If the 'government' thinks that what they are continuing to do is to 'safeguard' the interest of the country, then perhaps the most logical step would be to lock themselves up. I am very sure that the so called 'silent majority' would be more than pleased that such laws exist if the 'Home Minister' locks himself up....

I am doing my part.

Dear Mr. Home Minister, please check yourself in to Kamunting. YOU are the threat to 'National Security', to 'National Freedom' to Malaysians.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Superlatives; Malaysian style..!!

Malaysia/Malaysians seem to have this thingy about wanting to outdo others. We wanted the tallest building in the world, largest airport, longest satay, tallest flagpole, biggest flag and many more other attempts.

There are, however, some that we are perhaps not so proud of. And this is one that we seem to have 'won' without much fanfare....

Malaysia's taxis have been voted the 'worst in the world'.

and to think we didnt even know we are that famous.....

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Timber Concession for UMNO..!??

It is getting clearer by the day how UMNO finances itself and why office bearers of any UMNO branch, division, kampung, village or whatever, tries so darn hard to stay on and as entrenched as possible for as long as possible.

Look at what was reported by STAR.

In particular, ...

.....a logging concession contract relating to the extraction of timber logs from a 10,000-acre plot of land belonging to Umno in Mukim Bebar, Pekan district.

NOW, all right thinking Malaysians will know why all are so keen to 'menawarkan diri sebagai calun'....

Sept 11th 2001; remember where you were?


If you were around and about 10 years old then, it would be fairly safe to say you can remember where and what you were doing on the 11th Sept 2001.

Perhaps I will remember that date and the events of that day better than most since i happened to be 'round the neighborhood' then.

I was with my colleagues and we spent the previous evening at Atlantic City among the one arm bandits, poker tables. On that fateful morning, I was driving to catch our flight to Amsterdam from Newark Airport. On the way to the airport, we heard over the radio the announcement that the Twin Towers had been hit...

At the flyover to enter into Newark, we could see the towers with massive billowing smoke. Along with drivers from a few other cars, (for some reasons, the road was quite empty, and a few police officers, we stood on the freeway and watched...

It is not easy to forget such a sight...

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

YouTube hacked??

the page i saw this morning on YouTube is this:

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Sorry, something went wrong.

A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. Please report this incident to customer service.
Also, please include the following information in your error report:

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look at the words::: a highly trained monkey??

Friday, September 12, 2008

Multiple sotong dishes for dinner...

Earlier this month, on the 4th Sept to be precise, together with a few visitors, i went to Tanjung Manis again. The flight to and fro were uneventful by themselves, but the meals we had were something else.

Upon arrival at Sarikei after the taxi ride from Sibu Airport, we had lunch at our usual restaurant. The cook really outdid himself this time...

He reserved a 3.8kg 'Soon Hock', a fresh water marble goby. The head of the fish was deep fried and then cook in a clay pot, while the rest of the fish was steam in light soya sauce. We really struggled to eat as much as we could, and yet, there was plentiful left over. The damage? Less than RM200.

On the way back to Sarikei from Tanjung Manis, we clambered aboard one of our fishing vessel and 'hijacked' about 4 kg of sotong/squids.

St the restaurant where we had dinner, we asked the cook to prepare the sotong in as many possible way as he knows of. So, we ended up with fried sotong, steam sotong, sambal sotong and the weirdest looks we got from the waitresses were when we asked for raw sotong.

Between the 4 of us, we polished off some 4 kg of fantastically fresh sotong..!!

I am now trying to take my cholesterol pills with greater regularity.

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Nutritional values


Saw this last month at Minneapolis St Paul international airport....

If only we have the same values here..

Monday, September 08, 2008

McCain and Palin

Senior Senator John McCain is 72 years old, and running for the President of the USA in the 2008 presidential election.

If he wins, will he be able to conclude his 4 years term in office? The last two Presidents served a full 2 terms of 8 years in total. If McCain is able to serve 2 terms, heck, he will be 80 years old and by the time he is ready to go!!

My take on this? If John McCain wins, somewhere before the 4 years is up, Sarah Palin, his running mate for vice president, who is currently 44 years old, may have to assume the role of President of the USA.

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

hectic days...

Just realized how hectic the next few days will be...

Tomorrow will fly to Sibu, then by car to Sarikei, after that by speed boat Tanjung Manis. After a series of meeting, the reverse flow will happened, although we will spend a night in Sibu before taking the morning flight back to KL.

Next week, maybe the whole week from Monday to Friday will be in Vietnam...

UPDATE

Dont have to go Vietnam after all this week. Somehow, we managed to conclude what was needed last week.

The REAL work will starts soon...