the tomato.

1/30/2006

Whenever those americans play wheel of fortune, they're always screaming away into the mike ,"MAKE MONEY MAKE MONEY!" or "BIG MONEY BIG MONEY!" Then they'll be clapping their hands frantically everytime they get to spin.

So tiring isn't it? Half an hour of show time, probably around 45 mins of actual filming and loads of editing.

Just picture yourself clapping your hands, hard against each other, for say 10 seconds non-stop. In case of those muscle-heads who spin too hard, lets make it 20 seconds of non-stop clapping. It won't be tiring at all probably for the first time.

Supposing this muscle dude guessed an alphabet correctly. So he spins again, so you get 20 seconds + 5 seconds rest followed by another 20 seconds.

So tiring indeed! But thinking about the rewards they reap at the end of it all, the hellish clapping won't matter at all!

Now this is a lifetime opportunity. You go once, if you do well, you get Ks of money.

Too bad americans don't have chinese new year.

Chinese new year is a time for reunions. Its a central time of gatherings, not some random family dinner......and needless to say its celebrated island/world-wide.

Nowadays, another reason to celebrate CNY is immerging. Practical people call it free money(I'm not married yet, the giving-out of money in future is in future and therefore isn't worth discussing). The others just don't want to say it out. I personally call it raining fish with red and orange scales.

In order to keep the young, excited kids from wanting to stay at home playing Dota/Barbie doll etc, money is handed out as an incentive. Better still, the younger you are, you prospectively recieve more money. In case you didn't get that last sentense, i'll give you an example.

Say a primary 1 kid gets 50 cents a day, everyday. So he gets around 15 bucks a month. He'll be so very much happier to recieve 200 bucks (imagine the number of siew mais he can buy to ta pao home!! My cousin Issac does just that!) than older ungrateful grits like NiCK. 200 bucks isn't much.....sufficiently happy.

Thank god my cousins on my dad's side are fun =D. Otherwise it'll just be just for the paper/plastics. Horrid isn't it? Whats happening to the values? I guess because of Singapore's speed of lifestyle, you can't afford the time to be too close to your family all the time. Your almost-immediate family would probably be less close to you.

In many families, this could result in people pretending to sleep on the sofa during visits. Maybe there would be slight age gaps. When you're young, you don't give a shit...you just continue sliding around and playing hide-and-seek: the screaming version. As you grow older, you mature and you realise that hide-and-seek isn't anymore that fun. The age gap proportionally decreases and so you should at least have some crap to crap around with won't it?

So to you people out there who think its hard to talk to your cousins who are probably some years older or younger......just bring yourself to their level and do some chat. It'll definitely be more fun than
"Hey whats your son with bombastic hair doing?"
"Oh, he fell asleep...nobody his age to play with him"

After playing half a round of dota at the first stop, and thereafter a long period of stoning at the 2nd stop with some free unprotected wireless network, we young "oldies" brought the kids to watch I not stupid too. OMG make me want to cry. But guys don't cry. So i didn't cry. Anyhow,I really liked the movie! Good! Good!

Me and some of my cousins. I'm kinda blessed to have cousins within all born within a 1 year gap. We're also all single and working on it.

Here are the 1987 babies. In order: 26 Oct, 13 march, 16 Oct.

Omg lah, so cute. Grow up sure damn chio!! WOoooo!

Pirated Lion King. Wonder why my dad loves to bring mickie all over the place. You know what was the best part? Mickie shat on the floor beside the food table during lunch prayer. Great lah, so we ate goodies for 5 mins before eating the real lunch.

OMG net net is super natural at funny faces.

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