The band Survivor parodies their song “Eye of the Tiger” while following a man named Glen on his way to work.
Starbucks “Glen” Survivor Commercial
Starbucks double shot expresso drink.
Well, today on odd world, there’s a Japanese man calling toll-free line to hear woman’s voice and yes it’s automated. Kinda sad in a way but it somehow suggests how easily contented this man can be. Just listening to a voice only?
Japan man stalks toll-free line to hear woman’s voice
TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese man was arrested for calling a food company’s toll-free number 500 times in 16 months because he wanted to hear the woman’s voice on the automated tape, police said on Monday.
The 38-year-old plumber, who was arrested on Sunday, made 3,100 hours worth of free calls to the company, costing it almost 4 million yen (19,500 pounds) in phone bills, a police spokesman in Takasaki, northwest of Tokyo, said.
“He gets excited by the woman’s voice on the guidance tape,” the spokesman said, adding that the voice sounded normal to the detective who was involved in the investigation.
The food company asked for its name to be withheld. The spokesman said police are investigating if the man placed an excessive number of calls to any other firms.
(Source: Reuters)
I hope he’s okay. He’s disruptive in a way, but he sure has patience. I keep pressing ’0′ when I hear automated tapes on phones.
It’s chinese new year and we had this yearly reunion dinner thing going.
(Our already emptied dining table.)
We had a great meal with our family. Most of my father’s side family came over. We had chicken, duck, chicken, prawn and abalone. And almond jelly.
(We are probably the only family drinking port on reunion dinner.)
I mean who the hell drinks port on new years. Port would like to announce that it has 17.5% alcohol in it.
(All the leftovers are kept in the refrigerator.)
(New covers for the bed.)
My mother got me new covers for my bed, says new year must change bed covers. So yeah. It’s safari and jungle theme as you can see. I don’t like the greens.
(Just thought that my plush elephant might just fit in for a cameo. And there’s a red packet hidden under my pillow. You supposed to sleep on it so that the money grows. No?)
(Another poor attempt on lunar new year decorations.)
My father’s responsible for it I think. He tried (and failed) to induce some Chinese New Year feel to our cold television. It didn’t work. Forgive him for the little white creature that looked like it belonged to Christmas because it did. It’s just there ’cause it’s got this bit of red on its hat and barely made it to the display.
(My cupboard that I did not bother cleaning this year.)
I was a little busy, okay lazy, and I didn’t clean up my cupboard this year. It still looks acceptable I guess so I’m just leaving it that way. I probably try harder during spring cleaning 2009. My tables cleaner already but I took out too many stuff to work on it’s as if I did not clean my table.
February is just going to be a tough month. My assignment deadlines are March 1 and I have the prelims coming on February 27 (Mathematics), March 1 (E-business), March 3 (Computing and Internet) and March 5 (Java). I saw my Gantt chart for my work – it looks very pretty. It’s just going to be busy.
Thank god I almost have no school in February. I think I probably be going a couple of days a week for a couple of hours each time only. The only bad thing is that this time the assignment seemed harder. But well, the secret is… I finished my Java assignment’s program already. Yeah!
Have a good day ahead. Happy lunar new year!
Last week’s advertisement was of Coke. Thought I post Pepsi this time.
Pepsi Stuff Super Bowl Ad featuring Justin Timberlake
This is a 1971 Coca-Cola commercial. The quality’s a little lousy but it’s the real thing.
Buy the World a Coke
It’s the real thing. Coke.
I was browsing through Facebook and realized that the NTU Zi Char Uncle starts Facebook too.
Got Facebook group some more.
Nowadays more and more advanced already. And you thought Zi Char Uncle only know how to cook your sin chow mee hoon? Uncle now know social-networking okay?
Hard Gay, with his unorthodox methods, tries convincing kids that green peppers are actually not as bad as they thought. Hard Gay decides that it’s time to cook healthy food his way and shows us how to get it in kid’s stomachs.
Hard Gay and the Cooking Show (with subtitles)
Watching silly Japanese variety shows always cracks me up when I’m feeling sian during the day.