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Why did Ah Beng go to a movie with his 18 friends?

Because below 18 not allowed Lah !
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Ah Beng wants to buy a TV set. He goes to a shop.
Ah Beng : “Do you have color TV ?”
Salesgirl : “Yes !”
Ah Beng : “Give me a green one, please “
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Ah Beng is filling up an application form for a job.
He supplied the information for the columns on Name, Age, Address etc.
Then he comes to column on “Salary Expected”, but he is not sure of the question.
After much thought, he writes ” Yes “
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Ah Beng goes to a store and sees a shiny object.
Ah Beng : “What is that shiny object ?”
Salesgirl : “That is a thermos flask.”
Ah Beng : “What does it do ?”
Salesgirl : “It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold”
Ah Beng : “I’ll buy it”
The next day, Ah Beng goes to work with his thermo flask
Boss : “What is that shiny object ?”
Ah Beng : “It’s a thermos flask.”
Boss : “What does it do ?”
Ah Beng : “It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold”
Boss : “What do you have in it !?”
Ah Beng : “Two cups of coffee and one cup of ice cream”
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After taking photocopies of documents, Ah Beng always compares it with the original for spelling mistakes.
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Ah Beng always smiles during lightning storms because he thinks his picture is being taken.
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Why can’t Ah Beng dial 911?
Because he can’t find the number 11 (eleven) on the phone.
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Ah Beng had just bought a new computer and was using it.
When he encountered some problems. He decide to use the ‘Help’ command after some tries.
Soon after, he became very irritated and called the computer retailer for support.
Ah Beng : “I press the ‘F1′ key for help lah, but it’s been over half an hour and still nobody come and help me Lah ?!”
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Ah Beng with two red ears went to his doctor.
The doctor asked him what had happened to his ears and he answered, “I was ironing a shirt and the phone ring, lah - but instead of picking up the phone, I accidentally picked up the iron and stuck it to my ear, lah” “Oh dear !” the doctor exclaimed in disbelief. “But .. what happened to the other ear ?” Ah Beng answered : “That stupid dumbo called back, lah !!!!”
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Ah Beng talk to a long-distance telephone operator.
Ah Beng: “COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME THE TIME DIFFERENCE BETWEEN Taipei AND LAS VEGAS ?”
Operator: “JUST A MINUTE…”
Ah Beng : “THANK YOU” AND PUTS DOWN THE PHONE.
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After completing a jigsaw puzzle he’d been working on for quite some time, Ah Beng proudly shows off the finished puzzle to a friend.
“It took me ONLY 5 MONTHS TO DO IT”, Ah Beng brags.
“FIVE MONTHS ? THAT’S TOO LONG”, the friend exclaims.
“YOU ARE A FOOL.” Ah Beng replies, “SEE THIS BOX, IT IS WRITTEN FOR 4-7 YRS”.
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At a bar in New York , the man to Ah Beng’s left tells the bartender, “JOHNNIE WALKER, SINGLE” and his companion says, “JACK DANIELS, SINGLE”. The bartender approaches Ah Beng and asks, “AND YOU, SIR ?”
Ah Beng replies : “Tan Ah Beng, MARRIED lah”

Besides Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Word, I do rely on Microsoft Office OneNote in my work for jotting down notes, thoughts, random ideas, etc. etc. Today, I found a song by one of the PM in OneNote product team. Check out the mp3 and the lyrics. And you haven’t used OneNote, I highly suggest you try it out

I’m drooling … Nokia has just announced the latest Nokia N95, with a new form factor with 2-way slide movement and impressive list of features: impressive 5.0 MPixel camera with Carl Zeiss optic, auto focus, mechanical shutter and DVD like quality video. Also it features WLAN, 3D stereo speakers, mini-USB connector, 3.5 inch mini-jack connector, dedicated music buttons and camera buttons, QVGA resolution display of 2.6″, 160 MB of internal storage memory, 64 MB of RAM, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR support, uPnP, infrared, UMTS, GPRS and EDGE, SIP support, BL-5F Battery all that packed into compact body with size of 99 mm x 20 mm x 53 mm and weight of just 120 g !!! [Read more here]

I want I want I want … All I want for Christmas is …

With the current rate of my posting of my Europe Trip stories and photos, not sure when I can finish blogging all those 14 days hahah…. *haiz* Not before my next trip I guess hahaha…. -_-!

Lucy has been walking in a dark cave for days, trying to find her way out of the cave, when she suddenly saw in front of her, that the cave is splitted into two ways, one to the left and one to the right. Lucy saw that the right one seems well … right, so she took that path and kept walking. Seven hours later, she started to doubt herself, “Have I taken the correct choice? What should I do now?” She kept walking and walking, one hour later, tired, so she sat down by the cave side. She started thinking of her choices now. One, keep walking and hope that her choice is right. After all, she could be nearer to the exit door that she thought she was. Second, waste her eight hours effort, walked back to where she started, and took the second choice, the left way, which can be wrong too, knowing she may not have enough time to get back here again, and surely regretted that she has left the right way.

What should Lucy do? What if she’s right? What if she’s wrong?

Some people said so.
From someone to me, transcripted, edited, and censored accordingly hehe…: “Dasar elu lucu kali !!!!!! Wakakakakakakaka… garink“
Another time from another person: “hahaha…. kamu lucu banget deh…boleh jg nih kalo lg stress contact kamu. kok waktu disini ga selucu ini ya….. huahuahau…kalo ga kan, i bisa ketawa sampe guling2 dilantai. seumur hidup i hanya sekali ketawa kayak gitu“

Glad to know that I can make someone’s day, by making them laugh. The latter one was certainly exaggerating, but I’m happy when I can make someone else happy and laugh Take things easy, laugh more, don’t stressed yourself out too much with things that shouldn’t be. I know, some other time, it’ll be their turn to make me laugh when I’m down. That’s what a friend is for after all, right? Strive to keep those kind of friends, because you never know what you ever had until you have lost it

We woke up in the morning to join a half-day city tour in Frankfurt, and you know what, the city tour brought us to Römer to take photos, yeah, it was the place we went to ourselves the day before, and that’s all. So wasted!!! Anyway, since we have paid for it, we have to make full use of the city tour, so we went for another round of photo taking sessions in Römer haha…

Clockwise: In front of Galeria Kaufhof in Haupwatche, a church in Römer, and a nice car spotted on the road side


Goethe Haus Museum, somewhere in Haupwatche, and a bike for rent, would you believe. They called it Call and Bike hehe…

After we are done with the half-day city tour, we went ourselves for a cruise along River Main. There were two options, 50 mins for €6 per person or 100 mins for €8 per person. We chose the 100 minutes cruise. Good stuff they had English explanation on the cruise. The wind on the cruise was amazingly strong, but it was very relaxing to simply sit on the cruise and enjoy the view along the river.

View from one of the bridge on River Main. Below the bridge was a piece of what I assume to be the history of that bridge, though I simply didn’t understand, hehe…

On the cruise along River Main. Since it was 100 minutes voyage spanning over lunch time, it was always good to have some sausages, bread, and fries

After the voyage, we decided to explore Frankfurt. After all, we had our unlimited rides on subway, underground, buses, trams, any public transport they have except taxi. We took subway to a place and back, then took buses without any known destination, stopping when we feel like stopping by, then took the same bus to get back to where we were in the first place. Well, what else better way to explore a city unknown to us, right?

Frankfurt S-Bahn and U-Bahn map made Singapore MRT tracks looks dwarfish. Good thing there is they have ETA, not only for trains, but also for buses. Along the way, I spotted this huge Euro sign.

A nice jogging place by the River Main. To cross the road there, pedestrian need to tap their hand to a signal device that is installed on traffic lights all over Frankfurt.

In one of the tram stop, we anyhow just alighted, then walked around. To our surprise, we managed to find a very nice place for jogging besides River Main, near the tall glass building we saw during our cruise. My mom certainly enjoyed the feeling of sitting, relaxing, doing nothing besides a river, wind blowing gently, reminiscent of her childhood days. What a fond memories I’m sure!!! It was certainly a fruitful day exploring Frankfurt, though honestly, there isn’t much to see in Frankfurt after all. It’s a peace and quiet city I would say.

You can enter a bus or tram from the back door, but you have to press a button on the door located both inside and outside the bus to open the respective door. Another thing I noticed was people are allowed to bring animals into the bus. You can even bring ice cream into their train.