Handy toys

I was in JB a couple weeks back. Came across this shop in City Square selling some really cute items. Have a look.

What do you think this is

No, it's not a flexible hand held vibrator if that's what you are thinking. But you are not too far off. It's a massager of some kind.

It's called a handi massager

What you do is u put the over your shoulder and the fist starts thumping on your back. How more lazier can you get.
What else is there? Here we have a small hand with 2 fingers sticking up showing the peace sign. You'll never guess what it is being used for.

PEACE!

It's an EYE MASSAGER! Yar! It's here. Just for massaging tiring eyes. For those of you who spend the whole day looking at the monitor, whether for work, surfing the net or surfing porn, you need not worry about tiring eyes again. Just put it under your eyes and let it massage while your colleagues look at you with envy.

The Eye Massager

Wait! There's some more. Featuring the HAND!

The HAND! Mind the turtle

Do you know what the hand does? It massages, that's right but where? On your shoulders! When you get back and feel really tired and there's no one to help, have no fear, the hand is here. Just lie down and put it on your shoulders and let if do all the work. If you don't like the idea of another hand groping you, you can always opt for the turtle.

Have someone massage ur shoulders

And finally the Flexi-Hand Massager.

They come in many colours

Wrap it around your body

Just put it around your body and let it do all the groping, errr, massaging that you want. It's flexi!
How much more innovative can they be. And to think I found this all in a TOYS store, called Action City. I think if you buy all these and combine it, it would cost less than 150 bucks, less than 10% of an OSIM Massaging Chair. Worth a buy, don't you think.

Points to ponder 2 - Globalisation

I just came out from a meeting. The meeting was attended by 2 Japanese, 1 Australian, 2 Malaysian, 1 Indian, 1 Singaporean; about a job in Singapore done by Japanese, Singaporeans, Australian, Malaysians, Thais, Bangladeshis, Chinese and Indians.

I wonder is that globalisation ...

A lesson in Bahasa Malaysia

I could remember vaguely when I was still in school and learning Bahasa Malaysia. One word that I remember learning was the word 'angkasawan'.

Strangely, I recalled that the word angkasawan directly translated to English was astronaut. Of course at that time, there were not too many words that we analysed deepy. We were just too busy remembering words to pass exams.

An angkasawan or an astronaut?

Lately, I just found out that angkasawan may have another meaning. It can be translated into "space flight participant" or "space traveller". Actually if you look at the word angkasawan properly, they are not way off either. Angkasawan is derived from the word angkasa, which means space. So an angkasawan could be a person who travels in/to space; or just goes to space; or studies space. So, it's still politically correct to name our space traveller an angkasawan.

What is the difference between an astronaut and a space flight participant? Well, maybe there's no difference, or maybe an astronaut could be someone who job is actually trained to fly to space; or someone who pilots the shuttle; or someone who does actual space studies. Maybe English and Bahasa Malaysia may differ slghtly in translation.

Food for thoughts

Duh! I don't need to be an expert to know that
No wonder they told me not to drink before the trip
How much for the other half?

Hmmm, looks familiar.

Maybe they sell bibles

Visit Malaysia 2007

I was browsing through the Star online website this morning. I accidentally clicked on one of the contest links on the side bar (it's stated All Malaysian Bloggers Project).

The website that appeared came to a surprise to me. At the first glance, I was still stunned and was wondering what the heck did I just click on. Have a look for yourselves.

What a way to promote Visit Malaysia 2007

What do you see? My impression is that it is Visit Malaysia year 2007. Come to Malaysia and see the skin walkers. From the picture, you can tell immediately skin walkers are people with damn sharp fangs or teeth. Most probably you will end up as food to them.

The tagline is even better. "For them to live, we must die." So come to Malaysia and die or be eaten. You die so that they can live. Save the skin walkers, sacrifice yourselves. Foreigners are probably thinking there are skin walkers in our rain forest. What an ad!

Here's the link.

Someone should actually look at the webpage before publishing it on the net. I blame it on advertisers running too many ads on the page just for the sake of money. Please don't give the wrong impression. I don't want to die or be eaten.

Mooncake Festival Funfair

What has Mr. Bean got to do with Mid Autumn festival

Ian brought us to a funfair last week in Bishan. I think it was in conjunction with the mooncake festival (the funfair of course). Anyway, it was a small funfair, more to cater for the young kids. The highlights include.

The world's smallest merry go round

The world's smallest pirate ship as well

Bumper Cars - something I haven't seen in a long time

Something for the cheap thrill seekers

But there was one more thing that was more interesting. They had lifesize dolls of cartoon characters in the fair, such as Mr. Bean (as seen in the pix above), characters from Mr. Bean's cartoon.

But there was one other character there, ... the Crazy Frog. Got a picture of it.

The Crazy Frog

What's interesting is not the Crazy Frog doll, but what was on the doll. For those of you who did not catch it the first time, here's a zoom in.

What in the world is a doll like this doing in a childrens's funfair? Imagine kids running around the place when suddenly one of the them asks, "Mommy, mommy, what is that?"

"Errrr ... Well ... That is, err ... where they blow air in to keep the doll inflated ... "

or "Good question, go ask your dad ..."

Somehow strange things just happens.

Diamond Rings For Weddings

"More couples in increasingly affluent China are opting to say "I do" with a diamond ring, rather than gold or jade jewellery, according to the world's biggest diamond producer De Beers."

According to an article in the Star, more and more Chinese are buying diamonds for weddings than gold or jade. Unbelievable.

"More and more consumers are acquiring diamonds in China. You know when consumers used to ask others 'so did you get a diamond for your wedding?', now they'd ask how big is your diamond."

Actually I don't blame the men, it's the women who wants the diamonds. Paying so much for something so small. You say, "Mine's 0.3 carats", she says, "Mine's 0.4 carat." If you look at it properly, you don't actually see much difference. Please remember, no matter how big you all compare, it's so small u can't even measure it with a ruler. How big do you want it to be? Sigh.

If it were up to the men, probably they would buy liquor and get drunk during the wedding. Most important is the bed. So buying a bed for the wife would be more realistic. Start comparing how big the size of your bed with others.

Tell them, I got a super super king size bed. I can roll all over the bed. Do somersaults and all type of positions. Then you can start comparing.