I was reading a newspaper article about the older generation in Somalia lamenting abt modern techology (esp handphones) which causes a lot of young pple to elope with just a text message etc.

Quote from the old man in the article: " in the past, all we could do was to give a dowy of 11 camels and an AK47 Rifle and wait politely for a response"

Man..sure beats other countries' way of courting females. Just imagine, there's no need to bring the girl out on dates and spend alot of money on like buying a diamond ring, expensive restaurents etc.

for the potential bride's side, u get a free rifle!

Just found it amusing i guess


and on to another topic

i just love reading XL's blog at times

on her latest entry when her family will be away for holidays
"ahahaha.... Ivan tang... got time come my house and help ah! U wash toilet i mop floor k???"

isn't it so romantic?? i'm so envious!! everytime i ask ivan to help me with such things and even offering to pay him he refuses...imagine them dancing with a mop and a broom and doing tango. reminds me of a paragraph in the book army daze i have but sadly i can't find it now. pity

*ivan remember..toilet cleaning must scrub very throughly! GOOD LUCK!! JIA YOU!!*

and another one from the past entry : "(Note: Never count on Ivan to wake me up!!)"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! when i read this i laughed aloud. Well ok to be honest ivan did give me a successful wake up call on the day we were playing bb...ONCE!!! (other billion times when we were suppose to meet at 10am) 9.30am...i call him and *huh? what time is it now? *imagine very sleepy voice)

of course he still gets there at ard 1030 or so not THAT bad. Edward...on the other hand....nothing to say. 10am appointment can come at 1130am.

of course now ivan's mostly differnt. Very Punctual for his appoints. Edward..sadly still the same lol.

always wondered what would become of ivan if singapore's temperature suddenly changes to an everyday temp of 24 Deg Cel with a nice wind blowing. (something like NZ)

will he be permenantly in hibernation mode? somemore he's staying on the 17th floor? nice cooling breeze everyday....maybe he will eat alot for like a month to store fats then hibernate for 3 months...oh wait...that will fail with his straight intestine. hmm..this could be interesting.

Ivan...pls go stay in NZ for like a year pls? think of it like a scientific experiment. BC members will be very interested in the results