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Case #1: Idiotic 'Millionaire' Contestant Makes Worst Use Of Lifelines Ever

NEW YORK - Idaho resident Kathy Evans brought humiliation to her friends and family Tuesday when she set a new standard for stupidity with her appearance on the popular TV show, 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.'


It seems that Evans, a 32-year-old wife and mother of two, got stuck on the first question, and proceeded to make what fans of the show are dubbing 'the absolute worst use of lifelines ever.'

After being introduced to the show's host Meredith Vieira, Evans assured her that she was ready to play, whereupon she was posed with an extremely easy $100 question. The question was:

'Which of the following is the largest?'
A) A Peanut
B) An Elephant
C) The Moon
D) Hey, who you calling large?
Immediately Mrs. Evans was struck with an all consuming panic as she realized that this was a question to which she did not readily know the answer.

'Hmm, oh boy, that's a toughie,' said Evans, as Vieira did her level best to hide her disbelief and disgust. 'I mean, I'm sure I've heard of some of these things before, but I have no idea how large they would be.'

Evans made the decision to use the first of her three lifelines, the 50/50. Answers A and D were removed, leaving her to decide which was bigger, an elephant or the moon. However, faced with an incredibly easy question, Evans still remained unsure.

'Oh! It removed the two I was leaning towards!' exclaimed Evans. 'Darn. I think I better phone a friend.'

Using the second of her two lifelines on the first question, Mrs. Evans asked to be connected with her friend Betsy, who is an office assistant.

'Hi Betsy! How are you? This is Kathy! I'm on TV!' said Evans, wasting the first seven seconds of her call. 'Ok, I got an important question. Which of the following is the largest? B, an elephant, or C, the moon. 15 seconds hun.'

Betsy quickly replied that the answer was C, the moon. Evans proceeded to argue with her friend for the remaining ten seconds.

'Come on Betsy, are you sure?' said Evans. 'How sure are you? Puh, that can't be it.'

To everyone's astonishment, the moronic Evans declined to take her friend's advice and pick 'The Moon.'

(MizYingYing: ...........)

'I just don't know if I can trust Betsy. She's not all that bright. So I think I'd like to ask the audience,' said Evans.

(MizYingYing: You've got to be kidding me)

Asked to vote on the correct answer, the audience returned 98% in favor of answer C, 'The Moon.' (MizYingYing: LOL, I love the humour of the 2% who voted for elephant)

Having used up all her lifelines, Evans then made the dumbest choice of her life.

'Wow, seems like everybody is against what I'm thinking,' said the too-stupid-to-live Evans. 'But you know, sometimes you just got to go with your gut. So, let's see. For which is larger, an elephant or the moon,I'm going to have to go with B, an elephant. Final answer.'

(MizYingYing: *Pengsan*)

Evans sat before the dumbfounded audience (MizYingYing: No prize for guessing why), the only one waiting with bated breath, and was told that she was wrong, and that the answer was in fact, C, 'The Moon.'

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CASE #2: Another 'Millionaire' contestant. Super hilarious (",)





HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Sorry lah, I know I evil. But it's hard not to laugh, isn't it?

Dreamsfactory Enterprise

OK. So I just received an SMS from Jobstreet. By the way, diverting a little yeah, why is it an SMS and not a SMS? Or did I just get it all wrong and confused myself for no particular reason?

Anyway, the sms said that I have been called for an interview with a company called Dreamsfactory Enterprise. And I was told to check my email for details regarding the date, place, time and blah blah blah.

I checked. It says my interview is scheduled TOMORROW!!!

My immediate reaction was, "What the hell?? Who on earth schedules their interviews the day after they inform the interviewees???".

Then I recall one conversation with my sister who told me that companies like to set interviews at the earliest convenient time. So I rested my case. Good thing they provided the option of Accept, Reject, or Request to Change Time in the email. I was tempted by the third option.

While wondering whether to accept the interview or not, I googled Dreamsfactory Enterprise to find out more about the company and the map on how to get there. Instead of getting the company's website as the first hit on google search as I'd expected, I got a whole lot of other websites and blogs with info related to Dreamsfactory. Suspicion creeps in... A company should have at least an official website. Even a simple one, right? No?

Among the hits I got, I came across this Lowyat Forum thread which was seemingly unrelated since the topic starter was inquiring about Knighters D'est Enterprise. But you know the little snippets they give under each result? That allows you to see how your keywords found this page? Well, I saw this.


From what I found out, this company changed their names many times, which is one sign of them trying to cover their tracks and avoid being associated with negative comments and bad press with their previous names. Then they send you on on-the-job-training by your second interview where they make you go out to the streets to beg around for donation. Donation for what lor? Where does the money go to?

I found out that they are one of the many companies which exploit the fresh graduates into doing hard work for them for free. I didn't know and am surprised that JobStreet did not filter/ban these companies. But then again, maybe there're too many companies for them to go through one-by-one to authenticate them. Hmmm.

Remember earlier on I said that I was tempted to click Request to Change Time? By the time you've read this post, I would have already clicked Reject. Gotta be more careful these days.

In this case, my curiousity probably saved my ass. And my time.

Sources of Happiness

When you are out from home
and you're hit by major stomach cramps and cold sweat all over..
and the best part is that it started right after you were dropped off at the mall..
which brings us to another best part, it means you have no car to drive home!
Meaning you have to hope that the bad phase will just phase over ASAP!!
And tough it out where you are until you're supposed to go home!!!
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ANYWAY!
At these bad suffering times, happiness is...


Hot chocolate with marshmallows!
At a restaurant with a nice environment ^_^


Really good & delicious food. Eating the salmon with the sauce was yum. The potato pancakes are super yum-yum!


Dessert! Apple fritters, strawberries, syrups, raisins, pancake, ice cream...
Can't remember what else was on the plate.
Nevermind that they were out of whipped cream, it still tasted good!


Watching a mindless comedy movie. First time I'm watching it in 3D.
Honestly speaking, the 3D effect wasn't as amazing as I thought it would be.
Probably will not watch another 3D movie unless it's an action movie.
Ice Age 3 was entertaining but not something I'd remember.
Maybe because there were only eight other people in the hall that didn't laugh or react to anything... which spoiled the fun @_@"

Departures leaves a good aftertaste

I totally had no idea what Departures was about until I watched the show. I only knew

.. that it was a Japanese movie
.. that it was the movie which I promised to watch with my bookaholic mei mei but accidentally FFK-ed her due to misunderstanding. You have no idea how guilty I felt that day.
.. that it was the winner of Best Foreign Film at the Oscars this year.

What I didn't know was this movie revolved around the dead as well. And I usually don't like to watch movies involving ghosts or dead people because I get creeped out and nightmares. Horror movies are my least favourite movie genre.

BUT, this movie is an exception. Really. Dead bodies from the beginning until the end but still no creepy crawlies. Haha.


Basically, this movie is about a cellist who lost his job when his orchestra band got disbanded albeit suddenly. Out of job and financially tight, he proposes to his wife to go back to the countryside where his mother has left him a house. To his surprise, his wife agrees. Later he answers a job advertisement, not knowing what the company was doing. Later he found out that the company was in the encoffineering industry.

You must be thinking "Encoffineering? What the hell is that?". Ditto here ^_^

It's the art of prepping the body of the deceased before placing them into their coffins. Part of the job description include cleaning the body, dressing them and changing their clothes, putting on makeup (shave if it's a guy)... something like what the mortician does. Only thing is that they do the entire ritual with the deceased's family members and close friends in front of them watching each and every single step all the way to the end.

When you're at the beginning of the movie, you'll feel what most others and the character itself felt - "The whole idea is just weird".

As the story progresses on though, you find the ceremony itself is beautiful, loving and dignified. You know, the idea of being associated with the dead or death itself is considered such a taboo in the very traditional Asian society. It's a wonder (and really awesome) how the scriptwriter and the director managed to touch on this subject so strongly yet portray it so delicately and artistically and refined.

By just watching a 10-15 minute scene where the main character performing the entire encoffineering ritual from the beginning to the end, with no lines and no music playing in the background, my entire focus was drawn into it and I was moved to tears. Not because someone's dead or died oh so tragically or sadly. The entire thing was just amazingly beautiful. The way he dealt and treated the deceased was with so much love, honour and respect. At the end, it got me thinking that I'd love to have this ceremony or ritual or whatever they call it when my time comes.

I much prefer this movie over Slumdog Millionaire. Unlike Slumdog, Departures left a very long lasting effect on my mind. I watched it several days back but I keep thinking about it on and off even days after. I keep thinking what other movies has left this kind of good aftertaste in me before. And I can't think of much... the only movie that comes to mind is Infernal Affairs. LOL.


P.S. To those of you who asked me about Harry Potter & the Half-blood Prince, if you like the book, you'll like the movie. I think this movie resembled the book so much closer than the previous 2 movies did. I personally liked it. If you don't read the book, there's a 50-50 chance you might not like it because there's not much magic and duel in here. BUT you need to watch this movie in order to understand the final two movies. So to watch it or not, your call.

Unbelievable

Someone shockingly dies in custody. And we, the rakyat, are screaming for answers and crying for justice. And you have the bloody nerve to say that we are turning this into a racial issue? Ha ha. No one even brought up the "race" issue until you decided to open your mouth. So I wonder, with your "bright" education and "exceptional" wisdom, did you overwork yourself and not get enough sleep until you started hallucinate hearing voices that were not spoken and imagining issues that were not issues in the first place? LOL. Sometimes I wonder whether the general elections were really for us to vote for the better politicians to run our country, or for us to vote for comedians to entertain us with their unbelievable stupidity. Yeah, we taxpayers pay them for this kind of entertainment.

Someone died when they shouldn't have and we want answers. That's not wrong. Everyone seeks truth, it's human nature. This was and is and never will be a racial issue. A human life - a priceless life - was lost. Doesn't matter whether he's a Chinese or Malay or Indian or Punjabi or Angmoh or Iban or whatever... A human life was lost in the cause of investigation where it shouldn't happen. Do you get it? Someone lost his life when he shouldn't have. Someone lost her fiancee when she shouldn't have. Someone lost their son and brother when they shouldn't have... Do you really get it? Or is this really all too complicated for you to understand? Do you understand the value of life? Or is it all just a game for you?

Or are you just hoping that all these will go away and we will soon forget about it? Like that smart alec #1 MACC officer who quickly dismissed it as a suicide. Sigh. You never did your homework, did you? You probably didn't know that that guy was supposed to get married on the very next day (after he died), and that guy was an expectant father. Now you can't expect us to believe that he was committed suicide when he had all these going on for him, can you? Any ten-year-old would know that you have to copy smartly or life convincingly in order not to get caught. A convenient excuse.

We know when we're being lied to and we hate being lied to. We are not stupid and we know you're hoping we are so that we'd swallow all the crap you're feeding us. So do us a favour, save the energy used for thinking and creating all kinds of lies and stories, and use it to do something useful for once. Like finding out the truth. And be honest. For once. Seriously, we've read too much bullshit in your newspapers and I really pity the trees for dying for such an unworthy cause like yours. Please start being honest and truthful now. Otherwise we would never ever believe another word you say even if you decide to be truthful in the future.

But I think it's too late to save your own asses. You know the feeling I get when I think of you? Lost hope.

R.I.P. Teoh Beng Hock


P.S. While you're SOOOOOO busy investigating the RM 2,400 loophole in DAP finances until must work OT (like interrogate people until 4am), please also remember to delegate 10 times more manpower to investigate the RM 25,000,000 "Neverland" house that the monkey built... along with his "official" trips to Disneyland. Twice. Went there to meet who? Mickey mouse?

A Serious Case of Misunderstanding

Surprised by my rare and sudden emotional outburst post leh? Don't worry, even I was surprised myself when the taufan in me died down and I recalled my post. I was tempted to delete the post as I am not comfortable sharing feelings publicly like this, when XiaXue's tweeted something that runs along the line that a blog post once posted can never be taken back even if it's deleted.

And it's true. So I'm not deleting it. It's one part of my life and I'm not taking it back. Simply because.

For a week plus after that particular post, I didn't log into my blog to read the chatbox or do anything for that matter until today. Just felt that I needed my space. Yeah, I baru read all of your posts in the chatbox today. So please accept my apologies for not replying earlier. I was not ignoring you guys. Cross my heart ^_^

OK. Now let's start the story of the misunderstanding.

So that particular weekend I had a movie date with Ying Ling, my bookaholic mei mei, but I ended up FFK-ing her because I woke up with chronically red and puffy eyes which didn't get better until dinner time. Although she was understanding and all, I can't help but feel guilty for disappointing her. Really sorry ya, gal.

Then we postponed the movie date to the next weekend. The LOL part was that we finalised the place and time and everything BUT the day. Mana tau right, she was talking about Saturday while I was thinking Sunday all the time we were exchanging SMSes. Classic man. So on Saturday I suddenly got a call from her at 12pm.

Me: Hello?
Miss Bookaholic: Hello, where are you?
Me: At home... why?
Miss Bookaholic: ...... [confused pause]
Miss Bookaholic: Aren't you gonna come out yet?
Me: Huh? For what?
Miss Bookaholic: Movie lar...
Me: EH, TODAY MEH? Tomorrow lar...
Me & Miss Bookaholic: ............ [even longer confused pause, followed by awkward & confused laughter]

It was so hilarious when we rechecked our SMSes and figured out that we clarified and confirmed everything but the day -_-;

We ended up making it into a lunch date on Sunday at MiuKai restaurant, dragging Suet Wan along. Our lunch date lasted from 1pm to 7pm. My longest lunch ever! LOL.

So this Sunday we're gonna go out again, since I FFK-ed her two weeks ago and last week was such a hilarious mix-up. Hmmm. We better triple confirm the details tonight. But I think it shouldn't be a problem this time around... gua...

Chris Daughtry VS Lady Gaga

If you had been following Chris Daughtry on twitter, you'd know that some weeks back he came up with an acoustic version of Lady Gaga's Poker Face and performed it on a German radio channel.



Then came Lady Gaga with her acoustic version.



If I might say (and I don't know if this is a biased opinion ^_^), I prefer Chris Daughtry's version. Just felt that Lady Gaga was wee bit too forceful and garau in her version. I think acoustic version should be a little laid back and not too overly-done. Going over-the-top is OK when it comes to singing some crazy loud rock song, like how Adam Lambert sings Black or White and Play That Funky Music. But for acoustic, maybe she should have opted to showcase more range and power ups and downs, instead of powering through the entire song. I listened to one minute of her song and I stopped because I just beh tahan liao.

Chris's version is just right. Maybe I just love the sound of the guitar. And his voice. I still can't believe he didn't win American Idol.