today was an enjoyable day at work. cuz I was only in the office for like 4-5 hours out of the whole day. Drove one of the managers down to Parramatta to do an xray for visa. The drive takes like 40 minutes each way. The appointment was quick though. Couldn't even finish reading an article in Times. But then we lepak in the area after that. kekekek. went to have an early lunch, so just walk around the shopping area to look for a place to eat :) found this mixed chinese place and had nasi gorend. it was quite nice. tasty, but very oily (not that it ever stops me from eating...)

work the rest of the day was normal la. the new accounting system really bloody annoys me. a lot of random bugs and crashes and things you can't do. oh well. you get what you pay for I suppose. I have the consultant coming in on Friday for a meeting. Gonna bloody grill her for answers and solutions. Don't think i'll be very happy with the results... its gonna suck if I know more about the program than she does o_O If I do, at least I know where to work after my contract finishes ^_^

just killing some time right now with the blog. decided that I'm not going to play ps2 tonight. Gonna try work on my rentcrawler program later. really need to complete it. i've got roughly another month to muck around researching real estate. have to start taking action in april liao. if my contract doesn't get renewed end April... i'm gonna have a tough time taking out a loan to buy a house. aihs.

thos is back home in kl, which means i can grind WoW as much as i want! :) this whole week has been nothing but playing game. andy brought back a bunch of ps2 games from back home. took some dvd movies and Suikoden Tactics from him last saturday. And everyday after work I've just been playing Suikoden almost non stop. And was playing WoW till about 5 in the morning on Saturday. Add to that the super world event on WoW that happened on Saturday night. The Gates of Ahn'Qiraj. Its suppose to this epic world event take takes place in of the regions. Suppose to be something on the scale of Starship Troopers style zerg. And the enemies are giant bugs too, scarabs and anubis etc. Its pretty cool... in concept. The execution of it was pretty horrible. I stopped caring after 2 server crashes, and impossible to play lag. And that was an hour before the event even started.

I manage to sneak in an hour of play later in the night, but by then most of the keng stuff gone already. poo.

As for today... I was just watching this korean drama that I downloaded, Dating Now. Quite nice... I prefer japanese dramas though, cuz I don't really like the korean language. Had dinner at Lynn's place after grinding thru about 4-5 eps of the drama. We made dumplings for dinner! Yumsss... makes me feel like going back to Ashfield for lunch again next week.

The drive back from her place was absolute hell though. There was a bloody storm earlier. The vision is bad enough in the rain, but the windows in my car totally fogged up. I had to keep wiping the windows every 3-4 minutes just so that I can see the road. most dangerous driving i've ever done. Ughhh. who could imagine not having a/c in the car could actually be deadly o_O At least I made it back home in one piece. God still loves me, even if no girls do :)

just came back from morning training. i try to go for kickboxing in the mornings with jeremy during saturdays now, although this was only my 2nd time. i'm still quite slack in regards to training, but at least i'm doing it.

waiting for my turn to shower, so might as well blog a little. just to show that i'm not dead yet...although i felt like it after training. damn unfit. but with each time i go, I can last longer. I still look as fat though. sigh...

fongie came back from kl liao. brought my camera back as well. yay! rm212 to fix it. ouch. just for the stupid power button. but apparently they changed part of the casing. dunno la. i don't remember how it looked like originally. they used parts from a different model camera to fix it. as long as it doesn't look weird, i'm happy. Plus, if i decide to sell the camera, i can pretend its a super limited edition release ^_^

nothing much else. fongie is coming down sydney again with some of her friends. gonna crash at our place. i'll probably just stay at home kua. gonna be playing WoW in the afternoon. they can layan diri :p also, i'm lazy to go out cuz i don't have my house keys. left them at work on friday. aihs.

ooops. time for shower.

Zzz.. damn sienz. stoning at home the whole day. Thos bought his computer liao, so he is playing WoW in his room. Fatty is outside playing inside...and I'm in my own room being sienz. Aihs... I'm not enjoying my lazy Sunday much.

I've been pretty busy at work. So not much time to blog. Plus nothing particularly special to write about. Even if there was...all old news by the time I blog, so kinda lazy.

My contract at the company is over liao, but i'm still working there. Its being extended to at least another 3 months, but nothing has been drawn up yet. I've been OTing shitloads lately. Staying at work till about 9.30 on some nights. Annoying, but its not like I have anything really productive to do at home. The new accoutning system is sort of up and running. Even if it isn't, we'r using it anyway. Deal with the problems one at a time. Means more work for me la, since I'm the one who is supporting it. At least its more interesting than doing purchasing.

I started my own mini programming project as well. Looking at property listings online is quite annoying, so I decided to just write a program that will take the listings off the net, and put it in my own database. At least this way, I won't have to go to 3-4 different property sites. I can even do some data processing as well. For example, I can find out what the average rent is for 3BR places in a particular suburb. This should help when I start investing in property. I might even sell this program :) Although the legality of it is questionable, since I'm ripping the information off websites. Hmmmmm...

i've still got a bunch of photos that i uploaded but still haven't put up. been sort of busy lately. plus its so old news...don't feel like putting them up anymore. I need organise my blog better, but lazy to put more effort into it.

fatty is back in sydney, if i haven't mentioned that already. crashing at our place now. hes gonna move in to his sis's place on the weekend. gotta pau all his anime dvds b4 that happens. heheh. it feels like its been a decent weekend. can't quite remember what we did. i went training with thos on saturday morning. tortour... i KOed after the warmups were done o_O At first i was bloody exhausted. tired till i felt like puking. and then after that couldn't continue cuz my ankle started to fuck up. still haven't seen the doctor for it. aihs.

i think i just slept for most of the day after that. hehehe. no wonder my weekend felt so short. sheesh. saturday...ermmm. went for lunch at Ashfield. Shanghai food. very yums dumplings. yums dumplings and fatty pork ^_^ I went to Strathfield after that. Lynn (from sidewalk) invited me over to her place. At first I thought it was a housewarming thing with the rest of the ppl from sidewalk cafe, but turned out to be the 2 of us. Wouldn't mind staying in Strathfield. Korean suburb. Got a fair bit of pretty girls walking around :) And best part is that theres cafes there that open till late. But no place that sells siu yuk, so Campsie is better in that respect ^_^

Lynn stays in a nice apartment. Doesn't need to pay rent too. 3BR apartment, but she rented out living room as well. She provides most of the common furnishings, so gets to mark up the price a bit. Pretty good deal. I think the whole place was $450/week. Quite ex considering its not that big. The apartment i had in melbourne was about 1.5 times bigger, or more. I think we paid roughly $500/week then. Can't remember liao.

Photos continued. Taking damn long to put up stuff from the trip. Its already old news, almost 3 weeks ago lioa. Oh well. I'm doing this at work, so probably not gonna type much captions.

Chef Ken!

the food...

the view...

and the house

theres a swing chair thingo too ^_^ I think we forgot to take it down after we left. It was kept inside the house, there was a hammock too! Pretty cool.

Had a nice, big meal. Food was the bbq regulars: chicken wings, steaks, prawns, sausages, 'leng lui's (some kind of taiwan sausage thing one of the girls makes), salad and can't remember what else.

after dinner, there was a present exchange thing. forgot to take pictures then. Basically each of us had to buy a $10-15 gift and exchange. We took turns choosing the presents (assigned by a deck of cards. You open up the present, and if you don't like it, you can exchange with the people that got pressies before you. Girls could exchange with guys, and vice versa. Can't remember the conditions lioa. I got a winnie the pooh towel at first, and went back with a set of photo frames at the end of it. Sweefong got a winnie pooh sock filled with chocolates, and Thos got a floating bed (for the pool).

we played musical chairs after that. quite nonsense. but fun. heheh. like small kids only.

DJ Ken

Losers sit aside. I was taking most of the picture of I lost by the 3rd round

Winner! The last 2 remaining was a couple...so quite cheating :p

The winner got to decide who the group gets to interrogate. Sorta like truth or dare, but without the dare ^_^ Been ages since i've played that.

The victims. Ronald and Bennie (?). No idea how to spell her name. Heheh. Usually refer to her as 'sister' in cantonese, since thats what the group calls her.

After the q & a, we had a session of spin the frying pan and fortune telling. Ronald knows a bit of chinese fortune telling, so that was quite interesting. Thats it for the day I suppose. Better get back to work liao. Lunchtime over and I've got plenty of crap to do.

sweefong left Sydney today. i took took half a day off and sent her off to the airport. shes been here for almost 2 weeks, but it sorta feels longer than that. already starting to miss having her around. things are starting to get back to normal now... holidaying season is over, have to start work again. sadness.

it was a bit of a drama for sweefong at the airport. she was 7kgs overweight and couldn't get checked in at first. its $20 for every extra kilo, and it wasn't worth paying that much for the stuff she had to bring back. i couldn't do anything about it cuz i only just dropped her off at the airport. i was actually buying myself a new chair at that time ^_^ got a really nice mesh chair for $150. its not in the best condition, but the chair retails at around the $500 mark. Got it from a factory outlet type of place. anyway, she managed to sneak in her luggage somehow. Don't know how she did it, but she probably went on the plane with extra hand luggage or something.

Alright then, gotta blog up on the 2nd day of the Kangaroo Valley trip. The activities for the day were bush walking, the beach and a bbq later at night. Bush walking was just an ok experience la, not a whole lot of different stuff to see. It was mainly just hiking along the track, looking at the same view, but from different angles. The first lookout point was the nicest, cuz it was only 5 minutes from the start and closest to the waterfall

ta da!

rainbow!

The greenest place i've seen in Aussie so far

There were suppose to be more stuff to see, we walked past rivers and smaller waterfall areas, but they were all dried up. Dunno if its just cuz of the time of the year, or something to do with Australia's drought.

the bushwalkers

and again...

the same waterfall from another angle. Its actually prety small.

taken on a bridge over a dried up river

oh yeah. there actually more than 1 waterfall. The Twin Falls! very puny looking.

The whole walk was about 2 hours or so. Can't remember how long. We had lunch at Oporto's before heading off to the beach. I think it was Hyams Beach or something. Supposedly the "whitest beach in the world". Doesn't really live up to the name.

Me, Swee Fong, Thos, Ken and Betty

I didn't do much at the beach. Just sat on the beach on played a bit of football. The beach was ok la. Places like Manly or Coogee were more impressive.

Went back home after that. It doesn't sound like we did much, but it was already late afternoon when we got back. I think it was an hours or more worth of travel between all the places above. Kudos to Thos, me and Swee Fong just slept. ^_^

And thats it for today. I'll put up the pics of the BBQ tmr.

Its about time that I do a recap of my x'mas/ny holidays. I've had a good end to the year, and absolutely not looking forward to going back to work tomorrow :'( Its been a good week and a half off, but it kinda feels that I've been away from work longer.

I can't remember if I mentioned what my holiday plans were. Let's see... first of all, fongie came down to spend her xmas in sydney which was pretty cool. She was spose to stay till the 9th, but shes gonna leave a couple days earlier. Getting sick of Sydney already, and probably of me too :p Anyway, the big event of the holidays was going down to Kangaroo Valley. It was a jam packed couple of days but really good fun. The rest of it was just going aroudn with Swee Fong and then seeing the eve's fireworks. Everything seems like sort of a blur. My memory getting kinda bad...

So first up, pics & comments from Kangaroo Valley trip. The trip was made up of a total of ermm..18 ppl i think? I'm lost on the exact numbers unless I actually count names, but lazy to do that at the moment. Rented a house for 2 nights. Surprisingly big and comfy. Pictures to come. We went canoeing, bushwalking, dolphin cruise, the beach and an amusement park. It doesn't sound like a lot, but it was a fair bit of stuff to do.

We (or fongie to be more exact) didn't take any pictures of the canoeing place. Didn't want to bring the camera to the water. Some of the other guys did though. Must get the pics from them later on. Canoeing was pretty good. Relaxing and tiring in a way, but unfortunately my legs got sunburnt. I applied sunblock on my hands and face, but forgot about my legs. Aihs. Got pretty red, and I'm actually shedding right now. Quite fun to peel the skin off my legs ^_^

We had the best pies in the world for lunch after canoeing...

at least thats what the sign said

The pies were alright, pastry was very good but can't say the same for the fillings. At least they have very nice milkshakes.

The dolphin watch cruise was next on the itenary. We went aboard the Tekken III Tekin III at Jervis Bay. Its supposed to be very good. Excellent chances of seeing dolphins and what-not. They even got awards for being the best dolphin cruise before. Pity all that doesn't mean jack since we didn't get to see any dolphins. Although I did enjoy being on a boat for 2 hours. Its quite fun. Instead of snapping photos of dolphins, we just took photos of ourselves.

Outside...

and inside.

and a dead Thos. He was napping for most of the ride.

It was about 5-6ish when we were done with all that (we set off from Sydney at about 8.30 in the morn). After the cruise, we went to collect the keys at our house and then head off to dinner.

The house

That pic was actually taken during the BBQ on Saturday, but fongie didn't take any pictures of the house from the outside.

Dining room

Part of the living room

it has a fireplace too!

and nice bedrooms

our room for the weekend.

Thos took the top bunk and fongie and me had to share the bottom. the house had another 3 rooms with double beds, but all taken up. Some people had to sleep in sleeping bags as well. The house was meant for 12 ppl, and we had 18. Oh well. At least we had a bed to sleep in.

Dinner was at a Thai restaurant in town (ermm..which is just a street with nto more than 10 shops ?) Its a pretty fancy place considereing its remote location.

called Jing Jo Thai

almost the whole gang, minus fongie and 3 latecomers

I reckon the food was so-so. Nothing much to shout about. Definitely can't beat Doy Tao. I don't really recall what we had as well, so i suppose thats 'nuff said.

Didn't do much after dinner. Everyone was pretty tired. I didn't have to drive and I was tired ^_^ Got to sleep in the car while Thos drove. Hehehe. We watched a Jackie Chan movie (there was a dvd player at the house). I think its called The Myth. Not bad la the show. Typical Jackie Chan show though.

Okla. thats enough of a blog. Took me almost an hour to get this far. To be continued...

happy new year everyone! its a bloody 40 degrees in Sydney, so thats all I'm gonna blog for now.

back from kangaroo valley, and i'm back at work too /cry. its not too bad though. i'm in only for a couple of hours, but i haven't been doing much since i came in apart from reading http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/, which was what I've been doing the past week at work. i've read about 2 years worth of comics. not bad huh?

i don't have any pics of the trip yet, my camera is fucked. have to ask swee fong to bring it back to KL for me, hopefully it won't be too expensive to fix. its just the stupid power button thats stuffing up. I'll upload some pics when I get them from fongie. i'll blog about the trip the same time i post the pictures la, lazy to do it twice.

aihs. i want to go home. not doing anything productive at work. the manager hasn't come in yet, so I can't even set up the new accounting system for him. think i'll leave at lunchtime if he doesn't come in.

nice and simple, merry xmas to all!

wanna know how to write backwards? take a writing pad and just write on the other side.
don't think about it, else you'll just get confused. try it out.

its been extremely hard for me to get out of bed lately. i literally have to force myself to fall out of bed in order to wake. dunno why. i've been getting plenty of sleep i think. possibly my diet. what you eat really affects your body. when i did atkins and south beach, i did notice that i feel more energised in the morning. not that i really kept to the diet. max was about 3 weeks i think. the only thing i've stopped eating is bread at home. i feel that its too easy to eat a lot of it, cause you get hungry fast even though u ate a lot. kinda like porridge.

went for dinner with Andy last night. ashfield again. had like the best dumplings i've ever eaten. dumplings that are actually juicy. bloody good. and the place is cheap too. so its doubly good :) the english name is Shanghai Nights... i think. I just remember that it was a dodgy name la. after dinner, we went to watch King Kong with Jeremy, Ken and a whole bunch of other ppl. From Ken's badminton club. I reckon Kong was good. One of the better movies out this year. I feel that its better than LoTR though. Some parts of LoTR was just kinda gay. Anyway, I'm lazy to say anything about the movies. I'm not a good reviewer and plenty of other sources out there.

Gonna have lunch and finish reading my book.

friday is finally here!! not that i have much to do over the weekend, but at least i don't have to work. even though its been a 4 day work week for me. and it might even be half day today. company xmas party is tonight, and a lot of ppl took off earlier last year. but its a fair bit more busy this time around. so maybe we still have to work the whole day. boo!

we got our new accounting system yesterday. pretty neat! installed it and got it running. who needs a $180/hour consultant! all i need is a user guide and google. i really should work as a consultant. get paid shitloads for doing stuff like this. easy peasy.

Arrgh. So annoying. feels like theres something stuck in my eye. can't get it out. starting to hurt. and my eye is already red from all the rubbing. not a good start to the morning. i'm walking around with one eye closed now. not that if makes much of a difference to me. my left eye is practically blind anyway. thinking of maybe doing laser eye surgery one day. maybe when i get enough money. it gets advertised over the radio fairly often. kinda scary though. theres still a chance that you can go blind, or that your eyes go cacat.

man...can't wait till xmas. holiday period ftw! tomorrow might be a unofficial half day too. cuz the company having it's xmas party. not that I'm going la. Can't be stuffed. kekeke. If there were hot chicks, then I might make the effort. Unfortunately...roughly 150 employees at the company and only 3% are female. I need to work in advertising. Or accounting. Or the porn industry.

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its payday!!! Totally forgot about it. A nice surprise. I think its damn sweet how I still get paid $3K after tax even after ditching work at least once a week :) I don't even remember OTing all that much. I had 20 hours of OT and 15 hours sick leave. So i got paid for not working too. Nice!

fatty showed me a power recipe.

1 large ripe watermelon
1 bottle of vodka

What to do: cut a hole in the top of the melon, wide & deep enough to wedge in a funnel tightly. Pour some vodka into the melon through the funnel: leave to sit for a day, then top up. Do this for a few days, keeping the melon chilled all the while until it is saturated with drink.

slice, serve and grin.

one of Jamie Oliver's recipes. Must try...

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ugh... the heat is horrible. 40 degrees. feel like passing out now. but have to go out. what a day to pick to go watch a movie. aihs. could really use some vodka watermelon now.

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no movie to watch. kena conned by website. ish. spose to watch Elizabethtown at 8.45 but movie got cancelled or something. oh well. at least i can stay home now.

Hmmm. WoW is making me neglect my exercises again. I intended to go for a swim yesterday, but ended up going straight home to play WoW. Wanted to complete a couple of instance quests with Nic and Andy. Ended up failure. Wasted like 2-3 hours because the the other 2 persons we went with were dodgy. Not to say I did great la, but lets leave that aside :p

I don't know what to blog about, so I figure I should explain WoW a little bit. I go on about how much I play...and how much I regret playing it sometimes but I don't think I've blogged about the actual game before.

Anyway, theres a super article on it on wikipedia (duh?) Thats on the entire warcraft universe, not just WoW. All the games, books, etc etc. I'll just just give a basic of basics on WoW, since I'm blogging while I'm doing work as well. Kinda hard to maintain a proper flow of thought when I keep getting interrupted.

First of all, WoW is an MMORPG (short for massively multiplayer online role playing game). Basically means its a game that you can only play online with people all over the world. and WoW is the mother of all MMORPGs to date. 4.5 million subscribers as of November 2005. roughly US$10 a month. Thats a fuckload of money.

Oooo... someone brought cake. Continue later.

Mmm.. yum. some cherry blackforest cake thingy :p Dunno if its a good thing that I'm sitting in front of the kitchen area. Can see whenever the lady brings in cake to work. Have to skip lunch today. I think i'll start eating salads from now on. Hmmm.

Neway, back to Wow. The game is made up of 2 factions. Horde and Alliance. The 'good' guys are Alliance consisting of Humans (you and me), Dwarves (short people), Gnomes (even shorter people) and Night Elves (pretty people). The Horde made up of Tauren (cow people), Forsaken (dead people), Orcs (ugly green people) and the upcoming Blood Elves (pretty people for the Horde).

My undead warlock on an epic mount

Night Elf druid, Lulufei. Ah Fei's character

Both characters don't get play cuz we all made new characters on another server to play with Fatts and the rest.

Blood Elves will be a new addition to the game when the expansion gets released. Too many ppl were playing alliance because horde were too ugly. So they needed something to fix the imbalance. The new alliance race hasn't been decided yet.

You start the game by choosing a race you want to play and then your class or the type of character you are. Depending on the faction and race, you can be a Warrior, Priest, Rogue, Mage, Warlock, Druid, Shaman (horde only) and Paladin (alliance only).
You create your character and set off in the world, killing monsters, completing quests, saving the world that kinda thing. Theres a fair bit of stuff to do. Theres professions to choose from (engineering, blacksmithing, alchemy etc) and you can even learn fishing and cooking too.

Theres no real objective to the game. Just lvl your way to 60, collect more powerful weapons and armor, killing bigger monsters. Doesn't end until you decide to cancel your subscription :p You can solo the game for the most part, but theres a lot of stuff that you need to do as a group. You can enter dungeons called instances with party of 5 (and eventually raids of up to 40 ppl) The mobs in an instance are elite, meaning they are much stronger than a normal mob for the same level. Obviously, you get better rewards as well. After you reach 60, you'll mostly be doing instances to get better equipment and stuff. Either that or you PVP (player vs player) a whole lot. WoW has special instances called Battlegrounds (BG) where they match up horde and alliance players. You can pvp in the BGs or attack some towns or cities in the game.

Fark..wrote quite long lioa. Better start concentrating on work :p I'll put up some pics when I go back home kua. Put up some ingame screenshots or something [ed: put up some pics liao]. Make this post more interesting. Too much text can kill.

had my blog window open since i came in to work, but been too busy to write anything. its lunch time now, so got a bit of time to rant. i think i slept too much over the weekend. napped in the afternoon on both satuday and sunday. damn lazy weekend. just stayed home, played wow and read my book. i dloaded some movies to watch too. madagascar and 40 yr old virgin. heheh. too cheap to go out and rent. its cinema vcd quality though. the type where u can hear ppl laugh and see ppl walking around. should only dload movies after theres a dvd release.

what else? i think thats it. quite a sien weekend, like every other :p Now i'm thinking what I should eat. Easiest place to go is KFC. Aihs. And I wonder why I can't lose weight o_O My usual meal is a twister or fillet burger and a pack of wicked wings. $4.45 + $1.95. Reasonable meal ah. keeps me satisfied till dinner time. I'd prefer to have 3 packs of wicked wings...more chun n cheap. But then scared i kena stomachache.

i just called up MAS just now. check on airline pricing. The promotion thing ah fei told me about macam don't have liao, or he just quoted me the wrong price. If I fly b4/on the 15th of Jan its $900something. between 16th and 29th its $736 and after the 30th its $681. Tax not included of course. Tax is around $243. Almost $1k to fly back. Aihs. Dunno if its worth it. Can do a lot with that money. I think I'll take half day off tmr. Go down chinatown and see if i can scrounge a cheaper ticket. chinaman ticket agent should be cheaper kua. Anyway, earliest available flight is 21st Jan, so see how it goes.

Kla. Off to lunch.

its 1st of December. Almost end of the year liao. Feels damn fast. It doesn't feel like I've done anything useful during my time here. Especially this past year. Most of my resolutions also went down the toilet. Cis... useless me. Nvm, make brand new ones for next year ^_^ I kinda like planning and working out schedules and stuff. Did I mention that I made a timetable for myself? Not that I've really been following it. Included stuff like exercise, study and reading time. When u plan things out that way... it really feels like you don't have much time to goof around. I followed it ok in the first week I did it. But then it went down the toilet from last weekend onwards. Stupid WoW weekend :p My druid is lvl 58 now though ^_^ taking extremely long. Which is sort of a good thing. I think when I hit 60, i'm gonna be playing even more. Especially since I can finally join the rest in all the pvp and high end stuff. Aihs...

Mann... my computer at work is bloody annoying me. Have to give it a whack every 5 minutes. The power supply making a damn annoying noise. I think the fan bearings are stuffed or something. Stupid old computers... maybe I should move it to the floor. Yeah. Think I'll do that. Can get more space on my desk too.

i had to go to the company's computer supplier yesterday to exchange a psu unit that blew up. They had a couple of plush monitor covers on display. its basically a soft toy that wraps around your monitor. so cute! heheheh. they had a website printed on their label, but i think i wrote down the wrong one. it was sungmin.co.kr, or sunming, or something like that. can't figure it out. wanted to find some pictures of it. i tried googling, but could only turn up a cacafied product



that looks damn shitty though. the ones in the store much brighter. but anyway, i turned up something pretty cool when i was searching. i found a company called Hanspree that makes pretty cool tvs. Makes a great novelty item. The site is all flash, so I can't find any images to link.

Anyway, got to figure out what to eat for lunch. Getting a bit sick of KFC. Actually, I'm not sick of eating it, but just getting the stomachache that comes with it the next day. Must be something in their wicked wings man. I eat regular curry and stuff also no problems. Haihs... might end up going KFC to eat again though :)