yandao.com - Memoirs of a player wannabe

This, effectively, is what I dub the Chaos in a Can.
(yes, Jolynn, you’re probably reading this, and you know you missed the chaos-effect by several steps back)

Red Chaos!

No, its not your average party foam spray (though you probably won’t get any results if you search that in Google, *ahem*) when abused used in the typical office/workplace/work-environment.

List of difficulties faced with experiment: (read: The Chaos caused)

• Whole “reception” area got sticky with foam
• Had to mop up the whole area with a cloth. No, not mop, cloth; rag; scrap fabric, yes?
• Counter turned into a huge pepperoni pizza with red and green foam
• Curious stares from potential customers

Assesed Damage:

• Birthday girl’s top was thorougly soaked with red foam; Had to wash everything off. (yes, the wet-top sight was.. errrr. just kidding.)
• In the aftermath, another visitor got “owned” with red foam.. Soo. There we go again.
• Some other gals/guys got creamed. Including greym0nk. yes. Actually he was part of experiment crew.
• $4 for the sprays. Heavy, huh.

Sometimes, it can really surprise me to see how people can almost burn down a whole birthday cake.

Can someone really stick a candle so poorly that it falls into the cake and start consuming unfresh whipped cream from Bangawan Solo as (solid?) fuel? Sheesh. The whole cake was almost burning. Melted chocs tasted good though, especially with blueberry paste stuck somewhere when the baker decided that he was short of filler or something. Aiyah, what to do. We just buy the cakes and give them, not as if we know what the baker put in there.

Still.. I’ll stick to my Swensens/Haagen Daz ice cream cakes for those really sweet ones out there.
(that was supposed to be a very very subtle hint to message/sms/email me your birthday and remind u to get u a kinky present with a cake and probably a bouquet or something)

I’ll probably concoct some strange cocktails tomorrow with whatever leftover soft drinks in the 2 door fridge. Pffty. – maybe they’ll taste good!

…was a question one (or let’s just say, two) of my P6 students asked me yesterday. No, seriously.

They must have read yandao.com and understood the meanings in “food”.

Hah! No, lah. One of them had a guy, using the same pickup line as on others, try it on her.. Interesting though, she described it as a “method”. What’s even more interesting is that they’re just twelve. (Then again.. My first movie date was when I was 11, so I’m not.. commenting. Heh.)

Pickup Line
(Figure #1: Pickup Line. How guys pick up…errr, girls fish.)

Anyways, of course I denied their allegations on the spot. I’m not supposed to corrupt them, you know. But, what they said really set me thinking of things in the past. Way back. Back then when I was still a regular at Music Underground and asking different “friends” out every night.

My address book at that time was probably bursting 500, with new contacts being added daily. I still do see some of the contacts I deleted from MSN being online occasionally (in the past, MSN had a 200 contact limit, you see.).. Somehow, don’t feel like approaching them.

Maybe that pink/black plate of  Tamagoyaki Sushi (see below: Japanese Egg Omelette – correct me if I’ve got the terms wrong) changed me.. Nevertheless. Other red plate dishes surfaced. I think I’ll go for those, yah? Looks more attractive! Hah!

Egg Sushi!

Anyways, I suddenly realised that the same lines were used always used buy fellow, er, guys for this very purpose. Suddenly, I feel I am no longer creative. Must think of new lines. Okay. Time to apply collective brainstorming.

IDEAS GUYS/GALS?! Anyone? I’ll give the one who gets the best suggestion a dvd =P

Okay. I’ve been dragging this for so long.. And its something I’m bothered about – extra pics waiting to be uploaded. Sooo. Here.

How to make Citrus Salad

Ingredients:

Around 5 bright red apples (get those expensive ones) – cut into cubes
2 Lemons – sliced
Grapes – around 20~30 pieces
Mango Juice
Fresh Prawns – steamed/boiled + deshelled. Cut into cubes..
Pineapple – de-skinned and cut into cubes. Get fresh ones; they taste better..
Coleslaw Cream - Kraft
Japanese Egg Mayo

Directions:

Grapes Lemons Apples

So basically its supposed to looke something like that.

Starting with pineapples as the base (as they’re sweet – we want to spread the taste), add mango juice and stir well. Mash it if desired.

Add in apple cubes, lemon, and grapes – try not to destroy the shape of the grapes, yah? They look better whole.

Cut everything up in a bowl..

Juice and Mayo

Here’s the secret to giving it a slight egg taste and the sweetness! Pour in.. I’d put around 5 squeezes… of the egg mayo, that is. And around say 1/4 cup of mango juice – just to give it sweetness…

Mix it up and it looks like…

Mix em!

Ta dah! Citrus Salad – my name for it. Call it something else if desired

Hmm. You’ve probably seen this floating around elsewhere and already thought that its fake. But its real! I’m using it right now, not because I’m a sucker for the GUI (graphical user interface), but rather because of its Offline Messages function.

Yes, you read me right, Offline Messages – the same thing we had in ICQ (I’m 64514888) back many years ago, and still do now, and the same thing that’s preventing Yahoo! Messenger users from making the jump to MSN Messenger.

I don’t really know why some people are reluctant to update to it, but.. Here’s my review of features in a nutshell:

• Ability to change colour scheme to ANY, yes any, colour. (for the geeks, yes, you can type in RGB codes)
• 2 (or is it 3) ways of viewing your contact list (big icons w/ display pic, no display pic, etc)
• Folder Sharing – share your whole folders instead of just files
• MSN Spaces integration
• Offline Messages (read above)
• “Calling” another computer – gonna try that soon.
• Subscribing to contact updates
• Adding of nicknames; now you can name your boyfriend/girlfriend discreetly so Mum wouldn’t notice the lovey dovey message in his/her nickname.
• Better support for Whiteboard, Remote Assistance, Application Sharing
• Complete Handwriting support (did i miss something?)
• *FUTURE* Support for Messenger Plus! Live (or is it the other way round?)

Get it from the Direct Download Link from Microsoft’s Servers if you’re interested. My take is that it’s stable and alot faster than MSN Messenger 7.5 which was bloated with… Probably unused API’s and whatnot.

Next on the agenda would be…

…the fact that I’m giving away free *@intrenet.org E-mail accounts, which are hosted by Microsoft’s Live Custom Domains Beta. What’s the deal? Basically, you need a domain to be able to play with that. Ahh, for those who just want to get a piece of the fun, drop me an e-mail at kelvin@yandao.com. I’ll fix you up with something, probably 250mb but Microsoft would turn it to 2.5gb in a while after I invite you for Windows Live Mail.

That’s about it, for now. Sorry I haven’t posted the recipe. =x Getting lazy. Oops.