A grand wedding for 27 couples just entered the Guinness Book of Records - and it's for dogs.
I often wonder about man's fascination with dogs. True, a dog can be a friend, especially when all others fail you. But the extent to which some of us pamper our dogs is baffling.
"Oooh, I miss you whole day, baby. Come to mummy!"
Article - Darren
Images - Rodney (courtesy of Google Image)
Take for example the fact that a normal car can sit only two or three persons side by side, but a bus can take four in a row plus more standing, yet both cars and buses occupy the same narrow lane on the road. Never really understood how that's possible.
So when a friend told me about hybrid cars, I went: hybrid what? You mean a car that's able to convert into a duck and swim? That's very clever.
Of course, the clever one wasn't me.
I was not done, because apparently I went on to ask even dumber questions. You see, a hybrid car or hybrid anything is completely new to me.
When I heard that it runs on electricity, I wondered: do you have to charge your car like how your charge your mobile phone?
If so, do you drive into a docking station? Insert a wire instead of a petrol pump into the side of the car?
When it runs out of power, does the car give out a warning beep in the dying seconds like Ultraman?
The first model was launched by Renault in 2003. Soon the Toyotas, Hondas and Peugeots of the world followed suit with their own. The last time I checked, prices of hybrids are already comparable with those of normal vehicles.
I went Wikipedia to search for more answers. It threw me technical terms like PHEV, RESS and ICE to further confuse me. Didn't quite help.
But it also tells me what I now already know: that a hybrid saves fuel and is set to become more popular around the world.
I find that I'm exactly back to where I started. In my fantasy world, a hybrid car is still a cross between man and machine who talks like the one in Knight Rider.
I think my next-door neighbour is a freak. He weighs an incredible 180kg, and has a very beautiful Vietnamese wife. Let's call him Mr Big.
In the same house lives a handsome 60kg man, about the same age as Mr Big. I don't think he's married. Let's call him Mr Small.
Forgive me for thinking this way, but it just doesn't make sense for her to marry Mr Big if she has the choice of Mr Small.
But something else is wrong.
Never in the past five years have I seen Mr Big and Mr Small appear at the same time. I'd bump into EITHER Mr Big or Mr Small at the lift, never the both of them together.
And every time I speak to Mr Big in the morning on a certain topic, Mr Small would continue on that same topic with me in the evening.
Then it became clear to me: Mr Big and Mr Small are the same one person!
I've been puzzled for so long, and I'm pretty sure now. They speak with the same mannerism, drive the same van, and if I imagine Mr Big's face minus the fleshier portions, I get Mr Small.
That must be it!
How he manages to transform from one form into another, I don't know. Which one is his original self, I also can't tell. I suspect it's Mr Big, because he's the one with the beautiful wife.
Maybe someday before I leave, I should ask him directly.
Then again, maybe not. If he finds out that I know his secret, I don't know how he'll deal with me. All 180kg of him.
I guess some mysteries are meant to be unsolved.
Using the $, I went online to buy myself a pair of Timberland moccasins from ShoeBuy, which I discovered was cheaper if I were to buy them from USA, and deliver to Singapore using VPOST USA. This is because just like another online shoe company Zappos, they provide free delivery to USA. But upon comparing prices, I find that Shoebuy is slightly cheaper.
I also bought some good clone golf accessories and components from Hireko Golf for myself and my golf kaki. Another good place for buying branded golfing stuff cheap is this place called Rock Bottom Golf. I noticed that during some major golf events like the recent Masters, this website will have very good promotions like 13% off, or a dozen of re-furbished Titlest golf balls free for purchases above a certain value.Rgds, Rodney
