Jack Neo, Only As Faithful as His Options This post will probably make a lot of my female readers angry, but I just got to say my piece. Watch the video above. Yes, Jack Neo screwed up. But was it entirely his fault? Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . The Second Preganant Man In The World The Second Preganant Man In The World – words fail me, there is no hope for the human race. [link fixed, sorry!] Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Holy. Shit. You. Da. Man Singapore. My last post about Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew was a hoax. However it was deliberate. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Japan Airlines battles black market in flight uniforms Japan Airlines battles black market in flight uniforms – Japan Airlines has told warned its staff not to sell their uniforms, fearing that laid-off air crew could try to auction their old stewardess outfits on the internet for a profit. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Wake-up calls are a kind of brutal ephiphanies delivered by caffeine addicts The cleaners at both my office and my apartment have been on the receiving end of my wrath, as I found the floors covered with a slick sheet of water. Later, I found out that what happened was that winter had abruptly been ended with a warm wave of air that resulted in a high level of humidity which covered exposed areas with moisture. It wasn’t my fault – I had no idea that the frigging floors could sweat like a fat kid on a sunny day. So today one of my people confronted me. Well, he wasn’t actually one of mine, since he reported to a manager that reported to me but in the grand scheme of things, I have the final say but anywayyyyyyyyyy…. he was really upset and had drove from his office location to my office location just to talk to me about his grievances. What happened was that he had gotten a bad performance rating. What upset him was that this was the second year in the row that he had received a bad rating. What drove him insane was his manager refused to elaborate on what was wrong with his work performance. Not being one to mince my words (also he was keeping me from my morning coffee, and since I’ve started drinking coffee again – anything that gets inbetween me and my coffee are not long for this world) I explained to him very calmly that he was in a pretty senior pay grade. One promotion away from managerial level in fact. And yet he seemed to be on auto-pilot mode, cruising through his career. He only does whatever he is told to do. Fails to display any initiative to improve current work processes or costs. Utterly dismal at following up on work we assign to him that gets stuck. There were 3 other people in the same paygrade as him. None of them needed to be ‘managed’. All of them did their jobs, and more. People in his paygrade exist to make life easier for their bosses. He sat down stunned in his chair at my brutal honesty and told me that he totally agreed with everything I had said and that this was a wake-up call for him. Apparently it had never occurred to him that he earned more money than the others for a reason instead of some twist of fate. And then I sent him on a long business trip to a backwards forsaken place in central China. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Lee Kuan Yew – Your Reach Is Far Indeed This problem so stumped Basicland’s politicians that they asked for advice from Benfranklin Leekwanyou Vokker, an old man who was considered so virtuous and wise that he was often called the “Good Father.” Charlie Munger references Singapore’s one and only LKY in a parable of Financial ruin. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – RGM version Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . 8 Types of People That Belong on Twitter 8 Types of People That Belong on Twitter Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Worst Sex Scandal Video EVAR Some Swami (Indian holyman) gets it on with a Southern Indian actress. You have to watch it to see how bad it is. Full details here. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Sadistic alpha-male gamer discussion thread In a Wheel Of Time RPG MUD (a long time ago), I was one of the Foresaken and therefore a real baddie. Whenever there were marriages in game, we’d attack them with the goal of being to steal the brides clothes and sac her corpse. One of the Aes Sedai (the good people) started talking to me semi-OOC, and asking me why I was such a dick and called me all kinds of bad names. I told her that I was once of the Chosen, and was commanded, blah, blah. Anyway, over a couple of months, I stopped killing people, became her warder, joined her team, etc… We got “to know each other”, and I asked her to MUD marry me. She said yes. I wrote the marriage script, and it was very romantic. I made sure to make her “I do” before mine. We had 100 people in the room at the time of the wedding. She said “I do.” I said “cast chain lightning”. The evil people standing around the room also chain lightninged. She ran. I followed. She died. I took her wedding clothes and sacced the corpse. OOC some of her friends emailed me saying that she was really in love with me, and she stopped eating and wasn’t able to make her classes, and I had destroyed her life. Sadistic alpha-male gamer discussion thread – here is my contribution. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Starbucks to sell ‘flat white’ for those fed up with milky coffee Just when you had got to grips with macchiatos, americanos and lattes, Starbucks has come up with another coffee to baffle you – the ‘flat white’. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . And now for something completely different: A Pregnant Woman With Nunchakus And now for something completely different: A Pregnant Woman With Nunchakus Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . (NSFW): Salman Rushdie’s wife is very hot. And she’s now a MILF. (NSFW): Salman Rushdie’s wife is very hot. And she’s now a MILF. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Maid Cafe in Dongguan .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sent from the mobile phonecam of cowboycaleb. I am having lunch at a maid cafe. The waitresses here are dressed in french maid uniforms. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Adrian Mole, The TV Series Growing up as a geek in the 80’s and 90′, we didn’t have any Harry Bleeding Potter. Instead we had ant-hero, poetry-spouting and the extremely obscure Adrian Mole. If you were a fan (or still are) of Adrian Mole, you’ll be interested to note that I’ve just discovered the download links for a Adrian Mole TV series made all the way back in 1985…. (link) P.S: For those of you in awe of this insanely obscure bit of useful trivia, this would be a good time to remind you of my incredible powers of blogging. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Can You Spot The Pron? According to Jems, this innocent looking site is a pron site in disguise. I can’t find any pron for the life of me despite all his hints. Can you find any pron? Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Why I’m Funny Why I’m Funny – nothing funny here, it’s a sad sad story about sexual molestation. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Malaysian Airlines Suck In Comparison With Singapore Airlines Malaysian Airlines Suck In Comparison With Singapore Airlines – I must say after being stranded in KL several times waiting for a connection back to Singapore, I must say I second this. Also, the KLIA airport sucks too. Coffeeshops that don’t take credit cards – what gives? (via Amie j.amouremeelea on Google Buzz). Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Hong Kong Girl Shows Off C Cup Breasts To Ex-Boyfriend Hong Kong Girl Shows Off C Cup Breasts To Ex-Boyfriend – oh this is so funny Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . There Are Many Ways To Do This, But I Did It This Way During my last trip back to Singapore, I bought a HP Pavilion DV2 laptop because it had a HDMI port and a dedicated graphics processor card. This laptop was then transported back to my apartment in China, where I have linked it up to my 46 inch flatscreen HDTV (It’s a AllView China brand which I’ve never heard of but the picture quality is very good). Why have I done this? Not to be able to work in 46 inch flatscreen luxury…. This laptop is now a dedicated home entertainment system. While I am at the office, it’s downloading movies, tv series, anime and pron nonstop from the Intarwebs. Then when I get home, I watch the shit in high-definition 46 inch glory. Being able to enjoy a new movie each day when I enter my apartment back from another day of dread at the office beats getting a blowjob from an ugly girl. My next project: Install a exercise bike in front of the TV so I can workout while watching Naruto kick Sasuke’s arse. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff? What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff? At one point Gandhi was asked if he was a Christian, and he said, essentially, “I sure love Jesus, but the Christians seem so unlike their Christ.” A recent study showed that the top three perceptions of Christians in the U. S. among young non-Christians are that Christians are 1) antigay, 2) judgmental, and 3) hypocritical. So what we have here is a bit of an image crisis, and much of that reputation is well deserved. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Someone just asked if I’m interested to cast for a Ribena TV Ad – He’s legit. But I’m almost 30, that is what I find funny. Someone just asked if I’m interested to cast for a Ribena TV Ad – He’s legit. But I’m almost 30, that is what I find funny. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Apartment Therapy: Home Hacks 2010 Apartment Therapy: Home Hacks 2010 Very suitable for cities like Singapore, where everybody lives in a filing cabinet except the ultra-rich, who live in landed property with very very small roads cramped further by rampant illegal parking. I now live in an apartment in China now, and I think the hacks listed here are pretty good. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Sony Make.Believe (http://www.viddler.com/explore/sceablog/videos/730/) Thanks to the incredibly realistic Sony Playstation 3 GRAN TURISMO – a car racing simulator, motorsport enthusiast Lucas Ordanez honed his skills on winning virtual races, until he was good enough to make the transition to winning real races in actual racing cars. Imagine going from racing cars in a video game to actually racing multi-million dollar cars on an actual track. It simply boggles the mind. Proof that anything that you can imagine, you can make real – with a little help from Sony’s make.believe. Sony would like to invite all of you readers, to take your ideas, creativity, imagination and curiosity and make.believe them into reality. So Sony is holding 2 contests online and you can join one or both of them. Dot Your Dream Choose from mediums like GAME.ME (for gamers), MOVIE.ME (budding movie makers), MUSIC.ME (tunesmiths) and TECH.ME ( gadget lovers) to express your own personal dream/aspiration. 1 winner based on highest votes online will be able to execute his/her plan to realise the dream with Sony’s sponsorship. Sony will assess the plan and support financially up to $100K to help winner realise the dream. Announcement of winner online on 16 April 2010. Submissions will commence from 11 Feb to 14 Mar 2010 and 8 finalists will be selected by Sony to be posted online for voting (1 to 14 April 2010) The second and third runner up of Dot your dream contest will each get $10K and $5K set of Sony products respectively. Photo Contest: Dot Your Moment The Photo contest is open to all readers with a passion for photography to send in entries. Do you have a photo that somehow manages to capture the quintessential essence of the moment? The trumph and the despair? The joy and the sorrow? This Photo contest offers winners the chance to take position at the side of football pitch of World Cup SA 2010 as fan photographers to shoot top football stars in action. 25 finalists will be posted online for voting. 8 entries with the highest votes will get the dream prize sponsored by Sony: -1 pair of air tickets (Not including VISA) - air port transfers - accommodation - 1 entry pass to the side of pitch - 1 seat to watch World Cup SA 2010 Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . No One Knows What the F*** They’re Doing (or “The 3 Types of Knowledge”) No One Knows What the F*** They’re Doing (or “The 3 Types of Knowledge”) Have you ever received praise, or even an award, for being great at something despite having no clue what you’re doing? Do you feel like a fraud, wondering what sort of voodoo you’ve unwittingly conjured up to make people think you know what you’re doing, when the reality is quite the contrary? Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . What You Don’t Know Really Doesn’t Matter If You Don’t Realize It Remember those awesome Pirelli Run-Flat tyres, I bought in Sept 2008? Well, I forgot as well. I thought since they cost so much and could continue running despite a puncture, they would probably last forever. I even ignored the fap-fap-ftsskkk-fap-fap sounds coming from the tyres for a couple of months. The photo above shows what happens, when you continue to drive a run-flat tyre, long after it’s gone flat. Note the extremely long gash at the side. I’ve switched to Michelin brand tyres now, because the shop I went to had run out of 16 inch Pirelli run-flats. My new tyres are so silent, I could sneak up behind you at 180kmph and you wouldn’t know until it was too late. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Dial-A-Heroin: A lethal business model targets Middle America Dial-A-Heroin: A lethal business model targets Middle America – one of the most fascinating pieces on crime business models I’ve read thus far in 2010. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Adam Khoo on why expats will rule Singapore Adam Khoo on why expats will rule Singapore… and Singapore agrees Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - . Friggin Ugly Grambling Singaporeans (With Pics) Singaporeans gambled ‘til they dropped, then slept on the floor, then gambled some more, to maximise their 24 hours under the $100 levy system. According to this report, Singporeans gambled until their legs gave out. Ugly? I think it’s to be expected. Copyright © 2010 Cowboy Caleb - http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com - .