crazy europeans and co-workers
I read this on the MSN and thought I forward it to my two car nut co-worker Darren and Paul:

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BERLIN - BMW drivers have more sex than owners of any other cars and are much more active than Porsche drivers, a new German car magazine has found.

The German magazine “Men’s Car” found in a survey of 2,253 motorists aged 20 to 50 published in its inaugural May issue that male BMW drivers say they have sex on average 2.2 times each week while Porsche drivers have sex 1.4 times per week.

Following BMW drivers were Audi (2.1), Volkswagen (1.9), Ford (1.7) and Mercedes (1.6). Drivers of foreign car makes were also behind BMW with Italian cars (2.0), French (1.9), Japanese (1.8), Swedish (1.6) and Korean cars (1.5) trailing after.

Among women, French car drivers were top with 2.1 times per week followed by Audi (2.0), Italian (2.0), and BMW (1.9) with Porsche again at the bottom of the scale at 1.2 times per week.

Copyright 2004 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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Both of them replied via email:

Darren*: If you read further down in the survey, it found that a good majority of Jeep owners like to do it in the mud...

Paul**: Even further down you'll learn that air-cooled VW owners like to do it slow and smoke a lot...

Darren: you are correct - they are also fond of oil and various other lubricants!

Paul: That's because they don't like to burn rubber.

*Darren is the proud owner of a jeep wrangler and a jeep grand cherokee.
** Paul is the proud owner of a 92 jetta and and a 69 convertible bug that has been burnt down, taken apart, and on it's way to being restored.

beyond my comprehension
Mike's dad is going for surgery tomorrow, and the public hospital here in PJ, University Hospital, instructed him to be admitted this morning. E: "What? A whole day in advance? Wow, they must want to just monitor you and stuff before the surgery ..."

We arrived there after breakfast this morning, roughly around 9am. To cut the whole story short, mike and i left at 4:30pm to "take a break." His sister and mother took over our place from there on. He finally got admitted into a ward and bed at around 9+pm. A whopping 12 hours, from commencement of paperwork to admission to ward.

Can I get an OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH MMMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!
Everybody say AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!! (Tear my hair out, and shoot me now!)

I feel sorriest for his poor father, and all the other old and ill people there looking for treatment. But I guess this is what you get with a public hospital that is overwhelmed with uncontainable volumes of patients. Sigh.

flashback
Went to walgreens a while ago (at 10.30pm) to grab a box of Walgreen's Claritin aka Wal-itin. I got distracted by the pretty makeup aisle so I browsed for a bit.

Over the air, Kylie Minogue's Do the Loco-Motion was playing. Then came The Whispers' Rock Steady, and I was waiting in line at the check out counter, Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams (are made of these) came on.

It was a great trip down memory lane... I now have Rock Steady stuck in my head and have to go download it somewhere...

ps. Wal-itin works just as well as Claritin, at literally a fraction of the cost. I went from prescription Allegra / Zyrtec to prescription Claritin, to Claritin, to Wal-itin in the past 5 years. Wal-itin is by far the cheapest. And it works. Saved me a buck or two.

moms
Oh this is funny:

What My Mother Taught Me

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet!"

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
" Because I said so, that's why."

5. My mother taught me STRATEGIC PLANNING.
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

7. My mother taught me IRONY.
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
"If I told you once, I've told you a million times- Don't exaggerate!"

13. My mother taught me about the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out!"

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
"Stop acting like your father!"

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
"Just wait until we get home…"

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
"You are going to get it when we get home!"

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, you’ll go blind."

19. My mother taught me ESP.
"Put your sweater on! Don't you think I know when you are cold?"

20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
"You're just like your father."

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand"

25. And my favorite: My mother taught me about JUSTICE.
"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!"

sound
I have two internal hard drive in my POS computer at home. Lately they both started to act up and make that bumpin' and grindin' sound... I hope it doesn't crap out on me soon, I have too many things to deal with and not enough money to buy a new computer. Maybe I should go get a can of air duster and clean out the dust, hopefully that'll fix the problem.

Immediately after that, a massive data backup operation will begin. There goes my weekend.

straight ahead, one direction.
The song "straight ahead" or "geradeaus" in its original german version, is incredibly addictive... and even more so after watching the video featuring a cute little dancing CG figure.

I got the song off of iTunes, the extended version.

Title: Straight Ahead
Artist: Tube & Berger, featuring Chrissie Hynde
Website: http://www.tube-berger.com/