A colleague of mine at the deli mistakenly gave a price tag of $100 to a piece of sandwich, which prompted bewilderment when a customer ran it thru the cashier.
"What on earth did you guys put on it, gold?" they asked, which tickled us all.
After the cashier took back the sandwich to the deli, my colleague then reverted the price tag back to its original price of $3.99
Otherwise, that would have turned into one of the most expensive sandwiches in town!
Do you know Milli Vanilli?
If you are born after the 1980s, chances are you don't.
Yet a friend of mine recently told me about how this musical duo achieved its notoriety for lip-syncing on MTV stage...and the tape got stuck.
What's worse, that particular song had won a Grammy previously, and as a result of that unfortunate incident, its award had to be revoked, causing downfall to the duo.
I know it's not funny to laugh at the demise.... But it certainly is to watch the video of how the lip-syncing went awry.
You can check it out on this Youtube link.
Lately I have been patronising the Barnes & Noble bookshop and the public libraries in Union and Florence.
Especially these American libraries...they are such a marvel, you can borrow 50 items at once (whether they are CDs, DVDs, audiobooks, or printed books) for 21 days!
In the libraries I usually spend the entire day -I would've stayed here from dusk to dawn if I could- but since it opens at 9.00 and closes at 21.00 every weekdays, I spend only 10 hours of my holiday hours there.
Now one thing I found amusing is my newly found obsession for bookmarks.
I've found bookmarks which advertises the library's website and some Starbucks promotion and what's so good of them is that they are free.
So now I've found what it means to be a regular guy, just like everybody else.
Because since my childhood, I've seen other boys collecting anything they are obsessed with: some ask for stamps, some collect soccer balls, others find love in kites, shoes, musical instruments, and some of those fucking rich brats always come to school with a new electronic gadget or cellphone every once a month or so.
While I was left by myself...the only male species found not interested in collecting anything.
But hey, I collect bookmarks now! I promise you people I'll upload a picture of my collection someday.
Having to use bike or feet as means of transportation from home to work, especially without any pavements on which I can safely distance myself off the passing vehicles, I always take the routine of driving against the traffic, which is the left-hand side.
That way I can safely see the cars and trucks coming ahead to me, instead of passing from behind.
Haha, being on the left-hand side of the road using the UK system again, eh? Guess it doesn't make much of a difference whether I'm still in Indonesia or living in America...my brain is still fixed to use the left-hand side of the road.
Now what makes me wonder is that some asinine drivers out there do not seem to be able to grasp the same sense of logic.
A couple of days ago I was klaxonned at and yelled at by a driver, who seemed to be furious seeing "this teenager who can't use his head to ride his bike on the right side of the road".
Thank God that I can't hear a single thing that he said, as he was yelling from inside his car windows. The only one who heard those cusses would be himself.
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