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| UltimateHumiliation
So much for Xanga not allowing me ever to type Chinese (and never replying my help mails),
Check it out at your leisure...
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| DeliveringTheGoods
I'm a happy man today ...
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Sounds crazy, but i had a miraculous game of golf with V uncle this morning from 11am til 4pm - all 18 holes. It doesn't sound so crazy when you realise that i've been going to the range everyday for the past 7 days. Talk about obsession haha.
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Anyway, there was HUGE pressure to "deliver" today given my huge embarassment last time with uncle haha his shaking head, his look of disappointment and that "topped again?" look just kept ringing in my head since hehe... it was time for redemption.
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At the first tee my heart was actually thumping like 100 bpm and loll and behold it was ... a top.
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But fortunately by the 3rd hit i was on-track with my 120balls/day for 7 days a week "trance" and i delivered - i was so glad. And once you hit a rhythm in golf, you just keep "getting it" - nice.
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Anyway, didn't really have time for photos (uncle walks FAST) but will try to post one once i can download it.
So lucky!
A thinking man's game ... a solitary game.
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| SydneyMotorShow2006
You guys probably wouldn't know, unless you're a fanatic like me and buy Drive every week on Fridays and then also on Saturdays, but Porsche Ing. AG Sydney aren't having a "stall" (if i could call it that) at the Sydney Motor Show this year!! -- WOULD YOU BELIEVE THAT?!
Well, until common sense and/or commercial instinct gets the better of their selfishness (!) I have better plans for now... (aka "fark this")
Introducing, meichow_porsche's very own SydneyMotorShow 2006:
"Beauty & the Beast"
Presumably the Post-Master General's vehicle of choice at McMahon's Pt
A Classic on Cheenatown, Sussex St
Porsche Ing. AG should really pay me sponsorship money for this
It was pouring rain at Surrey Hills and still I had to get a shot with my
preferred model "Turbo"...
Definitely not an accountant's car (spotted Sussex St, PWC Office)
I risked my life gettin this shot ... this Cayman S came with complimentary Mongkok punk
Stuck in Traffic
Looks like he may be in a rush to get onto theRun:Sydney (East ED outside Supacentre)
Ferrari at The Cross, William St.
Even the Shanghainese are getting into it (Porsche Centre, Xintiandi, Shanghai)
Even the hardcore Porsche enthusiast needs his Sea-urchin fix from time to time ...
An ol' classic courtesy of Oneblackpaper. I think he called it "Wishful Thinking"
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| nut'nmuch
Just enjoying my holiday lately, haven't written for AGES...
Playing games =P (much needed catch up: Hitman BM & Tiger Woods PGA 2006 - can you believe toto is inerested in it?!), getting my golf swing back into shape (!) it's lookin good!
Hope to catch some Shanghai-met friends soon! (Reen? Jaa? Coke?)
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| MetrosexualBeggar
Originally 1 June
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met·ro·sex·u·al-beg-gar  ( P ) Pronunciation Key (m t  -r -sk sh -l)
n.
- New-age hygiene and budget-sensitive young man who roams the streets (esp. Sydney City).
- Young man shrouded in the stresses and sufferings of studies in College of Law & CFA simultaneously thus forced to study, in essence, 12 hour days.
adj.
- Of metrosexual natured beggar.
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OK,
so for the past few months (especially after losing my home) I've been
living the life of a metrosexual-beggar (MSB). Yes, that's right, MSB,
you didn't hear me wrong.
The typical MSB with "wake-up-look" hair, hunched over,
worn clothes and random Simmons&Simmons bags
The metrosexual-beggar has certain defining characteristics which may help you spot one of the streets of Sydney:
Cheap Food
The MSB always knows at what time various sushi stores around the
Sydney City area begin to sell 3 sushi rolls at the price of 2, usually
for $3.60 or if you have an immediate urge and need to cure that hunger
quick then $3.50 for two but with the (hopefully) added choice of the
wasabi squid - which can give the MSB a real boost at 3.50pm.
Never go for the focaccias and turkish breads ($5 at 3pm onwards)
because apart from the fact that breads go hard, it is not a true
reduction in price over the sushi.
Oh yeah, Woolies sells 1.5L water for 99c ... hey what?! Even a beggar
needs to drink fluids to help his body catch up with his mind right?
Formal Attire
The
MSB will always be lugging his 99c 1.5L water in one hand and have a
bag full of CFA (6 books of 3000pgs each) and College Law books (3
Practice Papers of 300pgs each and Unit Notes all printed out cheaply at the free printing at St Leonards).
And like all true-to-style beggars, the MSB also carries all these
random (shopping) bags with all sorts of personal belongings all
hanging all over the place - this being the invaluable
Simmons&Simmons enviro-bag you see in the rare photograph sighting
of an MSB above - come on, the MSB is afterall metrosexual, you didn't
seriously think he'd walk around in plastic now did you? At least
upper-enviro style. (note: think I need a Coles shopping cart soon)
Toiletries Essentials
Some call it MSB Skin Supplies for Men, I think I just call it "commonsense".
The MSB will scoure the whole Sydney City region for the cleanest and
roomiest toilet and be able to pinpoint one within seconds in any 100m
radius of Town Hall (nb. never use Town Hall Toilets - virginity at
stake  ).
The MSB has been known to set record times (under 10sec) for setting up
the males-only toilet seat paper protection unit which will allow him
piece of mind using public toilets. The slip-by-slip style
dispenser will hinder the record time often by up to 5 seconds.
The MSB has expert observation powers within the public toilet
domain. He has often seen other superior higher-class males do
their thing then immediately head for the door, without even thinking
to wash their hands - or even more absurd, doing the big stuff and then purposely not washing up. Even by MSB standards this is unhygienic.
However, the grand prize of the toilet must go to the "MSB Toilet Door Handle Paradox" (some of you may have once a upon a time thought about this paradox).
If you stand around toilets enough (inside of course), you will notice that people often avoid opening
the door, presumably for fear of dirtying their hands on the door
handle (now, are these the washers or the non-washers, who would in
fact be the ones doing the dirtying? That's another matter). So
the MSB, living true to his name, is a hygiene-conscious new-age young
male who is skilled in the art of following people out the door to
avoid contact with the handle - HOWEVER, one time, a superior male
thought that he would get the better of an MSB by "countering" and
reversing the MSB's exact strategy
- how cunning! So there you are, picture two males both standing
at the hand-dryers (which are conveniently close to the door) WAITING
for the other male to go for the door, at which point the "waiter"
would spring into action and follow centimetres
behind! Yet this cunning superior waited and stared, PRETENDING to dry
his hands despite him never having washed them in the first place and
waiting... waiting ... waiting for MSB ... but the MSB would not let
this fool get the better of him with his years of experience in toilet
training - so we waited: ... 2mins ... 5mins ... geez not many people
use this toilet eh? ... 8mins ... damn, that guy taking a crap is
taking some time ... my skin's getting cracked ... 10mins ... 11mins
... BOOOM!! Door swings open, middle-age man intending to use the male
toilets, gets barged away by two males with dying patience and cracked
hands. (note: Need that $1.99 hand cream from King Kong Sales)
In fact, there's more to the MSBTDHP if you'd like to hear *
Park Bench
What B can't go without his signature park bench nap?
Well, the equivalent MSB style (M for Metrosexual remember) is over the
library bench (well at least Sydney City Library has huge timber
"benches" as tables anyway).
And how refreshing it is? A quick 10min lie down surrounded by Korean
foreign students learning English ... it helps to keep you from falling
asleep... Anyong ...
DURRRHH!! wake up! what was that?! Perhaps the most embarassing
moments apart from drooling are muscle twitches which ISN'T a good
sight when down on a hard wooden bench BANG! haha ppl pretend not to
notice ...
I'm a firm believer and advocate for afternoon naps. If your body calls for one at 2.50pm then why not let it have it? It's
only nature calling ... and the proof is in the energisation (word?)
you feel AFTER the park bench nap ... My conclusion is that it can only
be the natural biological way. Don't feel guilty! Take it!! 
I should get my 99c water wrapped in a paper bag haha...
Previous Sightings
Those
of youse lucky enough to be in Shanghai late 2005 would have easily
spotted the 20 RMB-clutching MSSB (S for Shanghainese) lining outside
the 70c ("qi mao") arguing with locals about why the hell he's ordering
before me when I was standing in front of him.
A MSB may not have much money, but he DOES have dignity ... haha
Well, there you go. The life of an MSB. What could be more interesting?
But no seriously guys, I DID live thru and experience some of the above
events (some true some exaggeration of course - what is life without
poetic licence?) and it has been an interesting journey to take a
detour in life ... it opens your eyes 
BASED ON REAL-LIFE EVENTS
enjoy.
~ meichow
In 2006, MSB
found a job and love and is now working for $11.60/hr - he owns a home
and lives with his family in Epping, Australia now.
* Formal apologies
go out to Alison for this blogg for basically publicly disgracing her
boyfriend, although I will assure you I won't take you out to maccas
for dinner again ok? =D ... haha nono, hey, if even I'm not fussed at
having a bit of a laugh at myself then no-one should be concerned!
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THE SEALED: MSBTDHP Section
* So you want to hear the rest eh? ... Well it goes like this.
Say you've washed your delicate hands already and are approaching the
exit but visualising that dirty bacteria-infested handle (applies even
more for those friends in Shanghai =D) then wouldn't grabbing the
handle just totally NEGATE the whole point of washing your hands?
(Well, considering that not everyone DOES wash their hands - someone
give me female statistics =P)
So what do you do?
Well of course go for the EDGES of the handle, where FEWER people grab
- given that most ignorant people would JUST GO for the handle and grab
what is the most obvious spot - the middle. So done deal! Problem
solved, go for the edges and you've got hands cleaner than Snow White
... right?
Haha, unfortunately not (otherwise this would be MSBTDH and not MSBTDHP right?).
Why? Because the paradox goes that if everyone were to think LIKE YOU
(oh so smart) then that would mean that the dirtiest part of the handle
would in fact be THE EDGES ... and in fact, NO-ONE would grab the
middle and the middle would be as clean as the janitor left it this
morning
Joke isn't it? Well that's what a MSB thinks about whenever he
visits the toilet and it's been a Q that's plagued him for YEARS!
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