Mind map of a toddler

Anyone who has kids or regularly looks after children will find this funny and somewhat true. I especially like the muppet appreciation lobe. Oh Elmo how I have come to dislike your voice! Sometimes anyway :)

 

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Truly Random

Yesterday something happened that truly reflects the title of my blog. I was home in the afternoon and decided to take out the trash, the bins are only about 5-10 meters from my front gate. I threw out the trash and as I turned back there was an older Chinese lady walking towards me with some pieces of styrofoam to throw out. I smiled as you do and she started talking to me in mandarin ( my mandarin is not great, I usually resort to deciphering what they're asking through context and the few words I do understand).

It was a nice little chit chat but as I started heading into my place she asked to see the interior because the place she lives in with her daughter has the same layout except with only 2 levels instead of 3. I was shocked but I said yes because she seemed like a nice enough lady.

Here's where it begins to get more random. A few steps down the path she exclaims that she should go get her daughter to come over too and she started pulling on my arm insisting that I should come over and have a look at their place first. So with maybe a fleeting thought that I could possibly be in a Charlie the unicorn type situation I quickly locked up and head over to my neighbors.

The lady's daughter (Linny) was just as surprised about the situation and a little embarrassed I think because their place was very messy, my place is messy too I told her. So after making awkward introductions I chatted to Linny for a bit before her mother insisted on showing me their upstairs. The place was practically the same layout but without a hallway to upstairs and she had replaced the carpet with floorboards, it looked nice.

After a couple minutes Linny's mother proceeded to tell me about how she used to have a mole on her cheek in the same spot as mine and that she removed it herself by stabbing it multiple times with a needle and that it hurt for a month but after the scab fell off it never came back. @.@ it sounded pretty painful.

Anyway, we headed over to my place and my friend had been waiting for me outside. I quickly gave her a rundown of the situation which she found hilarious and let us all into the house. I showed them the garden and my plants, which I am quite proud of even though it is a little neglected. She was very interested in my vietnamese celery and shocked me again by asking for one of the babies that had started coming up around the base. So I dug up a baby plant and put it in a pot for her. Meanwhile jancypants is inside trying not to laugh.

So we head back in and I showed them the rest of the place to many comments on use of space, how big our tv is and asking if we had a son when they saw Kens nerf collection ( which has grown since the initial post) haha.

Then as her daughter Linny was trying to shooe her out because she knew that I needed to go grocery shopping for dinner, she proceeded to check out my parsley plant for babies as well.

Haha truly a random event of the evening/ month. I'm glad a got to meet one of my neighbors and that they are friendly if not a little strange haha. Tis my life's randomness :)

 

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Strange sightings in Ocean terminal

Cartoons on clothes (adult sized), life sized statues and an abundant variety of products with cute cartoon characters on them are a common occurrence in Hong Kong and from what I remember, quite a few asian countries as well.

Even with this knowledge I was still surprised when I came across this in Ocean terminal shopping centre. A counter for Hello Kitty perfumes and jewellery?!

A few floors down in the main kids area we came across a barbie clothes store :) It was so pink!

Chocolate bunny seats in one section.

And eclair seats in another.

There were a few cool looking window displays. Interesting, if not a bit strange.

Something that looks familiar?..... It's mothers crepe but here they call it mazazu crepe. Smelt good but I didn't try it.

This one was the funniest of the day. It's a place called faces but they've spelt it on their signage with 3 Ses. It really wasn't that funny at first until my sister told me that her friend said it looks like it says feces. What is seen cannot be unseen @.@.

 

Brilliant dominos advertising Netherlands

Dominos Pizza in the Netherlands is making an effort to be more eco friendly by switching to 100% electric scooters. The only drawback is the they are completely silent which poses a safety hazard.

Dominos marketing team in the Netherlands, lead by manager Carolien ten Cate, came up with am ingenius way to improve road safety and incorporate road safety. The scooters are all fitted with speakers that play human made engine sounds as their delivery scooters whiz around the cities.

As you can probably make out the guy is making car noises and intermittently saying dominos! Pizza! and it also say lekker which is Dutch for nice/delicious/tasty. Great subliminal messaging.

 

Reddit - oh no!

Ken installed the reddit app on my phone yesterday. Reddit along with so many sites on the web, including fml, is a huge black hole for time. Well maybe not black hole, what has less gravitational pull then a black hole? Not near impossible to get out of and there is a time dilation thing happening.

Surprisingly I haven't been spending lots of time on the site but time will tell. At the moment i'm still being easily suckered into the cutesy overload pics...

Not usually a fan of rodents but I like that their flying squirrels eating peanut butter left out by someone.

Anyway let's see how long I can resist the little alien and all the karma it could bring :)

Funny delivery guy story

A funny story Ken found on reddit this morning. Not sure what he was doing up at 5am reading reddit but he emailed it to me with the subject " I laughed so hard when I read this, I almost woke you up.

I though it was hilarious too, so I thought I'd share it :)

Not particularly weird but our intercom used to be pretty terrible in our flat. I was used to having to shout to be heard through it. One day a guy came up and asked me to do some tests for him so he could try to figure out what was wrong. We worked on it for about 10 minutes then he went off to "fix" it and I never saw him again. Never thought much about it.

Later that night, I ordered a pizza from the place along the road and got it delivered because I'm lazy. So the buzzer goes, I pick up and do the usual "HELLO WHO IS THERE?" I hear a yelp and silence...So I press the buzzer anyway and hear the door open.

Standing on the threshold, the pizza guy comes up the stairs, white as a sheet.

"Dude was that you?"

"What?"

"Was like the freaking voice of God in my head!"

Apparently the intercom had a serious upgrade and made me sound like an avenging Zeus.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/sxlt2/i_ordered_pizza_tonight_and_since_i_had_to_get/c4hx0hj

Here's a link to the opening post and comment.