My friend Kitty has been looking around for a car. She thought she had found one for about the right price so she called the dealership. During the bargaining, and somewhat inappropriately, the car salesman mentioned the fact that his masseuse had quit and he was looking for a replacement, and had asked Kitty if she does massages.
Hahah, alarm bells started ringing right? But never mind, Kitty thought. She’d just say no and carry on bargaining. The sleazoid will not budge on the price but kept on dropping hints about the massage. Like WTF.
Ok, forget it. This was getting ridiculous so Kitty ended the call. Then it got creepy. The guy messaged Kitty to try to close the sale. He was willing to drop the price a bit but it was still not what Kitty wanted to pay for it. He kept on about how he really wanted to sell her the car and that he could drop the price a bit more if there were some side arrangements. *wink wink*
Kitty messaged no and said that she was no longer interested. And you think it would end there. But nope – the guy then toss out all decency and asked for sex in exchange for a lower price even though they’ve never met. As this wasn’t bizarre enough, it got even more bizarre after that. He messaged back and said that he didn’t send the previous message and asked her to not be alarmed. But he was persistent, “Do you still want to buy the car?” Hah!
In order to avoid any possible legal issues, I won’t mention the place or the guy’s name. Suffice to say though, there’s at least one sleazy car salesman in Perth who assumes that women will take him up on such an offer and that it’s ok to ask it like it was an everyday occurrence.
Though I must admit, I found it all very amusing when Kitty first told me the story.
In a classroom somewhere, the teacher had just played a montage of photos showing Rihanna’s battered face and bruises, and Chris Brown was there visiting the class to give a talk …
CB: And that’s how you keep your hoes in line. Any questions?
Kid: So you keep her in line by smacking her?
CB: You smack that bitch up. You know how your folks smack you up when you are being bad? It’s the same thing.
Kid: Ok, so how do you know when to keep your hoes in line?
CB: Oh you’ll know.
Kid: But how?
CB: You’ll know it because she will deserve it.
Kid: What do you mean?
CB: Ok it’s simple. Whenever you are pissed off, she deserves it! *smacks fist to palm”
Kid: Ahhhh. But won’t she hate you?
CB: Do you hate your parents? I know you do when they smack you but you still like having them around right?
Kid: I guess so.
CB: So yes they would hate you for a while, but they’d be thankful for it.
Kid: That makes so much sense! Thank you Chris Brown!
A 93 year-old man in Japan has been certified to have survived both atomic bombings that the US inflicted on Japan during WW2 – the only person to have done so.
Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on Aug. 6, 1945, when a U.S. B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He suffered serious burns to his upper body and spent the night in the city. He then returned to his hometown of Nagasaki just in time for the second attack, city officials said.
Now you can think of him as truly unlucky. Or, truly lucky because he’s survived the bombings and he’s lived to 93 years so far. What does that tell you? It’s all about perspective.
On the second day of the new year, because we had ran out of things to do, we decided to go to Bei Jing Lu for the second and last time of our trip.
It was a public holiday and what a difference it was in terms of the number of people.
How crowded? This crowded.
This was the view from inside a shop on the road. It was so crowded that I didn’t buy anything that day – it was too difficult to look for clothes and sizes with so many people around, and I wasn’t going to bother with waiting for the fitting rooms.
Here’s a short clip (0:15) to give you some idea.
As tiring and as frustrating as it was being in a sea of people and wading through the crowd, it was a trip.
Last week, the topic of women and the bad boys that they love came up in conversations with two separate friends. They both had this to say,
Bad boys fulfill some women’s need of mystery and excitement in their relationships.
I find that very true. That and also some women like to think that they can fix their men. Unless the man beats her up, the woman can also overlook a lot of his flaws if he’s nice to her in general. Then again, even if he beats her up, she’ll probably go back to him anyway.
Though for the most part, the men going into those relationships will remain the same. But perhaps the women who love them are merely going through a phase and will probably grow tired of looking after their bad boys. So if you can’t help yourself and fall for a woman like that, you just have to wait till she grows out of that phase, and hope for the best.
Dishifu Lu is a shopping strip in the heart of the city, much like Bei Jing Lu. Like Bei Jing Lu, the shopping was fantastic with lots of hole-in-the-wall shops mixed in with other multi-leveled flashy ones.
It’s also full of ornate buildings, like this colonial looking one that is the Peace Cinema.
And this one that looked like a gaudy pagoda that is the Tao Tao Ju Restaurant – they served fantastic dimsum.
At night …
the neon lights come on and it was super awesome.
It adds a totally different atmosphere to the place.
And just because they could …
Yeah, that’s the entire exterior of a mall lighted up by neon lights. Shame about the carbon footprint, but ain’t it pretty?
You can also sorta make out the number of people that were there – it was madness. Another thing about Dishifu Lu is, the road is not closed off for the pedestrians. Cars do still go through one part of it but people walk on the street anyway. This is best illustrated by the clip below (1:42).
