Lousy Restaurant Manager

Yesterday (30th Dec'08) was my last paper whereby I can bye-bye to exam (at least for a while). My classmates decided to head to somewhere to chill out with a drink after our "curry" dinner as proposed by my classmate (Thanks Constance).

So we walk along the stretch of pubs & restaurants located at Clark Quay. Finally, we ended up at Asylum which is a pub-restaurant concept with pretty nice decoration. 5-10 mins into our 1st drinks, suddenly, we heard some noisy commotion in the background, to our disgust, the manager was reprimanding their service staff seated in the middle of the pub with volume much louder than the background music (see picture below - 6 waitress in white).

30 mins into the session, the disgusting ranting still on-going with no end in sight. Before I place my 2nd order of the night, a check with the waitress for an "estimated time" for that ranting to stop resulted in a quick reply "soon". Well, it seems to me that such saga is happening on a daily basis. True enough, halfway through my 2nd drink, the ranting finally STOP !

With further probing, it was mentioned that fat-so manager was actually from another outlet located next door !!! What a way to use another outlet to hang their dirty linen :)

By ignoring the presence and respect towards the customers, this tell how well she was "groomed" to be the manager of that restaurant ! In my opinion, she was completely off in the way she handled her staff at the expense of customers :

1. Wrong place to conduct prep talk (hang dirty linen in public ???)
   
2. Wrong attitude in delivery of prep talk
3. Wrong timing to conduct prep talk (during operational hours ???)

Well, if I'm the boss or her staff, I do will myself as well as the customers a favour in sacking this disgusting, fatty & pea brain manager. Guess, she really understand the meaning of Asylum to do such a stunt there.................

Will i go there again ? Hell No ! Unless I lost my sainty & seeking asylum there :)

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SOFT-WEEK : What will you throw ?

Apologize for the delay for the Scenario of the week due to my personal commitment for the past week or so.


Few weeks back, Kiki (contributed to our 1st Scenario of the week scenario) dropped me an email asking about what should be thrown at Bushy if you were the journalist in the press conference ?

So the start the ball rolling, may I begin the list of suggestion :

1. Sanitary pad (guess the number of casualty will increase due to the drippy pad)
   
2. lingerie (probably not going to fly that far)
3. Water bomb filled with ???
   
4. A packet of marijuana (if you do that, do remember to include paper and lighter)
   
5. Others

Just in case if you have forgotten about the issue, pls refer to the link here to recap :)

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English Premier League Video Highlights : 29th & 30th Dec 2008

Manchester Utd (1) vs Middlesbrough (0)



Hull City (0) vs Aston Villa (1)

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English Premier League Video Highlights : 26th Dec 2008

Aston Villa (2) vs Arsenal (2)



Liverpui (3) vs Bolton Wanderers (0)



Wigan Athletic (2) vs Newcastle Utd (1)



Stoke City (0) vs Manchester United (1)



Portsmouth (1) vs West Ham Utd (4)


Chelsea (2) vs West Bromewich (0)

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Merry Christmas

Hi Folks,

On behalf of the site, we would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a great holiday season ahead !

Take good care of yourself from the the "excessive partying" :)

Before we sign off, dedicate the following "non traditional" Jingle Bell song to you. Enjoy the bass :)

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Movie Review : Transporter 3

IMDB - 6.2/10 (7,149 votes)

Starring : Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova, Francois Berleand

BengGaBoy Ratings :

2/5 (Give it a miss)










Jason Statham once again is back as Frank Martin in the Transporter movie. Wat's up from this kung fu bald man up to this time ? Nothing much, very typical story line on how he suddenly been rope (aganist his will) into transporting a lady (daughter of a powerful political figure in Ukraine) from Marseilles through Stuttgart and Budapest until both of them ended up in Odessa. Throughout the journey, they need to fight the bad guys with endless energy and resouces. At the same instance, they need to keep alive by not straying away from their car due to a bomb is attached to their wrist (how lame).

Consistent as usual, Jason once again display his well choreograph kung fu fight against bad guys who doesn't seems to know how how to USE A GUN ! Anyway, if they knew, there wouldn't be much kung fu show. The lady, I thought should be someone prettier than Natalya who's face is full of freckles that kinda of turn me off. Beside, her acting skill is pretty armature that make me wonder has the economic crisis taken a toll on the movie industry that they cut cost at the expense of beauty ?

Anyway, not a movie I would recommend and I strongly give it a miss and take a nap instead.

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English Premier League Video Highlights : 20th & 21st Dec 2008

Newcastle Utd (2) vs Tottenham (1)

West Ham Utd (0) vs Aston Villa (1)

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SOFT-WEEK : Will You Stop ?

This event was inspired by a true event happened to my colleague a few weeks back while he was participating in Standard Charter Marathon Run (sorry bro, got to borrow your incident for this week's scenario).

It started off with a causal conversaton over lunch where he shared with us on what he did over that weekend. He wasn't too satisfied with his timing (5 hrs xx mins for 42KM run !!!!) as compared with the previous year. So I asked further, what could have been better or rather, what causes the decline in performance ?

Well, that's where the fun begin when he elaborate further on what causes the delay. 2 hrs into the run, suddenly, his stomach felt bad as if a tornado is whinning inside. At the same instance, he felt the tsunami is at the tip of his asshole, any further attempt to hold will result in undersireable consequences. Knowing the danger is just a fart away, without further ado, he dashed to the nearest toilet along East Coast Park and that cost him additional 12 mins !!! For once, I was wondering how the hell he managed to shit and pant at the same time, must be challenging enough !

Anyway, that reminds me of one incident that happened sometime in June this year. There was a marathon runner in LA who faced similar situation. However, he did not let that situation rob him of any additional minutes, instead, he controlled the situation by "uncontrolling" himself !!! Gosh !!! What a mess :)

So the scenario of the week, who's action will you choose ? Stop or continue running ?

Just to give you an idea on how bad it was

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Movie Review : Gran Torino

IMDB - 8.2/10 (2,274 votes)

Starring : Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Brain Howe and Bee Vang


BengGaBoy Ratings :

3.5 / 5 (Slightly above average - watchable)


After a hard day work on Friday, I was lying on the couch hoping to watch something to send me to bed earlier and I pop in Gran Torino knowing how boring Clint Eastwood can be. I was thinking to myself, within the next 15 mins, I should be dead asleep (the whole show is about 2 hrs long). To my surprise, though the starting is slow and abit boring, however, I was captured by how the show develop the characters (especially Clint Eastwood) and the friendship between the neighbours and himself.

Gran Torino is about a man who fought in Korean war in the 1950s. From then till present, he has been living in his past and not able to forgive something which the show did not elaborate. By the way, throughout the whole show, you will not get to see any war at all (so war junkies, take note).

Thereafter his wife passed away, he was left all alone by himself and a dog of course. He has 2 sons (during the show, only 1 of them is visible) and like in a typical storyline, both the son and daughter in law wanted to send him to home for the age and stun his property for $$$.

Living beside his home house a family from Laos. This is where the fun begin on how Clint Eastwood becomes a hero of that community and get up close and personal with them. Throughout the journey, he has come to learn about their culture and accepted their way of living. Likewise, Clint Eastwood managed to inspire a young boy who was lost in what he wanted to do in life.

Nothing is perfect and there are always trouble in disturbing peace. Watch on to see how the bond between Clint Eastwood and his neighbor grew to a point where great sacrifice goes beyond one's life................................

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Flying Shoes

Source : Today dated 15th December 2008, Monday (click link to read)

Wah lau ! First time President kana thrown at sia ! Not bad. Well, that hero was dedicating his throw to the widows, the orphans and for those who were killed in Iraq (see link). He should have used a "sanitary pad" instead of a shoe to reinforce the message across :)

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English Premier League Video Highlights : 14th Dec 2008

Portsmouth (0) vs Newcastle Utd (3)

Look at how Newcastle thrashed Pompey at their home ground :)



Chelsea (1) vs West Ham Utd (1)

Just what on earth those big boys are doing ???? Liverpui managed to stay on top on the league is all because of the big boys not performing !

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SOFT-WEEK : Sending your date back home

What a week for me. The past week has been pretty busy especially our dear brother Ken whom has just got himself legally married :) Well come bro to our MBA club ! Too bad, I wasn't given a chance to put on my pair of skinny jeans, painted black nails and to perform the infamous Jackass "Party Boi" stunt. Anyway, enough of whinning from my side, let's get on to some serious stuff.


Well, we are back again to another brand new week ! So how was the week for you ? Same shit different week ? Don't be, read on to set your mind thinking to kick off the Monday blues :)

Here's the scenario :

Imagine you were having a date with 3 beautiful ladies which obviously include a dinner together. After the dinner, you were suppose to send them back home as a form of displaying the gentlemen side of you (when the hell are we supposed to do that ????). However, you could only send 1 out of the 3 back.

Now, what do you think the girls must be thinking at this point of time ? I have listed some possibilities to aid you in your choice. May the game now begin :

1. You are riding a motorcycle. Thus, you could only send one back. Not unless the rest are willing to sit on your fuel tank :)
2. You are driving a 2 seater sports car.
3. You are driving a van, thus, it will posed inconvenience to the other 2 ladies whom are wearing skirt.
4. You are simply stingy and wouldn't want to waste petrol with the other 2 ladies (Hey, we are trying to be environmental friendly over here mar)
   
5. You are simply "Chee Hong" and you choose to pick the girl of your choice

What say you ?

Game on................

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English Premier League Video Highlights : 13th Dec 2008

Tottenham (0) vs Man Utd (0)

Aston Villa (4) vs Bolton Wanderers (2)



Middlesbrough (1) vs Arsenal (1)



Man City (0) vs Everton (1)

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SOFT-WEEK : Will you pick up that call ?

This is a new section whereby I hope to contribute crazy ideas to set you thinking about the actions to come from such scenarios ! Feel free to comment and contribute ideas to this section as well.

Anyway, for the debut, we managed to have the privilege from our anonymous contributor named kiki. The following scenario were inspired from one of his recent trip to a gent.......................

If you are shitting in the office toilet.. and you get a call on your HP... do you pick up the call? If only sometimes, which are the calls you would pick up and which ones won't u pick up...

Cos I was just peeing in the loo... and a phone rang.. and someone (whose voice I recognized) actually picked up and started having a conversation... I fould it unusual as I would not pick up.... if I can reach the phone, I would reject the call and sms the fella that I will call back. What abt you? :)


Hmmmmmm........sounds like a tricky question to me. Anyway, I may or may not answer the call (depending on who was the caller).

Yes, I will pick up the call if that caller is somebody I detest alot. When on earth you got a chance to fart at that person "legally". Though he/she could not smell it, but the sound and the thought of it will set you on a winning streak with sky high confidence and pride. If you need some audio to set you thinking of how it sounds like, click on the following link (Warning : It's a long and wet fart).

No, I will not pickup especially during "warring session" whereby the "projectile" is near the end of the tunnel, it certainly going to cause some level of "u-turn" since the process has been disturbed !

Lastly, I wouldn't want to risk any damage to my image I build over a period of time. That's what we call brand marketing. Unless, if you are really interested to show ppl how loud and deadly those fart sound to be, by all means, be my guest. But never do that on me hor ! Hahaha.

So folks, what's your pick ?

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Sex for pass - ICA Officer Charged

Source : Today dated 3rd December 2008, Wednesday


Wow This is the 4th case of corruption by Singapore ICA in recent times. Earlier on this year, an ICA specialist was charged for $30 bribe ! See link.

Another top ranking immigration officer was charged with 27 charges (including harbouring an illegal female immigrant from China). See link.

Last month, a high ranking ICA officer was charged for accepting bribe totaling S$140,000 over a period of time. See link.


Now, we have the recent case of another ICA personnel accepting bribes in the form of sexual favour ! Very entrepreneur but still get caught !

Anyway, kudos to our Singapore CPIB, good job ! Just in case you are interested in how he (who accept sexual bribe) looks like, see below or link :



He definitely do have a TK look sia ! Anyway, kudos to his wife with unfailing love and forgiveness to even bother bailing him out at a cost of $6K !

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A 4.3% wage hike, really?

Are you sure ? Read the following link (Source : Today dated 2nd December 2008, Tuesday)

Well, I guess, with those cost cutting measures and retrenchment only to benefit those people getting those 4.3% wage hike !

Based on what I know today, companies are imposing longer than expected period of shutdown, shelf aside annual pay increment and variable bonus and some companies even have trouble paying their employees AWS !

Gosh ! Looks like we are having a rough ride for the upcoming days to come. Stay strong and all the very best in staying afloat for this tsunami.

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Woes of the Creditor

Source : Today dated 2nd December 2008, Tuesday

What an interesting read ! I did not know until now, you could only get bankrupt if you owe your creditor $10,000 and above ! Based on the article, you could get away with paying only $100 to make it $9,900 instead :) Nice !

Beside, those bankrupt will be discharged from bankruptcy after a period of 3 years ! Best of all, in the event of a confiscation exercise, the debtor will somehow be notified in advance before the commencement of the auctioning exercise ! How thoughtful :)

Bottom line, make sure that your debtor owe you way more than $10K and assets are heavy to "sneak away" in advance during an auctioning exercise ?

Well, I leave it up to you since I will not have that much money to lend anyone at all :)

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Guest Bloggers Wanted !

Dear folks,

Currently, we are looking for guest bloggers to contribute to the site. If you think you have crazy ideas, observation or encounters, frustration and life in Singapore you would like to share, pls drop me an email (BengGaBoy@gmail.com) so that I can assign the publishing rights to your ID.

Thanks

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Stories to Chase Away Blushes

Source : MyPaper dated 28th November 2008, Friday

What a marketing campaign initiated by Durex to promote safe sex. Too bad, I did not bother to go to Orchard road over the weekend to grab myself a copy of that wonderful and sexciting "Kamasutra" handbook :)


Nevertheless, Durex has compiled a booklet containing 7 juicy stories documenting most embarrassing sex stories shared by their volunteers ranging between the age of early 20s to late 30s. Though the book is targeted at 18 years old and above, I'm not too sure whether there is any PG18 rating on the book :)

Who knows, in future, instead of publishing in a form of booklet, Durex reenact the event and distributed via the means of a viral video. Of course, at the opening warning messages should be included to prevent home viewers from practicing at home without the supervision of their parents :)

Anyway, if you do have a copy of that book, feel free to share it with the net citizens out here by dropping me an email :)

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