Friday, September 16, 2005

The age of broadband

Sometimes not all things are best taken slow.

And I'm definitely speaking from experience here. I'm happy to say that I've finally left the world of slow dial-ups ( and the persistent ringing-zapping tone ) behind me - and ever since Cute Technohottie came over this evening, I've been surfing online on a much faster connection than I've been used to. It has been just so much torture waiting patiently for downloads to appear onscreen.

Need some rewiring?


Contrary to what I've been led to believe from the promises made by adult gay porn, the Technohottie didn't offer to provide any extra services but thanks to him, everything's going swimmingly now! And yeah, I did get his number ( somehow, I manage to get a lot of numbers but no follow-through.. Sigh! The fickleness of men ) and we did flirt a little. But then again, I actually do quite a bit of harmless flirting on the side :)

What can I say? Harmless flirting works! Don't tell me none of you guys have ever chatted up a pretty salesgirl, charmed her a little, commented on her hair... and walked away with a damned good bargain..? It gets me discounts, better rates and services, and hell, I even get to cut queues at the occasional line.

Before I forget.. a quick reiteration for the Englishmen out there... :) Sure the oer Malaysians here would be able to help but here goes...
Tai tais is actually a colloquial Chinese expression for those wealthy ladies of leisure who do nothing but play mahjong, gossip incessantly - and evidently do gym reps in the afternoons. Datins would be the Malay version here - almost the same actually except with way more glitter and flash ( and the thick black sunglasses, don't forget that! ).

Did I actually use the word kiasu? I guess I must have. Popularized in the region south of here - Singapore, I mean, it literally means a fear to lose in Hokkien dialect. Fear of losing out to others, fear of being unable to compete... hell, it's even in the Wikipedia.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yay, welcome to the world of Broadband. You can do a lot of things including something naughty. :-P Are you gonna?

Anonymous said...

Darn. Another one goes broadband. I so need to get one...

savante said...

Now I need to get Will to tell me how to download all that porn :)

Paul

Anonymous said...

Hey Paul, at least you did get Technohottie's number (I remember him ... heheh). And you got some follow-through with BBB after you got his number, so sometimes it pays off. ;o)

I don't have broadband, but that doesn't really bother me much (not yet, anyway).

And yes, who is the guy in today's pic? He is just too gorgeous. :oP

PS - thanks for the translations!

Petie said...

You can read about eMule on my blog about how to get porn :) The downside is that you would have to pay more electricity bills because the computer need to be connected 24/7

savante said...

Actually I'm not too sure who the guy is myself - one of those random hunks I see online. And yeah, he is pretty hot.

Paul