Night Owl Chatterboxes - Part XXXVII!
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the wallet i'm currently using is currently in its 5th year. quite torn and tattered. figures i should get a new one. i went to the one at mandarin hotel, hmm citylink..maybe i'll go check it out tmr.. thx..Originally posted by the Bear:well, hope you find it
what about the Braun Buffel place? i think it's at the citylink place..
i just have a cheapo wallet
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hey.. i've not gone into citylink for ages.. not sure if it's still there..
ask first before going yah?
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I'm using an el cheapo wallet as well.
Didn't cost much more than $10, I think.
The way I see it, a wallet is just a place where my cash and cards are kept when I'm not using them. -
if i go to kuishin bo.. it doesn't make a diff right?Originally posted by the Bear:hey.. i've not gone into citylink for ages.. not sure if it's still there..
ask first before going yah? -
that's true... it's saturday tho'
hope you find itOriginally posted by stellazio:if i go to kuishin bo.. it doesn't make a diff right? -
1200 words? You should have been done with that novel in under 10 minutes.Originally posted by fudgester:Frankly speaking, I think Tom Clancy has gone down the drain.
His greatest novel of all was Executive Order, where the hero Jack Ryan (the dude whom Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck plays in the movies) becomes the president.
Longest novel I've ever read (1200 words), but it was a super-satisfying read. I can still remember setting aside time to read it while preparing for my JC2 June Common Tests... if I wasn't studying, I was reading it.
Unfortunately, all novels after that sucked. Rainbow Six started the rot.
My favorite Tom Clancy work is Red Storm Rising. Bought it to read on a Singapore-to-Minneapolis flight many years back; started reading it just after taking off from Singapore, and couldn't put it down until I had finished it, just before landing in Minneapolis some 20 hours later. -
My bad. I meant 1200 pages.Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:1200 words? You should have been done with that novel in under 10 minutes.
My favorite Tom Clancy work is Red Storm Rising. Bought it to read on a Singapore-to-Minneapolis flight many years back; started reading it just after taking off from Singapore, and couldn't put it down until I had finished it, just before landing in Minneapolis some 20 hours later.
To be frank, Red Storm Rising isn't in the Jack Ryan universe... but for some reason it seems to be counted as part of it.
But still, it's a very interesting and highly plausible scenario of what World War III would really have been like. -
I bought and read Kitchen in Melbourne. I think it was the first book I read there. I loved it and was very engrossed when reading it. There was a magical, whimsical feel to it.Originally posted by the Bear:i never read that stuff..
i like Murakami type books..
and i wonder if Banana Yoshimoto has any new books.. i love books like that
I highly recommended it to my colleague when I completed reading the book, she read it, then she politely said, "Not my preferred style. I found it a bit odd!"
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Yoshimoto's books are all a bit odd
which is pretty much par for the course for me
i like N.P. and Lizard best -
Oh! I shall go look for them when I'm back in Melbourne, then!
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saw that.. like i said.. it was weird seeing a lizard do thatOriginally posted by Ferret:
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Goodness! Some of these blogthings questionnaires are really interesting! Wondering if I should keep on posting or not because I don't want to be accused of spamming or something!
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AAAUGH~ I'm getting old!
when i jog my knee aches and it feels like my kneecaps are loose!
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you're getting old..
besides.. jogging is EVIL!Originally posted by kopiosatu:AAAUGH~ I'm getting old!
when i jog my knee aches and it feels like my kneecaps are loose! -
Have you busted your knees before? Any old injuries?Originally posted by kopiosatu:AAAUGH~ I'm getting old!
when i jog my knee aches and it feels like my kneecaps are loose! -
is it really because of age???Originally posted by the Bear:you're getting old..
besides.. jogging is EVIL!
i don't wanna end up like some uncles who wrap their knees with knee guards and play football!!! -
Your joints, ligaments, and the bits that lubricate your joints, do wear out with age, and esp if they have been over-used over time.
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I go three times a week.Originally posted by the Bear:you're getting old..
besides.. jogging is EVIL!
Does this mean I'm turning evil? -
knee... nope. strained it before but its not the "fall down clutching my knee in pain" kind. i think i jumped and landed wrongly but it was a a slight strain. that was some time back.Originally posted by fudgester:Have you busted your knees before? Any old injuries?
my major injuries are my shoulders and back. i wonder my back injury was my lower back or tailbone... now i'm also wondering if it possible for me to injure my tailbone -
they say glucosamine is good..
i'm too far gone for that to do any good -
what i'm afraid is that i land every step heavily...Originally posted by Rhonda:Your joints, ligaments, and the bits that lubricate your joints, do wear out with age, and esp if they have been over-used over time.
i think that will strain my knee more...
i don't have a pool~ i can only jog to exercise! -
People who listen to me know that I've been saying this forever - that each time you run / jog, when your foot hits the ground, your knees and ankles and foot are absorbing up to 4X your body weight!!Originally posted by kopiosatu:what i'm afraid is that i land every step heavily...
i think that will strain my knee more...
i don't have a pool~ i can only jog to exercise! So if you're 70kgs, that means 280kgs of impact absorbed!
Extrapolate that to the no. of rounds you do a week and the no. of years you've been running / jogging and ... I guess you get my drift!
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that's not glucose, the kind my mother makes with powder rite?Originally posted by the Bear:they say glucosamine is good..
i'm too far gone for that to do any good -
You are very very evil to your poor knees and ankles!Originally posted by fudgester:I go three times a week.
Does this mean I'm turning evil? 