Check this out. It’s about the lifestyle of a window washer.
A window washer that is richer than us all.
This actually reminds me of another real life story. When I was studying in London my friend and I always noticed this “homeless” lady sitting outside Harrods in Knightsbridge begging for money. One day though, my friend happened to notice that when she finished work she walked further ahead down the street and she got picked up in a chauffeur-driven car. He was like WTF?!?
So I guess begging for money is like all other professions. If you’re good at it, you’ll make loads of money.
Today I flew into Chiang Mai to meet some of the Nuffies here that flew in a few hours before me. We’re in Chiang Mai this week for our long overdue company trip.
Our company trip is a combined company trip of the Nuffnang & ChurpChurp teams in both Malaysia and Singapore. We’re staying in this really nice resort here that I kinda neglected to take pictures of today because I was in a rush. I shall take many pictures of our rooms and resort tomorrow.
What I did take lots of pictures of though was our little group activity we did earlier today. A few hours after landing in Chiang Mai airport I found myself in a paddy field dressed like a farmer.
The activity that the organizers of the trip had planned… was planting paddy.
We were all broken up into teams and had a competition going to see who could plant the most paddy quickest and who could do it in the most organized “straight-line” way. You’ll be surprised, planting paddy in a straight line is harder than it looks.
At first I was hesitant to get into the paddy field because it was all muddy and all. When I did I could feel my foot squish the mud below it and it gave me a really gross sensation on my feet. I did eventually get used to it though and planting paddy became fun. It was extra fun given all the taunting and trash talking we were giving each other in the spirit of competition.
Today I learned that planting paddy isn’t easy especially considering how most paddy fields have a huge land mass. Even planting on that small patch we had in the hot sun was a challenge for us already. I now think rice is sold for too cheap… for the effort that goes into planting or growing it.
During lunch that day when I looked at the rice on my plate, I couldn’t help but wonder how long it took to plant the rice on my plate.
After our planting paddy activity we then had a cooking competition.
We were all taught to cook some Thai dishes and had to cook it to see who had the better dish. We made papaya salad, pattai and this really coconut milk based dessert with chestnuts.
Almost made cooking seem soo easy.
Alright I have to go to bed now. Have an early start tomorrow. We’re going to be riding elephants and going on some bamboo raft. So gotta get all the rest we need.
So I was talking to a friend last night about the drinking games he plays. It’s funny how most games center around having a dice or cards but the absence of such items don’t seem to stop people from playing games to get each other drunk. Here are the 2 of many that I like:
1) “A shot for every time you touch your phone”.
Somebody told me that he had read this online at first but it’s an extremely simple game. Everyone sits around the table and has casual drinks. But every time somebody takes out his phone to check his messages or Twitter or anything, that person takes a shot.
I love the idea of this because it turns the most “anti-social” habit that we all do, into a very social one. You be anti-social, but you make everyone else laugh about it.
2) TV Drinking Games
A well-known game some years ago was the “24 drinking game”.
See if you watch 24, you’d notice that Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) would go through the most intense action scenes and at all times he’s not allowed to curse the F word or anything around those lines. So he ends up saying the word “Dammit” a lot.
So college students back then started a drinking game where they would watch 24 and every time Jack Bauer said “Dammit”, everyone would have to drink a shot. Kiefer Sutherland eventually found out about the game so he started playing with his fans, saying “Damn it” as many as 14 times in one episode. Or saying 3 dammits in a row like “DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT!”. I remember seeing that.
This concept of a drinking game carries on today to all sorts of different TV shows and even to football matches. This friend of mine was telling me how they would all gather around with shots to watch a football match. Then they would all list down a list of “approved triggers” in which every time one of those things happen in a match, the person who is assigned it has to take a shot. Examples are like:
i) Every time there is a corner kick.
ii) Every time there is a free kick
iii) Every time there is a header
iv) Every time one team loses possession of the ball to the other team.
v) Every time the other team loses possession of the ball to the team you’re taking.
vi) Every time there is a foul.
vii) Every time the referee blows his whistle.
I say “approved triggers” because whatever action you suggest you want to take has to be something everyone approves of. For example, nobody is going to approve of you taking a shot only when a goal is scored because that happens too infrequently compared to the rest. My friend told me that of all the drinking games he’s played, that… was the most fun.
So what other drinking games do you guys normally play?
