All I want for Christimas is a Q9H

I’m an animal lover. I love all sorts of pets and used to keep a dog, hamsters, a rabbit, a couple of fish, and a parrot all under the same roof in in Ang Mo Kio. But after shifting to our home in Tampines, all the pets have either passed away or are given to friends, except for the parrot.

The African grey parrot is the smartest of all categories of birds.

I wanted to keep a rabbit in the house, but mum said that rabbits are lazy, do nothing all day and their poo stinks like hell.

I was upset. But that’s fine since nowadays you can keep pets in the virtual world.

Fancy keeping a dragon as your pet?

Feed them with food, watch them grow and race with rival pets. My monkey in Facebook can even play mahjong. How cool is that?

Pets have become such an inaugural part of people’s lives that they begin to appear everywhere. First, they appeared on kid’s handheld devices.

Still remember carrying one of these to school?

Next, they show up on calendars and posters

Then, people started making movies about pets.

Raw is War. Rawr!

They’ve even crawled their way into our web messengers.

These bunnies known as Tuzki (兔斯基), are popular with web messenger users due to it’s cute animations. It was created by Wang Momo, a student in the animation department of Beijing Broadcasting Institute.

The popularity of Tuzki has soared beyond imagination, generating healthy income for Wang Momo. She now makes a living designing Tuzki posters and postcards, taking the rabbit beyond the definition of an internet idol.

And now, Tuzki can be spotted in mobile phones!

Hello Moto?

The Motorola Q9h is an intelligent device and packs tons of goodies. Running on Windows Mobile 6.0 platform, Tuzki does all the hardwork while you relax over a cup of coffee.

All your work will be taken care of while you sit back and relax.

Q9h comes with Internet Explorer preinstalled, making internet surfing a breeze. You will definetly not miss an email again.

The future comes tomorrow baby!

The best part about Q9h is the ability to publish your blog entries on the move. Now I can broadcast my posts when and where I want to, sweet!

Tuzki busy writing a soon to be published blog post.

Q9h understands your moods and animates according to your feelings, like now. I’m having my exams, I want to play but I can’t, I’m stuck!

When you’re feeling sad and lousy, Tuzki will stand by your side.

Tuzki even wishes you happy birthday when the big day arrives!

The Q9h makes the best travel companion, even Tuzki can’t get enough of it.

Get it at your nearest tel-co stores today!

Unfortunately, I am poor I do not have the financial power to own this neat piece of gadget yet.

Will Santa say “Hello Moto” to me this Christmas?

Strange behaviours happen only during exams

My first paper in NTU commences later at 5pm.

Don’t you just LOVE exams?

Exam period is probably the only time where weird people do even weirder things students do things out of the ordinary.

1) Going into Mugger Fugger Mode

One friend of mine decided to switch off his mobile phone and go into hibernation, and I’ve never heard from him since.

David (aka 17th CAC Pres) another friend declared his hibernation by hiding in his hall room, and declining all our dinner/supper invites.

This female friend thought that since studying is such a bore, she rather spend her time drawing building castles.

Her castle. Nice right?

Some prefer to vent their frustrations online rant it out or put up a public service announcement.

Others decided that since they can’t beat the questions, they might as well write logically correct answers.

This would probably not make it into the Ten Year Series’ model answers.

2) Are study sessions meant for studying only?

Exam period is when you spend endless hours studying and indulging in never ending snacks while no one will blame you for getting fat.

Donuts, puffs, cakes, chips, and even Newater!

Exam period also means a colouring competition. Time to showoff your highlighting colouring skills!

Hey sista, might as well highlight the whole book right…

It is said that concentration only lasts for the first 2 hours, and the brain will start to drift away.

That is so true. What was supposed to be a discussion turned into a friendster/facebook gossiping session.

1 hour ago…

Everyone mugging hard.

1 hour later…

Come leh, gossip leh.

3) Myths and taboos

When you buy packed food, you will say 带走 instead of 打包, beacuse 打包 is such a CURSED WORD and you don’t want to 打包 your modules.

There is also a myth, that getting a haircut during exam period is bad, because you will cut your knowledge away.

Ha, then everyone will be keeping bombastic hairstyles during exams!

More hair = more knowledge? = More hamsem?

If you feel sleepy but still struggling on a mountain of shit notes, go take a hot water shower or drink some hot fluids, it will freshen you up. It works and IT IS NOT A MYTH.

Uncle, 1 teh ci kosong.

4) Rush to get the best seats

Of course, how can we forget the famous hungry ghost incident in NTU, occurring twice a year, at a Lee Wee Nam library near you.

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Luckily, all these symptoms don’t stay long.

Hang on people, it’ll be over soon.