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Week Of App Purchases And Congrats Jase!

27 May 2012

There was a frenzy of apps sales across various platforms this weekend and my credit card’s getting a pounding paying for them. It seems like developers are discounting their apps across the Memorial Day weekend and I thought I’d share with everyone what apps I’ve indulged myself with.

App NamePlatformSale Price
Kingdom Rush HDiPad iOS$0.99
Tweetbot iPad iOS$2.99
Diet CodaiPad iOS$10.49
Coda 2Mac OS $51.99
ForkliftMac OS$0.99
Infinity Blade 2 Universal iOS$2.99
Grand Theft Auto 3Universal iOS$0.99
Sword of SorceryUniversal iOS$2.99
DeathSpankMac OS$2.99
DeathSpank: The BaconingMac OS$2.99
DeathSpank: Thongs of VirtueMac OS$2.99

The big purchases were definitely the Coda apps by developer Panic but they were definitely worth the coin for the features. And oh, Tweetbot for the iPad wasn’t actually on sale but I was on such a money spending adrenaline rush that I decided to buy it anyways.

A couple of game developers are also discounting their games on various platforms at www.becausewemay.com till the 1st of June so get them now!

It’s also been a pretty terrible weekend too with my car breaking down and I’ve got to take the trains to work on Monday. Would be interesting because the last time I took the trains were before I moved to Box Hill with my ex in 2010.

Well at least two good piece of news happened in the week.

First was Sonti, Joey and I managed to catch up on Friday night for some FIFA 12 and it seems like Sonti has taken over the FIFA chump status with Joey losing to both of us multiple times. He goes on to complain that there was some sort of “lag” when he presses the buttons on the controller.

The guy is full of excuses really. And he’s pretty shit with directions too. Sonti and I had to guide him on our mobiles and he still had problems finding our office.

The other piece of good news was that Jason finally got married!

Sonti, Joey and I were chomping down our Maccas while playing FIFA 12, Jason was getting married to his beautiful (albeit familiar looking HAHA!) partner Olivia in Bali. I’m really sorry I couldn’t be there but I wish the couple all the best and will we be seeing Little Jase in 9 months?

I’ve got it down on my Google calendar to see if my prediction comes true.

Pingie Brotherhood: One Is Getting Hitched

10 May 2012

I worked at Accenture Australia for a year before moving on to become the Chief Timetable Systems Analyst Product Architect (totally not a made up position by the way. #sarcasm) at Monash Uni and it’s fair to say I’ve met some of my best mates during my time at Accenture.

Our friendship was cemented on the 17th floor office space at Melbourne Central Tower close to 6 years ago and even though now that everyone has moved on from our initial dwellings, there seemed to be an unexplainable sense of brotherhood between the four of us.

There’s Joey, the talented Italian and token white guy in a group of Asians. He has won one too many dancing trophies and got shot down by Guy Sebastian at his recent X Factor audition (another post coming up about this).

Jason, the smart Malaysian guy who still calls himself an Aussie PR after living in Melbourne and now Sydney all his life. His favourite past times include sending the group random photos of topless women he found on the internet at the crack of dawn every other morning.

Sonti, the Laotian guy with an Italian girlfriend. I roped Sonti from Accenture a year ago to work at Monash and see him on a daily basis. Our office has became a battleground for our FIFA 12 skills.

And then there’s me. The fobbish sounding Singaporean guy with a knack for coming into work late all the time and acting as if nothing happened.

It’s amazing that even though we only catch up once probably every 1-2 years(except for Sonti and I), we made sure that we stayed in contact literally everyday via Whatsapp, Google chat, Twitter, Facebook and emails discussing about the most frivolous topics ever. In fact, I was trying to find a group picture of four of us and I realized we don’t have one…. #horror.

The best thing we’ve ever done together as a group in my mind was to create a bunch of fictional words to replace body parts so that we could openly discuss about the dirtiest, most perverted things our minds could conjure up and the hot chick sitting next to us would have no idea we were talking about her bingies.

That’s right. Her bingies. That’s the word we use to replace the word “breasts”. In fact these are the most commonly used ones in our conversations:

We SayIt MeansOrigin
MingieVagina, chick, hot girlIt came about when there was an episode of South Park featuring Oprah's talking vagina. Her vagina was referred to as Minge in the episode and we indadvertedly changed it to mingie.
GaryButt, assholeGary was the name of Oprah's asshole in the same South Park episode and was the best and closest (LOL) friend of Minge.
BingieBreasts, boobsWe simply replaced the first letter of mingie to change it to bingie using the letter B because it's the first letter for boobs and breasts.
PingiePenis, cock, dickPretty similar to how bingie derived replacing the first letter of mingie with P because it's the first letter for penis.
BlueberryMasturbate, fap, spank the monkeyJoey has a strawberry farm at home and there was wild speculation that he masturbates in the strawberry fields because he still lives at home with his parents. We replaced straw with blue to protect his identity and the origin of how this word came about.

We’re so comfortable with these words that we don’t even bat an eyelid when using them in our daily conversations and it amuses me to no end that we’re all men in their late twenties having our own secret language.

Jase is getting married in 2 weeks time and it’s kind of sad that we couldn’t be at his wedding in Bali but I definitely wish Big O and him all the best and hopefully we all get to meet her soon. I love these boys and hopefully we’ll all move into the four Victorian town houses on #TheBlock in South Melbourne and have more shenanigans to come.

Pingie bros!