Annabelle I-fucked-300-quadrillion-sprillion-men Chong
Recently, the Macniverse geek posted
this on her
blog.
A War With Guns Blazing · 18 November 04
Truly this has been a good week for war-mongering Singaporeans.
First, war is declared on the iPod – “guns blazing”, “take no prisoners” and all that. The perpetrator of the war intends to fight this war with “some serious money”, “out-market everyone”, and has issued some serious war rhetoric:
“The MP3 war has started and I am the one who has declared war,” he thundered.”
Astute armchair analysts have likened the impending war to “Wow…this ranks right up there with 1939—the Polish Calvary declaring war against the German Panzer Divisions” (source). Others disagree: this apparently has more in common with “East Timor declar[ing] war on the United States of America” (source).
To help the challenger displace the incumbent, Creative will employ a series of rather creative strategies:
- the iBetter Exchange sale (trade-in programme in turn appropriated from Dell)
- giving away ten Zen Micros to one lucky winner (autographed by Mr Sim, Chief Warmonger). Best response was put forth by Mr Brown’s wife – he think he is U2 ah?
- giving away 1 Zen Micro to 10 lucky winners. (“So many Zen Micros to give away ah?”)
- launching a series of ads that seem just a bit too familiar for comfort
Popagandhi maintains her stance: this war is excellent for the consumer. She says, “if you’re in Singapore over the weekend, you can queue up for the Creative sale, where great deals abound. Especially in this climate of war, the consumer now has a variety of options to choose from. Rather than heading to the nearest authorized retailer, as it was in the old days, apparently you may now approach it in several ways. Reports on the ground are suggesting (1) buying a 60GB Zen xTra for S$299 (retail price $759), selling it on eBay for $600, using the extra cash to buy yourself an iPod. (2) Trading in your 1G/2G iPod for a Zen Micro, selling it, and buying a new iPod.”
Mr Brown’s readers point towards the more important ramifications of the war. One reader posits: “What would the winner do with TEN Creative Zen Micros? Expect to see NINE of them on eBay soon”. His contemporary disagrees: “why NINE? i’ll sell all ten.” Keeping in line with such predictions, it is expected that traffic on auction sites such as eBay and Yahoo! will hit new highs over the weekend, due to the number of transactions in the digital audio segment tilting towards this trend.
Supporters of the Singaporean company rejoice: “All you iPod zombies are !@#$% idiots to pay that kind of money for a player that doesn’t support WMA”. “The iPod sucks can it play mp3s gaplessly”, “iPod has no FM radio, or removable battery”. Unfortunately, it appears the supporters are not so much pro-Creative but anti-Apple, in the same way the recent US election famously was.
On the second war front, another Singaporean who got there first has had her throne disputed, re-enacting the iPod/Creative situation once more. The Singaporean record on fastest text-messaging is currently up in the air. Her compatriots urge her to take a leaf from Sim Wong Hoo, and declare war, already, Singaporean.
As I've already commented, I'm not a big fan of mobile devices that play music, because I like my music nice and deafening. Cranking up the headphones to full volume doesn't help either, because when I say "deafening", I mean that the drumbeat must do a passable impression of an earthquake. So anyway, the conversation there took a strange turn. It somehow digressed to the subject of Annabelle I-fucked-300-quadrillion-sprillion-men-on-the-same-day Chong.
Here's what I had to say about the subject.
". . . anyway, we porn-viewing guys were very (clandestinely) proud of annabelle chong aka grace quek (my surname, some more!) at one time, i thought. at least, my JC friends (well, i only had one friend in JC) were. now that her record’s been broken, we’re breathlessly anticipating watching the next singaporean who can break the record. and do us, erm, proud."
Here's what someone else had to say.
"annabel chong spent 3 months after her record setting attempt waiting in horror for her HIV status. And guess what? there is no mention mention if it was positive or negative. Good luck to those guys who participated, they had it coming."
That sort of struck a chord. A reply came to mind, but somehow, the Macniverse geek's blog didn't seem to be the appropriate place to post it. Yes, I'm actually exquisitely courteous to people I respect. Sue me. So here's what I have to say.
Come on. That's like saying God sent AIDS to punish fags. Some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it with 300 other guys on camera, in the same hole.
Just because those guys had questionable hygiene and a penchant for aberrant sexual practices with a willing partner, doesn't mean they should contract the HIV virus, right? After all, they haven't harmed anyone.
PS: It's a funny incestuous world (or rather, country). A few days after I linked popagandhi.com, the
Fat Furry Fucker remarked to me . . .
FFF: I see you've taken a fancy to XXXX's hot friend.
Me: Who?
FFF: popagandhi.
Me: Who's XXXX?
FFF: She's the XXXX who did XXXX/is with XXXX/a friend of XXXXX/(whatever, you get the idea). Didn't you find her through XXXX's blog?
Me: Ohhhh . . . Nope. I had no idea. (I don't even read XXXX's blog.) I found her through
Mr. Brown. And I linked her because she's a geek too.
Well, something like that, anyway.
PPS: On second thought, maybe the Fat Furry Fucker just knows a lot of people. A coupla years ago, I flamed some guy on some forum who also happened to be a friend of hers. A coupla months ago, I flamed another guy on IRC who happened to be a friend of hers. A coupla months ago, I flamed some chick on another forum who also happened to be a friend of hers. You've ruined my life, kitten. Now I no longer dare to flame people, because they always turn out to be your friends, and where's the fun in the fucking internet if I can't flame people? Ah well, at least
you fight with me all the time.