The Wong Way

22 August, 2007 Latest: Lung the Younger, Pookazilla, Mandy, Min Jung Kimt s, Min Jung Kim,

I never win anything.

My brother is the lucky one in the family. He got the Irish good looks and luck. He wins at football and casinos. I have to work for a living.

So I was pleasantly surprised to hear that I had won an iPod! I’d been beta testing for Mister Wong, a very cool bookmarking site that has until recently, only been available in Europe. I was a beta tester for the English version which was recently released. When the testing period ended, I won an 8 GB iPod Nano, a Mister Wong polo shirt and a bag of very silly buttons.

I arrived at the Post Office to nab the goods graciously accept the package. The postal babe went to the back and came back with a package two meters wide, addressed to a man named Khalil. “Not looking familiar?” she asked. “Well, no. It’s an iPod. I was expecting a smaller box.” She had looked at the street number but not the street name. Frightening.

Wong Way

I finally won something. Go me.

Tags: .

17 comments:

  1. scamper95, 22, August 2007, 14:06 |  
    scamper95

    Sounds like posal babe had right number but wong street. Other wise nothing new for postal system.

     
  2. Davezilla, 22, August 2007, 14:08 |  
    Davezilla

    On August 22, 2007, scamper95 furiously scribbled: Sounds like posal babe had right number but wong street. Other wise nothing new for postal system.
    8972 will be quoted here]

    Yup, she openly admitted to me that she has a “Bad habit of only looking at the numbers.” :wtf:

     
  3. Meagan, 22, August 2007, 14:52 |  
    Meagan

    Congrats on winning an iPod! You’re one of us now! :P

     
  4. Flash Gordon, 22, August 2007, 16:08 |  
    Flash Gordon

    Screw them I pods. My 8 tracks still works just fine. Hi, Astrid, hon. :kiss: :kiss: :thong:

     
  5. Flash Gordon, 22, August 2007, 16:30 |  
    Flash Gordon

    Mea culpa, Astryd, for spelling your name with an “i” in the above. Paint me green and call me Kermit. :sad: :( :!:

     
  6. Bjorn Freeh, 22, August 2007, 17:03 |  
    Bjorn Freeh

    I expected the link of the day to just be a black page. Imagine my disappointment.

     
  7. Spud, 22, August 2007, 17:55 |  
    Spud

    So, now that you’ve finaly won something,is there an in house competition to follow wherein you give the iPod away?

    Or is that wong?

    :geek:

     
  8. Nikki, 22, August 2007, 18:16 |  
    Nikki

    This is a stickup. Hand over the goods and nobody gets hurt.

     
  9. Pablo, 22, August 2007, 19:10 |  
    Pablo

    You may have missed out on the Irish good looks & luck, but at least you didn’t get saddled with my German need for world domination!

    Pablo is German, who’d of thunk

     
  10. StevieC, 22, August 2007, 21:43 |  
    StevieC

    Dave, we ruv you wong time :twisted: :wang:

     
  11. junkman, 22, August 2007, 22:06 |  
    junkman

    iPood!

     
  12. Astryd, 23, August 2007, 0:42 |  
    Astryd

    YAY DAVE WON!! WE MUST CELEBRATE!! Who’s bringing the nipple pasties?

    Hi FLash! :lol: You miss me? :P I ate a green blowpop so I can paint you with my tongue :P :P …but it may be kinda hard to call you anything with my mouth full. :P :P :P

    Drusky: You can bring the pole. :twisted: Hang in there. Know we’re all praying (or whatever it is that we do) and sending you support via net waves! :lol: When you start feelin a bit (or a lot) down, think of us!! Be strong and know I’ll be here. Blessed Be.

     
  13. Lung the Younger, 23, August 2007, 4:03 |  

    Don’t you get the feeling that the people who work in the post office are the ones that failed the IQ test to get into the army? Makes you wonder how they find their way to work every morning.

     
  14. Pookazilla, 23, August 2007, 12:16 |  

    I believe this practice originates from the time when towns only had one street and therefore all address numbers were unique. The Post Office is currently in the process of updating this policy to reflect the current state of affairs. In addition, the Pony Express will also soon be terminated. :wtf:

     
  15. Mandy, 24, August 2007, 20:23 |  
    Mandy

    On August 23, 2007, Astryd furiously scribbled: YAY DAVE WON!! WE MUST CELEBRATE!! Who’s bringing the nipple pasties? Hi FLash! :lol: You miss me? :P I ate a green blowpop so I can paint you with my tongue :P :P …but it may be kinda hard to call you anything with my mouth full. :P :P :P Drusky: You can bring the pole. :twisted: Hang in there. Know we’re all praying (or whatever it is that we do) and sending you support via net waves! :lol: When you start feelin a bit (or a lot) down, think of us!! Be strong and know I’ll be here. Blessed Be.
    9003 will be quoted here]

    i have the :boob: :boob: pasties!

     
  16. Min Jung Kimt s, 27, August 2007, 6:42 |  

    OMG. You totally have to send off that shirt to Ernie. After his 8Asians.com piece on the original mascot and etc!

     
  17. Min Jung Kim, 27, August 2007, 6:42 |  

    OMG. You totally have to send off that shirt to Ernie. After his 8Asians.com piece on the original mascot and etc!