I love my wife so I wouldn’t even think of something like this…and, plus, the sticker price would be about a gazillion dollars more…hehe, just kidding…you are priceless, my wife.
“The government has ordered an Internet auction site to remove an advertisement in which a Brazilian man offered to sell his wife for about $50.
The Secretariat of Public Policies for Women announced late Friday it had ordered Mercado Livre, partially owned by eBay Inc., to remove the ad and warned it was violating a law banning the offer or sale of “human organs, people, blood, bones or skin.”
The advertisement was no longer visible on the site Saturday.
It was posted by a man who gave his name as Breno and said: “I sell my wife for reasons I prefer to keep short … I really need the money.”
The described his wife physically and listed her qualities as a homemaker and companion. He reportedly said she was 35 and “worth her weight in gold.”
The Estado news agency said it wasn’t clear if the ad was meant as a joke. It said Mercado Livre told it the ad hadn’t been noticed earlier because of the large number of products offered on the site — nearly 1 million.
There was no answer Saturday at phone numbers for Mercado Livre or its public relations agency.”
Hmm, I had another non-Nutrisystem meal today. My friends wanted to grab some dim sum for lunch so I went along for the ride. I didn’t want to be a party pooper and bring along my Nutrisystem food so I decided to eat with caution. I’m pretty proud of myself. I didn’t eat very much. Probably only have 8 pieces of food from various dishes…and for those that haven’t been to dim sum, each piece is pretty small. I tried to avoid the fatty ones too although they’re all pretty fatty I guess.
My wife’s family is in town so I’m eating Korean BBQ tonight. I’ll have to exercise before I go. If I was a true, hardcore Nutrisystem dieter I should probably take along my designated entree to the restaurant. But you need a little bit of flexibility here and there in order to succeed long term, right? Tomorrow I’ll go back on the Nutrisystem plan. Have a nice weekend everyone and keep up the dieting.
So my wife and I were shopping earlier today when we passed by a mannequin w/ washboard abs. Luckily, my wife thinks that abs that are too ripped are gross (or is she just saying this because I have a pot belly?). But I’m wondering, is it out of my reach to get to this level? At worst case, I’m currently fat…a best case description is that I’m chubby and slightly overweight. Whatever words you want to use to describe me (nice or otherwise), I have flab around my stomach area and lots of it. I don’t have Rosie O’ Donnell type fat (thank goodness) but there’s a decent amount there.
Any tips on getting a 6 pack? Or at least a 4 pack? I imagine I’d have to get relatively thin first and then do a gazillion situps. Hmm, maybe it’s not worth it. After all, my wife thinks it’s gross so what’s the point right?
How do you like my new shades? It’s part of an early bday present from my wife. She thinks I’ll look smokin’ hot if I was 20lbs lighter. Ohh, I wonder how hot she’ll think I’ll look. Oh yah! Maybe so hot that Baby # 2 will be a result. But man, I sure do look chubby in that picture. This was taken last week before my Nutrisystem diet started. I’ll take an “after” picture w/ the same sunglasses to see if I lose any fat around my cheeks and chin.
I don’t know if I’d characterize this as a “bully” event. It was more rude than anything else. Here’s the background. I went to our community park to shoot some hoops. Someone was playing half court and so I shot on the other side of the court. Then these two guys came onto my side and after shooting around for 2-3 minutes they decided to play one-on-one against each other. They didn’t bother to ask if it was cool…didn’t ask me if I wanted to play 21. Just started playing one-on-one. Hello…I’m still here assholes!
Since I live in a peaceful, nice community I didn’t want to make a big deal out of it but I was seconds away from saying something to them. But you know, it’s not really worth it. I would have said something and they would have retorted and then who knows what would happen.
I’m in my 30’s but sometimes I look like I’m still in my teens (I got carded for a rated-R movie last year). So sometimes I wonder if people just think I’m some young dude they can push around. Luckily, I have a lot of self-confidence and some close to me even think I’m inwardly arrogant. So I don’t have self-esteem issues or anything and I wouldn’t go loco on anybody. But in light of all those school shootings where the bullied get revenge on the bullies, you’d think these punk ass bitches would learn. I’m not saying that the bullied should respond w/ guns blazing or anything. That is so, so wrong! But you push a man to his limits one too many times and if they’re mad enough (especially if they’re irrational - again, luckily I don’t fall into this category), they’ll go bonkers and get their revenge. I’ve never been bullied before but this sort of felt like an indirect bully job.
Too bad I’m not in my 20’s. I would have taken out my aggression on these bozos and brawled. That would’ve been fun. But now I’m an old, married papa. Can’t do any of that so I had to take the high road and I just left. It’s so tough to take the high road sometimes but I think I made the right choice. Regardless, those two guys are arses.
This was me sometime last year. I think I was weighing somewhere between 180 - 190 lbs at the time. I’m the 2nd one from the left but I’m sure you guys already know that since a) I’m the fattest one in the picture, b) Everyone else in the pic is famous (if you watch the NBC show “Heroes”, they’d look awfully familar).
By the way, today is Day 4 of my Nutrisystem diet and I’ve already lost some weight. I’m not going to tell you how much weight I’ve lost just yet. I’ll fill you in on the details (w/ proof) at my one week mark. Only a few days to go until one week of Nutrisystem and I hope to lose a few more pounds.
This weekend was the beginning of the NBA playoffs. Usually, I would order pizza or snack on some chips but since I’m on a quest to lose weight I opted for apples and oranges instead. Fruits aren’t half bad…rather filling actually.
Anyway, I’m watching the Dallas and Golden State game when I recognize a basketball player that used to play for the lowly Bruins - Matt Barnes. When Barnes was in college, he was tattoo free and had a normal looking haircut. Now, he has half a gazillion tattoos and one funky hair do. And then I started to wonder, why do a large majority of NBA players sport tattoos? Would they have tattoos if they weren’t athletes/celebrities?
And it’s not just one tattoo that’s concealed either…most NBA players with tats have ‘em emblazoned on their biceps, triceps, forearms, neck…anywhere that is visible to spectators. I don’t really get it. I have nothing against tattoos and I almost got one myself back in the day (though I’m sort of glad I didn’t). But why do you think NBA players tattoo themselves like their body is painting canvas?
I started to think of all those fat celebrities who managed to lose a whole heck of a lot of weight. Some were paid spokespersons for weight loss companies while others lost weight for their careers. Obviously, it’s a little bit easier to diet and lose weight when you have dollar signs thrown at you. And these rich celebrities, no doubt, have personal trainers and at-home chefs that help considerably during the process (not to mention managers who probably keep a close eye on them daily). I wonder if these celebrities would have been able to lose all that weight had they been regular joe’s. What do you think?
We can even spread it to celebrities who are already skinny or in good shape. Would they look that good if they didn’t have all the tools at their disposal (e.g. trainer/chef)?
As you can tell, I stumbled into a cool pic of a celebrity (top right). Any guesses to who it is? I couldn’t tell at first…and if you’re wondering I was looking for celebrity pics for this post…I wasn’t surfing naughty sites or anything like that.
Did you know you can bet on who gets booted from American Idol? Betting on American Idol? Yes, odds makers had Sanjaya as the next contestant to be booted and, indeed, he was eliminated. Good run…he’s more famous than I ever will be. Mad props for sticking it through even though 90% of the world thinks he sucks. Big cajones!
Here’s a factoid for you. I could have worked for Google pre-IPO. Would’ve been a mega-millionaire. Turned it down for a number of reasons - location (would have to move), loyalty (worked for rival), timing (I was getting married in a week) and other (I think and hope there were more reasons). It still sort of peeves me a bit though and is the source of my entrepreneurial passion. Whenever I hit a dry spell all I need to do is look at my framed Google bookcover that I have and I get back right on the money train. And everytime I read about Google or see Google, I just think what could’ve been and I work that much harder to bring in the bacon.
Not that I have anything to complain about (well maybe my weight). I work from home and love what I do…I have a beautiful, beautiful wife and a handsome new baby. I’m fortunate enough to have nice things and be surrounded by great friends and family. And by all accounts, I’m generally in good health (though I could probably improve this area).
But it still fuels the fire whenever Google comes up…and boy did I have the ultimate Google sighting today. I was driving home after picking my car from the dealer and what do I see but a FREAKING Google building in my home city. I knew Google had recently opened an office here (in fact, one of my friends works at that location) but I thought it was a small satellite office. I didn’t know they emblazoned their damn logo on the building for the world to see. Yes, please rub it in my face even more. Argh!!!
Google, yes, you are great…but I’m going to be even greater one day. You just watch. Happy Asian Guy isn’t so happy right now but in the end, I will prevail!! Okay maybe not, but I’ll try anyway.
The Secretariat of Public Policies for Women announced late Friday it had ordered Mercado Livre, partially owned by eBay Inc., to remove the ad and warned it was violating a law banning the offer or sale of “human organs, people, blood, bones or skin.”
