How to wake up a chicken
I rely on three alarm clocks to wake me up on most mornings. Yesterday, all three of them failed me.
And the timing couldn't have been worse. I was supposed to attend PhilNITS's annual general assembly from 10 AM to 5 PM. Normally, I'm not a fan of 7-hour-long meetings, but they were doing this one in a nice 5-star hotel, so I imagined that the food must be pretty good. I was really looking forward to it, and I was devastated when I woke up to a silent room a few minutes before noon. I apparently managed to switch all the alarms off without remembering a thing. Yay.
Here, meet my useless alarm clocks.
Alarm clock #1 isn't really an alarm clock--it's a Nokia 6230i. It's a nice phone, but the alarm clock feature sucks. I put it on the night table beside my bed, and when the time comes for me to wake up, the thing buzzes and chirps gently. I think it has been more effective at giving me brain cancer than waking me up.
Alarm clock #2 is a boring old-fashioned one. I stole it from my mother last year after I "accidentally" pushed my noisy old clock off its perch and killed it. This one works by endlessly repeating a very annoying tune, which is now forever stuck in my head. I sometimes catch myself humming the melody in the shower, and that makes me feel very ashamed.
Alarm clock #3 looks like a toy dragon. I saw it in a night market in Hong Kong a few years ago and decided to buy it for my sister because it's cute and, more importantly, cheap (probably made in China). My sister gave it back to me last Christmas after I asked for a loud alarm clock as a gift... cheapskate karma works in mysterious ways. Anyway, the dragon clock almost scared me to death the first time I used it. First it blares out some obnoxious music, then it shouts something in Cantonese, which happens to be the most annoying language on the planet. Because it's so loud and scary, this alarm clock never failed to send me scrambling out of bed to shut it up... until yesterday.
I put together this short clip of all three alarm clocks for you so that you can understand what I go through everyday. Enjoy.
I agree. First, Nokia's
I agree. First, Nokia's alarm isn't an alarm. It's just producing annoying song so clients wouldn't want to buy Nokia anymore. Second, it is ashamed to stuck the music of your mother's alarm in your head, let alone humming it. And that stupid dragon is speaking Mandarin "kwai qi lai" i.e. "wake up fast".
Buy a casio, it gives you that non-stop traditional "ring~~~" sound so loud that you would wake up from death.
Hmm, that's Mandarin?
Didn't catch it the first time. I guess my Mandarin comprehension skills are getting worse everyday :-(
Lolz!
No wonder you snooze like hell. Those sound more like lullaby's than alarms. What happened to the old ringing alarm anyway?
The alarm clock
that I killed was a loud-ringing one. RIP.
The last one didn't seem like a lullaby to me.
Maybe we stupid westerners have different perception of what is and what is not a lullaby :-(
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Yeah
The last one is totally not a lullaby unless you're Satan's baby.
I happen to like it, actually
wait, so are you saying I am?
Hmm
Are you admitting that you are? :-P
I Agree!
Mine goes like RIIIIINNNNGGGGG~!! Para sigurado, gising!
The thing is, I shut if off and sleep again. *lol*
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Nyahaha!
I was the same! I switch it off then goes to sleep again. So I'm always running late during mornings. Haha! =P
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Why does waking up
have to be so hard? We need Clocky.
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Hmm,
I should have made something Valentinish for this site too. Oh well, too late now :-D
Yay!
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Hmm :-/
Make love AND war?
Aye
;-)
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HAHAHA!
You're...weird? I think you're TOO free :P For alarm clock no.1 you can go through the ringtone list and find a loud annoying one, or the typical alarm ring one.
And you have a dragon alarm clock?!?! HAHAHAHAHAH! It just doesn't fit your image...And that's really cheapskate karma. The dragon is actually cute...oh no...I can't contain the laughter anymore...
I can't change the alarm tone
of my cell phone :-( It sucks.
Yes, your mobile phone sucks.
And we have found this out on two occasions already. Time to change your phone maybe? :-P
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Nah
I have other more important items on my to-buy list.
-_-
That doesn't look like a dragon. Looks more like a frog~~
:-(
Maybe it's just the wrong angle.
:D
Froggie alarm clocks are nice too. :P
Don't call it a froggie!
You'll hurt its feelings :-P
Alarm Clocks Never Work When You Need Them To Work
There are no alarm clocks for blogs and bloggers that have been sleeping for far too long...
I was thinking about that lolcat contest you suggested... and I'm most likely going to do it. I'm going to find a funny/strange pic of Max... and get people to submit their captioned lolcat images. Winner gets ad space on my sidebar or something... I shall credit you with the idea. I think I'll do it to coincide with my 100th post celebration... which could be a while before it shows up. A month, maybe. Yeah, I suck... I've been blogging for over a year and a half and I'm still not at 100 posts. I suck.
Anway, sorry for being a stranger. I needed a break from the whole blogging/commenting thing to focus on other stuff (like trying to learn French).
Later days,
Massa P aka fruityoaty
Yay! A lolcat contest!
Learning French huh... hmm... I wonder what a French lolcat would look like :-D
Are you selling that dragon
Are you selling that dragon alarm clock of yours? How much? Hehehe! = P
Hmm,
haven't thought about that. Maybe I should put it up on eBay. I'll be rich! Bwahaha!
i am no dependent to alarm clocks
eversince because i always have my body clock. but the tendency sometimes is that i get to wake up almost every hour due to consciousness that i don't want to be late in going to the office. i'm good.. :)
Hmm
How come the fear of being late never works for me?
it's because
you don't have any priority that's why it's never your purpose to wake up with your own body clock. you have to be there just for the food. lol
On some days,
I can't even wake up for food :-(
JC's bioclock...
Is smashed into tiny bits by his staying awake until the noon of the next day :-P
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That's not true
I only stay up until 6 AM or so.
How bout
he's so old, his bioclock ran out of power? :P
Hahaha
Almost sounds like a yo momma joke :-D
It's all because of you
influencing me :P
Yay!
I'm influencing people to be immature!
The same thing used to
The same thing used to happen to me frequently in high school & college. I used to keep one clock on my night stand, one on the dresser & one under the bed. Hunting for an alarm clock under the bed usually woke me up, but eventually my ability to turn off alarm clocks in my sleep evolved. I had to find new locations/obstacles to get to the clocks. I would also rotate the locations every few days, so that I would have to think/focus on where I hid the clock...that helped to wake me.
By the way, nice blog
Thanks
I've tried about everything you just mentioned except putting it under the bed. Hmm... sounds like it might work :-D I should give it a try one of these days.
Hmmm... I don't know
I've accidentally done this a number of times (where my alarm clock aka cell phone fell underneath my bed) and I just slept through it.
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