Diamonds. She’ll pretty much have to.

Joygasm!!1 Not only do you get a (short, but you’ll live) podcast with a sneak peek at a music track I’m working on, but you also get to see how awesome and famous I am - BEHOLD:

Cower in fear at my ability for the awesome

Japan’s “Web Designing” magazine interviewed 5 foreigners working in the web industry in Tokyo and asked us about the web and working life in Japan.

Cower in fear at my ability for the awesome

Cower in fear at my ability for the awesome

Cower in fear at my ability for the awesome

Cower in fear at my ability for the awesome

FAME.

122 Responses to “Diamonds. She’ll pretty much have to.”

  1. Got something in your ear?

    Vivren / February 20th, 2006
  2. You look great! But I can’t read Japanese…

    Laynie / February 20th, 2006
  3. Wow awesome. Stop stealing everyone else’s five minutes of fame!

    fan_formerly_known_as_fan / February 20th, 2006
  4. Funny podcast, nice music, really liked it.

    Anyone else think Yongfook created Kragon just so he could give sex advice to someone else for a change?

    Lay-bee-uh.

    fan_formerly_known_as_fan / February 20th, 2006
  5. translation of that article would be awesome

    Chidade / February 20th, 2006
  6. Sweet action! Congrats and all that good stuff. And yeah, a translation would be great - I’d like to see that. Liking the remix of the song as well… very cool.

    Leeps / February 20th, 2006
  7. whats “ka yo ku a ri mas”?

    naeboo~ / February 20th, 2006
  8. Haha, got everyone fooled there Yongfook. Take the cover of another magazine, add in the real pictures, make everyone believe there is a link.

    I’m subscribed to that magazine, it’s a review of foreign prostitues in Tokyo. They’re quite positive about our dear British friend. Only, how do you translate the following?

    �も�ヨンフーク��ン���ょ�������。

    fan_formerly_known_as_fan / February 20th, 2006
  9. Liking the remix so far. been trying to find this one band you mentioned a while ago on first podcast called “SoulFlip” and i can’t find anything. Do they have a website by any chance?

    thanks

    Y.T.C / February 20th, 2006
  10. Yongfook was impersonating this.

    http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/3769/img7954fa7rh.jpg

    Paul Tan / February 20th, 2006
  11. Tap, tap. Mork calling Orson, come in Orson…

    drunkwithbroads / February 20th, 2006
  12. http://www.soulflip.com/mp3.html

    Ami / February 20th, 2006
  13. That was hilarious.

    Guig / February 20th, 2006
  14. Looks like he’s pointing to his cranium, or his eye. Maybe he’s trying to hypnotize us. Anyways, I gotta go, I have a sudden compulsion to collect pretties for the master.

    some dude who doesn't want people to know he lusts after yongfook / February 20th, 2006
  15. Dammit, is there a way I can change that last comment? I’m like Clark Kent caught with his dick out here.

    shouldhavepaidmoreattentiontothenamefield / February 20th, 2006
  16. There’s a guy from the land Down Under in that magazine.. GO AUSSIE GO! Don’t mind me, just being patriotic =)

    hahaha Kenton, what a crack up! I can’t even think of a nick so I just left the name field blank. I’m known as “Anonymous”.. how original o_O hehe

    Anonymous / February 20th, 2006
  17. Anonymous, yeah, let’s all compound the mistake by repeating my name AGAIN! :P

    shouldhavepaidmoreattentiontothenamefield / February 20th, 2006
  18. “repeating my name AGAIN!”

    And now I’m spouting redundancies. Look how mad you made me.

    Time for a little cry in the boy’s room.

    shouldhavepaidmoreattentiontothenamefield / February 20th, 2006
  19. I’m so sorry! pulling puppy face Yongfook, can you please delete Kenton’s name from my previous message?

    Anonymous / February 20th, 2006
  20. arrgghhhhh.. what a bimbo! Yongfook.. and the last one too please!

    Anonymous / February 20th, 2006
  21. ………………………………………………….

    Good thing for you you’re anonymous. :P

    shouldhavepaidmoreattentiontothenamefield / February 20th, 2006
  22. And you did that on purpose. Bee-hotch. Dirty bee-hotch.

    shouldhavepaidmoreattentiontothenamefield / February 20th, 2006
  23. That was really uncalled-for =( It was all in the name of fun! You know.. fun?? happy happy joy joy…

    Anonymous / February 20th, 2006
  24. thank you Ami =)

    Y.T.C / February 20th, 2006
  25. laugh laugh (:

    Chris / February 20th, 2006
  26. Ahahahahhaa! Look at that ridiculous “eh — me?” pose (complete with finger point)! You make my day, Jon, really. :)

    a / February 21st, 2006
  27. Oh btw, are we to stop expecting proper blog entries, now that you seem to be caught up in your podcasting…ness?

    a / February 21st, 2006
  28. Is there an online version of that article? I can barely read Katakana and Hiragana (when I have my notebook in hand and a dictionary) and don’t know any Kanji, but I’d like to try reading it anyway, filling in what I don’t understand with my imagination.

    Why must you be so hot right now?

    David-MTL / February 21st, 2006
  29. i quite like how you blurred out everyone else in the group photo… so the guys at the edges are non-existent blobs. nothing like good old narcissism.

    sammie / February 21st, 2006
  30. sammie - I don’t he “blurred” them out moreso than it’s an effect of the aperture setting of the camera. Whether it was intentional or not, we’ll never know.

    iS / February 21st, 2006
  31. Ok… Putting on my translating cap…

    Korean chick: I was up till 3 am in the middle of the night in bed with Jon, looking for his cock.

    Jon: Work is work. My name is “Cockle”, but it does not mean that my privates are easy to find. You gotta work for it baby!

    someonewhodoesnotwantto bearthewrathofKragon / February 21st, 2006
  32. “That was really uncalled-for =( It was all in the name of fun! You know.. fun?? happy happy joy joy…”

    Note to self, remember to add an winky emoticon — like so ;) — the next time you call Anonymous a dirty bee-hotch, so she knows its all in joygasmic fun.

    Here you are. ;)

    shouldhavepaidmoreattentiontothenamefield / February 21st, 2006
  33. hehe, really catchy remix. Christ, this text is really big. Karl jenkins did Adiemus too! I didn’t know that.

    brannigans / February 21st, 2006
  34. Incidentally, for those of us who can’t read the Japanese text in that photo, what does the article have to say about you / what do you have to say in that article?

    shouldhavepaidmoreattentiontothenamefield / February 21st, 2006
  35. Or, what David-MTL already asked.

    shouldhavepaidmoreattentiontopreviouscommentsmadebyothers / February 21st, 2006
  36. Very nice remix. Who’s the Korean girl? She looks cute :)

    Peter (AsianWildRose) / February 21st, 2006
  37. RU/18 QTPI?

    Joe / February 21st, 2006
  38. It’s probably about yf’s teeny tiny penis.

    Fuckstress / February 21st, 2006
  39. yes as you can see in the main photo I’m extending my pinky finger, clearly trying to explain to the rest of them how impossibly small it is. They are all sort of sitting around, smiling awkwardly and thinking “I thought this was going to be about the web, not penises. Hey wow I can sleep with my eyes open”.

    yongfook / February 21st, 2006
  40. Is that why you started sort of sticking your pinky in your ear? Trying to liven it up by insinuating bizarre sexual practices with not commonly penetrated bodily orifices?

    iampayingmoreattentiontothenamefieldtoday / February 21st, 2006
  41. This is a warning to crazy people who talk to me via IM whilst I’m at work, don’t hear what they want to hear, then get all angry and psychotic and go posting our entire conversation (deleted) on my blog:

    I don’t have time to play court jester to strangers, outside of this blog. That’s not what I do. Don’t expect to befriend me within 3 conversations, don’t expect me to be interested in what you have to say, don’t expect me to even be listening.

    A small handful of people cannot seem to grasp that my purpose in life is not here to - for example - lend strangers a shoulder to cry on, an ear to rant to, or someone to reveal secrets about their health to. I simply do not, and more importantly do not have the time, to care.

    That doesn’t make me a bad person. Why should it? Just because I choose to ignore or block someone who is harassing me after being repeatedly asked to refrain from contacting me, does not mean I do this to everyone in my life. There is a whole other side of the man behind yongfook.com that possibly many of you will never get to know. I have friends whom I love, a job that I enjoy - but I seldom talk about either because then this would just be exactly the same as any other blog on the internet.

    Unless you are a friend of mine in real life, all you know of me is just a tiny, self-pigeonholed facet of my life. Some of you, I believe, are fully aware of this and we all have a bit of a laugh on this blog. A small subculture of you however, see me as someone to be “saved”, someone who doesn’t meet up to their lofty moral standards, and throws a hissy fit when I choose not to give you the time of day, because I’m fucking busy at work and I can’t even remember your name.

    So in summary:

    Please do not contact me via IM unless you can make me laugh or you are a hot naked chick. Preferably both, but I suppose in the end the latter is more important.

    yongfook / February 21st, 2006
  42. to iS: i am fully aware that it was a camera lens which made that blurred out the other people. just because it’s done on a camera doesnt mean one cant use the words “blurred out”? i am also fully aware that yf has full control over the settings on his camera - it’s a digital SLR! of course it was intentional.

    sammie / February 21st, 2006
  43. If you are as “fully aware” as you say you are then you would know that I was using a macro lens for such a close-up shot. And macro lenses have incredibly narrow depths of field. Whatever you are focusing on, everything within about a few millimeters closer or further is blurred out - and yes, I was focusing on myself. This is my blog, after all. And you are reading a post about how I was in a magazine. When you look at it objectively - which you aren’t - it’s perfectly reasonable that I am the focus of that photo.

    If you are interested, I was using an EFS 60mm f2.8. It’s an extremely sharp macro lens that has a very narrow depth of field.

    Now, perhaps you can help answer why there are so many crazy, opinionated people looking for a pound of flesh on this blog? If you don’t like it here, there are about fifty billion other blogs you could read.

    Cheers,
    YF.

    yongfook / February 21st, 2006
  44. excuse me… i was celebrating your narcissism?

    and i was right, it was intentional… whenever did i criticized that?? take the dildo out of your arse! i wouldn’t come to yf.com if i didnt expect everything to be yf centered. i think it’s wonderful to have a healthy dose of narcissim.

    sammie / February 21st, 2006
  45. ahhaahhaa

    now we r talking. more crazy ppl to be laughed at.

    naeboo~ / February 21st, 2006
  46. wow, I’ve been reading yongfook.com for a couple of years now, and I think I can safely say the comments for this entry have managed to eclipse all others in terms of general skid-mark-on-the-underpants-of-the-internet-ness. Congratulations to whoever’s responsible, you managed to beat out the manatee-fetishists and the dribbling fan girls - a feat worthy of a golf clap indeed. Oh, and fanformerlyknownasfan - anyone capable of reading your hilarious little Japanese message is also more than capable of recognising it as the kind of Japanese you’d expect from a particularly retarded ex-circus chimp whose biggest claim to fame until now was being voted “monkey most likely to die in puddle of own faeces”. Congratulations on the magazine article Yongfook.

    feedledee / February 21st, 2006
  47. why’s your ear’s blushing red eh? did you say that diamonds are better than sex? lol

    cyber-red / February 22nd, 2006
  48. That’s all well and good feedledee, but I’m surprised that no one mentioned what was truly important about this post/podcast. No, not the foreplay instructional, but the inspiring A-Team theme. Ahh A-Team. God, I love that show.

    iS / February 22nd, 2006
  49. Wow, Someone addressed me. Okay not really…

    Can we go back to mass-love-slash-eOrgy now? Thanks.

    YF, can I ask your opinion about using the 20D vs 300D vs whatever you had before? I’m considering getting a 10D (used, cause it’s what I can afford) or a 300/350 D and wanted to get some user feedback from someone who’s used some of these cameras. Also, why’d you not go with Nikon? And do you feel like the lack of Spot metering is a shortcoming or you don’t really care? Currently using a Canon S1 IS (non dSLR). Feel free to reply in an email. Or in a comment on my page. Or not at all. I’ll take silence as a declaration of love.

    David-MTL / February 22nd, 2006
  50. YONGFOOK WAIT!!!

    Does this mean you don’t want to hear about that time my uncle touched me and made me cry? Or about my lovely furry kittens?

    You evil man!

    fan_formerly_known_as_fan / February 22nd, 2006
  51. I feel like I’ve missed out on the whole saga that is yongfook.com! When did this site become so farking popular?

    …btw, I’ve seen him nekkid–and his penis isn’t overly small. It’s quite pretty.

    (I have the feeling this post is going to be erased.)

    sachi808 / February 22nd, 2006
  52. not OVERLY small??

    If that’s not the compliment of the decade, I don’t know what is.

    yongfook / February 22nd, 2006
  53. “This is a warning to crazy people who talk to me via IM whilst I’m at work, don’t hear what they want to hear, then get all angry and psychotic and go posting our entire conversation (deleted) on my blog:”

    Good grief, what’d I miss? Was it as good as the time the 40-odd-year-old psychiatrist baselessly psychoanalyzed yongfook? That was pure camp. I wonder if she’s been back.

    fat_gaijin_slapper / February 22nd, 2006
  54. Incidentally, my question was merely playfully rhetorical.

    fat_gaijin_slapper / February 22nd, 2006
  55. fatgaijinslapper > I have suspicions that it was that very same person.

    yongfook / February 22nd, 2006
  56. Time to hire some leather-clad Yak bodyguards. With samurai swords. And never take off their sunglasses.

    fat_gaijin_slapper / February 22nd, 2006
  57. YEAS! YF finally gave the dinkle smacking hiswierd fans have been asking for - oh happy day :)

    AndyH / February 22nd, 2006
  58. What’s a dinkle smacking?

    Guig / February 22nd, 2006
  59. Belgian Puff Pastry.

    iS / February 22nd, 2006
  60. It’s when you tell someone off/punish them. I’m a creative user of da English. That’s some of my best work.

    AndyH / February 22nd, 2006
  61. I’m too buggered to say anything other than your version of Allegretto is the bees knees so be sure to finish it! Gimme da breaks!

    • Parkmaidong
    Brian / February 22nd, 2006
  62. Dinkle smacking…sounds like when you slap someone across the forehead with your/a gi-normous penis…I think I’ll adopt this term and spread it around montreal, if you don’t mind AndyH.

    David-MTL / February 23rd, 2006
  63. David > perhaps you are already aware of this, but the action you just described is more commonly known as a “chubby whack”.

    yongfook / February 23rd, 2006
  64. “Chubby Whack”? Wow, I’ve never heard that one…hahaha that’s hilarious.

    David-MTL / February 23rd, 2006
  65. yes, chubby whack. but if it’s directed at the cheek with enough force to leave an impression, this is called the “purple mushroom”.

    ya / February 23rd, 2006
  66. Nice podcast, a little short but entertaining nevertheless.

    Its strange how I think the most humourous highlights were the fact that you said that it was podcast billion and the cocknews involving the Judge using a penis pump in court. The monster character Kragon is kind of childish for my tastes.

    Kj / February 23rd, 2006
  67. ..and the song at the end, was for the win!1!

    Kj / February 23rd, 2006
  68. AndyH>> still wont beat my “dingleberry harvester” phrase.

    ppl who pisses me off wld be cursed to spend the rest of his life doing that godforsaken job in a russian jaihouse.

    yes, i know voodoo.

    naeboo~ / February 23rd, 2006
  69. yf>> there’s a “design flaw” in ur site. some comments get blocked by the “things i do” section and so on.

    if that’s intentional (and i wont knw why)then forget it. i will wear 3d glasses if it helps.

    naeboo~ / February 23rd, 2006
  70. naeboo > what browser?

    yongfook / February 23rd, 2006
  71. I see it too. I’m on firefox on the PC currently.

    Here’s a screenshot.

    iS / February 23rd, 2006
  72. I get it too sometimes. When the comments get very long. Firefox.

    Fuckstress / February 23rd, 2006
  73. Cheers for that, iS. Hmm funny glitch. The site is due for a clean-up soon anyway, maybe I’ll do something this weekend.

    yongfook / February 23rd, 2006
  74. Do I detect narcissism?!

    Congrats on making the top 5 mate… do you get a raise then?

    Vincent / February 23rd, 2006
  75. yf>> yeah. firefox. i trust the screenshot is right coz i cant be arsed to chack it. cheers

    naeboo~ / February 23rd, 2006
  76. *check.

    btw, it goes to show how many blind giggly girl hyenas u have here to take them this long to notice that.they REALLY do come here in hopes of getting ur love crumbs. hahhahahahaa

    naeboo~ / February 23rd, 2006
  77. I wanted to know about the hot naked chick clause about IMing you. Is it still a clause to allow that, even though you can’t see them?

    Zedstar / February 23rd, 2006
  78. Shit, sorry- that wasn’t me hitting on you, I was just curious because I would have thought them making you laugh until you peed would be more important in an IM that’s distracting you.

    Zedstar / February 23rd, 2006
  79. Hmm. Well, I use firefox too but no problems here. We female readers of yf.com don’t all worship him, you know. :D

    a / February 24th, 2006
  80. But we male readers do. Mmmm.

    Guig / February 24th, 2006
  81. I can’t believe I missed so much! At least the love has returned. And the manatee.

    Ami / February 24th, 2006
  82. The manatee? Where?

    a / February 24th, 2006
  83. firefox user. I also have the problem of Tings I do blocking the comments. I can’t actually see what I’m typing now b/c of this glitch. Mystery!

    Alabaster Crusader / February 24th, 2006
  84. Firefox user, I get it too- each time if there are quite a few comments. I generally find that if you hit refresh, it goes.

    Zedstar / February 24th, 2006
  85. Hmm. I wasn’t getting it on my Firefox at home. But now I’m working on a mac with Netscape and it’s doing it.

    Penis!

    Guig / February 25th, 2006
  86. wtf is naeboo doing here.

    Paul Tan / February 25th, 2006
  87. Hmmmm…I wonder if Zedstar is a hot naked chick?

    Joe / February 25th, 2006
  88. Not when I’m talking to strangers I’m not.

    Zedstar / February 25th, 2006
  89. Also, with firefox 1.5 on linux, all the comments are complete gibberish and random nonsense!

    fan_formerly_known_as_fan / February 25th, 2006
  90. That would be a tough call… The comments here usually are gibberish and random nonsense.

    Zedstar / February 26th, 2006
  91. The tune was very Rob Dougan, I likey.

    Now try and do a podcast without talking about sex (or lack thereof). I double dare ya.

    AndyH / February 26th, 2006
  92. I only say that because kites fly highest against the wind, and I want Yongfook to be a big beautiful kite. Daijobu?

    AndyH / February 26th, 2006
  93. Gosh, that would be a challenge! AND without the mention of genitalia - I triple dare you ;) Do I hear crickets chirping in the distance? :P

    Anonymous / February 27th, 2006
  94. Yeah I dare you to make a completely boring podcast too! I’m on the internet for one reason…genitalia. Don’t try to take that away from me.

    Guig / February 27th, 2006
  95. The music sounds similar to the DeBeers diamond commercial.

    Joe / February 27th, 2006
  96. Joe, that’s because…

    oh forget it.

    yongfook / February 27th, 2006
  97. After insulting women and promoting mysoginism world-wide, now yongfook is supporting DeBeer’s bloodstained diamonds?

    fan_formerly_known_as_fan / February 27th, 2006
  98. Guig I wasn’t trying to take your genitalia away from you, I would just like push the YF into the comedy stratosphere. I space kite, if you will.

    And thanks to both of you for using my ‘what’s a nubian?’ question. Even if you did singularly FAIL to provide an answer my tiny mind could cope with.

    AndyH / February 27th, 2006
  99. Person from Nubia? Surely that didn’t rock your world all that hard. And I’ll only tell you once more, AndyH, if that is your real name, you try and take my genitals from me and I’ll have words with your nubian.

    Guig / February 27th, 2006
  100. 100!! Wow I’m bored…. at work. Slow day.

    iS / February 28th, 2006
  101. wow people really love to have fun by posting offensive messages to someone’s alternate blog-self. it’s just, well, great! i wish there were more clowns like this in the world to provide such amusement whilst giving me the feeling that my life is actually… worth something! though i am aware they number in the billions.

    still like the site jon. ta.

    (bigger than) Totoro / February 28th, 2006
  102. Why so indignant? I think we should all eat cake. :)

    a / February 28th, 2006
  103. Very cool blog.

    I’m now on my way out to get that zashi!

    Thanks

    Craig

    Craig / February 28th, 2006
  104. Update already you bastard. Being busy at work is NOT an excuse to not update.

    Fuckstress / February 28th, 2006
  105. [b]The music sounds similar to the DeBeers diamond commercial.[/b]

    I haven’t heard it before, so I was rather confused about the diamonds part in the title. Thanks for clearing it up for me!

    Kj / February 28th, 2006
  106. Who wants to feel my long, silky, hard, veiny penis? Its a sale price today at $50 a stroke!

    ….sorry, I’m just bored stiff in my lecture :|

    Kj / February 28th, 2006
  107. Speaking of penises, I happened across this article on the Greek fascination with small genitalia earlier today. The article quotes a study stating that in ancient Greece, “The ideal penis was small, thin, and covered with a long, tapered foreskin.” Another author lists the most desirable masculine features: “a gleaming chest, bright skin, broad shoulders, tiny tongue, strong buttocks, and a little prick.”

    A case of mistaken century, perhaps, yongfook?

    a / February 28th, 2006
  108. Excuse the sad, sad sentence structure there. I meant, being born in the wrong century.

    a / February 28th, 2006
  109. zasshi

    David-MTL / March 1st, 2006
  110. Link doesn’t work for me :(

    Kj / March 1st, 2006
  111. Here it is: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/051209.html

    (note to self: don’t try to use html in comment boxes again.)

    a / March 1st, 2006
  112. A case of mistaken century, perhaps, yongfook?

    Who told you I had strong buttocks. That thing with the walnut is all done with pulleys.

    yongfook / March 1st, 2006
  113. What do you say? You mean you didn’t — It wasn’t –!

    I feel so disillusioned. Sigh.

    a / March 1st, 2006
  114. I think he’s merely confused about where his suppositories are meant to go.

    Rudd / March 2nd, 2006
  115. “That thing with the walnut is all done with pulleys.”

    Elaborate please.

    Kj / March 2nd, 2006
  116. Remember that scene in Return of the Jedi, where the ewoks crush the walker in the forest with two huge logs? One from each side? Like that.

    iS / March 3rd, 2006
  117. I saw the photo for Feb. 20… and I couldn’t help but think! He’s gone Zen!!! and then I saw Meyers Briggs in your podcast and thought… wow… what’s he got to say about that? I used to work with groups …. hahahah Happy Kitty…

    Oko_ne / March 3rd, 2006
  118. Wow!!!! 118 comments and climbing! Must be the most commented Yongfook article ever?

    Joe / March 4th, 2006
  119. Not by far. Does anyone remember which was? Fran?

    a / March 4th, 2006
  120. a: you are right…I checked…it is “Fran” at over 180! Well, this comment is 120 and counting…..

    Joe / March 5th, 2006
  121. Paul Tan says:

    wtf is naeboo doing here.

    >> what gives u more privelege to be here than her? stupid doink.

    naeboo's fan / March 15th, 2006
  122. GREAT NEWS !!!!

    KEEP GOOD

    leo / April 24th, 2006

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