California BAR TRICKS by Jim Rosenbaum



From the wild bar scenes of Los Angeles to the renowned cuisine of the restaurants in Napa Valley, California is known for its nightlife. Jim Rosenbaum has worked in the California nightlife for many years and this book is a culmination of his experience.

California Bar Tricks contains a collection of 50 magic tricks, mind teasers, and challenges using common bar and restaurant items; guaranteed to amuse, confuse, and amaze. This fully illustrated book is an invaluable asset for all bar magicians and restaurant performers; as well as amateurs and laypersons alike. Jim gives you all the details for performing these stunningly clever and entertaining routines. California Bar Tricks is a must for restaurant professionals, or anyone looking to shine at the next cocktail party.

Tricks include: Balancing Silverware, Aqua Dime, Electric Personality, Dollar Bridge …and many more!

MY REVIEW :g:

First published in 1993 by American magician, Jim Rosenbaum, this light read was quite entertaining to me, though I must first point out that it's more of a novelty book than a true magic book for one... so it's not exactly philosophical stuff from Tommy Wonder *grin*

Easily finished in an hour, this booklet has very detailed illustrations to show you how the individual bar tricks are done, which makes it very easy to comprehend and understand its short and sweet instructions. There are many classics, and many that you might find useful - with items you can easily get, so everything is pretty much impromptu!

You can easily do things with borrowed items, and everyday objects like money, drinks, cups, napkins, toothpicks, cards, cutlery, ciggies, dice, matches, ice cubes, rubberbands, straws, etc... And yeah, though the book's title is California Bar Tricks, you can easily use the effects taught in the book here in Singapore :lol: Just thought I'd highlight it... in case you're wondering. Heh.

Some good tricks you can wager money on are taught in the book like:

1) Dollar Bridge - You make a bet with friends that you can place a shot glass on a dollar bill suspended between two glasses. Really!

2) Water balancing - A glass of water is balanced on a sole playing card.

3) Lemon Piercing Dollar - Wager that you can pass an ordinary dollar bill (borrow it even!) through a lemon (any lemon)!

4) Guess the Coin - Make the claim that out of 4 different coins (different values), you can magicially guess the coin your friend chooses, every time.

5) Suspended water - Invert a full glass of water without spilling a drop. I know someone who got a free beer for doing this :lol: No special gimmicks (remember, this is all impromptu).

6) The Bending Cigarette - A normal ciggie is bent, its ends touching each other. Normally, it'll break but Jim teaches you the special secret.

...There are also many IQ tricks in there, this is just the tip of the iceberg ^_^ So if you have friends bugging you to show them some impromptu stuff at pubs/ clubs/ chalets and the environment isn't very suitable for magic with patter, this would be a great avenue to pull some visual stunts. And maybe get the phone number of some good looking chicks :g:

Ning

PS: Besides my own personal copy, I have another brand new set, which I'll be giving away... so let's liven things up here since it's been awhile since we had one of those essay competition thingy things :lol: So, this is what you've gotta do - it's EASY!!

RULES FOR THIS COMPETITION (ends midnight of 31 Jul '06)

1) Simply post to tell us (no need long philosophical wordy essay - the key touchpoints here is 'FUN') the wackiest/funniest/most interesting/strangest stories of you performing magic at any pub/ bar/ club/ etc. or chalet/ restaurant (for those who are minors... lol) ;)

2) It has to be REAL, so don't give us some unbelievable story that is an obvious piece of fiction :ph43r: Still it must be really interesting, biazzare even but a true encounter! Juicy is goooooooood *hums theme song from Desperate Housewives* Juiccccccy!!!

3) Still make sure that it's nothing too R(A) or slanderous (in other words, offensive) pls :unsure: If you have photos to upload, all the better :lol: Seriously!!! *Juicccccy*

The most entertaining piece wins. Yours truly, from The Little Magic Shop, will be the judge, but don't count on trying to 'sa-kah' me to win this *LOL* This is because your entry (limited to just ONE per member) ...will be the one that speaks volumes! ;)

So yeah, please submit your entries right here- below this post. You have from now till month's end, so have fun y'all, this is just an informal fun 'competition'... I wonder, who will start the ball rolling? :lol: WOOT!

Remember, to win a copy of this book, your entry must be juicccccccccccccy!

I'll go first, to break the ice.

Several years ago, I was performing strolling magic and a corporate Christmas party. I was doing sponge balls for a group of 10 people and working with a rather lively female spectator. I had just placed one in my hand and given her one to hold as well. Before I had a chance to move into the patter of them “changing places” she shoves her “one” ball down the front of her nicely low cut gown.

I did the only thing possible at that point… I snapped my fingers and showed her how mine had vanished and asked if she still had hers. Smiling confidently, she reaches into her dress and pulls out one sponge ball.

I couldn’t resist and took “her” ball, placed it in my hand, snapped my fingers, and made it disappear. I asked her where she thought it went and, after waiting a few seconds, glanced at the obvious place. Her expression, or rather the change in it, was priceless. She reached down her dress again, to a place where she had just retrieved a sponge ball, screamed, and removed the ball for the second time.

Wouldn't it be great if it turned out like that every time?

Excellent post mgshn! :lol: I totally fell over the bed laughing when I read that last bit of yours... a well written entry that's short & sweet... thanks for breaking the ice!

...Now who's nexxxxxxt? ;)

Early this year i was performing in some Guinness( ya the beer) celebration event. No, sadly i was'nt the paid magician for the day. I was there to deal cards. The manager only found out that i 'm a magician on the interview(I was doing some flourish and colour changes while he is explaining how to deal the cards) He said they already got one magician so first come first serve... :(

That day we recieved 3 decks of cards. The waiting time is long and so i decided to perform some magic. And yes i used the cards provided. This ended all the "He is using a trick deck" thing. B) i also used some of the rubber bands provided to perform.

Soon a big crowd gathered. I was quite suprised that i could get so much attention. Guess the others are really bored as well. The manager noticed that and dragged me to the other side to perform.

This is the fun part. He dragged me to the side where all the Guinness gals gathered! :lol: Thank you Manager!! I started off with some card tricks and coin tricks. My third trick is the ambitous card. I reached out to pull out my marker but to my horror its not there!!

At that moment, i suddenly have this idea. I asked if any of them had their lipstick with them. All of them said they did'nt have it with them.
" then can u somehow leave a mark on it?" i said as i hinted them to kiss the card.
One of them really kissed my card and left her lipstick on it!! :!!: No way i could duplicate a lipstick mark haha.

For the whole night while i was dealing cards i got those Guinness gals talking to me. Some of them i don't even remember i performed to them cuz there are really too many of them. I was chatting with one of them after dealing the cards. She's really cute! When i was about to ask for her number one of the supervisors dragged me to do other stuff....Damn!

The news quickly spreads and it somehow got twisted. Now my friends got versions of the lipstick on other parts of me..... <_< And yes i still have the card with me haha :lol:

I don't know why but this reminds me of a cinderella story... 'cept instead of a glass show, you got her lipstick mark on ur card. Good luck finding the girl, it's gonna take a bit of magic since you don'teven have her number Ace! ;)

Sometimes the legend is larger than the facts. Having the card and the rumors isn't that bad an outcome. ;)

And, it's a wonderful story of thinking quickly in any event!

I remebered 2 years ago while i was still in school (having the time of my life), I was secretly eyeing on this J1 girl, and I was J2. So after trying to network her through my friends, I finally managed to purposefully incidentally perform magic for her and her friends thru request.

All I did was a simple card tranposition, and guess what, after the climax, she immediately raised her hand at my face with her palm facing at me and started to murmur something. Of course I was abit taken by this, so I tried to smile it off, and asked her whats her name but she didnt reply, instead, her murmurs became chants that goes 'please take the satan out of him, please take the satan out of me...'. Geez. Her friend had to take her aside, and then, I realised she thought it was all satanic, and she actually teared alittle in the canteen after that. And, she was singing hymns to herself.

Oh well, so much for a card trick, and there goes the girl too. =(

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I seriously almost fell of the chair reading that! HAHAHAHAHahahaha......

Well, the good news is.....at least you found out about that little bit about her.
Imagine you and her on a date, in a nice restuarant, and you did a card transposition on her...... :g:

This is not a strange story. Nor is it funny. Nor is it even weird (ok maybe a little). I'm not even putting this story here to win anything. Think of this as a "boasting" story. That's right. I'm here to show off.

It happened one night, this Tuesday night to be exact. I was in a pub at Holland V with a friend (a guy friend, so this story isn't a romantic story either... and certainly not a lusty one) and conversation has dwindled down to such a pathetic extent that there was danger of him bringing up the topic of my absolute ineptness in chasing girls for the fourteenth time that night.

So I whipped out a deck of cards. Thankfully he was a little high and could only groan (not it's not a sexy story... please). I showed him David Regal's "Lucky 7s". He picked the 6 of Spades (my 7 of Spades was given away so had to replace the card) and after seeing I have the card in my wallet, he muttered agreement. It was a tough crowd.

I then did a simple Dai Vernon trick using a key card. The stars must have been aligned that night because he picked the 6 of Spades again. He thought I had somehow made him pick that card. I smiled and didn't correct him. I'm not a particularly ethical man, you see. He was getting "impressed" now.

Then I whipped out (no, no, it's not an XXX story either) my Sanctum membership card, made him think of one word on it, and divined the word letter by letter. He was puzzled, I was glad I still knew my ABCs (it'll come in handy for any sobriety tests).

Then came Banachek's "Reversal". His result was 297. My ingenious mind had made a note of the number that was next to his chosen word on the Sanctum card. It was 297. I crushed my own foot to hide my excitement and nonchanlantly took the card out again.
"You had a free choice yes?" I said.
"Yes." He said.
"Look at the word you thought of just now and the number beside it." I said.
He lept out of his chair and started smoking. I hobbled out of my seat and joined him.

The night was to end on a glorious note (no it's not a religious story either) as we talked a little about Derren Brown. He was sure Brown was using stooges all the way. I said I will perform a Derren Brown effect, and did the 3-D force. For the first time in my life, I got the card. He thought of the Three of Diamonds.

I felt like a king, but I know fame and riches are fleeting. So we ordered another beer, and I denied him permission to erect (no it's not that kind of sto... never mind...) a shrine to worship me.

That night was the night I could have gone one-on-one with Mike Tyson and walked away with both my ears intact. Instead I walked home alone, without any girl's HP number in my pocket, and three beers poorer. I wonder why I said this was a boasting story. I wonder...

For a "not funny" story, I sure laughed a lot.

This story is about me in Korea.

Every single time i go overseas with my family, my parents will DEFINITELY ask me to perform to the tour guide and tour group.

Sadly, it did not turn out well in Korea. My ACR was flat, the tour guide just went "Hmm.. Ni2 Hen3 Li4 Hai4 Hor." (He could speak Chinese, and that means "you are skilled") And his tone was monotonous.

Defeated, I decided NEVER to perform to Koreans again. Honestly.

The next morning, I was eating breakfast at the restaurant, and eyeing the spoons, I started picking it up and bending it, finding new ways to do spoon bending. SUDDENLY, the tour guide RUSHED OVER, GRABBED THE SPOON and ran off immediately. I didn't know what hit me, and just sat there, looking at the general direction he ran off to.

2 minutes later, he came over with the WHOLE TABLE of about 5 other tour guides and asked me to do it again. He handed me the spoon, which I promptly bended it. They all went AAAAAAAARGHHHHH (remember, it is 5 grown men doing so) and started cursing in Korean.

After that, my tour guide (who is Korean but has a residence in Singapore) asked me for 4-D numbers. All because my father helped me by saying "My child has ESP and all that mind-reading-prediction-uri-geller stuff". He announced that I had such powers to the tour group. Then EVERYONE in my tour group (31 of them all) started asking me for 4-D numbers, plus the additional Toto numbers sometimes.

Can you imagine? People queuing up in front of a 15-16 year old boy who just bent a spoon and asking for Toto Numbers?

Whenever my tour guide met someone he knew in Korea later during the trip, he would hand me that same spoon (he took it away from the restaurant) and ask me to perform. Of course, all those Koreans went MAD when they saw the metal screwing up in front of them...

This was the first time I became a mental guru instead of the usual cardician I am known to be.

After that, I managed to guess a girl's handphone number in my tour group. I have NEVER spoken to her before this mentalism feat, and she did not even BRING her handphone.

Anybody guess how that can be done? :)

By the way, she was convinced I was some paranormalist. :D

I felt like God. Honestly.

By the way, Alexander's story got me laughing my a$$ off.

P.S. Can anyone manage to guess how that handphone number mentalism was done? Remember, it was a girl i NEVER met before, I NEVER even SPOKE to before, and she did not even HAVE her handphone with her. And I did not ask any questions. I just outright said the number out, like "Let me see.. your number is 9-xxxxxxx".

Maybe I should say that whoever can guess the correct method would automatically win. If no one can, I will win. Hahahahahahahaha. Joking. But feel free to post your guesses. :)

Wuahahahahahaha... :!!:

Wicked cool, Maddened, it sounds like you totally OWNED him! You sure had a great night messing with his mind! Your unique style of humor... gawd, it always kills me :lol: I swear, you're one of the funniest mentalist (almost an oxymoron!) I've ever met.

Alex - man, sorry to hear about the girl :ph43r: Any chance of you guys hooking up again? LOL. That was some freaky experience tho. Reminds me of my own experience, when I was in Thailand (no folks, this is not a refree kayu entry).

I was in Bangkok some time back, in a nice swanky chill out bar (in a good side of town) with great jazz music (couldn't believe that the cute singer actually tried hitting on me later in the bathroom, but that's another story) and drinks with a bunch of people (all very friendly Thais in the fashion & media industry).

Wanting to break the ice... I preceeded to ask one of the guys for a baht note (heh, I already had my IT hookup done), and one was given to me. They didn't understand English very well so I made sure my patter was as simple and easily understood.

I took his note, got off my stool and before them at their table - started to levitate his money, rotating my hands all around to show that there was nothing fishy :lol: One of them freaked out (that drama queen!) and when I returned the crumpled bill, the guy (who was looking very freaked out) took his money back from me and started looking hard at it, flipping the note over several times and holding it to the light.

My friend had to explain to them (speaking very rapidly in Thai) to convince them that I wasn't dabbling in black magic (they're very superstitious about it over there) but all of them were giving me wierd looks so I retreated to the restroom (erm, that's where I met the singer, but nevermind!)

When I got back to our table, the guy who I borrowed the bill from, was still excitedly checking his note... but this time, he was trying to levitate it by throwing it up in the air and waving his hands around feebly :lol: Of course gravity wasn't his bestfriend. It was hilarious but my friend managed to convince them that it's all good clean fun and that I was a magician, an entertainer with tricks.

One of them laughed and took out 2 rubberbands & started doing the Crazy Man's Handcuffs routine, which he said he learnt from a friend at work (nope, not a magician). Another later did some bar tricks with his ciggies... where he snaps his fingers and the stick rolls away upon his command, while the guy who I borrowed the baht from was still trying (VERY HARD) to levitate his note by throwing it up in the air :g:

They begged for more,so I did a little bit of silverware bending *grin* That slayed them too!!! It was a great night in Bangkok... I really love the place!!!
Ning :lol:

Nice post Pan ;) But let's not deviate from the main essay contest else we'd get off-topic! LOL :lol: It sure sounds you had fun in Korea! Seems like Korean spectators are quite like the animated Japanese too ^_^

Ms Ning,

Since you posted a story yourself, are you trying to win the book back too? What if you win? Hahahahahahahahahahahaaahahhaa whatever.

Anyway, I think Alexander's one has a high chance of winning... besides mine. :)

Like I said Pan, no refree kayu ^_^

Any more experiences from others? ;) We still have time, till the end of this month anyways *grin* Keep it rolling you guys!!!

No way! I think she kinda scared me as much i would had scared her.

And hopefully, I wanna be like Aloy... date a female magician. =D

Here Alex.... ;)

http://forums.singaporemagiccircle.com/ind...?showtopic=4646

LOL... good point :rolleyes: So, anyone else have any more hilarious stories to share? *grin*

Okay, here's my side of the story. I swear upon the judges to be true to words according to my nearest knowledge and if any lies are found within me, i would be prosecuted( Oops, too serious, haha. anyway.)


Happened a few days ago when i went back to my alma mata and seeing there was nothing to do i decided to whip out a few tricks to my friends.

Everything went well, but when it finally came to a 2 card monte, i was doing one of the switch and wanted to say: " now without loo...."
That guy turned the card over and said: " aey change liao " I was like.. God, save me.

I countered and said: " Ya, that is part of the trick. B) " and proceeded to change another trick. But the funny part is, he busted the trick but was still amazed with it and started going around saying: " wth, he can change my cards sia (mind my singlish)"

So hope you guys enjoyed my side of the story.

:) Alright... less than a week more to go to the closing of this competition, will there be more submissions? *grins and waves copy of book to be given away as prize*

Anymore? Hit me!!! :lol:

I was at a Kids survival camp organized by Touch Community service at Clementi Primary school doing some kids shows for 3 days.

Actually went there to help out and get CIP hours and also do some service learning. But My teachers, pastor and so on, knew that I'm a magician so they asked me to perform for them.

The first 2 days were okay. I perform and perform and they were like :blink:

On the last day, there was a long free and easy time for us and its at night. Sooo I decided to test out my D'lite skills. Guess what... The kids are the worst hecklers!! They surrounded me and come close to disturb me and finally when they saw the gimmick...

I WAS LIKE CHASE AFTER BY 50+ KIDS THAT WANTED TO GET THE D'LITE OUT OF MY HANDS!!! So I ran around the school with 50+ kids chasing after me?
Of course I can't win them. So when they caught me, they jump at me and brought me to the ground, forcing me to take the gimmick out!

I already had the gimmick in my pocket but some kids won't give up!

They took my hand and started pulling one by one to see which is the fake one. I can even hear the bone cracking sound of my fingers. I was like abused by little kids from pri1 to 3. OUCH! <_<

Well, the next day my hands were like jelly. I cant control my cards well for 1 whole month. :wacko:

Thanks guys ^_^

hey, do try to stick to the rules of engagement yeah... read Rule #1 so we don't deviate from what's the original request ;) Keep these stories rolling in folks, remember... it must be ENTERTAINING to the readers. And true too :lol: Bring it on!!!

Cheers,
ning :)

I have an experience to share, which is not be funny to myself but hopefully it is for everyone else. So here it goes...

My school organized an event called "Entreprenuer Day" where everyone is supposed to be aspiring entrepreneurs, or rather, supposedly. Distinguished guests were invited to the stage, for talks and boring sessions after another. Anyhow, I was down at the Teachers' Lounge and Tea and Refreshments place to entertain the guests and the teachers. SO, after doing some magic, it was always my style to entertain with some flourishes.

At first, I was doing some cuts, fans, etc. Then I went on to the Armspreads. (Armspreads are where you spread the cards on your arm, and catch them all after tossing the into the air)
No, I wasn't doing any other armspreads, I was doing the Electric Eel...

YEAH.

(An electric eel is a move by Huron Low, where the cards are spreaded on the back of the arm, while ON THE SAME HAND, half the deck is held in hand, opened like a charlier cut, waiting to collect the spreaded portion after throwing into the air)

What I can say is that, the move is subjective to air velocity, air resistance, the speed at which you toss the spread, mass of the cards... ALRIGHT, I'm bullsh!ting to save myself...

In any case, I did the move, and right in front of about 10 teachers and guests, the spread flew into the air.... As I reach out to catch them all, I failed terribly. It hit one of the teachers in the face. I'm not kidding. It literally splattered on her face. If your a flourisher, you should know how fast armspread catches are and if you miss, it's going to have flying cards EVERYWHERE. I would say it's the most embarassing thing I ever did.

Wackiest? Go figure. :g:

Here's my story... not the funniest of stories but thought i could share this special story of mine.

It was to be my very first Valentine's day date. I picked my girlfriend up from work at about 5.30pm at Suntec City. We then made our way to the busstop. We were heading to boat quay to have our dinner. It happened that the bus took very long to arrive. And problem is, i didn't know what exactly to talk to her about. She has received the flowers earlier during lunch but she couldn't take it back home as she fear her mum will find out about us (inter racial relationship is never easy...).

I took out 2 rubberbands from my pocket and started to show her my version of crazyman handcuffs. I claimed that in order to cause the rubberbands to penetrate through each other, one has to concentrate and say out loud the magic word. I made her guess the magic word, and of course she didn't know what it was. So, i said

" The magic word is.... you look very pretty today."" She hit me lightly on my arms and I immediately I bring her attention to the rubberbands which were about to do a magical feat. And yes, she went speechless as she saw the magic happened. She told me to do it again. And so I did. I told her that i will go slower for her this time round. And this time round the magic word is "you look very very pretty today." haha... and of course, She hit me again.

Next, i went on claiming that I'll teach her the trick. I went behind her, place my arms around her and then... held her hands in the pretense of helping her secure the rubberbands to her fingers.

"BOO!!!"

Someone tapped me hard on my back. I got a shock.

"Hey! Cheating girls again arh?!" Guess what... it was a friend of mine. Stupid. Spoilt everything. I had a hard time convincing her that I've never performed magic to a girl before. Only to aunties.

Anyway, i went on with my magic and told her this time to do as i do. I told her.. "slowly pull the rubberbands and then remove the thumb and replace it so that when this is done fast.. the rubberband fused into one!!! well, actually the rubberband did not disappear. It went up my veins, past the arm, past the elbow, up the shoulder, to the other shoulder, and up onto my ears!"

At that point of time, she was totally stunned. I went on and repeat the whole thing again. But to her surprise (or rather, disgust), the rubberband got stuck at my throat, and I had to cough the rubberband out of my mouth! Well, this is my rubberband routine which have stayed with me for many years now.

Now, back to the story. After having dinner, we sat around in the restaurant for a while as we were too full to move. I took out a deck of cards. She said "huh? what are you doing?" I told her to just watch. So, the usual thing... pick a card, lose it in the deck...

"Watch! Without any funny moves, all i need to do is to snap my fingers and the card will jump to the top of the deck. *SNAP* and believe it or not, the top card is now your card!" She gave me a funny look as it was actually not her card.

"Oh!!! I know. Dear, today is Valentine's Day. So, in order for this trick to work, I need you to blow a kiss to the deck." She didn't want to do it. She was too shy to do it as there were actually some foreign eyes eyeing us. So, I persuaded her to do it just once after i demo to her how she should go about doing it.

"Now that we've both sent our kisses to the deck, something interesting will happen." I run through the deck face down and in the middle of the deck, was a card that has a writing on it. It was some chinese characters... it says.... "wo ai ni!"

She was shocked. i turned the card over, and it was her selected card! She didn't know what to say at this point of time. I asked for her hand, placed the card above her hand and then squeeze out a red paper ball onto her palm. I showed the back of the same card, and to her surprise the words "wo ai ni" was no longer there. I told her to open up the paper ball, and of course, what she saw was the same writing but this time it's on the red piece of paper instead. Magic? I don't think so. Wait till you hear the end of the story.

She took the red piece of paper and kept it between the pages of her diary. She then looked into my eyes with the cutest of looks and said "thanks". I smiled and said "no problem, hope you like it." "Hmmhmm" She nodded. As we stood up to leave the place, she went close to me and gave me a peck on the cheek. wow... that was my first ever kiss from a girl. Will certainly remember this story for life. This is what i call the magic of love.

The both of us are still going strong now but i no longer show her magic. She still accompany me and supports me when I do my shows. Honey, I love you!

BEST la AhLiShuFi!!!!!

I vote for your story. So romantic one.~~

Aw.... what a nice story AhLiShuFi. I can feel that your girlfriend must have felt very special on that very night. I've always liked the idea of doing magic for your date and with added personal touches to it. I have to confess, I'm fan of romantic stories and novels hehe.. ^_^

AhLiShuFi, you have my vote as well... :lol:

Thank you for the votes, bigbadwold and jeromefang. Really appreciate it. Thanks thanks! Glad you like it.

Hi Shufi,

I love your story.

You have my vote!!!!!!

Nice story Shufi.

You have my vote.

I have to beg my wife to see my magic. That's the difference between before and after marriage. :D

Aww.. So sweeeet Shifi~

And Magicdow - Aww for you too.. LOL.

*sniff* Aiyoh AhLiShuFi, you incredible romantic you... Sooooo touching.

I vote for you too. :wub:

Aww man, I wish I could show magic to my girlfriend too!

LOL.....guys....this is not the old "vote" system u know? :lol:

:lol: Nice story, Shufi! Very, very sweet!

Righty... just a couple of days left guys, post now or forever hold your peace... kekeke :P

Ning

hahaha... nevermind if the votes don't count. Glad that you guys like the story. But I am abit "paiseh" sharing this story to you all actually.

Hey shufi! Nice story! Its sooo Romantic and touching. haha. Nice trick too! Gave me an idea. :D

It's good that the story can inspire you in your routines in one way or another. Glad to be of help!

Alright people... a couple of hours more to closing! Don't miss the midnight deadline ;)

Cheers,
ning

Thanks to all those who have posted their stories and not forgetting those who read and enjoyed the stories.

hmm... so, who's the lucky winner? (*prays...)

LOL... when would you like to collect your book. Shufi? :lol:

Congrats on winning the prize of 'California Bar Tricks' By Jim Rosenbaum!

I hope everyone had fun sharing their experiences, look out for more of these FUN informal contests up on SMC as well *grin* Thanks guys!

Ning ^_^
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