Chronicles Of HDB Dwellers. part deux

Since the new year is coming, community clubs (not centres, it now clarbs okay, dunch play play) are starting to hold block parties. Parties at the void decks are not uncommon and occur almost once every two months and if your in a happening HDB estate maybe even once every month. It's cheap too, usually free or the sit down dinners cost less than 20 dollars. All of them celebrate with many reasons and it's a common trend among CCs to join alot of reasons to celebrate. A few examples

- Children's Day cum Racial Harmony Art Competition
- Deepavali cum Fire Safety Awareness Exhibition
- Mid-Autumn Festival cum Crime Prevention Celebration

Maybe they are on a tight budget and have to combine two activities into one. They always like to use the word CUM, cum this cum that, prize giving cum buffet. Everything lah! Why can't they just use AND?

Today was even better with three activities combined into one. Christmas cum New Year cum Old Folks Karaoke competition. Three leh! not the normal two and like all CC parties they never celebrate it on the actual day, it's always a few days late or early. In case you don't know what goes on at the void deck here are some things they usually have

1. Food. It's a kampung thing that everyone contributes. Usually bee hoon, fish balls, nuggets, fried rice and the always well received chicken wings. No beer though and everything is buffet.

2. Competition. "Cuz we all is kiasu, everything must be win" be it Childrens Art Competiton, old folks Karaoke Challenge and cooking competitions. They are really fun and everyone eventually ends up winning, there are prizes for every participant.

3. Songs. Usually in Malay, Indian, Chinese, English and the most often heard are dialects especially Hokkien. Usually sung by the resident crooner. The one in my area can't even make it to the first auditions of Singapore Idol, but she is entertaining nonetheless. Her cover of Teresa Teng's Tian Mi Mi, very emotional, sometimes I even hum along.

4. Lucky Draw. In the west they call it a Raffle but my grandma calls it a "Lar Kie Dlaw". Prizes consist of simple home appliance like toasters, kettles and the much coveted Electric Steamboat (wahhhhh) and food hampers.

One thing i don't like is the song choices they make. Not one time will they not fail to play or sing Selly Yeh song. PLEASE sing more Tian Mi Mi please. In case you don't know what song it is I managed to record the ending of it with my handphone.

Download here. Warning, listening to this may cause trauma to the ears for at least one week as you hum along to the addictive emotional tune.

Apeh's standard is to sit outside and "enjoy the show" they never go in until the last part where the loud yam sengs start. YAMMMMMMMMMM yammm yamm yammmmmm Yammmmmmmmmmm SENG!

Chronicles Of HDB Dwellers.

My Bro and I were in the lift today when we detected this funky smell of puke. The stench smelt fresh and the floor was still wet and probably mopped not too long ago. It was at around 10am so we guessed it was most likely breakfast puke. I came up with a story inspired by traffic jams and bad breakfast. My bro says it sounds plausible, please note that all names of characters are made up. Xiao Ming is the standard chinese name I give to all my male protaganist in my F-grade chinese essays.

The Boy, The Puke and The HDB Lift.

Xiao Ming and his parents woke up real early today at 5.30am. They were going to JB to celebrate the new year and wanted to avoid the hellish traffic jam on the causeway.

"Quick! Xiao Ming eat your breakfast!" Mummy says as she hands over a plate of sandwichs and Milo breakfast cereals to the 7 year old Rosythian (cuz i live opposite Rosyth Primary School). Xiao Ming rushes through and finishes his sandwich in three bites. He gobbles his cereal while playing the lastest version Pokemon on his Nintendo DS. All is completed in one fierce battle with a wild Charmander (cuz it's my favourite Pokemon) and Xiao Ming rushes to get his shoes on. He is the last to leave the house as their maid straps him up with his bag pack.

Mummy is waiting at the lift and so Xiao Ming runs to please the faux-Gucci decked housewife. While in the lift he lets out a cough but his mouth is closed. His cheeks start to swell and his eyes tell you he is running out of breath. The strong willed Xiao Ming cannot hold it any longer, the puke has over-floweth.

Whats goes in last comes out first.
The milo cereal
Then the sandwiches
and then the surprise cup noodles which Daddy let Xiao Ming try the night before without Mummy's permission. Tsk tsk

Daddy stops using his bluetooth headset and looks on with concern, Mummy wipes away the little bits of vomit on her Malaysian Guccci (with one extra C). Xiao Ming cries while Daddy begins to clean Xiao Ming's mouth off the noodle bits. They don't scold him, no, they are nice parents and being the good natured community caring couple, they call up the maid at home to mop up the place.

Poor Maria, she was gonna take a day break and enjoy herslef with her fellow off day maids at Lucky Plaza. All dressed up in the standard jeans and t-shirt, she sadly grabs the mop and forgets to get the bottle of Ajax liquid Soap. No wonder the lift still smells. She meets up with family at the lobby as she puts on a fake smile and waves off to Xiao Ming which she will definitely not carry his school bag to school anymore.

The End.

Help!

This song just ran through my head while I was running just now (get it? Ran thru? Someone stop me please). 2005 feels like 3 years crammed into one, seriously if you asked what I did in January, I really don't remember. First it was Tekong, my island in the sun (if not for all the work it's really a nice place) then it was NUH which was a hectic experience than came Uni life....that one cannot describe in one post.

As a reflection on 2005, I guess what I realised more than anything else this year is that I can't go through all this alone. Jon is no one man show, although he would like to be one.

I need people to hear me out, I need people for advice and I seriously need help in my Archi stuff, I need people to hear my bitching/complaining/"kao peh"ing, I need people to need me, I need help cause I'm going to be 22 soon and that is 2x11 which is blardy old, I need someone proficient in the art of Traditional Balinese Massage to give my legs a good rub down, I need someone to share my angst when I get the rare emo thing(or when I'm drunk). I need HELP!

For next year I will cut down seeking solace in running, watching TV or my beloved 64bit processor and start talking to people, Jon is going to be more open to people, yes I mean PEOPLE, let me spell it our for you P I P P L E. No I'm not going to have a major life makeover, I just want to improve on the way things are, I don't think I can remain Jon of 2005 all the time, everyone changes whether you like it or not. Cheers to that!

Actually I wanted to include just a chorus of this song but heck everything in it seems to make sense now. I give you the lyrics to the first song from the Help!(UK) movie soundtrack.

The Beatles - Help!

Help, I need somebody,
Help, not just anybody,
Help, you know I need someone, help.

When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody's help in any way.
But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured,
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors.

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won't you please, please help me.

And now my life has changed in oh so many ways,
My independence seems to vanish in the haze.
But every now and then I feel so insecure,
I know that I just need you like I've never done before.

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won't you please, please help me.

When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody's help in any way.
But now these daya are gone, I'm not so self assured,
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors.

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won't you please, please help me, help me, help me, oh.

They Bring Good Tidings

Why Does It Always Rain On Me?

It started to drizzle at the the 2.5km point and then it rained like nobody's business. Instead of stopping I decided to carry on. Sure the drops were cold and hard, your vision gets blurred from the moisture, your shoes get soggy but heck it's been ages since i ran in the rain. I guess the last time was with nNazim from fong seng back to studio in the middle of the night.

I feel like a kid again, this so cliche.......but heck it's shiok, beyond shiok, shiok is an understatement for the fun you get running when everyone else is hiding under their umbrella. The only person who had just as much fun was a little girl in her tiny raincoat jumping in the puddles despite her mum's disuassion. Suddenly i feel so free! woohoo!

The laptop plays "Why Does It Always Rain On Me by Travis" (while i dry my shoes)

Jon's Alter Ego Speaks

Finally I get to speak! While Jon is half drunk with cheap red wine and bloated with BBQ goodies I, his alter ego, have decided to take over for the day. I have alot of things to say about Jon, before i start to break down and do a fight club-ish thing, i need to speak HIS mind in this lame but easy to read list.

1. Jon has yet to take his driving lesson! What a loser! He's procrastinating! Why? I don't know why. He lives a few bus stops away from ssdc and yet he's too lazy. GET UP! I wanna drive!

2. Jon picked up his camera this month. FINALLY! That sexy piece of metal and glass....oooo I miss the seductive sound of the shutter so much. I call that SLR my BMF (Big M___ F___) , shhh.....don't tell Jon. I know he really wants a new one now, some Digital piece of crap, HEY! i prefer old skool! Chicks dig that retro stuff!

3. Jon got himself really burnt in Bali okay he had fun but I DID NOT! Why did he not take any pictures of the hot Japanese Babes?????? okay that receptionist was cute, so why no clearer pic? all he took was a lame ass darkshot!

4. Jon actually allowed the cancellation of his SCV sports channel. Loser! Now he can't watch Liverpool trash Newcastle lar!

5. Jon should just bid for his core modules and do three mods for next semester. Slack off a little and stop hanging out at the library cuz all the chicks are in Dentistry!

6. Spend less time online. loserish. Stop going Basheer and National Library, enough Kino and no Popular! That's all you did for the hols? Where are the hot chicks?

7. Can he just DON'T GIVE A DAMN to his grades and "cannot make it" cap score. Lousy than lousy lor.

8. Before he turns into a ball of lard, Jon needs to run more. Pretty loser of him to skip this year's marathon. So many pretty girls! wasted wasted....hai....

9. Jon found himself humming to "Sugarbabes-Push the Button" while running just now.....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

10. Jon is a homophobe even though he denies it. He's okay with gays and all but the idea of it just makes his hair stand.

There! more dirty little secrets next time he gets semi-drunk.

Stop and Smell the Cocoa

After all the good food what everyone needs is this: Cookies and home brewed hot chocolate made with the best cocoa powder from a little spice garden in Bali.

Take a break alone, it's time to look back and be thankful for everything. Think of people around you and those you miss, the ones you let down, the ones you cheered up, those who made your day or didn't, those who changed your life in someway (good or bad) and everyone else. Thank you Lord for all things.

12 Things I REALLY Want for Christmas

So now you know what I really don't want. It's time put up the official list of 12.One thing to point out, I really like that t-shirt in no.3.

Here are the 12 things I REALLY want for Christmas. Some money can buy, some need more hope and some are just plain impossible. In an almost random mind-boggling particular order:

12. The end of all 1900 phone calls. Please enough of the "Yao Jiu Ling Ling....." It's getting on my nerves. Be it for charity of stupid chatlines, they both cheat you of your money. Donate through othermeans than by telephone.

11. The ability to ignore my sucky CAP score.

10. Suzanne Jung as the ONLY host for Primetime Morning and Primetime Morning to end at 6pm.

9. Nikon D2X








8. Attain pasta cooking enlightenment














7. No more terrorist/liars/murderers/people who think they are always right

6. Stop thinking your always right

5. More A1 paper and pencils

4. Music to be available to everyone and you shouldn't pay so much.

3. To have 5 twos in a Christmas wishlist

2. Tickets for everyone to watch Oasis on the 26/02/06!!!

2. Nikon d2X (yeah i know, i need to enforce this wish)

2. The ability to stop being tempted to get the new iPods or to stop production of new Ipods for at least one year. (I hear the iPod Zepto is coming, 68 years of music without playing the same song twice!)

2. A new sleeping bag

2. To be content with what I have (and not have) for example, I didn't get an A for design, i didn't get an A for building materials and i didn't get an F for History (for that I am deeply grateful for the invention of moderation, moderation rulez!)

1. Everyone to have a Merry Christmas.
Joy to everyone around you!

Only song on my playlist now

Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You

City Shots

The last set before the new year. Enjoy! Merry Christmas Everyone!









on a semi drunkard sidenote:
I'm Semi Drunk

NUS first years: How to check Results?

Click here

I know i'm not alone on this one, here is the link to check your results. (Thanks for the link Louis!)

Seriously, I keep telling myself I don't care about results but the truth is I do, I'm afraid and damn worried and denial is just covering that fear.

Farg it man, no matter what it ain't gonna spoil my holidays.

Photo Diarrhoea

Head mashed, eyes are groggy, hands are tired. You start to see things differently and than you start clicking away with your lame camera phone. Clear signs of Photo Diarrhoea also known as Picture LS, Camera Menstruation, Visual Vomit, Lense Feaces, Film Stool and Kodak Crap. Just take a look

Don't try to make sense of any of them. They're not suppose to.

The Hair On My Fingers Are Standing

Was checking on my referrers statistics when I saw this.

"http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=pictures%20of%20hermoine%20naked&FORM=MSNH&srch_type=0"

What? someone actually types this? Ewww......

Hermoine? The fact that this guy( it better be a guy if not it would be more wrong than it already is) actually clicked on my link just makes my hair stand....ewww. Blame my entry on, Naked Chef, Lindsay Lohan as Hermoine and the constant posting of pictures. Smacks head, what have I done to get losers like him visit? no....

Shite, now some odd possibilities are running through my head. What if i get referrers from people who type these:

- "Bae Yong Jun Fan Club" (arghhhhhhhhhhhh)
- "Jay Chou fetish" (arghhhhhh)
- "Sadako groupies" (this is so illegal)
- "Boybands" (this one should be banned)

Early Christmas!

This is it! Thank You! Who wants to come? Heck if i have major submissions or crits during that day. Who wants???? I want standing 98 bucks! Please please please.

Irony of it all was I only knew about this on the plane back from Bali, the bombs there being one of the main reasons why Oasis cancelled their show here. Like a t-shirt i saw by a road stall "F*** Terrorist"! and "Osama is not a Surfer"!

"I'd like to be somebody else and not know where I've been
I'd like to build myself a house out of plasticine
Shake along with me"

Shakermaker
Noel Gallagher, Oasis

Shakermaker
Oasis

Hairless Beach Ape is Back

My fingers are burnt and I now have the worst tan on the universe. Can't type much cuz it hurts. Pics will do a better job now.

One of the Bomb blast sites, walking distance from the hotel. Once a very crowded pub, now just another unoccupied building. The place is like Orchard Road but with more hairless beach apes walking around, the beach is just 50 metres away! How shiok!

Siluet, The resident band at Hard Rock Cafe. They play the best cover of Keane's Somewhere Only We Know.

Lobster! Need i say more?

Cafe with the meanest Nasi Campur by the beach. Like Raffles Hotel but with hairless beach apes again.

Japanese hotel receptionist on the left. Most Kawaii on the island. The ang mohs just don't cut it for me. Sorry for the bad pic, i think she shy. (okay okay i was shy)

Mount Batu (sp?)

Bintang Beer taste like Anchor (in Indon it's called Anker)

Before the new year comes i need to get alot of things done and that's not just buying gifts Busy busy.

Top 10 Things That Jon Will Not Want For (This) Christmas!

well hello, dear readers of jonolist. while we're relaxing under the yellow crescent moon in the sky, Jon is also relaxing under the same yellow crescent moon in the sky. the only catch is that, he's in Bali now, so that leaves just me here to vandalise this precious blorg in his absence!! muahahaha. *evil laugh*

okay, you don't have to guess who i am, no no, no need to rack your brains for the answer (i can already hear those rusty gears clanking.). i didn't *gasp* blog-jack his blog! i will tell you who i am... now. are you ready? *ahem* i am.. that

cute
lovable
shiny
pretty
adorable
charming
sweet
entertaining
er... gentle
errr... winsome
errrrrr... okay whatever blahblahblah girl. lor.

:) big smile! say hello!! thank you thank you for your applause! hahaha.
(i'd better not regret agreeing to write this entry anytime in the future.)

alrighty. enough of my nonsense, eh? i'm just an innocent guest blorgger invited by Jon to fill up this space while he's gone on his holiday. (that twerp had better keep his promise and bring back a hot tanned and handsome guy back for me.) i'm better known as sadako when my hair is down, or more likely, as that mop of hair in the picture below:

horror movie

as we all know, Jon is an extremely capable student (capable in seducing my crushes), is an incredibly good cook (he makes a living tempting people with pictures of his homemade pasta in the middle of the night when everybody's too tired to get out of bed to whip up a meal), and never fails to dispense well-meaning advice to those who need it (he scolds me). and now he's not in Singapore! let's all rejoice! =D

on to our topic of the day. Jon, like the control freak he is, wants me to maintain the high standards that he's set on his blorg, so he made me write according to his wishes. so cruel hor. and he's not even paying me for it. hmph. anyway, today's topic is.... *drum roll*

Top 10 Things That Jon Will Not Want For (This) Christmas!

counting down..

10. Jon will not want to be domesticated like these guys!!
ntuc uncles
these unlucky guys, who are usually manly, were made to carry all the stuff while we girls strolled along behind. lucky us! (and luckily for me, all their backs were facing me, so none of them can sue me for slander because nobody can recognise them like that. haha.)

9. Jon will not want you to know what he's actually doing in this clip.
caught on camera!
to learn more about this, check back here again in the next few days. i will personally unearth, dissect and document Jon's se bei bei (perverted) habits.

8. Jon will not want to sit in a car that i'm driving in.
zoom zoom
*duh*. i haven't got my license yet haha...

7. Jon will not want a set of korean drama vcds/dvds.
summer scent
no, he does not want to watch sappy korean shows (unlike me), whether or not bae yong jun is acting in it. because he's jealous of bae yong jun's manly charms.

on the other hand, being the se bei bei that he is, he might just want the dvd to this:
untold scandal
(images courtesy of lan nhi.)

6. Jon will not want anything to do with boybands.
hot
if you ask me, he's just anal that he's not as popular as the pretty boys.
(image courtesy of mtvindia.)

5. Jon will not want these horoscope pooh bear soft toys.
poooh
aiyo, but so cute leh. :(
(image courtesy of creationscelebrations.)

4. Jon will not want these kawaii ne doggy hair clips.
clipclip
pity, cuz i think they'll suit him, no? =) imagine Jon with hair clips.... hm.

jon in the middle
oh look how pretty our dear Jon has become! (sorry lah, i too cheapskate, no money buy photoshop, but like that quite nice already right?) i can't imagine why he said doesn't want hairclips leh in his wishlist, i think he looks pretty good in 'em..
(hairclip image courtesy of klutziluv.)

3. Jon will not want this funny t-shirt.
chick magnet
you know why? because he (mistakenly) believes that he is so much more tanned and fit and muscular and trim and lean and blah blah blah than the guy featured on the shirt.
(image courtesy of teesnthings.)

2. Jon will not want Kleenex in boxes.
padding
he's too lazy to take em' out of the box before padding his bra, and therefore would like those that come with no boxes at all.
(image courtesy of frallans.)

1. Jon will definitely not want to see this:
click to enlarge
heh. need i say more?
(screenshot adaptation courtesy of nus.)

stay tuned! the next topic will be "12 Things That Jon Secretly Wants His Lover To Give Him"! lol. i hope he makes my death short and easy when he comes back... tata~

I feel RICH$$

I have more than half a million in my wallet now, that means Woohoo! Even if it is RUPIAH and about 90 bucks i really don't care. Bali Bali!, heard that after the bombings things are getting cheaper there, hopefully 500000 (that's 5 zeros!) would suffice. Shiokness!

While i'm gone, Geraldine aka AddictiontoDust, my studio mate has kindly taken over the role of blog sitter (and guardian of this universe) while i spend loads of rupiah on silly stuff. So nice of her. She promise to post pics but what pics i have no idea, hopefully I won't be in for a rude shock when i come back. So enjoy her entries while i laze on the beach and ogle at the ____(insert nationality of choice) girls. Adriel tells me posting pics of girls in bikinis will get me more hits, lest i sacrifice my integrity for fame, hmmmmm(checks camera batt).

Accompanied Adriel aka Primordium to a few places. He has a really neat idea of posting pictures of places that he frequent in 2005 (mainly water holes), I would have done the same too if hadn't spent most of it in the studio. At Holland Village, We had this really neat idea of making a montage of the shophouses. Here's my take! Adriel took the the other side.

Click on it to see a clearer view. Scwheet!

(INSERT lame title here)

"Say, Ooh La La, Say zoom. Come on, Come on
Say HO00000....HHHHOOOOOooooo!!!!"

While The Wiseguy's Ooh La la plays in the background, i shall attempt at the impossible and make whoever who reads this more in tune with the rest of the world. I'm typing half sober, drunk on 100-Plus, with much strain on my calfs. Covered 8km today (that's makes this weeks grand total to 28 kilos! woohoo!), it feels great, wait let me rephrase...it FELT great. Now i just winch at everystep. Take my advice, don't ( never/avoid/shun/steer/clear) sprint when you see girls and appear "macho", do it once twice but never EVAR 99 times. Next time i'll just drive in my ferrari slowly, for now i'll just stick to running.

Enough crapping let's prepare your fix of serious good non-sensical stuff that more than deserves your devoted right click & open a new window/tab.

CSI Board Game
Move aside monopoly! Saw this selling at Toys'r'Us. Don't the words Grissom Cards and Incrimnating Evidence just get you in the mood for some crime solving?

Coca-Cola Blak
Yes i know, but it's spelt BLAK. It an "in thing" nw to ct to tak out som vowls.
Coke's lame attempt at tempting us Coke junkies to join the dark side and be one with the coffee junkies.Well? Fat hope.... (the irony here being this coke contains half the calorie content) har har.....

Girls sues Mum
We hear this all the time but what makes this one interesting is because Mummy gave away all her pets. Damn! justice! justice!

Christian Wrestling
Yes this exist. One part says they want to "join hands with you and make an IMPACT on your community" erm? join hands and impact?

oh one more! this one excites me the most.

New Da Vinci Code Trailer
The first teaser sucked. This one is a gazillion times better. Shows Tom Hanks plays Langdon with an awful haircut and Sophie played by Audrey Tautou really looks the part. Come 19 May 2006 the whole wolrd will be lied to again. The Priory of Sion never existed okay! There is no bloodline....oops did i let out too much? heck everyone read the book. Dan Brown is a great writer i admit but the book is more non-fiction than Star Wars.

Oh anyone can help me guest blog? i'll be away from 17th to 20th? email me please, i gurantee you'll get more than just a "My friend went to Bali and all he got was this t-shirt" t-shirt.





















Master Jon has let us out! haha dumbass. Let's make a fast one!
Oh no! caught on camera!

Of Runs, the Runs and Supper

Down with a cold today, nothing much really. Just wasted a roll or two of toilet paper to blow my nose, using kleenex is such a waste. Sneezed my way at the detergent section of NTUC just now and overheard this mother and daughter at the toy section (supermarket als0 got toys leh...)

Mother: come come let's go

Daughter (can't be older than 7) : no (does the silent thing, which seems that girls of all ages do too hmmm......)

Mother: let's go i'll buy you a house tomorrow, a big one. Bigger than aunty ___ (forgot)'s one at her place.

Daughter: Silent but seems contented. My constant sneezing starts to get its own audience by now.

WAH LAU eh for one moment me and my bro actually thought she was going to get her a new apartment or at least a HDB flat. Come christmas she is so gonna expect a small box with a set of keys to her new crib. Lucky girl...

Earlier in the day, i decided to run. I know i noes, sick is cannortch run one right? but heck lah. It felt good to run again. Lately i've been doing 5km but ever since yesterday i upped the notched by 2 more. The feeling you get out of them is amazing, it's like getting an extra patty on a Double Mushroom Swiss. You take longer to finish it and you enjoy it more. The runny nose seemed to disappear for that moment. It's great to run proper again, no more panting, more enjoying. I have my shoes to thank.

Dear New Balance, thanks for helping me get my feet back. I've been avoiding you for quite a while and yet you still embrace me with open laces, for that i love you. I know your cushioning is wearing off a little, but that is the cost of our relationship, my knees, by the way, hurt a little too. Soon you'll have to go and just become like the others, "casual". But for now let us make full use of the mileage you have left. Miss nike and adidas didn't stay as long as you, your the best i have so far, thank you thank you



Your beloved owner. (I'm such a shoe slut, this is my hundreth pair of loved shoes)

Oh and running is very calorie burning so remember to eat okay? All the xiao di di and mei mei don't try to be skinny like some hollywood stars, not all of us are rich like them and can afford plastic sugery so that we can look good and skinny at the same time.

Eat hor, like me here cook noodles in the middle of the night. Remember less salt and more vegetables.
Okay forgot about eating late, it's not good, bad dreams of scary monsters will haunt you and you will dream of ugly uni student tutors and bad memories of PSLE and kindergarden. Sleep early.

Ignorous Rant

"I could be your lover
You could be all mine
We go on forever
Till the end of time
You could be my best friend
Stay up all night long
You could be my railroad
We’d go on and on
Lets get along
There’s nothing here to do
Lets go find a rainbow"

Guess God Thinks I'm Abel
Liam Gallagher, Oasis

To you, the one that keeps me up all night. You made me let go all the emo baggage holding me back for years. It was uncomfortable yet strangely enjoyable pouring out those painful memories which keep haunting me now and then. I'm no different from the past though, i can never forget, "Letting things go" is just a false concept. What is inside i can't erase, i just look at it in a different way.

Call it pride, fear or just plain laziness. I just don't like to say these things, i even hestitate writing this entry. I pretend, i build walls and smile away to hide. Knowing the truth doesn't mean you know me, there is no real me, i change, things change, situations change. This may last forever, end next week, end tomorrow . But nonetheless thank you for what you did, though a simple thanks would never suffice.


On a less emo note
-Welcome back Teng Sheng! Thanks for the baseball and cap. Thank the heavens for not coming back with an american accent. Enjoy your short homecoming.

-Welcome back Adriel. i keep thinking your in Oz for some wallaby thing. Taiwan, it's taiwan. Welcome back to hot weather and better bunks!

-Thanks to everyone who enjoyed the photos, to people who never knew I did this and those who only did barely. As I told my studio friend Samantha, it's been 4 years since i last picked up my camera, I have found back my joy now. Thank you all.

More of the City

Very excited about these sets of photos. Colour Labs at The Aldephi does wonders to your film (actually they just don't cut short on standards like your neighbourhood photo developer), i think i'm going to join their life long membership which is only $20!!!! Amazing stuff they do.

Raffles Place, Tanjong Pagar and some views on top of Bras Basah. Enjoy them in full glory here.















You might wonder why some of these are in black and white? Well sometimes you (or maybe its just me) think in black and white when you take them, they look much nicer this way, less distractions, not that distractions are bad but they just don't fit.

For Video Junkies and the Likes

For the past two days my sleep patterns, to put it across lightly, IS SERIOUSLY SCREWED. Woke up at 10am today, ah ah now i know you must be dissing me off now cuz you "non-morning" people wake up at 1pm everyday, but you see yours truly is a morning person. Morning person meaning, like my friend Dawn "the prawn" says, the ones that pisses everyone off in the morning with their high energy levels or something along that line. As an apology to the non morning people, these are a set of videos that i've been watching at 3am just because my brain refuses to shutdown.

Celebrity's Favourite Swear Words
I watched this 3 times just to memorise what Zach Braff said. Fans of "the OC" will just love it, check out what Mischa Barton "loves way too much"

Physics for fat people
Remember that dumb formula? mass times mass dunnoe whatever. See it in action. Don't you just love Family Guy?

Saturday Night Live Goodies
I know Andrea, Thomas and I just love these skits.

Harry Potter with Lindsay Lohan
My bro in army, Adrian digs Miss Lohan. This is for you bro, you''ll love it. Potter fans will just have a good laugh. I think Rachel Dratch(not Tina Frey, thanks Andrea) played Harry well and Lindsay Lohan gives me a new perspective on Hermoine, a totally new perspective.

Next Top Model SNL-ed
Dawn! go watch this! Damn i just keep laughing. A white Tyra Banks. Lindsay is also in here.

Halloween ala Jimmy Falon
This is guy is seriously talented. He does a damn good Alanis Morissette. Andrea says she wants to marry him.

All slick videos were from SpikeHumor. Its the one site that kept me (in)sane during those crazy studio nights.

Off topic, saw this at Peninsula yesterday while sending my film for developing.


I want!

Cedele Depot people so clever...

The supposed tennis game with Thomas and Shuxian got postponed so i followed Grandma and Mum to Tan Tock Seng Hospital for a check-up. Grandma, you see had a mild stroke a few months back, pretty scary when she started slurring and all. Today was her last check up before she was declared sort of "stroke risk free", good news because the neurologist said she was okay.

Mum kept raving about the cakes at Cedele Depot so she brought us there for breakfast. While she was busy on the phone, Grandma and I went ahead to order. Friendly guy at the counter asks for our orders. While i was looking at the displays Grandma gave the ultimate request, i bet no one working in Cedele had heard before.

without looking at the menu. Grandma politely says:

"ah....kopi si kosong zi pua! please"

You should have seen the "huh" look on the guys face. okay so they have the home brew, mocha, latte, expresso and the works...no kopi si kosong, this is no Yakun or Killiney.

I was silently grinning the whole time. Good thing the counter guy was a smart fella.

"ur.........sorry aunty we don't....er....oh! so you want coffee with milk and no sugar?"

haha! so clever! Grandma gave the puzzled look so i just nodded at the guy and said that was what she wanted. Could have just tipped the guy for being so nice but Grandma would have just knocked me on the head for "wasting" money, lucky she didn't know that latte here was $2.50 and not 60 cents.

grandma enjoying her latte, probably the most expensive kopi" si kosong"

I wished i brought her to Starbucks next door, wah that would be even better. Then she can order her "kopi si kosong" and i can get a "milo-peng" muahahaha. Imagine the guy asking what size we want our drinks.

Grande? Venti? Tall?

Worst Denki

Took a trip down to Junction 8 Best Denki after a hearty dinner. My uncle was going to get one of those big TVs, you know the military grade weapons ones? The ones that burn your eyes? no no? never heard of the lethal plasma ray? Okay so he wanted a big screen plasma tv. Soccer looks better on it, Lord of the Rings has looks more Tolkien and Naked Chef, you finally realise on the plasma, isn't really naked.

One thing i hate about these electronic stores are the sales staff. Can't they just keep to themselves? And when i really want to enquire i will approach you, just stand around at your little corner and NOT BUG ME. please.....

1. Gladiator was showing on a philips LCD. Maximus was so into stabbing some tiger in the stadium, all the intensity and violence. Dad was captivated, bro was telling me all the slick moves Russell Crowe was going to do to the poor feline. Then we were INTRUDED by this uncle, "Philip's screen is much brighter than the ichiban's, only $_____(some 4 digit number) "

Get lost lah, i wanna see him trash the tiger, we'll talk about what's brighter later okay?

boom! so wanna show him the Face Palm.

2. Why do they always play Nemo on the priciest TVs? those 5 digit ones?
Guy in ugly psuedo japanese suit irritates with "Hello, this is the latest from Japan, now on sale" Me gives WTF look, piang eh! Face Palm

3. This one is abit out of point but i was just commenting to my brother about this oversized shaver on display. I said "wah lau eh so big, how to !excuse me, are you looking for a shaver?" Oui? I tell you i was so gonna take one of those shavers and shaft it up his.....argh nevermind! $#^@#$^Face Palm!

4. Aside from the sales staff, there are also weird stuff like this -

You know Dan Brown's book of lies has really got into us. What's worse it's only 38 bucks? WTF? 38 Sinagpore Dollars? damn you tasteless phone designer. What made this worse was when me and my bro tried to sneak a picture of us using the phone (for the sake of humour of course) this lady comes up and tries to intro us some dunnoe what lah. ipods? Couldn't care less as FACE PALM was blocking her from our sight.

I wish those people learn some fine art in serving customers, let me enjoy your short movie screenings and weird gadgets, when i want to buy that oversized iron or new juice extractor, I will bug you NOT you bug me okay or get more

-FACE PALM!
- wtf Stare!
- wah lau ehs!

Hungry?

Just to amuse myself i took photos of me cooking lunch.
Today's menu is baked sphagetti in tuna and tomato sauce....mmm....



Magnifico!


I never seem to get bored of pasta. Any new ideas for christmas ?
Leave your fantastic recipes at the comments page please not the tag board.

Of Lunch and Jo(h)n Little

Lunch was great. Everyone listen! Iniavan's at Belilios Road is amazing. Briyani at $4.50 with free flow of condiments, teh aria and crispy papadum. Good food does't cost a bomb.

Mum brought us there after she completed her hectic one week of work. She loves indian food. I think she needed to let go alot of stress cuz we ordered alot. just check this out....

Prawn in curry, mutton masala, chicken goma....there were more but camera phones dun have a wide angle. Everything in total was under 40 bucks! wah!

Belilios Road is just off Serangoon Road, it's nearby the hindu temple. GO! TRY! and bloat yourself silly.

Mum was getting on a roll here as we headed down to another place she loved. John Little at Orchard. She loves John Little so much i think that's how i got my name (and my height) i'm surprised why my brother isn't named Robinsons or the two of us being Mark and Spencer. Jo(h)n Little had this promo thing where members like my mum could get a 20% off on top of her regular 5%. The place was packed! All the tai tai's and Aunties were there. Oops cannortch say Aunty cuz i met Thomas's girlfriend there too.

Me: Samantha? (Thomas's girlfriend)

Samantha:(surprised look) Jon? hi! What are doing here? (not exactly what she said but it was somewhere along that line)

Me: Shopping with my Mum

Samantha: wah so Kwai ("kwai" as in obedient, not "kuai" strange)

Piang eh, Mother mah, cannot leave her alone. Actually i wanted to go Kino or Gramaphone but they had this Oral-B sale there too. I'm crazy about "the brand that dentist use" and it was cheap. Made her buy a electric toothbrush cuz i suspect she's been using mine while i was in studio, sneaky sneaky. Got three tubes of Oral-B tooth paste which will last me "long long time". At least i didn't go home empty handed. muahahah.

Of Terrapins and Laundry

The one that hid behind the tv, the one that squeezed through the main gate.

Saturday mornings are good mornings despite waking up with a bad cold. Saturday mornings are also off days for the terrapins, as they stop pretending to be nice pets and run havoc around the house. YES, i do let them out of their tank and they do enjoy it or so it seems. Let's put it this way, every 7 days they get to escape and have fun failing at it. Did my daily workout aka laundry, not trying to promote but it does feel good after your done with that wet pile of clothes. Off to lunch. Hope the weather is good.


Hanging laundry is the new yoga. It's damn therapeutic.

The Day a Half Ang-Moh and a "Only Speak English" Chinese GOT completely trashed by the city.

Unlike the first field trip, Raffles Place and Tanjong Pagar beat us up like sissy wimps. The place, I tell you, is best dealt with by car than on foot. The site were all too far away from each other, spending more time walking than taking photos. Tiring if you consider that our only form of exercise we get in Architecture school is pencil sharpening.

I didn't help that it rained in the morning and the sky was overcast for the better part of the day. But heck, we still went ahead.


Thomas hiding from the bad weather













Half time break at Hong Lim Market
Thomas said this place had the BEST char kway tiao (though I think the one at Hill Street is the best, the "harm" here is very shiok though)














Thian Hock Keng's resident cat is camera shy

Things turned good when we hit Tanjong Pagar or what i think is Shophouse Heaven. Neil, Everton, Amoy, Blair are not members of some indie band but the roads which have the few better preserved buildings in Singapore. The weather clearded up and the sky was amazing. Shuxian joined us for about two plus hours, so that really gave us more boost, and more crappy photo opportunities of course.






Shuxian and I take turns up the spiral staircase as we check out the shophouse auntie's daughter next door.




157 Neil Road, half of the archi year ones can tell you exact dimensions of it's toilet, the other half just know that Ben and Jerry's exist in Mandai Zoo.



7-Eleven Slurpee break. A moment of brain freeze is a flash of inspiration.













Hell wheel chair ?


This time i tahan even further and only used two rolls of film (any less and i have to chop off my fingers). Taking photos the old school way is not very wallet friendly, 70 dollars was the damage done the last field trip. Ouch, the good point is that the photo's rocked.



Thomas ran out of film at Tanjong Pagar and because he spent all his money on Char Kway Tiao, he couldn't get anymore. So I lent him my digital, this is by him. Not bad huh?

Excuse Me While I Bury My Crusty Trumpet

I feel like posting random stuff just in case your resting at home like me and have nothing to do but surf and do laundry.

Random Excuse Generator
When you run out of excuses you can use stuff like "sorry i have to clean my dirty mouse" or "i got to go and sponge my miserable keyboard". The best one i got was "hide my miserable armpits", which can explain why i like long sleeves during those "bad hair days".

Call Of Nature Saves Man From Garbage Crusher
It's always good to take a break.

Sweet Napoleon Dynamite Hangman
Xtina sent me this. Freakin Sweet, gosh! i totally rock!
I'm so going to hunt for wolverines in the Arctic during the term break.
(only if you watched Napoleon)

Atomic Suplex
This one is for Thomas's girlfriend who does judo. You got to watch this it's super funny.

Oh and while getting lunch at the kopitiam i saw some Gachapon. To those that have no idea what a Gachapon is, it's the machine that lightens your coin load and in return gives you neat stuff like time machines , plasma rays and hello kitty keychains (the last one being the most dangerous).

Here are two gachapons that prove that the world needs help from alien life forms.



uh? Bae Yong Jun Photo Frame and a "Trendy AND Fashion belt" promoted by none other than Jay Chou. I think i just found the perfect christmas presents.

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oh one more to add!

For all Architecture Students.
Paper Art
And we thought we were good at model making.

Sounds of laughter, shades of earth...

"Sounds of laughter, shades of earth are ringing
Through my open ears inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me
like a million suns and calls me on and on
Across the universe........"

Across the Universe
John Lennon, October 9, 1940 - December 8 1980



Although i prefer Paul McCartney, Lennon's song always gets into me. Strawberry Fields Forever, Imagine, I Am The Walrus, Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds.....

The City

Finally the photos are up. All the scanned images can be seen here. There's about 20 photos to look at so make sure you have a hot drink and some snacks.

Here's a preview for you lazy people who don't visit the fickr link.

Meet My New German Girlfriend

As if my love life was miserable enough, I just made it worst by buying a new set of headphones. Friends, Family and very concern people, meet my new companion, the AKG K26P Portable headphones, she's german, sounds very sweet and fits me (and my head) real well. I ditched the Japanese one with the weird name (Audio Technica?) already.

Back to reality. The photos have arrived! Quite happy with the results, its like your camera gave birth to 120 beautiful kids, some are twins, triplets, quads and then there's always the unique ones who think they look ugly and you have to console them and tell them their special.



It's going to take some time sifting through and scanning them. Probably upload them on flickr by tonight. Stay tuned!

What Kind of Killer Are You?

ohhh, i love these silly test. Appears that i am a samurai? huh? Samurai? i guess it's cuz i watch too much Rurouni Kenshin. Don't ask why they have a female samurai pic instead of a male one.


You are a Samurai.
You are full of honour and value respect. You
are not really the stereotypical hero, but you
do fight for good. Just in your own way. For
you, it is most certainly okay to kill an evil
person, if it is for justice and peace. You
also don't belive in mourning all the time and
think that once you've hit a bad stage in life
you just have to get up again. It's pointless
to concentrate on emotional pain and better to
just get on with everything. You also are a
down to earth type of person and think before
you act. Impulsive people may annoy you
somewhat.


What Type of Killer Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla

"Impulsive people may annoy you" die lah...that means i annoy myself? Eh wait, I do annoy myself all the time.

My Open Letter to SBS

Took the bus back home during peak period today, wah lau eh! I had to let pass about no less than FOUR SBS buses before i could get one home. OUI! Something is wrong here! Peak hour is no excuse okay. So here is my open letter, don't worry i'm not like asking them to close down or start a NKF-ish lawsuit, i really like bus rides, just that some things i felt have been overlooked.


Dear SBS,

Since my Red Ferrari Testa Rosa is still in it's raw unprocessed metal stage, i still have to rely on your services now. I have been taking your buses since the time when my mum had to pay via the in- bus conductor and kids and senior citizens REALLY had "half price". So far the service has been improving and but much more can be done. Here are a list of things i hope you take into consideration.

1. Please don't have fun with the passengers with your lousy bus schedules. Don't get what i mean? Explain why sometimes when i take 74, two buses come, the first one is crowded and the second one is empty. So we decide to not flag down the first one and go for the second one, for obvious reasons. Then the first bus passes by and then the second one goes of too. WTH? You easily leave ten angry people in the bus-stop late and feeling like losers.

2. Get rid of the green seats. If you plan you buses well, there will be seats for everyone and no need to reserve seats for those who need it more than you do. You say your buses are disabled friendly so how come not all buses allow wheelchairs? Why only one in like one million buses are disabled friendly? The green seats also make people like me feel very guilty when i'm like forced to seat on them. It's just damn dumb when your standing in a crowded bus and have two empty green seats in front of you. You stand you feel dumb, you seat you also feel dumb with all the weird stares. Aiyoh young boy like you seat on the green seat...hai...PLEASE lah got one more empty seat there, if you seat with me than that guy with his face squashed at the front door won't be so jialat okay. Just get rid of the green seat okay? Green doesn't match the overall colour scheme you guys got in the first place.

3. TV MOBILE! Tired workers and students want to sleep in peace also cannot. Though i will praise that your seats are getting more comfortable. But with the that irritating laughing sound when "just for laughs" is playing is like fingernails on a blackboard. Can you play more soothing stuff? Like more News with my favourite Suzanne Jung or Cheryl Fox, Glenda Chong also not bad. And please try not to play the same commercial back to back, it's irritating enogh to see one lame 1900 chatline ad, two is just inducing vomit.

4. Some of your buses move like they have the engine of a Mini Cooper. It's quite fustrating when your rushing for time? I'm not like telling you guys to take up racing lessons or go ZHNG the bus, just drive faster and CHANGE GEAR! But please also put a restraint on all the Micheal Schumacher wannabes. Some of them jam-break and accelerate as if Serangoon road was the Sepang Circuit.

5. Don't make me do the 100 hundred metre dash every morning, Singapore sprinting is quite good liao, we got a few medals in track and field. Some bus drivers are just damn evil lah, they can see we are running for the bus and just because we are like 5 metres too late you all drive off and pretend you never see us.

6. Your EZ link is not EeeZee. Sometimes you guys charge wrongly, sometimes the sensor don't work and it's damn stupid to leave alighting passengers standing in front of the doors as we wait eagerly for the damn machine to turn on. Just because you didn't tap the thing properly the damn thing sounds off like you just commited murder. I feel like ripping the thing to pieces.

7. Bring back the tickets leh. I want to make heart shape origami to impress girls, not only heart shape i can also make crane, pig and even a miniature bus. Plus all those numbers on the tickets give people inspiration to buy 4-D.

8. Please punish those inconsiderate sick losers who like to write phone numbers for free sex. Firstly they're liars cuz we know it's never free and the phone numbers have ten digits, huh? idiots!

Other than that keep up the good work. Most of your drivers are really kind people and they look real smart in that uniform. Only problem is that now i can never wear my light green long sleeve in public.

Yours truly
jonolist

The Day a Half Ang-Moh and a "Only Speak English" Chinese Conquered the City

Today's trip around the City was the first of the field trips i planned to go during the holidays. Started to jio people from studio to come but everyone was "busy". What to do? I must apologise for the last minute planning. In the end only Thomas could come. At least there was company. Thomas, I must explain is half Austrian and half Chinese but one full blood Singaporean. His surname is Wong and not Grashilschik or Kaufman, so don't play play.


Thomas peers into the lense and tries to find the durian

Met Thomas in the morning at City Hall MRT. We went old school today. That involved using "non-digital" cameras and returning back to good'ol film. Armed with 4 rolls of kodak, two nikon slrs and my "fierce" looking tripod we went around touring the city taking pictures like some mad japanese school girls. Trigger happy me easily wasted one roll of film on three buildings. Die liao. Lucky i brought along my digital camera, actually i only brought that along to take funny stuff and post them here so i won't end up describing stuff with my poor engrish.

We only managed to cover the City Hall area and decided that Raffles Place and Tanjong Pagar needed another day. That should be the next trip. Places we went included Saint Andrew's Cathedral, Armenian Church, Supreme Court (the ugly one and the old one) Victoria Concert Hall, a few bridges, New National Library, Esplanade to name a few. There is just too many. And yes Geraldine, I agree, the Fullerton is very very nice, i think the first words that came into our heads were wah chio!. It won't be the last time i'll visit it for sure.

One of the many roads we jay-walked

Despite the midday rain everything went well even if we got questioned by library security, Harvey Norman sales staff and many silly concerned security guards. Excuse me? Thomas and I are usually the victims not the evil-doers okay? But cannotch say like all Singapore staff are unfriendly, some of the service staff like the people in Raffles Hotel and The Fullerton are top class, sincere smiles and alot of "huan ying huan ying" langauge. No wonder they are so famous.


Cannot take inside i take from outside. Had to climb a HDB falt for this. ha!


Saw this at Esplanade. Ha!



See the similarities?

Thomas's girlfriend, Samantha met with us for dinner and joined the last part of the trip, which was going up Sheare's bridge. Sheare's bridge was a long walk but it was fun. Much thanks to Samantha for sacrificing her Wonka Chocalate bar for us, I'm now a convert with a sore throat. Wonka rocks! We took a few crazy pics.


Posed shot trying to act "pro"
note the top left the sign post glimmering
"V123" It's time to get 4-D!


How come the first pic i look like some spirit?

Sore feet and even more sore throat from the chocolate. Will develop the film tomorrow, scan them and max out my flickr account for the month. muahahaha. Stay tuned!

Flea Market!

Had breakfast at Hong Lim today, excellent prawn noodles. While Mum was busy booking the Bali trip (yes! 17th December! Sweet!), my brudder and I took a walk down to China Square. The weekend flea market is AMAZING! okay it's the third or fourth time i've been there and it's usually the same stalls but you discover new things all the time. A real waste as i forgot to bring my camera along, the trip was unplanned for anyway. Apologies for the poor photos, all taken with my pok kai camera phone.

Abit of promo here, Chinasquare does this execllent flea market selling mainly toys, collectabiles, antiques (or vintage classy stuff) and lots of other neat stuff. Anime toys, GachaPon!, Vinyls, Posters, old Happy Meal Toys and lot's of crazy stuff. I love it! I want to marry flea market and feed it's kids! yes! See more here.



Tonnes of toys! woohoo enough to satisfy any toy collector. Gort alots you know...gorts cute type like sanrio stuff, also ghots boys stuff like bleach and naruto, ghey stuff also have like man in trunks (i saw a guy buy that!) and alot lah you got to go there. not for the faint hearted.

Cheryl! great news! They have Totoro! and alot of other Studio Ghibli stuff.




Oh there is this great antique shop there too (actually there are a few but this one is the best) that plays damn good oldies. Like the ones i play in studio! haha! Beatles, Frankie Lymon,The Pretenders woohoo! I was naturally attracted, they have alot of goodies there. Me and my bro were playing with this old headphones. They are from Coca~Cola and it come with a built in radio! Sweet! We put them on and took pics.



Oh and we stumbled on this vintage clock.



Woah! It will look damn good in my room, matches the the one in the living room now. I think they are of the same make. These clocks work on power lines so if there's a black out, time literally stops. How neat is that! I'm crazy now muahahaha.



I wish my tv set broke down. So i could excuse myself and get this funky yellow TV set! Love it! No remote control cuz there's no channels to press, it has those radio knobs where you tune to the channel! Wah thats means hor i can watch TV3 again leh!

Oh then i saw this and realised i was born in the wrong era.


Isn't she beautiful? Black gloves, dunnoe-what sprayed hair, classic table top pose. No one can pull that look off these days.


Hacks in a metal tin. The guy is using a hankie! Social responsibilty being advertised. We never pay attention..sigh

Back to the toys. Saw this going at hundred plus plus. Darn. They look damn real lar, Ringo has that shabby look, Paul with the eyes, George singing and John just doing his thing. Amazing. I need to save up. hmmm wonder if MinMin reads my blog? She is one crazy Beatles Fan, shall blog about the funny bus incident next time.




I think i spent three hours there. You can just walk around, not buy anything and browse,inspect,play with stuff and the nice stall owners won't mind. But how could i leave empty handed right? I tahan and control and spent about 6 bucks on two toys only. But i am a happy man today.

here

Hamm the Pig. Taken from the scene where they were trying to cross the road. I keep laughing when i see this.



This guy downs his opponents, i like the way they paint the fella on the back. All grey.

Wah i can't wait to go there again. along the way back my bro saw this weird looking thing at ntuc. At first we thought it was placed in the wrong section but a closer inspection proved otherwise.



How to bath in this? What if you suddenly have a choco craving?

Fastest Confession Ever

The things you read in old comics...classic. Bought this at the NUS bazaar, the title read Ninja High School, with a girl in school uniform, how can i not buy right? It's like 2 dollars only...what a steal.

Kyoko gets mugged on the road in the cold winter and stumbles in the house of young master Jeremy. Jeremy and nice Grandpa take half concious Kyoko in and ask housemaid to attend to her wounds. Next day, Grandpa finds the two of them playing in the garden. Guy confesses straight away. What the? it gets worse. Next page shows the guy asking her to marry him. Piang! Flip a few more pages and you see her turn into a crane, fly away, leaving poor Action-Fast-Fast Jeremy in tears. Ouch!

Lesson: Girls who dress in headscarfs turn into cranes. Very important life lesson indeed.

Is Your iPod Fake?

If you have any of the following iPods i suggest you tie a rock to it take a drive down Macritchie and feed it to the turtles there. What utter nonsense am i talking? Some of these actually look good.

with photoshop? yeah macs handle
photoshop better anyway

this one looks urmmm "creative"?

tetris, nice....but where's the slam
bricks down button?

it just says "look i got an iPod" (and got duped)

Super-size Me

Call this viral advertising. I simply love Maltesers. Two ways to eat them.

1. Chew like any other chocolate. One is never enough, two is just lewd (nevermind....tsk tsk) three is perfect but a handful is best.

2. Let the Malteser's chocolate melt than enjoy the crunchy centre.

I like number two more, cuz stylo.

Singapore Snapshots

Found some more old Black and White photos. Suddenly i feel so 1960's.




I love this shot the most. The feeling i had when the image rose out from the wash was damn good. I miss the darkroom. See flickr link for more.

National Jonographic December Edition

It's the start of December and that can only mean one thing! more flickr bandwidth! This time i'll resize before i max out my 20mb upload. Decided to post them up here instead of referring you to the flickr link. enjoys...









more soon, when i get better. Damn stomachache.

Top Ten Signs Why I Think Melyvn Tan Should do NS

Okay enough! I wake up with a terrible headache and this NS drafter has to make it worse.

I am hundred and one percent sure, confirm plus stamp plus chop that there are people especially my brudders who went through NS think that there is something wrong. Call it injustice, unfairness, double standards, rubbing it in your face (like asking him to be the jury of the piano contest) , demeaning the duty of NS, sending out the wrong message. I think i have one solution to all this. Melyvn Tan should serve NS. Yah lah, i know....he's 49 already, but my 40 plus year old encik can run faster than most 18 year old kids. Ha! here are ten reasons why Melyvn Tan should serve NS.

10. Call yourself a great musician, even The King, Elvis Presley had to serve the army.

9. $3000 fine (not $5000) is less than what you get for mis-presssing the stop MRT button at the train stations

8. SAF Music and Drama Company or the Military Band will benefit from you.

7. You lost your $30 000 deposit, yeah i know last time watch movie only need 50 cents, inflation and all. But please? Even $60 000 also cannot pay for the house you live in Notting Hill. Damn atas....

6. People say you suffered enough from the fact that you never got to come back for so long and couldn't see your parents. Hey that's your choice lah. When we go overseas training for months or get stuck in camp, we too never see our loves one, family and friends.

5. Because you had a special talent doesn't mean that NS will ruin your dreams of becoming a World-Class whatever. Army can let you bring in your guitar mah, i even had a friend who brought in his Casio Eletronic Keyboard, i think you should give it a try.

4. You give a damn hard time for the superiors in Army who have to answer to their men. Mindef people must explain on the papers, intructors in BMT (of which i was one) must explain to new recruits the importance of National Service. Those recruits do read the papers you know and all this is giving them a big headache.

3. You are really not a man if you never go through NS. Enough said.

2. People have to come up with good reasons when they apply leave or take off days in NS. Like i got driving test, my brother is getting married, i have a medical appointment. Your 10950 day off (30 years) for piano lessons doesn't sound reasonable.

1. Your haircut is there already.

so garang.