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Weblogs
Here are my friends' weblog. Some of them are down and some of them are not updated. But are still there for me for peek into their lives and to lament on how boring mine had been. Ooo... And if you're a blog stalker, these links would so interest you! Okay! Done talking about my friends' weblogs. You should not be reading theirs but mine! Not theirs! Mine! *mumble grumble*
Dudes
Alphonsus' Inspirations
Bang's Say Only
Daryl's Blush
Derryn's Ridiculosity
Melvin's Ode
Ryan's Mad Army Man
Saufi's Heading South
Simon's Nomiseel
Babes
Calin's Reflections
Debra's Long Journey
Gwen's Titleless
Joan's Brand New
Miller's Mills
Pris' Temporal Relief
Ricka's Newest
Serena's aDrenaissance
Shann's Fallen White Angel
Xiaoya's Mirror
Links
Links to stuff. Hmmm... Porn! Bet that caught your attention. Haha! But sorry dudes, no favorite porn-sites here. Just a peek to my surfing habits. Anyway, I think porn-sites are so over-rated. These are so much better. But that's just me. Take a look, it might interest you.
Ministry of Sound, Singapore
Zouk
Digital Imported
radio.jazz.club
radio.blog.club
Facebook (Mine)
Friendster (Mine)
eBay
National University of Singapore
Bleach Manga
Naruto Manga
Classic Battletech
Happy Tree Friends
Dr. Whisky
Archive
This weblog have been around for a while already (since 4 May 2004) and it probably looks roughly the same as when it started. Safe probably a nicer wallpaper and color scheme. But I don't think there is much need for a revamp. it is good as it is.
As before, I the archive shows only the title of the post and not the date too like before. I'm still not going to arrange it alphabatically so don't worry. Logically, it would probably screw up the flow of the weblog. Illogically, it would be damn fun to confuse people but it'll give me a hell of a time trying to do that. So I not going to do that although it'll be much fun for my reader, if any. Haha!
I've not been posting much for the past year as life had taken a different direction. So the whole of 2007 is pretty much missing. But hey! If there is still anybody reading this, I'll try to write as much as I can from now on. And as of 2008, I'm 26. While not old, I'm not young either.
Been going through my old posts just to get a feel of weblogging again and realise that nothing much seems to have changed since the first post. Although I'm sure some things probably have changed but essentially I'm still who I am. Haha! I'm so like speaking absolute rubbish that sounds seemingly intelligent but essentially means absolutely nothing. Haha! Okay! I'm done talking again! So if you have been reading this, you probably waste 5 minutes of your life.
So just click on the title and read it or something. Alternatively, you can just play around by clicking on the links. *click click click* I don't know how fun is that but some people just have very different definition of having fun... To each his/her own huh? Like before, the links below link you only to that particular post. To return to this main page, just click on my profile picture, the
Back to My Xanga Site
link or just the back button on your Internet browser (I personally recommend Mozilla Firefox). Now just go and read happily (unhappily or whatever feeling you are feeling right now) and add in your 2 cents worth if you want! Cheers!
Oh yah, some of my posts are "protected" so if you want to read them, just sign up for a free Xanga account and I'll add you on the "protected" list. Subjected to approval of course.
The Pretenders
Mummy No Enough
古惑仔? 哇 LAN!
Jack Shit
Thai Pool Party
Buffet@Home
Muffin Friday
Got Ham?
iLike™ Crazies!
Day N+1K1
Grumpy Gummy Bears
7779
Red Brokeback Cliff
Kommencement 2008
About Me
Need For Speed: Permas
Holy Macaron!
Sweet Null Zone
Weekday Time
Tickets Wanted
Significance
スーパーヒーロー
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Day Halia Crème Brûlée
Déjà Vu OCS
Technologi-less
Wire Le Mans Day
Yellow Taxi Party
The Happening
Le Mans Wong
Standings
A Wong Birthday
IDDiots
Same Different Day
Day of the Living Idiots
June Feelings
Graduation 308
Anal w/ T-Shirt
Yesterday Today
Same Old Shit
Pool Party 2008
I am Chuck
Angel Wings
Life-Arc
Organized Randomnesss
Benchwarmer
Protégé
House@Pier 11
Lasup KTV
Jetta TSI
Hot Hatch War (R27)
Dawn of the Living Idiots
Night of the Living Idiots
Mother's Sunday
Fruity Friday
Lost in Dempsey
Gloom Wednesday
Dream Tuesday
Cyclone Monday
4th Anniversary
Jolly Goodwood Park
Cats in the Heartlands
五月天
Morning in Dakota
Stereophonic Monday
Colours and Shapes of 1998
Great CD Hunt 2008
Superhero Friday
Great Nibble Hunt 2008
1 Week
Coma White Tuesday
Whiskey Laksa
Just Tell Me
Tenses
7 Shades of Purple
The Gathering
Day N+905
The Tree on a Hill
Panoramic Life
Fire Wok
Bounty
Revival 2008
Archived Archive (duh?)
If you are wondering where my previous post from the archive had gone to, I've decided to archive my archive (duh?) as it is making my side menu extremely long. Haha! Even I got a bit irritated having to scroll all the way down to check on my comment, counter and stuff. So anyway, the first archived archive is a year's worth of entries from 04 May 2004 to 03 May 2005. The second one is 2 years' worth from 04 May 2005 to 03 May 2007 as, as mentioned before, I didn't post any entries at all in 2007 but just decided to include it in due to my OCD tendencies of making stuff visually neat (only visually, the actual state of neatness is highly debatable).
04 May 2005 to 03 May 2007
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The number of people who seek the advice of me, Superhero Blog Guru Extrodinare! Of course, many thanks to
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| F1-sics (F1 Physics)
You should've seen how heated the discussions got especially after Lewis Hamilton's infamous. People were throwing F1-sics (F1 Physics) at each other I swear they sounded like 4th year Physics majors fussing over Quantum Physics. And yes, some of them claim that they are some Physics major, professor, Stephen Hawking or something. Anyway! Like Quantum Physics which is still pretty much still theoretical, there was no definitive who is right and who is wrong. But who is to say wrong is wrong for wrong might be right and right might be wrong. That is not taking into consideration that wrong might still be wrong but right might also be wrong or wrong might be right and right might still be right? After no clear "winner" over the discussion, with the only definitive "answer" determined by the F1 honchos, these guys traded insults. From "my grandmother drives faster than < insert driver name >" to "you're a NOOB F1 fan" to "I watch more F1 than you". How different are they from 4th year Physics majors again? Hmm... Make that 4th graders.
So! Disclaimers first! I'm just a F1 lay-fan (layman fan) and everything here is probably what you've probably heard before from commentators and hosts or read from other blogs and forums. And no, I'm not a Physics major, I'm a Mathematics major. My grandmother can't drive. Yes, I am a noob F1 fan and no, I probably don't watch more F1 than you. But seriously, my opinions here on my blog are, well, MY opinions on MY blog. It for my own reference and some sort of public diary (not that much people read it anyway).
Anyway! Watching from a 21" CRT overseas, Singapore Grand Prix looked good (it would look better on my 34" HD in Singapore) from the start for Team Ferrari with Felipe Massa taking pole and Kimi Räikkönen sandwiching Hamilton in between. Massa did a fantastic run, putting significant distance between both Hamilton and Kimi. After Nelson Piquet Junior crash in the lap 13 and with the safety car rolled out, the 2 Ferrari-s took the opportunity and pulled in for a pit stop one after the other. Then it happened. A technical screw up saw Massa driving off with the fuel hose. This not only meant that he had to wait for his technicians to run the full length of the pit-lane to reach him and dislodge the hose (which was jammed), it cost Kimi, who was directly behind him, valuable seconds as the technicians fumbled back into action after the hose whipped at least 1 of them and sprayed fuel on the rest. I don't have to tell ANYBODY how every second in F1 counts and these guys (technicians) run like an intricate timepiece to minimise the pit time. This incident, by any count, is just a disastrous setback, luckily nobody was hurt. But the "damage" on Team Ferrari was already done. It was compounded on later in the race when Massa was penalized with a drive through and with Kimi crashing out with just 4 more laps to complete. *sigh* May it be technical error, driver error or just plain luck "error", Team Ferrari just had it bad yesterday. They lost the constructors lead by a point to McLaren-Mercedes (145 to 144) and saw Hamilton "pull" away from Massa with a 7 point lead (84 to 77). All these in one night.
But then again, with Singapore's COE, incredibly high road tax and expensive petrol prices, it was already not Ferrari-friendly to begin with. I don't own a Ferrari, and don't think I ever would, but it was said that you'd never have the chance to kick a Ferrari into gear 3 on Singapore roads without the traffic police coming after you. Maybe that's why the top 3 are from Renault, Williams-Toyota and McLaren-Mercedes. More suitable for Singapore roads I suppose, seeing the number on the road. Just kidding! Fernando Alonso really did deserve his win after doing one fantastic lap after the other from 15th position to 1st. Some might attribute Alonso's win to Piquet's crash which changed the whole "game" (do we sense a conspiracy here?) and some might attribute it to the numerous pit errors (ooo... more conspiracy!). Everything boils down to Alonso being lucky. Well, I have to agree with all these but let's bear in mind he didn't make it past qualifying round 2 due to a mechanical problem the night before. Unlucky then? Maybe. Lucky now? Maybe. Balance of Ying and Yang? Maybe.
But let's consider Hamilton who had no incident and no hiccups yesterday night. He started 2nd and ended up 3rd. So why didn't the supposed "circumstantial advantage" play for him? Oh yes, Hamilton-fans would definitely rattle off how he do not need to push himself as Ferrari was no longer in contention. Even Hamilton gave the same "reason" at the post race press conference. Some even went on to say that Hamilton could have won but CHOSE not to. Seriously! You're telling me you Would settle for a 7 point drivers' standing lead and 1 point constructors' standing lead over 11 point and 5 point respectively? Whatever the reason, whether by choice, lack of opportunity, lack of skill and/or experience, Hamilton's driving was rather uninspiring yesterday night. You can tell by now that I'm no Hamilton fan. While I agree he is a really good driver and that he has the potential to become a champion, his character flaws are somewhat unbecoming of a possible race champion.
Arrogance, both on and off the track, being the biggest. His arrogance and belief in his own "skill" translates into aggressiveness and recklessness on track (which to him and alot of his fans translates back to as his "competitive spirit"). This supposedly "competitive spirit" brings danger not only to himself but also those around him, including his team-mate. Then again, he never gives a thought about the team anyway as we can see clearly in 2007. But with anything, there is always a way to reason and a way to justify for any actions. And with the unjustified media and fan support, he seldom need to do it himself. It does nothing but ingrain in his already arrogant mind that he is the best and that all the penalties he received from his aggressiveness and recklessness are nothing more than the bias-ness of FIA. It is interesting to note, that perhaps his arrogance begun with the seemingly unjustified media attention back in 2006, painting him as some sort of prophesied champion he was yet to be. That in turn gave strength to his fan following. Withing 2 years without any championship, there were already shitloads of books on him. All these for someone who have YET to win any championship! Impressive isn't it? I'm sure eventually, maybe sooner than later, he himself bought into the idea that he was some sort of prophesied driving god F1 have ever seen. So deluded is he that he compared himself to Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost. All this from nothing but a gimmick to sell more publications. So at the end of the day, what difference is it? Between him and a deluded, pampered and selfish brat who just so happen to be blessed with talent and opportunity?
A McLaren-Mercedes F1 Car.
If you ask me who think had the potential to be the champion of the future, it had got to be Sebastian Vettel. This 21 year old won the 2008 Italian Grand Prix in
the wet and in a non-constructor backed car. Having records of being
the youngest driver to scored points in F1, youngest race leader for at
least a lap in F1, youngest grand prix pole position winner, youngest
driver to score a podium position and the youngest grand prix winner.
Yet after being compared to Michael Schumacher by the German media, he
was humble enough to shrug it off as a ridiculous comparison and that
he was just lucky.
Then it is Hamilton's GP2 teammate Nico Rosberg. Let's not forget, this is the youngest driver to set the fastest lap in F1 back in 2006. Nico performed fantastically yesterday night coming in 2nd even after being penalized with a 10 second stop-and-go. This was his second time on podium since coming in 3rd in the 2008 Australian Grand Prix (on my birthday no less). He did all these in a slightly disadvantaged car as compared to Ferrari and McLaren-Mercedes. I still remembered him saying that he could meet, if not beat, Hamilton if he had a better car. Arrogance? Hardly. He was just comparing himself to his peer, not some racing god.
So both have the potential of becoming champions and yet have none of the arrogance. So now just give these two better cars and we'll see what they can do.
.: I am who I am :.
- I am no Hamilton fan
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| Overseas Blog Posting
Got posted overseas overseas shortly after Olympics ended so hadn't been blogging for quite sometime now. In fact, I only found out that I can blog here today. No, I'm not like a internet illiterate who thinks that internet can only be accessed from one computer (or one country for that matter). It's just that the internet access here is really slow AND crappy. Sites with massive graphics tend to just "slug" along and then you get disconnected from the internet totally. So the fucking Warhammer Online I pre-ordered a week before I knew my posting can't be played here. I can't even go collect the fucking game when it arrived in 18 September! The cigarette sucks terrible here so I'm rationing my DFS "stocks". Going to miss F1 in Singapore and am not going to be one of the first few to play Fallout 3.
Also, it's 12:30am now and I'm still at the office. Yup! You heard me right! Mr-play-facebook-at-work is actually doing OT! But unlike my slacking days in Singapore without a title or any actual job scope, I'm handling a project here. So yea, "with great power comes great responsibility". Having said that, I don't think my blogging would be constant. Mainly because of the ever slow AND cranky internet connection but also the tight schedule the project is running on. Looking on the bright side though, I got the typical pay raise and overseas allowance. What perhaps is not so "typical" is a house, domestic helpers and driver which came with my overseas "package". Not to mention the whiskey that is had almost every night and the satellite television at home so I could actually catch F1 on television (which is
probably what I'm going to do in Singapore anyway).
Expat life ROCKS!
.: I am who I am :.
- I can blog from here! Woohoo!
- Whiskey damage: 2 Single Malts, 2 Johnnie Walkers and 1 Jack Daniels
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| WTF is WHIFF?
Recently Dance of the Dragon won 10 awards at the West Hollywood International Film Festival and The New Paper asked "Are you surprised that Dance Of The Dragon won so many US accolades?" and "Do you think it deserves to?" in the papers today. To me, it was like asking for the movie to be slammed and I just had to answer the call to arms. But before that, I'll first do a quick introduction of the movie for those who didn't watch it. Oh! If you didn't watch it, don't bother. Reading the following is almost as good as watching the movie. Difference is that you don't have to sit through the whole 111 minutes of the movie.
In typical Singaporean movie making "style", someone decided that they needed a movie title that screamed "Watch this! It is an Asian movie!". Thus the all important "Dragon" was forced into the movie title. Having such an in-your-face Asian title is like Bobby Lee screaming "Uh oh! Hot dog!" With "Dragon" in the title, you know straight away there was going to be some Asian martial arts involved. How martial arts and dancing could be placed in the same movie eludes me but you can trust people to come up with something. I think "Asian Fighting and Dancing: The Movie" would work as well for the movie title, but just that it does not have the needed Asian mystic and oomph. After the all important movie naming, the next most important element was to have an internaional cast.
First was Jason Scott Lee (USA). Best remembered for his role as Bruce Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Maybe it's because of him that the movie had "Dragon" in it? Then it was Jang Hyuk (KOR) who is best remembered for his role in Volcano High. Lastly was Fann Wong (SIN), who is lauded as Singaporean's first Hollywood "personality" with her role as the Jackie Chan's fake-ang-moh-accent-ah-lian sister in Shanghai Knights. Somewhere along the way, someone thought that would be enough and decided that the script wasn't important. So, they came up with jealous ABC martial arts boyfriend meets Korean dancing-partner-turns-lover leading to a martial-arts-fighting-cum-dancing showdown. Splash it generously (some call it shamelessly) with Singaporean landmarks, mystical Asian-sensei-like advice and you'll have a movie!
Are you the least bit surprised it made money not even enough to buy a BMW 325i? No, I'm not even talking about the coupe or the convertible. That translates to about 20,000 tickets sold or 0.5% of the whole Singaporean population. Half of these 20,000 audience was most definitely wither family, friends and/or debtors of the cast and crew (debtors probably watched it multiple times as unlike family and friends, they can't refuse you). What I'm surprised however is how this movie manages to win any award at all. It didn't even deserve a Razzie. I've attempted to answer that question in my email to The New Paper:
To start off, the questions should not be, “Are you surprised that Dance Of The Dragon (DOTD) won so many US accolades?” and “Do you think it deserves to?”. But rather, “Do you know what is the West Hollywood International Film Festival (WHIFF)?” I obviously didn’t.
While I’m sure many people are wowed by the title of the festival. But does having “Hollywood” and “International” mean anything? Would you be equally wowed if DOTD swept all of the awards at the Djibouti International Film Festival? A quick search using the popular search engine, Google, turned up 383,000 results with the WHIFF website at the top. But the website didn’t give one of the most important information that was what movies took part in the WHIFF. Would you be surprise if DOTD won because it was stacked up against even worse international film? The rest of the websites didn’t help much to enlighten me either. A search on Wikipedia turned up absolutely nothing. If Wikipedia was anything to go by, it just goes on to show how unknown the WHIFF is. And Wikipedia do have alot of information on even the most obscure of things.
I really do hope someone would come out and enlighten me on the WHIFF. Because as of now, it brings to my mind those dubious reviews and quotes B-Grade movies almost always put of their movie ads. e.g. “5 Stars! - A Movie Critic”. “Arguably the best action flick of 2007 - B Movie Critic”. The only difference now is that DOTD can put a legit WHIFF logo with the caption “10 WHIFF award winner!” on their DVD cover.
If my reviews are anything to go by: Dance of the Dragon! Absolute crap! - J Movie Critic
In typical "patrotic" fashion, there were attempts to defend the movie. First attempt was how "We Singaporeans are unforgiving when it comes to anything Singaporean", may it be from Miss Singapore Universe or locally made movies. Are you sure? Then how is it that some locally made movies still have so much audience? Does Jack Neo's "Singapore's all-time highest-grossing film" ring a bell? So how did this one flop so badly? There were also comments as to how the movie was good if you didn't go in with any expectations. Urm... Then why do you even bother watching the movie in the first place? No expectations? Okay... Taking your advice, I'll go to all movies expecting crap and if it was just marginally better I would be elevated? What sort of logic is that? Further more, the movie had been marketed as an artsy farty Singaporean "Hollywood-type" attempt and some expectation should be in order. You don't see Jack Neo marketing his movie as that?
*** Having said that, I realised my opinion about Jack Neo's movies are skewed. He does make pretty decent locally-flavored movies and isn't pretentious, just that I don't exactly enjoy them. Still, I decided to go to watch Money No Enough 2 later this week with the guys. ***
The most classic excuse was how the director and producers said that the film was NOT meant for the local market but the international stage. Are you serious? Then why did you not try for Cannes (or some international film festival that is remotely known)? Instead, they went on to take part in an unknown inaugural international film festival. Oh yes, then it was "inaugural" excuse. How because it was "inaugural", it was therefore unheard of. Fair enough... But even so, why are the panel of judges made up of UNHEARD of names in American TV shows. Yes, not only were the judges unheard of, they probably have not acted in movies! It was exceedingly humorous how someone commented that we should "respect" the panel's decision and award. The judges for Razzie probably have more authority on movies (especially the bad ones). It is like winning an international book award from Russell Lee and the guys who did Mr. Kiasu. So you won 10 awards at an unknown first film festival made up by unknown judges. Big freaking woopee deal. It is like winning the 1st Annual Dungeon Boat Race™.
"What is that?", you ask.
"Who cares! I won!"
What was seriously unfathomable is that a comparison was actually made to how Wong Kar Wai's In The Mood For Love. Like how it did better internationally then "locally". ARE YOU KIDDING ME? You're actually comparing In The Mood For Love to Dance Of The Dragon? The only similarity between these two movies are perhaps "The".
.: I am who I am :.
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Daryl, I've realise why I've been disturbed by these fakeo-weirdos I've blogged about a few days ago. It
is the idea of impersonating someone. While the internet is about
anonymousity or having an "internet persona" or "altered ego" of
sorts. It is not the same thing as, say, putting a picture of Ironman
as your MSN picture because you want to be as cool as him and/or is it
about splashing your page with pictures of Paris Hilton because you
aspire to be like her (although I have no idea why). It is about going
to sggirls.com (or any like websites) and download pictures of this ONE
particular girl and putting them all on your Facebook trying to pass
off as her. You're not aspiring to be that girl, you're trying to
impersonate her! If that
alone is not disturbing enough, some even went on to rip off multiple pictures (probably from a weblog) and use it to create photo albums. All the while trying to pass off as that person. Now that is beyond disturbing. So not only does this person try to impersonate you, he/she is keeping tabs on your life.
E-Stalkers!
Anyway, just when I thought it can't get any weirder, 古惑仔 is reported to be a phishing application. But that bring light to why people try to impersonate some other people (most definitely a pretty and/or sexy girl). It is to phish for information from all these horny bastards that add them. So how do you tell a phishing-imposter from a "real" person? Well, I'm no expert at this but here are some tell tale signs:
1. There is absolutely ZERO normal friend posts on the wall. Instead of seeing stuff like, "Eh! When are we meeting up for dinner again? Is school that busy?" you'll see "OMG! You're so hot! Can I do you?" and/or "You're beautiful! Thanks for the add!" You either have no friends or choose to delete your friends' posts and keep strangers' inane flattery. Imposters aside, if the person is "real" he/she is probably freakingly strange or an absolute nutcase to begin with. Why then would you want to add him/her?
2. Highly Photoshopped, Porn-star looking profile picture(s). It doesn't matter if there is only one photo or many (even albums). But there is always something "fake" about them. Either the photos are not of the same person (but is tagged as such) or there is just a website address on it (such as sggirls.com). Then again, why are you even adding porn-star-ish people? If you're that horny, you deserve to get phished.
3. Posts links to other websites (that require you to enter your particulars) on your wall. I mean, how more obvious phishing can it get? Although people still do click on them and get phished. Some probably deserved it anyway. Like either they are junkies who clicked on links for "Cheap legal bud!" or horny bastards (again) who clicked on "My sexy pictures are here because Facebook don't allow them!". C'mon! Are you that... Needy (junkie and hornie alike)?
Phishers!
.: I am who I am :.
- I am who I am but are you who you are?
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