Thousand Apologies

Really sorry to anybody who bothers to come into my blog for updates. There's something wrong with the format of my blog & while I'm desperately imcompetent in HTML, it didnot stop me or my friends from helping me. One day, decided to try a new blog skin, hoping it would bring everything back to normal but all my additional stuff like the musci playing in the background as well as the links to my friends blog is gone. Everything except the actual posts.

Sigh.

Shit has hit the ceiling fan.

I know I should update more often but everytime I look at the damage, it is too painful to continue.

Any HTML experts out there willing to lend a hand, please let me know. Maybe I should move to a new address but I will keep you guys informed.

Ja neh!!!

Man Utd is 5 points clear in the EPL

 

It has been a while since I have watched ann EPL match. Most of my time is spent as a slave for the company as I have been promoted to GM (General Man) recently & have so many loose ends to tie up. Really missed the times just after graduation, with not a care in the world & all the time you want.

Going to Changi Village, Bedok 333 kopitiam, hotel lounges to catch the matches have been the highlight of my weekends during that period of time. I still miss those places but as life goes on, sometimes your priorities change.

Anyway, enough lamenting about the past & a little shout-out to the good & capable people at Old Trafford who are doing a marvelous job in the EPL at the moment. 5 points clear with the cloest rivals due to meet sunday night (SG time). Maybe I should relive the good old days & pick a place to watch the clash of the titans (Liverpool & Chelsea are still excellent clubs with rich heritage despite the speed bumps they have encountered so far).

Read more about the match here & here.

Ja neh!!!

Ritz Carlton's Ultimate Valentine Day's Package

One of my favourite pastimes is spending the weekend in hotels where there's nothing to clean up, the air conditioner is switched on all the time without someone nagging that the electricity bill is getting higher by the month, & of course relaxing in the bathtub surrounded by bubbles & watching the telly.

Ritz Carlton is a hotel very very high up on my lost of preference & since Valentine's day is round the corner, they have come up with the "Ultimate" package for rich playboys to pamper a very lucky girl.

After the briefest of consideration, I quickly made up my mind who is lucky enough to spend this day with me in the lap of luxury. All considerations are entirely non-biased & meritocratic. Past performance over the past year from the day after last year's Valentine's Day to date is the deciding factor & while there has been no obvious leader in the race, which makes it very difficult indeed to choose just one girl.

It was always you girl.

Ja neh!!!

Speedtest (Bandwidth Tester)

I've been complaining forever about the erratic download speeds that my ISP (hint, it's green in colour) has been providing & while I was at Aeon's home (yes, that is his chosen name), he showed me a cool website where I can do a little bandwidth test to see how it compares with his speeds (which by the way seem so much faster & stable than mine. His ISP is red in colour in case you are wondering which colour camp he belongs to.

His upload & download speeds are almost half mine so what really is going on? I should be enjoying twice the experience he is getting.

Oh well.

What is your bandwidth?

Crap, I didn't realize the name of my ISP is shown.

Ja neh!!!

Jeff Dunham - Spark of Insanity

Jeff Dunham Official YouTube Webpage

Spark of Insanity Playlist

These are old videos from Jeff's Spark of Insanity series which I assumed have been removed from the official website to make way for Jeff's latest video series Very Special Christmas Special. You can find short snippets of it on his website.

I got to know about this really excellent ventriloquist when my mana123 told me about this really racist puppet called Achmed the Dead Terrorist which was funny as hell (Hell very farnie meh???). One thing lead to another (as they always do) & Jef-fa-fa has a new fan. Me!!!

Ja neh!!!

Macbook Pro 17" Unibody 2009

Ferrari California

The latest offering from Italian supercar marque Ferrari is a Grand Tourer cum hard-top convertible with direct fuel injection, 7 speed double-clutch gearbox & well over 400bhp. Before this model came along, the F430 Spyder was the automatic hoice for any billionaire playboy under 30 years of age, but now the choice has just gotten a little harder to make.

The video shows a review by Fifth Gear & it seems rather positive. Since it costs around the same as a Ferrari F430 Spyder albeit the 200kg weight disadvantage, it just might fit into what I want from a car in the very near future.

Ja neh!!!

The Coffee Nation

It has been a while since I had an entry in my blog, so I just want to share with you people a place I recently "discovered" while waiting for a friend who wanted to meet up for coffee. For the record, the owners did not offer to compensate me for the publicity (or lack of it).

A review of the place.

Located along Bali Lane, which can be equally inaccessible whether you drive or not. Not many bus services serve this area & it is not located inside a shopping center that is located above a MRT station. Parking is totally limited too.

What I like about this place is that a few graduates came together & wanted to have a place to hang out. Not too commercial like Coffee Bean & Tea leaf or Starbucks. It is homely yet suitable to meet people to discuss serious stuff.

It is quiet. Sometimes too quiet that you worry if the place is making enough money to stay afloat. You know the feeling when you find a really decent place to hang out & it closes down because it is not making enough money?

There is a nice corner with really comfortable sofas. At the other end of the 2nd storey near the stairs & toilet, there is another corner where you can sit on the floor & sip your coffee placed on a low coffee table. Light snacks like fries & wedges are available if the hunger pangs get to you.

The highlight of this place would be the free Wifi that is available as well as numerous power points to juice up your lappy if the need arises. A lot of though has been put into planning what the owners really want & also keeping up with modern times where people work away from their desks & laptop computers become more common place.

Prices are reasonable & service & prompt & polite. Prompt & attentive but never to intrusive.

This might be my new hangout as it is located near my workplace & it doesn't cost anywhere near an arm or leg to spend the hours if you have time to spare.

Last but not least, here is the official website of this really nice place.

Ja neh!!!

Yummy Mee Hoon Goreng

Yummy Food.. Mee Hoon Goreng.. My all time favourite hahhaa.. miss the one at bedok which i alway went with junkie when watching soccer.. long time since we last went there. are you hungry?

Was walking around Vivocity when I passed by the really BIG Candy Empire stall. It must be every kid's fantasy to own a store like this. It is my destiny to have a really big house in the near future & have a section of my kitchen just like Candy Empire, with all sorts of candies & chocolates & snacks like the ones sold here. I also wan a bar as well stocked as any bar you find in our watering holes but that wil come in another post.

What I like about this place is they import varieties of familiar brands that are not sold here. For example. the Chunky Kit Kat. We used to have only peanut better (even they have stopped importing this, I wonder why), caramel & something else which I can't recall. Cookies & Cream Chunky Kit Kat is not something you find even in our high end supermarkets but the people at Candy Empire did so.

Walked around the chocolate section & have to limit myself to 3 bars of chocolate as shown in the picture. OMG!!! The average price is about SGD$3 per bar so thats SGD$10 of chocolate sitting in my tiny plastic bag. So SO SOOOOOOO expensive.

I guess I should give myself a treat once in a while, even though I am in shape. Round is a shape.

Ja neh!!!

The House Bunny

Can you believe it??? I actually watched two movies in a day with Yuri a.k.a. R.D.D. You might want to ask her that those initials mean.



On a sidenote, something seems to be wrong with Blogspot. Can't seem to get the test to wrap around the pictures. Wonder what is going on. Anybody knows the answer?

Find out more about the movie from the official website which doesn't seem to be very interesting.

Here are Yuri's comments about the movie.

Ja neh!!!

Connected

It seems like there is not much activity going on here but I can assure you guys that I am pretty much alive, unlike the impression given by the number of posts, which are few & far in between. Watched a couple of movies lately courtesy of HSBC's Golden Village prepaid card promotions. SGD$75 for a card which entitles you to 10 tickets during all days & all sessions. It is most worthwhile to use it during the weekends & public holidays when tickets cost SGD$10 each. If I want to watch a movie, I would do so on Tuesday when they cost GV Club members SGD$6.50.



Anyway more on the movie. It is an adaption of another movie Cellular which was released in 2004. I though only Singapore TV program people (what exactly do you call them???) have no creativity or are bounded by so much red tape & censorship B.S. that we have no choice but to copy what other people have already successfully done. It turns out that our Hong Kong movie directors & scriptwriters are following the same trend too. They copied this movie & just used mostly Asian actors 7 the dialogue was mostly in mandarin. Okie, to be fair, the Ang Mohs have done the same thing too with Shuttle (there are Thai & English versions of the movie).

I found the action a little too slow for my liking & it was not really worth watching on a weekend. Maybe on a Tueday perhaps, when ticket prices are among the cheapest available. Maybe I would let Yuri explain more about the movie as she did not agree with the good reviews given by her PDFs (pig / dog friends).

Yuri's post about the movie.

Ja neh!!!

My deepest condolences 06 & 07

It has been a difficult time for all of us. Mothers of one of my closest friends in NTU & my ex-colleague / ex-mentor passed away in the space of three months. Every wake that I attend is a painful reminder of how fragile life can be. Both passed away to cancer, arguably the top killer in affluent S'pore.

Lifestyle changes must be in order. Stress must be managed, diet must be revamped, physical exercise is now on the cards, procrastination must be reined in & not allow to ran rampant. 

Se7en, may you find closure tomorrow & live strong. If you need anything, my mobile is on 27/4.

Ja neh!!!

Nelly Furtado - Say it Right

Not the original singer but she's hot & she has a good voice. Since she is not lip-syncing (is it how it is spelt?), I decided to put her in my entry. Maybe you can compare her to the original singer as heard in the video below. I have a soft spot for girls who can sing well. If the girl can dance well, I'm sold.



The original singer.

In the day
In the night
Say it right
Say it all
You either got it
Or you don't
You either stand or you fall
When your will is broken
When it slips from your hand
When there's no time for joking
There's a hole in the plan

Oh you don't mean nothing at all to me
No you don't mean nothing at all to me
But you got what it takes to set me free
Oh you could mean everything to me

I can't say that I'm not lost and at fault
I can't say that I don't love the light and the dark
I can't say that I don't know that I am alive
And all of what I feel I could show
You tonight you tonight

Oh you don't mean nothing at all to me
No you don't mean nothing at all to me
But you got what it takes to set me free
Oh you could mean everything to me

From my hands I could give you
Something that I made
From my mouth I could sing you another brick that I laid
From my body I could show you a place God knows
You should know the space is holy
Do you really want to go?


Ja neh!!!

Siloso Beach Resort

Siloso Beach Resort

Pastel Blue Lamborghini Murcielago LP 640

U2 - With Or Without You

Feeling emo again. Damn!!! Another classic I want to hear on the radio-station-that-shall-not-be-named doing that-thing-I-love -to-do-at-night.

This is dedicated to the noble Bright Star. Guide the Mighty Protector in his greatest hour of need.

Lyrics here.



For the others, enjoy!

Ja neh!!!

Human League - Human

Feeling overwhelmingly "emo" or short for emotional as I woke up on a Sun morning. Waves & waves of emotions came crashing over me, I woke up at around 0830hrs. Pretty early considering I slept around 0300hrs the previous night. My biological clock must be fried. 

Suddenly though of this song & realized I have never posted a video of it to share it with you people, so here goes. Lyrics were taken from here & if you are not too bored, find out more about the history of the band.

This is definitely one of THE songs I want to hear on the radio (usually Class 95) when i'm cruising down the expressway at night in my convertible supercar / supercar. With a beautiful girl by my side, just like in a certain advertisement for a certain jewellery company.

Ja neh!!!

Congraulations Bervin & Joey

Finally, the first of our group of 3 "brothers" got married & I was asked to be one of the "brothers" for this happy occassion. First time having such heavy responsibilities for a wedding & naturally there was butterflies in my stomach. Will the "sisters" give us an impossbile hard time or would it be a stroll in the park? the only way to find out is to go through it & find out first hand. Had to wake really early the next moring so the groom invited us over to his new flat to spend the night & also to spruce up our dirty cars. After hours of washing & polishing, everything was done & we went for our bachelor's night. Eating economy bee hoon & drinking coffee at a nearby coffeeshop!!! The actual ROM was held a few months back so I guess it is a bit too late for a wild of wild fun with strippers & booze. Sigh. Hahaha.

The nevue of the wedding dinner. There were 60 tables!!! OMG!!! When I get married & if I do host a wedding dinner, it will be a very grand but extremely private event with just 5 tables. 1 for the groom's family, 1 for the bride's family, 1 for relatives, 1 for friends & 1 spare table. Just 5 will be nice. We can entertain our guest s properly & it will not be a turn-up-just-to-show-face event. I like personal touches where every guest will be addressed by name. Luckily the evening passed with incident & we can all rest easy.

Ja neh!!!

Double O @ Mohamed Sultan Road

It has been quite a while since I last went clubbing (most of the time was spent drinking at Thai Disco 2 in Golden Mile Complex. The previous band has fulfilled their contract (Black Fire) & somehow the present band (D2) can't really fill the very larges shoes left behind. Not to mention an excellent group of colleages that you definitely want to spend time with even after working hours. So off to Double O, where they serve some of the cheapest (if not tHE cheapest) drinks in town. SGD$ 12 for housepour jugs & SGD$3 for tequila shots. Extremely affordable for everybody I must say.

Nothing much to sohur about the music there, but when you are high on alcohol, almost everything can get to tapping your feet to the beat or letting your body loose on the dancefloor. The smoking room nearest to the dancefloor is very cramped & there is almost zero ventilation. In contract, the smoking room nearest to the live band area & pool tables is spacious & you can actually feel the air-conditioning. The live band, consistsing a male bass guitaristt, a male guitarist & a female singer whp also plays the tamborine. Drinks here are more expensive. Juggies going for double the rpice (SGD$12) while a frozen peach margarita costs SGD$14. Still affordable to the average blue collar worker like me. I told the gand we should get high on cheap drinks before coming out for some chilling in the live band area.

Seems like we are addicted to this place, something to look forward to at the end of the week. It is a form of closure for some of us, a way for us to sit back, look back at the events of the week, chit chat & find time to bond. Starting a relationshio can be hard work, but it is nothing compared to maintaining it. Social obligations can be a really heavy burden if you burn yourself at both ends of the candle.

Ja neh!!!