photoshoot

artsy-fartsy in the air


Picasa adds Picasso feel to my photos!


before the pose - trying hard to get the
stylistic poker face look. i was tickled
myself. hah...


how? look like model or not? hurhur!


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spot the difference. Are you watching closely?
did you miss something?
(still very fascinated by 'The Prestige'.)


I like this happy photo, but if you noticed there were some
rubbish on the table when this photo was taken. perfectionist
me decided to edit the photo and digitally 'clear the rubbish'
on the table so that it looks picture perfect. smooth for a 1st
attempt!

make merry

Twas a day of simple joy.

The Prestige – Exceptional Plot
The Company – Goofy gang of Camp Buddies
The Meal at Vila’ge – Fun, Yum

bottoms up!

check out my strong arms..


Hot Chocolate Fondue - Marshmallows/Fruits. SWEET!


i'm sorry if i'm making you hungry.


now you know we drink by the bottles, don't mess with
us. hurhur...


Mr Photographer M.X.


Jon, CC Hsieh, Roy, Jadon, Marc, Han Sheng and beside
Han Sheng there was Ming Teck, Kuang Kai, Harry Potter
Chris and MX taking the photo.

Yet another merry outing.

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photos originally posted here taken off..

p.s. sensitive lah. haha, famous bloggers all face the same problem.

so you think you can drive?

my driving instructor has 30 years of experience and needless to say, he has met all kinds of students. Just that day, he was lamenting to me how students these days are getting harder to teach. being really bored sitting in a car that was traveling at an average speed of 30km/hr, (I was the driver and it was my 2^nd time driving. I felt like a F1 racer at 30km/hr.) he posed me a question.

It is easiest to teach driving to a student that is:

1. Smart and Creative.
2. Smart and Not Creative.
3. Not so Smart but Creative.
4. Not so Smart and Not so Creative.

I dropped him an answer flippantly and chose option 1 as I already had all my concentration focused on my legs and hands. Anyhow, I think it really takes a lot of guts to be a driving instructor especially when you have students that periodically lose control of their 4 limbs and almost got them entangled.

Wrong I was. As I was still trying to tame the 4 wheel machine, he explained to me that someone who is not so smart and not so creative picks up driving the fastest. This is because a driver has very short reaction time and smart and creative people often spend too much time thinking, probably calculating the angle and doing the math of how long does it take for a Car traveling at 30km/hr to travel from Town A to Town B assuming the distance apart is 3 km. the answer is 6min anyway.

He then revealed to me the million dollar formula of being a fast learner in driving.

1. Listen
2. Follow
3. Execute

‘That’s it.’, he quipped. No thinking involved at all. The perils of creative education is that students these days no longer listen enough, and that they think so far out of the box that they no longer remember what a box looks like.

‘Of so many students I’ve taught, my weakest students were lawyers, doctors and successful businessman’, he reported. Then I remembered during my 1^st lesson, my driving instructor passed a casual comment that I look smart.

Now I hope that has nothing to do with his theory that smart people make lousy drivers.

Do you know what I’m driving at?

*I was kidding about feeling like a F1 racer at 30km/hr and losing control of all my 4 limbs.
*check out my dream car, the SLR.

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Is Sadako the one that climbed out from the well
or the one that climbed out of the TeeVee?
What about the ring, the grudge and the wig?
where did they climb out from?
Lame Japanese horror flicks, confusing me.

walk

Truth is, we live in a dog-eat-dog world and not being able to ‘wham bam thank you Mdm’ really does one no good, especially at my age. (no pun intended.) It is frustrating and more often than not discouraging when you don’t reap what you sow.

As much as you are willing to try again, people don’t have much time and patience to spare. Remember? Time = Money = Success.

‘One day, the tortoise will surpass the hare.’ they say; but I believe not every hare gets complacent. Ultimately, the prize will still go to Mr. Humble Hare, regardless of how persistent and discipline Mr. Tortoise is. The world celebrates and glorifies Mr. Hare for his ‘achievement’ while Mr. Tortoise comes no where close, alone.

It takes a lot of humility and courage as a slow learner. a friend of mine once had this as his nickname,

‘I am a slow walker, but at least I don’t stand still. Will you walk with me?’

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supersize M&Ms - check out
the bowlers of the bowlers!
we won 'highest scoring team'
at coy cohesion and shawn lee
'top scoring bowler'.

Driving is Fun, Tennis is 'Fun-ner.'

20first

041106
SATURDAY
0630PM BBQ
COSTASANDSDOWNTOWNEAST



more details coming up.



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credits: invitation originally designed by jayden.leif.tan

dooodles + (answers)

i found these ingenious doodles online and they're really entertaining.

here's how you can get involved:

Guess what these seemingly pointless doodles actually represent and think of captions for them.
You can tag your answers on my tagboard if you want.
I'll reveal the answers over the weekend.
Enjoy and have fun!

For example:

1.

why Superman never takes the lift.

2.

Titanic, today.

3.

Spider playing the Recorder.

4.

Midget Punk walking pass a Window.

5.

Rapunzel's Perm.

6.

Suicidal Rooster that jumped
off a building. (At Point Of Impact)

7.

"Damnit, who's Toasting my Rabbit ?!"

8.

Snake that didn't quite make
it across the Road.

9.

Watching a Movie behind
Mickey Mouse.

10.

Teenager Downloading Porn!

11.

Jennifer Lopez Squeezing past
someone in the Cinema.

12.

Paris Hilton in Jail.

13.

The Elephant that didn't
see The Mouse.

14.

Elvis coming round the Corner.

15.

Fairy that has just been eaten
by an Iguana.

16.

Harry Potter got Sucked
into an Airplane Engine!

17.

Fat Geisha having a Milkshake.

18.

Elephant under a Bus Shelter
checking if the rain has stopped.

19.

Mouse Condos.

20.

Driving Dwarf

21.

"shit, i just Parked over the Dog!"

22.

Happy Cow. (cow over the moon)

23.

Shy Jack in the Box.




There are no hard and fast answers really. the power of perception.
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M. Night Shyamalan – a story-writer / director I really admire. More often than not, his stories end with a mind – blowing twist or a realization that hits you right in your face. Most people often mistake his movies as cheap horror flicks as they either lack the patience to finish his movies or they simple don’t understand what they’re watching for the past 120 min or so. For example, I used to think that ‘Signs’ is a cheap Alien Intrusion horror flick. But having watched it the 2^nd time last week, I was blown away by the simple yet powerful message he is trying to convey; that life is not about luck, but very much about signs and wonders by a higher being above.

I can’t agree more, can you?

Ruby Pan talking co*k

A TalkingCock.com event featuring Ruby Pan

watch this!
this is so funny, im still laughing..


'we all speak English, but some English is more English than others..'


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i never appreciated fresh air until the damn haze.
i pant.

i live in Singapura

A TalkingCock.com Event featuring Hossan Leong.

if you're a true blue Singaporean, you'll surely understand this.
have a good laugh. hah!

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Thanks Jadon for the link.

dad

The kid next door learnt soccer from his dad when he was 10. His dad was there when he first went to school. There were also times when they roughed it out together at those hiking, cycling trips. Occasionally, they played tennis, bowled and dad taught kid about girls, impressing them. He respected his dad, as much as his dad loved him. His dad was a fine man, and Kid took after him.

Above - a figment of my imagination, for what it feels like to have Dad, I don’t know. I still remember the day dad left home. The day he pushed me away. The day when I was only 3 years. Sadly, that is my only recollection of dad. Nothing pleasant, nothing fond. Sometimes, I still wish to have dad. Frankly, there are times I don’t know who to turn to. I need a male figure sometimes for me to look up to, for me to emulate, to consult. There’s still mum you say. Yes, but there are things you don’t tell mum. Mums don’t rough it out with their sons anyway.

Sometimes I feel really envious of friends when they make passing comments about their dads.

‘My dad’s bringing me to play golf this weekend.’
‘Dad got me a great suit for prom.’
‘Dad’s driving me home after work.’
‘This is my dad’s racket.’

I can just feign a smile. I don’t know what it feels to have dad.

Grad Night, Prize Presentation, Commissioning Parade... Those times I wish I have a Dad that will gaze at me and tell me how proud I’ve made him feel, how proud he is to be my Dad. And me reciprocating that sense of pride. I never knew how it feels and I think I’ll never know anyway.

Daddy?

fly away

i'm playing soft music in the background; repeat mode I clicked. No loud music today, no happy tunes either, just soft.

finally, I’m away from the devil’s playground. Everyday I step into my workplace, I feel like I’ve to fight a war, almost. The irrational people, the psychotic workload, the deranged policies and the ever-so-prominent power struggles. I don’t really enjoy talking about work.

i can hear myself breathing for the first time in weeks.

It’s time to rest

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I attended a whooping
record-breaking number
Of '5' 21^st birthday Parties
last Saturday.

It’s gonna be my turn soon. Ahah.

*blogging more soon. I’m on off next week.

tabloid - singaporeans no creativity?

Remember Taufik, our beloved Singapore Idol of season 1 and his signature song ‘I Dream’? Someone posted a video clip on YouTube of Leann Rimes singing the very same song at the World Sports Award 2001. Even the lyrics are the same. Now, I thought Mediacorp claimed that 'I Dream' was an original composition for the sole purpose of our very 1^st Singapore Idol. Now, this is very telling about the ethics of local media huh? Boo for that!

Having said that, i however believe that they've since learnt from their lesson and composed 'You Give Me Wings' for Singapore Idol Season 2. You know why I’m so sure? Because it sucks that’s why. The song mediocre, tune typical and lyrics ‘uninspiring’.

Anyway, Taufik’s rendition of the song is nothing compared to Leann Rimes’. Check it out for yourself.

Conversly, here’s a Singaporean with some creativity and a tinge of evil humor. If I’m not mistaken, some young punk nicknamed Sandy Beach digitally edited a photo of a Japanese personality, Chinatsu Wakatsuki and posted the edited photo on his blog. It’s really funny don’t you think?

'This Clearly Shows You Which JC to Go to'

before

after

(click on pictures to enlarge.)

He was blasted for his actions though. He has taken down the picture from his blog.
Read his apology on his blog.

For more articles as such, visit:

Tomorrow – Bulletin of Singapore Bloggers

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Microsoft Office Word 2003 does not recognize the word ‘blog’.

not so nursery rhyme

'Rain Rain go away
Come again another day
Little children want to play
Rain Rain go away'

I don’t know if you remember a couple of those innocent nursery rhymes; I got a little interested that day when I overheard 2 children reciting them at a shopping mall. I’m sure all of us have learnt a couple at pre-school, ‘Humpty Dumpty’, ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’. But have you ever wondered what they really meant?

For me, I’ve never thought so much into these rhymes as they come across as mindless songs written to assist young children in their development of vocabulary, and several examples deal with rudimentary counting skills. However, a Wiki search left me rather intrigued and surprised that these rhymes are actually not as innocent as they sound. Most of them bear metaphorical references to political and societal issues. In fact, the origins of many still remain enigmatic as they date back to centuries ago and some have even sparked off multiple theories.

For example:

‘Humpty Dumpty’ has 5-6 theories for its origin. For one, Humpty Dumpty was said to be a powerful cannon during the English Civil War. It was mounted on top of the St Mary's at the Wall Church in Colchester defending the city against siege in the summer of 1648. Although Colchester was a Royalist stronghold, it was besieged by the Roundheads for 11 weeks before finally falling. The church tower was hit by enemy cannon fire and the top of the tower was blown off, sending "Humpty" tumbling to the ground. Naturally all the King's horses and all the King's men (Royalist cavalry and infantry respectively) tried to mend "him" but in vain. Other reports have Humpty Dumpty referring to a sniper nicknamed One-Eyed Thompson, who occupied the same church tower.

‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ was known to be written to help children associate wool with the animal that produces it, and also the sound that a sheep would make. Baa Baa Black Sheep was first published in 1744. It probably dates back to the Middle Ages, possibly to the 13th Century, and relates to a tax imposed by the king on wool. One-third went to the local lord (the 'master'); one-third to the church (referred to as the 'dame') and about a third was for the farmer (the 'little boy who lives down the lane'). Did you also know that in 1999, guidelines from Birmingham City Council in England suggested that the rhyme should not be taught in schools because it was seen as racially negative and could cause offense?

Not so NURSERY after all huh? Paradoxically, nursery rhymes are more often than not, I quote Wikipedia ‘violent in nature, for example, in Jack and Jill, Jack fell down and "Broke his crown"- meaning breaking his skull.’ Hmm...

Let’s check out a couple of Uniquely Singapore Nursery Rhymes, shall we?

1.

ABC
CID
Police catch you I happy

2.

ABC
Giam Chye Cha Lo Ti
Lo Ti Bo Ho Jiah
Ah Ma Pang Sai Kor Li Jia

3.

Oh Ah Peh Ah Som (Bah Li Geh)
Roti Prata, Cha Quay Tiao

4.

Copy Cat
Kiss the Rat
Go home let your mother slap
Mother say never mind
Father say
(*when you reach this point, you must pause as if you're going to say something vulger)
GO AND DIE


Speaks a lot about the culture and the heritage of Singapore ya? Then again, those kids make brilliant poets when they grow up don’t you think? For one, the rhymes actually rhyme even with a mixture of Singlish, Hokkian and some kind of gibberish. Better still, they’re ‘enigmatic’ and ‘violent’, the 2 key characteristics of famous rhymes.

Now you know why more kids are killing friends with guns at schools these days.







* For futher reading on Nursery Rhymes, do check out the following websites:

http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/nursery_rhymes/nursery_rhymes_index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursery_rhyme

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Why is it 'Your LERP, Your LERP, Your LERP Right'
and not 'Your LEFT, Your LEFT, Your LEFT Right'?

Why is the short form of Auditorium known as 'Audit'
to the people in my camp and not 'Audi'?