Tuesday, October 31, 2006

New me

Sometime life does get too boring that one will decided to do something foolish daring interesting to spice things up. On Saturday, I had wanted to do it but because I had bought the famous Tanjong Rhu bao, I postponed to the following day. Hey, you cannot leave the bao out in the cold too long, the skin would hardened and spoilt the taste of the famous bao. And later that night, saw another friend who had done it! Look like it was going to be a fun weeks in the coming. But of course, it wasn't already the first time we had done it, though on different occasions.

And yesh, finally done it on the sunday. I felt lighter. I felt colder. I felt naked. And then I went on the meet some friends for Dim Sum @ Li Bai. Arranged on Saturday night itself when I got some sudden urge for Dim Sum. When a friend suggested Li Bai, my instinct was 床前明月光,疑是地上霜...... the famous Tang Dynasty poet. Seems like they were a little shocked what I had done to myself. They kept asking what happened? And not just that, when I'm back in the office, I got just about the same kind of reactions, and some were simply... laughable. As I walked to my table, my AGM first looked at me, smiled, and then look away. And THEN he looked at me again, smile some more, and then laughed! Then he asked me where is my yellow robe! WAH LAO EH! The kopi auntie walked past my table and then retaced her steps and had a look again. Then as she delivered kopi to my boss, she asked my boss what had happened to me! Then my boss looked at me, and asked me that same question when he bumped into me at the loo.

Some colleagues walked toward me, stood there and looked dumbfounded by what stood before them. Many came to me and ask me what really happened. I even had my director's secretary walking to me, thinking who was this new staff. I put out my hand, offering a shake and said that I'm the new staff. Sighz. Its very tiring, ain't it so? I got questions like were you dumped?, something tragic happened?, were you going to Tibet?, are you going to be a monk?. I felt like hanging my answers on a board and worn it around my neck, saving me the trouble of repeating my answers to everyone. I got tired of it and start giving varying answers, among different groups of people. Reasons like I could go part time after working hours to help raise more moolah for my pocket, I wanted to increase my karma, I wanna get spiritual etc.

new me

Now you saw it, that is the new me. No idea how long I'm gonna keep it that way. Probably do it till I got tired and wanna try something else, though I believed it would take a couple of months before I can play with anything new. Speaking of the monk and robe, my AGM's secretary was saying that she saw someone of that manner, sitting in one corner smoking away. My response to that was that cigarette was vegetarian and no laws in the buddhism society states that one was not allowed to smoke.

Maybe my new nick in the scene should be botak bish.

Monday, October 30, 2006

Infectious kimchi

I had started on my first kimchi drama, and maybe I might just started on the 2nd one. Recommended by a friend who proclaimed that he simply dun like kimchi drama. And then 2nd by this kimchi crazed friend. So I might just give it a try. I don't mind a good laugh. But I definitely won't get infected by it. I had more than enough activities to take up all my time that 48 hours a day would hardly be enough for me.

Out of the blue, I got a message from my sister, asking me if I had any lobang for kimchi lesson. No shit! My instant response was are you having too much moolah and time? And then she threw in that mother is interested too, do they have one that conduct in chinese? Double no shit!! Look like my mom was so going to be infected with the kimchi craze. Reminded me back more than 10 years ago, when I wanted to learn sushi language. Beside the sushi drama, I wanted the do the language for gaming and manga and anime!!! I did finally get to learn it in school but gave most of them back since I hardly used them. I could probably only remember bits of this and that left. What to do, no japanese hot babe to converse with !! :-( But by the time the sushi craze hit Sillypore, I had move on to some other things.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Precedence

When reputation indeed precedes you, whatever you says, people tends to think tis kind of an excuse. How come I'm getting reputation for no good reason? Know for this... known for that... he cannot be into this... he don't like such person... Hey, I haven't even open my mouth to defend myself, I can have people speaking on my behalf! I was dancing with this lady last night, and lady friend A was asking lady friend B if that lady was my new interest (lady friends A+B told me just now at dinner). I was seriously staring at lady friend A. Lady friend B just took a quick look at that lady I'm dancing with and turn to lady friend A and said no way. Her reason? Cause that lady don't have a bikini bod. HEY!!! Did I ever mention anything about wanting o-n-l-y a bikini bod? I had a beer barrel bod myself, so I cannot be asking for too much, rite? Then the 2 lady friends went off to some other topic! Hey, I'm not even given the opportunity to defend myself and they had came up with a conclusion!!

Sighz. What had I done again? This was just one of the many things. Sighz.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

The world is dying...

No farking shit. Now, if man can't produce the sperm that woman needs for the egg, then will mean human production will come to a halt, rite? No farking shit. First there is the peppermint. Then you get your cigarette. And now even technology is coming to haunt you! So what's next? Too much sex cannot replenish in time? Damn again. But I know the infamous phrase too much sex makes you shortsighted.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

BSoD around the world

Windows had its infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) since PC OS entered the GUI age. Ok, maybe slightly later with Windows 3.1. I don't ever recalled touching Windows 1.0. Think I took a Jump, from DOS 2.0 and moving up the ladder to 6.22, before finally embracing  Windows 3.1. And as they said, the rest is history. How many times did one walked around shopping ground and found those LCD/Plasma TVs that did advertising to be displaying windows error message? And now here, you had some top 10 BSoD around the world. Thanks to digg.

Monday, October 23, 2006

Hypothesis

Had dinner with some friends last night and was talking about chicks and the world and importantly, gossips. Come on, gossips were one of the main highlights of many dinner gatherings that occurred often among birds-of-the-same-feathers-flocked-together.

Then someone and someone came up with a hypothesis, woman with high pitched voiced was a little empty shallow up there. Nop, I'm not saying its airhead, but maybe just not deep enough. And then they turned to me and asked if this person had a high pitched voice. I had to think for a while before coming up with an answer. No. So they says that person might be an exception. Now, I had to join in my fun and overthrown their hypothesis. The idea of an hypothesis was that all sampled data must fall within the it, making the hypothesis true. If one sample was not true, then that made the hypothesis not true.

Why that person? Because a handful of people came in contact with her mentioned that she was kind of interesting. Interesting? There were just been politely nice. Afterall, this person is friend of friend. A little more urging and well, the comments became a little empty up there. And yeah, the someone and someone who came up with the hypothesis were ladies. So girls, it ain't no men who came up with the hypothesis. So do you think its true? Go check it out yourself.

End of the night, before going off to bed, was talking to a friend, talking about life sucks. It always happened when things ain't going your place, dunch you think so? Then something dawned on me. Another hypothesis. Women who were into branded wears could be empty up there? (Hmmm, how come we were always talking about air?)  Now I wonder how true that hypothesis is? Then again, some people would take brand as class. -shrug-


Saturday, October 21, 2006

Time Traveller's Wife

When I recommend Time Traveller's Wife to friends, the review I got back from people were pretty good, so far. IMHO, I really think its a nice good, the way the book was written. I like the book. I'm not exactly a great support of romance stories but this is not exactly a romance book. Even as I'm reading this book, I was thinking that if they could possibly put it on the silver screen. And with reading Da Vinci Code, the same things come to my mind. In a book, its so much easier to put in referencing for reading, explaination the history or the theory or whatsoever its going to be in it. However the author had to control over it as well. Too much of it might ended making the book like a whitepaper or thesis, like Christ Clone Trilogy I read. However, on the silver screen, it was even a harder thing to do. The Da Vinci Code movie did quite a good job though I still felt that the movie is still lacking. And now they had to do a reverse chronology of the adventure of Robert Langdon. Oh, did I mention that I still had not quite acceptted as Tom Hanks as him. And now Hollywood is going to bring Time Traveller's Wife to the silver screen. But guess gotta wait till 2008 before we can see anything.

Friday, October 20, 2006

Beauty

Man are born to appreciate beauty. So I believe Big Brother up there decided to create man, I'm sure apprecating beauty is part of the blueprint. I thinking im so falling in love with this beauty. I wonder if I will get a chance to see this beauty in Sillypore.

Oh dear, I think my heart is so going to be broke........

Thursday, October 19, 2006

A royal job

Now, this sound very interesting, working for the royal family. I wonder if they will let me have a go at it? I wonder how many dirty linens confidential information such a position will come across.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Food?

Man was on the way to the market to look for food. He was sort of hungry. Not exactly hungry but kinda, caused its like... oh, its 1pm.. time for lunch... He looked and looked, wondering what was good. Then come across this spring chicken that look marvelous. Fried to the right level of crisp. Looked tender and delicious enough to make man's mouth watered. But he missed to eat the chicken. The last piece was taken up by someone else who just arrived teeny weeny bit earlier.

Man went to look for other food then. What to do, you don't expect man to go hungry because of missing the spring chicken, do you? Then he come across a special meat. He believed that to be horse meat! Wow, kooool! Horse meat, never tried before was what flash across man's mind! Heard that Mongolian drink horse milk and they definitely taste better milk from the cow, or mother (then again, that taste was so many donkey years ago, when police was still wearing shorts running around). The queue to the horse meat was long, and seems like the person taking the order wasn't exactly too friendly. Did I ever mention that man hate queue? Man rather go for simplier food than to queued a long queue to try the said-to-be-excellent food. In fact man gave up on the queue after a while, since the queue dun look to be moving much.

So time to look for new food again. Up and down, left and right, forward and backward and wala... there's a store selling exotic snake meat. Wow! Look interesting again. Snake meat !! Heard its good too, then again think its the guts and the blood that was good for one's body. Not too entirely sure of the meat though. Whatever it was, no harm trying. Again there was a blardie queue. What was wrong with man. Always ended up on some queue, and man h-a-t-e-d queues. He queued, he tried, he waited and the queue wasn't exactly moving again. In fact, seems like seller was all the more unwilling to even sell it to man, even wanting to chase man away. Hey, what's up with that?

Man walked away thinking, why was it so difficult just to fill the belly. He looked back at the spring chicken store, and seems like stocks were in and not too sure if the queue was going to reform around it. The horse meat store don't appeared to have a queue either though. Yet. Man stood there and wondered, should he walked off and try them out again? Or should he walk to some other stores searching for food again.

And then he walked... and walked... walked...

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Muchachos y Muchacha

My very first performance. Imagine all the stress and tension building up to it, waiting beside the stage. And worst, mine is the very last items. So had to see everyone's performances before I will get mine done with. I hope you will enjoy it.


Monday, October 16, 2006

Salsa rueda salsa

Its a long and exhausting weekend. Very. And of course, its finally over. So now its back to the office monday bluez. The event is our very own very first salsa festival in Sillypore. And that meant that one of my nitemare was over as well. Oh did I not mention that I'm performing during the fest? The month long practice is taking it toll on me. I'm glad its over now. I can now shift my mind to something else.

I'm still glad I did the performance. Its my virgin performance leh. So where got no screw up? But still, overall, I had done it, in a creative way (according to someone's word). This is my first time and it might also be my last time. The stress and tension building up was no joke, especially so when there were conflicting ideas in the team. I had my fun and joy, I have my regrets as well. But to sum it up, its still an experiences. And so I can at least now said that as been there done that.

During the fest, Sillypore is attemping to break the Guinness Book of Records for the biggest rueda circle. And yeah, we did it!!!!! Edie the Salsa Freak commented that the records was first set in 2001, with 173 couples, and for 5 years, they were trying to break it without success. And Sillypore tried and done it in one time!!! Congratulation Sillypore salsa community. And, yeah, I am one of the 176! In the article, that guy with the cap, he's french. How I know? Bump into him after the attempt at the Kopitiam buying dinner. Same store :-P And he said its a very interesting thing and he's from France. But of course, its not all make up of Sillyporeans. We have people from Ireland, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, France, US and I-dunno-where-else.

Everyone was waiting for it to happened. By the 146th couples, the inflow had slowed to a crawl. Everyone looked to hope to put it off and to help putting Singapore on the map again. You could see people started pulling out their mobile phones to activate their friends. By the time the 174th couple walked in, everyone was like high on drugs. Now only we broke the record, and we set a new record with 10 calls. The previous set it with 5 calls. This was probably the slowest moving rueda I ever done since my 1st rueda class eons ago. By the end of the song, I believed I had not even move 30% of the circumference of the oddest shaped rueda circle I had seen in my rueda lifespan.

3 continuous nights of party was taking it tolls on my feets, not to mention 2 full days of workshops. Its a killer. And this is not even the most happening festival I had attended. Ok, I only did 2, one here and one in our neighbouring country. Wait till I check out Japan and Korea congress, think my feet might just detact itself.


Thursday, October 05, 2006

The wrong step

Very interesting and funny site here. Trivial news on big stars who were casted-then-kena-fired, turned down for all kind of funny reasons, considered or whatsoever reasons like lying six feet under. Do you know that Sean Connery rejected the roles of Gandalf and Morpheus. No shit! That man was quite a legend already but still, he turned down 2 big casts of two of the biggest trilogies in the last 10 years and probaby many years to come (Let's see how Eragon is going to do and Harry Potter bo-pa-keh and new Star Wars is living on past glory). And to live with his regrets, he went to do LXG even though he still catch no ballz on the script (the very same reasons given for the 2 big trilogies). The movie wasn't quite a success though its one of my favourite movie genre.

Oh, Many were considered for the Neo. Will Smith rejected it! Val Kilmer rejected it too! Ewan McGregor did that too! Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise was considered for the role. Man, imagine how Neo might had turned out should one of these fellow taken up the role? Imagine seeing Captain Jack Sparrow fighting off Léon with James Bond in Matrix.

Yeah so you just have to live with ya mistakes. Don't look back. Time stop for no one.

ps : I'm trying to allocate time to read Eragon before the movie is out for the X'mas festive.