Sob Sob...

Stoney the Lion is feeling some-what somber because no matter how many times he iron-perms his mane, those stubborn curls keep coming back.

HEAT

5Face to face: Silver screen legends and Academy Award winners Al Pacino (left) and Robert De Niro (right) make movie magic alongside cinematic history playing two hard men - homicide detective Vincent Hanna and criminal-at-large Neil McCauley, respectively - on opposite sides of the law in director Michael Mann's critically acclaimed crime drama/thriller HEAT.

"A guy told me one time: 'Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in thirty seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.' Now, if you're on me and you gotta move when I move, how do you expect to keep a marriage?"

Fattening & Expensive - But NICE!

For folks with high metabolisms like - ahem - myself (is this half-sentence structured correctly?), we can afford to pile on the fats and the lard and whatnots from time to time. So, this afternoon, I treated my good self to a piping pot of mei cai kou rou (梅 菜 扣 肉 - and please don't ask me to translate that into English) with rice. Deflated my wallet by $5.50, but I surmise it was well worth it.

Work in Progress

AS MUCH AS IT CAN BE USED TO APTLY DESCRIBE THE CURRENT STATUS OF MY BOOK, WHICH I'VE BEEN WRITING AD INFINITUM FOR DONKEY YEARS, THIS SIGNAGE CAN ALSO BE USED TO DELINEATE CERTAIN PEOPLE LOOKING FOR THEIR BIG BREAK?

From HERO to ZERO

Just how did the MacGyver lookalike go from being the unstoppable Lex Express...

...to the dead-in-his-tracks Luger Mugger??

Pray tell!

Simpsons in Singapore

America's most dysfunctional family relocates from Springfield to Shaw House. Hmm...do we have any Kwik-E-Marts here?

Beyond the Dewy Glass

...is a pasture of green bathed in the midday mist.

Looks like this little girl can't go out to play today...

Alien Spawn?

When Warrant Officer Ellen L. Ripley and her Nostromos crew abandon the distant, alien-infested planet and land in Great World City, they discover - to their horror - another H. G. Giger-inspired egg/spawn/etc. Could this be the beginning of the end?

Nekobasu

The Nekobasu (or Catbus) has to be one of the most memorable entities featured in Hayao Miyazaki's TONARI NO TOTORO. For me, it's the second most endearing character after the titular forest spirit itself.
Wouldn't you love to ride in one of those real-life nekobasus?

In the Mood For Love?

Say, does this set of antique furnishings smack of something one would find in a quintessential Wong Kar-wai period/mood piece? Imagine the swoonsome Tong Leung Chiu-wai lounging in the couch, smoking - set to the background music score by Michael Galasso. Picture perfect, innit? Christopher Doyle should capture this.

Bodies of Water

Had no idea we had a Huang He here in Singapore...

This is slightly better: chlorinated water with a sprinkling of Woh Hup construction dust.

You've Got Mail?

imperial postal service back in the ming dynasty?

The Tale of Two Kwans

Two bona fide beauties - one classic, one contem-porary. Film actress Nancy Kwan (left), born in Hong Kong to a Chinese father and Scottish mother, claimed her fame in Hollywood after headlining two high profile studio productions - namely THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG (1960) and FLOWER DRUM SONG (1961). Born in California, two-time Olympic winning American figure skater Michelle Kwan (right) is the third child of Chinese immigrants from H.K. Who do I prefer? Can I say BOTH??

Portrait Failure

'Twas the first - and decidedly last - time I tried using the 'portrait' function on my cellular phone camera.

My 'test subject' was this ordinary tree with sprouting ferns, but from the looks of it I won't be able to maximize the image any further...

Dopey

If Hogan was one of Snow White's seven dwarfs, then he must be Dopey. The boy hibernates 25 hours a day and enjoys tripping people when he's awake (sadist!). Highly irritating at times.

CataCombs

"Far below the city streets of Paris, in the quiet, damp darkness, seven million Parisians lie motionless. Their skeletons, long since disinterred from the churchyard graves their survivors left them in, are neatly stacked and aligned to form the walls of nearly one kilometer of walking passage.
Welcome to the Denfert-Rochereau Ossuary - The Empire of the Dead."

Chow Fun

Urges are hard to explain. Some people experience them before, erm, having sex. Others, like myself, experience them before having lunch. Haha! So I had this overpowering urge to eat Hokkien fried rice one workday afternoon, and guess what? I ate it! The entire $4.00-plate of it :-D

Behind (These) Bars

any (stupid) attempt to pull an ocean's twelve at any of united overseas bank's twelve branches in singapore will land you straight in queenstown (if you know what i mean)

$ & $

Dunno why, but I feel like christening these coupla (literally) cardboard characters 'Kiki' and 'Kaka'. I must be bored outta my gourd at our Boon Lay Bus Interchange booth today.

Travel Times

Yep, NDP@Marina Bay 2007 is only less than three veeks avay (note Indian pronunciation). Full dress rehearsals and previews should be underway as we speak. Traffic in the south-central stretch, as such, could be a wee bit slow due to constant road closures and all. 'Kay, I know 'BN' = 'Buona' and 'JR' = 'Jurong', but what the heck is 'JT'?

STAND BY ME

5For the boys (from left): Jerry O'Connell (yes, that's him), the late River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton and Corey Feldman.

This 1986 film by Rob Reiner (narrated by Richard Dreyfuss) should hold a lot of fond memories for many people (my sister included). Who could forget the friendship, the railway tracks, the pie-eating contest, and a youthful Kiefer Sutherland wielding a switchblade?
Definitely a nostalgic classic that deserves - and demands - repeated viewings.

MICA

"The MICA Building, otherwise known as the Old Hill Street Police Station (OHSPS), was erected in 1934 to house the Hill Street Police Station and Barracks. It was gazetted as a national monument in 1998 and transformed into comfortable and lively premises for MICA. MICA moved from PSA Building to MICA Building in 2000. The building also houses National Arts Council, National Heritage Board, Media Development Authority and Singapore Kindness Movement." (Source: Internet)

Shine On

A distant shot of the beauteous (and oriental) C K Tang standing - amid sunset - at the bustling junction of Scotts Road and Orchard Road.

AMERICAN GLADIATORS

Assault. Breakthrough & Counquer. Human Cannonball. Joust. Powerball. The Wall. Atlasphere. Hang Tough. Swingshot. The Maze. Sky Track. Super Powerball. Gauntlet. Pyramid. Tug-O-War. Whiplash. Snapback. The Eliminator! It's the good ol' eighties once more!

P/S: Used to watch it before SUPERSTARS OF WRESTLING.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Share the joy? Spread the wealth? Why not?
It's all positive affirmations, as my brother tells me (:

Timeless

Eternality refers to God having no beginning or end. Humans are finite creatures trapped in a space-time existence; we are not capable of comprehending something that is infinite. God is infinite. God is not bound by space and time - He in fact created it, and exists independent of it: "'I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says the Lord God, 'who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty'" (Revelation 1:8).

Optical Illusion?

Are your tired eyes playing tricks on you? Do these tiles outside PCF Kindergarten (Kim Seng Branch) appear holographic to you? Do you need to consult an optimetrist?

Prudence

Believe me, I don't wanna git my sorry Mongoloid ass thrown into the slammer, so don't expect me to make some contentious statement just for the sake of doing so. All I'll say is this, though: nice crest!

小龙女

刘 亦 菲 - 够 正!

The Boy & the Dog

One evening, Ah Fook took his faithful dog Wong Choy out to the jetty to wait for his fisherman father to return from the seas. They waited, and waited, and waited... The old man never came back...

Tasty Temptation

Everytime I wander past a supermarket counter hawking honey glazed spring chicken, I'll be so very tempted to splurge on one (because these babies don't exactly come cheap, y'know?). Blame it on my perennial predilection for this de-feathered poultry (what bird flu?), but I never - ever - get sick of/from it. Yum!

ALONE

They made medical history. Siamese Twins. 30% die prematurely. 60% are stillborn. Less than 1% survive the separation. But... the one left... is not... ALONE. From the directors of SHUTTER.

Look Ahead

Do not despair, my dear friends and comrades, for there will be LIGHT at the end of the tunnel.

Poetry in Motion

Lie awake, decisions to make
Focus the mind, answers to find
Too many thoughts, ideas to sort
Memories sad, times had
Friends lost, count the cost
Conscious drifts, sands shift
Days pass too fast
Time flies, goodbyes
Eyes close, life goes...

- Story of a Girl

Elgin Bridge

Named after 19th-century Governor-General of India, Lord Elgin, this elegant vehicular bridge spanning across the Singapore River connects the Downtown Core to the designated Planning Area. In the background (some hundred meters away) is The Riverwalk, where I went for my interview eons ago for the position of Editor/Writer (for some seedy publication called HOT Magazine).

Fly Dead the Dirty

It's...

Are you not afraid of...

?
'Cause if he...

you may end up...

- and that HURTS!

Fruit or Vegetable?

more pressingly, 'to-mah-toe' or 'to-may-toe'? someone get me a merriam-webster, please??

Finally, They Get It Right!

After submitting three (or four) uninspired 'Looks Scrumptious, Tastes Like Shit' entries, I'm finally proud to declare that this one actually tastes as good as it looks. Gawd, I lurve the gravy. Gimme a bowlful of it, already! (And look how fresh the seafood is.) It's a $4.00-plate of hor fun, by the way. Sorrie for gettin' carried away :-P

Rangoli Relaxing

It's nice to have a porch. It's nice to have a swinging bench on the porch. It's nice to relax on the swinging bench, on the porch, on a lazy Sunday afternoon... Lucky you, Dakshna.

L-A-M-E

I have but one thing - and only one thing - to say: this purveyor of free web-based journal is lamer than a castrated mule.

Live Earth 07-07-07

A N S W E R T H E C A L L

Cheapo Paul?

Post-stardom Hollywood life must have been harsh on old-time matinee idol Paul Newman, hur? Why, then, would the 82-year-old be lending his wrinkled face - rather, likeness - to plug food products? (After some Wiki-ing) Oh, so NEWMAN'S OWN is a company where all its profits and royalties are donated to charity, hur? Please forgive my ignorance and accept my humblest apologies, then!

BIY (Brew It Yourself)

I don't mean to sound like a whiny party pooper, but this coffee corner at Jason's Supermarket is really no different in appearance from the shop front at any TCM hall - except instead of cracked spores you get roasted arabica. Am I right, guys?

P/S: Sorry for not perfecting the image :-(

She's OUT!

Huixian, 14, from C.H.I.J. Katong Convent.
Why do all the cute ones have to bow out first, sia??