Season Finale - Michelle + Vickie

蜜 雪 薇 琪 - 超 正 的 喔!

Buggy

This RCC golf cart reminds me of my Pierce Ammo Depot days (again), when we had to prowl the expansive camp compounds on one of these buggies (if they were serviceable), or on bikes (if the buggies broke down), or on foot (if the bikes also broke down). Pai mia...

My First Fone

Unlike some fickle mobile phone users who change their sets as constantly as they do their socks and spouses, I've only had two cells (the same number of exs I can lay claim to) - one of which is this pictured 3Nokia 8210 (the other's, of course, my current Nokia 6230i). I believe it was in the year 2000 (or 2001) when I got my first 'handphone'. The original casing was blue, but I subsequently switched to the beng-ish red one. It didn't have any built-in camera nor MMS function, but I still keep it with me (-:

The Race Is On

Asia's first Formula One street race is set to take place in Singapore under a year from now. Our 5.067 km anticlockwise circuit (see 'satellite' map above), which offers "a number of overtaking opportunities, challenging corners and high-speed sections designed to test the true capabilities of the drivers", has received in-principle approval from the FIA.
A shot in the arm for our tourism and hospitality industries?

That ALIEN VS PREDATOR Thing

is it venomous?

Hawaiian Redemption

To 'celebrate' my LWE, the mumster redeemed a small Hawaiian pan pizza from the Hut at Thomson's United Square using her accumulated insurance points. Not a fan of 'floury' stuff, I nonetheless grazed a few slices (along with a generous helping of fried rice and a cupful of Campbell's clam chowder). Hmm...less is more?

Chris Jericho

The man goes by many names: 'The Living Legend', 'The King of the World', 'The Ayatollah of Rock 'n' Rolla', etc. But however you want to call him, you cannot disregard the fact that former WWE performer Chris Jericho (AKA Y2J) has accomplished something no one in the (make-believe) wrestling world thought was humanly possible - defeating both The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin on the same night at Vengeance '01 to be crowned the company's first-ever Undisputed Champion. Go Fozzy!

Dun Panic

RELACK. NO NID SOUND ALARM YET. GOT 1 MORE DAE 2 GO B4 DIS BLOG CLOSE SHOP.

The Village People

The Golden Village chain of cineplexes here in Singapore draws great crowds of moviegoers on weekends and weekdays. Was at GV Plaza yesterday to catch Robert Rodriguez's GRINDHOUSE feature PLANET TERROR and queuing behind these chinks. Hurry up, man!

*Oink Oink*

This lil' piggy, awakened from her post-CNY hibernation(!), wishes everyone a prosperous rest-of-the-year ^@^

It's a Girls' World!

food • makeup • shopping • boys • pets • gossip • travel • more boys

did i omit anything?

Megan - Then & Now

2003: Megan Zheng, then only 10, was handpicked over 1,000 other casting hopefuls by director Jack Neo to headline his Raintree picture HOMERUN.

2007: The Golden Horse Award winning teenager (left) - braces and all - is now a fledging student in Fairfield Methodist Secondary School.

Voodoo Club

Marco Vendetta is mass-messaging all members of the occult Voodoo Club to convene at this evening's Open Magic Night @ Witch Mountain. There will be food (served from a cauldron), light percussion music and a live sacrificial ritual. Attendance is compulsory.

Candyman

We dare you say his name FIVE times...

Toilet Break ~8

You begin your typically busy day with a cuppa SUPER 3-in-1 coffeemix. You activate your Outlook Express and start to e-mail some prospects. You make a coupla IDD calls to confirm telegraphic transfers. SUDDENLY, you feel strong bowel movements in your stomach. You know for certain that it's only a matter of time before you 'bomb the cubicle' - big time!

Explosive Encounter (An Ode to DC)

It was reported in the news rather recently that some sorry (Samsung?) mobile phone user's 3charger went KABOOM (picture cartoonish FX) after plugging it into the socket - or sum' like that. Turned out the thingamabob was a knock-off. Ha! Lesson of the evening: Avoid another 'Hot Plate Disaster' to best of ability, if you know what I mean.

CynDi Wang

王 心 凌 - “甜 蜜 教 主”
我 喜 欢!

Reptile Woman (PG)

An intriguing and, quite frankly, disturbing video has been making its rounds on the Tube for the past two months - 'disturbing' not particularly because purported cryptozoologists, demonologists and ufologists (or so claimed the clip's owner) are having a field day with the ten-minute-plus footage, calling it 'shapeshifting' and 'reptilian possession' (what with the subject's horns, scales, ridged spine and feline peepers), but how online controversies can be concocted so effortlessly.
Ever heard of image artifacting?

Wonton Q

I have no patience to queue more than 15 minutes for food. As I commented in my friend Thanh's food blog, I adopt a 'zero tolerance policy' when it comes to waiting for food. Yet, I didn't so much raise a ruckus when I had to stand in line - amongst the talkative ah cheks and ah sohs - for Block 22A's $3.00 wonton mee. It's that damn good!

s p i z z a

Spiffy + Pizza = Spizza?? Since I'm none the wiser, I should go sound out the proprietor. After all, the shop's located right below my block. Or, perhaps, I should dial those digits. (Let's just pray Spizza ≠ Spit + Pizza...)

Sharon & Penny

Pennchant Vice President Sharon Low (whom I always refer to as the 'Brown-haired Girl') indulging in some clever 'cam-whoring' with our (yes, both hers and mine) idol Penny Tai.

Emperor Angelfish

Pomacanthus imperator, meet Empress Mandycat - Litterpan dominator.

Choose Your Own Adventure

Used to go straight-out gaga over these books! Even hid them under shelves so that no one would find them.
Needless to say, I was a librarian's nightmare :-P

Pepper Lunch

"Pepper Lunch is an affordable DIY fast food steakhouse with more than 200 outlets in Japan. It promises a fresh and dynamic culinary experience for everyone by presenting the novel concept of a sizzling steak." (Paraphrased from the Internet)

P/S: Does dining there make you sneeze, though?

DREAM Over

Can somebody please tell me what else there's left now in LIVE THE DREAM that can possibly entice me to watch it? I mean, Olynn's out. So are Sugarettes. Only Shauna Simons remains. Yes, the one and *only* female left! Dear producers, what's the incentive? It's not as though there's more to see of Andrea and Michelle...

'Prison Break'

Lincoln Burrows my hamster is not. Anyways, it's a she. Sometimes I pity these pets that feel they need to break free for whatever reason. Do we owners (really) have their best in mind? Can the (domestic-ated) animals fend for themselves in the harsh 'wilderness'? And why does my ham-ham appear like a fox in this snapshot??

Dinky Rider

Dispatch and delivery? Or any degrading and demoralizing job?
Leave it to the Sai Kang Warrior, who will rev into action within a matter of seconds!

Taufik Batisah

Good for our inaugural Singapore Idol Taufik Batisah because he's doing so well for himself, instead of winding up like some of the competition's 'forgettables'. Ouch.
This, by the way, is a nice clip of him (with Rui En).

The Heap

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to deduce that when the word 'heap' is used to describe a food item, it can't be all that favorable. Don't get me wrong - I like a $3.00 pack of chap chai png (especially with bak chor, salted vege and chai por neng) as much as the next guy, but imagine Buddha Jumps Over the Wall served in a 55-gallon drum. I doubt one won't really jump over the wall just to get away from it!

Passing

With every passing moment a part of us dies. Time takes away the essence of our survival. Shop at China-town. Buy bird's nest.

Spin

Never really expected to find a demoded laundromat like this one along Killiney Road. Say, when was this mammoth Renzacci washing machine manufactured? Back in the Reagan Administration?

TRAFFIC

5No one gets away clean: Catherine Zeta-Jones finds herself confronted by a DEA agent.

We may not experience a similar situation here (or at least not to such a serious extent), but drug addiction and trafficking is a preeminent problem over in the Americas - be it North, Central or South.
Steven Soderbergh's detailed, accurate discourse on how politics and law enforcement can affect drug cartels and end users simultaneously exposes the underpinnings of/pecking order in the bureaucratic chain of command as much as it explores the intricacies of the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives.

Giant Bottle Floating in the Air

a suffeit of exposition, this is

Flex!

If attracting attention is what MediaCorp's Mocca sets out to achieve, then the biceps/triceps-flexing 'Brutus' has indubitably done them proud. Having said that, wouldn't 'star' street eyebrow plucker Steven Lim be a better choice for this TVC stint?

Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival (same as Mid-Autumn Festival?) is right around the bend; in fact, I'm not sure if it's already on. Picture 'costumed' children carrying brightly lit lanterns (often in shapes of animals and occasionally with recurring piped-in music) parading (aimlessly) at the Chinese Garden and Botanic Gardens. How familial.

Outbreak

Singapore's dengue cases are currently back on the climb (again). The NEA is, of course, taking strict preventive measures to stamp out those dratted Aedes mosquitoes. What are you doing to keep yourself and your family safe from the fever?

The Birdcage - No More

This part of Tiong Bahru used to be a humming (pun intended) gathering place for senior residents with bamboo bird cages. As one can see, it's now as lifeless and lonely as Shenton Way on a Sunday afternoon.

Minyi

3'Her Lovely Traces' Huang Minyi (left), a DPE-T student of ours who'll be bidding adios to us on October 9, recommended me this cool site sometime back. An addendum to YouTube?

Carlito & Lollipop

Easy, Shamrock. Lest you think St. Patrick's Day has arrived early, it's de facto Bossini's latest street campaign to help hype the 2010 launch of this hack's The Circus Trilogy. Ah, such self-deprecating narcissism.

Rubber Biscuits?

Craving for some of granny's homemade cookies? You may wanna ponder thrice before taking a bite off any one of these carom-like babies. They're actually samples of gym mats (the same material, I guess, you use for padding playgrounds), not something from a Sun Moulin confectionery. Highly inedible!

Les Miserables 2007?

Victor Hugo's Cossette after a visit to Coiffure De Pong.

Coral Sea

My favorite Jay Chou slow number. My favorite Mandarin ballad. My favorite Mandarin duet. Enough said.

AXS Granted

Dear eCus-tomer, now that your access to this machine has been granted, isn't it high time you paid up your goddamn bills? Do you wish to be knee-deep in debt?

The Vent

Ever had the apprehension of not being 'alone' in a room even though there's visibly no one else but yourself?
Well, you never could know who or what may be watching you from the air-conditioning duct above...

Noriko Sakai

One of my boyhood idols (fantasies?) was then teen J-pop singer Noriko Sakai. Got to know of her in my GESS years and had glossy posters of her heavenly self plastered all over my bedroom walls.
At 36, I think she still looks stunning, no?

Hilton @ Singapore

Moot point: Is Richard Hilton aware of his corporation's 'misbegotten progeny' presently still subsisting here in Singapore? I mean, does the man question the account when it figures in those AGMs they have?

Sang Meen

I haven't got the foggiest idea where sang meen originated from. Is it Malaysia? It must be. Some state over there. Regardless, ever since I sampled it once (at Thano) and saw Ruby eat it another time (also at Thano), I sorta lost interest altogether. I'm not saying it tastes horrible or anything, but the dish just doesn't endear itself to me... For the record, the sang meen at Thano is selling for $4.00 per pot.

Wrestling Fatalities (PG)

Two of WWE's top draws are now dead. 'Latino Heat' Eddie Guerrero (top left) succumbed to heart failure. The 'Rabid Wolverine' Chris Benoit (top right) murdered his wife and son before taking his own life. Autopsies later revealed that Guerrero's death was a consequence of controlled substances (e.g. steroids) he consumed, whereas Benoit's could be a result of brain damage caused by delivering one too many flying headbutts over the years. But whether it's 'roid rage or dementia, one can't deny the fact that wrestling fatalities are a concern today - considering that the 'sport' isn't even real!

T - 60

"60 minutes to detonation. Kindly evacuate the facility before your backside gets blown to Kingdom Come."