KONPLOTT

Miranda Konstantinidou's studded surfboard.

Cheem Chwee

If such deep sea creatures as the angler, fangtooth, gulper eel, viperfish, giant isopod and long-nosed chimaera still don't deter you from exploring these waters, then we really don't know what will...

i7

When yours lappy went notebook hunting last month, he was looking out for one with an Intel® Core™ i7 processor. Why? Because...i7 would be superior to i3 and i5? (*Shrugs*) As for what it does exactly to/for my ASUS, I have absopositively no idea. This is how tech-unsavvy and yet kiasu I am :-P

10 Bayfront Avenue

gondolas aside, the shoppes will take forever to fully open...

3D Pipes

If you find staring at Windows screensavers like 3D Pipes therapeutic, wait 'til you see the real deal. This moderately intricate set of pipework is specifically designed and constructed to boggle your mind and give you a retinal migraine.

ITE

The tritest thing to say would, of course, be ITE = It's The End. But let's not kid yourselves now. Haven't we seen some of these colleges with bigger and better equipped campuses than many JCs here? In short, they're no pushovers!

Dino's Words

My ex-prowlmate Dino Tan once warned me, in the midst of our night duty together, not to look up at trees when darkness falls. He didn't say why, but I knew it had something to do with the supernatural. After all, aren't trees - 'specially those of the banana species - often associated with pontianaks?

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C-Town @ Dusk

Eu Tong Sen Street prepping for Spring Festival. How 'bout those one-way-facing rabbit-themed LNY lightups? Pretty 'well thought-out', no? -_-

King Jerry (1996 - 2011)

Rest in Peace.

Durabus

How do you define "the style of success"? Commandeering a Volkswagen omnibus with confidence while maintaining the four-wheeler's speed above fifty miles per hour? You've got your work cut out for you - from a piece of cardboard, no less. (I won't chide anyone for not comprehending any of this.)

Pineapple Tarts

Our ⅓-finished container of ong lai tart that Yeok Hing bought from where-else. Want some? :-P

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Crop/Crap Circles?

UFO enthusiasts and thousands of "curious onlookers" are flocking to Central Java, Indonesia, to investigate a 'crop circle' that arcanely figured in a green rice field. The work of sapient beings from another planet? Highly unlikely. Given that the locals are charging entrance fees to the site, one would be led to believe that it was the farmers themselves who perpetrated this elaborate hoax.

Gross Anatomy

Stickie: I don't know about you, buddy, but sometimes I feel like a faceless stranger in the crowd.
Skellie: I know how that feels, but you know what? It's the emptiness that really gets to me.
Stickie: I mean, I don't understand. I can be so smooth, yet I never get any recognition.
Skellie: You should count your blessings. At least you don't have to feel hollow and not knowing where your heart is.

MSC

While I'm well aware that a public multi-storey car park - particularly one under construction - can't possibly be considered an architectural marvel by any stretch of the imagination, this half-retired 'flogger' (read: 'fotoblogger') has also seen better times.

The End Is Near

This blogger has conscien-tiously upheld his at-least-one-post-per-day streak for the longest time. Come this Lunar Spring, it's goodbye to good times!

DNS

Squatting like you're about to take a dump, howbeit, is absolutely permitted.

The Mandarine

A gesture of goodwill from one of our corporate suppliers. Seedless, though, it's not.

881 - The Musical?

How much monay is Toy Factory bribing homegrown moviemaker Royston Tan with? Why else would the latter allow his 2007 getai smash 881 to be adapted into a rompy musical? Atrocious.

Dragon Park

With the fall of Haw Par Villa, 3Ah Leng - a once ferocious guardian of Dragon World who's now lost all but his self-esteem - has also relocated from Pasir Panjang to the heartlandish Bukit Merah and reduced to a tame neighborhood park 'attraction'.

Donkey's Drum

With Donkey Kong back in a steel cage at the Central Park Zoo, Mario back to his dead-end plumbing job and Pauline no longer a damsel in distress, all we have left to remember the Nintendo game by is but a shiny oil barrel. Sadness.

FookYouMyFriend

"One day, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace and Friendster will come together as one. It will be called FookYouMyFriend." This is the most ROFLMAO thing I've heard so far this year!

All Hail the Rabbit

Decors for See-And-Why are up at Pee-Ass. Question is: Can the Golden Wabbit bring forth good fortune and bolster birth rates in a baby-scarce Singapore?

Vespa Delivery

Is it just me or are the Vespa scooters incomparably chic and classy even by today's standards? Imagine plying the streets of Pontedera, Italy, in one of these signature Piaggio mopeds while delivering a bottle of fine vintage wine to your signorina waiting at the porch. Romantico!

ArtScience Museum

"The Singapore ArtScience Museum building's outstretched palm roof collects rainwater, which feeds a waterfall cascading through the museum into a pool. At night, the roof is transformed into an amphitheater with skylights and tiered seating." If that's really an "outstretched palm", then the fingers must've been severed. Still, I'll very much love to visit the place once it's open :-D

Such a Schweetie!

A cherubic looking catty hanging around Beo Crescent, where I live. If only my own Mandy's half as meek as her =(O.O)=

Stormtrooper

pledging allegiance to the galactic empire

Hailee Steinfeld

Teen actress Hailee Steinfeld, who hails from Tarzana, L.A., is receiving much praise for her work in the Coen Brothers' TRUE GRIT. Time only will tell if she's the rising star that this year's Oscar hopfeul Natalie Portman was back in the nineties.

The Air Up There

WE ARE FUMING AND EXHAUSTED FROM HAVING TO KEEP REMINDING YOU THICK-HEADED DRIVERS TO REDUCE FUMES AND EXHAUST FROM YOUR CARS BY SWITCHING OFF YOUR ENGINES WHILE WAITING TO BE WHEEL-CLAMPED.

Strawberry Milk Ice

The small but no less costly bowl of SMI that a chirpy KLSD was lapping up the other time after conquering the Ridges, which is an "excellent source of vitamin C and flavonoids" (referring to the dessert). For me, I'm more of an MMI (mango milk ice) fan, provided it's presented in a similar shaved ice fashion and not blended to form a smoothie (*rolls eyes*).

Yogi Poh

The "well-deployed" Mr. Goh, as described by the 'Eveel' Eugene, celebrated his 37th birthday yesterday - with hundreds of wishes pouring in from his students. His Facebook wall was literally plastered!

Fungal

these fungi are barking up the right tree

Angie the Choice

Over these years, yours sweetly has never made ANGIE his preferred choice of confectionery despite the latter claiming to sell "premium cakes and pastries". There's one outlet over at the basement of Tiong Bahru Plaza, so perhaps I could swing by there sometime?

Are You TOUGH ENOUGH?

Kudos to whichever WWE creative team member whose brain juice crystallized into MTV's TOUGH ENOUGH, a reality-based program with wrestler wannabes undergoing real physical training - including mat and mic work - to become...well, pretty much nobodies in the main roster. John Morrison, in that respect, certainly got it lucky.

Squirreland

didn't know they have sciuridae scurrying over at dover...

J Ride

"Resting amongst the lush foliage at the top of Mount Faber, The Jewel Box stands as Singapore's iconic hilltop destination." We know, but we dread going up there because it's so blardy inaccessible. Hence, the (free?) shuttle service that ferries patrons who don't mind burning a walnut-sized hole - not tumor, as an allusion to Michael Douglas - in their pockets.

D24

I'm no cultivar connoisseur, so of course I can't tell a 'Sultan' from a 'Mountain Cat King'. At least I won't describe eating durian as "eating sweet raspberry blancmange in the lavatory" like British novelist Anthony Burgess did.

Not Hearing Shit

Truth: Wearing headphones to the WC can help shield the sound of your defecate hitting the water.

Terrace Garden

Finally got a chance - third time lucky? - to check out this particularly quiet spot atop the Southern Ridges, which must be where our parents used to come for their weekly pak tor sessions in the past. The shrubbery all but adds to that old feeling.

uDivine

OSIM Founder/Chairman/CEO Ron Sim Chye Hock is evidently one class act with an enormous clout. Not only has his company gone international, it also never fails to engage big-name celebrities to anchor its latest commodities. First, there was S.H.E for uKimono, then Lin Chi-ling for uSoffa Petit, and now Andy Lau for uDivine ("Massage fit for a King"). Sigh, if only I could afford a set (for) myself...

That's It?

Kuniang-style pumpings? Are those PTIs slacking on the job or what?

油 腻 腻

As if chowing down chunky portions of honey glazed chicken on New Year's Day a week ago wasn't gelat enough, here are some more greasy roast meat(s) guarandamnteed to turn your tummy inside out. Then again, if procuring protein, iron and zinc is your predominant purpose, these oily offerings can hardly do wrong.

Gettin' Down & Dirty

Is it because we begrudge their fame and fortune or do we disdain their partying ways so much that we find such immense pleasure in seeing Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie suffer the grime and the grub of THE SIMPLE LIFE? Could be due to both, I guess.

Scoops!

Never mind the giant gelatos, just give me the grays!

Toy Cars

What's with tykes and toy cars? I vividly recall pestering mom to buy them for me from OG @ People's Park, but she simply wouldn't. (Okay, so she relented at times, but not awfully often.) How about those Mirco Machines from Galoob and that guy with the 1,000-words-per-minute rattling speed?

HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS

5Microcosmos: Professor Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis) discovers it's not just his 'thinking couch' that he successfully shrunk.

Joe (JUMANJI, JURASSIC PARK III) Johnston's directorial debut was a thoroughly likeable family fare that tells the story of a struggling inventor who, as the movie title suggests, accidentally shrinks his kids to 1/4 of an inch by means of an electromagnetic ray. Most of the comedy's ensuing adventures take place in the backward of their house, which instantly becomes a vast 'jungle' populated by 'giant' ants and scorpions. Some sad moments, but a lot of fun!

Back to North Pole

Now that we're nearing the end of Yule, you should sack up and sleigh back to the North Pole with your undelivered prezzies. See ya next year!

Arc Reactors?

These aren't manufactured by Stark Industries but Harvey Norman (what?!). Well, beggars can't exactly be choosers now. Only drawback is you need two of them - one over your chest, another over your crotch - to power up an exoskeleton.

Sheikh Haikel

So it took me several years to finally get over the fact that heavyweight funnyman Sheikh Haikel got hitched to the svelte beauty that is Anna Belle Francis. Not taking anything away from the multifaceted all-rounder, who recently released his Profound studio album as a tie-in with Burger King, the gentle giant really is a model family man (i.e. husband and father) who also happens to look like Tazz.

Old Skool Wafer

Got this super old skool coklat wafer from FairPrice @ BMC after lunch. Cost only 70 cents per pack of - I can't remember - 12 sticks? Cheep!

Fyne Wyne

Ask yourself: How much fermented fruit juice did you imbibe over the two holiday weekends? Did it make you feel 'yeasty'? Today's the first week of the new year and a good time for you to sober up. Don't wanna wind up like Miles Raymond and Jack Lopate, do you?