tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-104345972011-12-19T09:08:55.649+08:00Mostly fluff about stuff.AlexHuanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841978864210384903noreply@blogger.comBlogger2251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10434597.post-1159115305113768792006-09-25T00:27:00.000+08:002006-09-25T00:28:58.113+08:00

Moved to Wordpress.

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... but not of my job. I'm considering switching over to Wordpress. Just because I love building my own things. So be prepared to update your links some day.

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The office was empty today, with my colleagues on leave or out for appointments and programmes (we do events). Thinking it would be an easy day, I slept really late last night (having bought a new computer that can support Oblivion) and came into work sleepy and looking forward to a day of stress-free tasks, like designing some much-backlogged brochures and sending out mass feedback emails to

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Windows XP SP2 does not agree with my drivers. I finally tried to update just so I could download .Net 2.0 and VS2005 Web Express Edition but my plan backfired in the worst way possible. Ok, to be entirely honest it might have had something to do with needing (or at least wanting very badly) DirectX 9.0b. But this time I was able to respond and get my data back! Knoppix with Samba, a switch, my

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My claim to cinematic expertise comes from the one Film module I did back in university, but I do watch quite a lot of movies, which I believe counts for at least something. And I'm pretty sure I can recognize a French film when I see one (even without the benefit of the large noses). The question I'd like to ask is - do French films use scripts? And if they do, who writes them? How? My idea of

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Dear Readers, I apologize for the lack of posts in the last few weeks. Unfortunately, I have no defence other than the fact that I am an extremely lazy person with a contempt for writing for my readership and that you are not important enough for me to spend an hour typing on my computer for. That's right, Pokemon-hentai-seeking reader. I do not care for you. It is most regretful that I have

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Piracy = Murder I'm not really that fond of the b-squad, but this one reveals a logical fallacy that I can't believe I missed. Ahh, the power of mass morality.

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Dr Vivian Balakrishnan on Mr Brown's sacking, Channel NewsAsia. Dr Balakrishnan said: "If you feel there is a problem with cost of living, say so, let's collectively explore solutions. But don't in the name of humour distort or aggravate on an emotional level... Can someone explain to me how humour that does not "distort or aggravate on an emotional level" works? Unemotional unexxagerated

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Article from Discovery about how formal education is keeping our minds in a state of flexible receptivity.

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I had this long post typed out about the clips below but I deleted it. Nothing I type can do justice to them. If you can watch this and not laugh you need a lobotomy. Trolled them all for you. In context More useful phrases! And in context... ... my jaw was aching after this one. Boys too! The guys in context (the term can only be used extremely loosely here) This guy

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Some simple rules for working with people from IT Support: If I tell you to reboot, and your response is to twiddle through your application windows to show me how important your work is and how impossible it is for you to save and quit for the 5 minutes it would take to reboot, then your disconnected network drives will not be recovered. I could be Bill Gates troubleshooting for you and still

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*Warning: if you are prone to epilepsy, read slowly, or have a relatively poor command of English (can't catch up with subtitles at the cinema) then avoid these links* Cunninglingus in North Korea, from Young-Hae Heavy Industries - pseudo-philosophical-trash wrapped in Flash, presented with jazz and animated with pizzazz (sorry I couldn't help myself). More enjoyable than YouTube, I think, for

AlexHuanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841978864210384903noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10434597.post-1149308560090190592006-06-03T12:03:00.000+08:002006-06-03T12:27:02.996+08:00

Most interesting thing that happened all week: A couple of days ago, I was working most diligently in my office (container located on a precarious slope in Sentosa) when suddenly there's a knock on the office door and a man pops his head in to ask if we'd seen a white bird around. It takes me a while to digest this information, and I stare rather stupified at him he provides me with more

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High point of my week: When Hi-5 came down to Sentosa for a meet-and-greet session, and put up a performance for over 400 little children at an amphitheatre just a stone's throw away from my office, in the middle of which it started to pour, sending aforementioned little children and their assorted parents scrambling for shelter like so many little bugs. Low point of the week: Two seconds after

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Christians, avert your eyes now! Fow the terror that is Wonder Showzen is here! Yeah, little girl, you'll never know what Heaven is if you keep appearing on this show. Here's another clip of a Mother Nature muppet-thing having a home-sex operation (I promise this is the most hentai my posts will ever get). It's comedy and societal satire so outrageous I'd be offended if it wasn't for the

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Uh oh. A bit too close for comfort.

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I'd always been under the impression that the PAP was somewhat unpopular in the blogosphere. The majority of bloggers seem to admit, if grudgingly, that because they haven't led Singapore down economic failure they must be doing a relatively good job, but the sentiment is usually tinged with a hint of disapproval. Perhaps it's the inherent uncoolness of supporting the Big Winners, no matter how

AlexHuanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841978864210384903noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10434597.post-1147960957294981702006-05-18T22:00:00.000+08:002006-05-18T22:10:38.040+08:00

Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974 - by Candyboots. I found this so funny I completed all activities mentioned in this post's title. VISIT. NOW.

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In recent times, I have: Been to Malacca, which was disappointingly like an older and dirtier Singapore. The curious juxtaposition of anceient European architecture in an Asian city isn't really very interesting to a Singaporean. Off-season Malacca also showcases the equally not-very-interesting situation of half the shops in town being closed. Having a total of 3 restaurants (unless you

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It turns out people don't really like to listen to funeral music. (FUNERAL MUSIC - SPRING SALE: $9.95)

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True Porn Clerk Stories (entirely work safe, except for your inevitable uncontrollable snickering) - I remember reading this a couple of years back, and laughing my head off. A couple of years (and a few more inches round the waist) later, I've forgotten enough of the stories to have a good laugh off of them again. The writer is a First Amendment Feminist (women are equal to men, and adults are

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Meidacorp's ad for reporters: MediaCorp News REPORTER, ENGLISH NEWS You will cover stories for our daily television news bulletins. You are expected to be an outgoing and dynamic individual with a flair for writing and a keen interest in news and current affairs. You should have a good voice and a strong presence in front of the camera. In addition, you should possess a good University Degree

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Remember a couple of months back when I posted about my inability to take a proper shit in my own home? (If you are easily offended by talk of shit I suggest you leave now! Go! Lest the demons of Toilette Hell flood your delicate tissue-paper ears with foul expulsions!) Since the days of la toilette portable, I have been blessed with a smooth toilet experience (constipation aside). However, a

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Went back last night to my parents' place because Sister had messaged me that it was our Father's birthday, and thus Mother had decreed that all of us, including my errant Brother and I, had to be home to celebrate the event. The above sentence contained all members of my family. Well, except for Lethargy and Apathy, our oldest and and dearest family friends. It turned out that it was not

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The Singapore Army has put up some Army Songs for free download, in the hopes that they will "help instill pride in our soldiers and build the esprit-de-corp in Our Army." Looks like our Armed Forces has really lived up to its promise to use technology as a battlefield leveller. A synthesizer will have to be included into the infantry standard equipment so our marching soldiers can, with the

AlexHuanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841978864210384903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10434597.post-1144427709990723072006-04-08T00:21:00.000+08:002006-04-08T00:35:10.093+08:00

Some ideas: Singapore has some of the toughest censorship laws in the world - with a special emphasis on political censorship. How about a piece of art that details the artist's painstaking process of obtaining a license for his work? It would have to contain an element of political antagonism, of course, just to ensure that it gets censured by the Media Development authority, but here's the

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You know you're unloved when your parents stop calling every Friday you to ask you if you're coming home for the weekend because now they've got Da Chang Jin.

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More uTube fun! We have a clip featuring some random Magical Girl anime scenes mashed up to form an Anime Music Video, but with a twist - the accompanying music is amateur - some girl singing along to a song titledLet Me Fall. And she's not good (to put it lightly). I guess this is why lip-synching is more common than face-synching. eeee.

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I know it's old news, but here's a link to the Durex Sex Survey conducted in 2005 (2006 results not out yet, I guess). I'd just like to point out the discrepency in figures for "Frequency of Sex" - men get it off 104 times a year on average, copared to 101 times for women. This would suggest that: Women are less likely to report having had sex Men are more likely to exxagerate the frequencies

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Sometimes I do wonder if all the articles in Wikipedia can be trusted. Balloon Fetishism

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Many of my friends seem to like taking online quizzes - personally I'm not too fond of the idea of taking a quiz wherein I give someone generic information about myself so that they can tell me something about myself based on the information that they gave me. Also I always have the sneaking suspicion that no paper (or electronic-form) test can truly capture a person's personality or the entire

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Possibly the worst things about working life is the gradual atrophying of my mind - as evidenced by what counts for entertainment these days. She is Ai Otsuka and she appears in several other similarly sugar-poppy MTVs. For some reason it makes me feel happy watching these, even though I have no idea what Ms Otsuka is screaming (though I harbour a suspicion that might be a good thing). That

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Sumimasen! Gomenasai These days, I begin speaking thus to a colleague of mine, a Japanese lady who works on a computer that always seems to have irreversibly bad things happend to it. I'm not too sure what the two words above mean, but I'm hoping that they are phrases offering apology. One basic Learn-to-Speak-Japanese course and over ten years of watching Japanese anime have only served to give

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C'est terrible! The worst has happened! I can't find my copy (pirated) of Wit anywhere! I must have lent it to one of my friends, who probably fell asleep watching the first ten minutes of it and never returned it to me. I'm ordering the DVD from Amazon, but as it will only arrive in two weeks time will the friend who has it please return it to me before I watch Nanny McPhee and forever lose

AlexHuanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841978864210384903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10434597.post-1141150137270560782006-03-01T02:07:00.000+08:002006-03-01T02:13:27.783+08:00

It's not often I'm ashamed to have been in physics - thanks to Nick for pointing this out.

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The Design Observer has an article about being designers and their role as "Exotic Menials". Laughed out loud when I followed a link to this. Not that it's particularly funny in any way, but it hits a little too close to home at the moment. In my employment as a freelance designer I haven't had much experience. A couple of jobs for tiny companies, most of which I doubt are still around today.

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My landlord got single-ply toilet paper. Embossed with pink pictures of roses and diamonds.

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In the last couple of weeks, I got all hyped up about the batch of good movies out on screen, and told myself that I gotta catch'em all! (pokemon joke, haha) Unfortunately, my weekdays are consumed with work and my weekends tend towards the lazy side with me on the bed most of the time. I Not Stupid Too was not on my list of must-watch movies. So naturally that was the movie we had to watch on

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Reading Nick's blog: Pulled this off someone's blog that Alex linked to. Turns out she's in gender as well. An ambiguous statement if ever there was one, so I had to check it out. Turns out the "she" referred to in this case was Ling, who is in the same gender studies class as Nick, and not "in gender" or into any kind of similarly kinky-sounding sexually-related activity involving gender

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Mother always told me as a child not to borrow money. I have faithfully followed her advice into adulthood and kept myself as debt-free as possible. I checked my CPF statement today. I owe Mother about S$21,000 for my BSc in Computational Science (Specializing in Physics). In case you are wondering what this all means, allow me to explain: The Singaporean government understands that not all

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My Dear Readers, I must apologise for the lack of posts in this blog recently - believe me when I say it was not for want of effort, for I tried numerous times to put something up about how my life has been usurped by work and thus left me with little time or interesting activities to blog about. However, it kept turning out that writing about not having much to write about was more difficult

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I haven't finished watching a single show on television in over a year now, largely due to the availability online of my favourite sitcoms. There's really very little the local television networks can do to make me tune in. Or so I thought. They screened the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show today featuring Tyra Banks' last runway walk with them. At my stop, I almost stayed on the bus to keep

AlexHuanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841978864210384903noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10434597.post-1137645174246173512006-01-19T12:02:00.000+08:002006-01-19T12:32:54.276+08:00

Saw an article by Mr Wang about a deaf-white-man selling pins. Of course, asking for charity is not uncommon in Singapore - I'd be hard pressed to remember a single trip down Orchard Road without seeing at least one flag seller, basker or tissue-auntie - but that a white man was doing it was probably stranger. Just a couple of days back at Lido I was walking around with Nick when we spotted a

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I was determined to impose a fun embargo until I managed to find a job. So those friends with whom I've been with - it was more of a duty! and a calling! than fun in any way. But in any case, the fun embargo is lifted, for I got my first (full-time) job offer today! I'm still reeling a little from the shock, and thus breathing heavily and rapidly (causing much anxiety to my roommate - he keeps

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I can't believe nobody commented on the (non)cute kidney in my last post. The comments all turned towards internet marketing and advertising, which was a spillover effect from Seet's blog (which, if you're reading, links to the wrong site for the million-dollar homepage - should be www.milliondollarhomepage.com - on which he should spend some of that million upgrading bandwidth). Now, I never

AlexHuanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841978864210384903noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10434597.post-1136705479810028322006-01-08T15:19:00.000+08:002006-01-08T15:39:20.183+08:00

These days it seems almost anything can be made cute just by slapping it with some anthropomorphic features and eyes, as Marian Bantjes points out. I do agree with her that our concept of cute is slowly changing from being a purely biological function (to protect babies and such, I think I saw that somewhere) to an artificial consumer-driven culture. Our ancestors would probably have run away

AlexHuanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841978864210384903noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10434597.post-1136630228386099422006-01-07T18:29:00.000+08:002006-01-07T18:37:08.406+08:00

Somewhat tired of sitting around and clicking the "Get Msgs" button on my Mozilla Mail, I decided to be somewhat less picky in my choice of job offerings and send resumes for jobs I don't even really want. Like to companies that you know aren't doing too well or have terrible employee management because it keeps sending out requests for web designers every two weeks. Now when I check for mail

AlexHuanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841978864210384903noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10434597.post-1136387816102820122006-01-04T22:57:00.000+08:002006-01-04T23:16:56.126+08:00

In case you missed the previous posts (or ignored them because they contained no images of pokemon hentai) and are wondering why why why Alex seems bored and is posting a remarkable amount these days, it is because he is graduated and unemployed. He can now safely put "BSc. Computational Science (Specializing in Physics)" under his name and feel proud that he is the one of a tiny elite who have

AlexHuanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16841978864210384903noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10434597.post-1136386525277664692006-01-04T21:37:00.000+08:002006-01-05T00:17:34.983+08:00

I signed up for Technorati today only to find that a lot more blogs have been linking to mine than I'd thought. It's a bit pleasing, like finding chocolates in your school locker (which never happened for me, except when I left it there myself), only that some of the chocolates in this case were rather sour and put there because I haven't always been nice in my posts. There were some nice

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Spotted a strange bus ad as I was crossing the road but it didn't strike me to take a picture - anyway it was too dark and my phone cam doesn't have much of a flash. It featured a gigantic picture of a woman, with two checkboxes and options beside her face. The first read "Single eyelids?" and the second read "Twice as nice with surgery?" or something to that effect, with a web address to the

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The banana offered me a job at a countdown managed by her company over at Jurong Sports Complex. The event was organized by Yuhua, some offshoot of some community that was ostensibly trying to fulfill sponsorship agreements using the event. I wasn't expecting it to be very happening, being a Heartlands Countdown, and Zero In 2006 didn't disappoint. The morning started off with a simple games and

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Being still jobless and having a lot of time on my hands, I started on Camus' L'Etranger (The Stranger), translated by Matthew Ward. The first chapter - as far as I got before the fingers itched to blog the experience - deals largely with the death of the main character's maman (mother) and written in a rather terse, Hemingway machine-gun way. And it horrified me, because the mother had (*

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I was bored today. So I decided to count my facial hairs. It turns out that I have over ninety short pieces on my chin, and a similar number above my lips - it was difficult getting an accurate number as I realized that I counted like a hillbilly, mouthing the numbers as I went along and destroying the count as my hairs moved with my lips. I have an idea of leaving it a couple more days until

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When you're done looking for the Hentai Pokemon pictures (which I don't have), you might want to read the KPMG report on the NKF. It's 42 pages long and there are three pages worth of abbreviations of companys' acronyms which are involved. Hmmm.

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A blog I like to read, Illusio, asks what would constitute the Great Singaporean Novel. She gives several examples, which I quote: Protagonist(s) contemplating emigration A taxi driver (perhaps contemplating emigration... to Perth?) Compilation of Xiaxue's online posts A researcher/scholar finding out some discrepencies between official history and actual history (Major whoopass and conspiracy

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In line with the title, I will attempt to bring you, gentle reader, a three-part post featuring the Holy Trinity of Human (Idle) Discourse: Sex, Religion and Politics. This is mainly because, like people who discuss said subjects, there is nothing much else going on in my life (that I want to tell you voyeurs anyway, nyea-nyea) and I lack a real-life human to whom I can speak of such affairs. But

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On a whim, I asked the guys if they'd like to go do the walking route at MacRitchie Reservoir to the infamous treetop bridge walk. To my surprise, there was almost unanimous support for this outing, except for Nick, who blithered a bit about how he'd rather stay home and play monopoly (with his girlfriend, no doubt) but who at last also professed interest. So we met up at the ridiculous hour of

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The end-of-year bonus is coming. You can smell it in the air and see it in the papers - The Straits Times had only 2 pages out of 143 (not including classifieds and obituaries) without adverts. One page was a feature on on the poor and homeless and the other didn't have space for ads, what with the gigantic face of our Minister Mentor plastered on it.

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Evil movie of a Ferrari tearing down the streets of Paris. Makes me sweat to watch. For all my fast-driver friends.

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Went to pass Chups the bag on Saturday, and watched Aeon Flux with her and KY. Aeon Flux is a movie based on some MTV-produced animation about some lesbian leather-wearing anarchist who kills people. It's not deep, but it's produced by MTV and you would be stupid for assuming it to be otherwise. In fact, compared to the animation, the movie made a little more sense. The movie is about as MTV as

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So Chups calls me up and asks if she can borrow my backpack. I agree, but a search of my room fails to turn it up and I have to postpone meeting her, as it was probably at my parents' place. Went back to search, only to find that it wasn't there (sidetrack: when I asked my mother if she'd seen my big, blue backpack she rummaged around the storage room, came out with a small baby-blue handbag

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I finally watched Before Sunset. I'd have watched it sooner if it hadn't been positively mentioned by someone I didn't particularly liked (though it turns out even petty stupid people can have good taste). It is possibly, following Wit, the most crappingly good movie I've watched ever. It's like... the best things about Wit and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a single reel, minus all

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Yeah.

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I go to the supermarket to get some low-fat snacks to munch on whilst studying, like perhaps some unsalted almonds. I return with cheddar-flavoured potato crisps, honey-glazed almonds (DOUBLE glazed! for your artery-choking pleasure!), Captain Crunch star-shaped-cereals-of-doom and, as a healthy concession, some bananas. Nick: Creole. Not just a language-type, but not a crepe neither.

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Due to my (work-induced) early-morning habits, I find myself going down to the coffee shop below my flat for breakfast most mornings. And every morning, without fail, as I enter the coffee shop, this person stares at me. He is that person who is supposed to take your order for coffee (in my case iced-milo), but of all the coffee shops I frequent this one's is the freakiest. For one thing, he

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So it's Saturday afternoon, right, and I'm, like, chilling out in my room, right, listening to, like, my fav mp3s when the Banana messages me saying she's, like, got this really cool lobang for me, yeah, like this easy hundred bucks for two days work, right, and all I gotta do is, like, help out for some show or something, right, and I say yeah, sure, cool, thanks, and she's all, like, wow okay,

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I can't sleep. So I am blogging. Had a couple of pears around midnight to stave off hunger before going to bed. Exposing my fresh farm produce to the magic of the witching hour must have done something to them, because it is now 3am and I am unable to get to sleep. They must have transformed into Evil Caffeinated Pears of Doom. Well, or at least the Somewhat Annoying Pears of Sleep-Deprivation.

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If you remember, a couple of weeks back I visited Thailand - spending a couple of nights in Bangkok and Pattaya in particular. I'm not going to write about the disgusting exploitation of Thai girls (and guys) by farangs any more. What strikes me suddenly now, though, is that back when I just returned and happily recounted my experiences about the sleaze in Pattaya, I'd quite innocently asked

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French test today: Et mon coeur est mort avec mon amour. Je n'ai pas eu quelque raison pour livre. (And my heart died with my love. I didn't have some raison for book.) livre = book, vivre = life This is for all the times I laughed at poor Engrish speakers. In other, somewhat more gruesome news(thanks to Gary), meet Singapore's sole executioner. I wonder how desperate for employment I would

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Found this in my mailbox yesterday. (Click on image to see full size) In case you can't see it clearly, the ad says: For All Single / Divorced Men: (Age 25-70) Thousands of Men from Taiwan and Singapore have married Vietnamese girls. Vietnamese girls are well known to be good life partners & homemakers. Among their virtues are: loyalty, obedience, truthfulness and family values. You don't

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I love Skype! Singapore has 76 Skype Zones (check out the locations here)!!! That makes us the most densely Skyped region in the world, I'm sure. If only those MacDonald's outlets would get in on the craze we could break another world record!!! What are Skype Zones, you ask? Well, they're special areas where you can connect to Skype (not sure about the internet connectivity required) using...

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I'd meant to post this earlier, but essays and all that. Evidently my alma mater VS has decided not to go co-ed after all, following the "protest by hundreds of old boys". Petitions were set up and people cried out against the possible denudation of the fine tradition of screwing up the lives of hundreds of little boys from the ages of 12 - 16 by depriving them of the view of a woman's genitals.

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Finished... PS... essay... Procrastination... in... blood... progress... so slow... Worst... piece... of shit... ever... (screech of nails on boards, ominous gnashing of teeth) Just remembered I have another due in three days.

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Just some random hilarious clip (work safe) of guys doing the thing where you sit in front of your webcam and mouth the words to songs whilst making funny facial expressions... errrm essentially a drag show without the female costumes. I can't really make out what they're saying before they start the clip, something like "Da4 jia1 hao3, wo3 men2 shi4 mei3 yuen4 de4", which I am guessing means

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Rather embarrassingly, I am a regular visitor to Something Awful. Most of the time the American humour makes me a little sick, but the Hentai and porn reviews are usually good for a laugh, and strangely the authors are less racially-discriminating when talking about small-chinese-chicks-with-big-black-dicks than in articles describing "chinky" food. I guess some things are just above (or in this

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Over the weekend I went out with QR and his girlfriend (I get the feeling I'm going to be going out with a lot of couples from now until the kids start popping out) and she decided that we would watch Flight Plan, the latest trapped-in-a-place-with-evil-movie starring Jodie Foster in a plane acting crazy. My guess is that the increased media representation of women hitting men with fire

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Lesbian sex and linux. Punk rock woman teaches linux virgin how to get down and dirty. Ugh. Check it out. This has to be the sick, sick fantasy of many a tech-boi. And... if you can get off to it I'd say you're pretty-much-beyond-hope-of-redemption-by-normal society. (By the way, the same site that hosts their torrents has a copy of Singapore Rebel on it, not that under any circumstances you

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* just a note - in my previous post, I meant by "I can Pee and Shit like a normal person" that my toilet was fixed and that I wouldn't have to run half a kilometre to take a dump anymore, not that there was anything wrong with me physically that would have made me unable to attend to my sanitation needs * I had a strange dream - rather out of character and also a little late. In it, I was back

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The title says it all. And I'm off to enjoy it.

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When the bloggers were jailed for being rascist, I thought it was a rather severe punishment for such an infantile crime. And it was somewhat insulting to have half the nation suddenly turn their attention to bloggers in general and start tirades in newspaper forums about how bloggers produce nothing but EVIL WORDS and are exhibitionist fetishists wasting their time blogging instead of

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Today was Wei Chuen's birthday, and we went to celebrate at KTV and then dim sum. Didn't sing much, and ate too much dim sum, meaning I was mostly rather bored during the evening, and had a stomachache after. Wei Chuen maganimously ordered everything on two pages of the menu other than the fried food, which didn't meet the approval of the healthy-and-sick-people and we stuffed ourselves on

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Just a little article about happiness and Gross National Happiness (such a horrible name). I agree that life shouldn't be an endless cycle of production and consumption! Note that the whole concept is rather utilitarianst.

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Staying at my parents' place for more than three days has proved to be a trying affair. Not that I don't appreciate the free food and the decent toilet facilities (see previous post), but it's beginning to feel like I'm slowly being suffocated here. I think it may have something to do with the fact that I work entirely at home and so there's no need to go out other than to buy the newspapers.

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I won't be posting much, as I'll be spending the week at my parents' place. The reason? I've used toilets worse than this, and I suppose having the toilet in the middle of the room does give it a certain artistic and diva-ish flair, but... The open sewage pipes sealed the deal for me. I'm nesting with Mummy dearest until renovations are over, which will hopefully be this Friday.

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How to sell a song. How not to sell the same song. (To Nick and Seok: Why not liven up your aerobics class a little?)

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I don't know why I did it. Another cutesy animal. It won't be long now before I start doing pokemon hentai. On a side note, here's a photo of a sculpture near my place. It's part of a series. There's Man Washing Hands too, and I'm sure a few more up the hill (with many steps that I am loathe to climb). Incidentally, Singapore recently launched an initiative to promote public access to

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Took me a minute to draw and a half-hour to colour in. Sometimes I feel Photoshop is more a curse than help. And then it was so cute I had to do this.

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It worries me, just a tad, that the majority of visits I get are from people searching for "Sarong Party Girl", "male escort service" or "pokemon hentai". You can be assured that I am not a Sarong Party Girl, do not offer male escort services nor do I possess, or intend to ever create hentai in any way related to Pokemon. Well, but just to satisfy some some of you... I mean, you did come all

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So I check into my blog to see if anyone's left me any comments (which they never do) and I notice one of the ads has something on "Horror and Terror". Having just watched Apocalypse Now and being a Kierkegaard fan of course I clicked the link. It is bizarre. Like some philosophy undergrad had taken it upon himself to distill the most confusing and ridiculous concepts he'd learnt in class and

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Just finished watching Apocalypse Now. Such a difficult movie to watch. First half was okay, but once the bridge started burning I just felt rather out of it, like there was some awesome cosmic significance to Captain Willard that I didn't understand. I suspect it's the machismo attached to understanding a war, and a severe repression of emotion. Anyway I now know where that line comes from...

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In yet another bizarre attempt by Singaporeans to get into the Guiness World Records, the Boys' Brigade is organizing a 24hr swim marathon and hopes to draw 2,456 participants to beat the World Record for Mass Participation in a 24-hr Swim Relay. Got the announcement on SMS (an ad). From numbers, 100 people are expected to swim in an hour. If you go strictly by "relay" definitions that means you

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Went to Faizal's to help fix his computer, and he kindly gave me a ride home. Along the way, I mentioned to him that it was a particularly bad day for driving so fast because it was the start Ramadan. Of course, he took this to mean that speeding was a sin (which is why I brought up Ramadan), which was not what I meant at all - I just didn't want him to end up splashed across the tabloids as "

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A most amusing satirical article about eating at restaurants.Read it. I realize that over the months I discovered Chocolate and Zucchini I've also started reading a bunch of other food blogs. I don't cook myself, but images of good food always make me feel slightly better about life in general. Check out Cooking for Engineers, which has recipes I'd try as well as amazingly detailed instructions

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Okay, as promised here's the rundown of the Children's Day Carnival 2005 that I worked at over the weekend. The banana got me the job - her company is in events management. Working hours were long, from 0900 till 2030 daily and the pay not too wonderful, but I thought it would be fun to work with kids (and also my rent is due), so I took up her offer. Some pics from when I went

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Have taken up a job as a helper at a children's carnival. I must have been crazy to do it. So sleepy. Want... eat... brains... Update after the weekend when it's all over... or I collapse from exhaustion and blog from hospital.

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Because I am sometimes a little shy myself and I suspect many of my friends are as well (or at least are extremely good at hiding their extrovertedness), here's a link about shyness. It might be a good idea to read up before planning any parties, so you know who not to invite (Oh come on, the REALLY shy people don't want to go to parties). The article ends off saying shy people are still capable

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I receive a philosophical quote daily courtesy of The Philosophers' Magazine Online (and so should you!), most of them being intelligent one-liners from famous philosophers about the nature of the universe, humans, science, God or some other lofty ideal. Today's was a little bit different: I would not live forever because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever

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(runs around excitedly)

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Last Saturday I went for the first session of the Kids-Up Reading Programme, a South-West CDC project in which volunteers try to "cultivate the love of reading" in kids from lower-income families. Note the inverted commas denoting sarcasm. My ward is a little girl named Siti. Siti is two-and-a-half years old and is Malay (as is evident from the name). Social engineering conspired to pair the

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