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Is it just me, or do these look strangely phallic? Especially with those white strings coming out from the top. -_-

They're supposed to be bowling pins by the way.

One of these, me wants.

Geek backpack + 1

The canteen auntie likes me!

No idea if that's good or not. And I only noticed because my colleague commented so.

Here's the story:

I get hungry very frequently, so I often have a mid-morning break at about 10am. In fact, I have it everyday. So much so that the canteen aunties know me and what I'll be ordering most of the time.

So much so that I get to cut the queue.

The counter is actually pretty long with the payment and ordering of drinks at one end, while the ordering of buns at the others. So what I normally do is, I order my buns before my drinks then pay for them together.

At first..

After a while the aunties told me to just go to the front of the queue and get my drink and pay for it since they claimed the buns would get cold if I had to wait for too long. And thus I get to jump all the way to the head of the queue. It pays to be nice to canteen aunties. :P

So happy. Grinning like a Cheshire Cat

Finally got my new Liverpool jersey!

I'm really happy despite the face! :D

Coming Soon!

The good:

[Daiso] The first one was a IMM. This is the famous store where everything cost $2 and below. Also where the famous Dustbin Dude was born. And it's now coming to a nearer place the IMM, it's coming to Plaza Singapura!

The bad:


[Chai-La Angels] Thai movie. Nuff said.

Thank Fowler It's Friday

Quite an eventful friday it was.



I wanted to catch a 6.40pm show for "Crazy Stone" at Plaza Singapura. Unfortunately a slow deployment for my application meant that I had to do OT and also meant I only finished work at 7pm.

So I had to catch the 9.10pm show instead. And although I bought my tickets at 8pm, I still only managed to get the front row seats. This lead to severe back pains and neck aches.

However I felt it was all worth it, because, Crazy Stone was really a good show, a must watch.

It had a pretty unbelievable plot with twist and turns that made good use of the inane characters and a really good exploration of "cause and effect" all the while having a great sense of humour.

Characters like the Master Theif who can never tell if someone is behind him. The trio of small time theives. The stressed security guard. Everyone mashed into one plot concerning real and fake jade pieces.

I would give it 5 stars but for the undeciperable Shanghainese slang. So 4.5 stars from me. Catch it before it stops showing!

Another good thing was I managed to finally eat at Carl's Junior.

And it was a terrific experience. They really have the best burgers around, much much better then Burger King, which to me is high praise indeed. It was expensive at about $11 a meal, but I'm still feeling the after effects of it now. Indeed some place that I will not hesistate to make a trip to another day.

And I still have IPPT tomorrow morning.. Wish me luck. If I can at least get a pass, then I'll be going to buy my Liverpool Jersey in the afternoon.

l33t!

Re-take!

I'll be trumatised if that happened to me. And you can't even say for certain if the referee was taking bribes or not.

Adam's Apples

After much tribulations, I finally managed to catch Adam's Apples. After the rave reviews from Alex and Jean, it didn't disappoint me.

If you like "Thank you for smoking", this movie is for you. Combining comedy, moral stories and unbelievable characters, it was an enjoyable watch.

It wasn't exactly tear jerking, but your heart goes out to the characters, for the trial they had to go through and how the pulled through. Definately recommended to mainstream movies watchers. Catch it while you can, I don't think it'll be showing for much longer.

Next movie I'm aiming for, Sophie Scholl. Anyone interested?

Weekend was personal fanboy weekend

On last count I was a fanboy of the various and managed to do them over the weekend.

[Subway] : Ate Subway Cut meal.


[Kate Beckinsale] : Watched Click.



[amaRok] : Used it to listen to mp3 for the weekend.

[Liverpool] : Liverpool won the Charity Shield and I watched it on TV. Plan to get a jersey next weekend.

[Simpang Bedok] : Woo! Maggie Goreng Mata Lembu + Milo Ice! Nuff said.

All in all a productive weekend.

I love cynicism

College is basically a bunch of rooms where you sit for roughly two thousand hours and try to memorize things. The two thousand hours are spread out over four years; you spend the rest of the time sleeping and trying to get dates.

Basically, you learn two kinds of things in college:

1. Things you will need to know in later life (two hours).
2. Things you will not need to know in later life (1,998 hours). These are the things you learn in classes whose names end in -ology, -osophy, -istry, -ics, and so on. The idea is, you memorize these things, then write them down in little exam books, then forget them. If you fail to forget them, you become a professor and have to stay in college for the rest of your life.

It's very difficult to forget everything. For example, when I was in college, I had to memorize -- don't ask me why -- the names of three metaphysical poets other than John Donne. I have managed to forget one of them, but I still remember that the other two were named Vaughan and Crashaw. Sometimes, when I'm trying to remember something important like whether my wife told me to get tuna packed in oil or tuna packed in water, Vaughan and Crashaw just pop up in my mind, right there in the supermarket. It's a terrible waste of brain cells.

After you've been in college for a year or so, you're supposed to choose a major, which is the subject you intend to memorize and forget the most things about. Here is a very important piece of advice: be sure to choose a major that does not involve Known Facts and Right Answers. This means you must not major in mathematics, physics, biology, or chemistry, because these subjects involve actual facts. If, for example, you major in mathematics, you're going to wander into class one day and the professor will say: "Define the cosine integer of the quadrant of a rhomboid binary axis, and extrapolate your result to five significant vertices." If you don't come up with exactly the answer the professor has in mind, you fail. The same is true of chemistry: if you write in your exam book that carbon and hydrogen combine to form oak, your professor will flunk you. He wants you to come up with the same answer he and all the other chemists have agreed on.

Scientists are extremely snotty about this.

So you should major in subjects like English, philosophy, psychology, and sociology -- subjects in which nobody really understands what anybody else is talking about, and which involve virtually no actual facts. I attended classes in all these subjects, so I'll give you a quick overview of each:

ENGLISH: This involves writing papers about long books you have read little snippets of just before class. Here is a tip on how to get good grades on your English papers: Never say anything about a book that anybody with any common sense would say. For example, suppose you are studying Moby-Dick. Anybody with any common sense would say that Moby-Dick is a big white whale, since the characters in the book refer to it as a big white whale roughly eleven thousand times. So in your paper, you say Moby-Dick is actually the Republic of Ireland.

Your professor, who is sick to death of reading papers and never liked Moby-Dick anyway, will think you are enormously creative. If you can regularly come up with lunatic interpretations of simple stories, you should major in English.

PHILOSOPHY: Basically, this involves sitting in a room and deciding there is no such thing as reality and then going to lunch. You should major in philosophy if you plan to take a lot of drugs.

PSYCHOLOGY: This involves talking about rats and dreams. Psychologists are obsessed with rats and dreams. I once spent an entire semester training a rat to punch little buttons in a certain sequence, then training my roommate to do the same thing. The rat learned much faster. My roommate is now a doctor. If you like rats or dreams, and above all if you dream about rats, you should major in psychology.

SOCIOLOGY: For sheer lack of intelligibility, sociology is far and away the number one subject. I sat through hundreds of hours of sociology courses, and read gobs of sociology writing, and I never once heard or read a coherent statement. This is because sociologists want to be considered scientists, so they spend most of their time translating simple, obvious observations into scientific-sounding code. If you plan to major in sociology, you'll have to learn to do the same thing. For example, suppose you have observed that children cry when they fall down. You should write: "Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of prematurated isolates indicates that a casual relationship exists between groundward tropism and lachrimatory, or 'crying,' behavior forms." If you can keep this up for fifty or sixty pages, you will get a large government grant.

Matt Simerson's Humour Pages

Sexist post

But I don't care

I finally got to the next level!

Yay for Obsessive Complusive Disorder!

NDP!

Oh well, it's that time of the year once again. 8th of August. National Day. (Also happens to be the birthday of a friend, an aunt [who was born on the exact day Singapore gained independance], and a friend's father)

So Happy birthday to everyone!

For a blog called crazyunicyclist, there issn't a lot about unicycles to my utter embarrasment. :P So this post will talk somewhat about it.

This year was pretty special, we had been asked to be part of the fringe celebrations of this year's NDP. We came up with a tournament that was to be played today. It wasn't bad, but the playing ground was very narrow (5 meters) which called for new playing methods and tactics.

Due to the barriers at the side and narrow playing area, it was now easier to just rebound the ball along the side then try to dribble past a player. Also due to the number of players a turnover was very devastating if there wasn't a defender around. Tough lessons learnt during my first match.

My teams' result

• Lost the first match (6-1) :(
• Drew the second (4-4) despite leading 3-0 at one point of time
• We won the third (6-2) *I think*
• And lost the last match 5-4

Shout out to my team mates, Darren, Andrew and Ridzuan! Great game we had, despite the pretty disappointing results.

Some highlights from my point of view:

• UPFD! or unplanned flying dismount when I whacked straight into Jeffery. (sorry!)
• Doing a Ronaldinho by hitting the crossbar 2 times consecutive and 3 times in total for the whole tournament. (Unfortunately I was trying to score)
• Having to play the last match to try and win the tournament, which unfortunately, despite leading 2-0, we conspired to lose 5-4.
• Losing a lost of leads

On the whole a fun day. Sigh, back to work tomorrow though.

Caught a bit of the NDP celebrations proper on TV. Does anyone feel it's like watching a documentary and a self-wank fest rolled into one. Ugh. Think I'm just a wee bit too cynical.

Oiieee.. Who wants to watch movies. Managed to chop Arty-Farty Eugene for "Adam's Apples". I still want to watch Sophie Scholl and the chinese movie that was reviewed in life today (name escapes me for the moment).

When will I be able to have the mercy that I want? Why does her name still make me long for her, despite knowing she was just playing with me?

"This is not comedy, this is not juggling, this is stupidity"

World's Most Dangerous Comic

*I wonder what he did in England, Ireland and Scotland.

Freaking respect

I really really respect these guys./

Sometimes you just wonder...

How they come up with all these.

The flaming ramp owns all.

I LOVE THESE GUYS (in a none gay way)

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Movies I want to watch

Adam's Apple


Pathfinder


Sophie Scholl: The Final Days


Anyone interested?!