NERD!

Super Sunday

Crazy Sunday filled with fun.

Beach volleyball was a blast as usual. Think I'm finally getting slightly better. Maybe the new shades helped. :P

But I guess the highlight of the day was a floorball session. It was going to be my first time playing and I guess I was rather looking forward to it. A totally new game to play! Yay~!

I ended up, whacked on the knuckles by a stick, kicked in the quadriceps by someone, and stepped on my big right toe which reopened a new wound.

And I can't wait for the next session!

Pasir Ris to Boon Lay

Guess that for a blog entitled Life on One Wheel, I haven't really shown my life on one wheel. Guess that means I need to get off my sorry arse to blog about unicycling once in a while. It's not that unicycling is not fun, just that I tend to be too tired to blog about what I did after I have completed it.

Case in point: Pasir Ris to Boon Lay, an overnight ride I just completed this morning. We started at Pasir Ris MRT and set off at about 10.30pm. Cue crazed pedalling and madcap cycling, we managed to reach Boon Lay at 5am in the morning. Surprisingly, under then feeling extremely sleepy, I haven't really felt any ill effects of said ride. Total distance travelled > about 37 km.

Shouts out to JH, that crazy bitch actually did it on a 20" unicycle.
Felix and Minzhi for their virgin ride and actually completing it.
Aijia for bravely soldiering on.

Let's do this soon again!

New sunglasses

Oakley Livestrong Radar

So happy~ I'm starting to get an inkling of why girls like to buy stuff so much.

Big hole in my wallet though... :(

Never thought I would be this!

Your Score: Exclamation point

You scored 61% Sociability and 41% Sophistication!

Yes, you are fine around others. Fine. But you wish you could have just a *little* more alone time. Okay, well, a lot more alone time. In fact, you'd be happier if you didn't have to go out nearly as much. You get along very well with the period, who tries mightily to take up as much of the load as he can. But fools will not listen. You want to scream, "Cut it out, for the love of Safire!"

But, all of that notwithstanding, you do your duty. And, if sometimes you feel like a Chicago street hooker, you also remember that you really do have an important role to play. Your soul remains pure. Hold your head high!

Link: The Which Punctuation Mark Are You Test written by Gazda on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Hairspray

At it's heart, Hairspray is truly a feel good movie. Set in the 1960s, it's a musical that gets your feet tapping and your body grooving. I mean, seriously, who can resist good old 60's music (heres looking at your emo-punks, death metalists and hip-hoppers).

Portraying the fight of a young, short and rather stout girl, as she fights to dance in on a TV show, while at the same time championing the rights of African Americans. She eventually wins the day and gets her man. (Honestly, don't most stories end like that anyway?) Thus, at heart it's a feel good movie about a girl, rising against all odds to save the day.

But looking deeper and you realize that it was more then that. It was about not being afraid to be different. It was about daring to stand up for your rights as a human being. It was about equality among men and women.

Even then you could see some of the differences in thinking about then and now. In one scene, they were protesting against segregation and they held up ply-boards that read "Integration not segregation" and "TV is black and white".

I would like to point to the phrase "TV is black and white". I mean even the African Americans then were calling themselves black. They were in fact promoting the segregation by stating quite clearly that there is a difference. Compare this with the current situation, where people are increasingly working towards being color blind. We are Singaporeans. Not Chinese, Malay or Indian. In America, they are Americans, not black, whites or yellow. Even this segregation along international lines might be blurred in the future with the increasingly globalization of the planet.

Irrelevant aside:

Friend A : Why did they have to have John Travolta in there?!

Me : Probably to have a throw back to his days in Saturday Night Fever and the disco era

Friend A : Well, yah. But did he have to be that fat?!

Me : Well someone had to pass the genes to the daughter. The dad was too thin for that.

Friend A : Ok, I give you that, but why couldn't he have been cast as the father?!

Me : ...

Answers on the back of a hairspray bottle. :P

Han Shot First

Warning! For Star Wars geeks only.

Was read Star Wars: Legacy of the Force by Aaron Allston (why do so many people have names that practice alliteration?!) and came across this interesting easter egg.

On page 232, line 4, was this gem

"He's fine," Leia said. "Han shot first."

If you don't understand that, then you're not a Star Wars fan.

CUNT

I have truly experienced what it means to have xiao li chang dao (literaly translated from Chinese to daggers within smiles).

I hope that lying backstabbing cunt of a whore rots in Hell.

I'm that good?

I AM
64%
OPTIMUS PRIMETake the Transformers Quiz

Irrelevance 101

I was drinking 100 Plus after a particularly strenuous session of unicycle hockey when I burped.

It wasn't one of those long and satisfying burps, but rather one that was punctuated with numerous short (for lack of a better word), silence.

And then I realized that it sounded like the the mechanical sounds that Transformers make when they transform!

Subsequent attempts to reproduce said effect amounted to failure.

I love this house

It looks amazing. Minimalistic. Simple

I want one!

Murphy's Law

What can go wrong will go wrong..

Hur hur hur

I need more sleep

Some how I find myself with a lot less sleep these days.

Case in point. Last Friday night (well morning if you want to be pedantic), I slept at 5.30am, woke up at 6.30am and went to run my IPPT at 7.30am.

AND I STILL PASSED! WOO~!

Come to think of it, I should have spent the last 5 minutes taking a nap instead of blogging. Damm.

Japan vs Korea

Darwin's Nightmare

Darwin's Nightmare is a documentary. And like all documentaries, it is out to shock and educated the viewers on a certain issue. The issue in this case is on the introduction of the Nile Perch into Lake Victoria, Tanzania. The title refers to how the Nile Perch then raised to the top of the ecological food chain in the lake, causing it to become an ecological wasteland.

The issue being discussed is an important one. It opened my eyes to the many effects, both direct and indirect that was caused by the Nile Perch. However, this is where the documentary goes off the boil. Simply put, it travelled in every direction possible from there. There wasn't a focus to it. Compare this with "An Inconvenient Truth" which talks about global warming and "Born into Brothels" which focused on the situation in the red light district of Culcutta.

This documentary went on to explore issues such as the influx of European nations which wanted the highly prized fish but also at the same time bringing in weapons to increase their profits. It shows the poverty of the fishermen of the lake and how the survive on fish bones and heads while the good meat is exported. It shows the homeless kids having to make their own living and turning to drugs to get by. It was just trying to do too much at one time.

I loved the issues it raise and how it opened my eyes to it, but yet at the same time was underwhelmed by the many issues raised, unable to get a clear connection with each problem, before I was thrown into the next before being pulled back.

Grindhouse: Deathproof

Grindhouse: Deathproof is supposed to be part of a two parter in a the movie Grindhouse. The Singapore censorship board (those bloody w*nkers) saw fit to only release Deathproof without showing the other part, Planet Terror, concurrently. The premise itself was supposed to be very interesting, with the two films separated by fake trailers for fake movies. But alas the effect was to be spoilt by this cruel decision.

Deathproof happens to be the part directed by Quentin Tarantino and I guess you have to be a fan of his movies to appreciate this one. Make no mistake about it, this is a fun movie. Don't come looking at this for the plot which was basically non-existant, but rather for the sheer fun-ness of it.

This movie follows a crazy driver named, Stuntman Mike, who has some serious issued with beautiful women. He drives around in his "deathproof" muscle car, killing women. The first part traces how he did it and I must say the murder method was pretty ingenious to allow him to get away relatively scott free.

The second part occurs when he tries to kill another group of women but they fight back. Themes of female empowerment are thrown in for good measure.

The best part of the movie was probably the ending scene, which had the theather in stitches.

All in all, this was a superb movie, full of action for the tetestrone filled guy.

WRONG!

Aelfinn: I'm psychic
Aelfinn: I can predict what will happen in the future
Gundulf: Yeah, then what am I going to say next?
Aelfinn: Wrong
Gundulf: ...touche

I love bash.org =]

Seems like Micro$oft are a bunch of hypocrites.

MS use pirated software.

This is Sparta!

Like mazes? Good luck!

Solution

Actual conversation.

Here

Favorite:

God Squad lady: Praise Jesus! You won't be saved without Jesus! You have to start believing in Jesus to be saved! Jesus will always be there for you!
Suit #1: Would it be so awful if we pushed her out when the doors open?
Suit #2: No. Jesus will save her.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

is the longest sentence possible using only 1 word. Great for fooling your friends.

Wiki entry

Heros Season 2 Possibilities

If you haven't watched Heroes, what are you waiting for? Go watch the first season.

For those that have watched it, some possibilities of what season 2 entails can be found here.

This was too funny to not post.

Hardest Riddle in the World

I turn polar bears white
and I will make you cry.
I make guys have to pee
and girls comb their hair.
I make celebrities look stupid
and normal people look like celebrities.
I turn pancakes brown
and make your champane bubble.
If you sqeeze me, I'll pop.
If you look at me, you'll pop.
Can you guess the riddle?

97% of Harvard graduates can not figure this riddle out, but 84% of kindergarten students were able to figure this out in 6 minutes or less.
Can you guess the riddle?

There are actually a few answers to this, and I'm not too sure which one is correct, so here goes (highlight to read)

Answer 1: No. This refers to the last line, i.e. "Can you answer the riddle?" To which the answer is no since the riddle doesn't make much sense. Also, it would tie in with the supposed statistic of 97% of Harvard Grads not being able to answer but 84% of kindergarten students being able to

Answer 2: Time.
Based on this poem(?)

The time has come,
winter is here
and those yellow bears disapear.
(...I turn polar bears white )

The time has past
as man looks back with a sigh
and a tear in his eye.
(...and I will make you cry.)

As time is held
boys cross their legs
but of course the toilet begs
(...I make guys have to pee)

As time marches on
Girls loose their blush
and swap a comb for their brush
(...and girls comb their hair.)

As time passes
For those held high
their end is nigh
(...I make celebrities look stupid )

As time catches up
Everyone is equal
when we get to the final sequal
(...and normal people look like celebrities.)

As time turns
Without it we have flour and water
With it we have breakfast for my daughter
(...I turn pancakes brown )

As time revolves
How does one turn water and wine
into something so fine
)...and make your champane bubble.)

As time runs out
The more in a minute you try and squeeze
the less you can do with ease.
(...If you sqeeze me, I'll pop. )

As time ticks
All the time that has past
man cannot comprehand something so vast.
(...If you look at me, you'll pop. )

This is a beautiful answer and poetic.

Answer 3
Pressure

Polar bears are white because the pressure at the poles is low, so they have to be able to absorb heat.

Pressure makes you cry if it's too much.

Pressure in your bladder makes you have to pee.

Peer pressure makes girls comb their hair...Otherwise we wouldn't bother!

Celebrities usually crack under pressure.

Many normal people will shine under pressure.

Pancakes turn brown thanks to pressure generated by the heat.

Champagne will bubble until the pressure of the carbonation has disappeared.

If you squeeze something under pressure, BAM, there it goes.

If you are 'looking' at pressure, you're in it, like in an airplane, and your ears pop.

The so called scientific answer.


So which one do you think is the best answer?

Runway Cycling 2007

It was an early morning when I woke up to get to Runway Cycling 2007.

6 bloody am to be exact.

I rode 15 ball bruising kilometers.

I wonder if I have a SM streak in me.

Here are the pictures and videos.


JiaHui eating porridge with Shuan attempting to hide

Alice licking lips at thought of eating breakfast

Looking happy to be able to ride

Hot sun

The tourists

The tourist holding hands

Never ending runway...

Taking a break

Emmanuel and Geoffery

JiaHui with her Threadless T-shirt (do I get money for product placement?)

Me looking happy

Wen looks really happy. Well he bladed, so he didn't have bruised balls. Ergo, he was happy.

I don't look happy. Bruised balls can do that to you.


Starting line


While cycling.

Love this

We almost won it 6 times in Athens

23/05/2007

Athens

The stage was set for an epic battle between 2 teams. My beloved Liverpool, against the Italians in the form of AC Milan.

I had already prepared for this day by taking the morning off from work the next day. I was prepared to get up in the morning to watch this match, planning not to shout too loudly in case I woke my parents like the last CL final.

Alas, how the best laid plans can still go wrong.

At 10 plus, I received an MSN message from a friend asking me to go to Hard Rock Cafe to watch the match with, well other Liverpool fans. It took a bit of persuasion, but at 12.30 am, I found myself outside Hard Rock Cafe, waiting in line with a bunch of other Liverpool fans, all decked in the colors of Liverpool.

When the doors finally opened to admit a red tidal wave, the place was filled to standing room only in an instant. Such was the excitement in place.

I had never been able to sing a rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone, so imagine my delight when a great round was belted out at the start of the match. Everyone raising their fist and singing their hearts out. It was a great atmosphere. Everyone was excited.

The match started and Liverpool were playing well. We were pressing them all over the pitch, forcing them to make errors, but alas, things were not to be as Pipo Inzaghi managed to deflect a free kick in.

We were visibly disappointed during the interval, but were still quietly optimistic. We had come back from 3-0 down. What's 1-0?

Alas, the best laid plans do still fall to pieces.

Try as the Redmen might, but we could not get the luck that we had needed. Lady luck had turned her back after Istanbul 2005.

But we were proud and we stood tall and we showed grace and dignity in defeat. Another rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone was belted out with gusto.

How apt the name of the song. Win or lose, you Redmen will never walk alone.

Lagi Best

Rosenior out after '10 minutes'



Leroy Rosenior has broken the record for English football's shortest managerial reign.

BBC Five Live understands Rosenior lost his job at Torquay just 10 minutes after being introduced as the Devon club's new manager on Thursday.

Chairman Mike Bateson called him to say he had just sold the club to a group led by Colin Lee, who then reinstated himself as director of football.

Lee had only been made redundant last Monday.

Rosenior, 43, was given the head coach position at Plainmoor when Keith Curle's short-term contract expired.

Bateson told Rosenior that he did not know Lee's bid for the club was imminent when he appointed him.

It would have been the former Brentford boss's second stint in charge at Torquay.

The previous shortest tenure in charge in English football was Dave Bassett's four-day reign at Crystal Palace in 1984.

From BBC Sports

This must go down as one of the biggest jokes in football. In charge for a whole 10 mins. Wow.

I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility

Interesting story taken from Things of Interest that talks about free will and how it doesn't exactly have to be religion that brings up such questions.

Mess enough with science and you can raise some really interesting questions about ethics and such. What happens when Man tries to play god?

*Whole story taken down at request of original author. Follow the link to read it. Sorry Sam!*

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!1

But it still doesn't prove anything!

Whuh?

Glass Illusion

The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Sometimes, you wonder where they come up with the names for movies? From some imaginary land where they just pluck letters out of a hat and then plop them all together?

Names like "THe wind that shakes the barley" comes to mind.

But making fun of such a name would probably do a disservice to the movie. (In case you're wondering, the name comes from a haunting song sung at a funeral)

This movie is set in the backdrop of the 1920s when Ireland is coming to grips with the brutal mastery enforced by the English Empire. When things go abit too far, and people die because of the iron hand that is gripping the Irish Republic, people turn sour and rebellious.

When a man is killed for speaking Irish and refusing to speak English as demanded by some English soldiers, a doctor is persuaded to join the Irish Republic Army (IRA) to fight for the freedom of the people.

Things are rosy for a while before things turn sour. Ireland is to be granted freedom, of a sort. They get to make their own policies, have their own army, but ultimately, they have to bow down to the English Empire once again and swear fealty to the King of England.

This rips the rebellion apart as father fights against son and brother against brother as different viewpoints threaten to tear the country apart. Atrocities are commited, brother orders the excecution of his own brother. Tears are shed.

This movie has terrific acting from the young and English cast and they got the Irish accent down pat, to the extent that I didn't understand about 30% of what they were saying, even though it was in English. I was really wishing for subtitles at a certain point in time.

The movie was also interesting to me as it brought to me attention a little part of history that I am not particularly familiar with and gives me a better insight to the aims of the IRA. I don't condone them, but I think I can see what they are trying to fight for.

Also it raises interesting questions. How much freedom is there? How much is it worth? Is an illusion of freedom better then no freedom? Is there such a thing as taking things slowly on the way to freedom?

Up yours RIAA/MPAA

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Summer Palace (Yi He Yuan)

This movie was one serious badass emo movie. It was also a movie I went to watch without having an idea of the plot or what it was about, since my first choice movie had already sold out.

Summer Palace is billed as "the most controversial movie from China" and I can see why. Set in the backdrop of the Tiananmen massacre, it liberally used images and footages taken from that period. You can see why the Chinese government basically banned Lou Ye (the director) from making movies for a 5 year period. All copies of this movies is supposed to be destroyed as well.

Also, it is very liberal in nature, showing the going on in the Beijing University at that period of time. And guess what young adolescent students do in their free time? They go at it like rabbits in heat.

But this movie isn't just about controversy, it's about the life of a young women, trying to find her way in life, to find someone for her. It traces a 2 1/2 hour torturous, winding and emo route of how she didn't get together with a guy. It showcases her thoughts, her feelings as she wrestles with her love life. She flits from one guy to another, always having sex, and yet always thinking of that one guy she doesn't want to be with.

This movie was interesting, and you could probably go on to analyze the relationships between all the characters for hours, but at the end of the day, when you see that she got married and yet still thinks about the guy and yet doesn't want to be with him, you can't help but feel sorry for her.

Daily anecdote

A Korean acquaintance asked me, "Are you local?"

That surprised me a bit, so I asked her, "So where do you think I'm from then?"

She thought about it for a while before replying, "Ok. You look local."

-_-

Happy Birthday Blog!

On April 30, 2004, I created this blog.

Forward 3 years later and I'm surprised I'm still going strong and posting every now and then.

Happy Birthday!

Slow Dance

Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round,
or listened to rain slapping the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight,
or gazed at the sun fading into the night?

You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.

Do you run through each day on the fly,
when you ask "How are you?", do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed,
with the next hundred chores running through your head?

You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.

Ever told your child, we'll do it tomorrow,
and in your haste, not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch, let a friendship die,
'cause you never had time to call and say hi?

You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere,
you miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,
it's like an unopened gift thrown away.

Life isn't a race, so take it slower,
hear the music before your song is over.

David L. Weatherford

Despite hearing this so often

My hair still stands on an end and tears just flow down.

This is so wrong..

First impression was "Huh?"

And then it hit me...

And I thought I was emo

This guy takes the cake

Well I do feel better after reading that. At least someone is worse off then me. :P

Was asked

who I thought were beautiful women.

I therefore present to you:

No. 3 Sienna Miller



No. 2 Scarlet Johansen



No. 1 Kate Beckinsale!

Some how I found this funny

What does DNA stand for?

National Association for Dyslexia

PS: No offense to people with Dyslexia.

Tired is when

you swim 1.8km and then go for a 3 hour plus bouldering session.

It's been years since I last did rock climbing, the last time probably being in secondary school. I had a blast this time as I think I am slightly fitter this time round and could manage to have more strength to last longer throughout.

You don't really feel tired during the whole session as you're running quite a bit on adrenalin, but after the whole thing, I realized I was aching in places I didn't even realize existed.

Another thing that I learnt: Don't lean against a rock wall, it hurts.

I am

Always loved R2D2 the most anyway. Too bad I don't have l33t force powers. :(

Super proud

is what you are when you go to Borders and realize the book you bought a few days back for $3 actually costs $31.45 at Borders.

I love this picture

You know you're a Geek when..

there's a clearance sale at Carrefour and you end up buying 2 books.

You know you're proud of it when you blog it for the world to know.

I don't want to sleep alone

A friend once told me that everyone is essentially alone, no matter how many people he surrounds himself with. I think the picture above seems to capture that.

Another film by Tsai Ming Liang, whose previous film "Wayward Cloud", was so abstract, I still can't understand the fixation with watermelons.

This film has another fixation, a mattress and considering the title, seems rather apt. It provides comfort and support to the people lying on it. But how much more of it come from the people lying there with you?

This film isn't for everyone. Make no mistake, this is art fart (I give this one to your Eu, but the rest of the shows I watch are not art fart!). I won't even try to say that I understand even half of what was going on. When the opening scene is of a invalid person sleeping and the sound of the radio blaring in the background and it doesn't change for 3 minutes, you know you are in some pretty mind bending stuff.

This film is so filled with symbolisms that is boggles the mind. The plot is difficult to understand cause there is simply no dialog. A review said that this 2 hours plus film had dialog to fill 2 A4 size sheets of paper. That is exaggeration. It probably only fills one. But it was very ..... interesting. No other way to describe it. The plot moves along slowly. There is no back story, and you are left to figure most things out yourself as the details are slowly filled in. And even at the end of the film, you are probably none the wiser at a lot of things.

This isn't about the plot, but about the feelings and emotion generated when watching it. I didn't understand it, but deep down, I felt it. The loneliness, the longing, the need for companionship, the betrayal, the caring, the absurdness of everything in life.

The parting shot was of said mattress floating in water with lead male and his girlfriend and the Indian who has been taking care of him to homo-erotic levels. It was absurd, but you can't help feeling envy for them as they won't be sleeping alone tonight.

Twas raining today

And I ran.

In the rain.

And I laughed.

We sometimes grow up too much and think and analyze everything, when sometimes, it's just best to let go and follow you heart and be happy.

Almost forgotten how much I love

snorkeling

and a certain someone

Will you be able to tell

if music was thrown in your face?

Saddening social experiment conducted by The Washington Post

This is wrong on so many levels

More from here

Oh Fark. Not for the faint hearted.

Cookie for...

Who ever can guess what

Chekeraccho

means without Google.

Pointless picture post

Eu: How can you say not cute?

On a side note, anyone notice that she has JCC and Gold in IPPT? I know it's for a drama, but...

FARK!

The words were flashing orange.

The legend was scrolling below:

Available Selling Fast Sold Out

Phew, just in time to get the seats for "This Film Is Not Yet Rated"

I step into the queue. 2 people are in front of me. I guess I'll be lucky once again. I'm pretty sure I can get that seat.

The queue moves.

YES! 1 more person in front of me.

A quick glance up.

Sold Out

WHAT!? FARK!

I ended up having to settle for TMNT. The geek in me was satisfied. The movie buff wasn't.

I'm offski

from work and to unicycle hockey.

Wee~!

Music and Lyrics

I've been living with a shadow overhead
I've been sleeping with a cloud above my bed
I've been lonely for so long
Trapped in the past, I just can't seem to move on

I've been hiding all my hopes and dreams away
Just in case I ever need `em again someday
I've been setting aside time
To clear a little space in the corners of my mind

All I wanna do is find a way back into love
I can't make it through without a way back into love
Ohhhhh

I've been watching but the stars refuse to shine
I've been searching but I just don't see the signs
I know that it's out there
There's gotta be something for my soul somewhere

I've been looking for someone to shed some light
Not somebody just to get me through the night
I could use some direction
And I'm open to your suggestions

All I wanna do is find a way back into love
I can't make it through without a way back into love
And if I open my heart again
I guess I'm hoping you'll be there for me in the end

There are moments when I don't know if it's real
Or if anybody feels the way I feel
I need inspiration
Not just another negotiation

All I wanna do is find a way back into love
I can't make it through without a way back into love
And if I open my heart to you
I'm hoping you'll show me what to do
And if you help me to start again
You know that I’ll be there for you in the end

You know I'm getting lazy when I just post the lyrics and then ask you to go watch a typical romantic comedy. But hey, it was really nice and the lyrics meant quite a lot to me.

So go watch it, if you haven't already.

Lost? Pathfinders need not apply

03 August 2006.

I said I wanted to watch Pathfinder since I assumed that it was going to be out the following week.

Forward to present day and I have just watched Pathfinder.

Can I now once and for all say that it sucked? It was so not worth the wait. The action scenes were mediocre, the plot non-existent and the dialog (other then the parts where the Vikings were talking), sleep inducing.

Why on Earth did I wait so long only to be disappointed?

Hula Garu!

Hula Girls or Hula Garu (said in typical Japanese way with all the stressing and shouting) is your typical tear jerker cum feel good movie.

It tells of a coal mining town, which facing the onslaught of the changing times, finds it self getting relegated to the back seat of history with the advent of the use of oil. What used to be termed as black diamond is slowly being phased out.

So some people in the village come up with a plan to revive the village, by making, of all things, a Hawaiian village.

The story then goes on to record the trials and tribulations that the daughters of the village experience in trying to learn how to be pro dancers (from being called strippers to getting beaten by abusive dads who have lost their jobs) and their teacher who hails from Tokyo.

Unlike a typical feel good movie, where they keep making you feel good before putting you through a big fall, only for it to have a rousing rise in the end, Hula Girls goes up and down in an emotional roller-coaster. It's been a long time since I cried so much in a movie since "Be With Me". But it's a feel good movie in the end, and you know it'll be a happy ending, but that doesn't detract from the way it ended. I did feel good after it.

Major plus point?


Yuu Aoi, who is one of the leads, looks awfully cute!

Next up? 13 Tzameti/ Pathfinder/ For Your Consideration/ Man of the Year.

Stardust - Neil Gaiman

OMG! I can't wait.

Awww.. Trailer has been removed. Too bad. I'm sure those interested will be able to find it. Somehow.

Sudden urge

Have got this sudden urge to start learning German so I can take a month off and tour Germany and play unicycle hockey with all the teams there.

Hannibal Rising

I was thinking if I should come up with some pun for the title, then I realized that would make me just as bad as the script writers for this movie.

Make no mistake about it, this movie was mediocre. In fact, at certain parts, it was just plain cringe worthy.



Sure, she's pretty hot, but was that really a valid excuse to try and squeeze her into the movie? Her English was bad (though slightly improved from her Miami Vice days) to that point of making me cringe in my seat (that and the glorious amount of violence in the movie). Her inclusion in the movie as Hannibal's aunt and lover (wait.. isn't that incest?) just doesn't really make much sense other then to use her star power in hopes of more box office earnings.

The dialog in the movie was another gripe. It looked like it was written by some 'O' level student for his English essay, not for some movie.

Some particular ones that I found amusing were

"...there is only one word to describe him - Monster."

So many words in the English language and he chose monster.. *faints*

"...love is like a knife. It can hurt you."

That, is a truly horrible analogy. How is love like a knife? *sighs*

The other thing was how the hell everyone in Europe, from Russia to France, actually speaks English (admittedly with their distinct accents)

The redeeming factor of the show would probably be the main actor who player Hannibal Lector. He got that crazy smile and look down pat.

How unlucky can you get?

Was reading Soccernet when I came upon this gem of information.

He never seems to have quite recovered from his early days of fame in the late 1990's, when he discovered that his new girlfriend was in fact a transvestite. Not that one wishes to be transvestist in any way, but it did take Guti an alarmingly long time to find out.

Taken from here

My god...

Edit: I can't believe I'm getting hits from Google from people searching with the keywords "Guti Transvestite Girlfriend". People I do not have pics of said girlfriend...

The History Boys

Just watched this show recently and was pretty impressed by it. I did however feel that it was a bit too intelligent for me and that a ton of things just flew above my head. This is one of those movies that probably get better with each viewing as you get more and more of it.

One thing about this movie was that you would watch this movie for the plot. If anything the plot is terribly shallow and predictable.

No. You will watch this for the ideas that this show brings out, you will watch it for the sheer irrelevance of the things being said, you might even watch it for the errr homosexual content. But you're not going to watch it for the plot.

But enough about the plot. As mentioned before, it was the ideas that were brought up that were interesting, with one of the main ones being knowledge no matter how worthless it might seem, is worth learning because it is knowledge. The boys take lessons from Hector in , off all things, general studies. It's broad, it's irrelevant, it's general and it's damm bloody interesting. It's not something that you might find a use for (which is why it probably isn't taught in Singapore, what with results orientated focus and everything). The headmaster of the boys would probably remind you of YOUR principle and how he/she kept on reminding you to study hard and get the results.

One particular quote from Hector

Hector: The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.

reminds everyone what it is to just be able to enjoy your literature.

How far can you go?

Up to the 40s so far...

Word of the day

Probably my favorite word now.

I dare you not to laugh.

OMG!

WAH Singaporean goalkeeper playing for Liverpool.

I'm scared..

Before and After

Interesting look at flags of the World

This one is scary.

Taken from Flags of the World in statistics

Jap Thriller

First Bollywood came up with their version, now Japan:

Danger at work!

DANGER!

I really like this one the best. :p

How true

From xkcd

Super Bowl Ads!

LOL

Some observations

After "surveyor" tries to get my attention by informing me that my shoeslaces were lose.

If you're going to lie to me about a small thing like my shoelaces being undone, then how am I to trust you to buy insurance policies or financial plans from you?


After being told them I'm getting seats "6 rows from the back".

6 rows from the back + 2 rows from the front =/= 6 rows from the back + 10 rows from the front. Disinformation on purpose? Which movie-goer would be more interested in how far their seat is from the back (unless the whole purpose is to go to the cinema and make out and have someone film you and spark a whole 'what you can do in so called public places' debate :p)? I'm more interested in how far I am from the front and not risk getting a stiff neck.

Being asked would I like Sprite only to learn that there is ONLY Sprite left.

Why even bother giving me that illusion of choice? There is no choice. There issn't even a red pill and blue pill.

Beowulf

Beowulf

Written by Neil Gaiman. Nuff said.

I so want to take part in this

This made me cry.