So mature? or immature?

Saw some posting from crazy MNKSS fans, they virtually can translate every interview, post every picture...but i like their dedication. this craze will not last forever so just enjoy every bit of it.

......HB is quite a typical MCP, and also Blood B type of guy.....but hmm...being MCP doesnt really mean bad...i think sometimes a man got to take the lead.

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小玄这样说
Hyun Bin Said......

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同样是在接受采访被问到三顺时笑说：我也不记得三顺是谁啦！（他可是前一天才去探了班的哟！）

During an interview, he was asked about Sam Soon (Suna) too. He joked, "I also can't remember who Sam Soon is!" (Excuse me, he just went visiting her the day before!)

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理想型是善良,能好好吃饭而且能理解我是演员的女人，和剧中的三顺很类似（她说他也有三石的一面，他又说理想型和三顺很类似，真的好有默契啊）

"My ideal type is a kind person, eats well and could understand the fact that I'm an actor. Someone like Sam Soon in the drama. (Suna said he's like Sam Shik, and now he says his ideal type is someone like Sam Soon. Wow, they really are capable of reading each other's minds!)

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当前辈金善雅站在他面前的时候，他真的很紧张，事先准备好的的见面词忘的干干静静，只知道 低着头微笑，让善雅姐姐以为他是个很难搞的人，好在在日后的拍摄过程中，玄彬逐渐暴露出他腼腆善良的个性，每次拍到亲热戏，他都比金善雅还要紧张，坐力难安的摸样让人觉得可爱（奇怪！拍吻戏到底是谁更紧张啊？！ ）

When senior Kim Suna was standing in front of him, he was really nervous. The speech he prepared before the meeting was entirely forgotten; he only kept his head down and smiled. This gave Suna unnie a mistaken impression that he's very hard to please. Fortunately, during the filming later on, Hyun Bin showed his kind personality. Every time there was a kissing scene, he was more nervous than Kim Suna. The embarrassed look on his face was very cute. (This is weird! Exactly who was more nervous during the kissing scenes?!)

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玄彬：「我喜歡的女生，她要很理解我的工作，而且她一定會很會吃，年紀沒有關係，只要不要超過我媽就好。」

Hyun Bin: The girl I like, she'd have to understand the nature of my job, and she'd have to have a healthy appetite. Age doesn't matter, as long as she's not older than my mother.

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现实生活中的有可能爱上一个3０岁的女人吗？
玄彬的答案让人充满期待：“如果是真的喜欢，如果妈妈不反对，为什么不可以呢 ？”

Would you fall in love with a 30-year-old woman in reality?
Hyun Bin's answer gave us hope, "If I really like her, if my mother doesn't disagree, why not?"

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玄彬透露了他的妈妈很喜欢三顺饰演者金善雅并多次要求玄彬带她去片场看金善雅，并说母亲心目中还是很认可这个“儿媳”的。（在得知宣儿有男友的情况下，腼腆的他还能这样说，真的很难得哟 ）

Hyun Bin said that his mother really likes Kim Suna who played Kim Sam Soon and often asked him to bring her to the set to see Kim Suna. He said his mother approves of this "daughter-in-law" very much. (Knowing that Suna has a boyfriend, a shy person like him still made this statement? Now this is a rare situation.)

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“我看女孩子的第一眼，还有和她们说话时，我不是看她的脸，而是先看她的手，我认为由此可以看出她的个性是不是很贤惠哦！”巧合的是这样的情形延伸到《我叫金三顺》戏中，当玄彬在金善雅与郑丽媛间做选择时，最后玄彬毫不犹豫地选了金善雅，玄彬说：“其实我不是很在乎外表，最重要的是对方一定要有一颗善良的心。”

When I set the first look on a girl, and when I'm speaking to them, I do not look at her face. The first thing I'd look is her hands. I think I could see whether a girl is capable of becoming a good wife through her hands." Coincidentally, the same situation can be seen in KSS. When Hyun Bin were to make a choice between Kim Suna and Jeong Ryeo Won, he chose Kim Suna without a second thought. He said, "Actually, I don't care much about the appearance, the most important thing is having a kind heart."

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在和金泰熙拍广告后被问到会不会和她来电，很坚决的答到：金泰熙以前，现在，将来都是我的前辈。（和之前说到宣儿的对比也太明显了吧！）

When filming a commercial with Kim Tae Hee, he was asked whether there was any chemistry between them. He answered precisely, "Whether in the past, the present, or the future, Kim Tae Hee was, is, and will only be my senior. (The contrast between this and the answer he gave regarding Suna is really too obvious!)

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玄彬到目前为止所交往过的女朋友都是同龄的或是年长的. “爱情跟年龄无关” 玄彬自認是注重「內在美」的男生，強調絕不會以貌取人，唯一條件就是要「熟女」。要擄獲他倆的心，只要展現真實自我，大吃大笑都沒關係，最重要的是不能耍任性，並能夠陪伴在工作滿檔的他倆身旁。（呵呵，其实你不说我们也知道哟！）

Until today, the girls Hyun Bin dated are either the same age as him or older. He said, "Love and age are unrelated." He sees himself as a guy who places more importance on a girl's inner beauty rather than her looks, and his only requirement is that she must be a matured woman. In order to capture his heart, she'd only have to act herself. It doesn't matter even if she eats a lot and laughs hard. But she can't be spoiled, and she should be able to accompany him when he's working. (Hehe, we know that even if you don't tell!)

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如果真的有了喜欢的女生的话，我想要做理解她、照顾她、无微不至地关怀她的男人。女生们最喜欢的男生类型不就是这样吗？父母反对的恋爱绝对NO。实际上我是最最现实的人。 （想法真的好成熟啊 另外，如果你和宣儿....，父母一定支持的不得了吧！）

If I really like a girl, I'd want to be a man who could understand her and take care of her. Don't all girls like this type of guys? Relationship that my parents disapprove of is an absolute NO. Actually, I'm the MOST realistic person ever. (His thinking is really matured. But then again, if you ended up with Suna......your parents would of course support you whole-heartedly!)

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对于将来要做一个什么样的丈夫这个问题,玄彬已经有了很具体的想法,"女人漂不漂亮,主要看她的厨艺,服饰和丈夫.也就是说,当女人做的一手好菜的时候,衣服穿得很性感的时候,以及身边站着一位出色的丈夫的时候,女人看起来格外美丽.我希望满足其中的一个条件,让自己的女人变得更美丽,前面两条她自己去努力就好,最后的一条有我负责."（呵呵，说的好啊 ）

Regarding what kind of husband he'd want to be, Hyun Bin already has a very specific thought, "Whether a woman is considered pretty depends on her cooking skill, the way she dresses and her husband. Which means, when a woman cooks well, wears sexy clothes, and there is a charming husband standing beside her, she'd look expectionally pretty. I hope I could satisfy one of the three requirements in order to make my woman prettier. The first two requirements she'd have to work hard on her own, I'd be responsible for the last one." (Hehe, well said!)

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“我后年一定要结婚”，“想要与三顺那样的女人结婚！两个人可以一边相爱一边快乐地生活着，这不是更明智的选择吗？
如花美男’玄斌看到足球明星安贞焕夫妻的甜蜜生活后非常羡慕，他表示自己也产生了想结婚的想法（女朋友都没有，怎么一天到晚想结婚啊？！ ）

I must get married two years later! Wish I could marry someone like Sam Soon! We would love each other and live happily together. Isn't this a more rational choice (compared to his career)?
Pretty boy Hyun Bin admired football star Ahn Jung Hwan's life after marriage very much, and expressed that he wants to get married soon. (He doesn't even has a girlfriend, why is he thinking of getting married all the time?!)

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我希望我的妻子能以我为荣。很多人拼命赚钱，都会为年老之后的的事情做准备，可是我觉得自己应该享受这个年龄应该享受的。在大学里我的确学到了不少东西，但是常要在现场学习的东西也很多。我好不容易才考上大学（中央大学话剧电影系），但是因为演戏的缘故，经常不能上学。尽管这样，我还是觉得应该拿到一张毕业证书才好，于是就一直坚持读完，因为我要考虑到我的儿女。小学的时候，孩子们都要填写家庭环境状况调查书，我希望孩子可以在父亲的学历一栏写上“大学毕业”几个字。当然，这并不是我读大学的全部原因，但至少占了其中的一部分。 （不仅有了妻子，还有孩子了，真的好成熟啊 ）

I hope my wife would be proud of me. Most people spent their lives earning money to assure their life after retirement, but I think I should enjoy all I could at this age. Indeed, I learned a lot in university, but there are lots of things I could only learn practically. I put in a lot of effort in order to enter university (Chung-Ang University, film studies), but because I'm invovled in acting, I couldn't go to school most of the time. Even so, I still think I have to get a certificate, which is why I insisted to finish my studies. I think of my future children. Don't the kids have to fill in forms of family survey in primary school? I wish my kids could fill in the words "university graduate" in the "father's qualification" field. Of course, this is not the only reason I went to university, but it's at least one of the reasons. (Not only does he think of getting a wife, he thinks of having children too. How matured......)

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国际在线娱乐报道：韩国当红帅哥玄彬一改往日青春阳光形象，留起长发，眼光流露温柔，走成熟路线。本以为Fans会有很大反应，但是多数Fans还是觉得玄彬是最帅的韩国男生。（虽然对此小玄没说什么，不过还是好啊好啊，成熟的好啊！！ ）

International online entertainment news reports that Korea's famous star Hyun Bin switched from his young, sunny image to a matured look. He started keeping a long hair-do and gave us a feeling of gentleness through his stares. At first, we thought the fans would react to this change furiously, but most of them still think Hyun Bin is the most handsome Korean guy ever. (Hyun Bin didn't respond to this. But being matured is a good thing!)

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电影结束后想交女朋友，一定要，因为我的年龄也正是时候，作为一个男人爱一个女人是正常的。
（对啊，所以你们的暧昧也是正常的 所以我们支持宣彬恋也是正常的 ）

After the filming of this movie ended, I'd like to get a girlfriend. I have to. Because I'm at the suitable age. As a man, it's only normal that I love a woman.
(That's right! Which is why the ambiguity between you and Suna is normal. Which is why we support SunBin!)


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最后讲个题外话，好像大家都对小玄的初恋很感兴趣。
他说:"不知道是什么时候遇到了初恋,也没跟她有过多少日子的交往,对她好象是产生了误会还是错觉,还没有把事情弄明白之前就已经失去她了.而直到失去后,我才明白自己原来很爱她!然而失去的东西真的很难寻回来了."这段让他痛惜的初恋让他明白:"恋人之间是绝对不可以随便说出分手这种话的.（所以，真的要好好珍惜现在所爱的哟！ ）

Lastly, I wish to discuss about something out of the topic, coz it seems everyone is interested about Binnie's first love.
He said, "I don't remember when I met my first love, and I didn't spend a lot of time with her too. I kinda misunderstood her or something and I never even got the chance to figure out the truth before I realised I already lost her. I only realized how much I loved her after the loss! But things that you lost are difficult to search for. This painful loss of his first love made him understand one thing, "Breaking up is not something you could simply say to your lover." (So, treasure your love now!)

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P/S: It's very good innit? My god......I can't help but read it over and over......LOVED IT! credits to my dear Yi Soon!!!

Material World

Although its pay day coming...but got so many things i want. chinese lessons are almost completed and now its advance level 1....another $500.....i really want to continue. Teacher is good and even just listening to her once a week is better than none. At least some chinese exposure and interaction. So far, hate to admit that i am not exactly a handworking student but i like to listen to her stories on china, the culture revolution, history and great chinese people from the past. i think tell her that i am thinking of studying in Beijing, taking chinese history and culture. She will look out for me and said my standard currently shouldnt be a problem to get into the university courses! haha......er....i am not so sure about that.

I would prefer to take the History course in english ..... but living in Beijing would be a great opportunity.

Then another whammy is Isetan Bills, and other credit card bills. GSS doesnt nothing for my pocket...haha....seldome spend on skincare last time but now i am more particular and using H20 and Biotherm. these dun really come cheap and Its SOOO CRAZY now with skincare, lots of free gifts, discounts, VIP cards, demo, trial etc etc...everyone just out there to get us consumers.....out for the kill and usually being ladies we fall for it. who dun want free gifts, get younger and fairer skin....

SCV bills, internet bills.....if i own a car how? lagi worse.

And I am recently very tempted to get a new phone. My phone line has expired and can renew the line with a new phone. LG Chocolate is one of the hottest

Jeff Quotes

from : Wo Bao (My Paper) - another one of Ah Zhe's comments.....sounds sad but i guess pple always put up a front....hmmm..just few weeks ago he just said Zhou Xun shouldnt fall in love cause when she does she becomes a 'stupid girl'...haha

Socceroos...haha

The moment i came back from my chinese class, i quickly switch the TV from Da Chang Jin to the match between Japan and Australia. wah .....1-1....only about 10 mins left.... everyone expected Japan to win la...i mean Aust?....no one ever really heard they played football! but aiyoo..last 5 mins...really twist of fate man....Aust suddenly scored another goal! 2-1. i think all the japanese at the stadium and in japan were stunned and shocked for words!they were going to lose! and to aust!

more jialat is the japanese players suddenly seemed so lost on the field that aust scored another goal! 3-1!! and then it was over! hmmm.... can imagine the kind of disappointment of the millions of japanese people in front of their TV screens..
they expected to win. and they are one of the stronger asian teams but they didnt really play well.
Downunder, they must be having a real good and happy Tues!! eveyone must be so excited and thrilled!

football really has an effect on the whole world, the whole country can cry and laugh with the outcome of a match! really a pity for those countries who are not into the football action like US and Tw...etc..missing out on the excitement.

well, its Korea tonight.....hope they have a good match.

New Generation

...so fast...its Sunday.....weekend half gone. Later my sis going to sell some stuff at the Zouk flea market....hope its good. never been to any of their flea markets. curious what its like to see zouk in bright daylight! haha...i know they normally hold the CNY lunch party for old folks around that area every year too. indeed a cool place. its been renovated ... must go there and dance one day...been far too long!

its also gat time again, ah zhe will be in town soon, but sigh...i will be in japan! such good timing again...anyway, time to look out for a suitable place. he seem to love all the past few venues, esp outdoor spaces. he said its nice to see places like that in the heart of the city. places with greenery and big out door space. hardly can find any of these in taipei city. ..hmm..hope this time there is a new place to be discovered too. some places shortlisted already, just hope the prices are ok too.

while browsing thru some blogs, realised that quite a few teengaers like listening to ah zhe songs. one gal even said she ad friends got high at a mini party singing Guo Huo! even she laughed...but they really did cuz its such a K-song, a classic.
some said that Campus Supertar guy sounded like ahz zhe and hope he, with his distinctive vocals could be the next ah zhe, ....gald to know all this!

its weird cuz i thot most of them will just like jolin and jay etc but seems these pple do sing his songs at KTVs, and also classics from other superstars in the 90s like Faye, Jacky.....they keep saying their love to reminise about their primary sch days and all the good songs then. these pple are prob sec school, jc or poly now but i think there are definitely more "mature" in a way than my generation. some may even be just in kindergarten when songs like guo hou was the rage. well, at least they think more and also know what are good singers and what are the current fadish ones. they may also like the fadish ones but they also know how to appreciate the quality ones from the last decade. the 90s was truly the golden age of chinese pop. remember when i was in sec 2, i was crazy about early 80s stuff and wished i was born in the late 60s so that i will be in sec school in the mid 80s! the eng music in the 90s and late 80s were not very good.....quite sad actually..haha. it was only till near mid 90s that we got Grunge and Brit Pop. after that, i think pop music went all the way downhill. and Hip Hop/R&B took over.

not sure if i am the only one who felt that way. i did share this with haha...bernard lim when i wrote some feedback letter to him ages ages ago. and he felt it was amusing to hear it. he was one of those kids in the 80s...but dun think anyone at my age said that before.

台客

Just read the new chinese free paper.....not bad...most of the articles have hanyu pinyin of the key words and also the english meaning. i think this is a good way to help us rojak singaporeans master better chinese.

there was an article on Jay Chou that he has broken up with gf Patty Hou....aiyah whats new?....but it seems this time he is really exposed as a playboy cuz now he says he never went out with her before! aiyo......this is bad.....apparently he is now with Hebe from S.H.E and they spend a month in London together. some tw tourist also saw them.

also reported that Jay's mum dun like Patty. When they interviewed Jolin, his ex GF, she commented "perhaps 'never been together' is his pet phrase!".....this is quite sacarstic as he said the same thing when they asked him about jolin when he went out with patty. hahaha.

i guess when u are male, young, rich, successful...you really can get anything u want. some stars when famous really let fame get to their head....sometimes i wonder if its better to be a guy or a girl...seems guys can have more fun......but the only thing is that guys normally have more pressure in society to "achieve" a good career. that can be very stressful.

right now in my office....TGIF....thot tdy i might go down to the PC show cuz i badly need a monitor. monitor have been giving me green and yellow screen for 6 mths...haha...also dunno how i tahan. sigh....tis mth spend a lot liao....and now with monitior , prob another $400 gone. hope there are some good bargains at the show. very sian work on this island....not flexible to go out ....can only wait for the bus at the designated time. in office now, there are 4 gals and 5-6 guys. but so quiet always.....dunno whats wrong with this office?

tend to mix with the secretary more cuz she is bubbly and siow siow. the rest are all around the same age group but just mostly keep to ourselves. hmmm.....i guess in spore there are just too many cliques......too many different back grounds. u could only mix on the surface.

my mum was just telling me about some of her park walking friends.....all of them of aunty type or housewives and they all chit chat in the evening while exercising in the park....although can talk but my mum still feel she is not totally like them cuz they are all chinese educated and 100% chinese speaking. my mum can speak mandarin but still she said the way they think is very different. its different when u are eng or chinese educated. so she can never 100% blend in.
as for the super duper english speaking type, they are very "keep to themselves" type...not so sharing and concern...so in the park only smile smile and then go home.

my mum still feels more comfortable with the group of chinese speaking frens cuz they are more warm but still cannot 100% adjust or be very very close.
sometimes i feel to retain dialect is also advantegeous. cuz no matter u are eng or chinese educated, once you can all speak a common dialect, u really click.
aiyah...anyway...spore i feel is still rojak lah.....our education system, sometimes focus on eng, then now on mother tongue....upside down.

only advantage we have to probably we can watch both eng and chinese movies without any subtitles at any one time! hahaha.

Odd

Have a really odd colleague.....she likes to expose people's age during their bday!
dunno why...i mean normal pple wont normally advertise how old you are unless 1. you are a kid or 2. very old.

during my bday tis year, she put exactly the number of candles on the cake for me. thus my whole office knows how old i am. not that i really care...but this can be really insenstive.
and today, is my boss birthday...she send an email to wish him and cc all of us ...the title of the email is "HAPPY 45th BIRTHDAY!!"....aiyoo...mad or what...odd lor i find. my boss is male and yes he still looks quite young etc...but why must give pple a birthday greeting like that with AGE all published for everyone in the world to see?

this girl is 1 yr younger than me....but all along i thot she is the oldest in my dept cuz she dress very old and no make up type.

我第一个中文博客！

终于叫公司的ITdept帮我下载中文软件！真没想到我有这一天会用华文来发表自己的想法和思考。。哈哈。

要写什么呢？就写今天的心情吧。

What in the world?!!!

Went to Imax at Science Centre for "Poseidon" yesterday. didnt want to watch this movie cuz i felt it looks like a lame re-make. AND TRUE ENOUGH! ITS TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my colleague organised this and i thot since i havent been to the ommi theather in like 10 over yrs, i go see it for the effects. ticket cost $15, theather quite full but too bad the movie is downright bad. unlike the original 1972 version, this totally sinks. its not exciting, script is terribly corny and meaningless. seems they just film a few scenes that dun gel and throw them together for a movie. it was not thrilling at all or make you feel on the edge of yr seat, despite the ship turing over and evveryone falling upside down. in 72 when technology was not advance, the actors used their skills and emotions to demonstrate the fear and challenge to escape. now aiyooo...everything wanna use computer generated effects.

the actor's were all like c-grade actors. even though some of them are actually not. wonder where the director get all the approvals for this big sinking project! better off making something else!

long weekend no long enough

....the last long weekend has passed....sad....our next PH is in Aug...and i think its not long wkend.
it was a nice easy weekend but too bad i nearly caught the flu. started on thurs...already sneezing whole day and felt weak but still nie nie go for yoga class. its like that once you paid up for something, u tend to want to make yr money's worth. end up did half hearted yoga in class. waste time:(

Fri- Vesak day! lots of interesting Vesak day activities at various temples...wanted to go to one in Aljunied where their had a Nepal fair....but weather started looking gloomy and didnt go out cuz scared rain. still feeling weak and ended up sleeping 6 hrs in afternoon.

Sat - woke up and still not feeling too good. sore throat and cough......drats got ktv later....luckily cleared up. a bit worried that i booked expensive ktv....dunno why i decided on Party World instead of K-box...guess i wanted a change......ended up fren got discount coupon. so happy for that! funny thing is that there was a black out at the KTV...first time encouter this. mgt only gave a measly 30mins more. but overall experience ok lah......sound system i think better than k box. only thing i dun understand why KTV toilets never clean!? this is a big mystery.
later when to Food Republic in Wisma......this is really one of the better food courts around. its clean and has a nice concept, the food is pretty alright too...BUT...yup...all these comes with a higher price tag. i was craving for something soupy and also the korean food there. heck about the throat, i wanted the spicy soup. while waiting for the rest to order, i also got "sucked" into buying snacks from the travelling vendors, they had this dim sum girl going around with a trolley and indian guy walking around selling papadum. end up buying 2 baskets of dim sum at $3 each and the papadum. later also bought a ribena drink at $1.80 and barley/ginko dessert at $2. ...all in all $17.80 at the food court! ....ok...lah, i guess feel good can already.
wanted to also buy the famous fried hokkien sotong mee wrapped in leaf....but queue is too long. my fren who just came back from HK, naturally had some craving for wanton mee and they had the HK type selling too.....$4.50for the noodles....and the seller asked "xiao mei, yao bu yao jia char siew?"...she happily said "yes!".....ended up $2 extra! haha...she couldnt stop grumbling.

stayed there until 10pm...and then moved on to cineleisure for coffee. one fren who now worked with a record co joined us. she brings pple like A-Do and JJ around.....asked her who is the handsomest singer she has seen, and really wanted to faint with her answer!! it was A-do! siow. anyway, maybe becuz its her artiste. say he is very generous and chin chai. hmmm....

Sun - Mother's Day! that time of the year again...although everyone says its commercialised but still mums will be mums...they wanna be pampered on this day. if give ang pow lagi better.
brought my mum to eat the nasi padang at Rendevous....long long time never eat there .....yummy. i guess they hold secret recipies. u will end up eating lots of rice here cuz the curry is so good. after that watched Mi3 at the newly revamped Cathay. sound system and seats are excellent. movie so so..ok lah quite entertaining. there wasnt much plot actually. but nice to see it filmed in Rome and Shanghai. mum said tom cruise is very handsome and charming when he smiles. the new cathay building is quite nice, exterior a bit plain though...but hrd its done by famous japanese architect. same one who did Vivo city at world trade centre.

for dinner, went to my dad's fave part of spore - race course rd area to eat at a coffee shop. this coffee shop got a china store selling Guo Die and china noodles. the guodie was excellent! the meat not very oily and skin very thin and crispy. not starchy at all. there is also a white rojak store. they dun use prawn paste but rather malt sugar (mai ya tang) to make the sauce, so it ends up light and refreshing. prawn noodle store also not bad. generous with pork ribs, prawns and got thick soup.

Monday....ahh . NO MOOD TO WORK. took mc....was feeling real bad in the morning. body was aching and felt feverish. went to Dover clinic....nice feeling to walk around on a weakday ....everything is so peaceful and quiet. ate soup fish ball kuey tiao at one of the coffee shops. $2 only, one big bowl! so cheap man......only can find in this type of old estate. definitely taste better than any foodcourt.

and thats the end of the long weekend......

Music makes the world go round!

so happy that u heard a good song while going to work these 2 days. it really perks one up esp when u are dreading the journey to work early in the morning. yesterday flying dutchman played Culture's Club's "Miracle".....man! its feels so good to hear this kind or true 80s pop music ....boy george was such a cool character....although he was a cross dresser type and wore tones of make up but still he appealed to all audiences, no one really felt he was ah kua or whatever. his music also included a lot of soul influences....good stuff. when u listen to this type of happy upbeat 80s pop songs, really make u feel like u are back in the good old simple days. days where life in spore was picking up, pple getting more affluent but yet not overly "pretentious" yet.

this morning i heard OMD's classic "if u leave" from the Pretty In Pink OST. one of my all time fave movie and also OST. in fact i remembered i didnt own a CD player yet in the early 90s and i went ahead to buy this $25 OST CD just to keep. it was also my first CD.


They also played a Kon Kan song...oh dear suddently cant remember the title....this was a bit more towards the late 80s where music was getting a bit chessy with Stock Aiken Waterman (kylie minogue, jason donovan, sinitta...kind of songs) and US pop crap from pple like bobby brown , Paula Abdul, MC hammer etc...but it was still a very fun and happy song. one of those few better ones out of that period.

Unusual Monday

zzzzzzzzzz....feeling so bored in the office...which is rare cuz its MONDAY!!! but touch wood lah.....maybe cuz i had to do like 4 proposals last few weeks at the same time so now its "relax" time. oh well, better enjoy it while it last.

quite pissed that had to pay $336 for a burnt table in bintan! warning to all ....NEXT TIME...DO NOT put the portable bbq pit on a poolside table!!! no matter how sturdy the table looks! it WILL BURN!!! quite funny cuz during the beg of the bbq, somebody asked "hey...will it melt the plastic?" and everyone looked under the table and said "looks fine and continued bbq.."
then the food got cooked real fast as the heat was quite intense....i said "wah this portable pit not bad ah......so effective and so convenient! hhehhehe"....at the end of the dinner, while clearing up...the shock came!!! "er...rob rob...come and see this ah....." newspapers were removed and 2 big burnt holes appeared on the white tables!!! aiyo! siow liao.....the plastic melted and driped down like a candle wax ...below the table were rather beautiful formation of the masmellow like plastic.......haha.....oh no...how much will this cost us man......and any way to dispose evidence?
maybe throw in the sea! hee....no lah, my company will know of it...sian...



no wonder there was a caramel like smell earlier, it was odd but not unbearable .......please ah touch wood...hope this plastic thingy is not cancerous!

i though this might end up like $300 a table cuz outdoor poolside furniture - the good ones are expensive. Plus hotel cut throat prices....ooohh...:( but oh well, at least below my estimation. but they converted the bill in SGD to Rupiah ...terrible lah...at 5700 rate. so a little bit more than the $336. none the less, the weekend was fun! good to getaway from spore and just chill out at a resort. the buggy attached was quite a highlight for all. haha. those that do not have license had chance to drive.

the bintan resorts are usually full of Sporeans (where else can we go for a quick getaway?) but last weekend, less sporeans cuz of polling. nonetheless, the spore expatriates and korean tourists made up for the visitors. find it quite amazing where so many korean tourists in bintan? its been like this for the past 3 years. after all it was not Bali...in fact just a small island off Spore and basically have to come thru spore to visit bintan (easier way). the massues (massage woman..haha) said that many of them come for honeymoon and added they all marry young like 20s. whereas spore couples who come all like 30s or late 20s. they like the sunny weather cuz korea is normally cold...and suggested i go korea for my honeymoon next time as its cool and nice...not like Spore and Bintan... javaese massage is fantastic....just different from those massage in spore. dunno why, but they massage well and you feel the blood circulating and you feel very relaxed. for $38 an hour, they will come to your room for the massage. and i heard some sporeans massage every day whjile they are there esp those playing golf. wow....what a life

when going back at the ferry terminal, saw class 95 DJ rod monterio.....he was there too...played golf i presume. i do find his shows quite funny on radio...although corny but will make u laugh. he is better than glenn ong. and music is also geared towards good 80s stuff. anyway, the ferry terminal was full, i guess sunday evening was the most popular timing. before the gates open, pple were queing up already from the glass door. i know in everyone's heart, we all wanna rush for good seats and not sit with strangers. when door open, everyone sort of rushed towards ferry quickly.....a bit kiasu action....as expected Rod commented on this on his show yesterday...saying that why sporeans so kiasu etc etc...resort shld relax lah......say how he was suprised pple acted this way....i felt like calling in!! as if he didnt rush to the door when its time for boarding? did he seat down and waited till everyone board then he board...no man!

although its yeah, kiasu beahviour but lets face it if you dun walk quickly of line up earlier, trust me you are going to end up in some corner seat alone! or look silly walking up and down the arles looking for a seat. further more of course famililies wanna seat together. i find as long its not running and pushing pple ok lah. but i am sure he is guilty of it.


Angsoka villa!

Badddd Habit!!

Drats! today late again...and had to take cab in. arrrggghhhh...$16!!! thats like 4 days lunch here...sob.....dunno why forgot to set alarm clock last night and slept with make up on.....sob sob.....ok i MUST FORCE myself to at least wash my face the minute i step into the house!! no matter how tired i am....!

skin looking terrible in the morning when u sleep like that. noticed dark eye circles also bad.....dunno why sleep 6 hours also like that. think i must get more beauty sleep. last weekend, took one 4 hrs afternoon nap......woke up with really good skin and eyes looks fresher. i think this is the true beauty sleep aka...additional sleep besides night routine. but sleeping is sometimes such a waste of time....haha.....shouldnt think like that...ok....

sister watching some some episodes of Long Vacation at night...she another nite owl....cant believe that drama is like 8 yrs old. kimura looks like a stick in it. but it one of those classics. realised he acts around his own age in dramas....his age have been increasing over the yrs in the drams...latest in Engine and age is about 32 i think....haha...good luck was 28 or 29? wonder if he will be acting when he is 50! who knows maybe NO successor.
actually he can pull off a 27 right now....but i think he is not that type of actor who will do that.
really enjoy watching SMAP variety shows on you tube (to the creator of you tube - You are the man! or woman...) kimura looks totally a kid on it unlike his cool characters on TV.
there is one segment of him like a jap a-beng singing that "oh mih hee" song in a cheesy nite club and having exaggerating body movements. good fun.

cant believe watching the Da Chang Jin show now. its slow, but pretty good story telling.
chinese teacher said korean food culture cannot beat china...haha. they still do the food not as fine and not much art. well..true true....china was the super power then. becuz of this show, lots of SEA tourist go korea. remembered lori mentioned met a thai couple in her seoul hostel, and they wanted to visit all the Da Chang Jin sites! but cant read speak korean/english at all. lori shake head....she also couldnt help them...haha....they were just pure crazy over the drama.

burp....

Cant sleep now although its 1am....sigh...tomorrow panda eyes again and maybe dull skin? somemore got meeting with customer. but how to sleep with a full stomach. just went for a buffet a la carte dinner at tung lok......pretty good food but now feeling so je-lat. i guess my system is not so used to a big oily meal like that.
sometimes i wonder where cantonese pple get their appetite from? i realised in HK, all of them finished every single thing on the plate. seldom left over...and their portion is big compared to spore. already the best item on the buffet was a mini buddha jump over the wall...and that was like a big bowl. then followed by wasabi prawns, chilli or steam crabs, cod fish.......ahhh.....too much food already. but maybe its just me, cuz most pple can eat.

somemore today colleague said my face is fatter. my town colleague that is who haven seen me for about 2 mths or so. happily i thot i have lost some weight cuz now desk bound, i really try to eat less and walk as much when i can. but seems it doesnt work.....still moving around in sales and eating a lot i looked thinner. sigh...maybe i am one of those who drink air or water also can get fat. no wonder sammi cheng said before her concert tour she only eat air!! no choice, she also that type eat a bit more face like a pig immediately.

i guess i have to live with it......actually before my colleague made this comment, i felt quite good and confident....maybe i did grow fatter but i didnt know but still confidence is there....and thats good. but now its sort of affected... :( sic

oh well, prob i have to do more exercise. last week company held this bowling event where everyone must go.....well got point system....ok it was pretty fun after all....and to think i prob bowled like 3 times in my life...i bowled pretty well. at least top20....haha!
there is this outstanding colleague that grabbed the 2nd position. seems this fellow is good at everything! almost perfect.....quite unbelievable sometimes, good at few other sports, things like go kart, wakeboard , snowboarding, snooker........ is intelligent, rich and pretty good looking and bosses respect this person too......i wonder what kind of breed this of people are made of? maybe rich people just get better and better and poor ones just sometimes get worse and worse.....mmmm...unfair world....actually most of the sportsmen in spore all come from rich families. got $$ to cultivate probably.

of course there are also those rags to riches stories...but they dun come by easily.

sigh...just tried to play the CD my sis got from her friend on Millionaire's First Love with hyun bin inside....cannot leh! thought can see already....

still feeling je-lat.....alamak....

Comfort

Finally finally.....i took the "plunge" and bought myself a Descamps pillow case and bed sheet! this is crazy....i have been hovering around the Descamps counter for a while....seriously its been about 18 mths since i saw that nice pillow case with beautiful red flowers in Nice-Galaries Lafayette....was quite excited to see the brand here in spore and even that nice design but the shocking price of $119 for a pillow case is too much to handle!

anyway, luckily last week, they had a big discount....could see that the stock packaging was quite old due to the high prices...but lets face it Sporeans are practical pple. that red flower pillow case was still there. maybe 3 pieces left. Sales promoter told me some french pple here get so excited seeing the brand here and will start yakking happily in french! they are the main customers. and also some HK tourists.

i am happy that i am enjoying every moment with this new found "luxury" ....the cotton is somehow smooth and nice and cooling. its not egyptian cotton but the french being french of course have to use 100% french stuff! ......bought a feather pillow too......esp for neck. havent been sleeping well for quite a while. nearly bought a Tempur pillow but decided to try a cheaper version first which is find a "hotel type" pillow. the sales promoter understood exactly what i meant and gave me a "hotel" pillow. its 40% duck feathers and 60% down feathers or the other way round. something like that....and cover must be egyptian cotton so its smooth and cool. so far ok....sleep has improved. realised sleep is now very important esp when we have stressful work and aging skin....... so worthwhile to invest.

Happy Week

Quite happy i had a pretty relaxing birthday week (last wk)....hee.....sort of slacked the whole week away by eating and day dreaming....well...monday i was in KL....super nice colleague offer to drive us up so a short break....he could drive well and we reached KL in 3.5hrs! traffic was smooth too......luckily my phone didnt ring much from those company pple....KL wasnt too hot thank goodness...lots of shoes in KL...and sales too. the izzue there was disappointing...clearing old stock from 1 yr ago collection. Tues: no mood to work, still holiday mood....haha...boss also busy so......at night wanted to eat crabs at Joo Chiat, bday dinner with family....Eng Heng coffee shop....they have nice pepper crabs there but service sucks! anyway, crab sold out at 7pm...irritating.....lucky i had a back up....went to this japanese restaurant at Siglap...called Igen. dinner buffet was great....quality of food is fresh and good. grilled cod fish and golden mushrooms wrapped with bacon very shiok! finally went back and found a great surprise on my bed!!! when i on the lights ....i saw THE SAM SOON PIG on my bed!!! SO CUUTE!!! i was really thrilled cuz i love the drama so much and never knew that this pig made its way to spore!!!
Sis bought for me as a present....^^ dunno where she find also...cuz only available on net from what i know.

Next to Sam Soon pig is Kuromi.....my fave sanrio character at th emoment. she is cool and suppose to be "evil" haha...hence that skull on her black cap. Kuromi mix around with My Melody, she is melo's child hood play mate...but sort of when off the track and become like that. haha....she started appearing in a japanese cartoon series and soon merchandise came out. very cute! i read her bio data.....Kuromi likes cool and happening guys (" you xing de nan hai")....haha and her latest craze is " reading romance novels". hee

Wed: My bday! quite suprised that new dept colleagues organised a lunch for me at Hill Top. the indonesian food was pretty good and they paid everything. later in the afternoon, they presented me with a cake....in the boss office. boss had to sing Happy Bday too! paiseh lah...the funny thing is that...earlier on lunch...one male colleague asked "so how old are u actually"...i just said 27! he said..oh....thot you are 24!...happy happy but dunno pulling my leg or not. then came out the cake with 3 big candles and 1 small one!!! aiyoo! i got a shock!!! how could they do this to a gal! haha!! now everyone knew......the person who prepare is also a lady...older than me somemore,...so insensitive meh?!! not that i am particular about age but the thot of fooling that male colleague now gone liao! sigh! anyway, i do think most pple thot i am younger.

At night went to this steak house at fullerton area.....food not bad esp the fried mushrooms. service also good. best surprise was when waiter said today is ladies nite...so complimentary wine, beer, vodka and gin ...free flow!!! wow!! this is too good to be true! the meal is avg like $20 per main course....they give free flow booze is really very worth! so drank to my heart's content. blew out another cake, this time ice cream. went home, sis also bought a small slice of cake....blow candle one more time

Thurs: still of course no mood to work and boss not in or something.......lunch time another group of colleagues brought me to mac at west coast. this is quite a nice stand alone mac...some thing like ridout garden in queensway. they surprised with a rive mango cake.......and also a present wrapped in isetan paper bag. couldnt find lighter so fren borrowed from a group of 3 guys behind us. they lend only if we give them a slice of the cake. my fren said ok, if they sing the song for me too....so they did ...haha..... gave them about 1/3 of the cake.

the present was a real suprise......they bought a che2 bag! the thing is that is the smaller version of the model i am carrying at the moment!!! hahaha!!! so crazy...similar colour too. one girl told the buyer that i like che che bag...so she went to buy that model which she think is very me...true enough she is correct! but day in and out she didnt notice i had the same bag only bigger and colour a big diff..anyway....small one also good....can use for casual outings.....most prob my sis will borrow it....

fri......boss totally not in...went Bintan for golf! haha......one of the colleagues last day , so we ordered KFC and Pizza in.......during the lunch they talked about MNIKSS ......had a nice discussion with them on fave scenes.....didnt know they watch. actually they have been circulating k dramas around.....they lend me one...about some colleague kids.....dun really look entertaining but just took it. at night went swimming....since dunno how long never swim liao..but felt good after having some water theraphy.

Sat - had the nice indian rojak and chicken rice at waterloo street. yummy! really the best indian rojak in spore and prob the world. dunno who will take over this rojak business as the chef is already 74 yrs old. seems its hard work making the sweet potatoe sauce everyday at 4am. later walked around bugis and went to guan yin temple. lots of pple cuz its guan yin bday. later my sis introduced me to a nail place at bugis .....it had a shanghai theme and was really relaxing cuz no body! nice. service was good and the music was cool......it was some chill music shanghai style. i like the place cuz it was not cramped or bright. the chairs were big comfy arm chairs a la shanghai european style. did a spa treatment for feet.....cuz payday...very good.

later i decided to get a ticket for disney on ice.....yes dunno why i felt like going ...just had the disney magic urge...haha...and never seen one of these ice skating shows. the show was great esp i like the small world part. its taken from the small world ride in disneyland which i love. its a truy happy ride, after you come out , you will smile...guaranteed. the characters were cute also...like the shark and pig from nemo and lion king. i end up being a sucker for the merchandise by getting a 3 pack cotton candy and a mickey mouse crown! the crown was nice....but i didnt dare wear it for too long. haha....

Sun...woke up late and laze around....nite time when for dinner at a simple cantonese style casual restaurant at Hwa Chong swimming pool. then went to turf city.......the place like almost going to close down! but sam soon was playing in the DVD shop there...haha....

tomoro back to work...... :(

yuks....

ok, thats the end of the bday week........! hope this kind of feeling can repeat more often...keke

eason's world

Been a month since i went to HK! time flies ..should have bought that vivian westwood wallet there! now regretting a bit. but when you are there, you are so afraid of over spending cuz there is INDEED too many many desirable things to get!!!!

The main objective of the trip was of course to see Mr Eason Chan's "Get a Life" concert. told myself just had to go this time. and he said in spore maybe its the last time he will perform at the HK coliseum. (my hk friend said...'nahhh..dun believe him...now with wife and kid...no way"...haha) ....well whatever, but i feel eason is one of the more outstanding singers around and he knows his music.

It was my 3rd time at the coliseum....and everytime there is a sense of excitement esp when walking thru from TST east thru the KCR station....u will be walking with many many pple heading for the same direction accompanied by lively chatter in anticipation of the concert!
lots of young pple naturally dressing their best. the trend now is big crazy curls in hk so you see lots of gals in their colourful gear, pretty make up, 3 quarter pants with boots and some with an equally cool bf by their side.

Eason delivered a great concert...100% effort definitely!! in fact some parts i felt he was really too serious about singing with emotions and getting everything perfect. but overall he wanted to focus on music and less nosense. suprisingly he didnt talk to the audience until the very last part of the concert, saying he wanted to sing more songs...which he really did ..... the concert was done immaculately (as always) by K's productions.......there was a cute goulish theme for the whole set......and the characters that accompanied eason were all so weird and cute! there was some spider , pumpkin heads, bubble pple, a cute smoking house and a cloud than could rain on stage.

The concert was not really a commercialised one where he sang all the k-hits and had fancy dancing and fireworks....but it was really just him and what he wanted to express. dun think it made superb headlines the next day or wowed everyone to scream or whatever, but it was a showcase of an artiste that is serious about his craft and the world he live in.

He is a very funny guy who has lots of crazy ideas...and he acts them out accordingly. seems once he was really bored sitting for 2-3hrs at an awards show, that once it was his turn to perform, he practically jump up the stage and started doing aerobics or whatever moment he could do as his butt was so 'tired' from all that sitting!!! pple thot he was nuts....but he said he doesnt care cuz that is what he feel like doing at that moment. haha.....

the coliseum was full almost everynight, tickets ranged from HK400 to 100....highly affordable. everyone was armed with pong pong sticks...something spore concert dun have. eason had to do 8 shows straight...!! wonder how can tahan like this everyday but this is HK so no body complains of work...haha!!
straight after the concert, the most amazing thing that can only happen in hk is the concert photos for sale of THAT NIGHT for sale!!!!! outside the hall.....in full colour and good angles....you can buy a piece of memory straight away. this is how fast they work and cash in on the moment.

last sat, a retail article came out in ST, written partly by my poly lecturer ...an PHD in retail....and it was mentioned HK is the #1 shopping place in the world ...one of the main success is that they are excellent in creating impulse buy for the consumers...where everywhere u go ...u see things and think ..." i gotta have THIS NOW!"......trends move fast and old stock get slashed as sold off quickly unlike here....u may see the same thing sales after sales....haha


read from media that eason is throwing a wedding dinner party today 323...he and his long time gf is now finally officially married. and so romantic to think that he has arranged 3 mins of fireworks for the evening....costing S$60k. this is really sweet....i think i will prob just cry if this happens at my wedding...aaahhh...... being pisces...i think i am a sucker for this type of things. dream proposal would be a mild winter's nite at victoria peak in HK...with all beautiful night view around...haha......and dream wedding would be something like those they hold in Tokyo Disneyland.....princess gown and horse carriage.....hee.....siow liao....
anyway in japan, most of their wedding packages are very fairy tale like...decor and design and all...wonder why spore dun have....i am sure some pple like this. its so boring where everything is simple and urban. weddings must have a touch of romance! or not marry for what...just rom can already. some pple the rom off the rack fake satin gown is the same as the wedding dinner wear......i dunno lah....just seems unmemorable ...more like a chore.

hmmm...prob its down to the weather here AGAIN......haha.....hot and humid ...so every thing simple chin chai is the best or not get mung chang!!! hahahahaha!!!

ok, back to Eason......well, looking at his career, his wedding and his cute daughter...just feel he is very Xin Fu now.....all the best for the newlyweds!

*yummy cake!
Finally decided to buy the Maxim crispy cake that my friend always rave so crazily about! took some courage cuz the cake cost HK$145 per pound and minimum order of 2 pounds! its called Chap Guo Cheng Yan or something.....the ultimate indulgence....cripsy sweet biscuit base with a layer of walnuts and chocolate and also yougurt, soft sponge, tons of generous pieces of expensive fresh fruits in between and macademia nuts inside the cream. Plus the whole cake is wrapped with thin butter biscuits....actually its quite an experience to eat it...cuz i had to figure out what in the world they put inside. my fren always buy this 1kg odd cake back from HK ....thot i just try lah....my dad thot i was nuts to bring a fragile cake back. funnily at hk customs.....when the cake went thru the scan machine...the officer shouted at the staff..." careful!! its a cake..."....hee...they rather rough handle your camera and handbags....but noooo...a cake is very important.

Was i ever a teenager?

Went to NUS last weekend, after a long long time.....havent been there since 1997 when i was doing my degree course and used to treat the library as my second home. i was there to sort of support a friend who had a stand at the cultural centre selling jewellery and stickers. wondered if i could still remember my way around the chanllenging up and down steps of of kent ridge. took the old faithful 33 right till the end and yes! i could still find my way easily.
much has changed, except noticed a lot of foreign ...many of them. as i walked thru, i heard chinese nationals, ABCs and indian nationals....spore has changed a lot...just stand at any bus stop now, and what you hear are a spread of foreign languages buzzing away. dun only hear sporeans talking that much now.

the fair was not really crowded, they were holding an arts festival and had many performances through out march. there was an olio dome at the cultural centre and my goodness the sandwiches were $9.50!! isnt this place for students...i guess inflation went up that "much"!
soon, a group went up to stage, it was a duo....malay singer and chinese guitarist. all young. they did some covers...not too bad and the malay guy sang a jay chou song...aiyooo is this necesary??
the teens nowadays are not shy or reserved at all......in fact they are rather professional and sort of street wise. although the audience was only a few pple, the singer tried to create some interaction with the crowd.

there were 2 kinds of pple at NUS.....one was the pretty and happening pple (eg gals who had good figures, usually long groomed hair, "sexy" and confident dressing, quite tall...and guys who were hunky and attractive)...they talk loudly and practically know everyone that comes by. some are really quite fake and unnatural, but of course some just naturally bubbly and well liked. then they are the second group of pple....the more reserved, 3-4 girl or guy clique....usually simple in dressing..like jeans, cheap skirts from far east plaza...talk softly and modest make up. they are interested in all these events, but usually dont stand out in the crowd or express themselves outwardly.

the crowds suddenly started to come in about 7.30pm...ooohh...there was a HIP HOP contest going on....! this i gotta see man.....very curious to know what is the HIP HOP standard in spore....i always see them practicing in the underpass near esplanade...they dun look very good lah...haha. The MC was a guy and gal, all dressed up in their hip hop street wear gear. the girl looked so hip hop korean babe...in a black tight singlet tank top, track pants, trucker cap and long straight black hair in a ponytail. heavy mascara. cool....at least the dressing is correct for a start.

they were pretty good at hosting and quite natural....maybe like MTV pple wannabe but at least they set the tone for this kind of competition....you gotta speak some street language. the contestants were pretty ok, 2-3 very impressive, the did free style to music they didnt know. but most still not enough energy. the defending champion was a gal who could really shake her bootie...she wore this really low low pants and of course showed off her "six pac" . for guys, the most impressive was a korean guy who came from korea just for this (?)...not sure if he is a student but he had the groove...very good dance steps to fit the music. and very smooth too. he was a crowd fave. the audience had to vote for their fave by coming to the front to put their cans into the contestant's bag....quite silly and waste time but hey students organise one...haha
some guys couldnt dance very well and still join....wear some silly shirt over jeans..and jumped up and down like a hippo or something. i think they just learn maybe for 2 weeks?

the korean guy was out in 3rd round cuz in this round there was some obiang woman who came up like in line dancing costumes or dated paula abdul 90s dressing. she is ex NUS committee or sum'ting...and they had to follow her kinda paul abdul moves....eee...the contest suddently took a turn into the 90s. (sadly my prime teenage years were in the 90s....one of the worst era for pop music....chessy and horrible. the only good thing was brit pop and some alternative US grunge but that wasnt really thruout the 90s or that maintream....pple who ruled 90s were very varied...spice girls, NKOTB, 2 Ulimited, Aqua, a boring mellowed madonna, vanilla ice, michael bolton and lots of one hit wonders...ok you get the picture...). Anyway, he was out cuz he couldnt really follow her moves, it was just not his style. the defending champion girl was good, she could follow and memorise well. i couldnt really see the judges in the crowd but they sounded like old lecturers...haha

overall, it was interesting to watch this competition or observe what do these teenagers like nowadays..or how their behavior is....funnily i released if i was 18 right now viewing this....i would have just view it the same way i feel now at 30. dun think i would be extremely excited or anything ....just observe u know....which makes me think was i ever young once? with youngish thinking and behavior....i think not so...i am all along the same! with that same matured thinking even at 16, 18....when u look at some teens, they usually have foolish actions or some complicated BGR stuff....but i never "fell" into that which i wonder if its a good or bad thing...haha... in sec sch, i could see the reason for my frens to sit on buses which passed certain bus stops to view some guys or wrote love letters to their crush...it just seemed meaningless to me. and i didnt find any guy good looking too! haha..the only guy which i sort of liked was my fren's on off bf....cuz he knew brit music and stuff.... but thats about it. .
as a teenager, i was only keen to listen to BBC for the latest brit charts, reading smash hits, going around the malls for sales, going to book shops and CD stores....lying in bed..doing nothing.

now at 30, nothing has really changed much (except got $ to travel)....maybe i should go in reverse gear.....where others are starting to mature....... hmmm..weird...

K-dramaaaaaa!!

Never thot I would have followed any Korean Drama……always wondered what some pple are so crazy over korean stuff and idols etc!!
I have seen only one Korean drama previously which was “Winter Sonata” …..i didn’t even have the patience to follow it through as it was weepy, slow, boring …the only saving grace was the beautiful winter scenery. Occasionally I did chance upon some drams shown on cable but they really all look the same to me!! Weepy, yelling, horrific thick yellow tone foundation, burly looking squarish face male leads……just not enticing to watch at all!
But yet a strong korean wave was brewing where pple were hopping onto lucrative tours to Korea to see the backdrop for this drama, that drama…..learning Korean!, buying LG, Samsung products and listening to K-pop!

Last 2 weeks, I finally understood what the fuss is all about…I was rather addictively watching this top rated korean drama called “ My Lovely Sam-Soon”. When in Hk during a dinner, my friend pulled out this DVD set to show another another friend and they were discussing the story and actors etc. I commented…yuks you all watch this weepy stuff? And told them about ugly korean men, weepy storylines etc etc…..blah……. they said this is not too bad but left the dvd on the table. I picked it up and was quite attracted by the nice packaging. Read the synopsis on the back cover and found the story quite interesting…..it was a typically bridget jones movie storyline but it sounded something that maybe I can really relate to! Ha…! But I knew it would be funny.
The dvd also mentioned…..” many single women desire to travel and think life will be fine like that but ……”….hmmm…something that sounds familiar…..
I asked my friend where to get it….she couldn’t reply for a few minutes and said “aiyah, you take first….i go get another copy”…..i wondered why so difficult to find the shop meh….later when I said I will pay her….she said the price was HK$50 for the whole set. Wow! That’s 8 dvds…..ok…think I knew where it came from. But amazing how economically priced things can come out of panda land…and they look so well packaged too! Suddenly, the west definitely feel like suckers who can pay up to US$50 for 8 dvd set…..hmmmm….ah….they dunno what they are missing.

Anyway, the drama got me addicted from episode one!! Sure I knew it would be a cinderella story but the lead actress (Kim Sun-ah) is such a delight to watch! She is unlike other typical korean female characters or heroine that are petite, pretty, soft spoken, crybabies etc…instead she is a slightly plump, tall lady who scolds and whack pple upside down….she is also cute with her “sah da jie” actions….just very natural. She doesn’t wear pastel looking girly stuff but always jeans, cheap trendy t-shirts and a sling bag. This is very real as this is really what you see gals wear on the street! Her name is Sam Soon which is actually a very obiang generic korean name for girl in general….she hates her name a lot and always try to change it to something else. She is trained French pastry baker, and of course unlucky in love. She has no car, no university education and not married at 30. her jerk like bf ditched her on xmas eve and soon she lost her job.


But soon, by chance in the male toilet…haha she met a rich, good looking 27 year old guy who owns a French restaurant! (yeah…how real can u get?! )…..he is cold and slightly self centered , basically feel a lot of hurt due to a past incident with gf and family . They don’t get along at first and of course do not match as a couple. The lead actor Hyun Bin is at first just another tall and young boyish actor. (he is actually only 23 in real life!). He is not exactly strikingly handsome but after a while he is indeed charming. The role he plays – Sam Sik is always immaculate in designer togs and gelled hair but main thing is he has a really good built and is 1.84m tall. Desirable. Height does have its big advantages. Definitely no bae yong jun aunty killer looks here. He looks 10 times better.

Although he is always loggerheads with Sam-Soon, he is charmed by her goal in life, liveliness ….anyway she adds spice to his life. He is constantly secretly amused by her nonsensical ways. However, Sam-Sik is still in love with his gf from school who left him suddenly 3 years ago due to a secret illness (ok….korean dramas cant live without adding some “illness”)…..she is this sweet young thing who is indeed very pretty with long beautiful flowly hair …..a girl that any guy with like instantly. And she is very sweet too…..but the good thing about the show is that the story develops so that you know he can’t live without sam-soon being a part of his life anymore. There were some scenes where sam-soon and the sweet gf stand together and they are like worlds apart!!! One so big sized and loud, one so lovely, sweet and pretty……its really funny…..but the sweet girl lost…..which IS something that hardly happens in drama land.



The show have also many hilarious moments that got me laughing like crazy…..like when sam-soon wanted to forget sam-sik and went to hike a mountain in jeju where she cursed and swear like crazy in heavy rain at sam sik for introducing this place while panting to reach the summit!! Also when sam sik wanted to forget her and started strangling, slapping and kicking a stuffed toy pig (which reminds him of her)!!! Haha…..also sam-soon and sam-sik were next to each other in the restaurant toilet and sam-soon farted so loudly not knowing he is next to her!! Haha…..and also the rules sam-soon wanted sam sik to follow when the were dating…..like declaring his love for her in front of everyone in a train, taking cute pictures of themselves on the cellphone, making out in the cinema, buying couple rings….all this are little things that probably most gals would think are romantic…..but its really funny when u act them out. He also went for a silly madcap karaoke session with her mum and sis just to win her mum’s approval.

The guy suddenly became a wimp in front of her but he likes it this way……she became someone he can come for comfort besides his work and life.
This show was a big hit in Korea in 2005 due to its realistic portrayal of a new generation of single ladies in their late 20s or early 30s. the story is simple but the actors acted well and its funny and heart warming too. For once the pretty gal was left with nothing but she too accepted the fact that sam sik’s love for her is only forever in memory. the lead actress portrayed the role very well, the actor was acting 27 but after a while esp when his hair is not gelled, u can see he is very young. Heard he is quite new in the industry but gaining popularity quite rapidly. Hope he will take on more projects after this. There is also a American born korean in the show was acts as the sweet gf’s doctor. He is sort of like a beef cake but is very typically good looking. However, his character doesn’t develop much just a vase I guess.

There are also a few touching moments where Sam Soon have “conversations” with her father who have already passed away. She pours out to him on her misery to fall in love with a man who truly loves her and also of her fear that her current happiness will not last with Sam Sik. Outside she may be tough, strong and fierce but at the end of the day, she is emotional and sentimental.

This show may be too perfect in some ways where plain girl meets handsome rich boy but like I quote a forum I read “ lets all forget about reality for a moment and live happily in drama land!” haha…..

As much I as I hate to admit it, after watching this show, I did have the urge to go korea! And also to get the cool cellphones the characters were using and yeah, last weekend I went for korea food! One girl on the forum said this craze better die down soon for her or she will just crazily buy air tickets and fly to korea immediately!

However, I wouldn’t want to learn korean…..still think the language is not exactly the most refined soundly one. But its good to see that ladies are attaining more “power” or more say in a male dominated society like korea. It’s a good balance cuz the men (be it younger or older) still need to strive and bring the MAIN bacon back but seems the ladies can make key decisions for the family and also their own career of interest.

When compared to Japanese dramas, I think Japanese dramas still have a rather old-school feel to them. Whereas korea is up and coming for many things like their film industry, electronics, cosmetics, fashion, design. But maybe I am wrong, as I haven’t watched any Japanese shows recently.

Whether or not I will actually carry on to watch another korean drama remains to be seen, but at least ncw, I will be looking at korea on the classified tour pages….haha!!

A Good 2006 to all!

yes! the start of a brand new year! new year always evoke a sense of new hope and new beginning and ....resolutions. hopefully, the world will see more peace rather than war, fighting, political unrest and serious natural disasters.
and i hope sporeans will also learn how to play more. lagi good if this new culture starts at my company...haha hope the bosses will play golf everyday!

drats....tomorrow the start of .......yuks...work.

nevermind, next week one more public holiday! heh heh....

Winter Fashion

do people actually make such clothes and actually sell them for a profit?
or the image consultant just took a scissors ...... would a regular guy wear this?...

Xmas eve present

zooming past 2005 and now we are finally at xmas! so fast! wonder how did time fly this year...?? this yr prob is the shortest year that i have experienced so far.....perhaps its mainly a working year....just work work work.....not such a personally fulfilling year like 2004.
was glad that big boss announced that half day will be given on fri....dunno why so hard to say out , must wait until 1pm to announce....anyway its a real thrill to hear that....immediately packed bags and zoom off! alamak...absolutely no mood to work since beg of the week. had a nice dinner at ritz carlton....first time dining there...no wonder there is so much hype about the place....the service is indeed excellent. the buffet dinner was also of excellent value. from sashimi to south indian to fat sea cucumbers/mushrooms to fluffy -on- the -spot souffles ...hmm...great

must aim to stay there one night! more service staff shld really learn from pple like them. simple eg....i asked where is ladies...instead of just pointing to toilet, the staff lead me all the way there! aiyo....its not really far but made the experience there memorable.

exchanged gifts with zhen qing gang.....and played simple baby photo game. i could guess all correct! i think i could be quite gifted in tracing pple's traits and looks....hehe heh....the babies were unrecognisable but one look at background of parents, cousins etc...can guess who. i gave a dead giveaway photo of mine with cheesy grin and my SPG-tan looking round face around age 6....some could still guess it was another person! weird...

one fren said she got 15mth AWS! everyone went green with envy...but hey...dun believe there is such free lunch in the world.

today .... walked around and saw big sign at Times , 20% off! happy...went in to browse and found...omg! on the cover of Newsweek!!!! - aniki !!!! wow...looks damm nice....a mature looking pic but definitely collectable and worth just glancing at for a smile...haha...grabbed it immediately....$7.50...ok no prob 20%.....walked around a little and saw fine print on discount poster....discount ONLY for members.
siow! i wonder how many members they had...cuz nobody rushing to pay.....sigh...i know how much mark up these book sellers get....dumb lah...i bet they could have made more sales if 20% is open to all! ponder for a while....now i have to pay $7.5 for a piece of paper which is aniki's face with the title Newsweek on top.....heck...pay lah. xmas eve.

the cashier was a malay lady with tudung....the moment i handed her the mag...i was shocked...she just exclaimed ..." omg!! (and started shaking her head and breathing heavily...haha) its aniki jin!...aiyooo...so handsome...etc....hey u got see his latest movie or not?".....
"yeah i saw", feeling happy that she felt the same way...."how ah"....
i said its ok, romantic story etc...worth just watching him .....the she went further "hey u remember his old movies? ...last time one?"
"yes, those 10 yrs ago one huh? army one lah...."

" ah...yah....remember nicky wu etc etc..."

haha this lady knows her chinese idol stuff! cute. need more pple like this around.
and she is malay. friendly....felt happy paying for the mag.

Love the quote from a reporter fr 8 Days: "The former Prada poster boy is tall, lanky (skinny, almost), and has a face put together by anime artistes and God on a VERY generous day."

agree totally.

she was also really funny to say that she was nervous before the interview cuz she really want him to like her. it was an unprofessional thing to say but she just couldnt help it. as long he doesnt hate her, thats good enough for her. haha

design edge

attended the Design Edge expo last Thurs and was happy to discover a new group.
They are from HK and they are called - Pixel Toy. Quite a cheesy sounding name i thot but their music did impress me.
basically its just 2 persons, a guy using his lap top and an electric guitar and a female vocalist. both are young but their music is really creative and they sound great LIVE! many interesting electronic sounds and arrangements....gives u a nice surreal feeling. the lead singer got a nice sweet sounding vocal too. overall they are rather cool. their songs are both in cantonese and mandarin. check out their stuff:

www.pixeltoy.org

the expo was really quite small but boast rather big names from the latest design scene. toy creators, street and urban design houses ....from all over the world. hope future expos will expand to a bigger scale. there were lots of design students from HK and Thailand...i noticed they could all dress well. and dress cool for that matter. esp the gals....apparently many of these design gals can groom themselves really well, they had excellent make up technique like those u see on magazines and they wear nice clothes and accessories. but then again maybe they are rich or not they wouldnt fly over...haha

i also saw a spore community of cool people that day, not really a lot but at least some that u see that are more alternative and different from the masses. think as long the govt continue to promote design and such art events, spore has quite a bright future ahead for the arts.

already we have creative people like Zing and Leslie Kee who made it big overseas. hope more can follow.

Formula

Hooray! another public holiday today....!! this week is the "take 3 days Get 9 days off" week in spore. 2 public holidays fall on tues and thurs. so being singaporeans, lots of pple have prob been planning their holiday plans for this "value week" since march? haha...actually only 2 person in my office are making use of this special week for holidays and leave. yeah, it does sounds likea good deal but u know taking leave in a popular time frame is sort of different from taking leave on a normal working season. its like, everywhere will be crowded, lots of pple taking leave at the same time, going on popular tours etc and it "feels" everything is in a rush. just like weekends, its offday but somehow i dun feel relaxed as say, taking a day off during a weekday to stay at home or just go around spore. that is turly bliss as everything is more quiet, even my home...everyone is out, shopping malls are less crowded, east coast is more serene....can cycle without bumping into those grrr...in-line skaters!

on the tues PH, had a yummy dim sum lunch at west mall Mayim resturant. fren got a $111 voucher so we ate until nearly burst. but the food is really not bad. the q for the resturant was madness. at 2.30pm, the q was still like 10 + persons. frankly there isnt much good and consistent mid range cantonese restaurants in spore. always crystal jade lah. hope this mayim can expand.

i also prob is poorer financially as i hate to shop during sales or when there are lots of pple. sure u can geta good buy paying less but the chaos and rush of it all make the whole shopping experience terrible!! it is a true luxury to shop at your own pace and discover many beautiful things to buy. feels exciting.

the best time to shop gotta be change of season for clothes and collection...thats were new inspiration and fresh stuff comes along. got a friend, who is really good at going thru sales at metro, mango etc tec...she is married with 2 kids so she feels she got the o-ba-san traits already (only 32 though) , cutting coupons for discounts ...but i think she saves a lot and still manage to get some reasonably trendy clothes.
i think i can seldom do that, cuz no patience and hate q-ing for fitting roooms, cashier. but maybe when u need to save $$, this will naturally come in.

spore is of course never as updated as HK in terms of trends as there isnt much of a demand for fashion and a little high end clothes here. lets face it, to look up to date , you really need to invest. there is nothing like a copy of a DKNY belt and the real thing. its just different and everyone have the eyes to see it. even the ah -sohs in any market. one look at someone who invest, they will know its "hou liao" (good stuff"). the material, colours, finsihings all are different.
and good clothes does give u some confidence.

anyway, the whole culture doesnt really exist that much here, so most feel its ok to dress down sometimes....haha. but i feel we must also try to put some effort when we can, esp when we can afford it. dun always have to buy value for money things. what is value anyway.

saw the full Madonna MV of Hung Up on tv today. dancing along to it ! hee hee...cool stuff, disco era of the 80s. her music somehow just makes u move naturally...dunno why. would like to meet her someday but i think she doesnt have a good impression of spore ....since expression is sort of supressed in certain ways. oh well, maybe one day i will visit London and bump into her somewhere. she is just prob everything that i am not!! haha.

also heard some samples of the latest Jay Choy album "Nov's chopin" yest. aiyoo....sounds kinda boring. he attempts many ballads but his singing is terrible. jsut cant feel anything romantic or moving. the musical arrangements are good though. but i think he shld stick to rapping or some hop hop stuff.....until he polish his singing. i am sure he can sing better than that but maybe he just want his trademark mumble there. have a feeling this album will bomb. haha...but with the kids out there having not much good choices nowadays ...prob there will still be a profits for jay. still think his first album is the best. it was something very innovative and simple but classic. until today, pple long for songs from his first album. the follow ups were ok, some good tracks here and there but definitely formulamatic (..er spelling looks funny).... but what to do, jay cant work alone for his own interest, have to please record companies and maybe some big time advertisers too.

same for movies too, attended a talk by HK director Chen Ke Xing at the national library. he is the director for wonderful films like "Tian Mi Mi" (Comrades: Almost a Love Story) and "Jin zhi Yu Ye" (He's a Woman, She's a Man) and now coming out with 'Perhaps Love' starring china to actress Zhou Xun and Aniki, jacky cheung and this korean actor from jewel in the palace (dunno name but sure hot now lah). he admited that the glory days of HK movies are over (80s to mid 90s) ...the cause could be many reasons...bad script, acting, actors etc etc...and now he as a director also gotta keep up with the times. with china opening up, many director have to consider movies with elements that can cater to the china audiences too. something they can relate to. thats why many collaborations now with china producers for drams serials and movies. afterall, the market is like 1 billion or more. u cannot ignore it....although the buy fakes DVDs or see from computers but they still are watching yr movie. he said SEA is still quite supportive of HK films but the mkt is small.
from china, hopefully, more returns and this can be used to do more good films.

he said not many pple associate much with HK movies now as upcoming movie markets like Korea and Thailand...are simply not keen to watch hk movies with a hk cast.
that's why over the years he have moved to work with mainland china, thai and korean movie pple.
i think the downfall of HK movie industry is simply....many movies are simply crappy with some funny script. not to put the youngers down but their acting cant be compared with the more serious actors of the past. many of them focus a lot on their image and packaging that anything else is sometime overtaken. as for actors elsewhere, they take their craft seriously....maybe HK moves too fast...one movie can be made in er..a month?

but anyway, he he still proud to say that HK movie industry is not also truly over as after all he is a HK director! haha....just that his movies doesnt have much HK elements in it. he does love HK a lot and is always promoting HK (as he didnt get to spend too much time in HK during his youth)....and is very proud of Golden Chicken.
it was a did extremely well in HK, making box office record but still the movie lost money. it was too hk culture based.

Thumbs up to those who thot of golden chicken too as its very relective of golden era of HK seen thru the eyes of a happy-go-lucky prostitute.
esp in part 2, where jacky cheung plays a enthusiatic hawker in a nite market selling cheap watches in the 80s...i was really transported back to that era! the excitement i had when i first visited HK in 1984 walking thru the busy streets and ladies mkt... the city is just full of life!...i remeber my dad bought one of those hello kitty digital watches for me at ladies mkt...it was cheap, nice and NOT available in Spore!! and looks er..real. haha...god i was happy.

i still rate hk as my #1 holiday place...nothing can replace the special vibe in HK. u just cant explain it. after 1997, a lot of ups and downs for the place and pple were not partying as much as before but until now...no city is quite like it.

why french food is $$$

ah...French food! paris yah....all that refine stuff...now i know why french food is seldom cheap.....cause french cooking is really quite feaking detailed! finally attended a french cooking class last weekend. thot "hey great...next time i can cook something authentic..." but woah....its a lot of work just for a simple 3 course meal! and the ingredients used must be fresh and all created from scratch. quite a lot of work.
thats why the food taste fine.
the chef that taught us used things like fresh vanilla pod and also made his own hollandise sauce (spelling).....u know to make that sauce, you need to reduce white wine vinegar, whisk the mixture over warm water etc ..... over all i can imagine being dead tired after all the preparation and steps. no wonder the chef said he hardly eat at the restaurant cuz after work, its straight to home and sleep!
but the work was worth it esp when pple marvel at the beauty and taste of the food. french cusine is very small in portion but rather rich so, you will be full but not really fat. haha....
and now i know why Olio stopped serving that delicious exclusive french butter with their bread, cause that piece of butter easily cost S$1 a piece! so i guess cost buay tahan liao, have to use Anchor butter. apparently French butter taste nice cause of higher fat content...but i think there is more to that.

twins here again....noticed many HK girls tend to have thick dark eye brows.....eg cecilia cheung and few TVB actresses. while their tw counterparts have a totally diff look...more pale, and flat features....like that kind of typical "ling dai yu" fair beauty look? 

Twins - Ah Gil (left) and Charlene 

Ah-Sa and Ah-Gil

being national day, there are lots of activities and fireworks.....and free concerts. yes, in the world of mando pop nowadyas, free concerts are a common thing for promotions. so bad in tw, that if its a paying concert, nobody be willing to pay a cent to watch a quality show!....

anyway, luckily in spore, its not like that, pple are willing to part with $200 to see some big scale live entertainement, just that dont expect them to get excited of express themseves at the concert ...haha.

one of the free concerts will feature TWINS.....a very popular 2 girl group from HK.
when i first know of them in 2002 during a trip to HK, i thot they were just commercial crap....but its 2005 now and they are still surviving very well. they cant really sing for nuts but the record company has managed to market them so well, that many people find them cute and nice to look at. they are always smiling, wearing nice clothes and posing in pleasing way.

sometimes the x factor is really quite unexplainable. ah sa is not particularly pretty but u wouldnt get sick of her looks. she is so call the cute one. Ah Gil is the pretty one but a bit more reserve sometimes and quieter. but with her beauty she can get away with any sloppy clothes and still look good. just like sammi cheng.
these 2 girls work almost non-stop for 3-4 yrs and are seen almost everyday on the media be it for movies, music, concerts, ads, events etc. and still give you their brighest smile!

there is something about these HK girls that make them look cool. unlike tw female stars, the HK girls can wear as tom boyish as they like, something that covers all their assets and still look like a STAR! tw stars always have to look cute or sexy or the boys wouldnt like them. they just dun have that "qi zhi" (charisma?)
if a tw girl singer comes out wearing a baggy t shirt, cargo pants and sneakers i think that star will not sell.

but hk its different, with nice make up and cool looking hair....everyone can look like a million dollars. for example, there is an ad by mariam yeung on tv showing her skate boarding for a chinese medicine ....she wears a boyish shirt , loose pants with bright purple/red longish sassy hair...and she looks great or cool at least. twins have worn some pretty mis match stuff but still forgivable.

thats the thing about HK, they work very hard and the harder they work, the more energy level they have. the city always has a buzz or vibe around it. a very cosmo place. i have to agree on that, sometimes the more work i have, the more energy i get. and u dun feel like stopping.
but a totally relaxed day would make me even more sleepy.

i guess the marketing people behind twins are prob quite brilliant too....from a typical girl group that i think nothing off to their concert tonight that i am curious to watch! hmmm....power of the media and commercial people nowadays.

Its Aug 9 again!

Its Aug 9 again.....the birthday of the country that i was born, bred (is there such a word? haha) and raised. haha. but do i feel any patriotism? well, not really..just enjoy the day off from work. but come to think of it, spore's success today is not easy to come by. but prob most of us take that for granted. there are pros and cons living in this somewhat plastic country.

i went to bintan 3 weeks back, on the ferry back to spore, there was an awful irritating immigration video warning pple about what to declare, what kinda of tax on cigarettes, liquor...and of course death for drugs. its such a typical spore govt style video!! i mean, must they be so lor sor? the presentation of the video was bad too, using a boring powerpoint style format with cut and paste pictures and a damm lousy narrator! prob one of the male custom officer. with that boring layman spore style english. i mean this kind of vid is broadcast to many tourists etc...how can the standard be so bad? further more, the video is about warning pple coming into spore....is that what you call a welcome? before i can visit yr country, already got 20 rules for me to follow. i dunno lah, i felt a bit paiseh to see that. maybe the narration could be a bit softer and friendlier etc.

i can just imagine the boring, maybe local grad guy behind the video talking in his monotonous voice. are they so cheap to just use their own staff for a corp video?

maybe in other countries, the customs wouldnt bother to say too much before u enter the country. some things are obviously illegal ....... spore is so systematic , sometimes overboard...it may be quite efficient but now...its loosing out to many countries cause its boring to be here.

hope in the near future, the govt would be more relaxed on certain things in spore where the people will be able to make more decisions for themselves.

i think for a start, they shld relax a lot on rules for running a business in spore. lots of youths may have brilliant business ideas but its just too tough to implement them. in the end, what do we do? get a job in the office, 9 to 5pm with a fixed salary is the way to go to survive. is that the young people we want in the future to propel the country future in this competitive world?
maybe this will work 20 yrs ago...but not now.

i chat with some of my customers sometimes and they said their local business....the real headache is getting all the approvals and licenses...it could be up to 20 such approvals before any thing can start! of course, there must be a reason for each approval but this is certainly way to cumbersome esp for aspiring and amatuer people who like to try it out for the first time.

oh well, but in anyway, lots of people do say spore is a safe place for living and stuff (yeah...touch wood....terrorism is on the cards).... yes i do agree with them in a way. but we sure gotta also learn from other countries. they also have their strong points...despite higher crime rates or negative media reports....sporeans cant live in a well, watching those patriotic videos and songs on TV and always think we are the best. that would be our downfall.

ok...Happy 40th Birthday Spore!
i am still proud to hold the red passport and wish spore all the best for the future.

why why!?? so hard to close a gas deal? everytime its near to conclude, something crops up! sometimes i dun know if i shld give up this industry...really getting boring and stale.
although colleagues are nice, location is good but i dun seem to be acheiving something that is satisfying.
and now the boss says more investors will be coming into spore...that means more investor relations needed...sure that could be fun but not when we are talking about chemical process and other non-interesting topics!

cool on the outside

Just started using the oh so cool and sleek Motorola V3 Raz...yep.....the thinnest phone around made out of aircraft aluminum....its definitely nice piece of art ...but function wise ....not so high tech as it looks. wonder why?.....why why does motorola never make smart user freindly phones...why why does motorola make boring old fashion looking phones...i guess its cause they are american?. america never really had many interesting innovative interesting designs...somehow they dun look modern.
now that the V3 looks so good but sadly the functions and technology inside the phone is prob only half of Sony Ericsson.

i could make a wrong judgement as the blue tooth apparently works very well in the v3 and its a quad band phone (i know tri band works in US as well as GSM networks..what about quad band? works in Japan and Korea?...have to find out)....but as you go thru the phone, ..the interface is quite dull, icons everything not like sony's 3D looking icons, memory is only 5mb, sony is 41mb for a model that came out last year, no video capture only video playback (V odd...the latest black version has video capture though)...and one function that i really miss is that during SMS....if a tel number or email add is in the message, SE phones will automatically recognise those numbers and highlight it and prompt you if you want to save it to the phonebook! that was really a useful function!

maybe SE is so cool cause they got most advance mobile phone technology from Japan and the also modern urban looking designes from Sweden. but still the v3's look is a winner..the 256k screen is sharp too. but after a while...the phone is really not that much fun. i guess depends on the user too. SE may be too cutesie for some users ..... i guess prob asians would love SE phones more

check out their websites and compare the feel
www.hellomoto.com
www.sonyericsson.com

never laughed so hard for a long time!

borrowed 3 DVDs from Music Junction to watch over the weekend...was thinking...hey $6 per dvd for 5 days aint that bad...yah i wun get to keep them but so what?! anyway i normally dun watch movies twice. the first feel is always the best. furthermore, the cinema ticket prices are up again! but yet the stupid screens keep getting smaller and smaller ...no logic to really go to cinema now i think unless u want the darkness and the booming sound and echos. haha...

borrowed 2 titles that i always wanted to watch and 1 that i was just curious to watch.
1. Briget jones - the edge of reason
yes! the badly reviewed part 2 of BJ!! heck with the reviews...i had to see it for myself...after all she is cute and so real and that boyfriend of hers...hmm...mark darcy (acted by colin filth..pardon the spelling)...he doesnt look handsome or anything but there is just something special about him. he is a top notch lawyer but super serious and boring ...in a way. but with a heart of gold.

the part 2 wasnt as fresh or funny as the part 1 but i think that is common. this time bridget has a BF! finally...but she feels insecure about the relationship. the movie actually deals with the more settled side of BJ but i guess the masses wanted to see her goof up more. the movie is not without those goofy moments like her ski trip, buying a pregnancy kit using german..haha, taking to her bf on the answering machines and the door intercom at the same time..., staring at him in bed in a silly manner ...rather adorable .... but to follow the success of the first show, the director prob lost some of her ideas and followed the winning formulas from the last show. so a bit made up for some scenes.

the thailand bit was not really needed but one scene was quite meaningful as BJ was complaing to her thai inmates how angry she is with her BF. then the thai girls said, their bfs, make them work the whole day, beat them up, ask for money etc etc...and asked her what nasty things he did to her?...and she could only mumble :er..."fold his underwear in a boring manner "..haha..and he is boring or something...hahah..then she got nothing to say any more and said : yeah, he made me sell drugs too! etc..." so as not to loose face. hugh grant is as usual charming and he continues to have an entertaining and amusing fight with darcy.
overall, ok lah...watchable but dun think there will be part 3.

Now the really hilarious movie was "Harold and Kumar goes to White Castle". This movie is awesome!!! (do i start sounding like some american...hehee)...really one of those movies that will have you launghing out LOUD till your tummy hurts! always wanted to watch this movie as the plot sounds interesting and silly...but u know its still something that i can relate to.

Its really a guy buddy movie...these 2 frens Harold (korean guy) and kumar (indian guy) are room mates. harold is a little uptight and always get bullied in office while kumar is a fun loving happy go lucky kind of guy who hates to comply to his parents wishes for him to be a doctor.

one night while they were watching TV and smoking some pot (i think), this White Castle ad came out (burger joint) and they suddenly craved for it like crazy!!! the prob is the nearest white castle is quite a distance away..so they drove off to find white castle but inbetween, they met with unexpected and crazy adventures along the way!! all in one night!! its just hilarious!!! they actually took a ride on a cheetah along the highway!! haha and one part they stole these hooligans (who always bully them) truck like vehicle to continue their trip, to their surprised the Cds in side were like "baby baby" by amy grant and hold on by Wilson Philips!! haha i couldnt stop lauging when 2 of them started singing along to the cheesy "Hold On" with a lot of feelings too! esp the chorus! haha
another really funny part was when a staff at another buger joint went bersek at the drive in counter as they were trying to order their food. he just went crazy and started swearing like mad!

along the way there are many sterotype jokes on asians and blacks ...but really just humourous.

its really been a long time since a movie can make me laugh like that.
i think a lot will agree, the movies nowadys are hardly memorable or that entertaining as before. this is really a simple movie but lots of crazy ideas and fun. just like those fun movies from the 80s.
sometimes, we can really do without the big budget and packaging.

the last movie i borrowed was suprise surprise : Mean Girls....sigh,,yah...one of those current teenage crap movies. i was curious what is exactly the hype about lindsey lohan..(spelling)...
anyway, its ok lah...talks about this generation high school and all...not exactly mean as i thot...more like fluff. dun borrow it unless u wanna watch some high school girls prancing about. the story is real weak too, so is the romance interest.

blogging in my jail cell

ah...poor blog....its quite pathetic that i am not been filling up anything here...dunno why, perhaps i am too lazy...i do think a lot , lots of dreams and funny thots...typical pisces but somehow i am so lousy at penning whatever i think! sssshhh...feel quite shallow suddenly.

wouldnt have entered anything here until an sms from a happy go lucky friend....its 19:45, spore time and i am here YES here still in my office prison cell...finishing up the remains of the evil monday blues! well, hmmm...at least i just closed a deal...not a big one but at least something.

but hmm today aint that bad as last week, last week was just total NO MOOD to do anything feeling in the office...felt life was grey...went to read a friend's blog about her life in japan. as visually exciting as tokyo can get but ultimately i thot...hey she has her own stress in japan too despite the colour clothes and vibrant urban life there. nobody said life was easy. perhaps spore is just too small and we get bored easily. hey any spore bloggers here? what do you guys do on the weekends?!!!! BEsides hanging out at orchard rd lah, suntec city lah...
not sure what are my hobbies now.....maybe i shld take up higher chinese...that shld be useful enough....

finally open the wrapper of my 2 mth old incredibles DVD on sat....was finally bored enough to do that and look forward to a good movie...who knows i turn the damm DVD off after 45 mins. Sadly the movie was dry and wordly....sigh.....nothing compared to nemo and toy story. i think i like cute silly characters...the beefcake looking guy inside just bores me. and the dialogue isnt witty AT ALL. some say that european designer woman inside with her italian or french accent is cute...but i think i will be more entertained watching that weird and dried up karl langerfeld talk at some fashion show.

nowadays as i get older, i find i have no patience to watch any movie of a drama nature. it just bores me and make me feel even more dull.....crazy comedies is what i like best.
never get sick of those HK classics....just totally no meaning but funny. at least they let out their craziness.

hey! quite happy to see that i have 2 guest from US who left comments on my blog...hello hello...welcome ^^
i feel really happy and surprised as my blog is practically nothing. thats the wonder of the net eh...the world does indeed gets smaller:) ok..... thats it for a monday....back home, dinner get forced to view desparate housewives (my sis fave show)....cheerio!

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not to mention in 2004, i had a promotion, a smooth working environment, watched jeff chang. jay chou and faye wong live, transfered to town for work...etc etc...hmmm...can 2005 be just as fulfilling? have to try.

was i ever there?

suddenly thot about the trip to europe again...its always like that...after a while, this trip will come back to my memory and i ask myself "was i ever there?"
got an email about special fares from air france, so i visited the site.....there they listed many cities we could book over the net...and yes ..i saw Sin - Cote D Azur - Nice as one of the desitinations. $1400 ...so easy to book and buy a piece of dream.
ah.....i went to see some pics of it on the net...its really so pretty and nice . and i was there walking along the Promenade des Anglais last Oct, feeling so relaxed and comfortable.....

some times i wonder why i still have a imaginery feeling about the trip to europe. when i was there, why does it feel so common and natural....like spore was just next door. and yet now in spore, i feel cote d azur is a million miles away from me.

i also remembered the little boat ride along the italian coast...porting into protove...ah whatever....that is such a pretty town too with pretty little boats.....
how many sporean have been there?

if only i could just absorb the place for a little longer.

last year was indeed a fantastic year for me and somehow i feel so afraid that this year would not be such a good one. doesnt help that the fortune for rabbits aint too good this year!
last year was quite unbelievable....visited HK, Tokyo, Taipei , Kl, M'cca and 4 cool countries in europe.
what to discover this year?