happy halloween !!

hail britannia!!

little britain is coming to perrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrth !! on 22 feb 2007, matt lucas and david walliams will be here doing the little britain live show. and it will be great. tickets on sale 6 november and they will be expensive and stoo will have to purchase them because i will have no internet. and they will be so expensive but i would sell my left tit to get a ticket.

ok maybe not a tit. maybe a kidney.

harrrrr !! because stoo is the best, he bought me a life-sized captain jack sparrow cut-out. it is amazing and i love it and i hope he comes to life =D

also, lingling baked cake that was tasty as heck !! she is like nigella lawson + martha stewart without the massive tittays or the jail sentence.

dan from work is going back to poland in 5 or 6 weeks, and they're selling everything in their house. pool table, tvs, sofas the lot. so he invited us over to have a look at the remaining junk and look what i got !!

look at that antennae !! i don't even know what to do with it. dan's dad swears it works. we'll see. but i just think it's soooo coooool.

dan's dad: 25
me: 20
dan's dad: done. [to his wife] young girls nowadays are tricky.

i just got off the phone with the guy at the salon and i dont think i've been called "babe" so many times in one conversation. by anyone. ever. i didn't count but it went something like "what time babe? that's cool babe. see you soon babe". and it wasn't in a johnny bravo "hey baby" kinda way. this was a "hey girlfriend let's have a slumber party and give each other pedicures and gossip about boys" kinda thing.

so the question is: is it a pre-requisite for male hairstylists to be gay? flamingly or otherwise? and even if they declare that they "loves the women" like a certain taiwanese stylist once declared. it's still so dubious. so the poll for today is:

have you ever met a straight male hairstylist? yes no View Results Make your own poll

n.b. by hairstylist i mean your toni&guy or reds or supercuts guy. not your neighbourhood barber

what transpired between mother & stoo at 1.15pm:

hello cousin of my daughters, birthday dinner this sunday at 7.30 is that ok?

yes, daughter of my mother's mother. that is ok.

thank you, brother of my sister's son. will let you know details later.

nothing terribly significant .. i just thought it was funny that's all.

october is so birthday-ful!

*ask ann ann is a letters/advice column that appears in woman's day (or was it woman's weekly) here.
** that creature on the bottom is anne from little britain.

this is loooooong overdue but anyway tonight at dinner, dad randomly said to bashoo "you know, i don't know why but everytime i see you i think of sashimi". so here it is, bashoo! your extremely belated birthday card!

itadakimasu!!

look at all that booty!! [link]

thanks for the link girlie! this is toooo mesmerising =P

i have claimed my spot on the intarweb!
sheep suggested i claim my blog on technorati, so i have.

[stolen from other bunny's blog]

this is such a cool video. you've got to have real player to view it, but it's so worth it!!

courtesy once again of sheep! i dunno how she finds these links, but i think it has something to do with her being a blog-stalker net-savvy.

anyway the point is, how bourgeois can a person get? and is it really possible to shoot yourself in the foot while it's stuck in your mouth?!

so now she's shut down her blog (but someone else opened a new one under the same name), and deleted all pictures off her photobucket or something (although there are some pics of her still in circulation). i kind of feel sorry for her that people are making such lame arse threats and insulting her and her big mole and big bewbies n what not, but it's pretty dumb to make immature and uncalled-for insults when the very thing you are mad at her about is her immature and un-called blog post. isn't it ?!

people are just stupid. singapore needs some kind of population cull =P oh no! am i going to be embroiled in some kind of blogosphere scandal now ?!?! say it ain't so !!

i was feeling quite disgruntled for awhile, because so many people were getting the cleopatra/chinadoll/emily the strange haircut that i'd gotten last year and spent a whole year growing out. o the weary life of the trend-setting girlie =P

so anyway, i decided to chop most of it off and do something a bit different. and at the expense of getting ridiculed on my own blog, here it is !! hyuga hinata's haircut, the hiromi + lynnie loo version.



yes mun, i agree with you that i am a bloody otaku. and unshamedly so!

lasnite someone asked what "emo" meant, and i said "emotional, right?" and someone else said "nono, misconception. it actually stands for emotive core." oh. GAFFE !! so being inquisitive and whatnot, i wikipediaed it.

so it actually is short for "emotional hardcore" .. righto. so you learn something new everyday etcetc. so in the spirit of this post (if you haven't already seen/heard), then i present to you hopeisemo.

img courtesy of person whose signature is above the shoe. stolen from wikipedia because i cldn't b bothered drawing my own emo.

happy birthday guys! you make uni bearable

ok so andy's birthday was ages ago (on 7 oct same as my sweet cousin dar) but his birthday dinner was tonight, so technically this card isn't all that late. and yes i copped out by combining katie and andy's birthday greetings. so sue me. but i think it's still freakishly cute =P

and has anyone realized that there are so many birthdays in october ?!

happy birthday, you chao mugger

you know you have way too much time on your hands if you spend your days making lego abominations and other assorted projects. although you know i'm just saying that because i really wish that i was the one spending my days doing random silly things.

also, how cool is this project? i wonder if i have a doppelganger .. although meeting her would be a bit scary, and if your relatives see one it supposedly means that ill-fortune will befall you.

wa heeey! it's a war! well not just yet, but soon i think .. although i hope not. war is bad.

best bits from the article:

" the U.S. and Britain say most inspections of ships would be done at ports rather than on the high seas. Australia announced it was banning the North's ships from entering its ports, except in dire emergencies. "
what constitutes dire emergency? i dont really know what kind of business n. korea has with australia, or america or britain for that matter. kimchi trade? we can get that from south korea! or perhaps they are importing our fine australian minerals and agricultural produce.

" In a sign of Beijing's wariness about refugees, construction of a massive concrete and barbed wire fence along parts of its 880-mile border with the North has picked up in recent days. "
guys that's great. rest of the world be-damned, nuclear warfare o-kay! just please don't give us your tired, your poor or your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. oh. and you can keep your tempest-tost too. thanks. can you imagine the conversations? CHANG! the negotiations have failed! DIG FASTER!

" Today, we just sent a batch of agricultural tools to North Korea by truck," said Huang Kelin, manager of Wanshida Trading Co., a Dandong-based firm that has an office in Pyongyang. "
so scrap my idea of n. korea importing fine aussie produce. they seem to be growing their own! unless they melt down the tools to build shells for their b-b-bombz.

more commentaries should appear on mer & co. shortly, i think. we always have something to say!

ARGH !!
if google's bought over youtube, and google's taken over blogger, why can't i link youtube vids to my blog even though i've switched to beta ?!?!?! it makes no sense. google makes no sense.

anyway click here [link] to watch a completely mesmerising vid.

so leslie suggested we make a list of "top songs of the 90s" and then make a compilation cd out of our choices and swap. i thought it was a brilliant idea, and since we truly are children of the 90s - having starte formal education in 1991 and finishing in 2000 and all that - why shouldn't we have a list!

he's done his in a top 20 countdown kind of way, but i think i'll do mine chronologically .. not exactly in the year that they were released but definitely in the order that i remember listening to them in. it kindof makes sense that way. and also, some of these are way too embarrassing for me to rate as "favourites" so i don't really want to let you know how much i like them! shame on me. whatever.

it's like a game! match the band/singer/atrocity to their picture! this blog is so interactive
some are a dead giveaway =P

1. ice ice baby, vanilla ice
2. u can't touch this, mc hammer
3. black or white, michael jackson
4. shiny happy people, r.e.m.
5. dream lover, mariah carey
6. waterfalls, tlc
7. back for good, take that
8. get down, backstreet boys
9. buddy holly, weezer
10. you oughta know, alanis morisette
11. forgiven, alanis morisette (anthem of angsty catholic schoolgirls in the 90s the world over)
    
12. lake of fire, nirvana
13. wonderwall, oasis
14. killing me softly, the fugees
15. stand by me, oasis
16. walking on the sun, smashmouth
17. semi-charmed life, third eye blind
18. calcutta (taxi taxi taxi), dr. bombay (i actually really hated this song. but it got so much airplay!! )
19. enter sandman, metallica
20. orion, metallica (not exactly 90s but we jammed it a lot in the 90s!!)

oh look, more "shameless self-plugging" (as a certain somebody put it)! now that mer & co. has some kind of graphical representation, basic though it may be, i can advertise once again!

we're actually hoping to score a book or talkback radio deal. if anyone wants to offer us a spot on tv we wouldn't mind either =D the initial plan was to market ourselves as a

thinktank .. 9 voices, 3 continents, 1 vision.

not bad ah?

we're still sorting out kinks here and there such as who posts with what colour. but! if you start following now and bear with us, you can count yourself as one of the rare few who will be able to look down your nose at others and say, "oh, those guys from mer & co.? i knew them from way before they were famous and snorting cocaine off buff young men's/nubile young ladies' backs".

if my memory serves me correctly, it was dee who said that unless her husband was the one who got pregnant and did all the breast-feeding, she would never want to have kids. WELL THEN!! do i have some news for you ..

male lactation is possible !! according to wikipedia =P

anonymoose phriend (AP) was saying how his bahasa is so rusty and he is unsure of whether even if he wanted to, he would be able to have an indo partner. so i thought i'd give him a refresher course on the glorious language that is bahasa indonesia. being the kind caring and sharing person i am, i will now impart this basic knowledge to you also.

introducing yourself
hi! nama saya [insert name]

giving compliments
kamu cantik (you are pretty)
boobies kamu besar sekali (your personality is enchanting)

sealing the deal
mau bang bang? (would you like to have coffee with me sometime?)

and finally a message to indonesia on behalf of my island ex-home:

sister #3 has just got her wisdom teeth out - all 4 of them at one go - and she looks both hilarious and pitiful.

so picture this:

a forlorn figure appears at the door:

#1: are you um *snigger* ok?
#3: my fayth ith all thwollen. [pats cheeks]
#1: oh *sniggers more* is that why you've got the .. ice packed around your face
#3: it'th meant to keep the thwelling down ..
#1: um .. your tissue ..
#3: i'm meant to thpit into ti-thooth. i'm gonna get thum thoop now. am i bruithed?
#1: no .. no not yet.

mmm and i was going to put up the get well card i made for her. but i think i would never be forgiven, so i won't =P see?! cruel but not that cruel ... it's on flickr. because she says "it's ok if i don't see it" and she doesn't check my flickr.

any dream interpreters around? someone tells me what this means!

i'm waiting in my car for a friend to get something from the shops and these people pull up behind me and start bumping into the back of my car. so i move one spot forward and these 2 guys get out of their car. the driver just runs ahead, but the passenger is this fat malay boy who keeps running up to my car and kicking it.

so being the gentle girlie that i am, i get out of my car and start yelling at him to stop kicking my effing car fatman!! upon which he charges at me but instead of kicking me, he just throws this sweaty towel at me, which makes me freak out more.

and all this while my friend hasn't appeared from the shops yet. but another passenger seems to have materialized out of nowhere in the backseat and says "give me the towel", which i do. and he folds it into a diaper and gives it back to me.

then while the fat malay boy is still yelling i throw the towel/diaper at him and say something to the effect of "god, don't wet your pants about it you big baby", which makes him spontaneously burst into tears.

then i remember grinning at my passenger (unknown intellectual skinny-looking guy) and agreeing with his statement that he's indeed quite great.

so weird !!

for the past few weeks a few friends and i have been email-threading and we thought maybe people would like to read the stuff we're writing about. because we think it's funny and maybe you will too. it's mostly weird news and random comments, so click here to read stuff.

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ok i know said i was on hiatus. but i guess blogging is something to distract myself with ... so i guess hiatus is cancelled. heh =P

anyway a funny story from work today ...

this happened a few years ago when waffle hell just opened and the boss took all the staff on an outing. so they all went horse-riding, and before any of the horses even moved, boss jumps off the horse !! so someone asks
"um. why'd you do that?"
"because the horse did someone weird"
"how d'you know? have you ever ridden a horse before??"
"i did! in fact i rode a horse for 5 straight days from iran to afghanistan ... oh wait no. that was a donkey"
"WHAT?!"
"um. yeah. when i was a refugee"

exciting huh !! i knew they left iran to flee ayatollah khomeini and we've always kindof imagined him to be wielding a machine gun and blasting his way out. but a donkey! and he looks like super mario too. so this is roughly what it'd hv looked like:

to afghanistan!!

heh. i know i said i'd be away for awhile. but then i realized today was my yuppie cousin's birthday. so i thought i'd post a public shout-out + birthday card i made.

we will re-create the nostalgia at your next big family event. i promise.

we're going on a short hiatus. but if you still want those stickers let me know! email or something.

liana sent me this link. i think i've seen it before but stopped reading for some reason. anyway i really like this one.

bboj has asked for a "heart your neighbour m*th*rf*ck*r" sticker, and i know fortycalibernap wants one too. so anybody else? 8 more up for grabs. limited edition. leave a (nice) comment if you want one.

sheep and friends were curious what my MBTI was, so i took a jung test which is supposedly similar. they were just wondering if personality-type had anything to do with the people we hung out with, and apparently we are! mostly differing by only one letter. if that makes any sense.

edit: i did this other one tht sheep gave me before, but then the okcupid one seems a bit more thorough so i re-took it. same results! got images summore. all those peeps are ENFP too.

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in other news, purgatory* is no more!

* for those of you who aren't catholic or haven't read a shakespearean play, wikipedia has a lovely entry on purgatory

how timely! just after sheepman's post, i found this in my inbox. it's a memo from an associate prof. at SMU to his students, reminding us why it's so useful to be bilingual in english and mandarin !

" Good morning my dearest students,

Over the weekend and up until this morning 10.00am I have the opportunity to review and comment on several students draft submission of assignment 3. I am very sorry to inform you that there are still room for improvement on the spreadsheet engineering aspect. Please kindly refer to the model answer provided. I am not try to "dick bones out of an egg" - a Chinese proverb, meaning that I looking for impossible. Together with this e-mail, I also enclosed two examples for your perusal. There are more examples in assignment 2.

Comply to specifications or requirements of your clients are very important in the real world practice. I am not going to be regretted if you angry with me or even graded me as a poor instructor if I marked you down. I have given students enough model answers and examples to refer to. You just need to change the can't be borded as long as my answer is correct attitude and be more careful on the requirements. It is not too difficult to comply. PLEASE! "

remember when il papa said that thing about the prophet mohammed that made everyone angry? and i mentioned something about his red prada shoes? anyway then i told zoot how funny it was that there's a movie called the devil wears prada and there is the pope wearing prada. and then zoot said how cool would it be if it were on a t-shirt. so then i wondered why i didn't think of doing this earlier.

i dont know why i can't embed youtube vids anymore. but anyhoo ...

a couple of weeks back, fortycalibernap sent me this link to a swedish chef video. some clever youtube-ing later, and i discover this guy's 14-minute swedish chef extravaganza !! it is amazing. børk! børk! børk!!

stoo just reminded me of this show we used to watch called the storm rages twice. it's set in lebanon and is quite arguably the worst soapie i've ever watched. and just so you know i'm not shitting you, here's some proof it exists !!

why do i bring this up? because stoo is currently watching the turkish version of the nanny called dadi, which he says is re-created pretty well except everything looks cheap. and mr. omer (aka mr. sheffield) has moobs.

boy from oz boy from oz boy from ozzzzzzzzzzz

marie was right! hugh jackman was hot enough to warm up burswood dome! no jackets required, ladies. so hot! so ambiguous !!

anyway if anybody wants to watch some more hugh "tasty" jackman goodness, check him out on enough rope with andrew denton re-telling his most hugh-miliating story and coming off looking great.

ok i'm over it. i swear.