Bob The Vampire Slayer

A certain quarter of the Singapore population believes that Buffy The Vampire Slayer is a bad influence to teenagers. Cutting a long silly story short, the claim was that BtVS gives the wrong idea about witchcraft and black magic to impressionable youngsters ( The Power Of Three Stooges Charmed was quoted as another culprit). So the lobbying was for TCS to keep all these "misleading" dramas to the midnight slot (where only daddy can oggle at the braless Charmed sisters).

I LOVE BtVS. I need Buffy to relax and unwind. I need to see Buffy kick vampire asses and Willow and Sanders and all those angst-ridden American teenagers doing their stuff. Its my escapism from the real mundane and stressful world.


If they kick BtVS off the prime slot, then I will take over Buffy's mission in ridding the world of vampires and creatures of the night...

Googledme

Was doing a google search (can't say googling) when accidentally chanced upon Bovination at page 4 of Search "Ugly Singaporean". Heheh....didn't recognised it was mine initially.

Happy Rotter

OK, it is Harry Potter. I am like wondering whats the hurry, the rush to get the latest hardcover (read heavy) copy of Harry Potter & The Order Of Phoenix? The total number of the books at Borders can build a bridge over Singapore River! And to think that some even pre-ordered the book? I am sure it'll hit the movie screen soon enough.

Then there are others who, not knowing the reality of book publishing, asked for the paperback version.

Talking about Harry, here's another Harry's book I will rush to get my hands on.

Deviant Art

Joined Deviant Art and posted my first submission. Well, I'm no Mike Bohatch or anything like him, but dark, surreal, gothic and fantasy arts have always attracted me since I first doodled on the walls (it was a wooden walls of kampung house).

Fathers Day Presents

There is a Prequel to this post. And it goes like this: A week ago my dearest wifey decided to buy me an advance (hehehe) Fathers' Day Gift. A box of VCD for the complete series of "Band Of Brothers" (which I missed when it was showing on HBO - mainly because I do not subscribe to HBO). So there it was - my fathers' day gift. Case closed. or so I thought.

Fast Forward to today. Not expecting any gift for fathers' day (see prequel above) wifey asked if I am enjoying the VCD she bought for me that day. Of course, I really enjoyed them and said rightly so. After dinner, and right after changing Mik's diaper, she pushed a blue-ribboned box just beside me and wished me Happy Fathers day (I was like , hey FD is tomorrow, but you don't argue about this thing with wifey I tell you).

In it is a NOKIA 6610 Handphone complete with the camera headset accessories. A new handphone! yippeee!

hey so what? just a new hp? whats the big deal you say? Well, it is a big deal to me cuz I was actually hoping to get rid of my old Samsung HP which, by today's standard, is archaic. NOKIA 6610 is of cos, not the latest or "bestest", but it comes with a digital camera (as attachment), MMS and GPRS enabled. And best of all, it came from her. **Mmmuackz!

I am still beaming with excitement.

Thank you darling.

Shichida

This should be posted three nights ago, but well, u know, me very busy. SO here goes.

Went to Tg Pagar Plaza for this presentation about the Shichida Pre-School Training (for toddlers). It looks like just any other Childcare / Pre-school Centre except that this place is very ...Japanese. This is the only Singapore "franchise" for the Shichida Institute, the director being one of the student studying the Shichida method of Pre-School Education.

The claim (success & track record) were very, very impressive. Toddlers barely the age of 5 can recite essays & writings by just glancing through books & articles. Kids graduated with photographic memories and some even can scan books by touching. But all these examples are by way of video presentation showing Japanese Kids at the Shichida Institute in Japan. One thing I notice though (and it send a slight shiver down my spine) is the look - their eyes - of these super kids seems kind of empty. Like lifeless, yet their brain seem to operate at fantastic recalling abilities. the word automatons comes to mind. Then again, I may be totally wrong. Maybe it is just them, being Japanese.


The Shichida philosophy, as I see it, is not that much different from the more well-known Montessori method. Some of the techniques are even employed at the Baby Jumper which Mikail is currently attending every weekend.

I am not motivated to send Mik to them. Even if Mik can excel at recalling facts and read books at the speed of light by their training, I have this sense of foreboding, of vague-ness about their method that put me off. Even at the expense of having a super-intelligent son. I dunno. I am not convinced.

Lena was more extreme (and if I may add, unkind?). She believes that the Shichida kids were all possessed by the devil.

And one more thing about the whole presentation that really amused us was that the presenter (the Director of the School) used OHP & Transparency in her presentation. OHP & transparency!! wow...nostalgic.

Come To The Edge
"Come to the edge", He said.
They said: We are afraid.
Come to the edge
He said. They came.
He pushed them, and
they flew..."

-Guillaume Apollinaire

Come and push me. I am ready.

mikail

The Apples Of My Eyes (and frankly I have no idea what this apple thingy means) in his angelic form. Getting him to be in his angelic form was hell...umm...difficult as he struggled and cried and turned the whole studio upside down. This must be one of the nanosecond when he managed to keep still to take a breather.

~ I believe I can fly ~ whooo!

NYT Headline Of The Year

This MUST be the Headline Of The Year for the New York Times.

The Singapore U-List

Am putting up the Singapore U-List (U = Ugly). Will add more as and when more available:

1. Joo Chiat Neighbour
2. People who throw soiled sanitary pad, curry & human faeces out of their HDB Kitchen window (see link in post below)
3. SIA Pilots who refused to accept Wage Cuts in time of bad economic condition just to maintain their "way of life"
4. Pasir Ris resident who agreed that stray cats should be culled because they "got in her way..."
5. People who block MRT exit door because of rushing for seats
6. My immediate Boss, who is an accomplished master in the art of pushing the blame...
7. ........[more to come]......

Barbaric Heartlander

Singaporean Heartlander at their lowest, ugliest and worst-est (I am out of word). This will go into the Annals Of Ugly Singaporean and is comparable to the episodes of the Silly Joo Chiat Neighbour.

link via pep @ Blind8.

Matrix Reloaded Revisit Re-whatever...

Got this via this link. Amusing. Almost believable. These are the kind of post movie discussion (hallucinations) that makes the viewing worth the tix.

"The One" is the result of the Pentium Division Error.
Architect: Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent in the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision.
Clearly, the architect is talking about the pentium division error. If the matrix were built on more reliable hardware such as Sun systems or open-source influenced proccessor designs like those from transmeta, then we would be living the rest of our lives in the paradise world of the original matrix. Instead, we're all stuck in the substandard reality.

But, since the machines are just machines without souls, they went for the less expensive, lower quality corporate endorsed w/intel solution. We're all paying the price now.

More on Pentium Division Error here.

E + R = O
We were all herded into the Conference Room for an important "motivational talk". Attendance is compulsory. Means that Boss really had something important to say. Also means that I shouldn't sleep / switch off / dream away as I would usually (or inevitably) do when it comes to sitting around a big table discussing (yak yak yak) issues. Remind to self: do NOT bring along the head support pillow.

Turns out that Boss was very keen to share with us what he had learned from some course he had attended.

Turns out too that I cannot withstand the unrelenting onslaught of the ZzzZZZzz monster and was fighting a terrible, losing battle. Resistance was futile, but in between nods of comprehension and nodding to fall asleep, I managed (awesome me!) to retain this cryptic info:

E + R = O

wadahell? Events + Responses = Outcome. Boss was telling us that whatever "Events" or happenings that befall us, our own responses(R) to such events will determine the outcome(O). So, if you want to change the outcome, you will have to control / decide / manage your RESPONSES to the Events. I assume of cos, events here is "given", non-negotiable and dependants only on outside forces.

Example : Boss Give Work (E) + I Refused To Do Work & Tell Him To Shove Up...(R) = I Am Unemployed (O)

Hmmm....Perhaps I am always trying to change E rather than R. And O usually equals to F (Fantasy)