Singapore Idols

19th January 2006

Lately the fever of the idols have been at it again. Every channel on the tv keep flickering the ads on the singing competition, be it American Idol, Malaysian Idol or the Singapore Idol. The popularity of these programmes goes on and on. But what set me thinking, again, is the Singapore Idol.

I do hope Singapore Idols have more promising stuffs to be viewed on other than the stupidity of a handful of embarassing 'creatures' and the beauty of singing. Unlike American Idol and Malaysian Idol, Singpore Idol lacks totally on the closet infantry. I don't know if anyone ever notices it but if you were to watch the programme properly, all of their clothes that the competitors wore are too static. What happens to the colors of life that so many designers in the world have so hard in trying to achieve?! Singapore Idols really need to liven up and be more colorful.

Perhaps its the lack of sponsors or perhaps its Clothing Rack Off Day... Think I'm kidding? Take a good look at the clothes they wore and count the number of times T-shirts and jeans were worn. Even the gals wore your typical faded blue jeans which are such a normality these days. Come on!! This is a country-wide competition not some head banging gig in the Youth Park.

Then there is the huge flaw on the small pathetic size stage. I think they should host the stage in a place which is more grand that shows the kind generosity that Singapore has. I think they should host it in Sentosa, they have an extremely huge and beautiful land there which were often used for the year countdown. And for godsakes someone please sponsor them some disco lights or something funky. Get something more colourful or something more lively, no more static displays please...

Take a look at Malaysian Idol. I mean wow... for a country which most Singaporean looks slightly down upon, they can really make people shake their bums and enjoy themselves. The ambience of being in somewhat of a disco thingy is there and their clothes!! Now that is as good as the American Idols added with the Oscar. Take Jacquelyn (did I spell that right?) for example. Her last performance was done with grand with her beautiful and I can bet very expensive gown, with a huge stage and exquisite lighting designs makes her really look like a STAR. Now that, ladies and gentlemen is what I call a performance from an IDOL.

I really hope this new season of Singapore Idol is something worthwhile to gawk on. I'm praying hard that they had done their homework and I can get to see my funky colors and laugh my guts out at those people who became idiots instead of idols. *snickers*... Anger and jealousy can bring the most foul languages from anyone. I wonder how many different foul languages the Singaporeans will be using since we are very bilangual or was it triangual? LOL

Till next time! Fingers crossed!!
Ciaoz!

Quote of the day: For godsakes!!

Sickly Vampire...

15th January 2006

Yesterday was the worse day of my life ever since the new year. I was down with sickness that had me running to the toilet every 10 mins and spewing all of the contents in my stomach. It became worse when I came down from my sanctuary and the smell of pineapple tarts hits me. I think I made a new record as I dashed to the nearest toilet. Usually the smell of tarts would have made me dashing to the kitchen and stealing one of them baking tray but this time... It was torture.. I would have never thought my favourite food would turn against me.

That was only half of it! Unfortunately mom cooked my favourite dish which was fish curry and veggie cooked in dhal which became my biggest nightmare. So since nothing in the kitchen could supplement my sickly needs, I went back into the room and did whatever bears during winter do best, hybernate. Just when I thought vomitting for the whole night and day was the only problem, I got another problem tingling in my side, stupid bowels of mine became hyperactive. So there I was sprinting to the toilet for either bowel problems or vomitting.

By the end of the day, my lips became chapped and I was as weak as a babe. I can't even walk properly without bending over like a crone and shivering at the slight gust of the wind. But I did managed to nibble on a slice of bread which fortunately didn't come out like the rest of its friends. At 7pm I finally managed to get my medicine down and if I had known that it would be my miracle cure, I would have eaten them earlier... hehehe.. yes for the whole day I didn't eat my medicine.. *shrugs* Hey... the doctor did say to take my medicine AFTER food and since nothing could stay still in my tummy, I find it pointless to take anything that will soon be deposited into the toilet bowl..

But I hadn't thought that I could sleep my whole day and night away. Wow... Even my past illness had never given me the privileage of sleeping my day away. Hehehe..

There were those weird dreams I had when I was sleeping my sickness off.. I dreamt pineapple tarts were surrounding me with evil intent gleaming in their eyes, which makes me ponder : Pineappple tarts don't have eyes, right?

There were other weird dreams but they were less prominent.. hehehe.. trust my mind to go overdrive when I'm sick..

Anyway I'm feeling much better now although my favourite coffee which I had taken just taken tasted nothing like the previous ones.. must because I'm still recovering.. I'm still avoiding the pineapple tarts, not trusting my still churning stomach..

Oh yeah I almost forgot!! I found an extremely good site for Sims2 downloads!! Woohoo!! Its free but you have to register. They have all sorts of meshes and cool stuffs to download and so far, its the best that I've seen.. Its called Mod Sims 2 and you can check it out at the side navigator bar on the right.

Ciaoz!!

Quote of the day: Burp!

Something NEW

12th January 2006

Lately work has been stretching me to the limits. Last week handed in a pile of car accessories samples, a fender or something, to a client and now waiting for the result. It was pure hardwork in making the damn samples... I started on it from 8am and worked my back off til 9.30pm and even once til 10pm. My hands were totally scratched and my fingers!! Hah.. I can bet that if I were to go for a fingerprint test, I would surely fail. They are badly scratched from the dumb wire mesh which I had to painstakingly cut and the sharp edges of those custom made hinges. My fingers were so sorely tested that I had to use a handiplast on the fourth day.

Thought it was the last of hell when finally handed the samples over but complications erupted, badly!! It turns out the adhesives we used to stick the hinges onto the fibre glass body didn't stick well and I had to do some fast calls on the experts of fibre glass. Before I knew it, I had to march in the heavy downpour with the water level an ankle deep and head off to the factory in Singapore and reinstall everything from scratch.. And it was a SUNDAY!!!!

Curse my sorry luck....

Anyway had a nice day off due to Raya Haji and stayed over at gramps with the whole family. It was so relaxing, no work, no noise and mostly.. Lots of food!!! hehehe.. I love my granny!! She always cooks alot whenever her grandchildren came..

But the best part was when sis came over with her family. Everyone was cooing and coddling Amelia and boy was she the center of attention, not that I mind. She is so kawaii!! Oh yes, she crawls and her smile was so extremely cute!!! Grandad had to spoil it all by giving her a mock glare while she was crawling for my Hp and poof!! She turned around and cried for her mommy... hilarious!!

I find the way Amelia crawling to her mommy and making her into an extremely comfy makeshift sofa very endearing.. Really... If I were to have a family of my own, I want a child just like that, of course minus the 'loves-to-cry-at-nothing' attitude.. lol.. And that pic above as you can see, Amelia is chomping her way on a very juicy piece of orange.

Been raining here for a couple of days in a row.. Very cold... Wonder when the monsoon season is gonna end.. I wanna jog, not swim.. hehehe

Cioaz!!
Quote of the day: Smile through your day and you will feel extreme joy by the end of the day

New Years Gift

1st January 2006

Lastnight went out at 10pm, thinking to only relax and enjoy the heavenly delights of MacDonald's. I think I had too much pent up energy that even after walking for a few kilometers during the evening and running for another 2km, my body was still very much active. So much for the theory of running my energy off... hehehe...

So anyway I had twister fries, chocolate sundae and coke while my cutie of a fren had tea and nuggets. I had intended to pay for it since I did ask him out but that exasperating fren of mine had other ideas.. there goes my title of Miss Indepent. He has a very 'nice' habit of making my title drop a few notches especially with that 'look' of his.

So with my hyperactive self and adrenaline still singing merrily in my blood, I guess I took the wrong menu. The moment I muched those delights away, I got more hyper (trust me, coke and icecream and fries makes me very hyper and that was lucky that I didn't have coffee along) which resulted in me yapping happily about my school life years ago, places to find great and cheap food in Singapore and having girl talk with a guy fren... lol... yes hunnies, I had gal talk with a guy, horrible... lol

From the look on his face, I can assure you that he was shocked. Can't fault him since everytime we went out, I only spoke a few sentences that has nothing pertaining to my personal life and all it took to make me feel loosen up was 2 cups of medium sized coke, large fries and sundae. Well at least he didn't say a thing about my weird passion for french fries dipped in vanilla ice cream. Did I mention that the invention tasted heavenly? hehehe..

At around 15mins to midnight, we took off to Stulang, a jetty area, much to my surprise since after all he only said we are going to get my coke and munchies. That night, I found out that my dear fren has a sadistic amusement at seeing me squirm in my seat. I can't help it since that moron didn't bother refueling his tank and it was 1mm touching the Empty Zone. He even had the cheek to say that in case the fuel ran out, I will have the honor of pushing his car. Yeah right! Not if I push him off the road first!!! lol...

Even after pestering him to refuel, he still cheerily drove to Stulang while I resist the urge to whack him on the head a couple of times with my keys (that's the only thing I brought other than my HP and wallet). We finally reached there after a long stretch of traffic jam only to be faced with another heavily congested road heading to the Stulang area. Now I remember why I never go out during New Year's Eve, heavy traffic congestion.

The place was so populated, which I can wager it only happens once a year, that to find an empty parking lot is as good as searching a needle in a hay stack but eventually we did. So there we were walking along the bricked pathway when suddenly the ground underneath my right foot disappeared and I went vertically fell onto the ground. It turns out that 2 of the bricks were missing which resulted a hole in the path and since it was hollow, my whole right leg filled the void. After righting myself up with help of course, hearing a group of passing by young bikers teasing and laughing at my expanse and listening to my fren asking for my welfare, I did the one thing which I was extremely tempted to do since the fall. I laughed.

The scenario of my falling seems extremely hilarious to me that I can't seem to stop laughing even after my fren seen to my feet. I had never thought that a scene that usually happen in a cartoon would take its effect on me. The very idea of me falling vertically caused by a hole is really funny. There were a few scratches and a huge blue-black wound on my upper thigh which my fren does not know of (if he does, I am sure that he would never let me off his sight whenever we go out). But other than that, the whole thing went on quite smoothly.

After that fall, my fren took the responsibility of being my nanny, LITERALLY!! Yeah laugh all you want... Everytime we're going to cross the road he makes sure that I hold his hand, he will always walk infront of me to make sure there isn't anymore unexpected holes (which I think is a lil too much) and... UGH! the list is too long...

Hey don't take it in the wrong side. I do appreciate his care and concern but its just that I had been too independent for years of my life and to have someone looking over me is quite a change for me... I guess I need to do a lil change on my part.

We saw a few drunkards, kids whom I think deserved to be in bed at that hour, couple smooching and yeah.. everything seems to be going quite smoothly.

Oklah.. too tired to type more.. Need to sleep else that person is going to have my ear for looking worse than a panda in China. Hehehe..

Oh yeah that picture above is my 60yr old uncle who is repairing his Honda CRV with my dad at my place. Who says old men can't work?

Ciaoz hunnies!!

Quote of the day: Never think you are too old to have fun