Jesus! Finally, someone chosen...

Well, in the 1st place, who know if director Bryan Singer is gonna stick around to do it? I guess I speak for all of us when I say that he should fuck this project this project and go straight to pre-production on X-3. That's right. X-Men 3.

Anyhow, Jim Caviezel is rumoured to be the lead now for this Godsaken project about a man from another world with god-like powers to save us all. I'm not talking about "The Passion of The Christ 2: The Resurrection" or "The Passion of The Christ 2: I Ain't Afraid Of No Krytonite" or... fuck, I'd think I'd just can it.

Chekkit chekkit.

Very tired...

Have been going out everyday for the past weekend, helping as a videographer. G.Dawg was telling me that I'd need more stamina if I were to be a documentarian. Yeah, fucken right. I'd stick to my music and beer.

Anyhow, for my Biz-Ad friends, I'd just found out that a friend of ours, Lilia Yip (I think she wanted to be in the 'Grease' production we did that time) released an album. Her band, Morphy's debut, 'Pink Ashes' is out. I've linked their official website as well. The webite streams the songs so Ch-ch-check it out

Somehow, I don't really like the mixing that much. But overall, the tunes, based in pop, are pretty decent and we all know she can sing fucken well as well.

Hokay...

Bumped into Jessica just now before teaching tuition. She was very excited about Talvin Singh playing in WOMAD. I am too. However, I informed her that I was helping out at the Music For Good's Indie-pendent Weekend at the Esplanade on Sat. By the time, it's done, it'd be around 11 and I'm not gonna pay $35 to catch just Talvin Singh only.

Told her that I was helping out as the video guy. And she burst out laughing, asking me to 'get back to reality'. Fuck, if I wasn't in a rush, I'd regale her with stories from my glory days of me in my Secondary School's AV Club maaaann...

I think I should blog more...

Hmmm...

But then I have not much time or new stories to relegate nowadays. So, there you go.

Hail, ye ol' faithful...

Well, it's been a while since I've blogged...

Okay, the new Aging Youth Productions web-zine is out. Chekkit chekkit.

Worked my ass off last week. Major event at the Swissotel, so I was there from Thursday till Saturday. Great hotel man... I stayed over 2 nights at Raffles The Plaza and overslept on both days for work!!!

It's a bloody swwet place. Played with the overhead showerhead... ahem, sorry man, I don't stay in hotels very often. The curtains are on fucken remote!!! The radio was a fucken Bose radio!!! I wore my first bathrobe (with nothing underneath as well) for the 1st time. Yeah, I'm a country bumpkim. Sue me, bitch.

Unfortunately, it was a very-much-non-female colleague who slept in the single bed beside mine. It sucks... to have such a nice atmosphere and ambience for bonking and you are staying with your male colleague...

New look, same shit...

That'd be our Aging Youth Productions website. We've revamped the look of the site and it's still under-going some renovation work. The next issue would be out next week...

Chekkit chekkit...

And I thought I was smarter than Stanley Kubrick...

I did notice the helicopter's shadow in the opening credits of his 80's movie, 'The Shining', starring Jack Nicholson. I thought, "Hehehe, the man screwed up." Apparently, some muthafucka is telling me nothing in Kubrick's film is ever misplaced. Crap... And I though I had a one-up...


Click on the picture to go to the fansite of the movie...

I did study this film in school but I missed the ending during the screening as I had to rush off to catch another show... which I can't remember. Anyways, my lecturere was saying that Kubrick basically explores the same themes every movie and just used different vehicles to drive them home. What could be scarier than your own family members trying to kill you? What would push them over to start kill people, especially their own family? I think any movie that dishes out something that is not insulting to its audience.

Well, Jessica, I didn't get you anything for your birthday. Hope the link above can help you write a better script or something.

Which kinda reminds me of watching Michael Mann's movie poem to Los Angeles, "Collateral". It's actually a tribute to the city itself, disguised as an urban thriller (whatever that means). The plot was pretty straightfoward as you guys would have known by now. Vincent (Tom Cruise going out on a limb; I like the guy... I really do but I just agree with many of his career moves) goes out and do 5 hits on a contract, hiring cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) to chauffeur him around.

It's decidedly slow-paced and picks up steam towards the end. The acting was solid throughout. Foxx pulling off a protangonist which was as flawed as any one of us. Cruise's peppered-hair hitman was amoral, not a maniacal pyschotic killer, "just doing (his) job". No over-the-top action sequences to sink it down and a solid script with lush cinematography to anchor the whole project down. Comes highly recommended from me.

Funky monkeys

Actually, they are just a sub-species of monkeys. I think... not too sure though. My acquaintance who brought her pets down said that they were Slow Lorries (I dun even think I'd gotten the spelling right). Anyhow, she smuggled them in from Bangkok where she bought them at Chatuchak for S$100 each. Look at them, aren't they cutest things? Wanna get one? Yeah, they cost around S$5,000 - S$6,000 in the black market here and you gotta find a vet who wouldn't squeal on you to the Veterinary Department.

It's an endangered species (I think) we are talking about here. Then again, I've a couple of friends who have a couple of, ahem, endangered species living under their roof...








Just look at those huge eyes... Awwww....

Have fun!!!

Hmmmm...

I'd not be drinking tonight. The last time I had a drink was about 5 weeks days ago. Think I should have meself a Coke beer. Actually, what I just wrote is not very funny, isn't it?

MrMisse Electronics

Actually, I'd meant to help Yeeyong advertise his new online store which he sells nothing but boutique guitar pedals and their accessories. What the hell are boutique pedals? Well, if those common factory-made pedals like Roland (Boss pedals lah...) are like Giordano handbags, y'know, they are like cheap and a dime a dozen, very generic-sounding but fits some people's tastes. Electro-Harmonix (I'm a E-H slut) stuff are like Mango/ Zara bags, still factory-made but a bit more up-class. It's all about the packaging. The palette of sounds available are usually richer than the lower end. However, Yeeyong only concentrates on the top-end stuff, stuff which are sorta like Pradas and LVs. Y'know, stuff that they say that are all hand-made but sooner or later, will be hand-crafted in some sweatshops in Indonesia or Cambodia...

Anyhow, he has a forum running in his website. He wants you to join in the fun. So chekkit chekkit: www.mrmisse.com

What's the point of this story, you ask? Simply put, I like Zara shirts.

Woo hoo...

I've gotten over 10,000 hits on my blog!!! Yay! Yeah, just like what Leslie Low of The Observatory would sing, "This Sad Life..." And he mumbles the rest of the song, dunno what he's singing unless I read the lyric sheet. Yo, Keith, you done with my album?

Meet the new boss/ same as the old boss...

My membersss, Alvin mentioned that he was tickled by me using a line from an old Who song, 'Won't Get Fooled Again' to describe our country's recent transition of power. Membersss, Pete Townshend meant it that way too, back in 1969. Of course, back then, he wasn't accused of being a paedophile as yet. Hehehe... Coincidentally, the tune is also the theme song of CSI: Miami as well.

Tonight, Singapore would have our 3rd Prime Minister. So, we can try to look at the implications that would cause both economically, socially, blah, blah... That'd be boring. Anyhow, I'd leave that to the Straits Times reporters to do so. Lookkit, Uncle Lee was on the throne for close to 27 years, perhaps the longest any Prime Minister has been in power while Ah Goh has only been at it for the last 14 years or less. Looking at the longevity of the Lee family (c'mon, look at Uncle Harry... he's 81 and still fit as a fiddle!), I suspect we are in for a long ride for the ascension of the Son. Yup, membersss, be prepared that this is going to be a long one.

The recent papers have been buzzing with accolades to Ah Goh's ruling of the Empire over the last 14 years. I genuinely like the guy. He's harsh with his reforms but not so hard-assed like his predecessor. Of course, if you believe what the papers say, the bar-top dancers would have to thank for attempting to make Singapore funky and hip. But of course, money speaks the loudest in Singapore. You just gotta love a meritocratic country. The papers are painting a picture of the out-going PM as the People's Prime Minister. I can't argue against that.

As usual, the papers also conveniently forgot to mention the debacle that was the National Day Rally Speech of 2002. Stayers or quitters, anyone? Conspiracy theorists believe that speech to be just a divisionary tactic to steer attention away from the sliding economy. Hey, just like Clinton invading Haiti during the height of his sex scandal. But all these are just derived from kopitiam-based politcal analysts like me...

Then on Tuesday, when the Son announced his new Cabinet, hmmm... it suspiciously looks very familiar. And what's up with the Minister Mentor thing? That I really don't get. As I've been really busy at work recently, I did not have the opportunity to meet my fellow political scientists at our favourite coffeshop to go through this thoroughly in detail.

Ah well, meet the new boss. It's just same as the old boss.

Balls of steel...

I've just met Aaron's girlfriend, Ashley on Saturday. Nice girl. Not as whiny as him...

Found out that she's my sister's friend as well. Weird...



Had a discussion with me sis that day while the new Mango advertisement was playing on TV. She said it was Jazzanova's music that Mango used whilst I stood my ground that it was Amon Tobin's shit. It went on for a good 2 minutes.

Then later in the night, I heard it on TV again. Then it struck me. I popped my head into my sister's room. "It's St. Germain..."

Me (still) - 1, sister - 0

Ha!

Everybody needs a nose job...

I've noticed a trend in Extreme Makeover.

Almost everyone who have undergone the knife for the reality show had a nose job.

Yeah, epiphany of the day...

Happy National Day!!!

Yeah... we at Aging Youth Productions celebrate it in style too!

www.agingyouth.com. C-c-chekkit out...

The Angus Diet

The Angus Diet, some weird-ass promo site for Burger King. Fat Food Nation indeed but at least, it's pretty funny.

Beck celebrates 10 years of Mellow Gold

The site is streaming his classic album and featuring some live tracks off his performance at KCRW's Morning Comes Eclectic. Have a listen to 'Mexico', his take on Johnny Cash's story-telling style of country and the jazz ballad, 'MTV Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack', one of my all-time Beck favourites.

You might have to settle for this 1st as we wait

I haven't seen it yet though... quite a big-ass download man...

3 MCs and 1 DJ/ We'd be gettin' down with no delay...

Not apparently so, judging from my procrastination from posting the pictures up.

Was at Zouk last friday. Met Kelvin Too who came back for a while. Hope to see him soon before he flies off.


From left: Doris, Edwin and Kelvin


Esther


Alvin, Kevin, Agilan and my sweet pea, Jo


Was at the Youth Park, watching The WeekEnd Trip gig. There were 2 bands that were good and the other 2 sucked. Alvin and George... However, the real intention was to...


... take pictures of these 2 cute, barely legal-looking girls standing behind them. I think the twirling of the drumstick probably set our loins on fire or something.


Rushed off to meet Da Massive at Siem Reap. From left: G.Dawg, me (as yet un-moniker hippity-hopster), Jay-S and b.boy


Gettin' down on the upstroke, baaaaytch...


The positive influences that alcohol has... on everybody


G.Dawg gettin' down practically everywhere...


Actually, this was the chio-est girl we saw the whole night. At least, by G.Dawg and my standards. Unfortunately, this sparked a small debacle among Da Massive if she or the de-facto cute waitress, Emily was better. It's a pity we could get a close-up picture of her though.


Zura, waitress at Siem Reap by day, Da Massive posse by night.


G.Dawg's personal photos of Emily. This series is called "Emily closes Siem Reap". Known for its bold and daring composition, bright and vivid colours and mainly how hot the subject is.


I dunno what G.Dawg is thinking. Her legs spread a bit apart and her ass raised a little.


Emily in her work clothes


Emily, with bar manager Rahim, not in her work clothes

This series has been highly voyeuristic and many pictures are uploaded without anybody's permission. But well, if you are reading this... you have no grounds to make your complaints.

Okay...

I promised I'd spend some time soon uploading some new pics of Da Massive and Da Massive's fave waitress. I think she'd be your fave as well. Talk about voyeurism! Ha!

Hmmmm....

I dunno if that's really Christian Bale in the suit. Got this from Gracie's site.



But this is definitely Bale...



Say it together, membersss... I can't wait...

Batman Begins trailer...

I'm more excited by this than the H.A.I.R. of September...

The H.A.I.R. thing is losing its appeal with me.

Went out with Da Massive (my own hip-hop collective, sorta like Eminem's D-12... featuring G. Dawg, b.boy and Jay-S for drinks just now. Photos soon... of the very cute waitress. That as well.

I still dun have my hip-hop moniker.