I love Ah Lians...

As Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin would sing back in the good old days... "In The Days Of My Youth..."

I picked up an Ah Lian from a club back in the days of my NS days. I think it was a defunct club in Holland Village. Can't remember the name though.

Anyways, I called her up once. Was chatting to her and you know, "trying to get to know her". The topic started to revolve around her friends and how materialistic they were. She started complaining to me.

"Some of my friends are damn bad. They would only go out with guys if they drive Mercedes Benz, BMWs, GTIs, etc."

I went, "Wow, that's pretty fucked up... How about you?"

"Me? Hmmm, I'm not like them. Family sedan also can."

Some fuckers are sooooo uptight...

Found this on the Feedback Unit letter and replies section.

Dear MDA,

I find that the weekly programme "Desperate Housewives" lacks any educational or entertainment value. What's even worse is that it may send a social message that the immoral activities as shown in the programme are in vogue, therefore acceptable.

We should not encourage our married Singaporeans to engage in extra-marital affairs. Rather, we need to place premium on the value of family where married adults live out their marriage vows.

The TV show would be regarded by many as "trash", yet MediaCorp's Channel 5 is allowed to broadcast it.

Obviously, this person doesn't live in the real world... Watching a TV show which promotes good family does not and never will ensure monogamy. Inherently, that comes straight from yourself. How you can keep your dick in your pants, etc. This type of people scares me...

Asian Film Archive

Looks like my old army buddy mate, Bee Thiam kickstarted his dream project, Asian Film Archive where they, well ahem, archive critically acclaimed, yet commercially unrecognised films. It really looks interesting. I didn't expect he will get it moving so fast. I was talking to him last November and he mentioned that to me...

Always great to see a friend pursuing his passion. Sorta gives you the inspiration and drive to carry out your passion too.

The final one...

As I was telling Max, the final (and best) trailer for Batman Begins is finally here in Quicktime. Though it's the same trailer as what I posted below.

Can't wait.

Plug & Play

So my band of alpha males will be playing at the Substation Guiness Theatre this Saturday. C'mon down if you are free. Sorry, Jay-S, we were too busy with recording to tie down what we'll be shooting. But we have an idea for a video. Will tell you when we meet up. It involves puppetry and Richard Simmons. Aha!

Venue: The Substation Guiness Theatre
Date: 30th April 2005
Time: Doors open at 4pm
Entry: $8. Free CD for first 50.

Come savour the sounds of local faire at the latest indie offering of homegrown talents - Plug and Play. Featuring the brilliant and polished performances of ....

- Lunarin
- Ecrus Garage
- The Love Experiment
- Eugene's Moment of Truth
- Samanta
- Skive
- Sourgrapes
- Murder on the Dance Floor.



Check out the site here

Just added...

Found a new and larger pic of Brandon Routh as Superman. Scroll down, kids!

In other news, we've finished recording and mixed 'High School Girls' though I reckon we should be re-recording the tune again.

Dam! I look good in black...

The new trailer in Media Player format is here. How many trailers did they really cut for this movie? Get on with screening?!?! Where's the hell is my Sin City, by the way?!?!

One more...

It's a bird, it's a plane...

Brandon Routh as Superman. The picture we've been waiting for... Somehow, it feels so wrong. Not that I won't watch it though when it comes out...

Here's a few subtle changes that were made:

• The character's S insignia is slightly smaller and higher on his chest, and instead of being painted on, it's more of a three-dimensional plate.

• The insignia is added to Superman's belt buckle.

• Costume designer Louise Mingenbach preserved the blue, red and yellow motif, but the shades are slightly darker than the bright primary colors of the comics. Superman's yellow belt is more golden, and his cape is a deep scarlet.

Some news and the synopsis of the plot from Warner Brothers:

Following a mysterious absence of several years, the Man of Steel comes back to Earth in the epic action-adventure Superman Returns, a soaring new chapter in the saga of one of the world's most beloved superheroes. While an old enemy plots to render him powerless once and for all, Superman faces the heartbreaking realization that the woman he loves, Lois Lane, has moved on with her life. Or has she? Superman's bittersweet return challenges him to bridge the distance between them while finding a place in a society that has learned to survive without him. In an attempt to protect the world he loves from cataclysmic destruction, Superman embarks on an epic journey of redemption that takes him from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of outer space.

Directed by Bryan Singer (X2: X-Men United, X-Men, "The Usual Suspects"), Superman Returns stars Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth ("Beyond the Sea," "Blue Crush"), James Marsden (X2: X-Men United, "The Notebook"), Frank Langella (HBO's "Unscripted"), Academy Award-winner Eva Marie Saint ("North By Northwest"), Parker Posey ("Best in Show"), Kal Penn ("Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle"), Sam Huntington ("Detroit Rock City") and Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey ("Beyond the Sea," "American Beauty," "The Usual Suspects").

Superman Returns will be released on June 30, 2006 by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.



Hey look, Nicholas Cage with more hair as Johnny Blaze, alter ego of Ghost Rider. The CGI-rendering of his head in flames would be fun. I didn't thnk too much of the re-envisioned Hellcycle was that great anyway. Too much *ahem* CGI.

We've started...

Finally, we got our collective asses down to it. We finally started recording 'High School Girls' last night. Melvin started tracking his drum parts at 1830. Our friend, Fritz came down and helped us mike up Weiyuan's bass cabinet. So hopefully, everything will sound good. Alvin "I'm an one-take wonder, muthafucka" Anathan came down after work, buying dinner for Melvin who looked strangely angsty last night. The token black guy did his track in one take. Tonight, it's left to me and Yeeyong to track our guitar parts and the lead vocals. Probably, we'll try some backing vocals as well. Think I'll be over at Weiyuan's tommorrow night to add some more stuff on the recording.

Hopefully, the end result will justify me missing the 1st episode of 'Eye For An Guy 2'...

God Save The Manics...

Download the new Manic Street Preachers' EP for free off their official site.

Fo shizzle, mah nizzle...

For more shizzle, biatch, log on here yo.

How Robert Rodriguez shot Sin City...

Highly interesting article about how the man shot the digitally enchanced noir flick and what he went through. I love a good underdog story like anyone.

Chekkit.

New sites...

Anyone got some interesting links to send me? Drop 'em at the comments thread. Getting bored of reading the same ol' thing. Thanks!

Geeks galore...

Was looking through Max's shrine to B-flicks. Shitloads of photos there. Go take a look.


That's my baby, Scarlett Johansson there but she sure looks like Tara Reid here man... Still off the new Michael Bay (who is producing the new Transformers live-action movie) flick, "The Island". You can be sure there will be an explosion every 10 minutes, give or take.


Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane. That's right. We are talking about Bryan "I ain't Marvel's whippin' boy no more" Singer's "Superman Returns". Look at her. It's all so wrong... Sigh... The whole movie is all wrong.


That's Brandon Routh... as that's right, Clark Kent also known as Superman. No pics of him in blue tights yet. Though he's a dead ringer for Christopher Reeves, I believe they should have gotten Tom Welling to play the Big S on the big screen. Makes continuity sense if you ask me...

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Overspent...

I'm pretty fucked till the end of the month. Just bought 6 CDs at a CD sale yesterday afte watching 'Chain' with Keith. Went hunting with Billy, Grace, Melvin, Tina and Fuzz at the shop. $10 per CD. Dammit. Ah well, at least, I know I'll like a couple of 'em... I hope!

Though I must say the film was the worst piece of turd I've seen for a while. It's one thing to be anti-Hollywood and anti-commercialism. It's another to be fucken BORING and carry out your not-so-subtle sloganeering and over self-indulgence.

The return of the rack

Since my last post has racked *hurhur* up such popularity, I found some other pictures of Miss Vivian Chow to share. Hey, not that it was a chore or anything.


You know, she wasn't much of a singer. Her acting ability was barely passable. But was she God's gift to hormonally charged teenage boys worldwide in the 90's? FUCK, YEAH!!!


Insert your favourite up-skirt joke here. *Billy, help me out here!*


Actually, when I'm like all grown up, I realised this point. Vivian Chow is like Fiona Xie. It's all subjective when it comes to her looks. But one thing binds the 2 ladies together. So I see Andy Lau has noticed it too...

My job is tough...

...but someone has to do it.

The Love Experiment at the Esplanade Outdoor Theatre...

Arts hub, my fucken ass!!!

Lookee what I found online:

Singapore director pulls documentary on oppositionist upon government ‘advice’
Southeast Asian Press Alliance, (SEAPA).
22 March 2005

Threats of imprisonment and crippling fines have prompted a Singaporean filmmaker to pull his movie from Singapore’s annual film festival.

News reports on 22 March 2005 said director Martyn See’s documentary about Singaporean opposition leader Chee Soon Juan was deemed too political by the city-state’s Board of Film Censors. The Board thus advised the filmmaker that he faces jail time as well as a fine of up to S$100,000 (US$61,300), should he screen his 26-minute film in public.

The Associated Press, quoting the Singapore Straits Times, said See's short film centers on the “civil disobedience” and travails of Chee Soon Juan, a government critic who in 2001 was himself ordered to pay 500,000 Singapore dollars to Singapore's founder, Lee Kuan Yew, and former leader Goh Chok Tong.

Chee’s case stemmed from a defamation case built on speeches he made as he campaigned for a parliamentary post in 2001. The Singapore Democratic Party's secretary-general, Chee has so far been unable to pay the penalty ordered against him, and bankruptcy proceedings—which would ban him from political involvement for years—are currently pending.

The Associated Press said that apart from warning filmmaker See, the Censors Board also advised the Singapore Film Festival organizers against calendaring the young director’s controversial film.

The Straits Times noted that under Singaporean law, local films that "contain wholly or partly either partisan or biased references to or comments on any political matter" are banned.

The Associated Press said they tried but failed to get a statement from See and festival organizers.

Despite its economic strength, Singapore has one of the strictest regimes for controlling news, opinion, and information in Southeast Asia. All mass media in the city-state are under the influence of the government, and the nation’s leaders have routinely sued critics, journalists, and even international media giants to discourage any criticism of the government or its leaders.

Singapore also regularly bans movies, the AP noted, “saying it needs to maintain ethnic and religious harmony in the Southeast Asian country of 4 million.”

Martyn See shhares his views on his blog.

Which countries ban “political films”?
11 April 2005

Here’s a little trivia for our readers: What appears on the Google search engine when one types “ban political film”?

Answer: “Singapore” appears in the top three slots. The other pages reveal an even contest between Singapore’s ban on political films and Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9-11 (which, by the way, enjoyed a successful run in Singapore cinemas last year).

Another interesting search result is the review of Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf's film, The Silence and The Door (http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/apr2000/sff5-a27.shtml), which was screened at the Singapore International Film Festival in 2000. Get this: The film was about how Iran bans political films.

From the days of Shah Mohammed Pahlavi, who came to power in a CIA-organised military coup in 1953, virtually every aspect of film production and distribution in Iran was under government control. Back then, films critical of the regime or those with explicit references to poverty and the disadvantaged were censored or banned outright.
Following the overthrow of the Shah in 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini's fundamentalist regime tightened censorship and imposed strict control over film content. Some 2,000 films were cut or banned outright; many filmmakers were indicted on charges of “corrupting the public”. Films cannot directly criticise the government or make political exposures of social conditions. This is Iran, one of the most repressive societies on earth.

Now compare this with the modern metropolis that is our Singapore. The regime here, like their cousin in Iran, also bans films that “directly criticise the government or make political exposures of social conditions.” Test: Dare anyone make a film about the CPF system and show how it, having forced Singaporeans to save at a rate that is by far the highest in the world, now has problems supporting retirees?

Even films not directly criticizing the PAP, but documenting the work of oppositionists like Mr J B Jeyaretnam and Dr Chee Soon Juan are prohibited. Producers of films on the two oppositionists have been threatened with imprisonment if they did not withdraw their documentaries from the Singapore International Film Festival. But this is where rule ends when it comes to the PAP because Channel News Asia has produced and is set to broadcast a look at five PAP ministers “at work” and “at their regular haunts.” The documentary lets viewers “get up close” with these ministers and lets them get to know the PAP leaders better.

Not only is it necessary for the PAP to constantly promote its officials, it is also vital to ensure that the public remains as ignorant of the opposition as possible. The ignorance can later be replaced by ad hominem attacks on opposition leaders. Mr George Yeo, one-time Minister for Information and the Arts, understands this process very well when he said: "In the wrong hands film can have a powerful impact.”

For those unfamiliar with the Films Act, it states that production and distribution of tapes whose content are directed at a political end are banned. And what constitutes a “political end”? The Act defines this as anything that:

(a) contains wholly or partly any matter which is intended or likely to affect voting in any election or national referendum in Singapore; or
(b) contains wholly or partly either partisan or biased references to or comments on any political matter, including but not limited to any of the following:
(i) an election or a national referendum in Singapore;
(ii) a candidate or group of candidates in an election;
(iii) an issue submitted or otherwise before electors in an election or a national referendum in Singapore;
(iv) the Government or a previous Government or the opposition to the Government or previous Government;
(v) a Member of Parliament;
(vi) a current policy of the Government or an issue of public controversy in Singapore; or
(vii) a political party in Singapore or any body whose objects relate wholly or mainly to politics in Singapore, or any branch of such party or body.

In other words the Government can label any film as an issue of “public controversy” or “related” to politics and ban them. Again to remind readers, the documentary that Channel News Asia is going to broadcast is considered perfectly legal. Shades of the time when the Attorney-General ruled that the PAP ministers’ illegal entry into political stations in the 1997 general election were absolutely legal.

How did this Films Act come about? The Act was amended when the Singapore Democrats produced a 20-minute documentary in 1996 to explain its policies and platform to Singaporeans. Hitherto, the film was legal. But the PAP banned the video and quickly legislated to outlaw the production of such documentaries. However, the law applies only to the opposition.

Such is the abuse of power by the PAP. This has to change.

http://www.singaporedemocrat.org/news_display.php?id=711

High School Girls

Terence who is organising the gig on April 30 asked my little tribe of alpha males to contribute a song. The following is a write-up for the song. Don't ask me for the song cuz we haven't even recorded a single note yet!

"Recorded at the Love Studios (which is actually a HDB bedroom) 2 weeks before we were coerced to contribute a song. This is a tune which most of our friends like and unfortunately, they are predominantly male, despite the song title.

Back in the pre-Internet Dark Ages, there was this media format known as VHS. We were back in our JC days, watching a Japanese cult classic movie together. As we huddled to watch the flick, a very pious classmate of ours claimed that he had seen it all since he watched Sharon Stone's 'Basic Instinct'. There was nothing that could faze him.

We played the tape. He was out of the door in less than 2 minutes.

The film was called 'High School Girls'. And the lyrics has absolutely nothing to do with the incident."

Oh my gawd...

... all my memories of my secondary school days are flooding back...

Vivian Chow, the epitome of the manufactured pop star in the early to mid 90's, has been back in the past year or so. But I've never really taken notice. She's gotta be like almost 36 or older now...

Hey, she still looks damn good here. My new Desperate Housewife man...


Man, check out that rack!!!


If she had any kids, she'd be a MILF!!!


I say, man, check out that rack!!!


Still rocking my bollocks after all these years...

Plug & Play

Venue: The Substation Guiness Theatre
Date: 30th April 2005
Time: Doors open at 4pm
Entry: $8. Free CD for first 50.

Come savour the sounds of local faire at the latest indie offering of homegrown talents - Plug and Play. Featuring the brilliant and polished performances of ....

- Lunarin
- Ecrus Garage
- The Love Experiment
- Eugene's Moment of Truth
- Samanta
- Skive
- Sourgrapes
- Murder on the Dance Floor.



Check out the site here

It's official...

Grace is cooler than me...

She managed to find this cover of Franz Ferdinand's 'Take Me Out' by Scissor Sisters here. Scissor Sisters rocks my bollocks! I love 'em!!!

Riddle Me This #2

"What's something a man does standing up, a lady does sitting down and a dog has to raise a leg up?"

Answers in the comments thread, baby.

Fucken hilarious blog entry...

Scored this off Grace's blog. An evidently very pissed drunk lady writes this entry. I tot the part about the totally soaked tampon was utterly hilarious.

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Melvin's favourite movie on DVD...

Read the DVD review here

POW gig

It was a fun gig that we played with Lunarin last night at POW. Though we were fucken pissed with the owner for promising us free beer the whole night, he din upkeep his promise in the end. Fucken ang moh bastard!

Anyway, we are pretty upset as sexism truly still exists in modern society. We tried to say something funny... but no, no one was amused. But Linda of Lunarin says something. The guys in the pub start cracking up. Either she has better delivery than us or sexism is still the modern day evil.

The band should be tightening up our set this month for our gig at the Substation on Saturday 30 April. And we should be starting to do some home demos. Dunno what's the production schedule gonna be like though...

Once we have something up, I should be posting the tune up here. Thanks for those folks who came to support The Love Experiment over the past 2 weeks. You know who you are. Much love and thanks!

Adult Video Algorithm

What I did for Jessica's short film soundtrack. Dun think she'll be using it though...

Click here to take a listen.

The Postal Service covers Phil Collins...

Phil fucken Collins?!?! The duo takes on 'Against All Odds' for a movie soundtrack. Looks like a romcom to me... but I like their take on the tune. Cool as shite.


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Hey hey...

Just finished watching the new episode of the 2nd season of the O.C. Whaddaya know? The Album Leaf is actually featured in the O.C. though I can't remember what was the title of the song was.

But The Album Leaf rawks my bollawks...