The ultimate nightmare of a blogger...

Read about it on the Onion. When Mum discovers your blog, that's gonna be hell to pay!!!

New form of discrimination...

I knew it!!! Mac users always thought themselves to be the new elite, the bourgeoisie of our society...

Just look at how users of iTunes can be discriminated and how your social standing can be eroded. Chekkit.

Those bastards.

Dun try this at home , kids...

From left: Melvin, Alvin and me

You can tell that Alvin, my membersss... need no Halloween costume.

The Trojan Horse

The summer movie event of 2004 about the battle for the Helen of Troy. The war started because of a woman, surprisingly the movie is all about the guys who fought it. This is still Hollywood. This is definitely a panties-creaming film for the girls. Troy stars Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom and Eric Bana. Now, you better dun say that Bana ain't good-looking cuz you won't like him when he's angry... (Sorry, couldn't help myself)

Check out the teaser trailer.

Congratulations, doodes...

Was reading Gracie's blog and realised that I forgot that Jason told me that his, Billy and Gavin's documentary-aka-Final Year Project about the local music scene, "Radio Forgot To Play My Favourite Song" would be playing in the New York Expo Film Festival!!! Way to go!!!

But all this makes me damn sore that I wasn't credited as a creative consultant for the docu. Godammit, I was in the pub with you guys brainstorming...

Time to slap together a soundtrack for the docu, doodes...

Everything that has a beginning has an end... Revolutions

Was having this conversation with my friend, Seong Huat on ICQ about the Matrix Revolutions just now. Totally contains spoilers but I trust most of you guys have watched it anyway.

Simplenetic: matrix sucked so bad......

Me: okay ...better than the 2nd

S: found this worse....

M: well, still better than the 2nd lah

S:haha...to me it's kinda crappy lor....they just rip off from so many sources...sigh...

M: duh....
din u see tt right from the 1st movie...??

S: not really......but i was kinda apprehensive the moment neo flew up from the city at the end of it......
the blind messiah crap is so dune....and could have been done elsewhere....and the angel looking with the cross when he ended the fight with smith....kinda evangelion......

M: tt was okay i thought,,,
]the 1st had shades of the terminator, ghost in the machine, akira (maybe not ... i dunno), HK kungfu flicks, an attempt at david lynch weirdness... etc ...
wrapped up in some pseudo mambo jumbo tt got far worse in the 2nd...
the dune was never blind mah .,.,..

S: all those i can still accept lah...maybe it was fresh then....
and then the fight sequence....it's like the superman fight with the baddies...remeber the 3 bad guys from kryton in black?!?!?! and it also abit zhong hua yin xiong-ish....
u didn't read the whole series....

M: i read the 1st ...
i admit ...
trust me ,,,, when they come out with the new superman series...
they are gg to rip off the final fight scene

S: but i think u shld noe better than me that those sequences has been overdrawn in all those chinese comics...haha.........
donno lah...i just enjoyed this much less than the 2nd....although i did enjoy the war scenes at zion....

M: those were gd lah ...
rather exciting take on the whole "gawd no, we were swamped and we are FUCKED ..." kinda scene

S: yup....think that is the only think i enjoyed.....grrr...still can't stand the fact that they tried to pull the blind messiah crap.....although i admit the dune series take on that is kinda more "poetic"...haha...

M: fianlly ppl are seeing the wachowski brothers are someone who develops their materials from others...
they din reinvent the wheel....
but i still think Agent Smith is the baddest mofo from the 1st to the last

S: hahaha....but i hated it when he whined It's not fair......goodness.....

M: tt's a classic steven seagal villian .. heheh

S: dame crap.....smith shld go away laffing or something......
and the last part...the way the matrix was "reformatted" or in windows xp term....restored to the last working save point....was equally crap...and the young gal...she did the sunset??? goodness....

M: she's a program ...
higher than any of us mah ,...
i thk she;s macromedia flash ...
u understodd how they won right??

S: won what? basically neo connected smith to the source and the source zap a anti-virus/trojan software into smith and deleted him...and fix the infected proggies....crap...

M: fwah!!!u are the only person i spoke who realised tt ,,,,
they uploaded the Norton anti-virus into Ag-ent Sm-ith....
i bet everyone missed that pdt placement ...

S: i got it immediately........DAMN CRAPPY again.....and the oracle is basically a mutant oracle...that got deleted...but she self unerase...and self patch.....
but the farnie part was the family of indians....amazing how proggies do it....

M: heheh .,..
i wished that some of my audio software and auto re-easre so tt i can rework them man

S: donno lah...i just find the whole series is almost like a high budget b grade flick??? hahaha....i would rather they do the whole dune series....

M: i thought they did ...for cable ...
i thk Sting's acting in the original sucked so bad tt the investors are afraid to put $$ in .
hehehe

S: there's two version of the dune......i watched the one with william kurt/hurt? that one was abit like watching a stage play of the dune....the followup sequel....dune messiah was much better....although certain potrayal of certain characters was abit DOH...

M: i only like the 1st novel ... then again i only read tt ....
so...
hey, all this conversation is gg on my blog

So, remember... it was a Norton anti-virus that saved our asses. Start downloading it already!!!

Experiments gone astray

My sis was trying out this Veet Hair Removal Mousse that she bought. And of course, being the curious little boy that I am, I naturally tried a bit of it on my abundant leg hair.

Now, there's a bald spot in my clump of leg hair.

I think it's available in Watsons, NTUC, etc.

Tweak tweak...

Yes, like one of those Ah-Lians with ever-changing hair colour you see down in Orchard Road, I've changed the appearance of the Evil Lair yet again. I think it still needs more refining and retuning. Dun you think peach on black is sooo kinky?

Anyway, I think it's time to start revitalising and updating the Spooning With Satan blog as well? Huh guys? The surviving members, Alvin, George, Melvin and Sujin? Currently, I think a Primary 4 student's homepage looks better than that. And! Which self-respecting metalhead has their website in white and blue?!?!? Think about it, membersss....

Point (websites) of references: Napalm Death, Rudra, Sodom, a site general about Death Metal. Note the similarity, membersss? Yes, it's the black background and the font type of the band name that no one except for the font designer who can read it.

We gotta have those eh? Say your piece!!!

P.S. : Spooning With Satan is still open to registration. As long as you can play the accordian, you are in!!!

Note: Spooning With Satan is a death-country band (meaning they play country tinged metal), comprising of Alvin, George, Melvin, Sujin and Willy. Our missing membersss, Billy is still missing though there were sightings of him in some Holland Village pubs but we usually dismiss them as untruths.

P.I.T.A. of the week part 2

Yes, this is a revolving series sorta like the H.A.I.R. thing you see above.

Anyway, I was browsing through the dead murder site which I host me mp3s. I came across this forum thread. This guy who I believe knows shite about music production and most likely as well, make a rhyme flow. For all I know, he might be a pimply Dutch white boy sittin' in his room only pretending to be Jay-Z (just look at his email address!!!) or Tupac.

Yo I need some niggaz that make the sickest beats to make me some beats for my artists on my Label Gangsta Philosophy Entertainment that Would be willing to sell the rights to my label at a reasonable price uhm... If I could send you an accapella track or something to make the beats jus` let me know or if you already got beats that I dig that`ll work only the best beats accepted don`t come around with no bitch beats.

P.S.: My email is jaysdayz@yahoo.com

peace,
KayDee tha G

I believe he was looking for someone to collaborate with him on some music. Hey, since he has a, erm.... label, why dun he pay the Neptunes to lay down some sick-ass beats over his, erm... rhymes. Oh yeah, I guess he has no money and no artists, except for himself to begin with.

Sad...

P.I.T.A. (Pain In The Ass) of the week part 1

Before I got the Matrix Revolutions with my frens, we were drinking at MacDonald's, waiting for the show to start.

This guy who was partially mute and deaf came up to me, nudging me several times. He started waving this small whiteboard which most likely said that "I am mute and please donate". Followed by thrusting the grass green coinbox which looks like my sister's piggy bank (complete with Pokemon-like cartoon characters plastered all over it) into my face. After I declined along with the rest of us, he started giving us dirty looks and started gesturing as if to speak, "What the fuck you morons? Couldn't spare some change?"

And that really pissed me off.

He walked away and repeated his confrontational donation collecting antics on other unsuspecting folks around the area.

What piqued me was:
a) When you asked for money or donations, do it politely. It's only courteous.
b) I dun fucken owe you a living even if you are blind, deaf and dumb. I'm not insensitive to their plight, mind. However, I just didn't like the fucker's attitude even though he was orally disabled (for lack of a better term). And being more disadvantaged than us, it still doesn't give you any friggin' excuses.
c) I wasn't too sure about if he was collecting for any organisation. I mean, that shitty coinbox that looks like a personal piggy bank?

In any case, my level of altruism went down a coupla notches recently. You might come across this Straits Times article about how there are these private organisations selling raffle tickets, claiming that they would be helping ex-drug addicts, etc. I bought about 2 such tickets before. Though these private organisations pay their volunteers (20% of the tickets sold goe to the volunteers while the company takes 10%), I always felt that every single cent should go to the fund beneficiary.

While I understand that there would be costs like logistics and inventory costs for the cans, etc, I could never understand NKF's principles of collection. If there were a surplus in donations collected, it goes back to NKF for their corporate use rather than going to the ones who really need the money.

Then again, I would struggle with the sense of altruism in me. I'd be the first to admit inherently I'm a selfish person. What if helping others is actually just a way of making yourself feel better about yourself? But my friend, Amelia was telling me before that even so, any help goes a long way. She told me once that she did some volunteer work before and those who were needy were actually extremely grateful for the help. Seeing what she did could really help them was good enough for her.

This, of course, reminds me of the time when I was walking to meet my friends at Clementi Ave 6, this blind man asked me for directions to his flat. Seeing that it was midnight and there weren't many people around to help him, I decided to guide him home. I guess that day I got out on the right side of my bed.

Reaching his place, I had to run out to the lift area to see if we were at the correct block. After a few seconds, he thought I had abandoned him and started screaming and calling my mother names. I had to rush back and pacify the doode. I sorta understand that he might have been played out quite a coupla times by kids and sorts but this guy was bloody bad-tempered. In any case, I got him to his doorstep and I dun even think he thanked me for it. Then again, I just felt right to help out.

There's something that was damn slack about the whole incident though. While walking him back, he started asking me questions and sharing his life with me. Told me that what he worked as. The fucked up pay and work, that I totally empathise nowadays. How his girlfriend who is normal is damn demanding of him. How she wants him to show affection to her. In addition, he started sharing more details of his relationship by saying, "You know, these girls... All they want is ... you know what lah. Every few days she would want to have sex lah. What? I'm so tired from work and she still wants."

That was slack. I can't handle people telling me about their sex lives in a situation where I'm trying to help them to get home.

However, this still proves a point that no matter what kinda condition or handicaps a man might be or have, he is still and always a stud in his own eyes.

And that is really a pain in the ass.

I heard it through the grapevine

Some of you might have read that Warner Brothers are trying to revive the Superman movie franchise. Apparently, a few names were mentioned from Ashton Kutcher (yes, Kelso from "That 70's Show") to Brendan Frasier. I'm not too sure if they ever thought of Keanu Reeves. I mean, just look at this picture. I can already see the cape and the big S.



I must say I'm not keen on a return to the franchise or the Batman one as well (starring Christian Bale as the Dark Knight). Why don't they do a Green Lantern or the Flash? Anyway, Wonder Woman is currently being developed by Joel Silver, producer of the Matrix.


I can't fucken wait...

This looks like a piece of turd to me...




Sharon Stone expresses horror at how low her career has sunk.

There s/he goes again...

I'm confused most of the time but not as much as my membersss,
Sujin here. He needs to see a shrink soon or basically the Mount Elizabeth sex change surgeon. Look what he posted on his blog. Chekkit.

Sorry, Auntie Thomas, your son turned out this way. He's in denial ever since he refused to pass me his Tech 21 GT2.

Everything that has a beginning has an end... Reloaded

Just watched the Matrix Revolutions last night with a coupla my army mates and famed (hehehe...) Seedbed-cum-Spooning With Satan guitarist, Alvin Ananthan. And not to worry, this article will not contain any spoilers as I know there are a couple of you guys out there who haven't watched it yet.

As usual, Melvin was bitching about how the slo-mo action sequences look lame and dated. Presumably so, it drew quite a few chuckles in the theatres while Carrie-Ann Moss did her gravity-defying tumbles and kicks in the air. But what impressed me and Roy the most was Monica Bellucci's (yeah, baby, yeah... ) fearsome twins were in that gravity-defying push-up. Fierce. Me likes.

Thankfully, they cut down the philosophical mumbo-jumbo to the minimum this time. The Matrix Reloaded was like a fucken bad episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion all over again ("Where am I? How do I know I exist? Can existence be ever proven?" Me:"Hell, you'd know about existence by eating my fist for dinner, bitch!!!"). The bulk of it was pure action which it was all good. Not too draggy and not too overwrought.

However, knowing the Wachowski brothers, there were a couple of stinkers and cheese. You have to watch for yourselves and laugh. Melvin (cuz he was sitting beside me) was sniggering away when Hugo Weaving aka Agent Smith started spouting his smock of philosophical crap. My membersss... was laughing away at how it seemed so contrived and forced. It just didn't seem right to him. Just like how Michael Jackson forces his arguements that he didn't bleach his skin. (Now, that's a joke that seems forced)

However, I think that it's an apt ending for the series and the brothers have decided that there would be no more sequels. Mercifully. They won't have to stoop to the lows of the Alien franchise. Alien 3 was bad but Alien: Resurrection was pointless, especially without the animatronics of the creature. But I digress.

The series have been called the thinking man's action movie. Rightfully so. But in my opinion, the Wachowski brothers' greatest coup was that they managed to create a movie that engages the viewers in so many ways. Each individual one believes that their perception and understanding of the movie has been the correct one. Perhaps, even reflecting the source (heh...) of the movie itself where the Matrix is a perception of reality. In viewing the movie, everyone has their own take on what is happening and that alone is a Matrix that you build around your understanding of the movie.

Oh my gawd!!! I'm stooping to mumbo jumbo bullshit again... The virus is inflectin' me...

In any case, before I end this, I'd like to give out one teeny-weeny bit of spoiler. For those of you who told me that when Neo returned to the real world in the Matrix Reloaded, he was still stuck in the Matrix as with everyone and there is no such real world. Everything was the Matrix and that's why he was able to control the machines in the real world. Well, guys, you were WRONG!!! You morons, hahaha....

Weirdest e-bay post I've seen in a while...

Chekkit. This page on e-bay has this guy selling his friendship. Ah, post-modern life...

I didn't bite the Apple of Eden...

Read this on Gracie's blog . She's a Mac user... Snide if you ask me.

At the beginning God created the Bit and the Byte. And from those He created the word. And there were 2 bytes in a word, nothing else was there. Then God seperated 0 from 1 and saw that this was good.

And then God said "Let there be Data", and so it became. And He said "Let the Data go where they belong", and He made floppy disks, compact disks and hard disks. Then God said "Let there be a place for those disks to be", and computers came to be. God named them hardware and saw that this was good.

But God saw that there was no software yet. And He made programs, small and large and He said "Go and multiply and fill all of the memory". Then God said "I'll create the programmer and he will rule upon all the data, computers and programs". And God created the programmer and placed him at the Heavenly Server. And He taught the programmer to use the catalog tree and all the files and sub-files but told him never to use Windows.

Then God thought "It isn't a good thing for the programmer to be alone. I will create a creature that will love and admire the programmer and his creations". And God created the User. And both the User and the Programmer were left upon the naked DOS and that was good.

But Bill were more cunning than the rest of God's creations. And Bill told the User "Did God really allow you to use any program that you like?". And the User said "Yes, God allows us to use any program we like except the windows for great trouble will be upon us". And Bill told the user "How you talk about something you never used? By the time you will use windows you will be able to do anything you like with a simple mouse click. You will be equal to God". And the user saw that windows were very easy to use and that all knowledge was unnecessary since they could replace it.

So it came to be that the User installed Windows in his computer and told the programmer that it was good. And the programmer start looking for new drivers. And God which saw him asked "What do you need?" and the programmer said "I need new drivers". God said "Who told you that you need new drivers, you installed windows?" and the programmer said "Bill told us to do it!".

Then God said to Bill "For what you did all the creatures will hate you. And all the users will not like you. And you will always sell windows". And then God told the user "For what you did windows will always dissapoint you and use all the resources and you will use pathetic programs, while you will always depend on the programmer for help". And last He told the programmer "Because you listened to the User your programs will always have faults and you will have to correct them until the end of days".

And God threw them out of the Heavenly Server and locked the door and secured it with password.

GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT.

Everything that has a beginning has an end...

Apparently so, according to the Wachowski brothers. And according to Ain't It Cool News, it sucks. The final episode in the trilogy that is.

So, I'm gonna catch the Matrix Revolution in like another 12 hours time. I dun thk I should get my hopes too high up. At least, I'd warned ya fans out there. Lower the bar of expectation and the disappointment would be lesser.

mp3s up on this blog

Hi all, I've just uploaded some of mp3s under the moniker of The Agents of Smith and you can download them from the column on your left.

These are tracks done using mainly on Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 and FruityLoops 2.0 and in no way, reflect the psychedelic hippydom of The 78 Love Experiment or the satanic whackiness of Spooning With Satan.

In any case, who cares?

I cannot believe this...

Those pieces of turd at the RIAA actually came up with this TV advertisement which would tickle my funny bone under other circumstances. It's a B-grade ad. for a B-grade crass movement.

Once again, I'm stuck in the office...

The joys of roaming free in the city were not meant to be for this week. I din really get the chance of walking around in town during office hours. Did that a couple of times last week though. Embassies are currently my favourite places. Went there and did some research.

So far, I've went to the Philippines Embassy which looks kinda shitty. A small hut (but I believe they are building a new one besides where it is housed at now), as compared to the fortress, Embassy of Japan opposite it. I dunno. Read somewhere (hmm, was it the CIA factfile?) that the Philippines is considered the world's most dangerous place on the planet. Which is ironical cuz hey. it's a country well known for its bands being able to ape Western musicians to the dot and of cuz, their domestic help. Sounds like a peaceful country to me.

If my memory serves me correctly, besides having shitloads of volcanoes in the region and having certain territories in the earthquake belt, the bulk of the islands are exposed to the typhoons and monsoons and all that jazz. Oh yeah, you mustn't forget the occasional Abu Sayaf attacks and the random military coup. Actually, it kinda sounds like Indonesia with more natural disasters, dun you think ?

So, here I am. Bored and stuck in the office. a) Struggling to stay awake, b) dunno what the fuck I can do and c) feeling cheated at all the hype of the Matrix Revolutions (read a little somewhere that it sucks goats balls big time.)

Think I'm gonna post something more later.

mp3 up on Sujin's blog

My membersss, Sujin and his housemate, Ferdi did a track together about 3 months ago. Go to my side column and click on the link to download his song.

here's the link.