Despite all my pretenses at being 22 and all grown up, on Saturday, Hollywood had invariably stripped me bare and exposed me for the immature 16 year old I really am :)
Yes, its Muthafuckin' Snakes on a Muthafuckin' Plane! Before the movie, I thought I was going to dread watching almost 2 hrs of snakes in various poses ready to prey on their unsuspecting human prey. However, I discovered that there is no way I can stop myself from giggling at snakes attacking and attaching themselves to mammaries, phalluses, posteriors, small children, dogs and annoying pompous brits ON A PLANE!
A++ will watch again :D
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Friday, August 18, 2006
International Cricket in Malaysia! :(
Double dose of bad news :(, the Black Caps aren't playing in the tri-series, and all the games have been moved to KL!
Surely they can't have better grounds in Malaysia? The professional cricket players in both countries are close to zero :D, and Singapore has much better infrastucture and services!
Ah well, it still looks like that I'm heading to KL for the final between Australia and India (yep, I'm that sure about the outcome) with Chad and an Aussie from work. The Warney shirt should be on its way from NZ in the next few days (thanks Masty, you're a champ). I s'pose I should find out where to get tickets now...
To random cricket fans in S.E. Asia that read this blog, http://www.axcess.com.my/index2.asp is supposedly where you get the tickets. They aren't available on the interweb yet, you'll probably have to call.
Surely they can't have better grounds in Malaysia? The professional cricket players in both countries are close to zero :D, and Singapore has much better infrastucture and services!
Ah well, it still looks like that I'm heading to KL for the final between Australia and India (yep, I'm that sure about the outcome) with Chad and an Aussie from work. The Warney shirt should be on its way from NZ in the next few days (thanks Masty, you're a champ). I s'pose I should find out where to get tickets now...
To random cricket fans in S.E. Asia that read this blog, http://www.axcess.com.my/index2.asp is supposedly where you get the tickets. They aren't available on the interweb yet, you'll probably have to call.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Retards
Karma strikes Ian in the behind again. After laughing at the misfortune of Marcel a few posts back about his inability to see DJ Shadow play in Wellington. I myself also did not have the fortune of seeing DJ Shadow live in Singapore. :(
Why the hell weren't any of the tickets sold before hand? Why weren't they jacked up to a premium price? Every man and his dog is going to go if you keep it at $30 with 2 free drinks.
Did the heat drain the logic and rationality from the organizer's heads? Or more likely they probably just didn't give a shit and wanted to cram as many people in as possible.
Is it really all about the bottom line here? Retards...
Yes, I agree I could've got there at 8 just to get in, but then if they had presales problem solved!
Tards
Why the hell weren't any of the tickets sold before hand? Why weren't they jacked up to a premium price? Every man and his dog is going to go if you keep it at $30 with 2 free drinks.
Did the heat drain the logic and rationality from the organizer's heads? Or more likely they probably just didn't give a shit and wanted to cram as many people in as possible.
Is it really all about the bottom line here? Retards...
Yes, I agree I could've got there at 8 just to get in, but then if they had presales problem solved!
Tards
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
International Cricket in Singapore!
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/westindies/content/story/255109.html
YUSS! Apparently there's a Tri-Series played here and in KL in September. Currently involving India, Australia and the West Indies. There is doubt at whether the West Indies will be able to play given that they haven't consulted their players yet. Sri Lanka and New Zealand are on stand-by if the Windies can't sort their shit out.
Hopefully the Windies stay home and I can catch the Black Caps here! Regardless, it'll still be the sporting event of the year!
First three games in Singapore and last four games in KL. It's gonna be a grand time, chopping back beers, hurling abuse at Australians, general larrakinism under the sun. I'm definitely taking time off work for this!
My only regret is that the Warney shirt is in NZ and I have now lost all traces of my blondness... sad times.
YUSS! Apparently there's a Tri-Series played here and in KL in September. Currently involving India, Australia and the West Indies. There is doubt at whether the West Indies will be able to play given that they haven't consulted their players yet. Sri Lanka and New Zealand are on stand-by if the Windies can't sort their shit out.
Hopefully the Windies stay home and I can catch the Black Caps here! Regardless, it'll still be the sporting event of the year!
First three games in Singapore and last four games in KL. It's gonna be a grand time, chopping back beers, hurling abuse at Australians, general larrakinism under the sun. I'm definitely taking time off work for this!
My only regret is that the Warney shirt is in NZ and I have now lost all traces of my blondness... sad times.
Monday, July 24, 2006
Malaysia... yet again!
I think I'm getting OCD!, but hey the country is close, not a complete dump, and some places are genuinely lovely.
Due to the advent of Miss Hart's visit to Singapore, the Chad, Miss Hart and I enjoyed a lovely weekend in Sarawak, with a brief interlude of a few hours in uninspiring Johor Bahru spent transiting and waiting in traffic jams (please don't flame me JB residents) .
I learnt that Asian budget airlines were not designed with Asians like me in mind, there was bugger all leg room, the other two had a better time of it all, being distinctly more Asian in stature than I :D.
I like Kuching, its fairly compact (at least the interesting bits are), we spent Saturday wandering around Kuching visiting museums, doing all the touristy things and terrorising the locals with enthusiastic Asian-ness (the hand thing in photos) and having Chad either thrust at me, or at attractions in the manner of Hard Gay (HAADO GEIIII.. FUUUU!!!). Note however that "Hard Gay in Kuching" was not any of us. We're not that crazy.
With all the crazy silly touristness out of us by Sunday we proceeded to check out Kubah National Park, lotsa nice jungly nature things, and you get rewarded with a dip in a small pool created by the waterfall at the end of the trek. What I found interesting was that you can actually drink from the waterfall in Sarawak, its New Zealand and its crazy farming that causes all its rivers and streams to be rife with Giardia and Chryptosporidium (according to Chad... he seemed to know what he was talking about... and I haven't got the runs... yet).
Photos this time are courtesy of the Chad and Miss Hart. They went on to Tioman, so expect them in a few days time. (YAYZ they are up http://picasaweb.google.com/klatchy/Sarawak and http://picasaweb.google.com/voiceinsideyou/KuchingPulauTiomanMalaysia/)
I think I might try and tackle Mount Kinabalu next, probably have to start exercising and shed a few kilos first ;)
Due to the advent of Miss Hart's visit to Singapore, the Chad, Miss Hart and I enjoyed a lovely weekend in Sarawak, with a brief interlude of a few hours in uninspiring Johor Bahru spent transiting and waiting in traffic jams (please don't flame me JB residents) .
I learnt that Asian budget airlines were not designed with Asians like me in mind, there was bugger all leg room, the other two had a better time of it all, being distinctly more Asian in stature than I :D.
I like Kuching, its fairly compact (at least the interesting bits are), we spent Saturday wandering around Kuching visiting museums, doing all the touristy things and terrorising the locals with enthusiastic Asian-ness (the hand thing in photos) and having Chad either thrust at me, or at attractions in the manner of Hard Gay (HAADO GEIIII.. FUUUU!!!). Note however that "Hard Gay in Kuching" was not any of us. We're not that crazy.
With all the crazy silly touristness out of us by Sunday we proceeded to check out Kubah National Park, lotsa nice jungly nature things, and you get rewarded with a dip in a small pool created by the waterfall at the end of the trek. What I found interesting was that you can actually drink from the waterfall in Sarawak, its New Zealand and its crazy farming that causes all its rivers and streams to be rife with Giardia and Chryptosporidium (according to Chad... he seemed to know what he was talking about... and I haven't got the runs... yet).
Photos this time are courtesy of the Chad and Miss Hart. They went on to Tioman, so expect them in a few days time. (YAYZ they are up http://picasaweb.google.com/klatchy/Sarawak and http://picasaweb.google.com/voiceinsideyou/KuchingPulauTiomanMalaysia/)
I think I might try and tackle Mount Kinabalu next, probably have to start exercising and shed a few kilos first ;)
Thursday, July 20, 2006
A Special Post just for Marcel!
I hear that due to a mix up in the tour dates, Wellington has been completely left off the DJ Shadow tour :P. Shadow's tour dates confirm this, can you confirm this Mr. Cordes?
Did you journey up to Auckland like a die hard fan? If so I am very impressed.
We get him in Singapore on Aug 5, my minions have reported that he was "O for Awesome" when he played in Auckland ;).
I might give you a call on Aug 5 once he comes on, just so you don't feel like you're missing out :P.
Incidentally, any +65ers reading this blog goin' to DJ Shadow?
Did you journey up to Auckland like a die hard fan? If so I am very impressed.
We get him in Singapore on Aug 5, my minions have reported that he was "O for Awesome" when he played in Auckland ;).
I might give you a call on Aug 5 once he comes on, just so you don't feel like you're missing out :P.
Incidentally, any +65ers reading this blog goin' to DJ Shadow?
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Malaysia... again :P
Mum has just left after a weeklong holiday here, to make sure she didn't get too bored I took her around Malaysia, KL again, then up to Bukit Fraser (Fraser's Hill) for some good old fashion NZ trekking, and finally a couple of days in Tioman.
Photos are up at http://picasaweb.google.com/klatchy
Photos are up at http://picasaweb.google.com/klatchy
Sunday, July 02, 2006
The interweb distresses me
So I got myself a google analytics account after having read about it on Kim's Blog, pretty easy to set up and I've left it to gather stats on visitors to this blog over the last week.
One of the reports it provides is based on what key words people use on search engines to get to your site. These were the search queries:
"lake karakul religion" (Google)
"stuff racoon" (Google)
" ian ren" (Google)
"free photos of asian women wet & messy looks" (Yahoo)
Googling the first three queries all resulted in my blog being the first or second results. As expected when I Yahoo'd the last query I got a whole bunch of porn sites
It probably says more about Yahoo's crazy search algorithms than anything else...
In other news, Google Web Albums is great! Much more intuitive than hello, and you can actually do batch uploads properly, unlike bebo and flickr. The free account only gives you 250MB though :(
One of the reports it provides is based on what key words people use on search engines to get to your site. These were the search queries:
"lake karakul religion" (Google)
"stuff racoon" (Google)
" ian ren" (Google)
"free photos of asian women wet & messy looks" (Yahoo)
Googling the first three queries all resulted in my blog being the first or second results. As expected when I Yahoo'd the last query I got a whole bunch of porn sites
It probably says more about Yahoo's crazy search algorithms than anything else...
In other news, Google Web Albums is great! Much more intuitive than hello, and you can actually do batch uploads properly, unlike bebo and flickr. The free account only gives you 250MB though :(
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Kuala Lumpur - Sin City
A few weeks back we decided to visit our dear Irish friend Rob in KL, oh what a trip! Drunkeness, near death experiences, tall buildings, 50 year old women pimping out young men that look like women, street fights, dodgy taxi driver pimps... oh and 5 star luxury :D
The trip started out harmlessly enough with the arduous task of getting a cab in Singapore in the rain, luck fortunately was with us this time and we didn't miss our luxury double decker bus to KL. (Exhibit A below)
Exhibit A
Outta Singapore in a flash, and across the border to the outskirts of Johor Bahru(JB), our bus took the new crossing and we weren't stuck in a throng of people. We were on our way soon again after immigration.
We were greeted by the distant sights of the Petronas Towers around about 3 in the afternoon, and it took another half an hour for the bus to finally drop us off. To our excitement our hotel was just across the road, then... to our dismay we learned that the road was virtually uncrossable, high speed traffic, scooters and motorbikes that were bent on killing you, I had the additional burden of having Catherine Zeta Jones with me, so that added another 5 minutes onto the crossing at least. 5 near misses with motorbikes later, I was across the road and in the hotel.
Biker Gang ^_^ similar to what we faced getting across the road
It was ridiculous, for only 215 Malaysian Ringgits per night (less than $SGD100/$NZD100) you get 5 star treatment, admittedly we weren't staying in the presidential suite... or even the club level, but hey allow this bumpkin some excitement over his first stay in a luxury hotel. Oh, and this was the view from our room :P
GO PETRONAS TWIN TOWERS!!!111
We went on a wander, our original destination was to go down Jalan Sultan Ismail (which we later found out was perpendicular to our street), except due to Chad's inquisitveness and unique sense of direction we ended up on the opposite side of the city... :)
We ended our misguided tour about 3 hours later having explore much more of the city than we'd anticipated (although we'd still not gone down Jalan Sultan Ismail). I was happy though, and my emotions are perfectly captured by the following photo:
The night ended outside Zouk (yay they have one in KL!!) watching the Germany vs. Costa Rica game and imbibing some cheap beer for a change. I had free flutter courtesy of the bar, but didn't manage to get any free drinks :(.
The next morning, we were sorely disappointed by the Petronas Towers, free entry to the Petronas Towers dictated that we would not be going up the towers, most people line up for tickets at 8 in the morning, I was still contemplating whether to get out of bed at 11:30.
All was not lost, as we ventured on to Menara KL (KL Tower, a broadcast tower thingamee)
, the view is much better and they have a lame culture show at the bottom :P. Snapped a few pics, and Chad tried to get some dodgy perspective shots in.
Met up with Rob at about 7 in the evening, and the night of debauchery began..., having been subject to harsh Singaporean liqour taxes for the past two months, it was time to loosen the purse strings (no I don't actually have a purse :P) and indulge in some good old fashioned NZ styled binge drinking!! After picking up some of Rob's friends we made our way to Passion nice wanky little club in the middle of KL's party area (JP Ramlee), massive main room playing RnB and party hip hop and the top floor / mezzanine playing prog. Great club, nice setting and we got very very drunk, drunk enough to lose two hot Swedish girls that Rob's friend found earlier in the night :'(.
Abruptly, things ended at 4, we were ushered out of passion and onto the streets. Soon a street fight involved when I witnessed the Fastest Indian In the World! Some Indian fella got in a fight with a bunch of people, was soon outnumbered, had a few punches landed on him and then promptly ran for his life. Scary? YES! Amusing? Also Yes :), I'm such a bastard.
Karma came and kicked me on the arse soon after for laughing at other's misfortunes when I was accosted by a ladyboy, I'd mistakenly made eye contact in my drunken state with someone who I thought was an incredibly beautiful GIRL, as she/he walked close, I realised that he/she was much taller than me and had certain manly features, I smiled sheepishly, broke off eye contact and walked away as fast as I could. I was drunk... but I wasn't THAAT drunk!!
A few hundred metres down the road, an old lady (must've been 50+) tried pimping out another ladyboy to me! Grabbed me on the arm and even resorting to speaking Mandarin with me to get me to spend what she described as a night of bliss with this um... person! :O
Somewhat sober now by the previous sobering experience, I got her to remove her hands and contemplated on telling her I was gay, then decided that it may have potentially worse repercussions, I made some excuses and began running back to the hotel. O Karma, I will never laugh at another's misfortune again!
As expected, Sunday was totally written off, visited Rob's palatial residence in the evening, and back to the hotel for some much needed rest.
Finally did some more sightseeing further afield at the Batu Caves on Monday, numerous Macaques and Hindu sculptures provided an afternoon of entertainment. Back on the bus by 6:00pm, safe and sound in Singapore away from all the scary encounters by midnight monday. Its good to be home :D
The trip started out harmlessly enough with the arduous task of getting a cab in Singapore in the rain, luck fortunately was with us this time and we didn't miss our luxury double decker bus to KL. (Exhibit A below)
Exhibit A
We were greeted by the distant sights of the Petronas Towers around about 3 in the afternoon, and it took another half an hour for the bus to finally drop us off. To our excitement our hotel was just across the road, then... to our dismay we learned that the road was virtually uncrossable, high speed traffic, scooters and motorbikes that were bent on killing you, I had the additional burden of having Catherine Zeta Jones with me, so that added another 5 minutes onto the crossing at least. 5 near misses with motorbikes later, I was across the road and in the hotel.
Biker Gang ^_^ similar to what we faced getting across the road
GO PETRONAS TWIN TOWERS!!!111
We ended our misguided tour about 3 hours later having explore much more of the city than we'd anticipated (although we'd still not gone down Jalan Sultan Ismail). I was happy though, and my emotions are perfectly captured by the following photo:
The night ended outside Zouk (yay they have one in KL!!) watching the Germany vs. Costa Rica game and imbibing some cheap beer for a change. I had free flutter courtesy of the bar, but didn't manage to get any free drinks :(.The next morning, we were sorely disappointed by the Petronas Towers, free entry to the Petronas Towers dictated that we would not be going up the towers, most people line up for tickets at 8 in the morning, I was still contemplating whether to get out of bed at 11:30.
All was not lost, as we ventured on to Menara KL (KL Tower, a broadcast tower thingamee)
, the view is much better and they have a lame culture show at the bottom :P. Snapped a few pics, and Chad tried to get some dodgy perspective shots in.
Met up with Rob at about 7 in the evening, and the night of debauchery began..., having been subject to harsh Singaporean liqour taxes for the past two months, it was time to loosen the purse strings (no I don't actually have a purse :P) and indulge in some good old fashioned NZ styled binge drinking!! After picking up some of Rob's friends we made our way to Passion nice wanky little club in the middle of KL's party area (JP Ramlee), massive main room playing RnB and party hip hop and the top floor / mezzanine playing prog. Great club, nice setting and we got very very drunk, drunk enough to lose two hot Swedish girls that Rob's friend found earlier in the night :'(.
Abruptly, things ended at 4, we were ushered out of passion and onto the streets. Soon a street fight involved when I witnessed the Fastest Indian In the World! Some Indian fella got in a fight with a bunch of people, was soon outnumbered, had a few punches landed on him and then promptly ran for his life. Scary? YES! Amusing? Also Yes :), I'm such a bastard.
Karma came and kicked me on the arse soon after for laughing at other's misfortunes when I was accosted by a ladyboy, I'd mistakenly made eye contact in my drunken state with someone who I thought was an incredibly beautiful GIRL, as she/he walked close, I realised that he/she was much taller than me and had certain manly features, I smiled sheepishly, broke off eye contact and walked away as fast as I could. I was drunk... but I wasn't THAAT drunk!!
A few hundred metres down the road, an old lady (must've been 50+) tried pimping out another ladyboy to me! Grabbed me on the arm and even resorting to speaking Mandarin with me to get me to spend what she described as a night of bliss with this um... person! :O
Somewhat sober now by the previous sobering experience, I got her to remove her hands and contemplated on telling her I was gay, then decided that it may have potentially worse repercussions, I made some excuses and began running back to the hotel. O Karma, I will never laugh at another's misfortune again!
As expected, Sunday was totally written off, visited Rob's palatial residence in the evening, and back to the hotel for some much needed rest.
Finally did some more sightseeing further afield at the Batu Caves on Monday, numerous Macaques and Hindu sculptures provided an afternoon of entertainment. Back on the bus by 6:00pm, safe and sound in Singapore away from all the scary encounters by midnight monday. Its good to be home :D
Friday, June 02, 2006
Settling down
Well... no exciting excursions to report, but I am getting back into some of my old habits.
Finally found a place to learn Spanish again, stumbled across this school www.laslilasschool.com on the interweb one day. I enquired, applied, sat and exam and got in :), the best part of it all is that the school's across the road from my condo! To top it off my broken Spanish and incorrect verbs got me exempt from the beginners classes and some of the elementary ones! Go ME!! Makes me feel so much better after failing my Finance Exam.
Will be likely to take up Salsa lessons again, checking out this place with about 15 others from work tomorrow. If the instructors aren't incompetent, and they have constant air con, I guess I'll be signing up.
Still have to get a credit card... hopefully I won't get rejected again. I'll be so friggin angry if they still reject me :-/, me bomb and bank comes to mind :P (I'll probably get sent to jail for this comment ^_^).
And finally.. Malaysia next week... maybe... probably... if I get tickets and places sorted. I've booked leave already :O.
Finally found a place to learn Spanish again, stumbled across this school www.laslilasschool.com on the interweb one day. I enquired, applied, sat and exam and got in :), the best part of it all is that the school's across the road from my condo! To top it off my broken Spanish and incorrect verbs got me exempt from the beginners classes and some of the elementary ones! Go ME!! Makes me feel so much better after failing my Finance Exam.
Will be likely to take up Salsa lessons again, checking out this place with about 15 others from work tomorrow. If the instructors aren't incompetent, and they have constant air con, I guess I'll be signing up.
Still have to get a credit card... hopefully I won't get rejected again. I'll be so friggin angry if they still reject me :-/, me bomb and bank comes to mind :P (I'll probably get sent to jail for this comment ^_^).
And finally.. Malaysia next week... maybe... probably... if I get tickets and places sorted. I've booked leave already :O.
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