Saturday, March 31, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
Bloody Chinese Government
^^ Taxi to work.
I lost my phone because of the bastards... well at least I have a new 3G capable phone! Go mobile blogging!
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Good Vibrations 2007 - Sing Stylez
I'm not really a big music festival fan, the conjugation of retards, really horrid toilet conditions, huge queues to get booze/food, hit and miss line ups means I'm pretty much a music festival noob.
Anyway, popped my music festival cherry over the Chinese New Year long weekend.
Pros:
1. Wicked Aura Batucada - Singapore based international Brasilian percussion group. They are WICKED! 6:30pm time slot, but had the crowd just as amped as J5 and the Beastie Boys.
2. Jurassic Five - Took them eons to get ready and actually come out (allusions to weed, coke and circle jerking were made whilst waiting), but once they did the crowd just went off, off my nut the whole time!
3. Beastie Boys - Final act for the night, bit of a weird first half of the set though. Quantity of extremely inebriated white men did sully the experience some what bloody body odour and misdirected belligerence.
4. Agrikulture - Contemporary Indonesian Kraftwerk? I was getting a drink during most of their set and so only caught the beginning and end... but I like :)
5. Dubwise and Guerilla crew for providing the dub and drum n bass support, hopefully next year they'll get a big DnB name into Singapore. *fingers crossed*
6. Photo op with the beautiful Denise Keller (German-Singaporean MTV Asia VJ). ^_^
Mehs:
1. Electrico - I'm not a fan of most types of Rock.
2. Cut Copy - I liked their set on FabricLive 29, live.. they were somewhat disappointing.
3. Other acts
4. A sausage fest of expat kids inappropriately shouting MILF at the female vocalist of Cicada without regard to the actual fact of whether she was a mother of not.
5. White male tourists. Thank god none of them were New Zealanders, us Kiwis... we're so well beahved. :)
Regrets:
1. Too Phat - Awesome Malaysian hip hop / RnB guys, they were supposed to come on before J5, but some screw up meant that they went to the other arena with the indie rock (and eventually trance) fags... I will see them before I leave Asia!!
Loltastic photographs below:
Anyway, popped my music festival cherry over the Chinese New Year long weekend.
Pros:
1. Wicked Aura Batucada - Singapore based international Brasilian percussion group. They are WICKED! 6:30pm time slot, but had the crowd just as amped as J5 and the Beastie Boys.
2. Jurassic Five - Took them eons to get ready and actually come out (allusions to weed, coke and circle jerking were made whilst waiting), but once they did the crowd just went off, off my nut the whole time!
3. Beastie Boys - Final act for the night, bit of a weird first half of the set though. Quantity of extremely inebriated white men did sully the experience some what bloody body odour and misdirected belligerence.
4. Agrikulture - Contemporary Indonesian Kraftwerk? I was getting a drink during most of their set and so only caught the beginning and end... but I like :)
5. Dubwise and Guerilla crew for providing the dub and drum n bass support, hopefully next year they'll get a big DnB name into Singapore. *fingers crossed*
6. Photo op with the beautiful Denise Keller (German-Singaporean MTV Asia VJ). ^_^
Mehs:
1. Electrico - I'm not a fan of most types of Rock.
2. Cut Copy - I liked their set on FabricLive 29, live.. they were somewhat disappointing.
3. Other acts
4. A sausage fest of expat kids inappropriately shouting MILF at the female vocalist of Cicada without regard to the actual fact of whether she was a mother of not.
5. White male tourists. Thank god none of them were New Zealanders, us Kiwis... we're so well beahved. :)
Regrets:
1. Too Phat - Awesome Malaysian hip hop / RnB guys, they were supposed to come on before J5, but some screw up meant that they went to the other arena with the indie rock (and eventually trance) fags... I will see them before I leave Asia!!
Loltastic photographs below:
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Oooh yeah! I'm a celebrity!
Props to Chad for finding this! I knew I was related to famous people! Please line up for autographs kthx!
First I present an equal opportunity collection. Asians, Emperors, Soccer players, Wizards and Lesbians reprazent yo!
Next a more Asian oriented collection, with vampire slaying garnish
Finally, the black edition. I think its purely coincidental that I'm 50% similar to 50 cent.
First I present an equal opportunity collection. Asians, Emperors, Soccer players, Wizards and Lesbians reprazent yo!
Next a more Asian oriented collection, with vampire slaying garnish
Finally, the black edition. I think its purely coincidental that I'm 50% similar to 50 cent.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Tis the season to be jolly, and eat like you're a refugee from Somalia, and get sunburnt!
I suppose I had better post about my migratory patterns over the Christmas and New Years period. Most of my readers will have been involved in some sort of shenanigans with me, so feel free to NOT read this and save yourself 3-5 minutes of your life so that it maybe better spent downloading illegal software, killing brain cells on YouTube, searching for pornography, or doing something outside to take advantage of this lovely weather that no one in the world seems to be getting ;-)
The season of jolliness actually began a full week before my triumphant return to NZ. Scott (an ex-Synergite mate) passed through Singapore for a week with friend Parmesh and was dragged in to what almost ended up being a week-long piss up with them (definitely NOT complaining guys!). Hilights included consuming giant novelty sized burgers at Brewerks, and giant novelty sized margaritas at Cafe Iguana. I left them to their own devices during the day, and invariably Sentosa, the Zoo and 500 malls were visited.
The flight back was one of the worst I've ever experienced on Singapore Airlines, I got shoved into the back-most row of the plane with no leg or recline room, and decidedly average looking air hostesses (perhaps my standards for them have risen now?). The lads and lass (who joined us half way through the week-long piss up) kept me well entertained at least. Let it be known that this is the first flight where I did not endulge in Super Mario Bros (yes... I even played Super Mario Bros on business class over to Singapore, albeit drunk on champagne! :D).
Parted ways with Scott in Auckland as he was sticking around for a few days for a wedding, found Wellington to be just as I expected, around about 15 degrees :D. What I didn't remember was the severity of the wind as I made my way back into Wellington for Synergy's Christmas shindig, my lightly producted and carefully crafted hair was devastated by the Wellington wind in mere seconds. I just want to say here, New Zealanders (and Synergites especially) you guys are awesome, despite having left for 8 months, I felt like I hadn't left at all, and thanks heaps for inviting me back!
In the next few days I undid the month and a half of hard gymming in Singapore, 2 BBQs, numerous lunches and coffees :S. It was so worth it though :) and great fun catching up with everyone, the week climaxed with the Twenty20 International between NZ and Sri Lanka where I proudly donned the green and gold impersonating that loveable rascal Shane Warne once more (with a cut blonde wig this time). By chance, the larrakins sitting next to us happened to have smuggled in a giant inflatable phallus, I couldn't let this opportunity slip and neither could they (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=175300 for those not in the know), unfortunately the hawk-eyed and rather grotesque looking security guard confiscated the phallus before any incriminating photographic evidence could be procured. The Duckworth-Lewis system affected play and Sri Lanka was declared winner much to our chagrin, the chagrin was remedied later on that night with 2 bottles of Veuve Cliquot and numerous ridiculously cheap cocktails (compared to Singapore), which reminds me... I have to get the recipe for the Dirty Clint at Ponderosa again, anyone back home wanna help me out?
Was good to spend a few days with the extended family over Christmas, big ups to the family for all the cooking. Despite being surrounded by Chinese food, nothing here in Singapore quite captures the flavours and subtlties of cuisine from my home town (Xi'an). This of course did not help the burgeoning waistline issue, but they're forgiven :D.
New Years was spent camping on a wicked little secluded bay (Anaura Bay) about an hour's drive north of Gisborne. I'd never been camping before and this was certainly one of the best experiences in my life, and something I'd like to do properly again. I was spared of much of the set up hassles as Jess and Nathan kindly offered a portion of the main tent (the marae) to me. The emptying of the chemical toilets, while not a very envious job provided a few hilarious moments as I got urine and possibly fecal matter over my hands and feet in the dark :O... not to worry though, our campsite was right by the beach and a quick swim remedied that problem quite successfully... poor fishies... ;). I'm also fairly dark now as an added bonus of catching some rays on the beach, still peeling in some areas though :(. Oh yeah, chur for the Darren on NY's, you know who you are ;)
Three weeks just wasn't enough :(, I'm keen to head back later in the year, but I've got to find a better excuse than Crate Day :D.
The season of jolliness actually began a full week before my triumphant return to NZ. Scott (an ex-Synergite mate) passed through Singapore for a week with friend Parmesh and was dragged in to what almost ended up being a week-long piss up with them (definitely NOT complaining guys!). Hilights included consuming giant novelty sized burgers at Brewerks, and giant novelty sized margaritas at Cafe Iguana. I left them to their own devices during the day, and invariably Sentosa, the Zoo and 500 malls were visited.
The flight back was one of the worst I've ever experienced on Singapore Airlines, I got shoved into the back-most row of the plane with no leg or recline room, and decidedly average looking air hostesses (perhaps my standards for them have risen now?). The lads and lass (who joined us half way through the week-long piss up) kept me well entertained at least. Let it be known that this is the first flight where I did not endulge in Super Mario Bros (yes... I even played Super Mario Bros on business class over to Singapore, albeit drunk on champagne! :D).
Parted ways with Scott in Auckland as he was sticking around for a few days for a wedding, found Wellington to be just as I expected, around about 15 degrees :D. What I didn't remember was the severity of the wind as I made my way back into Wellington for Synergy's Christmas shindig, my lightly producted and carefully crafted hair was devastated by the Wellington wind in mere seconds. I just want to say here, New Zealanders (and Synergites especially) you guys are awesome, despite having left for 8 months, I felt like I hadn't left at all, and thanks heaps for inviting me back!
In the next few days I undid the month and a half of hard gymming in Singapore, 2 BBQs, numerous lunches and coffees :S. It was so worth it though :) and great fun catching up with everyone, the week climaxed with the Twenty20 International between NZ and Sri Lanka where I proudly donned the green and gold impersonating that loveable rascal Shane Warne once more (with a cut blonde wig this time). By chance, the larrakins sitting next to us happened to have smuggled in a giant inflatable phallus, I couldn't let this opportunity slip and neither could they (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=175300 for those not in the know), unfortunately the hawk-eyed and rather grotesque looking security guard confiscated the phallus before any incriminating photographic evidence could be procured. The Duckworth-Lewis system affected play and Sri Lanka was declared winner much to our chagrin, the chagrin was remedied later on that night with 2 bottles of Veuve Cliquot and numerous ridiculously cheap cocktails (compared to Singapore), which reminds me... I have to get the recipe for the Dirty Clint at Ponderosa again, anyone back home wanna help me out?
Was good to spend a few days with the extended family over Christmas, big ups to the family for all the cooking. Despite being surrounded by Chinese food, nothing here in Singapore quite captures the flavours and subtlties of cuisine from my home town (Xi'an). This of course did not help the burgeoning waistline issue, but they're forgiven :D.
New Years was spent camping on a wicked little secluded bay (Anaura Bay) about an hour's drive north of Gisborne. I'd never been camping before and this was certainly one of the best experiences in my life, and something I'd like to do properly again. I was spared of much of the set up hassles as Jess and Nathan kindly offered a portion of the main tent (the marae) to me. The emptying of the chemical toilets, while not a very envious job provided a few hilarious moments as I got urine and possibly fecal matter over my hands and feet in the dark :O... not to worry though, our campsite was right by the beach and a quick swim remedied that problem quite successfully... poor fishies... ;). I'm also fairly dark now as an added bonus of catching some rays on the beach, still peeling in some areas though :(. Oh yeah, chur for the Darren on NY's, you know who you are ;)
Three weeks just wasn't enough :(, I'm keen to head back later in the year, but I've got to find a better excuse than Crate Day :D.
Monday, November 20, 2006
I'm still alive... kinda.
To all my faithful (har har.. yeah right) readers. Apologies for the dearth of relevant postings, or really any postings in the last few months. Things have ambled along fine with:
Photographic evidence of aforementioned cross-dressing and seksy skirt as follows:
- A visit from Marcel who came bearing 300 centi-litres of fine Ypioca brand Cachaça, thats a whopping 200 centi-litres more than "allowed". This man has a future in smuggling! The Cachaça remaining now is probably just over 200 centi-litres, for shame, I need to drink more!
- Moving on to a new project, am on the same team with Chad once again and finally doing some long awaited development work!
- My first cross-dressing experience, in a damn sexy yellow skirt, which also led me to my finest haggling experience! (down from $20 to $5!).
- Have unfortunately succumbed to the plague (also known as flu of the non bird kind) in Singapore after a record year long stint without illness, damn food technicians coughing over my fried rice!
Photographic evidence of aforementioned cross-dressing and seksy skirt as follows:
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Why Cricket Sucks in 2006 (In Malaysia)
So I spent RM202 on the tickets, SGD47 on the bus ride there, RM107.5 for one night's accomodation, and RM35 for the return tickets to learn why cricket sucks in 2006 in Malaysia. I've vowed to never go to another cricket game in the Asian tropics, you're too worried about keeping cool in the 35 degree heat to cheer for your team!
The ground was substandard, the food was poor, 400% markup on water, it was so hot that I didn't even want to drink alcohol. To top it all off, Katich faced 30 deliveries to get past single figures and Morton bested that effort in the Windies innings by scoring the world's slowest duck (0 from facing 31 deliveries)!
The only good thing about the whole trip was drinking and hookah (no, thats not hooker, or lady boys) with Neal the night before, and then catching up with Rob the irishman.
For those that don't know I'm returing to NZ during mid-December -> early January. Boxing day 20/20 at the cake tin should be a winner! I miss cricket in NZ, the atmosphere, my blonde hair, telling Brett Lee that he's a wanker, Jared's incompetency with gin and water, my fellow SWIS members, hotties. :'(
And finally, Jared this is all the sentimentality that you'll get out of me on the interweb. I can't have everyone know about my true feelings for you. You should be happy though, its still more sentimentality than anyone else has received, despite your formative years in that east coast backwater :P
The ground was substandard, the food was poor, 400% markup on water, it was so hot that I didn't even want to drink alcohol. To top it all off, Katich faced 30 deliveries to get past single figures and Morton bested that effort in the Windies innings by scoring the world's slowest duck (0 from facing 31 deliveries)!
The only good thing about the whole trip was drinking and hookah (no, thats not hooker, or lady boys) with Neal the night before, and then catching up with Rob the irishman.
For those that don't know I'm returing to NZ during mid-December -> early January. Boxing day 20/20 at the cake tin should be a winner! I miss cricket in NZ, the atmosphere, my blonde hair, telling Brett Lee that he's a wanker, Jared's incompetency with gin and water, my fellow SWIS members, hotties. :'(
And finally, Jared this is all the sentimentality that you'll get out of me on the interweb. I can't have everyone know about my true feelings for you. You should be happy though, its still more sentimentality than anyone else has received, despite your formative years in that east coast backwater :P
Sunday, September 10, 2006
A day at the golf
So over the weekend they had some people that like to play with balls and holes over in Singapore. Lucky for us the event was sponsored by Barclays since we have waay too much money. So on a hot sunny Singapore Saturday a few of us set out to watch the most boring and ridiculous game in the world as we had nothing else to do.
The journey to Sentosa was plagued with misdirection, construction and miscommuniction, the group consensus was that we'd never actually make it there. A few piccies below, see if you can spot any famous golfers :)
The journey to Sentosa was plagued with misdirection, construction and miscommuniction, the group consensus was that we'd never actually make it there. A few piccies below, see if you can spot any famous golfers :)
Sunday, August 27, 2006
I've decided that I'm immature
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
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
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