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Suicidal, I think...
2007-12-26 16:51:00
...some people will hate me for this come tomorrow, but I'd still wanna get it off me: I am fucking glad I don't rely on public transportation to get from point A to point B on a daily basis.Today had been one of those extremely rare occasions when I decided to leave the car in the basement parking lot at home and take a ride on board TransitLink and the MRT to get to town. Truth be told, I don't even have my own EZLink card, and instead had to borrow my Mom's just for the day. Well, I had to get to Chinatown Point for a course on some HRIS system we're using, and since the session lasted from 9.30am to 5.30pm, that works out to more than $15 easily on parking in the city area, which I felt was totally ridiculous. And another $14 at least for ERP charges to get from my place to town and back again.5 minutes on the MRT was enough to remind me why I always felt so pissed-off on board public transportation: people can be really rude sometimes, especially during rush hour when ever...
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Some rules of the game...
2007-12-26 13:15:00
1. What you don't know won't kill you, so don't ask, don't tell.2. "Go ahead, I won't get mad at you, sweetie" is often a precursor to a storm brewing.3. It's always a good idea to "suddenly" develop a case of amnesia...either that, or try lots of vodka.4. If you want to know when she means "no" when she says "yes", or when she means "yes" when she says "no", ask again, and NEVER assume.5. It always helps to let her "just cuddle up close"... more often than not, better things will come.*grin*******
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Grinch.
2007-12-25 16:57:00
What Christmas really does is that it marks the end of yet another year while simultaneously heralds the dawning of a coming year. Of course, it does so subtlety, amid pomp and fancy, with the clashing of champagne glasses and festivity and gifts and what-not, so that at the end of the day no one really goes, "fuck me, I'm one more year closer to being buried 6 feet under."I'm kidding, of course. Things aren't that bleak, and I am no pessimist, really. It's just that Christmas happens to be at the end of the year, which is all a coincidence, I am sure. I mean, for the rest of the year, ol' St. Nick has got a full-time job just like the rest of us pushing papers in the North Pole, why, you can't live on making deliveries for two weeks of the year, can you? Of course not. Even Santa Claus needs a proper job to earn his keep-- how else do you think he's always so jolly and well-fed?But really, there have been Christmases where I actually went "Bah humbug!" a la Scrouge in that D...

T'is Christmas.
2007-12-25 04:04:00
Here's wishing you all a great merry Christmas .*****Well my wish for a quiet Christmas this year didn't really come about, as Le Femme and I found ourselves at three different parties this Chirstmas Eve, and come 3am in this morning, I wasn't sober enough to drive home. Thankfully though, that last housecall was just a couple of blocks away at a friend's place in the estate nearby, and I'll probably drop by his place to pick up the car before we head out for a movie and a simple dinner... and no more parties I hope, although she did get a call from her brother to go over to his place for some festive gathering.All I want this Christmas is a couple of boxes of aspirins.*****Running into Karen yesterday as I was buying some champagne to bring over to the first party was quite unexpected, and it seems like I have this thing about running into ghosts of Christmases past recently.Karen had been a brief fling some time ago, and she was a great deal younger than I was. We met when I w...

Three years on,,,
2007-12-23 11:54:00
Right. Perhaps I had been a little harsh towards the Ghost of Christmas Past. I didn't expect her to turn up abruptly like that, especially since we both lived in different cities (me, here in Singapore; her, in Taipei). And I certainly didn't count on her trying to make get things back between us, especially since the last time we had been close to each other was three years ago before the Great Divide. Surely three years would have done both of us a lot of good and helped us move on, no?Oh well. At least this time round, I stood my ground and made things clear.******????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????? ?,??????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????? ?????
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Hmph.
2007-12-19 05:17:00
Of all things, I get an SMS message from her that said, "I'm so horny right now I can fuck your brains out."And of all the days in the year, today. Fuck. What is wrong with these people? I thought I made things pretty clear enough.Food for thought: this is what happens when you can't learn to keep your little friend in your pants each time you meet a pretty girl. Well hopefully after today, things would be a lot more different.Then again, who am I kidding?******

Ponderations.
2007-12-18 13:21:00
One thing I simply do not understand: why is it that I am still getting all the what's-her-name's popping up every now and then, and it's pretty obvious the motives are often more than just the casual how do you do's and reminiscences of old times?I thought the occasional coffee in between work would be pretty casual enough for catching up, but it's almost always never that casual. The script's always the same: filling me in on information about people and places that really don't mean anything to me, not that I bother about such details anyway, telling me about some other guy she'd hooked up with and was seeing for a while etc... and then from the way she looks at me, I get the vibe that coffee isn't that simple after all.Perhaps it's just me over-reacting, perhaps she'd really meant things to be casual; yet minutes after dropping her off at her destination in the car, there's the inevitable kiss goodbye-- on the lips?? And then there's the lingering touch of her finge...

Somewhere Over The Rainbow
2007-12-17 14:11:00
Because of work, I missed Zoukout 2007. Because work too, I may miss out on AsiaNation happening on Dec 29 at Attica Too, and I had received the invite by a really hot babe. Received a couple of other party invites and events, thanks to friends in the PR and media industries (thanks guys, I love you all), but unfortunately I've had work up to my nose even as we reach the tail end of the year, so I guess I'll be missing out a bit.But it's all good, and I'm okay with it, really, because even though I will be working late this Christmas Eve (work schedules are really crazy), parties this year don't start until a lot later in the evening-- guess the animals I hang out with are working late this X'mas as well.******Parties come and go, and the boozing and the occasional inevitable false niceties (come on, it's Christmas!) aside, what I really want to do is to stay indoors with champagne, warm down lights and home-cooked roasts, and afterward snuggle up in bed with her, and just en...
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Bruised, battered, bushed.
2007-12-17 13:05:00
The 10-man kumite: they take turns, they're fresh, you're in the ring and fighting every step to even stay on your feet. The things we do in the name of sport.Ouch.******

"You belong to me"
2007-12-15 17:21:00
" See the pyramids around the Nile Watch the sunrise from a tropic isle Just remember darling all the while You belong to me... "I would love to sail down the Nile one day on a nice yacht and watch the sun rise and set with champagne and the company of that special beautiful woman at my side. It's a dream I certainly hope to fulfill one day, never mind even if it means I have to wait till retirement to do so. It's all about the adventure, the carefree lifestyle and the romance that goes into something like this.Meanwhile, I guess we'll take the nostalgia and romantic visions out, and figure how to get there financially...afterall, I do need a yacht to begin with!The rest of the song, really, is dedicated to one amazing woman whose companionship I've come to cherish more than anything else. Like I mentioned before, it doesn't matter what her "official" status is; rather, it's about her comforting presence and the kind of support she gives in almost every aspect of my life that...

Old hound and other rants.
2007-12-11 14:27:00
At some point in your life, you move from trying to shag anything in a skirt, and then trying to pretend you're having conversations, to actually looking above the bustline, taking in her features and making sensible talk beyond "baby, I love your tits/ass"...and get to shag her again afterwards. And you're both a lot more decisive as to whether you would like to see each other a lot more, with or without the sex, a "fuck-buddy", or if it's "wham, bam, thank you ma'am".Ok, I admit-- I've aged, and I'm no longer the jock at the club who gets lucky. I've become the old hounddog at the club. Realisations like that don't creep slowly into your life; they just hit you, much akin to a bus slamming right at you, and then you realised "Gosh, I'm really that old", that you're no longer "in" nor "cool". Terms that seem to belong to a whole new generation of jocks. You've become the dude who wears boxers and with the vanilla scents, instead of spicy, fresh and funk.Then again, there...
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The Stylistics - Can't give you anything but my love
2007-12-07 14:43:00
Here you go, the "Gatsby song". I hope this exorcises images of a girly-looking Takuya Kimura doing god-knows-what to the music.But listening to the full version of the song now, I would say it's really fresh-- great 80's disco music, I'll bet.Cheers to disco, roller skates, hipster pants and free love!
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Trashy music no more.
2007-12-07 02:30:00
Dad thinks Amy Winehouse is an absolute freak. If he had just shared that opinion with me, it wouldn't be that bad, but he had to say it in the middle of a CD shop that was actually playing "Rehab", commenting (a tad too loudly I would say) about trashy lyrics promoting drug abuse amongst youngsters, and he literally snorted when he saw a picture of Amy Winehouse on the album."This, my friend, is a mighty fine example of a walking freak and absolute trash", he said pointing to the photo. "It's no wonder why kids today turn out with such warped and un-Asian values."Now before you start mouthing "stiffy old man" about Dad, here's a man who absolutely loves watching American Chopper and Miami Ink on cable TV, and the man used to play the electric guitar in a blues and jazz band. People, I think my dad's kinda cool, really, and the man knows his music, so I think he is entitled to being a music critic of sorts.The things I learnt from Dad when it comes to...well anything, I've real...
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The city never sleeps... well, almost.
2007-12-06 03:11:00
Picked up my parents after a little workout at the dojo last night. They had been out entertaining my uncle who had just flown in from Vancouver (he lives there) at Lau Pa Sat, and seeing how Uncle Charlie missed the local food, they thought it would be great to take him to a place he'd loved eating at before he migrated to Canada.Anyway, Uncle Charlie left to venture around town on his own, and we were driving down to La Femme's office some blocks down from Lau Pa Sat to pick up her highness when Mom went "gosh, you mean there are people still working at this hour?". She was referring to the number of offices that were still lighted up at 11pm, and there were certainly a lot of lights on.Welcome to the city of the new millennium, Mom, where 6pm is the new 4pm, and 8pm is the new 6. With the way businesses are connected the world over, time literally is money. Most of the offices are MNCs, law firms, accounting agencies, trading houses and financial institutions that now boast 24/...
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Kick ass.
2007-12-06 02:01:00
Don't you think the kanji characters would make a great tattoo? It says ichi geki ("??"), meaning "single strike", and it's characteristic of Kyokushinkai style karate: win by knockouts.I actually know one black-belter with an ichi geki tattoo on his back, and I must say it looks pretty damned impressive. It must be noted, however, the dude's got pretty huge lats to go along with the tattoo, so my guess is it's more of the size of the man, not the tattoo that makes him look like some pro from the Ultimate Fighting Championships or something.Cool yeah, and I'm tempted to get an ichi geki myself on my back. And then feed on a diet of low-fat protein shakes, anabolics and steroids. Or just make do with a t-shirt with the words running across the front, or have the kanji characters embroidered on my gi.... although I must say it's time to get the tattoo on my chest redone. Yeowch.
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"Why do you believe in God?"
2007-12-05 17:55:00
From Boston LegalAlan Shore: Do you believe in God, Denny?Denny Crane: Yeah I do.Alan: Why?Denny: Well, if you believed in God, and found out there isn't one, it's just you getting disappointed; if you didn't believe in God, and turns out there really is one, then you're screwed.***

Sin City, anyone?
2007-12-05 02:26:00
My Wallby-hugging friend Mac was back in town to get some more swimming fish fillets, and to get down to the business of selling off some property he owned here in Singapore to cash in on the current property craze. It's crazy, I tell you, the way prices are hitting the roof these days, while on the other hand, there are people who are in dire need of a proper roof over their heads, and are unable to because they have been denied their chances, thanks to the forces of over-demand and under-supply.Anyway, Aussie bloke and I crashed a couple of beers last night-- on my tab, of course...the guy's a fucking cheapskate farang who would stop at nothing to pinch free drinks off a chum, as a mutual friend, a Thai army captain, would jest. Cheapskate or not, a friend's a friend, and between friend's what's a little emotional blackmail so long as it's over beers?Mac was obviously happy with his "harvest", and he will be smiling his way to the bank, no doubt, and the guys over at HSBC wo...
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Bird-talk
2007-12-04 13:03:00
"Poly" is the name of a freaking bird. This is in response to one of the comments a reader wrote in Izzy's latest post. Sigh, woman goes and posts about a hot weekend she's had in terms of doing the dirty, and you get all sorts of attention drawn to it.And mark my words, another 3 more comments down the line, and you will get someone lambasting the moral values of the poor girl (see other posts for example...you know me, I don't point fingers, I don't name names). Like 500 years later from the Victorian ages, and women who are, shall we say, vivacious in terms of sexual appetites, are still cast as slutty nymphomaniacs with loose morals. And sex is still seen as something that is "dirty" and taboo to talk about in public domain. Is it any wonder then, that this government laments time and again about plunging birth rates?Right, enough talk about the birds and the bees. And don't anyone try to preach to me too, I so swear I will unleash a slew of obscenities my own grandfather w...
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Humanity, my ass.
2007-12-04 07:03:00
A revelation from a friend just now, and I realised anew that people will resort to anything and everything to get ahead. You may choose to disagree with me, but I think the number of people who agree with me will outnumber those who go against this logic. Won't go into the details, since I promised my friend I would keep mum about it, but in time to come, I think those in the industry would hear about it.Well, it is a dog-eat-dog world afterall. We may have had millennial evolutionary jumps from our primal ancestors, but it appears our instincts for survival compel us to do things that are not so different from the way baboons fight for food, for instance. Every species, from the Artic snow fox, perhaps one of the smartest land predators, to the humble ant, has a mechanism for resorting to violence most foul to get ahead of the game. Even amoeba will cannibalise one another to survive.The laws of the jungle still prevail, concrete-clad or not, and really, I think one of the things...
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Franz Ferdinand and the Schmoo.
2007-12-04 02:52:00
This has got to be one of the best songs I'd like to have a good workout on the sandbags too. In fact, chances are when I really am on the bags working on my jabs and hooks, this is one song that will be playing in the iPod to really get me psyched up.Ok, the song, and my violent tendencies aside, I wonder how many of you remember this cute little guy:I think "Schmoo", as he's called, was part of the Captain Caveman cartoons (you've got to love Wikipedia!) from a long time back. And please tell me someone else remember these Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters!Well, Schmoo and the month of December have one thing in common: they remind me of that adolescent first love from a long time ago: so long ago, it could have been another lifetime.First loves are unforgettable. The hormone driven passions, the clingy sort of romances, the mushiness of things you'd say in attempts to express things like "you mean the world to me" etc. Funny how, as you age, romance takes on very different way...
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Monkeys with typewriters.
2007-12-03 06:20:00
First a note on my insomnia/flu from last night: finally got to sleep at 0430hrs when I finally collapsed into the pillows, spent and exhausted, after trying to get some reading done after my entry at 0130hrs. It didn't help that I was reading State of Fear by Michael Crichton-- Crichton's books always make me think, and I woke up at 0700hrs, mind churning at light-speed again and I could have sworn I had a dream about something I read in the book.It's been said that a thousand monkeys with typewriters can churn out the Complete Works of Shakespeare. If that was true, then my condolences to the Bard: not much of an achievement there, is it, if there's a probability your lesser-primate cousins could do the same!Of course, we didn't mean literally that the simian typists could churn out A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, or The Tempest and Hamlet; just that mathematically, there's a high probability a thousand monkeys could make Shakespeare look bad.I first came acros...
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Talk to me, brain.
2007-12-03 03:01:00
One of the most expensive but useful presents my parents ever bought me was signing me up for an NLP programme, the same on that a certain Mr. Khoo went to and got ideas for a best-selling self-help book for kids, and thereafter pretty much powered up a number of the products he's been selling.Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against Adam. I think he's a very smart and savvy business person, it's just that for a while, I'm a little reluctant to go into the NLP business especially since NLP coaches and master coaches are a dime a dozen these days: they go by titles like "executive coach", "success coach" and "hypno-psychologist". It's the same kind of magic that makes Tony Robbins a very rich man.But I don't want to mention the name of the camp that I went to back in secondary school that introduced NLP into my life. While I do adopt some of the concepts I learnt, and I would say it pretty much helped me formulate my own personal "success formula", I remember I hated the very...
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X.
2007-12-02 18:20:00
Insomnia and flu are a deadly combination, and hence the reason why I'm still up and blogging at 1:23am.Had this irritating sneezing thing going on since yesterday morning, and my nose has been like a leaky tap since. The medication didn't help much, but have made me so drowsy that with all the added hours of sleep, I'm wide awake as a barn owl when the time comes for proper sleep to take place.I am an undead walking around, and it's no joke because I'd like to get to sleep knowing well that I need all the rest I can get, and I am having body aches along with the damned flu, yet at the same time, my mind's coming to life on its own at night, so I can't get to sleep. It's irritating, it's frustrating, and I wish I could tranq myself or something.Damn.

Bloody irritating ad...
2007-12-01 00:50:00
...If I never disliked Takuya Kimura before, this is a reason to do so, and I so absolutely cringe when I hear that falsetto voice. What's even more irritating is that I get that melody playing in my head like a broken record for hours after watching it on TV! No wait, it's La Femme trying to irritate me by singing that tune over and over.The next time that ad comes on the telly, I'm so gonna punch the "mute" button!
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Spank the monkey.
2007-11-30 17:29:00
As I mentioned before, I've been a bad boy, and Santa never gives me prezzies on Xmas Day. I say this because it's effectively December already, and I have another 23 days to build good karma for one shot at the jolly fat man in red (no, not the one with the trident and cloven hoof, wise guy) to slide some gifts down my chimney.Now that doesn't sound very right, does it? Then again, it doesn't matter that I've never been on Santa's good books so long as I get my fun out of things. Like the story I was telling you folks about me being challenged to shoot Jesus' left nipple with an air rifle while cleaning out some old air rifles in the school hall back in my secondary school days *grins*. I won't get many presents, and I'm going to have a jolly good time in Purgatory, that's almost certain, so I may as well make the best of my time and have fun while I can. Life's short, play hard. And have lots of booze and sex to go along with it.Let's see. Just how ready am I for the f...
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LinkedIn and Facebook.
2007-11-30 16:17:00
I can't say this with enough exclamation marks to emphasise my wrath: I do not take well to people simply adding me on Facebook or LinkedIn without so much as an introduction to tell me who you are, much less asking for my permission to be added to my contacts.Even on Web 2.0 platforms, there are proper socialising practices, aren't there? Do you go up to someone you see for the first time in a face-to-face encounter and immediately asked to become an acquaintance to the other party without a proper introduction? It's all part of etiquette isn't it?What makes it all the more annoying is that I get people who add me on LinkedIn without asking for my permission to do so, and it's someone whom I already have deleted from the contact list before. Are you so bloody dense that you don't get the message? Like if I declined your handshake when someone introduces you to me (happens sometimes when I just don't like the face of the person being introduced-- not a lot, but it happens), ...
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MDA Senior Management Rap
2007-11-30 14:45:00
You may have read about a recent fiasco involving the senior management at the Media Development Authority (MDA) coming up with a rap for their annual report 2006/2007. Apparently, a number of people are seeing red and have been very critical about the MDA's attempt to think out of the box-- just take a look at the comments in the SPUG Forum, and again, here on this blog.Or are Singaporeans just plain overly-critical about everything and anything under the sun? So it was a futile attempt on the part of the MDA to try to be "cool" and strike a chord with the general public. Still, is there a need to go to extremes of saying things like "for once I'm embarassed to be Singaporean"?I beg to differ, and instead, I must say it was a bold move on the part of the senior management at the MDA. Let's not forget the people in the video are among the top strata of the civil service; so they can't do a gangsta rap like 50-Cent, but they're still smart people who play a pivotal role in comin...
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It's only business.
2007-11-29 17:12:00
Honestly, I don't know how I do it, but I have been able to get some pretty big names to at least be interested in looking at exploring possibilities of forming strategic alliances and partnerships with me while I simultaneously work on actually getting into formalised and contractual agreements with others when the truth is, in my opinion, I haven't much of a value proposition to offer these potential partners other than goodwill.No, I mean really: I think in all the partnerships and alliances I am looking at going into, it's a case of me needing these people more than they need me for now, and definitely I have to look beyond just being another channel to each and every one of them. It's all about building relationships, enduring and profitable ones at that, and it's also about the amount of value-add you can provide mutually to the other party when you move into partnerships and alliances, and I kind of feel uncomfortable with the idea that I haven't really got much on my p...
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Death by Chocolate
2007-11-29 14:22:00
By the time Christmas is over, I'd have totally sworn off chocolates for the rest of my time on earth; La Femme just spent $200 on chocolates from Royce, and I'm pretty sure not all of the boxes are going to be given out as presents.And if you've opened the link to the online shop of Royce, it doesn't matter if you don't understand Japanese-- just click around, add to the shopping cart, key in the Visa or Mastercard number, click "confirm", and Bob's your uncle.For now, I find myself staring at the chocolate packages and hopefully, we find more people to receive them as gifts. Goodness, I can't imagine the prospect of having chocolates every other minute of the days leading up to Christmas and New Year's Day!***Incidentally, I'm beginning to think there's some truth to chocolates, especially dark chocolates (think Belgian), being aphrodisiacs for women... like men shuckling down oysters, I guess. Firstly, I haven't met any woman who would turn down an offer of chocolates,...
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You feel it, don't you?
2007-11-29 06:17:00
It's not out officially, and the PR guys from both the government and the banking sectors will tell you otherwise and try to paint an optimistic picture, but there's something ominous looming in terms of economic outlook for the next 12 months ahead, isn't there? You kind of get that vibe talking to people on your business development rounds, don't you, that somehow, things are just not as rosy as what the official industry watchers say.Methinks there is the dreaded "r" word lurking at the periphery, what with ridiculous property prices that are still going around, and an observable cut-back on hiring trends in some industries... and of course, we all don't know yet what the repercussions of the US sub-prime crisis bring to Asia, if any-- well, at least that sort of information is not readily available to the man on the streets.In fact, there are a lot of information with regards to prevailing economic conditions that are not available to the average Joe, and poor Joe just has ...
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