For the past few days, I’ve exceeded the bandwidth for my photo hosting site, [tag]Photobucket[/tag]. That explains why you’re seeing these little blue striped icons in place of my photos. Yeah, I know, most bloggers would know that [tag]Flickr[/tag] would have been the better choice, but I had already signed up for Photobucket a long time ago. A few bloggers recommended me to switch to Flickr at the very beginning. Well, figured that since I had already signed up, and that it was free, I thought I’d use up my Photobucket space first (50Mb), then move on to Flickr. Unfortunately, the problem wasn’t with the 50Mb space limitations, it was…

I haven’t done a real [tag]Top Ten[/tag] list for a long time. So here goes: Top Ten Signs This isn’t Going to be a Good [tag]Chinese New Year[/tag] It’s still 2 weeks to Chinese New Year, you have already personally finished 4kg of Boxing Chicken (Wo Lai Yeh) BBQ meat. Your neighbour’s annoying kids are stockpiling one shed of firecrackers, enough firepower to take out Saddam Hussein’s Imperial Guards. Your new year clothes are now one size bigger than last year’s, and two bigger than the year before’s… Price of beer up again. On the first day of new year, you’ve lost RM400 at blackjack alone. Sixth day of new…

[tag]Chinese New Year[/tag] is only a few weeks away, so my table calendar tells me. I dunno, maybe everyone is still in the Christmas-New Year-Hari Raya Haji mood, the usual festivity that surrounds the Lunar new year seem to be missing. I only realize that Chinese New Year was near when I was in Cold Storage today and they were playing ‘Chai Shen Dao’ (‘Here comes the [tag]God of Prosperity[/tag]’. Yeah, I know it sounds funny in English) over the PA system. It’s a bit surreal, me standing along the aisle, between the gwailo expats shopping for cream cheese… Anyway, this new year is gonna be a little different for…

[tag]MTV[/tag] just ran the top 100 [tag]videos[/tag] from 2005 a few weeks ago. I didn’t manage to catch all 10 episodes of the series (it ran on Pop Inc) but I got the entire list from their website. From there, here are my favourite songs of 2005, in no particular order. Feel Good Inc by Gorillaz – Such a trippy pop song, sticks in your head the whole day. Hung Up by Madonna – I really haven’t like any of her music since the 80’s, but this is one song I like. Maybe because I am also an ABBA fan. Don’t tell her, but in the video, she looks old.…

Gee, [tag]meme[/tag]s seem to be making a small comeback so early in the year. This was tagged on me by shan si beruang kutub, so I’m inflicting it on all you unsuspecting readers… bwahahahahaaa… THREE NAMES YOU GO BY: 1. Simon 2. ‘Tou San’ (God of Gamblers) 3. Mat Rock THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD: 1. Johnny ‘Rebel Moon’ Dakota 2. Road Warrior Crush (alongside Animal and Hawk) 3. Darth Revan THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF: 1. Inability to make pointless small talk 2. Ability to give that ‘Do I look I I’m interested in buying something from you?’ look to salespeople. 3. Macabre sense of humour THREE…

Wah, somebody threatened me to do this [tag]meme[/tag], so OK, no probs. Too bad I’ve no idea what the theme is about… something to do with passing the time until the next public holiday? What were you doing 10 years ago? Still sleeping in my college dorm. After a long night and morning of PC games. I’ll probably wake up sometime before lunch, grab a bite to eat… then continue the gaming session. Afternoon (5 sharp) with Team 300RM, it’s b-ball time… What were you doing 1 year ago? Pretty much the same as i am doing now. Waiting for the final signal from the alien mothership to call me…

I don’t like to make resolutions. I remember back on primary school our teacher made us make [tag]New Year resolutions[/tag], and kept score on whether we fulfilled us or not. Yeah right, and they say teachers are overloaded with extra-curricular work. Except back then they called it ‘azam baru’ (‘new resolution’). We didn’t have a clue what the teacher meant, so we all turned and stared at our classmate Azam (gee, I wonder that guy is now…) You know why I don’t like making resolutions? Because I won’t keep them. Those things I need to do, I don’t need to remind myself at the start of the year. Like avoid…

Ah, of course they say that it’s easy to write in in retrospect, but not so easy if someone were to predict it. OK, fine, tomorrow i’ll do more predictions for this coming year. But hey, reading misfires are supposed to be the better part of looking at the year, right? [tag]Top Ten[/tag] Misfires Overheard in [tag]Malaysia[/tag] in 2005 “Look, nobody is going to care about how many APs you have. Nobody cares about these things. Everybody wants to buy cars, right?!” “10 to 1 this Mawi kid will be the first to be eliminated. Sure one.” “My broker says the KLCI will hit 1000 by end of the year.…

Happy New Year everyone. This, incidentally, is the first post for the year 2006. Every year at this time of the year, I read lots of people and their predictions for the year – this candidate would win that election, price of this commodity will reach a record price, blah blah blah. Even celebrities like Lillian Too are getting into the act. OK, let me make some bold predictions for 2006. Price of petrol will NOT decrease. In fact, I think it will most likely increase. There will be more than a few headlines about some GLC running into some administrative or financial trouble The Malaysian football team will NOT…