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Archive for January, 2006

Exceeded Bandwidth: I’m Moving to Flickr

Monday, January 16th, 2006

For the past few days, I’ve exceeded the bandwidth for my photo hosting site, Photobucket. That explains why you’re seeing these little blue striped icons in place of my photos.
Yeah, I know, most bloggers would know that Flickr would have been the better choice, but I had already signed up for Photobucket a long [...]

Top Ten Signs This isn’t Going to be a Good Chinese New Year

Monday, January 16th, 2006

I haven’t done a real Top Ten list for a long time. So here goes:
Top Ten Signs This isn’t Going to be a Good Chinese New Year

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 [...]

And Chinese New Year Comes Again

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Chinese New Year 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 [...]

My Ten Favourite Videos from 2005

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

MTV just ran the top 100 videos 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 [...]

Another Meme on Yourself

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Gee, memes 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’ [...]

Un-Themed Meme

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

Wah, somebody threatened me to do this meme, 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 [...]

2006 Resolutions

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

I don’t like to make resolutions. I remember back on primary school our teacher made us make New Year resolutions, 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 [...]

Top Ten Misfires Overheard in Malaysia in 2005

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

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?
Top Ten Misfires Overheard in [...]

Top Ten Predictions for 2006 That Will Most Likely Come True

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

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 [...]