This is the continuation of yesterday’s posting. Warning, though, lots of pics. Not friendly to dial-up connection, yadda yadda yadda… zzz… Anyways, so we spent a night in a hotel in Ipoh. My ex-colleague was telling me that when he stayed in a hotel in the same town some years back, some pimp will come and knock on your door in the middle of the night and ask you lasciviously, “Oi lui mou?” (‘Want a girl?’) If you don’t get it, he’s not offering you orphaned young babies for adoption under some social service scheme. Nope, that definitely didn’t happen to us, although we were most probably stoned asleep after…

So it began like this. Some months ago, a few of us decided to go for a SG holiday as together, as we do annually. Three years ago it was [tag]Melaka[/tag] town. Cue lots of photo snapping at the historical monuments. And lots of durian cendol. Then the year after that it was er… let me see… it was [tag]Fraser’s Hill[/tag]. A little further, but still within driving distance. Can’t remember much about what we did there, lots of card games and Pictionary, i suppose. Yeah, there was this awesome waterfall, too. Then last year, we decided to go a little further than the two hour driving radius. Heck, let’s…

I’ve just come home from a weekend holiday to the North – Ipoh and Penang, to be specific. I’ve got lots of stories to write about and photos to show, but right now I’m too pooped to do much, hopefully it’ll be done in the next few days. I’m got to get the photos uploaded and grab some pix from my friends’ cams, my cam’s battery died on me halfway without a backup… So keep an eye out for the next few postings… meanwhile: Five Things I Like About Penang The food. [tag]Penang Hill[/tag]. The beach. Did I mention the food? The old pre-war buildings. Well, at least the ones…

I know I plugged Jolene’s blog before, but I have to do this one. Best post I’ve read in a long time. (Be patient. It loads s l o w l y…) I’m not a particularly mushy person, but i think it kinda speaks to anyone who has ever been in love. It really reminded me of a post i wrote some time back, Searching for Your Soulmate. Don’t worry, this one loads faster. *** While I’m on the subject of plugging other blogs, you can check out this one, by a polymath from Singapore who’s actually studying in US at the moment. I don’t read as many Singaporean blogs…

I seem to have very few table calendars this year. By table calendar, I mean the those half A4 types that stand up, and you flip them over every month, not those A3 size ones where you hide your resume under it. Every year I usually get lots and lots of them for the past few years, from my suppliers, sub-contractors, bankers or anybody who thinks I’m a position to give them business (hah, how wrong they were!). Usually I get like 20, I pass them to my parents and my friends (yeah, maybe THEY can give these suppliers some business). Anyways, this year has been pretty squalid. I have…

Was at MATTA Fair over the weekend. This was my first time there, I was bracing for an mass of human bodies. It was packed alright. These people started parking their cars on the ramp leading to PWTC across Jalan Tun Razak. OMG, how kiasu can they be?! We got a parking spot easily at Hentian Putra. The thing about expos like MATTA Fair is that if you’re really into it, time flies like a bird when you’re there. We only covered like 50% of the 4 super-big halls and it was time for us to leave for another appointment. *** To get the most out of MATTA Fair, you…

Horrendous. Ghastly. If I’m being honest with you, it reminds me of a bad wedding band performance. Simon Cowell, well, he’s perennially nasty and unforgiving in the American Idol judges chair. Ever wonder why? I dunno, I have a few theories… Top Ten Reasons Why Simon Cowell is So Nasty On [tag]American Idol[/tag] Hot burning angst and frustration stemming from him unable to get [tag]Paula Abdul[/tag] to go out with him. He’s always insanely jealous that [tag]Ryan Seacrest[/tag] gets more camera time than him. And fan mail from the girls. Ryan Seacrest keeps babbling on and on, prolonging the taping of the show, thereby making Simon late for his favourite…

My friend likes to wear horizontal stripes. He isn’t pudgy or anything like that, he’s quite slim, actually. Not Kate Moss slim, but still not flabby either. More like [tag]Ryan Seacrest[/tag] slim. Or should I say Seacresty? Okay, fine, fine, I need to lay off watching too much [tag]American Idol[/tag]. Anyways, this guy I know always wear horizontal stripes. I see him once or twice a week, and he’s always sporting the same fashion. Not one outfit all the time, but different outfits, but they all look alike. We’re not talking thin stripes like a jailbird, but thick hoops like [tag]Dennis the Menace[/tag] (the British lad, not the American one).…

My neighbour has 3 dogs. If you think that’s a lot, get this. They used to have 5. Some of my other neighbours complained to the landlord, so they got rid of two of the uglier shaggier ones. I think they gave it to their friends, so there’s three remaining now. The three aren’t dogshow material either, they aren’t exactly the types you see on the cover of Alpo tins or on those dog food commercials. Before I go on, let me just say I love dogs, I grew up with two lovable mongrels. But the reason I don’t keep dogs now is that my house isn’t appropriate to rear…

First there was [tag]napster[/tag]. Then came [tag]Morpheus[/tag], [tag]Kazaa[/tag] and [tag]Grokster[/tag]. Now there’s [tag]BitTorent[/tag]. It’s really becoming big, some of my friends haven’t touched their DVDs and cable remote for months… Top Ten Signs You’ve Been Downloading Too Many Shows on BitTorrent You can’t remember how to operate your TV remote anymore. When your boss asks you to locate the invoice file from the cabinet, you first locate the ‘torrent’… You know small details like season 1 of Desperate Housewives has 22 episodes, 42 minutes per episode, 3.2GB in size, has 25 seeds, but can’t remember your girlfriend’s telephone number. When a software dealer asks you if you use more MS…