Neophyte

Archive for August, 2006

I Survived Two Days of Seminar: A True Story

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

I was holed up at this convention centre for the last week attending this international seminar. I can’t remember much about the seminar, it was something to do with my work I think. I only went for the awesome complimentary bag for the participants. And the food.
This wasn’t a small seminar of 50 people, no [...]

25 Years of MTV

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Music Television, or better known by its three-letter-acronym, MTV. There was an article featured on digg.com last week highlighting the 10 ways the upstart channel changed the world.
Here in Malaysia, we get the sort of a lite version of it called MTV Asia, which is pretty much the [...]

Top Ten Overused Cliched Scene Locations in Hong Kong Cantonese TV Serials

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Was watching a Hong Kong Cantonese TV series the other night. Actually, i wasn’t watching it, my wife was, i was just lounging around. I’ve blogged about Hong Kong Cantonese serials before, comes with living with people who religiously watch them on videotape, TV and Astro for more than 20 years.
The thing is with tight-budgeted [...]

Anyone Remember Vanilla Ice?

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

Oooh, who can forget him? The white boy with the solidly gelled-up hairdo and the raised eyebrow, making strange signs with his fingers (doesn’t it look strangely like the Vulcan welcome gesture?) and making everyone suddenly start thinking rap is cool and clean fun?
(Sidenote: This is the second in the start-stop series of Anyone Remember… [...]