Overheard: Paris Hilton Outside The Courthouse

Paris Hilton - What did the judge say? I wasn’t paying attention - I was distracted by his hideous fashion sense. Someone should tell him brown is the NEW black…

Lawyer - He sentenced you to 45 days in jail, Paris. It’s all here in the judgement.

Paris Hilton - Four to Five days. That’s not so bad. I should have broken my probation more often with alcohol if i knew it was going to be so short!

Lawyer - Er, that’s FORTY-FIVE days, not four to five days. But don’t worry, we are going to appeal the sentence!

Paris Hilton - Appeal? how long will the appeal take?

Lawyer - Roughly two more weeks of cover photos on the National Enquirer possibly one Time cover, and we’re still negotiating with more news channels.

Paris Hilton - Okay, i need to go shopping for a new ‘going to jail’ outfit… Drop me off at the nearest Gucci store.

Lawyer - But aren’t you worried about the possibility of going to the slammer?

Paris Hilton: Don’t worry. I will be strong. If I go to prison, I will survive, and come out a better person. Prison isn’t so bad.

Lawyer: But Paris, you’ll be going to a WOMEN’s prison, not a MEN’s prison…

Paris Hilton: NOOOOOooOOOOooo…ooOOOooo!!

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(any resemblance to anyone real or fictional is purely coincidental, Perez Hilton included)

Your 5 Fav Blogs

Got this tag from the resident mommy blogger, mott. Very easy tag, we’re suppose to find out about the person who tagged you and write about your 5 favourite bloggers.

There’s this complicated procedure about technorati, which i will save you all the trouble of reading about and doing (but don’t worry, mott, you’re on my fave list!)

Favourite bloggers come and go over time, this is inevitable after you’ve been reading and writing blogs for two and a half years. Some blogs die out slowly, and some burst onto the scene and disappear almost as dramatically, so I’m always looking for new ones to read.

Ironically, i have only just started using Google Reader, after all this while. It’s a bit like a regular feedreader, plus you can read newsfeed to. So i am actually currently adding subscriptions to my reading list.

So, at the moment, i find myself reading the following blogs:

Loopymeals - a.k.a. the Misadventures of James, Mae Roma and Jesse. Which parent won’t like this one?

Eatingchaos - Been following this mysterious blog for many years. She posts rarely and even when she does, it’s only a few lines at a time. But she likes the stuff i like - books, travelling and photography. Well, okay, I’m not so much into photography, but she does really awesome travelogues.

The Silent Room - awesome blog on life, anime and travelogues to weird places. Also well-known for his ever-changing domain name extension…

*anjali - funny, serious, poignant, cat-obssessed.

jolene - The infamous 56k-modem-killer blog. At the moment stuck in some gawd-forsaken village studying human teeth.

So there, i have lots of other faves, but since i am limited to five, i didn’t include many more. Drop me a note if you have a great blog for me to read…

Why Is The Rum Gone?

Why Is The Rum Gone?

Why Is The Beer Brown?

Why Is The Ale Bitter?

Why Is the Wine So Bloody Expensive?

Why Is The Mead Only Drank By Hobbits?

Why Is The Toddy Banned?

Why Is The Tuak only Available Once A Year?

Why Is The Guinness Irish?

Why Is The Brandy Always Poured In Those Small Glasses?

Why Is The Tequila So Popular With Girls?

Why Is The Rum Gone?

Why Is The Rum Gone?

Why Can’t I Stop Thinking of Alcohol?!

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Some Blog Related Stuff

Been doing some blog housekeeping recently. It started more than a month ago, when i read ahPek’s problems with his wordpress, which made me finally upgrade to Wordpress 2.1finally, after almost 2 years on the old 1.5.2 (I think…).

Of course, with the new wordpress, there was lots of stuff to explore, after such a loo-ooong time of not tinkering with my blog’s innards.

Anyway that kept me entertained for awhile.

So the other day, being a very slow day, i decided to try out Feedburner. I had actually signed up with them for more than two years, back when i my blog was syndicated on the sidebar of the Project Petaling Street Blog, i needed a burner to convert my blogspot atom feed to xml, and after messing with it for awhile i finally got it working. But recently i wanted that RSS icon and feedburner number to appear on my blog.

Subscribe in a reader

Surprise, surprise, i found out that there are more than 140 readers subscribing to my blog. The number varies everyday (something i still can’t understand why) but on the average, it’s about there. Of course, nothing like the multitudes that subscribe to folks like ProBlogger (last check was more than 22k).

The other thing i checked recently was there was a revision to the PR. My blog used to be PR5, but it dropped to PR4, and i pretty much didn’t bother with it. It’s gone up to PR5 again, which is ironic since these days i blog even more infrequent than before. Oh well, PR5 is not really a big deal, as zeo mentioned when we met up at the last blog gathering, “It’s just a number…”

(I said “oh, the PR7 guy!” when i met him, to which he replied the above).

At the moment, I messing with some new plug-ins for my wordpress…

pagerank, wordpress, plug-ins, feed, feedburner,

Technorati Tags: pagerank, wordpress, plug-ins, feed, feedburner,

Elim Gospel Hall, Ipoh

Was there yesterday for a wedding. I think it’s one of the most traditional of the English-speaking Protestant churches in Ipoh.

The old wooden pews with armrests - for keeping everyone sitting apart from one other, I suppose. The broken stone tiles is exactly like the ones at my old home!

This is the ancient timber building right next to the church, which houses the library and a kitchen. Not sure what’s upstairs.

I guess only a builder like me would appreciate the craftsmanship of the construction!

Convent Ave Maria just right next door. I had an ex-colleague from this school, wonder where she is now. Ave Maria means Hail Mary in Latin.

Some abandoned shophouses directly facing Elim. Gives character to Ipoh’s old town. Looking at them now, i can only imagine the days when this was a hub of activity, and the lives that stayed in those shoplots all those years ago, their hopes and dreams.

And once more, I bid adieu to the city built on tin nestled among the beautiful limestone hills.

Technorati Tags: ipoh, malaysia, perak, elim, elim gospel hall, convent ave maria