I didn’t know anything about the movie “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan”, expecting it to be Adam Sandler making jokes about hairdressers and their queer lifestyle, but i usually watch any Sandler movie anyway. Fifteen minutes into the movie, I was like “wow, they showed this movie HERE?” but it was damn funny… Hilarious scene: Zohan: Come on, come on. You guys get along here, huh? Stop this. Palestinian immigrant #1: Yeah, here… here it’s okay, uh? Its just THERE, the war is never going to end, huh? Israelis and Palestinians together: (shaking heads) No… Israeli immigrant #1: You know, we were so close to peace before that a**hole…

My last trip back home, i raided my parents’ old vinyl records, including the vintage ABBA ones. Since then, I’ve been kinda revisiting their music these last few days, reminding myself of their great melodies and the memories they brought back. As kids, we also had cassette tapes of their albums, and i remembered we played them until the sound quality became bad. Looking back, ABBA embodied the better side of 70’s pop music, holding out far better than cheesy disco music that we used to watch on TV… Years later, we grew up, my brother went on to idolize Dire Straits, Clapton and The Police, and me, I grew…

Before that, way to go, Lee Chong Wei. All the nation’s hopes on our mercurial boy, hopes he doesn’t wilt in the pressure at the finals. Anyways, i’ll be watching the final on Sunday in Cameron Highlands, going there for a long weekend. KL is so hot and hazy these fews, one or two degrees of cooler weather will help a bit, seeing that the hilltop will probably be suffering from this heat wave. Haven’t been there for like 5 years, so it’ll be the usual round of cactus farms, rose gardens, honeybee farms, drive up Gunong Brinchang, visit some tea plantations, etc. The usual gawking touristy stuff ler, cuti-cuti…

The [tag]Seoul Olympics[/tag] in the summer of 1988 will mostly be remember for one person – [tag]Ben Johnson[/tag]. Yes, the man who won the gold medal in the 100 metre dash finals, broke the [tag]Olympic[/tag] record, beat his bitter rival [tag]Carl Lewis[/tag], and later was tested positive for drugs, and three days later stripped of his medal and record. Most of us don’t follow athletics these days, I doubt many would even know who holds the current world record, but in 1988, everyone knew. We were in school, and with nothing else to do except watch the one decent TV channel, we followed the Olympics daily. Ben Johnson had earlier…

I sprained my forearm muscle just below my left wrist on Monday at the gym. It’s a little better today but i still can’t supinate it both ways, looks like i’ll laying off dumbbells for sometime. Darn. Usually i don’t treat bruises and sores, but i had a bad feeling about this one, so my wife whipped out this for me… You’ve heard of Kung Fu Mee, Kung Fu Fighting, Kung Fu Hustle, and even Kung Fu Panda, but you’ve probably not seen… KUNG FU OIL!!! Nope, I’ve never heard of it, either. My mother-in-law bought it when she went to Australia. Just in case you missed the name of…