I’ve probably watched more Michael Jackson videos over the last weekend compared to the last two decades combined. With the deluge of tributes and obituaries to the Gloved One, watching the iconic ‘Beat It’ video reminded me of Weird Al Yankovic’s extremely funny parody song and video ‘Eat It!’. Back in the mid 80’s it was the first time i’ve heard of the curly haired comedian, and as i recalled won a Grammy in 1984 for this song. Eat It! by Weird Al (sang to the tune of Beat It by Michael Jackson) How come you’re always such a fussy young man, Don’t want no Captain Crunch, don’t want no…

Let’s see… good book made into crappy movies – lots of them. Dune, Stardust, The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, are only some of the recent ones that come to mind. Good book made into good movies – well, Lord of the Rings, and umm… ah… anyway I can add another one to the list – Atonement. The book was written by Ian McEwan, and the 2007 film stars James McAvoy and Keira Knightley. I read the book 3 months ago while i was on holiday, and watched the movie soon after returning. Initially I was a little disappointed with the movie, mainly due to three reasons. Firstly i thought…

My father-in-law uses Brylcreem every morning after his bath. The same Brylcreem i used when i was in Primary 1, getting ready for school everyday. It still comes in the small blue cylindrical plastic can, with the lion logo. It still has that blue consistent texture that leaves a sickly sweet smell on your hands long after you washed it. I couldn’t find a pic of the classic Brylcreem online, but the pic of the current packaging is very different. Once in awhile we used the slightly cheaper Code 10, which I think doesn’t have such a strong odour. When we were older we moved on to Vitalis, which isn’t…

Was at a the leader’s meeting some time back, Melissa was leading worship on the keyboards, very low key due to the small gathering. On the last song, she started on a refrain that sounded familiar, but i didn’t seem to know the words them. When we reached the chorus, i realized what song it was – the hymn To God Be The Glory. The reason why the starting didn’t seem familiar was because when i was small my home church only sang the chours, without the verses. A few days later i was looking for the video of the song and lyrics, it was tricky coz there is actually…