A good TV show is one that is so popular that it lives on in syndication, watched by different generations over different decades. It pervades into our pop-culture, and easily recognizable. Like Happy Days. Or Chips. Or X-Files. Or the Simpsons. One step above is a show that is has all of the above qualities, plus a memorable theme song. A song that is people remember forever, pay tribute to it, cover it and parody it. Like Hawaii Five-O. Who can forget the catchy intro music? I watched it as a very very young kid (probably pre-school) on SBC5 (what is now known as Singapore’s TCS5), my dad and brother…

No seriously, what is it with ‘Pan Mee’ restaurants sprouting up everywhere recently? And how has it become like a pseudo-gourmet meal? (sori ah, lilian, i curi your foto. too lazy to take my own) Years ago ‘pan mee’ was just a dish you get at the hawker stall, the same place we get our chicken rice or wantan mee. Now they have specialized restaurants serving pan mee with 1,288 different varieties like dried chilli, spicy, spinach or Emperor noodles. Around my office there are no less than 5 restaurants dedicated to this dish, really, how much of it can you eat in a week. OK rant over. Now can…

With all the interested in the 100m world record held by Usain Bolt (9.58s) recently, does anyone know what the Malaysian record is and who holds it? Anyone? Without googling it? Before we get to that, let me tell you what the record was back when i was a kid in the 80’s. Back then everyone in school knew the record was held by the legendary Dr. M. Jegathesan (now Datuk). I can’t remember his time, but he still holds the 200m record until today, set 41 years ago in the Mexico Olympics back in ’68. Back when i was a kid, the older generation and my teachers spoke of…