I did a list for last year 2008, so I thought it’d be a good to review the year in the same way. As usual, I’ll just let the pics do the talking. 1. A (H1N1) First there was mad cow disease. Then there was avian flu. And then there was swine flu. Pretty soon the only meat we can safely eat is frog’s legs. Undoubtedly the biggest event of 2009, changing the way we look at personal and public health. 2. The King and the Joker: Celebrity Deaths While Michael Jackson’s death got all the publicity, Heath Ledger will be greatly missed. 3.Three Letters: B. S. G. That’s Battlestar…

Most of my older friends know that was (and still am) a huge, huge heavy metal fan. Ever since I heard Enter the Sandman by Metallica on that Singapore radio on my cheap RM150 walkman i bought on the first weekend in college, I never looked back. Which is why its 1am in the morning, I’ve just watched this brilliant movie and I simply have to blog about it. Its a documentary about a long forgotten Canadian band called Anvil and the movie is called Anvil! The Story of Anvil (yes I know its quite a mouthful). The movie starts with footage from an old Japanese rock concert and the…

About this time last year, i decided to make a 3 resolutions for 2009, one of them was to read 24 books in a year (let’s not mention anything about the other two resolutions). Apparently i had a lot more time on my hands this year that I thought I would have, i read almost 50 books in total since January. And if I were to pick one book that stood out above the rest, the choice was easy. No, it wasn’t Twilight. The Graveyard Book is my Book of the Year, because it’s simplicity and beauty blew my mind away. It didn’t really matter that Gaiman is my favourite…

If you’re the type who frequently wonder about stuff like ‘who wrote Genesis Chapter 1?’ or ‘What does my religion say about evolution?’, then here’s something you might be interested in. Rev. Dr. Ron Choong an apologist based in New York will be giving a seminar on the following three topics: SCIENCE & CHRISTIANITY Do the advances in modern sciences like neurophysiology disprove the teachings of religion? What then about evolution and Darwinism? In this seminar, we consider how we may reconcile our ancient faith with modern science. WHAT DO CHRISTIANS REALLY BELIEVE? Can you articulate what you believe concisely and clearly? Most people gloss over what we don’t know…

My grandfather was Hainanese and he worked as a cook for the British in Ipoh up until the 60’s. So yeah, he was an authentic Hainanese chef. But he didn’t pass down any secret recipes for me to open a famous Hainanese kopitiam. *** Here was born in 1899. That was two centuries before this current one, how cool is that? His IC showed his birth year as 1900 because it was registered late. So in 1988, he won a hamper from a local newspaper celebrating those aged 88 in the auspicious year of ’88. Which is weird, coz the hamper contained foodstuff that most 88 year old folks can’t…