Was at the gym yesterday, when this song started playing on the PA system. When the chorus hit, I found myself singing aloud to the song, going “Youre poison running through my veins”. I think the two young musclebound Malay dudes beside me were giving me strange looks in between their bicep curls! 🙂 Long before shock rockers Marilyn Manson, Slipknot and GWAR, there was the original vaudeville horror man himself, Alice Cooper. Named after a 17th century witch, he has a long and interesting history in music since the 60’s, which you can probably find on wikipedia. But for most of my peers, Alice Cooper was popularized through the…

Yesterday was a pretty rough day at work. Before 9am I already had to deal two difficult parties, one of them a customer. The customer is always right, what more when they are buying something worth close to RM1.5million from us. Even until 5pm i had to rush off to PJ to deliver documents to this purchaser and then rush back to office after that. At least after that, the purchaser had pretty much cooled down and things had settled. Another day, another crisis averted. I had a little time left to go the gym and dinner afterwards. After that, i had PT Tutors meeting at Stephen’s house, something which…

In the last ten years of going to Ipoh for holidays, every time we passed by this traffic light junction in New Town enroute either Lou Wong Taugeh Chicken or Foh San dim sum, my wife would tell me that there was this awesome curry mee shop near there. But she never brought me there to eat 🙁 Last trip back to Ipoh, I had to get my mother-in-law to bring me to the shop. Its actually recently moved from an older shop, now its called Sun Chuen Fong. The shop is pretty small, but they sell one thing and one thing only – Curry mee. This is my bowl…

Short trip to Taiping and Maxwell Hill 2 weeks ago, let me just let the pics do the talking. 🙂 En route to Taiping, spent one night in Ipoh to celebrate my sister in law’s 10th wedding anniversary. Good food. Fried chicken was good. Then next morning off to the Taiping, town of Everlasting Peace. I’ve heard a lot about it being famous for old uncles and chee cheong fun, but its a very nice and laid back town, although SOME of the drivers seem to drive like Penangites! The lake gardens. Some good folks were stranded in the middle of the lake while pedalling due to the famous Taiping…

Ever since Sun Yin Loong coffeeshop increased their prices by 20sen earlier this year, i’ve stopped going there even though they’ve got the best brew in town. Last Monday was a pretty slow day (post holiday blues) so i couldn’t resist having a cup to pass the time until 5pm. While I was there, might as well indulge in the egg on toast. Mmmm, can you smell the cholestrol…? 🙂 Time passes slower for me at the office, especially in the sleepy afternoons.

Following cc‘s style, I’m putting a teaser for you guys to guess where I’m gonna be for the next few days. Of course, nothing like cc’s trip to China, mine’s a local holiday only 🙂 Shouldn’t be too difficult to guess, right? I should get my brollies ready…

Due to thermogenics, I had to restrain from coffee for a month. If anyone who has ever done thermogenics, you would know they have an unbelieveable high level of caffeine, so you can’t take coffee, tea, or even soft drinks. Considering I usually ingest up to 3 cups of coffee a day since I was in secondary school, this required a little more discipline than i thought. But anyway, the one month ended last week, so I finally could have my favourite cuppa. Had to savour it. My favourite brand. Nothing like the coffeeshop brew, but this will have to do. There were a few occasions I couldn’t tahan so…

Malaysiakini‘s Zunar is probably one of the funniest political cartoonist since Lat (are they even any others?). This one is exceptionally ironic, worth a mention here. I like the pointed sarcasm on hypocrisy. Pak Lah can pay all the lip service about equality and meritocracy he wants, but we all know the reality of it.

Was rummaging in the cupboard for something the other day when i came across this. It was my very first phone back in 1996! That was 12 years and 6 handphones ago, man… Back then almost everyone had an Ericsson phone. They had different variations of the basic model – some for PCN networks, some for GSM, some had flip-downs, etc. They pretty much had the market sewed up back then, and Nokia was a distant second. The box was BIG. You can’t tell from the first pic, but here’s a comparison with the box for my new Sony Ericsson which i bought back in March. The old phone box…

Just joined twitter about two weeks ago, under the name ‘simontalks’. Coincidentally, there’s an article in the Star by Oon Yeoh about Twitter and microblogging, for the uninitiated. I’m exploring all the apps related to Twitter, and believe me, there are lots and lots of them, goes to show how popular it has become. There’s Twibble, Twitteroo, Twitterific, Twitthat, Tweetybird, etc. Heheh was joking about that last one. Anyways, I haven’t really started looking for my friends in twitter, so if your there, say hello to me and I’d love to start following you. 🙂 Last week, just for the fun of it, I started following Kevin Rose and Barack…