Thursday nite headbanger's ball...

Just discovered BlogMusik, a site that allows you to create a playlist based on songs stored in their database. Selection's pretty good (by what I've found) and you can create an account to store your playlists. Cool thing about this is that you can listen to your playlist of songs anywhere as long as your computer's connected to the internet.

Well, enough of my driveling. Here's my songlist, enjoy!

On the subject of body parts...

Hmm... It seems that even action figures are not spared.

Texan Revolution Autoshow @ Police Academy

Decided to check out the motorshow held at the old police academy the weekend. Place was packed with car and motorcycle enthusiasts equipped with cameras. Highlights of the event included motorcycle racing:

"Okie guys, last one to finish cleans the porta loos..."



"Eh Macik, mee siam satu mai hiam!"

Professional drifting demos:

"Raise your hands if you'd like to smell more burning rubber!"

"Ole!Let's do this El Matador..."

And of course, no motorshow will be complete without a race queen competition...

"No points for guessing who the sponsors are..."

More race queen contestants...

And even more race queen contestants! But I didn't stay to find out who won though because my nose was protesting from excessive inhalation of burning rubber...

Play Wii for MC!

Just read an article on yahoo news on a new ailment published in the New England Journal of Medicine called "Wiiitis" (wee-eye-tis). Symptoms include sore arms and shoulders as a result of playing long hours without resting.

Similar to strenuous exercises, stretching is very important for long hours of gaming. Warming up before game play and warming down after ought to prevent muscle strains and sores. Plus, taking breaks to stretch your fingers and rotate your wrists should reduce cramping especially when you've got your hands grasping that controller for hours on end.

As a gamer myself, that's my two cents worth.

;)

Anything and Whatever brand extensions

Recently a new line of soft drinks were launched which seems to be very well received. Called Anything (carbonated) and Whatever (non-carbonated), the novelty of this beverage line is that you'll never know what you're going to get until you pop that flap (deja vu Forest Gump and his box of chocolates).

Anything could contain either cola, cola with lemon, apple, fizz up, cloudy lemon or root beer. As for Whatever it's either ice lemon tea, peach tea, jasmine green tea, white grape tea, apple tea or chrysanthemum tea. Demand for both lines seem to be high as coffee shops and food courts seem to be out of them whenever I try ordering either of them.

In view that people seem to like surprises, why not extend the line to include more than just soft drinks? Here's some suggestions to extend the Anything and Whatever line:

Cigarettes: Light up your life with a different flavor in each pack! Choose from reds, lights, menthol, menthol lights, strawberry, cherry, vanilla, kretek and kretek menthol. Comes packed in an ambiguous cigarette pack so you can't tell what's inside!

Paperback novels: Can't decide what to read? Grab a black shrink-wrapped package from the bookshelf and expand your intellectual horizons! Content could range from autobiographies, sci-fi, fantasy, romance, religion, management, etc. Plus, up the excitement level by having these categories published in our four main languages; English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil.

Alcohol: These will come in black bottles and flavors range from whiskey, tequila, gin, rum, vodka or pure moonshine. Hic! Getting high has never been so thrilling as you'll never know what's your next poison. Better still buy them by the crates for your next party or office function and get wasted mixing up lethal cocktails.

Beer: Duuuude! If you're doing hard alcohol you can't neglect the beer community and vice versa right? Have the cans filled with different ales, lagers and the exclusive chase stout can randomly placed in every carton. Imagine doing shotguns with mystery cans or the 100 club...

And last but not least...

Condoms: Get more bang for your buck with these exciting little rubbers ranging for ultra thick to ultra thin, ultra ribbed, ultra lubed, wasabe or calamaric flavored!

So there you have it! Additional product lines that could be rolled out to sustain the brand when people get tired of drinking mystery soft drinks and decide to opt for the obvious.

D-I-Y Phone Themes

Being the El Cheapo that I am I've gotten round to designing phone themes for my SE K800i. It's quite a therapeutic pastime designing and editing the pics. Plus heaps fun adding in the ringtones and alerts.

Here's one of Optimus Prime:

And one of the Neon Genesis Evangelion series:

Hey, Even Hell's Got a Budget...

This is the result of me finding my old Ghost Rider figure in the back of my cupboard and matching him with the BMX that I bought from the Falcon's Hangar.

A Looong Time Gone.....

It's been a long while since the last post and much has happened since then. Last August I enrolled myself in a post-graduate course in system analysis since my previous jobs entailed managing IT related projects.

Since day one a lot of time was devoted to learning how to code in less than a year plus figuring out how to draw use cases and sequence diagrams. And now, six school projects and five exam papers later, I'm serving a six-month attachment developing an online admin system for a government organisation. I'm nearing the end of the attachment and will be finishing soon.

Anyways, I managed to find some time to meet up with an old school friend at a cosplay event today at the youth park. Also got the dust off my camera and took some pics which I have not been doing in a very long time...






Have to admit, it's my first time at a cosplay event and I didn't know what to expect in terms of photo opportunities. But it was heaps fun though the sun was very uncompromising. Oh well, at least be glad that it didn't rain!

Going Big in New York

The Big Apple that is New York City is really big on having everything big! While walking along Broadway I came across a huge McDonald's outlet with signange as glamourous as the Broadway theatre.

Yep, not only are the serving portions huge, the floor area of this McDonald's could fit a theatre in it. Apart from McDonald's, New York City also is known for:




Big ass video screens surrounding Times Square. Yeah baby, a feast for the senses.



Video screens and billboard ads that go right to the top of the buildings! Guess everyone wants their ads to be seen at Times Square so they're willing to pay top dollar for premium placements.



And even more ads. As long as there's a wall, and if that wall faces on-coming traffic, there'll be an ad.



This is a win-win situation for both advertiser and building owner; advertiser gets prime advertsing real estate while building owner makes a tidy profit leasing out ad space and saves on any need to clean or paint that wall as long as the ad stays there.

Positive Brothers

If you happen to be around Battery Park in Manhattan chances are that you would have seen the Positive Brothers in action. It's hard not to miss them since they'll have their stereo blasting away while they entice the crowd will calls of "Showtime!".

As a group of street performers, the trio never fail to entertain the audience with their agility, flexibility and comical sense of humor.

Manhattan from 86 floors up!

This lovely view of Manhattan was captured from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building around 10ish in the morning.



Initially, the spire of the Empire State Building was meant to be a docking point for passengers travelling on zepplins. However, it was deemed too inconvenient and the concept was scrapped.

Lost in Transit: Heathrow Airport

Arrived at Heathrow Airport in transit after an eight hour flight from Washington DC. The flight was bearable thanks to the wide selection of inflight entertainment channels plus loads of refreshments and food served onboard.

Had an hour's grace before catching the connecting flight back to Singapore which was to last a gruelling 13 hours. Time to hook up the ipod and catch up on some much needed sleep!



And away we go!

For a pleasant journey...

Please board the friendship bus as seen in Independence Avenue...



... or in Georgetown. Also, please do not smoke, eat or drink. Keep your music to yourself and do not assault your fellow passengers or the bus driver, unless you want to end up in a world of shit.



Thank you and have a pleasant ride.

The emphasis of 'FAST' in fast food

This was taken in a MacDonald's outlet in Chinatown, Washington DC. In addition, customers dining in are charged a higher tax as compared to those who take away. Definitely not a place for dating couples unless it's speed dating...

Believe in the leaf redux

Recently this fastfood ad shown below has been put up at selected bus stops:



Its tagline, 'believe in the leaf' has inspired me to come up with a tongue-in-cheek version of this ad:



Enjoy! =)

Bleeeeeeaaaah!

Oh lookie here! Miss Puke specialises in foot, Thai, oil and aromatherapy massage (is puke used in any of them?). Eye catching as it may be, did anyone point out that calling your outlet Miss Puke may not be the best of names especially for such a business?

If you're wondering where I took this, the outlet's located by the side of the Novotel Bangkok, Siam Square. And if you're wondering what the big deal is, check out dictonary.com for the definition of puke.

Do My Shoe Pt 3

Touched up the Balzac logo (finally!)



Also got round to putting in the black to both shoes. I've yet to apply the white paint to the logos and I've yet to decide if the tongues are to be just black or if I should do something else...