1) Naruto Rocks!

Haiz... my spirit has been totally absorbed into Naruto Shippuuden these few days. Day in and day out, my eyes were glued unto the computer screen and I couldn't do anything other than to watch those episodes flash by one after another. Finally, I managed to complete the available 134 episodes today, in slightly more than a week's time. I can now free up my time for doing other things, such as writing something on my blog.

In Naruto Shippuuden, the ninja children from the first series have all grown up. I witnessed how strong both Naruto and Sasuke have become, the new Ninjutsu they create, the exciting life-and-death fights between powerful ninjas, and how some of the beloved Konoha characters died combating the fearsome Akatsuki. The AKATSUKI, OMG!!! Each member is SO INSANELY STRONG that they become almost impossible to beat, thus living up to their name as the story's ultimate antangonists. And of course I finally got to see how Sasuke famously overcome the denomic Orochimaru, as already foretold by many of those irritating manga readers.

My only complaint is that episodes 90 to 110 seem to cheat the viewers' feelings cos nothing constructive came out in the end. How can the lame Yuukimaru-Sanbi storyline drag on for 20+ episodes, while it only took two episodes for Sasuke to slay Orochimaru, our super-evil and ultra-powerful snake demon? In fact, the story seems to repeat itself over and over again, with Yuukimaru being captured and rotated among the good and bad guys, while Konoha's ninjas behaved like headless insects wandering around the Sanbi-occupied lake not knowing what to do best. I think this is one of the worst segments in the series; indeed, I have a feeling that I am merely watching f******. Yes, the dreaded F... the dumb F... the idiotic FFFFFFFFFILLERS!!! Bloody hell.

But after this, everything becomes extremely interesting with the introduction of Sasuke and his companions, and the enigmatic Pain, head of the Akatsuki. This is not to mention first shedding a few tears for the death and loss of a beloved character who had accompanied Naruto for so long. The anime Naruto Shippuuden is currently still running in Japan so will have to catch it on a weekly basis from now on. I really look forward to its future development.

2) Loy Krathong

Last Saturday, was invited to attend the Loy Krathong festival organized by the Thai Association of Singapore at the Tawandang Microbrewery. There were a slew of activities plus free flow of food. Although I don't understand Thai so didn't really get what the activities were all about, I must admit the microbrewery does serve some fine Thai cuisine. Didn't take many photos, mainly becos the Loy Krathong beauty contest got only aunties strutting their stuff and didn't really suit my taste... haha. 

Here are some photos:

This is the Tawandang Microbrewery. Serves good Thai cuisine... and beer!

It's Loy Krathong, this is where you put all the lanterns.

Floating around... Nice~~~

A waterfall landscape near the place.Can see the bulbous face?

It is located at Dempsey Hill. As you might know, the place is dotted with of renown high-class restaurants and one of the hippest eating-places now.

Eh, funny sign I saw.

3) Hair Again

This happened to me quite often so I must blog about it. The below is a particular conversation I encountered with me giving only 'No's as answers:

"Erm, why don't you dye your hair? It would look nice."

"No."

"Then would you like to rebond?"

"No."

"How about perm? I can recommend a saloon."

"NO."

"Erm, teacher, are you gay?"

"NO!"

"Are you a rocker then?"

"NOOOOOO!"

URGH! These are actual questions some of my students shot at me and I had to embarrassingly fend them off each time (especially from girls, who are ever so kaypoh). But then forgive them lah, for you see, these young enquiring mind are always curious about things, and it's not too often that you see a (good-looking) teacher with long hair teaching them. 

So you may be curious, how long is my hair now?

Like this:

Took this with my webcam. Long liao right?

And my fringe, they are long too. Sometimes I can't help if they fall like this:

Long and girly, in not-so-happy look.

As you can see, I have been frequently mistaken for a girl even if I tie them up in a ponytail and don't let them down in public (and, strangely enough, 100% mistaken by zi char aunties stationed in foodcourts who would always call me xiao jie). And did I tell you about the number of times perverts on MRT like to stare at my chest in an attempt to reconfirm my gender? I just roll my eyes -- but so frequently that I'm afraid I might just become cock-eyed one fine day. In hindsight, I'm really glad no gays have approached me so far. No, not that I'm afraid of gays, but to do themselves a big favour not to get seriously hurt from one of my fast and furious Tae Kwon Do punches. So, yeah, it's tough for a guy to keep long hair, just look at the amount of trouble they gave me. Sigh.

Then you -- the kaypoh reader -- would ask, WHY DON'T YOU JUST DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR AND CUT YOUR HAIR??!

Ahhh, finally you got it. This is actually a good philosophical question.

As I said, the question is philosophical. In fact, asking why I would like to keep my hair is as philosophical as asking why professors in colleges like to keep bushy moustaches. As all good philosohical questions are, it actually has a really deep answer that cannot be explained in a few simple sentences and words. And since it's so damn CHEEEM, it would probably take up a whole essay to give you an answer here, so I think it would be more appropriate to do it another day... AHEM.

Until then.

Pick of the Month

Ever since I have more free time, I have been watching Naruto Shippuuden from the first episode onwards. Now reaching episodes 57-58, and really like its third opening song.

Blue Bird.

Blue Bird original MV, by Ikimono Gakari

蒼い 蒼い あの空...

Indeed, if I could fly,

I would never come back...

String Theory: A Theory of Everything

Stumbled upon The Elegant Universe on Youtube by chance. This episode explores the String Theory to the M-Theory, and seeking to explain the eleven-dimensional reality as predicted by modern Physics in layman terms. Super intriguing.

Only if you are scientifically inclined and have plenty of time to spare (be patient as the first part contains lots of ads):

Weight Loss Absurdity

Read about the would-be bride who lost her life slimming from 70kg to 30kg in the Chinese papers.

30kg... How can a healthy human being survive at 30kg? I can fully understand her desire to lose weight to look pretty on her wedding day, but this is definitely taking it too far. All this 'looking-pretty' crap is for naught if even the most precious asset that is your life is lost.

Allow me to ask a question: If you are a healthy 50kg, would you eat continuously to fatten yourself so much and become a whopping 90kg? Hardly, right? So I don't see why anyone can justify losing weight from 70kg to 30kg.

Both differ by 40kg, but losing them to become 30kg is equally absurd as gaining weight to become 90kg. In fact, both are compulsive disorders -- you should be cured by visiting a psychologist.

Can imagine how a sag of walking bones look like at 30+kg? I can tell you they are definitely f*cking ugly, or just 'fugly'. There are plenty of scary pics of super-thin girls on the net if you do a simple search (due to aesthetic reasons, I refrain from putting them here). They give us nightmares, and 'fugly' is definitely the right word to describe them.

Truth is, men can engage in normal conversations with fat girls above 90kg without having any wet dreams about them, but they will definitely avoid, at all cost, a skeletal hag who seems to walk straight out of a LOTR shooting set. "Wah this girl so thin, must be a psycho! SIAM!!! (Hokkien: avoid!!!)". I guarantee we think like that.

So what kind of girls do men love? We love girls who are blessed with good assets, and that means having adequate fats in areas where they should be, so that they are pleasant to touch and essential for the right 'feel'. Know what I mean?

I hope those stick-insect girls are listening.  

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活着就有希望，死了才是最不负责任的行为。

对你的至亲至爱，

又如何交代？

傻！！！

26th October, that is 6 days from now, is D-Day for my blog, cos all photos I hosted on Geocities are going to be morphed into ugly rectangular boxes with big red crosses. Have been really racing against time to salvage and shift all of them into my Flickr accounts, but to my horror, some of the photos are already permanently lost, cos Geocities deleted some of my sites on reason that they consume zero bandwidth over many months (just like this entry).

Haiz...

Sometimes I really have to give up, as I don't save all these photos on my hard-disk, and can only keep my fingers crossed that some of my precious photos are still intact when I slowly sift through them to finally arrive at the blog's very first page...

Haiz x Haiz.....

In the last few weeks, whenever I have time in front of the computer, I would frantically re-edit my photos and not have the luxury to type a new entry like you see here. So do you know why I am taking a break to type this bohliao-cum-nonsensical entry? Why? WHY???

That's because... because... my new hosting site Flickr, which I have been pinning so much hope to rescue my photos, is itself being hit by a bug and DOWN NOW, thus rejecting my attempt to access it (read: "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"). Since there's nothing you can do when even your hosting site is down, I have no choice but to take a break loh...

Haiz x Haiz x Haiz... *pounds chest*

I STILL have almost one-third of the photos to salvage, so time is quickly running out. When will Flickr come on again? When? WHEN??? WHEEEEEEEEEN????!!!!

Haiz x Haiz x Haiz x infinity... *squirts blood all over the laptop*

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Anyway, a casual glance at my handphone just now revealed that I've got a whopping 449 messages in my SMS 'Inbox' and 417 messages in my 'Sent Items'. Due to their immense memory consumption, my handphone's function was a little hampered today. I was about to delete these messages permanently, when I stopped short in my track and traced back some msgs to relook again. Why?

Cos of fEn lah. I suddenly remembered all those funny messages that she sent me a week ago, which had me laughing so hard that I was nearly floored and kicking my legs up in the air like a half-dead frog. Yeah, this funny_fEn again; she always eng-eng boh sai bang (constipated?) and stick herself out of nowhere to kajiao me (disturb me, in a nice way), and this time, past midnight some more. Haiz...

Below are the actual msgs sent between us, unedited:

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fEn: Did you set the insomnia monster on me?
(her first message)

Me: Keke, it's time you discovered... 
(what to answer sia, someone can't sleep and send me things)

fEn: Muadi! Deal with u in november!
(muadi!= mati! We planned to eat pizza in november when I had no tuition)

Me: Why? You think of me isit? The monster will visit ppl who think of me.
(yeah lah, obviously)

fEn: Yar loh. miss ur pretty face and ur silky long flowy hair mah.
(don't believe her, as if we so close that she actually miss my hair. We have not seen each other for months, and she is NOT my gf ok? She probably saw my new pic on Facebook)

Me: Hahaha. Come caress my long silky hair. Shun bian put some makeup. Wah!
(I know cos that's always her ambition, which she has failed to realize so far)

fEn: Can u pls put on some nice makeup? U'll look so fantabulous! Create a contest la. U makeup till doesn't look like u, den post online see ppl can tell its u anot
(she's got really good imagination)

Me: Ha! Fat hope see i put makeup! In your dreams loh. And i always tie hair, never let down in public.
(which is true)

fEn: Tsk. Den wasted liao. U're like a chopstick. Ppl use you everyday to eat but duno u can be used to dig nose.
(huh? Dig nose with chopstick? WHAT?!!)

Me: Haha, funniest analogy Ive heard in so long.
(laughing very hard now, almost cannot reply)

fEn: -_-" Funny means worth doing liao. Quick start ur makeup!
(she won't give up lah)

Me: Sleep lah aunty fEn, next time i call good dream monster to your bedside. Then can dream anything you like.
(quickly change topic to end the smsing)

fEn: Okie good! Ask the monster faster come. Sian a lot of things on my mind I can't slp. I'm actually trying to draw what I'm feeling now. Damn headache too. Sucks. Kk, u faster go slp! Watch more makeup tutorial and dun forget practise!
(sigh... 女人的心事我又如何能懂。。。。。。。) 

Me: Take care. Im still looking forward to our pizza. Good night.

fEn: Yeah! Waraku pizza in nov! Gd nite!

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Yup, that's good old fEn for you. In case new readers dunno and we 闹诽闻 on Xanga again (many times liao in the past), me and fEn are like half-brothers and sisters lah, so there's nothing going on between us. She has her own life to lead --with Maidy, her Barley Prince -- and I have mine to lead as well. And since our 'Goose Gastronomy' dinner, we have not seen each other for a long time allllleady. So don't get the wrong idea hor, all the pretty babes on Xanga, there's nothing going on between us... Nothing, NOTHING!!! (I like that say as if ppl will believe me...)

ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!

I type finish this entry and Flickr STILL does not come back!!! What gives? *FAINT*

Bloody Hellllllll... I shall go to sleep then. Good night.

*and praying that the good dream monster can indeed faster come to my bedside*