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"Char siew" at the airport

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:32:00 -0800

If nuclear red, roast pork-flavoured chicken is your thing.

Not taking any chances on inflight-entertainment tonight

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:45:10 -0800

Going to Finland via Finnair tonight with zero expectations of the inflight-entertainment even remotely resembling Singapore Airlines' Krisworld.

So I'm arming myself to the teeth with books, mags, sketchbook and laptop. Got to remember to pick up a copy of Wired and some trashy celebrity gossip rag later too.

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Denver to Singapore (and back) in 5 minutes

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:50:45 -0800

via vimeo.com

This guy hangs a camera around his neck for his trip from Denver to Singapore (and back) and stitches it all together in a nice timelapse. The bits where he curiously circled a bunch of people placing their hands on a car (a contest for the last one standing to win it) was especially good.

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Word of the day: Oronym

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:33:41 -0800

What term describes words like "I scream" and "ice cream"? "Some others" and "some mothers"?

Oronym: our brains are faced with virtually identical speech that can be interpreted in different ways.

via yaelf.com

This whole page is worth reading and bookmarking. (via w)

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Left my phone at home today.

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:16:08 -0800

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The '70s speaking to me

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:37:00 -0800

Listening to the classic hits station on the way to work (because I am 50), it occurred to me that the music of the '70s was so unabashedly—for lack of a better word—frank.

In the midst of hard rock music taking flight that decade, were all this seemingly-innocuous little ditties.

Sure, they're pretty enjoyable songs, but it starts to get moderately icky to know your religious aunt knows all the words to these.

On the radio this morning was this one by Sheer Elegance, called "Life is Too Short Girl".

I must have heard it a million times before, but for some reason, this morning I was really listening to the lyrics.

Life is too short girl, that's why I must be moving on and on
Keep my body flowing, my mind growing baby

Watching it again on YouTube brought me to this song, which I used to sing along to on long car drives up to Malaysia with my parents.

Arms of Mary, by the Sutherland Brothers

She took the pains of boyhood, and turned them in to feel-good,
Oh, how I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary

(I also found an absolutely putrid version by Boyzone, and a very countryed-up version by Keith Urban—who is Aussie but sounds like George Bush when he sings.)

But I digress. Let's close this post now with quintessential 1976 number, "Afternoon Delight", by the Starland Vocal Band, made popular again for this generation by Ron Burgundy.

That "My Humps" song has got nothing on the '70s.

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Twenty-six

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:40:00 -0800

I didn't realise how much older 26 would feel till filling in some forms recently, I had to check the next age bracket.

Thinking back on the last year, I can't say I've learned many life-altering, earth-shattering truths. But to distill what's stayed with me:

Don't be with someone just because you think their occupation is cool. (Yes. Not everybody needs to learn this the hard way.)
People don't change except for going through hellfire and back—and do you really want to go through that with them too?
Comm—wait for it...unicate.
"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." (I'm still trying to internalise this one, but going by demonstration, it's a worthwhile one to aim for. Also, the Internet says this is a Chinese proverb. Can anyone verify this?)
Nobody will be in the office when you are early.
Everybody will be when you are late.

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Halloween party ideas

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:08:00 -0700

[3:38:33 PM] Victoria Ho: hey i may have to be a super villain for a halloween party
[3:38:37 PM] Victoria Ho: no spandex for me
[3:38:38 PM] Victoria Ho: any ideas?
[3:38:41 PM] Victoria Ho: (super hero is fine too)
[3:38:54 PM] Angeline Yeo: LOL
[3:38:58 PM] Angeline Yeo: hmm
[3:39:24 PM] Angeline Yeo: suit up.
[3:39:37 PM] Angeline Yeo: like robin in How I Met Your Mother when she was being barney's bro sidekick?
[3:39:43 PM] Angeline Yeo: im just going on how nice u'd look
[3:40:33 PM] Angeline Yeo: oh wait u said super villain
[3:40:35 PM] Victoria Ho: i could be kingpin. he's in a suit. or lex luthor.
[3:40:43 PM] Victoria Ho: but they're both bald. so I may have to get a bald cap.
[3:41:35 PM] Angeline Yeo: u could also be Hannibal Lecter who's also always in a suit
[3:41:43 PM] Angeline Yeo: cept he's creepy a bit
[3:41:59 PM] Victoria Ho: lol?
[3:42:04 PM] Victoria Ho: comic book super hero/villain unfortunately
[3:42:14 PM] Angeline Yeo: bah
[3:42:30 PM] Angeline Yeo: go as Han Solo
[3:42:40 PM] Angeline Yeo: wait, is han solo a good guy?
[3:42:44 PM] Angeline Yeo: clearly i'm not very good at this
[3:42:44 PM] Victoria Ho: comic book omg
[3:43:34 PM] Angeline Yeo: GO AS COUNT DRACULAAAAAAAA
[3:44:12 PM] Victoria Ho: OMG ANGEL
[3:44:16 PM] Victoria Ho: COMIC BOOK
[3:44:20 PM] Angeline Yeo: ROAR
[3:44:41 PM] Angeline Yeo: DAMN THIS
[3:44:46 PM] Angeline Yeo: I DONT READ COMICS OKAY
[3:47:24 PM] Angeline Yeo: darth vader?

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How old are your?

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:31:32 -0700

via theyahooanswers.tumblr.com

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RIP, GeoCities

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:17:00 -0700

GeoCities may have shut its doors for good, but it doesn't mean the Internet is about to forget it.

Doing a little research for a eulogy I wrote, I couldn't resist looking up my old GeoCities page. Surprisingly, I still remembered its address.

Unfortunately, it seems to be lost forever, but I did manage to find this "under construction" page from my next site-building endeavour on Tripod.com. Too cool for school to just say "under construction", apparently. Everybody has those angsty teenage years, don't they?

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Star Trek the movie, explained

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:03:00 -0700

via othieves.com

Genius. Exactly how I remembered it.

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Monday mornings

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:04:00 -0700

Screengrab from mine and Angel's independent Skype statuses this morning.

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Cie Des Quidams

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:19:00 -0700

Been meaning to post up some of these pictures of French street theatre group, Compagnie des Quidams performing its Herbert's Dream act at the Singapore F1.

Didn't snap too many pictures at the event this year; I think for many, the novelty of the whole F1 thing's worn out somewhat.

Here's a video of them in action:

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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Visit to the Zoo

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:02:00 -0700

Went to the Singapore Zoo recently. It was, as far as I remember, pretty close to what I remember of it from my visits back in school.

The sun was blazing, and most of the animals not in the water were trying to beat the heat by snoozing the day away under the shade.

I vaguely recalled occurrences of the occasional peacock running by, so I kept an eye out, but it wasn't till I got to the kiddy petting zoo that I got stampeded by a far more real threat in the wild—sweaty, sticky, screaming children.

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES.

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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My view from the stage

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:02:25 -0700

Shot midsong with my crummy phone camera while the other singer was
doing his thing.

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What I'll be doing Thursday

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:19:05 -0700

via soft.com.sg

Can you spot me? You probably can't. I'm doing a set with my band on Thursday at Maska Bar. We start at 9:30pm.

More details here.

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Nobody likes silence

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:44:00 -0700

[2:34:21 PM] Victoria Ho: do you like my new blog btw
[2:34:26 PM] Jody Shi: NO
[2:34:27 PM] Jody Shi: i do not
[2:34:29 PM] Jody Shi: it's EMPTY
[2:34:30 PM] Jody Shi: and FOREIGN
[2:34:32 PM] Jody Shi: I DO NOT LIKE CHANGE
[2:34:40 PM] Victoria Ho: this goes to my blog
[2:35:04 PM] Jody Shi: oh
[2:35:06 PM] Jody Shi: so what
[2:35:10 PM] Jody Shi: entry #3?
[2:35:13 PM] Jody Shi: on your EMPTY BLOG?

[1:57:14 PM] Victoria Ho: have you seen my blog?
[1:57:25 PM] Angeline Yeo: YES I HAS I COMMENTED I LURVE IT WAO!
[1:59:31 PM] Angeline Yeo: although i got a bit scared when i realised there were only 2 posts
[1:59:39 PM] Angeline Yeo: and i can't see anything else FREAKOUT OMG
[2:00:42 PM] Victoria Ho: lol yes i have thrown everything away
[2:00:45 PM] Victoria Ho: how do you feel about that
[2:00:49 PM] Victoria Ho: 'cos i feel surprisingly blase about it
[2:01:01 PM] Angeline Yeo: I FEEL INSECURE
[2:01:11 PM] Angeline Yeo: i dont know why but i feel HIGHLY INSECURE about it
[2:03:09 PM] Angeline Yeo: i like that there used to be posts to refer to JUST IN CASE
[2:03:24 PM] Angeline Yeo: now that the just in case is not there i feel insecure
[2:03:37 PM] Victoria Ho: okay weird that i don't have the same anxieties
[2:06:23 PM] Angeline Yeo: okay. too attached and it's not even my blog

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Seeya, bye

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:19:04 -0700

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Throwing my blog away

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:16:30 -0700

The time has come for my next website revamp, and this time,
everything goes to trash.

Along with my old Wordpress blog of 4 years, this includes my
(much-outdated) portfolio from my freelance photography days, and even
my old, pre-old Blogger blog that I kept mainly for sentimental
reasons.

Having maintained this site in its varying iterations over the past 6
years, I realise it had become an unwieldy presence that had outgrown
my abilities in keeping it streamlined.

There was the frankenstein CSS that I cobbled together over the years,
layering new feature over the last each time I spotted something I
envied on another blog; there were the writing conventions I was
keeping to only for consistency's sake—I can't explain how relieved I
am to finally move from title caps to sentence capping for each post's
header, for example.

And in weighing the many options online, reaching the final duel, as
it may, between Tumblr and Posterous, I've chosen the latter.

I thought it'd be more painful ripping out my site and replacing it
entirely with this veritable vaccuum (for now, at least). But it feels
good, and I expect will reinvigorate me to blog more without having to
face the daunting task of crafting an entire feature article each
time.

So now my old Wordpress behemoth will be reduced to this downgraded
cleanliness. And in many ways, it is an upgrade.

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