A shout out to my dear friend,Chandni!! And a note to the other person on the tagboard,stop thinking so highly of yourself.
Feels good getting that out of my chest,now to get down to business. Saturday Night Live is gonna be shown on Star World !!
Well the biggest news in Singapore now,unsurprisingly,is F1. But i wonder if we will lose the interest for it when it takes place next year. I believe everyone is so into it now because of the novelty factor. This is probably the first major worldwide sporting event to take place here. Add the fact that it's a night race,which has never been done before,and the novelty factor is multiplied. But i think the novelty factor will wear off next year. There are plans to have night races in other Asian countries so as to better suit the European viewing time. Then Singapore cannot just rely on people coming here to feel what a night race'd be like. We have to ensure that the experience people have off the track is just as good. This means we have to show great hospitality and have a very lively off-track scene. I think we've got quite good events trackside and we should come up with more,so as to keep people coming back year after year. The running of the event has gotten well deserved praise so far. We hear lots about German efficiency,well after this race,Singaporean efficiency is gonna become a part of the sporting lexicon.
Well actually i think the reason that everyone is praising our circuit is because they are afraid. Just imagine someone saying that our organisation and track suck. The guy in charge of the lighting could just switch off the lights mid-race to scare the crap outta everyone. When the lights come back on,Hamilton would be hanging from the Singapore Flyer and you'd see Massa impaled by the Esplanade's spikes. You'd see Raikkonen under the Anderson bridge,Kovalainen sprawled out on the Padang and a buncha engines in the Singapore River. The rest would just be landing on the Marina Bay floating platform sorta like the paratroopers on National Day. Only Force India drivers will not be affected as we all know,they drive without lights in India anyway.
Think about it, everything was prepared in 18 months. Kudos to the race organisers and our tireless construction workers. by the way,while we're on the subject of construction workers, go read this. i can't be bothered anymore.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
three
i have unearthed a stunning discovery. behold my genius.be astounded by me.
before i start,this is a biased post as i bear sort of a grudge with the topic i am about to write on.so if u want to read something unbiased,go here.
Tamil songs nowadays are getting absolutely nonsensical.
Although their increasing 'nonsensicality' is well documented,i feel the need to chip in with my two 'paisa'(indian cents) worth. This is the translation of a song from the 60s.Simple yet meaningful.
Your eyes are the door to your soul.Women are the cause of our relationships. Give your soul to a woman. And respect her as your life.
now juxtapose it with one of 2008's most popular songs. This song is so popular they came up with a one hour show for it.Behind the scenes look and all..
The cow died and Man ate it.He used its hide as a skin for a drum.
He made women and put a womb in them.he put a fire in their wombs and made it burn.Madurai is burning. Extinguish it!Extinguish it! LARISOMA,LARISOMA!
You heard me right. that really is the translated version of the song. Surprise!It's nonsensical in both Tamil AND English!hahah..Now Non-indians will be wondering what exactly 'larisoma' is. Well to put it simply,it doesn't mean anything. its just in there to sound happening.
but i give credit where it's due,it's catchy. thus it has served it purpose.
Whereas in the past,songs and movies were meant to make one think, nowadays they are just meant to sell. This probably is reflected in other industries not just the tamil one.But i find that the difference in the movies 4 decades ago and now are much more stark here than in other industries.
1960s, the movies were mostly family oriented with loosely translated titles like 'Divine Birth','Don't disobey the Mother' and 'All for you'. Nowadays,many titles are absolutely hilarious. 'Spider','Bad Guy','God is in room 307'. haha..I'm not trying to say all the movies are bad,but majority of movies nowadays are trash as far as i am concerned. And it's disgusting how much sex is in the movies. Dance scenes seem to always have a scantily clad woman dancing around. But the sad truth of the matter is that SEX SELLS. Gosh,i've been having problems with indian movies for the past 5-6 years i tell you. I can't comfortably watch an entire movie with my family anymore! well that's all. gotta go catch one of those rare things.
a good indian movie.about an adopted girl,her realisation she's adopted and how her adoptive parents bring her on a perilous journey to find her biological mother. needless to say,it won awards but didn't run at the cinemas very well. morons
before i start,this is a biased post as i bear sort of a grudge with the topic i am about to write on.so if u want to read something unbiased,go here.
Tamil songs nowadays are getting absolutely nonsensical.
Although their increasing 'nonsensicality' is well documented,i feel the need to chip in with my two 'paisa'(indian cents) worth. This is the translation of a song from the 60s.Simple yet meaningful.
Your eyes are the door to your soul.Women are the cause of our relationships. Give your soul to a woman. And respect her as your life.
now juxtapose it with one of 2008's most popular songs. This song is so popular they came up with a one hour show for it.Behind the scenes look and all..
The cow died and Man ate it.He used its hide as a skin for a drum.
He made women and put a womb in them.he put a fire in their wombs and made it burn.Madurai is burning. Extinguish it!Extinguish it! LARISOMA,LARISOMA!
You heard me right. that really is the translated version of the song. Surprise!It's nonsensical in both Tamil AND English!hahah..Now Non-indians will be wondering what exactly 'larisoma' is. Well to put it simply,it doesn't mean anything. its just in there to sound happening.
but i give credit where it's due,it's catchy. thus it has served it purpose.
Whereas in the past,songs and movies were meant to make one think, nowadays they are just meant to sell. This probably is reflected in other industries not just the tamil one.But i find that the difference in the movies 4 decades ago and now are much more stark here than in other industries.
1960s, the movies were mostly family oriented with loosely translated titles like 'Divine Birth','Don't disobey the Mother' and 'All for you'. Nowadays,many titles are absolutely hilarious. 'Spider','Bad Guy','God is in room 307'. haha..I'm not trying to say all the movies are bad,but majority of movies nowadays are trash as far as i am concerned. And it's disgusting how much sex is in the movies. Dance scenes seem to always have a scantily clad woman dancing around. But the sad truth of the matter is that SEX SELLS. Gosh,i've been having problems with indian movies for the past 5-6 years i tell you. I can't comfortably watch an entire movie with my family anymore! well that's all. gotta go catch one of those rare things.
a good indian movie.about an adopted girl,her realisation she's adopted and how her adoptive parents bring her on a perilous journey to find her biological mother. needless to say,it won awards but didn't run at the cinemas very well. morons
Saturday, September 13, 2008
two
This post is gonna be largely about politics so if you're not interested or you can't comprehend, save yourself the trouble and go here.
hehe
McCain is leading Obama in the polls. This is just plain scary. i thought that at least now Americans would have realized that Republicans smear their way to election victories. they're doing it again and it's working! Hats off to the GOP though. At the end of the day it's winning that matters and they sure know how to do it. Their lies are well documented and yet the public is paying no real attention to it yet. The dynamics of the race started changing once Sarah Palin was selected.
Genius pick,i tell you. Once a woman is picked,any attack on her can immediately be framed as SEXIST!. She's a mother of five,youngest with Down's Syndrome,who hunts and does many other All-American things. Perfect appeal to women. This is even though she isn't strong on women's issues-she opposes abortion in all circumstances including rape. When people started asking how a mother of five could leave her duties to become v.p,they cried SEXIST! WOULD A MAN BE ASKED THE SAME QUESTION?! Of course not, dipsticks. Honestly,i think she should concentrate on being a mother. But i'm Asian and we think differently in this part of the world.
I was hoping this election would be of the 'new kind of politics' Obama promised. But you know,you can't win an election being nice. Now Obama is being slammed for not being 'above the fray'. haha i find this very funny. He was previously slammed for always taking the high road. Damned if u do,damned if u don't. Catch-22. Obama'd better win. I just wanna see a black guy as president, even though he has to try twice as hard. Racism still exists.Live with it.
Singapore's Paralympic team has won 3 medals so far and set one world record. I say give them equal benefits as able bodied athletes. And all of this was by LOCAL TALENT. I don't have anything against foreign talent,but i just feel much prouder if someone local wins. One thing struck me when i was watching Tao Li at the Olympics last month. Other than her enormous shoulders,i was wondering if she was allowed to take part in the national schools' championships. Apparently,she is! That's just so sad for the rest of them in her age group. Imagine training everyday for a year,and on competition day you're on the starting blocks visualising your race. Then you feel a bump,Tao Li's shoulders are extending to your lane!haha just kidding. but imagine how some swimmer who's trained so hard feels when she realises she's racing Tao Li in the fly.World No 5,Asian record holder Tao Li. They should like impose a 50 m handicap on her! even then it may be close.
hehe
McCain is leading Obama in the polls. This is just plain scary. i thought that at least now Americans would have realized that Republicans smear their way to election victories. they're doing it again and it's working! Hats off to the GOP though. At the end of the day it's winning that matters and they sure know how to do it. Their lies are well documented and yet the public is paying no real attention to it yet. The dynamics of the race started changing once Sarah Palin was selected.
Genius pick,i tell you. Once a woman is picked,any attack on her can immediately be framed as SEXIST!. She's a mother of five,youngest with Down's Syndrome,who hunts and does many other All-American things. Perfect appeal to women. This is even though she isn't strong on women's issues-she opposes abortion in all circumstances including rape. When people started asking how a mother of five could leave her duties to become v.p,they cried SEXIST! WOULD A MAN BE ASKED THE SAME QUESTION?! Of course not, dipsticks. Honestly,i think she should concentrate on being a mother. But i'm Asian and we think differently in this part of the world.
I was hoping this election would be of the 'new kind of politics' Obama promised. But you know,you can't win an election being nice. Now Obama is being slammed for not being 'above the fray'. haha i find this very funny. He was previously slammed for always taking the high road. Damned if u do,damned if u don't. Catch-22. Obama'd better win. I just wanna see a black guy as president, even though he has to try twice as hard. Racism still exists.Live with it.
Singapore's Paralympic team has won 3 medals so far and set one world record. I say give them equal benefits as able bodied athletes. And all of this was by LOCAL TALENT. I don't have anything against foreign talent,but i just feel much prouder if someone local wins. One thing struck me when i was watching Tao Li at the Olympics last month. Other than her enormous shoulders,i was wondering if she was allowed to take part in the national schools' championships. Apparently,she is! That's just so sad for the rest of them in her age group. Imagine training everyday for a year,and on competition day you're on the starting blocks visualising your race. Then you feel a bump,Tao Li's shoulders are extending to your lane!haha just kidding. but imagine how some swimmer who's trained so hard feels when she realises she's racing Tao Li in the fly.World No 5,Asian record holder Tao Li. They should like impose a 50 m handicap on her! even then it may be close.
Friday, September 5, 2008
one
If you are here to find out about what i have been doing today,where and with whom i've been and such trivial information, my advice to you is to go find another blog to read.
haha...away from the egotism now..
I will be the first to admit that i am not the most complex of creatures,but still i believe i have more constructive things to write about. Well,more constructive than the legions of bloggers who write about their lives and still boast a high readership anyway. i still fail to understand why on Earth someone would write about their my private life on a public medium like the Internet?!
So it's probably quite obvious what direction i will be taking this blog in. I hope to inject my weird sense of humour into every entry,inteionally or not. I actually intend to write in proper English because NS is leaving my brain to rot. And yes,you will not hear about my private life unless i find something blog-worthy or incredibly humorous which i deem fit for publishing. That's about all for now as i have something very important to do. I suggest you get a life too. haha!
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