M.J. – nuff said.

she was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene
i said dont mind, but what do you mean I am the one
who will dance on the floor in the round
she said i am the one who will dance on the floor in the round

she told me her name was billie jean, as she caused a scene
then every head turned with eyes that dreamed of being the one
who will dance on the floor in the round

people always told me be careful of what you do
and dont go around breaking young girls hearts
And mother always told me be careful of who you love
and be careful of what you do cause the lie becomes the truth

billie jean is not my lover
she’s just a girl who claims that i am the one
but the kid is not my son
she says i am the one, but the kid is not my son

for forty days and forty nights
the law was on her side
but who can stand when she’s in demand
her schemes and plans
cause we danced on the floor in the round
so take my strong advice, just remember to always think twice
do think twice

she told my baby,we were dancing still 3:00
then she looked at me, she show me a photo
my baby cried, cause his eyes where like mine

people always told me be careful of what you do
and dont go around breaking young girls hearts
she came and stood right by me
then the smell of sweet perfume
this happened much too soon
she called me to her room

billie jean is not my lover
she’s just a girl who claims that i am the one
but the kid is not my son
billie jean is not my lover
she’s just a girl who claims that I am the one
but the kid is not my son
she says i am the one, but the kid is not my son
she says i am the one, but the kid is not my son
billie jean is not my lover
she’s just a girl who claims that I am the one
but the kid is not my son
she says i am the one, but the kid is not my son
she says i am the one, she says he is my son
she says i am the one
billie jean is not my lover
billie jean is not my lover
billie jean is not my lover

okay, i love michael jackson. to tell you honestly, it’s amazing how he has touched my life, given that most of his earlier albums with the exception of the invincible “you rock my world” album, were released before i was born, or while i was still an ignorant child below 10. in spite of his numerous indiscretions with plastic surgery, drugs, child molestation  & romance with older women what-not, the fact remains is that he is, and always will be the greatest performer of our time. shucks, he will be the greatest performer of all time. there will never be anyone quite like michael, he truly transcends generation.

all the ruthless gossip columns and reports on his life aside, i think underneath the great music and performer is someone who has truly sacrificed himself to built the ultimate celebrity music artiste persona: the king of pop. you have a boy who has performed since he was 5! the kind of life he must have had growing up, or the lack of time to grow-up, is tough for us to imagine. i feel it explains his obssession with children, his ultimate soft-spoken childlike nature, which probably resulted from his lack of a normal childhood.

MJ is phenomenal, in every sense of the word. it’s funny how you develop such intense feelings of loss for a person who is so far removed from your daily life, flitting only in the peripheral of your awareness through news headlines.

then it hit me why the sense of loss is so acute: the music. this is one person who aimed to heal the world, and in the end, his own life, with music. not forgetting of course, the message that resonates throughout: make the world a better place for the children.

the best wanton mee in singapore – ANG MO WANTON MEE

i am seriously taking a huge risk blogging about angmo wanton mee: that more and more people will discover my best-kept foodie secret.

it is the, IMO, world’s best wanton noodles. springy egg noodles, expertly tossed and cooked in boiling yellow beans and anchovies stock, “lao”-ed in ANGMO FAMOUS vinegary chilli, topped with charsiew (rather ordinary) and most important of all, deep fried pork lard (browned and crackled so well that any fat is all gone) and fried shallots! the other make-or-break element of ANG MO WANTON MEE (AMWTM for short) the melt in your mouth, not-to0-big-nor-too-small pork wantons. the wonton skin is silky soft, the pork filling a burst of flavour, and so tender with not too many fatty pieces. dab some AMWTM chilli on top the wanton, pop it whole damn thing in your mouth, and there you have it: recipe of gastronomical orgasm. WHY PAY HUNDREDS for FINE DINING WHEN YOU GET THIS for $3.50 a bowl?

BUT…and yes, like all fucking good food deals, there’s the “BUT”. in our case, the BUT is the WAIT. the wait will kill you. on a weekend, you can turn up at AMWTM at 6 am in the moring (they open at 7) to find already 6 persons in the queue before you. our longest waiting record: 1.5 hrs.

many a great individuals (and families) before us have upped and left in frustration at the wait, without getting their noodles. i am the most impatient person in the world, and yet, i am drawn, again and again, every week, without fail, mind you, to AMWTM for my carbs fix.

i have given up on any semblance of a balanced and healthy diet for this ANG MO wtm. i will always, and forever be true to AMWTM, and hereby profess to the world that i will not eat any other wanton mee, than ANG MO.

a tad dramatic for a bowl of wanton noodles you dont think? hurhur. wait till you’ve tried it. (:

new dramas starring Kim Hyun Joong?

have you had this same feeling of emptiness? after you’re done watching a series. for that short intensive period of time in which you watch your drama korean dvds, you develop such intimate feelings for the character that draws your attention. i always start watching the dramas really quickly in the beginning only to slow down in the end because i hate endings you know? good things always come to an end too quickly.

when we got married Joongbo episodes came to an end, i was streaming videos off mysoju.com in slow motion..didnt help that the ending was heart wrenching.

anyways, anyone know of any new dramas/variety shows featuring kim hyung joong? i just bought 3 more korean dramas to watch but am reluctant to start for fear of it ending too soon. (:

macau, hongkong

i am back. and how was macau and hongkong? i call it the trip of plenty first-times!

it was the first time I’ve

• been to hongkong and macau
• i travelled with my dad, just the both of us
• sat on a rollercoaster
• sat on a cable car
• cried because i was so afraid of heights
• sat on a tram to the Peak
• visted a H&M store
• tore a ligament because i walked too much and too far in slippers
• took so much MTR and too little cab
• got my cariacature drawn, and it didnt even look like me!!!
• had frozen coke slurpee
• had the most hugeass grilled cuttlefish tentacles from a roadside store
• shopped so little on a trip
• flew tiger airways and hated it both my arrival and departure flights were delayed!
• stayed in a boutique hotel and loved it
• been in a foregin country and travelled on my own
• seen something i liked so much (PRADA), could have bought it, didnt, and walked away without whining too much

is that enough first times for now? i suppose so!

kim hyun joong and takuya kimura and takashi sorimachi

okay i think the 3 boys above look alike! what do you think? then again, i couldnt find a satisfactory picture of takashi sorimachi so i am leaving his face out. for those of you who dont know who the other 2 japanese dudes are..

takashi sorimachi, of GTO, Great Teacher Onizuka, fame

takuya kimura, of the “I -ahhhhhhhhhhh- can give you GATSBY” spray-gatsby-over-yourself-whilst-writhing-in-orgasm commercial fame

fungibility

you start to realise how bullshitty finance jargon really is when investopedia sends you this for the term of the day:

 

 

Investopedia explains Fungibility
Many diverse types of assets are considered to be fungible. For example, specific grades of commodities, such as No.2 yellow corn, are fungible because it does not matter where the corn was grown - all corn designated as No.2 yellow corn is worth the same amount.

Cross-listed stocks are considered fungible as well because it doesn’t matter if you purchased a share of XYZ stock in its home country or in a foreign country; it should be accepted at either location as XYZ stock. 

What Does Fungibility Mean?
A good or asset’s interchangeability with other individual goods/assets of the same type. Assets possessing this property simplify the exchange/trade process, as interchangeability assumes that everyone values all goods of that class as the same.

infatuation? no.

okay, another one of my fav screenshots of KHJ. it’s from the 100th day wedding photoshoot, when he was asked to kiss HB. the shock on his face is cute huh.

yes, i know i am so silly, but hey it’s MY weblog, MY life, MY time, so i’ll do what i want with it. haha thousands of KHJ fans (including hwangbo altho i heard she’s moved on over him after WGM…) will kill me for saying this, but he’s MINE. and i honestly think we’ll be great together.

OMG. cant believe i typed that ridiculous sentence above. i am hopelessly, entirely lost.

still, i believe that’s what idols are for i suppose. you idolise and admire them from afar, but more often than not, when you really get to know them as human beings, they tend to fall short of your expectations. or at least most of the people i’ve idolised so far fell short of my expectations when i met them in real life. i think it’s that sense of detachment from reality which makes it so interesting. wouldnt want to lose that or it’s no fun anymore!

anyways, i dreamt last night that i was riding a white vespa.. (LAIYEW i suspect it was modelled after your dirty white vespa haha!) for like 2 metres off the ECP and i got stopped by the traffic police. at that moment i froze and woke shaking with fear. had to tell myself to stop dreaming while i went back to sleep. but it turns out in the later part of my dream that the TP just checked my driving license and passed me without realising my license was only a class 3a, not for motorbikes haha. what a lame dream, and i’ve just made you waste your time reading this.

yet another fave KHJ picture. i have no idea how the website i got this from managed to find this picture, but over here he looks less of a ‘walking statue’ and more of a boy. and i say boy cause tho technically he’s older than me, i feel like many many years older, so till he ( or rather WE, cause we’re both 86-ers born in the year of tigers) hit 26, i’ll refrain from labelling him ‘man’. we’ll see if i still can remember my crush on him in 3 years time that is:

joongbo SSANGCHOO couple on WGM

my girlfriend PC from work says this is an infatuation, but i beg to differ. in my 22 years (going on 23 years), I have pretty much accumulated enough life experience, in my opinion, to tell the difference between an absurd crush and love. and this crush of mine has taken me by storm! I had no idea (well now i do) i was capable and dilligent enough to obsess about someone i dont even remotely know. (:

yes, i took all your kind advice and watched WGM. and some advice that was:  i ended up killing all the good the clinique eye cream did for my dark eye circles with another sleepless night of streaming WGM on youtube. 2 self discoveries from this WGM marathon:

1. I am so not the jealous sort, i really like hwangbo, didnt feel like killing her at all!

2. if it is possible, i am more in crush than ever, and for KHJ, i will violate my principles of not ever liking guys my age (or younger). i am of the opinion that guys my age or younger are immature.

but here, leave you with my fav pic from WGM:

kim hyun joong

I have been living life in a dream state due to my insane crush on kim hyun joon or i suppose better known as ji hoo on boys over flowers. i didnt sleep for 3 days just watching the dvds. which was sold out island wide..but of course due to my incredibly resourceful self, i managed to find one last copy in an obscure dvd poh kim outlet.

according to Wiki, he’s born on the 6 of June 1986! my age! and of course he’s 180cm, the to die for height in men. but i will spare you my gushing, and keep the infatuation to myself.

i hate this feeling by the way. of being hopelessly in crush with someone totally unattainable. i am going to write his entertainment company, and tell them to star him in a reality tv show featuring him in an arranged marriage to a fan (ME ME ME!!!) i bet you my life savings (a paltry sum) that ratings will hit the roof!

…………….

just so we’re on the same page, the reality tv show idea is MY IDEA okay. no one should beat me to it. or i’ll sue.

the thing about problems

the thing about problems is that, more often than not, they end up solving themselves one way or another.

during a smokes session of our IA project group meeting, the boys asked me what my take on the universe was. i said it was a static concept. they were like, wah. damn cheem (translation: deep).

so i set about trying to explain myself to them. the universe doesnt change. those of us who inhabit the universe live lives which are full of drama, some of boredom, and the rest of us just live lives of just pure good luck. and inspite of our lives, the lives of all living things, nature, god, religion, faith, beliefs..what not, the universe just keeps on moving. you can think of the universe as time. although i wouldnt agree totally because in my opinion, time is a man-made concept. who is to say for sure 60 seconds make up a minute?

senseless ruminations aside, this is how problems solve themselves: if you start trusting in the fact that everything happens the way it happens, you will see how there’s no fighting destiny. cause and effect all comes together to create destiny, and if you think you can control what happens to you by controlling the decisions you make, then it’s time to take your finger off the control panel because you will find life, for you that is, will most certainly, without a doubt, be a bitch.

inspired by a poem of a certain A.Mole (or sue townsend if you will)

do you weep, human beings do you weep,
do you wake, human beings, in your sleep?
do you weep about the things you can’t control
or when life becomes a black hole?
then it’s time you should realise,
life is a bitch not a paradise
do you weep human beings do you weep?

HAHA. if you’ve had the fortune of having read the true confessions of A.Mole, you’d know the poem above is done so (badly) on purpose. it’s (the book) a hoot.

this has got to be the most incoherent entry i’ve written in my life. then again, it’s probably destiny, so enjoy. (: