Happy Lunar New Year

The great chair man meow wishes you fellow comrade a prosperous and happy new year ahead! Huat ah!

Flabberghasted

Tonight at the Crazy Christmas musical:

(Performers doing an a capella rendition of "the Twelve Days of Christmas")

"On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me..."

"ZHI BA BANG~~~!"

YA RLY

THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED

orz

Limpei Wong you First

It's a parody of the below You Tube. Mr brown always can do or find the best parody!

Fileserve Going No More

Hi guys,

our fileserve is expiring. So I would like to know if you guys wanna try out other available options? Somehow I think the dl speed for fileserve has significantly dropped over the past few months and I am barely hitting 200 KBps where else previously it was around 1MBps. We can try out a months or so to vet thru the service quality. Kindly let me know what other recommendations you have.

Currently I am checking out:

1. Wupload
2. 4shared
3. Megaupload

An Argument Against Intelligent Design

Or at least one by a benevolent, just Creator.

http://animal.discovery.com/videos/river-monsters-the-demon-fish.html

When Nature spawns fish that routinely attack crocodiles, I think its a message to stay the hell out of the water. Intelligent Design's underpinnings have an unstated message that everything was engineered for the benefit of Mankind... but there are and were animals that could squish us by accident. For example, Diprotodon is an extinct species of marsupial, essentially a two tonne wombat with proportionately sized koala claws. The Thylacoleo carnifex (yes, there actually is an animal named "carnifex") was a hundred kilo meat eater that ensured that no early human civilization settled Oz.

To put it succinctly Nature is badass, often terrifying and they didn't throw Christians to lions to watch Christians head butt the lions to death.

Sayings of Elton lit' John

They may call me a knight,
But deep down inside, I am a queen.

Your Ideal Job

For some of us, we'd give our right arm (or at least someone else's) to work on shows like Top Gear or maybe Walking with Dinosaurs. For me, its Mythbusters because as pseudo-scientific as they are, their experiments generally involve more overkill and contain 8000% more explosions than mine.

A Great Way to Start the Chalet 2011

People have their champaign, we have our Bundees!

The Heart of the Swarm

The next installment of the Starcraft II franchise is apparently far along enough for Blizzard to post a trailer which does imply a 2012 release.

And now for something completely different:

http://winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html

Here is the link to the "Backstroke of the West" aka Star Wars episode III: Revenge of the Sith with the deliciously hilarious mistranslations that come from using machines rather than native English speakers to write out the subtitles.

The 50's Were a More Innocent Time

This toy from the 50s, the Austin Magic Pistol, works through a reaction of calcium carbide with water. This produces acetylene, you know that gas we use in welders? Not only is it available to children, its used as propellant to fire a projectile, presumably at other children....

LOTR Engrish Subtitles

Check out the last screen shot on this page.

As Lovetronic would say "You will laugh until you sit on the floor."

Though We Know Not the Day or Hour, the Time Draws Near...

... For the culimination of Marvel Picture's most ambitious project to date. If any of the component movies tanked at the box office, there were good odds that this film would have been shelved but not only did they manage to fly past that hurdle, X-Men Origins showed that there was still strong interest in "superteam" movies after the previous X-Men and the Fantastic Four films did some damage to their credibility.




For comic nerds:

Got to admit that I am loving Robert Downey Jr's version of Iron Man. This Tony Stark is (somewhat) less of an asshole than his canon 616 counterpart while being more sarcastic and funny.

At least they got Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow to break up the boys' club. The Wasp was the only founding female member of the Avengers and if they had to put in one of the female Avengers, I am glad that they decided to use Black Widow. Ms Marvel would (visually) have too similar powers to Iron Man and Thor while Scarlet Witch's ability to screw probablity might not make for good cinema. Although granted Natasha is pretty much a mirror version of Steve Rogers; a female Soviet spy versus an all-American soldier boy.

Responsible Pregnancy

Call me heartless, but I seriously feel that people need to think about responsible pregnancy. Difficult first trimester and difficult third trimester can affect other people working around you, not just you. It is really irresponsible if you just take that time away to 'just rest'. You can always set aside 30 min per day of your leave to clear overdue work (and not leave it to someone else). If you've always been weak and you get weaker when you are pregnant, seek medical help. Covering for two pregnant women is no fun...it's not helping that people assume that i'm the most free since I'm single. Maybe I really should get married and get pregnant (and keep getting pregnant!)

p.s. once again, something that i can't post on fb.

Fileserve Problem

FYI for those that is using singtel.

I have been plagued by fileserve landing 1703 error for a good part of the year. It makes my computer unable to download properly. Initially I suspected it is due to me switching over to windows 7.

However it seems like not the case since people has been using it fine.

Only until recently did I googled fileserve landing 1703 error singtel did I realised the singtel proxy is blocking this.

So after setting the proxy manually and correctly, I am once again PIRATE of Singapore.

Land Ahoy Mate!

The New Apple Product: Flying Apples

iFly: http://www.iflysingapore.com/

Prices are high, travelling would be far (Sentosa), idea is crazy.

So why not?!

Get your airborne addiction today!

A Story From the Past Returns...

Many, many moons ago these arcane items known as "gamebooks" were popular with the young. They were a means by which you could enjoy roleplaying on the go without the need for human intercession long before thinking box mechanisms became capable of doing the same. Now a resurgence of old stalwarts is arising. Fighting Fantasy has new editions out along with new books. Lone Wolf has revised "Flight From the Dark" to suck less compared to its more illustrious descendants and new books continue the saga of the "Grand Master" who has become Lone Wolf's go-fer now that he's a Supreme Master and way too old for this shit. More importantly multimedia projects are bringing these IP into the new millenium. Fighting Fantasy got quite a bum deal in that respect; Talisman of Death was released as a video game that is basically the original book digitized into a format intelligible to things that have wires.

Lone Wolf on the other hand....



PS: For those who cannot wait that long and want a fix now... http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books

Chalet

Hey all, we are thinking of holding the chalet at the first week of Nov ard (11/2 - 11/4) at Aranda. Please let us know your availability to ease booking. Thanks!

More stories

Snow White lived alone with seven men. 
Jasmine was in a forbidden relationship with Aladdin. 
Little Red Riding Hood didn't listen to her mother and went out. 
Pinocchio was a liar. 
Robin Hood was a thief. 
Tarzan walked without clothes on. 
Sleeping Beauty was kissed by a stranger and married him. 
Cinderella lied and sneaked out at night to attend a party. 

These are the stories our parents raised us with & then they complain our generation is messed up?

D&D Gestalt

Can someone post the link to our old D&D blog?

I lost it after I formatted my computer. Thanks!

No Need to Go Thailand!

Taken with the Samsung Galaxy Ass!