Bon Jour!

Ok have to admit that I sort of MIA for quite some time now but I am back!

Just settled in at Frace, a place that I will call home for 6 weeks due to some work commitment. Had already been here for 2 weeks now and gosh hope I am not over eating too much.

The weather is fantastic, a nice change from the hot humid weathere in Singapore. Nothing much to do after work though as most places closed at 7pm.

Working life is so much nicer here when compare to Singapore. People are less stressful, more relax and therefore friendier. If a French driver drives in Singapore, I can bet he will get a shock of him life. Haa...

Good think is Mr Chan and Mr Soh, my colleague back in Singapore are here this week!!! Alright! Then I will not be too bored and we can paint the town red! Er... gotta censor a bit just in case Mrs Chan come upon this blog of mine. Haa...

Babe on TV

Guess the talk of the town now is election, election and election.

So no suprise you are seeing an unusual amount of publicity of a particular party on TV during the news.

Yesterday was a TV day for me.

During the news it shows one of our minister doing his walk about talking to some people eating away at a coffee shop. A scene in the news show him talking to rather happening babe wearing spagetti top. Haa... and it was show in almost all the news on TV5, 8, Channel U and Channel News Asia....

I wonder is being a babe is one of the criterial for the editor when he/she decide what scene to show during the news?

Food for thought..........

BYO

Yesterday I witnessed something on the MRT that give new meaning to BYO (Bring Your Own).
I was waiting for a north bound train at Cityhall MRT station and suddenly 3 person appeared next to me and each of then is carrying a dinning chairs!!

I presume they are a family, both parents and a teenage son.

Before anything happen, the father and the son set the chairs down and are sitting on them chatting away while waiting for the train. They are really geekish looking by the way, and judging from the way the talk they are fairly well educated.

Soon the train come and the family of three strolled to the the far end of the train and sat on their chairs.

Now this is a good suggestion to SMRT on how to solve the shortage of seats situation on our world class transport station!

: )

Election

Boy I really love election time.

Not only we get a day off. (Some of us don't have to vote at all due to walkover.) We also get a number of "goodies".

Today I saw a banner, yes a banner, which appeared overnight below my block stating. "New mulitpurpose court coming your way". My parents flat are not being scrubbed, repainted, drainage pipes change, surronding drains repathed for the 1st time since 5 years ago.

Its amazing how much can be accomplished during electoin time.

I love election....

SPAM

Oh I hate SPAM!

All my emails are being SPAMed everyday! Fake drug, get rich scams, penis increments etc etc. Gosh someday I just wonder where did all these jokers get your email addresses? Now I even recieve SPAM on the blog comments page!! GOSH!

Spamguard are usless aginst these internet robbers. Somehow they will manage to get to you!! Everyday I spent at least 10-15 mins clearing all these rubbish emails that is jamming up the network and my email space.

I hope the Law is going to toughten up against these Spammer. I think the Death Penalty for Spammer will drastically reduce these nonsense emails we are receiving daily.

You know when you are in trouble when you hear them say...

1. Your Dentist – Ooops!
2. Gahmen – You didn’t vote for us the last time?
3. Traffic Police – I saw you threw that beer can out of the window….
4. Traffic Police - … and I was trying to catch up to you for the last 30min along ECP
5. Wife – My name is not Julie
6. Boss – Are you the one in that video
7. Car mechanic after fitting up your car – Err… where does this come from?
8. Your Surgeon after sewing you up – Hey anyone see the scissor?
9. You are fitting up the target board at firing rage – OWN TIME OWN TARGET CARRY ON!!!
10. Flight attendant – Ahem…is there a pilot onboard?
11. Lifeguard – Sir is that you swimming trunk at the far end of the pool?

What I found in my wallet

What you can find in ones wallet say a lot about the person, in short, your are either rich or poor...haa... No lah I think it can be quite interesting.

OK this is what I found in my 2000 Aigner wallet

1. $28 in notes and $2.30 in coins (Gosh I am broke!)
2. POSB ATM Card
3. ISETAN Debit Card
4. 3 Credit Cards
5. My IC
6. Driving Licence
7. CAAS and SQ Driving Licence
8. Cash Card
7. Photo of me and wife in Kyoto
8. My name card QTY 1
9. Couple of Credit Card and NETS receipts (Ok quite a lot!)
10. A Pendant of Virgin Mary and baby Jesue from Notre Dame

So whats in yours? : )

New Toy

Finally got my new nano working yesterday after uploading hundred odd songs into it. So now I have joined the kazillion Apple's dudes in the world.

Looking at my new toy, it never amazed me how fast technologies had improved over the years. The Nano is a MP3 player with a flash memory so it stored digital sound with no moving parts. Therefore you can run and jump and do whatever thing with vigourous movement and you can still enjoy you favourite music will not any skippage.

I still remember I got my first Sony Walkman (Not the Sony HP) in 1991. If you can still remember, walkman are for cassette tape, these days you rarely see them in Singapore anymore. At that time you are deem to by cool with tiny headphone sticking out of you ears and singing Michael Jackson's Beat it!!

Then came the digital revolution! CDs are replacing Cassette tape and many teenagers are switching the entire LP or Cassette collections to DIGITAL Compact Discs! Soon portable CD players are replacing Walkman. I got mine in 1994.

So now 12 years and two CDs player later, I got my very first MP3 player. Looking back from the good old LP days, we certainly have come a long way. And I never stop wondering what will we be listening to in 10 years time.

Jogging

As not many of you will know, I am a pretty good runner during my NS days. Needless to say my jogging standard has dropped ever since I RODed. But am still able to maintained a Silver Standard in my annual ICT.

Met up with my army buddies last week and boy they are a bunch of late bloomers. Most of them had taken up running as a past time and these 30 plus uncle are beating people 5-8 years their junior. Few of them are running daily clocking distance up to 10km each sessions.

Mind you these people can't run during their NS days and I used to beat them hands down, now I am really inspired to run my first 10km after such a long time. So yesterday evening I started to run around my estate. Did about 1.8 km in 15 min I think.

Felt a little short of breath the the beginning but on the whole it is quite enjoyable. ( At least now I don't feel like a bag of potatoes). Gotta increase my pace and distance in the coming week.

Dae Jang Geum

Ok finally they starts showing Dae Jang Geum in Singapore on Channel U since this Tuesday. It will be show daily at 10pm from Monday to Firday.

Before that heared many friends got seriously hooked on this shows. Some watched it 5 times, some finish the whole series in 2 days! (Please note it is 54 episodes). Also the show had taken asia by storm!!!!

So being a curious cat, I managed to watch the 1st two episodes on Tuesday and Wedesday and hey man it is really quite good!

Daejanggeum is a historical TV drama set in the 16th century royal court of the Joseon dynasty and basically show how the main character Dae Jang Gueum (starring actress Lee Young-ae, what a babe) rose from an imperial cook to be a sucessful physician.

Again the show had boosted Korean Tourism, as fans from all over asia are storming to Korean to visit the sets and to try the food featured in the show.

Now I gotta beg my sister in law to lend me the DVDs and here comes sleepless nighs....

Stewardess

Just came back from HK for a week long holiday. Took SQ flight to and fro.
Many of you many have notice that the standard of SQ stewardess are declining. (Or is it me only?)

Not only the appearance but personally I've realised the service level had gone down as well.

While on the flight back, when asked what would I like to drink with my meal, I asked for a CAN of coke. Instead, the stewardess gave me an empty cup and an opened can of coke which has content that is only enought to just filled up the bloody cup.

Geeze! Can they tell the different what is a CAN of Coke and a cup of coke with an empty can.

Korea

Anyong Ha Sa yo!Ok ever since the Korean Drama craze started by the dear Bay Young Jun in Winter Sonata, Korea has become one of the most visited country by Singaporean, Malaysian, Taiwanese and Hong Kongers.

I have been to Korea twice. Nice food, beautiful country-side but boy, what a crowd in Seoul!
Personally I feel that there are more peopl in Seoul then anywhere else in the world, even Tokyo.

If you think Orchard Road on a Saturday afternoon is bad, wait till you go to Meong Dong (See pic). Also the Korean are a bit rought, being pushed and pushing in the crowd is a norm. I myself had clobbered a few guys and gals but they seem quite used to it. Something I like about Korea is that it is one of the cities that really never sleep. Shopping at Dongdamun is almost on for 24hours! Although most people that shop at night at distributor from all over the country.

Hey wait a minute! Where are the crowd that I've mentioned in the pic? Ok the picture was taken at 7am, guess the Korean are still in bed? Hee...

I still remember I am going for Breakfast at Dunkin Donuts... mm... can't find that in Singapore now.

Javert

Ok got pressured to write more so have to satisfied my fans(Only Mr and Mrs Chan).

Let start with my nick, Javert.

If you have been following the musical scene you should know thats the name of the policeman in one of my all time favourite Les Miserables. I started going to musicals while I was in England. The record stands at 3 musical in 12 hours, at the end of the day it all get a little confusing. Managed to watch Les Mes 3 times, twice in London and once in Bradford. Kinda sad that the finally ended the show in London a couple of year ago. So folks, you got to watch in on DVD next time.

The musical is based on a novel by Victor Hugo and basically Javert had been hunting the Jean Val Jean(The Hero) 10years before killing himself when he cannot accept the fact the Jean saved his life (Crazy?) . Ok the book and musical is much more intereting then my summary.

Those of you who are interested here is a good link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Miserable
I always enjoy being the bad guys since young. Superman is not my cup of tea, I prefer the darker superhero like Bat Man, Decepticon in Transformer etc etc. I guess the bad guys are more interesting. Ok to be fair Javert is not totally bad but guess he is just kinda stubborn.

Virgin Blog

Ok its 12.25pm on the 27th Days and 2nd Month of the the Lord's year 2006 AD that I am writing my virgin blog on my very own blog site wichi still look like crab. (Hey note the missing punctuation mark!)

Basically the real reason why I am blogging is I need a user ID to write some comment on my friend Mr Chan website as he just wrote some **** stuff about me there.