of toys n such

How innovative the Japanese are? Take a look at Sex Gandams.
I wonder if it'll make its way to Dotcon 2005. Anyone at SGCollect.com knows?
Well I am thinking of going to Dotcon. Maybe bring LancerLad there. Take a look at some of the locally made toys, like Trexi from Play Imaginative and Stikfas.

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On to another article. Optimus Prime Dies of Prostate Cancer

“When it comes to prostate cancer, there’s more than meets the eye,” National Prostate Cancer Coalition CEO Richard N. Atkins, M.D. said. “Often times when one has symptoms for prostate cancer it’s already in its late stages, that’s why early detection is so important.”

The scene from Robot Chicken, a new show created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, showed Optimus Prime with incontinence (or urination) problems followed by a trip to the doctor and then death.

“Being a Tractor Truck, Optimus should have known the importance of check-ups – oil, anti-freeze, spark plugs – the works,” said Atkins. “It comes as such a surprise – my kids loved that guy.”

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Something un-related (or maybe related to the Sex Gundam portion) but I thought the photo (taken from boingboing) below is farnie!

This Air Canada luggage sticker reads: "THIS BAGGAGE HAS BEEN X-RATED AT POINT OF ORIGIN."

of blogging with ethics

Got this from MetaFilter on blogging with ethics.

A BLOGGERS' CODE OF ETHICS
* Be Honest and Fair
* Minimize Harm
* Be Accountable
[more]


I didn't know that there was a code. Well all together now. Fist to chest. Repeat after me.

"We, the bloggers of Singapore
Pledge ourselves, as one united community
Regardless of Types of Weblogs, Web Browser, or OS
To build a harmless identity
Based on honesty and fairness
So as to provide free-information
Daily news and crap for our readers."

Update: IZ, thanks for the link-up.

of puke-ket

Beauty!

Miss Phuket

Update: Shaky Kaiser, thanks for the link-up.

of numa numa fame and refuge

I've seen this video before at eBaum and Hugi but I didn't know the background and story to it.

Gary Brolsma, the guy in the video is popular now. He made a video of himself performing a lipsynced version of O-zone's Dragostea Din Tei. In it, he also made some moves in what he called the "Numa Numa Dance" - an arm-flailing, eyebrow-cocked performance executed without ever once leaving the chair.

But he doesn't want to embrace this fame like Dylan Verdi (aka The Youngest Videoblogger In The World) or Ghyslain Raza (aka Star Wars Kid). Gary has taken refuge from his fame in his home.

You can also see the video at HKMacs, The Shaky Kaiser and A Discombobulated Mia

Update: AcidFlask, thanks for the link-up.

of smoke free day today

I declare "Singapore Smoke Free Day" today. Free as in "no need to pay" hor. It's bad today. The rain isn't making it any better.

We bought a walker for LancerKid today. Initially didn't want to but LancerKid being an active kid, we thought it'll be better for him. Learning to walk early. And it seemed so. Think he is skipping the learning to crawl phase of his life and going straight to wanting to walk first. Me giving some lame excuse here! LancerDaddy and LancerMummy are just too lazy to carry you around in the house. Well at least he seemed happy in it. A kid getting a new toy, what you expect.

A picture of Granduncle showing off his skill in improvising. "Who needs shades? I've got Today."

of singapore lors

Got this from The Guardian via boing-boing.

Underwater bike ride to launch students' eight-week crime spree:
As US coast-to-coast crimewaves go, it is not in the league of Bonnie and Clyde. It lacks both violence and avarice and is further hindered by an overabundance of pre-publicity.

Undeterred, a couple of students from Cornwall are intent on making American criminal history by spending their summer breaking as many US laws as possible.
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"I looked on various websites, one in particular called dumblaws.com, and found loads of stupid laws. Some of them there are outmoded reasons for, others just seem to be ridiculous, like banning whale-hunting in a landlocked state," he said.
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He is attempting to negotiate a book deal, which could help pay any fines he incurs." [more]

Thus I checked out dumblaws and looked at what it said about Singapore laws. It lists the following:
* The sale of gum is prohibited.
* Homosexuals are not allowed to live in the country.
* Oral sex is illegal unless it is used as a form of foreplay.
* Pornography is illegal.
* As it is considered pornographic, you may not walk around your home nude.
* Failure to flush a public toilet after use may result in very hefty fines.
* It is considered an offense to enter the country with cigarettes.
Cigarettes are illegal at all public places.
* It is illegal to come within 50 meters of a pedestrian crossing marker on any street.
* If you are convicted of littering three times, you will have to clean the streets on Sundays with a bib on saying, "I am a litterer." This will then be broadcasted on the local news.
* It is illegal to pee in an elevator.
* Bungee jumping is illegal. (Repealed)


If you plan to holiday here in Singapore, do take note of goods that are prohibited as listed in the ICA and Customs websites.

Prohibited Liquors and Cigarettes:
Intoxicating liquors and cigarettes marked with the words 'SINGAPORE DUTY NOT PAID' on the labels, cartons or packets are not allowed to be brought into Singapore. Cigarettes with the prefix 'E' printed on the packets are also not allowed to be brought into Singapore.

Other Prohibited Items:
* Chewing gum
* Chewing tobacco and imitation tobacco products
* Cigarette lighters of pistol or revolver shape
* Controlled drugs and psychotropic substances
* Live dogs of the following breeds:
Pit Bull (which includes the American Pit Bull Terrier also known as the American Pit Bull and Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, the American Bulldog and crosses between them and with other breeds), Neapolitan Mastiff, Tosa, Akita, Dogo Argentino, Fila Braziliero and their crosses.
* Firecrackers
* Obscene articles, publications, video tapes/discs and software
* Reproduction of copyright publications, video tapes, video compact discs, laser discs, records or cassettes
* Seditious and treasonable materials

of jellydong

It's hard to believe. Somebody constructed a gadget that combined a dildo and a XBox controller. A case of soft mod?

The forum article was titled "SeXBox: Using force feedback signals for sex toys"

"Now it's time to put sex and video games together in a pair we like to call The SeXBox" [more via Gizmodo]

In the forum article, it shows step-by-step illustration of modding the controller

One reader suggested making it wireless. Another one asked the kind of dildo that was used. But the best comment was this:

"GREAT!! Now my girlfriend can play along too - she found the standard controllers hard to use but I'm sure she could get the hang of this one. Might decrease the nagging I get next time I fire up dance dance."

Insane. Totally bananas! Too bad it ain't portable. Ha Ha!

of paris hacked and now fred fried

Just after Paris Hilton got hacked, Fred Durst also got fried. - via Gizmodo

of *ucker?

Steven Lim is getting popular every minute. Below are some of the blogs about him.

Pigs Get to Fly is disturbed because Steven Lim has done it again.
Cowboy Caleb is digusted.
So is IZ
pokkoh and friends managed to avoid being plucked by him.
Deja-voo had her eyebrows plucked.

"My wife kena approached by Singapore's famous eyebrow plucker today, outside Tangs. She politely turned him down." - Mr Brown

"speaking of Steven Lim, I think I saw him at Newton Hawker Centre yesterday. AH MAN! And he was looking at me. BLEH! Maybe he knows I think he's stupid." - Striped Squares

"and now for the BIG one i saw STEVEN LIM yucks ! the stripping guy wahahaha ! " - Princess Charissa

"e steven lim is so damn bhb sia.. he call himself singapore n usa most handsome guy.. wanna puke man.. he's not even average lo.. n his body is not nice at all.. no shape.. think someone can pls bring him to woodbridge la.. self proclaim de lei.. he really think he's a celebrity??? a star??? talented in singing n acting?? those who had seen his performance will noe lo..mad man sia.. " - Phoebe Chan

"While we were enjoying our dinner, here comes the famous stripper cum qi long zhu (roar~), STEVEN LIM! Luckily he just walked past us and did not strip or what. If not, the beef balls noodles would be wasted. Wahaha...." - GraceC85

"to me ? style is all about 50% xpressing ur ownself, imagination, creative, orginality and 50% on trend. this is just my opinion. u cant haf too much of "xpressing urself". u will get off the trend. example: u living in 2005 now, and love the style in the 80s, u cant just wear those old school stuff and walk around town. Or, overdo urself in complicated manner lik a decorative mumy. u be a luffing stock. ppl wud think tat u must be crazy or trying ur luck in fame. lik wad the singaporean siao kia(this is wad i call him) - steven lim." - xlazy

"See... time flew just like that... oh ya.. I saw Steven Lim!! At suntec, I think he change his work location already. Haha~~ Somehow he don't look clownish in real life, everytime I see him, he has this pathetic look." - lurvecats

"lol.. I ask xueling to help me take a pic of him.. and she really go take wor! lol.. I dun dare man ..
When steven lim saw her taking pic of him.. he ask her to stop.. lol.. Huimei and I see xueling run, we also run.. Because.. steven lim got mental problems... so.. we don't know what he will do.. STRIP again??

He is the most disgusting and bhb-est guy in the world.. oh god, kill him. My whole family hates him.." - xedx

Update: Steven has replied to Cowboy Caleb's post.
Update: Trompe L'oeil, thanks for the link-up.

of unclamping a clamp

Got this piece from Hack A Day about someone seeking help from forum

what a drag, your car got booted… but there is hope.
instead of paying up his community college parking tickets, this guy seeks help from a car tuning forum. after several pages-worth of ideas and forum community support, he decided to go back to his car and take another look at the situation[more]

From this...

To this...

of need for no speed limit

Straits Times article dated 25 February 2005
Speed Trap Areas

As part of the Traffic Police's effort to be more open and visible on the roads, they have revealed for the first time where their officers are deployed with laser speed cameras on their website (www.spf.gov.sg). They said the site will be updated when there are changes in the locations being monitored.

The 45 areas to watch out for now are:...

List of speed traps
sgforums.com
SPF

Other bloggers on the topic:
serialdeviant.org(y)

Life After ACSWO

There's Something About cow.dunking

of from free to fee

ST website to charge for access from Mar 15 [more]

Well something was fishy when they started the registration thingy. Registration free? Not anymore! Did they start this registration to get a feel of how many subscribers they have? All 280,000 of them?

I've added a statement on their login screen (because I am bored) to poke some fun. Hope they don't flame me for defacing their webpage.

Others bloggers views on this pay-as-you-read scheme:

There's a list of comments at Mr Brown. People posting their views. Some say boycott and hopefully "Straits Times" would become "Dire Straits Times". Well let see what happens after 15th March. There are other sources of news online.

SarongPartyFrens is not going to miss STi.

Chanuchan proposed both paid and free subscriptions

Simon Says hate Straits Times.

Trompe L'oeil could smell that they are going down.

Singapore Ink suggests to blog on Today articles now.

Kelvin Quee offering a few pieces of advice.

IZ tells ST to listen up.

Idle Days told ST not to compare.

Vox Leo is going to rely on blogs to keep him in touch with the place he calls home.

The Singapore Commentator hardly links to STi.

of 6gb mini

ThinkSecret reveiled in a February 18 article that "within the next two weeks Apple will announce an updated iPod mini with a color screen and higher capacity hard drive".

Yesterday, Apple announced "the second generation iPod mini lineup features a new 4GB model priced at just $XXX and a new 6GB model priced at $XXX. Both iPod mini models feature increased battery life of up to 18 hours, USB charging and an ultra-portable, lightweight design available in four vibrant colors"

Maybe this will convince Bill Gates to switch to iPod.

"JENNINGS: On the subject of music, I read somewhere that about 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a music playing instrument or a music playing device use an iPod.

GATES: Well, I doubt that's the case. Certainly, the iPod's a great success.

JENNINGS: Do you have one?

GATES: No, I'm not an iPod user. I use the Creative Zen which is a fantastic product. That's another space where, even what we have today, whether it's iPod or the other things are only the start of what we're gonna have in a few years. People are gonna want choices. These things are going to be smaller or better, cheaper. So, music has changed. The age of the CD is really coming to an end. "

- Bill Gates interviewed by Peter Jennings on ABC World News Tonight

of stunning view

"In preparation for the Dubai Duty Free Men's Open, tennis legend Andre Agassi and the world No. 1, Roger Federer, couldn't resist the temptation to have a friendly knock about on the world's highest tennis court, the helipad of Burj Al Arab, the world's most luxurious hotel...

Standing 321 metres high on a man-made island, the majestic Burj Al Arab is without doubt the most recognizable hotel in the world. The hotel's helipad, which is situated 211 metres high covers a surface area of 415 sq mtrs."

of old news made new

Old news? 20 years to be exact.

SHOOTOUT 20 YEARS AGO
ST journalist to take witness stand
STRAITS Times journalist Lai Yew Kong will take the witness stand today to testify on a shooting incident that took place 20 years ago.

Mr Lai, who was then a crime reporter, had written a report on it with former reporter Judy Tan.

The article, dated July 31, 1984, has been admitted in court as a defence exhibit. [more]

of being rich and powerful?

Someone's views posted in Sintercom on the recent road rage incident.

of dreamer

I did a quiz as suggested in Zeenie's blog

Here are my results

Your Brain Usage Profile:
Auditory : 47%
Visual : 52%
Left : 44%
Right : 55%

LancerLord...You are most likely to be slightly disorganized, a "dreamer" and a person who focuses more on the end result than the immediate task at hand. You are creative and spontaneous if somewhat lacking in direction and focus. You are a learner who is generally patient and a person for whom time is an ally, not an enemy.
You are more passionate than most people with regard to life and learning and recognize your own intuitive abilities....To the extent that your career path allows for creativity and abstraction as well as a bit of disorganization, you should find yourself equipped to handle any learning that is required. Your own personal adjustment to your style should come naturally although you are likely to feel frus- trated by your own limited discipline and often wonder "Why?"

of chopsticks

Found in the Chingay goodie bag. Chopsticks. Good for lao-ing Yu Sheng.

of hall of flame

Hope the fire can be put out soon. My Pi Kang (Nose) Pi Yan until Pi Sai accumulate gao gao!

Photo by eawtan via clubsnap

Punishment for Mischief By Fire taken from National Crime Prevention Council website:

Offenders of mischief by fire can be charged under section 435 (causing damage to any property to the amount of $50 or upwards) of the Penal Code and sentence to a maximun of 7 years' imprisonment. They are also liable for a fine. [more]

Since 1988, those caught letting off firecrackers have faced a penalty of a fine of not less than S$2000 and not more than S$10,000 or imprisonment of up to two years for first offenders. Importing firecrackers and trafficking in them carries the penalty of mandatory imprisonment and caning, of not less than six months but not more than two years and not more than six strokes of the cane. [more]

How many fire stations are there in Singapore? A look at the street directory showed 21 (4 belonging to the airport, Alexandra, AMK, Bishan, BT, Hill Street, Changi, Clementi, Geylang, Jurong, Jurong Island, Payar Lebar, PSA Keppel, Sembawang, Sengkang, Serangoon, Tuas and Woodlands). I thought there were only 13?



Microsoft recalls 14 million Xbox power cords due to fire risk. [more]
Order one now!

of $50 down and $50 up

What's minus $50 plus $50 equals to?
Atypical Singaporean's take on the $50/mth deduction in maid levy and the $50 increase in indonesian maid's salary.

of things rarely seen and heard

We've been celebrating almost every Chinese New Year elsewere. I've posted some photos below.

Placing the firecrackers under the sun to dry...Lighted up!

The mess!

Weapon of Mass Destruction. This thing costed $400 in elsewhere currency!

"In the morning and afternoon of 8th of February 2005, the atmosphere was fairly quiet. A few small bursts of firecrackers here and there. Quite conservative...

At the stroke of 2330 hours, all hell broke loose! Fireworks, fircrackers and what have you. All let off one after the other. The rampage lasted an entire hour."

of loonatics

Bunny and his pals are being updated for the future — way in the future.
The WB network will take the famed Looney Tunes characters as models for a new children’s series, “Loonatics,” that will air on Saturday mornings starting this fall. The characters’ descendants — Buzz Bunny and the like — will be superhero action figures for the cartoon set in the year 2772.

Read the rest of the story here

of LAN, WAN and now HAN?

NTT announces Human Area Networking technology Research Project called RedTacton, that safely turns the surface of the human body into a data transmission path at speeds up to 10 Mbps between any two points on the body.

RedTacton is a new Human Area Networking technology that uses the surface of the human body as a safe, high speed network transmission path.
- RedTacton uses the minute electric fieldemitted on the surface of the human body. Technically, it is completely distinct from wireless and infrared.
- A transmission path is formed at the moment a part of the human body comes in contact with a RedTacton transceiver. Physically separating ends the contact and thus ends communication.
- Using RedTacton, communication starts when terminals carried by the user or embedded in devices are linked in various combinations according to the user's natural, physical movements.
- Communication is possible using any body surfaces, such as the hands, fingers, arms, feet, face, legs or torso. RedTacton works through shoes and clothing as well.

How interesting! But any impact to the human body?

of feeling blue

Report from CNN

Fifty-seven people were treated for dizziness, vomiting, shortness of breath and nausea at the Virgin Blue terminal in Melbourne Airport on Monday morning, officials told CNN.

It is still unclear what is causing the illnesses, but Melbourne Airport spokeswoman Brooke Lord told Reuters news agency a chemical leak may be at fault. [more]

of clogging

My blogging is suffering from clogging. I haven't been blogging seriously over the past few weeks. Work is hectic with deadlines to meet. My blogging throughput is clogged up.

Update: Zeenie's also clogged up

How ToTo got win or not? Overheard someone shouting to another someone at the coffeeshop.
Someone: "Wu Huat Cai boh?" One million hoo tio boh?"
Another Someone: "Boh lah!"
Come to think of it. If you had won $1,256,955, will you reply yes when asked in the middle of a packed location?

We converted the cot to a toddler's bed. Since LancerLad doesn't use the cot anymore, we thought let LancerKid use it.

Watched Dogdeball yesterday. Farnie!






Yesterday we had dinner with friends at Boon Lay Raja. The place was packed and food was alright. We sat at Table 13 and Lao-ed Yu Sheng.




LancerKid wanted me to make toilet bowl out of Play-Doh. So here's my take, Play-Doh-Loo.




Formula One season starts in 13 days. Hope it'll not be the Reds that wins again, especially ShoeMarker

of hell it's slow

I am still away. Will be back in Singapore soon.

I am blogging this on 56K. Now I know what it feels like with broadband. Need For Speed indeed! It took me 20 minutes to blog this bloody message. Giving up now. Wait till I get back to reality then I'll blog some more.