ping.sg regulars are one crazy bunch.
To me it seemed that as we met each other, especially me meeting others for the first time, there was some sort of magical click. Half an hour and we're like old friends. Maybe it's simply because we are all bloggers.
Why Meetup 3.1? Because miccheng said so lor.
Ok la I agree with it, because it's really using the Buybuttonz fair as an excuse to meet haha. BlogOut and Village Talk are bigger events so we'll save meetup 4 and 5 for those ya.
I was serving at church in the morning, so I came down to Far East Plaza only at like 3+ pm? I still cannot for my life distinguish between Far East Plaza and Far East Shopping Centre. I always thing the Plaza, the really hip and fashion-y Far East, is Far East Shopping Centre. And vice versa. So when I walked towards FESC, and finally saw the English neon sign, I uncontrollably blurted 'Oh for fuck's sake!' and made a convenient turn at the traffic light to walk backwards.
Running through my plan for the last time, I walked into FEP and found that my guess was correct. Rinaz was right, the big white tent outside advertising Buybuttonz is abit misleading. No one would know that there are booths inside, and in fact the turn out was rather poor (but don't care la. We go there to TCSS anyway). Also, most people out of habit and assumption thought the booths were down at the basement, which they took for Level 1, because everything hip was there what.
So anyway I saw the ping.sg booth immediately. It's easy man, just locate the booth with the most laptops (there were 5 on the roughly 120x80cm table lol. Super clutter hoo0~!). And I walked past and pretended to hesitate and frown at the computers, all displaying the ping.sg homepage, which Uzyn edited to auto-update every 5min, saving us the trouble of F5-ing. Although I did not recognise him at that point, arzhou aka Adrian was standing beside me, and as he later lamented, was excited to see someone finally interested in the booth. I was the first or second 'real' visitor, he said. He opened his sales pitch with 'Hi do you blog?' and I answered with a wary 'Yyyes...'. I think he was relieved, and he proceeded to move on to 'Have you heard of ping.sg?' to which I gave a confused 'no'. At that point, the great Uzyn took over and in about three breaths rattled everything off to me, included how there was a live stream recording, how the whole site worked, we register, claim our blog, blog, ping, pong, etc. And I looked at him and I said, '...... ok.' I forgot what happened in between, but I finally said, 'Nah I'm just kidding with you la. I'm Farinelli. ^^'
Probably wasn't so nice to get them falsely excited over a pseudo-visitor, but I really didn't know about the poor response then (to the whole fair in fact, not just our booth). Uzyn having found out that he just wasted his breath(s) went 'Oh man oh my God what the fuckkkk... OY GUYS,' he hollered, bringing me to the back of the booth where dk, nicole, keropokman, ECL and her boyfriend, miccheng and arzhou were (sorry if I missed anyone out), 'guys! You know who this is or not? Farinelli!' Everyone was like 'Ahhh! Ohhh! Aw man... oh my God.'
So ya sorry to make you all so happy ah, think got visitor.
And except for keropokman and arzhou (whom I mistook for Hendri), I picked everyone off and identified them one by one. They all looked at me nervously and asked 'How you know?'
I read blogs.
And after that Uzyn and arzhou took turns to diao me. Uzyn kept calling me anonymous blogger. Hahaha sorry la. Don't angry k.
As the hours passed, I talked to everyone there about alot of things. ECL and her BF left, Hendri came, tstar left, but not before ridz returned (so weird when the met each other everyone at the booth was like OOOOOOO~). Clappingtrees dropped by, then veron, and then rinaz. Oh and Uzyn's girlfriend Sek Ling also came back in time for dinner. Ok I'll just say this for the last time. So sorry if I miss anyone out at any point. Can't remember all of it and I also never take photos. Quite wary about the quality of my photos in indoor environments, so unless I'm quite confident the lighting is good or it's a not-to-be-missed moment, my phonecam stays in my pocket.
I asked not long after I arrived where tstar was, and arzhou pointed her out to me. When she looked up he got her attention and pointed her to me, and I said hi.
20min later: Oh you're farinelli ah? Oh hi! I'm tstar.
Moving right along, meeting rinaz was also amusing. She came to the side of the booth where I was sitting, and gave a breathless 'Hi!' And I was like... 'Hi...' And she was like 'No, hi!' and she waved to dk, and when I found out she was rinaz I was like 'Oh um hi. I'm farinelli.'
As a personal note, let me deviate by saying I was very pleased to find a vendor for Lexean magazine. My household (in fact I think my block) received a complimentary copy of the second issue, and I was very impressed by it. So it was great that I got myself a subscription form (and a complimentary first copy weehee). And also the famed mini Voodo doll keychains made an appearance at a booth. They were selling at $1 each, so I bought 5 and got 1 free. How can anyone be afraid of them? They're so damn cute la!
Moving on, we packed up at 6pm and left for dinner, but not before taking some crazy pictures.
We went to Indonesian restaurant Ayam Penyet Ria at Lucky Plaza. The restaurant had to split us into two tables away from each other, so at my (smaller) table was me, ridz, nicole, hendri, dk, veron, chernjie and miccheng. Since most of us were new there we all put in an order for their famed ayam penyet - IFC: Indonesian Fried Chicken.
Mmm... shiok isn't it? I was pleased with my camera for not graining up. The chilli you see is a delay attack. Very deadly stuff. The spice hits your tongue about 3-4 seconds after you taste the rest of the flavours and man, it's not something to be trifled with. I had singled out the fried taukwa to try first, and scraped the chilli off, leaving only a thin layer adsorbed on the taukwa. And that already made me abit uncomfortable. Imagine swallowing one glob for it. Goodbye my love, 我的愛人再見...~
After that unsatisfied that we were split up, we adjourned to the Starbucks next to Borders for drinks, where Trecilla and her husband joined us. I can't believe I forgot to get my Harry Potter book pre-order there!!! Argh now I must see when I'm going to town again. Freak. Anyways at Starbucks Uzyn used his laptop's SD card reader to view the pictures on a bigger screen, and man they were funny. Rinaz took her card out to view too, getting us all excited for nothing when she freaked out that there might be naked pictures inside and wanted to check the card first before letting us see. Later she started recording crazy videos of all the users (I SUCKED in my interview. First question already tio stun). When Uzyn and Sek Ling got up to leave, I also decided to leave, not wanting to get home too late.
It was an awesome meeting you guys. I already can't wait to see you all again at BlogOut. LOVE YA LOTS~!
PS - Pictures coming soon. I'm dead tired sorry.
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Monday, May 7, 2007
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Monday, April 23, 2007
I'm going to sing and record Bengawan Solo. FOR YOU!
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o.0 ???
Oh come on don't look so surprised. Geez you're making me blush.
Yes I'm going to do a home recording of Indonesia's classic. And while I may marr the song for all I care, I really hope I do justice to the lyrics by pronouncing them right.
Don't worry I've got like 5 Indonesian artiste recordings I can refer to. I'll make a decent effort, really.
I shall be recording it with acoustic guitar accompaniment. Hopefully, guitarists don't get your hopes up, HOPEFULLY I'll come up with a simple solo. The idea is there but I'm not too good on the frets yet.
Why the sudden announcement? I dunno, but let's blame it on uzyn. We were dicussing all things Indonesian in the ping.sg shoutbox last night when I was mentioning Bengawan Solo and an oldies singer, Hetty koes Endang (probably the equivalent of Teresa Teng). Suddenly uzyn piped up from nowhere, 'fari is singing bengawan solo at the next meetup!'
Of course I said no. Of course la! My voice crack how?! Super paiseh leh! At least at home koyak still can re-record.
Then after uzyn's declaration I was stuck onto Bengawan Solo. I figured out the chords before I went to bed. And then there's this strum pattern that's been needing a song to pair with. I put it with Rhythm of the Rain, but Bengawan Solo is an even better fit, since it's a very latin classic strumming style.
So there. Gonna record it. After exams. = next week.
Meanwhile, here are two of my 8 versions (don't ask la, just don't). The first is by the abovementioned Hetty koes Endang, a more calm, serenely flowing feel to it, just like, indeed, a river. The second one is by Black Wings, and has a classic rock feel to it, so I like it. I realize that by posting these up I have high standards to live up to with my own recording, but well, people have to know, let's just put it that way. :D
Enjoys.
Takes time to load though. But it's worth it.
I made this MySpace MP3 Player at MyFlashFetish.com.
o.0 ???
Oh come on don't look so surprised. Geez you're making me blush.
Yes I'm going to do a home recording of Indonesia's classic. And while I may marr the song for all I care, I really hope I do justice to the lyrics by pronouncing them right.
Don't worry I've got like 5 Indonesian artiste recordings I can refer to. I'll make a decent effort, really.
I shall be recording it with acoustic guitar accompaniment. Hopefully, guitarists don't get your hopes up, HOPEFULLY I'll come up with a simple solo. The idea is there but I'm not too good on the frets yet.
Why the sudden announcement? I dunno, but let's blame it on uzyn. We were dicussing all things Indonesian in the ping.sg shoutbox last night when I was mentioning Bengawan Solo and an oldies singer, Hetty koes Endang (probably the equivalent of Teresa Teng). Suddenly uzyn piped up from nowhere, 'fari is singing bengawan solo at the next meetup!'
Of course I said no. Of course la! My voice crack how?! Super paiseh leh! At least at home koyak still can re-record.
Then after uzyn's declaration I was stuck onto Bengawan Solo. I figured out the chords before I went to bed. And then there's this strum pattern that's been needing a song to pair with. I put it with Rhythm of the Rain, but Bengawan Solo is an even better fit, since it's a very latin classic strumming style.
So there. Gonna record it. After exams. = next week.
Meanwhile, here are two of my 8 versions (don't ask la, just don't). The first is by the abovementioned Hetty koes Endang, a more calm, serenely flowing feel to it, just like, indeed, a river. The second one is by Black Wings, and has a classic rock feel to it, so I like it. I realize that by posting these up I have high standards to live up to with my own recording, but well, people have to know, let's just put it that way. :D
Enjoys.
Takes time to load though. But it's worth it.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Mediacorp Ripper-offs
New Chinese Mediacorp site xin.sg totally ripped off the popular Youtube video of the Japanese flash mobs (embedded below) in their TV ads. SEQUENCE FOR SEQUENCE!
Come on. This is a new low for Mediacorp. Or as my friend said, 'hitting rock bottom and digging'. If they did not get rights from the TV station to recreate this, it's fucking copyright infringement. And even if they did get the rights, are they so dry of ideas that they have to copy wholesale? Flash mobbing is such an open idea, there are so many ways you can do it. Countless ways. See? Even a CHURCH YOUTH MINISTRY can do better.
And you have to do it that way.
Shame on you Mediacorp. Home of your favourites my arse.
Come on. This is a new low for Mediacorp. Or as my friend said, 'hitting rock bottom and digging'. If they did not get rights from the TV station to recreate this, it's fucking copyright infringement. And even if they did get the rights, are they so dry of ideas that they have to copy wholesale? Flash mobbing is such an open idea, there are so many ways you can do it. Countless ways. See? Even a CHURCH YOUTH MINISTRY can do better.
And you have to do it that way.
Shame on you Mediacorp. Home of your favourites my arse.
21 April 2007 Photos - Pens and Fans
I just realised that all the photos taken from Flickr are not hyperlinked to the photo page, but the image file. How the heck do you want me to change every single one? I'll take forever. *cries* I'm sorry my readers! I'm sorry for not being dedicated enough!! Don cry for meee Singapuraaaaa~
No but really. There's gotta be an easier way.
Today I finally had a chance to wake up at my own time, not to the incessant beeping of the alarm clock that can't be found, or the mad yelling growl of the metal song I set as my handphone's alarm tone. As I walked out expecting, and indeed seeing, my breakfast on the table, I saw a pen lying on the table. I asked my aunt, who's returned from Hong Kong and will be staying with us till our condo apartments are ready (I'll blog more on that soon), 'Who's pen is this?' because, you know, it was nice, and I'm a sucker and an itchy hand for metal-cased and chio-looking pens.
So she said, 'Mine.' and then the answer I was hoping for. 'Take la. I got too many pens.'
I uncapped it and wrote my name in cursive on a piece of paper lying nearby. Smooth, but as with all classy pens, the ink blot (blot as in spreading out from its line, not one big ugly drop from a leak) makes the writing unsightly. At this point I examined the clip of the pen cap, and saw with a pleasant surprise that it was a Pierre Cardin pen (now then you see??? yes. lol. I'm not all that brand-conscious. Some things matter more. The fact it's a PC is a lovely little bonus that's all). So I brought it back with me to my room.
What I noticed first before my own pens was this huge one on my brother's table (but the computer in the picture is mine). I saw that it was fully functional, ballpoint nib and all. But how are you writing with that thing??? Crazy man the things he gets.
So back to my metal pens, this is the current metal pen I'm using, or was using until this morning - a Waterman. I like its striking black color. It's a great color for a guy to use. But if you look closely you'll see the pockmarks of the outer coat peeling. Must be my sharp tweezers in my pencil case. As to why I have tweezers in my pencil case, and what uses it serves, let's just say it's come in REAL handy on many occasions already. So in my pencil case it's staying.
This is the new Pierre Cardin. It's nice that gold is used as a complimentary color, instead of dipping the whole darn thing in it. That's... hard to look really nice.
So I was unsatisfied with the ink, right? I opened the pen up and took one look at the ink cartridge, and I noticed something familiar about it. So I took my Waterman opened it and extracted the G-2 ink cartridge inside. Yes, Pilot G-2. The best modern ink I've come across yet, as I'm sure many would agree. So I fitted it with the Pierre Cardin.
It went perfectly. And that sealed it. My new metal pen. The Waterman can retire/kena retrench/golden handshake/whatever.
Now that my aunt is back, and she's taking the bed opposite mine, my parents bought her a tabletop fan so that we wouldn't have to shift the floor fan in from the living room like we used to.
With the table top fan and my floor fan working together at night, the room gets more moving air. It used to get horribly warm even with number 3 fan speed last time with just my fan.
Just now my aunt called us to Raffles City's Sushi Tei to have dinner. Not bad. But we adjourned to Cedele at the basement for dessert, and I made a damn right choice with chocolate truffle cake. I mean look at this.
Madness la! I think I gasped when I took my first mouthful.
And finally, on a totally related note, blog posts relating to DK's Face meme have muscled their way into the daily top 10 charts on Ping. Certainly not a majority as in more than 5, but a sure majority if we go by subject.
No but really. There's gotta be an easier way.
Today I finally had a chance to wake up at my own time, not to the incessant beeping of the alarm clock that can't be found, or the mad yelling growl of the metal song I set as my handphone's alarm tone. As I walked out expecting, and indeed seeing, my breakfast on the table, I saw a pen lying on the table. I asked my aunt, who's returned from Hong Kong and will be staying with us till our condo apartments are ready (I'll blog more on that soon), 'Who's pen is this?' because, you know, it was nice, and I'm a sucker and an itchy hand for metal-cased and chio-looking pens.
So she said, 'Mine.' and then the answer I was hoping for. 'Take la. I got too many pens.'
I uncapped it and wrote my name in cursive on a piece of paper lying nearby. Smooth, but as with all classy pens, the ink blot (blot as in spreading out from its line, not one big ugly drop from a leak) makes the writing unsightly. At this point I examined the clip of the pen cap, and saw with a pleasant surprise that it was a Pierre Cardin pen (now then you see??? yes. lol. I'm not all that brand-conscious. Some things matter more. The fact it's a PC is a lovely little bonus that's all). So I brought it back with me to my room.
What I noticed first before my own pens was this huge one on my brother's table (but the computer in the picture is mine). I saw that it was fully functional, ballpoint nib and all. But how are you writing with that thing??? Crazy man the things he gets.
So back to my metal pens, this is the current metal pen I'm using, or was using until this morning - a Waterman. I like its striking black color. It's a great color for a guy to use. But if you look closely you'll see the pockmarks of the outer coat peeling. Must be my sharp tweezers in my pencil case. As to why I have tweezers in my pencil case, and what uses it serves, let's just say it's come in REAL handy on many occasions already. So in my pencil case it's staying.
This is the new Pierre Cardin. It's nice that gold is used as a complimentary color, instead of dipping the whole darn thing in it. That's... hard to look really nice.
So I was unsatisfied with the ink, right? I opened the pen up and took one look at the ink cartridge, and I noticed something familiar about it. So I took my Waterman opened it and extracted the G-2 ink cartridge inside. Yes, Pilot G-2. The best modern ink I've come across yet, as I'm sure many would agree. So I fitted it with the Pierre Cardin.
It went perfectly. And that sealed it. My new metal pen. The Waterman can retire/kena retrench/golden handshake/whatever.
Now that my aunt is back, and she's taking the bed opposite mine, my parents bought her a tabletop fan so that we wouldn't have to shift the floor fan in from the living room like we used to.
With the table top fan and my floor fan working together at night, the room gets more moving air. It used to get horribly warm even with number 3 fan speed last time with just my fan.
Just now my aunt called us to Raffles City's Sushi Tei to have dinner. Not bad. But we adjourned to Cedele at the basement for dessert, and I made a damn right choice with chocolate truffle cake. I mean look at this.
Madness la! I think I gasped when I took my first mouthful.
And finally, on a totally related note, blog posts relating to DK's Face meme have muscled their way into the daily top 10 charts on Ping. Certainly not a majority as in more than 5, but a sure majority if we go by subject.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
The DK Face-on-something Meme
Earlier I posted a copy picture of dk's (in)famous avatar.
Later yesterday night/early this morning, inspired by nicole's daring act, we all started doing our own face-on-something-else pictures. This is mine...
And the whole list of jokers who participated (no meh?) can be found here. Have fun.
Later yesterday night/early this morning, inspired by nicole's daring act, we all started doing our own face-on-something-else pictures. This is mine...
And the whole list of jokers who participated (no meh?) can be found here. Have fun.
Friday, April 20, 2007
20 April 2007 Photos - See what see!
If you think you have a better name or format for naming my photoblog posts, please tell me. I'm very open one. Lol.
Hokay. What did my camera immortalize today?
Following the DK-FaceOnTheTable craze on Ping.sg started by Marina, I took time out in the midst of rushing my Nutrition lab worksheet at 2:30am to give myself a smile by doing my own.
And the meme about the picture can be found here on DK's blog.
As I was returning home in bus number 65, I sat myself at the back and noticed that the 65 placard was faced inwards.
Slipped my mind to brighten it first, but what the heck its just to illustrate the story. Illustration also must make nice nice then people understand better what, ya la shuddup. Lol.
So being the usual itchy hand that my mother utterly failed to discourage me from being, I pulled the placard out from it's slot.
If it had not been for my itchy hand, I wouldn't have caught this gem.
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree that vandalism is wrong, and I'm definitely not encouraging it. But come on admit it. These people have some untapped sense of humor. Like this one too.
Image taken from The Humor Archives
Real pity.
Right, lastly, I finally made it to the top 10 list on ping.sg!
I know it's no big shit, and I don't know whether to feel guilty or not that it got it only because I discussed the Virginia Tech shooting - what the others made of it. But hey, as someone said, 'We start with the small steps; we end with giant crushers.'
Nah I just made it up.
Stay tuned.
Hokay. What did my camera immortalize today?
Following the DK-FaceOnTheTable craze on Ping.sg started by Marina, I took time out in the midst of rushing my Nutrition lab worksheet at 2:30am to give myself a smile by doing my own.
And the meme about the picture can be found here on DK's blog.
As I was returning home in bus number 65, I sat myself at the back and noticed that the 65 placard was faced inwards.
Slipped my mind to brighten it first, but what the heck its just to illustrate the story. Illustration also must make nice nice then people understand better what, ya la shuddup. Lol.
So being the usual itchy hand that my mother utterly failed to discourage me from being, I pulled the placard out from it's slot.
If it had not been for my itchy hand, I wouldn't have caught this gem.
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree that vandalism is wrong, and I'm definitely not encouraging it. But come on admit it. These people have some untapped sense of humor. Like this one too.
Image taken from The Humor Archives
Real pity.
Right, lastly, I finally made it to the top 10 list on ping.sg!
I know it's no big shit, and I don't know whether to feel guilty or not that it got it only because I discussed the Virginia Tech shooting - what the others made of it. But hey, as someone said, 'We start with the small steps; we end with giant crushers.'
Nah I just made it up.
Stay tuned.
I Left My Heart... in Singshot
Those of you outside of Kevin's class probably wouldn't know Singshot, the self-proclaimed 'online singing community'. Though not as big as Youtube, one can see that it is slowly but steadily increasing in membership.
As with any user-generated content, there are quality stuff, good stuff, bad stuff, and plain ear-shattering stuff. And another thing is people on Singshot are nice. Awfully overly nice. I've heard recordings where the singer spans no more than half an octave throughout the entire song (non-music people read: Atrocious) and people can actually give comments like 'WHOA!! Right on da dot, dude! 5 stars man you're so going onto my favourites list! Keep it up!'
What the hell man??! Being encouraging is one thing. All this over-niceness makes you feel that 1) they are being nice to you so you'll be nice back to them and boost their ratings, and 2) you can't really trust someone's praise in there. Praise is suffering hyperinflation there, in other words. Hyperinflation and hyperdevaulation. Uwahhh big words sia...
But Singshot makes it very easy to record (alot of initiative on the users' part if they want their recordings to sound nice... in-ear monitoring, computer mixer, proper mics plugged up, compressor etc.etc.), as well as create contests of all sorts. I just saw one labelled 'Are you better than Sanjaya?'
Probably everyone's a winner on that one.
Nah nah trust me there are people who make Sanjaya sound like Pavarotti.
So! Here are two of my recordings that I'm more confident of. Listen to the others at your own risk. If you choose to sign up and sing your heart away do comment on my song pages, or if not, I wouldn't mind and in fact would appreciate comments here as well.
Enjoy! I hope.
Oh by the way, it's completely legal. If I'm not wrong in fact, Singshot is actually owned by Wordpress.
As with any user-generated content, there are quality stuff, good stuff, bad stuff, and plain ear-shattering stuff. And another thing is people on Singshot are nice. Awfully overly nice. I've heard recordings where the singer spans no more than half an octave throughout the entire song (non-music people read: Atrocious) and people can actually give comments like 'WHOA!! Right on da dot, dude! 5 stars man you're so going onto my favourites list! Keep it up!'
What the hell man??! Being encouraging is one thing. All this over-niceness makes you feel that 1) they are being nice to you so you'll be nice back to them and boost their ratings, and 2) you can't really trust someone's praise in there. Praise is suffering hyperinflation there, in other words. Hyperinflation and hyperdevaulation. Uwahhh big words sia...
But Singshot makes it very easy to record (alot of initiative on the users' part if they want their recordings to sound nice... in-ear monitoring, computer mixer, proper mics plugged up, compressor etc.etc.), as well as create contests of all sorts. I just saw one labelled 'Are you better than Sanjaya?'
Probably everyone's a winner on that one.
Nah nah trust me there are people who make Sanjaya sound like Pavarotti.
So! Here are two of my recordings that I'm more confident of. Listen to the others at your own risk. If you choose to sign up and sing your heart away do comment on my song pages, or if not, I wouldn't mind and in fact would appreciate comments here as well.
Enjoy! I hope.
Oh by the way, it's completely legal. If I'm not wrong in fact, Singshot is actually owned by Wordpress.
About Virginia Tech - Part I: The Others
I was quite disappointed to see how carelessly my father took this whole incident when the following happened. We were all eating dinner when my mother was commending me on how I had behaved myself with the phone bills, save for one global SMS, which she excused because she couldn't remember if she'd asked me to SMS my aunt in Hong Kong (coming back today, incidentally). The really funny thing is that that SMS was for the Twitter phone verification. Hahaha!
So anyway, I replied that well, none of my friends SMS me, that's all. Then my mom went 'Why, don't like you ah?' and out of mild irritation to their constant superficial comments, I went 'Yeah. I'm depressed, and lonely, and sad.'
To which my dad said, 'Sad ah? Get a gun lah.'
Immediately I stopped eating, dropped my spoon and stared at him outraged. My mom quickly chastised him by saying 'Hei! Don't say this kind of things!'
Would have been ideal if she'd said it in reaction to my expression.
Moving out, look what a quick search on ping.sg revealed! Our Singaporean bloggers have been working hard...
Ridz's How Could Anyone Do This?
Kevin's news alert
Gulagula's Virginia Tech shooting
bleongcw's If Everyone Cared
Sylv's About the Virginia Tech thingy......
piper2308's Don't Blame Video Games (YEAH!)
felix's 30 April: One Day Blog Silence
Kineda's Stab-Proof Hoodies
Remember this is just a cursory search. For readers, there's so much more out there, and it's Yahoo or Google's job to find it for you, not mine. For bloggers, I searched this up in a rush (a sleepy rush, actually) so apologies if your name isn't here but you were higher ranked or something.
Coming up, my personal views on this incident.
So anyway, I replied that well, none of my friends SMS me, that's all. Then my mom went 'Why, don't like you ah?' and out of mild irritation to their constant superficial comments, I went 'Yeah. I'm depressed, and lonely, and sad.'
To which my dad said, 'Sad ah? Get a gun lah.'
Immediately I stopped eating, dropped my spoon and stared at him outraged. My mom quickly chastised him by saying 'Hei! Don't say this kind of things!'
Would have been ideal if she'd said it in reaction to my expression.
Moving out, look what a quick search on ping.sg revealed! Our Singaporean bloggers have been working hard...
Ridz's How Could Anyone Do This?
Kevin's news alert
Gulagula's Virginia Tech shooting
bleongcw's If Everyone Cared
Sylv's About the Virginia Tech thingy......
piper2308's Don't Blame Video Games (YEAH!)
felix's 30 April: One Day Blog Silence
Kineda's Stab-Proof Hoodies
Remember this is just a cursory search. For readers, there's so much more out there, and it's Yahoo or Google's job to find it for you, not mine. For bloggers, I searched this up in a rush (a sleepy rush, actually) so apologies if your name isn't here but you were higher ranked or something.
Coming up, my personal views on this incident.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
ScreenStuck Banner
Well here's my first Flickr-to-blog post! Just thought I'd show my anime blog's banner. It's technically on the WWW but I don't feel it's ready for public viewing which is why I didn't announce it here or register it on ping.sg yet.
The 'Screenstuck' font is called Showtime, and just to make things clear I had to make the reel portion black by layering it, it's not auto-black. The 'by' font is standard Brush Script MT.
As for the background picture, my co-blogger suggested it. I'll just say that if you know which series that picture comes from, you'll probably enjoy our blog alot more.
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