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Padang in Singapore

I sometimes think, hey if my blog is read by other people, why don't I, from time to time, post some useful information for all the readers (all four of them), so that the blog can actually help make a difference in other people's life.
Then I laugh at such idea and continue filling my blog with something less important, like my life.

But I was thinking hey, maybe I can give some information that is simple but also useful that when you read it, you will be compelled to give a strong reaction, such as,”That’s it? That’s the whole information?”

Ok, since I was talking about nasi padang food in Singapore, Let me then inform you my favorite nasi padang place in Singapore (sorry for the non-Singaporean readers).
1. Sabar Menanti, Kandahar Street: offers variety of food, must try the fish with soy sauce. Reasonable price.
2. Hj Maemunah, Jalan Pisang: so-so
3. Salero Bundo, Kandahar Street: best rendang in Singapore, watch out for the bad service though, disappointed so many times that I don’t want to go there anymore. Once I was asked to leave because they want to save the food for fast-breaking customers.
4. Garuda, Paragon Orchard, Vivocity: from Indonesia, haven’t tried, Pricey.
5. Minang House, Lucky Plaza Orchard: Read my previous blog.

Gee, that’s not funny. See what happen when I want to give something useful?

Eat the Padang

One of the Indonesian food that I miss the most is nasi padang. Nasi padang was originated in Padang Indonesia, when the people tried to prove who the craziest of them all by putting the most chilly into their food.
That's why most food in nasi padang are so hot and spicy. But that doesn't stop people from eating them because they also taste so good and now they become the most popular food in Indonesia. You can go to any place in Indonesia and find Padang restaurant there. You could even go to remote jungles where people still eat people, and you can find nasi padang there, then the tribe would catch you and serve your thigh in coconut gravy. That's how irresistible nasi Padang is.

There are actually many nasi Padang in Singapore, but their taste is not the same as the Indonesian's. Just like Michael Jackson trying to be white, the looks are the same but it just doesn't feel right. There are still differences in the taste.
That's why I was so excited to hear that there's a new Indonesian nasi padang restaurant opened on Lucky Plaza, Orchard road. I heard about it from my friend and went to try it yesterday.
But unfortunately, except for the green chilly, the food is just not like the Padang food in Indonesia. So I still miss the food and still searching. Maybe if I go to a remote jungle here....

Wed Help

A wedding is a special ceremony where a man is united with his wife to take the journey through their life together with love and affection, and make a vow and promise that they would not kill the relatives, food caterers and church decorators who nag them non-stop.

I was reminded about all of those when I helped my friends prepare her wedding last weekend. I woke up early to help on some logistics in the church. I prepare myself to have a very tiring day then. But fortunately, the couple decided to have a simple wedding, much simpler than our wedding three months ago. They decided on this because of one simple reason, they are not the idiots that we were.
With simpler wedding, the hassle that they needed to go through was not as torturing as ours and therefore, they still had the strength to smile during the whole program. Of course we also smiled during our wedding, but it was the kind of smile that Frankenstein put on after Igor zapped electricity into its brain: lifeless, tired and not knowing how to move the lips muscle back to its normal position.
So their wedding was simple, but was still nice and not dull. The food was great and there were plenty of it. The program, though simple, still able to deliver the true meaning of the holy matrimony, which is to open the new page of life together, started by opening the gift and angbao after the celebration, which nobody ever asked me to help.

Pirates of The Carribean

The third installment of Pirates of Caribbean is finally here and I had the chance to watch it on the weekend. It’s full of action, it’s funny and it’s really entertaining. It would be more fun if I have any idea what the story really was.

I kinda lost on the story in the middle of the film. For instance, what’s the point of (spoiler alert) having Calypso in the movie? Or what’s with the too many Johnny Depp? Or how come Keith Richard, in his cameo, looked sober?
But besides those, the movie was quite fun. It told a story of pirates, led by Will Turner (played by Orlando Bloom), Capt. Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and Liz Swann (Keira Knightley), tried to save Capt. Jack Sparrow (Edward Scissorhand) and his ship the Black Pearl (Love Boat) from the death world.
But it was not easy. They needed to fight many enemies, such as Davy Jones (Sashimi) and his troop of immortal pirates who looked like monsters because they have been cursed by the power known as special visual effect & animation.

The battle scene at the end was really great and I can say that I love the movie, although my bladder thinks otherwise, after having to hold its function for around 2.5 hours.
So go see the movie now. And don't forget to explain to me about the plot.

Jokes

A lady walked into a drugstore and told the pharmacist she needed some cyanide. The pharmacist said, "Why in the world do you need cyanide?" The lady then explained that she needed it to poison her husband. The pharmacist's eyes got big and he said, "Lord have mercy, I can't give you cyanide to kill your husband! That's against the law! They'll throw both of us in jail and I'll lose my license." Then the lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist's wife, and handed it to the pharmacist. The pharmacist looked at the picture and replied, "Well now, you didn't tell me you had a prescription."
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A wife was making fried eggs for her husband for breakfast. Suddenly her husband burst into the kitchen. "Careful... Careful!!! Put in some more butter! Oh my God! You're cooking too many at once. Too many! Turn them! Turn them now! We need more butter. Oh my God! Where are we going to get more butter? They're going to stick! Careful... Careful!!! I said be careful! You never listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Turn them! Hurry up! Are you crazy? Have you lost your mind? Don't forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. Use the salt! The salt!"
The wife stared at him and asked, "What the hell is wrong with you? You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?"
The husband calmly replied, "I wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving with you in the car."

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The man approached a very beautiful woman in a large supermarket and asked, "You know, I've lost my wife here in the supermarket. Can you talk to me for a couple of minutes?"
"Why?" she asks.
"Because every time I talk to a beautiful woman, my wife appears out of nowhere."

Fishy About Fishing

Recently some of my friends are asking me to join them to go fishing. But I might have to say no to them because for me, as I politely explained, fishing is a sadistic inhuman barbarian kind of sport.
Oops, sorry, I just got a mental picture of me hung by a metal hook through my lips.
Well, the reason I said that is firstly we need to insert the hook into a living breathing caring feeling earthworm, who clearly tries to show us that it does not enjoy having a metal object inserted into its body by writhing and wiggling around frantically.
“The worm does not feel anything son. In fact, they are enjoying it. See how they dance happily? Just like Michael Jackson, right?” I bet that’s what the fishermen always tell their sons when they asked.

But of course nowadays people do not use earthworms anymore because, this shows how rugged and macho the fishermen are, earthworms are dirty and disgusting. They use lures and other types of bait. Well, it’s such a great news for the worms. But it does not change anything for the fish.
Imagine that if one day, you go to a McDonald and innocently eat your burger with your happy thought. Then suddenly you feel there’s a metal object in your mouth, and without any warning it goes through your lips and you are dragged towards the lake. Suck isn’t it? Well, that’s basically how the fishes experience, except that instead of McDonald, they eat worms, which kind of makes it more depressing.
“The fish does not feel anything son", the fishermen explain to their sons again.

I am not a animal right protester or anything, I just kind of afraid seeing the bonding of hooks and fishes. Probably it’s better to hunt fish like we hunt other animal, by using guns, so that the animal dies almost instantly (“The deer does not feel anything, son. See the blood? It’s nothing serious”, the hunter explains).
At least that’s what I always saw in movies. Jaws I, Jaws II, Jaws III, Orca, Deep Blue Sea, Lake Placid, etc., they did not use fishing hook to kill the sea monsters, they used guns, and grenades, and chainsaws, and so on. Well, that would have been fun.

Vista Error

Don't know whether it's really the new Vista. It's quite funny if it is so.
Got if from boreme.com

Passport Update 2

The problem with the information on the Internet is that you cannot be sure about its accuracy until it was too late and you have purchased a thing there and get your credit card number highjacked.
So that’s how I cannot be sure about the photos for my passport renewal. One website informed me to take photo in a small studio at Orchard Tower, while other website informed that SpongeBob SquarePants is gay.
Wait… sorry, wrong website. Other website told me that I can take my own picture as long as it has bright blue background.
But since my last passport-size photo makes me look like a permanent citizen of Planet Dorksville, I decided to take my picture at Orchard Tower.
So I went there. I took a break from my work so that I could go to Orchard Tower and conveniently walk around the tower for half an hour, without having any idea where I was going.

It’s because I could not find the name of the studio in the directory, and the security guard did not where it was. But fortunately I got the phone number so I finally found the place in the fifth floor, in the office area, which was unlisted in the directory. That’s how prestigious this place was, I think.
So I finally found the studio, which consisted of small camera and blue screen at the back. But I guessed that was enough. So I took my picture and paid $15 for 6 photos, then went home.

And oh yeah, I still looked like a dork in the photo.

Swim Away

Got this from a website.

Tried to ask for direction in Google Map, from New York to London, and this is the result:


It said "Swim across the Antlantic Ocean. Entering France". Really.
D'oh!
(click on the picture to read the instruction. Or you can try it yourself at Google Map)

Passport Update

Once in a while when you travel quite often, you sometimes hear a meaningful insight during your travel. Mine was gotten from an old wise bearded man, who said in serene and calm manner, "Hey, you need to renew your passport, it’s almost expired". That man was an immigration officer.

So now I need to prepare a lot of documents to apply for the new passport. Unfortunately I couldn't remember which documents that I needed to prepare. Also, I heard that there was a new procedure.

But later I found the information on the Internet, which was made widely available for the public. It’s great that nowadays you can find any information on the Net, which is widely available and that means it also can't be trusted, because the website that gives me the important information that I needed also showed how I could buy Viagra on discounted price.
So I needed to dig further. And luckily I found the Indo Embassy website, in which I was able to find that there were two main improvements:
1. The fee was lower (SGD 40)
2. We could bring our own photo.

The lowering fee is always good, but being able to produce our own photo is really great.
Remember that in the past, no matter how long we spent in a salon, our passport photo always looked like we just woke up from a decompressed bedroom and our eyes were always closed?
Well, now no more.
We no longer need to let the embassy people to take our picture that make us look like a dork in our passport. No, now we can easily take the picture ourselves and make us look like a dork in our passport.

But apparently I need to take my photo in a certain way, which I am not so sure, and I also heard that I needed to take my pictures in an office at Orchard road. So I'll find out more about this and write more later.

Passport Renewal

Once in a while this blog presents something that is actually useful ... sort of.

This is the brief procedure of applying renewal of Indonesian Passport at the Embassy in Singapore (from their website) with my additional points.
Things to prepare:
- The old passport
- IC or work permit etc.
- Copy of birth certificate (akte kelahiran), SBKRI, marriage certificate (if any) (might need to bring the original docs, but not so sure, will update once I go there myself)
- 5 passport-size photos
The embassy is no longer taking picture for us. But there are some certain rules for the photo taking (please refer to the website)

Other things to prepare:
- $40 for the renewal fee
- EZ link card, if you are taking bus to go to the embassy
- $15 taxi fee, to take taxi after you take the bus and then realize that you are lost, because the embassy is not the easiest place to find.
- $100 donation for this blog....please?

Go there in the morning for submitting the application. You need to fill a form first (which can be obtained there at the counter), so go early.

Process length: 5 working days, from process application to receiving new passport, 7 days if you are really really lost

Will write more on this passport renewal.

This Is It?

The new diet craze, and a new way to have a tremendous profit. Link

Internal Watch

I am going to have sleepless night asking why. link

Jokes

Soon after marriage, a lady's husband stopped wearing his wedding ring. She asked, "Why don't you ever wear your wedding band?"
He replied, "It cuts off my circulation."She answered back, "It's supposed to!"


A Blonde suspects her boyfriend of cheating on her, so She goes out and buys a gun. She goes to his apartment unexpectedly and sure enough, she opens the door and finds him in the arms of a redhead. Well, the blond is angry, She opens her purse to take out the gun but as she does so, she is overcome with grief. She takes the gun and puts it to her head. The boyfriend yells "No, honey, don't do it." The blond replies "Shut up, you're next."


A wife suspects her husband is cheating on her. One day, she dials her home and a strange woman answers. The wife says, "Who is this?"
"This is the maid," answered the woman. "We don't have a maid", said the wife.
"Well, I was hired this morning by the man of the house", the maid replied. "Well, this is his wife. Is he there?" The maid replied, "he is upstairs in the bedroom with someone who I figured was his wife."
The wife is fuming with anger. She says to the maid, "Listen, would you like to make $50,000.00?" The maid says, "What will I have to do?"
The wife tells her, "I want you to get my gun from the desk, and shoot the jerk and the witch he's with." The maid puts the phone down; the wife hears footsteps and then gun shots.
The maid comes back to the phone, "What do I do with the bodies?" Anxiously the wife says, "Throw them in the swimming pool."
Puzzled, the maid answers, "But there is no pool here." After a long pause the wife says, "Is this 555-4821?"

Pizza Nap

Still about furniture, for those of you who drools at night: link

Plus, if you eat everything, including the plates: link

Fully Furnished 3

Ok, this is the photo of our living room before and after we received the new furnitures:



So if you look closely at those two pictures, comparing the things and feeling the new vibe, you can simply see and realize one thing: I have a very lousy camera. But anyway, hope that you can still have a clear idea about the look.

We still have the blue sofa in the corner, which makes the color tone of my living room as exciting as getting a toothpick stuck in your eyes. But we cannot get rid of the blue sofa and there is no other place to put it, so now we just have to bear the brown and bright blue combination.

The rest of the stuff are also still messy, which explains why my wife is not in the photo anymore. She was busy clearing up things while I helped her by taking pictures, which she gladly apreciate so much by letting me take care of my own diner, laundry and dishes for the whole week.

Zit Update

I am glad to say that my pimple no longer has the size of a regular Mentos mint. I did not apply any pimples cream, gel or acid. I just put my continuous and consistent effort to basically ignore it. And it burst a few days ago. I would like to put its picture, but it might cause the whole community to lost its appetite for two weeks. So, let's just hope that it's completely gone soon.
BTW, I think I have two more zits coming up under my nose and my eye.

p.s. The fact that I am writing about my pimples just proves that I really run out of blog topic. .... and how boring my weekend was.

Freezing Box

After we got some appliances from our relative, we now have two refrigerators in my kitchen. So now we can easily store any amount of food and drinks. In fact, at this moment I think I have too many snacks and junk food in there with enough cholesterol to give any regular athlete a cardiac arrest.

Yes I can now buy more things and just put inside the fridge so that if in one evening I am hungry, I can just open the fridge door and conviniently get food poisoning because most of the food have long passed its expiry date, so long that some of them have started to crawl on its own.

Unfortunately, I couldn't remember the expiry dates, so last night I needed to throw away some expired food. Such a waste. It usually does not happen to me in the past because I have a simple and effective way to know when the food expires: I ask my wife.
But now that we have more than one fridge, it's harder to keep track.

So now we need to find a new way. And this is what I want:
Why can't the geniuses at electronic companies produce a computer in fridge door, where people can input/scan expiry dates of all the food inside, and when the date is approaching, the fridge can remind us, using a recorded voice that we usually heard saying, "Your call is very important to us. Please hold the line while our officers use the line to gossip about Paris Hilton"? But instead the fridge will say, "Your milk is expiring in 1 day. Your lettuce has expired for 6 days and grows three eyes and is planning to mate with your Kraft cheese".
It would be a great addition to a fridge.

Fully Furnished 2

It’s finally here. The furniture that we have been waiting for is here (see previous blog). It’s quite a blessing. And suddenly getting lots of furniture without spending any money just made us realize, despite how undeserving and nobody we were, that our flat was really small.

It’s true. We could not find enough space to squeeze all the furniture and appliances in our flat. So we just followed the oldest trick in the book: We crammed all the things inside our storage room. Using the special experience and skill that I obtained from years of playing Tetris in high school, I managed to stack all the things inside the room.

And now, after I organized the things in the room, it looks quite tidy and neat. But unfortunately, my idea of tidy is very loose, because when I said “I organized” what I meant was “I threw thing inside the room one by one and hoped that it did not land on something fragile and fell”. So now my storage room looks a little bit like Titanic ruins, except that you might actually find something inside the ruins, whereas there is no way you can locate a thing inside my storage room.
So now my storage room is so packed like it’s going to burst, cartoon-like, anytime anybody touches the door knob.

Anyway, I am too tired from moving the furniture. So maybe I will tidy up the storage room in the weekend. My wife is going to supervise, of course.

Solo Choir

Recently me wife keep asking me to join the church choir. She has been in the choir for several years, on and off, and then one day, after she heard me singing in the shower, she decided that the train ride to the church was so boring and wanted me to accompany her.

The thing is I am not really a singing person. Ok, I admit, I sometimes sing in the shower or sing along when I heard a good song on a radio. Like, when I heard James Blunt singing “You're Beautiful”, I sometimes think that he’s asking for a duet. So I sit up straight and sing together, "You’re beautiful. You’re beautiful. it's thrruueeeaaaaayyymmm", which is how I fake yawning because I just realized I heard the song on my handphone radio on a train and now everybody's looking strangely at me. So I just let James to finish the song alone.

I am sure that my singing is not as nice as Clay Aiken, or Michael Buble, or even Scooby Doo, although I’m sure I can be as loud, so I am reluctant to join the choir. My singing is just going to attract unwelcome reaction, like bleeding ear, or birds dropping dead. So I just stay clear out of choir right now. But who knows, if I keep practicing, after a month, I can be louder than the rest. Just don’t expect me to sing in the same key though.

Pimp My Zit

Is there a maximum age for getting a pimple? I thought zit only happened to teenagers. But apparently I was wrong.
I thought I have passed the age for growing pimples. I thought pimples only happened during puberty. And I am sure that I have passed my puberty. Yeap, surely, about two months ago. But somehow now I have this zit sitting comfortably on my chin and doesn't show any sign of leaving. Maybe I just take this as a compliment, a sign that I am still young (again, you! wipe that smirking cynical smile off your face!).

This pimple just somehow appeared below my lips. And to call it a pimple is actually an understatement. It looks more like something that is usually seen in horror movies, where aliens are bursting out from.
This painful, yellowish and round-ish goo on my chin just somehow appeared out of nowhere and stay there.
So now every time I look into a mirror, that zit is all I see. Sure its size is probably only one percent the size of my entire face, but it takes all the attention from other face organs, just like Beyonce does to Destiny's Child.
That's why I want to take out this pimple asap. So I will do what I always do when I am having a problem, doing nothing. I just let this problem to go away by itself. Let’s see how it goes in the next couple of days. Ah, this pimple is making me uncomfortable. I think I’ll have a box of chocolate to calm me down.

Chair From A Child

Mother's Day has passed but this thing is too cute (or ridiculous) to pass
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Fully Furnished

The good thing about living on our own is that my wife and I can redecorate our furniture anyway we want, as often as we want and then apply as much painkiller as we have because our muscles are aching from lifting the sofa.

It happens that one of my wife's cousins was leaving Singapore for good and he's leaving a lot of things for us. That's why we needed to redecorate our living room and kitchen so that we would be able to fit the new (but old) furniture into our small flat.
So we change the layout of the living room and kitchen so that it would look nice and chick. Of course when I said "we", I meant "my wife". She was the one who decided where we should put the washing machine and all so that they look nice whereas I mostly think about how I could watch TV comfortably.

We moved most of our furniture yesterday, the process that consisted of me moving furniture to one place and my wife telling me to move it to other place, which I thought was a weird place and stupidly told her, which caused her to give me the look that made Hannibal Lecter’s glare looked like Hello Kitty’s.
In just one hour, we managed to redecorate the whole place and made some spaces for the new ones to fill. Unfortunately they are scheduled to be moved only on Thursday, which means that if you come to our place today, you will only see an empty living room with a TV and no sofa to watch the TV from.
I am going to hide the painkiller.

Blogger Fixed

Finally able to fix the blogger issue. Found a way on the Internet (changing the proxy), in the blogger help forum, from a suggestion from a user, which means that, again, helpline and customer service officer are only useful when we need to listen to Westlife's songs when we are put on hold.

Warmin the House

I went to a housewarming thing at my friend's place on Saturday. Housewarming is a tradition whereby a person, who just moved to a new house, invites all his friends to come and see his new house. And his friends then gladly come because they understand, from years of friendship, that there will be free food.

So my wife and I went there and brought a nice gift, which the host must have already own. That's one of general rules of housewarming. As the host must have bought their furniture, appliances etc., it's almost impossible to get something that they haven't had. So the guests don't have other choice than to buy lame and redundant gifts, such as photo frames, vacuum cleaner, clothes hanger, or bug repellent.

The other rule of housewarming is to always have too much leftover. The host can get the amount of food that the host must order by using this simple calculation: get the number of invited guests then subtracted by the number of children invited, then multiply it by the number of times he has been invited to a housewarming and divide by the cosine of the number of chairs that he has in the house. Then he can throw the numbers away because there's no way he can get the right number, so he might as well order for 200 people even if the house can only be filled by 30 people.
So we ended up going home bringing some leftover food in our bag. But anyway, the housewarming itself went fine. I probably should have one too the next time we move house, and get two hundreds photo frames as gifts.

Happy Mother's Day

To all the moms: Happy Mother's Day
Don't let your husband and children let you do the housework today.

Boringly Bored

I am bored. I don’t know what to write in this blog. For the whole week I did not do anything special. I finished my work and then stayed at home the whole night. For the whole week. That’s why I don’t have anything exciting to write on this blog, except if you consider me clipping my toenails is interesting.
This happened because my wife worked overtime for most day of the whole week. She is working as an auditor. So as this is the month where most auditors are swamped with deadline, they usually stayed until very late in their office, doing what they do best, passing their works to their colleagues.

So I ended up staying at home alone until 9-10pm. Not being used to staying alone, I did not what to do. I wanted to go out, but did not know where to go. I tried to watch TV but most of the time it showed local programs that you could find interesting only if you compared them to sticking your finger to your eyeballs (“Do you know that waste from microelectronic industry can be used to make other products? Find out more in Public Insight tonight at 8”)

So I just surfed the net, cleaned up the house a little, and sometimes watched the TV and let my IQ drop 5 points per hour. So that’s why I am running out of topic of what to write in this blog. Maybe next week I’ll do something interesting. Maybe I meet an alien, or swim with sharks, or catch terrorists. But for this week, clipping my toenails is as exciting as it gets.

Nuts About Knutt

Winner of the Oh Sooo Cuuuteeee award.
Check out this link : http://www.youknut.com/
But some people are just so envious : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=443343&in_page_id=1811&ico=Homepage&icl=TabModule&icc=picbox&ct=5

(Sorry for the long link. Apparently blogspot hasn't fixed the problem in the server. C'mon! it's been a while now.)

Chilly Sanity

Who did invent chilly sauce or other food with chilly in it? I ate a very spicy hot kway tiaw for diner yesterday and that made me wonder who tasted chilly for the first time.
I mean, if I was the first person who tasted green chilly, my reaction would be something in the line of spitting the chilly out of my mouth, cursing it left and right, jumping into the lake to extinguish the fire in my mouth and then burning the whole chilly farm.

But apparently that's not what happened. That person, whoever he was, who first tasted chilly apparently enjoyed the taste of hot burning coal on his tongue.
That person must be one insane dude. This was a kind of person who was rejected from Fear Factor on the base of being too crazy. This was a kind of person who ate scorpions without any hesitation. Well, I know that there are a lot of people who ate scorpions, but this type of people eat scorpions alive!

So that’s what he did. He tasted chilly and felt burning sensation on his mouth and what he thought was,”This is fun!”, in the same tone that he probably used when he threw his closet out of his bedroom window just to see how loud it would sound.

Unfortunately somehow other people also caught the madness and they started pouring chilly into their food. So as a result, now I need to sweat a lot every time I have diner with my wife, because my wife is also one of the insane people who enjoy chilly very much.

Hamsters Away

There is an error in Blogger site that makes me unable to post links. Hope they fix this soon, it's been 3 days. Embarrasing for them isn't it?
But I just found another game on the web, that is, as usual, mindless but addicting.
So just follow this link: http://coolflashgames.free.fr/jouer.php?jeu=318

Too Much Spider Web

Spiderman 3 is a movie that is based on a Marvel comic series. So as you can guess, it is very entertaining for all adults. And for children, it's giving a series of nightmare that make them wet their bed until they graduate from college.
It's because in this movie, Spidey's enemies are scarier than the villains in previous movies combined.

I watched Spiderman 3 last night because despite the mature and sophisticated look (you, shut up and stop laughing!), I am still a comic book fan. So this movie is a must-watch for me.

This movie tells a story of a young man named Peter Parker who has a girlfriend, Marie Jane Watson, who cheated on Peter with his best friend, Harry Osborn.... So Peter starts flirting with other girl, Gwen Stacy. But at the end both Peter and Mary Jane realize that they always love each other and they both get back together. The end.

Oh yeah, There are also Spiderman fighting Venom, Sandman and The New Goblin. But somehow the fighting is sidelined by the love story, which makes the movie more like a chick flick. Spidey dances, Mary Jane sings, Goblin kisses Spidey’s lover? But fortunately there’s Venom, which makes this movie a little bit like a horror movie. And there’s Sandman, which makes this movie a little bit like a Pokemon movie.

But the good thing is that there are a lot of new characters introduced (too many perhaps) and the action is still good (too less perhaps). I miss the Spidey’s witty remarks that make him really likeable in the comic book. But all in all, it is a decent sequel. Not too great, but acceptable.

Diet Schmiet

I cannot remember whether I have mentioned in this blog that I have gained 4 kg after I got married. So consequently some of my caring friends give me ways to go diet. Those kind of friends should be thrown into deep sea with a piano tied on their neck.

I tried to follow one of my friends' suggestion to detox my body. Detox is a special kind of diet where you only eat natural and nutritious things such as fruits, vegetables or shampoos.
So yesterday my wife and I tried this detox thing.
You know that there are many concepts about diet that at first looks painful and hard to do but when you actually try it, it isn't that painful and hard? Well, detox is not that kind of diet!
It's painful and torturing to my stomach. I only ate orange, grape and banana for diner. And after the nasi padang experience that I had in Indonesia last week, eating those fruits is like eating tic-tac to my tummy. So the rest of the night was a torture.
But luckily my wife, who clearly has higher hunger-tolerance than me, helped making me more miserable by showing me a complete menu of Pizza Hut. So yes, I heard my tummy rumbling like a broken three-ton bulldozer for the whole night.
However, I survived the night and as a result of doing the diet, I woke up with a different feeling. A feeling that I could eat a lot of things, including my friend who suggested this diet.

Taxing Taxi

I remembered some years ago there was an article in a men's magazine stating the top ten most annoying people in Singapore, and taxi drivers were one of them. Well, there is a group of people who believe that, while there is another group of people who, well, agree with the first group.

It's not that surprising to find the taxi drivers as the most annoying people here in Singapore, as pointed out by the magazine, which was a reliable source because it always gives what its readers want: women wearing bikini on its cover.

There are several things that annoy me about the cabs here. The main one is how they always ignore you when you flag them during raining rush hours. Really, the empty cab just drive pass you while giving snotty look that says something like, "Hey I have had 3 condos and 10 yachts and I am only driving this taxi to kill my time, so don't bother my driving and listening to this lousy radio tunes with your $15 fare ".
So we usually just end up standing there under the rain, waving out hands frantically like we have an itchy scorpion under our armpits, for about 30 minutes or so until we decide to either take the MRT or throw stones at the next empty taxi that ignores us.
I just cannot figure out why they do not want to take us. Should we wave things that they like, such as $100 bills or durians, to attract them to stop? Should we stand in the middle of the street so that the only way the taxi can ignore us is by killing us? Should we jump around naked so that the driver would notice us, and instead of taking a taxi, we would end up taking a police car instead? I really don’t know

A man was invited for dinner at a friend's house. Every time the host needed something, he preceded his request to his wife by calling her "My Love", "Darling", "Sweetheart", etc., etc.
His friend looked at him and said, "That's really nice after all of these years you've been married to keep saying those little pet names."
The host said, "Well, honestly, I've forgotten her name."


"Honey," said this husband to his wife, "I invited a friend home for supper."
"What? Are you crazy? The house is a mess, I haven't been shopping, all the dishes are dirty, and I don't feel like cooking a fancy meal!"
"I know all that."
"Then why did you invite a friend for supper?"
"Because the poor fool's thinking about getting married."

The father of five children had won a toy at a raffle. He called his kids together to ask which one should have the present. "Who is the most obedient?" he asked. "Who never talks back to mother? Who does everything she says?"
Five small voices answered in unison, "Okay, dad, you get the toy."

Jennifer watched as the cashier rang up her purchases. "Cash, check or charge?" she asked after folding the items Jennifer had bought. As Jennifer fumbled for her wallet, the cashier noticed a remote control for a television set in her purse. "Do you always carry around your TV remote?" the cashier asked.
"No," she replied. "But my husband refused to come shopping with me, so I figured this was the most evil thing I could do to him."

Ghost Rider

I just watched the DVD of Ghost Rider, a movie that is based on comic series from Marvel, and on the bad taste of the producers.
It tells a story of Johnny Blaze, a stuntman who, when he was young, found a genie inside magic lamp and was granted three…. Opps sorry, wrong movie, although the plot would make more sense. No, the story is that he sold his soul to the devil to help his father. But the consequence was that when the night came, he would, using the power of digital animation, turn himself to a ghost rider. For you who have not read the comic book, a ghost rider is a man-shape devil with a blazing skull as its head, which I should say showed a better acting that Nicholas Cage.
The ghost rider was facing four other demons who were all after a contract that bound all the past ghost riders to work for the contract holder. The ghost rider decided that he could not let this happen and he needed to take some actions. So he started flirting with Eva Mendez.

I cannot remember exactly how the ending went because I was more interested in the potato chips in my hand at that time. But I believe that there were some cheesy dialogues at the end. And there was Eva Mendez still alive and still somehow had perfect hair after being tossed around so many times by the demon.
All I can say is that it’s a mindless fun and you can try to watch it. Just try not to pay for it.

Raising Toddler's Hair

Yesterday when I was riding the MRT, I saw somebody with a David Beckham's Mohawk hairstyle. Well, it wasn't really something special, except that this person was only about one year old.
I know that he looked cute and all, but is it really necessary? I know that the boy did not care or understand about his look. Heck, you can make him wear a grocery bag and he still thinks that he is the Brad Pitt of toddlers. So it's the parents who want to show the world how cute their son is, putting hair gel and spiking the baby's hair, while what the baby has in its mind all the time is only how to eat the hair gel.

People are saying that hair products are not healthy and might cause old-age baldness, so I don't know whether it is really wise to put hair gel on baby's head. It might lead the baby straight to Baldyland by the age of 15. Then he will gladly show you his appreciation by sending you to elderly home in Afghanistan when you are old.

But that gets me thinking. When I have a kid, will I also follow them? Putting silly clothes and stupid hairstyle on the baby so that we and other parents can have a laugh, which usually causes the baby to also laugh although he doesn't understand why? I probably will, because it might cheer us up and the baby still cannot protest. And who can blame us? Parents have the power, right?
So let's see in years to come. If you want to know what we did, you can try to contact us. We will be in Afghanistan.

Kidney Pain

A reason empty water bottle is popular in Netherland
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Back To Work

Why can everyday be a holiday? We enjoyed ourselves so much yesterday. Just stayed in bed until 12. Skipped breakfast and go straight to lunch. Watched TV and went back to sleep again. Gosh, life was so good. What should I do to live like this everyday? Lottery? Pretending to be Bill Gates's long lost son? Be a cabinet member back home?
Ah well, back to work again now.

Roadster Blues

This is what I usually do when I am in Indonesia: I eat my heart out, I meet my family, and I buy many items to be brought back to Singapore, but the activity that I spend most of the time in Jakarta is on the road, enjoying hours and hours of traffic jam.

Unfortunately, Jakarta is still troubled by the huge numbers of cars with not enough roads to run on. So it's quite common to see cars only move at the pace of 10 km per hour. And that was the highway, the common roads are even worse. Sometimes you can still see a cart dragged by buffaloes from 15th century still stuck there, unable to move even an inch.

But, my driver told me, you can still try to find alternative route so that you can avoid the congested main roads. That way, you will no longer need to worry about traffic jams, because you will be too busy worrying about being lost,
It because the streets in Jakarta is very confusing and was probably designed by someone with a sense of direction of Stevie Wonder. You cannot be sure where a road might take you. So I usually just stick with the main road and enjoy the traffic jam for hours while listening to the radios that give the news about how all the roads in Jakarta are congested.
I was wondering whether I could get used to it, stuck in a jam for hours, while hoping that my bladder didn't start to act wildly. I was wondering if anyone ever got used to it. But it's probably not a problem getting used to; it's just something that you have to accept if you want to live there. Me, I believe it’s better to drive a caravan there.