poor kids!

would you fail the marshmallow test?

wake time!

elvis!

hiao-vis!

wrong stance. arms must be outstretched!

like this.

wrong! butt cannot stick out!

see? that's what happens when you stick out your butt.

looking so forlorn

fishing!

weak looking twis :)

me!

so fun! even though the persistent friday thunderstorm tried to ruin our wakeboarding plans, we happily went back on saturday with even more people! waking up for wakeboarding was no joke though....7:30am! it always feels horrible waking up early, no matter how exciting i am about the day ahead. 20min late in the end, cos rr had to be a taxi driver and fetch 4 people from 4 different locations. turned out that the instructor remembered me from like a few years ago, so it was quite nice actually, no need to spend time warming up to a total stranger (oh, paul tan, 94505528. call him if you want lessons!) glad that hw decided to come along even though she's still learning how to swim and had no intention whatsoever to wakeboard. thanks to the screaming and shouting from our instructor, she's now a wakeboard theory expert! after the intense physical workout, we headed off to xin wang for lunch, where we spent much of the time there trying to figure out disgustingly difficult IQ questions. we also discovered that 3 ex-GEP students were no match for 1 hw. clever girl!

iluma is famous!

CRYSTAL MESH from autokolor on Vimeo.

interactivearchitecture.org posted an article about iluma recently. the vid actually looks rather cool! quite amazing that my workplace is just across the road from this building. too bad it looks a lot less cool close-up, but still, at least people want to write about us!

watch the cove

what this "cove" in taiji, japan looks like after each slaughter of dolphins.

the intrepid espionage team

this is the petition i signed after watching "the cove", a real life horror story about yet another example of humankind's inhumanity. don't know if this will make any difference, but hey, i spend hours of precious time doing things that are a lot less meaningful! so there. good luck to these brave people! and good luck to the dolphins! swim far far away!

Dear [Decision Maker],

I recently heard about the documentary film The Cove and was alarmed to find out that more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are brutally killed each year off the coast of Japan. In addition, Japanese consumers are being sold dolphin meat, containing dangerously high levels of mercury, often labeled as whale meat.

I ask that you urge the Japanese government to revoke permits that allow Japan's Fisheries Agency to continue this heinous, dangerous and illegal practice.

I also urge American leadership to ensure that the International Whaling Commission includes the proper management of dolphins and porpoises and a comprehensive plan to stop the slaughter of dolphins in Japan.

I thank the filmmakers for this courageous act, and I thank you in advance for the courage and humanity you will demonstrate in taking steps towards ending this atrocity. Dolphins have no place in our food industries so please help to keep them in the wild, where they belong.

Your immediate action is needed.

Sincerely,
Kenneth Lau

in the dead of the night

so i was driving down the expressway back from hw's house (at 1:30am in the morning) when i very nearly ran over an old indian man sprawled in the middle of a slip road. good thing i wasn't feeling tired -- not meaning to be racist here but it's much harder to spot an indian man in the dead of the night than, say, a fat ang moh dude. anyway, he was clutching his metal crutches which clearly did not help him much, and because the slip road was kinda in the middle of nowhere, i asked if he needed a ride. ended up getting mildly lost around eunos cos he didn't really know how to get back to his house...but managed to send him home anyway and left feeling grateful that i could help someone in need. and grateful that i didn't kill him in the first place.

:)

1 月

aug 31st marks my 1st month together with a wonderful girl who loves and cares for me more than i've ever imagined any girl would. her name is xiao wen zi (little wen zi), and she has a smile that makes me melt every single time i look at her. we sit on the same floor at work, just far enough to make the heart fonder, and just near enough so i can see her once in awhile when the withdrawal kicks in. every morning, she buys me breakfast because she knows it makes me happy, and because i wouldn't eat otherwise.

she doesn't ask anything of me. perhaps she knows that it only makes me want to give her all that i can, so that she'll never have to ask. because i'm addicted to her and her smile and her hands and her puppy dog eyes and her happiness.

i love her with all my heart, and i think she loves me too.

2 beautiful babies

i'm not letting go

when the alarm is ringing in your face
would you wish that it would go away
would you think it's just another day
or would you think of me

when you see the sun climb up the skies
would you think that it is no surprise
or would you pause awhile to close your eyes
and try to think of me

and when you walk alone
would it help to know
that there's a smile that you can turn to
when your lines are getting old

and though it doesn't show
i wish you would come home
but if you rather stay a little longer
i'll still be here tomorrow
still be here tomorrow
cos i'm not letting go

when you fall asleep
do you ever wish
that the one that you kiss
is more than a dream
if there's anything that i could wish for
it's that you'll dream of me

well, don't ever be
a casualty of gravity
you have wings of an angel
and the world at your feet
but if you ever want to come back down here
won't you think of me

cos when you walk alone
would it help to know
that there's a place that you can go to
when your hands are getting cold

and though it doesn't show
i need you to come home
but if you rather stay a little longer
i'll still be here tomorrow
still be here tomorrow
cos i'm not letting go

mayday dna tour 2009

went for mayday's dna concert on saturday night. no need to be a mayday fan to enjoy their performance! thought it was really considerate of them to sing, dance, and scream for more then 4 hours just so their fans got enough mayday to last for the rest of the year, until they visit our lil island again. and i really love their lyrics! so meaningful and heartfelt, it's amazing how they manage to take those unexpressed emotions that reside deep in our hearts and put them into words, and when you're in the company of thousands of other fans singing along with you, you realize that everyone around you has experienced those moments of sadness, joy, loneliness, freedom and hope at one point or another in their lives.

oh, love how they screen their lyrics too, so everyone can sing along. one giant indoor ktv stadium!

glad you enjoyed it. maybe one day i'll be as crazy about them as you are! :)

he likes it la please

this image is part of the footage captured by a horrified passer-by and sent to our local online news website. in it, a woman stops her car by the side of the road (causing a traffic jam behind her) and removes her shoe to hit her boyfriend (possibly) in his groin. repeatedly. in full view of everyone nearby. one can only speculate as to the reason why something like this would happen in our peaceful little island:

1. her shoe was out of shape and his balls had just the right firmness and suppleness for her to hammer the shoe back into shape.
2. he's the boss of a shoe manufacturing company and she's his QC manager.
3. his groin cramped up from having sat for too long in the car and he was fearful of deep vein thrombosis.
4. after this, they drove over to another hdb carpark where it was then his turn to hit her in the crotch with his shoe.
5. due to the economic crisis, they ran out of money for his vasectomy.
6. the neighbor's pet hamster developed a taste for human testicles, and she was trying to save their unborn children.
7. he was having trouble expanding his vocal range. can't hit that high C!

kids, don't try this at home.

try it at your nearest carpark so STOMP can have more cool videos :)

danyl johnson

X Factor: S06E01 - Danyl Johnson Audition
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even better than stacey. check out the two female judges blushing when he looks at them.

stacey soloman

Stacey Soloman : The X Factor Auditions 1 @ uZood.com

this girl rocks. i was biting my fingers throughout her song...

let me pleeeaaassseeee

my first-month prezzie for you :)

sorry it wasn't a surprise but i was so excited i couldn't help showing you this even before i finished it... i hope it makes your day an awesome day.

haikupost 06

boss is not around
time settles down to a crawl
i want to go home

aliens go home!

if aliens were cute and cuddly, will still we throw them in refugee camps? if you aren't planning to watch district 9 (must watch in cinema!), you are really missing out. this modern day fable hurls aliens into our faces to show us just what it means to be human -- to smile, to love, to fear, to hate, to be in awe, to lie and cheat and sell ourselves, to be self centred, to sacrifice, to want above all else to be loved and accepted.

and the aliens! crazy for cat food, with flies buzzing around them... how awesome is that.

and how true it is that, given enough time, humans will exploit anything and everything for personal gain, even a clearly superior species with enough weaponry (not to mention overdeveloped fast-twitch muscles) to turn us all into sidewalk splatter in a matter of seconds.

i can't wait for the sequel. there has to be a sequel PLSSSSssssss......

the first song that anyone has ever written for me

this song made me happy. and even happier when i realized how nice it sounds on the guitar!

<如果可以>

你不要再哭泣，这是新的一天，
请不要在脸上下起雨，
让大家都狼狈

如果你觉得，好疲惫
挂上一张笑脸
不如你再靠近一点点
让我给你安慰

如果可以,我给你快乐，
如果可以，这双手就让你握着。
如果可以,我不会让你走的，
不管你去到那里，我都会在左右守着。

请不要再伤悲，时间刻刻溜走，
还有那么多美好季节
等我们去享受

放开无聊的回忆
抛开你的过去
你不需要再难过
因为我会等在这里

如果可以,我给你快乐，
如果可以，这双手就让你握着。
如果可以,我不会让你走的，
不管你去到那里，我都会在左右守着。

我会逗你笑
若你让我留下
我会帮你把
所有眼泪擦掉
我会陪着你
过双人游
and everything will be
just fine

we are heartbreakers
we are life savers
we are little lost children
in a brave new world

we are in pieces
but we're not broken
let me stay a little while
and i will show you what i've learned

contrary to my deepest fears, my oxygen tank did NOT blow up on me, nor did i lose any fingers to marauding underwater beasts. instead, i had the most surreal and fascinating weekend drifting through the clear blue waters off redang and seeing a part of this world that before this weekend had only existed (to me) in theory.

my eternal gratefulness to w for dragging me kicking and screaming to this otherworldly experience.



...wish you could see what i saw. wish you could be awestruck by the same beauty that left me speechless (haha though being speechless 18m underwater doesn't really mean anything)...wish you were there when the sun rose up coyly from beyond those islands... or maybe you were?

happy to:

1. see your face every morning
2. be accredited
3. feel the phone vibrate
4. watch you smile
5. be a zombie every night
6. hear you sing
7. sing with you
8. fit nicely together
9. dream
10. be in love with my best friend.

lost and found corner

you make waking up so much easier.