Playing Catch Up

Lately have been busy with work and with life, so last night I watched 3 action movies in a go..from 6pm til 2am, and even managed to sneak a conference call in between movies as I ran to my car parked in a quiet basement carpark in Orchard! Social life has to go on despite work, priorities shouldn't succumb. Anyhow the battle of IM2s, Ip Man 2 vs Iron Man 2.

Iron Man 2 was okay, nothing fantastic in terms of story line but the ending was rather a let down from the fight scenes, but I was impressed with Scarlett Johansson besides being hot, she Kicked Ass! So do watch it for her if not for just Robert Downey Jrs' usual antics.



Anyway a must watch will be Ip Man 2, and that saying not because I am learning Wing Chun, but the story line is great and makes me feel good being a Chinese! All I can say is Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung Kicked Ass too!



That saying, I decided to watch Kick Ass after those 2 highly anticipated movies, as it was starring my fav actor Nicolas Cage. The movie was a surprise, didn't know it was M18 and there was as much gore in there as there was humour. Reminded me of a cross between Superbad and Kill Bill. It was really a good movie. Here's the trailer link, since they disabled embedding. (Seriously what's with YouTube lately, noticed more videos are having embedding disabled).

Anyway a tip if you are driving in to Orchard for a movie. In order to avoid ERP and expensive parking charges without having a pile of bird shit covering your car (parking is free after 10pm at public carparks in Orchard- but it often comes free with bird poo. The trees planted in town somehow point to a rare species classified under Toilet Tree, where birds can poo freely on cars which park cheaply; and you wonder why everyone is willing to pay for expensive sheltered parking in Orchard, the car wash cost is taken into account!). So go watch at Cineleisure, and the nearest non-ERP carpark is at TripleOne Somerset. Enter from Killiney Road and head towards the Singapore Power Building which is now renamed to this fancy name after adding a supermarket and some eateries. But am glad they now allow parking till morning, previously they close up at 11pm or midnight, now its $2.68/entry after 6pm.You just need to enter the carpark from the side staircases, they still lock up the place at midnight.

I love South Park

Finally a Facebook parody episode! Hilarious!

You can watch it online for free on Comedy Central from 8th May.

Sweet Comfort Food

Sweet

Comfort Food

Love hanging out at Coffee Club these days and their White Parfaits is just awesome;

and love the even more unhealthy, oily calamari and onion rings at Fatboys @ Upper Thomson.

Thanks to all my close friends for that great impromptu quiet supper til my "+1" day.

Life has really been great lately despite late night conference calls til 5am.

So many things have happened since end Feb and I am starting to see why things happened the way it has, and somehow life is full of surprises - fate is a peculiar and very interesting thing.

Dreams do come true

Sometimes we got to keep holding on, we got to keep searching and not settle for less. Have a little faith and somehow things will fall in place...and make all that has gone wrong so far, worth it. :)

Communism a better choice?

Well recent spikes in housing prices and COEs, with an onslaught in creeping inflation from 30% increase in wet market rentals, commodities etc; it is no wonder the market talk about a awesome V recovery with no sights of a bubble seems to be an acceptable fact. Yet, we have news of homeless people living on beaches being chased off, fined or even housed into temporary flats with many rules in place. We have many young couples telling the HDB they cannot afford public housing, but only to be told to be realistic and accept the 2nd floor flat situated next to a rubbish chute. It seems to be a different paint coat over at different parts of our tiny city.

Yes city, not a country - our celebration of independence is but a facade. I have a Law minister who went overseas to proclaim that the island we live in is not a country but a mere city. We also have our highest titled minister telling us that our pledge on democracy is simply an aspiration. So what else should we be realistic about, what else should we wake up from and accept new known facts about the place we now live in?

I wonder if we should just accept being daft and welcome a "lesser mortal" branded on our foreheads; then accept the fact that we are not a democracy but a communist society...perhaps life would be easier now that we can expect a roof over our heads, food from soup kitchens sponsored by our governments. Well it is claimed by our Minister of Community Development, Youth and Sports, our government do give out such benefits.

“If you were a poor person, anywhere on this planet, Singapore is the one place where you will have a roof over your head, where you will have food on the table…Even if you can’t afford it, we will have meals delivered to you.” – Vivian Balakrishnan, 2010

Wouldn't life be more bearable?

Once upon a time...

Do you believe in fairy tales?

Vietnam Photography

Love Vietnam, wish I was there longer. People are nice and not pushy like the other Asean countries I have been to recently. Some pictures to share including a camwhore shot of myself with Halong Bay in the background of the junk cruise we took, above.

 Night shot of Hoàn Kiếm Lake at Hanoi

Turtle Tower on the Lake

Street Shot of Hanoi

And no, I was not there to look for Vietnamese brides!

Effort

“It is the time that you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”  (From the 'Little Prince')

I managed to dunk last night!

Had a great ball game last night, and managed to elevate 30inches off the ground and dunk!
And Kentucky is NCAA champions!





Well I bet you all knew it was a joke by an engineer..lame...

Happy April Fools' Day...and yeah I still can't dunk and Kentucky got trumped from careless plays and reckless treys...so hope Duke wins!

Have a great long weekend...