I don't look like them, they look like me!

Thought I'd do a follow up on a really old post of mine.

Remember how I shocked the world (okay, maybe it's not that of an eureka) when I posted a photo of my dad in his 20's? Here's a recap:



Well recently, my armymates have been calling me different names, all of whom are famous people that I kinda look like.


William Hung
I seriously hate to be associated with him. For one, I don't even look like this fella! To make matters worst, he's a disgrace to be associated with (i'm being honest here, you know you'll go crazy if one day people starts saying that you look like someone who clowned on national TV)


Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew
wow... to look like a textbook version of the old man is simply extraordinary. Did I mention that I'm more of a worker's party kinda guy? Anyways, It's kinda funny cuz there's an Obama lookalike in my new platoon. Imagine the 2 of us sitting next to each other during our meal breaks!


Hamada Masatoshi
I LOVE THIS GUY!
Only the Japanese know him. Deemed as the ultimate sadist in Comedic history, Hamada's the other half of the most popular comedy duo of Japan, Downtown. He is usually referred to as hama-chan by fans and that's what my japanese lecturers sometimes call me haha.

Adding on to the list, I decided to pay a visit to www.myheritage.com to do a 'celebrity lookalike' scan... last time a did one, which was about 2 years ago, results included China Basketball Star Yao Ming and Hellboy (don't ask me how he got there). This time around...


WHAT? DEVON AOKI AND SHUQI???

Going Prehistoric

No, I'm not gonna start walking around in a loincloth.

I'm talking about an upcoming event that's gonna take place in Jurong Bird Park (haven't been there in a decade!).
Basically, Hollywood Dinos is a concept park that's gonna be staged in JBP. Accompanied by music in the background, live-sized dino models that move, well designed setup and a tour guide who's supposed to disappear amongst many other factors, you'll be part of the story, going from place to place while trying to 'survive'.

Sounds like fun, I've always wondered how i'll survive in a jurassic park environment.

Apparently, 'CAVE 3' is gonna be pretty scary, the weak-hearted are advised not to enter yo!

So how bout it, are you going? I know I am!

Hmmm... They should come up with a new concept next time too... Name it Land of the dead or something and come up with a zombie concept. that's gonna be teh shietz!

www.hollywooddinos.com is ze website, go check it out!

Logicocks

Was eating Lor Mee with my old man yesterday morning at the kopitiam. As usual we start talking about what's been going on in town since I don't get much news inside of camp. Hot topic of the week? Unreasonable legislations...

1. Food Ban in SMRT

While I do commend their efforts to make train riding a much more enjoyable experience by banning people from eating and drinking food inside. Indeed, it can get pretty irritating if you're all dressed up and prepared for a crazy night at clarke quay, only to get your (insert brand here) perfume ruined by the smell of durian. Ok forget durian, how about curry puffs? Another problem brought about by food consumption in public transport is litter. No one likes to hold on to trash for 5 minutes, let alone an entire train ride that often lasts at least 30minutes. What to do? Throw it on the floor like everyone else :)

Still, why water? It doesn't stain, it doesn't stink, it doesn't even attract ants! What? some crazy terrorist is gonna prepare a bomb (i think you just need to throw an alkali metal into water and it'll explode). I find it highly illogical to ban water. Like I've said, it usually takes at least 30 minutes for an average train ride to reach it's destination, for the unfortunate it might even take close to an hour. What if we need a drink?

Better yet, there are people who are on medication. My dad points out that it might be too late for a victim of cardiac arrest to walk out of the train station just so that he can get some water to down his medication. Yes, he can always swallow the pills dry but not everyone is skilled enough to let it travel down your oesophagus smoothly without water. There might be assistants running along the train cabins equipped with water but how can we ensure that they're always in the right cabin at the right time?

2. Disposing of tissue into bowls and plates

This is an interesting take. From what I've been told. Clearing your used tissue paper/napkins into your plates and bowls might award you with a fine! What you should do is simply place them beside your used cutlery, with some weight on top to prevent the napkins from flying off onto the floor.

Then again there is a downside to this. Some of our dishes are kinda soupy, yet remains served on plates rather than bowls (i.e mee siam). Tilting the plates might mean spilling the leftovers which in turn equates to more work for cleaners. Yes I'm over-assuming, but we still have to consider these possibilities.

Speaking of cleaners. Here comes the ridiculous part. While we get fined for landing a 3-pointer into soup bowls, nothing happens to them cleaners for sweeping everything (including napkins) back. What? They can't be fined cuz they're making soup?

If you want to enforce that regulation, kindly make it mandatory for cleaners to come armed with 2 bins then, one for tissue paper, one for everything else!

On a different note, sometimes I feel that us NSFs are being view upon in an inappropriate light. Few questions to ask.

If a single army boy talks to a female friend, does it automatically mean he's in for sex?

Is a happy soldier an efficient one? Or would mindf**king them make them better?

Should we be proud of our protectors?

End of rant!

Questioning Brotherhood

I got into trouble recently.

Not the serious kind... Just simply being confined in camp for something that wasn't really your fault.

You're new to the company, fresh from Tekong and have only spent close to a month with your new platoonmates.
Just so happens, another one of the new platoonmates decide to play punk and brought in a camera enabled phone, a contraband item. You know about it cuz he had went around taking photos of everyone.

Finally the day of judgement came... Suay suay the Military Police decides to raid us. One thing leads to another and here I am, booking out on a saturday evening instead of friday night like everyone else. The entire platoon was confined as it was a problem with platoon integrity; no one sounded off despite knowing the obvious.

But often we have to wonder, around me are people who consider each other as brothers. You're a new guy and if you were to whisteblow, that's an instant labelling of yourself as the bao toh kia(whistleblower).

"What would you do?" I ask.

If your friend does something bad and you know that you SHOULD report it.

Losing Your Purpose

Facebook's been real crazy nowadays...

I can't log in due to some 'site maintenance' that has been taking place since last week that forbids me to login. Before then, they would constantly recognize me as some new user with 0 friends. As a result, I wasn't able to comment on my friends' stuff, accept friend requests, upload random photos and most importantly, exist for a while.

Not being able to log in was the last draw, now I find myself wandering about the cyberspace aimlessly, I feel so detached from the world.

It's time I should ask this question though... What have I become? Am I being over reliant on facebook to handle my social circle? Most of all, is this glimpse of how people would behave should one day technology all over the world were to fail?

After the rain...

19th September 2009

Decided to crash Ming's macro shoot after seeing his status message on facebook. Was bored to death at home anyways and thought I haven't been shooting much. It was raining at that time, so the possibility of the shoot getting cancelled was there. Nevertheless, I headed down and to our luck, the rain had stopped by then. PERFECT MOMENT, I'd say. The remaining raindrops provide a pretty texture on stuff.


Right after the rain, things went back to normal. At least the backlog of things to do were clearing up. First up would definitely be feeding!



Some others were just busy minding their own business... Displaying the ultimate Tekong style of lepak-ing, staring into blank space...









I don't know what's it with spiders and macro photography... they just seem to match so easily... Like they were placed on this earth for macro photographers only hehe...













We didn't stay there for long though... the place was infested with mozzies and I realised that the SAF issued repellent, while it works wonders, also damages my gore-tex jacket...

Note: I'm making this post simply because I know that some of you don't even bother visiting My Flickr Account!!!

Guess who wrote to STOMP?

As much as I dislike the idea of ego-pumped netizens nit-picking the dumbest of things, I just had to write it!

Seeing how a middle aged man can so shamelessly attempt to get on the stage without knowing the answer or worst yet, having failed to do so for the last 3 years, I wonder if the notion about asian people valuing their 'face' still holds.

Link to the STOMP article