2007: a blog odyssey: August 2006

The Third Person

_ Wee Leong is a smart guy. Wee Leong is so smart he almost always answers his own deep and profound questions. He doesn't gets it right all the time. That's only because he is not perfect. Only nobody is perfect. He is somebody and, soon, he will be somebody great. The reason he is going to be great is that he has a dream. That dream is to have a dream.

_ Oh yes, he is fucking humorous too.

_ To be continued...

Full Of Random Shit

_ A friend mentioned that my blog is full of random shit. So here it goes again.

_ If you don't know something about someone, please ask the person in question. Don't assume. As an old army saying goes: Assumptions make an ASS of U an ME.

_ Stephen Colbert and Jon Steward was fucking funny while presenting the Emmy.

_ A friend advises another friend in a new relationship to communicate at all time. Well, guys will want to communicate to have it easy and gals just want guys to "get" them.

_ When you like a someone, you don't try to change him. An ex-colleague once said when people were saying bad things about her boyfriend. That is someone who knows who she wants and got it.

_ The only TeeVee watchable now, besides Tottenham Hotspur Live matches, is the channel HBO. Fucking good programs. There is absolutely nothing good outside this channel. Curb Your Enthusiasm, American Splendor, Napoleon Dynamite, Jerry Mcguire, Entourage, Batman Begins, etc. Some of them you have seen before but they are good enough to watch again.

_ I am full of shit right now, but its really all in a big mess. So, until next time, feel free to check out what I digg and what I think is del.icio.us. Thank you and good night.

For Your Oscar Consideration

_ Snakes* On The Plane* is an entertaining movie* and clearly deserves an Oscar* for Best Picture*! Samuel L Jackson just proved himself to be the Biggest Baddest Badass Black Ever again. It's not one of those movies* where you have to think* so much and then turned* out to be all stupid* anyway. Just go* watch.

* Add "muthafuckin'" infront of word to change ratings to NC16.

A Week in Sketches

_ I know have not been posting any entry (I have a couple of unfinished entries) since Sunday, so here is a week in sketches.

_ I know the quality of the scan are horrible but it will just have to do for now since I can't afford a flatbed scanner. Any comments or insults will be gladly accepted.

My University is Great!

_ Oklahoma City University is ranked by U.S. News as "Universities–Master's (West), 22".

_ Whatever that means. I don't need some newspaper to rank my school. Who cares that it got totally creamed by the other colleges and totally pee boh yan.

_ It's when I fuckin' rule, my university will be great!

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Movie Quote: Shop Girl

Mirabelle: Are you the kind of person that takes time to get to know, and then once you get to know them... they're fabulous?
Jeremy: Yes, absolutely... What?

All The Four Walls

Wall One

_ As usual, me doing anything but studying for my exam this coming saturday.

_ Taking photos of room and that's my "studio" wall of my room.

_ More in my Flickr album which is very useful with the note tool.

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Diesel's Website

_ Diesel's, the fashion label, website features one of the best, or most, use of Flash 8's video compression. Check out their new fall/winter campaign.

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In Our Hands

_ From where I am standing, I see this World programmed by men. It is a joke.

_ And, where I stand is at the peripheral of sanity. It might just crack.

_ This World is consistantly developed by men past project deadlines and released with bugs and security loopholes. They sell you the upgrades later. This is a world reflected. Thousand of times over. Screwed thousands of times over. People are lead to believe we can be free.

_ Our People wear so many prefixed masks designed by homo sapiens with Y chromosome. Some can choose which mask they want to wear. Some can't as they live their lifes trudging along under the watchful eyes of the Big Brothers. As things gets progressively worse, do they know who they are in the end?

_ We should break from our enforced norms. Pay no attention to the rules made by men. Shut down the patriarchy media. Stop giving in, stand up and say what you really want. Kick down doors. All while making sure no one gets hurt or gets left behind even though casualties are expected.

_ Eternal happiness is in our hands. It is fragile but it is hope. With hope we can have a new beginning. People of the World unite and don't ruin it.

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Inspired by Raise The Red Lantern.

Love And Fuck: Many Questions and No Answer

_ Do you feel incomplete?

_ Do you feel like you want something but just don't know what is it?

_ Do everything around you seems to be moving along just fine except one aspect of your irreversibly expiring life which tips the balance of fulfillment?

_ A friend of mine recently announced to me that he, at this juncture of his young adult life, feels that all he requires is a girlfriend. He sure knows what he needs to be complete. But does he knows why?

_ Love and Fuck. Can someone tell me the difference? Isn't what makes you head over heels the same thing as what makes you horny? Isn't the need to breed a fucking process of nature. A primal instinct?

_ A day before that, another friend insisted that he had enough of relationships. Just right after he advised me to get one. If relationship equates to Love and Love is a wonderful thing, how can anyone get enough of it?

_ I am always overjoyed when my close friends get attached. Especially, when they were like me, single all their life. You can really feel the transformation. It's little things they do that is different but the effect on the scale is big. It is when your iPod shuffled Radiohead's Knives' Out to Norah Jones' Sunrise.

_ Getting attached after a long and tedious process of courting. That is something. Right? But how long does it last? If it doesn't, that's when you ask why were they together in the first place? Convenience?

_ Speaking of convenience. There are people who barters for Fuck when they clearly doesn't need to. Prostitution is someone inventing a teleporter: You get to point B(Fuck) from point A(First Sight) without needing to draw the line(Love, Trust). Can Fuck be so addictive that it could proceed without Love?

_ And what about people who have affairs? Some people believes it's okay to have affairs as long as they don't bring them home - hence the saying: Don't bring the cow home after you milk it. What's unbelieveable is that some of these people are women. So where is the Love here for the wives, husbands and their lovers?

_ This may look like a negative view on the subject of Love. It is not. The author of this article actually believes in Love. All this entry wants to discover is: What is True Love? How does one know? You can't say: You know when you know. Many cases have already proven it wrong. Is there an answer at all? For my sake, I want to believe there is.

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Inspired by conversations over the past few weeks.

Illustrator: David Hughes

_ Been a long time admirer of David Hughes' illustrations on advertisements and magazines such as Esquire and GQ. Finally, got to know his name and website via Drawn!.

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_ Btw, I have added a Masthead Gallery section. As you might notice, I change my masthead every month. Check it out.

I'm It?

Uno, Dos, Tres
(Tagged by AprilZara)

3 People Who Makes Me Laugh:
Uno: The BMT platoon mate whose name I forget and never met since.
Dos: James Seah Mu Lan
Tres: Alex Toh Teck Wee

3 Things I Love:
Uno: Life.
Dos: Life.
Tres: Life.

3 Things I Hate:
Uno: Having regrets.
Dos: Being lazy.
Tres: Forgetting important stuff due to Dos which leads to Uno.

3 Things On My Desk (at home):
Uno: Spider-man figurine.
Dos: A can of Redbull.
Tres: The Philosophy Of Andy Warhol.

3 Things I Am Doing Right Now:
Uno: Doing this crap.
Dos: I am a one track minded kinda guy.
Tres: Read above.

3 Things I Want To Do Before I Die:
Uno: Stay in the majors cities of the world plus Galapagos Island and New Zealand.
Dos: Get an apartment (or a penthouse) smack in the middle of the town.
Tres: Finish that Rushdie book I stole from Raymond, Satanic Verses.

3 Things I Can Do:
Uno: Act.
Dos: Design.
Tres: Seeing beautiful things.

3 Ways to Describe My Personality:
Uno: Paradoxical.
Dos: But, mostly happy.
Tres: And, angry.

3 Things People Might Not Know About Me:
Uno: I am super duper honest.
Dos: I actually care.
Tres: I love cute furry animals! So much that I wanna be a vegan. Soon after they make vegetable delicious.

3 Things I Think You Should Listen To:
Uno:
“Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing, like nobody's listening, Live like its heaven on earth.”
- Mark Twain

Dos:
"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
- Andy Warhol

Tres: Whatever that comes sprouting out of my sensuous mouth.

3 Things I Don't Think You Should Listen To Ever:
Uno: Singapore Idols
Dos: Anything from religous/political extremists
Tres: Whatever that comes sprouting out of my sensuous mouth.

3 of My Absolute Favorite Foods:
Uno: Seafood.
Dos: Sour Skittles.
Tres: Damn.. I love all kinds of food. So stop asking me to pick!

3 Things I'd Like to Learn:
Uno: Art (including the art of making luuurve!) and Design.
Dos: Any one of the extreme sports.
Tres: Have a better memory.

3 Beverages I Drink Regularly:
Uno: Plain water.
Dos: Caffeinated stuff.
Tres: 100 Plus.

3 Shows I Watched When I Was A Child:
Uno: Transformers.
Dos: Doraemon.
Tres: Remington Steel.

3 People I Tag to Do This Crap:
Uno: Nope. This ends with me.

Flavours 'N' Spices

_ Client wants a website with a peranakan theme.

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Creative and art direction, design and illustration: me
Write up: Client
Photography: Kelvin Tan
Programming and Flash animation: Others

Blue Horny Monster

Be My Own Boss

_ I want own a lil'shop.

_ I want that lil'shop to sell all and only cigarettes.

_ And, maybe can drinks. I know that, from experience, smokers like to be drinking something, anything, and puffing the same time.

_ You see, I'll love the feeling of choosing my time to go to work. I'll love the feeling of just sitting there waiting to collect money. I'll love the feeling of arranging and categorising my goods. Among many other things as being my own boss.

_ Cigarette will be an easy sell. It stinks and it is addictive. I'll lower my price slightly and provide a gigantic yellow box with chairs and tables so that people will travel from all over Singapore to buy from me. If they are willing to risk it and buy it all the way from JB, Malaysia, I am sure they won't mind buying from me too.

_ Of course, I will hire help - I know I'll love that feeling too. Definitely a young and pretty female thing. I know that, from experience, my customers will be mostly male and they would looove that.

_ I will, of course, resist all temptation to assert my attraction as the hunky and caring boss to seduce the young pretty thing. That is not right. Inter-office relationship would never work out well.

_ However, if she cannot resist on touching me at all the wrong places, I will respect her and do the right thing. Which is not to stop her of course. The act of stopping her might damaged her self-confidence. That is not right too.

_ All of the above is what I usually fantasize about when I am walking from home to my bus stop. Which is a 10 minutes walk. Sometimes, I will smile at my own imagination while I walk.

_ So that's it from me. Thank you and have a good night.

Naaachhooooooo...

_ Since no one wants to watch Nacho Libre with me, so I go alone loh. Caught the afternoon show at GV Yishun.

_ Brilliantly funny show. If you have watched and loved Napoleon Dynamite, you will love Nacho too. If you have watched and loved School Of Rock, you will love Nacho too.

_ Talk about the ultimate underdog show, Nacho is the ultimate underdog show.

_ Please catch it before the run ends. And it is gonna end soon.

Eisner Award 2006

_ Alan Moore, the crazy ass award-winning writer of graphic novels From Hell, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the highly-acclaimed Watchmen, was the big winner of Eisner Award 2006 by beating my current favourite writer, Brian K. Vaughan, to the Best Writer award.

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