We've been having some issues with our ceiling, as the paint has cracked and a stain has appeared. Possible leak from the outside? We don't know.
So i was chatting with ww on gmail and asking her whether the guy has arrived....
ww: He came
z: He saw,
z: He concurred?
Which reminds me of the famous phrase in Jingo: Veni Vidi Vetinari
Although also in the book is the phrase: Veni, Vermini, Vomini LOL!
Which was what i wanted to do after i managed to pwn myself. First the wife sends me the link for cute diapers, and my first thought (understandably, since i'm a guy) was "Ha! All these silly parents! Paying good money for design over functionality". But then my second and third thoughts kicked in, which were "I wonder how was my offspring look in that", followed by "OMG, i've so got to get me a pack of those, just to see how cute she looks in it". I'm so ashamed of myself, but i'm still amused (and i might still buy them!) LOL
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Monday, 11 July 2011
wonderful weekend
As usual, our weekends are just packed. But there is a certain level of satisfaction and this weekend just past was special. We started out saturday well and after a scrumptious lunch by my mother-in-law, went to visit ww's grandma. Boistrous noisy play was the game of the day as the various kids (including ours) tried to outdo each other in enthusiasm and playfulness. LOL. Good fun.
Got to play soccer with my friends at East Coast, and prove that although age has prevented us from running too much or too fast, we still have the skillz to put on a classy act (including a memorable trap and volley on the turn). A young 'un even remarked "woah, how did you do that? magic?" after a particularly silky pass went around him. Capped off the day with a soy bean miso hot pot at home with our friends, good fun all round with great food and even better company. What more could we ask for?
Then came Sunday, went for champagne brunch to celebrate my mum's birthday. Excellent spread of food and bubbly drinks, and we were very entertained by the live 3 piece jazz band (singer, guitarist and bassist). Stuffed my face silly and didn't feel the need to eat anything til quite late that night. Even managed to squeeze in a visit to Jeanie, and she's looking well, still ever the bright-eyed border collie. Our daughter was also doing her best to entertain everyone with her antics, including trying to play table tennis, go for a swim (fully clothed) and breaking into dance at various times when she hears music. =) To cap off my Sunday, she said "Deh-di". *melted*
Got to play soccer with my friends at East Coast, and prove that although age has prevented us from running too much or too fast, we still have the skillz to put on a classy act (including a memorable trap and volley on the turn). A young 'un even remarked "woah, how did you do that? magic?" after a particularly silky pass went around him. Capped off the day with a soy bean miso hot pot at home with our friends, good fun all round with great food and even better company. What more could we ask for?
Then came Sunday, went for champagne brunch to celebrate my mum's birthday. Excellent spread of food and bubbly drinks, and we were very entertained by the live 3 piece jazz band (singer, guitarist and bassist). Stuffed my face silly and didn't feel the need to eat anything til quite late that night. Even managed to squeeze in a visit to Jeanie, and she's looking well, still ever the bright-eyed border collie. Our daughter was also doing her best to entertain everyone with her antics, including trying to play table tennis, go for a swim (fully clothed) and breaking into dance at various times when she hears music. =) To cap off my Sunday, she said "Deh-di". *melted*
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Just watched this action flick, man was it filled with action! It was action packed that there were times i found myself looking at metal origami happening on the screen and wondering a) who just transformed b) what were they transforming from/to c) why they were transforming, and before i could process that, they transformed again. Edge of the seat stuff.
My problem is that it was also followed a somewhat incoherent implausible incredulous plot. I shan't spoil it for you, so all i'll say is why is it that the decepticons have such elaborate plans (like the old villains of James Bond) while the autobots only have a couple of moves. Aside from their usual "Autobots attack!" and "Autobots retreat!", they have also added "Autobots hide!" to their bag of tricks. And what's with robots with cockney/london accents? I propose transformers 4 have a robot voiced by a Singaporean, like Kumar (funny dialogue), Hamish Brown (deep voice) or mrbrown (no relation)(bestest combi: funny voice with deep dialogue)
Because of the rapid pace of the show and the rather contrived storyline that tried to weave in actual history into the movie as background, the characters are left rather shallow. The hero Sam is just a schizo with a really hot girlfriend, who's really there to upstage MF by providing more booty shots than a shoe store (i swear that sounded better in my head). Optimus Prime also alternates between being this pansy-in-pain asking "why are you doing this?" whimp to being a kick ass sonic the hedgehog with an axe. Think Yoda fighting Count Dooku in Starwars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, just bigger. This lack of character development shows when the robots do really violent stuff to each other, while although humans are killed, you dun really show them dying by having their spines ripped out (and shown to them? oh wait, different movie. LOL). In fact, if you replaced what the robots did with humans, they'd be slapped with the Hague war crimes tribunal for crimes against humanity because of the rate that the unarmed and unprotected prisoners are being killed. More spoilers: quite a few robots are killed in this movie, including an already disarmed and helpless M, who is killed using the previously described form of severe spinal lobotomy. Very disturbing, yet in a funny way (because it's a testosterone-fest action flick) you felt compelled to jump up and cheer whenever a some robot was killed yelling "Yeah! Take that you mother-stickers!"
Michael Bay also overused the movie moments of tension and suspense/dread/please-dun-happen, which always followed up with an external party coming in to spoil the party (lol). Example of this is ah-kow and ah-ngeow fighting each other, pattern all come out one, more than badminton (see here for explanation), then suddenly ah-ngeow has the upper hand and is standing over ah-kow about to disembowel him, all hope is lost (you see it in ah-kow's eyes)........then a bald eagle (dun you just love the subtleness of Americans?) suddenly swoops in and knocks ah-ngeow over into a cauldron of hot water that happened to be on the boil because some a-hole had forgotten about cooking his soup and left it there while going to tend to his goats. In fact, there were moments in the show when Sam the hero was in deep trouble and looked like he was going to get killed, yet you knew he wasn't going to die since Zeus would come down from Mount Olympus and use his lightning bolts to open a Canon ass Nikoning.
My problem is that it was also followed a somewhat incoherent implausible incredulous plot. I shan't spoil it for you, so all i'll say is why is it that the decepticons have such elaborate plans (like the old villains of James Bond) while the autobots only have a couple of moves. Aside from their usual "Autobots attack!" and "Autobots retreat!", they have also added "Autobots hide!" to their bag of tricks. And what's with robots with cockney/london accents? I propose transformers 4 have a robot voiced by a Singaporean, like Kumar (funny dialogue), Hamish Brown (deep voice) or mrbrown (no relation)(bestest combi: funny voice with deep dialogue)
Because of the rapid pace of the show and the rather contrived storyline that tried to weave in actual history into the movie as background, the characters are left rather shallow. The hero Sam is just a schizo with a really hot girlfriend, who's really there to upstage MF by providing more booty shots than a shoe store (i swear that sounded better in my head). Optimus Prime also alternates between being this pansy-in-pain asking "why are you doing this?" whimp to being a kick ass sonic the hedgehog with an axe. Think Yoda fighting Count Dooku in Starwars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, just bigger. This lack of character development shows when the robots do really violent stuff to each other, while although humans are killed, you dun really show them dying by having their spines ripped out (and shown to them? oh wait, different movie. LOL). In fact, if you replaced what the robots did with humans, they'd be slapped with the Hague war crimes tribunal for crimes against humanity because of the rate that the unarmed and unprotected prisoners are being killed. More spoilers: quite a few robots are killed in this movie, including an already disarmed and helpless M, who is killed using the previously described form of severe spinal lobotomy. Very disturbing, yet in a funny way (because it's a testosterone-fest action flick) you felt compelled to jump up and cheer whenever a some robot was killed yelling "Yeah! Take that you mother-stickers!"
Michael Bay also overused the movie moments of tension and suspense/dread/please-dun-happen, which always followed up with an external party coming in to spoil the party (lol). Example of this is ah-kow and ah-ngeow fighting each other, pattern all come out one, more than badminton (see here for explanation), then suddenly ah-ngeow has the upper hand and is standing over ah-kow about to disembowel him, all hope is lost (you see it in ah-kow's eyes)........then a bald eagle (dun you just love the subtleness of Americans?) suddenly swoops in and knocks ah-ngeow over into a cauldron of hot water that happened to be on the boil because some a-hole had forgotten about cooking his soup and left it there while going to tend to his goats. In fact, there were moments in the show when Sam the hero was in deep trouble and looked like he was going to get killed, yet you knew he wasn't going to die since Zeus would come down from Mount Olympus and use his lightning bolts to open a Canon ass Nikoning.
Monday, 4 July 2011
doggie IQ
I read this post on my (now) favourite blog/comic/cartoon/entertainmment/light reading/i need to laugh moment and was reminded that Jeanie took the same test and did pretty well. No, i'm not crowing or lording it up, i think that however smart or silly your dog is, they are still lovable all the same and nothing can make them waver from their fierce loyalty....except maybe biscuits or treats if they're partial to that......but still, a loyalty that is unmatched. Try that with a cat. LOL
Speaking of Jeanie, she turns 13 this year, and needless to say, we're very happy for her. Her bout with tick fever 5 years ago has faded into a distant memory, and aside from some slowing down (especially on the stairs), she's still the same cheeky bright-eyed dog who always has a wag in her tail for us, and a kiss if we wanted. Ah, i miss her so now. =)
Speaking of Jeanie, she turns 13 this year, and needless to say, we're very happy for her. Her bout with tick fever 5 years ago has faded into a distant memory, and aside from some slowing down (especially on the stairs), she's still the same cheeky bright-eyed dog who always has a wag in her tail for us, and a kiss if we wanted. Ah, i miss her so now. =)
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