TGIFF!

Tis the end of the week and best wishes of the festive season to all friends, belated Happy Deepavali / Diwali, Selamat Hari Raya and Eid Mubarak! All the best for the new year ahead.

As the week comes to a close, this blog finds me in a pensive state. It certainly has been a funny week. The good - friends (even new four-legged ones), life, trips, babies, honeymoons, time-off, reunions, birthdays, catch-ups, ramen, booze, guitar, Killers vid, ice cream. The bad - alcohol, the ills (ack), the nuts - i see bad people, vulnerability, recovery, out-of-action electric guitar and a phone with a dying battery. But where would we all be without coffee, and of course, the sh*ts and giggles? Whatever it is, friday i'm in love ... with life and the new Killers vid.

Check it out - Killers + Tim Burton = Killer (geddit?) video! The Bones vid is absolutely littered with cult movie references - Jason and the Argonauts, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Psycho, From Here to Eternity, Lolita. Burton takes no prisoners. He is definitely one of the best directors of this century! For the guys, there is even Devon Aoki.

Enjoy and TGIFF my friends!

The week so far...

Yes, it's that time again... the insomniac tendencies after emerged before another spiel of nightshift and i thought it would be a good time to update everyone.

Times are a changin... the wee isle received a new shopping mall and vivo (city) mania has hit the island. We also received a new GAP store and even more exciting i discovered that the best way to lose weight is to have acute gastric flu as i can now fit into ZARA - yeah baby! As part of the vivo recce, a friend and i checked out the cinema and it was pretty disappointing as despite the initial gloss and novelty. The seats were uncomfortable. Quite pun-worthy as we went to see "Stay Alive" (entertaining tacky horror) and the seats were 'stiff' - geddit?? haha Yes what i lose in sleep, i make up for in cheese and corn...

However, in the wake of all these new developments, I feel sad that sometimes things are developing too fast and we don't have time to smell the coffee. Unfinished building units, unoccupied but open malls - wow! Whatever happened to that sense of satisfaction and closure in completing a task?!

Nonetheless, it was a cool week though. I have realised that it helps getting up early (yes v bizarre but it seems to work!) and doing stuff before nightshift be it catching a movie, chilling out with friends, playing the guitar, getting some exercise - walks and getting some coffee! I'm trying to work out things to do this week - maybe go for more walks, get my guitar restrung (think i got a bit overzealous on some franz ferdinand chords), squeeze in some roller-blading, more soup runs, catch a movie, catch up with friends etc...

Oh yeah, had some alcohol too - margaritas, wine and beer. Talk about the whole shebang! Checked out a cool restaurant called Giraffe, two movies and a great local band at walas as well. I'm really impressed with The Unxpected. The lead singer had some fierce vocals and she really had er... balls as she did really good renditions of Zepplin, Stones and Muse which i really did not expect. Music-wise, I also tried getting hold of the new Albert Hammond Jr (of The Strokes fame) album but it's not out in stores yet - boo :( Check out his myspace - the tracks sound better than some of The Strokes tracks.

Movies - Aside from Stay Alive, also checked out Les Revenants (They Came Back) which was summarized as 'zombies having an existential crisis'. However, i thought it was a really cool French movie. It tackled the whole return from the dead in a refined manner as there was no gore and some humour i.e. in one scene, a task force of sorts debated how to tackle pensions and retirement benefits for these guys who came back. Though one theory is that it was subtly alluding to emergency housing and French bureaucracy, I am sure there is a deeper meaning to it delving on how we deal with loss as well as the euthanasia debate. It is really a nice change to watch foreign cinema as opposed to usual hollywood big budget fayre. I read on apple.com that the U.S. is having a Viva Pedro (Almodovar) film festival - How cool is that?? I love Almodovar films. Despite the irreverence towards the dysfunctional and neurotic, his films are always beautifully shot and stylish.

Looks like i have written an essay! I'll save some good stuff / rants for next time. Here's to another good week!

No harm being Vanilla

Yeah baby!

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What Flavor Ice Cream Are You?

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Just i had a conversation about pie this weekend...

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You're the perfect combo of flavor and depth Those who like you give into their impulses

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I Need Some Fine Wine...

How apt, just i sit here typing and drinking, my iTunes decided to play me this track by The Cardigans called "I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to be Nicer". It's in the stars... 30 here i come!

Sit, good dog, stay, bad dog, down, roll over
Well here's a good man and a pretty young girl
Trying to play together somehow,
I'm wasting my life, you're changing the world,
I get drunk and watch your head grow

It's the good times that we share
and the bad times that we'll have
It's the good times
and the bad times that we had

Well it's been a long slow collision,
I'm a pitbull, you're a dog,
Baby you're foul in clear conditions
But you're handsome in the fog

So I need some fine wine, and you, you need to be nicer
For the good times and the bad times
That we'll have

Sometimes we talk over dinner like old friends
Till I go and kill the bottle,
I go off over any old thing,
Break your heart
and raise a glass or ten

To the good times that we shared and the bad times that we'll have
To the good times
and the bad time that we've had

Well it's been a long slow collision,
I'm a pitbull, you're a dog,
Baby you're foul in clear conditions
But you're handsome in the fog

So I need some fine wine and you, you need to be nicer
For the good times
and the bad times we know will come
Yeah
I need some fine wine
and you, you need to be nicer
you need to be nicer
you need

For the good times
and the bad time that we had
Sit

Good times, bad times
Sweet wine, bad wine
Good cop, bad cop,
Lapdog, bad dog
Sit.