[wtH] Violated

I don't know what came over me.

I had resisted it for so long, but in the end curiosity got the better of me, I ignored my brother's warning and ...... found myself at an Indian food store right smack in the east side of Singapore.

No surprise there, it was a rather violating experience ~ slightly more tolerable than my "black pepper chicken" experience (another story). Ugh, I think my bland dinner at the food court must have diluted that bad feeling in the gut.

Oh well, at least I had a can of Asahi Beer to wash the lingering feel of "unfoodliness", and Asahi still tastes the same here. Or did it? The one I had seem to lack that tinge of "super dryness" .. oh darnit :(

[Self] Rumpole

Sometime back in 2005, a good ol' chap of mine who is a brilliant practitioner recommended some reading for me. I dutilfully noted some titles then and absent mindedly let the file gather dust.

But on a rare breathing period back in Dec 06, I chanced upon "The First Rumpole Omnibus" - and oh dearie me Rumpole truly is a gem! I'd be giggling and shaking my head at what I can say is truly foxy courtroom fiction at its best!!

Should be back this weekend, and will definitely have to get the second!

[Whoa!] The Sales Ninja

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[wtH] Beer Bath

People who know me somewhat decently/indecently should have heard me trash talking about swimming in beer.

Little did I know there're events not too far from this dream! What I found at Brewkertz's male washroom at Singapore (Brewkertz to their credit serve a decent range of beers):

[wtH] Quick Notes

In Msia - folks queue in agony especially when it is related to some gov agency or if you bank at Maybank. It's a given and we accept fate as it is. Although to the gov's credit a lot of processing tasks these days seem to be much faster.

BUT !! .....

In SG - folks just seem to queue for the heck of it anytime anywhere. I really cannot fanthom what is the phenomenon about. Heck, I was forced to queue approx 25mins recently for lunch. SG food is SG food so as it goes - lunch was terrible. But back to the point - I did not achieve an ounce of enlightenment over the experience at all.

Maybe grasshopper just needs to train up and queue more. But I can imagine a kungfu-like Q&A, lemme put on my fake bald spot on, someone light the candles pls:
Keen: Master, master, why does one need to queue?
Wise One: Life is always full of queues. (queues as in Qs as in questions)

Oooh another one:
Keen: Master, master, why does one need to queue?
Wise One: Because young one, you are always in a queue. (you as in "u")

[Self] Death Note

Death Note (the manga) was truly one of the finest comics with an intellectual dimension. A simple plot became a discourse and battle of wits between 2 great adversaries (well at least part 1 of the manga which was Light vs "L").

Death Note (the movies) were a sad attempt. With the exception of "L" who was potrayed rather well, the rest of the cast deviated so much from the original. There was an attempt to twist the storyline a bit - and that attempt remained .... an attempt.

I guess this is yet another reminder that some works should never trangress the original medium in which it originated from. And yeah, on that note I'm bracing myself for total disaster in the upcoming "Transformers" - even the 2nd trailer sucked-ass major big time.

[Self] Act 4

Dec 06 felt pretty much like a prelude to the final act of one of Wodehouse's Jeeves episodes. Typically where the characters & their idosyncracies, subplots and all havoc has to break loose as part of the path to the pinnacle - just before things sum themselves up nicely.

There but not quite there yet, there's something amiss. Oh well, a quick laundry list:
- Zeek has no.2, and even with Lil' Zeek I am officially "Uncle Keen" which is not that bad a deal
- I close a project, and am sent immediately to another at the island down south (not Oz)
- My new tenants can mimick the Moroccan pretty well ... "I pay! I pay!!"
- Listened to a Brit monk do some talks which felt more like standup comedy - cool dude he was
- When I look at the mirror in the lift, I see more white hairs than I can ever recall
- A quick convergance of old friends in a brief time span, and just as quickly dissapation.

So like I said, definitely not the final one .... feels like an Act 4 though. But, the people who are good friends, acquitances, colleagues, and pesky siblings & parents are generally fine. So that's as good as it gets.

And with many thanks - 2006 bowls over to 2007. Many personal thoughts aside - may Phoenix Suns win the trophy this year!