Ah Longs Should Go For English Tuition Too

I can understand "HAWRKER LOAN" because it's a typo, but what in the world is a

"KIND OF LOAN"???

FAG

i saw this car when i was waiting at the traffic lights several weeks ago. now why would someone stick the word "FAG" on the back of their car?

flying shards of broken glass

i know that self-praise is no praise, but i got a round of applause from the entire class for the above drawing. one of the students, who studies in sam tet, told me that one of their teachers was using a ruler to smack the teacher's desk repeatedly when all of a sudden, a window pane shattered, sending shards of broken glass flying. the teacher ended up with a cut on his hand, so serves him right or die say, as they say in cantonese. and lucky for him he wasn't cut elsewhere, the way it's depicted above.

vanity thy name is earthquakeduck

i took a picture of myself yesterday. er...do you think i'm sexy? (*vomits)

lucky koala

now that's what you call a lucky koala. it would be a completely different story if that same koala were in a bushfire in malaysia. the reason is simple. if a malaysian fire-fighter found a koala in one of our jungles, i don't think he would give it a drink.

he would make some KOALA PANGGANG.

tagged: some random things, habits and goals about me

i've been tagged by CKW, how nice! okay, so here goes the "sixteen random things, habits or goals" about me:

1. "i hate bad service at cafés and restaurants. actually i hate bad service anywhere!"

2. "i especially enjoy teaching students who are diligent, no matter how bad their english is."

3. "i love taking pictures."

4. "it makes me sad when i think how imperfect this world is."

5. "i'm actually a very lazy person, just like most people."

6. "i used to want to be famous, but i think i've changed my mind."

7. "i love my job."

8. "i suck at karaoke, because i think i sound terrible with a microphone."

9. "i wish i could play a musical instrument."

10. "it makes me happy when i hear people say this about me: 'he's an excellent teacher if you're a hardworking student.'

11. movies can make me cry.

12. i prefer quality to quantity.

13. i think greed is one of the biggest cause of unhappiness.

14. when i was about 13 or 14, i dreamt of becoming a fashion designer.

15. hahaha, i am not gay, though i can act very well like i am.

16. i can be very foul-mouthed.

17. i do not feel like my age, and i surely do not act my age.

oops, that was supposed to be 16 things, but i've overshot by one. i'll leave it. sadly i do not have five people to tag, so i'll just tag

karmen and sara.

there's someone else that i want to tag, but i think he wants to keep his blog a secret. well, you know who you are, kung-fu boy!

post-vacation blues

well, what do you know, the chinese new year holidays are over, and even thaipusam is last week's news. i hope you've spent your holidays productively. i know i did.

i got back from kl with two more be@rbricks, and lucky me, one of them is a "chase" figure which is supposedly "unannounced and not shown in advertisements or on the box alongside other figures in the series" and "most valued by collectors." funny thing is, i had no idea that the head can be detached until i did a search on google and found this ebay link. well, even though it's going for US23.95, it's not exactly a windfall. here's a picture of my three be@rbricks:


i have to admit that's these things are pretty addictive. i had the impulse of buying every one of them just to find out what's in those "blind boxes." but until we visit kl again or my brother comes back for a visit, i'll have to wait...patiently.

i plan to post more regularly this year, so watch this space, or subscribe to this blog.

a sort of update

it's a brand new year, and chinese new year --- also called the "spring festival, in case you weren't aware --- is happening in two days. i don't know about you, but the new year seems to be moving in a strangely different way. it even seems to smell different.

i'll be heading down to the capital later today, and should be back on tuesday or wednesday. i plan to get another be@rbrick when i'm there. maybe a couple of books. finnegan's wake, quite likely, and another by my sifu, marshall mcluhan.

i'm also looking forward to seeing my singaporean friends josh and mey, who recently got married.

after this one-week holiday, it's back to work people, and that means teaching for me and learning for you, so make the best out of these seven days, and try not to overeat! and do something that i wouldn't do!

GONG XI FA CAI, WAN SHI RU YI!

scopin' the joint

if you ask nicely, i might even consider telling you how i did this, if you didn't already know. :)

well i'm hot and you're not!

look at these glasses. they're not even real glasses and they cost RM3.90. recession's coming, so thank goodness for window shopping, mobile technology and a little bit of mischief. the goatee's real though, if you really want to know.

sometimes, i truly wish i could write like this

yet another instance of someone attempting to rewrite the english language. my favourite lines and phrases include:

1. "In the morning, are letter you said won a lot of pimples."

2. "Fistly, your don't pop your pimples. It is because the pimples is pop."

3. "Thirdly, your said won received a lof of pimples."

and the bestest line?

"Lastly, your pop the pimples is have a balance diet."

pure poetry. maybe in a few years this would be included in the literature component of spm. i mean, how many marks would you give if you were me?

herbal essences tvc

i've been looking forward to seeing this television commercial, and i finally got to see it last night. and it's crap!

a true example of bad acting

watch and learn!

a selection of six whiteboard doodles

1. this is how you pronounce "urinate":

2. fat boy with a stick wearing a tee shirt with a star

3. robinson cruyap:

4. his faithful slave, fradah:

5. a youthful-looking conan with smoldering blue eyes and er, mane of blue hair:

6. last but not least, CHICK PEAS:

an upsr composition, apparently

i think i'm in...lurve...(well, maybe not)

this is MAGIBON:



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I'M BACK! (with the tale of a sexy pustule)

well, sorry for the longer than expected hiatus. to restart things with a pop (as opposed to a bang, since not that many people read this blog i'm almost sure), the wife and i were at jusco this afternoon, and we were paying for some stationery when i noticed that the cashier, who was male, had this super tantalising pimple on the edge of his right eyelid. and it was HUGE! what made it so irresistible was how utterly ripe-looking it was, with the pustule all white and oh-so-ready to be squeezed! it got me so worked up that i had to step away and let my wife complete the transaction. to be really honest, i actually thought of asking him if he'd let me squeeze the pus from his pimple for RM5.

LOTS OF POSTS coming soon, and this is not an empty promise, i reassure you!

2008 Toronto Explosions

This is real, kids. No SFX. Watch for the huge explosion at 1.50:



Read more about it here.

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone

I watched this awesome flick over the weekend. Brought tears to my eyes (again) towards the end when our loser friend, shinji, pulled open the entry plug to find out if rei was okay. "nani ka tereno?" well, i terenoed too.

spot the cats

how many cats can you see?