the height of teenage fashion in the 1980s

UFO!!!

This is another television show that I watched religiously every Friday. I especially liked this because of the sexy girls in tight clothing. But maybe some of you will prefer the sexy men in tight clothing. The music is simply too cool.

The Time Tunnel

I used to watch this after school every Friday. Those were the good ol' days. (Well, it's not bad now, but back then I didn't have to work)





To be honest, it looks kind of cheesy now. You can read more here if you're still interested. But it's history.

キングギドラ /Kingu Gidora!!!

after judo kid's comment in the previous post, i did a search and found this. here are a couple of videos. the first one is in japanese, while the second one is in english. there's more action in the second one, but try watching both and marvel at the awesome"gravity beams"!!!

Mothra VS Godzilla!!!!!

Here's a video clip of Godzilla as promised on Monday's class! It features all the staples of a Japanese monster movie (kaiju eiga/怪獣映画): streams of terrified people running for their lives, the anti-hero godzilla ambling its(his?) way destructively across densely populated areas, furrow browed scientists engaged in hyper-serious discussions, cool hiragana characters flashing on the screen and of course, enthusiastic commentary as the action unfolds!



I love the sound Godzilla makes! GODZILLA LIVES!@
More information here!!!!!!!!

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.

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.

Waaaaaaaaaaaasuuuuuuuuuuuuup!!!

This is the original television commercial that popularised the famous expression. More information can be found here.



Oh, just a note on viewer discretion. By putting this video up, it doesn't mean that the author of this blog condones the drinking of alcohol.

YA MAMA!!!

I LOL whenever I watch this this video. Might take slightly longer to load, but it's definitely worth the wait if you haven't seen it before.

Somebody Loves Amber and It Isn't Me

Crazies and Links Galore (Click on the links!)

I finished reading Paul Auster's City of Glass during one of my insomnia-driven reading binges a couple of days ago. There are some rather vivid descriptions of the mad and the homeless in the book. And yesterday, I realised that while some men are chick magnets, I'm a crazy people magnet. See, I was walking down the street in downtown Ipoh yesterday when this crazy old man nodded conspiratorially at me like we were members of the same Fight Club. Well, I sure hope that I haven't been sleepwalking like the Narrator in the said movie and busy setting up Fight Clubs all over Ipoh.

And this afternoon, I saw the Hip-Hop Makcik again, sitting at the corner of a street, sucking on a cigarette, but seemingly without her trusty boombox/ghetto blaster. I see her there without fail every Saturday afternoon at around four in the afternoon, and today, I was suddenly compelled to compile a mix tape of dirty, lazy beats for her, featuring Beck, Brad Sucks and Jay-Z, among others. By the way, if you believe in the saying that "the best things in life are free," do check out Brad Sucks. He put together an entire album and made it available for anyone to download for free. You have to hand it to the man for such generosity. There's even a Wikipedia entry on him. If you really have to know, I've been listening to "Dirtbag" and "Bad Attraction" pretty much non-stop. Do check it out.

Sorry for digressing. What I really wanted to say is that, since there are so many crazy people around Ipoh who seem to enjoy greeting me, I suppose it's only fair that I venture on a little project to compile a sort of report on the nuts of Ipoh. What do you think?

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Mini Glossary

1. a chick magnet is someone, usually a man, who attracts women like bees to honey.

2. a boombox or a ghetto blaster is a moderately loud stereo that is usually battery-powered and small enough to be carried on one's shoulder while walking down the sidewalk.

Hong Kong Television Drama Series Centre

My mother's watching some Hong Kong television drama series.
My wife's watching some Hong Kong television drama series.
There's so much Hong Kong television drama series going on that I've got Hong Kong television drama series coming out of my anus.

Darth Vader Is Such A Loser For Reading Harry Potter