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Hey my dearest barghers,

First of all, I do apologise for my late post regarding what’s going on with my life here. Sorry that I didnt get to keep in touch much as lots were going on with me here.

One of the main events that took place last few weeks were a theatre of my production in the University of Melbourne, Chinese Theatre Group. In this production, I play one of the minor casting roles and as the Production Manager as well. I think some of you has already know about this. Well, the whole production was an excellent experience and I have thoroughly enjoyed myself !

I will talk more about my casting role, which i think is more interesting ~ In Act1, Scene2 I played as the main cast’s ‘mother’(see below) . I wear this really detailed red dress (we have colours representation for each casts) all made by our student costume designers.

Here, I was talking to my son while patting my new-born baby daughter, I was supposedly a gentle mom yet strict in some ways of talking to my children. hehehe..me gentle ? Oh btw, the play is in Cantonese…yea. me speaking canto ? i get that alot..

Coming up after this photo s a pic of my ’son’ and I. She is a female acting as a male cast in this production.

If you see clearly, the make-up on my face are only strictly for theatre make-up. The kits they were using in the make-up were really serious stuffs that gives you pimples right after the next day! ( From left, Evelyn (stage Manager), myself and Nok (the main cast, Yat Hang)).

I am sure some of you will be wondering how the stories go in this theare show. Well as I said just now, I have a newly born baby daughter. Next scene after the above scene, was a fire incident that was deliberately caused by another family to kidnap my daughter away! Hence, I died in the fire, my husband became blind and as a consequence of immediate lost of family love, Yat Hang became mentally distressed. He thought that due to his lack of attention to his father’s clothes business, everyone just went away. Also, he still thinks that his mother is around (there was a manequin in a torn red dress that he thinks is his mother).

Basically, the show goes on about the boy went psycho and killing people using their blood to make dyes for his clothes. Then during the course of the show, we see another family’s tribulation of discovering that their daughter was not their biological. This then led the son (below is a pic of him) to approach their parents to ask his non-biological sister to marry him ( he had been very possessive of his sister) !

just before I go off, this is our casts group photo (Patrick is in too~ ) hehehe..

to be continue…..

Goodness sake. I really cannot believe my eyes when I discovered that not all bloggers are geeks. Ok, let’s begin from the start. Back in 2003/2004 when Tai Leong was fooling around with blogs, I knew believe that ALL blogger are either geeks, nerds, or socially retarded people who looks like this:

They are either those who really love computers, have too much free time in their hands or have a vendetta against their ex-girlfriends. Back then, bloggers = guys. Not just regular guys, mind you, but those are guys who are socially inept.

My surprise began when I read a post on KennySia.com about Malaysian Dreamgirl (MDG), and naturally, being The Great Pervert, I decided to look it up. And boy, I am in for a surprise. Those girls that are in the Top 12 are hot girls, and guess what, at least 2 of them are bloggers. One of them is even the winner of the MDG contest. Here’s a picture of them:

Seriously, check them out! No more is blogging exclusively the realm of society’s rejects. It’s an open market where flocks of folks who, for myriad reasons, want to share things with the general public.

I guess my computing and Internet knowledge is still very much trapped in the wormhole of year 2003; how naive of me. I think it’s a sign that I’m beginning to lose touch with the forefront of technological fads, which I think could be good! It means that I’m no more a mere teenage brat, and I’m moving onto the adult world. Adults are naturally a bit slower in their adoption of newer things, as we know, so it’s only natural that I’m slower in knowing about this, right?

But I really think I should do more reading. Otherwise, I’ll really lag behind. I guess it’s high time to upgrade my brain from Pentium 3 to the latest Pentium 6. Or is it Pentium 5 now?

Ah Beng bought a new mobile.
He sent a message to everyone from his Phone Book & said, “My mobile no. has changed. Earlier it was Nokia 3310. Now it is 6610.”

Ah Beng: I am a proud, coz my son is in Medical College.
Friend: Really, what is he studying?
Ah Beng: No, he is not studying, they are studying him.

Ah Beng: Doctor, in my dreams, I play football every night.
Doctor: Take this tablet, you will be ok.
Ah Beng: Can I take tomorrow? Tonight is final game.

Ah Beng: If I die, will u remarry?
Wife: No! I’ll stay with my sister. But if I die will u remarry?
Ah Beng: No, I’ll also stay with your sister.

Ah Beng: People consider me as a ‘GOD’.
Wife: How do you know?
Ah Beng: When I went to the park today, everybody said, “Oh GOD! You have come again.”

Ah Beng complained to a police: “Sir, all items are missing, except the TV in my house.”
Police: “How come the thief did not take your TV?”
Ah Beng: “I was watching TV news…”

Ah Beng came back 2 his car & found a note saying “Parking Fine”.
He wrote a note and stuck it to a pole, saying ”Thanks for complement.”

How do you recognize an Ah Beng in school?
He is the one who erases the notes from the book when the teacher erases the board.

Once, an Ah Beng was walking. He had a glove on one hand and not on other.
A man asked him why he did so.
He replied that the weather forecast announced that on one hand it would be cold and on the other hand it would be hot.

Ah Beng is in a bar when his cellular phone rings.
He picks it up and says “Hello, how did you know I was here?”

Ah Beng: Why are all these people running?
Man: This is a race, the winner will get the cup.
Ah Beng: If only the winner will get the cup, why are others running?

Teacher: “I killed a person.” Convert this sentence into future tense.
Ah Beng: The future tense is “You will go to jail”.

Ah Beng told his servant: “Go and water the plants!”
Servant: “It’s already raining.”
Ah Beng: “So what? Take an umbrella and go.”

A man asked Ah Beng why Ahmad Badawi goes walking in the evening and not in the morning.
Ah Beng replied ”Ahmad Badawi is PM not AM.”

* The contents of this post are fully based on a forwarded mail from Shar Ren, titled “Ah Beng (Latest Version)” *

Hey guys, i think I’m going to break the duck by posting this blogpost. As the title suggests, it’s my take on the album. For starters, we need to get to know our fellow artist first, Motion City Soundtrack. It is an indie alternative rock band, founded circa 1997 and they’ve been rocking ever since. With their melodic tunes, some may say that they overlap on the pop-punk-rock genre.

Nevertheless these 5 lads from Minnesota are awesome, and their latest album i think is their best so far.(Okok, not fresh, hot-from-the-oven news la….it was released back in 2007 but they just released another single, that’s why im posting =P). It’s only their 3rd album so far and the long gaps between albums sorta suggest that much work has been put into the process of creating it.

the guys…from left: Justin Peirre (rhythm guitar - fender telecaster), Jesse Johnson (keyboards/synthesizer), Tony Thaxton (drums), Matthew Taylor (bass guitar - fender jazz / precision bass) and Joshua Cain (lead guitar - Gibson SG).

Album Cover

This album is pretty awesome and the hype was already building even before its launch, as the AP (alternative press, the leading magazine for genres like alternative rock, pop punk & etc.) has labelled it as the most anticipated album of 2007.

The album has 13 tracks (excluding bonus tracks) and my picks would be:

• track 2: This Is For Real (their 2nd single for the album)
• track 8: Broken Heart (their 1st single - u guys should also check out the music video. Its really cute. (well not in a queer way ah…..i’m 100% straight!!)
• track 10: Where I Belong
• track 13: Even If It Kills Me (well someone has even customized it, made playable on Guitar Hero)

Other tracks are good as well. Unlike in most typical albums from major labels such as EMI, Sony & etc., there will always be one or a couple of songs from the album that you would never listen to and you would always press the ’skip’ button when u know the song is coming up next on your stereo. Well this album hasn’t got any of that rubbish. It gives you an impression that it wasn’t ‘rushed’ and the whole album sorta have this really unique ‘feel’ to it. The kind of ‘feel’ that you would only get from MCST.

Most importantly, they stayed true to their ‘kind’ of music (unlike Fall Out Boy whose sound has changed so much since their last album, From Under the Cork Tree). I like the vibes that the music sends out and also the eloquence of the lyrics that sorta blends into the music so well, that you would feel as if the feeling of the writer, Justin, is perpetuated on you. So, overall I would rate this album at 9/10 (I was thinking of 9.5 but I think I’m gonna reserve that for their next album ;-)).