Tactical Office Hiding

WaterAid

A video done by my pals for the Cannes Young Lions Ad Contest. Do click on this link to support them!

Somebody should start telling HDB we need to knock down some walls and transform our living space...

40 Singapore foods we can't live without

Link to this site makes my mouth water and stomach very hungry..
40 Singapore foods we can't live without | CNNGo.com

Singaporean accent FTW!!

I was intrigued by an article in the Life section of the Straits Times today about the Singapore accent in a US video game, so I searched the net for the following 2 vids. It sounds pretty damn funny. Some people might find it as an embarrassment but I find it familiar and amusing and we should be proud that Singapore made it into an international game! It's funny because it sounds like my mum or the auntie from the chemistry lab way back in JC giving me a mission briefing or lecture in chemicals and evaporation. Oh and was I imagining things if somebody was trying to take a dig at the PAP with the Panau government? Keke.....anw I was hoping to hear "I will cruuuuush you like a cockroach!!" ala Masters of the Sea though. That would have been totally awesome!

Gameplay footage

Gaga's telephone

Lady Gaga's new song. They sure did successfully transform Beyonce into a pimped out trashy "bottom bitch" on this one. Totally don't understand the MTV sia...

Where the hell is the matric card?

Dancing in the footsteps of Matt Harding....at least the NUS matric card gave me free entry to the recent Egyptian exhibition at the museum. :p

Happy CNY to all!

Keeping the Ris(k) Low

The way she handles those condoms...confirm baby boomz lo!

Safe Sex with Ris Low from clicknetwork on Vimeo.

Blood Type Personality

Something interesting to share. Btw I'm B, and I agree that given such situations, I would totally react the way the B kids do!

The Ipad

In conjunction with the announcement of the IPad....

Craft more and bury that cad

No more Cadbury? Kraft eats Cadbury whole.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8467007.stm

Another interesting read on Cadbury's Birmingham legacy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/birmingham/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8412000/8412655.stm

Looks like it wouldn't be nice for the workers in the UK now eh?

While people were running Stan Chart....

Just took some photos of the SG cityscape as viewed from the Equinox. It's kinda amazing how so much has changed and developed over this location. Wonder what 2010 will hold when the IRs open....Anw the Padang also displays the aftermath of the Stan Chart marathon...so while ppl were running, I was gorging myself on a buffet with a view above. Wow damn now I am deriving guilty pleasure out of myself... :p

Cheaper, better....faster! Whee!

If you thought the SG MDA rap last year was a classic, then check this out! How typically Singaporean...

随便 is a dangerous word

I believe in Ammunition!

This is one American drama series that I am looking forward to. Created by the same guys behind Band of Brothers, let's hope this series will live up to its predecessor. Finally, a drama series of the war genre with hopefully inspirational stories to be told instead of the decadence and atas lifestyles portrayed in Gossip Girls and Privileged or the incredulous "wtf just happened" plot-lines and "cheem-ness" of Lost, Flashforward and Fringe.

Let's squish some fruits!

I flipped in laughter when I saw this. Anyone wanna try this in NTUC someday? Most likely we have to sing opera for our SG folks to understand.

WWII renewed interest

Tried this game called Company of Heroes out of curiosity during one of the LAN parties as the guys wanted to try something new. And whenever we mean something new, it always has to be a game that all of us would be unfamiliar with, so that there would be no unfair advantage. I must say I thoroughly enjoyed this RTS game which is so heavily based on military tactics. All of a sudden, terms like suppressive fire, flanking manoeuvres, artillery barrages and kill zones made more sense than it did in the army. Compared to the RTS of old where a popular strategy would be to amass large numbers of tanks to steam-roll over another player or large numbers of cheap early units to "rush" an opponent, COH limits this with different counters and limited resources. Totally satisfying to see a mediocre infantry man, armed with a Panzerschreck (big bad Nazi bazooka) and a good cover, giving hell to a bad-ass tank / tanks without infantry support. And have you ever wondered just how ridiculous it is in some RTS games for a vehicle to get blown apart only after numerous tank shots? Over here, all it takes is a well-placed anti-tank cannon to ruin your armoured forces. And best of all, it just takes a 3 man infantry crew to man it! Hurray infantry! (If you haven't guessed by now, my support for these mobile guys stems from me being in the infantry division previously) :p

Anw the game led to a renewed interest in the WWII genre as I read up further on the history and battles. (yep, I totally love history classes and particularly the WWII history back in secondary school. Always looked forward to one of those black and white war documentaries shown during lessons.) Re-watched Band of Brothers as I did not fully grasp alot of things back then when I first watched it. (For example, I did not know that episode 9 was, in a small way, a depiction of the Holocaust when the soldiers liberated a concentration camp. Always merely thought of it as an episode lacking in action, yet it was so full of emotion when I re-watched it. Must have been that visit to Auschwitz in Poland that made me appreciate it better now) My best memories of BoB when it first aired in Singapore was its coincidental showing on the weekends right before booking in to Tekong. Oh the noob recruit days 6 years ago! And so the show served as an adrenaline and morale boost before it was back to "chiong suah" in camp, well actually it was more of the action in the show. However, re-watching the series brought about greater curiosity in the battles and operations, and of course ideas of the balance between heroism in the common man with the violence and terror of a war, and eventually the Holocaust. What was refreshing was watching the view points of soldiers in the movie and eventually the actual veterans themselves in the aptly named documentary "We Stand Alone Together" that was never shown on TV.

Speaking of the Holocaust, also watched the Pianist and Schindler's List. Interestingly, these are movies I have heard that were great or won some award during the time they were made, but somehow never bothered or found the time to sit down and watch. Both tell a great and moving story, though I tend to empathise more with the lead in the Pianist as it is more of his personal story through those troubled times and thus more focused on the individual.

To end off, decided to put up some photos that I took in black and white during my summer trip to Auschwitz in Poland last year. Though I felt the impact would have been bigger if the camp was visited in the cold harsh winter, it was nevertheless a sobering and moving experience. To all the Holocaust deniers, I mean seriously...wtf?!? There's no way millions of Jews disappear without a trace of evidence and there's so much of it remaining despite efforts by the S.S to conceal their crimes. Whatever that goes on in their minds is beyond me. It is pure racism, simple as that.

Iron gate at the entrance of Auschwitz I with the motto Arbeit macht frei (Work brings freedom)...an ironic one for those imprisoned are doomed to a horrific fate


Beyond this lies the death wall where countless were lined up against the wall and shot






Electric perimeter fences

Fences lining the exterior of the much larger Auschwitz II (Birkenau) complex

Prisoners would arrive by rail through here and then either marked for extermination or forced labour


Remnants of a gas chamber. German forces in retreat tried to destroy and cover up any incriminating evidence

Periodic table

Amazing commercial. They sure did not make learning the periodic table that fun back in JC! Totally convinced I am a noble gas!

Come little piggies!

Interesting article. So this is the new fad in the UK? Little piggies that look like hamsters to me. How do they even breed them? Read the whole pet craze over here.