Fumoffu!
My earliest exposure to Japanese anime and cartoon was when I was in Primary 3 in 1980. There was a TV series running on the then SBC channel 5. Starblazers ran on the Monday 7 pm evening slot, and was
"Oldies"
While 98% of the music CDs are all classical or motion picture soundtracks, I wasn’t always a big classical music listener. In fact – like every one else around me when I was teenager – I listened to a lot
Gold farmers
Here’s an interesting bit of news for MMOG researchers, watchers, and players. Source is here. Chengdu’s Shuangliu county has arrested two virtual item and currency traders, surnamed Li and Zhang, focused on tapping out The9’s (Nasdaq: NCTY) licensed MMORPG World
Mad about Corn
I enjoy a wide variety of vegetables and corn is one of my favourites. I can still remember my first corn on a cob as a small kid while living in a kampong with houses on stilts and occasional visits
"How Do I Live"
Here’s a reposting of Trisha Underwood’s “How do I Live” post that got lost the other day. Interestingly, two artistes – LeAnn Rimes and Trisha Underwood- recorded the same music separately, but the movie producers decided to go with the
Oh crap
Yahoo just doesn’t agree with WordPress. This is my second attempt at upgrading WordPress, and bleh – things just didn’t want to work properly anymore. The database comprising nearly 380 posts, hundreds of comments etc. didn’t successfully migrate along, and
GTA IV
There were more than a few Singaporeans who scoffed when MDA announced the new game rating system in Singapore; after all, they’ve been getting their fix of ‘disallowed’ games in Singapore through a variety of means, including from our neighbors
Enchanting
One of the most lovely shows we’ve seen this year is Walt Disney’s Enchanted. In fact, Ling liked the show – and songs in it – so much that she’s taken to including some of that movie’s key phrases into
If your ang mo friend is coming over…
…what would you recommend him? Okay, this is my list of things to do: Topmost on the list: Must bring him to try our local fare, of course!! I mean, we don’t have much of a natural heritage here, or
CGAT '08
I was caught up at an international gaming conference held at Suntec Convention Centre over the last three days. The conference is quite a mouthful, but here it goes: “International Conference & Industry Symposium on Computer Games; Animation, Multimedia, IPTV
HDR and CPL
One of those things I’ve never really gotten around to doing is play around with Photo editing software. I’ve had them for years – e.g. the very first digital camera I bought in 1999 (a Canon S10) – came with
The human touch
Something warmed my heart recently. I was halfway tearing a parking coupon at the car park of ICA (Immigration and Checkpoint Authority) when I heard some knocking on the glass window of the passenger’s seat. I looked up and saw
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