Kalkitos, 11/11

A friend just posted a picture of Kalkitos in one of our Facebook Group. OMG.. how many of you remember this Fun Stuff??? I have nearly forgotten about it...

You young cikus dunno what's Kalkitos ah? Nehmind.. Hip Hip Hurray to YouTube!!

Last but not least...

Oh oh.. and I must thank EastCoastLife 'cos I won something from her PhoneBAK Contest!!! It's an anti-theft software for Windows OS, Phoenix! Also thanks to Bak2u.com!

Au Revoir 2007...

Just like last year, this year I had a blog block on how to construct the final entry of the year. I am too lazy to do a roundup about my life because ... let's just say that I'm just too lazy to look backwards. I prefer to look forward. (Wah, sound so corny geh...)

Anyway, coming back to this entry, I think I shall also do what I did last year. An entry about you, you and you.

Year 2006, I met most of you guys. Year 2007, I met fewer of you new guys. Let's see...

Bernard Chan - Met this doc during our Penang trip together with LB, ECL & Chen. A pretty brief encounter it was. What can I say... he's a fun doc!

Cheepeeone - Met this sexy, fun & giggly babe sometime earlier this year before May left for Sydney. Now, she's one of my Zouk cum musical cum Japanese food kaki! (Not forgetting Datin Winn, another Yapunis food kaki...)

Day-dreamer - Met this young lady sometime in April during a birthday do for Kenny & Nyonyapenang. Very quiet (prolly shy :D) girl she is!

Domdom - One of Liucas' love interest. Met her at Bandar Utama during some dog fest. Also the same time when Liucas fell head over heels and then...........

Ehon - Val Kilmer's lookalike twin! Met him in September (I think!) while he was in-transit from Adelaide to Kuching. Fun kiddo! Heh heh...

Eastcoastlife - Another Sampat Partner! She's contagious, her laughter & her funny comments! Gotta love her *grins* Met her in Penang, together with LB, Chen & Bernard. And her accident... poor woman kena wheelchair-ed while on holiday!

Freethinker - Just met him not too long ago. When I started reading his blog, there were very few comments. So, I 'kindly' commented in the entries with no comments. Now, he's got quite a number of young chicks following his blog ;-) See, I bring 'ong' to blogs, okay... *grins*

Frostier - This fella used to kacau me in my blog, gave me comments which made me pull my hair. But ever since we met during the Togeder-geder Party in March, he's been quite 'kind' to me. Cos he seldom comment liao after that LOL!

Huei - Met this young lady sometime in February during a CNY dinner. She sat beside me but we didn't really talk... because we are shy haha.

Laundryamah - What can I say about this hyperactive lady? She's got a contagious laughter! First time 'saw' her at the Togeder-geder Party in March. Later on, met her again when Wennnn was back in KL. And of course, we also saw the Karaoke Queen in action...

Misha - Met this youngest lady & mommy sometime in July (or was it August??). She's a pretty and smart princess :)

Monk[t]icon - Met this Transformer guy earlier this year (Jan or Feb??) when Pink Cotton was in KL. Really gero-gero-gero!

Narrowband - Met this tall young chap first time for the premier of Transformer movie. He is a really nice guy, someone whom you'd want to bring home to see your parents haha!

Oscar's Mommy aka Angeline - Met this momma only once when Wennnn was back in KL. Didn't know who she was at that time... didn't manage to chat much with her too because the Karaoke Queens were distracting.. haha..

Pink Cotton - We met up with this cute lady beginning of the year, had dinner at Wong Ah Wah... and then went Starbucking.

Pookyma - A few of us were 'lucky' enough to meet this chap briefly during our Penang Makan-makan Trip. Well, that's because he had to collect his gift from me. And of course, Vege_master, his best friend came along...

Rinnah - At last, a number of us got to meet the Cute Spinner. She was quite quiet during our steamboat dinner. Probably she's shy... *grin*

Sasha of Blablabla - Met her the first time at the Togeder-geder Party. Was in the same lift with her & Laundryamah. Then met her again when Wennnn was back. She reminds me of a certain TV celebrity. Sorry forgot the name liao...

Sheon - Met him over a cuppa a couple of months back. He reminded me of someone I knew a long time ago. ;-) He can be politically 'inclined'... and I shut my gap when he talks about politikus.. :P

Sotongking - Met him at the Togeder-geder Party. Even had a picture taken with him. But he's been MIA for some time...

Wennnn - Met this lady when she was back in KL earlier this year. And now she's married AND is having a baby! Oh, also a Karaoke Queen... :)

Zewt - Met the man himself during the Togeder-geder Party in March. Very briefly though. I'm sure he's forgotten which one was me..

There was no Christmas in Singapore this year, maybe next year. (Someone promised) But there was the Penang Food Porning and the Kuching Kekekaka. The furthest I went this year was to Sweden. And I've not finished my Swedish Stories... Sigh! I'm a baaad blogger. I need to be spanked...

Oh well, that's all for this year. If I continued writing, I might not know where to stop. See you again next year! Sayonara 2007! H e l l o 2 0 0 8 !

♫ Monday, ♪Tuesday, ♫Happy Days...♪

Chen's posting on Reminiscing Old TVB Series from the 70's & 80's inspired this entry. Well, actually I was 'inspired' to do this after reading Le' Beloved Emperor's comment in that entry :

Aiseh! Can you also do 'DALLAS', 'DYNASTY', 'FALCON'S CREST', 'THE A-TEAM', 'KNIGHT RIDER', 'CHARLIE'S ANGELS', 'THE ANGEL & THE COW', etc? Please?

I went, "Eh?? The Angel & The Cow??" Haa... he must be pulling our legs :P With that, I got inspired and went looking for intros & clips from the famous-test Engrish TV series in the 70's & 80's, though I must add that those aged below 25 years 'young' might not be able to follow this entry...

So last night, taking the advantage of today being a public holiday in the state of Selangor, (Yeah! Daulat Tuanku!!!) meant that I can sleep late... or early, depending on your sense of 'time', I spent about 2 hours finding and enjoying all the theme songs of TV series from those Golden Years.. the 70's & the 80's... Totally enjoyed them! And here, I share with you my *sweats* hardwork... heh heh... Hope you will enjoy it as much as I did!

Dallas - Full Opening Credits for "A House Divided" The episode where JR gets shot. This clip contains the opening credits and the promo before the credits. Names like Southfork Ranch, Miss Ellie, Clayton, Bobby Ewing, Sue Ellen, Pamela Ewing, Lucy Ewing, Cliff sumting... err... Simple American? Hehe... So anyway, who killed JR Ewing???

Knots Landing - a spinoff from Dallas, I believe. I watched this series (or do you call it soap opera??) because of the opening credit music. Love it! Each time after an episode, I'd be humming the music... hehehe...

Dynasty - I nearly forgot this series! How can?! I had to check out from Joan Collin's filmography to find the title!! Aiyoh... *smacks forehead* Why did I watch this series? Alexis Carrington! (Joan Collins) Jeff Colby! (John James) Fallon Carrington! (Emma Samms, love her!)

Falcon Crest - don't really remember why I watched this... Lorenzo Lamas? Hmm... dun think so...

Flamingo Road preview 1981 - I watched this because of Morgan Fairchild. Dunno why. She was sucha bitch but so beautiful... I also remember Mark Hammon... the 'best' thing is... I don't remember what is this series all about... hmmm...

Hawaii Five-O - my favourite detective series!! Well, I remember I was really really young that time... all my parents' fault for introducing me to this series! I also remember sneaking out from my bedroom and curi watching it from the staircase because it was obviously pass my bedtime! I love Detective Steve McGarrett! Was sooooo swooned! And to think I was soooo young then! *faint*

Hart to Hart - another favourite detective series during my growing up years. All is because of Robert Wagner... and Stefanie Powers, of course... and all their passionate kisses... very stim wan, you know... yeah.. those are the reasons why I watched this series haha!!

Fantasy Island - also introduced by my parents. I remember this series was aired on late Sunday nights... but that time I grew up a bit liao.. so I was allowed to watch this series... The plane! The plane! DYK of any Fantasy Island around?? I wanna go and have my fantasiessss fulfilled!!

Chips - haha... Erik Estrada is the reason!!! And I remember me & sis used to hum or rather, make, the intro song with "chuh chuh chuh" sound... LOL!!

Charlie's Angels - watched this series because... well, thanks to my parents again haha... I believe mom loves Jaclyn Smith :)

Macgyver - Richard Dean Anderson!!! The guy who could get out of any trouble! But I wasn't as crazy as some of my other classmates... they were totally crazy over him!

Little House on The Prairie - what can I say... wow! It's been a looong looong looooong time! Who'd forget that horrible, horrible Harriet girl!! Hated her! LOL!

Happy Days - one of my favouritest sitcom! Fonzie! Very yeng!

The Greatest American Hero - love the song, of course! And William Katt and Connie Sellecca!

Well, with this entry, those who didn't know me would now be able to 'guess' my generation/era/youthfulness :P A lot more series came to mind like The Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, Hunter, Trapper John MD, Murder She Wrote, Magnum PI, Moonlighting, Scarecrow & Mrs. King, Incredible Hulk, The Love Boat, Matlock, LA Law, Manimal (Anyone remembers this?? OK, I just found a clip of Manimal's transformation... from man, into a panther! Posted below, after this long paragraph), 21 Jump Street, Airwolf, Knight Rider, Family Ties, Facts of Life, Full House, The Golden Girls, The Cosby Show, Growing Pains, Different Strokes, Punky Brewster, Alf... those TV3 days hahaa!! My, my... those were great memories, weren't they?

Manimal - Can you believe it that we used to watch shows like this?? Looked kinda fake, hor? LOL! But I suppose Simon MacCorkindale made it up... hehe...

Swedish Stories Chapter VI (a)

ShortYaks: Is there anything wrong with youtube.com and petalingstreet.org? Or something is wrong with MY internet connection?? Something WAS wrong with my connection. After resetting it, things are back to normal...

I got a replacement battery for my ApPearl Macbook a few days ago. Yeah, it was the battery that kaputed...

Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III

It's been more than a month since I last wrote about my Swedish adventures. So today I'll continue to share with you some of the nicest place in this Scandinavian country. I mentioned to Narrowband once, that one of my favouritest place in Sweden is Skansen. I quote from its website, "Skansen is the oldest open-air museum in the world. Skansen is also a zoological park. It is located on the island of Djurgården, a royal park near the centre of Stockholm, and open every day of the year, except Christmas Eve."

Mini map of Skansen at the entrance.
The interactive map can be found here.

Got Stage & Restaurants, Fairground, Aquarium, Zoo...
We did not finish visiting everything in Skansen because we only allocated half day for this place. It's a pity actually... So, if you were to go to Skansen, make sure you spend the whole day there! There are alotta things to do and to see!

Can never get bored taking pics of looking at the tulips...

Some of the buildings under the category Living History.
You know what's fun about this place? Inside most of these buildings, they actually made it 'alive' with people. Yeah, with folks who are historical interpreters in that period's costume. How cool is that? V E R Y C O O L ! ! !

Give you an example... this is the Älvros Farmstead,
a typical northern Swedish farm.

This old man can be found inside the farmstead, sharpening some wood,
not too sure what the purpose was,
but it looked like some work for this ah pek...

To be continued...

Voltron 2008, A Tag & My Brand

Haa... so many things to talk about in this entry.

Currently, the craze is on Transformers the movie. Today, Die Hard 4.0 opens in Malaysia. Not sure if I'll have the time to catch it but that's not what I want to talk today.

The other night, I was telling Sis about Transformers the movie and how awesome it was, then she jolted my memory about another cartoon. Yes, Voltron! She said that she liked Voltron better.

I remember Voltron. Defender of the Universe... don't play-play... So I came home and Googled Voltron in IMDB and OMG, they are planning the production of the movie in 2008. Voltron 2008, script/screenplay by Justin Marks. You can find a review of the script here. The reviewer said that it might give Transformers a run for their $$$. DYK that in 1984, there was a series Voltron: Defender of the Universe and Peter Cullen [currently the voice for Optimus Prime] lent his voice for King Alfor/Commander Hawkins/Coran/Narrator. This man's voice is... so macho...

Anyway, here's a video to bring back the retro memories of the five Lions! Woohoo! Check out their Sword! :p

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Next, Simple American tagged me. Something about Fours. Can't remember if I had done it before but I'll do it today to let you know me a teeny weeny bit better.

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Waitress at Dolphin's Coffee House
2. Bank Clerk at OUB
3. Cashier at Yaohan Penang
4. Temporary teacher in a primary school

Four places I have lived:
1. Batu Lanchang, Penang
2. Butterworth
3. Sungai Dua, Penang
4. Taman Pelangi, JB

Four Places I have been on vacation:
1. Hong Kong
2. Bangkok
3. London
4. Stockholm

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Crabs
2. Kueh ciap
3. Liulian
4. Haagen Dazs

Four places you would rather be right now:
1. Sleeping in my bed
2. Sleeping over at eastcoastlife's place in Singapore. (Thank you so much for your kind invitation. Very paiseh... but I heartchu!)
3. Sleeping over at ahmay's place in Sydney
4. Sleeping over at u.lee's place in Toronto

Four friends to tag:

1. winn
2. rinnah
3. ahboy
4. liucas

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Last but not least, about My Brand. Bryan wrote something about branding here. I asked him to 'brand' me and this was what he said, "Me brand u? Umm from yr blog are u seem to be someone famous but the reason not so clear yet. Why dun u ask your regular commentors what you remind them of then that’s your brand lor..." I told him that I'm not famous. I can't write bombastically. I don't wish to be famous because Albert Einstein once said, "It's strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely." *shakes head* I dowan liddat wan...

So, what's My Brand, huh? What do I remind you of?

ps: Sporadic updates in the next couple of weeks. Busy like Bumblebee...

A Rant & Jem Follows Optimus

You know, people always say that women bosses are bi*ches. That's not true. My first boss is a very nice lady, one of the nicest one around. My second boss, also a lady, with a very strong character, but ain't no female dog. My third boss, also a lady, well, let's just say she's not bad. Currently, we have another boss, a man, who's really getting on my nerves. (I wish to swear here but I can't...) So, I just want to tell you that men can be a bigger Female Dog, okay... Gah! Cikgu Ehon!!! Tell me why???

I'm very sleepy now but die-die also I want to share these few youtube videos with you. The first one is 'inspired' by bibiknyonya's Fantastic Four Meme, where bibik mentioned Jem & The Holograms. Back then, how many of you just couldn't wait for those Sunday mornings to watch this cartoon?? Angkat tangan!! Me, it was because of sis. She would get up very early on Sunday mornings to catch cartoons like Jem, Thundercats, He-Man, She-Ra, Transformers etc. Oh no, wait. We would get up very early on Sunday mornings, dad would take us out for breakfast and then we'd go home to watch these cartoons. Here, the theme song from Jem & The Holograms. Showtime Synergy!

The second video clip is a TV advertisement from Digi (a telecommunication company) that uses the song I Will Follow Him which was originally recorded by Little Peggy March (sorry, I also dunno who she is...). Digi changed it to I Will Follow You. I really love the song! Also, note me & Cocka's favourite pose in this ad. LOL! They made quite a few ads with the same song but this has gotta be my favourite, and one of the latest version, I think. Winnieliu, time to migrate from Maxsh*t (<--ah huei taught me wan... LOL!) to Digi! I will follow youuuuu...

But of course, this song was also made famous by Sister Mary Clarence (Whoopi Goldberg) in the movie Sister Act. I laughed so much watching this movie ages ago!

Happy Flyday... have a Funtastic Weekend! I have a 144 minutes date with Optimus Prime tomorrow night. Whoopieeee! And here's how the cartoon version looked like years ago!

Birthdays, Friday the 13th & Songkran

Aloha!!! Ciao!! Howdy! Long time no see! How's everything? Hope all's well! First and foremost, please gather around to wish me Daddy...

Wait! Wait! Not yet finish! Don't go away yet... Stay for a little while longer to wish nyonyapenang A Happy Belated Birthday! Her 'big' day was 3 days ago, 10th of April. Yes, please note that down! *wink*

Okay, so it's Friday the 13th. On top of 13 April being Daddy's birthday, it is also Thai New Year, or better known as Songkran! Sawadee pi mai!!! Songkran is also known as the Water Festival. With this Water Festival term, I'm sure you'd guess what is involved... Yeah! WATER!!!

On this day (mostly the first day), people go around town throwing water at anyone and everyone! Yeah! Don't believe? Believe me... because I was in Bangkok exactly a year ago to witness it! fl sam, you should have gone for your Tee Off in Bangkok this weekend instead of last weekend!



To be honest, it was a stressful holiday! Haha! Why? Because I had to avoid those Thai! On this day, they have the 'licence' to splash water on just anyone! Thank god it was only for one day they do that... But on the other hand, the water did help to cool us down under the hot sun! So our clothes were dried up in no time.

So, how do you like my new template? Come tell me, okay? I'm still struggling to put in all my Fabulous Tunes and all my Cute Angels. It didn't work and I still don't know how to make it work. Worse comes to worse, I'll revert to the old template.

Have a good weekend! *wink*