* no spoilers*

Abs, abs, and more rippling abs.

The 300 seems to be Frank Miller's dream team of ManHunk. I mean, who on earth goes to war clad only in lycra hotpants (except I don't think that lycra had been invented in Sparta at that time). It looked even more gay when they had removed their cloaks and spears, manfully going about their tasks in their underwear-like garb. Storyline was a bit weak, but the movie still enjoyable even though it was somewhat reminiscent of an RPG game, including a level boss at certain intersections. Emperor Palpatine even made an appearance! Pity that Faramir  from LOTR had more voice time than face time though. He definitely looks better than he sounds, with his new blonde and wispy needs-to-be-hairblown-to-be-perfect shag instead of the greasy mop he had in LOTR.

 

Not a bad way to spend my 9 bucks.

 

 

Was sifting through my store of several hundred old emails and this is what I found:

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From Lester

To: wk2band

Friday, September 12, 2003 11:13 AM

How about next Friday nite (19th) instead? Beef Hor Fun....

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From Lester

To: wk2band

Friday, September 12, 2003 1:27 PM

Marilyn, I'm ok for the following wed (24th Sept).

If not, why not next wednesday (17 Sept) instead? How?

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From: The Myself

To: wk2band

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 10:45 AM

Hello Les/Mel,

At 10:33 AM 9/16/2003, you wrote:

Either is ok with me also. A bit of final clarification might be good once
everything is finalised though.
Too many mails with too many date changes. Before I end up at Suntec again...

Sean

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From: Chris

To: wk2band

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 3:28 PM

Hahaha!  So we eating at suntec?  :-)

I've lost track of the dates?  Is it tomorrow?  Tim sum on Wed and mahjong on
Saturday?

BTW, 27 Sep 2003 healing service.  Sean and Mel, both of you ok to play?

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From: Jade

To: wk2band

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 3:47 PM

What about the Mahjong people go and play mahjong on Saturday and Lester and I will join you guys for dinner before you play for healing service on 27th Sept.

How's that?

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From: Lester

To: wkd2band

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 3:55 PM

Wasn't lunch supposed to be this Saturday the 20th of Sept? 27th Sept is
not supposed to be part of the picture....

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From: Versania

To: wk2band

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:05 PM

I thought it was on the 24th...???

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From: Lester

To: wkd2band

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:12 PM

Sigh, this reminds me of a bad comedy of errors....

Ok. Can we confirm 24/9, next Wednesday? Beef Hor Fun? 7:30pm? Everyone ok
with it? The Ngs are fine. What say the Lohs, Chans, Leong, Goh (err that's
your surname right Marilyn?) and Koh?

 

 

and it worked out fine in the end anyway.

 

Been dreaming of playing paintball and going wakeboarding  (alternately, not together... hmm.. paintball on a wakeboard...) almost every night this week. Maybe it would be better if I dreamt of running since I have my 5km run in 3 weeks time, provided I don't chicken out, or rock climbing. My climbing muscles have totally gone kaput since November. I really hate being a noob at stuff. I don't need to be fantastic at it, but at least better than average (nowhere near that at wakeboarding yet though...). It's part of my anal-retentive, obsessive-compulsive personality.

 

Oh, and for people who think I have low EQ (yes yes, it's 20 ok? But I'm working on it*), this is what my friend a**x (the asterisks are to "protect" his identity) tells me on MSN after years of not having contact. This was around the second sentence in our conversation after he had figured out who I was:

a**x says

 

Wah lao eh..why do you have such a ...such a....arghhh..such a horrible nick

 

Gee, thanks. I really wonder why we haven't talked in so many years.

 

* nar, not really but I thought I'd say that anyway cos that's what a person with a higher EQ might say

** le

 

Step 1: meow and tap cupboard doors noisily around 3am when owner is fast asleep

Step 2: repeat process until owner comes downstairs

Step 3: walk around and meow hungrily as owner stumbles in the dark looking for box of cat food

Step 4: ignore food

Step 5: wait til owner goes to toilet

Step 6: dash upstairs and curl up with head on pillow, body taking as much space as possible on the rest of the bed

Step7: close eyes and pretend to be fast asleep when owner returns to bed

 

 

and I fall for it every time...

shing, jason, joe, ian, dominic, alvin, and my shoes

Reverend Chan getting revenge on his committee members.

It's a scene from Bollywood! (I think it's Ian, or Phen)

Phen running back to the medic's tent (again), someone's butt in far left, and my finger (that's why I'm NOT a photographer)

What you would like your enemies to wear: Light denim (Jason) and orange (Keat).

The One who kena the most and the worst. 3 cheers for our target board, Wynne!!!

Doug, Michelle, Wynne, Keat, Mike, Phen

 

Awesome game peeps! When's the next round?

another random post:

If I seem quiet on msn these days, it's because i'm obsessed with weffriddles.

Was unpleasantly woken up by a large globule of  warm cat-drool on my face when Buttons decided to sit on top of me.

I've signed up for another 5k fun run in March.8k seems too daunting for now.

and an anal-retentive personality. But I HATE glitches in my life, especially ones not caused by my own incompetence. So when I my mom tells me that Video Ezy has on record that I returned a disc 44 days late in JANUARY 2006 and that I owe them over $40 bucks in fines, I'm furious. The *beep* who answered the phone wasn't very helpful either. "Let me check with my colleague who received the DVD" he says, as if his colleague would be able to remember the events from over a year ago. I know I don't. But I do know that I'm not moronic enough to incur a fine that costs more than the dvd itself. (and the offending DVD? An early season of Benny Hill).

I knew it was too good to be true. Not putting on weight inspite of massive Christmas gorging. Hyperthyroidism strikes again. I don't mind the medication, I don't mind eating salads (well, I do, a little, but I'm used to it), but the weight gain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!All my new pairs of jeans!!!!

sorry. I really try not to blog about stuff like weight cos I don't want to be labelled as a skinny bitch, but ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok ok. i will shut up now.

Actually I was going to blog about something I heard, Practising Contentment. I always thought contentment was a a current state of mind. Something that "is", not something that you can practice. But maybe being content is more about mind over matter, about reminding myself what I have to be content about, about reminding myself that my issues aren't really Problems, about reminding myself that this world was enough for Him, that I don't need to be a size 0 or have an LV bag or drive a Z3 to be truly content.

Hebrews 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have because God has said "Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you."

Practise contentment.

 

I still can't tell left from right. I confidently told Mike to make a right turn yesterday while my hand gestured to the left. I really did mean for him to take a left turn (the hand is usually right, I mean, it is usually pointed in the correct direction) but it turns out that the right was actually where we needed to be headed.

This is worse in the unfortunate event that I have togive directions to a taxi driver who only speaks Hokkien. Here is my heuristical translation of left and right (and I might be wrong too):

In mandarin, "zhuo" is "left" and in Hokkien "jia chew" sounds like "zhuo" but it is actually the opposite of left, so "jia chew" is "right". Therefore by elimination, "toh chew" means "left", not "right".

Right?