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Month: September, 2008

quickbites1909

cat comes home after going missing for 9 years wendy’s funny video about growing up resident evil activity book for kids blue people what’s left of the servant master cgi artists – hyper realistic stuff palin refuses to fund rape kits beautiful ramadan photos

latest chrome releases

if you (unlike the many cretins) realise that chrome is merely in BETA and would like to try out their latest releases and fixes, install the Google Chrome Channel Chooser software from the dev channel. install it, and you’ll get this popup. select dev for the cool (and in all probability buggy as hell) builds. [...]

breathe another day

it is 4:33 in the morning and i can’t sleep. my chest is constricted. taking a deep breath is all but impossible. trying to breathe past the barrier feels like you’re about to snap a rubber band. it is 4:34 in the morning and i can’t lie down. the phlegm in my lungs threatens to [...]

‘My 18 hours under the ISA’

On 12 September, about eight thirty in the evening, I was at my home in Bukit Mertajam, Penang. While enjoying my yew char koay (fried dough stick), I was worried about the show cause letter issued to Sin Chew Daily, and anxious about the days ahead for my newspaper. Suddenly, a group of plain cloth [...]

pufferfish

i would like everyone to notice how i’ve gained some weight. look at my gloriously chubby cheeks. so happy. ^_^

pinafore madness [pic]

blouse from oh, popsicles! polka-dotted pinafore (black) from oh, popsicles canary yellow peeptoe wedges from bkk

what i’ve learned in advertising so far

get hands on there’s no use emailing changes to the music house or spending hours circling/marking revisions on a visual and then bitching about it when things still aren’t “perfect.” get your ass down there and camp behind your music engineer or your DI artist. they’ll work faster (since no one dawdles with someone breathing [...]

stumbled1009

new hayao miyazaki offering about a goldfish who turns into a girl ponyo on the cliff by the sea + accompanying article interactive comic. sorta. one way out [comic] lego set i wished i owned as a a kid, cos i sure as hell can’t afford them now! 10 amazing lego sets you can wait [...]

interworld by neil gaiman & michael reaves

i was very eager to sink my teeth into this book, especially while riding on a sandman-induced natural high (i knocked back the whole series + endless nights within 3 days). and boy, was my excitement sorely misplaced. the prose has none of gaiman’s easy-going cadence or charm which bugged me, but i thought “hey, [...]

candy-coloured bar [pic]

white esprit wifebeater candy colour bar chiffon skirt from velvet-ribbon black footless tights red converse red diva beaded necklace