City For The Lost: June 2006

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Sorry, No More Milo

I know this is a weird timing to blog but i just came to realize... 迷路兵 (or milo peng as commonly known) is out.

The three piece band is a hot favourite in the reality show, Super Band. They have been coming up with "patterns" throughout the show, showcasing all three's ability to make music. But in the recent show, they were oust!!!

Kinda sadden me to know they are out but Singaporean have been known for lousy judgement (see Singapore Idol). Well, thank the three boys for their music.

More coming soon

found it @ 7:54 AM
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Sunday, June 25, 2006

Absolut Pissed

Now in ORD mood but sadly still have work to clear before I can leave.

Recently been in a very foul mood. It started with my phone going crazy and refusing to start up. Was meeting Ivan and Lyn that day and it went crazy when I, for the sake of fun, changed it to chinese language. Had to drop it off at Nokia Care Centre for servicing. Update of software to be more precise which means i'll lose everything in the phone and most importantly, MY CONTACTS!!!

Well, to make me feel better, I went shopping therapy with Lyn and Ivan.

It got worst when they called the next day that it's ready for collection. I was prepared to go down after work to collect. But in the end i was caught up with work. Can't remember what but it ended rather late. (oh it's for some video shoot) Rushed down in a cab to Suntec to arrive 5 minutes after closing time. Was Damn Pissed. I was talking on the phone with Alec while trying to find a way to talk to someone but they all blatantly ignored me. I was cursing and swearing as i loiter outside the shop. Sulked all the way (and a very long way it was) back to City Hall MRT to go home. I must have dimmed the lights everywhere i went with my black face.

Friday, rushed to work for video shoot with CP. I was really happy to be touching video cam and doing production work again. WHooo Hooooo. Went up with Ma'am, Sharm, Zehai to CP's office. Rebecca seems rather nice. hahah. Wired up CP, set up cam and off we go. Was rather smooth i suppose. I commented on CP and stuff. HAhaha funny. All was done and went back to office and rush down to RJC for Police Week Appreciation Lunch. Nothing exciting except CP talked to me. Something like "Oh you are here too haha" kinda thing. I wanted to talk more with him but my video cam was fogging up and was trying to clear it. Dean and Halil coming to "SAY HI" was not helping either. Dean was talking really loudly "What u want to eat" when i signalled him that CP's around. HE like =P and walked away for awhile. Halil came and was like playing with the cam when i tried to signal him that CP's beside me. He was like [0.o]!! and walked away. Hahahah. Made my day. Everything was normal. Went back office to clear stuff when Harith (hereafter known as SA) had to do the CP video near going home time. Already picked out usable shots for him when I had to help him digitize too. Apparently his Final Cut Pro classes are not useful. Well, went about the way i remembered to digitize but it kept giving me problems. Some drop frame shit with the NTSC format. Ivan calling and bugging me about his boss' event the next day ain't helping either. Was so pisssed. Even called our vendor, tried another method. In the end, used the G5 and it worked. The powermac has some configuration problem. Damn it. Missed the timing to collect phone again.

SA was another factor that pisses me off non-stop. Let's skip all the earlier parts, for it's too long to mention. I dunno if he's young or just plain brainless and stupid.

Incident 1
Venue: Newton Circus Market, Supper after Gala Dinner

AD Planning treated everyone that was left (Planning mostly). Didn't know why he was there too. The noisy lead actress was blabbing away about PAD to which SA replied with things where are "like so not true'. Thank God Ah Ong was there, who agreed with my thinking. Then they started talking about Queenie and how nice her dresses were and stuff. TO which SA replied, "oh she got rich boyfriend to buy got her". I was like super stunned cause I know she buys them herself since I went shopping with her a couple of times. I couldn't stand his nonsense so I decided to speak up. Something like, "no la she buys them herself". What an arsehole.

Incident 2
Venue: Office, Him talking on the phone (real loudly)

Dunno who he is talking to and don't care but he seems to sprout nonsense from his mouth like the Merlion. He was saying how ma'am has bad memory and don't care about SAs and stuff WHICH IT TOTALLY NOT TRUE. He also complained about how AD gives him lots of last minute work, which me and kenji agreed is not hard to do since most of the amendments have been pointed out. The most irritating and imbecile part was when he commented on my NEW ma'am. He said stuff like how it should be someone else and she doesn't know about design and publications and stuff. Little did he know that she was previously a writer/reported from STREATS, the free paper. How can she not know about publications stuff. It simply proves that empty vassels makes the most noise.

Another empty vassel i wanna b**ch about is THE ONE. hahaa.. it's not hard to guess... Anyway, was suppose to be 2 photographer for Ivan's event. One at Sambawang with CP's golf while Ivan and me run with me between JOM and old PA. Luckily Badminton was still at PA and i'm quite familar with the players. Ex-DD was there. Games started and Ivan haven came. In the end he called to say that he's stuck at golf cause of his boss. I had to take a cab to JOM to cover Chess and soccer and bowling. Wat the Fuck is the point of getting two photographers down? Somemore, i'm there on a personal favour basis. What spurred the flame was when they arrived, THE ONE just strolled in with Ivan's boss with ABSOLUTELY NO camera in toll. He still got the cheek to say "OH you are here! hahah" WAH LAO. WHY THE FUCK AM I DOING HIS WORK FOR HIM? If it's not Ivan's event, I would have left. Then they left without a word. I was waiting for Ivan to pick me up, with half a mind to just go back office to drop off camera and go off, when he came down with Ivan. Apparently he's been going on errand runs with Ivan. Extra "Ge Zua" as usual. At SPOM, he had the nerve to say "I got to go for my course, hahah, Bye" Thanks Huh! Ivan's boss was not helping either.

Anyway, lucky Ivan is my friend and no matter how pissed i was, i couldn't bring myself to flare up at my friends, although i wanted to many a times. Just couldn't do it. I shall be totally mean in the next few weeks. Show everyone how incapable THE ONE is, blatantly if need be. *Evil GRIN*

(this is one long posting, which i will laugh at when i read it again}

found it @ 9:04 PM
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Sunday, June 18, 2006

Close Encounter With the Idol Rejects

Not recently, PAD just finished its long spell of unforgving work. It was events after events for the whole of PAD. GE, Crown Prince, Police Day Parade, Police Annual Dinner and finally to top it off, Police Charity Gala Dinner.

What a wonderful way to bring a closure to my PAD stint with a PAD event. It was only a year ago, when I first joined PAD, that I covered the SPF Badn 80th anniversary, another PAD event of sort.

The Gala dinner was apparently to replace the Charity adventure where officers and extenal orginasations gather to do like an amazing race thingy in 24 hours. So for a change, it was dinner and dance for the less fortunate this year.

The musical was in collabration with Fly Entertainment, directed by Mark wate or whatever (the Moulmien High Ang moh) and starred Amy Cheung, Mai Lee and SPF officers, like Sameul (PAD) Noor (ex-PAD) Nelson (TP) to name a few. Inspired by Twelfth Night, its about twins who got seperated and the girl had to pretend as her brother to work for a mafia to woo this movie star ya da yada ya day. To cut the story short, it's not bad for a high school musical. Hahahah

Anyway, flops popped out throughout the night but there's nothing PADians cannot handle.

After the show, or rather when we are not workin, it was a mad house as the photo sluts and whores gathered together. Worst was after the musical when everyone (PADian that is) wanted to take photos with the S'pore Stars and after the whole event when everyone wanted to take photo with everyone.

Oh not to forget, we had the special appearance of Emil Chow. Hahah SO Cool. Had the chance to see him up close and persoanl thanks to ex-DD. Met Ex-DD's wife too. She looks extremely familar. I'm sure she's someone in Mediacorp or somewhere. I think I've seen her as one of the Judges for Star Idol. Anyway, didn't took any photo with Emil Chow which was funny considering how i took photos with the S'pore ones.

Anyway, the reason for the title is...... 4 out of the 10 cast took part in Singapore Idol before and guess what, all four didn't make it thus the title. (pointed out by Ah Ong) Muhahahaha that's so evil. To end this up, here a strip of that night.


found it @ 9:07 AM
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Monday, June 12, 2006

Na ni!!!

Japan lost!! Though I'm not an avid soccer fan, the news still shocked me. I watched the match and to my horror, Aust actually scored 3 goals in the last 10 - 15 mins... WTF...

found it @ 11:59 PM
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006

New TWIST to A Old Toy

- video removed due to life threatening threats -

found it @ 9:18 PM
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Sunday, June 04, 2006

Chill out

Yesterday was rather uneventful. Was slacking at home the whole morning and afternoon. At night, went town to walk walk with Ah Lec and Ning. Wanted to shop for stuff but nothing to my fancy (those that were are too expensive) After that went to Brewerkz after so long. Went to see the Ah beng "Zheng My Kite" motor kite at the field. It's damn cool la. They were like trying to do some stunt. But I'm 100% sure it's started by Ah bengs. If the LEDs ain't a tell-tale sign, then the AH Beng-like tone it makes when it's started up just confirms it.





Anyway at Brewerkz, some girl was having her b'day celebration. Damn cool coz they had balloons and stuff. Haha. Just the idea of HAVING a party is so cool. Reminds me of xiao ming's not-so-happy party which i failed to attend. Oh, he called on my way to town to ask if wanna go Dlb O. Talked about PnC too. Hahaha. Yup. So ordered beer (duh) and food at Brewerkz. I had Golden Ale, Ning had fruitBrewz (apricot) and Alec had some Xtra India Ale thingy. The Xtra india tasted rather spicy while mine was mild. Ning's was kinda sweet. BUT STILL, it's still beer. The burger was good though. A tad dry but still good. The fries that came with it was WONDERFUL. It's like made from REAL potatoes, with the skin still intact. Yummy, The cheese and chilli fries wasnt as good coz it's kinda soggy. Overall, it's a good place to chill and talk. A little expensive though.


Was playing with the onion that comes with the burger and end up doing this.






Hahah. Who says playing with your food ain't fun, just don't eat it anymore.





Today went shopping at Suntec. Bought a stuff from G2000, Topman and some dunno what shop. Had tons of fun at Topshop. Bought a tie and was wearing it around even before paying. It goes quite well with my black polo tee Hahaah. Then Alec was acting like those sound activated toys you see during x'mas. Super funny. There's this white blazer/jacket that's damn nice but dman ex so we decided to take photos instead. Hahaha Photos and vid of those soon (remind me) For now, here's wat i bought.


found it @ 11:06 PM
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Thursday, June 01, 2006

SuperStar Me

The day before, I was covering an event with other media people. I think it was the few times where i have spoken much to reporters. Talked to zao bao reporter for a while then after spoke to two interns from Mediacorp Radio. They've seen me at another media conference but i didnt recognize them. Anyway, after the event was talking when dunno why the topic became superband and they were like "you look like...." My reaction was "No! NO! no! nO!" They were shocked by my over enthu reaction. They response, "Hor someone say before." Afterwhich i tried to change the topic. Anyway, they are from NTU and NUS respectively. The NUS is taking Political Sci while NTU is takin Comms. It was great to talk to random people. Makes me feel alive again. That i still can be outgoing.

Yesterday was Police Day Parade. It was held at Home Team Academy and the place was flooded with people. Was so happy to see MOST of my fellow squad mates. Brian look good in his red beret so did Ian and sng and rahman and peter in their No5 with tie. I had to wear my stupid polo tee. Why can't i look good like them. Damn. My best friend was there too but didn't had time to talk to him as parade had started.

After parade was the reception. I borrowed Ian's camera so when i returned it to his office wth his pass, i actually locked his pass inside. Damn! Kan cheong for 5sec then told him. He 0.0 then i was called by Big Boss to take photo for VIP. After that, contacted Ian and was relieved that his boss was about to leave the gate when he called her. Damn, That was lucky but now i owe him a dinner.

At reception, was trying to get a shot of Audrey when she gave me the evil eye. Hahaha. She actually called me papparazi which i corrected papparazi in training which she repeated to the other ma'ams.

Wan ying was forever bugging me to take photo even after all the big shots left (well except DSD). In the end, took a group shot with DSD. Hahaha IM IN THE PHOTO FINALLY!! haha. Haven seen DSD smile so much for a long time.

A wonderful way to begin the end of my NS days.

found it @ 9:51 PM
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