Muttons to Midnight Podcast

If you had a bitter Valentine's, don't worry, I know how you feel! Because...

I watched this!





Enjoy!

Valentine's Day

Edited.

I think amongst the three of us, Jeanice has the best post for this day, totally detailed. So, Click Here to read it!

(Saint) Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the West, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or offering confectionery. The day was originally a pagan festival that was renamed after two Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

The day is most closely associated with the mutual exchange of love notes in the form of "valentines". Modern Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards.^[1] The sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain, and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th century America was a harbinger of the future commercialization of holidays in the United States.^[2]

The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year, behind Christmas. The association estimates that, in the US, men spend on average twice as much money as women.^[3]

Valentine's Day, the day where every guy becomes bitter as they crack their brains to figure out the perfect gift for their crush/partners/soul mates. It's supposed to sound like a joyful event where the girl breaks down and hugs the guy for the sweet gift, and the guy smiles from ear to ear because he knows that he has impressed her, but hey, nothing sounds that simple nowadays, with the recession and crap. Who to point the finger to? Well, us of course! For we are the ones who are so attracted to the Western Culture.

And no, I'm not in a crappy mood. I actually had a time of my life today. I had a date.

Well, it's not really a guy-girl date. I was actually out with not one, but two girls! And no, there's nothing wrong with me. I was out with my heroic mucus clan and they mean more than blah Valentines.

On a side note, I thought that anniversaries were supposed to be on Valentine's Day, isn't it the right time to celebrate, and meant for only couples? I guess I was wrong.

Anyway, the day was actually filled with talking, laughing, talking and more laughing.
We failed to get the belts for Tink's sis and so we wandered around in Causeway Point. From that, we actually ended up sitting outside Civic Centre. That was when the war began.

Tink and I were attacked by armies of ants(exaggerated tone) and being like survivors of spartans, we battled them (300 vs thousands = 2 vs tens. hahah) till our weapons (it was actually our bubble tea cups) were destroyed. And all this while, Mucus Woman was laughing at us.

We actually spent a lot of time on the army of ants, observing them in their last struggle of death, as life slowly seeps out of them. Tink was frightened a few times, and luckily Mucus Moster was there to save the day!

I got the nickname of being the Antminator (Terminator) for killing all those vicious biting ants. I even created a few lines or two for them as I hunted high and low for those killer ants.

Fearing that the ants would use their antannaes to send signals for more troops to attack us, we decided to abandon our weapons and base, and fled to Civic Centre's library.

We settled down and that was when we all got to know each other better. We got ourselves hyped up for no reasons as we talked about migration to countries, our future, our past "sins" and even got a gossip here and there.

It was an awesome time out with them because as I had said when I was with Raudah and Syuh, and I guess now with mucus clan, we never had to worry about place, time, or things to do. It was comfortable just being us, and having a blast just talking (everyone loves to talk deep once in a while) about random stuff.

Our species isn't extinct just yet, we just need to find the right people, right Syuh?

And Tink, the dried durians and Jack Fruit is really nice! But bloody expensive lah! hahah.

I'm on my way to find more on my kind!

Loves.

Lordi

I think I like Lordi more now. I realized that Lordi has the more "monster" appeal than Slipknot. And I find their songs more catchy and less "complicated shouting" as my mum puts it.

Click to read more about Slipknot

Click to read more about Lordi

Lordi is a heavy metal band from Finland. The concept for Lordi was devised in 1992, however, the band was not formed until 1996 by Tomi Putaansuu (known as 'Mr. Lordi')^[1] of Helsinki, Finland. Members of Lordi are noted for their elaborate monster-like costumes seen during live shows and in music videos. Lordi are also known as "The Finnish Monsters" and "The Monsters of Finland."^{[citation needed]}

Lordi won the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest with a record 292 points, giving Finland its first ever victory. Lordi featured on the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards in Copenhagen when Mr. Lordi presented the award for rock, and they were also the closing act playing their single Hard Rock Hallelujah. They also performed on Britain's Making Your Mind Up for the Eurovision Song Contest. Lordi performed on the main stage at OzzfestType O Negative and Twin Method until Halloween night. 2007 and later that year toured with

My favourite Music Video by Lordi.




Love, totally love that music video.



And one from Slipknot.





Loved the video, but not my favourite song. And nope, my favourite song isn't Wait And Bleed anymore. It's Before I Forget.





Loves!

Are You Perfect?

Are you perfect enough?


Perfection is by far the scariest thing, ever. Perfection is used to term many things.

Click Here To Read More In Wikipedia.


The huge problem about our society today, is that we focus too much on what makes us look good. Girls turn anorexic just to achieve that perfect figure, kids spend tonnes of unnecessary money just to dress perfectly(especially for prom), some splurge thousands just for beauty injections like Botox to retain their perfect image, and the rich are even willing to go under the knife to look perfect.


We are not materials or objects to be molded, designed or created into something else, something Perfect. Yet, we are subjecting ourselves to it.

In denial? Then look around you, and see the success of all the things that are related to aesthetics. Fashion, clothes, make-up, beauty products, tattoos, body piercings, body modifications, even hairstyling.











The messages sent and received, and the advertisements that we see daily, influences us into wanting to be perfect. We feel that it is extremely demoralizing to be standing beside someone who has the perfect looks, figure and fashion sense. We are so insecure with our imperfections that we become insecure. That's when the horror begins.

But here's one, will you ever be perfect?

It always works on, you're never satisfied with yourself, that's how vicious perfection is. You'll always find a fault or two in you that makes you imperfect. So when are you going to be really perfect?


My guess is, never. Unless you realized the perfection of the imperfections in you.


Loves.

Bizarre Ways to Die

Okay, this post is not about how I made death in the eye or anything like that. Syuh and I stumbled on a book in Popular Bookstore titled "1001 Ridiculous Ways to Die by David Southwell and Matt Adams". Intrigued by it, I flipped through the pages to read about the various ways to die.

'Eh Syuh, 1001 ridiculous ways to die! What's the dumbest way to die?'

'I don't know. Slipping and cracking the skull open'.

Yes, one of our tales about tragic death was about stepping on the air tubes of a patient in a hospital, and letting him die slowly. And yes, that's the post where we created new words like moster and horrow. Hahah. Click Here.

Anyway.....


At first I thought, no one would be dumb enough to buy this book and find a way to die here. And the price wasn't exactly a cheap way to die either. Could you imagine someone walking up to the cashier with that book, I'll bet there would be weird stares all over.


But after reading through some parts of the book, I realized that the deaths in the book were indeed RIDICULOUS! It was more like a joke book than a guide to die actually. Hahah.

And so, I decided to google the book today, and I actually found some interesting (and funny, in a sadistic way) deaths from This Site.

Here goes..

Oh, nuts!

Willie Murphy was more than a bit shell-shocked when an avalanche of peanuts buried him at a processing plant in Georgia, USA, in 1993. He never made it out alive.

Oh, chute!

Experienced skydiver Ivan McGuire went plane crazy one day in 1988 when he decided to film his 3,000m jump above North Carolina – he remembered his camera but forgot his parachute!

Water way to go

Things didn’t go swimmingly at all for a 59-year-old Californian when he sat on a pool’s badly covered drain. With a sucking power of 300lbs per square inch, he never really stood a chance. He died when his small intestine was sucked clean out.

Bird brain

Chicken thief Henri M’Bongo was forced by an angry mob in Cameroon to eat what he’d stolen - he choked to death on feathers and bone in the 1998 incident.

Casket case

French undertaker Marc Bourjade suffered a crushing blow when a pile of coffins at his workshop fell on top of him in 1982. Fittingly, he was buried in one of the coffins that killed him.

Hot debate

How far would you go to prove a point? Michael Toye from Hampshire had a burning desire to prove to a pal that white spirit is flammable – so he dowsed himself in the stuff and set fire to it. He died from serious burns six days later, in April 2007.

Heads!

A Ghanaian goalkeeper was killed instantly during a cup match when the goal’s crossbar fell on his head. Accusations of witchcraft were levelled at the opposition.

Rough and tumble

A fatal spin was the end result for Ray Washbrook when he climbed into an industrial tumble drier to remove some trapped linen in 1996. He was spun round for 20 minutes at 110 centigrade.

Goodnight... forever

Death by tampons sounds unlikely, but it happened to chronic snorer Mark Gleeson in 1996. The Hampshire man tried to cure his problem by shoving two of the female hygiene products up his nose. He suffocated as he slept.

Plane silly

A head-on collision with his own radio-controlled plane was what killed Roger Wallace from Arizona in 2001. He lost sight of the 3kg machine in the sun and it crashed into his head at 40mph.

Food for thought

The Belgian air force killed three men in Sudan when they dropped a crate of food on top of them. The pilots were taking part in a humanitarian relief effort and the idea was actually to save the Sudanese from starving.

Where eagles dare

Beware clumsy eagles if you ever go to Iran. Two car passengers died there when an eagle soaring overhead accidentally dropped a cobra into their vehicle. It bit them straightaway, killing them both. Fangs a lot!

Off the rails

After a row with his girlfriend, a 20-year-old man from Edinburgh hanged himself at Western Hailes railway station – on the ‘way out’ sign.

Crashing blow

There can be few unluckier people than the lone 18-year-old occupant of a farm in Belgium who was killed by an unmanned Russian MiG fighter jet! The pilot had ejected in Poland, but the aircraft flew 560 miles on auto-pilot until it ran out of fuel and crashed into the poor teenager’s home.

Die laughing

There’s laughing so much it hurts – but this was a much more serious matter! Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old from King’s Lynn, guffawed so hard at an episode of hit BBC comedy show The Goodies in 1975 that he died of a heart failure. The sketch that led to his untimely death involved Tim Brooke-Taylor dressed as a Scotsman using a set of bagpipes and deploying the Scottish martial art of ‘Hoots-Toots-ochaye’ in a fight. His widow wrote to the stars of the show to thank them for making her husband’s last minutes of life so happy.

Ooooh.. You never know what;s too dangerous to try, and how simple yet tragic deaths can be. Who knows, you tear you ear while combing your hair because of your earring. Then being alone at home, with no key, no first aid kit, you panic and bleed to death.



Oh, the horrow.