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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Just For Laughs is coming to SINGAPORE!

Yes, you did not see the title wrongly! They are really coming to Singapore!

(Taken From Todayonline.com)

It won’t be long before you might find yourself an unwitting victim of Just for Laughs.

MediaCorp TV has entered into an exclusive agreement with Just for Laughs to co-produce and distribute gags for the Asian market. The agreement was signed yesterday between Pierre Girard, the director general of Just Pour Rire Les Gags Inc, and Chang Long Jong, MediaCorp’s deputy CEO.

The signing was overseen by MediaCorp’s CEO Lucas Chow, and Yeo Chun Cheng, the chief information officer of MDA. This will be the first Just for Laughs production outside Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.

“We’re very excited,” said Kenneth Liang, MediaCorp’s executive vice-president of TV programming and production for Channel 5. “It will be focused on how Asian people react to the Just for Laughs gags. We hope that we can add a lot of value to Just for Laughs with our Asian productions.” MAY SEAH

The first Asian version of Just for Laughs is expected to air at the beginning of next year.

It won’t be long before you might find yourself an unwitting victim of Just for Laughs.

The first Asian version of Just for Laughs is expected to air at the beginning of next year.

It won’t be long before you might find yourself an unwitting victim of Just for Laughs.

The first Asian version of Just for Laughs is expected to air at the beginning of next year.

I personally think that Asians, especially Singaporeans would react with a "Siao ah! I hoot you then you know!" Or a 'Ki siao ah!" Or even chase and literally beat them up rather than have a good laugh at it.

So I'm pretty excited to see what happens. Who knows, one of you guys would fall prey to one of their gags!

Reminiscing the Past

I think this is the best quiz ever. I've done it in FaceBook. And every time I sign into Facebook, I would click on this quiz to read it over and over again. Ah... The nostalgia of my secondary school days; of all the awesome people and things I met and did back then.

I'm not proud of some things that I did, but I sure am glad that it did happen, for it changed me as a whole being.

I'll paste it here! It's really long, but here goes..

If you enjoyed your high school years, you'll do it.
If you have nothing else to do, you'll do it.
If you're here to read the questions/answers and pretend to hate to do it, deep down you'll still do it.

This tag is so fun because the answers can go on and on.
Read if you miss your high school years

Bio Data

1) Which school did you go to?
. Woodlands Ring Secondary School.

2) What classes were you in?
. 1e3, 2e3, 3e3, 4e3. Yes, the threes loves me so.

3) What was/were your favourite lesson(s)?
. My favourite were Literature, Art, Science and History. That was back in Secondary 1 &2. I only loved English at Sec 4.

4) If you could remember, what time was your recess?
.I can't really remember even though I was really excited for recess every single day back then.

5) List down your favourite food/snacks.
. I loved stall 7's food. The vendors there were really nice too! Other than that, I'll have my Pokka green tea and maybe Apollo.

Style

1) Did you have a nickname way back in high school?
. It was really sickening back then because almost everyone (even some close friends) had difficulty pronouncing my name. Some called me Kat, some called me Keth, some called me Catherine even though there was a Catherine just two classes away, some called me Katelin, literally Kat - te -lin, and the list goes on.

2) How did you wear your socks?
. I always wore ankle socks but it wasn't necessarily below ankles. I find it really retarded to see people who pull their socks just to make it look short.

3) Have you been suspended due to the way you put on your uniform?
. Yes, back when I was in lower Secondary. I was, how Syuh and Malek puts it, Scary. But I become more mature, and finally knew how to dress proper for school when I was in Upper Sec.

4) Were you given plenty of reminders about your appearance?
. Yeah, when I was in lower sec. I was often reminded about my colourful guitar strings/ traffic light (ear sticks). And then there were the untucked shirts, short skirts, lace in shirt, and horrible torn and tattered shoes. Oh, and there was the light brown hair which got me into trouble every single day in lower sec.

5) Who did you look up to when you were in high school?
- When I was in Sec 1, I looked up to Mr. Bruce because I felt that he was a pretty much laidback person but with a bag full of sarcasm. He was like Singapore’s version of Dr. House, minus the doctor part.
Then when I was in Sec 2, I looked up to Mdm Anisah. She may seem like a goofy, weird and crazy teacher but what she went through was really tough. And despite all that, she always had a smile on her face. Now that was someone I admire.
Then finally when I was in Sec 4, it was Mrs Raj who got my admiration. She was always the “talk of the town” because of the way she looks and stuff. But her lessons were nothing near the word boring. She had sarcasm, loads of general knowledge, and loads of experience. And she was always willing to lend a hand if we asked for it.

Punishment

1) Name one memorable scene where you were punished in front of the whole class.
. I was always punished for the wrong reasons. There was once where I was punished because I laughed at a teacher who was scolding the class. I couldn’t help it, because his face was really funny. He pouted! And from then, everytime he scolded the class, he would ask me “Kethlyn, very funny is it?” even when I wasn’t laughing.
Then there were this other time, like syuh said, where we used the leftover of someone’s correction tape, and made a spider web of death around our tables and chairs. A teacher tripped on it, and threatened to send us to the Principal.

2) How many times did you skip class? What were you doing?
. Skipping class was like a regular thing when I was in Lower Sec. My attendance was really bad in secondary school, that I was threatened a few times that if I didn’t go to school, I wouldn’t pass that year.

3) Give one scene where you escaped from being caught/punished.
. I don’t think I escaped any. I was always scolded by my form teacher. But it was really fun, especially with the crew of friends who did those nonsensical stuff with me.

4) Did you vandalize any school property?
. Oh…Vandalizing the tables and chairs with markers and correction fluid. Cutting the tables or scratching them with penknives. Taking out the screws of the table and chairs so that my classmates would fall when they sat on it. Making a hole in the wall, putting glitter glue on the OHP (it was really funny when my teacher switched it on, because the screen showed glitter all over. He was pissed and he stared at me throughout the period, while slowly peeling the glitter glue off of the projecting thingy). Throwing wet tissue on the ceiling of the toilets, classic. And sticking double sided tape on the teacher’s chair (a teacher actually sat on it, and it didn’t help with the fact that he was already pissed). Oh, and I even pasted a sticker-card of my brother’s tattoo shop on one of the walls (I hope he doesn’t kill me when he sees this).

5) Did you ever make any teacher cry?
. As lame or idiotic as I may be back then, I hated it whenever someone cried. But I think my Chinese class made two Chinese teachers cry, because they couldn’t take the fact that we were a bunch of people who did not like Chinese lessons and were all ready to give up.

1) Who was your favourite teacher?
. Mrs Raj, and Mdm Anisah

2) Describe your DM.
. He was nice to my parents, but I think he was trying to hard to fit in with the students.

3) Who was the funniest/weirdest/loudest teacher?
. Mr. Ben. He was loud, crazy and damn bloody fit.

Social Circle

1) Were you popular back then?
. In a bad way, maybe. But I hate the word popular, and the people who try to be. This is Singapore, for crying out loud. Not some “90210” series.

2) Were you in a big group of boys/girls or small ones?
. My school has this weird thing about cliques. I don’t have one, I just hang around with a bunch of friends here and there.

3) Who were your best friends?
. Let’s not call them best friends shall we? My partners in crime were people like Raudah, Syuh, Shera, Aainaa, Wan Teng, Colin, Liyana, Alex, Wei Cheow, Jeanice and the canteen people I sit with every day. And definitely the volleyball team. Well, I not only have good friends in school, I have ones out of school too, so let’s not leave them out eh. Yiling, Cheryl, Weiting, Wenya, Lixin, Serene, Lena, Xueping, and so on. I hope there’s no hard feelings eh, if I had to name everyone, the list would go on and on and on.

4) Did you and your friends have nicknames?
. There was one with Shera called the R.E investigations. It was created just for laughs. Other than that, no.

5) What were your favourite memories of you and your friends?
. I have loads of them. And most of them were punishments (refer to no.4 in punishments). I know this is really mean, but this was actually one of my memorable moments. Well, as usual, I brought sweets to school and Malek wanted one. I wanted to throw one at him but feared that it would hit Yi Qian, who was beside him. So we gave warnings and so on. And then I threw it, and it hit Catherine, hard on the face. And poor her, was minding her own business, paying attention in History Class.
Then there were the times where we had birthday bashes, and Syuh’s brother tied all ou bags together. Oh, and the part where we always headed to the mama shop to buy all the Asam before tutorials started. And definitely the times where we sneaked out of class to buy food. Raudah was definitely the best person who always sneaked in and out without anyone knowing. And the funniest one was when Liyana got stuck while climbing a pillar inbetween the toilet cubicles. And one time Alex and I pissed a Physics teacher off when he asked “who created Magnets?” And the both of us shouted “Magneto!”
And the KFC moments, the late talks of ghosts and stuff like that.

Okay, I should stop talking now.

Co-curricular Activities

1) What type of CCA were you in?
. Volleyball

2) What did you have to bring to your CCA?
. Waterbottle, Kneepads, long socks, a lot of hairclips, volleyball shoes, and face towel.

3) What did your CCA required you to do?
.Well, basically to play volleyball. We had to learn the various skills, like how to receive right, set right, spike right, and land right.

4) Got injured?
. Yeah, spraining ankles were the common thing for me. I got bruises here and there when I didn’t land right. And I even fractured my ankle once when I landed on a ball after spiking.

1) Who was your first crush?
. I was too busy getting into trouble to have a crush.

2) Are you in good terms with your last crush?
. Blah.

3) Did you ever have a relationship with anyone in your high school?
. Nope. Well, I had way better things to do than to land myself into complicated Love.

4) Have you ever made out in school?
. Nope.

Closing Ceremony

1) How did high school changed you?
. Well, from Lower Sec to Upper Sec, I became more mature as a person. There were various activities that taught me to speak up for myself, to have confidence in myself, and definitely to fight for what is right. High school showed me how screwed some people could be based on racial views and so on, and from there, I learnt how to pick friends who had my back when I needed them, unlike those bastards who always used harsh racial terms whenever they were at the losing end.

2) Sing one verse of your school song.
. Gosh, I actually had to sit and think for a long time. Wait, wait, I know it.
“Like butterflies from cocoons we unfold”

3) What was your favourite question?
. Every single day, it would be the same
In an annoyed voice: “What he talking?”
“Who got sweet?”
“Now what time?”
“I’m hungry, when’s recess?”
“How many more periods to recess?”
“What’s after this?”
To Chow Jun Rong who always sleeps, “are you sleeping?”

4) Who/what will you remember from your high school?
. The teachers who never gave up on me. The teachers who didn’t care what I did in the past, and would treat me no different from the other kids. Friends, and unfortunately, enemies. Hahah. Everyone! Including the toilet cleaners, like Mdm Diana who works in the zoo now (I saw her!) , and even the stall vendors.

5) Any memories you will not forget.
. How much trouble I got into back in school. And definitely my friends who were with me throughout. Oh, and this time where the principal told me to tuck in my shirt and not go for the volleyball tournament to go support (I was in my crutches) and I threw my bag at her feet. Wah lao, damn attitude lah! Hahah. But she was damn shocked that I did it.

Okay, I'm done now. A little update on my schedule. Yesterday, I caught a movie with Syuh and Jeanice. We wanted to watch "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Buttons" but the slots that we wanted mysteriously dissapeared. Hahhah. We caught "He's not that into you" instead. It was a pretty neat show. I think I'll give it a 7 out of 10. But I think they did way too much for a PG rated show. Heh.

Oh and remember, I talked about the glowing nail polish in one of the previous post? Well, I found it! And I bought orange and light green (Syuh and I called it the original colour, but Jeanice insisted that it was LIME green). I've yet to do it on my nails. Instead, I met my brother my guinea pig, yes again. Hahah!

And after 'charging' it, it freakin' GLOWED! hahah! My brother has a glow in the dark thumb now.

Well, that's it for now.

Loves.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

There isn't a need for a title

There is one disease that all bloggers, or at least, most bloggers, suffer, from time to time. It's a deadly virus as it determines the life of someone, or something else. I do not know the name of the virus but I sure do know of the symptom and that is, to have no clue as to what to blog about!

If you've been heading over to my blog often, you'll realize that my posts have become duller and duller. And true enough, I admit that I am suffering from this deadly virus that may jeopardize the traffic of my blog. But then again, who cares? Hahaha.

I just can't seem to find the "Ummph" to find any interesting stuff to post about.

Maybe it's because I'm bumming around at home, or maybe it's because I've totally lost the "it" to blog. I don't know.

I don't want this blog to die just yet. And so bare with me if the rest of the posts start becoming crappy. If not, I'm going to set it on hiatus eh.

I'm going to find my "Ummph" now.

Loves.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Nail Polish

Edited.

Okay, I know I'm supposed to be sleeping right not, but Mr. Sandman hasn't called me to bed yet.

Anyway, moving on to today's post. Yes, it's about Nail Polish.

Did you know that there is actually alot of information about nail polish in wikipedia? Seriously!

Nail polish seems to have been originated by the Chinese around 3000 B.C. The Japanese and Italians are thought to have been the first ones to actually use nail polish. The Chinese used a colored lacquer, made from a combination of Arabic gum, egg whites, gelatin and beeswax. They also used a mixture consisting of mashed rose, orchid and impatiens petals combined with alum.^{[citation needed]} This mixture, when applied to nails for a few hours or overnight, leaves a color ranging from pink to red.

The Egyptians used reddish-brown stains derived from henna to color their nails as well as the tips of their fingers. Today, some people still use henna dyes to draw intricate, temporary designs on their hands in a practice known as Mehndi.

Chou Dynasty of 600 B.C., Chinese royalty often chose gold and silver to enhance their nails. A fifteenth-century Ming manuscript cites red and black as the colors chosen by royalty for centuries previous.^{[citation needed]}

The Egyptians also used nail color to signify social order, with shades of red at the top. Queen Nefertiti,the wife of the king Akhenaton, colored her finger and toe nails ruby red; Cleopatra favored a deep rust red.^{[citation needed]} Women of lower rank who colored their nails were permitted only pale hues. Incas were known for decorating their fingernails with pictures of eagles.^{[citation needed]} It is unclear how the practice of coloring nails progressed following these ancient beginnings. Portraits from the 17th and 18th centuries include shiny nails.^[1]. By the turn of the 19th century, nails were tinted with scented red oils and polished or buffed with a chamois cloth, rather than simply painted.^[2]

In addition, English and US 19th century cookbooks contained directions for making nail paints. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, women still pursued a polished, rather than painted, look by massaging tinted powders and creams into their nails, then buffing them shiny.^[2] One such polishing product sold around this time was Graf’s Hyglo nail polish paste.^[2] Some women during this period painted their nails using a clear, glossy varnish applied with camel-hair brushes.^[2] When automobile paint was created around 1920, it inspired the introduction of colored nail enamels.^[2]

Nail polish contains nitrocellulose which is available in many different grades and is measured by viscosity. Nail grade nitrocellulose should be used for nail polish, as opposed to industrial grade which is available for use in furniture finishes, auto-paints and other various non-cosmetic lacquer finishes. Nail polish manufacturers are known to use industrial grade nitrocellulose covertly to save money, as it is half the price of the nail grade nitro. Cosmetic companies should be aware of this practice when they are choosing a pan manufacturer.

So now you know what to put on when you're heading overseas.

Anyway.......

Being a young girl back then, I was pretty much a nuisance, and I was vain. Not only did I wear dresses with sexy cuttings and posed in them, I played and pretty much messed around with my mum's make up.

And nail polish was one of those "toys" which I will never forget.

You see, being so vain back then, I would change the colour, once every... maybe every week? To make matters worse, my mum bought those coloured mascaras and I used them to dye strands of my hair. Yeah, I was that vain.

There was one day, and being the kid that I was, I decided to paint my oldest brother's toe a bright red. I only did one toe before he shooed me away. And well, I hid the remover from him, so that he couldn't remove it.

And unfortunately for him, there was a wedding we had to attend just a few days away. Being a national runner, his days were packed with trainings and more trainings in those smelly sports shoes. And on that day of the wedding, he totally had forgotten about the red toe nail! And to make matters worst, we were rushing, and he wore sandals!

Yeah, his toe was pretty much exposed and poor him had to literally bend his toe every now and again to hide it. Hahah.

Well, enough about that. The reason why I'm blogging about nail polish is actually about something else. You see, Jeanice had her nails done in hot pink. Hot pink nails drifted to glitter pink nails, then to hot pink alien blood, and finally to glow in the dark nails.

Now we thought that it would be cool for our make believe idea to come through, for us to have glow in the dark nails. I was bored, sue me. So I decided to do some google-ing. And not only did I find forums talking about glow in the dark nail polish, but there are the ones that change according to moods too!

Click Here for glow in the dark ones.

Click Here for colour changing ones

Now who doesn't want one?!?!?

They look pretty cool and I'm trying to find ones in Singapore, but it's still in vain though. Do tell me if you know of any shops okay!

Loves.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Deep Inside Me, I know..

Do you dream , that the world will know your name?
So tell me your name.
(Tell me your name.)
Do you care, about all the little things or anything at all?
(Anything at all.)
I wanna feel, all the chemicals inside I wanna feel.
(I wanna feel.)
I wanna sunburn, just to know that I'm alive...
To know I'm alive.
(To know I'm alive.)

Don't tell me if I'm dying, cause I don't wanna know.
If I can't see the sun, maybe I should go.
Don't wake me cause I'm dreaming, of angels on the moon.
Where everyone you know, never leaves too soon.

Do you believe, in the day that you were born?
Tell me do you believe.
(Do you believe.)
Do you know, that every day's the first of the rest of your life.

Don't tell me if I'm dying, cause I don't wanna know.
If I can't see the sun, maybe I should go.
Don't wake me cause I'm dreaming, of angels on the moon.
Where everyone you know, never leaves too soon.

This is to one last day in the shadows.
And to know a brother's love.
This is to New York City angels.
And the rivers of our blood.
This is to all of us, to all of us.

So don't tell me if I'm dying, cause I don't wanna know.
If I can't see the sun, maybe I should go.
Don't wake me cause I'm dreaming, of angels on the moon.
Where everyone you know, never leaves too soon.

Yeah, you can tell me all your thoughts, about the stars that fill polluted skies.
And show me where you run to, when there's no one left to take your side.
But don't tell me where the road ends, cause I just don't wanna know, No I don't wanna know.

Don't tell me if I'm dying.
Don't tell me if I'm dying.

Those are the most awesome lyrics I've seen, so far. I really love this song, "Angels On The Moon" by Thriving Ivory. But I'm still pretty surprised as to how different the lead singer that I imagined in my head, to the real lead singer.

Close your eyes when you listen to him, then open it after awhile. You'll be amazed. Hahah.

Anyway, I think I'm becoming a stalker soon. And I blame it pretty much, on the entertainment industry.

See, whenever we watch Television and we see a certain show that we really like, we'll wait for it day in day out, to be premiered and shown on Television right? That was what happened when I waited for "No Reservations" to be premiered.

Then there are the shows that have episodes, like CSI. What's worse is that on AXN, they show different series together. CSI Miami, CSI Las Vegas, CSI New York, CSI crime scene investiagtions, and this would have me seated without moving an inch for 4 whole hours. I can watch it every single day, the same as I do for Ellen Degeneres.

And what's even worst than that, would be shows with marathons, like Survivor. Boy oh boy, would I be glued to the screen the entire day!

See, that's what makes us (I'm sure you watch tv too!) in fine bred stalkers. We can sit afar from the scene, without moving an inch, and watch all the action go by. We'll find all the information of her(let's put shows as a her, makes it more interesting. hahah) from wikipedia, yourtube, or any website just to be updated. We'll watch her so closely that a slight move would intrigue us.

We follow her daily schedule and sit and wait till she appears again. That makes us happy, oh so very happy. She may not have a clue as to who we are, but we sure do know who she is! Oh hell yes we do!

But for all we know, we can only watch from afar, for we are nothing to her. See, like stalker right!?!?

Anyway, below's my photo. Apparently, cam-whoring feels so... WRONG. Hahah. I need to detoxify my clean soul now.

And mind you, that thing below my lip isn't bird shit, white pulsating pimple, or anything you could think of. It's my bling bling! Hahah. It simple words, it's my lip piercing!

And no, my hair isn't long, it's longer than before. And yes, I do look constipated because I hate taking photographs. And yes, my hair is coloured. What colour exactly? I don't know. I had to work from backwards, from bleach to now, and trust me, you don't wanna' know how many times I redyed it. And no, my hair isn't permed. It's natural.

Loves!