Camp Comedy At St James 27th March 08

This is my first time watching a "Live" comedy show at St James. It started at eight and lasted about an hour 45mins. The two comedians, Kumar and Ali Wong were our stand-up performers for the night. On the whole, I enjoyed their performance especially Kumar. With his "Singaporean" accent and the recent news of Mas Selamat, politics and races etc, it's definitely worth coming to listen.


Camp Comedy Stage

I've managed to purchase the ticket for $38 which include 1 free vodka drink and Okamoto latex condom. For more information, log on to http://www.fly.com.sg . Call 6224 3188 instead of 6296 2929 as you might be able to negotiate for better deals.


Kumar In Action


Kumar In Action


Ali at Camp Comedy

Which Model Does Your Favourite EPL Footballer Drive?

In the annual "stars and their cars" survey by Nuts magazine, EPL footballers are seen favouring fuel-guzzling, high end vehicles. Check out some of your favourite idol like Rooney, Steven Gerrard, Cristiano Ronaldo and Frank Lampard on which vehicle they are driving now.

Unveiling Of Life - Sized Lego Ferrari - The 1st In Asia!

Lego Ferrari F1 1:1
The Lego Ferrari F1 1:1 model makes its inaugural appearance in Asia at AMK Hub! Using 146,000 of Lego System bricks, the 4.67-metre long life-sized model was built in Billund, Denmark.



Technical Specification:
Dimension : Length 4.67 x Height 1.17 x Width 2.27 metres
No. of Bricks : 146,000
Weight : 600 kg
Building Time : Development 975 hrs + Production 800 hrs



The show will ends on the 23th March.

Artistic Design Of La Salle

Entrance to La Salle

Which architect company design this magnificent school of La Salle? I did a search and wasn't able to find an answer. In the end, I contacted La Salle via email.


Rear view of La Salle

It's RSP Architects Planners Engineers (Pte) Ltd.
http://www.rsp.com.sg

Address :
LASALLE College of the Arts
1 McNally StreetSingapore 187940

Virgin To Sheesha

Two days ago, a good friend of mine took me to smoke Sheesha in Nasrin Restaurant, located at 12 Baghdad Street, Arab street. This is definately one of the restaurants I would recommend as the service is great. The food was not only delicious and it was pretty cheap too. I had Kuftah, a cup of mint tea plus some fries to go along. It was real full. We had our tobacco pipes while waiting for our meals to be served.



Interesting to note that the difference between Sheesha and cigarette is that it doesn't choke. There are many flavours to choose from. All you need is the burning charcoal, place on the tip and suck from the pipe. If the flavour becomes too heavy, simply exhale into the pipe till the chimney (illustrated below) produced little smoke. It lasted slightly over an hour and price is only $12.00!

Start Learning English From The Basics

I went to one of the local bookstore and purchased some assessment books to improve my written English. Browse through quite a number of books before the final purchase. Looks like I have to start from primary school learning the basics like grammar, vocabulary and nouns etc.

It all started with my job as an sales executive. I found myself having difficulties in expressing myself in terms of both written (emails) and verbal communication. This would be a good start for me.

World Billionaire 2008

World Billionaire 2008 is out !

Article from The Edge Daily

Interesting to note after reading the article,

by The Edge Daily :

- Warren Buffet has overtaken Bill gates to be the top billionaire in the world.

- China richest woman come from a 26 year old lady and her name is Yang Huiyan.

- Mark Zuckerburg, founder of Facebook, made a record as the youngest self-made billionaire to appear in Forbes' ranking



by Business Line :

- In Asia region, India and China are followed by Hong Kong(26),Japan(24)and Australia(14)in terms of number of billionaires.


by Yahoo Finance

- Bill gates has been the world richest person for thirteen years.

Rebutt A Telemarketer

I used to be in telesales line selling Asian Wall Street Journal ( Now it's call Wall Street Journal Asia). My manager, Edmund taught us the various methods of rebuttals and techniques which I found it pretty useful. Of course, there are those who slam down the phone straight after hearing unfamiliar voices, but majority of the people are willing to hold on what you are going to say for the first 5-10 seconds. Rebuttals can be picked up easily by adding some logics to it, but the real art of selling is to know how to control the situation by rebuttals and asking straight to the heart questions. In this clip, initially is the telemarketer that seize control of the situation, shortly Seinfield took over. You can try this when a telemarketer calls you. Excellent rebuttal by Seinfield! Classic!

Seen This Clip A Year Ago, I Still Think It's The Best

This video clip shows surfer, Mike Parsons, riding a super big wave. Not sure whether its from Jaws or at cortez bank. Source from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Parsons - Mike recently broke his record on January 5, 2008, at Cortez Bank, when he surfed an 80 to 90 foot wave.

Every year, Billabong XXL holds this kind of surfing competition and award $66,000 to any surfers that ride the biggest waves.

You dare ?

Winner For The National Vertical Marathon 2008

The winner for the National Vertical Marathon 2008 was 36-year-old Gino Ng which he finished in seven minutes, fifty three seconds. While for the women's race, it was won by 23-year-old Sumiko Tan Sok Hue which she completed in ten minutes and 41 seconds.

Source from http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/332354/1/.html

Unbelieveable!

Job Well Done For The National Vertical Marathon 2008

Registration counter for National Vertical Marathon - Republic Plaza

Woke up 4.40 am to prepare myself for the National Vertical Marathon held at Republic Plaza. (Paid $20 registration fee and participate under Men Open) As usual, while alighting at one of Orchard's bus stop to catch the MRT, caught hold of many sights of drunkard people either roaming or sleeping along the quiet streets in town..Hmm, this reminds me of organizing another drinking session with my friends soon. Anyway, I quickly got into the train and reached Raffles MRT station at about 6.15 am. Went straight to the registration counter to collect my tag and did some warming up before the race started.


My tag number

Everyone was moving at a fast pace till the 15th floor. This was when fatigue came in. I started from hoping two steps to 1 step at a time. Refreshments were available on every alternate levels. Some of the urshers cheered each an every individual participants and it helped a lot especially if there were like 35 stories left before reaching the top.

I heaved a sigh of relief after reaching the 60th floor, which was the top of the plaza. Drank some water before taking the lift back to the first floor. Moments later, I went over to one of the counters to collect my goodie bag. That's not all, the organizer has also came up with games, free photo booth and free gifts to attract participants to join in.

I enjoyed myself not only able to complete the 1380 steps but also on how well the staff have organized this event. Everything was in order from registering to the finishing point. Urshers and staffs were available at all locations. It was a great job done!

Unfortunately, this might be the first and last time participating in vertical marathon as this sport does put on certain pressure and strain to my knee cap...Sigh..


Assemble at Raffles MRT Station

For more info about National Vertical Marathon
http://www.ntusportsclub.com/nvm2008/webpages/home.html

If I'm A Jumper For One Day

Went to watch the show, Jumper with couple of friends. Not much of a plot. The main character, David at age 15, discovered his "jumper" skill when fell through the ice covering on a river and ended up lying on the school library. From there, the first thing that came through David's mind was to leave his abusive father and "jumped" straight to the bank to borrow some money for a living. David's eight years of luxurious life came to an end when Roland Cox started hunting jumpers down and he was no exception. There were several scenes from countries like Eygpt, London, Tokyo, Rome and United States where he "jumped" and was being chased.

I feel that David should pay more attention to class especially geography as his "jumped" only limited to these few countries. To answer my question if I'm a jumper for one day, the first thing would be to "borrow" some money from the bank. Show off my skills to the ladies and bring along my gears before jumping to Maldives, Mount Everest, Tibet mountains, Grand Canyon, Melbourne 12 Apostles. Think now it left only 9 due to erosion. Ferrari, Porsche? Well, I'm not really into automobiles, besides it pollutes the environment, so it's a no-no for me. Scenes in the show where I would also agreed to " jumped" : surf on the biggest wave, sunbathing at the top of the statue in Eygpt.