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“..oh BUG OFF!!..”

Posted by shidyar on

It’s been excrutiatingly .. painful.. yes. painfull that’s the word.. a painfull last two nights..

Last night.. it didn’t occur to me it was OSCAR NIGHT.. yeah even though it was telecast LIVE in the morning they would screen it in the evening too for the benefit of the general population who didn’t catch it Live..Not that I’m complaining but i generally don’t like award shows.. they’re long.. draggy.. and boring. As it that wasn’t painfull enough, the entire mosquito population of Singapore just happen to show up in my room that night.. I mean it was buzzing ALL NIGHT..my arms .. legs and thighs.. tummy and chest (er I sleep in my boxers ..).. were all fodder for the marauding mozzies.I had at least 10-20 bites on my arms alone…they kinda showed up around 2ish-3…and by 5:30 i couldn’t stand it.. i just up and left my room went to shower.. Adik (in her towels) had a shock of her life i was up so early.. she’d been preparing to go to work (attached to NUH this few weeks).. She complained too of the mozzies..and showed off her battle scars from the night before.. we came to the conclusion that it was the dumpster sitting in the carpark that might have been the culprit of the sudden surge in the mosquito population in the area.It was one of those big tipping dumpster thingy that would load up the back of a truck and It’d been sitting there for 2-3 months now, and even though it had some form of tarp covering, we could see that there were holes in it, and the inside of the dumpster could have been a festering pool of mozzie breeders.

When I got home yesterday, however, the dumpster was mysteriously missing. I’m guessing some other residents began having mozzie misadventures and had complaint. When Adik got home later, she also commented,” heh the dumpster is gone.”

 So i’m thinking that’s the end of my mozzie mania. I .. WAS … WRONG…  bzzz bzzzzz *bite*thwap*thwap*bzzzzzzz*scratch*scratch* 

tonight .. i will wage war on the mozzies.. I will fight on the bed… I will fight in front of my TV.. I will fight on the window sill and on my cabinets. I will defend my body.. whatever the cost maybe .. I WILL NEVER SURRENDER!!

*mental note buy many many mozzie coils and insect repellent*

That aside, back to the Oscars..

Hugh Jackman for a very longtime has been on of my favourite actors. But i wondered how he would fare. yeah I know what I said about awards shows ..and the last few.. in fact up from 1984, the oscars were hosted by a comedian of some sort , who would give  a light hearted opening skit.  He didn’t fit into that mould.. yesh he is an Emmy Award winning Host (for the Tony Awards).. but..yeah  so i got to watch his opening skit on Youtube.. and wow.. just wow.. I guess he did a good job..

good stufff..

“.. Numb ..”

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Idol season is upon us once more.. and once more we sit back and laugh at some of the most ridiculous auditions… EVER…

AI is resorting to hiring comedians to auditions (not kidding you) but the priceless ones are contestants who are non native English speakers when they try to sing a big English song.. Of course we remember from Belgian Bulgarian Idol that girl who did Ken Lee… forgot?? lemme refresh your memory..

Now that we’ve set the tone of this post…  I’ve known.. well me and a lot of my peers both in life and music have always known that although Indonesians are a talented lot, their command of English is somehwat limited. When you do see Indonesian performers singing in English half the time they learn the songs phonetically. Meaning they memorise the sound it makes rather then actually understand what the song is about. Not all Indon performers do this , there are the other half that actually do sing in English (does that actually make sense). OK .. moving on .. from the half that learn their songs phonetically I’d give about 75% who do such a good job you wouldn’t know they are singing the song phonetically if you heard it, but when you see how they express the song (it usually doesn’t match what comes out their mouths) you know… oh you’d know..

so what of the 15% remainder of 50% of the total numbers of performers who DO NOT pull off the phonetic thing correctly or remotely close to the song? .. you get some guy spouting gibberish in the tune of an English song..

Like this guy….

 

I laughed so hard this morning.. I had to go poo.. yes.. not pee.. POO

“.. Jive Talkin’..”

Posted by shidyar on

Back in the day, when I was serving the nation as a conscripted soldier, I would look forward to the 10th of every month. That was when we got our measly allowance of $350. And with that money in hand, the next thing I would look forward to is Saturday Night. I would go to the Hard Rock Cafe, be it alone or with a group of friends, just to watch this band play.. That was then , between ’96 and ’98. They were arguably the best cover band in Singapore at the time… Now they are Playing at The Pump Room at Clarke Quay. They may have grown a little older, and they may have had a few lineup changes. But they’re still the best cover band in Singapore.. and what is jive Talkin’ without Jeffrey..

still sounding DAMN good..
makes me wanna jam with them on Open Mic Tuesday Nights at The Pump Room..  Don’t know if they still have those open mic nights.. It would be fun though.. if i can gather the balls to do it that is..

Till Next Time..