the wacky wombat weblog

 There’re 2 new things:

1. That new cartoon avatar that we have up on this blog, next to the welcome note, and next to the blog entries.

It’s our made-up Southpark characters. Me in my wacky hair, and him with his pirate obsession. :p

You can make one for yourself HERE.

2. My new Threadless tee is here! With a funny cartoon of a clown, puking rainbow.

It’s called Morning After. Apt. :p

look!

Nope, it’s called hibernation.

So, I haven’t been blogging lately. And I’ve been ignoring everyone asking me to blog, even tsewei. And they’ve all been asking why is tsewei taking over the blog, and even posting a Geek Speek blog post! Alright, calm down people. I won’t let this happen again. I shall hibernate less.

Here I am, giving an update of what’s been going on in my life since I last blogged. Was in Hong Kong early December last year to attend ITU Telecom World 2006 expo. Food there was nice, albeit a lil overpriced. Didn’t have much chance to go around HK though, stupid expo was held at the AsiaWorld Expo right next to the airport at Lantau Island. And then Benet came to visit in Tokyo. Spent a week going through some training and showed him what I know of tokyo (which is not much, btw). He’ll be joining me in Tokyo once the Immigration approved his work permit.

And then I went back home the week of Christmas. Flew into Singapore, and then travelled back to KL with tsewei. Met up with relatives and some friends. Ate, ate, ate. Everything I craved for. Ate and ate somemore. Bak kut teh, wantan mee, char siew and roast pork rice, mamak food and of course, mom’s home cooking. So sorry to the friends I couldn’t find any time to meet up. I had a strict eating schedule to stick to. Then checked out my dad’s latest venture into the fish farming business. Nice place. Refreshing. Retirement-friendly. And he’s only 50 this year. I’ll try to do that in 1 decade less! LOL!

Enough about back home. Kinda makes me miss it and want to go back again. Oh yeah, can’t find a Nintendo Wii anywhere here. Does it exist? I dunno. Wanted to buy one to bring home for the family - but just couldn’t get it anywhere. Gonna try this weekend at Kawasaki Yodobashi Camera outlet. Perhaps can find one out of Tokyo - wish me luck!

And Playstation 3 is everywhere. Boxes of it piled up at every store I’ve been. Poor Sony, first the blowing up lithium-ion batteries and now bad sales on PS3 barely 2 months past launch. Heads are starting to roll at Sony, I’ve heard. And let’s not get started about Blu-ray. Oh boy, sucks to be Sony right now.

Also, went for my annual medical check-up yesterday. No likey needles. No pain, just no likey. Luckily the nurse was quite pretty looking, distracted me from the sight of the syringe. So yeah, got pretty nurse here - then again, it was a private clinic. YMMV on public hospitals. Didn’t occur to me when she asked me which side would I like to get jabbed. So I chose my dominant arm. I’m a lefty, btw. Then it hit me when having lunch right after the check-up. How the fsck am I gonna eat hot soupy soba noodles with chopsticks on my numbing left hand? Smart move, luckily I’m almost ambidextrous when it comes to using chopsticks. Phew!

Alrighty, will write more over the weekend, especially if I scored a Nintendo Wii :p

P/S: Renault F1’s new car livery is hideous! I thought McLaren’s livery this year kinda sucked, but Renault knocked that one out of the park with a non-matching colour scheme. And what’s worse is when they continued letting Fisico have green colour on his helmet. Oh yeah, what’s with the fugly sidepod side mirrors, Pat?

It’s end of the year, time to relax a bit, and so, time to watch some trailers on Apple trailers and see which movies catches my attention.

Especially since I’ll be heading back to KL and cinemas in KL are cheap cheap cheap heeheehee. Of course, only if they happen to show any of the stuff I like. Cinema listing in KL really sucks sometimes. All you get is the big blockbuster, no brainer shows, plus the occasional stuff like Pontianak Menjerit or something. :S

So here goes. Movies that I’m looking forward to:

Babel - because the trailer was good — Brad Pitt does one heck of a voice-over narration. Plus, I like that it’s 3 separate stories about failed communications and attempts at reconnecting. The kind of stories that I like. And, there is a part set in Japan. hehe. Don’t ask me why I find that appealing. It just does.

The Good German - because it’s in black and white, and because there’s George Cloony, and Cate Blanchett. And it sounds like an interesting take on the other side of the war story.

Fur – because images of Nicole Kidman are always good to look at. She can look haunting, beautiful, sad, all at the same time.

Borat — because it’s funny!

Notes On A Scandal — because it looks like it could be a very gripping story, with a very intriguing character played by Judi Dench. And there’s also Cate Blanchett (hmm, she’s appeared 3 times on my list already (+ Babel), though I never had special preference for her performance. Busy year for her, must be).

Letters from Iwo Jima — because the music on its official site sounds beautiful. Serene, yet a sadness underlying it. (haha yes, lame reason, but music matters). Also, intriguing to watch Clint Eastwood direct something acted mostly by Japanese. And this time, unlike other American movies, foreign language remains as foreign language. Japanese seems to be the main language in this film, or at least judging so from the trailer. I absolutely don’t like movies about Asia made by Americans where everyone in the story speaks English, albeit in a funny accent (first example that comes to mind, Memoirs of A Geisha. How annoying can it get?) I don’t normally go for war stories, but maybe I’ll make an exception for this one.

300 — because it looks like a moving graphic novel!! (mainly because it is inspired from one). The visuals are stunning (as far as I can tell from the trailer of course). Must watch! Hm, though I must say the rain of arrows shot reminds me a lot of a similar one in Hero (英雄).

Confession of Pain (伤城) — well, I first decided that I wanna watch this when I saw the production stills in a magazine. Looked too beautiful to give it a miss. Plus, got Tony Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro. No need further explanation. *side note: I saw their behind-the-scenes featurettes, and eee, so nice, all the stuff they could do with all the equipment and all! I want i want!*

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer — Ok, it looks like a freaky twisted murder story — not my usual kind of thing. But somehow the trailer worked for me. Maybe it’s the topic. I’ve always liked how a scent and a smell can evoke a lot of feelings or memories. Like how when you catch a whiff of something, and it suddenly brings you back to something from long ago. So the opening images from the trailer really caught that. Ok, although the story isn’t really about that (it’s about a guy with a talent for scents who kills women) but yeah, intriguing all the same.

And just so I can relax and do nothing, here are a couple of fun stuff that I think I might watch: A Night At The Museum (cos got Ben Stiller, and he’s usually funny). And Charlotte’s Web (cos sometimes you need some fun kiddie show to watch).

Ok, so I’m writing all these down so that I won’t forget what it is that I wanna catch. Now just pray some of these stuff actually gets shown here soon.

Just had a brain wave. I’ve a 3G phone, so i’m putting it to good use beyond just calling n sms-ing n snapping photos. Unleashing my inner geek: This is mobile bloging, aboard an mrt! (n i’m bored.) Exams are finally over! I can finally stop reading text books n think about my fyp, n not feel guilty watching too much tv. (i’m so sad that gilmore girls n Las Vegas are no longer as good). But in any case, i just realise i can’t paragraph this. >.< So here ends the mobile blogging experiment!

Chess is never my thing. An intellectual game? Yes. But seriously, it’s too boring and I won’t sit through it to prove my intellect (or the lack thereof).

Puzzles are Ok. It’s fun, only if I can at least solve some.

But throw in a few cute animated cows, some hay stacks, and the coveted animated throphy, somehow this puzzle game becomes a whole lot more addictive!

I’ve been playing this sorta as a fun thing to relax and unwind after school. But now I’m stuck at level 34 and my cows are going nowhere!

I like that it’s such a simple game: your aim is to get the grey cow to the trophy with the arrows given. But it’s challenging at the same time yet not beyond solving (so that I can feel a little smarter hehe).

Guess I’m just not much of a 3D gamer cos it makes me dizzy and I can’t navigate 3-dimensionally. Old fashioned linear games like Mario are my kind of thing. Which is why I’m so happy some smart tech geeks did an emulator system (or something) and I can play good old Mario online HERE.

whee!

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I can’t help but to post this clip up. Check it out and decide for yourself:

As for me, I think the floodlight on the court is much brighter than the 2 of them combined… ROTFLMAO!

I tend to set ‘quests’ for myself when I’m out shopping. The quest for the perfect-affordable dress. The quest for the perfect-funky-not-too-formal-and-high-enough pumps. You get the idea.

Most recently: the quest for the perfect-stylish-colourful-without-being-ah-lian sneakers.

And omg. I think I just found it.

While browsing through the rest of the Victoria’s Secret online catalogue, I spotted the word “sneakers”.

*click*

eecks! They’re exactly what I’ve been looking for the past 2 weeks!

*drool* They’re the perfect match between funkiness and practicality. Unfortunately the price isn’t very practical. Even with the exchange rate between USD and Singaproe Dollars getting better, 65USD = 104SGD. *choke*

Sigh. This VS online shopping spree is driving me crazy. haha.