Happy Chinese New Year

11 yr old Malaysian artist with autistic savant Ping Lian has done this country proud when he held his debut art exhibition in newyork. His piece 'Still Life - A Basket of Fruits I' (below) graced the cover of a Chinese New Year greeting card recently.

Happy Chinese New Year! Welcome the year of the dog!

Speed Trills

As a birthday surprise for a trill seeker friend, a gokart event was held at the Shah Alam Circuit. For many, including myself, it was our first and very exciting karting experience. Adorned with 'shower caps' beneath our safety helmets we took to the track in style. With scorching heat bets were made and sides were taken. Entertainment was plentiful - some went on a 'road less travelled', some spun, some crashed and one had a pillow overboard! Prizes went to the best drivers.
An afternoon of fast cars, beer & sunshine. Go team josh!

Banished!

Lake Superior State University recently released their 2006 list of words and phrases that should be banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness.

A few interesting ones are :

AN ACCIDENT THAT DIDN'T HAVE TO HAPPEN - ... so, do some accidents did have to happen? ... would it still be an accident?

97% FAT FREE - ... with 3% pure gunks of fat. Healthy? Nope, it's delusional!

BREAKING NEWS - Ron Jeremy pledged to keep delivering "I'm still working ... as long as the penis works I'm going to exploit it," he said. Is that breaking news!/headline worthy?

And a few more from previous years :

ALL NEW - in reference to TV shows... what's the diff b/w ' all new' and just simply 'new'?

CAPTURED ALIVE - How else could capture be? Captured dead?

SWEAT LIKE A PIG - Argh! Pigs can't sweat!

BLING-BLING - overused for glitter glitter decorative material

LOL - in IM land ... does anyone actually laugh out loud?

POSSIBLE CHOICES - ... and the impossible choices are?

RM10 fine

it's now been decided that the powers that be, Mykad applicants who failed to meet the 31Dec05 deadline must pay a RM10 fee. after my one failed attempt to apply for a Mykad before the deadline, i'm glad i didn't join the bandwagon of the truckloads of people who scrambled to get the 'free' Mykad by starting to queue at NRDs as early as 4am during the last couple of days before the year end.

Hmm... sometimes procrastination doesn't bring that much trouble!

Happy 2006!

Happy 2006 peeps! May it be a fantastic and productive year for us!

Bring on 2006 - NYE @ the penthouse. Awesome view of the fireworks. great music. lots of food. lots of drinks.

To old friends & new friends, it was great spending the night with u guys. *smuacks*

view from the top - fireworks!

farewell 2005 : reading of the 2005 resolutions.