Been 9 days since my last post. Was real busy, now that school has started and all that.

Anyway, couple of things that picked my interest.

1. Kaira Gong
2. NDP 2006
3. IPPT/RT Defaulter
4. Guo Mei Mei
5. Mi Lu Bing
6. Audition SEA
7.镇发活海鲜

Kaira Gong
The girl can sing ! Seen her in real person before and I was standing less than 3m facing her for about 15 minutes… she looks very …. normal. But well plus points for looking good in the parade, the first costume looks bad though.. but queen status ? nah…

NDP 2006
Caught the Parade on TV. First time in 8 years to ever watch a National Day Parade. Did it probably cause I wanted to see how the kids fare. Performance wise was pretty great, but as all NDP Parade segments, the Defense forces marching in and parade portion was just…… draggy…. And of course.. the kids were great ! Other than a couple of tired faces.. and a couple of un-sync movements during closeup.. guess they were splendid.

IPPT/RT Defaulter
Went back to CMPB yesterday for orders for missing RT. Stated my reason and proved to them that it was a system error. The Investigation Officer was at a loss of words. Obviously, it was so much of a mistake on their side. But as usual, SAF being SAF… trying to minimise unneccssary work… (well, its problematic taking off a charge from their system) Still carried on with the charge, but a reprimand. which hardly had one… but I was still pretty unhappy of getting a charge and wanted to challenge the charge, but before I can say anything the DO ranted on, ” Do you plead guilty ? If not, the case will be adjourned to Court Martial Center on a seperate session.” Well heck. Would be damn dumb to have to go for a seperate session, and having higher stakes, when I practically was not punished at all. Anyway, still think the military discipline system is full of crap, and should be done by an external organisation and not SAF themselves. Darn unfair to the soldiers.

Guo Mei Mei
Just saw a video on YouTube that day, just found out that Guo Mei Mei was actually discovered on a Singapore Variety Show by Quan Yifeng and Zhong Qin. This was long before they had the faceless album cover thingy. Pretty sweet young thing she used to be, although she had problems with her nerves. But caught another video of her in a taiwan concert or something like that.. she really needs some fattening ! But still, the song 不怕不怕 is still an irritating ring to my ears.

Mi Lu Bing
I never ever watched an episode of Singapore Superband, but sort of caught the name milu bing from one of the students. Watched a couple of their videos. Honestly speaking, their vocals on ballads are mediocre. But the rendition and creativity is really SHOW material especially their item 小微. Nevertheless, guess they deserve to win Superband competition. But surviving in the industry ? Maybe better than that Rat Face runner up of Singapore Idol and that 7-11 poster boy.

Audition SEA
Was pretty bored on saturday so caught myself trying on online game called Audition SEA, its a dancing game, that uses the keyboards much, something like PS’s Bust-A-Groove… Was pretty excited over the game for the first few hours, but.. that was really for the first few hours.. there’s no growth in the game… and that is enough to make me stay with the game.

镇发活海鲜
It must be the Shark’s Fin. No doubt about it.

Interesting piece of information I recieved in email…

There was a study done where a control group of 100 people were divided into two. - 50 people watched a very funny, tears-of laughter type movie. - 50 watched a very sad and tears of compassion type movie. At the end of the sessions researchers collected the “happy tears” and the “sad tears” with eye droppers. They found that “happy tears” are made up of brine…salt water and not a great deal else. However the “sad tears” were found to contain the very same chemicals and enzymes that are found in tumours, ulcers and other such lumps and bumps and sicknesses through out the body. This test concluded that the body, when crying in sadness etc is literally flushing out all of the toxic-chemicals that accumulate and are a part of the sadness /heart ache experience. Therefore if one holds back those tears, those toxic-waters will find somewhere else to deposit themselves…..and prolonged lack-of-crying-release will guarantee that the body will accumulate a huge amount of internal pollution and toxicity that should have been released through the tears……..is it any wonder that the eyes sting so much when we hold back our tears?”