B: “These balloons are great ; they are still floating after almost a week!”
Me: ” You know how they make them?”
B: “??”
Me: “For each party balloon, they kill a small child. Then they trap their souls in each. It stays afloat because the tiny soul is trying to reach out to heaven. 
“
I haven’t actually seen this article till today and although I do like the two YOG mascots, somebody has got to do a better job of introducing the story behind the duo.
Come on, I write better background stories for fictional characters in a fantasy 2D game. I’m sure the creative minds behind these two should be able to do a lot better or at least put in the effort to continue ‘selling’ the story beyond just marketing campaigns.
The “epic-est” part has to be reasons on why Merly has legs. I did a screencap below before anyone updates it.
1) She has legs but that is because she is still young. Like other merlions, her legs will grow into a tail as she matures. Insufficient information is known about merlions, as only five exist in Singapore and they are all quite old.
- Shouldn’t it be the other way round? Like how tadpoles grow legs from their tails. And I had no idea that we had five merlions in total who are ‘quite old’. So are they still alive? Do they play chess and drink Bak Kut Teh, or do they only survive in the Singapore River because they have fins and not legs?
Mind-boggling!
2) She fell in love with Lyo when they met. Being a romantic and an avid reader of mermaid stories in her childhood, she decided to grow legs so that she could join him.
- Don’t believe a word Princess Ariel tells you! The REAL little mermaid, who has 5 (debatable number) sisters died at dawn and turned into bubbles because the silly human prince didn’t marry her in the end and she couldn’t bring herself to kill him and smear his blood on her legs so that she could regain her fins and go back to her underwater kingdom. Stupidity x Love = Romance
3) She is a mixed race merlion. Her mother was a merlion but her father was actually the lion that the prince saw when he landed on the island.
- so why is she blue and white? Are merlions ang-moh then and does that make Merly a Eurasian?
4) She is special.
reason #4 gets my vote.
Full article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyo_and_Merly
I was looking for a writing pad/unused notebook for my ‘lessons’ with Kaye tomorrow, and I found my old notebook used for school.
Ah, the memories. Seems like a long time ago when we were in school.
“We’re burning down the highway skyline
Qoo in a tub
Is that a gingerbread monster?
Yes, the slides were so boring that my stickman had to shoot himself in the head. Anyone remember this paper conversation?
And I swear I have no idea why scrying came up in the exchanges. I think it was for the pop quiz. We didn’t have any die with us, so perhaps another method.
Then YOU gotta present in short tongue and extremely oz accent. Sorry, but if you remember who you are, can you let me know?
For this portion, I’m pretty certain the other party is JOEY HO! Here’s teh super sian look again -__-”
Here’s the original breakfast club – Bread, Milk and Butter
It is never complete until…Plankton shows up. And some random anime looking guy.
My happy Murakami flower and TKDK poison apple. No idea why there was the worm. There’s a mind map about plots and breakers too.
That shooting star was definitely for Joey ; Feather is my name.
It was meant to be a doodle of my name, then it got out of hand and grew into a Burtonesque monstrosity
Please dial ‘M’ for murder
Anyone wants to claim this Hedgehog?
He doesn’t look a thing like JesusI’ve already seen the Sorceror’s Apprentice about a week ago, so I have no idea why I had the mish-mash dream I had last night.
The situation was weird, as with most dreams. The location was at some sort of dormitory and both Dave and Becky Barnes were there. I knew it was a school, but I also knew that the other people there were all super heroes of some sort* (i.e. people with abilities). But there was another bunch of teenagers there who were doped up and then there was a raid.
So it was kind of a sticky situation, where you have ‘heroes’ a.k.a the good guys, who were in a place with doped out people and in possession of substance. And jeng jeng jeng, the raid was led by an ‘anti-hero’ character. Not sure who.
Then everything else just became fuzzy and the only other thing I remembered was the open-air toilet seat.
Gonna lay off the tea before bedtime.
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Attended a bloggers’ engagement event at The Grand Park Hotel yesterday evening. I managed to drag my dear Jacq along for the event too, since it was something different to do on a work day evening!
So when we got there, we were greeted with a whole lot of people. If I was right, most of them were from the company. The event started only around 7.30pm when we were told to be there from 6.30pm onwards. (Yes, we should’ve gone for dinner first, instead of trying to be punctual and then starving the rest of the evening away)
Sure there was finger food, but an odd combi + obviously not enough for the number of attendees there.
Recently became the proud owner of a GHD hair curler/straightener. It’s so hard to use!
Apart from being able to straighten my hair quickly, I only managed one successful attempt at curling hair.
P.S. if you have any hair curling tips.. please share! 
Received the CDs and DVD from Silvia !
That sweet girl sent me a mix tape too… and its literally a tape.
When was the last time you played a tape? (or even saw one) It’s awesome! Luckily mummy still has a tape player at home.
Ssshhtereo!
A good way of getting out of the mundane cycle of work life is to do something completely different from what you would normally do.
Like shopping, watching a show, hanging out with friends, etc.* PpPbBbbtbT!*
#1
I’ve already had the good fortune to attend Urbanscapes recently and got back some more photos that were shot that day.
Good times x 2.
#2
I finally got my wish to ‘jam’ with the boys from The Dividers. And that killed my rock star dream, well sort of. I just don’t want to come across as one of those hysterical idol contestants who keep on screeching and don’t know when to shut up.
Any hoo, my rockstar bf also got into the fun and I think he would’ve made a better fit for them anyway. Nice to see Sal over skype too. The 0.5 second lag was just too funny. I think I should just stick to my shower concerts and ktv showdowns.
#3
Lomotion
Okay, that was almost 3 weeks back already but it was fun. And upcoming will be in October where we’re gonna be helping out in organizing Sunny Rehab ’10. First meeting coming on 17th July. *excited*
Looking forward to the short break next week and the weekend of course. Bais’ wedding is tomorrow, so hopefully will be seeing some folks from VE/AE last time.
Sounding like a piece out of Moulin Rouge’s Bohemian revolution! Well, close enough I suppose.
It was a great weekend spent with Luc and a privilege to finally catch Kyoto Protocol live on stage at Urbanscapes 2010. Traveled up on Thursday evening after making sure Muffin was feeling much better. Poor boy had to stay 2 days at Mount Pleasant Hospital due to his irregular blood cell count, caused by blood parasites. But he’s recovering now back at home, just want him to be back to normal soon <3.
Took the usual coach up from Concorde… and I was the only one boarding from SG! Thankfully, I had a small companion with me. (Plus the driver was very friendly)
(L) Excited!
(R) London Choco Roll
They also provided London Choco Roll! Usually it’s the pandan one..which is as good. Keeps me alive for the 5-hour trip. T_T
Bring-your-gf-to-work day
I also sat in the LowYat.net office on Friday and saw the boys (and girls) hard at work (and play) too. So trying to make myself useful, I guest wrote for LYN’s sister portal, Applemint.com. Article pending approval from editors. Will update the link soon!
The thunderstorm that happened in Singapore moved swiftly to KL and everything turned dark and gloomy soon after lunch.
(L) Work gets too far away
(R) Seeing doubles again
Met Fuad and Sarah for lunch at MV. It’s nice to meet the people behind the twitter handles and must add that they are really nice people too. Even though poor Sarah was being stressed out and pissed off that day. =/
A KL trip is not complete without meeting Liong (Fiong) and to help his weight-gain program, we had Carl’s Jr. And we had tea afterwards. So after that fattening fast food … I was banned from my delicious cupcakes. *Sobs*
KLue Urbanscape – The City’s All-Day Creative Arts Festival
Bought my pre-sale ticket (RM30) from Rock Corner on Fri evening for Sat’s Urbanscape, having no idea what to expect, what I would see or how the outdoor performances were going to be like. Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised when we arrived at Sentul Park where tons of people and number of tents greeted us at the entrance. It was a great turnout and apart from the flea market, there were painters and performances going on the whole day.
More pictures to come when my roll gets developed <3
The opening act at the Lawn Stage was An Honest Mistake. Very…youngish but they have a good sound and I love the electronic violin. Had a pretty good shot of the violinist to share later.
We zoomed around the festival and I bought buttons plus…CHOKI-CHOKI. 2 for RM0.50 . How awesome!! They also sold TOYO and Ding Dang snacks. Lala would be squealing too.
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If you hadn’t had a Choki, you haven’t lived. Or you’re born after 1991. *DAMNIT!*
Also saw some other acts, including super popular Yuna. I personally liked Najwa a lot, her sound was great and I loved her voice! My favorite song from her set was Got To Go.
The sweltering day was obviously not dampening any of the festival goers’ spirits. There were tons of cameras going around and saw some great film cams too. It was such a great feeling to just be in a foreign place and yet feel surprisingly at home.
Finally, at 6:30pm… the highlight of my visit to Urbanscape.. KYOTO PROTOCOL! *fan-girl scream*
Sorry for the poor quality, but the energy from the band was just friggin’ awesome! Obviously 124,634,831,674 x awesom-er live. Caw x 7
KP pictures from Luc’s stream, see the rest here.
Picked up some postcards too from the marketplace. Here are my ‘spoils of war’.
(L) I am a proud Junkie <3
(R) Beer,Balloons and the Boys
I had so much fun! And I didn’t want the weekend to end 
Glad that I made this trip up.
*P.s. And thanks baby <3 for everything.
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