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I just watched ‘Hard Candy’� Eeky.

I don’t even know what to say about it. Psycho. Everyone in that show is psycho.

Shudder.

I found a simply delightful British comedy radio show online – I wish I could find more clips of it. I feel all English now (Eeeeengland, Aaaar – those who watched Russell Peters’ second online clip will understand, teehee). Toodle pip! Alrighty then! Jolly good!

It’s called “I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue” and it’s sort of like a radio “Whose Line Is It Anyway”. Awfully funny dry British humor. Here’re a few gems:

Undelivered Mail in History:

from Mona Lisa’s agent
Portrait sitting confirmed. Don’t forget – big grin!

Complete the Advertising Slogans

Does you does, or does you don’t take
ANSWER: English lessons, Mr. Prescott?
REAL ENDING: Access?

Don’t you just love being in
ANSWER: continent?
REAL ENDING: control?

Everything you want from a store, and a little
ANSWER: dwarf who carries your shopping
REAL ENDING: more!

Finger lickin’
ANSWER: is not recommended for a vet.
REAL ENDING: good!

Probably the best lager in
ANSWER: case you missed all the other ads.
REAL ENDING: the world

Have a break. Have a
ANSWER: quick crap.
REAL ENDING: Kit Kat.

Eight out of ten owners said their cats
ANSWER: from the back looked like pencil sharpeners.
REAL ENDING: preferred it.

The stain says hot; the label says
ANSWER: Don’t believe the talking stain.
REAL ENDING: not!

Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face with
ANSWER: Ponds’ face-hardening cream.
REAL ENDING: mild, green Fairy Liquid.

Movie Sequels:

Chitty Chitty Bang & Olufson
Watership Down & Then Back Up Again
Call Me Saddam
Bring Me The Whole Of Alfredo Garcia
Dickens’ Completely Realistic Expectations
Harry Potter & Sharon Stone

Teehee :P

Was up til 6am finishing today’s presentation because I only managed to get the textbook today and forgot to take my laptop home during the weekend.  Sob.

Well consolation is that it’s done and I’ll get it over and done with today.

I’m going to risk judgment and turn on my fan-girly mode here.

Teehee the sight of my eye candy can just cheer me up so much!

Omigosh he is so cute.  SO CUTE!

*squeeeeee*

I’m going to go to sleep with a big grin on my face teehee.

I reached my 100th rated Scrabble game today! On the record I have played exactly 100 rated games with the Scrabble Association in Singapore yey! It’s way overdue because I took a year off playing local rated tourneys after the 2005 Mill Cup.

Today’s tourney was rather unexpected. My Sundays are ridiculously precious to me because I work Friday nights and Saturday afternoons and Sundays are sacred for sleeping in and church. Then I got a call this morning at 9.30am. I refuse to pick up when I see Michael’s number; also I’d lost my voice and could only croak. Undeterred, he texts me asking me to come down because they’re short a player.

By this time I’m feeling rather awake after having concussed the previous night at about 1am, so I decide, what the heck.

Mistake. I get there and spend the rest of the day sniffling into toilet paper and coughing. Played rubbish and did rather poorly by my own standards because I just couldn’t concentrate well for the first few games. Medicine kicked in around lunch so I felt better in the afternoon and my game improved subsequently as well as my mood.

Anyhow. Game stats for the inaugural Grandeur 8 mini tournament, kudos to Michael Tang for organizing.

Average score: 359.09
Average opponent score: 384.09
Won: 5 out of 11
Cumulative Spread: -275
Rank: 8th out of 12
Biggest win: +92 (Toh Weibin)
Biggest loss: -192 (Ouch, Lee Guan Hui)
Some interesting bingos: none. Sob. I left my tabulation at home so I can’t remember how many bingos I played. I am rather proud of non-bingo QUEAZY (79) but nothing else particularly sticks out at the moment. Bah.
Current rating: 1599. I mean! SERIOUSLY! I just can’t seem to crack the 1600 bar. I can’t! I can’t! I am forever destined to languish in B division!! :(

Zoe Tay denies her ad’s possible double meaning, but others say it is in poor taste

SHE is known for her clean, wholesome image and is the ‘Ah Jie’ – big sister – of Caldecott Hill.

By Wendy Teo, from the Electric New Paper

27 August 2006

SHE is known for her clean, wholesome image and is the ‘Ah Jie’ – big sister – of Caldecott Hill.

So when Zoe Tay appeared in advertisements with suggestive-sounding lines, she naturally raised a few eyebrows – and induced a few sniggers too.

The lines, over a sexy picture of Zoe in bed: ‘My secret to beautiful skin? I swallow.’

The ads are for Imedeen, a beauty supplement in tablet form.

The sexual innuendo has not gone unnoticed and the ad has been making its rounds on the Internet, with many poking fun at it or asking if the actress knew what she was doing.

But the 37-year-old actress remained unflustered when The New Paper met her on Thursday at a press conference to launch the product.

Sporting a new short bob, Zoe admitted she was told about the tagline – which only appears in the English version of the print and TV ads and not the Chinese ones – beforehand.

Didn’t she realise that the lines had a possible sexual innuendo?

Zoe replied: ‘The concept was by the advertising agency, and I thought it was quite novel. I’m not sure why it is so unusual. It’s about tablets, and I swallow them.’

‘The meaning (of the words) is not this, so there’s nothing for me to mind. The campaign may be a bit direct, but I don’t see anything wrong with it.’

Her husband Phillip Chionh hasn’t commented on the ad, she said, because he’s been busy and hasn’t seen them.

But netizens, including blogger mrbrown, have been busy discussing it.

Wrote one called Penelope: ‘Either Zoe’s got a sick sense of humour or she’s completely clueless too. So malu (Malay for embarassing).’

Retiree Gabriel Tan, 66, also did not mince his disapproving words.

He said: ‘When you are talking about tablets, of course you have to swallow. There’s no need to emphasise that. It’s not classy. There’s no need to grab attention using such provocative means.’

Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s School of Business lecturer Adrian Er, 31, agreed: ‘Swallow is a term that we never use in advertising, especially beauty ads, because of the negative connotations. The ad may be trying to be clever, but it’s not delivering its message well.

‘The guys will get the joke, but you’re selling your product to the ladies. Advertisements (should) be sexy and sensual, but not offensive.’

FUN, SAYS COMPANY

Imedeen’s international communications manager Gywn Davies told The New Paper that the tagline was dreamt up by ‘two females in London’, and that it ‘brings a bit of humour and fun into the campaign’.

She said: ‘We tested the campaign in Singapore and (found) that it’s not controversial, but slightly provocative.’

At least several of Zoe’s fans we spoke to seem to be taking it quite well.

Quality engineer Joey Chua, 26, said: ‘Zoe is married and also a mother now. There’s nothing really wrong with her saying these things. I’m sure society is more open-minded these days.’

Another fan, Madam Denise Low, an executive in her 40s, did not get the sexual innuendo at first.

When it was explained to her, she said: ‘Why must people think this way? Imedeen is a kind of tablet, so of course you swallow tablets, right?’

The knowledge that sin is inevitable weakens the resolve to resist temptation.

The understanding that grace is freely available triggers the tendency to test limits.

Occasionally it so happens that circumstances cause you to grow closer to a person you’ve known for ages but never really got to know.

And then when you discover that this person has become quite dear to you, it’s usually a rather illuminating shock.

A pleasant shock, of course; when I realized that I care for that person a great deal. It’s nice to have someone I can banter with, for whom I can occasionally do sweet things just because I want to do something nice for that person.

What annoys me is when people take it the wrong way and immediately assume that romance is in the air.

Can’t a guy and girl be just friends?

My thoughts weigh down on me, heavy like small black stones in my hand.

I’m still not sure where I went wrong.

Due to my inability to resist a tall glass of cold home-made ice lemon tea, it’s five in the morning and I am still awake.

We just had supper, too – our usual pot of carrot and onion soup, Jap noodles and apple cheese sausages flash-fried with honey and onions. Mmmmm.

Quote of the day:

Xiaobin: Eh, what do you call people from Ecuador?
Me: Ecuadorians?!
Kaixin: No! Aqueducts!

This makes me happy. Lame jokes over late night hall suppers. Great food, great company, and idle chatter about soccer and politics and stuff. And then tucking Xiaobin in as she concusses on the floor.

Nope that’s not a dead body. She just refuses to get up and sleep on the bed so we had to throw a sleeping bag over her and stuff a pillow under her head. What to do. Heavy sleeper. Sleeping the happy sleep of the happy sleeper.

I need some sleep myself.

Ooh ooh so anyway this was me today :P  This was an exercise from Bad Hair Day 101: cover it all up with a funky head scarf. This one I bought from Yunnan. Actually finally sat down and went through all my Yunnan photos tonight, and it just brought everything back. The songs, the people, the lame dance. I had Kaixin and Bin in stitches just now when ??? came on and I couldn’t help but get up and dance. I can’t believe I still remember the steps :/

Okay even Barbie is asleep now. I should go lie down and try to get some sleep.

Nights :)