Saturday, February 25, 2006
finally found this video again, No, it's not Tammy NYP who has been hogging the Techorati top searches list recently,
i'm not gonna blog about her coz everyone else already seems to be doing that anyway.
Counterstrike : The Film
1st saw it on Itchy Hands about a year ago but then lost the link..i know i've shown this to some of my friends before but i still find it fairly entertaining..
if you've played counter-strike before (who hasn't?!?), or any FPS game for that matter, i think you'll enjoy it. =p
To go watch the video click on the link above, or simply download the 8mb file here.
Posted by ~z at 12:37 PM
Monday, February 20, 2006
ziyan [noun]: A person who makes a living suing celebrities 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com |
hmm...if all else fails, I should seriously take that into consideration as a career option...think i'll start with this dude. =]
Posted by ~z at 10:57 PM
Sunday, February 19, 2006
=)
1st FA Cup win over MU in 85 years but it was well-deserved..Crouch expertly crouching (excuse the pun) to head Finnan's cross in off both posts..it was the 2nd Liverpool-ManU match in a month and the difference this time was, the better team won. Gary Neville was inevitably booed and jeered at everytime he touched the ball thanks to his "celebration" at Old Trafford the last time and some jerk even threw a half-eaten burger at him when he went to the side-lines to take a throw-in. Kewell and Riise dominated the left flank in the 1st half and played well throughout. Hamann was my man-of-the-match though, effective in midfield breaking up the mancs' play the whole 90 minutes in the absence of Alonso..went to mamak with Log to watch the match, caught up a bit with each other..
Late in the match, the Reds got a free-kick about 40-yards from goal and as Riise lined up to smash the ball, Smith rushed out to block his shot, landing awkwardly on the ground..the medics were called on and he had to wear an oxygen mask and van Nistelrooy even turned away with a constipated look on his face...turned out he broke his leg and dislocated his ankle..whoa, i knew Riise's left shot is packed with a punch but i didn't know it could be that chun..ahah..Smith's world cup hopes are seemingly now over...erm, my sincere condolences goes out to him..though honestly i don't think he would make it into the england 1st 11 anyway..
read this in the star today..about the crooked or "scenic" bridge Malaysia was going to go ahead and build connecting to the existing causeway..a stupid waste of money all thanks to our neighbour's reluctance in building a proper bridge across the Tebrau Straits to replace the ancient causeway.
First of all, the causeway is not big enough to accomodate the increasing amount of traffic between the 2 countries daily. Other than that, the causeway is NOT A BRIDGE, meaning it's just a highway across the sea on a stretch of land man-made by filling rocks and concrete. In other words, the sea water in the straits is stagnant which means we get to see all that floating rubbish thrown into the sea by the typical Malaysian and visiting Singaporean.
It seems that Singapore will only build their half of the bridge if we agree to their blasphemous request for sand and our airspace.
Do they think we're bloody idiots?!?!
GIVE YOU OUR AIRSPACE?!?!?
They must be bloody idiots to think that we would be bloody idiotic enough to agree to that.
As my dad said, the islanders want a bargain for everything..but this isn't a fair trade-off, it's a bloody rip-off!! Do they actually think we're THAT STUPID?!!?
Here's what the Johor Baru MP said:
“It’s like saying, okay, we’ll cooperate to build a garden fence between our homes but you have to let me use your toilet and allow me to park my car in your driveway.”
bloody idiots.
Posted by ~z at 1:50 PM
Saturday, February 18, 2006
UPDATE : yb's post on the gig is up...here..
The BRIT Awards, or more commonly known as the Brits, following hotly on the heels of the recently concluded Grammys, saw the Kaiser Chiefs going home with 3 awards out of 5 nominations they garnered while Coldplay, James Blunt, and Green Day each bagged 2 Brits. For complete list of winners, go here.
Personal fav's Arcade Fire & Franz Ferdinand got 3 nominations respectively but both went home empty-handed. Arcade Fire losing to Green Day & Jack Johnson while FF lost out to the chiefs in all 3 categories they were nominated in.. not happy, but not dissatisfied either, so can't complain about the winners.
speaking of Franz Ferdinand, they performed in Singapore last nite. yoongbing went. my bro went. half of singapore went. (well, at least the cool kids).
my bro aredi told me he got tickets when he was back here during CNY, then a few days later, yb told me he got them too..jealous?? hmm..considering i knew all the lyrics by heart within a week of getting You Could Have It So Much Better, hell yeah, i was jealous..WAS..i've more or less gotten over it now, that's why i never posted about it the last couple of weeks..anyway, i had to miss 10 hours of classes if i were to make it for the gig and the only way i could get out of that is if HELP burned down and S$88 magically materialised in my wallet and my mother had so bad a headache from work she didn't realise i was gone for 2days....
*sigh* just hope i get to watch a FF concert before my time is up...think i'll add that to my list on 43 things.
eagerly awaiting yb's update n hopefully some pics of the concert that missed me.
mp3s:
Kaiser Chiefs - Oh My God (best song on the album IMHO)
KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See
(Winner of Best British Female Artist category)
Posted by ~z at 12:05 AM
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
desktop change
old wallpaper & skin:
my old flashy wallpaper: the cool-ness of the faded-window and rotating-brain-in-the-start-menu features were starting to run dry on me so i did a few tweaks:
kept the cursor skin coz i thought it still fits well with the new desktop look =]
can't stand the bland old green and blue taskbar? get Windowsblinds for neat skins and CursorXP for mouse cursor skins, both brought to you by Stardock.
Posted by ~z at 8:24 PM
Friday, February 10, 2006
I took a slightly different route on my walk home today and saw a sign i never realised before:
!!!
imagine parang-brandishing MPPJ officers knocking on your front door one morning for that piece of tissue you chucked into the drain last week thinking no one was looking.
just realised it was Grammy night a couple of days ago. i stopped following this award show ever since i stopped listening to radio. Well, coz it's become an award for any artiste whose single is most repeatedly played to boredom on the airwaves.
Anyway, i was happy nonetheless to find out in today's papers that Mariah Carey only grabbed 3 out of 8 nominations she garnered while patrick's fav U2 was the big winner of the night, taking home 5 Glistening Golden Gramaphones for the 5 categories they were nominated in. I'm not a big fan of Bono & co. but they beat Mariah Carey on my list anyday. Kanye West got 3 as well, while kin ming's future wife bagged 2 awards.
The only category i actually cared about - Best Alternative Music Album was expectedly and rather dissapointingly won by The White Stripes..not that i don't like them. Jack White is one of my all-time favourite songwriters. But it goes to show that even in a supposingly 'Alternative' category, the most mainstream act got the award.
The fact is that among the nominees -- Arcade Fire, Beck, Death Cab For Cutie, Franz Ferdinand & White Stripes -- most radio-listening, mtv-watching people probably only heard white stripes before and some probably heard of death cab, ff, and beck, thus the obvious winner..
was kinda hoping the brilliant musical geniuses of arcade fire would finally be recognised even though Funeral was actually out the year before. alas, music is still controlled by radio & mtv and until that changes, great music like Arcade Fire's will sadly be underappreciated. give it a try,
mp3:
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
(the file's kinda big-7MB, but I assure you your patience will be amply rewarded =p)
saw the star today? check out the Shoe comic...freaking hilarious...see it here.
Posted by ~z at 9:27 PM
Friday, February 03, 2006
quickie
okay, been a long time since i last posted..so here's a brief summary of what i've been doing the past week or so..left for melaka on saturday then headed on to jb for CNY celebrations...the usual stuff, loud talking and laughing, eating cookies, playing with fireworks, eating more CNY tid-bits, gambling a lil' just for fun..nothing i don't usually do during CNY..well, the only difference was i managed not to lose any money while gambling this time..=p and my pretty lil' niece is now 3 years old and getting prettier by the day..forgot to bring my cam down so didnt take any pics...GAH..
finally finished catcher in the rye. supposed to be quite good but i didn't really enjoy it..the narrator in the story, Holden Caufield's a cynical hypocrite and half the story is about him discovering new "phonies" at every corner..the plot, IMHO heads nowhere but at least his blog-like narration makes it less boring.
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." - J.D. Salinger, from The Catcher In The Rye.
a lil' quote from the book...makes you reconsider how you wanna live life, huh?.
btw, if you're wondering why the book is named so, the title appears notably once only throughout the entire book..Holden says he's always dreamt of being in a big field of rye and there are little children running about, and he has to make sure they don't fall off a cliff, thus "The Catcher In The Rye". if you like reading people's blogs about their daily lifes, this book might interest you.
on to football, transfer window's just concluded, with Liverpool's major signings being Jan Kromkamp, Daniel Agger, and Robbie Fowler, of which the latter's homecoming dominated headlines all over Merseyside.
dissapointing draw with birmingham. if benitez has a bogey team, its gotta be them, with 2 draws and 2 losses to them in the past 2 seasons. anyway, it wasnt that bad with chelski, the mancs, spurs and arsenal-the goners all dropping points..the devils remain consistently inconsistent, losing to blackburn (again) which means we're now only 3 pts behind them with 2 games in hand. =] next up, chelski. but more on that later..gotta start on h/w, been procrastinating way too much..
