I had a dream

In the dream itself I actually did question if I was dreaming because it seemed unreal. I looked around and felt that everything seemed real enough. And then I woke up and realise it was a dream after all. Ha.. Just remembered something about the dream. I hope it's not a case of ESP because I don't want it to really happen. It's not a bad thing I just don't want it. Bye!

F1 in Singapore

Not really a fan but it's great to have them here in our humble little red dot. =)



While looking for a picture, came across this blog about last year's race.

Well the first F1 night race kicked off in style yesterday in Singapore with large crouds and plenty of excitement. Now I'm not a big F1 fan (it's my dad's favourite cure for insomnia though!) but there was something pretty spectacular about seeing the F1 cars under floodlights in the middle of Singapore.

It wasn't just a night race, but a street race as well - with reporters saying it could quickly become the 'new monaco' of the F1 circuit.

Not very sure what that last line means, probably an F1 thing, but I'm sure it's a compliment. Ha..

Ah, wiki says,

The Monaco Grand Prix (French: Grand Prix de Monaco) is a Formula One race held each year on the Circuit de Monaco. Run since 1929, it is widely considered to be one of the most important and prestigious automobile races in the world alongside the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans (with which it forms the Triple Crown of Motorsport). The circuit has been called "an exceptional location of glamour and prestige."[1]

That's nice. Ha.. I find it a little weird to see the bus lane lines on the track though. Aren't the unrelated lines distracting to the drivers?

The only person I have heard of, besides Lewis Hamilton of course, is Jenson Button because he was in something to do with BBC radio 1 so I was kind of rooting for him. Plus, he's quite cute. Haha.. What do you expect from an F1 idiot? Unfortunately when I tuned in he was in position 8 or something and was a little surprised because I thought he was quite good. I hope I didn't jinx him or something because he ended up in the knocked out zone in Q2- #12.

I kept hearing his name but I don't really understand what's happening. =P I have absolutely no idea what goes on in F1. From what I could understand from what the guys on TV are saying, I think it's not the end of him in the race. Could be wrong. No idea.

I LOVE that I keep hearing "Singapore is the first night race". I like to be first. =P And I also liked to hear "Singapore" in the BBC radio news, which had been happening because of news related to F1. =) I like to see the cars going round and round, turning corners etc. Other than the atmosphere live on the grand stand, isn't it better to watch it on the telly because you get views from everywhere rather than just see cars zooming by? I think it would be more exciting if you were supporting a particular team so you look forward to seeing a particular car. Otherwise, somewhere high up where you can see more of the track would be better. Am I supposed to call them karts or cars? The drivers are going to have a lot of mooncakes to eat..

Loyalty

Being very kaypoh and patriotic, I read this msn article about celebrities linked to Singapore. The article was inspired by Chinese actress Vicki Zhao squashing rumours of an impending marriage to a Singaporean businessman, whom she's been dating for 2 years.

Referring to herself as a patriotic woman, Zhao said she loved her country deeply and 'will not get married with a Singaporean' - an less-than-subtle jibe at fellow countrywoman and recent Singapore citizen Gong Li.

Erm, does he know she doesn't intend to EVER marry him? You can still marry a foreigner and still retain your citizenship right? I'm not sure. I feel a little offended because she seems to imply that Singapore is beneath her, which I'm guessing is not her intention but I don't want to change my citizenship ever either. Plus, I think being a Singaporean is much better than..ahem. If you need me to finish that sentence please ask me privately. Ha..

Oriental beauty and acclaimed Chinese actress Gong Li also became a Singapore citizen last year amidst much controversy and accusations of betrayal from China netizens.

Rolling my eyes. Duh. Loads of people change their citizenships. Mind your own business. Why don't you yourself make a name for yourself and then not change your own citizenship? Gong Li has good taste. =)


Speaking of rolling my eyes, that Hong Kong drama on at 9pm has me doing that A LOT. I can't stand how the good people can't see how devious the villians are. I'm sure stupid people exist in the real world, but I can't stand them. (Aha, did you see that quiz that I took on fb? I'm kind, caring, but have low tolerance for stupidity. How accurate is that? Haha..) Anyway, a few weeks ago I read this reader's comment in the papers about Hong Kong dramas despite being like local Chinese dramas, have a lot of fighting in families and being perhaps a little too...I want to say "drama" but I want to use better English...over-dramatic? However, the reader said, Hong Kong dramas also have many sweet moments of family bliss and that's what make Hong Kong drama series more popular than ours. I agree. Just when I really can't stand that stupid woman, tables turn and the good guys get the upper hand. I would prefer the villians to be more likeable though. That's not impossible. Maybe they don't want to confuse the kids watching.

If you don't know about that Hong Kong drama about a rich abalone family, it's mainly about the second wife wanting to get half the man's assets after he dies. Actually I really like the premise of this. The first wife, many years ago, had cancer and wanted this second wife to marry him after she dies to take care of the family. However, she recovered. She didn't want to let the second "wife" down so was willing to let him marry her as the second wife. However, at this time, she was damn unlucky because the government just outlawed polygamy so he couldn't take a second wife. Not sure why she didn't leave at this point but she stayed and bore the guy a son.

Now, she is really bitter that she isn't legally his wife and wants lots of his money as compensation because she thinks she deserves it. She did some bad stuff, got kicked out, first wife's cancer came back and died, and the man just died in today's episode. That's a damn long introduction. Ha.. Are you still reading?

Anyway, second wife's son has a girlfriend whose family has read about his family's scandals in the papers and, misunderstanding, tells him he should not fight for inheritance and should be independent, and something to the effect that mothers are all faultless. Cue major eye roll. Thanks. I just heard recently on BBC that a mother killed her children to hurt her husband. I'm sure there are plenty of fantastic mothers out there who are selfless and love their children etc etc, but ALL mothers are faultless? That's bullshit. There are always exceptions. And there are exceptions to that sentence too.

So anyway, the son felt bad and the mother was telling him to attend a press conference with her to skew the truth a little, otherwise she would disown him. I must add here that he is very close to the good guys and lived with the family even after they kicked his mum out because he's a good boy. At the press conference a reporter asked him to describe his mother and he started saying good things and she looks mighty pleased. But after he started giving anecdotes, she realised he was talking about the first wife and she was furious but couldn't say a thing. Eventually he reveals who he was talking about and everybody got worked up and he said somebody told him "mothers are faultless" and he felt really sad hearing that because his mother was the exception. Aw... So sad for him but you should see that woman's face. Ha.. He also said he wished his real mother was the first wife. At least he did have a good mother even if she wasn't the biological one.


On a side note, didn't realise I missed dooce's blog until I read it after a while. Been listening to Scott Mills so much I keep hearing English voices in my head.

My face is sore from all the smiling =D

Did you watch the EMMY?? =) I loves NeilPatrickHarris. I always try to watch award shows to see people glammed up. Ha.. How shallow. And just to see what's good to watch etc. The only thing I remember of last year's Emmy was Josh Groban singing a medley of TV tunes. That was very good. This year, every bit with NeilPatrickHarris was awesome. Hahahah..

This, especially.



And of course the opening number:



My favourite line, a reference to a pretty girl in Mad Men (even though I haven't watched the show yet), is: “She could turn a gay straight; oh wait, never mind, there’s Jon Hamm.” I wonder if it was written in because he's gay. =P I wish I can sing like that. And have enough breath for that long list of TV stations!


Of course I'm bias but a few people on the show, in their acceptance speeches commended him. =) His fan site:

Glossing over the fact that (if you haven’t heard) Neil was robbed once again and even without Jeremy Piven being nominated, he lost the Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series award to Two and a Half Men’s Jon Cryer, the show has been getting rave reviews. If you watched the ceremony you’ll have seen many of the presenters praising Neil’s handling of the show, Jon Stewart in particular.

And the compliments don’t stop there. There are reviews of the show all over this morning and they’re all incredibly positive about Neil and the way the show was put together. There’s USA Today, Los Angeles Times, the LA Times Awards Insider, Entertainment Weekly, Zap2it, StarTribune, Reuters, the Arizona Republic and The Celebrity Cafe, to name just a few.

Emmys broadcast is a hit, and it starts with Harris

By Robert Bianco, USA TODAY
Neil Patrick Harris? So. Much. Better.
If Sunday night's CBS Emmy broadcast was the best in years — and it surely was — much of the credit goes to Harris, the show's dapper, constantly congenial host. Proving his Tony Awards stint was more than a flash-in-the-reward-show-host pan, Harris rescued the show from two years of reality-host miasma with style, grace and musical flair.

The tone was set from his opening number, a hilarious song salute to the TV season that was as well-written as it was performed. It was an intentionally elaborate shift from last year's infamously deadly start — the reality quintet confessing they had nothing prepared — and it did precisely what it was meant to do. It let the crowd at home and in the theater know they were in the hands of someone who took the job seriously and knew how to do it.

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You can watch some of the videos on EMMYs.com

I was pleasantly surprised to see in the ending credits that NeilPatrickHarris is the producer of the show. Explains why the show was awesome. Ha..


I was trying to find a picture of Kristen Chenoweth accepting the first award of the night, Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy and the second most popular search on google was "Kristen Chenoweth Height". Haha.. I wanted to say that she looked so damn tiny on that stage! And she's my height. Goodness I'm puny.

I found these pictures of her and NeilPatrickHarris announcing the Emmy nominees last year. If you think she doesn't look that short, it's because she's standing on a box. And she's so skinny too.



Look how high her heels are! Without them she'll probably reach NeilPatrickHarris's shoulders. Which means I'm as tall as NeilPatrickHarris's shoulders. =)



Ok enough gushing for tonight. Here's the Emmy In Memoriam, Sarah McLachlan - I will remember you

Stephen King and Criminal Minds

Oo Lost has french people on the island! Or they're spanish. I'm not exactly sure. =P Ok after a little research on wiki, confirm french. Anyway I only watch a bit here and there because it's after Criminal Minds (Season 4). I like today's episode. =) This season isn't my favourite because it's just mostly dark and depressing. But I love the twist in this ep. =) This is the one where guys on springbreak are murdered. At the end of the episode there's a quote by Stephen King:

“...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”

Went to check out the quote online and found many of his quotes here which are interesting too. Ah, feel like collecting quotes again. Had a collection from secondary school but stopped in uni.

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.”

“...So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.”

“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”

“People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.”

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

“I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.”

This week's postsecret

This is the first one this week. =) Funny..

Just saw a tweet

Wow, now I'm really looking forward the next season of American Idol! Ellen Degeneres replaces Paula Abdul

The ninth season of AMERICAN IDOL premieres January 2010 on FOX. DeGeneres will join the judges’ panel after the auditions, which will feature appearances by guest judges Victoria Beckham, Mary J. Blige, Kristin Chenoweth, Joe Jonas, Neil Patrick Harris, Avril Lavigne, Katy Perry and Shania Twain.

Kristin Chenoweth from Pushing Daisies and Neil Patrick Harris from How I Met Your Mother!

Distraction

Found a website Ads of the World.

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Jason Bateman

Is funny and cute. He was in Arrested Development and JUNO. Apparently some people think his little romance in Juno is a little gross, but I love it. Ha..

Crime TV

Just watched The Mentalist. Can't say it's my favourite crime series. Today's episode was about this rich, middle-aged widow who was knocked over by a car after she left a psychic's house who was telling her she was in danger. The main guy, The Mentalist, is really cute but the cases in the series aren't really that interesting. I only like 2 episodes' cases so far. The one where it was revealed the main guy, Patrick Jane, had a nemesis, a serial killer, "Red John", who murdered his wife and little daughter. This is probably the only crime series where I'm more interested in the police rather than the cases. The cases are usually quite obvious and not really touching stories.

I love Cold Case because the stories are usually very moving. The cases in the stories are old cases that were unsolved and they reopen the cases in present time because they have new leads. I like the flashes of past and present, what people looked like in the past and in the present, and how they unravel the stories bit by bit. I'm quite amazed that they are so patient to go to every related person, sometimes more than once, to ask them and piece pieces of the stories together bit by bit. Yup of course I know that's their job.

I like Criminal Minds too but I think the series seems to be getting darker and darker. Feels like most films nowadays inject humour even in seemingly serious ones. I like. =)

CSI: Miami is shown after The Mentalist so I've seen a few episodes. Quite like it. Not as dark and brooding as the main CSI one. The killer is usually not that obvious and most times when someone seems to be the killer, he/she has a legitimate explanation. Suspense is well held up. But I don't understand why that guy must always act cool and pose in front of the light with his sunglasses. Ha..

I'm so looking forward to Flash Forward! Read about it on tv.com and it's about these people who blacked out for a couple seconds and saw a bit of their future. Kinda reminds me of Heroes and Lost. Back to watching TV. Ciao!

Extraordinary People

Watching World's Strongest Toddler now. It's an episode of Extraordinary People (five.tv). The boy developed loads of muscles since he was born. He's adopted and I think they didn't mention his biological parents. His birthday is 1 September 2005 (Happy Belated Birthday Liam!) and he was three when they shot this documentary. They were testing his strength and put him through various exercises to test his strength and had another 3-year-old boy as..what's that term called? A constant? Erm, the normal one lah. Anyway little Liam of course did super well-he did 17 situps whereas the other kid could hardly do one. Poor other boy! He must feel so small. Ha.. But the adults were all really nice and encouraging and the atmosphere was very light-hearted so I hope he wasn't scarred by the experience. Ha..

Next week's episode is Tiniest Toddler. The little girl looks so cute!! Really really tiny. But the trailer said they don't usually live to adulthood so it's sad. Should be different from midgets then. Sorry, is that an offensive term? The series is very interesting. It's on okto, Mondays at 10pm.