The Secret Mission… Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! On workday mornings, either KuKuNehNeh (KKNN) or myself will send a morning greeting to the other via email. Since she cannot use tools such as WLM to communicate, the emails are our way of keeping in touch with each other during work hours and gossip about the latest happenings in the world, Singapore, the blogosphere and you. YA…. YOU!   On the 2nd of October, she sent me an email like any other workday except that the content made me as guilty as a kid who broke his mum’s favourite dinning glasses.   I COMPLETELY FORGOT that it was our 14th monthsery! And I had already promised to attend the Samsung event that day at Vivocity and we decided to not celebrate it. KKNN went to hang out with her friends after work at Deborah’s place and I headed down to the event as promised. I am not much of a romantic and I decided to do something spontaneous to hopefully make up for my forgetfulness. After the event, I decided to travel to her place at Ang Mo Kio (AMK) to surprise her and spend some time together. KKNN is not much of a flowers person and so I bought beer and 3 of the fried chicken wings that she digs at the coffee shop nearby. In order to ascertain if she was already home, I text her along the way to AMK but she failed to reply me. As it was already 10+ in the night, I assumed that she had pigged out in her own bed and so I went ahead to buy the stuffs at the coffeeshop. While waiting for the chicken wings, I got a call from her. “Hello?” KKNN said groggily. “Hi Dear! Where are you?” “I just woke up. Still at Deborah’s place. I fell asleep while they were playing poker.” “Ah? It’s late already and you got work tomorrow. Why don’t you go home to rest early?” “I still waiting for Huiwen leh~” “Huh~~~ Go home earlier lar!” “Never mind lar. I will wait.” “Okay lor. Text me when you reach home hor?” “Okay!”   Failing to convince her to go home and not wanting to spoil the surprise or pressure KKNN to go back early because I am heading for her place, I decided to wait it out at her void deck. It was about 10.45pm when I reached the void deck and little that I know that she would only come back at around 11.40pm. So I spent 1 hr sitting at the bench, accompanied by a foreign worker who was sleeping soundly two benches away with the cold beer turning warm and the piping hot fried chicken wings turning into soggy remains of a cooked chicken’s body part. I was plurking away on the incident to keep myself entertained and finally got a text from her that she was heading home. The sounds of a taxi greeted me as I hid behind a wall and I appeared in the open once I heard footsteps approaching the lift landing. Well, the lady whom alighted from the cab and saw me grinning from ear to ear at the lift landing near the stroke of midnight that day wasn’t KKNN. WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA!!! It was just a stranger who was probably prepared to kick me in the nuts if I followed her into the lift. The moment of awkwardness was simultaneously greeted with the sounds of 2nd taxi stopping at the corner and a bewildered KKNN coming out of the cab and seeing her bf who was supposed to be at home but was waiting for her at the lift landing. “DEAR! WHY ARE YOU HERE?” A smile formed on my lips and I said, “Happy 14th Monthsery my Dear~” I Was The Top Model for a Samsung Event The nice and ‘not-afraid-to-make-balding-jokes-at-himself’ Daniel Goh of youngupstarts invited me for a Samsung event for the new INNOV8 phone. It is a really cool phone and I would really consider it if not for the fact that I own a great phone already. Do read all about the INNOV8 here. Daniel who looks like he was pointing his middle finger at the TV (but was not. Really.)     After a tour of the Samsung flagship store at Vivocity and some introduction to the INNOV8 specifications and functions, the bloggers were introduced to a contest where 3 of us could walk away with a spanking new INNOV8 phone! All of us were given 30 mins to take 3 pictures on what inspires us about the INNOV8. Of course I didn’t win. If I had, I would be boasting about it by the 2nd paragraph in this post. Anyway, I realized at the end of the 30mins that I was the most used ‘model’ in the contest. No less than 3 pictures were of me! Molemole’s entry Nadnut’s entry Sylvia’s entry   I know you all will think that those who used my pics all didn’t win but ONE OF THEM WON HOKAY! Congrats to Rinaz, Esther and Nadnut who won! SMB4: Bloggers - Credibility VS Popularity “Social Media Breakfast (Singapore) co-founded by Derrick Kwa and Daryl Tay with the aim to build up the social media community in Singapore, regardless of individual usages, be it personal, work, school or play.”   This is the 4th time that Social Media Breakfast (SMB) has been held and my 2nd time attending after breaking my SMB cherry at SMB2. Truth to be told, I was quite confused on what SMB is all about during my 1st attendance but SMB4 has certainly shaped to be of a more structured event with the presence of topics and a panel to guide the discussions. Being the 1st time this has been done, there were definitely downsides to this structure as the audience had minimal participation in the discussions and despite it being very interesting with the witty and experienced panel, it felt a little one-sided. One other point is that even though some of the panelists were bloggers themselves, they spoke more for the PR agencies and the corporate companies that are engaging in social media and I hope to see a blogger without such affiliation or experience in such companies to be a voice in the panel. A point that is raised by the panellists briefly about engaging bloggers is ‘Credibility VS Popularity’ and the importance of not engaging in bloggers that are popular but not credible. Apart from morals, credible bloggers are deemed by most people as those who blog about niche stuffs. Bloggers who concentrate their blogs on certain topics such as technology, photography, food, social media and if you think about it, sex as well. Popular bloggers in the local scene are usually not the niche bloggers. Just look at the reigning blogging queen, Xiaxue and you will know what I mean. These bloggers treat their blogs as avenues to talk about anything that is in their lives. I am one such blogger and one of my posts can be about an amazing new website that gets you from point A to point B or about making fun of perverts on mIRC and the next can be about how much I love to fart in my hand and smell my fingers. I am not saying I really do but my point is that bloggers of my genre just blog about almost anything that happens in our lives. We are Life Bloggers. Many make fun and frown upon such bloggers such as myself but I like to see that we deserve recognition. Niche blogs may be relevant to companies and products but Life Bloggers are relevant as well! We may not all be able to tell a bit from a byte or may not be able to take a picture that will wow your panties off and won’t be able to tell you that the Char Kway Teow at KuKuBird Street is 0.26 marks better than the Char Kway Teow at Cheesepie Avenue. We may not have the grammar and finesse of a drunk Oxford English Professor but we still draw in readers that come back and read the content that we spew from our lives and perspective. I know it’s hard to draw relevance to products and services for us Life Bloggers but if PR/Ad agencies do a little more homework and engage the right popular Life Bloggers that adore your products, I can ensure you that we do great jobs in convincing our readers that the KuKuBird Street’s Char Kway Teow is much nicer. It’s All About Perspective A simple print on a bedsheet.               Sitting on top of the print…   It’s all about Perspective. Explaining the Bulge at the Crotch Area to a 3-Year Old I was at KuKunehNeh’s (KKNN) place and was playing with her 3-year old niece called Ashlee. Ashlee has a little difficulty pronouncing my name and usually ends up calling me, “Uncle TWISSSSSSSS!“   She is really cute and sometimes love to run into my crotch area, head first. Apart from these OUCH! moments and other weird things that kids like to do, one of the things she loves to do is to play with Microsoft Word on KKNN’s PC. “Uncle TWISSSSSSSS! I want to play ABC!”   KKNN’s PC takes about 20 decades or so to start up and I sat on the chair and entertained Ashlee before the PC completely boots. I was wearing beach berms and much like jeans, beach berms are made of this thick material that has this unsightly fold around the crotch area especially when one is sitting down in it. Ashlee saw the fold and she looked at me with doe eyes and asked curiously, “What’s that?” Before I could react, she moved swiftly and used one of her small hands to squeeze the tip of the fold. “What’s that?” She asked with a more insistent tone and wearing a slight grin of a child who has found something interesting. She rushed forward to squeeze the bulge again and I managed to lift her away before she decides to hammer the area with her fists or something. “Uncle TWISSS! What’s that?” It may be just the fold of my berms but I knew that she has probably caught on that boys have something that girls don’t have in that area and she wanted me to tell her what that ‘area’ contains. “It’s just my shorts Ashlee. Er…. OH LOOK! The computer is on!”   It’s a good thing that kids at that age have short attention spans. Support Singapore’s Professional Basketball Team: The Slingers! Thanks to Nicholas, Hillary and Daphne, I was invited to watch the games of the Singapore Slingers at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in the Singapore Challenge Series. Yes, I mentioned ‘Singapore’ 3 times in the last sentence. Sue me. For the uninitiated, the Slingers is a Singapore professional basketball team which were founded in 2006 and have been playing in the Australian NBL for the past two seasons. In order to continue in their plans of playing in an ASEAN professional league, they have withdrawn from the Australian NBL in July this year and set up this interim competition held in Singapore to prepare them for the direction that they are undertaking. I heard of the Slingers early last year through newspapers but being a football player, the news of such a local basketball club had me as interested as a lion with a plate of cabbage in front of it. After hearing about the team again through a few bloggers followed by the bugging invitation from Daphne, I decided to bring along KuKuNehNeh (KKNN) and watch the 1st two games of the Slingers against a Philippines team called Air21 which were played on 16th and 21st of September. What can I say! After watching the two matches, I AM A CONVERT! The action on the courts were fast paced, the players were no amateurs and there were plenty of drama with many heated moments during the games. KKNN is totally attracted to a Slingers player called Eric Sandrin and during last game on the 21st, she was shouting at one point going, “ERICCC~!!! I LOVE YOUUUU~~~!!!!!”   Eric Sandrin, if you are reading this, my girlfriend has never shouted ‘I Love You’ to me before. I want to strangle you if not for the fact that you are one of my favourite players from the team. Of course there are other factors like you being 2.06 metres tall and having all that strength but I shall not go into that…   Eric is a total joy to watch. Besides looking the part with his Korean-American heritage, he is a monster on the court with his defensive and attacking capabilities and I totally dig his aggresive style which rile up the opponents and that creates chaos on the courts when the opponents fail to keep their cool. There are many more gems in the Slingers team like the sharpshooter Darren Ng who is a doctor by the way and blogs over here. I shall stop talking about the players from here onwards before this turns into a 1000 word essay and turn you readers away. Support the Slingers and be their 6th Man! The thing that is apparent and very sad is that the turnout for the opposition team was much more than the people who came to support the Slingers. Do run over to Sistic’s website or Slingers website to find out how you can purchase the affordable tickets to their games. Trust me! You won’t regret it! Or if you are a blogger, please email me using the contact form found here and I shall try to get you guys some complimentary tickets. Next game is on the 30th of September (Tuesday) at 7.40pm! I can’t wait!!!! [All images are from the Slingers Official Website] Beckham is in Man United and Ronaldo is Dead??? I was told by KuKuNehNeh (KKNN) that there will be a surprise for me on Saturday evening. I am not the type who would die if I do not know what it is but I still tried to irritate her by asking about it every now and then. “So where are we going?” “It’s a surprise lar.” “Is it a restaurant?” “No.” “Are we watching a show?” “Nooooo…” “Are you selling me away?” “Nooooooooooooooooo~!!!! And stop asking!”   So I ended up at City Hall with her trying to lead the way. “So where are we going?” “It’s a SURPRISE.” “Are we going to the Esplanade?” “No.” “Are we going to the museum?” “Nooooo…” “Are you selling me away?” “Nooooooooooooooooo~!!!! And stop asking!” (After 10 mins of walking) “Eh! It should be the correct way leh!” She stood in the middle of nowhere and exclaimed. “Erm… You want me to use my GPS?” “Er….. Okay lor.”   We were walking in the complete opposite direction and were once against saved by the mighty krisandro…. and his GPS equipped Nokia N95. Seah Street was where she wanted to go and the place that we ended up at was at her friends pub called ‘Shanghai Jazz’. Purpose there? To watch the big game between Liverpool and Manchester United. To think she was acting all blur when I casually mentioned about the game after seeing a couple of guys wearing jerseys a few moments ago. Settling down into our seats with a pint of Hoegaarden each, she kept emphasizing that she is a ‘die-hard Man U fan’. The screen showed both teams standing in the tunnel before the walk onto the field. She looked at the teams and turned to me and asked, “Red colour one is Man U right?” “No lar. White one is Man U, Red one is Liverpool.” “Where is MY Ronal….” “Who?” (Acting blur.) “How to pronounce his name ah? The Ronal… something one.” “Ronaldo lar!” “YAH YAH! Where is MY Ronaldo?” “You dunno meh? He died.” (He is out because of an injury) “ANYHOW LEH YOU.” “WAHAHAHHAHAHHAA!!” “Eh Dear…” “Yeah?” “Where’s Beckham?“   So much for being a ‘die-hard Man U fan’. WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA!!! Read her account of the day over here. Has The Internet Destroyed Your Social Life? With the every growing popularity of social media tools in the internet such as blogging, twittering, plurking,  facebook, friendster and WLM, it’s no wonder that people start to use less of other traditional forms of communication like landlines and handphones. [Image from here] I remember my first encounter with the internet was back in secondary school when I joined this ECA called ‘Media Resource Club’(MRC). The school purchased about 3 to 4 computers in the library and they are connected to the internet. I was with 2 other friends and we logged on to explore. I distinctly remembered going to Yahoo! and the very first term I search for was, “Amy Yip” WAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAAH!!!!!! Younger generations won’t know who she is but let’s just say that she was pretty popular back in the days for her erm… assets. =D Anyway, I soon acquired my own computer and a 56K modem and I was connected! I used mIRC to make all sorts of new friends and stayed connected with them through ICQ. Papers constantly reported the dangers of the internet during those times and I understood them, but I still proceeded to meet people up. Before all this, I was this introverted geek and the internet really opened me up to chatting and meeting new people up. Fast forward to now and I am still using the internet to meet a whole lot of people I got to know online through popular social sites and tools. At least for me, the internet has made me more sociable and enabled me to reach out to a bigger pool of people. Whether or not these relationships can be continued and substained in the real world is still too early to tell. With the right mindset and correct approach, I strongly believe that the internet is a great tool for socializing. When I Was Young, I Wanted To Be A… Everyone probably has some dream job(s) that they wanted from a young age. It could stem from parental or peer influence. It could have been from a hobby that you have or even from a show that you watched from TV. Some yearn to be the conventional ones like engineers, teachers, doctors and lawyers. Some hope to be the unconventional ones such as dancers, pro-gamers and erm.. pornstars. NOT THAT I WANTED TO BE ONE OKAY? I am just listing down some examples. *cough cough* Anyway, some of the jobs that wanted when I was young are as follows.   I wanted to be a… Football Player! My love for football started when I was 13 years of age. It all started with 4 - 5 guys kicking a plastic ball at a void deck and the gang soon grew to almost 20 people who played almost everyday at the basketball courts and the fields on weekends. I thought I was pretty good back then and went for a football trial for some semi-pro league team. It was then I realized that there were about 1,653,618,273,635 players on that day that were better than me. I hardly made any impact at all on the field and did some tricks that were more entertaining than practically useful. It was of no surprise that I went home with nothing but a bruised ego.   I wanted to be a… Model! Well. This is an awkward one. WAHAHHAHAAHAHAA! During a certain period in my teens, I keep getting compliments from people I meet about my looks and I thought that modeling sounds like a pretty easy job. Let’s just say that reality hit pretty hard and fast for this dream of mine.   I wanted to be a… Teacher! I want to teach classes with lots of hot students. All the sweet young things will all be clamoring over me while I brush them away while maintaining my suaveness. The sexy fellow teachers will also be yearning for my attention as I parade in the office. My Principal will have to be a MILF as well. I wanted to teach children to better the world! =D   So! What did you want to be when you were young? He Gets Intimate With 30 Women in Two Months A headline on Monday’s edition of The New Paper grabbed my attention and it read, Full article here   Yep. This man named David Tian, claims that he has “been intimate with 30 women in two months”. He also claims to be able to “make Singapore men more suitable suitors and, thus, ease Singapore’s procreation woes.” Telling it to the papers with your face printed all over? That’s like walking into club and telling everyone through a mic that you are a player. It may be true and the men will applaud but it seriously dampens your chances with the chicks dude. I am not a woman, but if I were one, I don’t want to procreate with a man taught by someone who gets intimate with 30 women in just the space of two months. *hears the distant cry of a man who shot his own foot* A Review of GoThere.sg, The Streetdirectory.com Slayer! I am very bad with directions and have trouble remembering how to get from point A to B even if I might have traveled the same route before. Streetdirectory.com was my savior back then and even so, I have been hating the cluttered layout and lack of support for SMRT buses in their route planning for public transport. But compared to the other local map directories, streetdirectory.com was the best. Streetdirectory.com was sued by Singapore Land Authority (SLA) last year over the usage of their maps and it took very long bring back the maps to the needy locals like me and probably lost quite a large number of following in the period of time. I do have to highlight that the facebook group ‘I miss Streetdirectory.com’ has quite an impressive following of 5K+ members. pic. But thanks to the e27 conference that I’ve attended in July, I got to know about a local startup by 3 young men called GoThere.sg. There were many interesting web startups that thay but GoThere.sg was definitely the highlight for me. After using it for months and months, I reaffirm that it is everything that streetdirectory.com should be and MORE.   Clean Interface Messy Streetdirectory.com VS Neat Gothere.sg Compared to the clutter of Streetdirectory.com, Gothere.sg is a great relief to the eyes. There have just undergone a face-lift and it looks aestheically pleasing while retaining the clutter-free interface.   Leveraging on a Great Product (Click to Enlarge) Gothere.sg’s maps are based on the already wonderful product that is of Google Maps. If you guys have ever used Google Maps before, I am sure you’ll marvel at the speed and the ease of navigation. What Gothere.sg did was to add overlays of local information like block numbers, building names, bus stop locations coupled with bus services and even ERP gantry locations. This made a great product even better and relevant to the locals.   Excellent Public Transport Guide (Click to Enlarge) This has to be the most important for me and people who do not own a car. Choose where you are going from and where you are off to and Gothere.sg will tell you how to drive there or how to travel to the destination via public transport with two options, ‘Bus only’ OR ‘Bus and Train’. Gothere.sg plans your route with train and bus information from both SBS AND SMRT.   Other Great Features (Click to Enlarge) (Click to Enlarge) (Click to Enlarge) Clicking icons on the maps like Parking, ERP and Bus Stops gives you information like parking fees, ERP car rates, bus services and timings (for SBS via IRIS).   Gothere.sg allows the embedding of their map to help you share the route/information you found on a website.   Gothere.sg is still an infant compared to Streetdirectory.com but has already surpassed their predessesor in so many aspects. I do hope that the guys at Gothere.sg can find ways to monetize the site while keeping the clutter to a minimum like the way it is now. One can only hope for more improvements and have it grow and not die off like many web startups we have all seen that died prematurely. Trust me on this one. Forget about Streetdirectory.com. GoThere.sg is the answer! Spread the word! Time to Set Up a Niche Blog or Two? I am thinking very seriously about setting up a couple of niche blogs to isolate the persona that is of krisandro in this website. This website has always been the only outlet for me to express my thoughts and relate the lighter side of my life as I wanted readers to just come in and read rubbish that is easy on the brain and hopefully draw a giggle or a laugh from the likes of you. The good thing about having just one personal blog like this, is that it makes it easier for me to keep my thoughts consolidated. The cons of the very same point is that the topics are so diverse that it is impossible for a casual reader or an advertiser to understand what the site is about. Since I enjoy writing and creating content for people to read, why not set up a niche blog or two that is of my specific interests and have it grow and popularize and earn some money along the way? I brought this idea up on a Plurk thread and it was interesting to see the thoughts of so many people. Some of my criteria for the future blogs so far are: 1. Something of my interest. 2. Able to capture Asian or Global Audience. 3. A funky/easy-to-remember URL!   Any suggestions, ideas or feedback anyone? “Brudder, Will You Take Long in the Toilet Anot?” It was a gloomy evening when I was at a McDonald’s outlet in Ang Mo Kio waiting for KuKuNehNeh. Feeling the need to shit after eating my fries, I went to the toilet and there was only one cubicle for ‘big business’ and I occupied it. After a few mins of creaming the toilet bowl with the processed contents of my previous meals, I heard footsteps approaching my cubicle, followed by a knock on my cubicle door. “Brudder (Brother)!!! You will take long anot?” Having the shock of having someone talk to me while moving my bowels in a public place had me holding in the shit that I was about to excrete. “Errr… Give me a few more mins please.”, I answered him.   Only a few seconds of silence passed before an irritating sound filled the washroomand reached my ears. The guy outside was drumming his fingers impatiently on the hollow sounding plastic soap dispenser. I had no mood to finish what I started and opened the door to find the young man looking at me in the eye and he said, “Thanks Brudder!”   I know he was probably very urgent but how I wish that I shook his hand in response before washing my hands in the basin. Preview of Flight of the Conchords at HBO Asia Office! Thanks to the Su Min of Text 100, I got invited to attend a Blogger event at HBO Asia office for a tour and preview of one of their latest additions to the HBO lineup, Flight of the Conchords. I am a big fan of many, many, MANY TV series and I haven’t heard of Flight of the Conchords ever. It wasn’t until Claudia posted an entry about the show that got me interested. And boy! It was hilarious and entertaining!   “Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie – a.k.a. Flight of the Conchords – may be “New Zealand’s 4th Most Popular Folk Parody Duo,” but in the USA, finding someone who knows their act is about as easy as finding a kiwi nest in Central Park! To rectify this oversight, Jemaine and Bret have moved to New York’s East Village to conquer America, one fan (literally) at a time. In this irreverent half-hour musical comedy series new HBO series, Jemaine and Bret (playing naïve, fictionalized versions of themselves) move to downtown Manhattan, where they try to land gigs and pursue relationships with elusive women, both with marginal success. As we see, the duo’s innocent, misguided efforts rarely yield dividends, but they do spawn an abundance of plaintive Conchord tunes about life, love, and the pursuit of an elusive music video.” -Extracted from HBO   I arrived with Claudia at our destination and bumped into Nadnut on the way to the HBO Asia office. We were greeted warmly by the Text 100 & HBO crew and plenty other bloggers joined us like Jerrick, Nicholas, Hillary, Rinaz, Sheylara, Musxzart & many other bloggers accompanied by their +1s. The HBO crew took us for a short but informative tour around their superb office and we got to see the various departments and crew that are responsible for bringing life to the movies, series and trailers that you see on HBO. In the sound editing room, a volunteer was asked to do a short recording and guess what? I was ‘volunteered’. Into the recording room I go and I was asked to grunt, “ARRRRRRGHHHHH!!!” 3 times. Not being sure how I sound as my ears were muted from my voice, I went out to see that the sound guru was ready to incorporate my grunt into the trailer. Roars of laughter filled the room as my voice was in heard in that HBO trailer. Seeing that he could squeeze more laughter from the crowd, he played that portion of the trailer a few more times to the delight of the ‘I-can’t-believe-this-funny-shit’ crowd. The genre of the trailer was ‘Horror’ by the way. We ended the tour of the office at the lounge that many employees will kill for to have and stuffed our faces with the delicious food catered by Absolutely New Zealand. After having one too many of their fabulous desserts, we plonked ourselves on the comfy couches and watched 2 episodes of Flight of the Conchords. What a great way to end the event! [Image from Claudia]   Some pictures of the stuffs in the goodie bag! Flight of the Conchords OST! WOOO HOOO!! Flight of the Conchords premieres on HBO today at 10.30pm! There is also a video contest in which you can take part to win a Mac Book Air!! Sleeping Earlier On Weekdays. Rehehehely! I am suffering from low energy in the daytime and since there is no way for me to try the interesting sleeping shedules out, I guess I have to try and achieve 7 hours of continuous sleep a day. Some people can survive with as little as 4 hrs of sleep a day and still manage to be alert for the rest of the 20 hrs but I am totally not that kind. I think even if I get 8 hrs, I think my energy levels will still lose to many. I am like a overused lithium battery that drains out energy like no other. It also doesn’t help that I have a permanent ’sleepy face’. My face looks so sleepy even at my most alert moments that one would think that I have just finished a marathon and had sex for 12 hours with a sperm whale. (Image from here) I often get questions of, “Why you so tired/sleepy/shagged?”. “MY FACE LIKE THAT ONE LEH!” How bad it is when one who looks tired is REALLY tired? I probably look like a walking dead. So! From now on, I shall impose a rule on myself for workdays. I shall sleep at 12am everyday! So if you guys spot me loitering around in the streets or online, SMACK MY BUTT! My Greatest Childhood Fear I got inspiration for this post from Wishbone who tagged me with a post called ‘5 Scaries for Kids’. I never respond to tags but I shall blog about my greatest fear as a child. I thought for sometime about what fears I had as a child and I almost couldn’t think of any. Not that I am fearless but I conquered my fears whenever I had any as a child. I was once afraid of heights but I forced myself to look down over ledges whenever I could. I was afraid of the dark and ghosts but I made myself walk through the kitchen and to the toilet in darkness. I am trying to recall the mentality that I had that made me want to conquer those fears. I think I was influenced by all the comics I read when I was young and a lot of them had a hero who faced their weaknesses and came out stronger. Every Hero has their weaknesses…. and bad wardrobe days.   So in a way, the hundreds of dollars I’ve spent as a child on comic books didn’t go to waste after all! There was lessons to be learnt in between the pages of over-sized boobies found on female manga characters! There was one fear that I couldn’t get rid of and it probably will stick with me throughout my life. The fear of death. Not mine but of people whom I care about. It’s kinda dark for a child to think of such things but I was like that as a child. I would ponder about the meaning of life and my imaginative mind will somehow imagine scenarios if loved ones like my mother died. These moments will usually come in the dead of the night before I go to sleep and tears will stream down my face as my mind plays out the scenario. Kinda wimpy for a boy but I get so involved in those imaginations to the point where it seems so real. I breakdown whenever I attend a funeral and see someone in tears. I just feel so sorry for the people who have to live with the absence of their loved ones. The Mystery Of Hell Notes It’s the Hungry Ghost Festival (HGF) again! I always wanted the gahmen to acknowledge it as a public holiday. If the Chinese New Year can get us 2 days of holidays, the month long HGF should give us around 3 to 5 days worth of holidays! WOOO HOOOOOOO! The most intriguing part about the HGF is the burning of offerings for the ghosts. I don’t know about China or the Chinese in other countries but here in Singapore, our ghosts get stuffs like tons of money, gold ingots, clothing, hand-phones, makeup, houses, luxury cars with chauffeurs and MORE money. If all these really work, most of the ghosts get tons and and tons of money! But the thing is, if every ghost gets around $172,527,192,027,000 every time someone burns hell notes for them, the stuffs in hell are probably bloody expensive.   A can of coke costs about $1.20 here but in hell, it probably costs about $1,200,000. How does a ghost receive the money anyway? Is there a ghost bank that will magically store the money into the accounts of the ghosts? Or will the money just appear right in front of them? If it does? How do they go about keeping the money? Won’t you like to know? krisandro.com is MOVING!!! Yes! krisandro.com is finally moving! Not to www.krisandrolovesporn.com but to a new webhost! The current host that I am on is really too slow and the support is lacking. To ensure that the transition is smoother, I won’t be updating this blog for a few days! So you all can just erm… visit some other sites and er…. REMEMBER TO COME BACK!!!! WAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I Need to Start Running Again! If one were to write about the relationship between fitness and Krisandro, it would be of two lovers who constantly break up and patch together through the span of their lives. The start of the relationship is full of passion, excitement and anticipation. It gradually builds up over a few months to a peak of bliss and fulfilment but eventually, factors such as time and lack of novelty forms cracks in the relationship and it dies after a few months. And this cycle repeats every now and then as both of them realize the need for each other. I am not that old, only at a young age of 16 18 21 27, but I am already feeling the ‘climb over the hill’. The metabolism that allows me to consume 7 pratas for breakfast and 3 servings of rice for dinner has left me and I now have the ability to grow fat. GROW FAT! It wasn’t so long ago when I complain about the inability to gain any weight with my 1.77m, 52 kg frame. Fast forward to now and I would stare at the McDonald’s menu and know that the Fillet O’Fish might be a better choice compared with the gut busting Big Mac. I used to have a consistent exercise slot on Sundays where I would play football but I have since ‘retired’ from it due to ankle injuries. So I am left with choices like the gym and jogging. The gym is great for toning up the body but it is too out of the way for me. Jogging is the best mode of exercise I can get but my laziness makes it so inconsistent. I used to jog this regularly! . I really got to start using my Nike+ system more often and jog regularly before I turn into a human lard in front of the computer. When You Want To Take The Lift, Press The Button! I left the office at 6 yesterday and since I wasn’t meeting anyone, I strolled out to the lift lobby. Usually, I would maximise my full 1.77 metre frame and stride my way out as though my ass is on fire and the nearest water source is at the MRT. There was already two men waiting at the lobby, right in front of the lift buttons, talking animatedly with their arms flailing around and showing that they were deep in conversation. Using my great ability of ASSumption, I ASSumed that these men were heading down and I mentally tuned the sounds of their non-stop talking down to a little buzz while I whip out my handphone and do what I always do when waiting. Surf pR0n the Internet. Now, there are 3 passenger lifts that service my office building and they go ‘DING!’ whenever they stop at any floor and the sound of that will be heard even if the lift stops a few floors up or below the level I am at, albeit a little muted. So as I stood there while getting my hourly dose of pR0n the Internet, I realized that I am hearing one too many “DING!”s and the lift hasn’t stopped at where we were at. I pried my eyes away from my handphone and looked at the LCDs on the lift doors and then at the buttons and realized… THOSE IDIOTS DIDN’T EVEN PRESS THE BUTTON! I calmly reached past the two men and pressed the button with the grace of person who is sitting down after being sodomised and the chatter of the two men IMMEDIATELY stopped as the button lit up upon being pressed. A few more “DING!”s passed in total silence before the lift arrived and I bet it was one of the longest minutes of their lives waiting for a lift and a long ride in silence down the 5 floors. You Can Survive With 2 Hours of Sleep a Day! Ask anyone on the streets on how much sleep they need per day and how much they actually get, you won’t be surprised if many people reply that they need at least 7-8 hrs of sleep and get only 4-6 on average. Of course the figures vary with age as studies have shown that people tend to sleep lesser as one age. Why do most think that they need 7-8 hours of sleep in the first place? Most health experts advocate on sleeping 7-8 hours a day and some studies like the ‘Wehr Study’ had his subjects sleep for 12 hours each day but his subjects soon reverted back to an average of 8 and 1/4 hrs per night after a few days. Studies like these reveal that the natural sleep cycle dictates that we are best rested at 8 hrs of sleep on average depending on age. A sizable group of people do not get 7-8 hrs of sleep per day and wake up feeling lethargic and cranky. Those who manage to drag themselves off the bed, end up calculating how much time and got to sleep and feeling lousy because they lost out on X hours sleep. The thing is, are these people really lethargic or is it because the mentality of needing 7-8 hours of sleep makes the brain feel so? . While I was researching on the subject of sleeping (Sleeping hours, not sleeping around), I came across interesting sleep schedules called the “Uberman” and the “Everyman” which is an adaptation of “polynapping” or “polyphasic sleep”. The “Uberman” and the “Everyman” sleep schedules were coined by Puredoxyk and basically it involves a person sleeping as little as 1.5 hrs to 2 hrs every 24 hours for the “Uberman Sleep Schedule” and 3 to 4 hrs of sleep for the “Everyman Sleep Schedule”. Both concepts work on the fact that the human body falls into a stage of Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep about 20% of our daily sleeping time which translates to about 1.5 to 2 hrs of REM sleep every 24 hrs. What happens during the REM sleep stage is that the eye darts around rapidly (duh) and we fall into deep sleep and it is usually the time when dreams are remembered most vividly. As this REM stage is believed to be the time when we get quality rest, the normal 7-8 hr cycle that we try to follow is inefficient as the REM happens sporadically about 4-5 times during the 7-8 hr period to only achieve 1.5-2 hrs worth of it. . “Uberman Sleep Schedule” This schedule will have a person take 15-20 min naps every 4 hrs which totals to about 1.5 to 2 hrs of sleep every 24 hrs. A long list of people have tried it and it generally takes about 1 to 2 weeks to be accustomed to it. The schedule must be followed strictly as one must not oversleep during those nap times and must not skip a nap or else the cycle can be disrupted and it takes a few days to recover. What happens is that the body learns to fall into quality REM sleep each time you take those naps and the total amount of REM sleep every 24 hrs is equivalent to what one will get if they sleep 7-8 hrs a day. What it translates to is having 22 hrs a day AWAKE AND RESTED which leaves you more time to do more things within the same 24 hrs a day that everyone has. The main advantages of the schedule from people who succeeded in the program are: 22 hrs of time per day to do your tasks and high amounts of energy between the naps. The main disadvantages are: difficulty to maintain the strict schedule if work or lifestyle doesn’t allow the frequent naps, affected social life as the rest of the world is still sleeping at the regular hours. . I will not go much into the “Everyman” schedule as it is basically a modification of the “Uberman” schedule that consists of a 3 hr ‘core nap’ + 3 naps or a 1.5 hr core + 4-5 naps that Puredoxyk herself was using. This modification was concieved because the “Uberman” schedule requires a more strict schedule and the ‘core nap’ of the “Everyman” provides some flexibility to suit to a person schedule and bring it closer to the sleep cycles of normal people. . How does both the methods translate to you people? Both methods are tried and tested by many and extreme cases of failures and successions were found. Those who fail are usually those who do not have the discipline to limit their naps and take them periodically. Those who succeed with the program for months enjoy the benefits of enormous time on their hands and energy in their waking hours. As these methods have only been adopted around 1990, there is no clear evidence to the long term effects to health. For those that adopted the methods for months reported no ill health at all except for the tough initial adaptation period where one will feel sleep deprived. It is also clear that if you hold a full time job, there is no way that you can adopt either of the methods as both of them require you to take naps within 4 to 5 hr intervals. I wish I can try out the method for myself but I can’t. So if you work from home like a pro-blogger or a writer, why not experiment on the project and tell us of your findings? I will love to hear from a local guy/girl who has tried out the sleep schedules for an extended period of time. . Some related reads Official Uberman Sleep Schedule Official Everyman Sleep Schedule Steve Pavlina - His experiences on the Polyphasic sleep schedule for 90 days List of Bloggers who have tried or are on the schedule . For the rest who cannot suit the schedule to our lifestyles like me, note that the conventional studies have shown that the optimal amount of hours of sleep for a person is 7. A person who sleeps 8 or more hours a day face a higher mortality rate than those who sleep for 4 to 6 hours. Those who sleep lesser than 4 hrs a day will of course face adverse health effects. Do note that the above are not conclusive and do not blame me if you fall ill with 7 hrs of sleep a day. =P Having Fun With Names While Watching The Olympics I was at KuKuNehNeh’s (KKNN) place yesterday evening and plonked down on her couch after a hearty meal. The TV was already on and it was showing Channel 5 which was broadcasting the heats for some of the swimming events. Somewhere amongst the discussions between KKNN and I on the boob sizes of the female swimmers and why some of the swimmers have buldges in their tummies, we noticed that one of the swimmers from China finished 3rd in a race. KKNN in excitement went, “WoooOOOOOOOOO!!” I turned to her and said, “Why did you make fun of him? Hahahaaa!” “Huh? Where got?” (I pointed to the screen showing the name of the swimmer.) “His surname is Wu.” . WuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUU!!! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! . Which reminds me of this scene from Rush Hour 3. . I know I am chinese but it is still darn funny when our surnames are made fun of! Plans for Anniversary - FAIL!!! I wanted to do something meaningful for KuKuNehNeh (KKNN) as it is our 1st Anniversary together. Some might ask, “Need to celebrate one meh?” NEED LAR! I think it is an important date to celebrate our undying Love for each other. Mushy? Okay, you all can go for a 5 minute break to puke your guts out before coming back to read the rest of this entry. ……… …… …. .. . Back? . I decided to put my shitty marvelous Flash skills to good use and started to work on a 3 to 4 minute video for KKNN. Selecting the appropriate songs were HARD! I like haunting/sad love songs that has lyrics about breaking up, people hating each other, love that is not reciprocated. HAHA! If I had more time, I would have opted to write song for her but it would take about 2 years for me to write one song. Which means I had to write the song 1 year before I met KKNN. It boiled down to two choices between Adam Sandler’s “Grow Old With You” and Enrique Iglesias’ “Hero”. I ended up choosing “Hero” because the former was too short for the video and besides, Enrique looks and sounds more hotter than Adam. I can imagine KKNN watching the video as she hears his voice and then associating his hotness with me. *cough cough* Anyway, it took me about a week to complete the video and I took half the day off on Friday to tidy the loose ends up and to spring a surprise on her. By the way, have I ever introduced you guys to my friend called Murphy? He is quite the famous guy. If he had a facebook account, he will definitely have the highest amount of friends in the world. Murphy also wrote an interesting law and shamelessly named it after himself. Murphy’s Law - “if anything can go wrong, it will.” MY FLASH FILE GOT CORRUPTED! BLOODY CHEESPIE SON OF A CHICKENEDA! Using Adobe Flash - FAIL! . I don’t know what happened to the original file and it corrupted my compiled flash video as well! I had no backup, no time and was almost tearing my pubic hair out. I had no choice but to create a PDF document hurriedly to store it in my thumbdrive before I rushed out to collect the flowers I ordered. I reached KKNN’s place at Ang Mo Kio and managed to get in her house as her parents were around. An email was sent to her using my company’s email address to dupe her into thinking that I was still at the office. In the email, I told her to go home after work to get changed and wait for me as I will be late. I set up my laptop with the PDF document I created earlier. The laptop was then hid underneath her blanket and I took the flowers and went to her lift lobby to hide. . KKNN called me soon after. “WHERE ARE YOU? Why is my computer on?” (Turns out that I turned on her computer and forgot to shut it down) Removal of Evidence - FAIL!! . I went to her doorstep and surprised her with the flowers. She looked at me in glee and said, “Actually, my Mum told me you were here just now~~~” Surprise - FAIL!!! Flowers cannot be eaten my dear… . I Love KKNN but Murphy Loves Me~~~ . I Had a Hand On Jack Neo And He Had His On My GF! I have always been skeptical of locally produced shows. The predictability of the script, the cheesy visuals, horrendous camera skills, half-baked acting & amateurish sound effects, just to name a few. And in some cases, especially in TV serials, I see ALL the bad elements I mentioned come together. It’s no surprise that I have not been watching any local TV show consistently and I seldom ‘risk’ buying tickets to a local show in the cinemas. All thanks to molemole for telling me that Sheylara was giving out free tickets on behalf of Blog Aloud, I quickly emailed her and msn-ed her almost concurrently to enquire on the availability of two shows, ‘Money No Enough 2′ and ‘12 Lotus’. Luckily, there are still tickets available for ‘Money No Enough 2′ and I asked for a pair for the show at Vivocity on the 7th Aug. FREE tickets! Although I am skeptical of local productions, the lure of a free movie, the good impression of the first installment of ‘Money No Enough’ and Jack Neo were good enough reasons for me to go for it. . I brought KuKuNehNeh (KKNN) along for the movie and boy, did we enjoy it! I wont reveal the story here as I HATE people who review movies and reveal the plots which totally spoils the movie experience. The script was predictable, the CG was cheesy although commendable for a local production and the advertising was too blatant for my liking. But Jack Neo did magic with the way he told the story. The issues he showcased were close to the Singaporean heart and channeled through incredible acting by the cast, especially through the malaysian actress, Lai Ming, who played the role of a mother in the movie. She was funny, she was believable, she made me tear. Credits to Mark Lee as well for he was the best performing local lad in the movie for me. Jack Neo Mark Lee Lai Ming . Jack Neo appeared in the theater after the credits rolled and his presence made the event even more worthwhile. He answered questions to the best of his ability and tried as much as he could to answer them in English. Molemole helped me and KKNN take a picture with him together at the end of the show. I Had a Hand On Jack Neo And He Had His On My GF . I know that the critics have been harsh on the movie but I think it is definitely worth the money for a movie that will tug at your heartstrings. Thanks again to Sheylara and Blog Aloud for the tickets. 16 Bloggers Died in a Dream KuKuNehNeh (KKNN) has this amazing ability to remember most of her dreams in vivid detail. I am always amazed whenever she recounts the events from her dreams in such details I do have other friends who has this ability and they are all female. Coincidence? For me, I hardly remember most of my dreams except for some that occurred when I was younger which are either too troublesome to type or too R21 to publish. Most of the time I would wake up with some memory of the dream and forget it as soon as I proceed with my daily activities. Anyway, KKNN told me of this dream she had recently and it is so weird that I have to share it to the best of my memory. . KKNN was out on the beach with a bunch of her friends (I asked her if I was there and she wasn’t sure. WAHAHAHAHAA). She looked out into the sea and noticed a friend was in the waters. The friend was waving back and there was a shark which was very close to her. KKNN frantically waved back to her and warned her of the shark while making all sorts of hand gestures. KKNN and her friends noticed that the tide was rising rapidly and they hurried further inshore to stay away from the water and the shark. They came to a hole in the ground with a spiral staircase leading downwards. Ignoring the plea from her friend that it might be dangerous, KKNN made her way down the stairs and found a place that looked like a factory (Although it sounded illogical to be hiding under the ground when there is a potential flood, KKNN claimed that the place is sealed from the water). After waiting for awhile, she knew that the danger was over and she went to the same staircase that lead upwards. A friend of hers was at the staircase and said, “Don’t go up.” “Why?” KKNN asked. “A lot of people died.” “Who?” “16 Bloggers.” . WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAA!!! Don’t ask me why she dreams of such stuff. Know What The New Images On The MRT Means? I am sure most of you people have noticed the new images on the MRT for ‘Priority Seats’. . Think you all really know what each image represent? Judging from my observations of the people occupying those seats when the train is crowded, I’m afraid that your perception of the images are WRONG! Let me educate you peeps. . Is this image of an OLD MAN? . WRONG!!! . It’s…. . . Give up the seat to a Pregnant Lady? . WRONG!!! . It’s…. . . Could this be a Man with a Child? . WRONG!!! . It’s…. . So ladies and gentlemen, please do not be frustrated when you see young punks hogging the ‘Priority Seats’. These people cannot find Charlie Chaplin, extremely fat women and ventriloquists on the trains you see. UNDERSTAND? To Hell With My Stupid Blogging Rule! I have this blogging rule that I set upon myself a few months back. As much as possible, I will not write a short entry. I try hard to make every post a ‘worthy’ read so that one will remember some of the contents or be interested to come back for more. For example. “I looked around for any onlookers before proceeding with glee. I deftly inserted my index finger into my left nostril with a single combined motion of hooking the joint of my finger, twisting it and pulling it out, I extracted the pee-sai that was bugging me for the last half an hour. No surprise at the expertise that was put into this act as I have been digging my nose for the past 20 years and more. I calmly rolled the gooey substance to an optimum shape for flight and flicked the bugger out in the open but unfortunately, it landed on the shirt of a boy who cycled past me.” . See? I could have just said, “I dug my nose this morning.” Anyway, my point is that I put a lot of thought into how I should craft a post to the best as I can and also try to make it long as possible without boring people to sleep and forgot that short posts can be as enjoyed as well. So, I shall end this post now before my bad habit kicks in and hope to blog more regularly instead of stressing myself on both the quality & quantity of each post. =D 7 Things That You Didn’t Know About Me I like to share a little bit more about me. Why? Sick of it right? It’s my blog what. If I don’t talk about me, me and me, then I talk about who? YOU MEH? WAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAA!!! Okay okay! Kidding lar. Don’t click the red little cross on the top right hand corner of your window. I will talk about YOU soon. By the way…. Who are YOU anyway? WAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! Anyway, I shall really move on to the list before you people really close the window. #1. I am not an Indonesian Chinese. Quite a number of people have been thinking that I am not local. Krisandro McBecks is a nick that I plucked out of nowhere last time and it stuck with me. Sorry if it sounds un-Singaporean. . #2. I was a Rebel During primary school, I skipped classes for 2 and a 1/2 months! Of course I got caught at the end of it and got public canning. I remembered that I got two strokes and I cried like a gu-niang (sissy). . #3. I am not Religious When I was young, I went to church. I loved books very much then and I actually finished reading the Bible at some point in time. My mentality after that changed as I classified the Bible as fiction and stopped going to church and went to the library to borrow books that had dragons and elves. Please do not be offended for the religious that are reading this. It’s a choice everyone makes and I do like people who are religious as most of them encourage people to do good. . #4. I got 3 Testicles I am kidding. WAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAAAA!! . #5. I Loved Origami I know this sounds so gay but when I was in primary school, I started to love the art of origami and I used to go to the library to borrow books about it. I remember I had this wooden box that held lots of coloured paper of different sizes and I would bring it to school and fold it in between classes. Even during Sec One! . #6. I had a Humsup (Lecherous) Mole on my Chin I have a lot of facial moles and some were more prominent than the rest and I had to remove one such mole. It was relatively big and it sat on the left of my lower chin. Just imagine it! Me, being such a nice, polite gentleman *cough cough* with such a misleading mole. Of course I had to cut it off! . #7. I got 2 Testicles. I am telling you the truth lar. 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