Fujitsu Launch Party at Velvet Underground On Thursday evening, I was invited together with other bloggers to the Fujitsu Launch party at Velvet Underground. That's DK, Samantha, myself, Sabrina and Pris in the group pic above, looking so happy after drinking all the free booze. At the party, Fujitsu premiered its latest computing collection that targets the corporate style-seekers and Generation Y-ers who need to transit effortlessly from work to play and play to work in vivacious style. Check out the new Fujitsu L1010, LifeBook U2010, LifeBook S6420, LifeBook S6520, LifeBook T1010, LifeBook T5010 and LifeBook E8420. More pics taken at the party by DK, Sabrina and myself can be viewed here. Download Red Alert game for free! To mark the 13th anniversary of the Command & Conquer franchise, Electronic Arts is giving away the original Red Alert game for free! Happy downloading.(via DK) Hello Kitty Action DJ Speaker This made in Japan Hello Kitty Speaker features a DJ style Hello Kitty who bops her head back and forth to the music when you plug it into your iPod. I'm not a big fan of all those unnecessary Hello Kitty products but this one is dangerously cute. How Star Wars changed the world A flash chart by Wired shows how the Star Wars empire grew into one of the most fertile incubators of talent in the worlds of movies, visual effects, sound and videogames. Here's a graphic image of the chart for those of you who hate flash. A blog about Sexy People Sexy People is a celebration of the perfect portrait. It is a fun blog where you can view "sexy" portraits of people taken in the good old 80s and 90s. Maybe I should send them some of my yearbook photos. Mine should surely qualify.(Thanks samrocks) 100 yen to squeeze this Japanese AV Idol's boobs As part of the annual “24-Hour TV: Eroticism Saves the Earth” fund drive to raise money for the prevention of AIDS, two Japanese Adult Video (AV) Idols are offering men the chance to squeeze their boobs or bums for 100 yen. What a great way to raise funds! Story contains pictures that are not safe for work.(Thanks Clair) Look who's losing the browser market share after Google Chrome launched Surprise, surprise! A day after Google Chrome was made available for download, data provided by Statcounter shows that both Firefox and Safari browsers are losing their market share. And more surprisingly, Internet Explorer has increased 3%!Previously: Google Chrome Shocker: No RSS Bookmarks! How to cook a whale found dead Here's an old Kwakuitl Indian recipe of how to cook a whale that is found dead. Interesting. From Hallman:Most importantly, you cannot eat it all by yourself! So the first step is to call for a party and invite all your friends, relatives, and local dignitaries...Once everybody is ready, you bring tools, and the hunter who found the whale leads everybody in their canoes to the spot where he found it. The father of the hunter has the honor of speaking for the daughter of the hunter to "make a toast" for the occasion. It is customary to first declare how wonderful the whale is, being full of delicious blubber, etc.. Then you should give the choicest piece (the dorsal fin) to the ranking dignitary, who is typically the chief of the village. Today's Singapore News The following are stories that are making the headlines over at Topix Singapore News today, edited by yours truly.-A family-friendly city? There’s still room for improvement: The latest Marriage and Parenthood package to boost the birth rate might address some of the concerns couples have but a survey shows that other issues may still linger.-Top condo units vie for F1 pie: The Hotel Alternatives has 50 fully-furnished apartments with en-suite bedrooms nestled in various condominium estates to target tourists who can't get hotel rooms during the F1 season.-Organ trading debate continues: There are renewed calls for authorities here to do more to increase the number of living donors.-NTU group to conduct five year study on cat cafes: A group of NTU researchers will embark on a project to study the management of stray cats in the community - the first such academic study to be initiated in Singapore.-Singapore aims to fight the cartels: To step up its action against cartels, the Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) plans to introduce two new measures to enhance its leniency programme for cooperative offenders.-Singapore Airlines scores with reputation for service: There are few surprises from Singapore in this year's Asia 200 survey of readers of The Wall Street Journal Asia as Singapore Airlines finished as the island-state's most-admired company overall.-$10 CashCard for those charged wrongly at KPE gantry: A total of 538 motorists were taken by surprise on Tuesday when they went through an Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantry at the new Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE).-Researchers in new media industry get funding: Researchers in the new media industry got an S$18 million funding boost from the government on Thursday.-Singapore has nice toilets but bad habits by users dirty them: Filth in utilitarian toilets at hawker centres and bus interchanges is nothing new, but a Straits Times check showed that even the plants, gleaming counter tops and shiny mirrors in more upscale loos do little to inspire better toilet habits.-Costlier mooncakes this year: Price tags on mooncakes sold in hotels, heartland shops and supermarkets have swelled by between 5 and 20 per cent, following jumps in the cost of ingredients like flour and lotus paste. When Risa Niigaki and I.Z. make babies Make Me Babies will show you what your future child with another person will look like! Just upload two photos, let the site do some magic calculations, and congratulations... you have a new baby! This is what my baby girl looks like when I mate with my favourite girl Risa Niigaki. I'm sure we both can do much better than this. Ahem. Creative Garbage Bags Tokyo-based creative group MAQ Inc. designs plastic thrash bags that inspire a more responsible attitude towards waste by providing a cute and stylish way for people to carry their trash home after a day outdoors. I like the Oscar one! Virtual Bubble Wrap Pop! I want to admit something. Whenever I see a bubble wrap, I just want start popping it. And once I pop, I can't stop. So for those of you who can't get enough of popping those bubble wraps, here's a virtual one to satisfy your popping cravings. Go pop them! Go!(Thanks Samantha) Discovery Boom De Ah Dah I love Discovery Channel's new ad called Boom De Ah Dah (video above) featuring some of my favourite Discovery Channel stars like Bear Grylls from Man Vs Wild, Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs and Adam and Jamie from Mythbusters. The tune is so catchy that I cannot resist singing to it.Discovery Channel has been inviting people around the world to create their own versions of the 'Boom De Ah Dah' commercial and upload them to YouTube. You can view all the different Boom De Ah Dan creations here. You can also download the mp3 here. Everybody now... Boom De Ah Dah! Boom De Ah Dah! Boom De Ah Dah! Our mates look like mum and dad I find this real creepy. A study has found that men like women who resemble their mothers, and women like men who look like their fathers! Note to self: Must always find girlfriends who don't look like mummy. From Live Science:Scientists in Hungary investigated 52 university students and their parents. They also looked at the significant others of the volunteers and the parents of these significant others, for 312 faces total.The computer analysis of the volunteers' faces revealed that women often resembled their male partner's mother, a finding echoing psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud's legendary "Oedipus complex." This proved especially true when it came to aspects of the lower face, such as lips and jaws."Freud may be right in that a strong emotional relationship between mother and son have a strong effect on later life," said researcher Tamas Bereczkei, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Pécs in Hungary.There were also significant resemblances between men and their female partner's father, echoing the "Electra complex." This was especially true when it came to proportions of the center of the face, such as how far apart the eyes were or the size of the nose. Young Stormtroopers In Love Red and Jonny say, "While on our Honeymoon, we bought our first Stormtrooper helmet and we've been taking it with us ever since. So in a way these Young Stormtroopers in Love photo's are really a chronicle of our marriage." Design your own shoes Zazzle's custom shoes are the first shoes that you can design from the soles up using your own photos, designs, text and more! It's a pity you can only choose ladies and kids shoes. None for guys! Oh well, I just tried designing one myself. Presenting the I.Z. Reloaded ladies slip on shoe! Not too bad aye. Robots Bra and Thong for the robotic woman in you These Robots Bra and Thong by Tilly's are so cute that I would wear them if I have boobs. Oh and I think they are perfect to be worn under this top.(Thanks Shy) Women in Australia breaks world record for the number of high-heeled sprinters in a race In Sydney, 265 women wearing high heels have set a new world record for the most number of participants in a 80m dash wearing stilettos! The previous world record of 150, was made in Holland. Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi!(Thanks Julina) Omodaka remixes Japan's oldest song This is a remix of Kokiriko Bushi, Japan's oldest song, done by Far East Recording's Omodaka. Watch and listen to the original Kokiriko Bushi here. According to their website, Omodaka is the name of the project "developed through a trial and error process of mutational fusion of music and motion graphics. It will knock over your existing image toward a music video by a beautiful trajectory." You can listen to mp3s of their songs here. Japan's new professional seducers In Japan, embittered spouses are hiring a new breed of professional seducers to entrap their straying partners. Japanese guys, beware! From Times:They head for north Ikebukuro, an area of love hotels with velvet-covered walls, mirrored ceilings and sexy videos that rent rooms for two-hour periods. At 4.45 they go into one. They take a picture of the two of them on her mobile. At 6.07 they leave. At the station Mr A gives Kyoko a furtive goodbye kiss. Next time, he says, he’ll take her somewhere nice – a hot-spring resort maybe, or Tokyo Disneyland. Then he goes back to the office and, later, home to his wife.Mr A doesn’t know that a team of private investigators is recording his every move. The boss, the ebullient Mr Tomiya, lurks behind a lamppost on the other side of the road and takes photographs as Kyoko meets Mr A. Tomiya’s equipment includes a packet of cigarettes and a pen, both of which are actually cameras. Shimizu, a heavy-set man with a bullet head and cropped hair, carries a black bag. It contains a camera with which he films continuously through a tiny hole in the bag. A third man acts as a lookout. They follow the couple down the street, dodging the crowds and sprinting across red lights, keeping far enough behind so as not to arouse suspicion but close enough so that Shimizu can film. Google Chrome Shocker: No RSS Bookmarks! I was about to say goodbye to my Firefox after using Google Chrome for about 10 minutes when I realised that the new browser from Google doesn't allow me to save any RSS bookmark. And when I looked at my Google Chrome Bookmarks, I found out that the browser did not import the RSS bookmarks from Firefox. Argh! You can't search your bookmarks on Google Chrome either. So until Google does something about its bookmark feature, looks like I won't say goodbye to my Firefox yet. But if you don't mind those, I think Google Chrome is a very, very good browser. It's super fast - faster than my Firefox and IE, of course - and it doesn't take up as much memory. The tab feature is cool. Everytime you click a new tab it shows you your most visited sites, recent bookmarks and searches. Go download Google Chrome here.Previously: Google to launch its open source browser Exclusive National Geographic's Green Sahara Pics! Last month, I blogged about Peter Gwin's latest piece for National Geographic Magazine titled Green Sahara. The story is about how a dinosaur hunter uncovered the Sahara's strangest Stone Age graveyard. I've just received exclusive photos from the photographer of Green Sahara, Mike Hettwer. Check them out. Mike's work has appeared in over 1500 magazines, newspapers, books and websites. He has photographed dinosaur and archaeology expeditions to the Sahara and Gobi deserts. You can view more photos of Green Sahara and others on his website.Previously:Peter Gwin's Green SaharaInterview with National Geographic's Peter Gwin Today's Singapore News The following are stories that are making the headlines over at Topix Singapore News today, edited by yours truly.-Singapore pilots take first flight in Strike Eagles: Singapore Air Force pilots currently in training with the US Air Force 4th Fighter Wing's 333rd Fighter Squadron somewhere in the skies over Wayne County, take their first flight in their F-15E Strike Eagle fighter planes.-Whale sharks at IR is a bad move: Nature and animal welfare groups in Singapore have banded together again to oppose the move by the integrated resort on Sentosa to bring in whale sharks for its oceanarium.-Singapore researchers develop new stem cell therapy for heart disease: Researchers at Singapore's National Heart Centre have successfully used adult stem cells to treat cardiac disease in lab rats by changing the stem cells into heart-like cells.-Singapore mall goes green: Come 2009, shoppers can look forward to Singapore´s first eco-friendly mall.-Women trafficked to Singapore lured into prostitution: A growing number of Filipina women are being lured by human trafficking syndicates to Singapore. Promised jobs as "entertainers" in pubs and restaurants, many instead find themselves virtually indentured as prostitutes, working to pay back the cost of getting here.-Speakers’ Corner gets its first public demonstrations: At about 9am yesterday, 52-year-old businessman Teng Liang Huat registered to put up an exhibition that afternoon. And at the last minute, non-profit group Hearers of Cries, which had earlier registered its evening event as a speech, decided to change this into a demonstration instead, complete with banners.-Singapore universities organising lewd and improper orientation activities: When National University of Singapore (NUS) freshman Rachel Lee turned up at an orientation camp in campus last month, she got a rude shock. During one of the games, she was made to do a forfeit where the 'girls had to lie down and the guys had to do push-ups over them.-Many who request heavily subsidised rental flats are not really needy: Just who are 'really needy' among those living in heavily subsidised rental flats? Should those who own a car or plasma TV set, employ a maid or install air-conditioners be ineligible?-Singaporeans advised to postpone travel to Bangkok: Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) says Singaporeans who do not have a pressing need to travel to Bangkok are advised to postpone their travel plans to a later date.-Gong Li: Now a Singaporean?: The Singapore media is abuzz with rumours that screen goddess Gong Li has taken up Singaporean citizenship. It all started at a National Citizenship Ceremony last Saturday where about 150 new Singapore citizens were to take their oaths and receive their citizenship certificates. Sony's The Last Guy Everywhere The Last Guy is a PlayStation 3 game by Sony in which the eponymous player character must guide civilians to escape from monster-infested cities. You can also play a version of the game online called Last Guy Everywhere. Just type any url and play. Try playing it on my blog and see how many you can rescue. The musical version of The War of The Worlds: The first 30 years Read this 283 page interactive detailing the first 30 years of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of The Worlds which will be going back on tour next year in the UK. The War of The Worlds Musical website also has a small archive of historic documents that is worth a look. Google to launch its open source browser today! Do we really need another browser? Well, Google thinks so. Sometime today, Google will launch its open source browser called Google Chrome. Google says that its Google Chrome will be clean and fast and runs today's complex web applications much better. Two features to look out for: the "sandbox" which will prevent tabs from crashing and a more powerful JavaScript engine. Check out this 38 page comic that explains more about Google Chrome.(Thanks Daniel Richard) Making sucking pleasurable since 1958 While on the road last night, I spotted this SBS bus with an ad celebrating Chupa Chups 50th anniversary. Check out the hard to miss tagline: "Making Sucking Pleasurable Since 1958". More pics below. This isn't the first time that Chupa Chups have used the word "sucking" in a suggestive manner in their ads. Last time, they had this tagline: "The Pleasure Of Sucking" which I heard didn't go too well with parents worldwide. Oh well, this time you can email your displeasure or shock to the folks at BBH Singapore who are the brains behind the latest Chupa Chups ad campaign in Europe and Asia. I'm off to suck my Chups. SMRT to install platform screen doors... finally! I've just been informed that SMRT will install half height screen doors at all above ground MRT stations soon. I've written before in the past that platform screen doors such as the ones in Hong Kong (see picture above) could be the answer to Singapore's MRT suicide problem. I'm waiting to get some official news confirmation regarding this. Will update.Update: The $112 million contract for the job went to Singapore Technologies Electronics and will be done by 2012. ST Electronics have previously installed platform screen doors for Taiwan's Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation and they also did the platform gate doors for Sentosa Express. Sentosa's Songs of the Sea I didn't know this before, but the Songs of the Sea at Sentosa was actually created by Yves Pepin! His company ECA2, is world reknown for creating multimedia shows. Yves was also one of the artistic advisers for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Ceremonies. Watch the video of Songs of The Sea above. You can catch Songs of The Sea every night (7.40pm or 8.40pm) at Siloso Beach just by the Sentosa Express Beach Station. It's really fun and I enjoyed it! War Of The Worlds eComic All 125 pages of the Dark Horse War Of The Worlds eComic based on the original story by HG Wells can be read here. I'm at page 66. One of the Tripods just got hold of a female and is about to devour her. This is getting exciting.