Testing If this entry text appears, HALLELUJAH!... The Dancing Sky (National Museum of Singapore Night Festival) The National Museum has cottoned on to the truth I have always known - that crowded outdoor events during the heat of the Singapore day are invariably miserable sweat-sodden affairs - and organized a rather delightful Night Festival instead. Here... Reading Notes (Whores, Virgins, Epileptics, Psychotics) I've had a run of great reading lately, and thought I'd share. As is usual for all my commute books, all of these are notable for their ability to keep a very sleepy Michelle awake on the way to work... Photo Walk: Tanjong Pagar Plaza I was depressed two Saturdays ago about my DJ classes ending, so I distracted myself from that by revisiting an older hobby - photography. The DJ school is near Tanjong Pagar Plaza, an old public housing building with lots of... Sweet Juniper I mostly read two types of personal blogs - blogs by my friends, because I am so bad at keeping in touch with people that even their infrequently updated blogs give me more information about their lives than I would... Pop My Cherry (13 June, 2008, Hacienda) I know I should've updated earlier about the popping of my DJ cherry last weekend, but somehow it really took a lot out of me, and in the days afterwards I just needed a break from having to concentrate so... Maybe I Should Call Myself "DJ Smoothie Criminal" People have been asking how the DJ classes are going, so I thought I should update everyone here. I'm six lessons in, with two left before I finish the Basic/Intermediate course. I'm still not very good with all the technical... Wii Are Not Amused Good: Having a husband who brings home a Wii from his business trip to Hong Kong. Bad: Having a husband who, when setting up the Wii while you're out, decides that this is the best way to depict his wife.... Reason #3,539,284 I Love The Internet My work day today involved a six! hour! meeting! and until I came home, read Metafilter and found TIME FOR SOME STORIES, my day sucked. However, everything has been transformed. I now share it with you. Warning - link is... Ghetto Rocket (Or, I'm Out For Cress-idents To Represent Me) Sorry about the food-heaviness of some of these recent posts - work and learning Wordpress have been kicking my ass, so it feels easier to slap on a picture of a salad here than write thoughtfully about my initial impressions... Behold The Cursed Cupcakes Of Cerberus Work has been hell, but at least that provides me with a convenient segue into the rather amusing Black Oven (via Boing Boing). I'm not into baked stuff, but those Frostbitten Molasses Cookies Entombed with Ginger sure look tempting. "Packed... Hungry Eyes At the Ponggol Nasi Lemak branch in Tanjong Katong, there is always a little cat that darts and scurries under and in between the parked cars in hope of scraps from the tables of the pavement diners. He keeps his... Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro) I picked up Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go in the library simply because it was a nice handbag-friendly size for my commute, but if (like me) you've lost track of Ishiguro's work since An Artist Of The Floating World... Is A Pity Aw, hell naw. If I'd only known about Lambchop's wonderful cover of Sisters Of Mercy's This Corrosion before our wedding, it would totally have gone on the playlist. Don't get me wrong, I loved ending the night dancing to Nina... Born Again I have not always been a big fan of the current Pope but upon reading this article in the NYT, I felt all our theological differences melt away. Truly, I can now wholeheartedly accept and follow his leadership of the... Whatever Colours You Have In Your Mind Via J-Walk, I enjoyed this summary of what goes on during Bob Dylan's radio show. Here are all the topics on which he's given out Useful Tips: How to Hang Dry WallWhat to Pack When You're TravelingHow to Walk Like... Phat Pharm (Short update: Decided Movable Type was crap. Tried to migrate entries to Wordpress. Numerous problems. Decided Wordpress was crap. Cussed a lot. Considered quitting blogging. Solved the numerous problems. Whooped and cheered a lot. Crowned myself supergenius. For the moment,... Ickle Note Comments don't work if you click the "Comments" link at the bottom of an entry, but they will if you click the permalink (i.e. the time of posting) and write your comment into the form there instead. [Edit: Comments are... Occasional Foodiness We do a fair bit of cooking but I haven't bothered to write much about it here since cooking is hardly a novelty to either of us. For the same reason, I have hardly any photos of the stuff we've... Movable Type Misery Due to an extended period of Movable Type related chaos involving a perfectly good MT 3.2 installation suddenly refusing to work, deceptively simple MT 4.1 upgrade instructions totally divorced from the horrible reality of the process, error messages in several... Intervizzle I have never had much patience for people who dismiss hip-hop as being only about gangstas, bitches and hos, or people who like poetry (especially slam poetry) but don't extend the same regard or respect to rap. It smacks of... Pimping My Ride A while back on this blog, a small but vocal band of dedicated commenters mounted a Make Alec Blog campaign, no doubt hoping that an Alec blog would provide more of the bizarre nuggets of Alecness they had come to... I Put My Thing Down Flip It And Reverse It Apart from the awesome Velbon travel tripod, Alec also gave me private DJ lessons with DJ Koflow for Christmas. (We aren’t normally this lavish, but for our first Christmas as husband and wife we decided to spoil each other a... Hatty Birthday To Me I used to have a big green leprechaun hat in London, a gift from Brian and Esther when a visit of theirs coincided with my birthday one year. Unfortunately, when I was leaving London and drastically pruning my possessions before... Ch...ch...chaaaaange Birthday update and pics of the simultaneously best and worst present ever are forthcoming. But in the meantime, I rather enjoyed this at the Onion and wanted to share. Excerpt: Black Guy Asks Nation For Change: According to witnesses, a... Kode9 & Spaceape (Esplanade, Singapore, 9 March 2008) I had left London by the time dubstep nights started taking off, and since dubstep seemed one of the least suitable subgenres of dnb ever for the bedroom speaker experience, I never bothered seeking out much of it apart from... Broken Social Scene (Esplanade, Singapore, 9 March 2008) I'm sure I must have been to duller gigs in my life than Broken Social Scene, but perhaps unsurprisingly, I can't remember any of them now. In hindsight, it's ridiculous that I'd been hoping the Esplanade sound system or a... Return Of The Matt Matt is here for his 3rd visit! Almost exactly a year ago, he helped Alec throw me a surprise birthday party and firmly established himself as my favourite male karaoke singer. Six months later he did us the honour of... Bullshit Social Scene I am going to the Broken Social Scene gig tomorrow and have no idea why any more. I initially chose it out of desperation because I wanted to go to one Mosaic gig other than Kode9 & Spaceape, have already... Tokyo: Day One I had jokes involving flying NWA, ghetto experiences, and "straight outta Chechnya", but decided in an unusual fit of restraint that they were too lame to actually make. Let's move on. Practicalities: We used the N'EX with SUICA discount deal...