Seek, and you will get

Sorry for the lack in posts this few days, I've been quite busy.

Many things happened in the meantime, and most urgent of all I should talk about Vibes.

I am honoured to say that Vibes has chosen me to be their blog ambassador for their Charity event, Seek.

Now, students of Temasek Polytechnic has came up with a program like The Amazing Race, in order to raise funds to help the old folks from Lions Home for the Elders to raise funds to buy 2 Bladder scan machines ($5000/- to $6000/- per machine) and an Elderly Care Manikin ($3800/- per unit). I don't think I have to go into sob stories to tell you guys how important these machines are to the old people.

In order to raise that amount, they have to sell tickets for the race. Costing $20 each, the tickets (I feel) far outlives its price as you get free gifts worth more than $30, and a chance to win things like Play Station Portable, IPOD shuffle and two 6.6 mega pixels digital cameras.

The ticket also ensures you will get to take part in the race! Quite exciting I guess, for those siao-reality tv kinda people! I'd be really excited too (have to take part!!!) if not for the fact that, erm, I have no sense of direction whatsoever. And erm, I want to wear heels to run can, I very short. And erm, *whimper* it is not apt to put on make-up? Sigh... But still, it will be fun! I shall stop being a bimbo, haha!

I MUST STRIVE TO WIN! I will get a good partner and not xia suay myself!

Back to the program.

They have also gotten Nicholas Lee, Chua Enlai and Angela May (oooh I get to meet them!) to make guest appearances, and there is a beach party after that!

So yeah lor, go and get your tickets and take part lah! You can see all those celebrities, and plus you get to beat me in the race, how cool is that?

Event: SEEK
Date: 2nd July 2005 (Saturday)
Time: 10.30 am
Fee: S$ 20/- per person (inclusive of admission into Sentosa)
Venue: Sentosa - Palawan Beach

Go go go! Remember that you are having fun while all the money would go to charity. That's a good thing! Because you will have good karma! I remember when I helped at Red Cross I had good karma for a few days after that. Not to mention I met someone there. =D (Wanting good karma is not mutually exclusive with sincerely wanting to do good for society, idiots.)

(Speaking of good karma, just a small digression: I always buy my tissues at $1 for 4 packets from blind/handicapped people selling them. I call these the Good Karma Tissues.

Since these blind/handicapped people don't sell tissues very often, it is rare that I ever have tissue paper on me. Whenever I desperately need them, ie when I spill curry on my white shirt, I dig in my bag, and go like, "HOLY SHIT! I MIRACULOUSLY HAVE TISSUE THIS TIME! I AM BLESSED WITH GOOD KARMA INDEED!" only to realise later that the theory is so warped I don't even know where to start.

Never mind.

Speaking of which, there is this lady in Orchard who seems fine except she is old (50 plus?). She sits down on the road and put tissues in stacks of four. I took up a stack, thinking of buying Good Karma tissues from her.

I gave her a dollar.

She looked up at me frowning, extended her hand and said croakily: "TWO DOLLAR, NOT ONE DOLLAR!"

PUI! KANNASAI! SCHEMING OLD WOMAN! Where got people like that cheat money one! Siao, for every one dollar I earn I must write, like 1.5 words ok! Why should my money go to her, who is not even disabled! Somemore so rude! But say is like that lah, I still kindly gave her the money in silence. See, I am a nice girl ok! BUT STILL! $1 for two tissues! Her tissue made of diamond-studded platinum.)

Back to Seek, paiseh.

CAN YOU PLEASE GO AND GET YOUR TICKETS, NOW NOW NOW before they are sold out, FROM KBOX Paradiz, Clementi, or Tampines?!! Remember, good karma, and you are helping the needy. =) Jorraine says bad karma comes in kg, so the reverse must also be true!

Here's the leaflet:




A small post note: I know there will always be disgusting people who say things like, I bet Xiaxue is only doing this because it will give her fame. Does she really care about the needy? No, she doesn't!

You know what, you are right. I am only doing this for being seen as a ... wooh... celebrity! You people can think whatever you want, or come up with elaborate and flowery intentions you think I have - I don't have a fuck as long as you decide to donate in the end. That is what matters: Getting the machines. Whether or not I am sincere, who cares, as long as those who are in need get help?

Now that should be your attitude too.

Don't like the celebrity invited? Well, don't let the old folks suffer because of that celebrity's flaws - it's not their fault. Charity is charity - why care if it is 5566 or Energy performing, or whether they are doing it sincerely? As long as the stars get the money in, they are doing good, and no one can fault them.(I can go into a long rant about this)

Of course, if you ask me nicely, no, I am not doing this for the fame, but I don't see a need to defend myself for jerks. Just in case you wondered, no, I am not being paid for this, not that I ever expected to of course.


See you guys there!! Those who are *brave, or shall I say foolish MUAHAHAHAHA, enough to challenge me?

*Pretend only, I damn lousy.

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Somehow I understand.

Because when I get jealous of some, well, females, I get vicious too:

I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony! says:
hen er xin

I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony! says:
fucking rich

I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony! says:
and v pretty

I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony! says:
pui

I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony! says:
all the fucking atas-kias

Bohemian or Vintage? says: (This is Shuyin)
LOL

Bohemian or Vintage? says:
i also want to be a princess

I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony! says:
hate girls who call themselves bitches when they are obviously kind, benign and character-less.

I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony! says:
u dun be a knn la

Bohemian or Vintage? says:
really wad

Bohemian or Vintage? says:
so unfair

I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony! says:
bet she is unhappy deep down

I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony! says:
maybe she got lao lao de labia

I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony! says:
everytime she walks it smacks her knees painfully, causing a resounding *DONG* that echos even in the sahara desert

I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony! says:
maybe everytime she speaks, she sounds like a man! GUFFAW GUFFAW GRUNT GRUNT!!

I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony! says:
maybe she smelly?

I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony! says:
maybe her v is so big, she loses bolsters.

I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony! says:
or or or maybe, she doesnt even like how she looks!

Bohemian or Vintage? says:
maybe she's unhappy deep down coz she knows xiaxue is jealous of her?

I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony! says:
-_-

I still think she is unhappy deep down. No one can be perfect and stay happy.

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Very bored of the site's look!

I want to revamp it. Been doodling recently...

I want my blog to have bright, cheerful colours! The theme shall be Happy Summer (although I have no idea when summer is). I'd even don on those green stripe-y socks!!

I want it so bright and gay coz it will deter cynical, mean people from visiting my site! I imagine them to be like this:

Thought process of a mean person
(The kind like Count Olaf and don't-get-sex kind, you know?):

MP: Ah! I have nothing better to do! Should I fling a stray cat against another Nissun Sunny, or should I vandalise and get kicked out of RJ?

MP: I hate zits, especially the one inside my eyelid. They are everywhere, ruining my life! My life is miserable, so much so that I am sorta a living dead. I wish I didnt have piles. I'd rather have Herpes. HA! FAT HOPE! How to when I don't get sex?

MP: Still bored. Any moment in life is wasted if I don't try to make other happy people miserable too.

MP: MUAHAHAHA I want to see them all wept in despair! If I am not happy, no one can be too!

MP: I KNOW! I shall go pick on that Xiaxue girl again! I shall set up another blog, with a nickname like "doll" or "babelicious" or, or, or, erm, "prettybuttonnose" or something to that effect so that people in the cyber world would all assume I am good-looking! But actually I think I resemble a Vogon.

MP: Sigh. I tried to play with a snail today, you know, like I am completing the imagery of that classic scene in Yang Guang Lie Che, where Fann Wong was hopping around with Chen Han Wei trying to catch butterflies on a vast green field? I hopped around in glee, loving every bit of mother nature. I say hop, but I actually mean wobble.

MP: I thundered towards a small snail (there weren't any butterflies), my white XXXL-sized white flock trailing behind me prettily, and I bend down to look at the snail (just like the pretty shu nus do in shows!).

MP: The snail gave a feeble whimper and shuddered. It shot back into its shell faster than you can say "Faber Castell". I took it up, trying to peek into its little home, but the snail had a small internal combustion and burst into flames, rather than look at my face.

MP: I was very shocked and I fell backwards, rolling over twice. I was surprised to find myself in Pulau Ubin. I suppose I got thinner, last time I rolled over twice I reached Tioman.

MP: ENOUGH ABOUT ACTING NICE! I shall torture Xiaxue by endlessly saying she is ugly!

-Mean person opens the site without know the new changes in web design.-

MP: URGGGGGGGGGHHH! HAPPY COLOURS! HAPPY PICTURES! CHEERFUL PEOPLE! I cannot stand it! (She shields her face and thrashes around in her seat like how a vampire reacts to sunlight)

-The mean person foams in the mouth, lolls around for 5 seconds, and passes out. The world has never seen an uglier thing.-

Isn't that so good?! However, I need a web designer leh. I need someone who can do flash and also draw graphics. Of course, I don't have money to pay lah, but I will credit the designer, so the word-of-mouth advertising would bring a significant amount of business to him, if he does a good job. =)

Any one to recommend?

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Marine Parade Fun!

I was approached to go for a sponsored tour of the new Marine Parade Central!

Well it is like this: Marine Parade Central is quietly undergoing a transformation, and instead of the quaint, dreary place it used to be, it will evolve into an exciting hub for health, beach and outdoor products and services, being a 7 min walk from the East Coast Park. The shops will all work hard to cater to the younger crowds and new customers!

Because I'd be doing the community a service by introducing goodies to my readers and also because I am a cheapo, I pulled Shuyin along to examine some of the shops around there. After all, I think it is somewhat unfair that most people only go to the downtown shops, which are far over-priced. There are gems to be discovered in the heartlands too.

Of course, only some shops are participating in the Great Singapore Sale, and here we go!

First Stop: FOOT REFLEXOLOGY!

Tang Shan Chinese Medical Hospital Pte Ltd
@Blk 86, #01-670



The place is very big, and spanking new!



The medical hall. They sell Chinese herbs and also things like Deer whip (hmmm, very long and skinny) and sea horses! hahaha...

Upon stepping in we realised that it is not only a medical hall but also the only Chinese Medical Hospital in Singapore, with doctors from China coming in.



In conjunction with the GSS, the shop is offering FREE foot baths for everyone (weekdays only)! They can have 18 chairs at one time, so go! Good for sore feet after a lot of shopping, hee...



A big picture of me holding the medicine box. I am only putting this pic up coz I think I look nice in it. Did I already mention I love my tan? Ok, I did, a million times. Don't understand why I spent 20 years avoiding the sun. *ditsy look* =D



Ooooh! The water is damn hot ok!! Shuyin managed to put her feet in after a while, but I had to request for colder water. Very lousy.

We thought the foot bath was it, but ...



There is reflexology! It is my first time doing it.

My reflexologist said my calves look very fat (hmpf!) because I have water retention. He then proceeded to push my muscle-line along my calf, and I tell you, in contrast Brazilian waxing feels almost heavenly.



There. Shuyin, who was surviving her foot-rub with ease had fun taking pics of me alternating between pain and laughing convulsions. She laughed at me! BITCH!!!

I would have smacked my reflexologist with the chinese medicine box and left in a jiffy, but he pacified me to stay by saying my legs will get thinner, he promise.



It seems he is right! I was skipping in glee (not really, pain lah) until he said must maintain and do often or it will come back.

Shuyin's reflexologist was good and predicted very well, from her feet, what ailments she has.

Mine said my kidneys, intestines, and heart are failing me. Oh dear.

The aftermath of the massage is damn shiok.

For GSS period,
+$23 for 10-15mins Footbath & 40mins Foot Reflexology (Usual price @$29)
+ $33 for 10-15mins Footbath & 60mins Foot Reflexology (Usual price @$39)
+$38 for Whole Body Massage 45mins (Usual price @$45)
+$18 for Neck/Shoulders/Back Massage (Usual price @$23)

Next up, after making feet happy must make stomach happy lah! DESSERT!

Desserttalk
@Blk 82, #01-622

A small shop selling all sorts of traditional, and not-so-traditional dessert, like Sesame paste, peanut paste and tang yuans. Cheap, and difficult to find such stores nowadays, so Shuyin and I went in in a rather embarrassingly fast manner.



We ordered Steamed egg custard, Gingko barley with tang yuans (your choice of sesame, or peanut), and Black glutinous rice.



Wo men bu ke qi le hor...



With the young boss Agnes! Her family, who owns the business, wakes up at 4am to make the dessert (her mom does the recipes), in which all ingredients are all self-made. I.e the yam paste is pounded by real yams, etc. Very healthy...



Proof it is good!



Shuyin agrees! Seriously speaking, I really like the steamed egg thing. It'd be my creme brulee anyday! I wanna go back...

Prices range from $1.50 to $4.00.
For the GSS period, Tues to Fri from 2 to 5pm, Green Bean Soup with Sweet Potato for 50cents! Cheap!
Note: Closed on all Mondays!

3rd stop: PET SHOP!! Oh my gosh I am so excited, the place is super big lah! It is 3 units across and sells all sorts of pets.

Sam's Pet & Aquarium Pte Ltd
@Blk 82, #01-606/608/610

The place has fishes, birds, cats, dogs, bunnies, hamsters and the like, and all sorts of pet products and even books!



One bigass arowana. It has a super arrogant face, like "tiao-ing" you. I'd be too if I am worth ... I don't know, $20,000 or something?



Very big. When he flaps his tail, a small tsunami hits the parrot fishes, or whatever those are.


So cute, it is in the chimney!


Hee


Baby Golden retriever


Shih Tzu! So cute, it's lying there like carpet! I couldn't control myself and asked to carry it. Wrong move, however.



When the person approached he got into a frenzy and started to hop quite madly.



You know, I reckon I have a good idea how the pictures in The Ring got distorted. Hahaha

Bunnies bunnies!



Netherland dwarfs! Absolutely adorable! They are so small. I wonder if the glass tastes good?


Ball of fluff!


Can someone please buy it for me? $200 like that. I don't think Cloudy will eat it up lah hor, it is so cute...

We visted a confectionary next.

Chyn Nonya Cakes
@Blk 82, #01-614

Although its style is traditional, its products are not so. We saw many new innovations for different breads and the cakes look like a lot of efforts went into designing them.

I love such cake shops, the smells that waft out of them always remind me of my grandparents.



Nice hor the designs? Come to think of it I wonder who makes the default "Happy Birthday" sign sticks. Must be making a lot of money, it's a monopoly.



Shin Chan's head got bra!

Although Shuyin and I both have *ahem* near perfect eyesight, we bravely stepped into an optical shop.

Ming Optique
@Blk 82, #01-602

The boss, who has been an image consultant in Orchard for 9 years, imports many groovy glasses. =D



What you think of the complementary colours?


Shuyin is a teacher. (Psst: Match the bittergourd bangle, though she insist it is a flower)


I handsome not?


I think we are damn bo liao hahaha...

+ Progressive/varifocal lens at special price $180 with normal prescription range only (Usual price @$260)
+ 50% discount on selected models (green & yellow tags)



I tried happy flower wedges at Grace Fashion @Blk 82, #01-620! We didn't really take much photos there though, but I must put this up! Got shiny legs from the reflexology!

Last but not least, this is what we liked the most: Nails!

Jin Qian Fu Beauty Nail
@Blk 81, #01-628


Once again, a spanking new place. Lovely red chairs for pedicures, and many cheaper-than-usual services.

We shall now embark upon checking out the manicurists' skills...

First a manicure!

I thought it would be one of those paint-and-done-with-it things, but no! It was a full manicure of cutting the cuticles, a damn good hand massage and all... plus my manicurist is very immaculate and nice.



And the results:



I love it! The paint is darn good, I went to Bintan and back, and with all the rock-climbing and stuff it didn't even come off one bit. Think it's usual price is $20 for the full works.

Pedicure!


Oh bliss, bliss. Two foot massages in two days.


She does the art for me. Very, very pretty!



Shuyin's one also darn nice. Looks fake even!

+FREE orange juice with the full set service*
+$38 for full set manicure & pedicure (Usual price $50)

Sigh. What a fruitful day.

p/s: Want phone numbers and more details? You can download the GSS file here!

p/p/s: Isn't it great being a reader? Get freshly squeezed orange juice if you are the first 100 to turn up at the shops I featured! Just show proof that you read my site, like showing a printed copy of the entry. =)

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Now, now children...

I am sick of seeing people spamming my comments links. It is not here for you to advertise your fucking bored website (which cannot get famous by its own), nor fight like childish, erm, fighting fish. It is here for you to leave your thoughts on the entries I wrote - and please be gentle. Why use such strong language?

Why should I leave the comments links there? Nowadays it is just spam, trolls, and rabid fans fighting the trolls, and more trolls who love seeing the rabid fans seethe. People who want to leave sincere, read-worthy comments are disgusted, and people who are new here judge my site by the readers and proclaim that they refuse to be tainted by the same brush and don't come here ever again, swearing Xiaxue readers are all childish and gross. Which is not true.

I will be doing away with the comments link for some time.

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For Douglas my ass.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (movie) was a fucking disappointment. Here's its review:

No spoilers.

Stars: Minus 25,738,200 out of 5

Sad, sad, sad. It was so bad, that I don't really know where to start. As my copy of the book is currently with Kelvin, I can't really compare to the book and tell you the exact discrepancies, but as I have read it around 3 times, I think I can be quite sure.

Now, I know that movie adaptations are often not exactly the same as the book, because of time constraints and maybe the director not being smart enough to actually read the book. Who blames him? Possibly fucking actresses.

OK. I just read IMBD and realised that most Americans like it. Fuck. What is wrong with them? I don't know what the late Douglas Adams (author) did with his radio talkshow about Hitchhiker's Guide, but the movie most certainly is not even slightly similar with its literary works.

As a big fan of the Hitchhiker's Guide series, I find it upon myself to clarify how vastly wrong the movie is. It protrayed the genius' book in a mediocre fashion at best, lowering his amazing (and rather difficult-to-understand) wit and prose to pander to the stupid mass audience. It saddens me like fuck. Why? Let stupid people not be able to understand lah! Why must they focus on dolphins jumping when DOUGLAS SAID THAT DOLPHINS ARE SMARTER THAN HUMANS? We are again using their cuteness to make the kids and stupid shu nus happy! Fuck them lah!!!

The parts which were actually quoted from the book were not laughed at (I smiled though, initially, before I died of absurd disappointment), and the parts which the audience roared at were not from the book.

While my previous statement seems to credit the director/writer rather than fault him, I feel, even though Douglas' profound sense of humour is tough to translate into film and still sustain the interest of the viewer, it is still possible to inject into the film his other amazing ideas - which were obviously not done.

For example - When Arthur Dent was travelling with Slartibartfast, he passed thru this vast stretch of white wall, and the shock from the vertigo could kill a man. But did they show that?

Oh no. They, predictably, showed that Arthur Dent was travelling slowly through prehistoric Earth (which he didn't in the book). Beautiful Earth. And WOOLA! WE SEE ARTHUR DENT'S HOUSE! Very smart, smartie pants! How come there is a nice white house in prehistoric Earth?

I had enough. Here are the mad differences:

1) Ford Perfect: IS NOT BLACK. He is a man with orange hair. Black people don't have orange hair. And he doesn't blink often. I HAD ENOUGH. WHAT'S WITH THIS RACIAL HARMONY BULLSHIT?? DOUGLAS ADAMS MADE FORD PERFECT WHITE, AND SO HE SHOULD BE! Why must always put one black man into show?? I am infinitely annoyed.

2) Tricia/Trillian: is, I am consulting my eBook version, described as darkish skinned and with long flowing black hair and ridiculously brown eyes. And she looks like an Arab. WHY THE FUCK IS SHE THIS WHITE WOMAN?? There you go, producers: A racially harmonious thing for you to readily add in, and you made Ford Perfect black? Why not make the Vogons Chinese, TWERPS?! Arsewipes.

3) Zaphod's head. I had enough of seeing Zaphod "pull out" his head. N number of times in the book did we have proof that Zaphod's two heads are SIDE-BY-SIDE, and not top and bottom. It is so ridiculous, why is his head hidden in his neck?! And also, his 3 hands are always showing.

Speaking of Zaphod. He is a bit crazy yes, BUT NOT DITSY! They made him siao-siao most of the time! AND STOP WINKING, IT IS NOT SEXY! (btw I think Zaphod in the show kinda looks like Maddox)

Arthur Dent is the blur and supposedly slow one, not Zaphod. In the show, we see Arthur Dent giving commands like "Let's move, people!" to Zaphod. Ha! If Zaphod listens to Monkey-man, I'd cut my clit off. URRRGH

4) The Vogon's ship is Yellow, and there is only ONE of them. Or maybe two. Not pin-pricking the whole of Earth.

5) The Heart Of Gold is shaped like a sleek running shoe for Christ's sake. Not a round thingy with *rolls eyes* a detachable red spaceship. Oh yeah prodigy, tell me: How can the red spaceship travel if the Infinite Probability Drive stays in the white shapeship? Cock.

6) Marvin is not supposed to be cute. He was described as a largish robot.

7) The drinks dispenser DOES NOT WORK. Stupid producers!!!!!!!! It is supposed to analyse any being and produce a drink to suit their wants, but for anybody it always produces a drink that taste somewhat, but not quite, like tea. Or something to that effect lah. But no! Let's inject a bit of space-time humour and make a light-sabre toast maker as well! Utter rubbish.

8) Zaphod's brains. Now who is that fucking guy with burnt out eyes and no lower body? He doesnt exist in the book at all! Zaphod himself burnt out certain parts of his own brain. Now this may be a bit confusing: He needs to do something (explained in later books). And he needs to be president of the Galaxy to do it. But they scan your brains while choosing presidents of galaxies, so Zaphod burn the classfied bits out.

At no point in time did he get his brain snatched by some ugly, no-lower-body fucker.

9) Thinking cap that works with a slice of lemon? Pure imagination of the movie producers. Not in book.

10) All the Vogon bullshit. After the initial hitch on the Vogon ship, Arthur, Ford, Trillian and Zaphod did not meet another Vogon again until a few books down. It is RUBBISH that the vogons are chasing them, and the female within the Vogons which like Zaphod is UTTER RUBBISH!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO SUCH PERSON!

11) Slartibartfast. He is supposed to be stately and calm, and not like what they made him to be... scared and shifty. =(

12) Deep thought was NEVER on Magrathea.

13) What the fuck is a Point-of-view gun? Sorry, no such thing, and Trillian is most certainly not the type of girl who would cry for Arthur Dent.

14) Speaking of which. The thing that annoys me the most is the love story between Arthur Dent and Trillian.

There is no Let's-go-to-Madagascar BULLSHIT at the party.

Speaking of which!


Ahem.

At the fancy-dress party, Arthur was barely talking to Trillian when Zaphod arrived and whisked her away (You might like to note that Zaphod could only attend fancy-dress parties as he has an extra head and in his case he made his other head become a parrot). He did NOT take a photo of her with his NOKIA photo, nor FALL IN LOVE. As best, he was intrigued by Trillian.

It made me super mad that they made a Science Fiction story transform into a typical tropical commercial love story. At the last part, where Trillian and Arthur kissed, I flinched in my chair and puked popcorn on the bald person in front. He didn't notice, as he was sleeping (naturally, considering how boring the show was).

15) The mice were not the two scientists who built Deep thought. Fucking stupid producers, anyhow say.

16) Marvin gets blown up? Excuse me, what cock is this? That robot has a brain the size of a planet! It is an insult... an insult!

I cannot do this anymore. There are so many things that has gone wrong in the show that I feel like stabbing myself in the thigh as I write this. It is my favourite book! How can they do this to my favourite book??

At the end, when they wrote: "For Douglas", I was thinking to myself that if Mr Adams have seen this movie, he would have jumped out of his grave and shot everyone within sight with a Kill-o-Zap gun.

p/s: I know Douglas Adams wrote part of the screenplay, but I refuse to believe he wrote all that bullshit.

p/p/s: I also know I wrote no spoilers. That is because nothing else can spoil the show as it is rotten to the core. Don't watch it, or risk falling asleep like you did reading this entry.

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Holidays!

Dear blogders,

I'd be off for a holiday to Bintan till Tuesday! Updates when I come back. =)

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