ANYWAY. did you know that Enya is on the soundtrack for Return Of The King? i was watching VH1 Video Collection, and the entire screen lit up with Frodo And His Motley Crew, mixed in with generous shots of Enya really singing, but looking and sounding like she's humming really loudly.
the promo for Superman by Five For Fighting is disturbing. because it's mostly [too much] of the lead singer and [not so much of] his piano. whoever the lead singer is, he looks creepy.
now that we've nicely sidestepping me having to go into the details of my [still! not! over!] Lunar New Year festivities because a good two-thirds of you are appalled at my opinion of LOTR [!!! anti-LOTR-er!!! again!], here're the real headlines.
FATHER ALLEGDELY WILL RETURN FOR LUNAR NEW YEAR, FIVE DAYS LATE
that's right, Air Niugini flies twice weekly to and from Port Moresby! just because he says he will doesn't mean he will. "you will know if he's really coming back when you see him at the airport" - eyewitness to previous Singapore sighting of Albert Khoo.
SONY ERICSSON Z1010 3G PHONE TOO HUGE
requisite functions all there, but Sony Ericsson's first third-generation phone is just too bulky. about the size of a P800, but shorter. hopefully it just looks big in the photo, but it seems unlikely.
NOKIA 7600 3G PHONE LACKS 3G FUNCTION
a coaster/slice of bread that has the features of a Nokia 7250/3330 but costs twice as much.
-lacks a memory-card slot for expansion [only 29 MB of memory is user-accessible]
-lacks a second camera pointed at the user for video-calls - incapable of video calls anyway
-large, odd shape - roughly the size of a closed Palm Tungsten T
-dialling with one hand will probably prove impossible
-it costs $800 with a $250 trade-in and a two-year contractual period, with no obvious functional advantage over older, cheaper, models. what kind of fool will fall for that? Singaporean fools, that's who
PALMONE SERVICE EFFICIENT, DHL'S RUDE
i received my Palm Tungsten T back from palmOne in half the time they estimated it would take. that's good. the DHL man who delivered it was rude and barely grunted twice to indicate where i should sign. that's bad.
NOKIA 8250 STOLEN WITH ENZER CD PLAYER IN YJC, N-GAGE LEFT UNTOUCHED
fringe story of the week. a Nokia 8250 and sub-$50 Enzer portable CD player were stolen whilst left unattended in a YJC classroom recently. the weird bit is that a Nokia N-Gage, undoubtedly the hippest and trendiest mobile phone available now, was left untouched. is the thief just REALLY STUPID or does he know that the Nokia N-Gage is really a silly excuse for a marketing gimmick and, in his hidden heart of gold, decided not to contribute further to the plague of N-Gages by NOT stealing it and selling it to some two-bit 'handphone' shop in the heartlands?
CHEAP PORSCHE BURNS ALONG ROADSIDE - FEW CARE
a cheap, old, YELLOW, Porsche 911 burns along Braddell Road. tailback cause by thousands who wanted to get the license plate number of the rarity. driver/owner seen in tears by roadside - WAKE UP. it's an UGLY, YELLOW [ YELLOW?! YOU REALLY THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD COLOR FOR A PORSCHE?!], fuck-me sports car. it's barely worth more than my mother's Suzuki Swift GL.
"The rear of the 911-model, estimated to be worth less than $40,000 by experts, was still on fire even after 20 minutes of fire-fighting."
- Driver walks away from burning car, Page 3, The Straits Times, January 28, 2004.
HYUNDAI MATRIX WILDLY POPULAR - BUT STILL NASTY
top-selling mini-MPV sold over four thousand units last year - three seen in Chuan Park. success attributed to low cost, in turn the result of the Korean [lack of] quality.
CAR UK's GBU Review
For Is it an MPV?
Against Or a mutated hatchback?
Sum up Priced within special-offer Picasso Territory
rating: 2/5 stars
COUNTLESS SINGAPOREANS CONNED BY LURE OF TOYOTA COROLLA ALTIS
wake up, people. this Thai-built middle-cheapo-class sedan was introduced in Malaysia and Thailand at exactly the same time as the previous Corolla. Borneo Motors/Toyota just assumed that Singaporeans would assume that something must be new, if they haven't seen it before. and it looks like they were right.
GOOD BYE, SEDAN?
from The Straits Times, an article reporting on the absolutely fascinating trend of sedans moving out of the norm, and monospace-design cars moving in.
Newlyweds Calvin Chua, 26 and Jolene, 24, have just booked a Mazda2 hatchback. Mr Chia, an RSAF specialist, said: "I like the way it looks, and its versatility. If you need more space, you just fold the rear seats flat or forward.
"And it has a lot of space. I'm 1.84m and I have no problem with the headroom."
He did not pick a sedan because it was "conventional".
smart idea, you bright spark. but in five years, won't MPV and hatchbacks become the convention? then sedans will become unconventional. then... oh, no. poor Mr Chia has lost his point.
CREATIVE IN MICROSOFT'S GOOD BOOKS - MUCH AKIN TO BEING FRIENDS WITH DEVIL
i have nothing to say about this one. except that the Creative Zen actually looks pretty good, but the whole flaunt-the-Microsoft-nod thing puts me off.
piss off, world. i'm in a mood.
"take, take all you need
and i`ll compensate your greed
with broken hearts
sell, i`ll sell your memories, for 15 pounds per year
but just the good days
say, it'll make you insane
and it's bending the truth
you're to blame
for all the life that you'll lose and
you watch this space
and i'm going all the way
and be my slave to the grave
i'm a priest god never paid
hope, i hope you've seen the light
coz no one really cares
they're just pretending
sell, i`ll sell your memories, for 15 pounds per year
but you can keep the bad days
say, it'll make you insane
and im bending the truth
you're to blame
for all the life that you'll lose and
you watch this space
and i'm going all the way
and be my slave to the grave
i'm the priest god never paid"
- "The Small Print", Muse
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