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Doctor Who 2010
The Christmas Special this year is titled "The Next Doctor", with David Morrisey aka Ripley Holden from Blackpool. Also starring in Blackpool was David Tennant aka Scot-detective-guy-who-ran-off-with-Mrs. Holden aka DI Peter Carlisle.
And more pressingly, David Tennant had recently announced his stepping down from the Who mantle.
...And my first reaction was "Holy Moses, Ripley Holden's taking over the Tardis from Carlisle!"
Holden: J00 took wifey? O_O I'ma taking j00r Tardis nao!
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Life on Mars (US) on 8days
So SingTel's mio bought a full page in 8days promoting the shows that are available now and Life on Mars (US) caught my eye.
*pause* It's the pornstache. I'm a big fan of the pornstache. I have a whole photobucket album devoted to pornstaches.
And so after digging a lil into it, I remembered that the US series is actually a remake of the UK series. So I checked and lo! It's the Master--I mean, John Simm!!!
So naturally, I told bro about it and I think my exact description was as follows:
Life on Mars (UK)-->Dude... I'm tempted to get this coz of Master!Simm and the pr0nstaches...
Life on Mars (US)-->...and I'm tempted to get this just coz of the pr0nstache...
His reply to me was "Damn... now you're making me wanna watch it too."
So we're getting it and will be watching both the UK and the US series soon. Hopefully. If we have time. =_=
P.S. Another series that migrated from the UK to the US is Eleventh Hour.
P.P.S. This US fall TV season seems to have a lot of people and shows from across the pond... (more than last fall TV season??)
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Also, further prodding linked me to Philip Glenister aka the other famous dude on LoM(UK) and I was like "hmm... Glenister... sounds familiar... Isn't that the last name of the guy that played Ash in Hustle?"
And yes, my fountain of useless entertainment trivia was spot-on again. Ash aka Robert Glenister is his older brother.
...which brings us to...
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Hustle 2009
After suffering through Series 4 without the heart and soul of the series, Mickey Stone is back! So's Albert and my favorite Ash. =3 Pity Danny and Stacie won't be around though...
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Weird Crush
So something totally coincidental happened the other day.
I was bored and randomly thought "Hey, what's the birthday of that guy with the crazy hair on Top Gear? The one voted No. 1 Weird Crush 2007 in Heat Magazine". Still don't know where that came from since the only contact I've had with Top Gear was the Top Gear mag dad bought a couple of years ago and that episode where David Tennant wore that brown velvety suit thing. The magazine is nice, glossy and has a great looking car on the cover and the show is funny as hell and I remember thinking "I'd vote for him" when the tallest one--Jeremy Clarkson--announced the winner of the "Weird Crush" award. O_o
And then, a day after I found the birthday of James May (16 January... Capricorn... I can see why he got the nickname "Captain Slow"...), fatboyho linked me to a video where they melted steel using a solar furnace and as I was watching the video, I was like "...didn't I just look up James May yesterday?" O_O
A few more eps of Top Gear and some columns written by him later, I realized that the choice of his words on the show were uncannily similar to the way he wrote his columns so the only logical conclusion is that the script-writer for the show is a great faker of literary style. ;) *thumbs up* Lol!
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...I've also come to realize how much I missed my poofy hair...
Pretty sure people who knew me before September 2008 will remember my utterly fugly and stubborn locks. There were times when I just couldn't be bothered with it since no amount of combing will tame it and cutting it to whatever style (be it short or layered) will eventually end up looking like it was before I'd wasted good money at a saloon.
But despite the bed hair on pretty much everyday, I liked it. I liked how no amount of combing will tame it so I could just do away with any proper combing. The "poof" of it makes my hats look good. I couldn't wear any of my hats now coz my hair's all flat and straight and flat hair + funky hat = oddity.
:( I wanna chop my locks off and grow 'em out like they were supposed to...
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The Middleman's Big Radio Promotion
After abstaining from radio airwaves since my FM radio broke years ago, I've been rather musically-deprived. So I logged onto Power98 today and listened to the radio online and guess what? They are promoting this new show called The Middleman on one of the local cable channel.
The thing is... I had been trying to get people to watch The Middleman for a few months now--since the start of their quiet summer premiere
But I have mixed feelings about a great TV show being promoted on radio. More people will know about it and eventually, they will be "popular" and will lose much of their appeal.
Seriously... On one hand, I would love nothing more than informing people of wonderful understated shows but on the other hand, I don't want said wonderful understated shows to lose their quirk. That's the only thing that sets them apart from all the generic shows out there...
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Uneventful Friday
So cousin Qiuping (fellow cow and a damn tall, slim and pretty girl if I do say so myself =3) from Malaysia came over yesterday with her boyfriend on a cruise ship with people who bought the package from the tour agency company she works in. Uncle Cody picked her up from Vivocity and went over to visit grandma before coming over to my place to drop her stuffs off. Aunt Zena came over later to take over the host position after Uncle Cody goes off to work.
Couldn't make it to pick her up since I'm working and all (was a lil too late to take a day off... this is what happens when I don't plan ahead. Lol... To think that she took a day off to pick us up when we went to Malaysia last month. Sorry girl!! :( )
And they couldn't make up their mind as to where they wanna meet me so I asked them if they wanna go Singapore Flyer after I get off work (we haven't bought the tickets and it'll be quite a mad rush to go down to the Flyer after work for me) or go Orchard Road to walk around a bit(they've been to Orchard too many times and the price range is a little out of their budget. Mine too, truth be told. Lol...) or we could meet up and shop around Tampines Central (closest to home and has pretty much everything that they might wanna buy). Ended up opting for the most logical choice and just when I was preparing to go home, Aunt Zena called up and said we're going to Tanjong Pagar instead. She'd been telling me about this great little shop called Jing Hua that sells delicious minced meat noodles and dumplings (even more delicious than the famed Ding Tai Fung) but we haven't got the chance to go so what a way to kill two birds with one stone huh?
Didn't think that the testing would overrun and since we finish at 5.30pm on Fridays usually, I said I'll meet up with them around 6.30pm. Plenty of time right? The testing ended at 6pm and I told them I'd reach around 7pm since I'm gonna take a cab but it was the TGIF rush hour and traffic sucks more than usual. Reached Tanjong Pagar at 7.30pm.
Poor mom, aunt and the couple... they had to shop around Chinatown for a lil more than an hour while waiting for me. By the time I arrived, they were famished and legs were aching. Especially mom's. She really can't walk for too much. Lol...
The food--as my foodie aunt had promised--was delicious. Yes, it is indeed more delicious than the famed Ding Tai Fung. It don't look like much but the meat is fresh, the food is tasty and we were able to finish a bunch of them without feeling sickened by the oiliness that comes with most Chinese cuisines. Even the famed Ding Tai Fung fell prey to the oiliness. The 5 of us had the minced meat noodles, dumplings (14 pcs), pot stickers (10 pcs), hot and spicy noodles and soup and Sichuan veggie and sliced meat noodles. Aunt suggested we go for just the desserts next time coz all the times she's there, she couldn't find space in her stomach to fit desserts in. They have glutinous rice balls and some Chinese pizza thing that has garlic chives and meat and seafood. Sounds disgusting but I love the weirdness of it. Lol...
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Eventful Saturday
Woke up early today coz Uncle Cody's coming over to go down to have Jalan Sultan Prawn Mee together. It's really been a long while since we last went there. Even before dad's bypass, we didn't go eat there for a couple of months (years?) but the last time we went, the portions had shrunk. Well, the portions are still small today but at least it weren't shrinking at the rate it was all those months (years?) ago.
Qiuping and her boyfriend Eddie's friends joined us for lunch and we had barley with the prawn noodles. Yum! Had to dine and dash coz I had class later.
During class, I was blindsided by a dull and throbbing pain on my left temple, tightness at the back of my head and my right temple was trying to get my attention with a small but annoying voice. The inter-cranium pressure feels high. Couldn't really tell if it's a headache, migraine or something other than headache (coz it doesn't feel like a headache to me. Just real tight. Like my brain's swelling inside my skull or something.). Bro says that as long as it hurts inside the head, it's a headache. =_= gee... Didn't quite know how that came about but it got better just as the ah beng contractor of a lecturer/teacher was going into the last part of the lecture. He gave us 2 additional exercise to do but I went off before he gave the answer. Hindsight says I should've just stayed for another couple of minutes and not have so much doubt in my head right now. =_= I also ended up missing a stop on the train and had to double back. The time taken prolly amounts to me staying behind and listening to his explanation. =___=
Met up with everyone at One Fullerton and had Coffee Bean's new hazelnut ice blend with whipped cream. Sucked down about a quarter and decided to spice it up a little with cinnamon powder. Yum! The cinnamon complemented the hazelnut perfectly. The only thing that I can complain about is how the ice blend was supposed to be a coffee ice blend but I couldn't taste any coffee in it. Either that or I was mistaken about the coffee. Lol...
Apparently, they went to Bugis and Sim Lim Square while I was neck deep in chemical compounds.
After the little pit stop, we made our way over to the Singapore Flyer (finally!) and took a shuttle bus from City Hall (near Funan IT Mall) to the Flyer site. Coz we were a little pressed for time and couldn't afford to wait for the next shuttle bus and coz the bus had a no-standing policy, we had to squeeze 3 person into 2 seats and 4 person into another 2 seats. I ended up on my cousin's lap and since I'm getting heftier due the good life I'm leading, I decided not to put my whole weight on her and supported myself a little with arms gripping on the rails and legs taking some weight off. Ended up with jelly legs by the time the long and bumpy half hour ride was over. I could literally feel my legs spazzing and I had to move real carefully without bending my knees too much just in case they give out completely.
So we went on the Flyer and the 30 minute long panoramic view of the CBD area is rather pretty. Shiny lights everywhere. Unfortunately, we couldn't take good pictures coz the lighting wasn't good and we didn't have pro cameras with us. It's a right pity coz at the top, we were able to take almost everything--including the cranes that are constructing the Integrated Resort. I'd always wanted to take a picture of those cranes when we were driving down the highway there but we couldn't stop in the middle of the road just coz I wanna take a pretty picture. It would've been real great too. There's this real sweet spot where I could totally take an award-winning picture from--right in the middle of the road divider. Lol... Ah well... A right pity. So I took a bunch of shaky moving lights and blue faced people (capsule's lighting was blue). Feels like the twilight zone or X-files or something. Lol...
The first thing I did when we got off the capsule was to make a mad dash for the washroom coz my spastic colon decided to start spazzing the moment I enter the capsule. I'd gone to the WC before we board but couldn't qualm the rumbling gurgle my stomach had been doing since shortly after we left One Fullerton. Felt a little better after the mad dash but the rumbling gurgle continued, albeit at a gentler pace. Given the time frame, it musta been the hazelnut ice blend with cinnamon powder and whipped cream.
Gurgh... I feel like Franky when he's doing his coup de boo. Which reminds me of that time when I was watching OP and I realized that I'm actually Franky. Lol... I run on cola and spend money freely and extravagantly--always end up spending everything and never saving a single cent for myself. And now with my spastic colon, I can do his attack too. D:
Digression over. So after getting off the Flyer, we went to have steamboat dinner at Liang Seah Road, around Beach Road area. The Chong Qing steamboat is always full and we were lucky to find a place for 8 people within the hour. There is a choice of 2 soup bases in one pot so we had the normal non-spicy chicken base and the medium spicy base. The medium spicy base is actually super damn hot base to me. Lol... Good thing the lime juice and water chestnut juice are free flow. I finished like a glass every 5-10 minutes. Me and Uncle Cody piled on the meat and even though I didn't feel like I'd put a lot into my belly, I'm pretty sure I'd eaten quite a lot. D: I really should start exercising soon. Crunches for half an hour everyday at least. I feel so fat and pudgy, it ain't even funny. Can't stand the nua-ness! Rawr...
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