Introducing Girls' Generation..

Yes yes yes. We have gotten lazy in December. Just 3 posts to show, but 'tis the season to chill in the chilled weather and play StarCraft.

What finally jot us out of our slumber is discovering this Korean girl band called SNSD or better known to the English speaking world as Girls' Generation. They are a 10 girls band, aged between 19 and 21 (typing that is making me feel perverted).

Nope, we didn't hear them on the radio or catch them on MTV, but discovered them in electrical appliance shops.

During our search for Christmas gifts, we noticed that the LED/LCD TVs and laptops at Best Denki and Harvey Norman no longer displayed football, birds and bees or scenery shots.

It's great we didn't have to listen to them (you don't want to) in Best Denki. We just watched them move, HD-style. Together with Guys from every other Generation.

It was a true National Service bonding moment.

Following our best-est Best Denki experience, Yakki was convinced we had to vote for Girls' Generation to come to Singapore. We now implore you to vote for them on Sistic's website. If they do come to Singapore, we (all the lewd men) can head down to the Indoor Stadium, wave our light sticks and make merry like thousands do in Korea.

To convince you to vote for them, we had gone great lengths to find the clip we enjoyed the most in Best Denki. Enjoy, but do remember to vote. We wanna party like the dudes in this video.

A Gift for Your Boyfriend or Girlfriend?

Lads, a great gift for your ladies.
Ladies, a great gift for your men.

Agent Provocateur - "Love Me Tender" in HD from Greg Williams on Vimeo

www.facebook.com/thetuckshop

We can't get www.thetuckshop.blogspot.com as our web address

But,

We've managed to get our facebook page up at www.facebook.com/thetuckshop

It's what we call, better than nothing.

Franck Muller 'Crazy Hours'

We read an article in watch magazine Revolution recently and it featured a chapter on "The Elusive Franck Muller". We're not big fans of Franck Muller and frankly find his designs a bit too outrageous and exaggerated for our liking.

But after understanding how the enfant terrible of the watchmaking world came up with the idea of Crazy Hours, we do admire his creativity and his guts for challenging the norm.

The article's lengthy but brilliantly written. We would love to but be crazy to copy the entire chapter for you. Instead, here's an excerpt perhaps summarising his thoughts on creating Crazy Hours.

Crazy Hours Color Dreams

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But Muller's feeling was that civil time, the 24-hour day, binds man into a certain routine that he cannot escape from. He explains, "We are all formatted from the time we are born to follow a routine, to follow certain rules. At a certain time we wake, at a certain time we eat breakfast, at a certain time we take our bath, at a certain time we take our bath, at a certain time we go home, we eat dinner, we go to bed."

Ironically, it took a son of a Genevan to revolutionize the concept of time and to slip from its imperial clutches. Says Muller, "After a certain time, this becomes so much a routine that human beings are robbed of their spontaneous nature, of their creativity. You are told you should only make love to your wife in the evening, but according to what rule? Shouldn't something like this be regulated not by the rules of society but the rules of the heart? We are so programmed in our heads that our lives become a structure that we feel we cannot escape. We become so encoded that we are moving mindlessly from one moment to the next, never reveling in the present to truly enjoy the experience."

Indeed, the only time in our lives when human beings bestow unto themselves the freedom to enjoy life to its fullest, to exist and revel in its fullest sensual glory, is during the period that has become known in colloquial parlance as the "holiday".

He states, "Why call it Crazy Hours? Because the Crazy Hours watch had to be a statement that you can do what you want, whenever you want. It had to be a watch that told people that life life is precious and that you must enjoy each fleeting moment. It was a declaration that you should exist in the present and not constantly be thinking about the past or the future... The Crazy Hours is an escape from rules."

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So how does the watch actually reflect this freedom from rules? We think it's time you discover it yourself.