Apr 30, 2011
Apr 28, 2011
Striking off Political Apathy
Whether it was due to social media, Tin v Nicole, housing costs or simply a sign of growing/age-ing, Yakki and I have taken a strong interest in this year's GE.
While continuing our policy of maintaining political neutrality on this blog, we have to speak of our virgin rally experience.
NSP took our cherry this evening and we look forward to repeating this rallying experience with the other parties in the days to come.
We thought it was appropriate to witness Nicole Seah in action. After all, so much hype has been generated about someone of our age, we really had to listen to what she has to say and what NSP has to offer.
No comments on the issues they spoke about, but the rally made us realise the importance of being engaged in our country's politics.
It's easy to sit back and let the online commentators or mainstream media influence your thoughts about the candidates. But attending rallies is one good way to get to know the candidates better.
I finally understand why some leaders are worried about the younger generation's indifference or bochup-ness towards politics. Imagine the only influence on our choice comes from a friend's mouth or a feed off someone's blog, our judgement will not be ours, but of someone else's.
Somehow I feel that it's our responsibility as citizens to make sure we're aware enough to make an informed decision.
On a lighter note, a mid-20s dude who arrived late at the rally came up to us just to ask if Nicole Seah had spoken.
If anything, Nicole's done her part by stirring our generation out of its political slumber.
While continuing our policy of maintaining political neutrality on this blog, we have to speak of our virgin rally experience.
NSP took our cherry this evening and we look forward to repeating this rallying experience with the other parties in the days to come.
We thought it was appropriate to witness Nicole Seah in action. After all, so much hype has been generated about someone of our age, we really had to listen to what she has to say and what NSP has to offer.
No comments on the issues they spoke about, but the rally made us realise the importance of being engaged in our country's politics.
It's easy to sit back and let the online commentators or mainstream media influence your thoughts about the candidates. But attending rallies is one good way to get to know the candidates better.
I finally understand why some leaders are worried about the younger generation's indifference or bochup-ness towards politics. Imagine the only influence on our choice comes from a friend's mouth or a feed off someone's blog, our judgement will not be ours, but of someone else's.
Somehow I feel that it's our responsibility as citizens to make sure we're aware enough to make an informed decision.
On a lighter note, a mid-20s dude who arrived late at the rally came up to us just to ask if Nicole Seah had spoken.
If anything, Nicole's done her part by stirring our generation out of its political slumber.
Where are the rallies?
Was trying to find out where the NSP rally is and saw this on www.gothere.sg.
Pretty useful aye?
Happy rally-watching!
Apr 27, 2011
Game On!
Ok, we didn't wanna talk about politics, but we just couldn't help ourselves.
You see, our facebook newsfeed's fully fed with GE supplements. The papers are flooded with GE articles. Everything's GE.
We should learn from the Brits. Shops across the UK are selling Royal Wedding everything.
We should really be cashing in like our Brit friends by doing all things GE. Have some GE Sales instead of GSS from today till Polling Day with uber special discounts on the Cooling Off Day.
Perhaps some Kate Spade-designed Tin memorabilia for 7 May aye?
And since we're not politicians and we don't wanna be like everyone else's giving their two cents' worth when we don't really know what we're talking about, we'll just highlight the key matches coming next Sat.
4 key matches we reckon everyone should keep an eye on. Champs League semis-style. But only one leg. No home and away. Just home.
Match 1: Holland-Bukit Timah - Dr V versus Dr V
Match 2: Aljunied - PAP led by Foreign Minister George Yeo v WP All Stars
Match 3: Bishan-Toa Payoh - Wong 'Mas Selamat' Kan Seng v Chiam See 'Potong Pasir' Tong
And of course not forgetting,
Match 4: Marine Parade - Tin 'Kate Spade' Pei Ling v Nicole 'Rebecca' Seah Xue Ling
On a separate note, I asked a friend if we should go see some rallies, you know, soak in the atmosphere. His reply was "Workers' Party's and Nicole Seah Party's?"
This came to mind.
You see, our facebook newsfeed's fully fed with GE supplements. The papers are flooded with GE articles. Everything's GE.
We should learn from the Brits. Shops across the UK are selling Royal Wedding everything.
We should really be cashing in like our Brit friends by doing all things GE. Have some GE Sales instead of GSS from today till Polling Day with uber special discounts on the Cooling Off Day.
Perhaps some Kate Spade-designed Tin memorabilia for 7 May aye?
And since we're not politicians and we don't wanna be like everyone else's giving their two cents' worth when we don't really know what we're talking about, we'll just highlight the key matches coming next Sat.
4 key matches we reckon everyone should keep an eye on. Champs League semis-style. But only one leg. No home and away. Just home.
Match 1: Holland-Bukit Timah - Dr V versus Dr V
Match 2: Aljunied - PAP led by Foreign Minister George Yeo v WP All Stars
Match 3: Bishan-Toa Payoh - Wong 'Mas Selamat' Kan Seng v Chiam See 'Potong Pasir' Tong
And of course not forgetting,
Match 4: Marine Parade - Tin 'Kate Spade' Pei Ling v Nicole 'Rebecca' Seah Xue Ling
On a separate note, I asked a friend if we should go see some rallies, you know, soak in the atmosphere. His reply was "Workers' Party's and Nicole Seah Party's?"
This came to mind.
Apr 26, 2011
My Feiyues
So I caught a facebook blast by Juice the other day on Feiyue.
Vaguely remembering a friend's brother recommending this brand of sneakers, I browsed Feiyue's online shop to find that there was gonna be some free shipping going on till 30 Apr.
Originating in Shanghai, it's kinda turned French or something. The history's kinda all on its website, so I won't elaborate.
Anyway, I ordered a pair of sneakers, the "lo white red blue".
And a t-shirt "70's anthracite".
Total cost: $128
A day later, they emailed me to say they did not have the "lo white red blue" in my size, so they asked me to choose another pair.
Amazing thing was having apologised for failing to give me my "lo white red blues", they made it up to me by sending me a pair of "collaboration men fashion week" sneakers to complete their sorry.
Not bad not bad. Pretty impressed.
Decent sneakers at a decent price (btw, cheaper to get through the asian online shop than european for obvious currency reasons).
Only problem is if I'm gonna be fashion-week-manly enough to wear those collabros.
Vaguely remembering a friend's brother recommending this brand of sneakers, I browsed Feiyue's online shop to find that there was gonna be some free shipping going on till 30 Apr.
Originating in Shanghai, it's kinda turned French or something. The history's kinda all on its website, so I won't elaborate.
Anyway, I ordered a pair of sneakers, the "lo white red blue".
And a t-shirt "70's anthracite".Total cost: $128
A day later, they emailed me to say they did not have the "lo white red blue" in my size, so they asked me to choose another pair.
Feiyue Delivery
Amazing thing was having apologised for failing to give me my "lo white red blues", they made it up to me by sending me a pair of "collaboration men fashion week" sneakers to complete their sorry.Not bad not bad. Pretty impressed.
Decent sneakers at a decent price (btw, cheaper to get through the asian online shop than european for obvious currency reasons).
Only problem is if I'm gonna be fashion-week-manly enough to wear those collabros.
One black, one white
Apr 24, 2011
Wet Wet North-East
We need to take a break from politics.
The upcoming General Elections is machiam the World Cup. Comes every 5 years and for 3-4 weeks, everyone talks like they really know politics really well and in depth.
So we, at The Tuck Shop, shall not talk about it no more. We'll leave the talk to the politics bigwigs, policymakers, incumbents, MP-wannabes, critics and commentators (we all wanna be a political John Dykes or Shebby Singh).
Unless, any more sweet young things come forth to contest.
Instead, we shall focus our remaining youthful exuberence on exploring Singapore.
You know you've come of age when, instead of returning from a club at 5 on a public holiday, you get up at pre-sunrise to catch some sunrise at some ulu part of Singapore. That's what we did. And along the way to the ulu place, Gold 90.5 was dishing out goldies for the oldies. Pure enjoyment.
Spoken like two true wise old men with a combined age of 55.
Anyhow, we arrived at Lorong Halus to check out the wet wet lands of the North-East.
Like the vast expanse of China's North-East, we have not explored much of the North-East in the many years we've lived on this island. So to experience the sunrise on this little piece of northeast land with 3-4 ponds and a certain Serangoon reservoir was kinda refreshing.
We won't describe much about this Lorong Halus wetlands thingy because,
1) It's not all that, really. It's just a fairly quiet and population-untouched place to hang, look at birds, stroll or cycle around.
2) It's kinda unique, so we don't want it to be trottered by every yuppie/hippie/wannabe in Singapore.
On point number 2, if I could indulge in some disgressing, this situation reminds me of our experience about 10 years ago when Yakki and I were still young.
Back then, we discovered this music enclave in a little village in Holland. We found our home for live music and bottled beers. We enjoyed watching a petite, cute girl strumming her guitar and stretching her vocals for a small, appreciative crowd.
And then, every yuppie/hippie/wannabe turned up shortly after we had just laid claims to the enclave. Now we skip Wala Wala's because everyone wanna be at walawala.
So lies the dilemma of sharing an interesting place with the rest of the online world when we know its serenity could be destroyed by our humble post.
Or maybe not, since our blog only has a high hit count when we post photos of hot celebrities and politician(s).
The upcoming General Elections is machiam the World Cup. Comes every 5 years and for 3-4 weeks, everyone talks like they really know politics really well and in depth.
So we, at The Tuck Shop, shall not talk about it no more. We'll leave the talk to the politics bigwigs, policymakers, incumbents, MP-wannabes, critics and commentators (we all wanna be a political John Dykes or Shebby Singh).
Unless, any more sweet young things come forth to contest.
Instead, we shall focus our remaining youthful exuberence on exploring Singapore.
You know you've come of age when, instead of returning from a club at 5 on a public holiday, you get up at pre-sunrise to catch some sunrise at some ulu part of Singapore. That's what we did. And along the way to the ulu place, Gold 90.5 was dishing out goldies for the oldies. Pure enjoyment.
Spoken like two true wise old men with a combined age of 55.
Anyhow, we arrived at Lorong Halus to check out the wet wet lands of the North-East.
Like the vast expanse of China's North-East, we have not explored much of the North-East in the many years we've lived on this island. So to experience the sunrise on this little piece of northeast land with 3-4 ponds and a certain Serangoon reservoir was kinda refreshing.
Flowers of Lorong Halus
We won't describe much about this Lorong Halus wetlands thingy because,1) It's not all that, really. It's just a fairly quiet and population-untouched place to hang, look at birds, stroll or cycle around.
2) It's kinda unique, so we don't want it to be trottered by every yuppie/hippie/wannabe in Singapore.
On point number 2, if I could indulge in some disgressing, this situation reminds me of our experience about 10 years ago when Yakki and I were still young.
Back then, we discovered this music enclave in a little village in Holland. We found our home for live music and bottled beers. We enjoyed watching a petite, cute girl strumming her guitar and stretching her vocals for a small, appreciative crowd.
And then, every yuppie/hippie/wannabe turned up shortly after we had just laid claims to the enclave. Now we skip Wala Wala's because everyone wanna be at walawala.
So lies the dilemma of sharing an interesting place with the rest of the online world when we know its serenity could be destroyed by our humble post.
Or maybe not, since our blog only has a high hit count when we post photos of hot celebrities and politician(s).
Apr 23, 2011
Only Hot, Creamy China Dates For Me
Once in a while you read an article on the newspaper and feel compelled to respond to it.
There was one such article, titled "Sorry boys, it's only ACS(I) dates for me", involving a certain Miss Jiang Lai, a former St. Nicholas and ACJC student China-born Singapore PR. It was covered by The New Paper today, prompting me to look for the actual post she made a few days ago.
Basically, to Miss Jiang Lai, Chinese High boys are all ugly, RI boys less ugly, but very boring. Catholic High boys, from her experience with one, are average, repetitive and boring. St Andrews' are wannabes, imitations of ACS(I). And the rest of the boys school, "unmemorable to warrant mention".
I ought to defend my fellow shorts-wearing schoolmates, but it's really not worth spending too much effort on debunking her theories because they are all generalisations.
It's as good as me retaliating with unfair comments about:
St. Nicholas - where many of my family and friends came from -
or
ACJC - whose hockey girls in my time were hawt -
or
PRC girls - whom many have biased opinions of, but I still maintain my personal stand that a lot of them (from the huge sample size in China) are really nice and endearing (and hot, fair and smooth, as long as they shave).
But one subjective opinion I can make about Ms Jiang Lai is that she doesn't belong to the nice, endearing, hot, fair and smooth category of China girls I would love to know.
Shall not describe her physical features
You can decide for yourself if she's anywhere near hot
So, my point is, if you're someone as pleasant-looking and as logical-sounding as Nicole Rebecca Seah.Nice
Or as hot and creamy as Fan Bing Bing or Zhao Wei, then you do have a beauty-given right to insult us non-ACS(I) boys.
Very nice
Very nice too
But if you're looking like that (see first two images of post), hello-oh, look in the mirror biatch.Apr 14, 2011
Leticia Bongnino - His Maid, Our Army
Leticia and Boy Boy
The Noose
The NooseMichelle Chong does a really good impersonation of the maid who carried his boy boy's full pack on the Noose.
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