Searching for Utopia

Tomorrow Adam is turning one – no longer a baby now.

I still felt as if it was only yesterday that I gave birth to him, but the truth is the big boy has grown a lot.

Unlike his daddy who’s a bit on the quiet side, Adam is very talkative. He likes being in the spotlight — and interestingly, he seems to know how.

Whenever we go out, he would flash his killer smile to passers-by. It works most of the time, but when it didn’t, he’d try other things to get people’s attention.

As the result, he never stops moving. It’s definitely not easy to follow him around all day — although he still can’t walk.

The only way to make him stay put is by playing his favorite TV shows.

Adam loves watching TV. His favorite shows are Hi-5, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and My Friends Tigger and Pooh.

The problem is, his schedules are changed everyday — depends on his sleeping time. Very often he misses his favorite shows because of sleeping.

I just wished we had Charter digital in Singapore, because then Charter on Demand would also be available.

What is it, you ask? Well, this On Demand have over 6,000 movies and shows for you to watch one day after they air on TV.

The good thing is there’s no schedule, which means Adam could watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse anytime. And it’s free! Not that Adam cares, but still—

But, of course, it’s only available in the USA. So for now we still have to stick with DVDs. Oh, the hassle!

If you’re interested, you can learn more at charter.net/ondemand or you can also
get updates and fun extras on Charter’s Facebook page.

Heidi Klum on staying healthy:

“I cook really healthy dishes for the whole family. I already try now with our kids, to have them understand this from early age so they don’t get to be the next generation of pizza-, mac-and cheese-, and peanut-butter-and jelly-sandwiches-loving kids.”

What did you get on your wedding anniversary? Me, nothing that I couldn’t get on any other days.

In the first few years, Zsolt had always been diligent in buying me a bouquet of flowers as anniversary gift. After a while, he gave up — the poor chap.

And who could blame him,after all it’s a common knowledge that most women are flower sniffers. Isn’t it why they have that saying “say it with flowers”?

For me, though, it’s not necessary to celebrate wedding anniversary. Come on now, aren’t we supposed to celebrate our marriage everyday?

Of course I love getting gifts, but not flowers please. Methinks flowers are the easiest, most useless and predictable gifts.

Choosing a gift for somebody takes time. Many men don’t have the time — nor patience — to do it, so usually they’d just grab some red roses. It works most of the time!

But really, what can you do with flowers besides showing them off to relatives and friends? They’ll wither and die after a few days, and there goes the hubby’s hard-earned cash.

Seriously ladies, do you prefer flowers to — say, D & D books? I’d choose the books anytime!

But that’s just me. The truth is that men keep buying flowers, and women continue sniffing them like there’s no tomorrow.

Anyways, happy sixth anniversary to my husband Zsolt. Thank you for not getting me flowers.

Who is the most famous male celeb in Singapore at this moment? I should think it’s Brunei-born actor, singer, model, gym instructor–at least Wikipedia said so–Wu Chun. As I noticed, he’s been visiting Singapore several times in a year. Only less than two weeks ago he and his Taiwanese boyband Fahrenheit came to town. We missed it–not that I’m a big fan though. It’s just fun to meet a celeb, as long as it’s free :p

I remember once Zsolt even had to accompany me to go for Wu Chun hunting at Bugis Junction. But thanks to the traffic jam (who said Singapore had the best traffic?), it took more than an hour for us to go there. By the time we arrived, everyone had just gone to Junction 8. So we quickly went to Junction 8, and we found the place to be so quiet. Only the next day we read online that it was somewhere on level 4. Oh well, no luck. We couldn’t sell his autograph on e-bay.

So what’s the fuss about him? His acting skill is mediocre, methinks. His songs are ok, easy-listening, maybe. Just don’t expect you’d hear something like Michael Buble’s :p But anyway, it’s enough to make teen girls scream his name. Pretty much like Zac Efron in the USA, I guess, his hair is his best feature.

How do you make such hairdo, by the way?–Wondered if I could cut Adam’s hair like that

Bernie Ecclestone’s Christmas card shows Max Mosley lashing lashing F1 bosses with a whip while Ecclestone hands out sticking plasters.

I used to laugh when I read celebs like Jessica Alba and Eva Longoria telling people of how they’re so proud of their natural curves. I have nothing against curvy people, of course, but I wouldn’t say Jessica Alba curvy. Kate Winslet is curvy. America Ferrera is curvy. ScarJo is curvy. But Jessica Alba and Eva Longoria?

Anyways, turns out that I was wrong. Jessica Alba IS curvy. Check out her pictures below, five months after giving birth. But what’s with all the photoshop? It doesn’t really show the pride she once boasted, does it?

Oh well, I still agree with the article: “Most women would be only too happy have Jessica Alba’s stunning figure.” And I’m talking about the non-airbrushed one. I think her face is even prettier than after being photoshopped.

I’m not really her fan, but I can’t help but hoping that in 3.5 month I WILL BE that curvy :p

Are you a Guns n’ Roses fan? Well then good news for you. Their latest album, Chinese Democracy finally has an official release date. It will hit the stores on November 23.

The song “Chinese Democracy” was officially released to radio stations in the US at 5 AM yesterday.

Here is the tracklisting:

Chinese Democracy
Scraped
Shackler’s Revenge
Street Of Dreams
If The World
Better
This I Love
There Was A Time
Riad N’ The Bedovins
Sorry
I.R.S.
Catcher
Madagascar
Prostitute

I still have no clue why guys adored them back then. I personally don’t think that tight leather pants, big long hair and earrings would really define macho.

Since moving to Singapore — almost two years ago, that is — I haven’t had as much time to play as I used to. Most probably because there are many things which are more accessible for me here.

The result is that the hubby had been trying to lure me to play again, since he’s worried that I would be overly exhausted.

But actually, the first reason why I had stopped playing is because there is hardly any game which catches my attention at all. The hubby bought me Neverwinter Nights 2 last April, and I haven’t even finished it. I love the first NWN, and basically the sequel is pretty much the same — only the graphics suck. Don’t you think that they could do better than taht given a few years of development?

Well I am that vain. I only play fantasy based RPGs, in which the characters are pretty and all. Nowadays there are not so many choices available, so mostly I should be satisfied with MMORPG.

Commercial MMORPGs are, of course, better — if you don’t mind paying the subscription. I planned to buy LOTR once, after they bombarded my inbox with their ads, saying that it’d cost me only USD 9.99. It turned out that they didn’t accept Singaporean credit cards, and if I was still interested, I could call them on the phone to let them handle my credit card transaction manually. So much hassle! The game is good though.

But then I prefer Korean MMORPGs. They usually come with beautiful graphics and pretty manga-like characters. And I love the way they look. Remember Martial Heroes, Silkroad Online, 9 Dragons or Granado Espada? Plus they’re mostly free — or used to be, at least.

It’s just that you must excuse their bad English and the lack of quests. It was much notable in Martial Heroes, where I had to literally kill hundreds of thousands of scorpions to get to level 78 — just because there was no quest! Silly me, I still did it though.

Last week the hubby installed another Korean MMORPG called Atlantica Online. I only started to play yesterday, and so far I kinda like this one. The fighting system is turn- based, which is good — especially since you must have henchmen.

They make one good improvement from any other games I’ve played. They have this “auto-move” button which will lead players to the destination of their quests. It’s a very useful feature, thank you!

It’s just strange that lootings can only be done during the fight too.

I still can’t say too much about this game, but it sure looks pretty. I guess it’s worth playing for a while lah.

While some celebs are busy checking in and out of rehabs, the rest seem to enjoy announcing retirement — only to make a comeback after a few years.

Apparently Eminem has done both! The latest news from him is that his sixth album will be called as Relapse, and it could hit the stores before the end of 2008.

Eminem has named his eagerly awaited new album as ‘Relapse’.

A single called I’m Having A Relapse has also been leaked online. Here’s is an excerpt:

“How the hell did he manage to get more felony charges? / He’s already got life in jail now what the hell is his problem / Well to be honest, the smell of these chronic leaves make me hella demonic / They compelled me to kill this elderly man an / I get these panic attacks, pop a Xanax relax / Tryna stick my fuckin’ dick inside a mannequin’s ass…”

What do you think? Methinks not so bad for average rappers, but it sounds too mediocre for Em’s supposedly big comeback.

Eminem is VIBE’s Best Rapper Alive!

To his victory, he said:

“I don’t think that there is any one rapper that is simply the best though. Everyone who was in consideration and many others are the best at certain things, and at what they do. But since VIBE’s offering the distinction, hell yeah I’ll accept!”

Wow, it’s been ages since I heard news about him at all. Six years ago I wrote a thesis about him and owed him an A. But whenever I reread it now, I feel like I wanted to bury my head under the pillow. It was kinda awful really.

Anyway, glad to know that he’s doing fine, and has seemed to stop whining. But who would complain with all that money? (Wise?) men say money is not everything, but without money you’d have nothing

It’s been a long time since Beyonce delivered something that I actually liked. I loved her ballads during her Destiny’s Child, but I found her solo songs to be difficult to listen to — if not annoying. Sorry Beyonce’s fans, but I’m really not into songs like Crazy In Love and Deja Vu. You might wriggle, but there’s no way you can dance to such tunes. Such is the case with Rihanna.

But hey, I actually like Beyonce’s latest single, If I Were A Boy. It’s refreshing.

What’s better is that today I stumbled upon this young girl called BC Jean. She probably hasn’t made a name for herself, but it’s actually her who wrote If I Were A Boy. So now it’s her versus Beyonce! Her version is less mellow, stronger — definitely more rock chick than B. It reminds me to some of those Dawson’s Creek’s soundtracks — forgot the titles.

Click on the pictures to listen to each version! Who do you prefer?

I honestly found this piece of article rather amusing:

“IN times when the financial markets and economic figures are plummeting, sales figures from Debenhams saw an uplifting trend.
London’s High Street retailer reported selling an average of a bra size bigger than it had sold five years ago, reported The Telegraph.
This means British women now have bigger busts than in previous generations.
Sizewise, the average has soared from a 34C, to a 36D.
That means, the average woman now wears a D like Liz Hurley, 43 rather than a smaller C like actress Kate Winslet, 32.”

Ok, I do feel a little confused of how Liz Hurley had bigger size than Kate Winslet — come on, she’s a lot thinner, but that’s not my point. The bigger issue is: how did people actually find out about celebs’ busts? Did they happen to announce them by themselves?

Oh, and if you’re more curious about that article than reading my nonsense, please click here.

Don’t you just love PETA? After asking women around the world to go naked rather than wearing fur, now they also urge Ben & Jerry’s to replace cow’s milk in their milk products with HUMAN BREAST MILK. Seriously, would you buy it? Here’s what they’ve got to say:

September 23, 2008

Executive Vice President

Yay, the Formula 1 Grand Prix is coming to town! Are you ready for the action? Me and my bulging tummy are. With Zsolt, three of us will head to the track next Friday. If you have the same plan, don’t forget to first check this guide from the official website. Just a gentle reminder, you’re not allowed to bring your own food and drink inside the circuit park. See you there!

Best gift for teenage daughters, Mommies?