Went to Sek Yuen instead

We had to eat lunch earlier today.

Seeing we have not gone to the Pudu FishHead (Sisters) place for a while, we went.

True enough, it was a bad idea. The police can easily declared the large number of people waiting as an illegal assembly and arrest those hungry people.

A little disappointed, we went to the nearby Sek Yuen restaurant instead. My father in law used to have his birthday dinners in this place. Ya, this is an old restaurant.

So everything is old here. The waiter, peeped in to see the cook, the lady manager, the male cashier and myself, all old. Pictures on the wall. Some old and some new ones taken to purposefully depict old angles in black and white. They have no cabinet like structure for hot water to refill you cha. Instead the hot water is obtained from the kitchen in a large kettle. The old male cashier has this big abacus on his table to ring up your bill.

The men all wore white pagoda thin and smooth collarless T-shirts. Naturally their hair were combed back slickly with hair cream keeping them in place.

There was a music station on, playing only old Shanghai style Cantonese songs. I wonder what station was that.

The food. We ordered the famous pipa duck, stir-toss choy sam and local sauce/oil cold bean curd.

Took this picture after we started eating.














The choy sam was excellent, sweet and juicy, not oily at all. The duck was good. Drier than the Paramount Sunrise version. I understand here, they still use wood to cook the duck. The duck was a bit chewy though.

The bean curd was horrible. I have never tasted coarser bean curd than this. No hint of sourness here though. Not cold at all, the way I like it.

Here is a picture of some of the fellow people who provided the ambiance today.

Najib Speaks with Forked Tongue

Kee Thuan Chye (born May 25, 1954 in Penang, Malaysia) is a noted Malaysian dramatist, poet and journalist.

Kee graduated from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1976 and received his masters in drama from England’s Essex University in 1988. Kee served as literary editor and occasional film reviewer for the New Straits Times, arts columnist for Business Times, theater columnist for New Sunday Times, and was associate editor in charge of the English column, Mind Our English for The Star from 2001 till 2009. Publications featuring his articles and reviews include Asiaweek, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Asia Magazine.


It is my opinion that what Kee Thuan Chye said in his following article should be said over and over again. It is obviously wrong to be a racist and a racist government need to be brought down.

Please take some time to read the following posted in Ronnie Liu's blog, Colour Blind. Kee Thuan Chye's article was on October 18, 2009.

http://colour-blind.org/wordpress/?p=1231

Have you heard of the song "Suasolito"?

Yes, this is another one of those posts for the older folks. Well, for the younger set, this can be a converstion piece to start bonding with your dad, uncle or auntie.

In the seventies, there were quite a number of bands locally. Some people may remember The Strollers, Grim Preachers, October Cherries, Teenage Hunters, Ash Wednesday etc..

Also there was an awesome band from Singapore then called The Western Union Band. Their biggest hit is this one. Suasolito.

I heard somebody sang this song last evening. It must have been more than 35 years since I've heard this song. It is a good one .. considering ..

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It is a pity that the lead singer Chris Vadham has passed away in 2007.

Can't Remember Phil Collin's Farewell Tour

I do not remember Phil Collins did a farewell tour in 2005 culminating in Paris.

I seriously do not think you can picture Phil Collins with hair as in this photograph.

I first heard him when he did the haunting "In the Air Tonight" when I was pretty young of course. I was impressed then naturally. I used to play a bit of drums in a school band then. This guy is just 2 years older than me.



















This is how he looks like now. Still a good looking bloke sans hair.

Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for English progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist,

He has won seven Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and two Golden Globes for his solo work.

I came upon this farewell tour gig via somebody's introduction.

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It is very easy to like this performance. It has got slick beats/percussion, a chorus crescendo towards the end, audience participation, a great number of people in the hall and it has Phil Collins on drums and then singing "Take Me Home".

It should make you feel good.

Create your own Radio Station with Jango

Just discovered this, this morning. As I get excited very easily over small things, I got excited.

I was looking for some old songs (ya, you know why), and I stumbled into Jango.com .

Here on http://www.jango.com/ you can type in the song that you want to hear and presto, you've created a radio station that will play your song and similar songs. Isn't that awesome. You get to see the song being played, the name and picture of the artiste and the remaining time left.


















In addition you can search for songs you like and add them on to this radio station of yours. I am sure there are other things it can do. I am still groping at them.

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Rade came in Third

Just received a bit of good news.

Jeremy Cheong's band Rade came in third in the finals last nite.

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I did not attend the competition in Fahrenheit Sri Hartamas last night. And I have no other details right now. Should I get some clips of the performance later, I shall share them?

Sign language with your Doctor on Erectile Dysfunction?

I went to bed with a freaking running nose and a really bad cough last night. Went to bed but had a difficult time sleeping.

I went to work this morning as my company does not give medical leaves to bosses. That reminds me. In my next reincarnation, I just want to work for Canon until retirement.

But my company allows bosses to go seek out a doctor for treatment. That reminds me. Why do people keep telling me that they see a doctor when it is really the doctor who is seeing them! Well, unless the person is a doctor and the other doctor is sick!

Went to the clinic in Kuchai Entrepreneurs' Park but went away in view of the crowd. That reminds me. Why name a place so difficult to pronounce or spell!. Jeremy Lee once said that of a Canon paper I introduced called Concerto. Canon Concerto.

Went to the clinic near my house then. This doctor has some hole-in-one golf certificate and another picture with a gweilo to distract you while he unbutton your shirt front to roam in his stethoscope, purportedly to see if you are still alive or if you have phlegm in your lungs. Telling him you have, won't help. He has to go check you up himself.

Really, my point is with this poster I saw outside his room while I was waiting to be molested.

This one ask you a very important question. It says "How's your love life?"

I am sure it did not ask if you cuddle up with your partner when you sleep. That reminds me. Nowadays, it is called spooning if both of you face the same direction. I have been calling it the motorbike position.

If you want to improve your love life, there's a quick solution. Seize the moment. Use your thumb to talk to your Doctor about erectile difficulties.

And you have 2 symbols of the thumbs. One up and one down.

For 2 seconds, I was pretty impressed. Wow, now one does not have to talk, to save on embarrassments. Just show the Doctor the thumb down and he will understand.

Then.... then. How after? So now the Doctor knows that you have the male morning sickness. He nod his head and look at you. You nod your head and look at him.

10 seconds passed. Then the doctor nod his head and you follow suit.

Another 10 seconds passed. There has to be a dialog, otherwise, the scene above will continue until both of you grow old and die. Well, on the million to one chance that both of you can sign, then there would be progress. Otherwise ..... ..

So now, who is the smartass creative brain behind the poster?

If you want to improve your love life, yah, doesn't everybody?

there's a quick solution, really?

Seize the moment. okay, I will

Use your thumb to talk to your Doctor about erectile difficulties. And that's your solution? you dumb ass!

Chastity Bono/Chaz Bono

If you are old enough, you may remember a famous duo Sonny and Cher.

Their hit song then was the slow head nodding "I Got You , Babe". And this following video was in 1965! I was twelve then! My current kids could very well be my dad's friends before a reincarnation.

Notice how Cher looked so innocent and pretty in 1965.




They broke up like most marriages of celebrities. Cher went solo and one of her memorable hit song is Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.



Sadly,

On January 5, 1998, Bono died from injuries sustained when he struck a tree while skiing on the Nevada side of Heavenly Ski Resort near South Lake Tahoe, California. He was 62

Together they had a daughter, Chastity Bono. The picture at the beginning of this post showed her as a child.

She grew up.


















Lately, it seems that she has decided to undergo a sex change.
Read the story here.

















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Profile Pictures and Cold Weather

I had breakfast with Jeradyne earlier today. Usual lah.

We talk about other people. Usual lah.

We talk about Facebook, sometimes usual lah.

We talk about the profile pictures of people in Facebook. First time.

Half the people in this country has to be wearing thick clothings and a lot of the pictures are taken when it was snowing.

We speculated it this way. Going by Abraham Maslow hierarchy of needs, your friends would be in the social and self esteem level. Physical and security needs would have been satisfied.

What better way to earn some respect from friends than to tell them that you have holidayed abroad. Well, you may argued that standing in front of the Eiffel Tower or the London Bridge and have your photo taken would suffice.

Hey, remember that we are talking about profile pictures! A bit closer up and recognisable. Hence the clothes and the snow. In this country those things are not normal and viola, we can quite easily conclude, people with photos like that have holidayed abroad or at least had been abroad on a business stint.

The gweilo are no different of course. Instead of using clothes, they use tans and skimpy clothing in a outdoor environment. Preferably a beach.

"But Stanley, you are no different! Look at your profile picture!" a voice spoke in my head.

Of course, I ignored that voice. What! you think I listen to voices in my head? Do I look like I need a shrink?


Jeradyne told me about Paramore and the song Decode sang by this girl Hayley Williams.

She is really good.