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I Had a Hand On Jack Neo And He Had His On My GF!

Published
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krisandro
on August 9, 2008
in Events and My-Views
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I have always been skeptical of locally produced shows. The predictability of the script, the cheesy visuals, horrendous camera skills, half-baked acting & amateurish sound effects, just to name a few. And in some cases, especially in TV serials, I see ALL the bad elements I mentioned come together. It’s no surprise that I have not been watching any local TV show consistently and I seldom ‘risk’ buying tickets to a local show in the cinemas.

All thanks to molemole for telling me that Sheylara was giving out free tickets on behalf of Blog Aloud, I quickly emailed her and msn-ed her almost concurrently to enquire on the availability of two shows, ‘Money No Enough 2′ and ‘12 Lotus’.

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Luckily, there are still tickets available for ‘Money No Enough 2′ and I asked for a pair for the show at Vivocity on the 7th Aug. FREE tickets! Although I am skeptical of local productions, the lure of a free movie, the good impression of the first installment of ‘Money No Enough’ and Jack Neo were good enough reasons for me to go for it.

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I brought KuKuNehNeh (KKNN) along for the movie and boy, did we enjoy it! I wont reveal the story here as I HATE people who review movies and reveal the plots which totally spoils the movie experience. The script was predictable, the CG was cheesy although commendable for a local production and the advertising was too blatant for my liking. But Jack Neo did magic with the way he told the story. The issues he showcased were close to the Singaporean heart and channeled through incredible acting by the cast, especially through the malaysian actress, Lai Ming, who played the role of a mother in the movie. She was funny, she was believable, she made me tear. Credits to Mark Lee as well for he was the best performing local lad in the movie for me.

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Jack Neo

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Mark Lee

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Lai Ming

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Jack Neo appeared in the theater after the credits rolled and his presence made the event even more worthwhile. He answered questions to the best of his ability and tried as much as he could to answer them in English. Molemole helped me and KKNN take a picture with him together at the end of the show.

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I Had a Hand On Jack Neo And He Had His On My GF

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I know that the critics have been harsh on the movie but I think it is definitely worth the money for a movie that will tug at your heartstrings. Thanks again to Sheylara and Blog Aloud for the tickets.



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Ping.sg Blog Awards 2008 - HP Blog of The Year!

Published
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krisandro
on July 22, 2008
in Announcements, Events and My-Life
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After months of preparation and anticipation, Ping.sg finally had their 2nd Anniversary and Awards at Fig & Olive on Saturday!

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Fig & Olive

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18 Table Tennis Bats!!!

The committee were at the venue early but we were running around like headless chickens sometimes. Everyone helped one another and we managed to complete our tasks in time. My slaves, Hendri and Miccheng, helped me finish up on the table tennis bats which were given out as award trophies.

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Happy 2nd Birthday Ping.sg!

Sylvia hooked the committee up with a lady named Caressa who made us such great looking and tasting cupcakes! If I wasn’t battling the fact that my love handles are starting to look like the edges of the cupcakes, I would have had seconds.

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Limetouch at his first Ping Meetup

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Molemole & Daughter

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Hendri, Me, Kahwee, Darren and Lance

People started trickling in and everyone had their chances to meet up with the bloggers that they come across every now and then in the Ping community. Everyone had name tags that helped identify each one of us and due to the evil blogger by the name of Wendy, I had this tag.

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Chao Ah Beng

Everyone loves to hate a Chao Ah Beng and hence I got quite a lot of poofs from the pingsters. But I wasn’t the most hated! The winner is actually…

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Shervon & Sheylara

Diana’s lovely daughter, Shervon got the most POOFed award! WAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! Not that she is hated though. Everyone wanted the little girl to win something. =P

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NTT & Mintea

The awards were hosted by the laugh inducing duo, NTT & Mintea. Despite a few cock-ups here and there, the awards were given out at a very nice pace. I was nominated for quite a few and I expected to return home empty handed after awhile as other bloggers walked away with their prizes. But I manage to win the “Most Entertaining Blog Award!”

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Most Entertaining Blog

And with the votes of the great crowd there, I won the “HP Blog of the Year”!!!

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Blog Of The Year

I TOTALLY DIDN’T EXPECT IT! I only remembered being in a daze as I walked up to receive my prizes which consists of….

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Lovely Glasses by MarkChoon.com


…..and the biggest prize of the night….

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Photo Robbed from DaintyFlair

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HP Mini!

This has to be the most awesome thing I won so far in my life! And no better time than now when I am actually looking to get an UMPC to blog and surf on the go. Thank you to the great people at HP and Waggener Edstrom Worldwide for sponsoring such a prize!

Melvin! If you are reading this, get me a new set soon! I can’t wait to caress it!

Sorry if this post felt very truncated and bullet like. I am so bloody sleepy and I cannot write this post as well as I should. But before I end this post. I will like to thank the following people. Uzyn, Daphne & the committee for organizing such a memorable event. Claudia and Miccheng for preserving the memories in pictures and video.

But most of all,

I want to thank all the readers who nominated and voted for me. Without you guys and girls, I would be just a regular guy with a blog.

Now, I am a regular guy with a blog, armed with two ping pong bats, a glass and a HP MINI!

WOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Oh! And please watch this great lipdub video created by Rinaz for the Anniversary!



Ping Lipdub Project from rinaz on Vimeo.

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Ping.sg Blog Awards II - Vote For The Most Deserving!

Published
by
krisandro
on July 4, 2008
in Announcements and Events
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Ping.sg is celebrating their 2nd anniversary real soon and the finalists for the blog awards are out! And I have the pleasure to be shortlisted in 5 award categories and here they are!

Most Entertaining Blog

Most Interactive Blog

Most Controversial Post

Most Entertaining Post

Best Citizen Journalism Post

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Yup! I am one of the finalists in the Most Entertaining Blog, Most Interactive Blog, Most Controversial Post, Most Entertaining Post and Best Citizen Journalism Post. I have this nagging feeling that this will be a big joke for me when I am shortlisted for so many categories but I will end up winning NONE!

WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA!!!!

I hope everyone will just click on any of the images above and look at all the blogs and posts that have been shortlisted and vote for me, me, me, me and me the most deserving winner. Some of the categories can be voted once every 24hrs and some can only be voted once. So choose wisely and vote frequently!

Voting ends on Thursday, 24 July 2008 18:00!!!

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Life is Nothing Without Touch…

Published
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krisandro
on July 4, 2008
in Announcements and Events
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Touch, is one of the 5 senses that every person has learnt about in our life time. When you want intimacy, you touch. When you want to move around in the dark, we touch. When we want to know if an object is hot or cold, you touch. When you want to feel the suppleness of my ka-cheng (backside), YOU TOUCH!

Actually, don’t any-o-how touch my ka-cheng please.

Anyway, the point is not about my ka-cheng in this post. But it is about TOUCH. Not EXACTLY about one of the 5 senses, but I am talking about the…

HP IQ500 TouchSmart!

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After attending the awesome HP event the other day organised by the good people at Waggener Edstrom, they said they had a surprise for us this week. AND HERE IT IS!

Me and MY READERS(YOU! YES! YOU!!!) will stand a change to win this amazing PC.

How to Win?

Simply answer the following question in the most creative/ innovative/ productive/ interesting way you can!

Qn: “What will your life be like with HP TouchSmart?”

E.g. In the morning I will use the TouchSmart to check on the weather instead of touching Kris’ ka-cheng. When I come back home, the kids will all be using the TouchSmart instead of kicking Kris’ ka-cheng. At night before I sleep, there is nothing better to see than the beautiful TouchSmart instead of Kris’ ka-cheng.

Get the idea? Just try not to use ka-cheng so much…

WAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!

The competition is going to be tough! Only ONE blogger who attended the event & his/her ONE reader will walk away with the TouchSmart PC! The prize is going to be awarded based on the BEST COMMENT! And if there are duplicate ideas, the comment that is made the earliest will be awarded the prize!

This is the press release for the HP TouchSmart IQ500 PC.

Look through it, have an idea and answer the question! Be fast! Contest closes on the 12th July!

Answer by COMMENTING HERE!

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The Problem I Have As a Blogger is…

Published
by
krisandro
on June 25, 2008
in Events and My-Life
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I once said that carelessness is one of the biggest drawbacks of me as a person as I am one who can sometimes be so deep in thought that without realizing it, I have already crossed the road. Countless number of times when this happens and I will suddenly be aware of my body and go,

“Eh?!?!?! I DON’T REMEMBER CROSSING THE ROAD!!!”

It’s sometimes pretty scary to think that I am on ‘auto-mode’ when doing things like crossing the road but it’s a good skill to have provided that it is fail safe. I don’t want to be roadkill.

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One of the biggest problems I have as a blogger would be my memory. I have such bad memory. Some who know me personally might say otherwise but I think I have ’selective memory’. My brain registers infomation ‘permanently’ on certain subjects and the rest goes into my ‘RAM’ which gets cleared every 3 seconds or so. For example, if it’s the first time I meet you and you tell me your name, I will forget almost instantanously. I will only remember the conversation and especially if you tell me interesting things like how you like to dig your nose… with your thumb.

I am not implying that anybody I’ve met at the HP TouchSmart PC Event that I went to yesterday likes to dig their nose with their thumb. But if it JUST SO HAPPENS that I met you yesterday and you REALLY like to use your thumb. Well… erm… do reconsider your other options.

While I am on that anyway, I will like to extend my gratitude to Waggener Edstrom for organizing and Daryl a.k.a UniqueFrequency for inviting me to the event.

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The TouchSmart PC looks great and I shall have another entry of it when I find more time. It’s great to also meet up with more bloggers at the event like…

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…like…

YOU SEE LAR!

I DON’T REMEMBER THE NAMES OF EVERYONE I MET!!!

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I do remember the conversations that I had with each of you guys though. I think I got to either improve my memory or make it a habit to jot down everything I want to remember. If I jotted down stuffs yesterday, some of the things I would have written down were…

  1. I took a picture with Jacelyn a.k.a daintyflair and apparently, I look humsup (lecherous). I never looked at the picture properly but maybe I was drooling or something.
  2. Claudia has a humsup twit for the HP TouchSmart PC.
  3. Juzzywuzzy has his humsup goatee back.
  4. Hillary couldn’t recognize who I was and probably thought I was a humsup trying to pick her up.
  5. I helped Daphne take a picture with two other ladies and the camera auto-focused on her left boob. The camera was humsup. If the picture turned out shaky, I am sorry. I was trying to contain my laughter.

WAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAAHA!!!

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