Having a fun time...

Due to the training this week, the Korean, Japanese counterpart were in town. Minwoo and Mark Brown both took a little flight to Bangkok for a night, geez...who know what they were up to in BBK...hee.

That left poor Cho Hanjung in his hotel. Thus i decided to take Cho and the Malaysian partners out for dinner and a drink. So i asked my uncle to pick me up as he was driving a cab for living, and it was going to be pretty easy likewise to fetch this at different places.

Anyway when i went to pick Phoon Kit and Stanley @King Corthorne hotel, they was'nt available to come down...god know what Stanley been up to? Beating the bishop? Geez..so i instructed my uncle to go Pan Pacific to pick Cho 1st.... and off we went.

After picking Cho who was already waiting at hotel lobby, fortunately, i said. We headed off back to King's Hotel. Phoon Kit and Stanley hopped in as soon as i reached the location again, we then headed off to Orchard to rendevous with Chew. After thinking of what to eat, we head off to Taka to eat Thai's food. Hee...we din go Thailand with Minwoo but we had Thai food instead, chuckled me hee hee

The dishes were well selected as i do not eat too much. Amazingly we had a right choice of food for the night as we could complete the food on the table without feeling left out.

We then headed off to Ice Cool Beer for a drink and after a bottle each plenty of jokes from Stanley. We walked across to Alleybar for a huge pint of Hooegarden Beers again...Darn, i drank too much, i guessed. As 11PM we were all a little high and headed for our nest...

Now a little starwars ep 3's easter egg spoiler... mouse here

iPod Shuffle 512MB

Salivating over my Apple iPod Shuffle 512MB ~~ it's such a cute little device. Right now it actually irk me for not getting my accessories ready for this baby iPod. But i just got it yesterday!! so pretty decent excuse i guessed.

I was thinking what should i dress this musical pod. A iPod protection skin plus a Sony headphone and a shoulder strap would be a good start. I hardly use the default shipping headphone, and i kept my iPod 4G 20GB's headphone inside the box.

Now, i going to use the iPod Shuffle more for jogging and transport use while his bigger brother iPod 4G 20GB will be used for longer distance music appreciation. Now i spolit for more mp3s...

Get my ripper ready!!

Inspiration training

My boss in the urge to increase our sales efficiency had decided to engage a professional assistance in training our presentation skill. The U.S sales counterpart was around as well to wittness and participate in our next week Sales training program.

Initially i was frowning a possible presentation to the Towkays....and it is even harder to present to boss than customer. Trust me, the gall were shrinking then.

Sankyu Sue, the trainer had an excellent wealth of knownledge and it became wonder to me that his assumption as professional consultant had actually closed more than $500 million of sales throughout his sales career. And story telling relating to his closing sales success an amazing achievement to say...woahhh that guy is something, which kept me pondering.

Our team was tasked to create a presentation slide that relate one of our product while other teams will be doing likewise for a competition. After much teamworking, we won 1st price with me doing fair bits of creativity work and Ravi of our India's counterpart deliver an excellent presentation.

For the tremedous effort we put in, we won an iPod Shuffle 512MB each...which i am going to fuel my thought in a moment... hee..i knew Robin going to be jealous...kaka

:D

Kop beat Jazzui to notch UEFA cup Champion

Unbelieveable, 3-0 down at 1st half, the Kop levelled the game after mintues into 2nd half and done it within 6 min space.

And Jeryz Dudek who was also incidently made scrape goat during his early season slip had finally climb back in style by making 2 crucial saves to earn Liverpool the champion. Similarly to Lehmonn, both keepers had fallen from graces and gain heroic admission in the later stage had given us moral of a story not to give up despite being fallen.

Apparently, the Kop had done well to win people's heart with their preserverance and determination. Its seemed Capt Gerard is slated to stay on...

:P

Been busy after a long weekend

Managed to get one of the Telco's POC up and running.

Kinda made a small mistake in the previous visit. But i guessed it was'nt too bad i hope.

Have been doing my rounds of jogging for the past 2 weeks. Since i won't be flying lately. I guessed a little catching up on physical exercise will do me good.

Noticed Ray's blog kept mentioning "love handle"...made me wanna remove mine as well. Hahaha
Maybe i need a "sucker" to suck away the excess oil for me...hahaha Any volunteer?

I guessed now time is a little ZEN for me...

:D

Star war costume.....hee

http://www.capnwacky.com/sw/sw01.html

Next jokes...[extracted from sammyboy]

The farmer and his swine

A farmer buys several pigs, hoping to breed them for ham, bacon,etc....
After several weeks, he notices that none of the pigs are getting pregnant,
so he calls a vet for help.

The vet tells the farmer that he should try artificial insemination. The farmer
doesn't have the slightest idea what this means, but not wanting to display
his ignorance, only asks the vet how he will know when the pigs are pregnant.
The vet tells him that they will stop standing around and will, instead, lie down
and wallow in the mud when they are pregnant.

The farmer hangs up and gives it some thought. He concludes that artificial
insemination means he has to impregnate the pigs. So he loads the pigs into
his truck, drives them out into the woods, has sex with them all, brings them
back and goes to bed.

Next morning, he wakes and looks out at the pigs. Since they are all still
standing around, he concludes that the first try didn't take, and loads them in
the truck again. He drives them out to the woods, bangs each pig twice for
good measure, brings them back and goes to bed.

The following morning, he wakes to find the pigs still just standing around. One
more try, he tells himself, and proceeds to load them up and drive them out
to the woods. He spends all day shagging the pigs and, upon returning home,
falls sluggishly into bed.

On the third morning, he wakes up to a loud racket. He cannot even raise himself
from the bed to look at the pigs. He asks his wife to look out and tell him if the pigs
are lying in the mud.

"No," the wife says. "They're all in the truck and one of them is honking the horn"

Lady and the banker

A little old lady went into the Bank of Canada one day, carrying a bag of money. She insisted that she must speak with the president of the bank to open a savings account because, "It's a lot of money!"

After much hemming and hawing, the bank staff ushered her into the president's office (the customer is always right)! The bank president then asked her how much she would like to deposit.

"$165,000!", she replied, and dumped the cash out of her bag onto his desk.

The president was of course curious as to how she came by all this cash, so he asked her,

"Ma'am, I'm surprised you're carrying so much cash around. Where did you get these money?"

The old lady replied, "I take bets."

The president then asked, "Bets? What kind of bets?"

The old woman said, "Well, for example, I'll bet you $25,000 that your balls are square."

"Ha!" laughed the president, "That's a stupid bet. You can never win that kind of bet!"

The old lady challenged, "So, would you like to take my bet?"

"Sure," said the president, "I'll bet $25,000 that my balls are not square!"

The little old lady than said, "Okay, but since there is a lot of money involved, may I bring my lawyer with me tomorrow at 10:00 A.M. as a witness?"

"Sure!" replied the confident president.

That night, the president got very nervous about the bet and spent a long time in front of a mirror checking his balls, turning from side to side, again and again. He thoroughly checked them out until he was sure that there was absolutely no way his balls were square and that he would win the bet.

The next morning, at precisely 10:00 A.M., the little old lady appeared with her lawyer at the president's office. She introduced the lawyer to the president and repeated the bet:"$25,000 says the president's balls are square!"

The president agreed with the bet again and the old lady asked him to drop his pants so they could all see.

The president complied.

The little old lady peered closely at his balls and then asked if she could feel them.

"Well, okay," said the president, "$25,000 is a lot of money, so I guess you should be absolutely sure." Just then, the president noticed that the lawyer was banging his head against the wall.

The president asked the old lady, "What the hell's the matter with your lawyer?"

She replied, "Nothing, except I bet him $1,000,000 that at 10:00 A.M. today, I'd have the Bank of Canada's president's balls in my hand."

Tandem Story

Remember the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"? Well, here's a prime example offered by an English professor at an American University.
__________________________________________________________

"Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate right. One of you will then write the first paragraph of a short story. The partner will read the first paragraph and then add another paragraph to the story. The first person will then add a third paragraph, and so on back and forth. Remember to re-read what has been written each time in order to keep the story coherent. There is to be absolutely NO talking and anything you wish to say must be written on the paper. The story is over when both agree a conclusion has been reached."

The following was actually turned in by two English students: Rebecca (last name deleted), and Gary (last name deleted).

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STORY:
(first paragraph by Rebecca)

At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she wanted. The chamomile, which used to be her favorite for lazy evenings at home, now reminded her too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times, that he liked chamomile. But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep her mind off Carl. His possessiveness was suffocating, and if she thought about him too much her asthma started acting up again. So chamomile was out of the question.

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(second paragraph by Gary)

Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think about than the neuroses of an air-headed asthmatic bimbo named Laurie with whom he had spent one night of thrusting over a year ago. "A.S. Harris to Geostation 17," he said into his transgalactic communicator. "Polar orbit established. No sign of resistance so far..." But before he could sign off, a bluish particle beam flashed out of nowhere and blasted a hole through his ship's cargo bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.

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(Rebecca)

He bumped his head and died almost immediately but not before he felt one last pang of regret for emotionally brutalizing the one woman who had ever had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its pointless hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4. "Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel," Laurie read in her newspaper one morning. The news simultaneously excited her and bored her. She stared out the window, dreaming of her youth, when the days had passed unhurriedly and carefree, with no newspapers to read, no television to distract her from her sense of innocent wonder at all the beautiful things around her. "Why must one lose one's innocence to become a woman?" she pondered wistfully.

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(Gary)

Little did she know, she had less than 10 seconds to live. Thousands of miles above the city, the Anu'udrian mothership launched the first of its lithium fusion missiles. The dim-witted wimpy peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral Aerospace Disarmament Treaty through the congress had left Earth a defenseless target for the hostile alien empires who were determined to destroy the human race. Within two hours after the passage of the treaty the Anu'udrian ships were on course for Earth, carrying enough firepower to pulverize the entire planet. With no one to stop them, they swiftly initiated their diabolical plan. The lithium fusion missile entered the atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret Mobile submarine headquarters on the ocean floor off the coast of Guam, felt the inconceivably massive explosion, which vaporized poor, stupid, Laurie and 85 million other Americans. The President slammed his fist on the conference table. "We can't allow this! I'm going to veto that treaty! Let's blow 'em out of the sky!"

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(rebecca)

This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.

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(gary)

Yeah? Well, you're a self-centered tedious neurotic ning nong whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium. "Oh dear shall I have chamomile tea? Or shall I have some other sort of tea? Oh oh, I read too many Danielle Steele novels..."

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(rebecca)

A**hole.
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(gary)

Bi*ch.
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(professor)
This assignment gets an A+

Jokes all over the places....

Try reading this..

OFFICER : WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
CANDIDATE : M P. SIR

OFFICER : TELL ME PROPERLY
CANDIDATE : MOHAN PAL SIR

OFFICER : YOUR FATHER'S NAME?
CANDIDATE : M P. SIR

OFFICER : WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
CANDIDATE : MANMOHAN PAL SIR

OFFICER : YOUR NATIVE PLACE
CANDIDATE : M P. SIR

OFFICER : IS IT MADHYA PRADESH?
CANDIDATE : NO, MUNNUR PAL SIR

OFFICER : WHAT IS YOUR QUALIFICATION?
CANDIDATE : M P. SIR

OFFICER : (ANGRILY) WHAT IS IT?
CANDIDATE : METRIC PASS

OFFICER : WHY DO YOU NEED A JOB ?
CANDIDATE : M P. SIR

OFFICER : AND WHAT DOSE THAT MEAN ?
CANDIDATE : MONEY PROBLEM SIR

OFFICER : DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY
CANDIDATE : M P. SIR

OFFICER : EXPLAIN YOURSELF CLEARLY
CANDIDATE : MAGNANIMOUS PERSONALITY SIR

OFFICER : THIS DISCUSSION IS NOWHERE, YOU MAY GO NOW
CANDIDATE : M P. SIR

OFFICER : WHAT IS IT NOW
CANDIDATE : MY PERFORMANCE....?

OFFICER : M P!!!!
CANDIDATE : WHAT IS THAT SIR ?
OFFICER : MENTALLY PUNCTURED

What Slashdot thought of Star Wars~ Ep3

Sometime i just hit the Slashdot website for Geek's only news. Apparently they had a slashdot review on Star wars's Ep3. The argument went on the myths and the epic story telling.

But being geek is kinda funny and they offers plenty food for thoughts as well. Matter of facts, there were posts being raised on why R2D2 able to "owned" a Empire starship so easily.

By plugging in its sharp interface probe, R2D2 able to open any doors and extract information within Empire's IT system?

Man, dun they have a security officer to install firewall or intrusion detection system after piecing massive of steel for ultimate destruction? Ever wonder what is the three buttons on Darth Vader for? Here my input...

• White Button for peeping
• Red Button for shitting
• Blue button for scratching his balls or stroke his baton (at least)? :p
  

Slashdot Star War review

Storewars

Organic food in SG is not very popular. But in Canada, many Canadian love Organic food for health sakes.

So this is a message for you...

http://www.storewars.org/flash/index.html

Sick Ang Moh....:P

One day, an "Ang Moh" from USA arrived at KLIA Airport. After he checked out from the customs, he felt he needed to go to the toilet, so he looked for one.

When he found the toilet, there was a lady sitting at the entrance.
When he was about to enter the toilet, the lady stopped him and
said, "sey kok" (fourty cents in Cantonese).

The Ang Moh wondered why in Malaysia they have to "see cock" before entering the toilet? So he replied, "NO !".

However, the lady insisted. Since he had no choice as his bladder about to burst, he whipped out his cock and showed it to her.

Then the lady in horror said: "No! No!", "Duit, Duit!" (money in Malay),

The Ang Moh misunderstood again and thought that she said, "Do it! Do it!" So he asked, "Now? Here ?"

The lady replied "Ya, Ya!" even though she doesn't quite understand English.

The Ang Moh thought that she wanted to have sex with him, so
he went ahead, overpower the lady, stripped her and made love to her.

The lady started screaming and shouted, "SAKIT! SAKIT!"
(pain in Malay), and the Ang Moh thought it was "SUCK IT! SUCK IT!"

He said "OK! I will suck it for you" and took both breasts and suck them.

The lady again screamed "Oh, TUHAN!" (Oh, My God in Malay).
The Ang Moh misunderstood again. "Too hard ? Ok, sweetheart,
I'll be gentler a bit," the Ang Moh replied.

Suddenly, a security guard walked by, so the lady shouted for help, ”TOLONG! TOLONG, ENCIK!"

The Ang Moh replied, "Not too long, just 6 inches only."

Why human's life is longer than some of the domestic animal

God created the mule, and told him, "You are mule. You will
work constantly from dusk to dawn, carrying heavy loads on
your back. You will eat grass and lack intelligence. You will
live for 35 years."

The mule answered, "To live like this for 35 years is too
much. Please, give me no more than 20."

And it was so.

Then God created the dog, and told him, "You are dog. You
will hold vigilance over the dwellings of Man, to
whom you will be his greatest companion. You will eat his
table scraps and live for 30 years."

The dog responded, "Lord, to live 30 years as a dog like
that is too much. Please, no more than 10 years."

And it was so.

God then created the monkey, and told him, "You are monkey.
You shall swing from tree to tree, acting like an idiot. You
will be funny, and you shall live for 20 years."

The monkey responded, "Lord, to live 20 years as the clown
of the world is too much. Please, Lord, give me no than 10
years."

And it was so.

Finally, God created Man and told him, "You are Man, the
only rational Being that walks the earth. You will
use your intelligence to have mastery over the creatures of
the world. You will dominate the earth and live for 20
years."

The man responded, "Lord, to be Man for only 20 years is too
little. Please, Lord; give me the 15 years the mule refused,
the 20 years the dog refused, and the 10 years the monkey
rejected."

And so God made Man to live 20 years as a man, then marry
and live 15 years like a mule working and carrying heavy
loads on his back. Then, he is to have children and live
20 years as a dog, guarding his house and
eating the leftovers after they empty the pantry;
then, in his old age, to live 10 years as a monkey, acting
like an idiot to amuse his grandchildren.

And it is so...

Does it sound like Singapore?

What Is Politics?

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What is politics?"

Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I'm the breadwinner of the family, so let's call me capitalism. Your Mom, she's the administrator of the money, so we'll call her the Government. We're here to take care of your needs, so we'll call you the people. The nanny, we'll consider her the Working Class. And your baby brother, we'll call him the Future. Now, think about that and see if that makes sense,"

So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what dad had said.

Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parents' room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed.

The next morning, the little boy says to his father, "Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now."

The father says, "Good son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about."

The little boy replies, "Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the Future is in deep shit."

A slow un-resounding weekend and a week ahead

The past two weeks have been rather un-imaginative weeks, beside propping up technical issues at work, mostly taking care of partner's engineers and ensuring the usage of the product was correct, i had mostly have to baby sit them as if they are my children. [Darth Vader's voice resonance behind....I aammM your Father!!]

I just wonder when they will grow up and became more independant....Headquarter side had not been very responsive either. Oh well...that depends on what issues as well. Si beh sian..

Anyway, while mousing my synaptic touch pad over to BBC Sport's soccer column, there wrote an interesting article on Arsenal winning the FA cup against Man U. Apparently, the game was won by Gunner's GoalKeeper, Jens Lehmann who made 4 superb saves on its day and extended the game play to penalty kick out and amazingly Lehmann saved Paul Sholes's shot (yeh) and Gunner's kept putting the ball behind the net and won the FA Cup is style. Sweet revenge when Man U beat them in Oct 04 that eroded Gunner's unbeaten record of 49 games. If that day turned out differently, Gunner could have held on to Chelsea's challenge. So our Lehmann became a hero now, going down as fall guy for the eventual loss and Wenger had him dropped for the subsequent matches...but that did not work for Wenger as well, when Spanish stopper Manuel Almunia began leaking too. Apparently Gunner's back four were responsible for the leak and i believed Wenger will be seeking to strengthen the team in the summer break.

Now the moral of the story is, there always a fall guy in a managerial failure, many reasons behind may not be contributed by you...but people chose to blame it on you for some reasons. Answer to them is shallow the pride and fight back when the moment comes... of course this required severe discipline like "Ninja-do" kept absording "damages". Strength is the answer, and Viciousity is the next answer to slience the "xiao ren" haha :D

Lehmann prove his worth to the Gunner

Today is Monday which is a spillover holiday from yesterday Vesa's day. I woke up @10am and headed straight for breakfast, thoughts flash thru what is my next personal challenges...

Over the years, my versatilities had gotten me almost everywhere, like the saying goes "jack of all trade" but of course being a Swiss knife in my every professional aspects. I shined in almost every depts. Now i thinking of breaking the die cast mould and hope to venture into something different and related to my birth's talent. Creatvity industry, if only i had gotten my hands on a turntable and mixer set. I could have gotten on a sound engineer or producer of electronic music. Most like BT, Sasha and Hernan Cattaneo (constant fuel to my thirst of progressive music) Oh well....thats things turn out. Mayb my kid will fullfill my music prodigal.

:D

Star Wars link....

Despite the bad script.....there maybe an urge to know indepth on some of the characters inside the last installment of the show.

Check this out

http://www.supershadow.com/

Star wars~ Revenge of the Sith

Hmmm...as the story unfold, i began laughing away how bad the script had really got into..The dialogues were bad, acting were underrated from Nataline, Ewan and Samuel. I just wondered what Lucas was thinking when he was scripting the dialogues? Absolutely lame if you were asking me...and Hayden's acting is one of the worst to say, he was acting as he was pinochio...come on you can do better than this...

Really cursing the movie...lucky i did not harbor high expectation on this final Star wars episode. And i had actually skipped watching the 2nd installament.....really hated the way Lucas threw in some characters that could'nt fit in...likes Jar Jar Brink in the NEW HOPE..

Manz.....really have to flush this away..

Hybrid ~ Wide Angle

Considered one of the best Electronic break group in UK for their un-assuming track "Unfinished Symphony". HYBRID had again prove worthy in my ear bud when i digged my CD collection back for listening.

Well done, Chris Healing and Mike Truman.

Check their work out

• Wide Angle (US version ~ out of print)
• Wide Angle (UK version)
• Remixed and Additional Production Vol 2
• Morning Sci-Fi

Mojo Mojo Mojo where are you?

Only the unique ONE has Mojo...but my Mojo need replenishment. And how can i find my Mojo now?

Elaine is too far off...from Singapore. She happily living @Seattle, Washington. I need Mojo Now!!

:(~~

where is my MOJO??

Been trying to recover my energy...and lately so many issues...it seemed that my mojo is missing ....

Mojo where are u? I want you back~

*sob sob

What a tiring week

Never felt so shagged after a long week...came back from Starhub POC but somehow something not right to the Solaris 9 server for some reasons..

Anyway....this week a long weekend and i believed i deserved some rest.

Right after a long bus ride with my iPod...i rwached home and headed for a short jog as i am working way up to shred some weight off my mid body.

I just want to show Elaine my six abs when she visits Singapore.

Hahaha :D

What's on my ear bud

Just brought two CDs from Raspody Record who ran by a friend called Alvin Ang. Business did not seemed to look good for him as his music audience were all either moving out or people r strapping for cash. I hope his business stays good. We did had couples of music exchanges and i learnt from him that DJ Sasha and John Digweed were aiming at the America's West and East coast audience in the their previous work that prompted Paul Oakenfold to create BUKKA. Anyway, many of the DJs aka Producers were focusing on soundtracks production..where the good $$ is.

BT, Orbital had done that and now..Sasha, John Digweed and Paul Oakenfold is doing it...

The CDs i brought were Global Underground EXPOSURES and Bent's Ariel...

Exposures was mixed and compiled by DJ Forth and in my opinion presented quite an excellent piece of compilation. Chill and electronica, textures and layering were there to juice things up a little. Noticeable, his effort is very similar to Hernan Cattaneo, Sasha, Pako & Frederik. Life is worth every bits...churning bits and byte into my ear drum.

Bent's Ariel is pretty good as well after a busy work and a tiring day...it will sooth u down for a sleeping moment. Hee..but as a home DJ, these kind of tracks are important to be added to slow things down a little.

Incidently, a music preference will determine the character of a person...do u believe?


Hee.. :P

Deep discussion with Emerson

Hard day work...and found a reply email from Emerson, an American who frequently exchange email with me on politic and morals.

His email did raised an interesting point on how technologies changes the way Government deal with its citizen. Probably you will think...what the hell has government got to deal with technology...well...his thought and mine were pretty much close. I pen my thought in response to his provocating thoughts...

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Hi Robert,

Hee....his article was pretty refreshing to say and his holistic perspective to Asian phenomenon gave rise to our questioning is our government really that capable?

As you aware, since we were neighbour and what happening behind Singapore's backyard is pretty audible over ya side as well. Since our gov has been touting how great they were, i began to raise doubts on is the fabric of a nation is driven by people or government. My opinions are government is necessary to provide a stable foundation and work in the interest of their citizen and probably i was getting too idealist likes Che Cheuvera. His world was ideal and driven to bring the goodness of the lesser being. I believed in irregardless of color, we all have our ideal and driving force. The only difference is survival or ideal come 1st...

Interesting point that you had raised, indeed technology prompts government to change, that was correct one in almost every aspects which i agreed very much...remembered the industralisation age when we use steam power machinery to create and mass produce goods?

Despite it had given us material goods and was'nt available in mass, till Ford Henry drafted his "manufacturing" doctrine that created so many standards we seen in modern age as fine art of manufacturing which later copied and refined by the Japanese and there came Toyota' way...(i did not read the book)

These later gave rise to capitalism whose main aim is to exploit every means to made more profit until its has fully exhausted and move on to the next objectives. Who want to be poor government anyway, thus gave rise to politician fighting for the control of mother's resource...OIL. Only the one that control oil will eventual control the world....because modern world do not function without machinery The machines in facts were tools to us to create were eventually became a pit hole for mankind to be enslaved as we gradually grew to satisfy our material greed. (I notorious ...as well :P) Government acting as facilitator to promote greed by creating dream home and dream family in everyone's mind....This drive society to greater greed in handling the government the mandates to use technologies to manipulate our life.

For all the dirty deeds mankind did to mother planet, i sometime do not shred tears for those perished under the natural forces. As it seen karma has it's way of finding those who were due...

:)

Nice Malaysian Friends

Today had some pretty intense activities as i was assisting my partner in the resolution of a product misunderstanding anyway along the way, met a old Singapore Poly mate, Gary Lim. Come to think of it, it 17 years we last met. Is'nt it amazing?

Then went on to meet the other malaysian vendor which i used to bang around. Kim and Ravi from Bakbone are good partners and friend. Ravi then went out to suggest an indian restuarant @River place which is pretty near to ACA Pacific office. They served very good vegetarian buffet.

We had a beer and talked almost every stuffs.....politics...conspiracy...and too bad Kim's hubby Emerson was'nt around. Else our conversation will dealt deeper into more conspiracy theories...

Oh well...wat a tiring day i guessed.

Did some computer upgrading

Hee...after days of thinking, finally "Up" the ante a little by increasing my system memory to 2GB and replaced with a 3.2Ghz P4 brainy.

Now let's play some games...to stress him out a little.

:D

Was Singapore's rapid growth in 90s a myth

I edit my thought laters...

But as far as i could add, our GDP required tremenous "input" or "effort" in order to achieve. Thus i always said Singapore is not economically "Efficient" as we need to pour in more labor to achieve the expected growth.

Assumingly we need to maintain our constant of GDP's achievement with reference to variables like Labour which is seeing great decline due to aging work force and fewer babies over the years...

Where else could u have more labour "input" than importing "foreign" labour.

http://www.couch.ca/history/1997/saravanamutti.html

Did i said Microsoft support PowerPC G5?

I have been figgling with computers for a pretty long time. Despite i was never nurtured as computer kid during my school days since i was pretty bad with coding in those days.

But i can decode a program and modify them but asking me to code is very difficult..:( Still i have a talent for system architecture understanding.

By far i had seen many processors and even had 1st hand experience seeing how a cpu was built during my 1st job where National Semiconductor acquired Cyrix for its processor and system on chip business. We did the manufacturing in Singapore as well.

AMD's Amd64 (dual core soon) plus the present IBM's PowerPC G5 (dual core) are processor talk among the geeks. Forget Intel....they lack innovation for a long time.

Anyway, Xbox-2's rumor that is will be powered by a Multi-core PowerPC G5 is confirmed. The Xbox-2 will be no hold barred gaming design using three-cores G5 @3.2Ghz and a unified memory using GDDR3 memory that split the memory among the three processing cores. The graphic engine will be powered by an ATI R500 with an embedded memory of 10MB.

Back tracking, i had already suspected Redmond folks had version of Windows XP running on PowerPC architecture sometime last year and likewise Apple already had their OS-X running on x86 architecture via their Darwin initiative.

Interestingly i switching more to dark side of Apple ...

Check this out

http://www.bit-tech.net/columns/2005/05/13/xbox_360_pc_enthusiasts/1.html

:D

I could be Oracle myself

Many many times, i made predictions and many of them were turning the way exactly the way i predicted...could i be a Oracle myself?

Okay, let me disect my predictions and validate the claims over the years. In 1997-8, after the Asia economy striked Singapore and our neighbours. I began to forsee our economical vulnerability and i began to suspect that Semiconductor and Wafer Fab's days were dwindling down. Particularly, my 1st job @National Semiconductor @Tao Payoh Lor 3 which was left with land lease of 12 years to operate at that prime area. Coupled with technology advancement made in processes and semiconductor equipment. These high value manufacturing will depart to our neighbourhood soon as "cost" in Singapore began to inflate. In 95-97, our properties market prop up due to possible Hongie and Indonesian investment in SG. Thus "cost and debt" gone up tremendously. Thus i predicted that anything that is semiconductor assembly will be gone in 10-15 years times. Thus i made a poor man switch to IT hoping to earn another survival skill.

True enough after my departure, at least 4 rounds of retrenchment cycle kicked in, the downsizing of man power and yet the the same volume (or little less) rendered us completely inefficient. These inefficiency is defined as a lot of "effort" put in to create the same outcome. Many of my colleagues who disagreed me of leaving for some unknown said Semiconc still remains for a long time were in for a rude awakening as well as colleagues one by one made their golden parachutes...

If i were to remain there....probably i would be rotting as well..

Last years, i made a prediction that NCS will merge with SCS for one reason. SCS was practically
bleeding thru its Orifice...(anal) :p And this weekend news hit my jackpot.

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/050513/15/3si0y.html

There were couples of preductions i made and i would like to list some down...

1. Taiwan and China unification within this generation. I had this prediction made many years ago and my travel savvy friend aka Tiko Seng who made numerous visit to mainland and Taiwan said it was impossible. But my feeling differ, after all both ends were chinese and family once and the Chinese were prepared to take the "Formosa island" by force thus their military doctrine showed their ambition. President Chen was playing his card to extend his presidency, otherwise he knew the day were coming soon. With Lian Chen making a historic visit to Beijing significantly bridged both ends there always a day....As writting, Chen Shui-Bian's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) had won 42.5% of the vote with Opposition Nationalist Party garnering 38.9% of the vote does switch to disadvantage. But my bet of unification will continue to play on..

2. North Korea and South Korea unification, technically impossible over many years. Somehow i just had a feeling that possible unification will materialise in 2 generations time. Of course it will benefit South Korea more depite it early shackle of absording North Korean's debt and deficit (if they ever have, no inside news) As North Korea will be a focus of cheap labor and nation rebuilding, it will enabled Chaebor likes LG, Samsung and Hyundai to outsource inward than outward to mainland China which made economical senses... So we shall see..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4546799.stm

3. Dual Citizenship in Singapore, hard to swallow right? Yes, one of my prediction for Singapore to offer such national duality option. Why? well...to capture the leaving families back to the island and converting PRs into Citizen at the expense of garnering more "foreign talent" in the island. Everyone knows, this island is getting more expensive to live and Gov have been thinking how to prevent these "foreign saving" outflow? Easy way out is to keep the property market inflate and hold these people as "debt" or liability. Smart Foreigners will only rent not buy... and promote SPG-ism to keep Ang Moh happy by having their little head penetrate with little resistance. Easy was'nt it? The Citizen Duality will be 2nd defence to capture these range of people. My Ang Moh boss is smart to "rent" his apartment at Tanjong Rhu while having his own property @Kota Baru...darmmit, one just got away..

4. Singaporean going outward to work, hahaha...as influx of cheap labor from China and India fighting over the same work pool. Local Singaporean (Daring one like me lah) are beginning to seek outdoor to extend or groom their career. As our slight advantage in work ethnic (few only) some will find it easier to work and seed their root there. That's where Para 3 becames a big advantage and reason for exercising national duality. Additionally divorce rate will go up as Singapore men found foreign women more accomodating..haha (one prediction leh) Those new generation majored in Biomedical studies will be in for a rude awakening as cheaper, more experienced Biomedical "bloodied" Indian took their "lunchbox", ops sorry... Malaysia is fighting us Ringgit for Sing dollar for domination of Biomedical research and manufacturing. Christened as BioMalaysia...did'nt i said Malaysia Boleh?

5. Angry society.....yes yes...i want to see this happening as disgruntled new generation found new truth in their parent's blind faith and stupidity in one party policy. Being outspoken, "intelligent", internet savvy and early run-in with Chinese nationalist in school days is not going to made existing policy maker easy. I pretty sure.....they better start to learn how to lie and made public speech in a more "convincing" way. The new generation of Sing-anger is not going to be easier to deal with.

What u heap is what you sow

This is so true that what u heap is what u sow. U plant cumumber plant u get cumumber, that the order of nature.

Man U stock now laid solely on one man. Malcolm Glazer recent hostile take over the club thru stocks had almost garnder 71% of the Man U share and it seemed that David Gill's days are numbered. Alex Ferguson despite being offered for 3 years contract remain to be seemed whether he will stay if David Gill resigned.

The stupid Man U's fan were raging against the Glazer takeover...but the question remains. Why the fan did not protest when Man U goes on listing? When a club goes on listing...hostile stock buyoff is always a risks especially if the offer is too much to resist in the opinion of the stocks holders.

Anyway, the proverb held true for this case, greed had trigger the club to go on listed for greater cash infusion and also it the same listing which allow someone like Glazer to buy over thru stocks. So greed is the main culprit and despite my intense hatred of Man U.....i would rather said Glazer buyover is going to milk Man U even more. Thats remain to be seemed how it's going to benefit the club and it rumored that TV rights is where he wanted. Imagine pay per view of Man U game via MUTV..how much $$ is to be made out there? So how much damage will this Glazer deal could be remain in the eye of many....

As it seemed life is full of paradox

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/feature?id=333278&cc=4716

Firefox browser updated to 1.0.4

For who like me who had been using the Firefox web browser for daily web browsing. Firefox had released 1.0.4 to public after releasing RC 1 three days ago.

Hit the download button to download Firefox today
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23196
http://www.mozilla.org/firefox

One word...dun mess with the best die like the rest!! (Qoute from movie "Hacker")

Corresponding to some blog's comments

Hee...i went to Elaine's blog for a little peek. I noticed one thing in common with RawBean's blog.
**Lack of update** hahaha

Ok ok..its a joke ok?

Said who can't turn back the biologically clock? i will "slash" my wrist and spend 3 days in Hospital with just Saline diet...i will definitely regain my 20's posture in matters of days hahaha sucha silly thought ... :p

Can't hide? With a regional job i have many places to hide hahaha just like the movie starring both Tom Hanks and Leonardo DeCarpio "Catch me if you can" hahaha :D I keep flying until u lose my tracks..

Elaine u talk so much....i can't even see or hear u "fart" in Singapore...so when you going to visit us? Your princess's treatment voucher is only 3 month grace leh...hahaha better hurry while my mood last..haha

What kind of mischief i been lately?

Aiya ya ..me still lazing around listening to my music and just feeling lately there is so short of time.

Maybe the activities level increases lately plus the travelling which thus i am unable to seek my own time and losing the feeling what it is like being in complete peace...

Maybe this week i will hit the street with Leo and watch a little movie to ease myself. Today met up with my Indonesia's partner and had a pretty good chat how life and business are being conducted in Jakarta.

And also i might be on the air again to Jakarta for another business trip sometime next week. It seemed that Jakarta lately is surging with more storage requirement....hopefully it's a good week to begin with.

Ohh...after seeing Min Sun's photo portal, i had began to revive my jogging program to work my body down. I really saddened how the photo turn out....sob sob

Found this on my email box from a friend...hee hee

Bad Habits by Sign

by Stephanie Dempsey

Nobody's perfect - all signs have their vices.

Fortunately, astrology provides valuable clues for

breaking bad habits. Ending these patterns will help

you realize your full potential. Here are some tips

for conquering those negative behaviors that get in

the way of your ultimate happiness.

• Aries Out in Front

Rams have a habit of pushing to the front of the line,

both literally and figuratively. And while this

quality has helped Aries get ahead, it can also

compromise their relationships. Putting an animal,

child or plant in their care can correct the problem.

As soon as this sign's nurturing qualities are

cultivated, their selfishness will diminish.

• Taurean Trash

Bulls love clutter. Being surrounded by all their

possessions gives them a sense of security. It also

creates headaches, confusion, and chaos. Storage

systems that keep their stuff on display will prevent

this sign from strewing their stuff all over the

house. Stacking baskets, glass jars, and open shelving

can promote organization.

• Nerve-Wracking Twins

Geminis are the nail-biters of the zodiac. Twins are

self-conscious about their hands, and need to keep

them busy at all times. Activities like knitting,

carving, or bead work provide welcome distractions.

Weekly manicures will also keep temptation at bay.

Twins are less likely to gnaw their cuticles when

they've just paid for their upkeep!

• Cancers and the Candyman

If you've ever wondered how Cancers stay so sweet,

take a look at their sugar intake. This sign loves

cookies, candy, and ice cream. An occasional

indulgence is fine, but too much dessert can take a

toll on waist lines and energy levels. What Crabs are

really seeking is oral gratification. Sugar-free gum

or dried fruit provides a healthy distraction from

candy crunching.

• Lavish Leos

The guy who's sitting next to you in the elegant

restaurant, shouting to his personal assistant on his

cell phone? Probably a Leo. It's only natural that a

sign that is blessed with creativity, charm and wit

feels tempted to show off. Actually, this desire to

brag is rooted in insecurity. The sooner Lions learn

to compliment others, the quicker they'll receive the

praise they crave.

• Virgos Fear Filth

These nit-pickers sometimes compromise their own

pleasure for the sake of perfection. Deep down inside,

these folks are really sensualists at heart. They need

to learn that it is better to feel good than to look

good. Allocating a few minutes each day for fun but

messy activities like baking, painting, or sculpting

can cure Virgos of their fear of filth.

• Libras Love to Shop

Librans gave birth to the term "shopaholic". These

folks have every credit card known to man. And while

their taste is undeniably impeccable, it can get them

in trouble at bankruptcy court. What's really at stake

here is a quest for beauty. Enjoying simple but

inexpensive pleasures like nature walks and museums

can quell the urge to splurge.

• Strictly Scorpios

Nobody carries a grudge better than this sign.

Unfortunately, hanging on to resentments has a way of

crowding out love, happiness, and trust. In order for

a Scorpio to let go of anger, they must first practice

self-care. Getting a massage every month or writing in

a journal each day will soften this sign's heart and

enable forgiveness.

• Brutally Honest Sagittarius

Archers have a bad habit of telling the truth. And

while these folks have the best intentions, that

doesn't take the sting out of comments like, "Gee,

those pants make you look fat!" or "Were you drunk

when you wrote this report?" The best way for Archers

to cultivate tact is through prodigious study.

Etiquette books will definitely help!

• Capricorns Can't Quit

This sign is the original workaholic. Many Capricorns

fear that poverty will set in the moment they stop

toiling. Keeping a gratitude journal can break this

terrible habit. The more Capricorn becomes aware of

their non-material blessings, the healthier their

behavior will become. No more cutting vacations short

for the sake of work!

• Antisocial Aquarius

Water-bearers get into the habit of creating

completely self-sufficient lives. Unfortunately, this

makes it difficult for them to achieve intimacy.

Basically, Aquarians are afraid that relationships

will compromise their independence. Fortunately, these

folks love to experiment. By treating intimacy as an

exercise, this sign can relinquish control for the

sake of loving relationships.

• Pickled Pisces

As a water sign, it's only natural that Pisceans find

comfort in liquids. When those liquids have a high

alcohol content, problems can ensue. Naturally, a

twelve-step program can be of enormous benefit here.

Meditation and yoga can help, too, as they allow

Pisces to achieve a healthy sense of nirvana. That's

all these Fish are really seeking.

SO happy today

Recieved news that my cert is released in the afternoon, so i went to collected it after work.

Guessed what i found? I got 1st Class Honor for my Business in Information Technology. And scrolling ahead to the result slips. I got 1 B and 7 As......

How i wish i got all As instead....

But then i should not be too greedy. Righty?

Time to rejoice!!

Blue Blur now

Looks like it going to be a rough week, as one of the POC for a big F**K customer is giving me headache over the few days. Simple, as our business partner's engineers did not exhibit technical competency to convince the user over the setup whole exercise. Thus i was requested to do clean up job as usual

Sibeh sianz........... :( But a call today....saying the POC was called off..wah lau. Lagi sianz

Nothing much going on except having to know that AcidFlask had made a second apology to A*star for the alleged "deflamation statement" which they never cited with part of the blog was inflicting damaging on their policy on scholar policies. Then the top echelon went on to claim that most bond breakers are males which mean they r whiny and pampered. While edging reference to woman scholar was the call of the day. Maybe Singapore gals lack brainy power...hee hee

As for this fiasco, i believed it was not well handled and i rather said, AcidFlask got the better of the day as if this incident were to resolve both parties internally. The whole world would not have knew about it...

So much for shallow heart..

Movies that i had watch lately

Within the space of one week, i had actually watch three movies!! Not bad leh...right?

Some r good and some r bad, as a person with great insight and foresight. I could said most stuffs i selected are'nt going to be too bad actually. But ocasionally, i have to obliged to bad choice.

"Hostage" watch in Jakarta was quite a surprise movie actually. I had to choose it as they were showing movies like Sahara, xXx part 3 and House of wax which i regard as bad movie choices. Hostage turned out straight with a decent plot and couple of twists. Still it would said it pretty watchable movie as compared to the former listed titles.

Kingdom to Heaven is a rather quite hyped movie actually. With recent Ridley Scott's success on Gladiator and Black Hawk Down whose garnered good box office performance. He continued his epic direction with a controversy Crusader campaign of christian against muslim. While dealting these religion thingy could lead to some re-percussion comments on my blog. I would said, it was quite a decent show but it did raise many thoughts on middle east peace establishment in 21st century. As we all knew, many of the battle hot spots were actually spawned from the middle east and just imagined if the jew were actually wiped out...what kind of peace are we able to see..

Not too radically sound..but Hitler was just too close to made it an reality.

Anyway, i leave all the religion and what if thoughts for you folks to think about.

Lastly if you were to watch a movie and do not wish to be mentally insulted. Avoid "Interpreter"
at all costs. Despite the appearance of Sean Penn and Kicole Kidman this movie was terribly plotted and confusing. I could suggest movies like "The Hidden Blade", "The Millions" would have offer a better evening.

Min Sun going home

Yeah, me just gotten back from the Airport to send Min Sun off. I apologise for the lacks of intense
activities as i pretty tired after my Jakarta trip. I trying my best to made a good host but i think o am still struggling my brain so hard for places to bring you around and what food to sample.

To be honest, Singapore is a pretty boring place to visit, thus sufficely it is not the place that made the difference but the people whom you met actually made a far greater significant.

Appreciation goes to Robin, Darling, Leocadia, May, Ken and Su Ming in assisting me to think of a places to bring her around.

Now i am going to rest my body a little before i embark to my next business trip.

My foot prints were everywhere the island

With the arrival of Min Sun, i have been running around the whole island bringing her to some interesting spots in Singapore. Places like Chinatown (dead soul), Clark Quay (more ghost than human), Boat Quay, Zoo (Night Safari...sighz all tame animals), Orchard (dun shop..) East Coast (Crab session), Sentosa and Bugis (where all the ah guah?)

She seemed to enjoyed the chunk of local foods here, as much as i am not a food person. Durian, Pepper Crab, Chilli crab, Ice Kachang, Fried Hor Fun, Peanut Pancake, Thai crusine....are some food that can bring some delight to foreign tongue as well.

Anyway, thank Ling, May and Robin for joining in for the last three days...

Appreciated.

Jakarta's traffic jam

I was in Jakarta for the whole week, and based my on last visit. I could say, their traffic by far is the worst among the Asia region. For this, i have to postpone my flight from yesterday mid night to thur afternoon due to expected heavy traffic to airport as the indonesian were rushing to the airport as Thur is going to be their holiday.

Anyway, i doing dandy fine in Jakarta and managed to meet up with my Indonesia friend, Evelyne for a nice Japanese dinner and movie. Watch Hostage starring Bruce Willis which had me surprised as the plot was very well done. Usually i avoid Bruce Willis's movie. But his recent resurgence on couple of films likewise showed that he had some brain indeed.

Just heard that "Sin City" had pretty raving reviews.....as well. Might wanna catch a glimpse on it somewhere this weekend.

Watching soccer @Jakarta

The Kop edged out the Blue by 1 goal which was sufficiently to see them off likewise an impressive Chelsea's season. The Kop seemed to be fighting very hard as if their heads are on the gullotine if they dun win.

Well, i guessed Rafael Benitez had proven to be a very shrewd tactician in masterminding against his Portugese nememis.

Oh...the PSV was edged out to an away goal... :( kinda sad to see them could not get thru. Despite the dutch club was playing dominance soccer at the top half. There were practically shitting the Jazzuzi off with their all out attacks until the glancing header...

Anyway, the Liverpulian may have something to cheer about for this season.

Some discoveries

What am i doing? I visiting some of the blogs...

• Cowboy Celeb
• Wannabe Lawyer
• Singapore Serf
• From a Singapore Angle
• Welcome to ReBarb Moor
• The Singapore Commentator
• Singapore Ink
• Life at Ngee Ann
• Singapore Mumbo Jumbo Demystified
• My very own Glob

Serf anyone?

hee...a heartland serf's blog

Looks like we have another version of the Matrix Revolution, where Zee was making shell to defend Zion.

Full monty below :) Quite well explained to the current state of affair indeed.

Singapore Serf

Matrix revisited ~ in Blog style

Found a SOS signal of Acidflask before his blog was shutdown by the Sentinels...

Here was his last msg...which i encryted.

U r clear to go..

http://www.livejournal.com/users/kelvintan73/39153.html

Running on reverse gear

After coming back from KL, i pretty amazed how things had change in KL and i am pretty certain Malaysia now is moving up the gear train to the next level.

With the F1 Sempang race track forming a complete tour package to attract more tourism, Dr M seemed to hit the jackpot this time. With Petronas fully backing the racing initiatives with Proton learning the trade from the Lotus acquistion, Malaysia i predicted could be racing to a decent win among Asian nation. With the upsurge of Formular 1's FAN the Sempang race track offer an excellent spill over effect to its economy and retail sector. Coupled with the shrewd Badawi planning, the Malaysia's boleh could be roaring again...

Back again i found some Singapore related article that will keep you thinking who are we and what are we? With the recent price hike movement (another cost increase activity), i got a gut feeling we were moving on reverse gear.

Perhaps our Kallang's Go Kart racing did not instill greater ambition on F1 racing. Could we be resigned to race around the Kallang's parking lots? The future lie on your awakening..

Jandiced Lenses

Flying to Jakarta and welcome Min Sun Jung to Singapore

I will be embarking to Jakarta tomorrow on a morning flight. As stated i will return on the 4th May but i will probably extend till 5th May and return to meet Sun Yung on the Fri as she will be paying Singapore a visit.

I guessed she already had her wish lists down....

• Sentosa
• Chilli Crab
• Pepper Crab
• Durian

Once again, Robin was nice enough to treat her ice cream..and Darling is chipping in her presense as well to brighten the likewise hot weather.

Till then my bag is packed and off i go...thus i will be offline for a few days.

And at the same time i will be paying a visit to my Indonesian friend, Evelyne for a nice coffee as well. Probably, going to workout a little to trim my stomach more...

Musically talented yet no place to flaunt

Found this Aussie DJ from Melbourne who is kind enough to post his mixes on the web.

Practically i had almost all his collection and would like to see if this kind of progressive music suits you.

be careful you are warned....of really excellent electronica music

http://www.bouncintigger.com/mixes/

Sighz....Transport hike again

Basic moral, where did the greed stop?

SMRT had submitted proposal to hike MRT price despite posting a Net profit close to S$127 million, a 42% heap while revenue rose 0.9 percent to S$673 million.

Comfort and SBS are reviewing the possibilities as well.

Wanna look young forever?

Who does'nt want to be forever young? This entirely present a new movement in human society.... as we embroiled ourselves into our career and working day in and day out just satisfy our material desire....how many time we had neglected that our youth are dripping away like drops of blood.

Of course in order to regain the youth...u need lotsa money to rebuild what you had lost along the years. So the big question is...what come 1st? Beauty or $$?

Let's examine how David Beckham maintain his "gorgeous" look...but for some reasons, i pretty turn off by him. I still prefer my dirty Brad Pitt, Blur Keanu, Suavey Johnny Depp and charming Tony Chueng (with the mostache..of course.. hee) :D

http://www.thisislondon.com/showbiz/articles/18261117?source=Evening%20Standard