Movie Night With Cha-Bo-Lang

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Last night (27 Aug 2008), me and my cha-bo-lang had a fright night - we went to watch the Thai horror movie - 4bia

4bia = Phobia.

You can safely read my post even if you have not watched the show as lim peh will not reveal much of the story lines.

I love watching horror movies since young and 4bia is satisfactory to my standard as viewers like me get 4 different movies for the price of 1. Due to the time constraints for each story, the pace is much faster and not draggy.

1) Happiness - Directed by Yangyoot Thongkongtoon, the one who directed Iron Ladies.
A young lady confined to her apartment with a broken leg in a cast alone. The building up of the chilling atmosphere was superb and although lim peh managed to guess the story line as it unfolds, it is still a good story.

2) Tit for Tat - Directed by Paween Purijitpanya, the one who directed Body #19.
To me, this is the weakest story and I preferred Body story line to Tit for Tat.

3) In the Middle - Directed by Banjong Pisanthanakan, the co-director of Thai blockbusters Shutter and Alone.
4 friends went on a rafting trip and their boat capsized with only 3 of them managed to make it out alive. They searched for their missing friend and as they were trying to sleep, their missing friend came back... The story was presented in quite a funny way and Director's skillful lead of the viewers all the way to want to know the ending is well handled.

4) Last Fright - Directed by Pakpoom Wongpoom, the other co-director with Banjong Pisanthanakan on Shutter and Alone.
A so-so story line but it maximises its tok-kong setting of a helpless flight attendant on board a turbulence-rocked empty plane with a dead body. Claustrophobic situation + helplessness push the story to its fullest climax.

If you love horror movies, this is 1 show you should not miss as out of the 4 stories, there sure to be 1 that meets your taste.

I think lim peh really prefer Horror shows from Thailand and Korea to Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Batam Trip

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The other day me and my cha-bo-lang went to Batam for a short break with 2 of our nephews, Jia Hao and Jonathan. We were there for a 2D1N trip and stayed in Holiday Inn, Batam.

After this trip, lim peh will not stay in this hotel again as the room we got was quite rundown and to make things worse, the air-con was very noisy. No air-con it will be too warm to sleep and with air-con it will be too noisy to sleep. The worst point will be its distance from the city of Batam, a relatively far if you want to go into the city, the taxi fares will cost you a bomb.

Anyway, apart from the Hotel room, everything went on well.

Everyone who visits Batam with any tour group will be brought to the famous bridge for sight seeing – The Barelang Bridge. What can one see there?

Some Islands, Sky, Sea, enjoys the wind and try on some local seafood if you dare to take the risk as our local tour guide told us that the hawker who sold the seafood did not wash the seafood.

Took some photos there:

Photo taken without telling my 2 nephews.

Once alerted, they will pose in their 搞搞震 postures.

老明、查某人、Jia Hao、Jonathan 到此一游。

After our photo taking at the Barelang Bridge, we were taken to visit the famous temples in Batam:

We went to the famous Tua Pek Kong Temple 大伯公庙 and I took 2 photos outside the temple, no photo taking allowed in the temple. See, colourful right?
在大伯公庙拜拜一番之后，we went to another temple, a very big one – Vihara Buddhist Temple. When we went inside the temple, I took 2 photos:


After the temples, we were also taken to see some local culture performance show.

We took a few more photos there:

2 young men in front of the beautiful Elephant

Now, this is more presentable

We were also taken to Polo Ralph Shop for some thrill purchases as the branded shirts were selling at a lower rates as compared to Singapore but knowing our 咸橄榄的 characters, we did not bring home any.

Before heading back to our hotel, we went for some foot-reflexalogy and shopping at the local biggest shopping mall.

The second day before checking out, we had our breakfast in the hotel and lazed around to ride bicycles, swim and even played a few games of table tennis.

We took some more photos in the hotel before checking out and headed home:

Jia Hao, Uncle Beng, Jonathan

Then one of my nephews suggested a different pose and lim peh actually agreed, so laugh if you want.

I think my pose is more sexy hor?

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老明喜欢的老歌

令伯卡你讲

总觉得以前的歌较好听，（这是人老的另一证明），介绍几首女人歌。


万芳有几首很不错的歌曲，我偏爱这首 "试着了解"。


第一次听到张清芳这首 "深遂与甜蜜" 被那不俗的词给吸引住，你听过后喜欢吗？


辛晓琪的歌，个人喜欢这首 "迷途" 多过 "领悟" 和 "味道"。看到刚出道的言承旭，真是 "几够力一下"。


奉劝失恋的人别听莫文蔚这首 "他不爱我"。


许美静的 "遗憾" 和这首 "明知道" 都是我很喜欢的歌曲，把这首放上来因为它是许美静的首张专集的主打。

令伯讲完了

曾经 如今

令伯卡你讲
那天与内人谈啊谈的，忽然聊到俺的年龄。刹那间，天旋地转、顿时惊慌失措，只差没眼泪飙飞，原来老明已经四十出头了。
四十其实还没那么惊骇，五十来临时肯定意识人生多多少少已见分晓。
不信？
他今年四十岁，正所谓壮年，经验丰富，成熟稳重。(是不是很好听、很爽？)
可是，
他今年五十岁，面临退休，体力再好也已近黄昏，人生的目标大致上也已达到；就算有些许遗憾也会因心态而作罢。（是不是很悲哀、很灰？）
谁不想尽早退休、做自己喜欢做的事；
谁不想做自己生命的主宰者；
年轻时，有活力、有体力，可没经验、没财富；
年老时，有财富、有经验，却没体力；
人人都为三餐、为家庭打拼、希望能赚多一点钱，让家人住得舒服一点、生活得好一些。

薪金越来越高、车子越来越新、房子越来越大，可是亲情越来越薄、感情越来越淡。
拼、拼、拼！
忙、忙、忙！
日复一日、年复一年。猛然回首，清数身边一切事与物：房子、财富、汽车、物质通通不缺；
可悲的不是你察觉你所失去的时间、岁月、青春、已无法寻得回；
可悲的是明明知晓这些年来所失去的时间、岁月、青春、不但不能寻回，现在、目前、这一刻你还是在做着同样的事情。
很多人，在看破事物时，已失去太多。
那一夜，天气炎热、回想起从前与现在的我，原来改变甚多，心情郁闷，久久无法平息。。。
曾经睡醒、吃喝玩乐就一天；
如今睡醒、工作打拼又一天；
曾经一桌聚会我最小；
如今年龄、资历、辈份已偏高；
曾经熬夜、迟睡早起精神饱满、没问题；
如今午夜之前、眼皮儿超重、撑无可撑、会周公；
曾经腹肌六国独立硬梆梆；
如今齐心协力一团软绵绵；
曾经一夜七次郎；
如今七夜一次郎；
令伯讲完了

后记：希望只是一时的胡思乱想而不是更年期的到来。

My Family

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Before lim peh write anything, I like to show you an old photo which lim peh had posted before.

Me, Sis and Mum (Photo taken in 2005)

Last week, we had dinner and we took another photo, this time with my mum, my elder brother, 2 sisters and our niece. I am sure you can recognise me immediately :)

Brother(45); Old Beng(44); Mum(65); Niece(13); Sister(36); Sister(40);

How? 美美吗？

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Nuffnang

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When lim peh started blogging, it's just a playground for me to write, share and rant.

Some people make a living writing blog but knowing lim peh's own strength, I know I can never make a living via blogging.

So when I came across nuffnang advertisement in other bloggers' blogs, lim peh thought to myself, "since others do it, maybe lim peh also can?"

What will I lose? So lim peh, with my limited IT knowledge, started to sign as a nuffnang member.

On and off, some advertisements come and go. Due to the "not so popular" hits of my blog, my earnings from the advertisement was rather low.

Then, one day, lim peh logged into my nuffnang accounts and realised I have more than $50 earnings and I can cash it out.

I requested for my earnings on the 19th June 2008 and Nuffnang issued the cheque on the 23rd July, 2008 posted it out on the 24th and lim peh received it on the 25th.

In fact I was more than surprise when I received the cheque as I was expecting to receive it only in August. Per Nuffnang's procedure, the cheque will come only after 30 days from the end of the requested month.

I have read and heard bloggers complaining about the slow payment but mine was pretty fast.

Anyway, the amount is enough for me to buy some "mum-mum" (tidbits) but as I said, I did not expect much since the beginning of signing with Nuffnang.

The letter and a cheque was sent to me (Name and amount changed for own "song-ness" purpose only) (click on pic to enlarge for better viewing).

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