Time flies when you're having fun

I discovered ang siang hill today. Only to find it polluted by all the cosmopolitan crap that is the CBD. I discovered a bunker atop pearl hill park today. Only to discover that it was a PUB reservoir catchment structure. The last time I blogged was a week ago and many interesting observations have popped up since then. However, thanks to my goldfish memory, I have trouble remembering them. But I'll try.

On Sunday, I learnt that Singaporeans are inherently stingy. As opposed to the ST article recently, they're not budget conscious. They're just stingy SOBs. Many a time asking me to drop my prices to below retail value. I mean. How thick skin can they be? Very. If not for my final sale being my final sale, I wouldn't have given a $46 discount. You heard that right. $46 discount. Bloody cheapskate #$%^&. With the huge discounts I threw around, many might wonder whether I actually made any profit. I estimate it in the region of $500-600. Alright for day's work. But it could have been better. At least $100 better if I didn't slash the prices so much to move my stock. But we all learn I guess. Thanks to the sale I didn't manage to catch the evening showing of the Admiral's Odyssey. Quite a waste but I guess it's better than falling asleep. I did however manage to learn that big-budget+mediocre storytelling+flashy cast = B- grade movie at best (FF4). Only good for 1 screening and I recommend you to be sufficiently drunk in order to look past the bad dialog and limping plot.

A minor sidetrack. I read online that some people in the states have been going to watch Batman Begins and War of the Worlds stoned. Yeah. Stoned. They also described the scarecrow scenes as 'trippin' and 'freaky' and it made them 'cry'. Ditto to the alien scenes in War of the Worlds. Both have been highly recommended to be watched stoned. So... maybe those wanting to test it out can try glue or smoking some other form leaves other than your usual rolled up cancer stick.

If JB taught me anything, it's that piracy pays. The downside of piracy is that you get your usual yada yada affecting of sale and artist royalty shit. The upside which nobody really considered is that it gives small low key indies a chance to be circulated and actually let people pick them up. Albeit unsuspectingly. How else can one explain Napolean Dynamite and Layer Cake selling out at pirated DVD stores? Amazingly the pirates themselves were able to give me a pretty accurate summary of each film and their recommendations. If these indie films could touch them and make them want to push them out to the general public, I'd say it's pretty good publicity. Now everyone will learn about Matthew Vaughn's first foray as director and see for themselves why the studio execs were confident enough to hand the reins of X3 over to this talented director. It's just amazing. (One will also learn why Napolean Dynamite's license has been picked up by McFarlane Toys for a new line come December)

There was a guy I know named Jackson (not law). He told me that they changed the name from Kentucky Fried Chicken to KFC because they don't serve real chicken any more. It's become this genetically modified mutant thing, like a giant centipede with no head, just segment after segment of legs and breasts and wings. It's fed through nutrient tubes. This guy said the government wouldn't let them use the word chicken. Another guy said they changed the name because the word fried had become a bad word. Maybe they wanted people to think that the chicken cooked itself.

Jackson, the same guy who had sworn to the truth of the Kentucky Fried Mutant Chicken creature story had also said that the CIA used the Reader's Digest as a front for their branch offices around the world. He said that every Reader's Digest office in every country was really CIA. Which leads us to the joke. 'How can we be certain the CIA weren't involved in the Kennedy assassination?'

Well it happened didn't it?

Ending on a totally different note: Good food is still found in the east. To all those staying in the north, south and west, I have but one word. Move. Trust me. Move. Your stomache will thank you for it. Now if you'll excuse me, I've gotta sleep and dream of my UOB Tigerairways card arriving in 1 week which will allow me to book tiger airways air packages at obscenely low prices.