Of Tuhan and Dewas…

Met up with the poly gang yesterday after work after receiving a late SMS from Ismail asking if I was able to hang out with them in town for dinner. As I was relatively appointment-free (read: bored) and going home at 6pm didn’t sound too enticing, I agreed almost immediately.

Hooked up first with Mona and Nani at Borders where we saw Georgina Chang (apparently now ex-wife of former presenter Daryl David and PM of Perfect Ten last time I think) who according to Nani now works in ESPN. The girl can some more tell us that she (Chang) looked familiar and thought that she was a new presenter from China, wahahaha, since Chang indeed looked very cina so to speak.

Anyhow, the three of us went on down to Lido for dinner where Mona was gleeful that she actually got to save 30 bloody cents for her meal compared to ours which led us to believe we are indeed a bunch of sad people. You know you have hit rock bottom when someone tells you that 30 cents can make a difference. I should know ‘cause my ass is goddamn poor. Ismail joined us soon after and later, Sha, as she seemed to have no intention of meeting her own friends, preferring to come hear our mindless banter (but more on that later).

As it was, Lido was used the place to hold this Chinese movie preview that starred Aaron Kwok, Daniel Wu and Andy Lau if I am not wrong. Nani saw the stand and the cordoned area and remarked, “who can be so crazy for all these??”

“The Chinese girls lah,” I replied.


Divergence is the name of the show in question

And sure enough, one hour later, a whole throng of prepubescent females swarmed the main area of the Lido box office (you know, the place where you get the seats and tables under this big screen) and cameras were going crazy over there. I wondered who were there to generate such craze. Aaron or Andy? But those two (no offense as I always liked Andy Lau as an artiste) are so 90s!! We old fogeys should be the ones chasing them instead of all these little girls. I guess they just don’t make idols now like they used to. Of course, Mona had to say the Daniel Wu was cute. I replied saying that his features were too sharp. I dunno, Wu’s looks don’t really do anything for me.

But what the hell, what do I know?? I am a guy!

Ok after dinner, somehow, we were not really wanting to go home just yet and whole lot of us squeezed into Nani’s car for a really cozy chat session. Mind you, five people in a car is quite a hot affair (in all sense of the word, wahahaha) and it’s then that ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE!!

First we saw a couple canoodling out in the open, the guy probably getting a hard-on (according to Sha) and was indeed before our eyes grinding the girl. OMG!!!

Ok, never mind, the gamboling took another 10 minutes before the horny pair took off in their Mini (Nao Hia!!! I also want a Mini!!!!!!!!!!) for their part two of the story.

The rest of the time was hilarious, the Melayu started to flow again and I, being the intrepid linguist, managed to yet invent another sentence that rocked the socks off everyone. We were actually discussing the relationship details of our loverboy Ismail when we stumbled on the topic of kissing and generally PDA (not the gadget but Public Display of Affection [I nearly spelt Pubic but MS Word corrected me, lol, but then again, it’s apt for some people…]).

For some of you who have read my blog, you may remember that I have gone through the trouble and collated a dictionary of sorts that showed English words that you always wanted to know in Malay but were afraid to ask. Well, as you have it, here is a part 2!

But first let’s recount the conversation:

Ismail: She never holds my hand without me prompting.

(After some bits and pieces here and there about putting her hand into Ismail’s pants so she never lets go after she discovers the Dragon inside)

Me: Ismail, you must take her in hand…

(Manic laughter)

Me: …show her who’s her daddy.

Me: (spoken in a gruff voice) Siapa Bapak kau.

(Uproarious laughter that actually deafened me in such a confined space, my stomach never hurt so much)

Then as usual, people added onto my Malay and somehow, the whole ring to who’s your daddy turned into who’s your sex god… omg!

“Siapa Tuhan Seks Kau!!” (Translation: Who’s your sex god??!!)

Somehow, that didn’t sound too right in Malay although it would have been way kinky in English, this got all of us laughing at the imagery of Ismail kissing said girlfriend's forehead and going, “Siapa Tuhan Seks Kau!!”

I was positive people outside could hear and see us guffawing like mad and the car could be shaking a little and Nani would be saying, “My mouth is where it should be!!!” just in case if she laughed too hard and her head goes under the dashboard and people got the wrong idea (Ismail was sitting next to her, you see)

Being the adventurous word maestros that we are, words like Dewah (or angel, lord) were added into the fray – to superbly funny results if you know other individual Malay words.

Try speaking this to your female Malay friends next time for some of you.

Siapa Dewa Konek Kau!!

And see how they will react. Maybe they will worship you, I dunno.

*If you dunno what the hell is Konek, locate my first sleaze dictionary entry and find out for yourself. The fun is about the finding out, not me telling you.

Words that appeared in this entry (repeat after me):

Siapa – who

Tuhan – god

Dewa – angel, lord

Kau - you

Wahaha, my alignment problem is fixed!!

Thanks to Ismail's wonderful method of only displaying 2 posts per page, my alignment problem too, has been rectified. Thanks Ismail! At last, I no longer need to scroll down to see if anyone has left me a message on my tagboard, goodie.

A note Ismail again: I have no idea Gwen Stefani's album was this good. I caught "Rich Girl" on my flight to San Francisco and I really lurve the song man. Now Class 95 plays it now and then and this song never fails to make me nod my head along with the beat. Images of Harajuku girls also float in mind...


Kawaii nihon-jin ne!!! Yummy!!!!

Of course, the context of the song is so fitting of my finances, hahaha, sans the gender bends, that is.

Goodbye E3, Hello Tioman, Redang, wherever...

Recently got to know that I won't be going for E3 after all (not that I mind, of course) and my sub-editor will be going instead and should I go, that will be the third time that I will be setting foot in San Francisco again. Haha, seems that I always go there like that isn't it? Anyway, not going there will also do me good too as I am probably going a trip with Jo to whatever island resort that we can get a reasonable price for. Will be checking for possible destination come this Saturday.

While thinking about the trips that I will be taking irregardless of work or play, I decided to apply for a Krisflyer membership (it's free!!!) with SIA. This means that I will be accumulating points whenever I fly with any airline under the Star Alliance group which includes good old SIA and United (which are the probabale airlines that I take for work and to a lesser extent, play), so the further I fly, the more points I will accumulate and in turn, exchange for free air tickets to destinations. This is something that my boss did and the wily bugger is now in Tokyo with his girlfriend, free air tix of course, dammit. I also want!!!

Anyway, just got wind that Jo's cousin was actually called for a steward interview with SIA!! Nao Hia!!! It seems that SIA recently posted openings!!! F&*K man! Every time I check don't have, I don't check, they go and post opening. The fatalistic ones amongst you will probably say that I am not fated to be a steward but I am not going to give up just yet. Hopefully her cousin gets in and thus be able to refer me or something. I also found out that I could well, wait for a few more years, after her cousin is 26! Apparently age is no factor for guys. Phew!!

I WANT TO BLOODY FLY FOR MY JOB!!!! Well, to tell the truth, I don't really love flying as I like my feet firmly planted on the ground thank you very much. But if a job pays you $3,500 a month to fly and serve people yukky food, I can swallow my distaste for flying...any time!!!

Now, I am checking www.singaporeair.com everyday liao...

it's about the money lah...

I don't really read up on my newspapers recently (make that a few months, actually) but I actually do know that the Singaporean has once again pressed the override switch on its people again and went on to do something that it has all the while wanted to do - opening not one but two casinos so as to put us firmly on the map on the minds of those who like to dance with chance.

What do I think of it? Should I say bored indifference or honest outrage? I am not sure but I do know one thing, I kind of saw this coming despite all the reports and hype generated by our own crappy national media in order to fuel more public interest and to sell more of their papers, column spaces, and air time. I mean, what's the point of asking people to talk about it and offer opposing views when your mind has already been deadset on doing it?

Might as well pull rank and say, "Look peasants, I the Dragon King, am going to build this vice den and let all those foreign talents get hooked on gambling and never leave our shores, wahaha, while you ordinary shitheads slog on as puny casino greeters, roulette spinners and whatnots, and don't even think about speaking out because your voices will be put down like useless flies that you are!" And they even had the cheek to say that they were really undecided about it all the way until the Sunday before they were going to announce the decision on the following Monday! Some more they can add that if the proposals proved to be undesirable and pose a potential social ill, then the plan will not go through.

I say that's as crapola as they can get (sorry this is my blog and if any one of the familee sees this, I can only say that this are my thoughts expressed on a medium that has no central governance, so sue me). C'mon, why even implement such as thing and then come around and make up a rule saying that those who are on public assistance and in bad debts cannot go in? And as for those with clean sheets expect to be made $100 bucks poorer just to go in. I mean, this is just such a typical Singapore Gah-ment tactic.

Now that the dust has been settled and even the immortal Harry Lee has come out of his hovel and explained to the peasants that the governament's decision was right, I guess there isn't much that anyone can do but shake their heads and lament about the gradual downfall of morality in Singapore. For goodness sake, even one MP went all emo about the ills of gambling though I can never be sure if that's another fine act deserving the Oscar becuase at least it showed the people that the government is really, really torn inside and it actually had a conscience.

Call me cynical or disrespectful but I feel that gambling will never ever have a positive impact on society, even one that is as sophisticated and seemingly well-bred like Singapore because gambling is an appeal to the very basest of human instincts - that of greed. Once you have won, it's hard to quit and even when you have squandered every last morsel of your savings, you will still harbor the wild hopes of recouping the last loss. It's a vicious cycle and will never end. Maybe some of you will say that a mojority of Singaporeans will not be able to afford the entrance fee especially those on the so-called banned list (30,000 over in fact of the buggers) but who's to stop them from acquiring these cash by other means? And who's to take responsibility when a few thousands more hop onto the banned list since they will most probably lose their money and go into bad debts?

Let me visualise here who has the most to gain from all these brouhaha.

1. Gah-ment: Coz the ultimate house advantage will go to the Men in White and their treasure coves locked up somewhere in the Alps.

2. Banks: There will probably be schemes to help people get over their debts, making them more in debts - way to go, legal ah-longs!

There will also probaly be a rise in other accompanying bad habits that people will pick up along the way likedare I say it, prostitution and the rise of more cheap motels since there will probably be a rise in demand for social escorts since the winners who will likely be men will want to spend their winnings on something more exciting than just pulling that Jackpot stick.

So for the next leap, maybe even working girls will be made legal and be forced to contribute CPF?? Pity the pimps...

Trip Sights

Ok, I know these are long overdue, so here they are, some of the pictures I took of the recent work trip to San Francisco where I visited the makers of such famous games like Diablo, Warcraft and Starcraft.


The painting from the Diablo game which I found in the developer's office


Basically this is the corner where the staff chilled, pretty cool, all the game posters...


The home of the SF Giants!! And the temperature at the time was downright freezing...


An interesting car plate I saw en route to the baseball game, looks like "Sexy Ass" right??


The floor tiles that displayed every SF great in the team's history...


The other journalists talking cock before going into the stadium...note the tram passing by, they are everywhere in SF.


Our seats were damn high up loh!!!


On our way up to our seats...the stadium was like 8 - 9 stories tall??


A view from the top...


Incidentally the SBC Park Stadium was next to the sea, quite cool in all sense of the word!


Dizzying heights...


There was a fireworks show after the match...here's the score for posterity, SF Giants lost to LA Dodgers 10 - 4 (darn)...


A typical sight along San Francisco's Civic Center area, quaint little buildings and ornate theatres! I want to visit one the next time I go there...


Look! A Moonstar restaurant!! I knew I had to take a picture of it when I saw it, haha!


A picture taken with some of the region's gaming journalists the night before we all went home...(at least we got the signed boxes of the Diablo Battle Chest!)

Time Flies...

Have not blogged for the past few days as there was absolutely nothing to blog about but now am typing something because I feel like doing something before I sleep.

Today is just another day at work but with a difference, I did a couple of things today that may further my job prospects. Actually, ok, I did these yesterday, memory is bad nowadays. Thanks to Mona's tip-off, I got wind that 8 Days is looking for writers / editors and I thought that maybe I should give it a shot (I did send some form of resume some time back but obviously it was not considered), I have sent the email out and hope that I will at least get a reply which will mean that I will have a chance since only successful applicants will hear from them.

Also at the same time, Jo told me that her friend has forwarded an email about MTVasia looking for freelance games writers (how coincidental is that??). Upon some consideration (I am not sure if I had the time to freelance, you see), I gathered that the pros far outweigh the cons and also sent them an email expressing my interests since it's definitely relevant to my job right now so I think I have an advantage and also since I will need to come up with an article once every fortnight, I think I should be able to do it.

Furthermore, I need to add more crap to my resume and beef up my experience as well. The extra cash will also do me good too (see how the pros outweigh the cons, the cons being afraid I may not have the time). Hopefully, I can get the MTV gig. Perhaps this is a sign from above that I will soon be leaving my workplace? I don't know. I leave it in His hands...

Anyway Robin Yee came to my office today to check on this Mass Comm intern in my office. Bittersweet meeting. The man (or woman, we will never know) has obviously aged. Got a whole head of white hair now and I cannot help but feel that time has really flew past us and we have actually graduated for half a decade now. And what achievements have we gotten ourselves? Some of us may have already become high fliers now and some of us may still be eking out a mundane existence but whatever it is now, time still goes on.

We exchanged name cards and I told him I would like to use him as my reference in my resume. Old contacts do have their use after all. And the guy actually remembers me and my name after all these years (some more can remember I was in Hype back when I was doing Advanced Newswriting). Extraordinary!

Ok, gotta end the entry now. Sleep tight folks.

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven?

I must be strong
And carry on,
'Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven.

Would you hold my hand
If I saw you in heaven?
Would you help me stand
If I saw you in heaven?

I'll find my way
Through night and day,
'Cause I know I just can't stay
Here in heaven.

Time can bring you down,
Time can bend your knees.
Time can break your heart,
Have you begging please, begging please.

Beyond the door,
There's peace I'm sure,
And I know there'll be no more
Tears in heaven.

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven?

I must be strong
And carry on,
'Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven.

- Eric Clapton, Tears in Heaven

Jetlaggin'

Alrighty, Boys and Girls, Jason's back in town...only just came back and am darn freaking tired, but somehow managed to find the strength to crawl online and add this entry, check my tagboard and other blogs.

While unpacking just now, I discovered that I have lost my Sony Ericsson charger (must have left it in Korea) *sob... so now I cannot charge my phone at all!!! This is sick!

And OMG, Adrian Mah is on xiaxue, check out her blog with the link given below (along with some saucy lingerie pictures, Nani will drool...), this guy just knows everybody and anybody. Ok, anyway, gotta go meet Mr. Z for now, will load the pictures up ASAP.

Caught up with the movies I missed in one shot in a to and fro air trip (onboard SIA, no less) between San Francisco and Korea, Incheon.

Alexander (ok, some nude scenes but overall bland, I prefer Troy)
Finding Neverland (wow, this movie blew me away with its quiet simplicity, must buy DVD...)
Spongebob Squarepants The Movie ("I am David Hasselhoff"...'nuff said)
Bridget Jones' Diary: The Edge of Reason (I love the first part and the second part is pure icing!)
I, Robot (not a bad futuristic whodunnit...gotta love the special effects and the Isaac Asimov plot)
Meet the Fockers (only watched bits of it but the parts I caught...they were side-splitting! Imagine a toddler saying "Ass-Hole" with relish...)

Till the next post, nights folks!

Day 2: Flight to San Francisco

Ok, gonna post some thoughts on yesterday now. Well, as mentioned in the previous post, I am now at San Francisco where trams and hilly, winding roads are a common sight. The air here is damn refreshing as it's very cold (colder when it gets dark) but never really freezing if you get what I mean. The only thing is the humidity here is a little on the low side and as always I did not pack any moisturisers and now my lips are somewhat peeling along with a little cold sores but it doesn't matter.

The trip this time around is much more fun than the one last year when I also came to San Francisco. Because of that, I could actually navigate around the main Civic Center area (where I am now staying) easily. San Frnacisco just got a whole lot more familiar and I really feel at home this time. :) Furthermore, I made some new friends with the editorial people from magazines all over the region, from China to the Philippines, it's all good.

I must say I really love the weather here, the skies are so darn blue and the buildings all have this quaint and antiquated feel to them. I only wished that my SD card for my camera had a larger capacity, sheesh.

Anyhow, I will be posting some pictures of the trip when I get back as I forgot to bring along my card reader and hence I could not save them onto the laptop for the uploading.

The food here is the standard American fare but all in much bigger portions which really suited me as the Asian serving size at home really couldn't fill me up. I had a surprise during the dinner yesterday that I was the only one who really finished his food (Salmon Fillet, by the way, yum!) as well as a huge glass of Float, boy I feel sinful but oh well, it's not everyday that I can eat like this and it's all sponsored anyway, hahahaha.

This morning, I woke up really late for breakfast as I was so goddarn tired, I think it's the jetlag still working in. I looked at my watch and oh my, it's in the night over in Singapore, no wonder I feel really groggy. In fact, if I were to stay still for some minutes, my body would automatically shut down and I will doze off, it's that serious! O__o

Just visited this game development company called Flagship Studios which was formed by the team from Blizzard that produced the Diablo, WarCraft and StarCraft series of games. Really exciting as they showed us the new game that they are still creating and the demo blew us away! The game details are not really set in stone yet but I liked what saw which was about Humanity fighting against demons that have overtaken Earth and have been busily terraforming the surface to becoming Hell. Good stuff. If some of you are interested, the game is called Hellgate: London (the game takes place in UK, duh), check it out if you want to.

Watching the SF Giants!!

Ok, as I am typing this, I am only but minutes away from meeting the other reporters and the staff from Flagship to watch a baseball game! This is the first time I am watching one and I am gonna take lots of shots to show you guys so watch out for them!

I asked about dinner details and they told me it will be hotdogs while watching the game!! O__o Guess you can't get any more American than that! And I surmise that the hotdogs are gonna be huge ones...hmmm.

Jason goes places!!

Ya, ya, like the whole lot of you would have already know, I am now out of Singapore and am in a trip that will be taking me to Korea and the US of A. In fact, I am typing this entry from the confines of my hotel room in San Francisco where I have just arrived some 3 - 4 hours ago while the other half of the world was in dreamland.

Ok, I did remember that I was supposed to post updates of my trip from Day 1 but since I couldn't manage to get Internet connections at my hotel in Korea on the first day due to reasons which I am going to elaborate below so I will waste no time and combine the highlights of what has happened during the past 2 days that I have been outta Singapore.

Day 1: Late Flight, Late Arrival @#$%%

The first day or rather the night before I arrived in Korea was a nightmare. The given schedule of the trip that was sent to me revealed the fact that I was actually the last of the journalists to reach Incheon International Airport. There were actually four other writers besides me and they were all there since the start of Saturday! This not only meant that they had an entire day to recover from the flight but also an entire day to get used to Korea a bit. Whereas yours truly had to (for reasons that were really beyond me) take a flight that is one day later than the rest and at a later time at that! (it was a 10.35pm flight). This meant that the moment that I touched down, it was only a matter of a few hours that I would need to get to the hotel (by a cab that they sponsors have booked for me), put down my stuff and off I go to the first stop of the press tour.

To make matters freaking worse was the fact that the immigration counter was grossly inefficient, the guy stamping those passports had to knn take his time and that resulted in a longer than normal queue with each person of the queue taking up to 2 - 3 minutes to clear the immigration. Multiply by 20+++ people and you get the drift...anyhow, needless to say, I was quite jumpy as there I was being held up indefinitely by one puny official and I was really unsure whether the cab driver will continue to wait for me. Hurriedly, I dialed the cab driver and told him to wait for me as well as calling up the person in charge of the tour and telling her that I will be pretty late...argh, so much for first impressions.

Anyway, the wait ended and I got my bags and dashed to the cab and unto the roads. One thing that I have to digress about is the fact that I really really love the temperature of these countries, it's totally like having an air-con perpetually on outdoors! I remember when I first went to San Francisco last year, I thought that the carpark was air-conditioned only to discover that the carpark is actually in open air and that the temperature was actually like this! Even my breath could condense into wispy mist whenever I breathe, and I spent a feew minutes marvelling in this. Damn bo liao but it was a totally fresh experience for me!

Ok, where was I? Oh, I was on the road already, confident that at least I could make it to the hotel on the dot. Of course, somethings have to go wrong when the cab (which was actually a minivan) stopped suddenly, jerked up from my day-dreaming, I looked up and to my horror, the whole freaking road was bloody jammed loh!! And the length of it was as far as the eye could see!!

"Siao liao loh, like that how??!!" I thought to myself...and I lifted my phone and called the person in charge (who is called Rachel Kim by the way, I really wonder how many Kims there are in Korea), and told her there was a jam and she surprisingly did not question further (which I found out later that Korean roads are famous for their horrendous jams, (it can really give you emotional scars especially when you are in a great rush, I kid you not. It was terrible!!) so much for Bangkok jams, because if you want something really hardcore, try the Korean ones...

Sexcapade in Seoul

I shan't bother and bore you readers with a point by point recount of my actual press tour unless it is something remotely interesting. What I will write here however, will be about things you never thought existed in the friggin' world. Have you ever thought about setting up a nightclub sans the working girls and yet you as a customer could actually shag one babe for free if you are lucky?? Aha, I can already hear hoots of curiosity from those ti ko ah pehs and bangalas prowling the alleys of geylang. Let me tell you old jocks that somebody in Korea has already thought of that.

The people of Hanbitsoft (who were the sponsors) brought us reporters to this club in Seoul called Mool (which means water in Korean, hence the term watering holes can also mean clubs and pubs. Nah, I am crapping. Watering Holes come from the Aussie slang, Billabong, but that's another story), anyway, to cut the story short, Mool is but one of the many clubs in Korea that do not need mamasans, whores and the entire works. You the paying customer, simply need to walk in and if you are a guy, the waiters there will actually pick up girls from the throng of people there and bring her to your cubicles or rooms (man, let me tell you, Korean babes are sweet although I didn't really do anything untoward...).

Sometimes, the girls may be not willing at all and they have every right to leave the area if it doesn't interest them but if they are suitably romanced and chatted around, they may stay and if the conversation were to get all hot and heavy, ooh boy the night is all yours mister! Of course, being downed with a gazzillion litres of force fed beer could also make one brave enough...(and they actually made me drink a concoction called Tornado which was basically beer mixed with whisky, my whole body was burning after a few sips, O__o)

Of course, faced with more than 10 men in a single room could unnerve almost any girl but I truly admire the guts of some of these Korean girls, some of them actually gamely stayed and a couple of them were truly eye candy. Of course, language expectedly was a problem and that prevented me from chatting with them about anything deeper than the weather, age, occupation and other superficial bullshit. There was even once that I had to switch to my crappy Japanese in order to converse with a Korean babe who happens to know Jap. Haha, take that Ismail, how's that for you??? :PP

You are a cute man, do you have a girlfriend?

Seriously, that's what two girls said to me!! Maybe it's my Singapore bengish copper hair...hmmm.

Well, that's all for today, more updates coming up! Gotta hit the sack now, long day tomorrow...

Let's see if kimchi and burgers go together...

Ok guys, in a few hours time, I will be flying off to the land of the preserved cabbages and rabid national soccer fans. Yes, I am talking about Korea. Will be catching a late 1035pm flight via Korean Air and be touching down at 535am over there. Sounds xiong and I am darn sure it will be...

Anyhow, the trip will take me not only to Seoul but also San Francisco where I will be for a couple of days and then after which I will fly back to Korea and then back to Singapore on the 9th of April which is a Saturday. Right now, I am resting at home typing this inane entry because I have not blogged for the past few days and my fingers are getting the itch.

Went over to M1 just now to collect my CDMA phone, and to be frank about I am damn pissed about having to switch phones for the sake of communicating in Korea. Why oh why can't those Koreans just convert to GSM like the rest of the fine world??? The reason for the rage came from the fact that I have to pay extra just to rent this phone and the hullabaloo it caused when I discovered that my home plugs cannot fit the charger plug as apparently the charger itself was Korean made....knn! Ok, i will just say it...Kanina!!!

Basically I have to also say this,after repeated urging from all major sources, I managed to drag myself to the salon yesterday and got my hair trimmed and layered coz I am meeting clients there and who knows, a pretty Korean babe or two there so image is the keyword here. And as if the cut was not enough, I was somehow insane enough to have my bloody locks colored so ya, now I am sporting copperish hair. So the next time you all see me, it's me ok, not some random ah beng. Ok already, I can hear Ismail going "cough*bengwannabe*cough" so oh shut up Ismail...hahahha!!

Alrighty now, I will hopefully be doing a live coverage of my trip there in this blog if I got Net access, so stay tuned. In the mean time, I will be posting some radio friendly songs (to me that is) that I have heard over the radio and if I can access Mediacrap radio over there viz the Internet, maybe I won't be so homesick...keeping my fingers crossed.

By the way, if for some strange reason that you all would want to reach me while I am getting my behind nice and warm in Korean hospitality, you can dial this number - 002 + 82 + 10 2283 7882, got it? I know you all are smart learners lah. ;)

I, I'm so in love with you
Whatever you want to do
Is all right with me
'Cause you make me feel so brand new
And I want to spend my life with you

Since, since we've been together
Loving you forever
Is what I need
Let me be the one you come running to
I'll never be untrue

Let's, let's stay together
Lovin' you whether, whether
Times are good or bad, happy or sad

Whether times are good or bad, happy or sad

Why, why some people break up
Then turn around and make up
I just can't see
You'd never do that to me (would you, baby)
Staying around you is all I see
(Here's what I want us to do)

(repeat to fade):
Let's, we oughta stay together
Loving you whether, whether
Times are good or bad, happy or sad

- Al Green, Let's stay together