A video featuring a teen nicknamed Frank Twitchy and her grandma in a webcam tribute to explicit rap Rack City has gone viral, garnering almost 5 million views on YouTube since it was uploaded on YouTube on the 3rd of January 2012. In the clip, the teen gestures with gang signs and wiggles along to rapper Tyga’s profanity-laden lyrics, seemingly ...
Read More »A Tribute To My Ex-Colleague Sophia Tan
I was saddened beyond words when Marissa Cuba, my ex-colleague in Brunei, sent me a SMS informing me that my ex-colleague Sophia Tan’s condition seems to have taken a turn for the worse. I thought she was recovering well as she has so much strength and faith. Her cancer has gone into remissions a few times only to relapse after ...
Read More »Goodbye 2011 Hello 2012
Well folks, 2012 is here. As we usher in 2012 and bid farewell to 2011, we can look back at 2011 and marvel at what a year it has been. 2011 was jam packed: the tsunami and nuclear leak after the shattering earthquake in Japan, turmoil in Western Asia & Northern Africa, the debt crises in Europe and US, China ...
Read More »Auld Lang Syne (aka O Lan Sai)
In less than half an hour, 2011 will end and Auld Land Syne will fill the air all over the world. “Auld Lang Syne” is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song. It is traditionally used to celebrate the start of the New Year at the stroke of ...
Read More »All I Want For My Christmas Is My Front Teeth
I remember there is a Christmas song by Agnes Chan that goes something like this: All I want for my Christmas is my two front teeth. Oh yeah, I want my front teeth too. I have lost so many of my upper teeth that it reminds me of some of Sarawak’s forests…barren with only a few trees standing. Barren forest ...
Read More »Merry Christmas
It is Christmas so here is wishing each and everyone of you a very happy and blessed Christmas. As you celebrate Christmas, ponder on the true meaning of Christmas. I would like to share with you the following poem: The True Meaning Of Christmas Jesus Christ was born this day So many years before He came a servant to ...
Read More »Timothy Tiah’s Meme Proposal To Audrey Ooi
Timothy Tiah Ewe Tiam proves that his creativity is not restricted to running the hugely popular ad-blogging site Nuffnang of which he is the co-founder. 27-year-old Timothy, aka Fatty, came with his unique idea of proposing to his Malaysian girlfriend, a fellow blogger by the name of Audrey Ooi Feng Ling, while she was having dinner with her friends at ...
Read More »Cute Filipino Air Hostesses Perform Safety Demo To Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You
A Filipino airline has come up with a fun way to put its passengers in the Christmas mood – by getting its cute air hostesses to dance their way through the flight safety demonstrations to the tune of Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You. Travellers aboard Cebu Pacific will, for the festive period at least, be treated ...
Read More »Singapore SMRT Train Breakdown Video Parodies
The recent SMRT’S multiple train disruptions have prompted some Singaporeans to express their frustration through video parodies. After all, Singaporeans love to “play play.” Dee Kosh, a 23-year-old vlogger (video blogger), has attracted a lot of attention for his latest parody video “SMRT Song”on YouTube. Based on the original “YMCA” song by Village People, Dee Kosh’s video was inspired by ...
Read More »UK Top Ten YouTube Videos 2011
Ultimate Dog Tease featuring a ‘talking’ dog has topped the list of the most-watched videos on YouTube in UK, garnering more than 74 million hits since it was uploaded by klaatu42 on May 1, 2011. The animal is shown being teased by its owner about food and appears to speak English, saying ‘You’re kidding me!’ as he is told that ...
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