Tale of the Fried Mobo

Yes.. my precious limited edition translucent red motherboard decided to FRY on me.. first time I saw smoke coming out from my PC's casing. Hell, that gave me one heck of a shock. Damn damn damn. All my precious files in My Documents all erased when I had to re-install the OS.

Anyway got myself a spanking new motherboard from Gigabyte and a superb graphics card from Sapphire. I'd say with the 512 MB of DDR RAM on my mobo.. hell yeah! Played some graphics intensive games and I'm pretty impressed with the results. :)

So back to my daily life. Let's see, what did I do yesterday. Oh yes, finally caught March of the Penguins at Cathay Cineleisure Orchard. It was a nifty piece of movie-making.. bar the dumb-ass lyrics on the lame songs in the soundtrack. I love those cute lil' penguin chicks.

Apart from that, please go catch the latest Korean movie in the cinemas now - Innocent Steps. About two very different souls coming together through ballroom dancing. The male protagonist, Young-Sae, was a promising dancer and one of the best in Korea too (according to the movie that is) but he was sabo-ed (in local SG lingo) by a rival named Hyun-Soo, the son of the national dance director I think.

The female protagonist is a North Korean? Chinese? girl called Chae-Ryn, from a place called Yongbyon, who impersonated her sister, Chae-Min, who was the true dancer that some guys had brought in to pair up with Young-Sae. Chae-Ryn is a cute little character who loves fireflies and has that childish innocence in her that touches my heart. She's just 19 but still so pure and innocent.

Anyway, I don't know where her accent comes from but she pulls off the role of the country bumpkin with great efficiency. I'd say she did a SUPER job on that role. I'll never forget the term she used to called Young-Sae ... Ah-zi-bai.. or something like that. Supposed to mean Mister but the term sounds different in the South.

Go catch it if you must. Its a touching movie and I just love the dance moves. Puts J.Lo's performance in Shall We Dance to shame!

My rating? --> 5 out of 5

Back from the dead

Oh yes, after ages away from blogger, I've returned from the dead. Damn.. sometimes I feel alot tired than I should be.

Anyway, back on topic. National Day's just over. So what's the big deal about turning 40? Hmm.. that we've become a great city state in that space of time? Not really. What's so great about this city state when the taxes and costs rise every year? Call it whining but I don't give a rat's ass.

We're saddled with alot of financial burdens year in year out. Even with a high-paying job, the taxes, paying for the home's mortgage.. etc. will just burn you out. Its a good country, very secure and all but in short, if its a constant rat race I'd rather live on Mars.

With the recent hoo-haa on the Elected Presidency, I felt kinda sad when I couldn't exercise my right to vote. What gives the PEC or whatever that council is, the right to thumb down an applicant just because he's not rich enough, or his qualifications are not there? I'd rather have a coffee-shop uncle as president than some fella selected by the council to be the "best" man for the job. Read "best" because he wasn't elected by the people.. he was placed on the pedestal.

Kudos to Prez. Nathan for being a good dude and all, but surely, a contest would be much appreciated. Sadly that was not the case. Reading an article on the Straits Time by a lecturer from NUS?? .. some Dr Thio Li Ann? I hope I got that right. He/she summed it pretty perfectly when the question turned into..

Elected or Selected? That is the quintessential question. I leave it to you, the reader to surmise what that means.

Below is an image of one of Martians from the movie Mars Attacks! from CNN.com. That what I feel like doing right now to the people on the council.. *just kidding*