The Race is On

In honour of the upcoming new season of the Greatest Reality Show on TV(TM), The Amazing Race, here's a recap of the show when it visited lovely Singapore.

Quote:
"It's time for the Detour, which Phil explains is a choice between...well, you know. Phil needs to comb his hair, by the way. In any event, the Detour this week is Dry or Wet. In Dry, you take a car and drive yourself to an apartment complex. The trick to finding it is that all the streets around it have the same name. (My parents' neighborhood is actually the same way.) Once you're there, you have to find a particular apartment, in spite of the fact that the numbering is wonky and the elevators work funny and it's all very, very slapsticky and not a very good Detour option at all. Oh, and when you find the apartment you're looking for, "Singapore's number one television star" will be there, and will hand you your clue. I don't want to say anything about Singaporean television, but judging from the looks of this guy, it's no wonder they like American TV. Anyway, in Wet, they have to drive themselves to the zoo and find the "mermaids," which turns out to mean a swim across the manatee enclosure. Also really not a particularly great Detour option. This leg of the race? Lame."

Hairul's Wedding

So for those family members of mine who cares, and that's probably all of you, here are the pictures from Abang Hairul's beggining of his sentence, i mean, his marriage.

Click here to see Hairul kiss goodbye to sweet bachelorhood and hello to a lifetime of nagging by his wife.

Leave some comments on those pics will ya? Thanks.

I think the twins don't like me. Eh, them's the breaks.

It's Fall!

Just one note: Here are the shows that will fill the coveted Thursday 8PM timeslot in America.

Joey (NBC)
Survivor (CBS)
Alias (ABC)
The OC (Fox)
Smallville (The WB)
Everybody Hates Chris (UPN)

All those shows. AT THE SAME TIME! Chris is a new show, but UPN must be very confident to pitch it against those heavyweights. I love ALL those shows. How could I freakin' choose if I were there?

Here's something to make you think.....

I read the following paragraph on The New York Times Online. (Excellent website for an excellent newspaper.)

"Before 9/11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency listed the three most likely catastrophic disasters facing America: a terrorist attack on New York, a major earthquake in San Francisco and a hurricane strike on New Orleans. "The New Orleans hurricane scenario," The Houston Chronicle wrote in December 2001, "may be the deadliest of all." It described a potential catastrophe very much like the one now happening."

What the heck's happening there? It took less than 24 hours for people to come rushing to Asia's aid last December. That is great, really, but why is the same not happening in New Orleans? The fact that this is an American city makes it all the more perplexing.

Oh Mr Bush, people are dying in your backyard.....