New Miss World Singapore 2009 and the Extinction of the Merlions

Breathe easy now, Singapore. The troubles that Ris Low have done are now far behind. Meet the new Miss World who will represent Singapore in the Miss World finals in South Africa.

Ladies and germs.. meet Pilar Arlando.

Ms Singapore 2009 - Pilar Arlando

 

Yes, Singapore. Breathe easy now. She’s prettier and better at interviews. Well, almost.

Good luck and God bless.

Ris Low vs Credit Card Fraud

Guilty of credit card fraud

By Dawn Tay

RECENTLY crowned Miss Singapore World Ris Low, 19, had earlier been found guilty of credit-card fraud.

The beauty queen was convicted of five charges of misappropriation, cheating using illegally obtained credit cards, and impersonating their users’ identities.

The first-time offender was sentenced in May this year to 24 months of supervised probation, said a Subordinate Courts spokesman in response to a query from my paper.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Now that’s just damn funny. Sorry, babe. Can’t defend you on this one.

FAILED!

Ris Low vs Speaking Good English

Just back from blogging and I know I missed out on a lot of topics since MJ’s passing away.

Thanks to Ms Ris Low, I’m back to blog about this video interview…

Poor thing. The video captions really didn’t help. It just made it worse.

For what its worth, I’m sure it’s not Ms Low’s fault that her interview came out that way. Here’s what should’ve happened:

• She should have composed herself beforehand
• Her manager/coach/mentor should’ve known that one of her weaknesses is her english. So, why not just make her speak her mother tongue instead. That’s what translators are for.
• Someone should’ve prepared her for this interview.
• Singaporeans should just support her nonetheless. Her answers were not that stupid.

Ever watch “Lost In Translation?” That’s how I think it is. In Low’s mind, when she was coming up with her answers for the questions thrown at her, it’s all perfect in her mother tongue.  Translate it into english, and all things are screwed up. Even Google Translate is not that perfect.

Reminds me when I was new in Singapore. When I was about to knock off from the office, my colleague asked me “Going back?”. I said, “no.” Why should I go back? But turned out he meant “to go back home.”

When people here say “can?”, it’s like translating it to tagalog as “kaya?”

It’s one thing to speak good english. It’s another thing to speak english appropriately as in time and place.

So ease up on Ris Low. It’s not that you can’t understand her interview.

Sideshow, You Devil You

What the hell is this?!?..

Mystique by Sideshow

.. and this..

Scarlet Witch by Sideshow

.. and this..

Felicia by Sideshow

These statuettes are pathetic excuse to sell toys of suggestive female poses…

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… ME LIKEY >:b

Spideh-Mah

This is why living in Japan is not cheap. Even Spider-Man have to like friggin’ own a robot to fight off evil-doers.

In the American movie of the Spider-Man, Parker doesn’t even own a car. So if you’re the Japanese Spider-Man, you have an additional baggage to worry about. How to hide your secret identity as the web crawling crusader.. and where the hell do you park your giant-ass robot.

I guess some folks didn’t think this through.

And for pete-sake.. there’s an “R” and “N” sound in Spider-Man.

Wolverine Rejects

Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)

It wasn’t that long ago when Clint Eastwood’s name was in the mix when casting the part of Wolverine for the X-Men movie.  And now that Hugh Jackman pretty much locked-in the role of Logan in the 4 X-Men movies (and those in the future), here are some of those Wolverines who didn’t made the cut.

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood – probably because he was too old for the part. Good fit for the role of anti-hero though (Dirty Harry). He does look like Jackman.

The rest of the crop falls short from here.

Stitch-like Wolverine

Car-Antenna-Clawed Wolverine

Wu Beh Lin

Princess Wolfie

Top-Gone Logan

There’s more from here. Check them out, especially Hebrew Wolverine.

Now this is a Catfight!

Bleepie-bee-bleep-bleep

FINALLY! A Star Wars fan short that makes us understand what’s going on in the mind of R2-D2. Very disturbing.

R2D2 in Episode 1

R2D2 in Episode 2

NEEEEEENJAAAAAAHS!

Growing up back then, I used to watch Takeshi’s Castle on IBC-13 shown every Sunday afternoons.

So every Monday morning in school, it’s the top subject of conversation with friends. So if you don’t know what happened on the show, then you’re left out… big time.

Then came along a commercial on MediaCorp 5 saying that a new Japanese TV show is going to air this February. And it’s called the Ninja Warrior.

Seeing this clip.. I’m sure I’m going to enjoy watching the series.

Can you say “DEM KRAZY JAPANESE”?

Leisure time with Batman

I get it, Batman. I get it. Alfred’s just too d@mn stuck up.

This is funny.