Prawn Is Evil!

Prawns have to one of the most delicious sea creature some people have ever tasted. People often tell me that I’m loosing out a lot in life by not eat prawns. Well, I beg to differ. For the benefit of all those people who think that I lost a little bit of life not eating prawns, you are very wrong. Those of you who adore prawns and eat prawns like there’s no tomorrow, you are the one losing life. Prawns are bad for you. It’s high in cholesterol and prawn eats fish poop!

Prawns may have certain nutrients which are beneficial to health, but it can be subsidized with plant products or other seafood. Not eating prawns is not a bad thing at all. In fact, not eating prawns have to be the healthiest thing to do. This way, when you discover your cholesterol level is high, you don’t have to kill yourself when you eat prawns or die of prawn craving.

So there I tell you, it is not essential to eat prawn in life. Prawns should be something you eat only if all the fish and squids in the world died. Prawns are like cigarettes. They can be addictive to the weak minded and can cause death in a long run. Stay Away From Prawns!

Bert Is Evil!

I grew up watching Sesame Street. It must be the best educational programmes for any child to watch. Barney, Bananas In Pajamas, Hi-5, Teletubbies and all other children programmes cannot even be compared with Sesame Street. Sesame Street has taught me my ABCs and 1-2-3s. I learned many songs from watching it. Like the Sammy the worm song, and Sunny day..lalala.... I learn that cookies are delicious and I should eat my vegetables. I also learnt a bit of checkers watchign Bert and the pigeon play.

But after I started primary school, and stoppes watchign Sesame Streets, all the sweet memories of it were stashed away together with my "Monster At The End of The Book" book starring Grover the lovable monster.

When I was in Sec 3, McDonalds started giving away Sesame Street toys with their Happy Meals. The toys can also be bought for about $2 each. I started collecting them and ended up with the whole complete set. Then my love for Sesame Street was rekindled and i went online to search about my favourite characters again.

I typed Sesame Street into the Yahoo! search engine and I was greatly shocked by my findings.
the results that came out, some of them were exactly what I had expected. Sesame Street merchandise, the official site and so on. But there were other things together with those. Things i never thought of, that will never cross my mind.

That day, I found out, Elmo is a Transvestite, that's why he speaks like that. Bert is evil. i visited the sites. There were pictures of him holding guns. Killing other Sesame Street characters and also pornographic pictures of him. And I always thought that Bert and Ernie were the cutest housemate I've ever seen, but they are really gay! It's not brotherly between them. Cookie Monster has eating disorder and Big Bird, let's just say, he isn't what we thougt he was. There;s a darker side to Big Bird that no one can ever imagine.

So that got me thinking. Is Sesame Street a healthy programme for children to watch? Have I been wrong with my judgements all these while? Was I brought up by a TV programme that really has hidden messages that are subconsciously hypnotizing us to be out of the norm.
I need to research.

Food, Glorious Food!!!

Chinese New Year is around the corner! And I will be going back to Malacca. Malacca is truly a food paradise. For those of you who haven’t been there, or been there but haven’t eaten there, shame on you!!!
Let me tell you of all the wonderful things you can eat in Malacca. First of, lets start with the stuff that tourist get conned to eat. There’s the “ball” chicken rice. Most tourists go to the shop near Jonker Street, beside the bridge, that’s a bad choice! Even thought they have been around for the longest time, they only used to be the best. They aren’t anymore. They are slacking really badly because they are so over-confident with themselves, they don’t care to provide the best quality. And they don’t need to try to give the best, because people will just blindly go back to them, just because they were the so called “original”. For better “ball” chicken rice, I would strongly suggest Heng chicken rice which is situated along Melaka Raya (it’s beside a Public Bank branch).
Then there is the very famous satay celup. The “best” one is the Capitol Satay Celup at Bukit China, where people start queuing up even before the shop opens for business. Personally I don’t know what the fuss is about as I can’t imagine myself eating out of a pot, shared by like at least 100 different person in a night, and they don’t clean the pots everyday. Imagine the amount saliva in it. There are many other satay celups around Malacca, so go around trying the others, the Capitol one isn’t necessarily the best.
Speaking of satay...mmm..hmmm… the must eat satay in Malacca is the Jonker Street satay. They have a few branches around Malacca and they all taste about the same. So, it’s quite convenient to go to the one nearest to your hotel. Most people would choose to stay at the Century Mahkota Hotel or Equatorial, so the closest to this would be the one in Melaka Raya, situated at the rows of shops just beside Mahkota Shopping Centre.
Lim Kee Bak Khut Teh is also another must eat in Malacca. It is situated somewhere near foot of Bukit Cina. This bak khut teh is nothing like what you’d ever taste in Singapore. The soup is made of various herbs and spices. It is very tasty, not like the average pepper water you taste in Singapore. Then after your scrumptious meal, you can always proceed next door to the main Tan Kim Hock store to stock up on authentic Malaccan dodol and other Malaccan made titbits.
Then you must definitely try the Mee Hun Kueh here. Unlike those in Singapore, the flour is actually handmade and tasty! Because it isn’t cut into neat square piece by machines, there is a very nice texture to it and very pleasant to chew. Great mee hun kueh stalls in Malacca are not very easily accessible to tourists. There is one near Jonker Street, its on a little side road in a little coffee shop. Another good one quite far from town in a food court in Bukit Beruang. I could name more, probably write a whole thesis on mee hun kueh stalls in Malacca, but not in here.
There are also very famous yong tau fu in Malacca. The most renowned one would be the one behind the old Federal Theater. It maybe expensive but never go after 12, because by then, there would only be scraps of tau kees left. There is also a really tasty Ampang yong tau fu in Malim, which is too far away form town. But it’s worth the journey because the food is great and the hawker is so friendly, you’d feel right at home.
Malacca is also famous for Nyonya food. The best ones are situated all along Melaka Raya and are very easy to find. The old favourites used to be Nyonya Makko and Ole Sayang, but since Bibik Neo opened, the competition got even stronger.
Wow, I think I need to find a narrower subject to focus on. I can’t keep on writing like that. Well, till my next entry. Happy drooling at my blog!

New Eye-dea

In my Social Psychology textbook, I read something about communications through the eyes. It turns out that, we communicate so much daily with our eyes and they are so many meanings to every little gesture we make with our eyes. Maybe I’m just a little slow at discovering this but since I discovered it, I find it extremely interesting. I was kind of wide eyed when I read it. It says in the book that if we are excited, our pupils actually dilate and probably when you are giving someone the steely stare, your pupils will shrink. They also said that avoiding eye contact doesn’t always mean that you don’t like a person. I’m sure you realize, couples usually kiss with their eyes close. But maybe this is just so they are not staring directly at the zit on their partner’s forehead, which can be a really big turn off if you ask me. And looking at someone for a long period of time does not always mean adoration. For example, two ah bengs from different clans are glaring at each other. This does not mean they are in love or are admiring the golden hair the other has. Even if one is admiring the other’s golden hair, it usually ends in a fight because it is unethical to an ah beng for someone to stare at them, especially un-chio girls and other boys.

Then again, I started wondering, is this all the same for a blind person? Can their pupils actually enlarge and shrink? I have not been face to face with a blind person before, so now I’m wondering, do blind people roll their eyes when they are being sarcastic? Is it possible to see a blind person’s expression through their eyes? In movies, blind people are often portrayed as glassy eyed people. They only look into the distance and don’t seem to be looking at anything at all. There is never much focus on their eye and expression. So it would be a challenge for me to go find out about this.

Hey Mr DJ, I Wanna Be Just Like You!!!

Joseph Hahn is someone I am proud to call my idol. He can be a role model for all Asian teenagers who are interested in the media industry. I said media instead of music because, even though he is a musician and turn tablist for Nu Metal band Linkin Park, he is also their video director. There are also sources citing that he will be directing a movie next. If we take a closer look at the music industry today, I doubt we can actually see any Asian artist actually making any big splash anywhere in the English music scene. William Hung is a "legend" and Tata Young is only a trend, but Joe Hahn is different. In his 3 years of career in the music industry, he has already directed 9 music videos and won a number of awards for the videos he directed and co-directed. So what if he needed a few "ang-moh" band members to help him make the band, he still made it big. Not only that, he has been doing special effects for certain movies, drawing monsters for others. He is what I like to call multi-talented.
Why is he a good role model for Asian teenagers? First off, i think he has a relatively clean record. So far, I doubt there has ever been any reports on him getting in trouble with the law. Second off, he's Korean, which makes him Asian! So if he can do it, why can't we?! Before Linkin Park, I never thought an Asian could ever make it in the English music industry. Then there's his multi-talents. He is a DJ, a video director, he did comic art, he co-designed an album cover...the list goes on. How many people can actually do so many different things, and achieve close to excellence in all of them?
I think he's a genius in his own trade.

How Much Is That Doggy At The Window?

I have a Shih Tzu at home. It is adorable, and also very interesting. I bought a book along time ago. It suppose to be an all-I-need-to-know book about Shih Tzus. So far, it has been of little help, as it turns out, my shih tzu is not like all regular shih tzus. She's a special breed of best friend. There are so many things about a shih tzu that is interesting to know, their origins, characteristics, etc. There are also so many things you can do with your shih tzu. Like many normal dogs, you can play fetch. Hide and seek is also a good game to play. It may not know how to count, but it sure knows how to find you. On a cold and rainy day, you can always cuddle up with the fluffy shih tzu in front of the tv to watch your favourite chick flick or horror movie, though the sound effects or voices of squeeling teenage girls might drive your shih tzu into a mad fit. Grooming and training your shih tzu can help you to bond with it. The shih tzu will know the difference between the person who like to torture it and the person who feeds it. It is also very relaxing to just sit back and watch you shih tzu playing on it's own, be it chasing a ball on its own, or tossing a little peanut around. Life would really be more meaningful having such an adorable dog like a Shih Tzu at home. It is a dog that some may call useless, because it is merely small, cute and fluffy, but it is also a very entertaining dog. You have no idea how much joy a little mop like a Shih Tzu can bring to your life.