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Hey Gen Y: 3 Reasons why you may find me Primitive
1. Books: Enid Blyton, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Judy Blume defined my childhood – not Harry Potter (I haven’t read a single book and found the original movie a bit too young for me – ok boring). I wanted to … Continue reading
Posted in Midlife Musings
Tagged 3 Reasons, aging, books, cell phones, childhood, culture, Enid Blyton, Gen X, Gen Y, Generation Gap, Harry Potter, humour, Judy Blume, Lady Gaga, Life, Living, Mallory Towers, music, St Clares, technology
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Sweet Gen X Music: They Don’t Make ’em Like they Used to
Just three songs that were playing in my head today and just had to go hunt out on YouTube. Sorry to sound like an old fogie, Gen Y, but I’m truly Gen X and I just can’t get with the … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged 1984, 1990, 80's, Adam Ant, Alvin Stardust, Annie Lennox, Art, Baby Boomers, beautiful, catchy, celeb, Celebrities, celebs, Gen X, Gen Y, Generation, happiness, happy, Hugh Laurie, I Feel Like Buddy Holly, John Malkovich, Life, melody, music, music video, Nostalgia, personal, pretty, song, sweet, teenager, upbeat, Video, YouTube
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What do Taylor Swift and Bob Dylan have in Common?
The sad fact about life is that when you get to a certain age, you would have had the misfortune to encounter at least one really mean people. If not, then you’re really lucky. As I was trawling the … Continue reading
Evil Bunny Videos: Funny Singapore Cartoons (Satire)
Brilliant satire and I wish there was more. [youtube]14tPmbq1WGE[/youtube] For me nothing beats Singlish when it comes to humour. [youtube]wMszYyoUJHE[/youtube] This one is a classic – touched on the choping seats with tissue packets situation. [youtube]bPTC-KdJeGs[/youtube] And this one makes … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 2011, chope, comedy, culture, food court, funny, hawker centre, humour, Life, Living, Malay, music, NS, people, reserve, seats, Singapore, Singaporean, Singaporeans, Singlish, song, tissue packets
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So Singaporean
Thanks to Victor Tan who uploaded this on his YouTube channel. It was made in 2009, but it still relevant and a great summary of what it means to be Singaporean. [youtube]BIW7i0UT5j0[/youtube]
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged durian, island, music, patriotic, scenes, Singaporean, Video
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Michael Buble and Luisana Lopilato Married in Argentina
Ok here I continue with my frivolous celebrity posts. I am quite addicted, but haven’t been checking out the online tabloids for a while. It can be quite a fun distraction. I think that 23 year old Luisana is so … Continue reading
Posted in My Celebrity Addiction
Tagged Argentina, beautiful, beauty, celeb, Celebrities, celebs, cute, dress, Entertainment, home burgled, Luisana Lopilato, married, Michael Buble, music, pretty, wedding, women
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Lady Gaga is Lovely to Her Young Fans: Meet 10 Year Old Maria Aragon
I am too old to be a fan of Lady Gaga but I love how wonderful and sweet she is to her fans. I found this video very touching. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_DmxlfIn8U] The video that went viral. This proves to me that … Continue reading
Posted in My Celebrity Addiction
Tagged Born This Way, Canadian, Cover, culture, filippino, Lady Gaga, Life, Living, Maria Aragon, music, Philippines, pinoy, sweet, Video, viral, women, YouTube
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Scout Willis and Stepdad Ashton Wrote a Song About Coffee
It’s called My Sober and I think it’s cute. Shows what a great relationship they have. For the first time Ashton actually seems fatherly. Middle child, Scout has a surprisingly lovely voice. I must confess – I didn’t expect it … Continue reading
Posted in My Celebrity Addiction
Tagged ashton kutcher, celeb, Celebrities, celebs, coffee, cute, music, scout willis, sober, song, sweet, Video, YouTube
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My Top 5 Most Shared Posts
I love looking at my WordPress stats. Ok, I am addicted to checking it obsessively. One thing I like to look at is what kind of posts my readers are interested it and one indicator is the posts that they … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging & Writing
Tagged 100 Reasons, babytard, bloggers, blogging, blogs, Chinatown, culture, happiness, interest, James Blunt, Life, Living, most read, most shared, most shared posts, music, personal, Shaytards, Singapore, statistics, stats, Tintin, top 5, topics, traffic, WordPress
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Michael Buble is A Really Nice Guy: Gives Heckling Mum and Son a Big Break
Just read this Time article and watch the video to see what I mean. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cw1uLVSl1Y] The mum actually seems quite rude from the video taken at a recent concert in England. She must have been causing quite a ruckus before … Continue reading
Posted in My Celebrity Addiction
Tagged concert, England, good people, heckling, interview, Michael Buble, mum, music, news, nice, nice guy, Sam Hollyman, singer, The Today Show, Time, UK
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When All a Scene Needs is an Elton John Song
The song Rocket Man fit the season finale of Californication so well, it was mind blowing. That plus terrific wordless acting from the achingly beautiful British actress, Natascha McElhone (she reminds me of Meryl Streep). The fact that there are … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Almost Famous, Art, beautiful, beauty, Californication, death, Elton John, emotion, Entertainment, Ewan McGregor, grief, happiness, Life, Living, love, Moulin Rouge, music, Natascha McElhone, Nicole Kidman, pain, romantic, sad, Season 3 Finale, Sir Elton John, sorrow, Soundtrack, Tiny Dancer, tragedy, women
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Spoiler Alert: Gwyneth Paltrow, Darren Criss, And Other Magical Glee Performances on Glee
Been doing some heavy posts, so I decided to surf for music to lift my spirits. Works every time. YouTube has snippets and music videos of future episodes that you’ve probably not caught yet, if you’re in Asia, so skip … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged beautiful, beauty, Darren Criss, Entertainment, Glee, Gwyneth Paltrow, happiness, happy, music, pretty, talent, TV, Video, women, YouTube
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Oprah Interviews Michael Jackson’s Children and Grandparents
Michael’s mother reveals that one day he just decided he would get his nose done. Poor Michael felt that he was ugly as a teenager even though his fans would disagree. Concerning his vitilago he told his mother he didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in My Celebrity Addiction
Tagged Blanket, celeb, Celebrities, celebs, cousins, Entertainment, interview, Katherine, Life, Michael Jackson, music, Oprah, Paris Jackson, people, personal, Prince Jackson, TV, Video, YouTube
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Willow Smith’s Whip My Hair is Catchy & Has a Great Video
I actually liked this pop single by Will Smith’s mini-me, his 9 year old daughter Willow. She sounds like a baby Rihanna. It’s wholesome and the video is cute with all that hair swinging and paint splashing. Looks like her … Continue reading
Posted in My Celebrity Addiction
Tagged celeb, Celebrities, celebs, cute, Entertainment, fun, music, paint, Pop, pretty, Video, Whip My Hair, Wholesome, Willow Smith, YouTube
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Bruno Mars Got My Attention With Billionaire
Oh that voice is amazing [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwlK5b4KYfI] Bruno also co-wrote Right Round by Flo Rida. That’s one song I couldn’t get out of my head after ‘The Hangover’. Some tid-bits about this rising star who just turned 25 on 8th October: … Continue reading
Posted in My Celebrity Addiction
Tagged adorable, beautiful, beauty, Billionaire, Bruno Mars, celeb, Celebrities, celebs, childhood, culture, cute, Elvis Presley, Entertainment, Glee, impersonating, music
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Michael Buble Does Justin Beiber! – Not Sexy
Oh no why did he have to do Justin Beiber! Not sexy! I must admit he does a good impression though, but now he’s probably get mobbed by a crowd of fuming toddlers. What I do love about Michael Buble … Continue reading
Posted in My Celebrity Addiction
Tagged celeb, Celebrities, celebs, cute, funny, happiness, I Just Haven't Met You Yet, Justin Beiber, Life, Michael Buble, music, Video
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James Taylor
Of all the solo male singers, James Taylor has a voice I could listen to a million times over. It was a time when it was all about the music. Singers did not have to dance or perform or use … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged 70's, beautiful, beauty, explanation, Fire and Rain, James Taylor, music, Nostalgia, personal, song, You've Got a Friend
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You are My Sunshine
Lost my cousin recently and I sang this song softly to him when I was deeply missing him, but couldn’t continue each time, because it always choked me up. When I think of him, I think of yellow and the … Continue reading
Posted in Midlife Musings
Tagged Anne Murray, beautiful, childhood, Cousin, cry, death, Elizabeth Mitchell, family, grief, happy, Healing, Life, Missing, music, sad, song, sunshine, sweet, women, you are my sunshine
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Babytard is on the new James Blunt CD ‘Some Kind of Trouble’
Update -24 April 2011: The historic meeting of Babytard and James Blunt. The one we have all been waiting for. Blogged about it here. Update – 8 February 2011: I dare you to watch this video and still have dry … Continue reading
Posted in My Celebrity Addiction
Tagged babytard, CD Cover, clips, compilation, Cover, culture, cute, cutest, Entertainment, interview, iphone, James Blunt, Life, music, new CD, news, photo, picture, princesstard, shaycarl, shaytard, Shaytards, Singapore, The Shaytards, Twitter, Video, vlog, vlogging, YouTube
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Turning 40: My List of 40 Travel Memories
I’ll be turning 40 in a few weeks, and all year long I have been anticipating going into a deep funk. So far it hasn’t quite happened yet and I think I have to thank my blogger friends on WordPress … Continue reading →