Mr Wise Guy Blog

Hear ye! Hear ye! I've got an announcement to make! Spread on the love and bring the message to the masses! This is NOT a sponsored post.

Calling all budding singers and bands! Are you an amateur seeking to break new grounds? Do you need exposure? Do you need a website for your fans to download your music? Do you need to post your lyrics but don't know where to go to? Need to reach out to a larger audience?

Look no further!

Click http://www.thelyricshq.com to find out more!

A man has been photographed grabbing a woman's breast! What more, he's doing it while both of them were on a lorry! Ironically, the woman seems to be skipping for joy and smiling gleefully!

Pervert....

I'll be driving a Suzuki Swift on Friday! Woooohooo! How cool is that? Finally, after complaining to dad about the never-ending knocking sounds, poor air-conditioning and the pungent smell on the current Matrix, he decided to get a new car! The family's not really well-off so we decided to get a Suzuki Swift. Dad was saying if he couldn't afford a mini cooper, at least he could get the next best thing, a Suzuki Swift!

He test drove quite a couple of cars. The Honda Civic, Honda Jazz, Toyota Axio, Toyota Corolla Altis, Perodua Kelisa, Proton Wira and Toyota Vios just to name a few and decided to settle with the Swift. Don't get me wrong, we're not getting the sport version, so yeah, its more like a toned down version of the latter.

The Honda Civic was kinda over the budget, Honda Jazz lacked pick up, Axio was... errr... I couldn't remember what he said, Altis wasn't a choice cause too many people are driving it and mom hated that idea, Kelisa was too similar to our previous Kancil, Wira was rejected cause the engine sucked, and the Vios was left open as an option. But once again rejected by mom cause too many people were driving it around.

The drawback of the Suzuki Swift is that fuel consumption is just average. At around 13-14 km/ltr of petrol, it doesn't make much of a difference with the Matrix which rates around 11-12 km/ltr. Haiz. That means savings of just a few dollars when I go and top-up the car. Oh well, better than nothing right?

To view full Suzuki Swift car specifications, click here.

Dad got the auto transmission as he's getting a bit old for the manual ones. Kept complaining that he's sick of stepping the clutch during traffic jams (which is kinda true). Thing is, he hasn't even tried stepping on the Landrover's clutch. lolx! Even better, 3 Tonner! You'll break into a sweat just trying to put it on reverse!

I hope the Swift rocks! Can't wait for Friday!

You're dying to be under her umbrella, or perhaps take her out for a ride, who's this woman, or should I say girl that we're all crazy about? Well, I was sourcing out for lyrics these few days for my new website, www.thelyricshq.com and I gotta admit, there's just some things that we might not know about our favourite artistes. One of them being Rihanna.

I'm not a great fan of hers, so it came as a surprise to get to know that Rihanna isn't even 21! lolx! She was born on the 20th February 1988 making her 20 years old. Now, how cool is that? And to think that her first major hit was "Pon De Replay", one of the dance hits of 2005 and she was only 17! Like wtf!

I could safely say that by the time she was 17, she had already earned as much as I would have for my whole lifetime. hahaha. If you were to see Rihanna Lyrics, she's all grown up singing about sex and all. Oh well, what does this mean?

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It’s raining (raining)
Oh baby it’s raining (raining)
Baby come into me
Come into me
It’s raining (raining)
Oh baby it’s raining (raining)
You can always come into me
Blame me for being dirty minded, but hey, if that's what I think it is, then.... I guess she's maturing a bit too fast ey? Blame the hormones...

I've not been updating this blog/infoblog for a while as I'm starting up a lyrics website. It had been hard work so far finding lyrics and keying them into the new website. What more, I've yet to put the lyrics website up properly as I've to go through all that codings and all. I've yet to even categorise the lyrics by artist name. If any of you can assist me in this area willingly, I'm happy to hear from you! Need help! If you could go to my site and click any of the letters in the "Browse by Artist/Band Name", you'd realise it'll start listing all the posts down. But what I need is just list the artist/band! Haiz.... Help me!

There's the saying that goes, if there's no pain, there's no gain. For me, starting up the website is going to be painful. Sourcing for lyrics, finding the music videos that keeps getting banned from youtube due to copyright issues and of course, there's always the difficult ones to look out for like max shanti just us two lyrics. They're a local duo and definitely gaining some exposure from the radios having been in the 987 top 20 charts. Besides them, the amount of songs is staggering and if I were to do it manually and alone, I think it'll take 2 or 3 lifetimes to finish. heheh.

I hope you guys can help me out by linking the lyrics website up. Whatever lyrics you'll require or you would like to suggest, I'll post them up no problem by emailing . The reason I'm starting this website is simple. To give exposure to the local bands here in Singapore. But as the internet has a global audience, I'm opening this opportunity to any band or artistes in the South East Asian region.

At the same time too, the revenue I obtain from the website can be put into furthering my studies. This is not a sponsored review!!! Clicking on the links above doesn't lead you to advertisements! Just my site! lolx.

Arsenal go down 2-1 to Manchester United courtesy of Owen Hargreaves and Cristiano Ronaldo's Penalty kick. Don't miss Hargreaves's superb free kick!

I've been going to the gyms and see men carry 100kg weights no sweat. Okay, I might be exaggerating, but hey, it is the gym, and it is where people go to build muscles, train, sweat it out, and live a healthy lifestyle. Never have i expected people to do their weight training at a carpark. lolx! I'm not sure what he's lifting, but it sure looks heavy and out of the ordinary.

Click here to watch the video!

Watch as Kobe Bryant jumps over an Aston Martin moving at a whopping 50mph. Well, he might be promoting the Nike shoe he was holding. Don't try this at home kids! If you do try this at home, make sure you're wearing Nike shoes! (Dang, I bet by the time you watch this, 10 kids might've executed this stunt and successfully broken at least one of their bones in the reenactment of this video.)

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If you ask me, I think its fake!

I received this Creative Sale flyer in my snail mailbox just yesterday. Thought of posting it up, but was kinda lazy and procrastinated. So yeap, here it is. I don't have a scanner, so I just took a photo of it using my W890i camera handphone. Basically for me, there's nothing much to check out during this Creative Sale cause I've got my stuff already. Now, the only thing I'm looking out for is an external hard disk (about 500GB). Anyone willing to sponsor? Or even better, let me review your product for free! lolx.

Anyways, you should check out the 'Invite Only' offers. Especially the Zen 32GB that comes with a USB Adapter and earpiece. Quite a bargain.

How do we check the purity of honey? It is not rocket science, but here are some simple tests you can carry out to verify its purity.

Check the Label
Check around the brand name, and the ingredients list (if there is one) for a mention of additives. The company should be required to list them if you are shopping in certain countries. If there are no mentions of additives, buy the honey.



The Water Glass Test
Get a glass of water. This and a tablespoon of honey are all you need for the first test. Empty the honey into the water. If the honey is impure, it will dissolve in the water- the most common additive to honey is syrup of jaggery, which dissolves. If it is pure, the honey will stick together, and sink as a solid lump to the bottom of the glass.

The Flame Test
Get a lighter and a candle with a cotton wick. This test is better if you don't have as much honey to spare. Dip the cotton wick of the candle into a bit of the honey, and shake off the excess. Attempt to light the wick. If it burns, then that is completely pure honey. If it refuses to burn, then the presence of water is not allowing the wick to burn. (If there is only a very small amount of honey on the wick, though, it might still burn. It will produce a crackling sound, and it would be best to blow out the wick and try again if it does, this time with more honey.)

The Absorption Test

Pour a few drops of honey on blotting paper and observe whether or not it is absorbed. If it's absorbed, the honey's not pure. If you don't have blotting paper, pour a little bit of honey on a white cloth, then wash the cloth. If there is any stain left by the honey, it is probably not pure

There is nothing wrong in people asking you about your partner. As in, who wouldn't want to get to know the person your friend is so in love with. What makes him/her special, and maybe you just want to know how are things between the two of them. It definitely annoys when that person doesn't ask anything about yourself but solely prods questions on your partner.

"How is he today?", instead of asking how are you today.

"Why didn't you go out with him? Is it because he's busy?"

"Why didn't he call you at night"

What is his favourite food?"

"How's his family?"

"Yesterday I chatted with him, I didn't know that he hates dancing."

"How is she at her new workplace?"

"Your guy looks cute wearing that red shirt. Where did he get it from?"

It might sound like routine questions to you, but sooner or later, you'll notice who these kinds of people are. So, how do we handle them? I am no relationship Guru, but I'll just share with you what I've done so far.

1) Answer the question indirectly.

Act as if you didn't hear the question and move on to another topic. Most of the time feigning helps and the person will move forward. For instance if the person asks "How is she today?", I'll answer "We went swimming yesterday and we're doing fine." It is as if I'm hinting to the person.

2) Be open with your thoughts

If the questions keeps on coming repeatedly about my partner, I'll question him back asking why is he so concerned. But in a non-provoking, humorous manner of course. Most will take the hint and stop. Those who don't are plain idiots. Period.

3) Gun onto them questions about their own partners.

After you answered some of the questions, how about giving them a taste of their own medicine? What they miss is the law of physics that states "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction".

Oh well.

If you have any suggestions, do comment and I'll post it up. Its for the greater good of mankind.

Eight Florida teens were arrested after allegedly filming the beating of another teen and threatening to post the video on the Internet. Seven of the teens remained in juvenile detention Tuesday, authorities said. A boy who was charged as an adult has been released on bail. The victim was treated for a concussion and numerous bruises.

Victoria Lindsay was attacked on March 30 by six teenage girls when she arrived at a friend's home, authorities said. One of the girls struck the 16-year-old victim on the head several times and then slammed her head into a wall, knocking her unconscious, according to an arrest report. Later, according to a clip of the video that was released by the Polk County sheriff's office, the teens can be seen blocking a door and hitting Victoria.

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Well yes of course! Other than being put out about 5 times during this year's relay through Paris, it happened twice before. The first such event occurred at the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada. A rainstorm doused the Olympic flame a few days after the games had opened and an official relit the flame using his cigarette lighter. Organizers quickly doused it again and relit it using a backup of the original flame.

The second time happened when the Olympic flame came to the Panathinaiko Stadium of the 2004 Summer Olympics. The night was very windy and the torch blew out due to the wind. It was re-lit from the back up flame taken from the original ceremonial flame at Olympia.

Meantime, let's take a look at this year's torch relay through Paris and London.

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Check out the video at 00:30 when the official turned off the flame.

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Pity the guy at 00:25. Lolx!

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Someone trying to extinguish the flame at 00:24.

I've had enough of boring Giordano, Bossini, Adidas, Nike and whatever brands you have and decided to go online shopping. Its the desire to be unique and different that drove me to weird sites such as used panties for sale. Oh well, I'm no pervert but I got this lead from a close friend of mine.

J!NX : Clothing for Gamers & Geeks sells geeky and gaming clothes and personally, I have bought two pieces. One for my brother and the other for the missus. I'm happy to find a site that sells stuff close to my heart (GEEK ALERT!) and you'll be sure that you won't see another piece selling here in Singapore.

I got this piece here for my bro. This isn't exactly my bro though. Just pulled the image from the site. eheh. This goes for about USD$14.95.



And this for the missus. Costs some USD$17.99.



There is a rewards program for their customers and you receive credits that can be used to buy even more stuff from their shop. Payment is relatively straightforward either by Paypal or Credit Card and isn't at all difficult to place your first order.

Pssst, if you want to get 10% off, key in 'PHATLOOT' in the promotional code box.

Yes that's right, the Promotion Code or Coupon as some people put it is 'PHATLOOT'.

Go ahead and make your first purchase! Click here to get your first JINX.COM clothes!

A man was found dead on the MRT tracks in Choa Chu Kang station on Monday (07 April, 2008) morning. The man, a Chinese, in his mid-40s was pronounced dead at 8.30am. Train services were disrupted for close to an hour, between Yew Tee and Bukitt Gombak stations, towards Jurong East. Bus services were on hand to ferry stranded commuters between the MRT stations.

It is indeed possible to fall onto the tracks either voluntarily or involuntarily. If a person were to choose an MRT train to be his accomplice in his committing suicide, there would be no way anyone could stop him unless he stupidly tells the whole world his intent. Suicide cases are unpredictable, and is hard to prevent.

Suicide cases aside, there was a case last year in September where a man pushed his girlfriend onto the tracks. (Click here for the story) In this case, the woman was lucky to not be rolled over by the train. To be pushed or shoved on the platform is quite common.

In 'kiasu' Singapore, everyone lines up close to the yellow lines to get the best seats on the train. Just have a look at Boon Lay MRT from 0800 - 0900 every weekday and you'll know why. Everyone stands so close to the yellow lines that if someone were to be mean and push only one person, he would bring along 3 others with him onto the tracks.

To stop these from reoccurring, there are suggestions to install barricades on MRT platforms. Been to Kuala Lumpur? Have you seen those barricades on the Monorail platforms?

Am not too sure whether those barricades serves a purpose as the gaps in between doesn't actually prevent people from falling off. Well, at least that's better than nothing.

How about installing the same barricades you see in the underground stations on above ground ones? Yes that'll work. But there are other costs that comes into play. One significant factor would be air-conditioning to facilitate cooling of the platform. With barricades that cover the whole platform and restricting airflow, the air on the platform area would be stale and choking. Electricity tariffs are already so high, SGs are already complaining about high transport costs, and who would pay for the bills?

Increase the braking distance for the MRT trains so that drivers can react in time? That'll cause even more delays in the train schedule and travel time will increase.

Introduce sensors to detect when someone has fallen off? I saw that as a final-year project at Singapore Polytechnic and I won't deny that it worked. It isn't all fool-proof though as the system can't stop the train in time if the person chooses to jump in front of the MRT. Just imagine stopping a few hundred tonnes of metal + thousand kilos of humans safely in under 3 metres. That's impossible!

How to solve the problem? Oh well, until a solution is to be found, there will be train deaths once in a while. With time, Singaporeans will get used to it. LOLX!

The boys in camp were talking about how hot the music video 'Touch my Body' was. Considering that Mariah Carey was gracing the radio stations since I was very young, I wondered, how hot could Mariah be? After all, she must've experienced some sort of sagging (you know what i mean) and all the related old-age problems.

And so, I decided to check out the music video 'Touch my Body'.

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I have to admit, she's still hot as ever. The skin on her face and body is still taut and you can see cheeriness in her face. I wonder how far I would go to maintain my youthfulness when I get older. Hmmmm...

Anyways, Mariah Carey was born on the 27th March, 1970. Making her about 38 years old.

In the opening minutes of his club's home match against HNK Cibalia in the Croatian first division on 29 March 2008, Ćustić suffered severe head injuries after colliding with a concrete wall positioned about two metres from the sideline, supporting the fence which separates the pitch from the stands. Seconds before, Ćustić tried to win a loose ball in a duel with an opposing player, but then both players collided and Ćustić was carried into the wall, hitting it with his head.

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He was immediately transported to the local hospital and underwent a surgery the following day. Following the surgery, he was in an induced coma and his condition remained stable until 2 April 2008, when a believed infection caused a rapid increase in his body temperature. His condition immediately worsened and in the early afternoon of 3 April 2008, the hospital confirmed that he was brain dead at 11.51 CET that day. Following his death, all of the Croatian league fixtures scheduled for the following weekend have been postponed.

Now, who the f*** builds concrete walls two metres away from the sidelines? Isn't that too close? The chances of a soccer player overshooting the sidelines is so frequent. Have you seen the way Park J.S. went for the ball during the Man Utd vs Roma match? He over shot the line and hit the advertising boards! If that concrete wall was there, it would've been a different story for sure.

Those people who planned the construction of the stadiums ought to be sued! Maybe they ought to play soccer first before even attempting to built a soccer stadium!

May he Rest in Peace.

Al-Fateha.

Its all over the news, on the radio, in the papers, rice is hot stuff in South East Asia. The scene here in Singapore is rather lax. Everyone is still minding their own business and there are no panic buying here at the Supermarkets. Fortunately I still see bags of rice displayed on the shelves at NTUC Fairprice this afternoon and all seems well.

I'm not too sure what's the root cause of all this rice commotion, but from what I've heard, India has stopped exporting non-basmati rice to ensure that its citizens have enough for themselves. This in turn affects the global rice supply (sounds familiar to the oil situation) and price generally shoots up. India , China , Indonesia, Vietnam all have imposed export contorls of rice and soon Thailand will impose quote for rice export.

Hmmmm, I wonder how will life be without rice? Can I survive without rice? Definitely. There's potatoes, soya, sweet potatoes and other alternatives. But will there ever be enough for the world population? One has to remember that if we switch to potatoes, we will be competing with the Americans and Europeans. The same thing might happen to the potato.

Sometimes, I wonder if the world has enough resources to support so many people. It is, in limited quantity and are we reaching the maximum? We will never know until the time comes.

An X-Ray Technician doesn't fix an X-Ray. An X-Ray Technician operates the X-Ray or MRI or whatever imaging machine that he/she is put in charge. It pays good money according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the middle 50% of Radiographic Technicians was $32,000 to $46,500 in 2002. The median annual earnings were $40,000, and the top 10% made more than $55,400.

That's like about $2.5k - $3k a month? Whoa... An all the X-Ray Technician has to do is take pictures of the human body. lolx. Now that's what I called a well-paid voyeur.

Live tv is interesting. You never know what will happen next, and everything is so spontaneous. Blog tv is an upcoming website that hosts live show and live broadcast of basically anything under the sun. From sports, arts & entertainment, travel and so much more to offer. What I like most is its familiar design to YouTube. I found navigating a breeze and I doubt you'll face a problem starting your first show. Users will find that Live videos comes along with chat much similar to mIRC.

Hang around and drop by this up and coming site!

I'll be ORDing in less than a month (minus the leaves and offs) and I'm deciding how I should spend my 3 months as a free man before going back to school. Who would ever employ a person for only 3 months? Hmmmm...

Maybe I should be a pharmacy technician. A pharmacy technician salary isn't that bad and who knows, I can work part-time while in university. Or perhaps there isn't even an opportunity for me to be a pharmacy tech because according to this information website, I need some sort of formal training.

Anyone has any lobangs for work? 3 months IT/Electrical/Electronics Engineer for hire!