Spidey's Web Shooters

Web-Covered Trees

Webbings covering the trees! Is this the work of Spider-Man?

According to the news from wired.co.uk on March 30, 2011, the web covered trees is the result of spiders fleeing from the unprecedented flooding in Pakistan during the latter half of 2010 which disrupted the lives of 20 million people.

With more than a fifth of the country submerged, millions of spiders climbed into trees to escape the rising floodwater. As the water has taken so long to recede, the trees quickly became covered in a coocoon of spiderwebs. The result is an eerie, alien panorama, with any vegetation covered in a thick mass of webbing.

The unusual phenomenon, however, is a blessing in disguise. The UK's department for international development reports that areas where the spiders have scaled the trees have seen a far fewer malaria-spreading mosquitos than might be expected, given the prevalance of stagnant, standing water.

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Spidey @ Edge of Time

Spider-Man: Edge of Time

Pasta and Pizza

Pastamania
930 Yishun Avenue 2 #03-01/02
Northpoint Shopping Centre
Singapore 769098

Chicken Bolognese
Waffle Potato with Drink
Pizza Supreme

New Laptop

Sony VAIO 'C' Series VPCCB15FQ
With the demise of my previous laptop, here's the new one in the works for readiness.

Onboard the Bus

The back of the shuttle bus was empty but the front was crowded. Stuck at the entrance, I had no choice but to relentlessly push my way to the back saying out loud "excuse me, excuse me."

The culprit was a guy with an oversized backpack probably housing a laptop and other stuff standing half way in the middle of bus at the exit door. A few passengers and I have to stare at him while I continue to say "excuse me" and added "I am going to the back" before the guy took down his bag to let the passengers move to the rear.

As a constant practitioner wishing to encourage and push people to put into practice acts of social etiquette, I sometimes find it really difficult to forbear such inconsiderate acts.

May all of us, especially those carrying backpacks, always remember we are not alone in our own world and pay attention to the needs of others!

Watching While Waiting

Watching this TVB series on DVD in the meantime
while waiting to get a new laptop which
went dead a few days ago

Signboard

Unless the advertiser is manufacturing living water, I don't think it knows what it is talking about.

Signboard above a closed wooden door
of a corporation at TradeHub 21,
20 Boon Lay Way #01-167

Coins or No Coins

I was rushing to catch a shuttle bus this morning. A woman behind me seem in a hurry, so I let her board the bus first as I was still trying to get my coins ready for the bus fare. On boarding the bus, the woman started digging for coins from her bag, leaving me no choice but to queue behind her as I could not drop my coins in the box with her blocking.

The driver signaled me to bypass the lady, so I got to the side to drop the coins, but because of the awkward position, dropped my coins on the floor. Both of us—the woman and I—ended up apologizing for the delay to all the people behind us who were waiting to board. I then picked up my coins and dropped them into the box while the woman continued to dig.

This is kind of people we encounter every day, people who cannot wait to be first and have no regard for the interest of others. But as for me, I live by a code of conduct following the biblical verse that states:

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. (Philippians 2:3-4 NAS)

Here’s a penny for your thoughts. When you are not ready, will you wait and not rush to get ahead of others?

Fabulous JP Western Lunch

Eatzi Gourmet
SAFRA Yishun Country Club (JP Pepperdine Group)
60 Yishun Ave 4 #01-V2 Singapore 769027

Eatzi Sampler Platter (for two)
Combination of Onion Rings, Spring Rolls, Calamari Rings,
Chicken Pockets and Chicken Drumlets/Wings

Grilled Fillet of Fish with Lemon Butter Sauce

Fresh Lobster Bisque

Dessert n Tea

Happy St Patrick's Day

Wishing All a Blessed and ...


Let's GO GREEN today!

World Invasion — Battle: Los Angeles

Release Date: March 17, 2011
Running Time: 116 minutes
Ratings: G
Genre: Action Sci-Fi Thriller
Cast: Bridget Moynahan, Ramon Rodriguez, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Pena, Aaron Eckhart.
Crew: Director (Jonathan Liebesman), Producer (Jeffrey Chernov, Neal H. Moritz, Ori Marmur), Writers (Christopher Bertolini), Music (Brian Tyler), Cinematography (Lukas Ettli) and Editing (Christian Wagner)
Official Site: http://www.battlela.com

Synopsis: For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world – Buenos Aires, Seoul, France, Germany, China. But in 2011, what were once just sightings will become a terrifying reality when Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world’s great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It’s up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they’ve ever encountered before.

Road Accident

A road accident at junction of Sembawang Way and Admiralty Drive just minutes ago. I think an AC-bus is involved as well.

Cool Animation

My Sea Water Aquarium

Cool Animation from Sevenoak Art.

Hope you like it! (",)

Facing the Boss

I woke up this morning feeling a little depressed over my job situation. I have been having such moods frequently of late ever since the team I was working in was absorbed into another department headed by a lady boss using top-down management style.

The lady boss is a practitioner of every aspect of what we typically learned from management studies in using negative motivational tactics to get staff working in fear following a hierarchical structure. Her personality and disposition is generally fierce, and she constantly breathes down the necks of her staff every weekly department meeting. Words from her are like fire—hot and fiery, and like storm—cold and harsh, filled full with regular reprimands. The way her staff is handled is similar to the way elementary school teachers treat the kids. It is as if every of the staff owes her a living, and any difference in opinions finds trouble for oneself. Few are willing to put their jobs on the line to practice the freedom of speech.

Such is the depressive moods I faced these days, which similar feelings have once faded from my past many years ago. No such negative feelings existed when I began working in this corporation some six years ago. Things have been fairly well with everyone doing their part as a team, working with each other to resolve issues rather than being driven from top-down. When I woke up this morning, however, the first thing that came to mind was the urgent need to calm down and seek God. I knew in my heart there was a verse that express well how I felt and therefore desperately searched for the Bible verse to calm myself and cry out to God. I knew I was already late for work, but felt the need to read the verse I was seeking to express myself, and eventually found it.

Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him For the help of His presence. (Psalm 42:5 NAS)

I then read the entire Psalm 42 and realized the cry in verse 5 ended with the same starting words in verse 11, but with a different ending.

Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God. (Psalm 42:11)

In my desperation I cried out to God. Yes, I shall call upon the Lord and seek His face in my time of difficulty.

Spanish n Portugese Delicacies

Chicken Drumsticks

Barbeque Pork

Spanish Paella

Mussels

Portugese Tarts

HappY Lunar NeW YeaR 2011!

Happy holidays, everyone!
Wishing all of you a Prosperous
and Happy Chinese New Year!

I'll be away from Singapore,
returning February 17, 2011

Pre-CNY Seafood Lunch

Long Beach Seafood Restaurant
Jurong East St 21
Level 3 IMM Building

Chinese New Year
Prosperity Lunch
Salad Prawns, Ngoh Hiong,
Chicken Cubes and Jellyfish

Gift for New Born

Disney's Gold Pendant Gift with
Plush Toy by Poh Heng Jewellery

T-Shirt Collectable

One of my favorite T-shirts ...

Atlantis Submarines @ Oahu, Hawaii

Faith and Livelihood

Many people seem to think if a person is of a particular faith, he or she should do or not do certain things. This is like telling someone to live lives separate from the crowd if one believes in a faith that requires holiness. Such thinking, in my opinion, is unrealistic and very much mistaken because one cannot live a double life or live a life with an alter-ego identity in the real world.

As a former journalist, I used to have to cover entertainment news of and mix around with people in the entertainment circle—people who spend more time at the clubs than in the offices. Even after I have moved to writing more serious stuff, I continue to keep in contact with these people I know from the so-called 'unholy' side of the world. I also maintain a blog and a Facebook profile where I write about and promote entertainment stuff—including things that are primarily focused on women’s interest—as well as keep abreast of what's happening in the entertainment circle.

Recently, while writing on my other blog about things pertaining to my belief and faith, one of the readers, who knew about my entertainment blog and Facebook profile, send me and email. In it, she told me the things I wrote in my entertainment blog and posted at my Facebook profile do not reflect well of my testimony as a believer of the faith. This feedback upset me a little, and in wanting to please and not hurt anyone in the same faith, I did a thorough cleanup to remove some information and pictures of commercial value from my entertainment blog and Facebook profile. Some days after that, seeing no value in continuing with the Facebook profile, I terminated the account.

Now, my entertainment blog contains only stuff like movies’ synopsis, pictures of food dishes and the likes, minus anything specific pertaining to women’s apparels, fashion goods or other similar stuff. Long before this, my blog was a place of happenings where pictures of night spots and entertainment world, beauties and models, along with related advertisements stood out as information and what men and women want.

With the demise of the less serious stuff from the entertainment world and in its aftermath, my thoughts at times wonder whether I have made the right decision. Should one believing in God not live life as the bridge between the real and spiritual worlds? Can one really separate between living a holy life and living a life of commercial worth? How is anyone going to survive by living among the good with no earthly value instead of making a living mixing around with people that provides the bread and butter?

In a sermon I heard years ago, a speaker said if we are so holy to the point of living our lives (ascended) above ground, we are of no earthly worth to human life. I tend to concur on this frame of thinking. If we are not worth much in this world, then we are of little value in bridging the gap to bring people to the spiritual world. Life before death and after is just a thin line between the two and if we have no livelihood in this world, we need not hope to draw people to desire the other.

May all of us realize that life is not one that can be separated between the real and the spiritual world. Both the real and spiritual intertwine to form one life—that which is physical or eternal. We ought therefore to live our lives wisely and not be deceived by people who believe in living life separated one from the other, between the holy and the worldly. The correct way for us to live is to be in the world, yet not of this world, to be among the crowd and unbelievers, yet not going along to participate in sin. Beyond that, believers and unbelievers can live harmoniously to do things together and establish our earthly worth along with the spiritual.

Season of the Witch

Release Date: January 7, 2011
Studio: Relativity Media
Director: Dominic Sena
Screenwriter: Bragi Schut
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore, Robert Sheehan, Claire Foy, Ulrich Thomsen, Stephen Graham, Christopher Lee
Genre: Action, Adventure, Supernatural
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for thematic elements, violence and disturbing content)
Official Website: SeasonoftheWitchmovie.com
Review: 5/10 rating
DVD Review: Not Available
DVD: Not Available
Movie Poster: View here
Production Stills: View here

Plot Summary: Oscar winner Nicolas Cage ("National Treasure," "Ghost Rider") and Ron Perlman ("Hellboy," "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," "Sons of Anarchy") star in this supernatural action adventure about a heroic Crusader and his closest friend who return home after decades of fierce fighting, only to find their world destroyed by the Plague. The church elders, convinced that a girl accused of being a witch is responsible for the devastation, command the two to transport the strange girl to a remote monastery where monks will perform an ancient ritual to rid the land of her curse. They embark on a harrowing, action-filled journey that will test their strength and courage as they discover the girl's dark secret and find themselves battling a terrifyingly powerful force that will determine the fate of the world.

Happy New Year!

Wishing all my Blog Followers and Friends
a Blessed and Fruitful 2011! (",)

Déli Lunch Today

Délifrance
2 Jurong East St 21
IMM Building
Singapore

Chicken mayonnaise croissant sandwich
with Twinings' English breakfast tea

Post-Christmas Lunch

Thai Express
930 Yishun Avenue 2
#02-55/56/57
Northpoint Shopping Centre
Singapore 769098
Green curry chicken set with fried breaded
appetizer and tapioca dessert
Tom yam set with fried beancurd appetizer and tapioca dessert

Christmas Lunch Today

Rendezvous Restaurant
(formerly at Rendezvous Hotel)
The Central #02-72/73,
6 Eu Tong Sen Street,
Singapore 059817
Nasi Padang Christmas lunch with korma chicken,
fried chicken, begedil fried potato and sayur lodeh

Christmas @ Orchard

Mandarin Orchard Singapore





Paragon

Lucky Plaza

Tangs

Hostile Work Environment

Ever since the department I worked in was dissolved after a hostile takeover by another, I have had a hard time adapting to the new top-down management style of my new boss.

Just yesterday, I had an intellectual argument with my new department head (stationed at another country) about the importance of the media when writing press releases and news feature story in an email copied to my new supervisor as well. After several to and fro email correspondences, I decided it should end, so I thanked her and signed off.

All I need now is calm in my heart, and I'm not asking for more. In a few days time, my current new supervisor will be leaving the organization and her position will be replaced by another. My prayer is that everything will turn out fine, but for now, it's wait and see.

Thrilling Ride at Disney World

The sign states ‘WARNING! Tower of Terror is a free-fall type attraction with sudden high-speed ascents and drops through darkness,’ but I did not heed the advice and went ahead with the ride. The consequence was a once in a lifetime experience—a scare of my life—even though to some people it may be fun. That was years ago when I visited the theme park at Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida.

The Tower of Terror is an attraction at the theme park, a thrill ride featuring a visit to a 199 feet tall fictional Hollywood Tower Hotel adapted from the television series ‘The Twilight Zone.’ Upon entering the elevator and going up to the 13th story, a free-fall drop sequence takes place in the dark—with all the guests in it! This drop sequence has changed over the years from one to two drops to a pre-programmed multiple drop sequence, and today randomized drops.

Pre-Christmas Sales

Pre-Christmas Sales @ Causeway Point