At the AHM...

In case you haven't heard...

Captain dies in race; second such fatality this year
JUST last month, Captain Ho Si Qiu finished a creditable 23rd out of 1,369 runners at the 10-kilometre Saucony-100Plus Passion Run here.
Yesterday morning, the 25-year-old platoon commander from the Officer Cadet School took on a bigger challenge — the 21-km Singapore Bay Run, also known as the Safra Sheares Bridge Run & Army Half Marathon 2007.
But as he crossed the finishing line at 7am, about one and a half hours after the race started, CPT Ho collapsed and stopped breathing.
Medics attended to him within 30 seconds. At the medical post, an intubation was performed and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, was carried out immediately, but no heart rhythm was detected.
But CPT Ho failed to respond and was sent to the Singapore General Hospital hospital. He was pronounced dead at 8.07am. Police have classified the case as unnatural death and are investigating.
CPT Ho's death is the second sudden death from running this year — the first athlete who died was 17-year-old Thaddeus Cheong in June, just after crossing the finishing line at a national triathlon selection trial for this year's SEA Games.
Organisers of yesterday's run, which is into its 16th year, said measures were in place to ensure the safety of the record 70,000 participants, an increase of 5,000 from last year. There were 13 medic points set up and over 100 medical personnel deployed.
Said a spokesman for Safra: "During registration, we advised participants to hydrate during race day, give their bodies adequate recovery time during training, give the bodies a complete rest before the actual race and take fluids at each of our water points.
"They were also advised not to take part if they feel unwell."
Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, the Community Development, Youth and Sports Minister, who participated in the run, along with Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean said last night he was saddened by CPT Ho's death.
But he felt that the organisers had taken all possible safety measures.
Said Dr Balakrishnan: "As I was running, I noticed there were many ambulances, medical teams and medical equipment. This was one event in which the SAF, I believe, took every effort to make sure the medical cover was present, was available and was able to move into action immediately.
"At the finish line, he (Captain Ho) was treated by a full medical team, including a doctor. So at this time, it appears that what measures could be taken, were taken."
This latest casualty comes at a time when the National Sports Safety Committee is due to release its report to the Singapore Sports Council (SSC).
The 12 member committee is fine-tuning the report to ensure all areas of safety are covered and best measures are implemented.
The MCYS is also studying a preliminary report that has been submitted by the National Sports Safety Committee and is discussing the findings with relevant sports associations.
The SSC has stepped up safety training for their staff, as more Singaporeans participate in sorting events.
SSC chief executive officer Oon Jin Teik said: " Safety is a mindset and practice that everyone must be aware of. Every participant, every organisation should understand that every accident is preventable.
"It is very unfortunate the fatalities are happening. But, we shouldn't be frightened by the situation."
The upcoming proposals, he added, will improve the safety aspects further.
Meanwhile, Dr Jason Chia, the medical director for next weekend's Aviva Singapore Ironman 70.3 Triathlon is not leaving anything to chance.
There will be adequate medical equipment and safety staff on stand-by.
But Dr Chia stressed the need for participants to go through screening before strenuous activities like triathlons and biathlons.
"Athletes must take safety and their medical condition seriously. While adequate training is important, they must get themselves checked out with a pre-race screening," he said. "Some symptoms may not be recognised easily and that's the importance of the screening. They must take the risk involved seriously."

Safety officer: Anybody not feeling well???

Chasers War on Everything

Les Barker Poems: Forward to 2:22

AHM Details

In case you're running AHM with Josh and I, here are the details..

The 16th Singapore Bay Run - SAFRA Sheares Bridge Run and Army Half Marathon 2007 will be held on Sunday, 26 August 2007, from 5.30am to 11am.

Public and participants can come for the event via the following ways:
By Taxi - Alight along South Bridge Road, Raffles Blvd, or at Raffles City taxi stand, or in front of One Raffles Link and walk to Esplanade Drive.

By Car - Park at the nearby Marina Square, Raffles City, or Suntec City carparks. Public are advised not to park at the Esplanade Carpark as the roads leading to it will be closed to traffic. For alternative routes to get to event venue or access to Marina Bay area, please visit the event website: www.safra.sg/sbr.

MRT - Alight at Raffles Place or City Hall MRT Stations and walk to Esplanade Drive.

Public Buses - The Bus Services available are No. 10, 14, 16, 30, 36, 56, 57, 100, 111, 131, 133 and 196. Please note that the bus services may divert from their normal route during event day due to the road closure. Public are advised to visit the SBS Transit website http://www.sbstransit.com.sg/ for updates.

Flag-off Time
21km Army Half Marathon 5.30am
12km SAFRA Sheares Bridge Run 7.00am
12km Corporate Team Challenge (Team of 3) 7.00am
12km SAFRA Sheares Bridge Run 7.15am
6km SAFRA Sheares Bridge Run 8.00am

Speaking bout' Shyte.....

wannabe photographer who know's he's in for shyte

oh ya, and i signed up for the stan chart too.

yes i'm laughing hard on the inside, though my face may be grim.

but it's a different kind of laughter.

it's a kind of sad ...snicker.

hmm...

actually it's not even a laugh at all...

oh by grimlock's scales...what have i done....

the wannabe photographer

yeah let's keep things going since we seem to be having one of those contemplative moments, minus the wah rauz checkers game and tranformorons videos.

Well here i am sitting in my room at sex thirty on a friday morn. As most of you would know this is pretty normal for me cos well..it is. no reason for that, i used t say it was cos of the "flexible" time of the job as a photographer, but it's not that. i guess it's just nicer when it's quieter for a while.

Work has been well, crummy honestly. Since i graduated with the amazingly good results i received from OOOOOklahoma, i've been trying to somehow carve a career out of something that well was just second nature i guess. For the record, photogaphy is NOT my passion. I do of course enjoy the job to some degree, but it's not a lightning bolts, fields of corn with the wind blowing as we run gingerly through the plantation kinda thing for me. It's still work and the images you get to take to get paid as a noob cameraman (as most pple refer to me as) tend to be pretty boring and tasteless.

It's taken it's toll on my days. I've been finding it more difficult to get up to get work done. If there was work in the first place. A couple of jobs here and there make my work life seem somewhat lucrative, and though i tell most pple i'm doing good and all is well, it isn't. I'm honestly looking into possibly giving up my freelance lifestyle for something a bit more 9-5. It's a sad thing for me though i know that i am blessed to have had the fortune of living the way i have for this year or so. I guess maybe it's time to realise i can't just keep in my comfort zone. Once i've tied down a couple of loose ends i'll probably start looking for my new job.

On the flip side, our dear cockenaden has finally decided to actually get a demo tape up with me. Though i think most of you guys already know, jason and i would hopefully be able to get some original stuff recorded before the end of october. It's gonna be tough and it's been pretty hard work for the both of us, but i'm sure it'll be heard somewhere. Whether it ends up being some bubblegum pop kinda tune you can't shrug off is not really my concern at this point. Now that is something to look forward to i guess. We'll keep you posted.

And yes like i've said to many others when we get rich and famous, we'll all meet up at my club, jason's church, glenn's yacht, youwen's 15-seater tank, ding's penang kway teow factory, leon's bootcamp for ladies, joshua's water balas facility thingy, fat cat's techoarchi theme park, kd's food palace(s), barney's heart-shaped waterbed that sleeps 5, fai's hospital-zilla-dilla-the-dance-floor-killa or maybe even wai's newly proclaimed country called gordon............... for some vitasoy and shaw pool chicken rice. Wouldn't that be nice?

let's work our asses off so we can live like we were 15 once again. =)

cheers to all my brothers.


now i'm gonna sleep.

It's not over til it's over!

Ppl with too much time on their hands... but cool, nonetheless! ;-)

The Penang Dingo

Yeaps, me have graduated. Together with Youwen, Joshua, Jinyuan & JC (but he's studying more. The mad fella). I got a degree in Mech. No honours. But i'm not sorry, i probably learnt more than those fellas who got first class. I just didn't like some subjects, and i'm not studying for grades am I. Moreover, that's it for studying! NO MOoooore.

Job-wise, I'm working in Penang now in my Dad's manufacturing company. What's good about my situation now? It's my dad's company, so i'm a super whitehorse. I'm on an accelerated learning course, and should be able to learn enuf to run the place in about.. 5 years? I'm stuck in Penang, so I can focus more on work.
Downside? It's fucking penang. It's malaysia. Everyone here speaks hokkien or malay. Kinda like army direct intake. Damn jialat. Try talking about engineering terms in those languages. It's not even funny man! And that's just the language problems. There's also the lack of people to talk to over here. You can't exactly go out and chill w friends cos...there ain't any here! *sigh* It gets to you after a while.

That's it for what I'm doing now! It's probz not gonna change for another 2 years or so. Maybe after that then I'll be considering marriage. Who else is btw?

Anyway, MARATHON!! For those who don't know.. we're joining the Standard Chartered together this year! Who's joining? Who's not? Please post yeah?
I'm preparing a running singlet w some ACS design or something ok? It should cost around $30 for one..

The Penguin Downunder

Hey everyone. Wow.... it's been hack of a long time since i've placed up any posts or anything with regards to myself. Be it pictures... or the video of joshua "man handling" lay kiat in Glenn's apartment that i have yet to post up. I will do so soon. Hopefully within the coming week.

Currently still in Sydney doing mech engin, will be done in 1.5 years. That's if nothing goes wrong and I hopefully do not fail anything. Our dear Mr. Wong Ju Cheng has arrived too. So the number of chaps here have raised up to 3. Great to see another one of us in Sydney. That's prolly just the general update in a nutshell. By the way, who will be coming down for a holiday?

Standard Chartered Full Marathon! hope that none of you guys who said they were gonna run is gonna back out now... hahaha. Ding! are you gonna come up with a shirt? That'll be really cool. And I better start training now. Or i'm gonna be screwed big time like last time round. haahaha.. and running with an injured ankle isn't fun. Don't try it. Unless you're a sadist. like... joshua!

I'll be back on the 24th of November. Just a few days shy of the full marathon. And 18 days after the marathon will be Jason's wedding. Hope by then all the kinks will be ironed out of sorts. Well Wishes to Jason and Shi'en again. =). I may or may not be doing internship at the end of the year. But if i'm not, i'll be able to help out abit more if need be.

That's the update for the moment from me.

Dr Ching Boon Chye

This is the place where he's working Waiz. I know him personally, so if there's anything i can do......

man and machine

gi joe transformers

this done by dream wave.

pretty cool series.

too bad it only made the 1st arc, then went flop on the 2nd arc, which judging by this cover looks pretty promising. but in the end.

the company (dream wave) went bankrupt and now is taken over by idw.

we can see some faces from the movie itself yeah, and some old gi joe friends. yo joe!

we got visual

arial view of where most of us came from in terms of national service.

pulau tekong

remember the days troopers!

State of Mine

So I've recently read that the Chacaltaya glaciers in Bolivia are melting away like ice cubes on hot tarmac. The perpetrator is a current political key phrase, Global you-know-what. The consequence other than the lost of a winter ski getaway for some may result in the lost of a freshwater reserve and hydroelectric power source that is potentially catastrophic to the people living in the valleys below. Bolivia is South America’s poorest nation, landlocked with its people generally surviving with less than USD$1 a day. How then could it be possibly fair for these people to be the unknowing and unfortunate whipping boy for the industrial nations? Its like waking up one morning to the sound of a wrecking ball plough through your apartment because the landlord couldn’t pay his bills, because that amounts to the same thing here. That then brings us nicely to the current state of affairs.

The current world we live in is a much more dynamic place than the one that our fathers and their father’s father inherited. A big bowl of possibilities and consequences consisting of many parallel worlds that would in some magnificent way be made to blend or collide into coherency or obliteration if we so choose. And therein lies the catch 22, as WC pointed out, no matter what we choose to do or not, time marches on. Can we really change the future that is already happening? Can we really put a finger or figure wherein the point of no return lies? Can we in some way make a real difference? All are hard questions with no easy answers. Or are we asking the wrong questions?

So having come full circle and ending up nowhere. I congratulate you for coming thus far.

Update: Wai-Chung

hey fellas..

i know this was probably due waaaaaaaay long ago, but i thought i'd update everyone about the going-ons in land of Wai(kiki).. i just thought it'd be great to hear from everyone again, like what's happening blah blah.. maybe this'll kickstart a few more posts from some of us MIA-ers.. or maybe it won't. Or hey, if those of u in Sg who have been meeting up often wanna post an update of yerself, feel free.. even if it's blatently obvious and last year's news.. stuff that some of us foreign correspondents maybe don't hear about immediately... like jason getting married (?!)...

so, here goes.

ok, first off.. sorry for not being in touch that much these past 4 years.. yep, it's been that long. still remember the circumstances that i left singapore.. and i recall how blatently misguided my perspectives were then. not to say i'm all that wiser now (altho i've just joined the 1/4 century club), but that's another story for another time. point is, when i left for perth back then, i had this really infantile (read: stupid) idea of a life experiment to test assumptions about friendships and relationships i've made in my life. it was quite retarded, and 'damn egotistical' too (thanks Joshua for that verbal punch in the arm, i still have that email). in short, i realised how much of an ass i've been and now i'm going to put aside all attempts to be macho or whatever and say 'sorry'.

sorry.

i guess we all were young, idealistic and clueless at least once in our life. for some like me, more than once. i can't say i'm out of that stage, but i've had time to think. yep, reality is, life moves on and we can't expect things to remain in utopia forever. just gotta take life as it goes and adapt. so here i am.

right, basically, my life in uni these 4 years has been great.. met lots of people from all over the world.. studied stuff that i never imagined i'd sink my teeth into.. travelled to places and saw sights. i actually enjoyed studying back then.. i say 'back then' cos this last honours year for me has been hell.. i'm currently fighting to complete my thesis due end of August.. not that my topic isn't interesting or do-able.. it's just that things often happen in your life that distract you from what you're supposed to be doing and the trick is to be disciplined to keep focussed. stuff like, oh, managing people-to-people ties, relationships or near-relationships etc.. and so, i'm having a hard time now catching up on lost time and getting this last piece of academic writing outta my life.

and yeah, for those of you who didn't know, my mum was diagnosed with 3rd stage breast cancer in february last year. i thank God cos even after going through all the therapy, her health has been remarkably good considering the severity of the cancer. currently, she's still able to go to work and is still very much active in church. but obviously, this episode has changed my family's as well as my own perspective of life and how we treat each other. so i'm looking forward to heading home for good after i complete this final few weeks of studying.. i've been away from family and friends for too long.. so you can look at this as my 'homecoming' rant..

alright, that's all from me right now.. hear from any one of you soon.

Wai-Chung

Heh heh...

Damn I love youtube...

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Stupid Men

posted by seow.

THE BEST COMEBACK LINE EVER

Marine Corps General Reinwald was interviewed on the radio and you'll love his reply to the lady who interviewed him concerning guns and children. Regardless of how you feel about gun laws you gotta love this!!!! This is one of the best comeback lines of all time.

It is a portion of National Public Radio (NPR) interview between a female broadcaster and US Marine Corps General Reinwald who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military installation.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: So, General Reinwald, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?

GENERAL REINWALD: We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery, and shooting.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it?

GENERAL REINWALD: I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle range.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?

GENERAL REINWALD: I don't see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER: But you're equipping them to become violent killers.

GENERAL REINWALD: Well, Ma'am, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you're not one, are you?

The radio went silent and the interview ended. You gotta love the Marines!

Decisions Decisions...

hey all!

this is a notice to all those who *might* be able to join us on a mini holiday from the 10th - 13th of July (Tues - Sat). Since it's really such a short trip, Samui has been voted out of the picture. Jason can tell us more about that when he gets back from his honeymoon! These are the places which we're now planning to go.

First up, BALI!

"The word paradise is used a lot in Bali, and not without reason. The combination of friendly, hospitable people, a magnificently visual culture infused with spirituality and (not least) spectacular beaches with great surfing and diving have made Bali Indonesia's unparalleled number one tourist attraction. Eighty percent of international visitors to Indonesia visit Bali and Bali alone."


Now, the main aim of the bali trip would be to SURF! But of course, the things you can do there are comparable to Samui... So, it's definately worth considering. Cost: Hotel might working up to $25/person/night. (assuming 4 of us make it) Airfare: ~$300.




Secondly, we have Mount Kinabalu!

"Mount Kinabalu is South-East Asia's tallest mountain. You can climb to the top of Low's Peak (4,095.2m above sea level) but the height of the mountain is often given as 4,101m. Mount Kinabalu is known to be one of the most accessible in the world. No specialized mountain climbing skills are required to ascend it. However, how much one enjoys the climb depends strongly on how fit you are and how well you acclimatise to the thin air at the higher levels. Nevertheless, the mountain can be a dangerous place, especially during the rain or when there is mist. On average, every year one person gets into severe difficulty out of the estimated 20,000 people who attempt the climb. The higher slopes can be very slippery when it rains and dense fog reduces visibility to a few feet."

Trekking up to the peak of Mt Kinabalu should be fun! Camping style, out in the wild, yah da yah da.. You get the picture. Think army times in Mt Biang, and you should be itching to go! Cost: Airfare ~$400. Climbing permit: RM$100. Hotels: No fu**ing idea. But you get the picture. It would be more expensive than bali, but potentially more fulfilling.

So then, let me know SOON please!

Letter of the Day

Leon's kinda thing

Do you have this comic Leon? Seems pretty your kind of thing. And Garth Ennis wrote Constantine, so the storyline should be pretty good!

Singapore bands getting more recognition overseas and at home

Monday June 18, 9:17 PM

SINGAPORE: Singapore bands have been getting more recognition overseas and at home in the past decade.

Some have even been selected to perform at major international music festivals. But generally, more are venturing from the garage to recording studios to put out an album for sale.

Nonetheless, many still find it challenging to break into the mainstream, dominated by American and British bands.

Sixteen homegrown bands rocked over a 12-hour concert – the first-ever held as part of the Singapore Arts Festival. Such gigs have increased over the years and helped raised the profiles of many Singapore bands and musicians.

Saiful Idris, Musician, The Great Spy Experiment, said: "Avenues like the internet portals 'MySpace' has helped a lot. Radio stations are definitely more willing to play local music now. Even MTV has come on board. So the support is there."

Edward Neubronner, CEO, Recording Industry Association of Singapore, said: "It's not unheard of for local bands to have a fan base of 2,000 people. 2,000 may be small but it’s very good for Singapore. These youths actually see the music they play as niche music that is not only fun, but it also gives them a sort of identity. We have more and more young people who feel that way."
Unlike many of the Southeast Asian countries where local bands are very much part of local mainstream music, Singapore bands are usually part of the indie scene.

A majority of musicians here are playing music part-time, managing their bands on their own and doing everything from producing music to marketing. It is mainly through gigs that they are able to reach out to an audience. The bands earn their keep from ad-hoc performances, getting between S$500 and S$3,000.

Bands like The Great Spy Experiment put their earnings into producing an album, which costs about S$40,000. Much of it is spent on making sure the album sounds as good as those that are released internationally.

The band is also in the midst of discussing a distribution deal with a record label. Saiful Idris said: "We all grew up listening to all these foreign bands. Now there's more interest in local bands, which is good. But in terms of finding the definitive Singaporean sound, it's still quite a challenge. For me, the way we try to do this is through the lyrics and the subject."
Neubronner said: "A lot of local artists and bands get pretty good recognition from local establishments. Not enough, but I think a lot more than 10 or 20 years ago."

And that is reason enough for many Singapore bands to play on.

There is hope for KD...

Monday June 18, 8:46 AM

SingTel unit gets funding for Australian broadband plan

SINGAPORE/MELBOURNE, June 18 (Reuters) - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. said on Monday its Optus unit has secured A$958 million ($807 million) in funding from the Australian government for its broadband joint-venture.

The joint venture with Futuris Corp Ltd. unit Elders will build new networks to extend broadband coverage to rural and regional areas. The government funding comprises A$600 million from the previously announced Broadband Connect Infrastructure Programme and an additional A$358 million in funding to further extend high-speed affordable broadband services to rural areas, a joint statement from Optus and Elders said.

The government funding is a blow to larger rival Telstra Corp. Ltd. , which also hoped to win some of the infrastructure grants to extend rural broadband coverage.

Under pressure in an election year, the Australian government is expected to set up a review panel soon to examine building a separate, high-speed fibre optic broadband network, which will be put to an open tender.

Australia's existing broadband network is slow compared with other nations, but a stalemate between Telstra and the industry regulator over pricing has delayed plans to build a fibre network. ($1=1.187 Australian Dollar)

New Zealand, bloody beautiful!

This is where i went for my grad trip. The place is gorgeous! But it's not for the faint hearted. If you like mountains / scenary / sheep / hiking / camping / physical activities / adventure / more sheep / lots and lots of sheep / lots and lots of mountains too, then NZ is puuurfect.


One of the mountains that we climbed to the top! Bloody took 2 hours!

We could have taken a helicopter to the top of the snow-capped mountains to ski! bloody ex though...

Best bloody steak in the world. Imagine melting in your mouth! In fact, best bloody fish&chips, lamb chops, calamari, salads, pizzas etc etc.

Haha, this is my picture of the trip. Nuff said. =)

Amazing that places like these exist sia.

Michael Schwartz, The Prize of Iraqi Oil

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=192709

Best fight scene ever

Oldman in dublin

Oldman here is the pic you wanted

This one's for the bird...

Penguin in warhammer 40,000 space marine armour?...

Penal Code Amendment

Honestly, what do you think of this topic? From your point of view, christian or otherwise.

Straits Times, April 5, 2007
PROPOSED CHANGES TO PENAL CODE
By K.C. Vijayan

Turning to sexual offences - in particular, Section 377 of the Penal Code, which deals with sexual acts ‘against the order of nature’ - the society said the MHA’s proposal to retain homosexuality as an offence in Section 377A ‘cannot be justified’.

It described the retention as ‘out of step with legal norms in the modern law’.

The society stressed that it was not arguing that homosexuality is morally acceptable, and said a ’significant minority’ wanted the provision to remain, but the majority view prevailed.
The MHA’s approach is that homosexuality is not widely accepted here. Having said that, the ministry has said it will not be ‘proactive’ in enforcing this law against consensual acts that take place in private.

But the society sees this as an admission that the section is ‘out-of-step’ and ‘runs the risk of bringing the law into disrepute’. It suggests a complete review, and a new chapter in the Penal Code on sexual offences.

The society, expressing its gratitude that the MHA consulted both the public and it, also urged that a commission be set up to review the reforms.

Contacted yesterday, an MHA spokesman said all views received were being studied

After much diggin' away

IKEA's our home, we live there.














Ding's in our home, bad ding! Now put the precious valuables down slowly and there will be no trouble..










Dingy lingy's beautyful fridge.













Let go of your anger young markwalker...

When we were getting high on 'when we were getting high'

Memories part 1

Unbelieveable photos... Were we ever that young?

More to come soon! If you're laughing at jason... wait til you see yours! =)

Hal Higdon's MARATHON GUIDE!

Read on the weep guys... This is the training schedule that we should be following... Don't follow this, and i GUARANTEE you that the marathon day will be very very painful....... (like all my marathons, cos i don't follow it, heh...)

PEOPLE DIFFER GREATLY IN ABILITY, but ideally before starting a marathon program, you should have been running about a year. You should be able to comfortably run distances between 3 and 6 miles. You should be training 3-5 days a week, averaging 15-25 miles a week. You should have run an occasional 5-K or 10-K race. It is possible to run a marathon with less of a training base (particularly if you come from another sport), but the higher your fitness level, the easier this 18-week program will be.

Read the whole training program!

Marathon singlet?

Hey doods... i was thinking of making a singlet for us to run in for the marathon in dec..

No inspiration rite now though... any ideas? Or do you think it's a waste of effort?

bring em

this one's for barney, where ever he may be.

come back soon, so that the party dosen't die.

you'll be missed....

Makan japunese?

So what has ding have installed.. congrats to all who're joining the workforce!

destination...

so here's our destination.

study the maps, let the memories flow in.

gear yourselves up.

this is were we'll be in june.

see ya at the beach

Hmm....

The first barker boy to get married.....we wish triple shine best of luck.

feeling safe yet?

DEAL OR NO DEAL!

In case you don't know... this is the gameshow that MARK'S gonna take part in! haha... This is a good episode man... inspiration!

But oh man.. check out the tension in the video!

Full Moon Party on Koh Phangan

There are about 10,000-20,000 people every month at this Koh Phangan beach party. It is known as the Full Moon Party. International and Thai DJ's are making the crowd go wild. Paint yourself in UV colors and let your body lose control. The DJ's play all kinds of music; techno, trance, goa, drum n' bass, dub, reggae, "commercial hits", house etc on about 15 soundsystems along Haad Rin beach. There are also many small tables on the beach where you can sit down with your friends or meet new ones from all parts of the globe. You can order drinks and food from the restaurants and the bars next to the Had Rin Nok beach.

Where? On Had Rin Nok beach, on the South-East of Koh Phangan island in the Suratthani province, Thailand.

When? At every full moon. Please check the schedule below.

Schedule IMPORTANT! We are not the organizers of the event. Some of the dates below might be incorrect. Dates might change if there is a Buddhist holiday at full moon. Please check with a travel agency in Thailand.

Approximated dates
2007
Jan Feb Mar Apr May May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov

3 3 3 2 2 31 29 31 28 26 26 24


What is going on? Don't waste your time on the Fullmoon Party if you don't like to meet people from all over the world. There are thousands of happy guys and gals dancing to pumping beats on a "paradise" beach in the moonlight. Or sit in the sand at small tables with some friends and cheer a "Thai whiskey set" with local spririts like Meakong or Sang Som If you prefer beer, try a cold Thai beer such as Singha, Beer Chang, Kloster etc. There are often other beer brands such as Heineken, Tiger, Corona etc. available on many of the bars and restaurants and of course a number of non-alcoholic alternatives like fruit juices, fruit shakes and soft drinks. If you are into dancing, do not forget to drink enough water so you won't end up dehydrated. Delicious Thai traditional food as well as pasta, pizza, burgers, salads, soups etc. is found in the restaurants and at food stalls. Prices are often very reasonable. ATM machines, accepting most credit cards and debit cards as VISA, Mastercard (Maestro/Cirrus) etc. are available close to the beach. Also a few money exchange officies (mini banks) are found here, so if you use a card, you do not have to bring a lot of cash to the party.

virginia wildcats

how bout this for a face mask? actually it's an eye mask.

the game played in the picture is lacrosse

not an easy game as one has to catch the ball with the "head" of the lacrosse stick. almost like an extension of one's arm.

but the mask does look pretty cool though. can use it for other sports maybe. eventhough it's considered the female's version of a face mask. the mens version is full face.

but hey, who's keeping score.

plus, the chicks do look kinda fit

Some say....

Why We Love Our Anime.

Belfast as explained by captain planet

Brasseye Paedogeddon

The Trojan

What your friendly law enforcer might be wearing in the near future.

500 impressions in three minutes

then and now

can you guess who this character is?

many years ago, cole cash was a memember of team 7, io's (international operations) elite special forces team.

one of their missions resulted in the team obtaining gen factor.

eventually the team disbanded and cole cash was solo before joining the wild cats (covert action teams).

he's known as grifter.

notice he retains his symbol around his eye area. the other members of team 7 have their own symbols.

i especially like the drawing of cole cash. the amount of gear he has plastered on him. can only make one awe.

some people feel that cole's middle should be hard. there is no record that he has a middle name.

bring it on

whose got the bigger guns?

looks alike a pretty cool transformers cover