Surfing Youtube (So You Don't Have To): Part 2

This guy is not half bad:

I think he's come up with all the lyrics by himself! And the cat is a must have!

If you youtube 'Goldentusk' you can check out his other videos where he basically sings the theme to every famous movie theme ever! Check out his Jaws one as well!

Enjoy!

Surfing Youtube (So You Don't Have To): Part 1

Today, I'm going to be taking a break from the Love series. I know that some of my readers are going through exams right now and that probably means that you have less time to search through the millions of videos in finding that right one.

So I present a new series from today called Surfing Youtube (So You Don't Have To) where I will post up some of my favourite Youtube clips which you can stream and then follow the links to see what else they have.

One of my favourite things to look for in Youtube are acapella groups. This is by far one of the most entertaining groups all the way from BYU (Brigham Young University) in Utah. And just to prove that it's no fluke:

Okay, now that you've had your ten minutes of relaxation... back to the books!

McLovin

Okay, so this one isn't an entry for the competition. But they're just having so much fun that they decided to come up with a prequel.

An amazingly shot short movie, and the directing, filming and editing crew deserves huge credit for this one!

And although I don't want to admit it, my urhhh.... brother.... urrrhhh... is.... urrrhhhhh... g....urrRH....g...goo....URRHHH....good in this one! Hear his voice resonate in your head long after the McDonald's sign disappears!

And no, Hong Yi is not suffering from a Big Mac related problem. Like all good tragic Korean dramas, there's an underlying fatal medical condition in one of them.

Ah, star crossed lovers and a Big Mac!

Tissue boxes at hand? Enjoy!

Love Truths No. 6: Alternate Endings

I could have met you in a sandbox, I could have passed you on a sidewalk,
Could I have missed my chance, and watched you walk away?

- john mayer, love song for no one.

We used to go on these wonderful night trips to restaurants on Sunday nights. The whole family would pack into Pa's hand operated car and then take a slow drive to our destination. Radio 4 and its host of evening deejays would play the classic favourites, as we sat in silence and allowed the music to carry us.

"So tell me, Pa," I broke the silence one evening. "Was there someone else before Mum?"

Pa smiled, and he hesitated for only the slightest moment before saying, "Yeah, there was this one girl who I liked."

"I would cycle to her place and then stand outside her house and call her name. Her Dad would then come out, this angry looking bah-gger. I would walk into her house and then she would come to sit in the living room with me."

"The bah-gger of a father would just sit in the corner and then stare at me as if I was going to steal something from the house."

"Of course, it didn't last very long lah with the father like that. Man, if I came to the house in a car instead of a bicycle, the bah-gger wouldn't have been sitting there in that corner watching me like a hawk. Hahaha!"

Pa can afford to end with a laugh now in a way he couldn't have all those years ago.
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One day we were cleaning up the house when we stumbled upon a card that was addressed to Mum. It had flowers in the front, and had yellowed with age. The writing was in Mandarin and indecipherable to us, but we showed it to Mum and she decoded it with a sigh.

"He used to like me, you know," Mum said. "He was from my Form Six class, and he used to like me a lot. Too bad I was such a shy girl and I didn't know how to respond to him."

"He went off to study in London and then stayed on there to work I think."

"Things could have been so different," she said wistfully. Her whole life unfolded before her in her mind's eye, here this instant - If only I had said yes, if only he were a bit more forward, I wonder what London would have been like, I wonder what he would have been like - and gone the next.

She closes the card again, and with it, whole alternate universes are destroyed.

"Well, at least you have us three wonderful children," we console her cheekily, inflating ourselves in the process.

"Yes, I do," she smiles.
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The possibility of an alternative love story is a reminder that the life we are leading is only one of a myriad of possible lives and it is the impossibility of leading them all that plunges us into sadness. - alain de botton, essays in love.

Ba Dap Bap Bup Bum....

Big Mac: $3.45

Fake breathing mask: $ 4.95

Watching my brother cry on Youtube for all the world to see: Priceless

There are some things in life that money can't buy. For everything else, you should watch the clip!

This is my brother and Hong Yi's entry into the Big Mac Chant competition, where the winners walk away with RM 10,000! (That's almost six hundred Big Macs here in Australia!)

Please follow the link here to vote for them! Competition closes May 28 so thanks for all your votes!

And if they win, I will personally record my brother crying the tears of joy!

Happy Birthday to Moo!

In case you really wanted this decorative homepiece that will be the talk of your friends, it's available at cowdepot.com

Happy birthday little sis! We are really thankful to have you in our lives, and we love you a lot! I know that you're going through 'character building' times right now but just remember the passion in you for people and medicine that started it all in the first place!

Although you have your occasional "moo"d swings, you're always ready to laugh things off or make us go "Whaat!" or burst out laughing with your interesting out-from-nowhere statements!

We love you and we are proud of you, lil' sis! Happy birthday! *cow hugs*

The Girl Who Wore Nice Skirts: Part 4

He remembers getting a yo-yo once and it was all the craze in the house. It was bright yellow and it made a loud whirring noise and lit up when spun. His brother was learning to 'walk the dog' and do a 'round the world' while he was still struggling to even spin the silly thing.

She watched from afar, feigning disinterest, but secretly she badly wanted to play it as well.

She approached him in the master bedroom one day while he had the yo-yo in hand.

"Ko ko ah?" she purred.

He straightened up, all his defenses to the fore. They had never used titles in this house, always calling each other by name. She wants something, his eyes narrowed.

"Ko ko ah?" she repeated. "Can I pleaaasseee have the yo-yo?" she said in her sweetest voice.

"Awww...." his defenses lowered quietly, giving in to her sweetness. He slowly hands over the yo-yo to her, his heart melting for all the wonderful things that she was to him, this little angel who sang songs to herself, the girl who would give him free random hugs, his sister who he loved and would have given the worl...

"Thank you sucker! Hahahaha!" She screams victorious as she grabs the yo-yo and her tiny feet scurries away cheekily out of the bedroom before he could react.

He stands there, stunned, incredulous, his hand now yo-yoless. His melted heart solidifies and it is now furiously pumping all the blood to his head and screaming for him to give chase to this little monkey who had cheated his emotions and swindled his yo-yo.

But a little smile creeps along the corners of his mouth even as he tries to suppress the laughter of his own foolishness and the deviousness of his little sister.

His feet starts to react in mock chase but he knows she had an unbeatable head start. His grin widens even as he hears her slamming the door to her room and locking it, her relieved laughter resonating behind the impenetrable door.

She was victorious, and he couldn't love her any more than he did at that very moment.

Happy birthday, little sis!

Love Truths No. 5: A Little World Of Our Own

Congratulations. Now that you have succesfully entered into a relationship, you will head one of two ways:-

i) You still hang out with your friends and you start being part of each other's circle of friends. You get along well with each other's friends and are enriched by the experience. He trusts you to hang out with your guy friends and you trust him to hang out with his girl friends, even on a one-on-one situation.

This is the healthy, mature outcome to a relationship.

The truth is, most relationships will unfortunately go through, or worse, be stuck here in

ii)
Bubble Land. Man, this looks like something out of a seventies porn movie. I tried looking for a better picture, but I couldn't find one.

Bubble Land.

The Cantonese term for Bubble Land is quite descriptive - 'leong ko yan ke sai kai' - literally, two people's world.

It feels to you like there's only the two of you in this world, and little by little, you build your world that way. You begin excluding your friends - calling or meeting up with them less and less or only when you're arguing with your partner, or, even more gagworthy is the need to include your partner in everything including those annoying 5 Things You Didn't Know About Me tag e-mail thingies:

1) What is your favourite colour?
Blue, because they're the colour of my boyfriends' eyes.
(Retch.)

2) If there was anywhere you could be in the world, where would you go?
Anywhere my boyfriend is.
(Nausea.)

3) If you had to choose between Brad Pitt, Tony Leung and Cristiano Ronaldo, who would you pick?
My boyfriend.
(Really? Now I have to vomit.)

4) Name your favourite song.
'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt. It is our song.
('You're Gross.' 'You're Disgusting', even.)

5) If you were stranded on a desert island, who would you bring with you?
My boyfriend, my boyfriend, my boyfriend.
(I'm sorry. My stomach is completely empty. I can't puke any... *bleaarrgghh!* Well, apparently I can.)
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The problem with Bubble Land is what happens when it bursts.

If you have, over the course of your love lifetime, neglected your friends and family, devoting your life only to him/her, then you will find that once the bubble bursts (ie. the break up), you've suddenly got nowhere to turn and no one to turn to.

Your self-imposed exile will mean now that you would have walked out from one prison into another.

So please, while it is beautiful inside this world for two, remember to keep in touch with your friends and do things normally with other people as well. It's healthy for the relationship and for you, ultimately.

And really, I can only vomit so muc.. *bleaaarrghh!*

Happy Mother's Day!

To Mum,

Who has taught me love, sympathy for the less fortunate, forgiving and forgetting, but most importantly, who taught me how not to take life too seriously - Happy Mother's Day!

I love you, Mum!