Bits and Pieces
Friday, June 20, 2008
It's the weekend. Don't feel like doing long, long paragraphs. So here.
- Finished reading Michael Ruhlman's Soul of a Chef and Chelsea Handler's My Horizontal Life. Liked them both in their own way.
- Nuffnang's having a Hancock screening in a couple of weeks. As usual if you want to go: First, you have to be a Nuffnanger (check); two, you have to do a blog post titled, "Not Your Average Superhero" and send them the link of the post and some other stuff. Anyways, not going lah - unless there's a third Men in Black movie or something.
- The follow up to Stephen Fry's memoir (Moab is My Washpot) is due in fall 2010. Woo hoo!
- After 5 years, PPS has more interesting shit. Though not so sorry that I've not checked in more often over the last few years because I've not found out if they've automatic pinging like Technorati. Manually pinging blows, especially for lazy buggers like myself.
- Check this blog out - Malaysianisms, something along the lines of Stuff White People Like.
- Weird Singapore canned drinks Anything and Whatever made their Malaysia entrance. So far only available at 7-Eleven (RM1.80 a can) and Jusco supermarkets (RM 9.30 for a carton of 6 cans, which is pretty freaking expensive). Have to give them props for the marketing gimmick of not labelling the flavour on the outside so you get them not knowing what you'll end up with. So far I've had orange fizzy and jasmine green tea. Bought two more cans of each after work today - just hope they'll be something different.
- Changed the favicon with some help from this article (which took me a little while to decipher). Been itching to do this particular hack for years but thought impossible because none of the free online storage sites do .ico files (I've checked). Now I find out it doesn't have to be the case: just follow the instructions, and voilà, you don't have the orange Blogger favicon anymore! Or you can try this site (which creates and hosts created favicons) and let me know what you think.
- Travis is coming down to Singapore (Fort Canning) for SINGfest on August 2, which I just realised is the same day as the MTV Asia Awards in Genting. Damn shrewd these Singaporeans - first they steal Death Cab for Cutie from us, and now this too?! HOW CAN?!
Labels: reading, reminder to self, whaddaya know...
