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Yesterday, Mocca orgainzed the Full Throttle Carnival at the National Stadium Car Park G in front of the Leisure Park. Admission is FREE.

During the carnival, Mediacorp Christopher Lee and the FHM Queens will wipe clean your car windscreens, you can play go karting and you can sit on Harley Davidsons with the FHM Race Queens!

Plus, you got a chance to win a brand new Suzuki Swift luck draw!

I saw the advertisement on the TV so many times last week and the strange and funny thing is:

why didn’t I go?

p.s: Will Mocca organize another similar car carnival?

Let’s keep a watchout.

History of Singapore

How did a tiny island of about 4 million people transform from a fishing village in 1965 with no natural resources to become one of the richest city in southeast asia within 43 years?

How did we do it?

Attached is the youtube video of the history of singapore from discovery channel.

It is a refreshing look at the history of singapore presented by discovery channel from a different angle. It really make history come back to alive.

Singapore has today success is not by luck. It is by designed.

http://www.yueminjun.com/index.html

One of the leading figure of the Chinese “Cynical Realist” movement is Yue Minjun.

His master pieces of self-portrait symoblic smile paintings and sculpture are gaining international recognition.

In 2007, his art works were displayed at the Singapore Contemporary Asian Art Fair.

One of his painting “Massacre of Chios’ was sold at Hong Kong Sotheby’s for close to $4.1 million !

Songs For Lovers By Shunza

This album is a compilation of some of the greatest love ballads like “Smooth Operator”, “Bizarre Love Triangle”, “My Funny Valentine” and many others.

I still remember that rainy night when I hear her songs from the local radio while I was driving. Her “velvet” voice mesmerizes me and I went to buy her album the next day.

It is really romantic to listen to her songs while you are driving at night especially rainy days.

Unlike other pop idols who perform in front of screaming fans, her concerts are more initimate and cocktail style. In 1999, she was hailed as the Best Female Singer and Best Composer at the 10th Golden Melody Awards.

Recently, I was watching the taiwanese variety show - Big Brother ( 綜藝大哥大) and one of their highlights is the puppet opera. I used to think that puppet opera is already outdated in singapore and less appealing to young people nowadays but after I watched the show I was so impressed how the taiwanese people able to turn the traditional puppet opera into such an interesting and exciting performance. This demostrated that traditional arts can still be very attractive and popular with modern lifestyle if you know how to re-market them.

p.s: I really missed the Taiwanese delicious street food, their vibrant night market and their friendly people. I hope I can go there again and to see their puppet opera performance in live.

bruce lee - 李小龍

Bruce Lee was born in the Year of Dragon (1940) and is one of Asia most influential martial art icon. Born in America and raised in Hong Kong, he is committed to spread the kung fu philosophy to the whole world. His trademark of his yellowsuit, classical fighting style and his “wooo…” “ai ta…” voice pitch leave a deep impression in many fans worldwide. He died at the age of 32 years old. He has 2 children, Brandon Lee and Shannon Lee.

Attached is a footage of his movie “Game of Death”.

Synopsis

Disco Fever is sweeping across the globe.

One soul however, remains untouched by it: Hock your average bored and frustrated twenty-something, whose little world is inhabited by not much more than his dead-end job, his overbearing parents and his equally aimless friends. HOCk seeks solace in Bruce Lee films, fantasies of owning the hottest and fatest motorbike that money can buy.

Then one fateful night, HOCK gets bitten by the disco bug and from then on there is no turning back.

He undergoes a dramatic transformation, and his obsession leads him to enter a disco dancing competition. With the prize money, HOCK would finally be able to buy his dream bike. He starts taking dance lessons together with MEI, his childhood friend.

Things seem to be going his way until he meets JULIE, a girl from the other side of the tracks. Everything then begins to get complicated for HOCK and as more and more obstacles start mounting up, his little world starts to fall apart around him…

But with a little help from an unlikely Guardian Angel, HOCK is about to embark on a journey that will change his life forever.

Source: http://www.beyond.com.au

Dear Customers,

The Morris Minor a.k.a “The Greeny Horn” has been sent to the repair workshop for overhaul servicing.

It will not come back for the time being.

Any inconvenience caused is deeply regretted.

I will update all of you once it has come home.

Thank You for your continue support.

Yours Sincerely,

Dexter Eng.

P.S: I will on leave from 18 Oct 08 to 25 Oct 08. In the meantime, you can still email me and I will attend all your emails when I come back from holiday.

Recently, the movie “Herbie: Fully Loaded” was telecast in Channel 5. I have watched the movie before but when I watched it again on TV it always make me giggle and fascinated by herbie adventures and misfortunes.

Just in life, there is always be ups and downs and you just have to learn to get over it to live happily.

I have attached the trailer here from Youtube.

Hope you enjoy too!

FYI: The budget for the movie is $50 million and the gross revenue was around $144 million. That is close to 3 times more!