Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

As 2009 comes to an end - and what a year it has been for me - I came to realize that despite all the challenges, every year has always been better than the last. There's always just so much to be thankful for that all grievances are insignificant. And I do hope that it I'll always have this mentality for the many years I still have left.

A very Merry Christmas to all of you and a very Happy 2010 ahead!

Wire-gra™

My tomato plants were growing up very well on its own until it started doing this.

Before Wire-gra™

Normally a male will be well beyond his fifties before something like this happens. I guess in tomato years, my plant is an old man.

After doing some research and discovering that tomato plants need support, I decided to build something to help it. I also made a mistake when I sowed the seeds, shouldn't have dumped it all in one place. It may look fine now but it will hinder the growth of the plant eventually.

The tricky bit was separating them. The saplings are really fragile and flaccid. Half of them died in the transplantation.

Tomato on Wire-gra™

Ta-daaa! I admit it looks hideous now but I'll do something about it once it grows more substantially.

Kena Tipu -.-"

Two weekends ago at my in-law's place, I noticed on their coffee table a DVD for the movie 2012. Having heard a lot of positive reviews from everyone regarding this blockbuster, my wife and I decided to borrow it.

Now I didn't do much reading up or research on the movie because I was told there was a surprise of some sort. All I knew was that the world was supposed to meet its end soon. So minutes into the movie and encountering some very mediocre CG, we were very accomodating initially (the barber that cut my hair a few days before told me that some of the special effects were quite fake. So..er...this must be the fake parts he was talking about).

Then we started noticing the horrendous acting abilities of the actors. More fake visual effects. Visible studio equipment. I guess the final straw was during a rapture scene.

After some checking, we realized that we'd been duped! Its not the movie we had in mind! Sure, it was still titled 2012 but with an additional 'doomsday' at its back. It seems we were not the only people to have suffered through this movie according to the reviews.

The very offending movie

I guess from now I will check every single movie or read it up before I watch. At least if I had been aware of the director's name this could be avoided in the future.

This feeling of being cheated is worse because it does not involve money. More importantly, that was 1 hour plus of my life totally wasted watching such a terrible movie. My time would have been put to better use had I spent that 1 hour being repeatedly kicked in the nuts by every single member of the New Zealand All Blacks.

Oh it hurts so good

I've learnt my lesson... You know I really wonder which version of the movie my barber watched.

Not Quite Right

Appeton is phasing out their boy mascot... If you walk into any pharmacies you should be able to see a new picture instead of this one.

About time I say... I can't really put my finger on it but I think there's something not quite right with the position of his nipples. Hmm...