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Random Duh moments

Some random duh moments:

SMS duh moment

Burglary duh moment

Walmart automated movie suggestions duh moment (also mentioned in Boing Boing)

TODAY: New Year with the Kids

Latest TODAY column: New Year with the Kids.

Excerpt:

One of the things you get to do on leave is to wake up late. Unless you have kids. We would lie down in bed, lazing, and you can hear from Isaac's room, the door opening and slamming against the wall. My wife would then count down before our door is swung open and slammed against the wall, followed by a spirited "Papa! Mommy!" from the boy.

He has yet to learn how to open doors gently, and the double-slam is his way of announcing his arrival.

browncast: Hossan Leong guests!

The very funny and talented Hossan Leong is our guest for this show!

We chat about his upcoming show called "Do you know the way to Copacabana?", which takes place at West Coast (the Singapore one, not the USA one) Park, on Sunday 8th January 2006, 5pm, a tribute to Barry Manilow and Burt Bacharach. Free one, so please go!

He also shares about his other projects like Army Daze, and gives us an audio tour of his new home.

And in case you did not know by now, Ah Hock in Zhng My Car 4 was played by Hossan himself.

Wah lau eh!

Audio file for the mrbrown show 6 Jan 2006: Hossan Leong guests
(MP3, Filesize: 5.3mb, Time: 00:15:08)

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Technorati tags: singapore, mrbrown, podcast, podcasting

Celeste's Zhnged car found!

If you thought for one moment that Celeste's hot pink Hello Kitty car mentioned in Zhng My Car 3 is a fictional construct, then you is wrong liao.

gulengz even has a pic of what happened after Johnny worked on her behind…

Toa Payoh Lorong 1 market

A few days back, we had breakfast at the Toa Payoh Lorong 1 market, home to incredible food.

This is the Teochew Handmade Pau shop, where they sell bite-sized mini char siew paus. I can eat six at a go.

The wife had the famous wanton mee, and their great suey kao (shrimp dumplings), and Isaac and I had the famous 135 fishball noodles. Mom had the sliced fish beehoon. All good.

The drinks stall (with the rainbow sign) sells a wide variety of drinks from Tau Huay (soya bean) to water chestnut and my fave, sour plum.

I believe there is also a famous Hokkien mee stall here.

Before we left, we bought some pau, and also some muffins from Bliss Kitchen, a shop manned by a yandao hemsem dude who looks like a better-looking version of Sylvester Sim. They are having a buy 5 get 1 free muffin offer at the moment. Yum.

browncast: zhng my car 4

Johnny needs to Zhng His Face because he needs to look the part now that he is a famous TV show personality. So he seeks the expert of his Sticker Designer, Ah Hock (seen here on the right), so that he can look like his idol, Benedict Goh!

Audio file for the mrbrown show 4 Jan 2006: zhng my car 4
(MP3, Filesize: 5.8mb, Time: 00:16:34)

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Technorati tags: singapore, mrbrown, podcast, podcasting

Chicken Feet also must Foreign Talent one

Update: jonography has more pics of The King!

The guy behind me asks "Elvis" the famous bak cho mee (minced pork noodle) hawker if there is any Chicken Feet on sale today.

"Not today, they don't have the Chicken Feet from 巴西 (Brazil) so I don't make. Those are bigger and fatter. They tried to supply me the skinny ones from [Some Unnamed Northern Neighbouring Country] but I dowan.

"It takes me one hour just to fry the legs," he continues, "And the skinny ones just cannot make it. In fact, eat already got poison one.

"Boy, you want what ah?" he turns to ask me.

"Mee kia neng wa," I reply (Boy?), ordering two bowls of skinny noodles for Dad and me.

"Mee kia jit wa, mee poh jit wa eh sai bo?" "Elvis" asks, because he only has enough skinny noodles for one bowl, but still has lots of the thick flat kind.

"Ya, can," I say.

I very flexible one, noodle thin or thick kind, local or overseas kind, also can. As long as he throws in his famous spicy-soup.

I wonder if Brazil Chicken Legs need work permit to come here.

Golden Peanuts to start your Chinese New Year!

The Chinese New Year decorations are being sold now at your friendly neighbourhood provision shops and look what I found! Peanuts that the regular folk like us can afford!

Blessed 2006!

It's a New Year, I just made some new friends a few hours ago, and now I am home with my kids and wife. It is a good start. The kids are asleep and my wife and I just enjoyed some nice fireworks from our kitchen window.

May your 2006 be a blessed one.