Almost there...

My goal for the month is to blog daily i.e. to hit at least 30 entries and I've almost completed my mission. By the time I close the July 2008 chapter on this blog tomorrow, total entries for the month will be 34.

OK I admit there were a couple of lame entries.. I can’t possibly find enough interesting things to blog about every single day y’know :P

SINGFest 2008

MTV Asia Awards is coming to Genting this Saturday. Just across the southern border, Singapore will be hosting SINGFest this weekend at Fort Canning Park. I knew Travis were on the SINGFest line-up (thanks Yen for the info!) but I had no idea they were headlining the main stage on Saturday August 2nd! Anyone planning to catch the festival this Saturday? Make sure to pack along your brolly cos it's gonna pour when Travis hit the stage and sing "Why Does It Always Rain On Me?" Several years ago when they were headlining practically every major summer festival in the UK and Europe, it rained almost each time the lads started playing that song. I recall at one of the festival I attended, when they were playing in an indoor tent it rained so heavily that the roof started to leak! LOL

Hmm.. I wonder if they're gonna perform in their kilts? :P It's gonna be pretty hot playing outdoor in this weather. The last time when they were in this region playing a joint gig with Coldplay I recall Chris Martin stated that "It's hot as fuck in Singapore"

Travis are playing Bangkok tonight with Simple Plan and will be heading to HK on Thursday before SINGfest on Saturday. Hey guys.. aren't you missing out KL??!

Open X Mayday X Linkin Park

I've been watching this MV on repeat the past week. It's cute :) "Ober Jiang" is so adorable together with the rest of the 7-11 mascots. Aren't Mayday a little too old for this kinda stuff - the MV look like a jingle ad for a kiddies show :P

The band are playing a joint concert with Linkin Park in Shanghai on October 12. How cool is that?? Mayday and Linkin Park on the same stage! I'm sure they're gonna perform Kai Tian Chuang live.. just imagine what will Linkin Park think if they had the full sized Ober Jiang mascots running onstage during the show.. LOL

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN!!

I almost forgot.

Today is Mayday Ryan's birthday. Mr Handsome is turning 35 today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to a really great drummer!!

Portable Guitar Hero

The ever so popular Guitar Hero game is now available on the DS! Guitar Hero addicts who are always on the go can now carry the game with them when they are out and about. Ah my favourite guitar hero [click here to find out who] can now work on improving his skills when he's on the go ^.^

Music Man vs Cowboy Jay

The other day at a cpop forum someone had posted news about Leehom's "Music Man" and I made a passing remark that lead to a Music Man vs Cowboy Jay poll LOL. Some forumers poked fun at Leehom's new Music Man superhero image (someone had the cheek to ask if Leehom is gonna start wearing his underwear outside now..!!) and made comparisons to Cowboy Jay. As silly as Jay may look in a cowboy outfit in his last studio effort, that album won him several GMA.

Now then folks.. Music Man's latest album will be available for pre-order in Taiwan come August 22nd so make sure to reserve your copy at your friendly neighbourhood record store :)

Music Man

vs

Cowboy Jay

The Mummy boxset

This DVD boxset came in the mail yesterday

I had no idea dad was such a big fan of The Mummy till a couple of weeks ago when he asked for my Yesasia password to purchase this The Mummy Collector's DVD set. Dad has been anxiously waiting for it to arrive in the mail - he's been waiting for the postie daily like a hungry lion ready to pounce on his next meal LOL

The box is actually much lighter that I thought and much to my dismay as I had expected a mini photobook or booklet inside :P Dad couldn't have bought this at a better time with the next Mummy movie due to be release in the cinema in 2 weeks time. I hope I have enough time to rerun all 3 movies + all the extras

Amazingly I still have my ticket stub for The Mummy from Odeon Exeter (it's 9 years old!)

Tropic Thunder

This is the one movie I wanna watch next month - Tropic Thunder starring funnyman Ben Stiller, "Ironman" Robert Downey Jr and "Kungfu Panda" Jack Black, scheduled for release in the US on 13 August 2008. The movie has a list of star studded A-list cameos by "Spiderman" Tobey Maguire, Matthew McConaughey, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise (in a bald headpiece and fatsuit - now that I have gotta see!)

Robert Downey Jr plays a black man in the movie!!! His character is a multiple Academy Awards winner Aussie method actor who's gone to great lengths to play an African American and he look so convincingly black that I almost fell off my chair laughing when I watched the trailer LOL

The film is about a group of primadonna actors filming a Vietnam War movie whose fed-up director dumps them in the middle of a real war zone! Looks like another classic Ben Stiller comedy

This video promo for Tropic Thunder is hilarious (in a really sick way):

I like the part where the kid tells Robert Downey Jr "...till The Dark Knight comes out, then you're screwed... Christian Bale will kick your ass" LOL

Guess who?

I chanced on this the other day - it's a certain celebrity's old class picture :) No hints and no prizes for guessing who

I am Open Jiang

The new Mayday song 開天窗 (from the upcoming 7-11 Open Your Heart album) is now out. I wasn't at all impressed on my first listen, but after several repeat it kinda grew on me. Ashin's voice sounds rather raw at the start of the song. It's a very light catchy pop song (love the "la la la la" bridge part!) and it's really cute at the end of the song when Ashin sings "Wo shi Open Jiang" [I am Open Jiang] (though it sounded like "wo shi ober jiang" LOL)

Open小将