mrbrown has a review of the models from Steven Lim's talent page. What?? Steven Lim got morlers now, you say? Yes, I kid you not. And I'm not sure what this world is coming to now.

"Jennifer got what all women wants for assets, good looks n larger than life female assets, plus good natured character."
Larger than life female assets... I mean, how BIG IS SHE? K Cup?

"Helen is a pretty pretty pretty, n figure is slim."
We're missing a noun here, I think.

"Nisa is a natural borne model. She got character, poses naturally n got utmost potential. Great for photo shoots n modeling including bikini & lingerie. Her body is super balanced n nice."
Natural borne? She's a virus? Ah, not only that, she is super balanced. Top and bottom same weight.

Go check out the rest of the review.

Don't know what are the shortcut keys for Google Reader? I just found out today that you just need to hit the "?" key at the Google Reader page, and the list of keyboard shortcuts is displayed on top of the page! Very nice touch. Now there is no reason not to use these shortcuts. They are very useful when you are browsing your feeds on a tiny laptop without a mouse.

Link to Flickr set.

One day I was laughing at Cowboy Caleb's post on the totally langa sub-title on pirated Chinese edition of Spider-man 3, and the next thing I know I came face-to-face with a sales consultant with equally bad English at a car showroom. She was obviously more comfortable with Mandarin, when she said, "You doesn't need to change anyting if you take dis package." So we tried to converse with her in Mandarin, but she insisted in speaking English.

Don't the car distributors make sure that their employees can speak reasonably well in English when they hire them, especially when they are selling European cars? If I'm going to part with more than $70,000, surely I would want to be served by someone whom I can understand and who can explain things clearly to me.

I must be bored (or evil, depending how you want to look at it), because instead of leaving, I actually wanted her to do some break-down of the figures for me. So we sat at a table and while she was doing her calculation (with some difficulty, I must add), I could smell her after-smoke stench and noticed her blood-shot eyes. I almost wanted to ask her: "You chiong until very late last night, ah?"

Of course I didn't ask her that. We thanked her and left, wondering if we could take anymore I-is-You-am English.

Before my knee injury, I was never a gym person. I preferred doing group sports (netball, badminton, tennis, etc.) because it was more fun; because I enjoyed company. The problem was when your friends weren't free, or you couldn't get enough players, or no one wanted to be the organiser, then there wouldn't be a game. Sometimes it could be a month or two before a game was organized.

Since my injury, I have quite enjoyed working out in the gym. You don't need a friend to go with and you don't need any organising work And since I can't play any pivot sports yet, I've been working out 3 times a week - 2 days in the gym on my own, plus a day at the physiotherapy - and I would probably do it more often in due time. I don't think I would do this in the past, but now I have a goal, i.e. to go back to pivot sports by the end of this year, and that can only be achieved by hardwork; no shortcuts.

Here is a nice article from zen habits for people who has always wanted to have an exercise routine but failed halfway for one reason or another.

You’ve probably tried it several times. You’re fed up with your skinny look or overweight body. You decide to finally do something about it. So you take a gym membership. Some friends decide to join you. After a few weeks however, your friends don’t show up anymore. Then you end up alone. And eventually you quit.

Yeah I know, this happens all the time. I’ve seen it over and over again. I know what you’re thinking. How come some people can stick with it and others not? What is their secret?

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