The music starts to playstay behind the yellow linea horn heralding battlein exactly one minute's timerelaxed bodies are steeledthe cool air thickensa mixture of tension and adrenalinstaining smart office shirtsand pretty blousesand grimy teesand students' uniformsall waiting for a flash of lighta familiar rumblea streaking of metal and plasticthe opening of the …

It is heartening to see the increasing level of tech-savvy in the area of digital media creation today. Check out a similar vid satirising the ODEX saga that is currently still being played out.All this comes as a direct result of the increased emphasis on DMC in schools today, especially in the polytechnics (I've been to several polys to see their creations). It bodes well …

I've been entertaining thoughts about dying for almost the whole of this week. More specifically, dying sweaty and dirty halfway through the triathlon (in my thoughts, I always pengsan at the running stage).For one, I didn't train much - unless you count carbo-loading, of which I believe I trained much, much harder than the rest of the competitors. Two, I caught the flu bug …

In the aftermath of Mother's Day, we see yet another example of a mother's love. And a big-time loser.A German woman has admitted driving her son to rob a jewellery shop so that she could make sure nothing bad happened to him.Daniela Langer, 36, from Dresden, told a court: "He was determined to do it and I could not talk him out of it, so I offered to drive him there...I was …

We are so used to having computers helping us do our dirty work that we forget that they can be really deadly buggers indeed. A 20-year-old student named Wu from Shanghai found out the hard way, when he was electrocuted to death by his PC. Trying to scrimp on air-con costs, he opened the external casing of the CPU to prevent it from overheating (which, by the way, doesn't …

Beer session on Sunday night with Don and JH at BarBar Black Sheep, and the conversation degenerates into what all drunk men talk about: religion. Amidst all the very deep and insightful points (of course) that the three of us made, one particular question that JH posed has been gnawing at me these past few days: What drives us to continue living? He was conveying the …

You've got to hand it to Dell's marketing team for (expensive) entertainment - they brutally destroy a perfectly good laptop to promote their own Dell Latitude XT tablet PC. Entertainment factor aside, the whole ad doesn't makes sense. Laptops can be sawn in half, so buy the Latitude XP? Huh? Does that mean the Latitude can handle the saw treatment? I doubt so.By the way, the …

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For me, watching a 2-hour ghost movie is worse than a 4-hour KTV session. I've torn countless sleeves belonging to friends unlucky enough to sit next to me at the cinema. Plus I have a two-week recovery period before I can sleep with the lights off again.My point is I'm not exactly John Constantine.But last week I watched this Korean horror movie about doll spirits. It's …

The Hostel Elite(tm)'s Korean steamboat BBQ treat at City Hall marked the 6th (free) buffet meal I've had in the past two weeks. I'll never forget the hostel days, working out at the gym, making friends with all the foreigners, and going through the patented Pakseng judoka training programme. Oh yes, and studying. It seems so long ago now, when we were still students with no …