1. Remember Rudolph, who was having a bit of a head tilt situation? Well, he seems to have perfectly recovered, so I’m superbly pleased about that – looks like he won’t be dying after all! Phew.

2. After what seems to be my longest semester ever, it finally ended with a week of studying and two gruelling exams that were filled with more smoke than the Singapore weather.

3. Went to Malacca last weekend which was beaauutifulll and amazing and fun which I may blog about if I don’t get too lazy.

4. Singaporeans nearly declared war on Indonesia. Just kidding.

5. I updated my other website, after a month of neglecting it. (Why do I have it in the first place?!)

6. Found out that Tim’s father is freaking hilarious. On the one box limit per name for N95 masks, he said: “You could put down ‘Batman’ or your dead family members’ names on the list for all they know. Imagine all the pontianaks flying around with masks on their faces.”

7. Got my own N95 mask, thanks to Tim, who got enough masks for my whole family even (thank you!)

8. Participated in my first act of cyber bullying (I am so sorry!) and indirectly ruined someone’s day (I am not sorry!)

9. Wrote my most popular post yet! My post on How to Make Jokes About the SG Haze got my blog an all-time high of 1232 views in a day and, as of now, has been read by 3303 people – and the numbers are still climbing! So thank you for thinking I am funny, or at least, the post was. And thanks to the people who shared it on twitter and facebook (I wish there was a way to know who shares our blog posts)! I did share the post on my own feeds but that only got me like 100 views or even less? The rest was really done through google search and other people’s facebook/twitter. Oh and of course, the people in the WordPress community who reblogged, commented and linked! Super appreciative, guys!

Okay I’m talking too much about it and it has become a bit of a humble brag (ack!) so I shall stop now.

10. Here’s a gif of Rudolph cleaning his face.

Hello everyone! I’ve just gotten back from my trip to the UK and it was super fun! I think my family made it like super funny – I’ve got a whole list of mental quotes I’m dying to talk about but I can’t because, well, they kind of rate 100 on the Inappropriate Scale of 1-10. LOL

But the trip itself was amazing. We spent two days in London: the first on a city tour of the usual works, St Paul’s Cathedral, Tower of London, a ride on the London Eye, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, the Thames River etc; and the second shopping on Oxford Street and touring a museum – I believe it was the V&A.

Apparently it’s summer over there. But the temperature was like 14C. LUCKILY we checked before heading over, else we’d have gone with like sun dresses and shorts because we, being Singaporeans, think that Summer is all like

14 degrees is like freaking antartica for me LOL. But it’s okay! We were okay! The heatwave hit the day before we left though.. so that was kind of unlucky for us. But oh well.

We headed north after London, visiting Bath, Stone Henge, Cambridge, followed by Lake District, Edinburgh and York. None of which were at all disappointing. Each area was just so beautiful and full of history which blew my whole family away because you don’t get that in Singapore! Okay you do, but not as much.

And they were all (apart from London) so blissfully spacious! No squeezing with people on the streets or having sticky arms brush against mine *shudders*. Super awesome.

I don’t have many pictures, obviously, because I never really do take a lot of photos. I have maybe like 12 photos in my phone and that’s only because Tim begged me to take photos for him LOL.

It’s strange but I just believe in being in the moment rather than looking through your camera lens all the time and worrying about whether your photos are going to turn out nice. I mean, some photos for memories sake are good and all but I just don’t think we should overdo the whole phototaking thing. But that’s just me.

Oh not to mention that I suck at taking photos. They always turn out too dark for some reason.

But here they are anyway!

Westminster Abbey London

London Bridge is falling down… I’m not even sure if this really is THE London Bridge. I think it is.

View from my hotel in London. Can you believe this is at 10pm? Insane!

Stone Henge Bitches!

Mum and dad at Lake District

Quack Quack at Lake District

Mehhh Mehhhh at Lake District – and everywhere else in the UK.

Nice building in Edinburgh (I think)

This is helpful..

Lol-worthy products in Edinburgh

Bizarre shops in Edinburgh

Beautiful street off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. Wonderfully quirky shops here!

Okay that’s all I took up until Edinburgh! This is why I am never the official photographer for the family. I’m more concerned about funny stuff than I am about proper pictures LOL.

Here are the photos I took on the way back to London. We stopped by York

Taking the Scenic Route back!

Gothic Cathedral under construction from the historic City Wall

Beautiful Hotel by the City Wall in York

Time Traveler’s Meeting at a pub in York

Baby Owl!!!

LOOK! IT’S HEDWIG!

Yo, whatchu lookin’ at, fool?

That’s all!!

OOH I got a pic of me in my new shades that I got from Oxford Street though!

Yayy crappy front camera~

Okay that’s really it! Bye y’all!

Today I woke up at 3.30pm. Talk about severe jetlag. Let’s hope I wake up in time for my lunch appointment tomorrow *bites nails*

But anyway, I was nominated for two of those wordpress awards where bloggers sort of nominate their fav blogs by other people. It’s a brilliant initiative to sort of increase hits and show appreciation for other bloggers who really put in effort to maintain their blogs well and I’m super grateful to Angela and Dr Fuzz for nominating me for the Liebster Award and Super Sweet Blogging Award respectively )

I’m just going to cover both of them real quick, and nominate just a couple of other bloggers for the Liebster Award because I don’t really have the time to find 11 for Liebster and 13 for the Super Sweet thanks to my waking up at 3.30pm T.T

So here we go!

Super Sweet Blogging Award

Answer the five super sweet questions

• Cookies or Cake? Both?  Cake!
• Chocolate or Vanilla?  Chocolate. ALWAYS.
• Favorite Sweet Treat? Depends on my cravings for the day. But I almost never say no to yummy brownies or chocolate lava cakes!
• When Do You Crave Sweet Things The Most? All. the. time.
• Sweet Nick Name? What? Is my name not sweet enough?

Include the Super Sweet Blogging Award in my blog post

I made my own because I felt that this version of “sweet” suits me a lot more than like cookies and cakes.

Tadah!!

Liebster Award

11 Random Facts About Myself

I’m going to put 11 facts that I think most people don’t know about, just to keep things interesting.

1. I used to do ballet up until my early teens, and I have a Grade 5 distinction cert to prove it hehe
2. I didn’t always want to be a journalist, I sort of fell into it really. My original ambitions were to be a doctor, or an SIA stewardess.
3. Even though I seem to be more of a dog person right now, I used to play with cats that lived around my block all the time when I was in primary school – to the point of bringing some home when my parents weren’t around to give them milk and just like chill LOL.
4. I have no birth marks on my body at all. Pock marks plenty, though.
5. Apparently I was conceived in London.
6. I spent a few months in Seattle when I was an infant. I’d like to think that made me the ang moh pai that I am today. But no, not really. I remember nothing of Seattle.
7. Sometimes I think in mandarin (DON’T LAUGH) although I can’t fucking speak it properly to save my life.
8. I’m a baptised catholic but am more agnostic, really.
9. This is no secret, but I hate pretentious people. Stop acting like you’re better than you are, people! Remember: “You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. We’re all singing, all dancing crap of the world.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
10. I have moved like 5 times in my life.
11. My room is in a mess right now and I’m really scared my mum’s going to pop in any moment. Obviously, I’ve run out of facts to put in here.

 
11 Questions from the person who nominated me

1. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? And why?
I would say Norway, even though I’ve not been there but I heard it’s amazing from anyone who has. It’s not too crowded, everyone’s nice there, and I heard the weather is great! But if I had to choose somewhere I have been in, I would probably say Wuhan, China. Because the people there are not as uncouth as some other places in China, I speak the language (although poorly), and I really enjoyed my time there! I wouldn’t know what job I could find there though. Oh well!

2. If you could be any historical figure who would you be? And why?
No one. I don’t want to be anyone important.

3. What is your greatest regret?
Getting into relationships so early in my life.

4. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?
Probably my confidence level. Like sometimes I’m superbly insecure about certain things and other times I shoot all the way up and get all egoistic about others. It’d be nice to reach a nice balance of humility.

5. Which six people famous people (dead or living) would you invite to a dinner party and why you have chosen them?
Amy Winehouse, Russell Brand, Steve Carrell, Tina Fey, Don Draper – I mean Jon Hamm and BRITNEY SPEARS.

Because they’re awesome.

6. What do you worry about most of all?
Not making the most out of life before dying.

7. Tell me about your favourite book.
I have plenty of books I love but one book that I can’t get out of my head is Flower in the Attic by Virginia Andrews. It’s just the most haunting, painful piece of work I’ve ever read. And scary to know that something like that could be true.

8. Do you believe in a particular cause? Care to elaborate?
I believe in plenty – environmental issues, animal welfare, eradication of stupidity etc etc. But mostly I like to mind my own business and do what little I can rather than do a lot of talking about it and accomplish nothing.

9. Why do you write?
Because I’m paid to do it? But otherwise, it offers a nice distraction and release when I’m feeling particularly emotional.

10. If you could be any animal what would it be and why?
I would be a rabbit. Because rabbits are fat and adorable. And they die of heart attacks before getting eaten by predators which is a lot better than getting eaten alive. And rabbits are adorable.

11. Do you ever think you might have lived before?
Yes. Probably as a rabbit.

 
11 Questions for my nominees

1. Do you think you’re living the life you want?
2. If you could change anything in your life what would it be?
3. Would you want to live life over again? If so, what would you change from your past?
4. What would you want written on your gravestone?
5. Hugest idol everrrr?
6. Brains or beauty? You can’t choose both. And if you choose brains, remember that you might look like utterly deformed. You may not even be able to walk. And if you choose beauty, you’d have an IQ of like 90.
7. On that note, which do you think is more important, IQ or EQ? Once again you can’t say “oh they’re both equally important” Make a stand!
8. What is your meaning of life?
9. How would you like to go? Death in sleep is not an option.
10. Tell me a joke. Like a really really good one.
11. Erm I’m out of questions so.. Tell me a joke? A really really bad one?

 
Here are the lucky nominees for the Liebster Award:

http://dishbydish.net/

http://somethingboutrenes.wordpress.com/

http://pinkpostcards.wordpress.com/

http://thedrinkingmarket.wordpress.com/

http://wordsbecomesuperfluous.com/

http://confessionsofaphonesexoperator.wordpress.com/

http://straplesslittleblackdress.wordpress.com

 
You guys are awesome for various reasons but to have me actually read your blogs regularly is really amazing because I have an attention span of like negative 50.

 
Here are the rules you guys need to follow:

• Thank the person who nominated you and include a link back to their blog.
• List 11 random facts about yourself.
• Answer the 11 questions given to you.
• Create 11 questions for the bloggers you nominate.
• Choose 11 bloggers with 200 or fewer followers to nominate and include links to their blogs.
• Go to each bloggers’ page and let them know you have nominated them.

Or don’t. I don’t really care LOL.

If you thought Skins Fire was going to bring us some closure to the lives of Effy, Naomi and Emily, you might be a bit disappointed.

Sure, the premiere of this seventh season of Skins picks up a couple of years where season four left off. Effy has left her demons – and memories of Cook and Freddie apparently – behind and is now working at a trading firm serving up coffee and sneaking smoke breaks with some new friends, namely Dom the infatuated and Jane the seriously plain.

But rather than bringing Effy’s story to a close, the series opens up new questions (no spoilers here) about this new tiger print knee-length dress-wearing twenty-something.

Effy trades in her mini skirts and skimpy wear for knee-length work wear.

Not that it’s a bad thing. Skins has always had a penchant for portraying the grit of real life, and it’s only apt that this new season would do the same thing – how often do we get closure in life only for new wounds to open up?

Now that our favourite characters have hit twenty, Effy is no longer interested in drugs, sex and alcohol – not entirely anyway. She’s young, she’s ambitious and she wants in on trading millions of dollars worth of investments.

But underneath her new wardrobe, Effy Stonem is still the same – a girl who doesn’t give a fuck and does what she wants. And as always, she chooses to lose herself in a glitzy fantasy world rather than face the painful reality – even if her bestfriend is dying of cancer.

And as usual, there’s a price to pay for her hedonism. The last time, Freddie paid the ultimate price for her. This time, though, she pays her own price, in a different way, which displays a new maturity in the cat-eyed brunette, something we’d never have seen in her in the previous seasons.

Underneath her brand new wardrobe, Effy Stonem is still the same teen we knew who does what she wants.

It’s rather disconcerting to see the kids we once loved and cried with acting all mature against a corporate backdrop, but perhaps it was precisely the intention of creators Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain to juxtapose these rather damaged characters against the cold, clean-looking corporate world.

The result is a feeling of discomfort watching these characters in a new environment, which perhaps mirrors the discomfort they feel themselves.

Naomi, on the other hand, is now a stand-up comedian hopeful and Effy’s one link to her old life – the constant to compare against Effy’s fast changing life.

The blonde hair we know from season three and four is replaced with a dirty brown and she is basically the same as she was before when she was on the cusp of losing Emily – smoking pot, drinking copious amounts of booze and being a bit of an idiot. Emily is still around, though, except working in New York City, which is perhaps the reason Naomi is a bit off again.

Emily and Naomi are still happily in love

I was a bit surprised that Naomi’s life didn’t turn out well – I always thought Naomi would do best in life out of Generation 2, though, seeing that she usually had a firm head on her shoulders, did really well for her A’s and seemed a little more sane than the others. At least, when she wasn’t worried about losing Emily.

Episode one bordered on boring, I felt. Too much talking and focus on the mundane – we don’t want to know about the intricacies of how trading works and etc. We just want to see the characters getting down and dirty (not necessarily sexually), because, well, it’s skins and our main character is a magnet for the illegal.

Thankfully,the second episode fared a lot better, probably since all the boring plot build up bits were dealt with in the first.

The contrast between Effy’s sparkling trader’s life and her old drug-pilled one was more pronounced, and snippets of the old Effy began to emerge. There is the sex, of course, but instead of getting her high from drugs and alcohol, she’s getting it from watching her stocks climb and cash coming in.

And everything sort of makes sense. Of course, Effy would start an affair with her boss: it’s a very typical thing for the femme fatale in her to do. And of course, she’d find a fast track to making money – at the expense of a boy’s feelings at that. Like I said, our main character is a magnet for the illegal – and breaking boys’ hearts.

It was in episode two that the familiar rawness and grit of the old Skins really shone through. The sins were more typical of those in the working world but the issues no less real – and that’s precisely the heart and soul of Skins that made it so popular in the first place.

I thought it was great that the creators had kept Naomi around to bring some kind of balance to Effy’s story. And that they kept the typical Skins notion of how everything may seem fine and glittery and beautiful – but nothing comes easy in this world, and there is always hell to pay.

The introduction of Victoria, played by Lara Pulver (from Sherlock) was a nice touch as well. Made up to an uncanny resemblance to Effy, Victoria was essentially Effy’s future: they both were ambitious, intelligent, beautiful and determined. Which in a way brought a different sort of closure to Effy’s story – that Effy was looking at her own future, and may make the option of going that way or, if she so wished, another.

Lara Pulver as a future version of Effy.

Of Skins Generations 1 and 2, I was most interested in how the lives of Cassie and Cook played out, so I’m a lot more excited for Skins Pure and Skins Rise. But I must say that Episode Two was a fantastic throwback into the world of Skins, and it was kind of emotional to see Effy, Naomi and Emily a bit older and dealing with more grown up issues, much as I am too :/

As usual, the series – or the story, rather – ends with a rather melancholic note. But this time, there is no sense of ambiguity and the last shot is a significant one: Effy’s smile – without a hint of her usual mystery.

Was it a good round-up to Effy’s life? I wasn’t entirely happy with the way it panned out – mostly because I felt a bit sad at the outcome and not because the story sucked (it didn’t) – but old fans might appreciate seeing how the characters fared in the adult world. We spent our teens with these kids, so entering adulthood with them seems rather fitting too.

“You know, she was four years old the first time she beat me at hide and seek. Four. I was looking for her for hours. When I finally found her she just smiled. You know, that Effy smile that means “you don’t know me at all, you never will”. See that’s a kind of magic. She’s so good at concealing things, hiding, avoiding.”

So we all know… Miley Cyrus’s latest video, We Can’t Stop is pretty fucking bizarre. We’ve got people dancing with giant teddy bears strapped to their backs, french fry skulls that later get smashed, and Miley Cyrus twerking and smacking people’s arses, including her own. It’s completely what-the-fuck.

Don’t get me wrong. I love the song. It’s super catchy and the lyrics aren’t half bad (judging by the standards of songs that come on the radio these days). But let’s just say the video goes beyond artsy and into Lady Gaga’s level of RANDOM THINGS RANDOM THINGS WOOHOO MAGIC!

So here are 14 bizarre things on the video that made me lol in my head so hard I think my brain’s hemorrhaging from the impact against my skull.

By the way, if you were hoping for an artsy sort of interpretation from the video, I found this article.

This is my favourite bit:

When asked about the critics who have called the clip racy, Miley replied,”They haven’t been to a good party in a minute. I was excited when the song came out but I really wanted the music video to come out because it shows exactly where I was in my life when we started working on ‘We Can’t Stop.’ “

1. Miley Cyrus putting on grills.

We now know that Miley Cyrus is a fan of hip hop culture. MAYBE THAT EXPLAINS THE TWERKING.

2. Some dude eating a money sandwich

“Money! Bread! Omnomnomnomnomnomnomnom”

3. Weird lollipop eating girl who painted her lipstick on wrong.

“Is this my mouth? I can’t tell, my lipstick’s all wonky”

4. Dude with two tongues

I don’t have a funny caption here, this shit is just motherfucking creepy.

5. Bubblegum pink gunk spilling out of fingers that are being mock-sliced off with a very very sharp looking knife.

“Whoa I’m totally tripping on having my fingers cut off man. Look at all this pink gunk-like blood!”

6. Dancing Teddy Bears

I actually don’t really find this very bizarre but I felt like it was a required addition to this post because it’s one of the more memorable ones. I think. Lol.

7. Freaky magic mirror white face freak thingy

“It’s our party we can love who we want.
We can kiss who we want.
We can see who we want.”

Okay I’m not sure WHY this guy freaks me out so much. But it seriously fucking does. He reminds me a bit of the magic mirror in Shrek except like 500 million billion gazillion times more fucking freaky. Like he’ll pop out of your screen and eat your fucking face while you scream, after which he’ll just be like “It’s our party we can eat who we want.” in that freaky as fuck voice.

8. Miley Cyrus Twerking

No. Just… No.

9. Miley Cyrus smacking herself in the ass while working out on a stationary bicycle.

I don’t even.

10. Miley Cyrus making out with a doll of herself.

No caption necessary.

11. Smoke gusting out of people’s crotches.

Sorry, Katy Perry still wins with her fireworks/whipped cream spouting breasts.

12. Some guy sucking his thumb on a skimpily clad girl.

Dude, why are you sucking your thumb? There’re a whole lot of other things 10cm from your face to suck on. #justsaying.

13. Some guy rubbing his face with bread and eating it.

“Man I love bread. If only I had some cash to go with it…”

14. Miley Cyrus getting her head stepped on.

This was the only one that I took the trouble of converting into a gif.

Drum roll please. It’s worth the wait.

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… That was a good waste of my Sunday night.

In fact, I was so bored I actually counted how many times Miley Cyrus stuck out her tongue in the video. I got up to 10. But it felt like so much more…

“HAVE YOU NOT SEEN MY TONGUE YET!?!?!”

 
Did you also know that her tongue is actually a clam?

Really:

Courtesy of Buzzfeed.

Please enjoy the video:

When travelling, most of your time spent is in the car or tour bus or whatever because you’d want to maximise the amount of time spent in any country by going to see as many places as possible – which is exactly what happened when I was in the UK.

So most of the time what happens is that you get really bored because you will definitely run out of things to do. So how else do I keep myself occupied than by annoying my younger sister? 1. She can’t hit me (it goes against all our Chinese values) 2. It’s funny when she get exasperated.

Just a sidenote, for some reason the radio stations we were listening to kept playing the same songs over and over again so the conversations about the songs are bound to happen. So this is what happens..

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*Pink’s Give Me a Reason comes on*

Me: “Is it written in the stars or scars?”

Sister: “She says ‘stars’ once, and ‘scars’ another.”

Me: “Oh. So it’s written twice? In the stars and scars?”

Sister: *pause* “Okay it’s IN the stars and WRITTEN in the scars.”

Me: “So it’s there twice.”

Sister: “No it’s IN the stars and WRITTEN in the scars.”

Me: “Okay..”

*pause*

Me: “So what’s the ‘it’ she’s talking about?”

*pause*

Me: “Hello can you hear me?”

Sister (who I think has been driven slightly mad at this point): “WAIT. WAIT. I’m listening to the chorus- *starts singing loudly* ‘in the scars on our hearts THAT WE’RE NOT BROKEN JUST BENT AND WE CANT LEARN TO LOVE AGAIN.’ — THAT’S WHAT’S WRITTEN.”

Me: “You mean that’s what’s in the stars and written in the scars?”

I’m pretty sure at this point she was going to punch me.

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*Taylor Swift’s Everything has changed comes on for the millionth time*

Sister: I really like this song!

Me: What’s this song?

Sister: Everything Has Changed? She’s been singing that line over and over again.

Me: Really? It sounded like she was singing “Everything’s the same.” See, listen.

I then went on to sing really loudly over the radio “EVERYTHING’S. THE SAME.”

Sister: *confused face*

and then..

Sister: I hate you.

1. Watching Khal Drogo crash the Game of Thrones panel session at Comic-Con 2013 made two things hurt – my face because I was smiling so hard especially at Emilia Clarke going “MY SUN AND STARS”, and my heart because it is a reminder of HOW HE IS DEAD AND THE WORLD FELT LIKE A BIG BLACK HOLE WHEN HE WAS IN THAT BLACK MAGIFIED COMATOSED STATE. Oh god the feels.

Watch their touching reunion here.

2. I twitch every day that I don’t watch an episode of Community. And the fact that I have to wait MONTHS for the next episode is KILLING ME. I’m also very upset by Donald Glover going part-time. Like. Like. Like. Isn’t that the most selfish thing ever? What’s gonna happen to Abed? *blank* and Abed in the morning? THAT’S RIDICULOUS.

3. Emmy Award Nominations ACTUALLY REALLY AFFECT ME. I am insanely happy that most of the TV shows I love like Mad Men, Game of Thrones, 30 Rock, Modern Family etc were nominated for so many awards. But I was like really really really upset about The Office not getting nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series. I mean like. HELLO. SEASON 9 WAS AMAZING CONSIDERING THAT THERE WAS NO MICHAEL SCOTT AND IT WAS THEIR LAST SEASON EVER IT WAS AMAZING OMG. And Rainn Wilson and Jenna Fischer not getting nominated for anything? BLASPHEMY!!!!!

Not giving them a major award is like saying that it sucked as much as season 8 of  How I Met Your Mother did. Because erm. Have you seen both shows?! Incomparable. And on that note, yeah as a fan of HIMYM for so many years, the latest season was like a massive disappointment. Not even Neil Patrick Harris could save it this time LOL.

4. Even though I spend like an ungodly amount of time watching TV shows – more than most people at least – I always feel like I’ve not watched enough. Like they’re just so many unwatched shows that I’ve left untouched. But I have this stupid fucking thing, where I get really upset when I watch something unsatisfactory – much like watching How I Met Your Mother’s season 8. So I do this thing where I choose to watch the same shows over and over again instead of watching new ones because I know I won’t be disappointed. Which I honestly think is kind of insane.

5. I get really upset when shows get cancelled. Even if it’s show that was aired long ago and I only just got to watch it. For e.g., Pushing Daisies. I reached the end of Season 2 only to realise that it was cancelled and I’ll never get to see awesome new episodes of it again and relive the awesomeness that it oozes. Instead, I got a very sad, rushed series finale and tied up all the loose ends haphazardly… I can’t go on. It’s too painful.

6. It kills me when I see a gif/quote from a show I watch and I don’t remember where it’s from. For e.g., the gif above me when Abed says very seriously “Six seasons and a movie” because I’m very sure that Abed said it in episode 21 of season 2, which was the mock flashback episode, where they kept flashing back to past events, as so many TV series do, except that instead of using old shots from previous episodes, they actually filmed new shots of situations that we, the fans, had never seen before. And one of those shots was of Abed doing a re-enaction of The Cape, and he knocks over Jeff’s tray in the cafeteria and Jeff’s like “THE SHOW’S GONNA LAST THREE WEEKS” and Abed yells back “SIX SEASONS AND MOVIE”.

7. Jokes with pop culture references make me REALLY laugh. Hard. It makes me feel special. Like I feel like I’m in a special club where only a certain amount of people are entitled to such humour. AND I’M A PART OF IT.

8. I have watched Friends, from episode 1 of season 1 in chronological order, all the way til the series finale, FIVE TIMES, not counting the other times I’ve watched friends not in chronological order. And I still get motherfucking excited when I see it showing on cable.

9. I find it completely COMPLETELY bizarre when people tell me they don’t watch like a superbly popular show. Like.

10. I chase shows THAT I’VE ALREADY WATCHED. That I MAY NOT EVEN LIKE THAT MUCH. Like Once Upon a Time. I watch episode after episode. And almost die of shock when I realise it’s 5am.

11. I make references to TV shows ALL THE TIME  that half the time, I don’t think anyone really know what the fuck I”m talking about.

Which is why I very much prefer staying home, not meeting anyone, and, yes, watching TV shows.

12. The fact that I’m dedicating this whole strongly worded, and frankly, needlessly emotional post to TV series in general. #What #Am #I #Doing #With #My #Life.

Today I got an email from Tumblr telling me that my old tumblr account turns four today! Woohoo! PARTAYE~

(Lol where do I get these gifs. this is freaking hilarious.)

So I remembered what a emo freak I was back in poly days when tumblr-ing was basically a daily activity for me, and thought – hey, you know what would be funny? Making fun of myself and the retarded emo things I used to post.

But then when I actually saw my tumblr I was like. Whoa. That is some.. real… depressive stuff. Like I think I really had some serious problems. It is seriously one of the most depressing things I’ve ever seen, right up there with like Girl, Interrupted and Prozac Nation.

I’m half kind of laughing at myself now, and half kind of scared at the person I used to be, which is still kind of a part of who I am right now. Hm. Ho.

Weird. Scary. Scary weird.

Okay so anyway here it is.

19 Emo Nemo Things I’ve Said On Tumblr

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Well, that was interesting…

It’s not often that I write articles my friends are actually interested in – I mostly cover arts, entertainment, food and the likes that are targeted at executives or the upward mobile (read: relatively wealthy folks).

But if there’s one thing that I’ve noticed everyone is talking about – even the less-than-rich group of people called the early-twenty-something – it’s the Phantom of the Opera.

Yup, the show is running over at the swanky Mastercard Theatre (whoa isn’t there some serious sponsorship going on here) at Marina Bay Sands, and I was sent to attend the media call and an evening show to write a preview and review for the Phantom of the Opera . And they’ve both been published! Yay!

You can read the preview on the BT website: Phantom Takes Centrestage

And, I’ve put the review up on my other website, nataliekoh.com, where I post up articles that I’ve done in my freelance work.

And that’s all I have to say for now.

1. You’re cool with doing the heavy lifting – as long as it’s manageable. What? Wait for the guys to come help out? Girl, we went through 10 years of school without a single guy in sight (unless you count that wimpy math teacher), and we did just fine.

2. You have that one group of girlfriends that you know will be there for you. FOREVER.

3. “Friendship problems” don’t throw you anymore. We’ve been through 4 years in a school full of girls going through puberty all at the same time. It was hell. There would always be at least one person in any classroom PMSing at any one time – plus we pretty much hung out with the same group of girls so much that our cycles literally synched up. Yes, it’s not a myth; it’s true. Which basically means WAR every few weeks. I repeat. It was hell.

4. But then again, that’s what made our friendships stronger than anything else in the world.

5. You went through a lesbian phase – or there was at least one moment in your life where you actually looked at another girl and went “Hm. Not bad.”

6. You recognise that lap dance scene – yes, it’s from the L word.

7. You remember the first time you wore a skirt without shorts underneath – your thighs had never felt cooler

8. Lesbian tendencies aside, a lot of your conversations with friends had to do with Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Josh Hartnett, Jude Law… and well, every male celebrity that came to our attention.

9. For years after secondary school, you never wore a skirt that went below your knees, thanks to a ridiculously strict dress code that you had to follow for a full decade.

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10. You look pretty presentable and kind of demure to strangers. But when you’re with your friends, it’s a whole different story.

11. But in spite of that, the morals you learnt at school have somehow stuck with you through all these years.

12. And you still kind of remember the words to Our Father.

13. And some hymns will never ever leave your mind for good. Like As The Deer. What was with that song?

14. You went through a major vain phase.

15. And have heard people bitch about their weight one too many times

16. You understand that skirt rolling, is an ART.

17. And you hate it when young girls cross the line and go full slut.

18. You’re definitely not afraid to speak your mind.

19. Because somehow we’ve been trained to be strong, independent women.

20. And even though we’ve been through a lot of shit as ex-convent girls

21. And at times it sort of felt like this:

22. The experience, memories and friendships were all kind of worth it in the end.

Stage 1: The Contemplative Stage

“It’s not ridiculous to spend $150 on heels that I’m not sure I can fit into or walk in… is it?”

Stage 2: The Stockpiling Stage

“I want that one. And that one. And omg these are cute.” *add to cart* *add to cart* *add to cart*

 Stage 3: The ‘Truth Hurts’ Stage

“$927.94? Really?”

Stage 4: The Bargaining Stage

“I’ll just remove some items from my cart. But OH GOD I LOVE THEM ALL T.T Or maybe I could live on carrots this month so I can afford one more pair…”

Stage 5: The Impulse Stage

“Fuck it. I’m buying this shit.” *Checkout*

Stage 6: The “It Just Sunk In” Stage

Stage 7 (Bonus): The “HAHAHA OH FML” Stage

Generally, there are many things that I am apathetic about and am pretty tolerant of. But if there’s one thing I really really hate, it’s the mistreatment of animals.

There’s this bit of news going around on Facebook right now about a rabbit breeder who is closing shop AND SENDING ALL 80 OF HIS RABBITS TO THE VET TO BE PUT TO SLEEP.

THAT’S 80 RABBITS SENT TO DIE BECAUSE SOME IDIOT BREEDER DECIDES HE CAN’T/WON’T TAKE CARE OF THEM ANYMORE.

This really goes to show that breeders don’t care about the animals they sell. Ugh.

If anyone reading this can help out, whether by adopting a few or even fostering some until an adopter can be found, please do.

You can follow the thread on the Pets Looking 4 Adoption FB page. The person to contact is this Jessica Shepherdson lady, just FB message her. There aren’t many details out right now but that’s where the updates are going.

Please help if you can! Rudolph is begging you to!

“Please help my friends!!!”

1. Your rabbit will take roughly a year to warm up to you (mine took almost a year and a half); your dog loves you the minute you promise her a nice warm home.

Bunny after one year

“You do not exist, human.”

Dog after one month

“I love you so much you’re the best thing that has ever happened to me!”

2. It’s adorable when your bunny goes into crazed happy running mode; it’s downright frightening when your dog does

Bunny running around

Dog running around

3. They have very very different ways of expressing their (sexual) love for you.

Bunny’s show of love

Doggy’s show of love

4. Even when they’re feeling less loving (read:horny), the difference is palpable.

What it feels like when a bunny is licking you

Imagine that as your own finger. Awww

What it feels like when a dog licks you

5. They both make you melt, but in very different ways

This is so cute I just want to cuddle the both of you <333

“Okay Rambo, you can have as many treats as you want. Take my children, I don’t care! Just stop looking at me like that!”

6. At times it feels like your rabbit might do a better job guarding your house than your dog will.

Rabbit attack

Dog Attack

“Go Chin-Chin! Attack!” “No dude what’re you doing?!”

7. Your dog can physically force you to do stuff. While your rabbit, well.

They’re pretty content as long as they’ve got food.

Dogs, on the other hand… Sure aren’t afraid of getting physical.

8. They’re both kind of useful around the house I guess…

Bunnies could open letters for us

And dogs are always eager to return a favour

9. But mostly they’re just good for lazing around.

10. But they never fail to brighten our days!

(Lol my bunny really does this all the time by the way. HAHA makes me laugh every single time it happens)

11. And I wouldn’t trade either of them for all the world – in good times and bad.

12. For real.

So last week, my post on 22 Signs You’re an Ex-convent School Girl went viral. It had 116,000 views within the first day and as of now, has over 10,000 shares/likes/comments on Facebook, 1000 tweets on it and 100 likes by wordpress bloggers.

I’d like to say I’m famous right now, but I’m not LOL.

It never quite dawned on me how connected the world is right now through the internet, but it’s kind of crazy how over 200,000 people have read that post even though most of them have never met me. And even those who have, didn’t even know it was written by me.

I met some people over the weekend and my excitable friends were like “THIS IS THE GIRL WHO WROTE THE CONVENT GIRLS POST” and they were all like “NO SHIT! REALLY? I SAW IT ON MY FEED ALL DAY”

It was quite cool to think that everyone was reading it – okay not everyone, but so many people were reading it or at least knew of it.

And it was also kind of hilarious that even my own sister, the main star of How To Annoy Your Sister read the story while she was at a school camp and she didn’t even know it was my blog LOL.

By the way, people were totally sharing that post (on how to annoy your sister) on Facebook, and it’s one of the more popular posts on my blog, which was a complete surprise for me LOL. I actually wrote that as a kind of filler post – like one of those weeks I had nothing to say but I just wanted to post something to keep the blog alive kind of thing. Who knew that people actually wanted to read about my annoying antics. What a strange strange world.

But anyway, it’s been a pretty darn cool week.

Even though there were some erm. psychos here and there, like 90% of the comments, whether on the blog itself or on Facebook or Twitter, were totally positive. It’s actually kind of incredible that I could reach out and connect with so many people. AND they are people from like all over the world.

By the third day I was getting loads of hits from Malaysia and the Philippines.

And right now most of my hits are actually from India and the U.S.

Still. Crazy crazy stuff.

So I just wanted to say, thank you for reading, and sharing, and posting, and liking, and just being awesome people.

I really appreciate it! And I don’t know if I can follow up with posts that are just as funny or that will strike a chord with just as many people, but I will try. And let’s face it, it’s a whole lot more fun writing on my blog than it is for my clients heh.

My reaction to it was very much like the first time a post of mine was shared on Facebook by strangers (read about it in My Two Days of Internet Popularity) HAHA I was so happy back then about 550 views, I never expected to get more than that.

But anyway yeah. My reaction was pretty much the same. Except that this time I was feeling so positive about it! Because I actually shared the post on Facebook at around 1am, and even then people were sharing and liking.

And when I woke up later in the day, around 11am (life of a freelancer woohoo) I already had 6000 views. And then it just kept accumulating and growing. At 2pm, it was at about 20 or 30k and my boyfriend was like “It’s going to hit 60k I think” and I was like NAAAAHHH. And then it hit 100.

So that was my

moment.

OH And can I just say how ironic the post kind of went viral, because I once wrote about how I don’t get viral anythings? HAHAHA. Oh how the tides change.

So anyway, THANK YOU ALL FOR READING once again.

If you liked that post on Ex-convent school girls, you might like some of these other posts as well:

• 12 Reasons Why I Might Be A TV-Series Addict
• 20 Signs You’re Broke
• How To Make Jokes About The SG Haze
• 14 Bizarre Things in We Can’t Stop By Miley Cyrus
• 19 Emo Nemo Things I’ve Said On Tumblr

And my latest two posts:

• 12 Surprising Differences In Owning Dogs and Rabbits
• The Six Stages of Online Shopping

If you scroll all the way down on any page, I’ve got my categories over there and you can click on Humour and Lists for other funny-ish kind of posts. Or if you care about my personal life, you can click on that as well, but I don’t post very much about my personal life. I think my actual face only appears on this blog like in three posts. Hehe. I am the human equivalent of the legendary beasts in pokemon.

Oh and I’ve removed the twitter widget from the right column because I’m not the most PC kind of person out there. So please don’t be offended if I don’t accept your request to follow me. It’s not you, it’s me.

Have a good 3-day week y’all!! And Happy National Day!

1. Seal – Kiss from a rose

2. An American Tail’s Somewhere out there

Troy and Abed trying to train a rat to respond to this song is freaking epic – it’s even funnier that they chose a song from An American Tail, which is about, yes, a rat.

3. Aimee Mann – Wise Up

Skip to the 1 minute mark if you don’t care about the build up hehe.

4. Dancing queen – or any ABBA song for that matter

Unfortunately they don’t have all the clips of ABBA songs from this episode on Youtube. But seriously, the inclusion of ABBA songs in a Zombie episode is a stroke of GENIUS.

5. This gangsta’ sounding chinese song

“风萧萧兮易水寒,壮士一去兮不复还~~~”

6. Any song Glee-related

Is it just me, or do all glee songs sort of sound like this?

7. Lord of the Ring’s Hobbit theme

For those unfamiliar with Community, or this episode, the group is playing Dungeons and Dragons, and Annie’s character, named Hector the Well Endowed, is supposed to make love to an Elf Maiden i.e. Abed, to get information they need. But since Community is such a family-friendly show, they censor out the gory details with some lovely LOTR-ish music.

Note any similarities?
 

8. Bruce Hornsby’s The Way It Is

9. All children’s/puppet/sesame street songs

Warning: Ear worm below!

10. AAaannnddd… Christmas Songs in General

(Skip to 1:10)

1. Gameboys

Way before PSPs, Nintendo DS Lites, iPads and whatever kids have these days, we had GAMEBOYS. And they were the coolest things ever.

Mine was a super cool POKEMON version one that I am kind of ashamed to post up right now LOL. But I remember huddling under my blanket at night and playing it way after my bedtime, which kind of explains why my eyesight is so bad right now. Man were those screens dark!

Source: http://degongfx.blogspot.sg

2. Supermario

Of course, with the gameboys came the classic games. You cannot imagine the feels I’m going through right now listening to the soundtrack below.

3. Tetris

I remember in poly, my mates and I got into this hardcore tetris phase and I basically ruled at it. And I really have my gameboy to thank for it. It taught me many things: patience, diligence, logic, and, above all, an appreciation for long sticks.

Damn was that music creepy.

4. Pokemon RED/BLUE/YELLOW

I’m not sure how many pokemon there are right now, but back in my day, there were only 151. And Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow versions were basically all that anyone played. Damn those were good times. I’ve played them all but had a particular liking for Pokemon Blue, because I got that as a standalone cartridge (lol when’s the last time you heard the term ‘gameboy cartridge’) while the others were in one of those compilation cartridges.

Hey, speaking of cartridges, anyone remember blowing into the cartridge slots when they weren’t working properly? LULZ good times.

5. Sand playgrounds

When we weren’t training our pokemon to be the very best that no one ever was, we actually left our homes to play outside the comforts of our non air-conditioned homes.

I don’t remember if the one below my block was a sand playground or not, but I think it looked something like this:

Source: http://www.kidsandparenting.com

But I also remember playing on the swings at sand playgrounds and digging craters with our feet every time we swung close to the ground ^^

Source: http://www.ghettosingapore.com

I’m really glad we had those, otherwise our childhoods would have been filled with this:

Ouchies

Oh wow and merry-go-rounds and these rocky things that were stiff as hell, yet we always ran to one in hopes that they’d move more! LOL.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tuis_imaging/2119470537

Once again, proving why sand > anything else:

(Those stiff rocking thingies worked the same way y’all!)

6. Mama Shops

Many of them have been replaced by 7-elevens or Cheers outlets by now, but I remember when Mama Shops were all over the place. Like in any HDB estate, there’d be at least one Mama Shop right there at one of the blocks’ void decks.

They were basically your most convenient convenience stores that would sell everything at dirt cheap prices. I remember a small bag of twisties was 30 cents, and those small balls of cotton candy were like 20 cents.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/agnosticgary/4547775342

7. Iced gems

Then, I just knew these snacks as “the colourful sugar biscuits”. AND THEY WERE THE BOMB.

I remember biting off the sugared bits on top and tossing the biscuit bits away when my mum wasn’t looking. Heh. Man was I a sugar nut then.

8. Wang Wang Biscuits

Not wanting to sound like one of those idiots who insist everything was better in the past, but I swear to god, Wang Wang Biscuits tasted like 10000000000000 times better 13 years ago. Like they really spammed the shit out of the seasoning.

Source: http://superwowomg.com

But now I suppose you get the ‘healthier’ version *scoffs*.

9. White Rabbit Creamy Candy

This was like the most contentious candy ever. The debate on whether the rice wrapper was edible or not was fiercely debated through the years. Neither camps would give in. It was tough.

Remember the melamine scandal? That was really really tough for us. I think they pulled every single packet of White Rabbit Creamy Candies off the shelves here. Those were dark days.

Source: http://www.fystore.com/

10. Rainbow Paddle Pop

If I’m not wrong, these used to cost like 50cents or something. Super cheap and super amazing tasting!

Source: http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/

11. The Ice Cream Man

We still see them in Orchard Road, but they don’t seem to get as much business as they used to. Back then, I remember an ice cream uncle who would park opposite my primary school every day at 1pm, which was when we finished school. And everyone would race across the road to get a slab of ice cream sandwiched between wafer or rainbow-coloured bread. My favourite flavours were cookies n’ cream, and chocolate ^^

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12. Zero Point

The next few points are actually what I remember from school (which was an all-girls school) so I’m supposing that guys wouldn’t relate much here. But these are such a huge part of my childhood memories:

The mantra “2-4-6-8, in out step out twist” is forever INGRAINED IN MY BRAIN. And we’d set like ridiculous levels for ourselves, where we kept raising the elastic bands higher and higher – I’m pretty sure the high-level kids were playing with the bands around their necks at one point. No kidding.

Source: http://zeropointsg.blogspot.sg

How To Play Zero-Point:

13. Five Stones

I was so into this I remember SEWING my own five stones. LULZ. Wow I had loads of time then didn’t I…

Check out this bad ass over here

14. Hopscotch

“Eh your leg touched the line!”
“No it didn’t!! it didn’t!! see!!!” *tip toes on that one foot*
Source: http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/

15. Tamagotchi

If you don’t know what a Tamagotchi is, I’m sorry, you are too young and we can never be friends.

16. Freeze and Melt

Some people know it as ice and water, but I somehow remember playing this a lot as a kid. It was a variation of what we called “catching” where someone was “it” and they had to catch people. But instead of having the person caught become the new “it” the person had to freeze until a friend comes and “melts” her. And the game just goes on like that.

17. Kuti-kuti

Aww I used to have a whole collection of these. I wonder where they went.

18. Autograph Books

Source: http://accidental-mom-blogger.blogspot.sg

Awww remember passing these books around class, especially during Primary 6 when we thought we’d never see each other again? Then we’d fill them up with our names, addresses, birthdates and sweet little notes on how we’d be friends forever?

19. Stamp Collecting

It’s funny. I still have my (pathetic) stamp collection. But most kids these days will never ever learn how to use a stamp.

20. Sticker Collecting

Hehehe I have a MASSIVE sticker stash. That I will never use. Maybe they can be heirlooms for my kids and future descendents. HAHAHA

Source: http://childrenofthenineties.blogspot.sg

21. Britney Spears

It’s kind of disturbing how much I enjoyed Baby One More Time now that I’ve realised how… sexual the whole sexy school girl thing was.

22. Christina Aguilera

“You gotta rub me the right way” Wow maybe these weren’t the right kind of songs we should’ve been listening to at that age huh.

23. Mandy Moore

For those of us who might be a little less mainstream…

“Hit me with your genie’s bottle. Rub it all over me~”

There was the whispery Mandy Moore~

24. Backstreet Boys

Backstreet’s back, alright!

25. N Sync

JT’s hair ahmagahd :’)

You know what? I could go on forever with pop stars of the late 90s but I think I’m going to dedicate a whole post to that another time instead. Moving on!

26. Napster

Music piracy before it was piracy

27. Netscape

Dude you thought Internet Explorer was old school? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Source: http://linuxgazette.net

28. MSN Chat

Yes, MSN used to have a chatroom – and no I’m not talking about the message service that just got canned. Like a real chatroom.

Back when we still used “A/S/L” as an opener.

Oh god I feel so old right now.

29. mIRC

HOW DID ANYONE KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON THEN?

30. ICQ

I will never forget the “UH OH” sound alert.

OH WOW SOMEONE DID AN UH OH REMIX HAHAHAHA

31. LDs

Kids these days may think VCDs are old. Have they ever seen the good ole’ LASER DISCS?

If you ask me they should come back and be labelled ‘vintage’ just like records are these days. These are retro man.

32. Video Tapes

Kids these days will never appreciate the rewinding and fast forwarding of VCRs.

Kids have it too easy these days.

33. Non-cringe worthy local TV programmes

It might surprise many to hear this, but local TV wasn’t always a huge crapfest. Or maybe I was too young to recognise good shows from bad LOL. But these were some good series I remember:

Growing Up

Triple 9
(WHEN PEOPLE STILL SMOKED ON TV)

Under One Roof

34. Millennium Fever

The impending approach of the millennium year was really insane – everyone was insanely excited for it.

Fann Wong, Tanya Chua and… another person sums it up!

But along with the excitement came the idea that the year 2000 was gonna bring the armageddon along with it, which unfortunately did not happen.

BUT on May 5, 2000 the planets did align. Which was pretty darn cool.

35. But most of all, the best thing I remembered of the late 90s was that life somehow seemed so much brighter.

Because when you’re a kid, you really don’t need to worry about a thing.

 
And everything in the 90s somehow seemed to have more heart.

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Then again, maybe we’ll look back on today and think about how the 2010s were great too.

Source: http://therealsingapore.com/

Don’t you just love the internet? I know I do.

By the time I woke up this morning the VMAs had already ended. But I feel like I watched the whole thing because the internet had basically exploded with all the wild things that happened there.

So here are 21 Things That Happened at the VMAs – according to the internet.

1. Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus had a weird-off

They both started off kind of weird.

“Check out my tongue and ass cheek y’all”

2. Then they got a little bit weirder as the show went on

3. They both had some hilarious on-stage costume changes

4. Which included prancing around in fancy underwear

5. And they showed off some ass

… Or lack of it.

6. But in the end, I think Miley Cyrus won.

Because she got all frisky with a foam finger

7. And made out with Robin Thicke’s neck

8. Even if Lady Gaga fell in love with her wig.

9. Drake pretended to enjoy the performance

10. While Rihanna and One Direction didn’t even bother to

11. And neither did Will Smith’s family.

12. Taylor Swift told (one of) her ex-boyfriends to shut the fuck up on national TV

Aaaand. With subtitles

Selena: “Oh fuck this is gonna go all over the internet, isn’t it”

13. But was super ecstatic about Selena Gomez’s win for Best Pop Video

14. Kanye West was there.

15. And didn’t steal anyone’s thunder.

16. Justin Timberlake gave the longest performance ever

17. And Katy Perry closed the show with Roar

18. But no one really remembers it because they were still flipping out at Justin’s performance. Where…

…

…

…

…

…

YES. ‘NSYNC HAD A SHORT REUNION.

19. Even Gaga and Taylor were psyched.

20. And at the end of the award show, no one seemed to know or care who won what.

21. Except ‘Nsync. Who won the internet.

Watch Justin Timberlake’s performance + the ‘Nsync reunion here.

Of course, we’re all thrilled that Nsync came back into our lives with a bang. But I can’t help but feel a bit nostalgic about all the other awesome boybands from the 90s that have all but disappeared from the face of the earth. So I’ve come up with a list of the old baggy pants-wearing, awkward dance moves-making boybands from the time when singers could actually sing.

And a part of me believes that they’ll all come back someday (sort of like how I believe Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson will one day come back from the dead) because…

1. Backstreet Boys

Duh. They were the definition of 90s boybands. Backstreet’s Back? I Want It That Way? Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely?

2. Westlife

These guys put boybands of today to shame for real. They had some serious singing chops. Only problem is that they weren’t much of dancers, so they pretty much got by standing around and singing meaningfully to the camera.

…

BUT who cares right? I loved them anyway. They were pretty frikkin’ awesome. Exhibit A:

3. Hanson

Yeah yeah I know these Oklahoma brother just released a song but NOTHING BEATS GOOD OLD MMMBOP.

I mean, have you seen hair like that since then?

4. 98 Degrees

Most kids of today would probably have never heard of 98 Degrees but these guys sang a song with Stevie frikkin’ Wonder that appeared on Disney’s Mulan. AND their hot lead singer married Jessica Simpson.

Oh the days when jokes like that were considered funny. *nostalgia*

Oh and, as a youtube commentor puts it, they sang the ultimate friendzone anthem.

4. Boyzone

Way before Ronan Keating was Ronan Keating, he was part of this band called BOYZONE. Sort of like the One Direction of the 90s, except with more brains than cute faces.

Remember that time One Direction were called in to assist Ronan Keating in judging X Factor Australia?

5. All For One

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER ALL FOR ONE? No? But you’ll probably remember this song:

(LOL check out the guy in the background dancing to the song)

6. A1

Who in heavens knew what happened to A1. I don’t. But they were the cutest darn boyband around fo’ sure. And it’s probably because they’re British hehe.

7. Plus One

This band was really late to jump on the boyband-wagon. And they had like one and only one hit.

Aaaand it turned out they were a Christian boyband.. Which is kind of.. erm..

8. O-Town

OMG Please tell me someone remembers O-Town. I used to think their Liquid Dreams video was THE COOLEST EVER. But now come to think of it… Does Liquid Dreams actually mean wet dreams? WHAT THE FUCK.

9. 5ive

Bringing Queen’s We Will Rock You to a whole new level.

10. Boyz II Men

Yeah apart from writing the ultimate song for lovemaking, they’re actually a pretty fucking big deal. Their first single, End of the Road broke Elvis Presley’s record for longest running number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, then beat their own record years later with I’ll Make Love To You and One Sweet Day. AND they became the third artiste ever (after The Beatles and Elvis) to have two different songs in the top spot consecutively. Wow? Yeah I think so. Heh.

And guess what. They are STILL performing. Guess they meant it when they said: