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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Haven’t been updating any posts lately cos I’ve been busy doing weekly postings for Mars And Venus... Actually

It will be a weekly posting until Christmas, and then back to the regular one post every 2 week schedule.

Meanwhile, just bear with my very quiet blog for the moment.

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year

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An Immigrant fumbled with chopsticks @ 8:33 AM | 0 has delicate hands

Thursday, November 3, 2011



Although a tad late, but I'll still like to wish my readers a Happy Belated Halloween with the above video. By the way, this video is not meant for Twilight lovers (if you unfortunately happened to be one).

And back to the other topic in my post heading: Dhampirs!

If you are a true fan of Stephanie Meyer, you would have closely followed her novels and movie adaptations of her novel, The Twilight Saga movie. Edward is a vampire and Bella is a human, they fall in love, got married and conceived a child. All the while Edward is still a vamp and Bella is still human in the "conceived a child" part. Bet you all didn't know that the child Edward and Bella is going to have will no doubt happened to be a "dhampir" when that child grows up. But for those who are still unaware.

A Dhampir in Balkan folklore is the child of a vampire father and a human mother. Dhampir powers are similar to those of vampires, but without the usual weaknesses. Dhampirs are supposed to be adept at detecting and killing vampires.


Info from: Wikipedia


Although Wikipedia seemed to have left out a little piece of important information that might possibly scarred Twilight fans into agony. A dhampir when at adulthood will ultimately seek to destroy it's vampire bloodlines like their undead relatives, family or even vamps that are not associated to them by blood or family ties. This is partly because of the fact that a dhmapir hates that he or she is only half a vampire unlike the rest of his undead bloodline who are 100% vampire. And without the interference of one part of his or her undead parent, he or she could have been 100% human through and through.

And that dhampirs generally lived a short but violent lifes while living as a half human half vamp. And therefore no doubt the "short but violent" part involves eradicating the 100% vamp that he or she detests, but at the same time there are legends that points out that "dhampirs have thin and brittle bones, hence they do not live very long.". Although the generally good part is that dhampirs are only half-vamps, this peculiar immunity to sunlight makes it easier for them to walk around in daytime (when vampires are supposed to be in slumber) to find vampire lairs and stake them in the heart. Sounds like Wesley Snipes in Blade, isn't it? That is what a dhampir is. A half-vampire, half-mortal man.

Yet at the same time, most dhmapires in lore or fiction aren't always having a good rollicking time like Wesley Snipes in Blade did, dispatching vampires with incredible artillery.

Dhampirs are often rejected their vampire blood and became extremely successful vampire hunters due to their advanced abilities. However, despite their help to the human race, they were continually rejected nonetheless because of their vampire blood. Thus, dhampirs most always spent their life as nomads, rejected by both humans and vampires--vampires due to weakness, humans due to fear of the dhampirs' strength. And that dhampirs were allegedly the only people who could see vampires invisably, so they used this advantage to be hired as hunters.


So essentially, Stephanie Meyer probably tried to inject some new interest in one of her novels to generate more interest. But without realizing that the dhampir child Bella is expecting from the union she had with Edward. She is ultimately daming the Cullen family into obliteration all and all. And this situation makes it even worse when Edward had to turn Bella into a vampire to prevent her from dying from extreme blood loss. So all in all, this is another reason why some vampire novels like Stephanie Meyers are rather short-lived, unlike Anne Rice's novel that keeps going on and on until the author decides to stop writing ficitonal tales about vampires.

And on a last note, if you're a hater of Stephanie Meyer's interpretation of vampires, here's a Twilight Saga parody novel series that you can consider reading into. I guarantee this will be well worth the time spent on these parody novels.

Link to buy: The Twishite Saga

Link to read the very first excerpt of New Moan: Teen Fiction: The Twishite Saga: New Moan

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An Immigrant fumbled with chopsticks @ 3:44 PM | 0 has delicate hands

Friday, October 21, 2011

Yes, I've gone poof for 8 days while keeping track of Yue Yue from Foshan, Guangdong Province. This is really a tragedy, especially when young children are involved without them having a say in life choices.

If you are a daily/regular reader of EastCoastLife blog, chances are you would have recalled ECL blogging about one of her overseas holiday where she saw a lady begging at a side street. She did what anyone with a heart would do, which is to offer just a little assistance in the form of money (that's probably that much you can do if you're a visitor to another foreign country) only to have someone yell/scream/verbally abuse her just for being kind.

The issue about China is that, sometimes even if the kindness really do comes from your heart, the person whom you are helping might not even recipocrate. Instead, you will probably be blamed for something you did not do and get blamed for another issue that is called "kindness".

But if you recalled this other incident that happened in 2006, a man by the name of Peng Yu was kind enough to offer his help to an elderly woman who took a fall. And instead of thanking Peng Yu for his kind help that stems from his heart, guess what that elderly woman did? She turned around and accused Peng Yu of being the person responsible for knocking/pushing her down and demanded a huge compensation for her injuries.

This is exactly that one reason why people in Foshan seemed almost hesitant to offer any resistance to Yue Yue as the little girl lay in pain and agony while lying in a pool of her own blood. But at the same time, did any of those 18 selfish people who walked past Yue Yue ever think who in the right mind would ask a child or even sacrifice a child's life just for the sake of scamming an innocent person of his or her money? No parent in their right mind would want to put their own child in such a blasphemous act just to be able to put food on the table or be able to pay their bills.

This isn't right, no matter how you look at it. And this ultimately leads back to the very first person in China who conceived this scam idea in their blasted retarded mindset:

Look for a car that seems to be of the latest trend or model, no need to be a Ferrari or Lamborghini just decent will do. And just as that vehicle is slowing, for example, backing out of a parking lot. Quickly rush over so that the vehicle only slightly bump into you, not enough to cause bone fracture(s), amputation or any live-threatening injuries but just enough to make you take a fall. And when the driver comes out, insist that he or she pays you a huge-ass compensation for your own stupidity and scam idea that has just born out of your own evil conscience. A conscience that will ultimately lead to this current outcome where a young life is on the line just because nobody wants to be blamed for being kind.

Currently Yue Yue is presumably still in a coma. And I really wish and pray Yue Yue would survive and pull through this really unfortunate accident as her own way of rubbing back at the so-called phrase "socially responsible citizenship" and make people sit up and think.

A little assistance isn't that much to ask for, although it would go a long way before citizens in China can actually think of helping without having to worry about undue consequences that involves monetary scamming.

Readers can view this video here: Video: Outrage grows in China over run down toddler

Yes, I don't mind blogging and giving my opinions on such topics as long as it can somehow raise awareness. But I will stop short of actually putting up images or videos that literally shows the "damage" because simply put, I do not want to be a statistic that screams "The New Paper". Thank you.

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An Immigrant fumbled with chopsticks @ 10:25 AM | 0 has delicate hands

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

If you are a big fan of Youtube videos, you would probably have come across Vegan Black Metal Chef headbanging and growling through vegan recipes. Yes, he's the new culinary sensation ever born or exist on this earth and he definitely did making cooking more fun.



Obviously, there's going to be a lot of detractors mainly because of 1 simple reason. They lack the genuine mind of the Vegan Black Metal Chef to come up with something that's mindblowing while fun at the same time.

On a honest point of view, I've watched Gordon Ramsay and Martha Stewart. The former is one nightmare of a chef you would think twice about taking cooking lessions with while the latter sometimes border on the really "high-end and expensive" which might sometimes break your bank account.

Vegan Black Metal Chef as compared to those 2 culinary greats is like a breath of fresh air. His recipes are not too difficult and each step is punctuated with the chef's own lol moment to make cooking even more enjoyable. Yes, there's those F-bombs every now and then. But that's how black metal is most times, and the chef's F-bombs doesn't deviate the theme of his video away to F-land totally.

And also, when was the last time you have seen someone cut his veggies on a Pentagram chopping board or even headbang into making his food cook faster. None, I dare assure you all. And for a meat lover like me, this chef really made me fall all in love again with vegan recipes once more. And currently, I can't wait for the 5th episode to be uploaded onto Youtube soon.

Meanwhile, I'm going to try that vegan Pad Thai while putting on Enter Sandman by Metallica on repeat for a feel good mood~

If you're curious, check out Vegan Black Metal Chef on FaceBook too!

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An Immigrant fumbled with chopsticks @ 8:33 PM | 0 has delicate hands

Saturday, October 8, 2011



So, last night I was watching television late into the night. I started out with CSI: Miami (just don't ask which season, I don't keep track at all) and when it ended, I was channel surfing between Channel U's 女人我最大 QUEEN, a Taiwanese female-based info lifestyle magazine that finally earned it's spotlight on TV due to the good info that is beneficial to women and Channel 8's 不老传说 (Immortal Love in Mandarin).

Channel 8 won since I remembered watching 不老传说 (Immortal Love) when I was still a student and it featured Chew Chor Meng and a slew of other great actors/actresses during Singapore's golden days of drama serials. Current Singapore-made drama serials weren't so good, but the very latest seems interesting to garner some views. In other words, it's a 1997 drama serial and you all can roughly gauge my actual age more or less.

While watching 不老传说 (Immortal Love), I kind of noticed something really interesting that I probably never paid attention to while watching Mandarin-speaking drama serials. Anyone who knows a Taoist in the drama would atuomatically know Taoist rituals when emergency arises. Vampires, possessions, exorcisms, you named it, everyone knows the Taoist rituals for it. Seems funny, you might think so?

Even old Hong Kong vampire movies are not spared either. Let me give you a scenario since I don't recall some of the actors in those old vampire Hong Kong-based flicks. The master is a Taoist who specializes in minor ghost busting activities like catching ghosts, doing exorcisms, basically really regular jobs in the scope of "ghost-catching". Major ones are the vampires or 僵尸 that needs major destroying.

Vampires are not a good sign in Mandarin or Cantonese-speaking drama serials, movies and the like. Therefore, anything that sucks blood and creates more of it's kind have to be destroyed, one way or another. So, back to topic. Master knows Taoist rituals to do all these stuffs for a living, his disciple will definitely know a trick or two to survive unforseen circumstances, although most will end up in more haphazard scenarios that demands the master's immediate attention. But in the end, everything's well again although the master would be more or less angry at his disciples for making a misstep in one of the Taoist rituals performed, that calls for the master to solve it somehow.

And this somehow weirdly brought me back to when I was reading a book about the Tokyo subway gas attack orchestrated by Shoko Asahara. Yes, it is a tragedy when one recalls about that incident. Normal people going about their daily lives, catching public commute to work or school or maybe even enjoying a long-awaited holiday with loved ones for all we know. And this madman just had to totally ruined it for everyone by orchestrating a gas attack just to prove his illogical points. Although, if we do consider the pros and cons about it, we should probably be glad it's just nerv gas instead of an actual bomb, or the consequences won't be just the statistic "13 dead, thousands more suffered from after-effect".

Back to what this post is actually about: "Cults, Religions and their lol moments".

This weird little cult so-called Aum Supreme Truth had it's members following the teachings of a fat, bearded, partially sighted false prophet Shoko Asahara. And get this straight! Members wear "Mickey Mouse" headpieces through which they believe they will receive Shoko's thoughts. Which is a mixture of Buddhism, Hinduism, yoga, New Age occultism and mostly crankiness. If you're unsure how that description looks like, look no further:



Somehow, I doubt anyone would hear any type of messages through those ears at any time soon. If Walt Disney is still alive, he'd possibly demand a huge compensation for making people believe that "Disney is Evil" due to the mis-use of those ears. Poor Mickey Mouse, and I've never ever met that famous mouse up till now. And now, it's famous ears has been implicated by Shoko Asahara for his weird beliefs. I'd rather go live like a hermit than to wear that kind of stuff if I ever found myself joining a cult for no apparent reason.

But on the other hand, Witchcraft has been officially announced to be a religion and followers and practitioners are free to pursue Witchcraft without having to be tied and burned at the stake, huh? End story, Witchcraft isn't all about hexing and cursing due to this little law called Rules of Three, which I'll just shorten it to "Whatever you do to others, it will come back to you 3 times you've sent/give out". In other words, if I wished you good luck and the time comes when you do receive good blessings, it will come back to me by 3 times. Same goes for nasty purposes. If I intend to send you a cursing, say, for you to go bald even though I know you love your hair to death. You'll go bald, and when it's time for me to suffer, it won't just be plain old balding when it comes back to me, Yeah, sucks one way or another if you go around cursing someone else.

But on hindsight, Witchcraft or Wicca isn't all about the bad stuffs. I've come across various books and websites on Wicca-related stuffs and most rituals I've come across are more on the "blessing" than "cursing" ones. Besides, who wants to be re-cursed back three times at one go? Not me! And talking about Witchcraft or Wicca rituals, most of them are really about blessings and the items/materials needed are mostly found in your own kitchen. Good luck charm for finding a job, a tamer version of making someone feel uncomfortable by just using cat feces and a photo, and also slimming rituals. LOL

Ultimately, it's not in anyone's right to stop you from following a religion. But if that so-called religion imposes weird rules and statements about armageddon, mass suicide. Please stop and think. No right religion would advocate suicide in order to prepare for armageddon. That hot, steamy and fiery planet called "Sun" will keep shining on for another few million more years to come. So therefore, none of us will have the "good fortune" of ever seeing armageddon happen in our current lifetime. Maybe on Hollywood produced movies or drama serials.

Last but not least, a list of Opening theme videos of SBC/TCS/Mediacorp Series if anyone of my readers are curious about the golden days of Singapore drama serials.

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An Immigrant fumbled with chopsticks @ 6:22 PM | 0 has delicate hands