PAUL DI RESTA

you know my quest's been going really well when you see a picture with some jewelry shop in the background ha ha

yes, spotted one of force india's driver, scottish boy paul di resta at marina square as he was obviously shopping with a lady friend, who looks a lot like lindsay lohan, honestly! but don't worry, i can confirm it wasn't our favorite party girl with him as she was speaking with super thick and strong scottish accent.

anyways, although paul sure didn't look like he was in one of his happiest moments, he sure is pretty nice to have stopped in the mall for some autograph signings and photos.

and here's another photo we took after he was done with some press interview..

i know this picture is a little blurry that's cause it's a video still! HA HA! wanted to take a photo but the camera was in video recording mode, well, now i have 3 seconds of video with him, not complaining! :P

i say he is one of the must watch for the grand prix this season, seeing as he moved up from the 8th position in the italian grand prix in monza to a great 6th position in the singapore grand prix.

and also, did i mention that he's still a pretty new driver? so to be in the top 10 being pretty new, i say WATCH OUT HAMILTON!

HEKKI KOVALAINEN

and the next one being spotted on my formula 1 drivers' quest, was lotus-renault driver, hekki kovalainen. 

hekki was at the bar when we saw him but we caught him as he was exiting.. he's one of the older drivers, in terms of age but he still looks one of the best, if you asked me ha ha also, he's got them killer blue eyes - what more could you have asked for? 

just a quick encounter with him though we still saw him walking around over the next few days. we even saw him while he was coming back from some golf action with his clubs and on both practice evenings as he made his way to the marina bay circuit.

NICO ROSBERG

so this is my second grand prix and my first to be out and about trying to spot and stalk these drivers.

and what could be better than nico 'britney' rosberg being the first one to be spotted on my 'quest' to meet these fast drivers ha ha

he was pretty easy to spot if you asked cause who the hell wears a scarf in the mad scorching weather like.. S I N G A P O R E, right? ha and he does look pretty..

nico was alone when we found him and he was nice enough to sign autographs and take a couple of pictures with us.

also, here's the picture of us, yet again when we bumped into him again two days later as he was leaving the hotel to go to for qualifying free practice (thanks to @silencestation for the update and note).. (:

i like him better in his well-fitted mercedes 'uniform', what do you think? ;)

RYAN KWANTEN

not sure if you already know this but i have been a pretty late but big fan of the hbo vampire television series TRUE BLOOD, all thanks to @manfredkueh and @jovenatheart!! HA HA

anyways, so one of my favourite characters off the show, ryan kwanten (who plays jason stackhouse on the show), popped by our shores in between his filming schedules as part of the 24th annual singapore international film festival at lido recently.

ryan was in town to promote griff the invisible, where he played the lead role.

here's the photo of us as he made his way into the movie theatre at lido..

i told him i am a pretty big fan of true blood and also am a big fan of his and that i was shaking cause im really starstrucked. he told me to calm down in the jason stackhouse, suburb american accent he has on the show, so damn sexy i tell you ha ha everything else that happened or whatever nonsense i had blabbered, i totally don't remember at.all. yes i was that starstrucked! HA HA!

also i swore to god i was very close to crying after meeting him ha ha

so after the movie and after he's done some q&a with the audience, we took another picture for i was really really greedy ha ha

and we had another conversation, this time in his sexy true to his roots australian accent..

ME - thank you for popping by singapore
RK - i really love it here and that everyone is so nice and lovely
ME - well, I guess that's cause you're nice? they say nice people attract nice people
RK - you know what? I think you're right, it's like a magnet

okay ignore me for being delusional, but RYAN fucking KWANTEN thinks im nice!!

Y A Y ! !

before i go ahead and jump into the cold pool to wake myself up from this insanity, here's my autographs from jason stackhouse ryan kwanten ha ha

just in case you're wondering, he signed:

DEAR DANIEL
STAY TRUE STAY YOU!
RYAN KWANTEN

well, THE WANTED, againn

so max, tom, jay, siva and nathan popped by our shores for yet another round of promo. 

well, since they were on their way back home, where they were to make their australian debut and to promote themselves.

so as my heart vacancy and all time low singles arrived shortly after the boys left singapore the previous time (which you can read ALL about it here), i decided i have to go meet them at least once on their 4 days crazy-packed promo here. 

met the boys when they arrived from melbourne and it was surprising to see many fans waiting for them and by many, i mean there must have been over 200 screaming fans, and it was insane. thanks god we got to meet the boys ahead of everyone else.

all of them, surprisingly, remembered us from back in february, namely roxanne and i as they walked out after collection their baggages.

they were all like 'how have you been?', 'everything okay?' and it seems like we're such good mates from long ago ha ha

was nice until those fangirls AND BOYS filled the entire terminal's arrival hall with screams and tears, i mean tears, really? 

Siva Kaneswaran

Jay McGuiness

Thomas Parker

Nathan Sykes

Max George

they still look pretty much the same, if you asked me ha ha

also, word is going round that these boys will be hitting our shores yet again next year in februaryyy, not sure if it's for a concert or another promo trip for their yet-untitled second album, due some time in november, i thinkkk heh heh

as usual, here are the signed stuff from the boys.. (:

C H E E R S !

 

not too long, say bout just slightly over 24 months, i was just on an island - pulau tekong, home to the basic military training centre schools.

3 months later, after those crazy lips infection (those lips were so big and swollen i hated myself and hating myself was never one of those things i enjoy doing nor have ever done before), initial three weeks of crying myself to sleep cause everything was just too much, three fainting experiences, six nights out on field camp with absolute no shower, no proper food (well, preserved and war-time food aren't exactly proper), no proper sleep and multiple crazy punishments. those were the days you wonder why didn't your family give birth to you as a lady so you could escape all these nonsense.

however, it was all not so down and dirty, most days you have a couple people who make joke and talk nonsense to make you go all giggly and laughing out loud for we all know we're all in this together and we could only be glad our paths crossed and we became acquainted and eventually became friends and buddies.

it was on that island where i got to not only hold but also fire a rifle, the SAR 21, for the first and only time, well a long time i must add. Also, i threw my first and only grenade. no big deal, reallyy though im pretty sure at that point in time i must have been close to wetting my pants ha

the date was 09 12 09, my mum's birthday and the day when im finally outta the island, for good, well unless i got a vocation that required me to go back there and till then it was all overrrrrr..

got posted to being a regimental policeman and the six weeks of training was well, much relaxing at clementi camp in the west as compared to the far east, on an offshore island! we got to take morning showers and have plenty of sleep, feed ourselves with nice burgers and wantons, almost every other night ha ha it was also there where i got to fire a machine gun dammit, the general purpose machine gun! was it fun, am not gonna lie, yes ha would i like to fire another one again? well, no thank you very much ha ha
those nice, easy breezy six weeks came to an end when the entire section of mine got posted to the air force, honestly, can't complain seeing as the other two options being in the navy was pretty insane with swimming ten laps as part of the morning exercise regime and being in army where the 'work' schedule is pretty bad heh

so in the air force, in the 'unit' that i'll be stuck with till the day i said hello to my civilian identification card again, i started my dutyy proper. with a background of a total of four fainting stints, they were pretty smart to have me being in the pass office along with some of the 'elites' (or so they claimed).

not gonna brag or make a big deal out of it, but we were under the command of a very easy going superior (unless you chose to fuck everything up every other day, then that's a completely different story) heh

eighteen months past, i looked at the clerk as he pasted the 'NSman' sticker on the back of my 11B (the military identification card), to replace the word 'ENLISTEE', not sure how i felt at that point in time.
it could easily have been excitement to be excited for whatever that's gonna happen next in my life, but i did feel a hint of reluctance as i left the place with my final bits of belonging..

i have met some of the most wonderful people in these two long years of my life and have made some very worthy life-long friends and buddies that i would not forget the kind of nonsense and punishments we've been through, and especially the times when my body gave up on me and i had to depend on IV drips to be 'revived' again and when all else fails, it's only the friends that you have made that made life easier to pull through those times.

thank you to the officers, commanders, specialists, buddies, fellow bunk mates, colleagues, friends and acquaintances, you have made a difference in my life, and you need to know. And good luck in all your future endeavors, y'all!

CHEERS!

Sent via BlackBerry from SingTel!

MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS 2011

thanks to the ever lovely team at MTV ASIA once again for inviting us and having to prepare such a nice buffet spread so early in the morning, we went to the live screening of the MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS 2011 direct off satellite all the way from the nokia theatre in los angeles to the MTV Asia headquarters.

mother monster once again stole the show without having to do much. she had traded wild and crazy fashionista for drunk and masculine when lady gaga joe calderone opened the show with her latest single 'you and i'. and prior to the performance, joe calderone was making all sorts of comments bout gaga which left britney spears all wondering who the hell was on stage and the biebs looked obviously bored of the entire thing, well, he could have just skipped the awards, me thinks.

Lady Gaga Joe Calderone
(Picture: mtv.com)

so you might have already read/watch/realised that our favorite beyonce knowles announced her pregnancy on stage, and both katy perry and nick minaj were looking like idiots with their crazy outfit which, obviously, they are trying to take over the gaga's throne of being the most outrageously dressed, and congrats nicki, was reading off twitter during the live screening that someone said and i quote 'nicki minaj is wearing the left overs from all of gaga's previous outfit'. i cannot agree more. she looks like  walking garbage.

Nicki 'GARBAGE' Minaj
(Picture: huffingtonpost.com)

and yes, in case you haven't already figured it out, i do not like nicki minaj.

another highlight (for me at least) from this year's show was the fact that they got one of my favorite brit artiste, jessie j as their in-house entertainment and BOOOOOOOO, that girl deserve more than that! but i guess it's good publicity for her since she is still new and all that people were tweeting and asking about who that crippled woman seated on stage who were belting out 'price tag' (sans b.o.b), 'do it like a dude' and covers of cee-lo green's 'fuck forget you' and tlc's 'no scrubs' amongst others. tyler glenn (of neon trees, of course), who was not invited to the show, approved as he tweeted on his twitter account heh heh i also like how positive she is towards the whole thing when at the pre-vmas, selena gomez asked her how she were cause of her injured foot, she said something along the lines of 'instead of feeling sorry for myself at home, i decided to get on a plane and come to los angeles for this gig'. KUDOS!

JESSIE J
(Picture: mtv.com)

i say, COME TO SINGAPORE!!

anyhow, love the britney spears tribute, love the fact that lady gaga joe calderone presented the award to her. and love those kids doing a medley of britney spears songs.

Britney Spears honored the 'Michael Jackson Video Vanguard' Awards
by Lady Gaga Joe Calderone
(Picture: yourcelebritystuff.com)

also the tribute to the late amy winehouse by russell brand was rather interesting, seeing as he did not screw anything up and it was clearly an emotional one for adele who was sitting in attendance looking all sobbish and cute. tony bennett came on stage and showed a video of him and winehouse singing a track off winehouse upcoming album, in the studio, it was beautiful.

Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse
(Video Still: okmagazine.com)

big toes and thumbs up to bruno mars for that musical tribute to amy winehouse with his rendition of valerie which was beautifully done, both vocally and the choreography. i believe amy was smiling when she saw that. (:

Bruno Mars & backup singers
(Picture: mtv.com)

the other worth talking about performance was by brit queen, adele who did such a perfect performance of someone like you.. words cannot describe how perfect and flawless it was. was truly <3.. AWWW.. what made it so amazing was the fact that it was an absolute stripped down performance with just her vocals and a backing instrument. that was all. 'nuff said..

Adele
(Picture: mtv.com)

also, that impromptu performance by kanye and jay-z was phenomenal though i thought they could have done a better song off their watch the throne album. i would have thought that song with beyonce would have been a wiser and better choice to promote watch the throne and 4. well, just my 2 cents. heh

Kanye West & Jay-Z
(Picture: mtv.com)

okay i think i have been too long-winded ha ha

so in any case, congrats to katy perry, adele, lady gaga, britney spears, nicki minaj and justin bieber (nonetheless), foo fighters, beyonce and beastie boys for those moon mans. also, congrats to tyler, the creator who bagged the best new artist award, though i still have no idea who the hell he is heh heh

before i go, have i ever told you that i do not like hate the cast of jersey shore, and especially snooki? okayyy, that's all, for now..