Dyeing Easter eggies...

Here's Pete and myself dyeing Easter eggs with the family...

I managed to keep my fingers clean this year.

No colored fingers for me!!! Hurrah!!

Happy Birthday Cappie!!

Happy birthday Laurence!!!
Many happy returns of the day....

and an adventurous new year ahead!

March Birthdays!!!

The month of March has plenty of birthdays as that of February... as that of every other months :P Here's a happy birthday wish greeting to...

Ashley Milizia (March 3rd)
Michele Tan (5th)
Alex Beasley (10th)
Trevor Torcello (10th)
Tam Nguyen (12th)
Ahmad Saleh (14th)
Jana Richtrova (15th)
Karyadi Kusumo (17th)
Steven Chandra (19th)
Mei Peng Cheong (19th)
Kerry Chan (20th)
Chi Yit Chew (23rd)
Yin Yin Yew (23rd)
Laurence Nash (24th)
Lynn May Ewe (25th)
Adrian Cheah (27th)
Esther Cheah (31st)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Trailer

More of Captain Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, Captain Barbossa, Davy Jones and crew. And a new face to the Pirates family, Chow Yun Fatt as Captain Sao Feng - the Pirate Lord of Singapore, captain of the Chinese ship The Empress. Let the countdown to May 25th begin!!!

Dancing cheek to cheek!

Dancing with the Stars is back on ABC and hooray to more ballroom dancing!! I am a rooting for Apolo Anton Ohno!! I know it's still the first week - so I should really let everyone enjoy the first round of dances for now!!

Oh and what a Bonus!! In the midst of Dancing with the Stars was the premiere of the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Trailer.

Traviata - Choruses of the Gypsies

**Don't forget to press stop (left panel of blog) on the current song - Glamorous

As interpreted by Coro dell' Accademia di Santa Cecilia of Rome

The 300 (very buff and half-naked Spartans)

I was in Rochester at Pete's over the weekend and hung out with Weez and the Walter brothers over bottles of wine and accompaniments. Chele was in San Diego for worked therefore missing yet another Walter brothers activity. The following day (Sunday), Pete and I went to see the 300 - it's about 300 Spartan warriors fighting against Persian enemies.

I watch all kind of movies, but I don't really care for horror flicks because the "pyscho" sound effects just makes me annoyed rather than jumpy. Secondly, I am not one for being the first to the theatre to see real war movies. However, I do enjoy a great fighting/battle epic movie with all those guts and gore spilling out from every corner. I like seeing heads chopped off, blood splashing everywhere and this was a good movie in keeping me entertained and anticipating for the body part to be slashed off.
***gory Sher!!

The 300 was based on a graphic novel and the effects are amazing. To sum up the entire movie in a few words, fighting from the start to the end.
From my personal point of view... if you girls (and guys as well) want to see plenty of extremely buff built (6-packs, buns and all) semi-naked, diaper looking short shorts wearing; flowy, red cape wearing, sword & giant circular shield carrying and metal trojan/spartan helmet adorning their head = this is the movie to see! Let me re-emphasize the semi-nakedness of all the Spartan men!! And to quote King Leonidas, "This is SPARTA!!!"

I won't reveal too much more of the movie, you should go see it for yourself.

Around Boston

I was in Boston for a couple of day for a conference. It was my very first professional conference (work related) - AACRAO and it what a great experience it was to learn and meet future peers and colleagues in higher education.

Next to presenting and attending the conference, I managed to squeeze in some time to show Eugene around Boston and brought Beth to taste some Penang food and where else, but the one and only Penang restaurant at Washington Street by the Commons. Here are some pictures taken and if you want to see more of Beantown click on the link Around Boston above or click HERE!