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A while back I went to a watch exhibition to get poisoned with the purchase of more things I really can't afford! You can find some more info about it here.

Conquest of Time was held at KL Convention Center by Sincere (The watch specialist?!).

First up we had a talk by some dude from Switzerland about some really freaking expensive watches and how they are made (specialist stuff like tourbillon, chronograph and perpetual calendar...These are terms watch geeks are intimate with).

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After visiting Bugis Street I proceeded on to Little India, which is located just behind around Jalan Besar.

There's a Little India MRT station so you can get off there if you wish to visit. It's a very vibrant area with a lot of colours, sights and smell. With hustle and bustle everywhere, even better during the time I was there was Deepvali, so it was lit up very nicely too.

As you can see it was quite hazy while I was there..

Ganesh.

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A while ago I was in Singapore so I decided to head to the famous Bugis Street market, and on from that to Little India as it's nearby.

Again I was limited to a 50mm and a 90mm prime at this time as I had no other lenses!

Bugis Street is an explosion of colours, smells and tastes with all kinds of things on sale and all kinds of characters selling them.

I managed to capture a little bit of the hustle bustle and what was going on there, a little bit of street photography

This is the famous Bugis Street market, always busy..

Bugis Junction, just outside where you come off from the MRT.

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The night shots!

Following on the from the last series, I got the rest of the pics done and uploaded so here they are, again all shot with two prime lenses

It was the end of a hot and sweaty (and extremely hazy day), the lanterns weren't as impressive as the Bukit Jalil Lantern Festival in Malaysia. Malaysia Boleh!

There's plenty to see (and more importantly photograph) in Singapore Chinatown so I do highly recommend checking it out.

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The first day I went to Peninsular Plaza near City Hall MRT stop to buy camera stuff, which no one would be interested in so I'll post it at DigiSniper

Do you care if I got a Giotto rocket air blower?!

The second day I went with my Mom to Chinatown as it's hustle and bustle, bright colours and lantern festival should be interesting, along with some good food you can find there.

Well here we are, alighting at Chinatown MRT station, diving into the heart of Chinatown in Singapore at Pagoda Street and following the tourism boards recommendation for a walk around Chinatown to take in the interesting sites.

First real outing with the new D200

Singapore, a Fine City (You get fined for all kinds of things, like not flushing the toilet, eating chewing gum etc..)

Lanterns lanterns everywhere, the lantern festival at Bukit Jalil heralded nicer lanterns of course.

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Yes indeed I'm in Stinkapore Singapore with my Mom! It's cool, no time to update though really see if I can grab an hour to do it tommorow, here's a taster from todays trip.

Yes I got out of Manila and came straight to Singapore to meet my Mom.

It's really hard shooting with two prime (fixed) lenses, 50mm and 90mm. I tried a super wide angle lens in Peninsular Plaza yesterday too, oh I love it..10-20mm.

We tramped around Chinatown today, pretty interesting place. A bit commercialised nowadays though like everything else.

Mom!

Pagoda Street and the Hindu Temple, some mad stuff going today with people walking on coals.

Must sleep now almost 3am zzz, headache.

Seems like after poor old Tammy NYP, everyone wants to be a porn star, the next thing is the Bukit Batok video, which I don't even know if it exists yet.

Singaporeans again, searching madly for a homemade sex video. (Apparently 13% of all Singaporeans are said to have sex in front of a camera).

Everyone is searching for the “Bukit Batok video”, which alledgedly shows two people getting it on in a park, but rummor has it that it’s a hoax.

I have a feeling aswell it doesn't even exist it's just a rumour to garner someone some more traffic or exposure or whatever.

There are some others rumoured to be floating around, like one filmed in an airport and another in a bathtub.

From the paper:

Those circulating the clips have even named files according to where they were filmed.

A two-minute clip is “airport” while another is tagged “Bukit Batok”.

About three weeks ago, a 17-year-old poly student lost her cellphone containing a sex video she made with her boyfriend. The video quickly gained notoriety and was downloaded by Net users as far [sic] as the US.

The article at flickr.

Happy hunting.

For those of you that don't care, just skip this entry

This makes me laugh, seriously.

She's getting dumber and dumber by the day, or more arrogant, not sure which.

I haven't really been following the whole debacle, but the pink poodle and two of her friends (Sandra and Sillycelly) have been having some kind of fight with another fairly prominent Singaporean blogger Blinkymummy.

Something to do with the Maxim photoshoot, yeah the one where XiaXue looks like a bapok, yeah the one she NEVER mentioned on her blog.

I think it all went wrong when Blinkymummy posted a picture of Xiaxue that wasn't photoshopped.

Not really sure anyway.

Then a well a while ago (December 22nd) which was right after Xiaxue cussed Kimberly and I on Kenny's site, a hate site was made, a very vulgar and crude hatesite, which somehow looked like Xiaxue's writing style, with some You and Your purposely changed to u and ur. I'm not going to dignify it by posting a link here, as I know many of you have already seen it and reported it to me (thanks), if you haven't and you really want to, drop me a line via the contact page and I'll give you the URL.

The best part comes when someone that uses the Bloglines service notices that Xiaxue's latest 2 posts were posted under the screen-name Xialanxue, not Xiaxue as normal.

Xialanxue (Refered to as XLX) is a blogger that has made an anti-xiaxue site pretty much and has lots of informative articles relating to the fuck-ups Xiaxue has made.

You can see the bloglines entries for yourself.

Seems like Xiaxue used another display name in blogger to setup the BM hate site, and in the middle of the night, perhaps slightly drunk forgot to switch her display name back to Xiaxue. Bloglines doesn't lie!

I found it terribly ironic aswell, that the post she posted under Xialanxue by mistake, was about how pathetic hate site owners are and how they have nothing to do. That obviously kicked herself in the ass as today on the hate site she posted:

Well hate site this isn't. It is just a simple webpage for personal bitching.

Remember, you guys are the ones who made it a hatesite.

It got onto Tomorrow aswell, (XX Expose) but promptly got removed again..

Thankfully it's made it on again kind of by proxy.

It appears Xiaxue is trying to impersonate XLX to defame Blinkymummy and kill two birds with one stone, cunning plan eh? Apart from her execution failed due to her being a dumbfuck.

Related:

Does Tomorrow have a Tomorrow? - Original Article

Know your bloggers

Tomorrow kena hacked

Why like that?

Blinkymummy has a hate site

Character Assasination

Xiaxue - The Expose

UPDATE - Please also read :

Xia Xue vs ShaolinTiger - Round 2

Xia Xue vs ShaolinTiger Round 3 - In Reply to the Comments

Today children we will be discussing dumb tourists, judgemental idiots, ignorant buffoons and whinging bitches.

Sounds like a whole bucket of fun eh?

Happy 48th Birthday Malaysia, we love you, even if some photoshopped ugly ho's from Singapore don't.

Fact (or Fiction) 1 - Taxi Drivers

Taxi drivers all over the world are dishonest, if they see you are a tourist (pretty obvious in my case), they will try and con you somehow, if it's Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, they will just skip using the meter and charge you a fixed (inflated) price, which if you don't know better, you won't use.

Especially in Malaysia, they'll even do it to locals, the Taxi's are not regulated very well here so you can expect it. Just make sure they use the meter or don't take the cab, that's common sense, or if it's rush hour, you won't get a metered cab so agree on a decent price before getting in the cab.

In UK or Singapore or other countries that are strict on meter use, they will just drive you round in a couple of huge meters, add on some extra magic surcharges to inflate the price.

Fact (or Fiction) Number 2 - Things in KL are not cheap

That's true, if you go to Starhill or KLCC obviously, duh..

And it depends how you define cheap, you have to know what you are looking for and what the price should be. Proper shopping is found in 1 Utama, Ikano, Mid Valley and my Favourite for all things Sungei Wang (and Low Yat of course for I.T stuff and telecomms) definately NOT at KLCC or BerGAYa Times Square. There are bargains to be had for sure and things are pretty cheap here, I find them much cheaper than Singapore for example, of course not as cheap as somewhere like Vietnam or Thailand..

Fact (or Fiction) Number 3 - Petaling Street Sucks

No shit? I know people from Malaysia, who've lived all their lives in KL who have never been to Petaling Street.

It's a huge tourist trap, I do buy some things from there, but you have to be savvy, you have to know exactly what you want, and how much it should be. The quality of the watches is extremely high if you know which stalls to go to and what you are looking for. You have to be a pro in haggling and have a good eye for quality. Sunglasses are good and cheap, just check the lenses have the correct focus point, sometimes they don't and they'll subsequently give you a headache.

Bags/wallets etc are ok there, some are great quality, but most are following fashion, and they are ugly as sin.

You go to Petaling Street for the experience of Petaling Street, and to eat, some great food can be found in that area, it's not particularly cheap, but it's very good. If you shop there, shop with someone who knows the prices and when you have specific things in mind (I go there for my Oakley's before diving season starts, I don't want to pay RM800 for a real pair, then get it crushed by an air tank).

Fact (or Fiction) Number 4 - KL foodcourts are more expensive than Singapore

This is frankly not at all true, if you eat in some low quality shitty foodcourt in the middle of KL, it will be expensive and bad, that's just common sense.

If you go to a decent place like the foodcourt in SS2 you'll get good food at a normal price (cheaper AND better than the foodcourts I've tried in Singapore).

The only food I find good in Singapore is the expensive stuff, like those hotel buffets and the 'good' resturants, there is some good food in Geylang too, but other than that, the quality of day to day normal food is so-so.

Fact (or Fiction) Number 5 - KL sales suck

This is pretty much true, KL has sales every few months, so they aren't massive, prices are just lower generally. Like I can get things cheaper in UK during sales than anywhere in Asia, because the sales are real sales. Singapore Sales are better than Malaysian fake pseudo-sales.

Not everything is 10% though, you often get 40-60% off during sales, but only on selected lines.

Fact (or Fiction) Number 6 KL Fashion Sucks

Yeah this is true, if you go to Times Square or Sungei Wang to buy clothes, duh...Even Sg Wang has some decent shops, you just have to look, Times Square is just a disaster though.

KLCC has all the normal boring stuff, I suggest heading to 1 Utama, The Curve, Ikano or Mid Valley for better buys.

General

In general, I can judge because I not a Malaysian, I don't have a patriotic requirement to defend my country, because my country is UK not Malaysia. So why?

Because I live here, I know what it's like, I've been to all the tourist places and the non-tourist places, I have been a tourist here and now I am no longer a tourist..

For me Malaysia is much better than Singapore, I don't mind visiting Singapore but the people there are weird, I think it's a matter of in breeding, it's such a small country everyone must be related to everyone else in some way or another. The shopping is better there, but it's freaking expensive, may as well go back to UK during sales, get better quality stuff for cheaper.

The food in Singapore in general is boring and of mediocre quality, unless you fork out a fortune to eat in one of the big hotels for ala carte or buffet, those are GREAT!

The public transport in Singapore is excellent, in Malaysia it's virtually non-existent, but it's improving, I don't have a mile long restriction on owning a vehicle. I feel free in Malaysia, in Singapore I feel like all the citizens are dogs on leashes being pushed around into little boxes by the government. I've spent quite a lot of time in Singapore, staying with locals (Actually a Malaysian lady who married a Singaporean guy and moved there).

On another note I hate people that don't stick to their convictions either, if you have a point stick with it, don't pussy out.

This post is dedicated to Xia Xue and her post:

KL pretty much sucked.

Seems to have lost her balls too:

I tried to hold my tongue but I can't

MALAYSIA BOLEH!

UPDATE - Please also read :

Xia Xue vs ShaolinTiger - Round 2

Xia Xue vs ShaolinTiger Round 3 - In Reply to the Comments