Recent events have made me feel like I'm restarting life from the pages of a book already written. Hence, some of my favourite retellings of fairy tales and fables.

- "Snow, Glass, Apples" by Neil Gaiman in his Smoke and Mirrors short-story collection. Unravels the reasons for Snow White's pale complexion and blood-red lips. This is how one artist imagined Gaiman's Snow White.


- Fables the comic book series by Bill Willingham especially Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers. Like Shrek but only with loads more politics and sex. Some of the huffing and puffing the Big Bad Wolf does is with (the formerly-Little) Red Riding Hood.


Wish I could also catch this LA exhibition called Remixing the Magic, where 50 artists reinterpret Disney classics. I like the centre piece, which shows a more tortured Pinocchio.


The next book I'm going to get is Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, about the Land of Oz's misunderstood green teen. It's now a hit Broadway musical (below).


Back to real life. This second time round, with warning bells already in position, hope things go "swimmingly".

OK! It's the Dally, redux, thanks to Blogger Templates, loads of thumb-twiddling hours and goggle-eyed blind faith. I'm actually quite pleased, considering my utter lack of coding-thingy experience.

Had wanted to go with this other theme - all about mermaids and corsets - instead but couldn't be arsed to photoshop away all that copy about brass eyelets.


Oh, and the Random Surrealism Generator at the bottom is also pretty fun to play with.

I hate Apple.

My 3rd Generation iPod is officially dead and cannot be resurrected back to the land of the living. It can't be repaired, well, actually it can, but for $500. The girl at the Apple "Care" centre told me: "For that price, you might as well buy the new iPod."

No shit, Sherlock.

So this is their plan for unrivalled world domination: Create a beautiful piece of equipment that sucks up your soul entirely then crushes it 2.5 years after being bought just so people can buy the 17th version.

I'm not going to blow another 500 bucks to buy another iPod just because my current one got fried through no friggin' fault of my own. It all sounds a little, I dunno, evil.

The twerps at Apple can kiss my fat ass. Pfft.

Combovers are for cute dogs only.

So there we were at a tollplaza on the North-South Highway headed to Kuala Lumpur (actually, Petaling Jaya) when lo! we notice this huge signboard at every gantry.


Funny that.

I'm quite sure 'Hold down Alt F4' must also be a euphemism of sorts.