I’ve been thinking about changing my blog layout for a while now. I actually stuck with the previous one for 2 years with slight changes here and there. Then this morning I woke up with this in my head:

“Final Fantasy. Wings. Red. 3 column”.

Voila ! New blog layout!

I’ve been toying around in my blog

1. Countdown
   It’s a mysterious countdown.
2. Handsome photo
   In this picture, I am going “hmmmmmmm…..”
3. Twitter.com updates
   Twitter is this little micro blog that you can post mini entries on whatever is it that you’re doing. You can post through SMS and get updates from friends through SMS as well. Check it out, it’s pretty cool.
   
4. New Comment System
   For whatever reason, you can now reply on other people’s comments. Go on and tell that other guy he’s an idiot.

Besides these front-end stuff, my blog is now running on Wordpress 2.5. I previously never upgraded my Wordpress because I thought I’d never get hacked. I guess I learnt my lesson there.

Enjoy and have a good day!

Do these songs look familiar to you ?

• #1 Crush – Garbage
• Discotheque – U2
• One Headlight – The Wallflowers
• Staring at the sun – U2
• The Freshmen – The Verve Pipe
• Semi Charmed Life – Third Eye Blind
• The Impression that I get – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• Push – Matchbox Twenty
• Fly – Sugar Ray
• Walking On the Sun – Smash Mouth
• Tubthumping – Chumbawamba
  Sex and Candy – Marcy Playground

Those were the Billboard #1 Modern Rock tracks from 1997.

That’s ten years ago! I remember these songs like it’s yesterday !

Some of you guys were wondering how I did that optical illusion two posts back. Here’s a step by step on how to do it.

1) Get your hidden picture ready like so:

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AHOOOY MATEYS !!!!

AVAST! Today is talk like a pirate day ! If you don’t ?! Well then you can go WALK THE PLANK, arRr!!

Aye! How shall I celebrate ye ask ? arRr!, I was thinking of jumping in the pool behind my house! It’ll be cold lad, but shiver me timbers if it don’t wake me up! Then later I be eating a fine meal of cereal and fruit. You gotta eat your fruits, cause fruits prevent SCURRRVVVY, arRr!

Truth be told lads, I have trouble sleeping . Perhaps I didn’t have enough grog. arRr!! At this rate, I be sleeping only 6 hours o sleep. Now where’s my eyepatch ? Curse ye all landlubbers !

Now go blog like a PIRATE !

Aye aye captain !

This is the official theme song for the Life and Times of Jason Phoon. Otherwise known as:

• Ukulele Song #1 ( click to download )

Some of you might have heard the song, some of you may not. Anyways, you’re free to download it and use it for your ring tone or whatever. Just don’t blame me if it gets stuck in your head.

This piece was recorded live in my bedroom with a ukulele, hence the title. You could tell that I was very creative in the naming of the song. Also, the ukulele costs 10 bucks and the microphone cost 10 bucks so it’s a very cheap recording.

It’s still quite catchy though.

the cane toad

Once upon a time, I used to read the encyclopedia before I sleep. One day I was reading “T” and while flipping through the pages, I stumbled upon Toad. It had a huge picture of a Cane Toad in it and I promptly threw the encyclopedia across the room.

Some of you may know that I have a fear of frogs/toads.

With all my resolve, I picked up the encyclopedia to try and look at the picture again. After a few attempts, I managed to look at it. I also read up about these critters.

Turns out they were brought into Australia to control sugar cane pests. The cane toads themselves overpopulated and became pests. Here’s some fast facts about these pests:

• can grow up to 38 centimeters and weight 2 kgs
• can lay up to 20,000 eggs in one breeding session
• 102 were brought into Australia. They now number 200 million!
• they are poisonous. Their poison is classified as Class 1 ( which includes heroin and cocaine )
• if you lick a cane toad, you will get a mild hallucinatory effect for half an hour, then you might die !
• many Australians play sports like toad-cricket or toad-golf.

the size of a cane toad

An Australian classmate of mine told me that cane toads are much more common far from the city. During mating season, the whole road would be swarmed with a toad orgy. It is also this time which he and his friends would drive around, hoping to smash as many as they can.

I hope I don’t see one here in Brisbane.

For more info:

• the dreaded cane toad
• wikipedia ( no , I can’t throw wikipedia across the room )