Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Orange Boy, because he was wearing an orange t-shirt.

One day, Orange Mum took Orange Boy to Ikea. While she was having a meal at the cafeteria, she allowed Orange Boy to go into the playpen to play with the other kids.

Meanwhile, a boy named Green boy (because he was wearing a green t-shirt) arrived with his mother.

Green Mum gave Green Boy five pieces of Daim chocolate candy and said, “Be a good boy and you can eat this later, okay? I put on this table first.”

She put the chocolates on the table surrounding the playpen as Green Boy nodded obediently. She walked off.

Now, Orange Boy was in the playpen pretending to be a space pilot. His eyes lit up when he saw the chocolates on the table. He rushed to the table and grabbed the whole handful of them.

Orange Mum, who was only a little away, saw what happened and scurried to Orange Boy.

“Boy, you cannot take that. It doesn’t belong to you! Put it down.”

Orange Boy put the chocolates back sullenly. But as Orange Mum returned to her seat, he swooped down on them again.

Once again, Orange Mum abandoned her food to dispense parental guidance.

“Boy, I told you already, you cannot take other people’s things! Nah, I give you your own sweet.”

With that, she magically plucked a single Daim chocolate candy from her pocket and gave it to Orange Boy, making him put the others back.

Orange Boy waited for Orange Mum to go back to her seat. Then, again, he grabbed the chocolates that didn’t belong to him.

Orange Mum slapped her forehead and trudged wearily back to Orange Boy.

“Stop that! Nah, I give you another one. Don’t take other people’s things!!”

As Orange Mum walked back to her seat, Orange Boy looked at the two sweets in his hands. He looked at his mother. He looked at the five on the table. He’s excited about his newfound ability to make sweets grow. He grabbed the five pieces again.

Orange Mum sighed loudly, rolled her eyes and continued eating.

At this time, Green Boy, to whom the five stolen pieces of Daim belonged, was oblivious to this daylight thievery, so engrossed was he in being a pirate captain.

Unchallenged finally, Orange Boy happily hugged his ill-gotten gains as he flew around the playpen, pretending to be a jet fighter.

Now, this jet fighter was flying on empty. It ran out of fuel after a few minutes and had to stop. Orange Boy decided to go back to being a space pilot because that was more fun (and less tiring).

But he needed both hands to pilot a spacecraft and the hands in question were at this moment busy holding Daim chocolates. So, Orange Boy thought of a plan. He went to the table and set his sweets down, all seven pieces of them.

With his hands now free, he ran back to his spaceship and took the wheel.

Now, Green Mum must have been watching all this in silence from somewhere. The moment the chocolates were back on the table, she marched up to them, grabbed them all, including the two that belonged to Orange Boy, and called for Green Boy.

“Boy, it’s time to go. Take your sweets, let’s go.”

Ever so obedient, Green Boy came running over, accepted his sweets and followed after his mother.

Orange Boy’s eyes widened in shock. His chocolates were walking away! He looked towards his mother for guidance but Orange Mum pretended not to notice and looked away.

So the thief became the victim and the victim became the thief, and only one boy lived happily ever after.

The End.

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I guess you guys will be disappointed to learn that my Ninja Gaiden II costume looks nothing like the one worn by Sonia, who is the new NG femme fatale. This is Sonia:

But don’t compare us, okay. We’re not even meant to be Sonia.

We’re meant to be flyer-distributing generic ninja girls (which Moralis kindly pointed out to me are called kunoichi).

With the luxuriant bus interior backdrop, I think we look more like a couple of Korean tour guides.

And our Ryu Hayabusa was a tourist attraction.

Our jobs were to patrol the streets and scare people into pre-ordering Ninja Gaiden II.

But I think we failed. People were generally more amused than scared and made us stop to pose for photos.

And more photos.

And more more more more more photos.

I’ll post nicer photos after the next event, which will happen in the day, so I’ll be able to get clearer pictures.

And now, secret locations for the next ninja patrol! (In case anyone feels like stalking me or my ninja babe partner, or maybe Ryu Hayabusa.)

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
12pm—1pm: Rivervale Mall
2pm—3pm: Temasek Poly
4pm—5pm: Tampines Mall

OMG such out-of-the-way places. I feel faint.

Well, come anyway. We’re giving out thousands of free flyers on that day. Come and get yours.

*lol*

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Woah. It seems like there’s a serious contender for the Annual Grand Champion of the Sheylara.com Comments Grand Prix.

Mike M, a nice chap from the USA who likes leaving inspiring messages on my blog to encourage me through tough times, blew out of seemingly nowhere to claim top spot for three months running.

He is going to be a tough act to follow for modchip, reigning Annual Grand Champion of the 2007 Comments Grand Prix, who hasn’t even received his prize for wiinning that title because I’m a lazy ass and haven’t gotten around to setting it up.

March and April also saw a few new additions to the Top Ten leaderboard. Welcome aig, Ruok, PG and plushiehamsta to the Leaderboard Hall of Fame!

I also want to make special mention of a few special people. Although they have never gotten top spot, they have been supportive enough to stick around with me unfailingly since the start.

Thanks to Jesta and JayWalk, who have been top ten every single month since I started the Comments Grand Prix in August 2007.

(Of course, modchip is also in that category, but since he’s the reigning champ of champs, it’s quite needless to say.)

Wang Wang is also a strong supporter, although she started two months later than Jesta and JayWalk, and missed a month in March. But she’s still one of the top top tens!

And all the rest of you, who have also been on-and-off regular, thanks! There are too many names to mention now but you’ll all go into the Leaderboard Hall of Fame, to be announced at the end of the year.

Cool or not?

Okay, I think that’s quite enough of a speech. Results!

Sheylara.com Comments Grand Prix
:: March 2008 Winners ::

1. Mike M (77)
2. modchip (67)
3. Jesta (21)
4. JayWalk (19)
5. shin (12)
5. PG (11)
7. Ashtar83 (11)
8. Derrick (10)
9. zield (10)
10. plushiehamsta (9)

:: April 2008 Winners ::

1. Mike M (57)
2. modchip (43)
3. Jesta (20)
4. Wang Wang (16)
5. The GoonFather (16)
6. Ashtar83 (13)
7. JayWalk (13)
8. aig (12)
9. Ruok (11)
10. Monster (10)

In case you’re wondering, the annual top ten result is calculated based on the number of comments each commenter makes in the entire year, and not based on monthly leaderboard positions.

So, like, it’s possible for someone who has never been in the top spot to still be the Annual Grand Champion, unless Mike M and modchip are both crazy enough to decide they’re not gonna let that happen.

We’ll see!

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YES! Today is the day!

The Ninja Gaiden II month-long launch campaign starts today (technically yesterday but today is more fun) and I’m going to be somersaulting around Singapore in my ninja costume.

I wish.

Only the ninja costume bit is true. I have yet to master the art of somersaulting. Maybe not in this life.

There will be three of us, one Ryu Hayabusa and two ninja girls, scaring members of an unsuspecting public with our creepy all-black ninja costumes as we patrol our designated routes performing the unglamorous job of giving out flyers.

That’s about all we’ve been trained to do. They rejected my proposal to fly us to Japan to master the deadly art of ninjitsu. I guess there wasn’t enough time.

I’ll reveal the “secret” locations of our appearances in a while.

I just want to talk a bit about the launch campaign.

Pre-order sales of the Xbox 360 version of the game started yesterday at gaming stores around Singapore.

All pre-ordered copies come with a gift (or three). The exciting part is that you get more gifts if more people pre-order the game!

If the presale figure falls between 1 and 500, everyone will get a Ninja Gaiden II t-shirt.

501 to 1000, you get a t-shirt and a note book.

Over 1000 and Xbox Singapore is giving out a t-shirt and a note book and a special Ninja Gaiden II console skin for the Xbox 360!!!

Read about it at the Xbox NG2 site if you want. If you can’t be bothered, just remember this:

Pre-order Ninja Gaiden II for the Xbox 360 from May 1 to 25 to get cool NG2 premiums. Collect your game and gifts on June 3 at Funan the IT Mall.

That’s all!

Okay, I’ll now reveal our secret appearance locations for today only.

7pm—8pm: Suntec City (basement food court; e-life; Balaclava)

9pm—10pm: Clarke Quay bridge

11pm—12mn: Cineleisure

Please do not come and laugh at us.

There will be more appearances next week and next next week. Will update again.

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By the way, I’m feeling okay today. Well, I said I would. Thanks for all your concern. I just needed to rant, is all.

Besides being really really sleepy and fatigued (but still having to go to Ikea and IMM and carry heavy things to and fro all day), my mood is considerably good.

So, that’s done.

I’m not surprised that I got some comments asking me not to cut my hair. But WHY?

I think I look old and haggard with long hair. I feel old and haggard with long hair.

So, here’s a chance for you to tell me whether you prefer my hair long or short. (Actually, either way, my hair is always the same style… ramrod straight. So, like, it probably doesn’t make much of a difference, anyway. Haha. Sorry, my hair can’t be any other way.)

Photos for reference.

SHORT TO MEDIUM HAIR

LONG HAIR WITH SHORT FRINGE (past)

LONG HAIR WITH FRINGE OFF FACE (current)

Actually, the photos probably aren’t very accurate for voting because I only post my good hair day photos. But who cares. Just vote.

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