- A V I A T O R 3105 / 6973645 -
- Poljot 3105 manual winding
- Mineral crystal
- Water resistant to 100 metres or 10 ATM
- All stainless steel (matte) case
- Screw crowns
- 22 mm leather strap
- 45 mm case diameter
- Luminescent hands and numbers

First Moscow Watch Factory (FMWF) was built in 1930. It started production of its first pocket watches in November 1930. Production of special watches for the aviation industry was developed and put into practice during the period from 1931 till 1935.

All Soviet military planes were equipped with watches produced at FMWF during World War II. Pilots and navigators of the Air Force had FMWF's wristwatches.

Watches of the Aviator line were designed to pay homage to all the heroic pilots of the USSR. They are made in stylish military design. Large figures, hands and signs are filled with a special luminescent coating, which does not contain any harmful elements. A wide variety of sizes and different types of mechanisms used in the Aviator watch line provide an opportunity for the most fastidious customer to make his choice.

Staying at home watching TV, switching channels is something which i've not been doing for a very long time. Till a point that i can remember which channel number for which programme for Cable TV, e.g. Cable 12 - Discovery ; Cable 16 - Discovery: Travel & Living; Cable 35 - Cartoon Network; Cable 60 - HBO; etc. Just watched "Passport to Europe with Samantha Brown". And still, it's a torture when you can't laugh whole-heartedly or loudly while watching those variety shows or comedies like Kung Fu Hustle shown last night on AXN. Can't even laugh at my bro who just drool at the mute ice-cream girl( real name Eva, Huang Sheng Yi ) in the movie.

Eva Huang

.Not sure if it's just me or my profession at work. Advertisements often caught my attention or interrupt a conversation whenever that is a new advertisement. Be it on press, print, outdoor, offline, online...bla bla bla,etc. My recent eye-balled on the tv makes me curious over the series of ads on TV. No offense but just curious.

*shrug*"Why does Malaysia, Truly Asia ad on TV looks so Singapore?"

There are scenes of a Muslim dance, a Indian Dance, a Chinese Opera, some angmo band, ...etc. Beautiful sunset minus the Merlion and Esplanade (i was told that buildings in Singapore cannot be higher than 280 metres). Add some fireworks and Petronas Towers. Take out the pink dolphin and Sentosa; throw in some turtles and Langkawi or Phuket.

Quoted this(below) from http://www.malaysiatrulyasia.co.uk/
The vibrant colours of Asia are all here - in Malaysia.
Come experience the unique potpourri of Asia's great cultures - Malay, Chinese, Indian and the many ethnic groups of Sabah and Sarawak. In friendly Malaysia, even the British, Dutch, Portuguese and Thai have left their mark. Radiant with colour, throbbing with life, alluring Malaysia welcomes you to partake of an incomparable Asian feast for the senses.

i asked my bro and he says Singapore is a proven product of multi-racial country which not many countries can lived like us. I have some of my US/ Brit counterparts don't know where we are( isn't Singapore in some province of China?); but they knew that we speak at least 2 languages( English and Mandarin). I've pointed out the map to them where we are. There! Smaller than a grid point. Even the word "Singapore" is bigger than the land mass on the globe.

I just remembered there's one more place that i must visit if i get to Paris. Musée du Louvre( The Lourve Museum). Click here for their official website. Here are some snapshots i got them off Google images.


Sunset at the Louvre Museum.

Night pictures of the Louvre Museum.


Lourve museum in daytime .

The symmetrical triangle.


Lights up!


Louvre Museum Gallery.


The interior of the glass pyramid.

- KING KONG -

Genres : Action/Adventure, Romance, Thriller and Remake
Running Time : 187 min.

Flamboyant, foolhardy documentary filmmaker, Carl Denham, sails off to remote Skull Island to film his latest epic with leading lady, Ann Darrow. Native warriors kidnap Ann to use as a sacrifice as they summon "Kong" with the local witch doctor. But instead of devouring Ann, Kong saves her. Kong is eventually taken back to New York where he searches high and low for Ann, eventually winding up at the top of the Empire State Building, facing off against a fleet of World War I fighter planes.

Another ah lian( alien) versus potato( predator) kinda movie with bits and pieces of beauty and the beast. Well... can't blame Kong 'cos he is already smittened by Ann Burrow's beauty. Which reminds me of the story of seduction where the almighty Gaius Julius Caesar fell head over toes over Cleopatra....... And watching a movie when you can't laugh or smile loudly aren't no laughing matter..*sobs*

King Kong vs T-rex

T-rex showed its teeth.

Beauty and the Beast

Indeed, very pretty.

I'm now with 50% less wisdom. I finally took out my rascal-wisdom tooth that caused me sleepless night. Don't want to show you guys the picture 'cos it's damn gross. But i was astonished by the size of my lower right tooth. i measured it's 2 cm long x 1 cm wide and 2.7cm for height. The surgery was fine except that i choked on my own blood. And considering that i have a high threshold of pain(ego~). Now i look like a swollen pig-head with blood stains over my teeth.

Now the real torture comes. I can't eat proper food now.

Holy-Xiaoqiang says: "sigh~ look on the bright side lah, xiaoqiang. You already pacified yourself with Macdonald's breakfast this morning. You had one big breakfast, one hotcakes with sausages, one sausage mcmuffin with egg, 3 hashbrowns and 2 cups of coffee. What else do you want?"

Went zoukout on saturday night. Was aching from yesterday till now. dammit. My body not keeping up my with age. it feels like the whole legs gonna crashed. Music was so-so, crowd control sucks, alcohol...as always finger-licking good. I think i just fell in love with bombay sapphire...

My friend is leaving for Paris for work. Just remembered the place thati told her i wanted to visit. It is Notre Dame Cathedral.

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Went past Sentosa Underwater World on saturday night. It was about this time of the year that i went to The Underwater World. Carrying a different heart at different time to the same place still playback the scenes of the previous visit. The jelly-fishes, the wet sand, the circular corridor, the smell of sea, the fragrance smell of coffee....

A couple of weeks ago, a friend pointed out Orion in the sky. orion is a star constellation which you will only see it in Singapore around this time of the year.

Are you looking at the Orion that i taught you? Are you..

Deep Impact, the movie in 1998

Got this piece of news off TODAY newspaper.

Scientists urge action to deal with asteroid likely to hit Earth.

LONDON scientists are monitoring the progress of a 390m-wide asteroid discovered last year that is potentially on a collision course with the planet, and are imploring governments to decide on a strategy for dealing with it.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has estimated that an impact from Apophis, which has an outside chance of hitting the Earth in 2036, would release more than 100,000 times the energy released in the nuclear blast over Hiroshima.

Thousands of square kilometres would be directly affected by the blast but the whole of the Earth would see the effects of the dust released into the atmosphere. In Egyptian myth, Apophis was the ancient spirit of evil and destruction, a demon that was determined to plunge the world into eternal darkness.

The experts fear that there is very little time left to decide.

At a recent meeting in London of experts in near-Earth objects (NEOs), scientists said it could take decades to design, test and build the required technology to deflect the asteroid.

Ms Monica Grady, an expert in meteorites at the Open University, said: "It's a question of when, not if, a near-Earth object collides with Earth. Many of the smaller objects break up when they reach the Earth's atmosphere and have no impact.

"However, a NEO larger than 1km (wide) will collide with Earth every few hundred thousand years and a NEO larger than 6km, which could cause mass extinction, will collide with Earth every hundred million years. We are overdue for a big one."

Apophis had been intermittently tracked since its discovery in June last year but, in December, it started causing serious concern.

Projecting the orbit of the asteroid into the future, astronomers had calculated that the odds of it hitting the Earth in 2029 were alarming. As more observations came in, the odds got higher.

However there are no shortage of ideas on how to deflect asteroids. The Advanced Concepts Team at the European Space Agency have led the effort in designing a range of satellites and rockets to nudge asteroids on a collision course for Earth into a different orbit.

- The Guardian

Had dinner at Pete's Place, Hyatt last night. Food was great, ambience was good. Bills is never best. had a little talk on thailand with a couple of my friends to add on the previous entry.

No cheapo shopping. i can't enjoy shopping further in thailand. i can't fit into their clothes. Certified by jon. Thai guys generally are slim and middle-build. and it's hard to find size XL. ARGH~! come to think of it, i think i will fit better in ang-mo countries. In size and build of course. Gimme another chance to go bangkok. This time, i will open my eyes bigger. i want to prove myself wrong.(excuses~)

I also can forget about buying shoes there. No sizes either. not that it's cheap but better designs and stuff. Shit, i sounds like a girl. Anyway, the conversation below might sounds familiar to you. It happened to me at several shops.

At a shoe retail shop,
xiaoqiang: " Do you have size 44 for this colour?"

After a while,
Thai salesgirl: " Sir, try size 1st. i go check colour."

After a while,
Thai salesgirl: " Sorry Sir, No size. take this colour. Nice colour, same price. Cheap cheap."

xiaoqiang: " no thank you i only want this colour."

Thai salesgirl: " Sorry Sir, this colour no size. This colour nice colour, same price. Cheap cheap."

xiaoqiang gets up and walks away: " thank you."

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Came across one journal entry by rene40: interesting facts. Just for fun, my comments are in orange.

1. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight". ( hmm.. what about sweet dreams?)

2. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon. ( i wouldn't want a son-in-law if he becomes an alcoholic in our time. But i don't mind honey beer. sweeet~)

3. In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F*.*.K (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that word came from. (hahaha... another word for whoredom in those days. Nowadays, we hang "Do not Disturb" on hotel doors.)

4. In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.(Hahaha.. Now i know why ladies in Scotland don't wear skirts then and how kilts come about.)