Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

Jack Neo, Only As Faithful as His Options

This post will probably make a lot of my female readers angry, but I just got to say my piece.
Watch the video above.
Yes, Jack Neo screwed up. But was it entirely his fault?

Worst Sex Scandal Video EVAR

Some Swami (Indian holyman) gets it on with a Southern Indian actress.
You have to watch it to see how bad it is. Full details here.

Can You Spot The Pron?

According to Jems, this innocent looking site is a pron site in disguise. I can’t find any pron for the life of me despite all his hints.
Can you find any pron?

Batman & Robin Versus Cowboy Caleb

via the Batman & Robin Comic Generator

Google Buzz Is Awesome Says Cowboy Caleb

I hate Facebook. It is creepy. It is full of people I barely know poking me and asking me to attend strange events in crazy places I never even knew existed. Everyday, I receive email from my nutjob ‘friends’ giving me eggs and fairies from stupid online games that are actually invitations to join their [...]

Dear Xiaxue….

Dear XiaXue,
In a recent inteview by PatLaw (a most terrible person, I agree) you casually mentioned that I was not marriage material nor an object of desire for sexual coitus.
That’s alright.
I OSO DOWAN TO ROLL IN THE HAY OR MARRY YOU. LATER YOU BROG ABOUT IT.
Hmmpphhh!!!
sincerely,
C. Caleb (esq)

Local Blogger Alleges Being Terrorized By Loansharks, Police Indifferent

This just in.
Local blogger Sassyjan has informed me over email that loansharks are terrorizing her family over some imaginary loan that her recently deceased dad took out. She has approached the police who have thus far been anything but useful.
Sounds incredible? What’s even more incredible is that the police seem to be unable/unwilling to [...]

More Gaylord Dwancing

This is from the barflies Xmas eve party. More info here.

Step Over Ris Low, Here’s Kerenina Sunny Halim — Miss Indonesia 2009

Step Over Ris Low, Here’s Kerenina Sunny Halim — Miss Indonesia 2009 who apparently is a member of that notorious cult “Children of God”, which is notorious for their hippie lifestyle and sexual abuse of children.
Other ex-alumni include actors River Phoenix and Joaquin Phoenix.
I wonder how many people she slept with to win this beauty [...]

Will This Movie Remind You Of Somebody Who Has Been In Your Life But You Haven’t Realized It?

click here if you can’t view the movie (via)

How Would You Like To Redesign Cowboy Caleb’s Blog?

I would like to invite interested local web designers to redesign my blog. Or if you know somebody in design, please share this post with them.
My current blog design is getting old and my readers are growing weary of it, I think. It’s time to move towards Web 2.0 or whatever it’s called these days.
What [...]

Does your social class determine your online social network?

“MySpace has one population, Facebook has another,” said the 26-year-old, who works for an affordable-housing nonprofit in San Francisco, California. “Blue-collar, part-time workers might like the appeal of MySpace more — it definitely depends on who you meet and what they use; that’s what motivates people to join and stay interested.”
There is this article that [...]

Upskirt iPhone Application

It can only be from Japan (via mrbrown)

I Knew It But I Just Never Had Any Proof

This just confirms what I’ve always known
1) Muslims of both sexes and Hindu men get along worse.
2) Catholics are more universally liked than Protestants
Much more datapron can be found inside the main article.

Cowboy Caleb Will Buy This Book And Attend The Events

Dear friends,
After more than two years of writing, research, rewriting and polishing, the book Singapore: A Biography, by Mark Ravinder Frost & Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, is going to be launched this October in Singapore.
* 400 pages of lively writing about Singapore history, as you’ve never quite heard it before
[...]

Malaysian Makes Good As A Coffee Cup Artist

Malaysian Makes Good As A Coffee Cup Artist. His cups are stunning works of art. Check out his flickr set page here and his blog here.[via lancerlord]

Because I Didn’t Feel Like Paying, I Really Didn’t

My blog was unavailable for most of today, and most probably last night.
Why? Simple. I didn’t pay my hosting bills despite being sent numerous emails about it.
I didn’t feel like paying.

Today Won’t Be Such A Rotten Day After All

This really made my day. Scroll down to the question “Name some of the bloggers whom you look up to” and check it out.
It’s nice things like this that make me go on blogging.
Thanks Jialat, I like your blog alot too.

Blogathon 2009

For twenty four hours, 10 bloggers will compete head-to-head against each other in a Blogathon where they will blog, blog, tweet, blog, tweet, blog and blog inside TANGS’ window displays. 40 winks aren’t allowed, although hey, we understand the need for the occasional flirting with the passerbys from outside the windows. Two winners will be [...]

Frankly, We Couldn’t Care Less But We’d Rather You Stay Away From Our Little Hive Of Scum & Villainy

An incident happened, which is both ridiculous and sad.
Why my rather thoughtless comment created a maelstrom which soon I get sucked for I really have no idea. I can’t help but feel I was picked on and singled out, after I was subsequently told by a friend that the entire group of them were already [...]

Hello to @SingaBeng

I really like @singabeng who tweets under the twitter nick “Singa Courtesy Lion” and is a self-described “Guai Lan Courtesy Lion” (more about that on Wikipedia)
Some examples of recent tweets:

You all today got call your mother anot?
Say thank you or I beat you.

Kennysia, It Is The Will Of Mighty Zeus That You Name Your Penis

NSFW tweeting, let me show you the how
In which the @Kennysia and the @Sheylara get sucked into the gravity of my Zeus!

Follow my adventures on Twitter, right now!!!

Creepy Nicks, Let Me Show You The How

Hi Cowboy
I thought this might give you a laugh. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2520166/Officer-wrote-kitchen-bitch-on-traffic-notice. Note the typical Kiwi understatement in the final sentence.
Did you know we’re recruiting officers from Singapore to do rotations in New Zealand? I don’t know what kind of condition they’ll be in when we send them back, but it could be amusing…
Take care :)
Mrs. Skin
—————————
Dear [...]

You Really Want To Run A TV Program About Blogs, Really?

This is a true story. Basically, I got an email from somebody named Nawwar Syahirah (Producer, English Current Affairs) who wanted to me help out with a TV programme called BlogTV.sg
From: Nawwar Syahirah
date: 3 June 2009 14:05
subject: Invitation to BlogTV.sg
Hi Cowboy Caleb,
I’m a producer from the programme BlogTV.sg, hosted by Flying Dutchman and Phin Wong, which [...]

This Is Good Twitter Etiquette

The Star is Malaysia’s better national newspaper (read: not totally controled by the crooked government) and they have a twitter account which you can follow for free news tweets.
The really amazing thing is that they actually have a flesh & blood person monitoring the twitter account, and in seriously good twitter etiquette, sent out [...]

Man, This Is Some F78ked Up Shite

Ok, so I’ve had to switch to Google Reader from Bloglines to read RSS feeds because the Great Firewall of China has blocked Bloglines.
Today, I discover that Google Reader is no longer displaying any RSS feeds from blogspot blogs – because Blogspot is now banned as well.
Facepalm!

SoyJoy In Our Blogosphere

                  
Local Singaporean Social Media Rockstar Patlaw’s latest baby born out of the blogosphere. Click on the above and find out more.
Note: I voted for Nadnut/Nadia

Twitter Foils Singtel’s Futile Controls

It was time for a new toy, and I decided that a new phone would do the trick. I had earlier fiddled with the new HTC Dream which is powered by Google’s Android operating system but Singtel wouldn’t sell me one without a new contract signup. So I sent out this tweet.

It didn’t take too [...]

Cowboy Caleb’s Guide To Media Events for Bloggers

Dear Bloggers,
As you may have realized by now, being a blogger somehow magically bestows the magic dust of journalistic benefits upon you. Before your head swells up to the point of no return, here are a few words of friendly advice for when you attend media events.

You are not a journalist. What you are, is [...]

The Old AWARE Strikes Back

#awaresg Message to bloggers and webmasters from the we-are-aware.sg team.
“Hi all, www.we-are-aware.sg is a site set up by the old guards of AWARE.
There seems to be lot of support in cyberspace, but we dont know how many of those voices will be attending the EGM.
It would be great if all of you who are intending [...]

How I Would Have Taken Over AWARE

Taking over AWARE, UR DOING IT RWONG!!!

Quit my job to focus full-time on the hostile takeover and post-takeover day-to-day activities.
As soon as my team had successfully executed a hostile takeover of the EXCO, hold a staff briefing about the new org structure the next morning.
With the money saved from homosexual promotions and marketing, reinvest [...]

Minishorts Asks Cowboy A Silly Question

This is the dumbest question of the day. The only people in the world who don’t know what labia tastes like are straight women who meticulously-wash-their-hands-after-using-the-bathroom and men who are bad in bed.
Btw, minishorts was responding to this tweet.
Update: a gay reader wrote in via email to share that assholes taste ‘oakey’ and ‘like walnut’. [...]

Cowboy Caleb Vows To Use Twitter For World Peace

Yesterday, I did a curious thing. After noticing that I had 480 followers on Twitter, I decided to try and reply to each and every one of them (I tried ok, it took hours so maybe you didn’t get a tweet).
It had not dawned upon me that so many people were following me on [...]

Cowboy Caleb Basically Squanders His Blog

Regret of the month – turning down an offer from a PR company to fly me over to California for the gala premier or a preview (I forgot, shoot me) of a new Pixar movie.
That’s right, I turned down an offer for a free vacation to do something hideously cool.
Basically, I don’t have the time [...]

The metamorposis of a local transgender

The metamorposis of a local transgender – I tell myself that I should be disgusted at this blog, but then it’s so honest and full of sincerity that I can’t help enjoying Ms Chor Loh’s writings.
To be frank, I find myself getting less and less homophobic as I grow older. This is strange because I’m [...]

More Creepy Facebook Observations

Another creepy thing I’ve realized about Facebook.
Every now and then, somebody I knew when I was young and the earth still had female ents, adds me as a friend on facebook. The first thing I do is check their photos. It’s inevitable. Nobody ever blossoms into a supermodel okay? I go in and like ughhhhh… [...]

Pirelli Sends Cowboy Caleb Their Legendary Calendar

I received this via email from the Marcomm department of Pirelli.
Hi Cowboy,
I’ve read that that you had rather recently purchased a set of Pirelli run-flats. Thanks for that!
In totally no relation to that however, I have managed to wrangle a calendar for you. Just that I’m not too sure how this can be sent to [...]

Hostgator Is A Disappointing Webhost

My blog has been down for the past 2 days, much to the dismay of me because when i can’t blog, I get depressed and into all kinds of trouble.
But first let me tell you what happened.
The liquidblade.com domain run by mandrake and myself is hosted by a company called Hostgator.com
Liquidblade provides free blog hosting [...]

SG Blogger Event: How To Market Your Blog Like A Brand

Local socialmedia rockstar Patlaw is organizing an Open Room session dedicated to helping bloggers market their blogs like brands. That’s right, if you’re serious about taking your blog to the next level, this is the event that you should be attending. It’s organized by Patlaw leh – the Patlaw herself.
Seats are limited – make sure [...]

Too Much Traffic Melting Down My Blog

If you are a regular reader of “Cowboy Caleb”, you may have noticed that my posting frequency has dropped.
It has now come to the point where I’m afraid to blog. My traffic seems to have increased mysteriously (I’m not one of those people who enjoy analyzing their server logs) and my blog melts down every [...]

Twitter Of The Day

Rockson Takumi Tan tells it like it is!

Twitter of the day

Rockson: Only A Nobody Left In The Sg Blogger Assoc

First, the mighty Rockson wrote about how a bunch of nobody bloggers started the Association of Bloggers (Singapore).
Now that 8 of the original 10 committee members have stepped down – Rockson lets this super hilarious twitter loose.

miyagi & mrbrown reveal a troubling trend at TCS8

I spotted this twitter exchange between mrbrown and miyagi.
Now that you mention it, they do seem to have a point:

By the way, I’m also on Twitter – add me

Cowboy Caleb Gets Paid By Nuffnang

I received a very pleasant Chinese New Year surprise in the mailbox today.
Nuffnang sent this cheque for SGD4025.40 (RM9260) to me for the ads and advertorials that have been running on my blog.
Most of the money will go to a charity of my choice. In these difficult times, the less fortunate should be remembered. [...]

TNP: 30 Bloggers Joining SG Bloggers Assoc

Since the association got the official nod on 16 Jan, Ms Goh said it has received several enquiries from netizens interested in joining.
However, no new members have been admitted yet.
She said the organisation also plans to invite about 30 prominent bloggers to join as members, but declined to name them.
‘We hope to get bloggers [...]

Singapore Expat – How Can They Possibly Sponsor Our Annual Ball If They Need Bailouts

An Singapore-based American expat blogger wonders why Citibank & Chrysler are sponsoring the American Association of Singapore’s annual ball if they are requesting for government bailouts at the same time.
Well done, Lisa McDonald. If only more people could open their eyes and pretend they weren’t blind more often.
Clap clap clap.
P.S: Please forward this to your [...]

Association of Bloggers (Singapore) Loses Another 2 3 Members

Association of Bloggers (Singapore) has lost another two three members. So now they are left with 3 2 members plus their president.
None of the committee members who have resigned, have voluntered any reasons as to why this happened. However, if you were to be so damned curious (some say bo liao) as to go [...]

Mass Resignation: Assoc Of Bloggers (Sg)

We want to revive the ‘kampung spirit’ – bringing bloggers of different races (and nationalities) together, helping one another, fostering the neighbourly spirit.
Apparently the kampung spirit thing was wishful thinking?
It is alleged by this post that today saw the departure of 4 committee members of the rather unpopular Association of Bloggers (Singapore).
And then there [...]

The Party Stuff Of Legends

Videos of the now-famous CB Sishtas
So last night, I finally got to attend one of Cowboy Barfly AhTiong’s famously infamous popular Wii parties.
Basically what happens at his parties is lots of booze + bak kwa + Nintendo Wii. Barflies take turns to play with the Wii, 4 at a time. The person with the lowest [...]

Reviews On Cowboy Caleb Are Actually Feedback Loops

After posting about “How To Get Mentioned By Cowboy Caleb”, quite a few local entrepreneurs and SME’s have gotten in touch with me to review their products or services.
To date, almost all of them have gotten negative reviews, and therefore not published.
Of course, I also give feedback & suggestions on how to improve (eg. hire [...]

Rejecting Facebook Asshole Friendship Requests

Rejecting Facebook Asshole Friendship Requests – local blogger CynnedCynner shows you how

Comments On Cowboy’s Blog Now Captcha-Enabled

The comments on my blog, have gone missing time and time again. Many of you have noticed this. Sometimes they disappear for a few minutes but sometimes they twink out of existence for a couple of hours (Mandrake & myself were busy with something else and did not notice).
What’s happening is that comment spammers [...]

Twitter Of The Day (Ozzie Version)

Twitter / spleep1: @cowboycaleb Proud to anno … via kwout

My Australian pal spleep is very bright and sees an opportunity to corner the market when he sees one.

Twitter Of The Day

It can only be the one and only Rockson!!!

How To Get Mentioned By Cowboy Caleb

Dear PR/Marketing/Business Owners,
It is very easy to get your product/service/website/event mentioned on my website. All you have to do is send me an email request.

If you are a non-profit, or if you plan to do something that benefits society in general, I will do it for free.
However, if you make money directly or indirectly off [...]

Parodies Of The Mocca Body Builder Ad

This is the original Mocca TV advertisement that featured a bodybuilder that wanted to sell his house. It evoked a lot of homophobic allergic reactions amongst the male population of Singapore. There are quite a few remixed versions of it on Youtube.
So some students (anybody recognize the uniform?) want to sell their school…

There’s also the [...]

Sketchy Travel Journals

My friend Ngader not only travels for leisure, she draws really great stuff to document where she’s been!
(link)

Blog is up again!

Mandrake has managed to restore the database, and all my blogs comments have now reappeared! Hooray!!!! 3 cheers for my favourite asshat!
I’m currently in the first class lounge at the Shenzhen airport. Surprisingly, my domestic airline ticket is part of the Star Alliance, so my gold Krisflyer card managed to get me VIP privileges.
My [...]

Cowboy Caleb’s Blog Crashed Last Night

Hi,
If you’ve been trying to access my blog for the past couple of hours and kept getting a white screen with a funky error message, I apologize.
What happened is that the database table that stores all comments posted by readers, has crashed and burned. And in its demise, it pulled the entire blog down with [...]