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Posts Tagged Happy Day

Congratulations President Obama

Dear President Obama,
Congratulations. You waged a great campaign. And now you are the victor. Here is where it starts to get difficult.
Yes, you are popular. But you’re popular because you represent ‘change’ and ‘change’ is all you have been preaching. After 8 years filled with the war in Iraq, Enron, Afghanistan, Credit Crunches and other […]


Happy National Day Singapore, I Really Mean It

Happy National Day Singapore.
I am grateful for all the good things in life, and lessons I have learned as a student and then a foreign-talent living in your Island-City.
Here is a list

Thank you for giving me a tertiary education, when my own country refused to do so on the basis of my racial heritage.
Thank you […]


Cowboy Bar Event: Martell Death Match

Tonight is the night of the “Martell Death Match” for the Cowboy Barflies - conceived and initiated by the infamous Jaywalk.

Over 3 dozen Cowboy Barflies will descend upon an unsuspecting pub, to do battle with each other with obscene amounts of Martell.
For those of you about to die, I salute you.
See you all later, […]


Happy Chinese New Year To All My Chinese Readers

A very Happy Chinese New Year - Gong Xi Fa Cai to everybody out there regardless of race and religion. Make sure all of you usher in the Year of the Rat with luck!


Congrats To Barffie & Naiveguy

Two of my bestest friends, Barffie (left) & Naiveguy (right) have officially declared to the world that they’re married today by throwing a wedding lunch cum bash in their lovely home.
Unfortunately, I was unable to attend because I’m stuck in China right now. So I’m making up for it by blogging about it live from […]


Happy Fasting Month

I would like to wish all my Muslim readers a very happy kickoff to your fasting month.
Please make sure you’re not weak and manage to fast. Look at the brightside, in 30 days time you will be slimmer, healthier and of course scored brownie points with the big G.


Happy Birthday Agagoogah

Facebook is a great because it alerts me when a friend’s birthday arrives.
So today I would like to wish Agagooga a very happy birthday. His witty sarcastic blog not only has made me (slightly) smarter, but also created awareness that life is sometimes what you make of it (because it’s really not the gahmen’s job, […]


Happy National Day

Happy National Day to all Singaporeans.
Appreciate how lucky that you were born in Singapore. You and your family enjoy the highest standards of living, medical care, security and will retire with money in the bank if you play your cards right. None of your neighbours in Asia can even come close to matching the […]


Joshua Borned Liao

By way of C-section. Weighing 3540 grams and lying down at 46cm tall… I give youuuuu…. JOSHUAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
On behalf of the Cowboy Bar community, I would like to congratulate Shelly and her hubs for being the first barflies to successfully procreate.


Happy Wesak Day 2007

I would like to wish all my readers of the jolly Wesak faith, a very happy Wesak Day 2007. I hope everybody received nice gifts this year. Yes, I’m kidding.
But do have a very Merry Wesak Day!


It’s A Girl

My favourite imaginary American pal, Caligula has just had a new addition to his family. Congratulations!!!
P.S: I still can’t say her name without dislocating my jaw.


Exhibition: Remembering Tsunami

Once upon a time (in 2004), after a tsunami hit the Indonesian town of Meulaboh, several photographers went there to document the aftermath of pain and suffering of the residents after the waters receded.

Last night, they held an exhibition, showcasing the surreal spectacle of reality caught and frozen for all time. My good pal, Terz […]


Happy Birthday Terz

7 years of marriage and I had to drink a tequila shot on his behalf on his birthday - Tym
As I cleaned off the foul smelling liquids that had attached itself to the soles of my boots thanks to mine stepping in a puddle of Terz’s puke - the byproduct of people buying him multiple […]


A Dinner With Old Friends, New Friends Quite The Fun

I had dinner with the Terz, Tym, Littlemissdrinkalot, Makanguru, Packrat, Ondine and my new friend the photographer-dude-based-in-paris-with-the-cool-dyed-patch-on-top-of-his-head.
We had dinner at Big Fish. Since this is not a food review, I will tell you first that the food there was cooked with lurve according to photographer-dude-based-in-paris-with-the-cool-dyed-patch-on-top-of-his-head and judging from the number of black mussels downed […]


Happy Birthday mrbrown

Rejoice all ye faithful, the Ah Kong of our blogospshere turns 357 years old today!!! Oh glorious day! Day of great joy and merriment. What a spectacular event!
He has been a good friend, source of advice and an inspiration to me.
Happy Birthday mrbrown. Best wishes and may you entertain us for another hundered years more. […]


Adventures In Home Wi-Fi

My wife has been wanting to surf the intarwebs from the airconditioned comfort of our bedroom but unfortunately, our pc is in the hall (where it is not airconditioned and therefore not very comfy at all). One of her colleagues told her that a wi-fi router thingy could be purchased and then theholehouseiscansurfintarneckalreadyyouknow.
On Sunday, we […]


Happy Birthday Naeboo

Happy Birthday Naeboo!
I’m glad you’re older now. Obviously you will never be wise. But at least you’re older now. Yeah, that’s right - older. Hiak-hiak-hiak!
[also checkout the naeboo fanclub]


Happy Birdday RUOK

I would like to wish RUOK aka Vincent aka That-Actor-Dude aka Damn-You-Are-Drunk, a very Happy Sixteenth Birthday.
His acting and antics are always a delight to everybody around him. Always a source of entertainment, RUOK is also a friend you can rely on. Btw, he’s still single (the last I checked), ladies!
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Happy Maulidur Rasul

I would like to wish all my muslim readers a very very very very very very very very very Happy Maulidur Rasul.
For those of you who have no idea why today is special, why it’s the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday!


Happy Birthday TYM!!!

To Tym,
Whose wit and intellect continues to astound me on a bi-weekly basis based on her writing but not limited to her personality and by her dry sense of humour plus donkeynoised laughing voice.

Happy Birthday!
Your friend,
C. Caleb
P.S: You’re not allowed to kill friends on your birthday based on snide remarks about donkey sounds.


Congratulations And Celebrations

One of my fav bloggers (admired from a distance) has gotten married despite a sick mother-in-law and other setbacks.
A very big congratulations goes out to Ampulets and J, may both of you have a loving and happy marriage.


A Very Merry Christmas To You

photo by ErikB
I would like to wish all readers of My Gonzo Journal, a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very […]


Barflies@Downtown East

Last night I went to the best party I’ve been to in quite awhile.
Never having been to DownTown East at Pasir Ris, I was rather surprised to find a Barney themed shopping center parked next to the chalets. Damn, we even had to pay a dollar to enter the chalet grounds - what gives, NTUC? […]


The Situation Is Not Good

Starbucks Christmas Open House 2005
Come to any Starbucks Coffee on 8 December 2005 (Thursday), from 5pm - 7pm, and enjoy your favourite Starbucks beverage* on us! Yes, it’s on the house!
Every single Starbucks in the central business district is currently packed to the brim with long queues of thirsty people.
Every.single.one.
I went to all of them […]


Brown v3.0 Is Born

Congatulations to the Brown/Lee family on the arrival of Joy Ginelle Lee. The whole blogosphere shares in celebrating this happy occasion.
link


It Is The Will Of Mighty Zeus That You Install Wordpress

The clang of Zeus’s jaw when it hit the ground was as pertinent as his thunderclap.
“You are using what?!!”
One night, it was discovered that Ruok (actor, author and barfly) was blogging not with blogspot, livejournal, xanga or any of the other blogging tools that span time and space. Instead, the asshat was using Dreamweaver to […]


Saturday Night Phiver

Hello, what are you doing tonight?
Kennysia, (that hairy biatych) will be at Wala Wala, Holland Village tonight to watch The UnXpected perform live. In honour of his hairy ass, the Cowboy Bar will be there to sabo him before he goes home. Well that, and to have a jolly hedonistic night.
In addition, I have invented […]


Murder Death Kill PaintBall

On the 6th of November, 2005. The Cowboy Bar barflies had their first ever paintball session, but issit nationally the first evar bloggers’ paintball session?
Another first for the Cowboy Bar, they decided to try and destroy each other with lethal doses of paint at PaintBall Asia at Orchid Country Club. They also had some cheerleaders […]


Now Thou Art Confirmed Liao

Today the entire family rose at 7.30am - half an hour late. After a mad rush, we were in the car on the way to church.
For every Roman Catholic boy and girl, the Sacrament of Confirmation is the final gift they receive before they become full members of the church as adults. It is only […]


The Devil Made Us Do It

Scarlett Boba Ting In The House

sandralicious getting whipped after being auctioned off

2 guys frenching at the party after a tequila floor race. Obviously I was not on their team.

And something is terribly wrong with this pic.
Finally Natsu has made a list of drinks were consumed for the Virtual Insanity Halloween Party 2005.
29 Hoegarden Half Pint
10 […]


Good Clean Hedonistic Fun Time For All

The Virtual Insanity Halloween Party 2005 will be forever burned into the minds of those who attended. 74 people turned up dressed in a variety of costumes that ranged from school outfits to wedding gowns to super hero costumes. The drinks flowed freely, the music was excellent thanks to DJ Slapdash and not quite sober […]


Congratulations To Aneki

Congrats to Aneki, who has given birth to the most adorable baby boy!!!


Finally

The Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible, and it’s about friggin time they made it official too. All the crap in the old testament, especially in Leviticus really irritates me to no end.
Link


Cowboy Wedding Photos

My wife and I have decided that models deserve every single cent they make. We used to feel that these lazy beautiful women made easy money by getting out of bed and striking poses for worshipping photogs to shoot. Now we realize that they are hard-working mortals with deceptively easy-looking back-breaking jobs.
You see, we had […]


Cowboy Caleb On Wikipedia

photo by Tirau Dan
Sorry if I’ve not posted anything with entertainment value lately. My backside and stomache have been at the forefront of my attention, in fact they have been all that seem to have mattered in my version of reality in the past few days. But now thanks to some foul tasting white milky […]


At The Bridal Studio…

She has chosen her wedding gowns. She looks amazing in all seven of them. My very own angel in white.


Local Racist Bloggers Charged

Mandrake emailed me this snippet of news. The channel news asia website seems to be down, so I’ve pasted the text here for you to read. I say, Jolly Good Show! We should not let racists get away lightly. The Intarweb is a public place, and as such if you have nothing nice to say […]


iPod Nano

Hello. It. Is.Time.For.You.To.Buy.A.New.iPod.
Nigga, please!
(Threez, this came out just in time for you. I suspect that divine intervention may be in play at the moment)


Life Is Just So Good Right Now

You know what we’ve done? You know what awesome insane shit me and my american housemate have pulled off now?
We’ve taken a projector, hooked it up to a laptop and speakers in the hall and are now about to project every single friggin episode of Lost onto the wall at such a big […]


Holy Bat Shit!!!!

A while back, I spilled coffee on my iPod and it kinda went crazy for while. But after it dried out, it seemed to work fine again.
After about a month, the clickwheel stopped responding every now and then. Then one day, it totally died on me. So I brought it to an Apple Service center […]


Tomorrow.SG Is Stronger Than Evar

La Idler a.k.a. fembot has rejoined Tomorrow.sg as an editor. Adults discuss issues and make up. Kids on the other hand, gloat. So much for all the predictions about how this was the beginning of the end. Disagreements are essential for building diversity. We’re stronger than EVAR.
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Official Cowboy Bar Badge

This is the official Cowboy Bar badge. There are many badges like this. But this one is ours.
Display it with pride on your blogs. Here is the html code:

thanks to Barffie for coming up with it!


Sometimes Even I Can Soar

(photo taken at Lomo party, Velvet on 27/7/2005 with mrbrown’s amazing kamerha)
I really suck at taking photos. It must have something to do with the way my mind works. Usually, I try to capture the moment, which is to say I want to cram as much as possible into one picture. Obviously that’s a terrible […]


Party From The Hip

this photo is mb take with his phone one
Last night’s Lomo party at Velvet was a blast. Cool heineken metal bottles (somehow it tastes different), beautiful people (why were are the guys not mingling with the gals?) and lots of shot-from-the-hip lomography photos on display. Daryl and I were overdressed in our striped shirts fresh […]


Happy Birthday mrbrown

Rejoice all ye faithful, the Ah Kong of our blogospshere turns 129 years old today!!! Oh glorious day! Day of great joy and merriment. What a spectacular event!
Happy Birthday mrbrown. Best wishes and may you entertain us for another hundered years more. Go and wish him a very happy birthday on your blog too!


Protected: Mission Accomplished

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.


Congratulations To Jeff Ooi

Screenshots is among the 10 blogs from Asia shortlisted for the Freedom of Expression Blog Award. The other Asian blogs shortlisted are from a Chinese residing overseas, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, two from North Korea, three from Nepal, and an Irish from Singapore.
Jeff Ooi’s Screenshots has won the Freedom Blog Award for Asia. This is […]


Gerambling Lifestyle, Bling Bling

Hey boys and girls, there is a casino Intergrated Resort coming soon to a neighbourhood near you. Obviously you’ll be wanting to increase your gambling IQ.
Well the nice folk over at the Gawker Media have launched the (auspiciously) 13th member of their blog empire and it’s a……. gambling blog called Oddjack!
Gawker Media just took […]


The Day We Caught The Train At Hideout

alcohol has strange effects on one’s vision
I’m so glad. The blogosphere just became a more friendly place with a whole bunch of bloggers (some from the Cowboy Bar) meeting up for drinks and phat beats at Hideout to listen to DJ Slapdash, DJ Limpeh and DJ Sickboy-Judas
FF even reports that they were sober drunk sober […]


Dispatch The Droogs

During lunchtime today, this sight greeted me on the streets of Robinson Road in the CBD. Awesome innit? Starbucks actually dispatched dudes with FREE ICE COLD CAFFEINE for the likes of us. I actually saved 5 bucks because I got a free shot today!


Breaking News: MPH Now Sells Gambling Lifestyle Magazines

I was browsing the magazine racks at an MPH bookstore looking for a copy of Fast Company or Cargo, and to my astonished eyes - Josh Hartnett was on the cover on a magazine called Player - The Gambling Lifestyle Magazine.
Hey, they only just announced the Casino decision barely a fortnight ago so […]


Mandrake Was Hatched On This Day Many Years Ago

Today is Mandrake’s Birthday. Why not visit him and wish him more years of angst, gout and skirt-chasing. Happy Birthday, bitch. Here’s to the rest of your life with me being in a thorn in your side.


Caleb Vs Caleb

There is another Cowboy Caleb running around the internet. I cannot win. His mojo is too strong.


Lotus Lunch, Tiki Coffee

photos by caleb’s phonecam
Today I met up with Powerpuff for lunch, or should I say she was sweet enough to hop into the cab during lunchtime to meet me in the CBD.
We went to the now legendary Lotus Cafe for lunch where I treated her to the famous Danish Meatballs in Thai Curry with rice, […]


Cowboy Caleb Goes to Jobe

Here I blog down the events of my trip for posterity.
Day 0
I was scared shitless. Some of you may know I have a severe phobia of flying. Anyway, I was nearly dizzy with fear when I boarded the plane. Despite Mandrake’s warnings of not to drink on the flight - I milked the stewerdess for […]


Feeling Like A Smug Moron

Hello. Just a short post. I cannot read your blogs on my pathetic bandwidth, but I can access my own.
My STI ETF is indeed up. The value of my investments have increased by nearly 10%. I know it’s luck. I know it’s thanks to Dr Money’s advice.
But I feel like a financial guru/whiz […]


Hari Merdeka

47 years ago today, Malaysia gained independance from the British Empire.
It’s days like this that make me quizzical. My country of birth has not been good to me, ladies and gentleman. Ask any Malaysian not of Malay descent and they will have a sad tale to tell. We have all been victims of the government’s […]


Cycling and Cake

On Sat, my family and I went to the beach in the evening to cycle together as a family. It’s a very family thing to do apparently.

Before embarking on any type of outdoor activity, it is important to load up on cheese cake and tea/coffee. So we went to the famous Cheese Cake Cafe […]


Bday Bash 2004 - Survivor Labrador Park

AngryBeaver and mine Bday Bash 2004 (organized and sponsored by SD) was held at Labrador Park from 8pm until the cops told everybody to leave somewhere in the wee hours of the morning.


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