Today I went to uncle's house for reunion dinner.

One of the chinese new year songs played was sung to the tune of "jingle bells". It was amusing, to say the least.

Random thoughts:

You'd wonder why many people like to sing, even though they can't really sing. It's quite strange actually, because people who are not good in math wouldn't like math, and people who have poor stamina wouldn't like running. Perhaps, it's because of mirror neurons? Like when you hear someone sing you can feel yourself singing too, even though you know full well you can't reach all the notes, and somehow you get a kick out of listening to really good vocal pieces. Well, for me that's the case.

Perhaps, that's also the reason why people like to watch wrestling or read superhero comics; it gives them the kick of beating enemies up with the help of their mirror neurons.

That still leaves me to wonder why we don't get endorphins rushing in our body when we watch people sweat out. Oh wait, guys do watch women's volleyball... but I doubt it's for the endorphins...

Do people with faulty mirror neurons sing even though they can't? If they do then my hypothesis must be wrong.

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One of my cousins is getting married, and he has already taken wedding photos with his fiancee in advance. Then the uncles and aunties were recounting the times when they took their wedding photos, and lamenting about the wonders of modern technology: how they can tweak the features, how they can remove the bright patches, how they can save and delete many many pictures, how they can change the background... As they spoke it sounded more and more like neoprints to me....

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Played teletake on take5, but didn't do well. I was quite surprised at "preparedness" coming out for charades. Although it saw it in posters around RJ, I refused to believe such a word actually exists. So when someone finally guessed it i was like w00t!!!!

The message to pass was "We must completely eliminate all fences in order to achieve total defence." It was rather weird. The chinese version also quite cheem, "Wei le qu de quan mian fang wei, wo men bi xu che di cui suo you de li ba." Like, 6 words are secondary school vocab lor! I can't imagine how siao the tamil would be.

The weird thing is, what's the problem with fences? RJ is surrounded by them. Anyway, the way this message is phrased sound like something out of a GP essay question, like:

"We must completely eliminate all fences in order to achieve total defence." Do you agree? Explain your answer."

roflness. I can't imagine a chinese version of this.