The Wedding of Blogger Wilson Ng of Placesandfoods.com
Advertlets Bloggers, Parties & Events September 29th, 2010
Every now and then, there will be a post here that doesn’t involve clubbing or alcohol. Wait a minute, it’s a chinese wedding, so there’s definitely alcohol! Anyway, I was especially happy to attend, this being the second blogger wedding I’ve been to in my lifetime. This time, it was the wedding of Advertlets Bloggers Wilson Ng & Rachel Ting, who both write on placesandfoods.com
We at Advertlets were happy to be there 
From left: Jason Ong, Hanie Hidayah, Josh Lim
Yes, the bubble wrap casing is cute, isn’t it? Ai Li is fascinated with the iPad …if she gets one, she can call it her AiPad
You’ll notice that the photos look slightly different. First time using a Nikon D300 with speedlight on this blog, it was Jason Ong’s camera. Most of these shots here are by me, although Jason took a few too.
Chinese weddings always have awesome food. This was the opening dish:
Unfortunately I forgot to snap the rest, too busy eating…
A big group shot of our table…all bloggers one. Okay, well, 80% la.
Got this good shot of Jason Ong yam-seng-ing.
Got this at the right moment as they were popping the champagne Only wish the other photographer weren’t in the way…
The one on the right is not Hannah Tan, it is none other than Joanne Kay
I like how the groomsmen wore Mexican wrestler masks.
First wedding I’ve been to where the opening song before the bride and the groom came in was the “Transformers theme” followed by a WWE Wresting Anthem….then the ‘proper’ here comes the bride song. Interesting.
Below: Wilson & Rachel walking in…
Lastly to end the post - some of Wilson & Rachel’s really hot friends!
Lastly, remember to visit www.placesandfoods.com/wedding. If you have 3D glasses, you can view the wedding pics in 3D. Yes, 3D wedding pics. All in all it was one of the most fun weddings I ever attended, and I like how they did quite a few things differently. Gives me some ideas for my own wedding. Which won’t be too soon la
Pictures from Arthur’s Day at Sunway Lagoon, Malaysia!
Parties & Events September 25th, 2010
Here are some pictures from Arthur’s Day, a celebration of the legacy of Arthur Guinness at Sunway Lagoon, Malaysia! I arrived pretty late due to the jam from KL (had another event to cover), but I did manage to catch the highlight of the show - Flo Rida! Pics below:
He actually threw his shirt to the audience. Lucky girl.
The night was capped off with fireworks!
And now on to the action in the VIP area…
The girl who brought me an nice cold one
With Jules of FlyFM
Robyna. Probably the hottest property agent you will ever meet. Leopard prints…secretary glasses…it’s too much!
Evonne Liang and her squeeze.
Her name is Blair, and she’s Korean. I seem to be meeting more Korean girls recently ever since returning from Korea. Coincedence? The Law of Attraction? I have no idea, aside from the fact it’s a good thing…
There was also an afterparty…
I like this shot of me and JJ.
Okay, it’s 6:40 AM as I type this But this is like, the first blog post in the WHOLE OF MALAYSIA with AFTER event pics, so that made it worth it. I’ll sleep now, goodnight!
Check out more posts at http://blin.gd/arthursday
Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole screening with Advertlets, an an awesome coincedence!
Advertlets Bloggers, Parties & Events September 21st, 2010
Thanks to Warner Brothers, we recently had our FIRST 3D screening! It was none other than Legend Of The Guardians, The Owls Of Ga’hoole. It’s based on a set of popular children’s books, but you don’t need to know that.
Interestingly enough, I really wanted to watch it as it was directed by the same guy (Zach Snyder) who directed ‘300′ and ‘Watchmen’…this is his animation debut. Also, the soundtrack features one of my favourite artists…Owl City Amazingly appropriate.
My date for the movie was Jessy…a deep-dimpled friend I haven’t seen in a while and a new blogger (she just started a few days ago). Here she is, making our Advertlets preview screening tickets look good
Here are some shots of the blogger crowd prior to the screening…
As is customary…a group pic of us after the screening.
On the movie itself…I think the owls were translated to screen very nicely. Left: real life owl. Right, animated owl.
To sum up the movie, it’s kind of like Lord Of The Rings meets Happy Feet with the slow motion and orange/blue/red stylings of ‘300′ (same director)…all with owls.The film’s running time is 1 hour 30 minutes, which is just about right. A tad slow in the first half, but the second half is definitely enjoyable. The Australian accents feel a bit odd at times - given that most of us are used to American/British accents, but after a while you get used to it, and it does match their characters.
I don’t know about you, but I didn’t quite like the way the Bahasa Malaysia subtitles jumped out at you - can we petition the Malaysian government NOT to make the subtitles pop out, and have them ‘flat’? The owls are cute. You could hear the cinema going “awwww” when the baby owl appeared. Your kids would want the buy the soft toy versions of the owls.
I wouldn’t quite call it a kiddy movie though - there is some good fight scenes, some violence, although there’s no blood and there is definitely some owls that die (at least 2). Don’t worry, won’t spoil it for you which owls die. It feels suitably dark in some places, and the story is deep enough for an adult to enjoy, but its definitely something you can bring your kids to enjoy.
Soundtrack wise, I would have preferred a less orchestral score, and more ‘indie/pop/guitars’ route that the trailer took (the trailer had a very good song from the band ‘30 Seconds To Mars’. Hanie was dissapointed that it didn’t appear in the film. There’s one particularly memorable part where the Owl City song “To The Sky” comes in, a foot tapping-ly happy song written specially for the film.
Humour wise, there are a few good laughs, but don’t expect a laugh a minute comedy. It’s an epic tale, with owls. I can honestly say that I got goosebumps in a few of the more dramatic moments. All in all, a good film to watch in 3D, and it’s definitely one of the better animated films to come out this year together with ‘Toy Story 3′ and ‘Despicable Me. ‘
In conclusion: I watch a lot of films (about 2-3 a week on average, and my tastes are pretty varied), so if I enjoyed it you probably will too Overall:
Pros: Animated owls are cute and appealing. Inspirational story. Can be enjoyed by kids and adults.
Cons: Title is too long and prone to confusion (Legend Of the Owls? Legend of Ga’hoole? etc). Soundtrack could be less orchestral. Australian accents are odd.
And…
About the crazy coincedence mentioned in the title…I twitpic-ed this a couple of days back. The chances of a picture of a movie about owls getting a randomly generated URL with the word owl in it is…like…1 in 500,000? Wow. I couldn’t believe it. Either that or Twitpic is becoming self aware, kind of like how Facebook is now creepily detecting faces and suggesting you tag them.
This post is missing something before I conclude it…
Maybe some funny pictures of owls?
Oh, right. You probably want another pic of Jessy. There you go
Post ends!
Arthur’s Day Bus at Souled Out, Mont Kiara
Food, Parties & Events September 21st, 2010
I was recently invited to an event in conjunction with Arthur’s Day, the Arthur’s Day Bus at Souled Out on the 20th of September 2010, just a few hours before the Legend Of The Guardians screening with Advertlets.
The Arthur’s Day bus was there! Pics from the interior soon
A very nice stage, for a one day event I would say that the setup is very impressive.
Starters - fish & chips, meatball and chicken on skewers…with a Guinness of course!
The beautiful food bloggers behind bangsar-babe.blogspot.com and rebeccasaw.com
If you haven’t figured out already, from the multitude of print and cinema ads, Arthur’s Day is not to commemorate King Arthur, nor the animated mouse ‘Arthur’, but, about Arthur Guinness, the creator of the stout that bears his name. Guinness is probably one of the brands with the longest heritage so far, and I remember reading that Malaysia is one of the top 10 consumers of Guinness…worldwide!
Interestingly enough, I came across this book in Departure Lounge, Damansara Uptown recently about Guinness. Quality is a bit blurry as I snapped this with my iPhone.
I was waiting for my bagels to be ready, and picked up something to read from their shelf. It’s a rather good read, amazingly compelling considering its just about Guinness.
Was pretty surprised to see that Malaysia got quite a significant mention (about 5-8 pages about Guinness in Malaysia) - check out the picture from the book.
Now back to the food
Guinness actually works pretty well as a shot mixer, surprisingly enough. I’ve had an “Irish Car Bomb” before at Library, and its definitely one of my recommended drinks. This above however, is a shot that they concocted for the event…it’s a mix of Guinness, lychee and cream, and something else. I like how they look like little Guinness pints.
That’s all the pics As I was short for time, I had to quickly down my pint of Guinness and rush off to the movie screening.
Meantime, remember that you can catch me at Arthur’s Day (or just go, irregardless of the fact that I will be awesomely there), on the 24th of September. Acts include international acts Flo Rida, Colby O’Donis, Sean Kingston as well as homegrown acts Pop Shuvit & DJ Fuzz. See you there!
Cay Kuijpers Retro Birthday Party at Desire, Asian Heritage Row
Josh Lim Photography, Parties & Events September 20th, 2010
I haven’t updated this blog in a while, haven’t I? Here’s one of the parties I’ve been to when I’m not blogging…It was the birthday of non other than Cay Kuijpers (above)! In case you’re wondering why she looks familiar, you’ve seen her here from my previous post about partying at Rootz She’s also the 2008 Estee Lauder Model Search winner. Cay (whose name is actually Carisheila Kuijpers) comes across as pretty quirky in most of the photos here, but she can definitely do “hot” too. Pic is from a shoot she did in Bangkok.
In case you’re wondering, she is Dutch/Spanish/Filipino…quite an interesting mix. I first met her at Joannabelle Ng’s (Miss Universe Malaysia 2009) charity launch.
Left: Josiah Mizukami, Natascha, Dian Sharlin, Justin Bratton and…?
You might have seen Sam at Zouk pretty often (the guy in front with the starry singlet). You should look for him if you wanna book a table there, he’s one of their new ambassadors.
That’s Justin Bratton in the middle, who recently hosted Hennessy Artistry at Mist.
The pasty looking dude in the light pink singlet is Christian Capes…Cleo Bachelor winner a few years back, and MTV Asia VJ Search finalist.
As much as I would like to say I shot this on an actual vintage camera, it was actually shot on a Canon 1000D with post processing. You like?
Me and the birthday girl.
I really like this accidental shot. It’s interesting how the guy’s arm hair seems so…drawn, like how you would draw a beefy guy’s hand in a comic strip.
Natascha, Cay, Dian.
All the ladies.
Daniella Sya. She told me to tell you guys she’s going to be coming out in a new movie. I don’t remember what it’s called, but I will update this when I remember
Daniella and Natalie Lynn. You’ll definitely see Natalie at Zouk on most weekends…
Josiah, with his wig. I’m not sure it’s supposed to be worn there…
That’s it for now. Next up: Chantelle Chuah’s birthday party, Hennessy Artistry, my flight on a propeller plane above KL, various Advertlets events and more!
On a side note, I’ll be taking a lot more party pictures to prepare for a future venture, so meantime…if you have any good parties, let me know and I’ll come by with my camera
Vote for Jason Ong to meet Wayne Rooney in Old Trafford with Tiger FC!
Advertlets, Advertlets Bloggers August 23rd, 2010
Advertlets Blogger Jason Ong REALLY wants to meet Wayne Rooney!
In his own words:
“A brief of what I need to focus on. I’m in the running to meet the famous football player from England and Manchester United, Wayne Rooney in PERSON. I get to PARTY with him, hang out with him, have lunch with him, get his autographs, get some official merchandise, Q&A session and the best part is, I get to play some balls (I have no idea why Jason chose to word it this way) with him on the field.
I’m competing myself with 3 other regional countries in Asia. Singapore, Vietnam and that includes bloggers from Malaysia as well. Fellow friends of mine, I need some of your huge support to support me! I need 10 supporters to support me.”
And well, if you vote for him, I get to take part in a beer party as well, sponsored by Tiger! As I’m part of the support team
But okay, if you need a reason, here’s why I think you should vote for him:
Jason Ong is a really good photoblogger - over the past few years he’s been producing some of the best shots from our Advertlets events as well as many others across KL and more. He’s also a pretty decent at shooting video - so having him meet Rooney and cover it will be the next best thing to actually being there. Other than that, he’s a hardcore Manchester United fan - and won’t be asking stupid questions and embarassing us Malaysian MU fans when he’s over there. Also, lastly - this is a regional contest - wouldn’t you rather a Malaysian win than someone from Singapore, Vietnam or Indonesia?
So here’s what you can do to drop your vote:
- Visit his blog at this link: http://bit.ly/MYtigerJO
- Drop a comment (comments go towards the score!)
It’s that simple!
A Day Out With The New Honda Freed!
Advertlets, Advertlets Bloggers, Parties & Events August 23rd, 2010
Recently, I was part of an entourage of Advertlets Bloggers together with Paul Tan and crew to test out the new Honda Freed.
Our day started off at Souled Out, in Sri Hartamas. Bloggers gathered there before our drive, and we had a good breakfast before we set off to Putrajaya.
We’ve put together an awesome video of the trip, check it out. Featuring sound bites from a few familiar faces and an interesting look at the journey:
Motoring journalist and Malaysia’s Jeremy Clarkson Harinder Singh was our guide throughout the trip, together with Paul Tan of Paultan.org.
Each car was outfitted with a walkie talkie for the trip, which was useful in discovering the features of the car and inter vehicle communication (for example - “eh, someone sesat already! turn back!”).
Honda bills the Freed as a “premium 4 seater”. However it technically can fit about 6 people (and 8 if you REALLY squeeze As someone who is used to driving a 1.8 liter car, I’m used to a quick pickup. The acceleration power seems to be in mainly in the lower speeds, tapering off at about 100-120 km/h.
The Honda Freed is powered by a Honda 1.5L i-VTEC engine, and the car had about 165KG of people + cargo at the time of driving. So I would say that the acceleration is okay, I can’t exactly compare it to a sports car but its satisfactory for the vehicle class and the number of people that were in the car.
The dashboard has a blue backlight. Interesting material - it doesn’t seem to be a ‘light’ in the conventional sense, but rather looks like e-ink as in its not glaringly bright but its visible quite clearly, as if it were printed on.
The fuel efficiency meter is also a welcome feature, it actually measures how many kilometers you are getting out of your drive - useful for fine tuning your driving habits to squeeze more distance out of each drop.
There are two major differences in positioning - the gearshift is on the dashboard, and the ‘handbrake’ is on the floor. The second one takes a bit of getting used to, but having the gearshift on the dashboard actually makes quite a bit of sense, it frees up some space for you to either store stuff, or be able to walk through to the back of the Freed. The dual layer dashboard is a good idea, and it does give you quite a bit of room to put stuff. I wish it wasn’t sloped downward though - it would be slightly better at a 90 degree flat angle.
One of the Honda Freed’s selling points is the walkthrough cabin. It’s useful if you have kids and need to crawl to the back and change a diaper, for instance.
The Freed starts from RM112,980. The units involved in this test drive were fitted with a sports kit that included door visors and a tailgate spoiler. If you’re considering the long term cost as well, Honda has helpfully put together preventive maintenance rates and costs per thousand km.
More info can be found here. Overall it was a good trip, bloggers had fun in addition to learning about how to do a test drive. Thanks to Honda’s PR company & Honda Malaysia for giving us this opportunity. Meantime, if you’ll like to check out what the rest of the bloggers in our entourage wrote, check it out: -
(yes, there were lots of us! Advertlets FTW!)
http://opstupe.blogspot.com/2010/08/all-new-honda-freed.html
http://www.diyanazman.com/2010/08/03/freed-and-terberanak/
http://www.diyanazman.com/2010/08/06/the-all-new-honda-freed-%E2%80%93-a-yummy-mummy%E2%80%99s-review/
http://www.placesandfoods.com/2010/08/hondafreed.html
http://rames.blogspot.com/2010/08/day-out-in-all-new-honda-freed-with.html
http://www.rebeccasaw.com/honda-freed-the-test-drive/
http://www.rebeccasaw.com/sneak-preview-a-day-out-in-the-honda-freed-with-paul-tan-advertlets-bloggers/
http://euveng.com/2010/08/honda-freed-the-latest-utility-mini-mpv-in-town/
http://www.ridzuanrichie.com/pemandu-honda-freed-mudah-melambai-mat-rempit/
http://hanzbr.blogspot.com/2010/08/day-out-with-honda-freed-and-paul-tan.html
http://www.leonardchua.com/2010/08/cruising-on-brand-new-honda-freed.html
http://spinzer.us/2010/08/first-test-drive-with-the-all-new-honda-freed/
http://www.feeqsays.com/2010/08/day-out-in-all-new-honda-freed-with-30.html
http://www.feeqsays.com/2010/08/honda-freed-car-photos-camwhor-photos.html
http://www.botakai.com/2010/08/05/test-drive-the-new-honda-freed/
http://mynjayz.com/2010/08/advertlets-day-out-in-all-new-honda.html
http://theclippingpoint.blogspot.com/2010/08/day-out-in-freed.html
http://walauweiwalauwei.blogspot.com/2010/08/test-drive-review-all-new-honda-freed.html
http://www.missycheerio.com/day-out-with-the-new-honda-freed/
http://howmanthink.blogspot.com/2010/08/honda-freed-bloggers-day-out.html
http://ruzenchung.blogspot.com/2010/08/honda-and-adverlets-pres-all-new-honda.html
http://arystle.blogspot.com/2010/08/honda-freed-mpv-dream.html
http://eforericyong.blogspot.com/2010/08/day-out-with-paul-tan-in-all-new-honda.html
http://bolehland.net/post/singlepost.php?id=69
http://www.cutecarry.com/2010/08/02/cutecarry-test-drive-honda-freed/
http://undercoverproject.blogspot.com/2010/08/day-out-in-all-new-freed.html
http://www.ewinee.com/2010/08/all-new-honda-freed-test-drive-outing.html
http://naomitham.blogspot.com/2010/08/all-new-honda-freed.html
http://www.hanep.org/archives/2010/08/freed-in-saturday-with-the-all-new-honda-freed/
http://youresty.com/2010/08/chapter-21-test-drive-the-all-new-honda-freed-with-paul-tan/
http://www.paeh.net/ada-apa-dengan-honda-freed/
http://shamhardy.com/2010/08/16/sehari-bersama-honda-freed/
http://www.advertlets.com/weblog/2010/08/02/389/
12 August 2010: INVITATION - Josh Lim & Donovan Chan’s Birthday!
Advertlets August 10th, 2010
Dear Advertlets bloggers, friends, blog readers and hot babes,
you are cordially invited to August Babies: Josh Lim + Donovan Chan’s Birthday Party at Vanity Mansion, Heritage Row this Thursday.
Join Donovan Chan (Advertlets Sales Director) & Josh Lim (Advertlets Managing Direct0r) as they both turn 21 years old (again, as they did the previous years!) With Advertlets bloggers, friends and lingerie models (hopefully)! Come on time to enjoy free flow and great company.
Date : 12th Aug 10 (Thurs)
Time : 9pm onwards till late
Free Flow of drinks & Finger Food: 9pm-10pm
Choice of drinks: Beer, Soft Drinks and House Pouring Vodka & Whisky
Performers: Stand-up comedians, belly dancers and fire-twirlers
Thanks to Vanity Mansion, our venue and F&B sponsor.
Please RSVP with Hanie Hidayah (haniehidayah) or Jason Ong (Mynjayz) to confirm your attendance. Thank you!
Facebook page is here: August Babies: Josh Lim + Donovan Chan’s Birthday Party
hanie.hidayah (at)advertlets(dot)com
jason.ong(at)advertlets(dot)com
That’s us from Advertlets! A small celebration in the office…with a big celebration on the 12th!
Boryeong Beach & Boryeong Mud Festival! - Josh Lim in Seoul, Korea)
Korea, Parties & Events, Travelling July 25th, 2010
My feet hurt. But the past two days have been amazing. I’ve been spending my time at Boryeong Beach in South Korea (about 3.5 hours away from Seoul). Just to chill at the beach, and also, for the Boryeong Mud Festival 2010 (yes, it is what it sounds like and it is awesome). Thanks to my hosts Shannon & Ben and their friends for making this a really great experience! More details on these group of excellent people soon - I have to rush to a BBQ shortly.
Boryeong is really quite beautiful. Clean. Nice sand. Tanned bodies. Colorful floats. Good facilities. One of the best I’ve ever been to. Actually it is the best.
Yup. This is definitely my favourite shot of the year.
Or maybe this is
Here’s a preview of pics from the Boryeong Mud Festival:
These guys are most likely US military stationed in Korea.
There were waterslides to play with as well.
Shannon & a group of Indonesian college students based in South Korea.
That concludes the post for now. Come back here all next week for more pics from my South Korea trip!
Josh Lim in Seoul, Korea! Part 2: Seoul Tower, HD Smoking & More!
Advertlets, Korea, Parties & Events, Travelling July 23rd, 2010
Let’s start this post in reverse chronology. The past few days have seen me exploring around Seoul as well as attending the various networking events organized by the Seoul Promotion Program. There was quite a memorable trip to the Seoul N Tower - Seoul’s version of the KL Tower It was really quite beautiful - I’ll be writing a full post on it later, but here are some previews:
The reception:
Me with some really lovely Korean ladies. Yes, most of them do look pretty damn good. The pop culture samples you’ve seen (eg Wonder Girls, Girls Generation, Hyori Lee, etc) isn’t quite too far off from the reality. I am…shocked. But pleasantly.
A picture at the peak with me, Rebecca, Jin Sook (an SPP representative) as well as a good looking dude from Canada.
Before the trip to the tower, we had dinner by the lakeside -
Awesome view of the lake from the restaurant balcony:
A Korean jazz band played as entertainment. Lead singer was really stunning. Reminded me of a Korean movie I’ve seen where the heroine somehow sings with a jazz group in a bar. Damn I forgot the title though.
The day before that was also another networking night - panorama shot!
Seoul’s night skyline is…surreallistically beautiful.
Malls are heavily populated even late at night:
Lastly here are some interesting Seoul quirks…a special pillow menu at the hotel I was staying, Coex Intercontintal Hotel!
Energy drinks you can’t find anywhere else:
And this last one is…like…wow. I usually smoke Kent, but I guess the only way you can smoke Kent in High Definition is in Korea
More soon! Seoul N Tower really deserves its own post, it will be up too!
Josh Lim in Seoul, Korea! Part 1: The 14th Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF 2010)
Advertlets, Korea, Parties & Events, Travelling July 21st, 2010
Quick post. I’m currently writing this from the COEX Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul, Korea. I’m here on a sponsored trip from MDEC for business matching - Malaysian + Korean businesses. Anyway, it was a long flight (6+ hours) and I just touched down today at 7AM. I then spent most of the rest of the day walking around the Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF 2010). Here goes! (pics are fresh, just from 2 hours ago!)
The Bandai booth was pretty impressive: Robots, promoters and all!
Don’t know who this guy is, but he’s cute
Me testing out a cool Augmented Reality thing. Hold up the postcard to the webcam (the postcard has a special printed bar code on it), and it will ‘project’ images. Cool thing is that it changes perspective according to how you move and angle the card.
Another cool thing I tried was a gesture based navigation system. It was built by the guy demoing it in the picture below. It’s kind of like a Nintendo Wii controller thing (move your hand left and right/up and down) to effect what goes on screen. However, it’s without having a physical controller
This is Won Hee who explained to me about the system. Happy to have met someone that speaks English fluently all the way over here Apparently, she studied abroad!
I think most of you would be familiar with Domo-kun…
If you didn’t already know, Samsung is from Korea. They have quite a massive presence in Seoul, I saw Samsung Galaxy S ads…4 times! on the way from the airport to the hotel. You probably know their products well enough, so this is a picture of the pretty girl at the booth…
A motion capture thing (It’s how they plot out character animations in films such as Avatar). They are waving some sticks that translate to movement on screen. More on that later.
Lastly I leave you with an angry chicken figurine and his friends.
More soon! There’s a welcome party for Malaysian and international delegates tonight that I gotta get ready for. Should be fun. Stay tuned for more, I aim to blog daily/live if I can
How did Paul The Octopus do it? (World Cup 2010)
Sharing July 12th, 2010
The World Cup is finally over as of today. Feels odd, doesn’t it? No football matches to watch tonight? What are you going to do with your life, besides move on and do what you always did the other 4 years?
Anyway, if you were following the World Cup this year, the name “Paul The Octopus” might have came up quite a bit. Interestingly enough, he has predicted all the World Cup matches quite accurately.
For those that don’t know:
Paul (hatched January 2008) is a common octopus living in a tank at a Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany, who is used as an animal oracle to predict the results of football matches, usually international matches in which Germany is playing. He came to worldwide attention with his accurate predictions in the 2010 World Cup.
During a divination, Paul is presented with two boxes containing food in the form of a mussel, each marked with the flag of a national football team in an upcoming match. He chose the box with the flag of the winning team in four of Germany’s six Euro 2008 matches, and in all seven of their matches in the 2010 World Cup. He correctly predicted a win for Spain against the Netherlands in the World Cup final on 11 July by eating the mussel in the box with the Spanish flag on it.[1] His predictions have thus been 100% (8/8) correct for the 2010 World Cup and 86% (12/14) correct overall.
Came across this image today (below), its a pretty interesting theory on how Paul the Octopus has been correct so far:
Heh. Magic? Octopus likes yellow? You decide. Then again, octopuses are color blind. Check out the link, and there’s also another theory about Paul preferring flags with contrasting stripes (the German flag has very high contrast).
Keep in mind also, that Paul is German, and historically, Germany has been pretty good at football over the years.
Probability wise, (from Wikipedia) “assuming Paul’s predictions were no better than fair independent coin flips, the probability of 12 successful predictions in 14 attempts is 91/1684 ≈ 0.56%” - A less than 1% chance.
Anyway, found this image today too.
Viva la Octopus Espanol!
Whether you believe in the logical explanation, or magic, or chalk it up to coincedence, this was probably one of the craziest World Cups ever - with goals that magically didn’t count as well as other mindboggling decisions by the referees, “extra goalkeepers” during the Uruguay vs Ghana match, a record number of yellow cards, And the vuvuzela. Seriously, the vuvuzela. Aren’t you happy you don’t have to hear it anymore?
Anyway, even though the World Cup is over, remember you can catch up on your favourite moments of all the matches of the World Cup - just check out this link (Bplayer). There were a few matches I missed, and this is really one of the best legal places to watch the World Cup online from here
Coming soon to this blog: Party pictures (like you expect), and some interesting emotional insights and confessions (that you won’t expect…)
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