Van Tango

The brains of pathological liars have structural abnormalities that could make fibbing come naturally. "Some people have an edge up on others in their ability to tell lies," says Adrian Raine, a psychologist. "They are better wired for the complex computations involved in sophisticated lies." He found that pathological liars have on average more white matter in their prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain that is active during lying, and less grey matter than people who are not serial fibbers. White matter enables quick, complex thinking while grey matter mediates inhibitions. Raine says the combination of extra white matter and less grey matter could be giving people exactly the right mix of traits to make them into good liars. These are the first biological differences to be discovered between pathological liars and the general population. Maybe the 'Meet The Parents' sessions for future son/daughter in-laws may include this type of check-up as well? The "CSI teams" around the world may also find it useful for interrogations.

This week's episode in South Africa was an extremely hilarious and memorable one. The best moments were -

• Keenyah - During African dancing class : "Arrgh..my jeans are too tight"
• Brittnay - "I..can't..dance!" & "Shut aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrup!" (head in left-right-left motion)
• Kahlen - *shocked n speechless* while learning to dance & *weeping* alone in the house while others were busy arguing
  

Naima was given the key to open up the jail cell that was once occupied by Nelson Mandela. But Keenyah don't seem happy about it. She thought that she was the only one with African origins. Zzzzzzz.. Naima also has some african blood and I was glad she volunteered to do the honour. During the photoshoot, Michael Essien's twin was one of the 3 guys posing with the gals. Essien rudely moans while doing the photoshoot with Keenyah, whom he flirted with earlier, wanted to take her pic on his cell phone, etc...During the extra 30 photo shots which she won, Naima goes from tribal dance to Showgirl('pointing to sky' pose!). Kahlen's white hat worn during dinner was very very nice! During evaluation, the girls were told to dance along to an african drums band and stopped at some unknown intervals to strike a pose. Only Keenyah looked natural while the rest were either too stiff or very awkward. Naima had the best photoshoot in my opinion. Sadly, between Brittnay & Naima, the former went home.

Bren was chosen to join Alex and Chris to balance the teams. Kendra was the project manager where she really put a lot of effort by staying up late while her teammates preferred to go back to the suite and sleep because they think it's not worthwhile being with her to complete the task. Chris allowed Alex to take care of the small details of the car photoshoot but the metro dude forgot about that important aspect, blaming time constrictions. When Bren & Chris worked their way through the night, Alex went to dreamland around 4 plus and missed the important part of the brochure construction which he might have disagreed upon. The front cover is just the car name with a simplistic logo on a rectangular scrapbook. The pictures they chose were horrible, those with blurred imaging of a speeding car. For the other team, Kendra was super bloody ecstatic about her solo effort to produce a fantastic 90% rounded circle shaped brochure. She went back to the suite at around 8.30am and told a just-awoken Tana - "I'm the one who looked like someone who've just had sex. I'm grinning from ear to ear about the task." Tana just responded with a lazy "Ok..Well done." At the evaluation, Kendra's team easily won the task. They were rewarded with a time out with some unknown NBA people. Trump made a confident dunk himself during that time. In the boardroom, Chris was asked why he has been on the losing side for the 7th consecutive time. The reply was that he always gave his best and feel very satisfied after completing each task so there's no definite answer. The board was unhappy that Alex fell asleep at a crucial moment where he was needed for his opinions. They also told Bren about why wasn't the emotions he described when seeing the car was not on the manual. George - "Who wants to buy a car by just seeing the technical aspect and lacking the emotional side?" As a result, Chris did not do well as a project manager and was fired. He then turned into a crybaby mode till Trumpy had to call him back, telling him not to take things seriously, he will be successful one day and stop chewing tobacco(haha)..... Final 5 left.

It's the season of the Great S'pore COE Sale
An interesting remark on this issue :
It's a conspiracy I tell you.......
Singaporeans are lured with cheap COEs. When they buy the cars, the roads will become more congested and more ERP gantries will be raised and of course an increase in the rates as well. So they leave their cars at home and next, car park rates will also increase. But by that time, everyone will want to sell off their cars and find the 2nd car market is saturated. So either bear the loss or carry on paying. "Lose - lose situation. All ways."

There will be no Super Eagles in Germany next June! They are me favourite african team ever since USA '94. I want to know who are the current Peter Rufai-s , Daniel Amokachi-s, Finidi George-s and Sunday Oliseh-s. These peeps can do spectacular things with the football. The best goal celebrations were always from that continent. Not everyday you get to see interesting tribal dance. Maybe Ghana and Angola might have some new ones this time round. Lucas Radebe has reaffirmed his desire to coach South Africa at the World Cup finals in 2010. What??? His defending skills, especially against Mr Hen-ry a few seasons back is as bad as Mark Lee's complexion. The Bafana-Bafana would be better off with a renowned coach.

On Oct 12th, The Cardigans will be streaming the instrumental version of the entire new album at their website.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are close to finishing work on their second album and hope to release it early next year. They have been busy working on the follow-up to 2003's 'Fever To Tell', with guitarist Nick Zinner travelling to London to mix tracks for the record. "We're pretty much done," he revealed. "We're done recording, basically. It's just a matter of picking and choosing, and all the other things you have to think about when putting out a record." Yes. This art-punk trio makes good music. Nice to know they are producing a new album. The countdown for a new 'Y Control' begins..

A solution to BYPASS Copy Controlled Protected CDs?

Sven is one wussy manager. Why must he bother to explain the reasons for his team selections? He is supposed to be the BOSS and by telling the public about how that prick 'Alicia-Keys hairstyle' bozo was not made to be a scrapegoat, made the BugsBunny evil twin look more pathetic than his tactics. That midget Michael claimed that ONLY Brazil could stop them winning the holy grail cup next June shows utter lack of respect to other participating countries. So the land of Crespos, Tottis, Ballacks, VanDerVaarts are just there to make up the numbers??? No wonder Rafa dumped you out as soon as possible.

Jose Mourinho has hit back at Johan Cruyff's criticism of his style of football. He rapped: "Since 1996 Cruyff has been playing golf and criticising. Since 1996 he manipulated and used the power that was given to him for being a fantastic footballer. He cannot teach me to win Cups and Super Cups because I've already won them. He cannot teach me to win the Uefa Cup because I also have it. He cannot teach me to be European champion because I was it already."
"And I don't want him to teach me how to take a 4-0 defeat in a Champions League final (Cruyff's Barcelona lost 4-0 to Milan in 1994) because I don't want to learn that. Let him come to English football where he can learn that he is in the 21st century." You would always expect this dude to bite back, in style. Now that he has his own registered trademark name, a new product - ** "Me", by Jose Mourinho ** perfume might be a hugely profitable item in the market.

Microsoft has broken off licensing talks with four major music companies over its plans to launch a subscription download service. It is believed Microsoft had been in negotiations with EMI, Warner, Universal and Sony-BMG about selling music online for a flat monthly fee. However, the talks broke down last Friday because of what Microsoft considered to be excessively high royalty demands. Lately, Steve Jobs, the Apple CEO, claimed recording companies had demanded that iTunes raise its prices. He warned people would revert to illegal downloads if charges increased. "Then everybody loses. If they want to raise the prices, it just means they're getting a little greedy." Artists normally receive around 4.5p from every 79p sale on iTunes - around 6% of revenue - but 35p from physical singles sales, equal to about 12%. The Warner CEO, Edgar Bronfman, suggested download royalties should not be uniform and said newer material should cost more than back catalogue songs.
--Buy copy controlled cd -> Can't transfer to ipod -> Frustrated -> Download free mp3 = Wrong?--
--Heard about new song -> Download free mp3 -> Impressed -> Waited few weeks/months for the CD to appear -> Tell people about it who also became interested -> Eventually buy CD = Wrong?--

Elizabeth Hurley will wed her fiance Arun Nayar on V-Day next year. The couple started dating in December 2002 and will marry in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Hurley is relieved Nayar is only weeks away from securing a divorce from his Italian wife Valentina Pedroni, after years of legal battles between the estranged pair. Hurley enthuses, "It hasn't been easy. We want to marry in February, possibly on Valentine's Day." She hopes Elton John's partner David Furnish will take on the role of best man(!!!!), laughing off rumours her ex Hugh Grant would have an official role in the ceremony. "Hugh will not be our best man. I might ask David though." Mr Arun might reluctantly accept that idea..