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ShowMe! Photo Blogger

2010-06-14T21:22:00.002+08:00

In anticipation of my upcoming travel mobile blogging stint in Shanghai, I've downloaded a nifty BlackBerry application called ShowMe! Photo Blogger and insert an inaugural inconsiderate chope-r picture here!

2009

2009-01-03T01:02:00.002+08:00

You made it easier when life gets hard
Do you hear me
I'm talking to you
I won't hesitate no more
Look into your heart and you'll find
There's no need to complicate
Our time is short
I guess what I'm be saying is there ain't no better reason
Listen to the music of the moment
As the world keeps spinning round
You hold me right here right now
They don't know how long it takes
Waiting for a love like this

I’d keep you with me in my heart

It's like talking to a wall

2008-12-19T23:20:00.001+08:00

Nothing gets through.

05.12.08

2008-12-04T21:28:00.000+08:00

Tomorrow we'll discover
What our God in Heaven has in store
One more dawn
One more day
One day more...

PLC does crazy things to you...

2008-12-03T19:34:00.004+08:00

I went on a buying spree after last Friday's paper and I just bought this online after today's:

to compliment this that I got years ago:

Hopefully they retain their value more than my dismal attempt at stock trading.

Time to eat grass!

Fantastic Four #1 (x)
Spider-Man #1 (x)
The Hulk #1
Iron Man #1
Thor (Journey into Mystery #83)
Daredevil #1
X-Men #1
The Avengers #1

I suck at Economy 101

2008-11-26T21:16:00.004+08:00

I still maintain that the economic crisis was due primarily because of the involuntary shrinking of everyone's belt because they were scared off by the economic failures they read about in the news and see on tv. There is no real actual crisis except everyone cutting down on everything, and some even jumping on the bandwagon to cut and save money as an excuse.

If you're a teacher, will you be affected by the economic crisis? MOE is just cutting salaries because they wanna save money and they wanna save money because they (as any company) are inherently trying to cut costs whenever they can. One might argue that the economy is global and even our town councils have investments that depreciate and cause them to lose money. But they are not supposed to invest more than a certain % of their funds in such investments. So what about the rest of it? Similarly, if MOE has such links to the economy, and they have ample funds left, why the excuse to cut salaries?

This economic crisis is a farce and the only ones benefitting from it are the companies (and organizations) that are crying foul. We need people to spend more so banks won't be so scared to lend more and that doesn't help if you cut salaries. You start doing that and you get MORE defaults in payments and don't even start on the layoffs. The whole vicious cycle goes on because of this.

It's just so ridiculous how things can escalate.

It all started with the Barenaked Ladies!

2008-11-25T19:57:00.001+08:00

Download Big Bang Theory mp3

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait...
The Earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,
That all started with the big bang!

"Since the dawn of man" is really not that long,
As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song.
A fraction of a second and the elements were made.
The bipeds stood up straight,
The dinosaurs all met their fate,
They tried to leap but they were late
And they all died (they froze their asses off)
The oceans and pangea
See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya
Set in motion by the same big bang!

It all started with the big BANG!

It's expanding ever outward but one day
It will cause the stars to go the other way,
Collapsing ever inward, we won't be here, it wont be hurt
Our best and brightest figure that it'll make an even bigger bang!

Australopithecus would really have been sick of us
Debating out while here they're catching deer (we're catching viruses)
Religion or astronomy, Encarta, Deuteronomy
It all started with the big bang!

Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology
It all started with the big bang!
It all started with the big BANG!

The 90s

2008-11-24T23:44:00.001+08:00

Sometimes, I am still amazed that something from the 90s can still look so good. He actually doesn't look very out of place alongside the newly revamped Nolan Batman and Singer Superman.

When the invigilator @ the Bar Examination announced that...

2008-11-24T15:16:00.005+08:00

"The color of the examination booklet for today's paper is BLUE"

I actually wondered why my examination booklet was green.

Dammit.

KTV

2008-11-20T11:37:00.003+08:00

ROCK PAPER SCISSORS SPOCK LIZARD

2008-11-20T11:16:00.002+08:00

The latest episode of the Big Bang Theory introduced the majority of the world to the extension of the Rock-Paper-Scissors paradigm. Created wayyyy back in the 90s.

This game was invented because it seems like when you know someone well enough, 75-80% of any Rock-Paper-Scissors games you play with that person end up in a tie. Well, here is a slight variation that reduces that probability. (Note that for those of you who like to swing your fist back and forth and say, "Rock, Paper, Scissors, GO!", might want to continue to do that, replacing "Rock" with "One," "Paper" with "Two," and "Scissors" with "Three.") This version is also nice because it satisfies the Law of Fives.

The Postman Cometh!

2008-11-19T12:14:00.002+08:00

... and brought me my early Christmas present :D

Now I'm just waiting for my China Postman to come...

The Social Experiment

2008-11-18T22:40:00.006+08:00

Months ago, a PRC in Shenzhen whom was working in his sister's office got bored and scribbled his QQ (sorta like MSN) contact number and his name on a piece of card which was shipped off to be attached to a pair of hairbands sold by Forever 21. Fast forward a few months later, and Miss Mao Cow was happily retrieving the said hairbands out of the shipping box delivered to us by Singapore Post. Because she was impatient, instead of removing the hairbands by sliding them out of the cardboard attachment, she tore it apart and we discovered the message.

It was essentially a greeting message with a request for the reader to add the said PRC to his QQ and be friends. I say "he" because the name was obviously a male's. Intrigued, and very coincidental too that I had QQ, we added him to my QQ and awaited his messages.

This little boy (18-19 according to the profile) kept asking why we were not replying as fast as him. The fact was that we were busy watching videos on my laptop and not all that concerned with his queries as we were trying to ask him 1) why he sent out the card - we later found out that it was out of boredom and 2) how many did he send out and how many replied him - many many but I was the only boliao one that replied. He was however more concerned with whether I could introduce him to Singapore girls AFTER he established that I was not a girl (as he DID scribble his message on a Forever 21 card, I would assume his target was a girl).

After many lame reasons like don't you have msn? (I'm lucky he doesn't have it actually) And my friends don't have QQ (in fact, I only have it myself due to commercial reasons), I decided to point him to a website where he could meet Singapore girls and make friends with them.

Enter facebook.

Rest assured that I am no longer in contact with him and he does not have my facebook name/email nor any chance to contact any of you girls that are my friends. But in the event you get a message from a 18-19 year old PRC from Shenzhen, do exercise your own discretion. You have been warned.

This is a joke

2008-11-17T17:42:00.002+08:00

After my great haul at the MPH bookfair/warehouse sale/whatnot at the expo over the weekend (fri and sunday to be exact), the POPULAR bookfair at suntec was a complete waste of my 10 minutes.

Touted as the largest and most successful bookfair in Singapore, it certainly lets one down as there was a maximum of only 20% off "storewide" and heavily marked up chinese books on discount (after you calculate, the prices are about the same as their original retail prices). If I had wanted 20% off I'd have hit POPULAR/HARRIS' bookstores during their sales. Why they are wasting money renting the exhibition hall is beyond my imagination.

*Shakes head*

The only people enjoying the sale were probably aunties buying assessment books for their children. Then again, they always do that at neighborhood POPULAR stores anyway.

The Gaiman Twilight Saga

2008-11-14T13:23:00.004+08:00

All these hardcovers for $48. Plus additional 10% off. Plus $2 MPH Voucher for next purchase. You do the math~

Buying and the Economy

2008-11-14T12:31:00.004+08:00

When the economy gets tough, the smart people spend. These are times where you get that extra mile for your dollar. Smart companies are thinking of ways to slash prices to make you, the average consumer part with your hard earned monies ESPECIALLY during hard times. Who can blame them? They just want to stay afloat. This is the time to spend spend spend!

(note: HDB as mentioned in my previous post is doing the entire opposite. Raising flat prices instead of slashing them. But then again that only works if you've got a monopoly. Even Mediacorp is advertising lower ad rates even though they are also a monopoly just that they are in denial)

Just flip through today's Straits Times and you will find sales galore. Forget the 20% off storewide stuff. They're not much of a help. Forget up to 70% off at boutiques. I asked Hush Puppies which items were at 70% off and there were none. The max was 30%. Places to score great deals are warehouse sales, baskets and periodical mega sales at trusty places like 1) carrefour, 2) departmental stores and 3) expo sales.

Before you buy, create a budget. In tough times, it’s important to limit your spending on unnecessary extras and zero in on what are truly important. So if you're looking for a 8GB thumb drive, don't be distracted by that groovy portable speaker. Chances are you don't need it. If the stuff is out of your REASONABLE price range, forget it. If you notice a trend in electronics, prices are going DOWN DOWN DOWN (my 42" LCD TV was bought for $2,899 and about a year later it's dropped to less than 1K!). Even when you're encountering a MEGA SALE and have the possibility of overspending, make sure you budget yourself. Say I am only going to spend $80 at this book fair. And I will not pay more than $x per book. It usually helps you take out the stuff that you've grabbed on impulse like "the life of Mao Zhedong" and "Applied Modern Philosophy". You probably won't read it. Not even "Barack Obama". And if you've never read the Davinci Code before you saw the movie, chances are you probably won't. So put that back.

(note: this aunty woman queuing up in front of me was approached by a PRC to help her purchase the Da vinci Code. It was a pretty good hardcover for $8 with big font and even I had a copy of it bought a few months back for $6 at a similar fair. After agreeing to help the PRC woman purchase the book, she started flipping through the book and conversed with her equally aunty friend that "this book is not very good" and "alot of it is not real". After which she beckoned to the PRC waiting by the line to come over, and told her "this book is not a good book. Alot of it is not real". I mean C'MON. It's FICTION. OF COURSE IT'S NOT REAL. So does that make "CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS" that's in your box to purchase a BAD BOOK as well because it is NOT REAL?)

That said, one should hit mega sales at expos and warehouse sales more frequently. BUT limit yourself to stuff that you are actually buying. Hence if you are looking for bedroom sets, wait for warehouse sales for bedroom sets. If you are looking for shoes, look for warehouse sales of shoes. If you are looking for books, look for warehouse sales of books. This cannot be stressed enough because general warehouse sales by establishments such as METRO, JOHN LITTLE and ROBINSONS are a dime a dozen and simply don't have a good deal for people knowing what they want. They are structured to make you pick up things that you don't actually need! (As if you didn't know that already...)

I used to scout Amazon for the best deals in books because I simply do not like to pay retail for books. But even nowadays, Amazon is faltering to the local bookstore chains that offer you 30% + 10% every other month. Although having said that, I sincerely regret buying my MICROECONOMICS and FREAKONOMICS from Borders at 30% + 10% off because now I see the same book sitting on the shelf in CARREFOUR for $6. Books will never go out of print. So if you're into books, wait a few months for the distributor to dump his excess stock via expo/warehouse sales and you can find the books sitting high on Kinokuniya's top 10 books for the week in the bargain bin for $6 - $8 depending on whether it's a softcover or hardcover.

Of course the above is just my perspective and is only in relation to stuff I like, like toys, electronics and books etc. Nerdy stuff. But that said, I also do buy clothes and look out for stuff like the Club21 sale amongst others and pick up good deals from Isetan and TANGS baskets. Yes, there are cheap and affordable clothes at TANGS.

But even now, I have actually shopped LESS in Singapore and have chosen to spend MORE overseas. Without leaving my chair of course. That brings me to shopping online, the next best thing to being there. Yes I know, women like to "physically shop" but shopping online is tiring too okay! :) Although I have given up Amazon for books, I still trough online websites for good deals and there are many to be had. For instance her latest buy for me online was a $5 pair of men's shorts from Heritage. And it was better than anything I could find in Singapore for say $30. Also, I can pick up something that's available in Singapore at $300 for about $220 shipped to my doorstep. These savings all count IF you MUST buy the item. Also, before purchasing, use your search engine to identify manufacturers of items you regularly buy and see if you can get on their e-mail list for special coupons online. Major retail chains also e-mail coupons and news of special sales to customers online as well. If you don’t have something to type in that “discount code” box when you’re buying something online, stop. It’s wise to pull up another search window and type in the name of the product, the retailer’s name and the words “discount code” and see if anything comes up that fits the product you’re buying. These can give you 20% off plus free shipping on ALREADY heavily discounted items! (and if you ship by vpost, they have 20% off using UOB PLUS a lucky draw which I won a pair of $39 speakers!)

And I don't even need to tell you how good prices are when you import your essentials directly from China. A fraction of the price. Of course, my essentials aren't the same as yours and it would be wise to steer clear of all foodstuffs.

Yes. That means at the end of the day, I have a smaller bank account. But if you consider that you're not gonna spend that money anyway even if you hang onto it and wait to spend it in better times, and the CRAPPY PUI PUI PUI bank interest POSB is giving you (it's an insult I tell you), you might as well spend more NOW and get MORE, then to spend MUCH MORE next time, and get LESS.

Unless of course you are buying a HDB flat. (Shame on you HDB!)

HDB should reconsider

2008-10-31T12:42:00.003+08:00

Considering the bad economy which our ministers have been harping about, how we should tighten our belts, how the government is trying to help our people through this difficult time and how property prices are falling like crazy (today's newspaper says central 4rm flats are lower by $40,000 and are still going to drop!), SHOULDN'T HDB WAKE UP THEIR IDEA AND REPRICE THEIR DUXTON FLATS?

I mean yes, when you declared it for balloting sale the economy wasn't THAT bad. YET. But over the past few weeks, things have gone to hell and honesty, they should step in and say that "we're gonna give you guys an additional $100,000 discount. This is considering we've already raised the price by $200,000 since the first release and oh yes, the bad economy."

One can only hope.

(this is highly unlikely. Just look at the Bishan DBSS flats)

Pirated Fruit

2008-10-30T13:08:00.002+08:00

My mum was just telling me about the lovely honey melons that we had 2 weeks ago and how expensive they were. When the other mao cow liked it so much that she finished half of it, my mum told my dad to go get some more. These were rare honey melons from spain that somehow found their way to the local HDB fruit stall and were hence expensive at $8.50 per melon.

Fast forward 2 weeks later, my dad brought home 2 of the 'same' melons at the same exorbitant price but they just didn't taste the same. The seller said they were from spain as well but they just tasted so inferior. In fact, they were tasteless. After making a couple of rounds at bedok interchange and spotting similar looking melons from malaysia, my mum came to the conclusion that the HDB fruit stall seller was passing off malaysian honey melons as spain honey melons. In a sense, these were pirated fruit!

It's a fake. It's not from spain = pirated!

There are also other types of pirated fruit around. For example this lovely orange below:

It's supposed to say VALENCIA and not NALENCIA. So next time check your fruits (if it's a sticker problem) or don't buy too many melons at one go. We're still stuck with the tasteless one since nobody really likes to eat tasteless food.

Stupid People

2008-10-23T11:48:00.004+08:00

Half my extended family is _______ . I'm sure most of you that know me know which half (although the other half are almost as equally melodramatic as they are ________ ). I'm not criticizing them, but more so of commenting on their _______ manner in which they handle things. One case happened years ago, another, just yesterday.

#1) Years ago, my mum repeatedly got a phone call from my grandfather asking for my dad. He was obviously at work and when asked what the matter was, he just kept saying never mind and put down the phone. Many many times. Much much later, my mum managed to contact my dad it turned out that my grandma had a stroke but they didn't know what to do. When told to call an ambulance, they decided to wait until xiaomei was home before calling. So about 12 hours after the incident after xiaomei came home, they called for the ambulance and well, it was confirmed that it was as stroke. Apparently though, the first few hours after the attack is the most important as chemicals/medicines can be injected to ease the damage caused by the stroke and help the patient towards an almost full recovery. But no. They chose to not tell anyone outside of the 'family' (anyone without DIRECT blood relation) so not even my mum whom would have told them to call for an ambulance immediately and the old fart may still be walking around today screaming her head off and reigning the household. That's one ridiculous incident.

#2) Yesterday, I got a call from my uncle multiple times looking for my dad. From 2 different numbers. I kept asking him what it was regarding and whether I could leave a message for my dad and he kept saying no, it's nothing. Never mind. Having decided that whatever went on in that side of the family had dipshit to do with me anymore after I tried to tell my dad what they were doing (withholding information from us when we could obviously help) was wrong and got reprimanded for it, I didn't even care whether anything was really wrong. But apparently as usual there was something wrong. It turns out that my aunt had contracted breast cancer and well, I simply wasn't 'family' enough for this information. So fine. Even when my dad came back at night, I told him my uncle was looking for him, and knowing my dad, he can't be bothered to call back unless he knows HOW important it is. So today my uncle keeps calling back and looking for my dad and my mum picks up. After the second time he called, he finally relented and told my mum about my aunt's condition. I guess maybe because my mum knew my aunt personally or that maybe she was more adult than me, but IF he had told me that yesterday, my dad would have gotten the news last night and he would have definitely called back. Not that it's any help though. The operation is today. Apparently they saw a small dot on the mammogram and then they went in to take a sample. By bursting the cell to take the sample, the cancer immediately spread within the few days and now have to cut both breasts. Whereas my mum's colleague last time got small dot, the doc advise her to go radiation and kill the dot without disturbing it and she has no problems after that. Maybe they should have asked for a second opinion or consulted relatives (considering we have how many cancer relatives) on this matter before acting. Sigh.

I honestly didn't know that such an arcane way of thinking can still exist.

人生不该那么惨

2008-10-16T17:48:00.005+08:00

对这个世界如
果你有太多的抱怨
跌倒了
就不敢继续往前走
为什么
人要这么的脆弱堕落
请你打开电视看看
多少人为生命在努力
勇敢的走下去
我们是不是该知足
珍惜一切就算没有拥有

还记得你说家是唯一的城堡
随着稻香河流继续奔跑
微微笑小时候的梦我知道
不要哭让萤火虫带著你逃跑
乡间的歌谣永远的依靠
回家吧回到最初的美好

不要这么容易就想放弃
就像我说的
追不到的梦想
换个梦不就得了
为自己的人生鲜艳上色
先把爱涂上喜欢的颜色

笑一个吧
功成名就不是目的
让自己快乐快乐
这才叫做意义
童年的纸飞机
现在终于飞回我手里

所谓的那快乐
赤脚在田里追蜻蜓追到累了
偷摘水果被蜜蜂给叮到怕了
谁在偷笑呢
我靠着稻草人吹着风
唱着歌睡着了
哦哦~
午后吉它在虫鸣中更清脆
哦哦~
阳光洒在路上就不怕心碎
珍惜一切就算没有拥有

还记得你说家是唯一的城堡
随着稻香河流继续奔跑
微微笑小时候的梦我知道
不要哭让萤火虫带著你逃跑
乡间的歌谣永远的依靠
回家吧回到最初的美好

还记得你说家是唯一的城堡
随着稻香河流继续奔跑
微微笑小时候的梦我知道
不要哭让萤火虫带著你逃跑
乡间的歌谣永远的依靠
回家吧回到最初的美好

The Cat Chaser

2008-10-16T09:06:00.006+08:00

Looking at the open casket transported me back to primary 3 when I was faced with a similar situation. I was delegated with the honorable task of chasing cats away from the tentage area. We had to ensure that no cat jumped over the coffin as it may result in us having to tackle our undead grandfather (although I believed then that the glass covering the coffin was enough to hold him in). This time round, it was my uncle.

He wasn't my favorite uncle for the simple fact that I never had one. But he was a good family man. Extremely patient and tolerant, he was able to bear everything he faced headlong and never faltering. He didn't drink, he didn't gamble, he didn't smoke and of course he didn't drink and drive. What he did do was to work hard to provide for his family and work even harder (initially) to propel his own parents and siblings out of poverty. Although he had a very demanding wife whom went for treatment at times for her problems and idyosyncratic tendencies, he never left her side even as she turned their matrimonial home into a war zone and frankly speaking, less habitable than my toy room. That explained why for a prolonged period of time they stayed in hotels for months. He did not make much money, but he tried all he could to provide for his family.

I never spoke to him about politics, about school or even about how we were doing much. We met during the obligatory chinese new year gatherings and exchanged pleasantries. That was all. Whatever I knew came from stories that my parents told me. Hence it was a shock when we heard a few months back that he suffered a serious heart attack which left him with only 5% of its usual strength. But yet he persevered. Doctors told us that his heart stopped twice and yet he fought back. We knew he loved his daughter, we just didn't know how much.

It was a worse shock to hear about his passing a night ago. Apparently the remaining 5% of his heart strength just expired, taking with it a great man. He wasn't a minister, he didn't make millions, he wasn't even well known in his housing estate. But this man in bid to create the perfect life for his wife and daughter, made sure that everything was taken care of for them. His wife never worked and so he was the sole breadwinner of the family. Yet he managed to pay off a two-storey HDB executive flat and his car. They have essentially no bills and no debts to worry about. His final gift to his loved ones: a peace of mind.

But even then he couldn't let go. From what was told to me (maybe a bit melodramatically), his eyes were opened and even though the doctors pushed his eyelids down, they couldn't do it fully. It was only after my mum told him to rest in peace and move on as we would all look after his family, did he finally close his eyes (drama). I believe that he was a good man. He wasn't a womanizer (although he had all the reasons to be one) and he sacrificed his life to go back to work full time for his family after his heart attack and that may have been what drained his heart.

But I am angry. People can say it's life. But I still have to say that it's unfair. How can someone so good be taken away before those more deserving of death? For starters I know for sure Clorance from Led Dawg surely has character flaws so bad that everyone he meets would want him dead. So why did a good man have to go and not someone so despicably bad that actually backstabbed 3 people and caused them to lose their jobs? It just doesn't make sense. Doesn't balance out.

If there is someone up there, He should be going "You! the Pubic Renaissance associate that just spurted vulgarities at your client when he's asking you what went wrong. Take THIS for your punishment for getting a $2,000 fee for 3 months and acting like a big fuck!" Okay I digress. But you see my point. And well, just fittingly, my other aunt came along and reminded me why I lost the plot with the dude upstairs when she refused to hold the incense because it was against her religion. Fantastic.

Do people believe in spirits? Do people believe that a butterfly at the alter means his spirit is back? Do people believe in the 7x7 49 days of when the spirit is wandering in the house? I think my aunt does. Apparently she's too afraid to go home because she is afraid of him being there. Other than that, another reason why she doesn't want to go up home is because the place has too many memories. Which is why mother and daughter will break down frequently when they see some object my uncle used fondly when he was alive. A solution which my relatives employed when my grandfather passed away was to throw away all his stuff. Especially his bed. Although then it took some time because times were hard and they didn't want to waste money. So my uncle (another one) stacked my grandfather's mattress below my grandma's, thereby encouraging my grandfather to visit my grandmother at night in a bid to take her away with him. Luckily she outsmarted him. I dunno how. But that's why she's still 95 and kicking. Hence apparently alot of my uncle's stuff has to be thrown out too. Even if I don't believe in that mumbalo jumbalo, I'd still be afraid to stay in the house, afterall, someone died there. Sorry I hum. But I was having a backache from resting on the cold hard cement void deck floor like a bangrah because the comfy chairs were for the grieving folk. (And I just got home and it's like 12:33 in the afternoon)

But enough ranting. I've survived the night chasing cats, building anti-cat weapons, establishing forts and inventing new ways to prevent cats from turning my uncle into a zombie. I also ate alot of food. I believe that deserves some incoherency.

You just need 100 ringgit to bomb Malaysia

2008-10-16T01:56:00.003+08:00

According to my cousin, on or around 2 September 2008, he was stopped at Malaysian customs (JB) due to his camera equipment. Of particular importance was his camera battery which resembled a black capsule. He was told by the customs officer (the one chopping the passport) that his camera battery was a bomb and that if he wanted to bring it in, he would have to pay 100 ringgit to pass with it.

So there we have it, you just need 100 ringgit to bomb Malaysia.

(Note: He was stopped at Singapore customs on the way back and spent a long time there due to the same problem but he wasn't asked to pay a toll fee to carry his "bomb" through)

20th Century Boys

2008-10-08T22:54:00.003+08:00

I was kinda surprised when I saw this movie poster in bus stops and mrts. Primarily because I thought the manga was so convoluted and confusing that nobody would want to make a movie out of it. In fact, I gave up reading it after being a fan of 13 issues. It started off very nicely but then became a whole mess of conspiracy theories and whatnot that made me kinda sick of it even after I suspended my disbelief for like issues 11 thru to 13. Maybe I should go back to read it considering the movie is coming out and has been a big hit in Japan. Anyway, there's a link online to a kind soul's website that actually hosts scans of the entire series in English (I read mine in Chinese!).

http://www.onemanga.com/20th_Century_Boys/1/00/

The above link starts from chapter 1 page 1 and is quite comprehensive. Maybe readers here that are damn free (read: my PLC friends) can care to give it a try. Afterall it's free. :)

Official trailer: http://www.20thboys.com/index.html#/trailer/

Slacker Uprising

2008-10-08T12:19:00.004+08:00

This is a new film by Michael Moore and is available free for download on the internet. The aim of him in this new film was to turn out as many first time voters as possible. Even though it's not that applicable to Singapore in the sense that we do vote if we have to (i.e. contested!), I suppose it's still relevant when we consider the number of blank votes we have in each election. It's free, so just download and looksie right?

If you're not in Singapore, here are the links to download from via the email signup:

Michael Moore to me

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Something still worth catching on the silver screen

2008-10-06T22:51:00.004+08:00

Despite my inclination towards avi and divx files, there are still some films that deserve that precious $21 ($10.50 per weekend ticket) and the giant bottle of Oolong tea. I came to this conclusion after scanning through this morning's papers and I'm glad to say that these films have only recently opened in the box office so there is still mucho time to catch them.

MY MAGIC
Rating: NC16
Consumer Advice: Some Coarse Language & Some Disturbing Scenes
Genre: Drama
Language: Tamil, Hokkien
Subtitles: Chinese and English Subtitles
Director: Eric Khoo
Main Cast: Bosco Francis, Jathishweran
Runtime: 78mins

Francis (Bosco Francis) is a man at the end of is tether. The former magician often takes solace in the bottle and barely ekes out a living as a cleaner in a nightclub. He has a 10-year-old son he loves desperately, but sorrow, guilt and constant inebriation have made him an ineffectual father. The son (Jathishweran) is a stoic old soul who has learned to bury his affection for his old man and to cope with his chaotic life.

A broken spirit and a single parent, Francis hopes to redeem himself and win his sons love and respect. He makes a painful - and bizarre return to magic. An unexpected incident one night sets father and son on the road. In a dilapidated building, these two wounded souls come to terms with their love - a love which is as deep and acute as their grief.

BURN AFTER READING
Rating: TBA
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Main Cast: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt
Runtime: TBC

Osbourne Cox is a CIA operative struggling to stay afloat. His job and marriage are going nowhere, and he's got a drinking problem to boot. Harry Pfarrer (Clooney) is a Treasury Department marshal who can't stop tripping over his own vanity. His hobbies include internet-dating behind his wife's back and building homemade sex toys in this basement, not to mention sleeping with Osbourne's dissatisfied wife. When Ozzie gets fired from the Agency, he decides to write a tell-all memoir, blissfully unaware that he doesn't have much to tell. However, a draft ends up in the hands of Harry's other love, harebrained Hardbodies gym employee Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand), and her dopey colleague Chad Feldheimer (Pitt). Convinced they've tapped into classified information, they see this as the perfect opportunity to make some serious cash, and they bring their discovery straight to the Russians! Instantly, affairs of love and state become absurdly entangled, and nobody knows who to trust or what to believe - least of all, the "brilliant" minds at the CIA, who lead us to ask: just how intelligent is Central Intelligence?

Other than the two gems above, there are some comedies that you know aren't worth $21, but you'll just want to catch them anyway. Meet the House Bunny and Big Stan:

THE HOUSE BUNNY
Rating: PG
Consumer Advice: Sexual References
Genre: Comedy
Language: English with chinese subtitle
Cast: Anna Faris
Running Time: 98 min

In Columbia Pictures’ comedy The House Bunny, Anna Faris charms as Shelley Darlington, a Playboy Bunny who teaches an awkward sorority about the opposite sex – only to learn that what boys really like is what’s on the inside.

Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have – a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.

BIG STAN
Rating: M18
Consumer Advice: Some mature content
Language: English with no subtitles
Director: Rob Schneider
Main Cast: Rob Schneider, Brandon Molale, David Carradine, Randy Couture, Barbara Dodd
Runtime: 105mins

Stan, a two-bit con man, is being sent to prison for fraud and the prospect terrifies him. Seeking help from a mysterious martial arts guru known only as The Master, Stan transforms himself into a kung fu expert! Ultimately bringing the warring prison gangs together and establishing peace within its walls.

And of course, because Singapore is just OH SO SLOW in getting new flicks onto the silver screen, there are some upcoming gems that one MUST take note of. Don't play play:

TROPIC THUNDER
Rating: TBC
Genre: Action,Comedy
Language: English
Director: Ben Stiller
Main Cast: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr (Yes. THAT Robert Downey Jr).
Runtime: TBA

Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. lead an ensemble cast in “Tropic Thunder,” an action comedy about a group of self-absorbed actors who set out to make the biggest war film ever. After ballooning costs (and the out of control egos of the pampered cast) threaten to shut down the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast deep into the jungles of Southeast Asia for “increased realism,” where they inadvertently encounter real bad guys.

This was a big hit in the States and I don't understand why with the star studded cast that it is getting released in Singapore later than Big Stan. Oh well. The final recommendation is the biggest talk of tinseltown and the biggest Taiwanese film to surpass all expectations (and earnings) so far. Yes. It won the Dark Knight in Taiwan. Very very big feat:

Cape No. 7 is a 2008 Taiwanese romantic comedy film written and directed by Taiwanese director Te-Sheng Wei (魏德聖). The film is mainly in Mandarin Chinese but also contains significant lines in Japanese and Taiwanese. Before its commercial release, the film was selected as one of the opening films in the 2008 Taipei Film Festival.

The two leading actors Van Fan (范逸臣) and Chie Tanaka (田中千絵) only had minor acting experience while most of the other actors were amateurs, picked mainly for their rock band experience as needed by the plot. Although without a strong promotional campaign, this movie attracted unexpected popularity in Taiwan after its official release on August 22, 2008. As of September 18, the movie has grossed over NT$100 million. It is also the top grossing Taiwanese film in the island's cinematic history.

Back in the 1940s during the Taiwan under Japanese rule era, a Japanese teacher (Kousuke Atari) dispatched to Hengchun fell in love with a local girl who was given the Japanese name Kojima Tomoko (Rachel Liang). However, after the Surrender of Japan he was forced to return to his home country. He penned seven love letters on his trip home to express his regret for leaving Kojima Tomoko, who originally planned on living in Japan with Atari.

More than 60 years after Atari left Tomoko, Aga (Van Fan) is introduced as a struggling young Hengchun-native rock band singer who could not secure a job in Taipei. After returning to his hometown, Aga's step father (Ju-Lung Ma), the Town Council Representative, arranged a postman position for him, replacing the senile Uncle Mao (Lin Tsung-ren), on break after a motorcycle accident broke his leg. One day Aga came across an undeliverable piece of mail: the Japanese teacher has been dead and his offspring decided to mail these unsent love letters to Taiwan after discovering them. Aga unlawfully opened this mail to discover that the old Japanese-style address Cape No. 7, Hengchun County, Takao Prefecture, could no longer be found.

Meantime a local resort hotel inside Kenting National Park is organizing a beach concert featuring Japanese pop singer Kousuke Atari, but Aga's step father made use of his official identity to insist that the accompanying band be formed by locals. Tomoko (Chie Tanaka), a Chinese-speaking Japanese fashion model dispatched to Hengchun, took up the difficult task of managing this band, led by Aga along with six other locals of rather particular backgrounds. After a frustrating trial period Aga and Tomoko unexpectedly began a relationship. With some assistance from hotel maid Ming-chu (Shino Lin), Tomoko helped Aga find Kojima Tomoko, the rightful recipient of the seven love letters. Aga then returned to the beach resort and performed a highly successful concert with this local band and Kousuke Atari.

Source: http://cape7.pixnet.net/blog/

So that's where my next paycheck will be going to. Other than food of course. Before I end this post, do watch out for Cape No. 7. There must be a reason why there's been unprecedented positive feedback about this film. So, when it DOES reach Singapore (probably in December), do make a point to catch it. Meanwhile, here's the trailer for your viewing pleasure:

Considering that they spent about 2.3m SGD to film this, I don't understand why we use more money (2m USD) and come up with crap like Zodiac instead. That one even the trailer looked bad. Sheesh.

Mr Wayne's thoughts about JBJ

2008-10-03T10:27:00.003+08:00

Not surprising that Wayne was writing a tribute to Mr JBJ on the 30th. I think 1/2 of Singapore was doing that. But he was thinking about the current economic crises to me was surprising as I was thinking the exact same thing for the economic crisis of 2007-2008-2009 which has YET to hit us fully and as I type this, am already drafting an entry regarding it.

Thinking about Mr. JBJ
September 30, 2008 · Wayne Soon
http://antineodem.wordpress.com/

The passing away of JBJ in the midst of one of the worst economic crises since 1997 have left us with the legacy that indeed, there is more to life than financial spreedsheets, data analysis and unbridled risks and rewards. There is something called freedom and democracy, which JBJ stood for consistently in his political career. His one mindneness in bringing about political change have meant that he has lost much monetarily and socially. He has won and lost parliamentary seats, debated countless MPs from the other side for two generations, spoke at hundreds of rallies and meetings calling for a fundemental re-think of the Singapore spirit, and voted to secure the rights and freedom for his countrymen in parliament.

Perhaps the most poignant moment is still his victory at the Anson by-election, which shattered the myth of an invincible and omnipotent PAP, which continues to be the historical faultline in the othewise dominant PAP narrative. The relentless search for cracks and pains within the Singapore polity to remedy, which irritated contented Singaporeans and even yours truly at times, did not meant widespread dislike for Mr. JBJ. Rather, many Singaporeans often attended his rallies, buy his books, donated money, voted for him and listened to him in his fiery encounters with the powers-to-be. Some even made a play out of him to raise political awarness in the polity. What most did not do was to vote for the party he represented, and to extend the same respect for him to other members of the opposition.

Why will happen next is a question for another time, but at present, if Singaporeans stop to think about JBJ and what he stood for a moment as they contemplate their studies, their AIG shares, their electricity bill, the goodness of our government and their loved ones, I think Mr. JBJ and his family will be satisfied.

Exercise

2008-10-02T20:26:00.004+08:00

Why do I play tennis even though I suck at it? Because I am trying to lose weight. No sorry. Keep fit. Why do I play badminton even though the other players are oh so much better? Because I am trying to keep fit. Why do I swim even though I am inherently lazy? Because I want to keep fit. No sorry. Get a little tan too look fit. That is obviously because my plan of keeping fit isn't working. So the least I can do is attempt to look fit. That also explains why I bought a basketball and played only twice with the neighborhood kids. And I do means kids. Like primary school. I used to play downstairs all the time but now nobody my age actually plays basketball downstairs anymore. So sad right. That explains why I travel all the way to bukit timah to play badminton, and queenstown to play tennis. I need more friends in the east that can exercise or sport with me. But then most of them are attached to their other halves and aren't really in the east that much as well. Then again, that's the same with me. Haha. The thing about exercising in the sun is that you get a tan. I'm all for swimming and Mr Sun. But not tennis. You'll get an ugly singlet tan which is equivalent to the average manbra tan. Very ugly. Of course, someone had commented that I was too vain to not play tennis in the sun because of this. Yes. Says someone that buys over 100 cosmetic products a year. I am vain. I do know that some girls don't care about their tan, whether it ends at their bikini line or their t-shirt or sports bra line. But I'm pretty sure my gf is quite a vainpot in that area too. Then again she just doesn't like to tan generally. Ha.

What is also sad is that I had a nice paragraph of text but it was lost when I clicked publish post as I was not connected to the internet. I think it was about something I should do. Or was it something I should eat? I know for sure that when it comes to losing weight, pills don't work. I've seen my brother try to lose weight on pills and the only thing he seems to be losing is his waistline. Ha! That said, maybe I should hit the gym daily after I'm back at the firm. I think stress + gym makes a good combination for weight loss. Alternatively, I could try to make HER fat so I won't be so guilty of being fat.

Hmmm. Suggestions?

30th September 2008 [032155]

2008-09-30T15:52:00.003+08:00

Although the newspaper was flooded with groundbreaking news like who didn't turn up at the F1 party at Amberlounge, the 700 billion dollar rescue package didn't go through, the duxton was oversubscribed 3x over, Cadbury featuring ads to say its products are safe despite the AVA issuing directives to recall Cadbury products, nothing was more shocking than the news of JBJ's passing which I heard on the radio.

Granted, he is old and doesn't have as many resources as other old men his age that can afford to prolong their lives, but after reading all about him and meeting him in person so many years ago, I did feel affected to the extent that I immediately sms'd a few people that I think would care to know about his passing.

It is true that many shunned him whilst he promoted the hammer and his books in public. I am quite sure that as many were probably intrigued and would not actually mind hearing what he had to say as he was undoubtedly more coherent then some other fellow opposition member(s). There is a distinction between a lawyer and a doctor ya. I recall a day years ago when I was at city hall and I actually went up to him to get two copies of his latest book from him. It's really sad that here is a man trying to do what he thought was best for his country through the "official channels" and yet having them laugh and scoff at him. He loved Singapore, but Singapore mocked him. Sounds familiar?

The media has been generally kinder to him than they have been to other opposition members primarily because he makes more sense than them, as does CST. But even so, the article on straitstimes.com has been changed over the course of the day from a rude editorial in the morning to something a little better by the evening. Now that's a tad unfair isn't it? That suggests changes done (probably over flaming in the ST forums) over the course of the day. Somebody's gonna get it from the online community. I think if one googles hard enough, he/she may still be able to find the morning article. Hmmm.

I find that we take it for granted that there would be coherent opposition members around to act as a check and balance in Parliament. This cannot be more wrong. Although I do not advocate blindly throwing weight behind any opposition group, nor that the government should recognize more opposition groups, I do hope that the people and the government can actually recognize good opposition leaders/members and give them credit where credit is due. This goes for the media as well.

It is hard to write something personal to a man one barely knows personally. But I do want to say that it is a damn shame that he was taken so prematurely (82 is still young compared to some oldies that are like 90s and clinging on to their life for the sake of pissing off their relatives). Perhaps JBJ will become stronger in death, as do some of the world's greatest artists. It is a shame that we do not realize how much he has achieved until we have lost him. I did notice however that upon his passing, more people are realizing how important he actually was to Singapore. Here's to the thought that even though he may never see it, his dreams for Singapore will materialize one day.

Food

2008-09-25T10:08:00.003+08:00

Before I get old, senile and forget things, here are some eateries Master and Mistress Cow (doesn't sound very non-naughty-ish) will be gracing soon.

Jerry's Grill @ Club Street
Clarity Cafe @ Beach Road
Tampopo @ Liang Court
Boomerang @ Robertson Quay
1925 @ lunch

Any other suggestions?

Hmmm

2008-09-25T09:57:00.002+08:00

Does it really get better?

Stop nodding at me you stupid little bobbleheads.

Still nodding.

Sometimes I wish there's a place we can call home.

Without the stupid little bobbleheads.

But will that really help?

Or...

Warren Ellis on JLU

2008-08-18T22:16:00.003+08:00

He writes the best dialogue. Period. I actually smirked when I saw this:

[Batman falling from a great height]

"Batman to all points, I could use some air support"

[Beat]

"Since I can’t fly"

[Beat]

"At all"

[Beat] [Still falling and almost reaching the ground]

"Now would be good"

[Superman swoops in to save him]

I'm sorry but I just had a Sheldon moment. (See the Big Bang Theory)

Stuff you don't really need to know:
Warren Ellis is a famed writer of comics and graphic novels, best known for Global Frequency (which was the source for an aborted WB network pilot originally set for early 2005). He also worked on Transmetropolitan and Planetary, a PC game (Hostile Waters) and any number of other works. This is his first work on a WB animated series.

Dark Heart
Episode Number: 62 Season Num: 3 First Aired: Saturday December 11, 2004 Prod Code: 362
When nanotech-based alien robots land in the American southwest and overwhelm the League, only the Atom, a microscopic super hero, can defeat them.

Eason songs in my iPod (shuffle)

2008-08-04T23:45:00.008+08:00

Eason aren't you glad? Your concert's a sellout.

"and as the world turns on and on, love is lost and love is won, laughed and cried when we were young"

"and did you ever see everything inside of me?"

that's just life for ya.

穿過人潮雙眼燈火欄柵沒有想過回頭
一段又一段走不完的旅程甚麼時候能走完
噢我的夢代表甚麼又是甚麼讓我們不安

* That’s just life 尋找夢裡的未來
That’s just life 少點現實的無奈
不論風吹的時候不再傍徨的時候
永遠向前路一直都在

穿過一塊裡面一片黑暗沒有想過回頭
一段又一段走不完的旅程甚麼時候能習慣
噢我的夢代表甚麼又是甚麼讓我們期盼

(repeat *)

看不清的路又算甚麼看不清的夢又算甚麼
就算走到盡頭又能算甚麼能算甚麼

(repeat *)

永遠向前路一直都在
That’s just life 徘徊到不再徘徊
That’s just life 從來都不怕重來
沒有選擇的時候無法選擇的時候
永遠向前路一直都

Extremely catchy.

我也相信路,一直都在。

Oh yeah. A 惨song.

我來到你的城市走過你來時的路
想像著沒我的日子你是怎樣的孤獨
拿著你給的照片熟悉的那一條街
只是沒了你的畫面我們回不到那天
你會不會忽然的出現在街角的咖啡店
我會帶著笑臉揮手寒喧和你坐著聊聊天
我多麼想和你見一面看看你最近改變
不再去說從前只是寒喧
對你說一句只是說一句好久不見
拿著你給的照片熟悉的那一條街
只是沒了你的畫面我們回不到那天
你會不會忽然的出現在街角的咖啡店
我會帶著笑臉揮手寒喧和你坐著聊聊天

我多麼想和你見一面看看你最近改變
不再去說從前只是寒喧
對你說一句只是說一句好久不見

Emo.

And a final nice song as well.

Good songs are meant to be shared.

愛情轉移。每次聽每次 emo。

I Dream of Aud (1965)

2008-07-28T23:30:00.003+08:00

It was a weird dream. I was decked out in the light brown/beige Hwa Chu uniform and was wandering the assembly grounds of what I now recall to be Tao Nan School. There were hundreds of students there and on closer look, they were people I knew. Of particular notice, the Tataps were there. As a group. Not long after saying hi, the music started and the national anthem played.

Only it wasn't the national anthem.

I can't remember the music now but I saw the lines of students moving. If I weren't mistaken, they were either Bollywood dancing or linedancing. And I was moving too. Except that I think I looked more like I was performing the Great Singapore Workout.

After that unnerving experience, we were dismissed and I wandered the school grounds aimlessly. Scours of students were around and I wandered to this part of the school which resembled the corridor outside the current Law Library. That's when I looked up and saw Aud. She was being nice and said something that I couldn't hear. But it seemed like I understood her. Something about contacting the BLE.

My God. Even in my dream I was preoccupied about my bloody PLC. I felt this strange feeling that something was very wrong. I started to be aware of my surroundings and that it was rather... unnatural. Especially so was the fact that I was in school uniform and I think I was supposed to be in my PLC! Immediately I whipped out my handphone and dialed the number to the BLE (I stored it on my handphone okay~) Immediately the first thing I heard was "Is this that girl from just now? Is she calling back again? That Aud? Tell her her application is not ready yet, don't be so gan cheong."

That was weird. Frantically I tried to tell them "this has got to be a mistake! I don't belong here!" I was put on hold as they checked my particulars (which oddly enough I didn't give them) and then...

I woke up.

9:00 AM and the alarm was ringing.

Halfway through the first seminar of the day, I messaged Aud and told her that I dreamt of her. And of the dancing. She was nice enough to reply that she didn't mind a night out dancing if that was what I meant. But what I really meant to illustrate when I texted her was that I now believe that men can tell a girl that she was the girl in their dreams (the night before), and not have a sexual connotation to it.

In fact it was strangely bizarre. Hur hur hur.

Poking around online in search of the meaning of the bizarre dancing in my dream, I found this:

"To dream that you are dancing, signifies freedom from constraints and harmony/balance with yourself. You are working in cooperation with yourself. It also represents frivolity, happiness, gracefulness, sensuality and sexual desires. Alternatively, it may signify intimacy and a union of the masculine and feminine aspects of yourself.

To dream that you are attending or going to a dance, indicates a celebration and your attempts to achieve happiness. Consider the phrase the "dance of life" which suggests creation, ecstasy, and going with what life has to offer you.

To see children dancing in your dream, signifies that you will have a comfortable home, and healthy, well-behaved children in the future.

To see ritualistic dancing in your dream, denotes your need to get in touch with the spirit within.."

I know I'm working on something. That's for sure, but I'm not exactly happy at the moment with what life has to offer me. I THINK I saw children, is that a good sign? Was my lame attempt at dancing considered ritualistic? Hmm. If I see something supernatural tonight (within) I'll do up another lame blog post.

Moral of the story. I have fucking lame dreams that make no fucking sense at all.

This is really a Mao Cow

2008-07-26T22:17:00.002+08:00

And just for her, a beer lovin' cow

2008-07-26T22:10:00.001+08:00

A poor Cow and a cute Cow

2008-07-26T21:49:00.002+08:00

What an Emo song

2008-07-26T19:24:00.004+08:00

And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time
And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...
And so it is
Just like you said it should be
We'll both forget the breeze
Most of the time
And so it is
The colder water
The blower's daughter
The pupil in denial
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...
Did I say that I loathe you?
Did I say that I want to
Leave it all behind?
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind...
My mind...my mind...

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As I replayed this song, I couldn't help but feel that it was strangely appropriate. It essentially stripped the dramatics away from love and distilled it into it's most essential elements, leaving one powerless and yearning to drink in the object of affection. Love in this form has transcended to become pure need that consumes. The song has such amazing lines. It's like one is feeling that strong for someone, but knowing that there are stronger, deeper feelings that no matter how much you want to hate someone, you know you never will, you just can't. It is being addicted and completely infatuated with someone, but not knowing how to let go. Being in a trance of fascination, being pulled in and wanting to get out, but not knowing how, and maybe not wanting to get out even. It’s about not having control over the situation, but wanting to gain control so badly because it’s taking over and you're sick of being so infatuated because it hurts too damn bloody much. The first time I heard this song it was in the film Closer and I just sat there, drinking in its beauty. Now when I listen to it, it actually made me cry.

This is perhaps the most apt: The shorter story, No love, no glory, No hero in her sky. When one looks back at or evaluates a (past) relationship, they usually give the version devoid of the love, emotion or passion that was once evident. It is also the most heartbreaking line depending on which side you're on. Wordplay on the film's title also relates closely to this song.

Simple yet powerful lyrics.

Gigantic List of DVDs coming to the House of Mao

2008-07-26T18:23:00.004+08:00

I don't think I need to leave the house anytime soon once these come:

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Vanishing Point
Jaws 1-4
Jurassic Park 1-3
The Mummy 1-3
There's Something About Mary
Trainspotting
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Toy Story Boxset
Doctor Dolittle 1-3
Final Fantasy VII
Miami Vice
Deep Impact
The Interpreter
Backdraft
Snow Falling on Cedars
Thunderbirds
Inside Man
Master and Commander
Robocop
Silent Hill
Beatles Yellow Submarine
Red Dragon
Die Hard 1
About a Boy
Deathnote
Apollo 13
SWAT
ET
Jesus Christ Superstar
Armageddon
Dawn of the Dead
Road to Perdition
Shakesphere in Love
Never Say Never Again
Brokeback Mountain
LOTR 3
King Kong
King Arthur
8 Mile
The Birdcage
Intolerable Cruelty
Indiana Jones 1-3
Life is Beautiful
Calendar Girls
Munich
Cider House Rules
Blues Brothers
Dante's Peak
Meet the Parents
Blown Away
Thomas Crown Affair
Too Fast Too Furious 1-2
Pride and Prejudice
Dragonheart
Sin City
Titanic
Moulin Rouge
Speed
Seabiscuit
West Side Story
Oliver Twist
iRobot
The Holiday
Live and Let Die
Cast Away
Hulk
Hellboy
Terminator 3
Van Helsing
Casino Royale
The Day After Tomorrow
Sound of Music
Terminator 1
Die Another Day

Alfred Hitchcock Boxset
Indiana Jones Boxset
LOST Season 1
Desperate Housewives Season 1
Murder One Season 1
The Apprentice Season 1
Home Improvement Season 1-3
Bones Season 1
The entire 007 Collection

Plus 105 Code 1 DVDs (assorted)

And very possibly:

Sex and the City Season 1-6
Angel Season 1-5
Battlestar Galactica Season 2-3
Friends Season 1-10

and more if my lobang works out.

There is a new status quo

2008-05-21T01:45:00.004+08:00

Along Lake Toya, amidst a blaze of fireworks on May 13th, the deed was done. Planning and finding the ring during my exams was chaotic enough, but it was worth it and we are now engaged. There will be frantic uploading of pictures soon, but before then, I can safely say that this is a big step for us and it's not to be taken lightly. Believe me I had to ponder over it for months before deciding and planning anything at all. And although we are still young, it doesn't mean that we are rushing into things. We're planning for our life together and it's starting today. And it will be a happy one.

I wish I can feel as good.

2008-05-02T22:50:00.002+08:00

"It's a new dawn, It's a new day, It's a new life, and I'm feeling good..."

I'm still one paper away from freedom. Freedom, Ironman and tasty little snacks wrapped in seaweed and served with curry. I don't know what they are. I just want to eat them.

Mas Selamat Found?

2008-03-05T22:40:00.004+08:00

I think I have a problem. I think I know where Mas Selamat is hiding. Apparently he's hiding in my house because I found his slippers in my toilet.

Yes, I have that exact same pair of slippers in my house toilet. The one that's circulating around the world as we speak. Not only that, I have like 6 pairs of them. Does that mean there are 5 more escapees that the government has neglected to tell us about?

I shudder to think where he's hiding. My only guess is the toy room because it's so impossible to navigate that even I give up entering the room after opening the door.

Jialat sia.

How to avoid getting splitting headaches: Turn off the power outlet before fixing the lights

2008-03-05T19:17:00.007+08:00

Before I was going to continue on my paper, I went around looking for things to do. Which is what happens when I have something really important to do. I will basically try to distract myself by doing wu ah bo things and ending up tearing my hair out last minute. As usual.

So I went pattering around the house, fixing this, tweaking that. It then dawned on me to fix the lights. I recently fixed a toilet light last week, but that was easy, just taking out the tube and putting it in. Hardly fixing. This was a challenge. The living room light had a spoilt starter and my dad said he wanted to call the technician in. But no. I was too smart for that. 'It's just unscrewing some wires and fixing it back! How hard can it be? Save the $30!'

I then took a screwdriver to the thing and because it was getting pretty dark, couldn't really aim carefully. I ended up stabbing my finger. But that didn't deter me. There were two wires to remove and replace. After getting the first one, I was fairly confident. I then did the second one a little too vigorously. That was when I realized that I had forgotten to switch off the power. There was this strange sensation that surged through my body, traveling from my hand and up to my head, gripping my brain, before going down to near my stomach area. Luckily I was fat and could still stand after wrenching my screwdriver away from the screw in that split second. By then I realized that I was just shocked by X voltage. After replacing the second wire, the lights worked, but I had a splitting headache. Which still persists now.

Sad right. But then I took that $30 we saved and immediately invested it in something else.

Now, I can take slight comfort and solace in the fact that... I still have the night to continue, (PROCRASTINATION!) and I have the Bourne Trilogy waiting for me after Sunday/Monday's paper~ Yes it's CHINA ORIGINAL DVD. But it's $30 for all 3 when I could have spent $29.90 getting one MALAYSIAN ORIGINAL DVD or $34.90 for a CODE 1. Even if I get it from Amazon, it still won't be $10SGD per disc. And I didn't feel like supporting piracy recently (after getting scolded) and so, $30 it is. iLove China but iHate inconsiderate and rude PRCs. If only PRCs could be nicer. Oh well.

Chasing (Mao) Cows Across the Universe

2008-03-03T09:42:00.003+08:00

Words are flying out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting thorough my open mind
Possessing and caressing me

A (mao) cow is a nocturnal animal. Extremely lazy and greedy, it likes to sleep in during the day and only wake up to feed as and when it likes before going back to sleep. It thrives in the night where the temperature is cooler and there is less chance of over-exerting itself or getting cooked by the sun.

Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as
they make their way across the universe

The (mao) cow likes to feed on a variety of things. Usually it will try to make do with anything it can find near it. Be it chocolates, wine, Pa Pa or some version of canned soup. However, bring the (mao) cow out for supper and it will like to order excessively and top off the meal with an Oolong tea or two. If the (mao) cow is not fed appropriately, it will not be happy. Conversely, once it is fed, it will be happy and will be easier to deal with.

Sounds of laughter shades of life
are ringing through my open ears
exciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe

The (mao) cow likes to travel in pairs. Because it is lazy inherently, it also likes to keep lazy pets like little brown dogs that think that they are white. The pet must also be able to have the ability to sleep the entire day away so that it does not disturb the living habits of the (mao) cow. (Mao) cows are contented with each others company and can stay that way for eons.

Please save this Dog

2008-02-08T11:29:00.000+08:00

He will be put to sleep by end Feb as his owners are going to put him to sleep after moving house. He is healthy and friskier than me and is about 8-9 years of age. Very very active and friendly, is so well toilet trained that he will keep his shit in until his owner comes back to bring him out to shit. Extremely cute and adorable.

Has a very prosperous name~

Yum yum.

2007-11-29T16:25:00.000+08:00

Hungry? Roarrrrr!

Shopping Spree

2007-11-27T23:55:00.000+08:00

It's the exam period again and as usual, I fall ill. Horribly ill. This time it was a one week bout of fever that never dropped below 38 degrees UNTIL I took antibiotics. That said, I had alot of time in bed to myself. Naturally, I went surfing.

Surf surf surf.

Guess what. I decided to buy the missus new shoes. The last time I got her nice new branded shoes were like... in 2006. Long overdue for new shoes she is, considering even her local Charles and Keith was drenched by the HDB floor washing ah neh and the heel was also 'torn' to reveal that the wooden heel was in fact, a sticker and that the heel was in fact, plastic. Shame on you Charles and Keith.

So I went online and checked out good deals. It was a actually okay, because I picked out 5 pairs relatively fast. But then the chore came in asking her to vet. When I asked her to vet 'was this okay', it turned out to be a 'let me choose' thingy. And of my initial 5 pairs that I chose, I think only 1 pair made it. Oh wait. 2 pairs made it.

But that took me 3 days.

After that, I was hit buy a DVD buying spree. And ended up with... Smallville seasons 4, 5, Eureka season 1, Dresdan Files season 1, 300 and a host of other shit for a cool price.

That took me 2 days.

Finally, I made my last purchase today (the last day of my illness) and it was the Halo 3 Legendary Edition complete with Spartan helmet. Thanks to Jack whom is sharing the set with me, I get to keep my Master Chief helmet for 2/3 the price of the set. Is that cool or what.

I think due to this bout of fever, I've spent $500 plus. But advanced 0% in my paper on friday.

Whoopie.

Marvel Legends Blue Wasp

2007-10-30T18:06:00.000+08:00

Trust No One (2)

2007-10-17T04:01:00.001+08:00

I'm pissed too. But what can I

HALO 3

2007-09-30T20:03:00.000+08:00

Halo 3 has hit the stands and I've got some items on my wishlist as well. For starters, an Xbox360 with a legendary edition of the game complete with a Master Chief helmet. Follow that on by a Heroclix SDCC Scarabm, an artfx Kotobukiya Master Chief statue and top it off with 2x Mcfarlane exclusive controllers and we're all set!

Retails for $400USD

Retails for $250USD and is the size of a baby stroller

Retails for $150USD

Retails for $100USD

Retails for $60USD each, $120USD for both and comes with McFarlane toys...

Of course this isn't a hint for friends to get these items for me. I just want to win them or something or buy them from my overseas contacts for cheaper. Really. Too expensive to waste money on one. Not that anyone will actually spend such obscene amounts of money on me in the first place of course...

Transformers Movie Leader Prime Blade & Allspark up for Pre-orders

2007-08-31T10:55:00.000+08:00

$30 a set of 2 with packaging. Cool eh. Price might go down when stuff arrives if larger volume is met.

Kit Chan

2007-08-24T01:40:00.001+08:00

More never released stuff for myself

2007-05-01T22:15:00.000+08:00

All mine! Mine!

Wow. Simply amazing speed after 8hrs.

2007-04-28T04:03:00.000+08:00

After 8 hrs of downloading at 5kB/s, my connection suddenly shot up to 160kB/s. Which is unheard of here in PGP. Which means something that I was prepared to download for 24hrs will be done in just 30mins. So freakin happy.

I finally get my Heroes fix.

BTW, I thought it was really funny when one uTube user commented this regarding Suresh's 'alliance' with Skylar in regards to the commercial/trailer for the previous few episodes. He actually said "omg why did you team up with skylar and reject peter? YOU INDIAN PROFESSOR YOU!" which was kinda funny (to me) and when I repeated it to xy she couldn't stop laughing.

She also can't stop laughing when I say 'UM-MEHH'. And I'm not using that silly GeGao name anymore coz she says that's what she's calling me so it's exclusive. Wahaha.

GeGao Master want to laugh

2007-04-27T19:07:00.001+08:00

because this woman:

thinks that this woman:

is not photogenic.

I rest my case.

GeGao Master dunno why people like to pay more for

2007-04-27T12:23:00.000+08:00

boxsets like these.

I think after every new Harry Potter release they actually release a new boxset compiling the last 2, 3, 4, 5 and now 6 books. Since 7 is coming out, shouldn't they just wait for the 1-7 new boxset release rather than still buy this dua-leng-kong thing and subsequently replace it again with the 1-7 release? I know some people that would if they had picked this up. For me, I've gotten all the 1st Editions (US print) and don't fancy paying more for a cardboard box wraparound. I don't mind paying more for the signed limited editions though and am currently missing book 2 and 6 I think. Book 4 like no such special release. Or maybe it's ultra rare. As the exam date draws nearer, I seem to be wasting time blogging more. Such is the curse of the blog.

On a different note, can someone please tell me how Azureus works? My blue frog jumps up and down when I click him but he's not helping me download anything at all. No other screen comes up. WTF?? How to get to watch my Heroes 19? Especially after YouTube took them down. Fuck.

GeGao Master wants to HAOLIAN

2007-04-26T18:22:00.000+08:00

about his latest purchase. This amazing figure wasn't even announced yet as any secret figure for the upcoming San Diego Comic Convention 2007 and I've got him already. This is how some networking with our native roots pays off.

Feast your eyes true believers on the FIRST Marvel Legends STAN LEE action figure (which doubles as Peter Parker!)

You can interchange to make him Peter Parker~ how fucking cool is that.

And since it's never been announced or released to the public, that makes this blog the FIRST place you're looking at this baby in all its glory. History in the making I'd say.

GeGao Master wants to EXTERMINATE

2007-04-26T18:03:00.000+08:00

with his new remote controlled 12" Dalek. Please don't think dirty thoughts although you're not very far off if you're guessing anything. My new Dalek is:

Awesome 12" tall Dalek based on the new series made by Charactor Options. Authentic Dalek Movement, Flashing Lights and Speech, Combat Mode Poseable Gun Platform, Automated Head and Eye Movement, Poseable Gun and Arm, plus Illuminated Eye! Runs on one 9V (not supplied) and 4 AA batteries.

He's from Doctor Who if you aren't savy with the term 'Dalek' and retails for a hefty 39.95GBP. ($120SGD) EXCLUDING SHIPPING. But I can get him cheaper at $100 (including shipping) if I buy more. So I'm buying more. So any of you that is lacking a 12" Dalek can pick an extra one up from me to make up for your lack of manliness because we all know that the Dalek is only the coolest killing machine in the whole galaxy. Having him will up your manliness by.... I dunno ... 5%? If you're you-know-hu you'll need 20 of these to even pass off as a human being though.

To learn more about the Time Wars and Doctor Who, do check out BBC's new series (currently in it's 2nd season) especially the Daleks episode. It's a killer. (Or you can just wikipedia it)

PS: It does not come with a vibrating function.

GeGao Master is Sick of hearing this:

2007-04-24T23:32:00.000+08:00

UM--MEHH??

I get this from my indian neighbour's friends whenever they come over to find him. I don't understand. He's a nice guy and doesn't interfere with my business other than leaving his unwashed pots in the sink and causing them to be maggot-fied over time. But why do his friends have to be so boorish and loud and uncouth?

Unless that's a traditional greeting, I dunno why they have to scream it out so loud every time they come find him cause it's really not nice to be disturbed by a super loud UM--MEHH when one is mugging.

Not being racist here okay.

GeGao Master writes back!

2007-04-10T11:51:00.000+08:00

Dick wanted a formal confirmation via email or he wouldn't process my transfer date request. So I give him confirmation plus feedback:

feedback@cdc.com.sg

Dear Mr Dick,

I apologize if this confirmation email came late as I am swamped with my research papers due this week and I just turned in at 6am in the morning so I didn't get your 9am sms until now.

Confirmation:
I'm confirming that my land tour departure date is 15th May 2007 at the price of $578 each with no additional charges for the transfer as agreed via our teleconversation on sat. My total bill will then be $(578 x 2) 1156. I don't know whether that includes the $3 NATAS fair reimbursement. I understand that CDC will contact me 2 weeks prior to departure (approx 1st - 2nd May, i'll call CDC on 3rd May because I'm having exams on 2nd and may not be able to pick up the phone) and notify me whether there are sufficient people to move on that date. Should there be no tour, I will be refunded the money in full after 2-4 weeks or 3-4 weeks. I'm ok with either.

---

Feedback:
Perhaps I can clarify my predicament better through email as I feel that your good side may not have understood me. I am not an unreasonable customer. Perhaps some background information might help.

I booked the initial tour to depart on the 15th at the NATAS fair with the purpose of extending my stay for a few more nights. However, I could not confirm the number of nights there and then at the NATAS fair. I then made a trip down to a CDC branch and spoke with Viktor whom made it clear that if I were to extend, there is still no guarantee that it would be approved and I would only know 2 weeks prior to departure. Hence there is a possibility that I may not be able to extend, something which I wanted in the first place. Hence, we opted to downgrade to a land tour and because it was done within 3 days of my booking at the NATAS fair (I think it was the 2nd day), there was no fee incurred for the change. He also told me it was possible largely because our tour was not confirmed yet as well. Seeing that we had no constrain in date, I asked if there was an earlier date as we don't mind leaving earlier and he suggested the 14th. After checking the price to be $578 with him, we agreed to change it to the 14th. He told me to call Dick to confirm the next day. I left CDC glad that the staff were helpful and attentive.

When Dick contacted me, he confirmed with me of the change of downgrade and change of date of departure from the 15th to the 14th. I verified that this was so. I then asked him if there was a change in the land tour price. I was told by Ms Neo (the other person taking the land tour with me) that she was also told the same, that land tour no change in price, only air ticket will change. I then asked whether I should go down to sign anything or verify everything at the CDC office as I wanted to make sure everything was fine and there were no problems as I would be very busy after that with my research papers due and my exams coming as well. He said that there was no need and that CDC would send the invoice/itinerary direct to my house. I left it as that and didn't think much of it.

A few days later, I got the invoice/itinerary from CDC in the mail and I was puzzled over the $100 increase in the total bill. My initial reaction to be frank was that 'don't tell me because I didn't go down to verify the numbers with them, they anyhow add $50 per person'? Since it was in the evening, I could only call to ask why there was an 'increase' the next day.

When I called Dick to enquire about the increase in price, he explained to me that my date of departure on the 14th was for the 4*5* band of hotels and not the 3*4* band of hotels which I signed up for in the $578 package. I then told him that my price was $578 as confirmed by Viktor and said I didn't agree with the price of $628. He then checked with his computer system and then said that he had told me the price the day I had my teleconversation with him and hence he updated it into his system, so there was no qualms about his notification to me of the price. I reiterated that what he told me that day was that there was 'no change' in land tour price and I identified that there was a possible miscommunication as he may have been thinking of 'no change' in the $628 price whilst I was thinking of 'no change' in the $578 price and we both did not verbally confirm the numbers with each other. I then told him to please change me to a package with the $578 price. As he said that he had verified the information and price with me before changing my itinerary, any subsequent changes which I propose to make will incurr a $75 fee per pax and $150 fee total for both me and Ms Neo. As this $150 is more than the $100 difference, he advised me to keep the current itinerary. I made my point in that I did not wish to have 'changes' if not for the fact that the price was 'changed'. If he claimed that he had given me the price and I had agreed to it in our first teleconversation, why would I call him up and query him on the extra charges now? By the fact that I called him up, shows that I did not agree to this price of $628 and as I had no prior knowledge of the difference in hotel room standards, I totally have no benefit in claiming why there is a change in price as in my mind, the land tour packages were all the same at $578 (as confirmed by Viktor) and I was 'overcharged' at $628. Dick told me his perspective that it was basically my word against his and he would bring the matter up to his manager and request for the change of date to a $578 package. He then repeated that his system cannot be wrong and he would get back to me. (Do note that I had identified the possible miscommunication during the teleconversation and not him.)

I do understand that the NATAS period was very busy for everyone at CDC. Hence I was prepared to overlook any possible errors/problems that might have occured and spend precious time clarifying them despite my deadlines and exams.

The day after good friday I called him up to check on the status. He acknowledged that Viktor may have given the wrong price to me but said that the company had decided that 'any further changes are subject to the fee of $75 per pax'. I wasn't very convinced because any company when faced with the facts of a present miscommunication as above would actually be moreso inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to the customer and allow the change. Furthermore, it would come down to either a waiver of the $150 fee or the $100 difference and it would not make economical sense to waiver the $100 difference as the changing fee is imposed by the company (paper value) whilst the $100 difference goes towards the actual cost of the higher hotel room rates. I then asked him what he told the manager and he said as a matter of factly that he told the manager about my situation, but it is company policy that they allow customers to change once (which I did, from package to land tour), but any other subsequent changes will be subjected to a fee of $75 per pax. I then asked what exactly did he tell the manager? Whether he told the manager that I wouldn't have wanted a change if not for the miscommunication prior? He told me that he told the manager of my situation, and he told the manager that he had confirmed the price with me before keying it into his computer system, hence his manager said there was a fee to be imposed.

Instead of acknowledging that there might have a genuine miscommunication and telling the manager about it, he actually repeated what he had been telling me all the time: there can be no error on his part and he had verified everything with me before changing my itinerary. This obviously makes me out to be a very unreasonable customer in the eyes of the manager. How can this customer agree to changes and price, then come back and want to change this change that and expect us to waiver the fee whilst giving us more trouble trying to accomodate all the changes? I expect one to be defensive when told that there was a very likely possibility that he forgot to do something (in this case confirm the numbers), but not defensive to the extent in not bringing up the possible case of miscommunication to the manager and instead insisted again that there was no error on his part. This left me feeling that CDC staff weren't that helpful after all.

There is simply no incentive for me to keep changing the dates as immediately after my confirmation of land tour date for the 14th, I had booked my air tickets via Jetstarasia. I don't mind changing to another date as I made it clear that I want the $578 tour. I'm not so free as to worry about my travel plans when I have my papers due and my exams coming. On hindsight, I should have insisted going down to the office to verify everything on the first day.

It's very simple, I just want my price of $578 within my travel period of 13 - 23 May.

After explaining everything to him over the phone again, he agreed to waiver the fee on the account that I submit to him an email as above, stating that I want to change the back to the 15th (initially he told me it couldn't be done as I had changed from the 15th to 14th. i then told him i changed to the 14th because i was given the option but i am flexible on it as my tickets were from 13th May to 23rd May) and that if I required any more changes, I would be subjected to a fee. If the tour fails to move, i would be fully refunded at a later date. I don't mind agreeing to those so as long as both parties are clear on that.

I am sorry that the company had to make the various changes especially in the company's p.o.v., the difference is only $50 per pax ($100 total). The reason why I don't want the $628 tour so much despite it being 'more comfortable' is not just because I didn't sign up for it (the principle), but because the additional $100 goes towards 3 nights of my budget hotel stay (the practical). So do understand that $50 per pax may not be alot for the company and they may wonder why we do not wish to spend $50 more for better accomodation, but from our point of view, a hotel is just to spend the night, so it's not that important to us.

I don't require an apology and certainly don't expect to get one from my unpleasant experience with CDC. However, next time to other customers, do make it a point to verify the prices and details. You can say that you did, but the fact is if you did, I wouldn't have to go through so much trouble now and spend so much time worrying over this whilst I have my deadlines and exams looming. I will however tell my friends and family etc. about my problem with the company and will probably never book another tour with CDC again after this although I do still hope that the 15th tour (if it moves) will not be affected by this incident nor this feedback.

Regards,
GeGao Master

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He really waste my precious time. Too bad this is not ebay, no rating system.

GeGao Master wants to clarify that he's actually not so GeGao

2007-04-07T18:05:00.000+08:00

Actually I'm not that GeGao.

I think if you ask people that I regard (or they regard me) as a friend, I don't GeGao with them. I don't GeGao with them even over money.

Like Jackson owe me $2.43 I also don't go and remember one.

Or Melanie never return me the taxi change from last year of $0.52.

I nevermind one.

Xy pangsai then the toilet bowl stuck, I plunger it and shit water fly onto me also I can tahan.

No GeGao.

So you see, I'm not that GeGao right?

GeGao Master gets reply from CDC

2007-04-07T17:56:00.000+08:00

Guess what. The dick from CDC didn't call me. I had to call him to enquire on my tour package. What he told me was, if I had to change the date away from the 14th to any other date, a $75 fee will be incurred. I asked him what he told the manager. He told me (I couldn't believe my ears) that he told the manager I wanted to change date, his colleague may have told me the wrong date, BUT he had told me the price and I had agreed before he input into his computer. I was like. WTF. How fucking stupid are you? Dick was the problem all along for NOT confirming the price with me before booking and yet HE tells the manager that? Of course manager won't let me change la. Bloody cock. I basically told him. Sorry, no. You should have told the manager that you didn't tell me the price, which is why I'm contesting the price now. I don't mind the date. Infact, I changed the date to the 14th because it was recommended to me at the same price. Use your brain dick. After some time, he relented and insisted I type him an email confirmation and allowed me to change to the 15th. Great. I'm gonna CC it to feedback unit. You just wait.

I don't understand how cock he can be. It's just so clear la. If you never cock up, I won't call and ask u why u cock up. Instead of trying to help me coz it's your mistake, you tell me I agreed to it. The fact is if i agree, i won't even call u up to disagree. No logic ley. I'm flexible on the date which shows i'm just concerned about the money aspect of it. what part of your feeble brain can't comprehend that you made a mistake? i've forgiven u for the mistake and i just need to get my preferred date. is that so hard?

CDC holy days should still be a decent place to book your tours. But lookout for this dick character. i'm willing to go so far to allow him some leeway for mistake as i'm sure NATAS fair they were all very busy. But trying to push the mistak onto me and make me bear the costs for your mistakes just so you can look good in front of your manager is really pushing it too far.

If the tour guide is gonna give us a problem on the actual trip itself because of dick 'warning' him of 2 gegao people (in actual fact we weren't very ge gao lor. we just want accountability) they can forget about the trip. and instead find a nice letter in the ST.

GeGao Master has spoken.

GeGao Master GeGao with Rotterdam Cock

2007-04-05T23:21:00.000+08:00

There's an idiot in Rotterdam that's pissing me off and ang knows about him. In his act of desperado after xy blocked him off msn, he resorted to huhuhu's tactics and added her using 'a fren's msn and ask her how come he never see her for the past 3 days online. Eh. You msn my gf with this msg "reaches his hand and strokes xy's thigh'" you THINK i will still let you remain in her contact list arh? Once you come back Changi Airport brudder, I will ask the Indian MaTa to reach his hand up YOUR thigh see if you like or not.

Ang, please introduce a virus into his computer can? He's starting to piss me off with his Energizer attitude. The fact is that he already HAS a gf but he's such a horny bastard that he wants to keep ALL options opened. So whoever reads my blog and got dirty underwear 5 years never wash one, please hor, go rub them on his face. Make his fucking face rot. Cheebye.

This is not GeGao.

This is not jealousy.

I've got nothing to be jealous of other than perhaps how come my skin not as thick as yours.

You fucking cheebye.

Spiderman 3 Extended Preview NBC 7 min Exclusive

2007-04-05T14:05:00.001+08:00

Includes the entire 1st fight scene between Spiderman and the New Goblin! Wahoo...

GeGao Master finds more Stupid People in the World!

2007-04-05T01:40:00.001+08:00

This is about a stupid woman in a local spree. She bought some contact lens and her eyes perhaps were too sensitive, so she started flaming and scolding the spree organiser. Wanting her to share the supplier as compensation or something. Read on for more laughs on how stupid people can be!

Here's the spree organiser after receiving the hostile emails:
> On 3/27/07, valenzia yap
> wrote: Hi all,
>
> i do not wish to see things turn ugly this way as I
> am just a spree organiser NOT SELLER. But one of the
> girl had miscomfy of the contacts, i feel sorry for
> her case. and took into consideration abt having the
> last spree for my contacts thou i've been wearing
> and it's good to me. The supplier needs another
> order to ship the wrong contacts in together.
> Everyone's eyes is different, some ppl dont suit
> certain kind of contacts. This is true, any of you
> can go to optician to ask about this.
>
> I got very angry with I see all the accusation and
> scoldings. Maybe one of you i'm massing mailing now
> is the girl. I do not mind.
>
> this is my public reply to her on my spree page.
>
> hi, i've emailed the mods asking if i am allow to go
> on with the spree. if you keep insisting that i am
> wrong when i've been wearing the contacts for long
> and nothing happened. you just keep saying i'm
> selfish and wanna enjoy cheap shipment only.
> this girl, insisted that i deleted her comments of
> which, I DID NOT.
> emailed me tones and tones of email accusing that i
> am 'selling'. i give clear explainations that
> sometimes some ppl dont suit some contacts. and STOP
> scolding me with all the 'selfish, morally wrong,
> and stuff. i am just an organiser. i've been wearing
> it and there's nothing wrong.
> supplier need another order in order to ship the
> wrong orders in. So i am listening to you, ORDERING
> THE LAST TIME.
>
> this is the email to you talking very nicely. but
> you want things to turn ugly.
> //
> my life is not just about sprees as i login to my
> email seeing 2 long emails assuming and accusing me.
> I wont feel good, for sure.
>
>
> If you compare the main substance present in the
> solution of the glass contact lens case and that of
> any contact lens solution, they are different. You
> can ask any opticians. The solution in your glass
> contact lens case contains hema copolymer. This
> helps to preserve and kills infectious cells during
> storage before the seal is opened for use. Without
> thouroughly cleaning this solution before wear, it
> may cause flammatory effects to eyes that are
> sensitive. Different company will add different
> amount or percentage of this substance together with
> water for instance ( 45% HEMA to 55% water or 35%
> HEMA to 65% water ). Maybe when you bought other
> brands of contact lens, these storage and
> preservitive solution has lesser HEMA than the one
> you used recently. The water helps to minimise the
> HEMA effect for those who aren't careful to clean
> off the initial HEMA solution.
> The contact lens solution is the one that can help
> to remove the HEMA solution but not alot and not
> immediately. The HEMA wears off after two or more
> use.
>
> I feel very sorry about this issue but I hope that
> you are be kind with your words and I really did not
> delete any comments. What did you posted actually?
>
> Many times when you go to optician, they will give
> you a trial contacts lens first cos they will want
> to see if your eyes suit that contact lens. Thanks.
> //
>
> let my past spree-ers speak.
>
>
> I hope you girls can give me a break from these.
> Thanks.
> I have my life outside _spreee and sgspree. Thanks
> for your kind understanding.
>
>
> Clicknow.

Here is the stupid woman:
> *NicH0LaS* wrote: well i
> did tried to ask u share with ur supplier with me u
> chose to IGNORE and deleted my comments i think u're
> REALLY SELFISH.

Here is a self-righteous woman:
> On 3/27/07, b ryl < lacedwithdrugs@yahoo.com.sg>
> wrote: im sorry, but what is selfish abt not
> wanting to share supplier? it's clicknow's personal
> choice, no? she is not obliged to share her supplier
> with you, no? probably she could have handled it in
> a better manner, like reply and tell you she's
> sorry, she doesn't wish to share her source instead
> of deleting them straight away but in the end, she's
> still not obliged to share her supplier with you.

Here is the stupid woman's reply (hilarious):
> *NicH0LaS* wrote:
>
> why u kaypo? its not even u .. its me and
> clicknow .... pls refrain from kaypo

Here is the self-righteous woman's reply to the stupid woman's reply:
> On 4/1/07, b ryl
> wrote: i apologise for the late reply for my net
> is down, if not i'd have replied to your 3 emails
> earlier. as i have a proper moving train of
> thoughts, i'll reply your emails in just one email.
>
> okay, so lets say she HAS been earning profits
> from this spree: you wanted to share supplier with
> her, so that you can earn the profit too, or what?
> and when she refused to, you turned on her. to me,
> i'm getting the contacts at a cheaper rate already,
> so if she has been earning profits, fine by me too.
>
> like i said before, yes, she could have handled it
> in a better manner instead of deleting your comments
> straight off. that does give you the right to say
> 'hell ois that right' but once again, she is so not
> obliged to share her supplier with you! i think it's
> a little exaggerating to say that the 'whole world
> supplier will be hngry to death' just because she
> refuses to share supplier with you. -.-"
>
> and lastly, i'm not being kpo my dear. you cc-ed
> everyone else when you mailed her, obviously wanting
> us to know what's going on. so there, don't call me
> kpo when i interfere to tell you you're the one in
> the wrong.
>
> this argument is getting very senseless. if you
> insist she is obliged and should share her supplier
> with you like you demanded, by all means, go ahead
> and continue feeling that way and get indignant when
> she doesn't. lucks to you in the society babe/dude,
> and goodbye.
>
>
> p/s: just for the record, no, clicknow's not my
> friend. she is just a spree organiser whom i just
> ordered my contact lenses from. she didn't pay me
> whatsoever to defend her, neither can my morals and
> principles be so easily bought over by money, thank
> you. but pssst, she just shared her supplier with me
> 2 days back. in your face, hon (:

Here is the stupid woman's reply that left me clutching my fats:
> *NicH0LaS* wrote:
> shutup i insist u're kaypo means kaypo just shut
> up ...... senseless bitch period! u looking for
> scolding mind you! u have been in my spam column
> ..... BITCH

And finally the self-righteous woman's reply (not funny) to end it all:
> b ryl wrote:
> woah. how very polite of you, using such words when
> you've nothing left to say. well then i insist
> you're a absolute retard whose words i'm not gonna
> pay attention to and you're just that.
>
> p/s: i cc-ed everyone even though you didn't, just
> incase, you know, you wanted them to know your
> character. TATA (:

Isn't the stupid woman just SOOOOOOOOO stupid? Reminds us of someone sia. Including Jeffery. 'you all shut up! i'm correct, you're wrong! i'm louder! doesn't matter that i'm gay! i'm correct! shut up!' Just so bloody oblivious to everything one.

She's more GeGao Master than me la.

GeGao Master Strikes at HuHuHu

2007-04-04T23:54:00.000+08:00

Because huhuhu censors my post on his blog, i'm going to reply to him here.

"And yes, she keeps insisting that I added her on MSN Messenger again using another account. Hey… I’m not so free ok! You can see all her mindless accusations of me as a skirt chaser. It just makes people SICK reading all these remarks. I have my circle of guy friends too. Honestly, I don’t like criticizing others or blow my temper. I always believe in resolving disputes peacefully. But there will always be some people that will force you to show your hand.

But as I said, if she is willing to apologize, I’ll let bygones be bygones. And I hope that her boyfriend will stop being as crazy as her. I’m not angry with her actually, just flabbergasted."

Very short and simple replies here. If huhuhu is not Johnson Tan, the 'guy' that added xy to his msn again after being blocked, he wouldn't know about the skirt chaser nick she has on msn because (i) huhuhu is blocked and (ii) Johnson Tan is not.

And yeah, if he keeps on putting mindless accusations on his blog, don't worry. it'll all blow up in his face too. We're not crazy Mr Koh, you are. You're a sick individual, get some help. You're unpopular because you made yourself unpopular. Stop blaming others for it. You Bush you.

Do checkout my nick and visit his blog. He's no intentional skirtchaser. He just habitually does it. See for yourselves if he has the qualifications though. I shan't say more.

GeGao Master has spoken.

The GeGao Master Strikes Back

2007-04-04T22:02:00.001+08:00

Finally I updated my blog... with new skins and new posts in anticipation for the upcoming Spiderman 3!! (duh) I must say the trailers are to die for. Especially the recent newer ones focusing more on Venom. I swear I am so going to orgas in the cinema on May 2nd. (Sigh, May 2nd because got paper on May 2nd so cannot go on May 1st... Dammit!)

On a less stickier note, the ge gao master strikes back! Today, he shall complain about more ge gao things. Actually not so ge gao but more of I sway kenna this kind of stoopid people in stoopid situations. That concern money la of course.

GeGao situation #1 Alibaba.com

I helpch xy order clothes from this online shop called alibaba (name changed for obvious ge gao reasons), she ordered 33-40 pieces of clothings (it's a spree!) and then hor, we painstakingly confirmed with them which clothes were instock before transferring the money to them (they are in korea!), then hor, we decided to wait 1 week coz 1 red dress we bought for lindy hadn't come yet. (yes people, april bday ppl are going to get dresses from me) so hor so hor, the day before we send the money hor, we confirm online like 35 pieces in stock (including added orders) so next day we send the money. then hor, we wait 1 week. eh. how come they havent notified us of items being shipped? or confirm with us anything before shipping? nevermind. i think near end of 1 week we finally got the seller on msn (one of the only staff in the company that can speak engrish) and asked her. she say shipped already. like 2 days ago. so should come soon. but some stuff out of stock, so refund us some money. we also lan lan. in the end shipped 30 pcs. or so she say. when goods finally came, not 30 pcs lor. 29 pcs! waaa i so gegao. i was like waaaaaa. u all dare to cheat our money arh. so we of coz try to contact her again la. wa. msn her for 4hrs only reply one sentence one. damn jialat. near to 1 week after receiving the goods, we still dun have refund nor hear about how they were going to settle the missing pc. first make sum excuse abt paypal, say no money inside to refund. then after that tell me that for my missing pc, i have to pay $20 sgd more shipping just to ship 1 pc. i was pissed la. like your company fked up the order still wan me to pay money. and i bombard her with 3 qns only she also take forever to reply. until i fed up, msn the lao da in the company. using my negotiating skills honed over the years (wahahhaha.. thick skin anyhow say one... dunch vomit blood prease), i told her it's unreasonable for the company to make me pay for their mistake basically and i do want my refunds back since it's been over a week plus since i received the goods. so finally after much hoohah of which time was supposed to be spent on my research papers, i finally got the refund today. weird thing is, she got someone from singapore to paypal me the refund. i have to take it out of paypal soon in case she revokes the transaction. once i take it out, paypal cannot revoke it coz then it'll be monies had and received! hurhurhur. dunch play play. At least that one is settled. For now. if they reverse transaction then i gonna gegao again!!!

GeGao situation #2 Hu? Hu? Hu? Hu?

You think i'm gonna blog about huhuhu arh? whahaha. no lor. he is how insignificant can? don't wanna waste my time blogging about him. coz i dun gegao him. he thinks everyone is plotting against him budden he dun understand that nobody is doing anything becoz WE CAN'T BE BOTHERED WITH HIM. so cock rite. nobody wants anything to do with him and yet he thinks otherwise. anything he gets in the future he rightly deserves sia. i think i heard some girls sent emails to MOE with links to his blog and details of his terrorizing acts in bid to save their children from suffering the same fate. PS: he wants to teach JC girls. not pri or sec sch but JC girls. Save your children! but that's hearsay la, and for all you know may just be contemplation by the girls or totally made up (READ: other girls, not xy, she or me don't have so much time to write letter to MOE, simply because u haven't pissed us off enough yet to do so - unlike the GeGao situation below). but seriously, i find it laughable that he is attempting to extract an apology from xy. it's like your reputation damaged? since when u got reputation? anything u damage is yourself your own actions damage one lor. don't blame other people coz u're screwed up right? oh well. i say not blogging about him yet i write so much. muahahhaha. Okay, start clean slate:

GeGao situation #2.0.1 Communicable Disease Centre Holy Days

timeline: book tour - went down to change tour details/option to extend/change to land tour - first call received regarding confirmation change of date - call by me regarding costs - call to xy saying no extra costs - received inflated invoice - new call by me ge gaoing increase in price.

This is bigger than huhuhu. and involves approximately the same amount of money as the previous one. me and xy despite my hectic research paper schedule went down to NATAS fair recently and even though i was researching a paper and wanted to go back early to skool on sunday, i went down to book our trip from CDC tours on sunday evening. damn alot of ppl. but we got our package at $823. the tour package wasn't THAT attractive if you consider the fact that first day is wasted as we reach late and last day is wasted as we leave at 7 in the morning. so we told the person, we want to extend. just dunno the number of days yet. she say no prob, within 3 days go to any branch can extend. so we went to a branch to extend and was told by viktor at the branch that can extend, but they will only contact us 14 days before departure and not guaranteed. so we're like wtf. no guarantee how we book hotel and make arrangements and what not. coz we CONFIRM want to extend, so if in the end CANNOT extend then no point rite? so we opted to downgrade our tour package to land tour only $578 departs on 15th May. they say due to our special circumstances (we came within 3 days, and our tour not filled yet) they should be able to waiver the changing fee of $75 per pax. so we asked if there were earlier departure dates. they say got 14th. i specifically asked the person (viktoR!) to double check the price for me and it was $578 as well. so i say okay. we change to that date. 14th. somewhat the next day or so, the actual person in charge of our tour, Dick, called and confirmed my change of date. i said yeah, 14th, land tour only. i specifically asked if there was a change in price, he said no. so i took it no change. xy also picked up his call and specifically asked if the price was different from the one quoted at natas fairand he also said no, land tour where got change in price one. imagine my surprise when i got the bill from CDC and it was $100 more. immediately i flipped la. my first impression was, KNN. tell me no change in price, no fee for changing dates and downgrade, then u sneaky sneaky try to be funny? i got pissed la, and so i called him up today and asked wtf was going on. imagine my surprise when he said 'i told you got difference in price before i confirm with you, my computer say so' i was like cock la. computer u type one, im implying u screw up u tell me u didn't coz ur computer say so. that's how dumb a reason can? furthermore, if i agreed on ur price, i won't be calling u now to kaopek rite? nabei. as thick as huhuhu sia. it's just so simple that he can't see it. he insisted that he was right. (whatever happened to customer was always right?) i told him to consider this:

1) my point again, if he told me the price, i won't be contesting it now

2) when i called him and b4 he tell me the price increase was due to hotel * difference, i was under the assumption that it was the same * hotel. so my intention was never to skive on the price but rather to find out why there was a price increase and tell him that i didn't agree to it.

3) i had confirmed with viktor that is was $578

what he told me which infuriated me was:

1) customer within 3 days make 1 change foc. after that $75 fee applies.

2) he cannot be wrong. must be i wrong. coz he cannot have typed in he told me the price when he didn't. computer system never wrong.

3) basically it was my word against his, and he repeated that he MUST have told me the price change

so i said:

1) well, there was prob a miscom in that i asked him land tour the same price? he say no change. xy asked him land tour the same price? he say land tour same price, standard, no change, only air ticket change. to him, it was the more ex price all along coz of the hotel, but still no change. but to me, i didn't know that. i asked if there was a change with my 578 price in mind so logically the miscom could have arisen there. note that HE didn't suggest this but rather ME that did.

2) i don't buy the $75 fee because the fact is he screwed up, or i wouldn't have called in the first place. so don't come telling me fee applies for changes because i wouldn't make that change if not for YOUR mistake dick.

3) he could have honestly made the mistake in updating into the com based on the miscom scenario above, and i forgive him. so pls help me out.

of course he went on the defensive:

1) he defended that he would never update or change the package without the client consent and after telling client terms and all.

2) he stupidly repeated then that any changes i wanna make are subjected to $75 fee per pax, and told me to just keep my current package because i would pay $150 to make changes when my total is just a $100 difference.

Of course i also not happy la. not because he stubborn. i mean DUH. wtf i call u to kaopek for if i agreed to ur terms rite? now i got impression CDC like to anyhow cut ppl thanks to idiots like him.

1) i said take into consideration my circumstances, there is no point in me contesting this if he had done his job.

2) hence i will not want to pay the change in fee if any and i requested that he do something about it.

He obviously found no point in talking to me because i am not an auntie or uncle that he can just dismiss. so he put me off the phone with:

1) he will ask management to waiver the $75 change

2) he can TRY to change to 15 or 17 which are the 578 price

3) failing which i HAVE to take the more expensive price

Damn CB rite? want to take my money still give me attitude. I say

1) try to waiver the $75 fee per person (total 150)

2) or simplier, waiver the $100 fee coz its your fault in the first place

3) change the tour date

I seriously don't want to tour with them anymore because of this cock up. i mean think about it la. to ur company $100 u also ge gao. ur fault already just bloody well suck it up and be professional. $100 to me = 3 days of budget hotel stay. so obviously i ge gao rite. i hope he changes the tour date to 17th and failing to get a full tour, cancel it. i'd rather get all my money back please. dont want to let them earn a single cent.

He just doesn't understand the idea that if i agreed to his terms and conditions, i wouldn't have called to ge gao. just like huhuhu. if there's nothing wrong, people won't say. there's simply no incentive to make things up. think we very free is it? got exams coming ley. cock. mostly likely he'll go bluff his management that

He hasn't called back yet. he scoffed even when i said ask management to waiver the $100 difference. but it's practical mah. waiver $150 or $100. from my perspective that's how we solve problems. like if my buyer buys a toy w/o a gun, i'd have to open a new one just to send him the gun. i'm supposed to solve the problem. if i buy ur tour package and there's a problem, u jolly well try to solve my problem instead of telling me "it's your problem".

my impression from viktor was that CDC was an efficient company that valued their customers and were willing to help them solve their problems. my impression from dick is that CDC is a company that shortchanges their customers and hides costs from unsuspecting customers. i am not an auntie. i check my bills thankyewverymuch. summore i recall specifically when i asked him to return my call about costs of the package, he didn't actually say the amount... very dubious.

I'll wait a day or two for his reply. if no reply, it'll start with a letter to CDC. then a latter to straits times.

The Ge Gao Master has Spoken!

Pam and her photo album

2007-04-03T11:22:00.000+08:00

Omg, Pam tried to send me her nude pictures!

8:16:47 AM princess_pam23@yahoo.com: dHey i been doing photo album! Should see em loL! accept please mate :)
8:20:44 AM princess_pam23@yahoo.com: ear?Hey wanna see my new photo album?
8:24:44 AM princess_pam23@yahoo.com: Hey just finished new photo album! :) might be a few nudes ;) lol...
8:28:48 AM princess_pam23@yahoo.com: hey man accept my new photo album.. :( made it for yah, been doing picture story of my life lol..
8:32:43 AM princess_pam23@yahoo.com: Hey wanna see my new photo album?

So scary.

On a lighter note, Mr Bean's Holiday is also scary. Don't waste money to see it. I can do all the facial jokes for you. For $5. Cheaper than if you go cinema. Because 99% of the show is basically him doing funny faces.

Cheapo nana they all.

Guys guys guys

2007-03-19T17:01:00.000+08:00

It's always the same with some guys. They like to message girls with 'over-friendly' stuff like: miss you, hugz, hey babe, baby, dear etc. To any idiot layman, this signals a clear intention of 'bu huai hao yi' no matter how much he protests and denys it. True, he might say, well... that's my character to say such stuff. But think about it, is it really necessary? Would not a simple how'ja doing or hello do? If you're saying no, it doesn't transacend the emotion or feeling you wish to impart onto the girl, then volia, you're probably thinking further than just a simple hi.

With the proliferation of sms, such people get away with these and build up a reputation for being 'like that'. Firstly, is there such a reputation such as being 'like that'? If that's so, then please be 'like that' to me too when you message me to ask my gf out. Try something along the lines of 'hi handsome, oh you gorgeous thing, please be a dear and let me call your gf out for tea ok? No strings attached, don't worry' Yah right. I'm not blind, I'm not stupid. If I believe a word they say I don't need to study already, can go sell toys for a living.

Mr Koh once said on his blog that he hates bfs whom are too possessive over their gfs and don't allow them to go out with other guys (or him in general). It's not so much of letting one's gf going out with other guys. But rather going out with that guy that's smothering your gf with words behind your back obviously nobody will let her go right? And the worst thing is if the girl thinks he's just 'like that', it's harmless and it's also sweet. HA. You've fallen into his trap. Next the girl will be fighting for her rights to see her 'friend' that's been nice to her (out of the blue I might add) and then there'll be the whole debate of Mr Koh's most hated people.

I say these randoms should be shot. Twice. Hanged and flogged. I don't mind past friends saying hi and wanting to catch up. But you start giving crap messages like those illustrated above, sorry, ESAD please.

I. Don't. Like.

Looking into the future...

2007-03-13T03:31:00.001+08:00

Hurhurhur

I'm dining at the gates of hell for my birthday!

2007-03-11T14:39:00.000+08:00

Wheeee.. this should be fun. Hope the food is good tmr night. If not, I can throw the chef into hell! wahahha.. which is just around the corner...

Restaurant: Made in China

THERE aren't many places in the world where you can walk past the Ten Courts of Hell en route to a fine Chinese restaurant, so if you can do so at one of Singapore's more under-rated attractions, the wondrous (and some say wacky) Haw Par Villa, it's quite appetite-inducing.

I'm talking about walking up the gentle slope of course, and not through the actual Ten Courts with its depictions of gruesome punishments - remember the pool of filthy blood in the second court of hell; or the chopping board where you see heads and arms hacked off in the ninth court?

Those with delicate uh, stomachs, need not worry since you don't pass through the actual mouth of the dragon to get to Hua Song - a new $7.8 million museum dedicated to the Chinese diaspora. Made in China is the restaurant inside the first hall of the museum, which is part of the theme park.

Helmed by master chef Anthony Khuah, formerly of Tung Lok Restaurant and Summer Pavilion of Ritz Carlton Hotel, the cuisine is contemporary Chinese that's Cantonese-based, while also incorporating traditional dishes from the other dialect groups - Hakka, Teochew, Hokkien, and Sichuan. There's Chicken in Millet Wine under the Hakka category, then Teochew cold crab and stewed goose, along with braised Hokkien Fo Tiao Xiang and Sichuan mapo doufu.

The dining hall is actually located at the main hall when you enter Hua Song, but Singapore Explorer, the company which manages the museum, will also allow corporate functions to be held at eight of the exhibition halls. If you drop by for lunch or dinner, however, you don't need to pay the entry fee to the museum, which is $8 per adult and $5 per child.

The menu includes the ubiquitous dim sum of course, while a sampling revealed dishes done with finesse. The Tan Jia style braised shark's fin with fish maw was rich, and further sweetened by pumpkin which also gave the soup a frothier texture. Chef Khuah also gives the wasabi prawn creation a twist by using lobster instead - a good substitute although his wasabi-mayo mixture could be just a little sharper and sweeter for more oomph.

The Hakka yam abacus dish was an interesting one, with yam shaped into abacus 'beads' and mixed with a stir-fry of minced meat and diced green beans for flavouring and crunch. Dessert was a delicate double-boiled hashima served in a young coconut shell, so that it carried the aroma of coconut. Prices for the dishes are in the $10 to $20 range.

Dining in Made in China - especially if you're in the Chinese Clan Hall or the Grand Food Hall - provides a talking point, as much research and effort has gone into collecting information and reproducing artefacts. The food repros in the Grand Food Hall, I've to say, are very delectably done.

Even as you check out the food, don't give the museum a miss either - it's worth at least one walk around to see interpretations about how the Chinese survived as gold miners in Africa, laundrymen in Australia and railway workers in Canada, besides being traders and coolies in Singapore and Malaysia.

The museum is rather interactive, and children will like the Trailblazer room which is like a play area under the watchful eyes of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, peering fiercely from their posters.

You can now drive your car all the way up to park next to Hua Song, but frankly, taking a walk up the statue-lined path - if you haven't been back to Haw Par Villa since you were six - is a novel trip down memory lane.

MADE IN CHINA
Hua Song, Haw Par Villa
262 Pasir Panjang Road (S) 118628,
Tel: 6777 7819
Operating hours: 11.30 am - 3pm; 6pm - 11 pm daily.

Mar 18, 2006
The Business Times

Mushrooms in the Sky

2007-02-28T22:14:00.000+08:00

I got cut off. I was supposed to answer a question and I got cut off. 25% of my CA marks gone like that because of some overzealous sista. I mean please la, we all take turns to speak you cutting me off was just plain rude. i'd have liked to throw my water bottle at you if not for the fact that I still had water inside and didn't want to waste it.

i suppose that's how it works. in court we have the adversarial system. in class we have the class participation system. each class is only 3hrs and within that time (if you're the presenting group), you have to get yourself heard. granted everyone wants to get ahead, but it's just a bad rep one'll be getting if this happens persistantly. what's sad is when we get to the big four firms, we'll be doing it all over again. but it'll be perfectly justifiable. in that scenario, there'll only be 1 SC or 2, and 40 pupils. everyone wants the attention of the SC, so you can bet the fur flying will start pretty soon. in a way i'm looking forward to 'working' as opposed to studying right now. i believe i can function better practically. i don't really like all the academic stuff. but when it comes to competing with fellow pupils, well.. we all will have to do a bit of back stabbing and such right?

although i'll sincerely avoid doing that because i believe in karma.

and also because i'm quite lazy to do that and if it backfires it'll be a career suicide.

i have a newfound respect for china because it's making me a bit of money somewhat. and i am pretty proficient in typing chinese nowadays. which is why i can spot a forged chinese letter a mile away. someone tried to pass himself off as a prc recently. my god it was hilarious. the terms used were a little off but the funniest part was it was all tied to the disgusting person xy was mentioning about in her blog. absolutely hilarious this guy's efforts to save his non-existant dignity. makes for great crapper read.

anyway, i have to get used to typing again. and i should start having more observations and long rambling posts soon because if not, this blog would be meaningless.

just spotted a blog 'reviewing' movies and i must say i slammed the author pretty hard because i could not get over the fact that she reviewed a movie badly due to her inability to understand and follow the movie which wasn't even hard to follow in the first place. there was simply no way to misunderstand things and yet... yet ... she did it. and she was one of the top finalists for a certain movie blog contest as well which begs the question: if this is our best of the best movie blogging critics, does this reflect the level our singapore movie-goers are?

i'm so tempted to go full mode into my anti-jack ramble ala 2 years ago but i shall refrain. other than my point that he's a money making scumbag that sacrifices quality for quantity, and he has no concept of art not that he ever had. he has not a shred of originality on him if you consider that liang po2 was copied from a taiwan variety show and his only decent hit was home run, which was copied from an independent film (children of heaven). [incidentally, his version was children of heaven meets i love coffeeshop politics, which i have a low tolerance for] other than making remakes, what did he really do right if he ever did right at all? look at his biggest hit, money no enough. if THAT is considered art, well, then i say singapore can esad. it doesn't help that mediawhore is doing anything BUT promoting art. sure, they throw money into raintree pictures and they sponsor movies. but think about it. what part of those 'international' raintree films are actually singaporean? or have anything even remotely connected to singapore? perhaps the film they shot it on was bought in singapore since they sponsored the film and just slap their logo at the opening credits rite?

think about this again. singaporeans may not deserve good writing and good films/tv shows. why do i say that? remember a long time back they had this pilot thingy going on. 6 finalists shot 1 pilot each and they allowed singaporeans to vote on which one should be made into a series/mini series. out of all 6, the best concept one imo was the one where a group of NSman were training in the jungle and were transported back in time to the japanese occupation. sounds interesting? i caught it and felt there was potential here. then guess which one won the chance to be made into a series? some reality tv fuck about city kids being forced to stay for 1 week in the kampung. WTF. singapore has chosen. and it's saying that WE WANT STUPID SHOWS BECAUSE WE ARE STUPID. and mediawhore (and jack) are listening and churning out CRAP to feed us becasue WE DEMAND CRAP.

therefore sgtv will FOREVER be stuck in the crap stage where you turn on ch8 and chU and all the soap dramas are alike with screaming females winning the best actresses awards. we will never progress and we will forever have the false impression that THIS IS ART.

why change something when it works and is making money? here's a tidbit to discourage people from watching the new jack flick. it was reported that the CGI artist said he didn't have time to finish the work. but it was demanded that it be handed up by the deadline. which is why the CGI looked half fuck. apparently some scenes were so bad that an actor's hand can disappear. so we can see he's not even making the effort to produce quality films for singaporeans, all jack cares about is churning out his crap to suck the cny ang pow money. and the throngs of singaporeans are blindly supporting him.

xy told me something interested regarding an indonesian god and politics. which lead to the question of: if jack runs to be an MP, will he win? she says yes. i say yes but i hope for singapore's sake no. not that arnold was such a bad governer though i don't know. not that ronald reagan was such a bad president. he's supposed to be good incidentally. but because this is jack. there has been nothing original about him and i fail to see how he can contribute to parliament. (and i don't like the way he's saying how he feels for singaporeans but he's actually screwing them in his own special way) he may get in because the majority of singaporeans are stupid and will jump to vote for a friendly face. this is especially so if his opponents are WP members.. hahaha.. i will vote against him, wayne will vote against him. azmin will vote for any melayu that's there... oopss...

why is this titled mushrooms in the sky?

that's because...

The reason why I can't study at home

2007-01-21T01:00:00.000+08:00

I come back and I see this:

And it's not even 1% of my collection.

How to study at home. Whine.

1st day of skool

2007-01-08T14:51:00.000+08:00

To reiterate my point made before. The bus route is extremely silly. I waited as long as I usually had to wait for the bus and what's worse is that now I even have to wait another 15mins to change another bus to get back to PGP. Cutting cost doesn't equal cutting time and instead I took 45min to get back to my cool aircon room.

Sheesh.

on a ligher note, what is this Manu doing at the inter-jc pageant 2007 thingy?

Is the new bus route a little silly?

2006-11-27T16:11:00.000+08:00

The new bus route is gonna be a loop. Does that mean we start at kent vale and we end at kent vale and the denizens inbetween will have to wait at kent vale 'terminal' (that gorram piece of rock) for the next bus to take back into civilization (ala A1, A2 kind of loop?)

If so, then don't the night class people have it bad? I mean If you manage to catch the last bus out of BTC, there ain't gonna be no bus to bring you back to your hostel and you'll have to walk. Happy feet walk. Brilliant money saving scheme ya got there OSA. Wahoo. Tell me how else you're saving our school fees? Giving the cookhouse aunties $ per head according to the number of matric cards they swipe but yet charging us for every single ruttin meal? Wunderbug~!

Since when is running a school business. This isn't House MD. Charging me $5 for leaving a gate open when it's all the ang mohs fault isn't smart. It just means more letters to OSA after exams are over. You'll see.

BTC 1 - Loop Service
(Orange)
Kent Vale Terminal
Kent Ridge Crescent
B08. Office of Estate and Development B06. Yusof Ishak House B04. Central Library
Kent Ridge Drive B04. LT 13
B02. AS 7 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Business Link
B03. BIZ 2
Prince George's Park (PGP)
PGP Terminal
Kent Ridge Road
Express to BTC using the least congested route
Temporary bus stop
(after campus entrance at Bukit Timah Road) Eu Tiong Sen Building (Oei Tiong Ham Building w.e.f 1 January 2007)
Bukit Timah Road
Bus Stop No. 41011. NUS /
Jacob Ballas Children Garden Bus Stop
Express to KRC using the least congested route
Kent Vale Terminal

Obviously I'm open to correction.

Amazon is a big waste of time

2006-11-24T03:26:00.000+08:00

Some of you may know about the $100 Xbox 360 deal over at Amazon. Well. They're supposed to sell 1000 units at $100 come thursday 11am PST. which makes out to be friday 3am Singapore time. Come 2:45am I was online at the page refreshing. 2:54 I refreshed and the bloody thing hung. I checked out my yahoo mail. It was fine. Must be the traffic on the amazon site. Couldn't get any page to load at all. 3am came and went. 3:15am, i was greeted with this finally:

So they managed to sell 1000 units in 15mins. How the hell did the 1000 people log on when i'm unable to even refresh the page? Abit absurd. I hope next week's one's better. Diamond earrings srp $1kplus usd. now $350.

OoooOoo.. I should really be studying.

Ballad of Serenity

2006-11-23T02:32:00.000+08:00

Take my love. Take my land.
Take me where I cannot stand.
I don't care, I'm still free.
You can't take the sky from me.

Take me out to the black.
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back.
Burn the land And boil the sea.
You can't take the sky from me.

Have no place I can be since I found Serenity.
But you can't take the sky from me.

http://www.fireflywiki.org/img/Ballad_of_Serenity.mp3

New Junk Mail~

2006-11-17T23:44:00.000+08:00

This is a new take on an old fraud received just minutes ago:

From: "Marina Tureh"
Subject: From Miss.Marina Tureh waiting for your respond,
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:45:28 +0000
From Miss.Marina Tureh
Address: G76 Housing Estate,
Resident Adamu, Cocody
Abidjan Cote d' Ivoire West Africa.
Postal Box: 05 Bp02182 Abidjan
Email; marinnatureh@yahoo.com

Dearest one

With due respect and humanity, I was compelled to write to you under a
humanitarian ground, I know that this letter will come to you as a
surprise,
with the full hope that you will bear with us to assist us in this
mutual
transaction that will extend our both families.I got your contact from
the
Cote d' Ivoire directory. I am miss. Marina Tureh from Abidjan in
Republique
of Cote d Ivoire. my late Parents Chief Dr and Lolo Tureh Ahmed , who
was
into cocoa/Cotton export, died last year after a brief accident. before
the
death of my father he deposited two big trunk boxes containing us$ 22.4
million with other family valuables with security company here in Cote
d'Ivoire registered it as art work belonging to his foreign partner who
will
be coming for the release and export to abroad.

Please, I want you to focus your mind in this transaction. for this is
risk
free , legal and Genuine business. I and my junior brother ask for
your
assistance and permission to submit your name as my late father's
foreign
partner for release of this consignment and transfer/export to your
country
for safe keeping and investment. I humbly ask for you to response to
immediately with your Tel/Fax numbers to enable me forward to you all
the
neccessary documents concerning this deposit.

So as to conclude this transaction under 15 good working days. My
Junior
brother and I have conclude to give you 20 % of the total money after
the
release of this consignment for your noble assistance. and note that
this is
the only hope of my brother and me therefore try to keep it
confidential for
security of this money and our dear life.waiting for your urgent
response.

May God/Allah be with you as you read this message,

Best regards.
Miss. Marina & Tony Tureh

Whiplash injury

2006-11-15T14:27:00.000+08:00

KNN. It's not as fun to be bumped by a real car as compared to a bumper car. Always wear a seat belt. Fuck. Now got splitting headache how to finish my last assignment question? CB woman driver. Yes. The stupid woman driver think her car how fast. Want to make illegal turn also at least floor it right. Nabei. Make me pay for your mistake. And luckily I'm just a passenger in the cab thrown around like a pinball. If it was my car kenna bang by you I'll destroy your already destroyed car.

AARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH *pain*

The monster is slain!

2006-11-12T06:32:00.000+08:00

The 5,000 word monster comes up to 10,000 words with footnotes. And i still haven't killed off 80 words to make it 5,000 words yet.

But it shall be done. Tomorrow.

Today, a new 2,500 word monster in the form of Copyright must be destroyed.

Haiiiiiiiyyyyaaaaaa~

Sick sick sick sick sick sick sick

2006-11-08T10:49:00.000+08:00

I've come down with a bad case of the sniffles + the cougffles and the fevffles. It's been on since Sat and not really getting any better. This is just not my week. cannot breathe. have to open mouth. mouth dry. wake up feeling like shit. go to sleep feeling like shit. the only consolation is that xy's there. but feel so bad she's doing her assignment and I'm conked out on meds on the bed. macham drug overdose. I wish... didn't wake up for breakfast again. sigh. When this is all over, we'll sleep and wake up for lunch or dinner only. Oh yeah. That's our dream.

Then again, that's us.

Wahoo! Another Blogger's fiasco!

2006-10-25T14:13:00.000+08:00

Extremely farni read. I meant the comments by the sammyboy members at the end of the post... Personally there's nothing much to say about such people except YOU made it happen. YOU = the ones that put a tick next to the lightning bolt during the last GE Elections or any other previous elections when you had a chance to vote. What's ironical is that her insensitive pro-gov remarks are OK as endorsed by her father (even bottomer <-- is there such a word? part of the post) ha ha ha. Plus printed in newspaper sommore. Therefore gov endorses such discrimination of the lower income people la? The MP says it's ok. Freedom of speech. Yada yada. But isn't it exactly the same as racism which we (and the PAP) condone? I would think that the racial riots taught us a lesson which is why we make sure we have racial harmony day now and all the silly pictures of different races holding hands and smiling. So they're not worried that the poor won't take arms and revolt against the gov? I thought they did that in Hougang already? Unfortunately this didn't come just before elections, if not the opposition members would all have a field day... They should be very worried about this MP's siding of his daughter and in my opinion, he should rightfully be sacked for endorsing her ridiculous view. Don't tell me he has a bloody good portfolio. The fact is that on job training can ease any decent fellow with a brain in initiative into the job... and experience can be accumulated. if not, graduates no need to find work already. And tell Mr Brown that blogs are private. Or rather, tell the gov to stop regulating blogs. They do it first, then he can start siding with his daughter. And I shall not comment on her breasts.

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From: chenghuwului 19-Oct 02:15
Some of us have read the commentary, Future of Singapore, by Derek Wee, a 35 year old Singaporean. The commentary has made its rounds in cyberspace and is reproduced below for those who might not have come across it yet.

The purpose of this thread is to highlight a response to Derek Wee's commentary from a very bright RJC girl. The response is taken from her blog. She shares the same surname as Derek. Her academic achievements are impressive. She was from the elite gifted program at RGS who went on to top Singapore in the GCE 'O'-levels in 2004. She also won the Prime Minister's Book Prize for purportedly being effectively bilingual in Chinese and English (even though she often expresses her disdain for the Chinese language). And she is fluent in French. Her dad is one of the men-in-white. Naturally, hers is a highly affluent and privileged background. And without doubt too, hers is the perfect pedigree for joining the ranks of the highest echelons of the government.

Reproduced below are firstly, Ms Wee's response to Derek Wee's commentary and secondly, the original commentary by Derek Wee.

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From Ms Wee's blog:

http://www.suchvividnothing.blogspot.com/

Thursday, October 19, 2006

mom's friend sent her some blog post by some bleeding stupid 40-year old singaporean called derek wee (WHY do all the idiots have my surname why?!) whining about how singapore is such an insecure place, how old ppl (ie, 40 and above) fear for their jobs, how the pool of foreign "talent" (dismissively chucked between inverted commas) is really a tsunami that will consume us all (no actually he didn't say that, he probably said Fouren Talern Bery Bad.), how the reason why no one wants kids is that they're a liability in this world of fragile ricebowls, how the government really needs to save us from inevitable doom but they aren't because they are stick-shoved-up-ass elites who have no idea how the world works, yadayadayadayada.

i am inclined - too much, perhaps - to dismiss such people as crackpots. stupid crackpots. the sadder class. too often singaporeans - both the neighborhood poor and the red-taloned socialites - kid themselves into believing that our society, like most others, is compartmentalized by breeding. ridiculous. we are a tyranny of the capable and the clever, and the only other class is the complement.

sad derek attracted more than 50 comments praising him for his poignant views, joining him in a chorus of complaints that climax at the accusation of lack of press freedom because his all-too-true views had been rejected by the straits times forum. while i tend to gripe about how we only have one functioning newspaper too, i think the main reason for its lack of publication was that his incensed diatribe was written in pathetic little scraps that passed off as sentences, with poor spelling and no grammar.

derek, derek, derek darling, how can you expect to have an iron ricebowl or a solid future if you cannot spell?

if you're not good enough, life will kick you in the balls. that's just how things go. there's no point in lambasting the government for making our society one that is, i quote, "far too survival of fittest". it's the same everywhere. yes discrimination exists, and it is sad, but most of the time if people would prefer hiring other people over you, it's because they're better. it's so sad when people like old derek lament the kind of world that singapore will be if we make it so uncertain. go be friggin communist, if uncertainty of success offends you so much - you will certainly be poor and miserable. unless you are an arm-twisting commie bully, which, given your whiny middle-class undereducated penchant, i doubt.

then again, it's easy for me to say. my future isn't certain but i guess right now it's a lot brighter than most people's. derek will read this and brand me as an 18-year old elite, one of the sinners who will inherit the country and run his stock to the gutter. go ahead. the world is about winners and losers. it's only sad when people who could be winners are marginalised and oppressed. is dear derek starving? has dear derek been denied an education? has dear derek been forced into child prostitution? has dear derek had his clan massacred by the government?

i should think not. dear derek is one of many wretched, undermotivated, overassuming leeches in our country, and in this world. one of those who would prefer to be unemployed and wax lyrical about how his myriad talents are being abandoned for the foreigner's, instead of earning a decent, stable living as a sales assistant. it's not even about being a road sweeper. these shitbags don't want anything without "manager" and a name card.

please, get out of my elite uncaring face.

posted at 12:08 PM

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Derek Wee's original commentary which prompted Ms Wee's response above.

By Derek Wee
Oct 12, 2006

When I read the Straits Times article (dated 24 Sep) on PM Lee calling the young to be committed and make a difference to Singapore, I have so much thought about the issue.

I am 35 years old, graduated from University and gainfully employed in a multinational company. But I cannot help but feel insecure over the future of Singapore. Lets face it, it's not uncommon to hear, "when you are above 40, you are over the hill".

The government has been stressing on re-training, skills upgrading and re-adapt. The fact is, no matter how well qualified or adaptable one is, once you hit the magical 40, employers will say, "you are simply too old".

We have been focusing our resources and problem solving on low unskilled labour. But in reality, our managerial positions and skilled labour force are actually fast losing its competitiveness.

I travel around the region frequently for the past 10 years. It didn't take me long to realise how far our neighbours have come over the past decade.

They have quality skilled workers, and are less expensive. When I work with them, their analytical skills are equally good, if not better than us.

It's not new anymore. Taxi drivers are fast becoming "too early to retire, too old to work" segment of the society. I like to talk to taxi drivers whenever I am heading for the airport.

There was this driver. Eloquent and well read. He was an export manager for 12 years with an MNC. Retrenched at 40 years old. He had been searching for a job since his retrenchment.

Although he was willing to lower his pay expectations, employers were not willing to lower their prejudice. He was deemed too old. I wouldn't be surprised if we have another No. 1; having the most highly educated taxi drivers in the world.

On PM Lee calling the young to be committed and make a difference. Look around us. How dedicated can we be to Singapore when we can visualise what's in store for us after we turned 40? Then again, how committed are employers to us? But we can't blame them. They have bottom lines & shareholders' gain to answer to.

Onus is really on the government to revamp the society. A society that is not a pressure cooker. A society that does not mirror so perfectly, what survival of the fittest is....[Message truncated]

--------------- Comments from Sammyboy members

From: DanielXX 19-Oct 03:00
She writes well, but omg, if she is writing from her heart, then I truly fear for the future. In fact, although Derek's article is not published in ST, this girl's blog article should be, if only to illustrate how the young and privileged actually think. Nothing wrong with meritocracy per se, but she exhibits a very right-wing type of thinking and attitude.

From: SGCitizen 19-Oct 03:04
This photo is taken from her blog. Is she the one with G-cup, a big mole on the face and colored contact lenses? I am interested to know who is her father, with surname "Wee". You mentioned he is one of the MIW?

From: chenghuwului 19-Oct 03:08
Right on, Wee Shu Min is the one in the middle. Her dad is an MP and a top honcho in one of the GLCs.

From: Hunting for Red OCTOBER (kTuLu5) 19-Oct 03:12
Wah, she is truly of elite genes.
Neh so big.
Anyway, she is entitled to her opinions lah. My only comment is that people shouldn't yaya papaya until they walk the walk.

From: Lubehsong 19-Oct 03:19
wow the mole.it looks like she has a nipple in her face

From: AirLib 19-Oct 03:19
Well.. with this type of writing, she confirm can secure a place in the ranks of those P65 MPs gang already. Now who say bimbos are big chested and no brainers... she has got it all man.....
Should leave the flaming to other folks here... HEeee

From: teh_si 19-Oct 04:11
Her father is wee siew kim?
http://www.parliament.gov.sg/AboutUs/Org-MP-CV-WeeSiewKim.htm

From: SGCitizen 19-Oct 04:37
Is this Wee Swee Kim? Looks like he has a family of girls and all with mole on the face.

From: painneck (goutyneck) 19-Oct 04:39
This photo is taken from her blog. Is she the one with G-cup, a big mole on the face and colored contact lenses? I am interested to know who is her father, with surname "Wee". You mentioned he is one of the MIW?<
She wrote macam she got some brains and ink leh, don't get people disorientated on her G girl-cup neh neh leh.
Gifted to write maybe, not genius.
BTW How u know her neh neh is G-cup?

And here was her public apology on one of the blogs that were discussing her entry :
i apologise if i have distressed you with my tendency to rant. while i will not dispute some of the points you make in response to what i have written, i would like to bring to your attention the fact that the post in question was never meant to be a cogent response to the specific points raised in derek wee’s article. it is, quite obviously, a rant in the heat of the moment. in addition, i don’t believe that my blog has the wide readership of derek wee’s, or even your own, and my intention was more to vent my own frustrations than public denouncement.

i’d also like to clarify my use of the word “elite”. while i understand how misinterpretation may have arose, i intended to use it in irony, as a label that people assume i enjoy, and not one that i take particular pleasure in.

finally, i admit that i was harsher than i should have been, although the the crux of my belief in self-improvement and self-determination has not changed. once again, i apologise if my words have unintentionally offended you - i was under the rather naive impression that nobody reads my blog

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A lesson learnt, says MP and dad Wee Siew Kim:
'WHAT she said did come across as insensitive. The language was stronger than what most people could take.

But she wrote in a private blog and I feel that her privacy has been violated. After all, they were the rantings of an 18-year-old among friends.

I think if you cut through the insensitivity of the language, her basic point is reasonable, that is, that a well-educated university graduate who works for a multinational company should not be bemoaning about the Government and get on with the challenges in life.

Nonetheless, I have counselled her to learn from it. Some people cannot take the brutal truth and that sort of language, so she ought to learn from it.

In our current desire to encourage more debate, especially through the Internet, our comments must be tempered with sensitivity.

I will not gag her, since she's 18 and should be able to stand by what she says.

The new media of the Internet is such that if you don't like what she has said, you have the right of rebuttal.

Hopefully, after the discussion, everyone will be the richer for it. As a parent, I may not have inculcated the appropriate level of sensitivity, but she has learnt a lesson, and it's good that she has learnt it at such an early stage in life.'

Vote Now~ Singapore's #1 Movie Fan

2006-10-10T18:55:00.000+08:00

For those of you that have borrowed DVDs and stuff from me over the years... it's partially (not totally) due to #7. So vote for #7 and you may win hampers. Or free tickets. Or whatnot. And you can vote more than once.

Vote by clicking on the question mark here:

i have totally forgotten how to set up a link. But do pop a vote online if you're free.

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Who among these 40 shortlisted entries from 8 DAYS and I-Weekly deserves to be crowned Singapore’s No.1 Movie Fan?

You vote, you decide. Voters stand to win attractive prizes and premiums!

The Movie Fan with the highest vote will get 1 year of FREE movies at Golden Village cinemas, 2 pairs of tickets to attend the grand opening of GV VivoCity and 1 year 8 DAYS/ I-weekly subscription.

The other 19 shortlisted entries will each receive a set of consolation prize of 2 pairs of GV VivoCity complimentary passes and a goodie bag.

10 lucky voters who root for the Singapore’s No. 1 Movie Fan will each receive a pair of GV VivoCity movie passes and a set of movie premiums. Cast your vote NOW for your Movie Fan from 8 Days and I-weekly!

Closing Date: Oct 16, 2006

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You know who I guess the winner's gonna be? Somebody that's got deep pockets and doesn't mind spending $100 smsing for himself just to get 1 year's free movie passes. Most of them are just LOOK AT MY TICKET STUBSSSSSS MY TICKET STUBBBSSSSS.. wah lau eh. You want ticket stub i go box office take from the floor la. Cuckoo nathan one some of them. some are like LOOKAT MY POSTERS. I HAVE POSTER = I AM #1 FAN. Try harder. I have a zillion posters more than you and almost every movie maniac and neca movie figure made but I'm not even on the list. (Because I didn't apply~ duh. haha) Form over substance. No. 1 movie fan should be substance. Not by the amount of movie memorabilia junk he has. (hey i spelt it correctly without needing a spellcheck~)

BACK TO INTERNET BANKING LAW

Fight Fraud... Right...

2006-10-09T09:45:00.000+08:00

I already know the answer before I sent my comments but I still sent it anyway..."different laws e.g. common and civil law... not cost effective... if processing small claims cross-jurisdictionally..." but isn't that the whole point of the small claims tribunal? To help pursue justice for the everyday man that kenna non-payment/fraud/petty crime? Why cannot extend overseas? Unrealistic? I don't think so. Government so much money, now everything also can e-online already. They can have macham e-court I don't believe they cannot global e-court. Or it can be a simple matter of a judge coming up with his opinion on the case here, then sending the documents via email (or through their superb court system) and the other side opening it up and speaking with the accused, peruse the evidence and opinion in front of him, then the 2 judges correspond and reach a verdict. Not cost effective because the claims are too small? KNN it IS a SMALL CLAIMS TRIBUNAL anyway right? That's your bloody purpose.

Will my invention fail for non-obviousness? NO! Because it's an idea, not an invention! hurhurhur...

The One with the Engineer

2006-09-23T00:05:00.000+08:00

Monday, September 18, 2006 <-- from xy's blog
Joke of the Day...Engineers! *tsk tsk tsk*
DUring tutorial for History of military thoughts today, my lecturer from Australia told a very funny joke to demonstrate the point on how engineers are not the smartest people around. Well at least I thought it were hilarious. My kind of joke, and sorry to those engineers out there reading this...I'm not apologetic. Heeh

When a lecturer says "Good Morning" to a class from Arts, the students will reply by nodding their head.
When a lecturer says "Good Morning" to a class from Science, the students will echo back the same words.
When a lecturer says "Good Morning" to a class from Engineering....they'll write it down.
posted by Cloud @ 9:07 PM

An engineer replied to it:

Anonymous said...
In the working world,
When someone says good morning to an engineer, the engineer nods his head in reply.

When someone says good morning to a business grad, the business grad nods his head in reply.

When someone says good morning to an arts grad, the arts grad replies to the engineern, "Good morning boss, coffee with milk?"

10:17 PM

Cloud said...
That is only if the engineer thinks small...(which further demonstrates my initial point that they are)

When a history graduate walks into a class his/her students will say "Good morning teacher!"

hurhurhur... ;p

8:31 AM

우찌유 said...
I'm sorry 'anonymous', but you just don't make sense. If you're trying to say that engineers are 'higher up' than arts grads, your joke just isn't phrased correctly. (which illustrates the point that engineers just don't know how to work with language. they copy but they dunno how to apply. hurhurhur) I'm not against a good joke. but a bad joke. no no no no.

what your joke says is that is someone says good morning to an engineer or a businessman, they will only nod their heads in reply. but if someone says good morning to an arts grad, he will reply TO THE ENGINEER with 'good morning boss, coffee with milk?'

that's wrong in so many ways.

when you say the engineer and businessman nod their heads in reply, it is implied that they're busy. or they just couldn't care less. that's fine.

but whenever someone says good morning to an arts grad, there are 4 implications. (i) the arts grad doesn't reply to the someone and instead finds an engineer to reply to (ii) only engineers are polite enough to greet people good morning --> this also implies they're too free to go around greeting people, and there is also the conflicting view that if engineers are nice enough to greet people, why are they so mean to each other and only nod their heads in reply? (iii) that arts grads are the only nice people that reply to greetings or (iv) that the arts grad is the employee of the engineer (I guess this is what you are trying to mean). WTF is an 'engineern' anyway?

As you can see, due to the various obvious differences in implications from the statement, your punchline is fundamentally flawed. Incoherent and shows just how much of an 'engineern' you are. Wahoo! (Now that's a joke!)

If you're looking at stereotyping the jobs of an arts graduate, you might want to understand the situation first. Usually arts graduates aren't associated with working under engineers per se. So your observation is unfortunately wrong. Perhaps you might want to try illustrating the arts grad as working in the teaching line after graduation. Afterall that's where many of them go to.

No arts grad will actually work under an engineer in a plant or construction industries. It's not within their scope. Perhaps you might want to come up with a joke involving an arts grad studying all the way to get his/her degree only to be assigned to primary school and having to clean her student's backside coz he/she just shat in class. That'll be an implication of doing all the studying just to land in a position of doing what he/she didn't need all that education for. To clean up children's shit.

If you do wanna change 'someone' to 'engineer' in the joke, it'll come off like this:

When an engineer says good morning to another engineer, the other engineer nods his head in reply
--> implication, either busy or rude. that's fine.

When an engineer says good morning to a businessman, the businessman nods his head in reply
--> implication, either busy, or the engineer very irritating he don't want to talk to him.

Then you can say:
When an engineer says good morning to an arts grad, the arts grad replies: Good morning boss, coffee with milk?
--> only then can you draw the inference that he's an employee.

Might I add a line to the joke in an attempt to make it funny. Instead of 'someone' I'll be 'specific' here.

When an engineer says good morning to a lawyer, the lawyer (probably from WongP) replies to the engineer, "How? Got new case for me ah?"

(PS: You might want to know that many of the IMF delegates are arts grads. Whilst... sad to say the engineers were lacking at the meetings. I wonder why. Busy dreaming about ordering arts grads around I suppose)

9:01 AM

You sad sad little engineern.

There is also the stereotype that engineers in nus are desperate. Why?. Here's an extract from someone's blog. I randomly googled it so no offence if it's yours:

What's the course like?

Enjoyable. For one thing, u are gonna have lots of female classmates. That's a enviable position compared to other eng discipline.

KNN. come to study or pao char bo. No wonder struggling with studies la, got time to eavesdrop on girls summore:

I overheard a conversation between these two undergrads. One was complaining regarding the amount of test she has. The other was complaining regarding the projects due. I was quite curious and listened on. Horrors of horror, one had only 2 mid term tests and the other had 2 projects due. Sigh, I share my plight together with the other hundred over engine undergrads, mugging away in the day & night, burning the “mid-night oil”. 5 mid term papers my friend! Plus one essay assignment. And best of all, the test was freaking difficult.

Sigh. Gone were the slack-laid-back days in the Police Force. Time to get back to reality.

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If they had spent less time ogling at arts girls and more time studying, they might probably be doing pretty well... You wanna slack, go back police force la. soon i shall blog about my visit to the police station. no i wasn't caught. that was last time. hurhurhur. this time my turn to lodge report... and boy was the office 'helpful'... knn...

The thick skinned nerd is BACCKKKKKKK~~

2006-09-21T19:56:00.000+08:00

Interesting turn of events. Nerdy boy's getting AGGRESSIVE!!!! wahoo... Here's a peek at his blog: I don't want him tracing all the new traffic to my site. BEWARE though. When u think that the contents are written by a 23 year old individual... you will realise that it's damn creepy... Skali he get MORE AGGRESSIVE. Then very mafan for the poor girls. Yeah. Her fren. He's into CARPET BOMBING these days.

Anyway.. actual event went like this: A was late for class and msg her fren to save a seat for her. so she did, and they colaborated to leave immediately after class so that the nerd can't follow them. easy for them to think that way.. considering he was at the back of the class. what happened was once lesson ended, they packed and chiong out.. aiming to go girls toilet where nerd can't follow. but SWAY ah. he DAMN FAST. bashed through the class and cornered them before they reached the toilet..

Advertisement >april wants a special menition in this entry cos she's with him at BLARDY CONSTRUCTION CLASS>

"Hey, you all want to meet up during the holidays?"

A: meet for what?

"Can exchange notes or meet for tea/coffee or chat" <-- along these lines

A: no.

A's fren: er... er.... i'm going Batam.

"When are you coming back?"

A: I have to go toilet now. bye bye!

When reading his blog, do watch out for instances where he says he's supposed to meet someone for lunch then she cannot make it. Read between the lines. PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO HAVE LUNCH WITH HIM. also see how he always tries to meet GIRLS for lunch. or basically to go out. I don't need to read psychology I also know that he's in desperate need for ASSERTION. By asking girls out he's basically trying to assert himself that people still care about him. Or that he actually exists in society.

Isn't that sad?

By imposing himself on others just to assure himself that he has a reason to live... it's NOT FAIR TO THE OTHERS. why must other people be forced to tolerate his unwanted presence just because he's a sad individual?

Some people should just understand that sometimes, it's not about the trying. It's about being who they are and instead of forcing people that don't want to be with you to eat lunch with you, go seek out your fellow nerds from science club or something. There's a fine line between annoyance and friendliness.

sad to say, you just don't get it.

Bukit Timah Campus Canteen is Screwed up

2006-09-21T19:44:00.000+08:00

I got cheated again by the BTC Canteen. Damn du lan. Cheebye chicken rice seller try to be funny. Last time i packet back he charge me public price. Then the Fan Choy Auntie I buy 2 veggie 1 rice she count me price of 1 meat 1 veggie. She say curry veggie not counted as veggie coz got coconut milk. KNN. Last time i buy before twice also no problem. I just want a snack before class obviously I buy a little bit to eat only right? Put the price up there very clear but still dare to thock me. Today the chicken rice uncle damn cheebye. I see 2 meat 1 rice $2.50, I ask for that, 1 white chicken 1 roast chicken. He count me $4. I told him uncle, i'm student ley. He say 2 portions of meat $4. KNN. Then where's my extra portion of rice and cucumber? Alot of people I don't ge gao with him. But after that I go ask him. He say 2 meat = 1 chicken, 1 char siew. Then i say underneath you write meat = charsiew, chicken, roast chicken. damn misleading la. where got this type of reasoning one. Crazy bugger. They put the price up there don't follow. To top it off, my hot teh was salty. KNN...

I'm finally posting a blog

2006-08-31T23:57:00.000+08:00

Guess what. A nerd tried to pick up my gf. Oh well. I mean I sorta expect guys to *try* to pick her up once in a while. That doesn't mean I like it. I do try to warn her. As a guy you can sense male tetestorone invading you radar. But sometimes, if not most of the times, she won't believe me and says I'm overreacting. Which to a certain degree (almost always) I am. I overreact because I can't stand the idea of some guy leaning against the door and going all let's do lunch kinda thing. Much less when I'm stuck over here at BTC. Damn you NUS. So today was another long day in which we're apart and she tells me a nerd tried to pick her up. Not a nerd. The nerd that called her the night before and frequently sms' her. I swear to god he's the most bloody thick skinned nerd I've ever heard about. Not met. I haven't met him yet. But well. I guess it's funny. But it's also disgusting to imagine that a nerd can be so thick skinned as to plonk himself down when she's at the canteen alone. She showed me his website. It was horrible. Kinda like Steven Lim but much more pathetic. Here was a guy that loved baring all (not naked) to everyone willing to watch. He basically updates his online journal faithfully. "Today I took a bus and I saw this girl sms'ing her friend. It was a sad message and I think I saw her cry after that. Sometimes I wish I was had someone special that I can pine or miss etc.' You get the drift. Mr Nerdypants wants a Mrs Nerdypants to get into his pants. Notwithstanding the scientific fact that most nerds are internet porn enthusiats, they're also pretty efficient with the computer. For hobbies he had listed 'basic html'. I almost posted a reply on his journal to the effect of 'you sad sad little man'. Yeah. That's what he basically is. A sad little man hiding away in his little computer world at the end of everyday. Just hoping that someone will read and message him. Message just to show him that someone still cares. Oh yeah. Going back to the message. I almost left the message but for a small sign at the bottom of the page which said 'your ip address will be logged etc etc etc' basic html cheebye. Thank you IT Law II! Wahaha. I dunno la. It's not so bad that she knows how to take care of herself. She knows or tries to avoid such weirdos. But the fact is they're classmates and she can't keep avoiding him all the time. I know he stalked her after class just to plonk himself down on that seat (he's got some big-ass nerd guts) but it's it just disgusting to know that other guys are just trying to be funny when you can't be around? And last time there was this disgusting (I like that word) or irritating (this might be more appropriate) gym instructor that kept messaging her can calling her sweetie and stuff. I mean. Please la. Respect people. If they don't reply back to your sms and don't pick up your calls, don't bother already can? I mean it's not her fault the cheebyes want to chase her. But I just don't like them being too friendly. There's a limit to my tolerance. Not her fault though, their fault. But what can I do? Not even a lawyer. So can only curse them lo. Hahaha. Then again I think back and realise that it's quite sad for them. Ok. Maybe sad for the nerd la. Gym instructor probably not as sad. But when you're a nerd, society basically condemns you to high hell. By society I mean me. You are there. You discuss sociology society things. You sit in a circle with your smelly friends talking about uninteresting subjects. You get orgasms from thinking about you being the one actually making that scientifc discovery/theory and not einstein. (I got the smelly friends from the grey tshirt guy this afternoon. Boy he stunk~) You basically have no life. If I had your website I'd rather die.

However, nerds are a human being too. So I can't be too harsh on you. I understand you didn't choose to be that way. It just sort of evolved there. You drew the short end of the evolution stick. You got stuck in the 80s. It's not your fault. Given a chance you might have been a cool kid. But somehow it just sorta ended up this way. Who can you blame? Your parents? Nah... Maybe you can blame society. (This time I don't mean me) for stereotyping your kind in all forms of media. (But hey, I liked Napolean Dynamite, see, you can be a cool nerd if you tried really really hard) I mean, nobody is inherently ugly. Except uglyhead (read Frankenstein #1 by Grant Morrison). Oh yeah. I sorta got reminded of him when I saw your photo. But honestly. No. Sorry. Don't even come near me. Elitist? No la. I prefer not to get infected. Hey, I'm a nerd at heart. I think. I mean nerds can be cool people as long as they don't behave like how people perceive them to be. Then they just become stereotypes themselves. If they try they might be able to join the normal human race. Maybe. But if that happens, science faculty will have very little people. But what really constitutes a nerd? Is it the specs? The haircut? The high pants? The dressing overall? The mannerisms? The smell? The huge bag <- variable? Or is it what they do? Hobbies like stamp collecting? Computer porn surfing? Html? Haha. I am deliciously brimming with rubbish at the moment. I could go on forever nitpicking at this nerd that I'm just so disgusted with.

Eeks.

Eeks.

Ah well, I might have been a tad mean for bashing him to this extent. Karma. Karma.

If you think the $100 burger at Millenia Walk was expensive...

2006-05-15T12:23:00.000+08:00

I just paid $133 for a packet of Char Kway Teow. $3 black with prawns and $130 for crossing the double white line after getting it en route to NUS to looking for the equally #$%^&* law club receipt book.

Nabei.

TP so efficient when making money, but when got car accident so jia lat. Still can jam for mutha long.

$130 less for Bangkok, Pattaya and Changmai. That's like $3,250 Baht!

I can like. Do so much la.

Time to sell more toys...

Batam Paradise Island

2006-05-12T23:57:00.000+08:00

4 words. Damn Cheap. Damn Shiok.

Bird's Nest House

Resort

Elections over. Same Gahmen.

2006-05-07T04:46:00.000+08:00

What a sad election. For the hundred thousand that turned up at the WP rallies, you might think this election would be different. Unfortunately everything's the same, and that includes the biasness of the press. As many might have known, the Hougang rally pictures that have been circulating the internet have never made it into any newspaper. It is to this detriment that the general public do not have any idea that there ARE supporters for the opposition and that the ST is just a bloody unreliable piece of pangsai. I don't need to mention how they bend over backwards for the gahment and the PAP. I think we can safely see from the results that most of the general public are still clueless about the scale of opposition support in other constiutencies and perhaps they should seek to other avenues to gather more information to better aid their voting decision. But that's a matter for the next election.

I was particularly pissed that the election committee at Bedok Green were so inflexible regarding the voting process. On my way to the voting centre, I passed by some elderly folks walking and they seemed very much in pain (or maybe they're just old). After I was done voting and I stepped out of the school, I met the same old folks just reaching. Despite the distance being like less than 100m. There were so many elderly voters yet they refused to open a sidegate so that the old folks don't have to walk AROUND the school to get to the main entrance. Talk about caring for the people. Fookers. This reminds me of the PAP van that goes around spouting a recorded 'Vote for us.. etc'. Don't you think it's a stark contrast to the WP people going around waving and smiling in their van? The sincerity for one is a very good reason to vote opposition. The incumbents think too highly for themselves. They think the people want stability and that is something the opposition cannot offer them. So they ya ya just play recorded message and take the people for granted. Nabei.

And you know what? The majority are still stupid. As we can see from the votes. They think the incumbents = stability. But they don't realise that the only reason why there might be no stability if the oppositions are voted in is because of the incumbent's refusal to co-operate and generally making life difficult for them and their wards. So it all boils down to the incumbents again. They are therefore actually voting the incumbents so that their constituency will not have any government trouble. Sounds like secret society and protection rackets right? Hahaha...

Oh well. I guess Singaporeans may need another 5 years to wake up. Perhaps they'll realise their mistake soon when the prices of everything go up within the next 5 months. By then, they might do peaceful protests ala Thaksin to make young master Lee step down. But that's just a silly dream. Not my dream of course. Wayne's. My dream is just to grow old with xy. Hurhurhur.

Suicide in Johor Bahru

2006-05-05T13:08:00.000+08:00

Yesterday we had a relatively fun but tiring day in JB. Travelling in by bus and walking to City Square on foot, we took in the fumes of the city as our tummies growled. I was late by 20 mins la. My fault. Lucky you all forgot to mention I was supposed to treat lunch later. Hurhurhur.

50% off Secret Recipes was good. Cake was good. But what really took the cake was when Lerk&Siwei&April&Angelene saw a dead man at Holiday Plaza after lunch. Engaging in friendly banter with a local pirated DVD seller, I managed to get the information that the guy had committed suicide via jumping off the 5 storey building. As eyewitnesses described, he was lying face down with alot of blood pooling near his mouth. Around him were a crowd of onlookers and the two policemen whom arrived on the scene chose to sit in the comfort of their car and not attend to the crowd. Heh. Maybe they figured since the guy was dead no need to treat as emergency already. This was evident by the fact that they were still there hours later but with a makeshift tarp covering the body and an umbrella on his head.

To make up for their inefficiency, the police decide to take a stroll around holiday plaza. So they walk walk walk walk walk and wherever they walked, the DVD shops close. Then we kenna stuck inside for like 1/2 hr watching some silly Stephen Chow movie... Oh yes. Dinner was fantastic as usual. Around sgd $10 per person. Eat like kings (and queens)... Afterwhich Melanie upped the ante by bringing back 7 pirated discs through customs. Usually I only dare to bring 6. Budden sad for her. Her discs cannot work. Hurhurhur...

Alrighty. Time to go repair my printer. It's got slime inside. Eech.

Straits Times Online should just ESAD

2006-05-05T12:59:00.000+08:00

Every frickin picture on their homepage (under headline news) is of a PAP member meeting some children or attending some event. Bloody bias.

Then you read their only articles on the opposition:

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Some say Mr Goh's presence here shows that the PAP doesn't have confidence in Eric. But I think it gives Eric more confidence, it shows that the PAP really wants him to win. I think some people will vote for Eric to give Mr Goh mian zi (face).'

Although few would dismiss altogether the impact of Mr Goh's substantial reputation on voters, Mr Eric Low still has to overcome a couple of major obstacles.

One is his role as adviser to the ward's PAP grassroots organisations. It is a double-edged sword as many residents view him as their 'second MP' - another official whom they can turn to with their municipal problems, another source of administrative and financial aid.

This privilege of enjoying PAP-funded services, on top of those provided by incumbent Low Thia Khiang, is not lost on the Workers' Party (WP) chief. He has gleefully exploited it on several occasions.

Most recently, it was the free breakfast Mr Eric Low gave weekly to elderly residents in Hougang. Said Mr Low Thia Khiang: 'Where else do you get free breakfasts, one-dollar shark's fin soup and abalone porridge, other than in the opposition wards?'

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It's absolutely disgusting how they can describe Mr Low as 'gleefully exploiting' something. Why don't they use such a phrase on the PAP guy Eric? They could use it such in "Eric Low gleefully exploited the visits by Mr Goh which were aimed to raise voters for the PAP in the Hougang constituency." Why don't they use it? Because it makes the guy being described look bad! Like some theiving scheming scum of the earth. Another hit for the Straits Times.

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Strongest weapon in PAP's arsenal

ANOTHER obstacle the PAP candidate has had to contend with is the worry among some lower-income people that they are going to lose their homes.

A recent visit to Blocks 3 and 4 in Hougang Avenue 3 left the 57-year-old feeling 'discouraged'.

'Residents asked me if it was true that these two blocks of rental flats will be torn down if I was elected. I don't know who spread these rumours,' he told The Straits Times.

He has repeatedly assured them that there are no plans to tear down the blocks. 'I told them, if these flats are torn down, where are the 1,000 people going to stay? At my house?'

However, he was 'encouraged' by the warmer reception that greeted him during his campaigning at the private housing enclave of Realty Park, compared to 2001.

In the end, the strongest weapon in his arsenal against Mr Low Thia Khiang in this election is the multi-million-dollar upgrading plan.

When he shaved the WP man's vote share from 58 per cent in the 1997 General Election to 55 per cent at the last polls, the incumbent attributed his reduced popularity to the upgrading carrot.

Then-prime minister Goh Chok Tong had offered to upgrade the estate if the WP chief's share of votes was reduced to 52 per cent.

Now, the PAP has raised the ante, with details on how Hougang will become an Eric Low showpiece.

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What's wrong with this? The paper is blatently endorsing the use of taxpayer's money for party uses. By not commenting on whether it is right or wrong (other than a statement by a resident above - not quoted) they mislead the public into thinking that ONLY THE PAP HAS THE FUNDS to upgrade. When actually the PAP is using taxpayer's money (that's yours and mine!) to pay for the upgrading and STILL charging the people money. On top of that, since when is it fair that the opposition has to draw on their own funds and the government incumbents can just use tax money? Why don't they be fair and allocate each town council the same amount of money maybe based on size? The paper instead of addressing such issues endorse it (maybe not intentionally) by printing it as an election strategy and in a way makes it legit.

So upgrading is a legitimate carrot to dangle despite its inherent illegality.

Wahoo.

ST go esad la.

Hui Ji Dan! Gomez a liar, so sue us: MM Lee

2006-05-03T13:24:00.000+08:00

Every word in the statement made by Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng is "justified and can be defended in any court", said Mr Lee.

"So we say Gomez is a liar and dishonest. He can say its libel. He can sue Wong Kan Seng. He can sue me. But he's got to go to the witness box," said Mr Lee.

i think its not fair they can bash the integrity of someone
PM 01:21
and claim to have evidence
PM 01:21
but if anyone says bad abt them
PM 01:21
and have evidence
PM 01:21
e.g. CONCRETE evidence HPL style
PM 01:22
they will still kenna sue until no money.

where the fuck is the logic?

Gomez lied: DPM Wong and MM Lee

2006-05-03T03:32:00.000+08:00

Gomez lied: DPM Wong and MM Lee
THE People's Action Party (PAP) stepped up its pressure on Workers' candidate James Gomez, producing evidence which it claimed has shown 'beyond any doubt' that he was lying about the submission of his minority candidate election form

Best for WP to drop Gomez: George Yeo
FOREIGN Minister George Yeo says now that the picture on the James Gomez story at the Elections Department is very clear, it is best that the Workers' Party drop him and 'disassociate' itself from him.

MM: Gomez a liar who planned to damage Govt

Distraction, discreditation are PAP's tactics: Gomez

Gomez lied, facts show that clearly: Kan Seng

WP's James Gomez admits he did not submit form to Elections Dept

Elections Dept releases CCTV pictures on encounter with James Gomez

Elections Dept confirms WP's James Gomez did not submit minority form

Elections Dept says WP candidate did not apply for minority form

MM Lee says Gomez is a liar, a bad egg in Workers' Party

WP's Gomez said missing form was a "show": Inderjit Singh

PAP turns tables on WP over accountability, transparency

Gomez stage-managed Elections Department episode: DPM Wong

SM Goh says Gomez issue has raised questions about latter's character

These headlines were from the recent onlines newspapers like straits times and channelnewsasia. I for one am damn sick of this gomez nonsense. I think the real question is, there's no reason for him to withold the form and if the PAP can't focus on that question, and instead wants to bash the guy's integrity over a mistake, I think they're making themselves look very silly. Read the other online blogs regarding gomez and see for yourselves. If the PAP are going to resort to name calling and opposition bashing in their rallies, I don't see a point even attending them. Going to a rally and hearing an MP bash gomez is just a waste of time. To me, the issues are regarding the problems which Singaporeans perceive. Not the integrity bashing of a guy's mistake. C'mon, people make mistakes. That's what makes us humans. Apparently the PAP aren't really human hur. Hurhurhur. I'm sure somebody inside the party also makes mistakes. Just that they're better at covering up. Hiakhiakhiak.

But don't take my word for it, go visit some rallies and hear for yourselves. I heard Low Thia Kiang's speech on a blog somewhere. Quite good. I also heard the PAP one over the radio. Or was that a news broadcast? I dunno man... their side everything all mixed up. Media is too PAP friendly methinks.

Finally Xiaoyun's exams are finishing! Wahoo... Bangkok here we come! :)

(But first... JB!)

Sitoh v Chiam

2006-05-01T02:32:00.000+08:00

Sitoh visited Xiaoyun's grandmother this morning. As you can see, she was living in the Potong Pasir constituency.

"Hello auntie... etc. etc. etc. Vote for me, vote for me you will get upgrading in the next 3-4 years!"

-- I don't need upgrading (she replied), 3-4 years I might not even be around! I am very old. You ask me to move here move there, I get very very tired!

""Err... vote for me and we will have upgrading of facilities as well, not just the flat. You can enjoy the renovated gardens and pavilions downstairs! The opposition don't have money for upgrading one! Vote for me then you all will have upgrading! Only PAP got the money."

-- I don't need all this la. It's very simple for me. I just want to wake up in the morning, have my cup of tea, play ball games in the nearby park, eat at the coffeeshop downstairs and see my grandchildren grow up.

"Ha... er auntie, remember to vote for me hor!"

-- Aiya, you don't know? I vote for you every year! But you still lose! You make me so disappointed!

"... I promise this year won't lose already!"

PS: The exact same talk occured between them 10 years ago in the last election. Or was it 5 years?

Actually she was a Chiam supporter. Chiam being 71 years old does seem more towards her age. She felt so proud that she bluff Sitoh. When she was talking to her she felt like a STAR because all the other old people around were looking at her. Hurhurhur.

But one thing does come to mind. If Sitoh can make the statement of 'Don't vote for opposition, they have no money for upgrading!' it comes off that the PAP are fundamentally wrong. They should not promise to use government funds for election purposes. I mean think of it this way. They are using our tax money to do things for us and they deny poor Chiam from using the same monies to upgrade his constituency on the basis of LKY's 'obviously we will not help the opposition ward with upgrading until all the upgrading for our wards are done'. I don't know. Using government funds for party purposes is kinda wrong. That's why you don't really see Opposition members saying they can assure upgrading. Because they know that it's controlled. The main man said it himself.

But enough flogging dead horses.

Chiam is a people's people. I heard from Xiaoyun's grandma that he has a fan club. And whatever he likes or craves to eat, his wife will call the aunties and they will mobilise and cook for him. I believe that's the level of being a people's people. Sitoh will never understand that. Even if he does manage to win this year, he will never be as well received as Chiam in Potong Pasir. In my opinion la.

I remember something else that's relevant. My East Coast GRC is up for a tussle and frankly speaking, I am not that inclined towards voting for the Worker's Party. That doesn't mean I want to vote for the PAP. I personally think the bit about James Gomez was overdone. In all due respect, I heard the telecast by the ministers on radio/tv commenting that Gomez's integrity is taking a hit, is he the type of person you want to represent you is all bullshit. Have they heard themselves speak? They sound worse than the guy in slippers that tried to run for President a few years back. The form thing to me seems really like a genuine mistake. I mean, WHATS THE PURPOSE OF WITHOLDING THE FORM AT ALL? Isn't it a detriment to themselves? Then what's the point of hindering their own election right... silly PAP, still insist for dunno what shit, I read the headlines more and more and I get the impression that the PAP are actually kinda grabbing on this event to tarnish him BUT they turn out looking like petty little children. No meh? Go read the straits times online... see headlines can see already.

Then hor, the newspapers also bias one. When got PAP news, it's full page. No ads. But worker's party page have to fight with the Court's mega sale. I think normal aunties will be distracted no? Then again, normal aunties don't read straits times...

Shit la, I'm sleepy. Sat still have to vote. Singapore should take a lesson from Bangkok. Include a box for abstaining to vote. So that we won't anyhow vote useless people in, yet if we abstain sufficiently, we can send a message that there's something wrong with the PAP and we want to address that. 40% abstinence votes in Bangkok and the stepping down of Thaksin can't be anything but a good example to what we need in Singapore.

Oh no. Hungry.

Free Holiday!

2006-04-06T09:28:00.000+08:00

I just received a free holiday. It's a 13D12N all lodging and transport paid trip to Bangkok, Pattaya and Changmai, courtesy of our dear gahment. Yeah. I'm sure many of you above 21 realise that it's actually the progress package everybody's been talking about. But let me be happy. I paid $530 for ticket and lodging and I estimate $170 in transport fees. I then prayed very hard for it to be free. Volia. Gahment answered my prayers.

But does that mean I will vote for them in the upcoming elections?

Bigger question: Do I even need to vote? Usually bedok's a walkover.

I do realise however that recently, many of the mid-20s singaporeans have begin siding with the opposition parties. This is both good and bad. Good because we must show the gahment that yes. We're still not happy with how many things are handled and the only way as our dear old LKY used to put it, is to show them this through the ballot box. Bad because sometimes, just sometimes, the opposition isn't as good as what we think.

Perhaps a middle ground can be reached via the recent Thaksin-Thailand elections. Casting a vote of no-confidence may just as effectively show that (i) we're not happy with you (ii) but we're not so stupid as to blindly vote someone else into parliament just to spite you. That doesn't mean we shouldn't vote for Chiam See Tong. He's nice. But don't take my word for it. Go ask the Potong Pasir residents. The old ones la. i'm sure they'll tell you what they think about the upcoming elections.

But thanks anyway for the $700. It's good to be able to have a free holiday that isn't sponsored by my parents. This saves me more money for buying toys. Ignore that last sentence. Dang.

The Horniest Day ever

2006-01-16T01:49:00.000+08:00

Today was the horniest day ever for me. Make it known that on Jan 14 2006, I was at my horniest. I've never been one to favour horns. No special preference. Don't like to use 'em nor like them to be used on me. But today, I've horned people like the most EVER as compared to how much I've ever horned people in my entire 2yrs of driving. Yes. All the horns accumulated in the past few years could not compete with the number of horns I dished out today. I think there was a total of 15 times I horned inconsiderate motorists and pedestrians. Yes. I honked pedestrians too! That's called 'being fair'. I dunno why, but Singaporean drivers are just so fucked up. Especially taxi drivers. Not that I'm an excellent driver mind you. I did lose to a Lexus. I chickened out at 175 whilst he proceeded to whip my ass at 190. Ouch. Male ego was shattered that night. But today. Today I was on form with all the horns. Taxis kept cutting me left right and centre. The worst part? I was in their blind spot. All of them couldn't see me. Bloody hell. Summore they got the cheek to finger me. Ah the fuckers. If it wasn't for the fact that they were earning money to put meat on the table, I'd have tailgated and flashed them until I got to my next destination. But I'm big-hearted. I forgive them. I forgive them for being absolute pricks that don't give a shit about other people on the roads. I forgive them for cutting me and possibly destroying their own taxis without a care. I forgive them for being total assholes and daring to flip me off when I pass them. I forgive them for being bastards that seem to always hold up traffic on the expressways going at 80 when the speed limit's obviously at 90. In this essence, I forgive them for being too careful.

I seem to be bitching alot. But hell. I've not blogged for eons. Isn't it refreshing to see new words here on this page when ya click it? Heh. Till next time~

The One at the Ford car centre

2005-12-05T14:03:00.000+08:00

I'm stuck at the new Ford car centre at Alexandra Rd. It's nice and spanking. But it turned out to be shitty. It all started when we got stuck in traffic at a U-turn. For $1.50. Yes. Then the taxi dropped us in the pouring rain. Nice way to start our visit to the new Ford centre. The car was supposed to be done by 2pm. We reach at 1:50pm. The nice lady at the reception (I'm using nice. But you know what I mean) told us that since it's 1:50pm and it was supposed to be done by 1:50pm, we will have to wait 10mins. I mean. 10mins. It's fine. My meeting is at 2:30pm and school's so near. No problem. I then walked around abit to explore the area. To my horror, my car was just sitting less than 50m away. Unattended. Very much ready. So I went back and asked her, how come the car's there, but it's not ready yet. She said it was waiting for washing. The guys that were supposed to wash were away at lunch. It ends at 2pm. Whee. So I asked them how long it'll take for washing. 15mins tops. DEPENDING ON THE QUEUE. Ha ha ha. I'm officially irritated. If it was not supposed to be done by 2pm, why ask us to come at 2pm? How irritating. Irritating. Irritating. We're supposed to get an extra key too. But not given. Service sucky. Ugly lady. I am pissed. The only solace is the free wireless. But I forgot to bring my mouse. So can't HALO.

P.i.s.s.e.d.

Property sucked eggs

2005-11-24T09:45:00.000+08:00

It was... icky. To say the least. And I kicked myself for failing to discuss certain issues. Thanks to Jackson, I felt much better...

JcK MSN AM 09:44

hmm..ok..
didn't see it tt way
aiya
forgeddit la
over liao..
dun worry..there's always favian

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Thanks fav.

Separated at Birth?

2005-11-22T14:48:00.000+08:00

On the right, Harry's love interest. On the left... XXX's love interest...

(My photoshop skills suck okay?)