What's so interesting about watching beautifully decorated floats moving on the roads?
Every year, roads have to be closed, public buses have to take alternative routes, sweepers have to clean up the massive mess left behind by spectators throughout the night, shoppers are affected by the irritating noises and our usual weekend TV programmes have to be sacrificed for the broadcast of this event
Blame it all on the Chingay Parade
It has no useful purpose at all. Lightings and pyrotechnics rule the night parade, contributing to a high amount of electricity usage. So much so of promoting environmentally-friendly activities in the country. You may say that I must be at the place itself to really experience this phenomenal street parade before I make a comment. I had been there before, it was more than seven to eight years ago and all I recall is the huge crowd of people in front of me blocking my view. That is why I had never went back again
It is not as if every single float has a Zhang Zi Yi or Jackie Chan on it. Just some performers whom you do not even know how they look like because of their decorated masks. This year's event only sparked a tiny little bit of enthusiasm in me when Aarti told me that she will be performing on the third float called A Wonderland of Dreams and asked me to vote for it. So I guess I will be watching it on TV(again)to see if I can spot her
Speaking about the TV, I always have this feeling on a Chingay evening. It is like hey, why must you broadcast this thing and not the usual show that people are watching every weekend? Chingay, you are so selfish. You are not NDP, he is older and more important than you. NDP has army tanks, you only have pretty and nice looking floats. Anyway, if you watch it on TV, you will only get to see performers performing for three to five minutes? Then the next group will come when you are halfway through enjoying the first one so it is quite annoying to try appreciating it
I don't like Chingay Parades
The End
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
CIP
Due to Chinese New Year, this is the persistently non-political posts(PNPP)week, so RealBlurPolitics® will be back after two weeks. Anyway, I went to school in the morning for my CIP(Community Involvement Programme/Compulsory Idling Project). The venue was the library, Zhi Teng and I reported at 9am sharp. Then we were assigned different tasks. Zhi Teng followed the auntie in charge who is called Serene to somewhere while I was left alone at the back of the counter. Later, auntie Serene came back and brought me out too
Then she asked me to take out those round stickers on the books of a shelf and replace them with square ones. While I was doing, I realized that Zhi Teng was actually 2 shelves behind me at the music CD corner. When I was done with my job, I went over to look for him. His work looks more difficult and after just saying two sentences to him, that auntie Serene called me to go over to her side seeing that I had finished
Then I had a new mission which is to go collect the books that are stated in the pieces of paper given to me. I had to search for them by the code number, then verify them with their identity number inside it. It was quite a tiring task as I had to move around with the what do you call it? the roller thing? The kind of trolley where you can move around and stack things in it. As more books were piled on it, it gets heavier to push and harder to manoeuvre
Finished the task at around 12.30pm. I thought it was the end for me but I was wrong. That auntie gave me something else to do. It was the DVD version of Zhi Teng's work. He packed the music CDs in order and mine is to pack the DVDs. I was thinking "ahh sh*t man, cannot go off on time" as it was already 12.50pm. But but but, she came back at 1pm sharp to let us off even though I was halfway through. Nice ending
The CIP made me stand for 4 straight hours without food, water or a trip to the toilet. Only smelt the dust from those books which I collected and tasted the hardship of librarians. They are actually quite pitiful, in one way or another
So let's put back the books we have taken from the shelf and put them back in the right place ok?
Then she asked me to take out those round stickers on the books of a shelf and replace them with square ones. While I was doing, I realized that Zhi Teng was actually 2 shelves behind me at the music CD corner. When I was done with my job, I went over to look for him. His work looks more difficult and after just saying two sentences to him, that auntie Serene called me to go over to her side seeing that I had finished
Then I had a new mission which is to go collect the books that are stated in the pieces of paper given to me. I had to search for them by the code number, then verify them with their identity number inside it. It was quite a tiring task as I had to move around with the what do you call it? the roller thing? The kind of trolley where you can move around and stack things in it. As more books were piled on it, it gets heavier to push and harder to manoeuvre
Finished the task at around 12.30pm. I thought it was the end for me but I was wrong. That auntie gave me something else to do. It was the DVD version of Zhi Teng's work. He packed the music CDs in order and mine is to pack the DVDs. I was thinking "ahh sh*t man, cannot go off on time" as it was already 12.50pm. But but but, she came back at 1pm sharp to let us off even though I was halfway through. Nice ending
The CIP made me stand for 4 straight hours without food, water or a trip to the toilet. Only smelt the dust from those books which I collected and tasted the hardship of librarians. They are actually quite pitiful, in one way or another
So let's put back the books we have taken from the shelf and put them back in the right place ok?
Thursday, January 29, 2009
4 days update
As promised, guranteed and confirmed that I will update today, I will update today. What a lame sentence. So let's start with the first day of Chinese New Year. Woke up in the morning and headed downtown to Orchard Road. No. It's not for shopping but to a temple which I have been to since young. According to the rules, those who are born in the year of goat has sort of "offended"(correct me if I used the wrong word)this year which is the ox year. So I had to buy some joss paper and stroke myself there
After that, I went to my auntie's house at Lengkok Bahru for lunch like what we always do every Chinese new year. Reached there and saw a funeral downstairs so we had to make a big detour to reach the block my auntie was staying. Finally when we arrived, it was about 12 plus. We were the first to reach anyway(like every year). We decided not to wait for my second uncle and his family as they are known for their lateness since many years ago. Eat and ate and eat. There was abalone but I only managed to eat 1 slice because when I wanted to take the second piece, the plate had mysteriously ended up at the other side of the table
Nothing nice was eaten, not even the cold abalone which I think was hibernating in the fridge for several hours. Except for the soup which is drank and not eaten, the rest were ordinary. After eating, I sat down on the sofa to watch TV and waited eagerly for my second uncle(and his hongbao)to arrive. They came at 2pm at last and the hongbao was in my pocket at last. Second uncle's hongbao. Check. Auntie's hongbao. Check. Grandmother's hongbao. Check. Move on to next mission
Next, we travelled on the way to Hougang via Toa Payoh which made me very sleepy when I passed by that place. This time, it is my father's side. Reached my first uncle's house at 3 plus and guess what, we are the first again. If there were early bird awards for CNY visits, I would have won a considerable number of them. Sat in the living room in front of the TV. Then my first aunite came with a plate of bak kwa. They were all sliced into real small squares, slightly bigger than the size of a keyboard button. As the size was so "great", it did not made me enjoy it much but my father said it was delicious and he was the one eating most of it there. Waited and waited for the others(and their hongbaos)to come
At last, all who were supposed came did came. And my da gu made me malu at there man. She came over to me to give me my hongbao, then when I stretched out my hand to receive it and was about to say thank you, she pulled her arms back. She said she should not give me first since I am...as she walked away(did not hear what she mumbled). In the end, she did came back with another one which looks different. I was wondering if the new one has more or less money in it
Fast forward. We left my first uncle's house as my mission was accomplished. We headed back to Lengkok Bahru for dinner at my auntie's house with the same ordinary dishes a.k.a. leftovers that need to be consumed or they will be a waste. This time, I ate 3 slices of abalone but I still think the soup is the only dish worth taking note of. While eating, I watched the special The Little Nyonya show
It was so funny and reminded me of the days when I criticised it on this blog and to other people. My favourite parts were the fake horse riding and the fake train moving. You need to watch it to understand what I mean. The part where Pan Ling Ling was shown slapping many people was also hilarious. I did not notice that she had actually slapped so many people in the drama
Anyway, The Little Nyonya DVD is now out but do not go and get it unless you want to watch this heavily criticised show by many people. In the end, we went back home at about 8 plus and I was quite tired by then
Second day of Chinese New Year. Went to marina bay for the River Hongbao thingy only to discover that it opens at 6 in the evening. So went to Sentosa instead for the flower festival. I took the monorail from Vivocity for the first time. It costs three dollars by the way, no comments. As it was Chinese New Year, the place was very packed. There were people from China, India, ang moh countries etc. Speaking of which, the queue was extremely long. We had to queue from the open area at 3rd floor all the way to the ticket booth which has only three counters. There were machines which sold the tickets too but the queue there was equally lengthy. With my kiasu-ness and the help of some luck, I managed to snatch a seat in the monorail out of a hundred over passengers
Excluding the one at Vivocity, there are only two stations in Sentosa currently. The fourth one is still under construction with the integrated resorts. While I am on this topic, I have to say that it was sort of a thrilling ride. The reason is because, when the monorail approaches the area to where the construction site is, it starts to slow down. Be it on deliberation or for some reasons which only the designers and drivers will know, when I looked down from the window, it was a bit scary. The bottom is actually the ground which was dug up for construction purposes. The whole area looked like some ancient civilisation from Egypt
When the monorail arrived at the first station, no one alighted. The Malay guy outside shouted "flower, flower" "hua hui" but everybody ignored him. Next stop which is also the last stop saw all the passengers squeezing out like a bunch of ants escaping from their nest after some insecticide was sprayed in it. Walked all the way to see the flower exhibition and was a bit disappointed. The flowers all looked beautiful and fresh but they were just plucked from somewhere and stucked into the soil there. Looks rather unnatural to me throughout my walk there
Finally, took the monorail back to mainland and went home. As expected, the vehicle was full of humans and I did not manage to get a seat this time. But I still enjoyed the thrilling ride when the monorail slowly moved past the construction area
The end for day two of Chinese New Year
Yesterday was the start of a new working day for people but many lazy bums took leave I think. The bus was unusually empty in the morning at around the 8am peak hour. Saw Cheng Hao in the bus, he occupied two seats with himself and his bag so I sat somewhere else
Anyway, the highlight of yesterday was my preparation for today's Oral Communication individual presentation. I spent more than half of the day editing the slides and brainstorming about what funny things I can say in class to make people laugh. That is why I did not have much time to spare for blogging but I must say it was good investment of my time
Today, we had to dress formally for school again. The lecturer mentioned that we can afford to be more slack this time so I wore a short sleeve shirt and did not bother to tuck it in just like the previous time. In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned that I kena-ed second but I ended up being number five today because I wanted everyone to arrive before I present. If I were the second presenter, there would only be five audiences
So how did I fare? Well, I think I will award myself with a 7.5/10 score because I want to give myself more room(or rooms)for improvement. At the very least, I managed to achieve my objective which is to make everybody laugh for at least one time. Then I made use of my classmates' topics(cycling and bowling) to indirectly show that my topic(or sport)is the best. Oh yes, my topic is on football, a topic which I am too familiar with that it looks impossible to say everything about it between six to eight minutes
To those who got suan-ed by me, I would like to apologize. It was done for the sake of entertainment and humour only
We took several class photos which were incomplete because one person was absent
This is my favourite photo as my unphotogenic face is hidden among other faces
After that, I went to my auntie's house at Lengkok Bahru for lunch like what we always do every Chinese new year. Reached there and saw a funeral downstairs so we had to make a big detour to reach the block my auntie was staying. Finally when we arrived, it was about 12 plus. We were the first to reach anyway(like every year). We decided not to wait for my second uncle and his family as they are known for their lateness since many years ago. Eat and ate and eat. There was abalone but I only managed to eat 1 slice because when I wanted to take the second piece, the plate had mysteriously ended up at the other side of the table
Nothing nice was eaten, not even the cold abalone which I think was hibernating in the fridge for several hours. Except for the soup which is drank and not eaten, the rest were ordinary. After eating, I sat down on the sofa to watch TV and waited eagerly for my second uncle(and his hongbao)to arrive. They came at 2pm at last and the hongbao was in my pocket at last. Second uncle's hongbao. Check. Auntie's hongbao. Check. Grandmother's hongbao. Check. Move on to next mission
Next, we travelled on the way to Hougang via Toa Payoh which made me very sleepy when I passed by that place. This time, it is my father's side. Reached my first uncle's house at 3 plus and guess what, we are the first again. If there were early bird awards for CNY visits, I would have won a considerable number of them. Sat in the living room in front of the TV. Then my first aunite came with a plate of bak kwa. They were all sliced into real small squares, slightly bigger than the size of a keyboard button. As the size was so "great", it did not made me enjoy it much but my father said it was delicious and he was the one eating most of it there. Waited and waited for the others(and their hongbaos)to come
At last, all who were supposed came did came. And my da gu made me malu at there man. She came over to me to give me my hongbao, then when I stretched out my hand to receive it and was about to say thank you, she pulled her arms back. She said she should not give me first since I am...as she walked away(did not hear what she mumbled). In the end, she did came back with another one which looks different. I was wondering if the new one has more or less money in it
Fast forward. We left my first uncle's house as my mission was accomplished. We headed back to Lengkok Bahru for dinner at my auntie's house with the same ordinary dishes a.k.a. leftovers that need to be consumed or they will be a waste. This time, I ate 3 slices of abalone but I still think the soup is the only dish worth taking note of. While eating, I watched the special The Little Nyonya show
It was so funny and reminded me of the days when I criticised it on this blog and to other people. My favourite parts were the fake horse riding and the fake train moving. You need to watch it to understand what I mean. The part where Pan Ling Ling was shown slapping many people was also hilarious. I did not notice that she had actually slapped so many people in the drama
Anyway, The Little Nyonya DVD is now out but do not go and get it unless you want to watch this heavily criticised show by many people. In the end, we went back home at about 8 plus and I was quite tired by then
Second day of Chinese New Year. Went to marina bay for the River Hongbao thingy only to discover that it opens at 6 in the evening. So went to Sentosa instead for the flower festival. I took the monorail from Vivocity for the first time. It costs three dollars by the way, no comments. As it was Chinese New Year, the place was very packed. There were people from China, India, ang moh countries etc. Speaking of which, the queue was extremely long. We had to queue from the open area at 3rd floor all the way to the ticket booth which has only three counters. There were machines which sold the tickets too but the queue there was equally lengthy. With my kiasu-ness and the help of some luck, I managed to snatch a seat in the monorail out of a hundred over passengers
Excluding the one at Vivocity, there are only two stations in Sentosa currently. The fourth one is still under construction with the integrated resorts. While I am on this topic, I have to say that it was sort of a thrilling ride. The reason is because, when the monorail approaches the area to where the construction site is, it starts to slow down. Be it on deliberation or for some reasons which only the designers and drivers will know, when I looked down from the window, it was a bit scary. The bottom is actually the ground which was dug up for construction purposes. The whole area looked like some ancient civilisation from Egypt
When the monorail arrived at the first station, no one alighted. The Malay guy outside shouted "flower, flower" "hua hui" but everybody ignored him. Next stop which is also the last stop saw all the passengers squeezing out like a bunch of ants escaping from their nest after some insecticide was sprayed in it. Walked all the way to see the flower exhibition and was a bit disappointed. The flowers all looked beautiful and fresh but they were just plucked from somewhere and stucked into the soil there. Looks rather unnatural to me throughout my walk there
Finally, took the monorail back to mainland and went home. As expected, the vehicle was full of humans and I did not manage to get a seat this time. But I still enjoyed the thrilling ride when the monorail slowly moved past the construction area
The end for day two of Chinese New Year
Yesterday was the start of a new working day for people but many lazy bums took leave I think. The bus was unusually empty in the morning at around the 8am peak hour. Saw Cheng Hao in the bus, he occupied two seats with himself and his bag so I sat somewhere else
Anyway, the highlight of yesterday was my preparation for today's Oral Communication individual presentation. I spent more than half of the day editing the slides and brainstorming about what funny things I can say in class to make people laugh. That is why I did not have much time to spare for blogging but I must say it was good investment of my time
Today, we had to dress formally for school again. The lecturer mentioned that we can afford to be more slack this time so I wore a short sleeve shirt and did not bother to tuck it in just like the previous time. In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned that I kena-ed second but I ended up being number five today because I wanted everyone to arrive before I present. If I were the second presenter, there would only be five audiences
So how did I fare? Well, I think I will award myself with a 7.5/10 score because I want to give myself more room(or rooms)for improvement. At the very least, I managed to achieve my objective which is to make everybody laugh for at least one time. Then I made use of my classmates' topics(cycling and bowling) to indirectly show that my topic(or sport)is the best. Oh yes, my topic is on football, a topic which I am too familiar with that it looks impossible to say everything about it between six to eight minutes
To those who got suan-ed by me, I would like to apologize. It was done for the sake of entertainment and humour only
We took several class photos which were incomplete because one person was absent
This is my favourite photo as my unphotogenic face is hidden among other faces
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Sorry for the inconvenience caused
I promise I will update on Thursday, I am quite busy today
Let me hook fingers with all of you
Guarantee plus confirm will update tomorrow
At least I made the effort to tell you all right? Unlike some other bloggers who do not
Sorry for the inconvenience caused
Let me hook fingers with all of you
Guarantee plus confirm will update tomorrow
At least I made the effort to tell you all right? Unlike some other bloggers who do not
Sorry for the inconvenience caused
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Tired from CNY
I'm so tired after travelling around Singapore for the first 2 days of Chinese New Year. I will update more tomorrow when there is more energy in me
Monday, January 26, 2009
Happy 牛 Year
Happy 牛 Year
I would like to wish all readers 春节快乐, 身体健康 and strike lottery as soon as possible
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Chinese New Year's Eve special post
Here's my Chinese New Year's Eve special post. It's not really special after all but you will have to wait for 1 year to view the next one again
If you are a Chinese, you will be having your annual reunion dinner tonight. So what will you have? Mine is steamboat every year, standard one, and we only use the "soup" part to cook despite having the barbeque one also. This is because of cleanliness as the house will be less greasy if we did not use the barbeque function but it has really been un-switched on for many years already. There is going to abalone tonight(yeah, *claps*). The good news is I will get to savour this exquisite(and expensive)thing tonight, the bad news is I will have to wait for the earth to orbit one round around the sun before I can taste it again
I have a secret tactic which I think I should share with you all regarding the reunion dinner. Let's say if your home has abalone or sea cucumber and other expensive delicacies on the dining table. Everybody will be aiming for it so how should you counter-attack? Simple, if you are using chopsticks, just pretend to accidentally poke through a few slices(3 or 4 is a good amount)where you actually did it on purpose. Then you will have a 'satay" of abalone slices in your chopstick and you just tell everyone sorry and stuff it into your mouth. No one can blame you for your "accident" and no one should want to share the poked abalone with you, it's a human nature thing. What's more, it's Chinese New Year's Eve so nobody will scold you anyway
Most of us will have to stay awake past midnight for tonight because of Chinese tradition. Luckily there are special programmes on TV tonight or I will be bored to sleep. But past experiences have proved that I will still give in to temptation and lie on the bed for a short nap around 10.30 to 11.30. I am an early sleeper you know, I sleep very early everyday. It is a good habit since young. I'm going to have a short siesta in the afternoon later so that I will be less lethargic in the night
Remember my tactic at the reunion dinner and try it out to see if it works, just make sure that your family members do not read this and know about it too
If you are a Chinese, you will be having your annual reunion dinner tonight. So what will you have? Mine is steamboat every year, standard one, and we only use the "soup" part to cook despite having the barbeque one also. This is because of cleanliness as the house will be less greasy if we did not use the barbeque function but it has really been un-switched on for many years already. There is going to abalone tonight(yeah, *claps*). The good news is I will get to savour this exquisite(and expensive)thing tonight, the bad news is I will have to wait for the earth to orbit one round around the sun before I can taste it again
I have a secret tactic which I think I should share with you all regarding the reunion dinner. Let's say if your home has abalone or sea cucumber and other expensive delicacies on the dining table. Everybody will be aiming for it so how should you counter-attack? Simple, if you are using chopsticks, just pretend to accidentally poke through a few slices(3 or 4 is a good amount)where you actually did it on purpose. Then you will have a 'satay" of abalone slices in your chopstick and you just tell everyone sorry and stuff it into your mouth. No one can blame you for your "accident" and no one should want to share the poked abalone with you, it's a human nature thing. What's more, it's Chinese New Year's Eve so nobody will scold you anyway
Most of us will have to stay awake past midnight for tonight because of Chinese tradition. Luckily there are special programmes on TV tonight or I will be bored to sleep. But past experiences have proved that I will still give in to temptation and lie on the bed for a short nap around 10.30 to 11.30. I am an early sleeper you know, I sleep very early everyday. It is a good habit since young. I'm going to have a short siesta in the afternoon later so that I will be less lethargic in the night
Remember my tactic at the reunion dinner and try it out to see if it works, just make sure that your family members do not read this and know about it too
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Battle of polys
Yesterday was the last day of school for Republic Polytechnic students. They will start the new semester 10 weeks later on 20 April. As we all know, RP is different from the other 4 polytechnics in Singapore because of it's unique education system. The one-of-a-kind adaptation of Problem Based Learning(PBL)makes RP unique in it's own way
Everyday students are given a problem which needs to be solved and they do it together as a class in the classroom. What I am trying to state here is that the way of learning in RP actually bond classmates more than the other 4 polys. Classes are united as one and rarely spilt into groups. Although this sounds positive, students will be sad to be separated with their classmates when a semester ends
In short, I think that RP is better than the rest(especially SP)in terms of cleanliness and modernity. The interior and exterior designs are contemporary and the classroom doors have this round window which looks very posh and class
I remember I had a friendly debate with Wai Yuen who is a RP-ian last year about which school is better
Wai Yuen: my school very high tech one, wireless and paperless
Raymond: so? my school is the 1st poly, lao zhao pai, yours is some new and unknown brand
Wai Yuen: at least more modern than your one
Raymond: mine is the biggest poly in Singapore, how many food courts you have?
Wai Yuen: 3, no is 4(actually it is supposed to be 3 according to my research on their website)
Raymond: haha, i got 6
Wai Yuen: errmm, I got koufu leh
Raymond: I also have, I still got McDonald, KFC, Pizza Hut, Popular bookshop, 7 eleven...
Wai Yuen: k lah, you win lah
Raymond: transfer school lah, come SP, I'll put red carpet at Dover MRT to welcome you
I also debated with Vincent who is a NP alumni and this is roughly what I remembered
Vincent: NP is the best poly, branded school
Raymond: SP is then the best and the also oldest one
Vincent: so old liao, the paint on the walls all like ...already lor
Raymond: as long as our inside is clean can already, we're not so vain
Vincent: our school the food court got people from SIM come eat leh
Raymond: like that only? still got anything else?
Vincent: we have a big big bus stop outside the school
Raymond: who cares about your little bus stop, we got MRT station man!
Anyone wants to have a debate with me?
Everyday students are given a problem which needs to be solved and they do it together as a class in the classroom. What I am trying to state here is that the way of learning in RP actually bond classmates more than the other 4 polys. Classes are united as one and rarely spilt into groups. Although this sounds positive, students will be sad to be separated with their classmates when a semester ends
In short, I think that RP is better than the rest(especially SP)in terms of cleanliness and modernity. The interior and exterior designs are contemporary and the classroom doors have this round window which looks very posh and class
I remember I had a friendly debate with Wai Yuen who is a RP-ian last year about which school is better
Wai Yuen: my school very high tech one, wireless and paperless
Raymond: so? my school is the 1st poly, lao zhao pai, yours is some new and unknown brand
Wai Yuen: at least more modern than your one
Raymond: mine is the biggest poly in Singapore, how many food courts you have?
Wai Yuen: 3, no is 4(actually it is supposed to be 3 according to my research on their website)
Raymond: haha, i got 6
Wai Yuen: errmm, I got koufu leh
Raymond: I also have, I still got McDonald, KFC, Pizza Hut, Popular bookshop, 7 eleven...
Wai Yuen: k lah, you win lah
Raymond: transfer school lah, come SP, I'll put red carpet at Dover MRT to welcome you
I also debated with Vincent who is a NP alumni and this is roughly what I remembered
Vincent: NP is the best poly, branded school
Raymond: SP is then the best and the also oldest one
Vincent: so old liao, the paint on the walls all like ...already lor
Raymond: as long as our inside is clean can already, we're not so vain
Vincent: our school the food court got people from SIM come eat leh
Raymond: like that only? still got anything else?
Vincent: we have a big big bus stop outside the school
Raymond: who cares about your little bus stop, we got MRT station man!
Anyone wants to have a debate with me?
Friday, January 23, 2009
How to act like a politician
How to act like a politician if you are not one? RealBlurPolitics® will share with you some tips and tricks this week
Basically, to act like a politician, there are 3 things which you need to take note of. Image, talking and behaviour. We shall use our country's leaders here in our nation as good examples you can learn from
Firstly, we will start with your image. First impression counts, you should have heard of this before right? As a politician, you cannot have conspicuous accessories or hairstyles let alone dressing. There are only two types of colors you can choose, black or white. If you are a female, you are entitled to dye your hair but not bright ones of course. This is the only thing which female politicians have an advantage over their male counterparts, other than that it is mostly males who are leaders of a country. Anyway, back to the hair colour. Politicians should have white hair instead of black. This is because people will suspect that they are not working hard enough to grow white tresses. We suggest that if you had really tried working hard but still covered with a head of thick and black hair, it is better to go dye some parts white but it will look unnatural like a couple of our leaders. Remember to gel your hair if possible, and use gel not wax. Gel gives a shining effect unlike wax which makes you look more respectable
Coats, jackets, tuxedos and whatever you call it. They are a must-have no matter how hot our country is. Going to parliament, meeting foreign leaders, attending important events, these are just some occasions where your dressing is crucial. We recommend black as the best colour like what our ministers normally wear although they come from a party that forces them to wear entirely white during National Day parades. One more thing, with the black shoes plus their white shirt and pants, they look totally like colour and fashion noobs
Secondly, we shall talk about talking. This will need lots of experience and fine technique to master. Look at those politicians in the parliament. It is always the younger ones who say the wrong things and the older ones who speak in a way that is impossible to counter him. One effective but unpractical way is to speak slowly and break up your sentences into phrases which is also known as think before you talk. A senior politician in our country uses this tactic for several decades till today which is also one of his trademarks. Think for 1.5 seconds, talk for 5 seconds. This would be a good ratio you should maintain. Thinking before you talk will allow you to analyse whether is it correct to speak about a certain topic thus not getting yourself into trouble. The bad thing about it is that people will get bored over waiting for your reply and feel uneasy listening to bits and pieces of your speech. Also, you should try doing this less frequently if you are below 60 or others will think you have an ageing brain in your head
Lastly, it is your behaviour. As a politician, you must gain respect and fear from people. Do not smile frequently. If you do that, you are most likely to be labelled as a crafty person who only wants to absorb money from the citizens. People will not respect you at all. A good example is one of our short ministers in parliament who leads one of the GRCs in the east side of our nation. He smiles too often and the expression on his face is extremely fake and artificial
To gain fear from people, you must be ruthless. We are not asking you to resort to violence but other ways which can really condemn a person. Suing the other party is a good way. If someone slanders you, sue him. Sue him until he has nothing to his name and no money in his pockets. It is either you or him alive, and you have to be selfish at this time even though you consider he has other responsibilities in life like his family. Make sure you sue him until it is almost impossible for him to make a comeback. And if he does make a comeback, it will be during his prime and before you know it, he is gone for good
Hope you learn something from this but do not try this at home without an adult's supervision
Basically, to act like a politician, there are 3 things which you need to take note of. Image, talking and behaviour. We shall use our country's leaders here in our nation as good examples you can learn from
Firstly, we will start with your image. First impression counts, you should have heard of this before right? As a politician, you cannot have conspicuous accessories or hairstyles let alone dressing. There are only two types of colors you can choose, black or white. If you are a female, you are entitled to dye your hair but not bright ones of course. This is the only thing which female politicians have an advantage over their male counterparts, other than that it is mostly males who are leaders of a country. Anyway, back to the hair colour. Politicians should have white hair instead of black. This is because people will suspect that they are not working hard enough to grow white tresses. We suggest that if you had really tried working hard but still covered with a head of thick and black hair, it is better to go dye some parts white but it will look unnatural like a couple of our leaders. Remember to gel your hair if possible, and use gel not wax. Gel gives a shining effect unlike wax which makes you look more respectable
Coats, jackets, tuxedos and whatever you call it. They are a must-have no matter how hot our country is. Going to parliament, meeting foreign leaders, attending important events, these are just some occasions where your dressing is crucial. We recommend black as the best colour like what our ministers normally wear although they come from a party that forces them to wear entirely white during National Day parades. One more thing, with the black shoes plus their white shirt and pants, they look totally like colour and fashion noobs
Secondly, we shall talk about talking. This will need lots of experience and fine technique to master. Look at those politicians in the parliament. It is always the younger ones who say the wrong things and the older ones who speak in a way that is impossible to counter him. One effective but unpractical way is to speak slowly and break up your sentences into phrases which is also known as think before you talk. A senior politician in our country uses this tactic for several decades till today which is also one of his trademarks. Think for 1.5 seconds, talk for 5 seconds. This would be a good ratio you should maintain. Thinking before you talk will allow you to analyse whether is it correct to speak about a certain topic thus not getting yourself into trouble. The bad thing about it is that people will get bored over waiting for your reply and feel uneasy listening to bits and pieces of your speech. Also, you should try doing this less frequently if you are below 60 or others will think you have an ageing brain in your head
Lastly, it is your behaviour. As a politician, you must gain respect and fear from people. Do not smile frequently. If you do that, you are most likely to be labelled as a crafty person who only wants to absorb money from the citizens. People will not respect you at all. A good example is one of our short ministers in parliament who leads one of the GRCs in the east side of our nation. He smiles too often and the expression on his face is extremely fake and artificial
To gain fear from people, you must be ruthless. We are not asking you to resort to violence but other ways which can really condemn a person. Suing the other party is a good way. If someone slanders you, sue him. Sue him until he has nothing to his name and no money in his pockets. It is either you or him alive, and you have to be selfish at this time even though you consider he has other responsibilities in life like his family. Make sure you sue him until it is almost impossible for him to make a comeback. And if he does make a comeback, it will be during his prime and before you know it, he is gone for good
Hope you learn something from this but do not try this at home without an adult's supervision
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Commendable Service
Hey, check out what I did on Facebook today. I commented on Foreign Affairs minister, George Yeo's status again. It is less controversial than the previous time and my face is shown this time. Well, but I think it is still worth sharing with you all
About 8 hours later, there were 4 more idiots who talked to themselves because George Yeo will not reply to them anyway
We drawed lots during Oral Communication class today to decide the order of who first who last for our individual presentation next week. And I got
the good news is I am not the first and the bad news is I will only have 1 person to look at before it's my turn
I ate the black pepper fried rice from the Indian stall today. Super spicy. Ate until I sweat like I had ran 20 kilometres. I will never try it again. Anyway, I helped Zhi Teng and Nas buy too. So it was $6 in total, I gave the Indian guy a $10 note and he changed me $5. He asked if I had $1 and I answered no. So he said "how about you return me another day" in an Indian slang, so I said ok. I returned at 2.30pm with eight 10cent coins and one 20cent coin. I passed him the money and he just dumped that into the cashier without counting and smiled at me saying I could have returned him another day
Now, what I am trying to say is this is commendable service that is endangered in Singapore. The Indian guy trusts his customer(who is me), that he will return with the one dollar. Also, he did not bother to count the coins I gave him which shows he believes I did not cheat him. Although the fried rice is really not nice(wow, it rhymes), the good service has more than made up for it
About 8 hours later, there were 4 more idiots who talked to themselves because George Yeo will not reply to them anyway
We drawed lots during Oral Communication class today to decide the order of who first who last for our individual presentation next week. And I got
the good news is I am not the first and the bad news is I will only have 1 person to look at before it's my turn
I ate the black pepper fried rice from the Indian stall today. Super spicy. Ate until I sweat like I had ran 20 kilometres. I will never try it again. Anyway, I helped Zhi Teng and Nas buy too. So it was $6 in total, I gave the Indian guy a $10 note and he changed me $5. He asked if I had $1 and I answered no. So he said "how about you return me another day" in an Indian slang, so I said ok. I returned at 2.30pm with eight 10cent coins and one 20cent coin. I passed him the money and he just dumped that into the cashier without counting and smiled at me saying I could have returned him another day
Now, what I am trying to say is this is commendable service that is endangered in Singapore. The Indian guy trusts his customer(who is me), that he will return with the one dollar. Also, he did not bother to count the coins I gave him which shows he believes I did not cheat him. Although the fried rice is really not nice(wow, it rhymes), the good service has more than made up for it
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Barack Obama inauguration
Did you watch the inauguration of Barack Obama last night(Singapore time)? For me, I was sleeping like a pig/log/corpse/stone etc at that time. If you had watched it, may I know if you had seen anything interesting?
History was made in 2008, let's see if change will be made from yesterday
By the way, these should be the 2 best photos taken at the event I think
John McCain, the forgotten hero who was defeated at the hands of Obama in the elections, should be the most heartborken person watching the event provided if he did watch it. George Bush must have been really sad to leave the White House after spending 8 years in it and growing hair of the same colour as it. I mentioned that carparks would be flooded in Washington DC yesterday. According to what I read, there were some 2 million(or is it more?)people attending it. That would be so squeezy like how you kiasu-ly squeeze a whole chunk of the free flow chilli sauce onto your little disposable plastic plate at McDonald's and KFC
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Another important thing of the day is that the Pet Society game in Facebook is a craze in my class. Well, not everyone of course but the majority are guys! I have been racing at the stadium for many days but there is still inadequate money for me to buy new clothes for my pet to celebrate Chinese New Year. P.S. I want to buy the expensive kind one, it is not branded because there is no brand at all
Zhi Teng is still abnormal today but not as hyper-active as yesterday because Nas is back. This means my Raymond theorem is a little wrong. So I shall change it to...
Nas + go school = Zhi Teng + 3(talk)
which means Nas plus go school(present in school)is equals to Zhi Teng plus talk talk talk(talk 3 times more)
I will continue to monitor the situation tomorrow and see if it continues to fluctuate before making changes if needed
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Raymond's Theorem
My classmate is a little abnormal today. Maybe because another classmate of mine did not come to school, that's why he was unusually hyper-active for the day. The first person is Zhi Teng and the second is Nas. So in short, Nas did not come to school which resulted in Zhi Teng being hyper-active. Sounds like a Chain Rule right? Check your secondary school A Maths textbook on the chapter differentiation if you don't know what I mean
When the lecturers asked me why Nas was absent, my reply is Standard. "He went to America to attend Obama's inauguration speech". Yes, it is January 20, the day when carparks in Washington DC are flooded with vehicles as people all around the country(and world)come to witness this significant moment of history. Anyway back to the topic, so how abnormal was Zhi Teng then? He is a natural introvert or rather a man of little words. He hardly opens his mouth except on "emergency" occasions. However, it seems that he has talked more sentences than me today
He even came up with various topics to talk with me. We chatted about laptops and their batteries, the advanced technology today, our ambitions, current affairs, our Maths project, the lab quiz, the difference between celebrating CNY in Singapore and China etc. Then we betted what colour will the next MRT be, I guessed black while he guessed white and I won, but I won nothing because we did not bet on anything
So I'm sitting in front of the computer now still trying to figure out the theorem relating Nas' absence to Zhi Teng's abnormal behaviour. According to my calculations, this is roughly the formula after differentiating
Nas + -(go school) = Zhi Teng + 5(talk)
so it means Nas plus negative go school(never go school)is equals to Zhi Teng plus talk talk talk talk talk(talk 5 times more)
***
Integrate it and you will get
Nas + go school = Zhi Teng + 0.5(talk)
which means Nas plus go school(present in school)is equals to Zhi Teng plus half talk(talk a little bit only)
Change of topic. As mentioned above, today is the day when carparks in Washington DC are flooded with vehicles as people all around the country(and world)come to witness this significant moment of history. Barack Obama's inauguration speech will be broadcasted live on Channel News Asia at 11pm later but I doubt you will stay up and watch it. You will probably take the time to sleep first and wake up at 4am to watch Manchester United vs Derby in the Carling Cup semi final. Well, but there will definitely be fans of him in our country who are willing to sacrifice their beauty sleep to catch their idol on TV
Obama has wonderful oratory skills and is a good speaker by nature. So watching him talk tonight may not be a disadvantage to one after all, you can pick up some tips from him and they may come in handy in the future. Your TV is yours, so it is up to you to decide
In the meantime, I will continue to work on my Raymond's Theorem of Nas and Zhi Teng
When the lecturers asked me why Nas was absent, my reply is Standard. "He went to America to attend Obama's inauguration speech". Yes, it is January 20, the day when carparks in Washington DC are flooded with vehicles as people all around the country(and world)come to witness this significant moment of history. Anyway back to the topic, so how abnormal was Zhi Teng then? He is a natural introvert or rather a man of little words. He hardly opens his mouth except on "emergency" occasions. However, it seems that he has talked more sentences than me today
He even came up with various topics to talk with me. We chatted about laptops and their batteries, the advanced technology today, our ambitions, current affairs, our Maths project, the lab quiz, the difference between celebrating CNY in Singapore and China etc. Then we betted what colour will the next MRT be, I guessed black while he guessed white and I won, but I won nothing because we did not bet on anything
So I'm sitting in front of the computer now still trying to figure out the theorem relating Nas' absence to Zhi Teng's abnormal behaviour. According to my calculations, this is roughly the formula after differentiating
Nas + -(go school) = Zhi Teng + 5(talk)
so it means Nas plus negative go school(never go school)is equals to Zhi Teng plus talk talk talk talk talk(talk 5 times more)
***
Integrate it and you will get
Nas + go school = Zhi Teng + 0.5(talk)
which means Nas plus go school(present in school)is equals to Zhi Teng plus half talk(talk a little bit only)
Change of topic. As mentioned above, today is the day when carparks in Washington DC are flooded with vehicles as people all around the country(and world)come to witness this significant moment of history. Barack Obama's inauguration speech will be broadcasted live on Channel News Asia at 11pm later but I doubt you will stay up and watch it. You will probably take the time to sleep first and wake up at 4am to watch Manchester United vs Derby in the Carling Cup semi final. Well, but there will definitely be fans of him in our country who are willing to sacrifice their beauty sleep to catch their idol on TV
Obama has wonderful oratory skills and is a good speaker by nature. So watching him talk tonight may not be a disadvantage to one after all, you can pick up some tips from him and they may come in handy in the future. Your TV is yours, so it is up to you to decide
In the meantime, I will continue to work on my Raymond's Theorem of Nas and Zhi Teng
Monday, January 19, 2009
Many brain cells killed today
Let's see what's there to update for today
I had many brain cells killed today so on second thought, I shall make it simple
We were split into groups of two during the Data Comm lab lesson and were given a code that has letters all mixed up. We have to solve what the code means or rather what the whole passage is about
It was like
adsad ht ref thth w qet lkvnw v hsfiw ekfjwen ekn jeb iioe jcnic
dnac imfh e w jw jc ejjjlaqcj ekofe efn e eehfn iemhe qw zop
fd ds jdc je ejemc cfc ejfr fr jr omedkoeqen rm e qbe le
and many more lines, and you have to decipher what each letter stands for to solve. So "a" can be "r", "p" can be "n" etc. All other groups were using the(politically correct)trial and error method but I used my own method, the "English language" method. If given more time, I would have solved it(and had more brain cells killed)but it was fun anyway even though I did not figure it out in time. But I solved more than 60% of the letters(which means at least 15 out of 26 alphabets)on my own using my special(and unconventional)method so it is still a great achievement I think
I will have to get lots of beauty sleep tonight to replenish
I had many brain cells killed today so on second thought, I shall make it simple
We were split into groups of two during the Data Comm lab lesson and were given a code that has letters all mixed up. We have to solve what the code means or rather what the whole passage is about
It was like
adsad ht ref thth w qet lkvnw v hsfiw ekfjwen ekn jeb iioe jcnic
dnac imfh e w jw jc ejjjlaqcj ekofe efn e eehfn iemhe qw zop
fd ds jdc je ejemc cfc ejfr fr jr omedkoeqen rm e qbe le
and many more lines, and you have to decipher what each letter stands for to solve. So "a" can be "r", "p" can be "n" etc. All other groups were using the(politically correct)trial and error method but I used my own method, the "English language" method. If given more time, I would have solved it(and had more brain cells killed)but it was fun anyway even though I did not figure it out in time. But I solved more than 60% of the letters(which means at least 15 out of 26 alphabets)on my own using my special(and unconventional)method so it is still a great achievement I think
I will have to get lots of beauty sleep tonight to replenish
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Cern rap
An interesting video that I will like to share with you all
Twenty-seven kilometers of tunnel under ground
Designed with mind to send protons around
A circle that crosses through Switzerland and France
Sixty nations contribute to scientific advance
Two beams of protons swing round, through the ring they ride
‘Til in the hearts of the detectors, they’re made to collide
And all that energy packed in such a tiny bit of room
Becomes mass, particles created from the vacuum
And then
LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find
The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head
We see asteroids and planets, stars galore
We know a black hole resides at each galaxy’s core
But even all that matter cannot explain
What holds all these stars together – something else remains
This dark matter interacts only through gravity
And how do you catch a particle there’s no way to see
Take it back to the conservation of energy
And the particles appear, clear as can be
You see particles flying, in jets they spray
But you notice there ain’t nothin’, goin’ the other way
You say, “My law has just been violated – it don’t make sense!
There’s gotta be another particle to make this balance.”
And it might be dark matter, and for first
Time we catch a glimpse of what must fill most of the known Verse
Because
LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find
Antimatter is sort of like matter’s evil twin
Because except for charge and handedness of spin
They’re the same for a particle and its anti-self
But you can’t store an antiparticle on any shelf
Cuz when it meets its normal twin, they both annihilate
Matter turns to energy and then it dissipates
When matter is created from energy
Which is exactly what they’ll do in the LHC
You get matter and antimatter in equal parts
And they try to take that back to when the universe starts
The Big Bang – back when the matter all exploded
But the amount of antimatter was somehow eroded
Because when we look around we see that matter abounds
But antimatter’s nowhere to be found
That’s why
LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find
The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head
The Higgs Boson – that’s the one that everybody talks about
And it’s the one sure thing that this machine will sort out
If the Higgs exists, they ought to see it right away
And if it doesn’t, then the scientists will finally say
“There is no Higgs! We need new physics to account for why
Things have mass. Something in our Standard Model went awry.”
But the Higgs – I still haven’t said just what it does
They suppose that particles have mass because
There is this Higgs field that extends through all space
And some particles slow down while other particles race
Straight through like the photon – it has no mass
But something heavy like the top quark, it’s draggin’ its ---
And the Higgs is a boson that carries a force
And makes particles take orders from the field that is its source
They’ll detect it
LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find
Now some of you may think that gravity is strong
Cuz when you fall off your bicycle it don’t take long
Until you hit the earth, and you say, “Dang, that hurt!”
But if you think that force is powerful, you’re wrong
You see, gravity – it’s weaker than Weak
And the reason why is something many scientists seek
They think about dimensions – we just live in three
But maybe there are some others that are too small to see
It’s into these dimensions that gravity extends
Which makes it seem weaker, here on our end
And these dimensions are rolled up curled so tight
That they don’t affect you in your day to day life
But if you were as tiny as a graviton
You could enter these dimensions and go wandering on
And they’d find you
When LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find
The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head
Twenty-seven kilometers of tunnel under ground
Designed with mind to send protons around
A circle that crosses through Switzerland and France
Sixty nations contribute to scientific advance
Two beams of protons swing round, through the ring they ride
‘Til in the hearts of the detectors, they’re made to collide
And all that energy packed in such a tiny bit of room
Becomes mass, particles created from the vacuum
And then
LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find
The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head
We see asteroids and planets, stars galore
We know a black hole resides at each galaxy’s core
But even all that matter cannot explain
What holds all these stars together – something else remains
This dark matter interacts only through gravity
And how do you catch a particle there’s no way to see
Take it back to the conservation of energy
And the particles appear, clear as can be
You see particles flying, in jets they spray
But you notice there ain’t nothin’, goin’ the other way
You say, “My law has just been violated – it don’t make sense!
There’s gotta be another particle to make this balance.”
And it might be dark matter, and for first
Time we catch a glimpse of what must fill most of the known Verse
Because
LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find
Antimatter is sort of like matter’s evil twin
Because except for charge and handedness of spin
They’re the same for a particle and its anti-self
But you can’t store an antiparticle on any shelf
Cuz when it meets its normal twin, they both annihilate
Matter turns to energy and then it dissipates
When matter is created from energy
Which is exactly what they’ll do in the LHC
You get matter and antimatter in equal parts
And they try to take that back to when the universe starts
The Big Bang – back when the matter all exploded
But the amount of antimatter was somehow eroded
Because when we look around we see that matter abounds
But antimatter’s nowhere to be found
That’s why
LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find
The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head
The Higgs Boson – that’s the one that everybody talks about
And it’s the one sure thing that this machine will sort out
If the Higgs exists, they ought to see it right away
And if it doesn’t, then the scientists will finally say
“There is no Higgs! We need new physics to account for why
Things have mass. Something in our Standard Model went awry.”
But the Higgs – I still haven’t said just what it does
They suppose that particles have mass because
There is this Higgs field that extends through all space
And some particles slow down while other particles race
Straight through like the photon – it has no mass
But something heavy like the top quark, it’s draggin’ its ---
And the Higgs is a boson that carries a force
And makes particles take orders from the field that is its source
They’ll detect it
LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find
Now some of you may think that gravity is strong
Cuz when you fall off your bicycle it don’t take long
Until you hit the earth, and you say, “Dang, that hurt!”
But if you think that force is powerful, you’re wrong
You see, gravity – it’s weaker than Weak
And the reason why is something many scientists seek
They think about dimensions – we just live in three
But maybe there are some others that are too small to see
It’s into these dimensions that gravity extends
Which makes it seem weaker, here on our end
And these dimensions are rolled up curled so tight
That they don’t affect you in your day to day life
But if you were as tiny as a graviton
You could enter these dimensions and go wandering on
And they’d find you
When LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find
The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head
Saturday, January 17, 2009
My surprise prize
Yesterday, I went to play that lame ping pong ball game which is more for children under 12 years old(see 31 Dec post)
This time I won something, again. Yeah, and the prize is more valuable than the first one. I got a pink token for the first time and a purple one yesterday. You will have to give the token to the counter in exchange for your gift
So this is what I got, a BombBag a.k.a. My surprise prize
According to the instructions at the back, I was supposed to smash it with my hand. I kept on smashing and banging the bag but nothing happened. Then I realized that I had to cut open the bag, where the the thing that is to be smashed is waiting inside
TA DAH...there you go
What is this thingy? Anyway, I hit and hit and hit it and it slowly expanded. It became larger and fatter after two minutes(I had taken a video but had there were some technical problems uploading it). And according to the instructions, there is supposed to be some "surprise". My head, there was nothing surprising at all, in the end, I used the scissors to poke the balloon-like thing and guess what is inside?
:
:
:
:
:
:
NOTHING!!!
Except for some orange coloured water which made my hands sticky after touching it
This time I won something, again. Yeah, and the prize is more valuable than the first one. I got a pink token for the first time and a purple one yesterday. You will have to give the token to the counter in exchange for your gift
So this is what I got, a BombBag a.k.a. My surprise prize
According to the instructions at the back, I was supposed to smash it with my hand. I kept on smashing and banging the bag but nothing happened. Then I realized that I had to cut open the bag, where the the thing that is to be smashed is waiting inside
TA DAH...there you go
What is this thingy? Anyway, I hit and hit and hit it and it slowly expanded. It became larger and fatter after two minutes(I had taken a video but had there were some technical problems uploading it). And according to the instructions, there is supposed to be some "surprise". My head, there was nothing surprising at all, in the end, I used the scissors to poke the balloon-like thing and guess what is inside?
:
:
:
:
:
:
NOTHING!!!
Except for some orange coloured water which made my hands sticky after touching it
Friday, January 16, 2009
Fire on MP
We all know that a Member of Parliament in our country has shot to stardom recently by hurting himself via an accident or on purpose(depends on how you look at it). While he lies in the hospital with bandages and gestures to other MPs who visit him at his ward, RealBlurPolitics® take to the streets to find out what people have to say about this calculated brutal attack. We actually wanted to post a recording but blogger.com does not accept our AMR file, so we had to list it all out
Mr Tan Ah Beng, 58, fishmonger: huh? what seng what thong? don't know lah, I only know Chiam See Thong from Potong Pasir. So old already still don't want retire!
Miss Katherine, 41, tai tai: I think that it is a sad thing to everyone in the country, we should not condone such acts. I hope that he can recover quickly and get back to his job, sorry I need to go for my mahjong session now, i am late, bye
Mrs Mansi, 37, civil servant: it is a pity that he has to stop work and rest in the hospital for several weeks, I am sure he will come back stronger! Please send my regards to him. Oh, you do not know which ward he is in? oh sorry, I thought you people would know
Timothy, 17, student: ermm is anyone gonna bring some magazines or DVDs for him to watch? lie down in the hospital so bored. Make sure don't bring the pirated one hor, or not will kena caught
RBP: so do you recommend any nice ones?
Timothy: actually as long as got no fire in it can liao, or not he might remember his traumatic past
Tian Lai, 35, pilot: I want that stupid old man who burned him to get burnt too, burn his house as well. Anyway, I feel lucky that it is not the MP from my constituency as I need to see him for some money matters. You know lah, now recession mah, need more money
Fazrul, 24, mechanical engineer: sia la, this guy kena something bad for dua times already leh, alamak, where all the bodyguards sia? eh, my muscle a lot leh you see, how about hiring me? the pay good or not ah? Be the bodyguard is it consider as civil servant? If be civil servant can still buy 4D and toto or not?
RBP: .....
Other than people on the streets, we had a couple of special interviews with MPs who do not want to be named due to whatever reasons, of course
An MP who only wanted to be known as Ah Keng and said that he is from a GRC who has the PM's father in it as well believes that it is better to hire some plainclothes officers for MPs as well. He thinks that not only ministers should be "entitled" to have them. "Our nation should be fair to everyone, the finance department oops I mean the finance ministry should come up with some funds to hire bodyguards who can provide us with security, we are already so stressed" He added that he will turn residents down who approach him in public now more frequently to play safe
Another MP whom we spoke to requested us not to mention her name at all or she will sue us for slandering until we end up in jail and destroy all evidence before we can even use them to defend ourselves in court. We decided to play safe and not reveal anything that is related to her. She believes that if the government does not hire bodyguards for them, MPs will have to dig into their own pockets for the funds. "You can see, hear and read many MPs telling the press that they don't need bodyguards, but in fact, inside them they long to have one, two, three all even more. We are all politicians, we usually speak the opposite of what we want, that's our way of life"
Many lessons are learnt from this incident but the most important thing which we have discovered is that thinner is the new kerosene of burning. It produces more heat and maybe damage to the victim. As for costs, we leave it to you to find out
Mr Tan Ah Beng, 58, fishmonger: huh? what seng what thong? don't know lah, I only know Chiam See Thong from Potong Pasir. So old already still don't want retire!
Miss Katherine, 41, tai tai: I think that it is a sad thing to everyone in the country, we should not condone such acts. I hope that he can recover quickly and get back to his job, sorry I need to go for my mahjong session now, i am late, bye
Mrs Mansi, 37, civil servant: it is a pity that he has to stop work and rest in the hospital for several weeks, I am sure he will come back stronger! Please send my regards to him. Oh, you do not know which ward he is in? oh sorry, I thought you people would know
Timothy, 17, student: ermm is anyone gonna bring some magazines or DVDs for him to watch? lie down in the hospital so bored. Make sure don't bring the pirated one hor, or not will kena caught
RBP: so do you recommend any nice ones?
Timothy: actually as long as got no fire in it can liao, or not he might remember his traumatic past
Tian Lai, 35, pilot: I want that stupid old man who burned him to get burnt too, burn his house as well. Anyway, I feel lucky that it is not the MP from my constituency as I need to see him for some money matters. You know lah, now recession mah, need more money
Fazrul, 24, mechanical engineer: sia la, this guy kena something bad for dua times already leh, alamak, where all the bodyguards sia? eh, my muscle a lot leh you see, how about hiring me? the pay good or not ah? Be the bodyguard is it consider as civil servant? If be civil servant can still buy 4D and toto or not?
RBP: .....
Other than people on the streets, we had a couple of special interviews with MPs who do not want to be named due to whatever reasons, of course
An MP who only wanted to be known as Ah Keng and said that he is from a GRC who has the PM's father in it as well believes that it is better to hire some plainclothes officers for MPs as well. He thinks that not only ministers should be "entitled" to have them. "Our nation should be fair to everyone, the finance department oops I mean the finance ministry should come up with some funds to hire bodyguards who can provide us with security, we are already so stressed" He added that he will turn residents down who approach him in public now more frequently to play safe
Another MP whom we spoke to requested us not to mention her name at all or she will sue us for slandering until we end up in jail and destroy all evidence before we can even use them to defend ourselves in court. We decided to play safe and not reveal anything that is related to her. She believes that if the government does not hire bodyguards for them, MPs will have to dig into their own pockets for the funds. "You can see, hear and read many MPs telling the press that they don't need bodyguards, but in fact, inside them they long to have one, two, three all even more. We are all politicians, we usually speak the opposite of what we want, that's our way of life"
Many lessons are learnt from this incident but the most important thing which we have discovered is that thinner is the new kerosene of burning. It produces more heat and maybe damage to the victim. As for costs, we leave it to you to find out
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Michael Phelps vs Usain Bolt
Recently this week, I have met many of my old classmates from secondary school in poly. I saw Jason on Tuesday in the library. Yesterday I saw Cheng Hao at Food Court 3. Today, it is a hat trick, I saw Samuel, Jian Nan and Nicholas, all in the span of twenty minutes at three different places. Sat at the same bench with Jian Nan during lunch and we talked while I was eating and he was playing Warcraft on his laptop. Found out that, like me, he had actually chosen football as his topic for the Oral Communication individual presentation too. Maybe it is a topic we are both too familiar with so it will be relatively easy for us to talk about it. Well, but he seriously needs a haircut. His hair is so long and he does not even bother to comb a single strand of it
When I went to bed last night, I thought of something which I think is worth thinking and debatable. Lying on the bed, I suddenly thought of Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt. They are two of the most prominent sportspeople last year and were in my 2008 top 10 sportspeople list. Ok, imagine this. If Phelps and Bolt are to compete against each other in a 100m race where they have to run in water that is up to the waist, who do you think will win? Phelps is a human fish and is invincible in the water while Bolt holds the 100m world record(running on the track)
I pondered for more than fifteen minutes but still could not decide on an answer, so I went to sleep in the end. What do you think?
When I went to bed last night, I thought of something which I think is worth thinking and debatable. Lying on the bed, I suddenly thought of Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt. They are two of the most prominent sportspeople last year and were in my 2008 top 10 sportspeople list. Ok, imagine this. If Phelps and Bolt are to compete against each other in a 100m race where they have to run in water that is up to the waist, who do you think will win? Phelps is a human fish and is invincible in the water while Bolt holds the 100m world record(running on the track)
I pondered for more than fifteen minutes but still could not decide on an answer, so I went to sleep in the end. What do you think?
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Something amusing on the bus
While I was on the bus 147 on the way home, something amusing occurred. It involved the Indian bus driver and an old Indian female passenger. What happened was when the bus stopped at the Clementi Avenue 1 bus stop for passengers to alight and the doors closed, the Indian woman then dashed slowly to the exit. Upon seeing that the doors were closed with the "door closing" sign at the top flashing, she desperately pressed the bell but the Indian driver did not bother
He must have thought that it was some impatient passenger that he will encounter in his bus driving career who cannot wait to alight at the next stop. The bus continued to move and as the Indian woman realized that she is further and further away from her destination, she got frustrated. When the bus was about more than a hundred metres away from the Avenue 1 bus stop, she walked to the front where the bus driver was
At that time, the bus had stopped because of the traffic light. The Indian woman started scolding the driver. Needless to say, it was done in Tamil and the only Tamil words which I know are counting one to ten. Anyway, most of the passengers on board are Chinese and Malays, so everybody just stared at the front with curious faces, wondering what was she admonishing about.
Throughout the wait for the traffic light to turn green, I did not hear the driver talking, the woman was yelling all the way like it's her grandfather's bus. Obviously, it was not the driver's fault so choosing to remain silent and not argue was an effective not to blow things up. If he had argued with the woman, he might be unable to concentrate driving
That Indian woman should have stood at the exit doors about 15 seconds before the bus reached the bus stop. In the end, she had to alight at the next stop and walk about 15 minutes back to the previous one, considering her age and walking speed. I should have taken a photo and send it to STOMP but there were many people on board during then
Hope that the Indian woman will reflect about this incident and kaisu-ly stand at the exit door next time when she wants to alight
Another highlight of the day is regarding my China friend, Zhi Teng. He has applied for a Facebook account today. Sounds impossible right that he will actually have one? Well, he applied for it because he got hooked onto the Bowling Buddies game. He saw me playing it and I let him try it on my lappie and he was addicted to it
Then, when he first entered Facebook, he started searching for games to play. To him, Facebook is more of a gaming site than a social networking site. He was also obsessed with Pet Society which is one of my favourites too. He kept on playing the racing game at the stadium and we laughed like crazy together. Judging from the way he plays, he will have a bright future in Pet Society. Zhi Teng made me rediscover the pure fun of using the dull and mundane Facebook which I perceive nowadays
This is my pet, Xiao Mei Mei, at home
Sometimes, it is the rookies that show us, old birds, the basic joy of something. I read an article in my paper yesterday about this thing. The writer said that his mother watched football with him and asked why must teams have different formations like 4-4-2, 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 etc. She thinks that all teams should have a single standard formation and the real quality of the team should lie in the players themselves, that should be fundamental of football
I will beat Zhi Teng in the pet race
He must have thought that it was some impatient passenger that he will encounter in his bus driving career who cannot wait to alight at the next stop. The bus continued to move and as the Indian woman realized that she is further and further away from her destination, she got frustrated. When the bus was about more than a hundred metres away from the Avenue 1 bus stop, she walked to the front where the bus driver was
At that time, the bus had stopped because of the traffic light. The Indian woman started scolding the driver. Needless to say, it was done in Tamil and the only Tamil words which I know are counting one to ten. Anyway, most of the passengers on board are Chinese and Malays, so everybody just stared at the front with curious faces, wondering what was she admonishing about.
Throughout the wait for the traffic light to turn green, I did not hear the driver talking, the woman was yelling all the way like it's her grandfather's bus. Obviously, it was not the driver's fault so choosing to remain silent and not argue was an effective not to blow things up. If he had argued with the woman, he might be unable to concentrate driving
That Indian woman should have stood at the exit doors about 15 seconds before the bus reached the bus stop. In the end, she had to alight at the next stop and walk about 15 minutes back to the previous one, considering her age and walking speed. I should have taken a photo and send it to STOMP but there were many people on board during then
Hope that the Indian woman will reflect about this incident and kaisu-ly stand at the exit door next time when she wants to alight
Another highlight of the day is regarding my China friend, Zhi Teng. He has applied for a Facebook account today. Sounds impossible right that he will actually have one? Well, he applied for it because he got hooked onto the Bowling Buddies game. He saw me playing it and I let him try it on my lappie and he was addicted to it
Then, when he first entered Facebook, he started searching for games to play. To him, Facebook is more of a gaming site than a social networking site. He was also obsessed with Pet Society which is one of my favourites too. He kept on playing the racing game at the stadium and we laughed like crazy together. Judging from the way he plays, he will have a bright future in Pet Society. Zhi Teng made me rediscover the pure fun of using the dull and mundane Facebook which I perceive nowadays
This is my pet, Xiao Mei Mei, at home
Sometimes, it is the rookies that show us, old birds, the basic joy of something. I read an article in my paper yesterday about this thing. The writer said that his mother watched football with him and asked why must teams have different formations like 4-4-2, 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 etc. She thinks that all teams should have a single standard formation and the real quality of the team should lie in the players themselves, that should be fundamental of football
I will beat Zhi Teng in the pet race
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Piracy
I ate a very filling lunch which consisted of chicken rice with an egg, soup, two paos, one is lotus one is yam, and a whole cup of watermelon juice. This combination is definitely better than the Mega Mac from Mcdonald's, more filling and less costly.
Needless to say, those food which I gobbled up hypnotized me into a sleep mode during class. Well, this is not my first time like this and I managed to control myself. During Web Publishing lesson, I was installing the adobe photoshop on my lappie when it blue-screened and I was too lazy to switch the stupid acer computer on again. So I shall do it at home and hope it does not crash again
After class while walking out of school, I discussed with Zhi Teng about piracy in Singapore and China. He mentioned that China is more famous(infamous)for computer related stuff and I said that Singapore is better in VCDs. It's a tie, both countries are equally efficient in this
So we talked about how to solve this problem and I suggested that companies like adobe do not charge people so much for their software. The main reason why humans like you and family go for piracy is because of the original article's price. I told him that it is just like selling food in hawker centres. Which one will you choose, a $2 fishball noodle or a $3 one if you have yet to taste either before? The same idea can be applied to software, companies are just trying to earn as much money as they can from those good citizens who are willing to spend a lot than get pirated copies
In the end, we both agreed to one thing. Piracy will not dissappear because of society and the mentality people have
Monday, January 12, 2009
Man U 3:0 Chelsea
So I had predicted wrongly, Manchester United thrashed Chelsea 3:0. Actually, I did not predict wrongly in a whole, at least I mentioned that United will score in the first half but did not expect the Blues to be so disappointing. Now, if the red Devils win the two games they have yet to play, they will go on top of Liverpool and become first
Anyway, while I was starting to play the virtual Man U vs Chelsea on my laptop during lunchtime today, there was this man who tripped over my wire and the laptop blacked out. At first he said sorry to Nas as he was closer to where he tripped, I turned and took a look but did not bother. Upon turning my head back to the monitor and to my horror, the screen is all black and the power signal is off. I had been setting the formation and adjusting the position of players for some time and that man just ended everything with one leg
By then, he had already left and I can only switch my lappie on again and wait for it to load. Nas said that idiot could have walked on the other side of our bench where there is nothing blocking him let alone wires. This is the third time my computer got switched off by accident. The first two unlucky times were done by Nas. He switched off my computer when he wanted to switch his off instead since all our plugs were together and he got confused
That's all for today, bye
Anyway, while I was starting to play the virtual Man U vs Chelsea on my laptop during lunchtime today, there was this man who tripped over my wire and the laptop blacked out. At first he said sorry to Nas as he was closer to where he tripped, I turned and took a look but did not bother. Upon turning my head back to the monitor and to my horror, the screen is all black and the power signal is off. I had been setting the formation and adjusting the position of players for some time and that man just ended everything with one leg
By then, he had already left and I can only switch my lappie on again and wait for it to load. Nas said that idiot could have walked on the other side of our bench where there is nothing blocking him let alone wires. This is the third time my computer got switched off by accident. The first two unlucky times were done by Nas. He switched off my computer when he wanted to switch his off instead since all our plugs were together and he got confused
That's all for today, bye
Sunday, January 11, 2009
War between man and insects
While I was reading the book Strange Tales of LiaoZhai during noon yesterday, I came across this paragraph which I found it quite interesting so I shall share it with you all
"From time immemorial, the war between man and insects continued endlessly, mankind suffers from the harassment of the insects, yet has no solution for it. Hence they could only send out the small eagles, small hounds and tiny soldiers and kill the insects with their imagination"
Do you understand it? Maybe you need to read the story to comprehend better
"From time immemorial, the war between man and insects continued endlessly, mankind suffers from the harassment of the insects, yet has no solution for it. Hence they could only send out the small eagles, small hounds and tiny soldiers and kill the insects with their imagination"
Do you understand it? Maybe you need to read the story to comprehend better
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Man U vs Chelsea
This week's Premier League blockbuster, Manchester United takes on Chelsea at Old Trafford. My prediction is that Man U will draw Chelsea on the 1X2. A quick check at the Singapore Pools website at 10am show that odds are at a relatively high $2.90. Actually, the price has dropped, if you had placed a bet on draw yesterday, it was still at $3. So if you trust my prediction, bet it as ASAP in case the price continue to plunge like the bloody hell STI index during yesterday afternoon
The Blues managed to secure a draw the last time both teams met in the league at Stamford Bridge so it will not be surprising if both sides end the game with a stalemate, again. United are the favourites since they have won their past seven Premier League matches at home. With all the good things about the Red Devils, it might be immense pressure on them and this will do Chelsea a favour
Both teams are desperate to close on the gap with Liverpool who sit at the top of the table. Both sides should attack from the start and their midfields will cancel each other out in the centre. Then, it will be a battle by the touchlines where the wing players will be relied heavily to provide ammunition. It is also going to be interesting to see Cristiano Ronaldo and Ashley Cole against each other again
In a whole, I predict a 1-1 draw. Man U will score first and it is during the first half before Chelsea equalize after the break. The home-draw bet at $13 looks attractive but I rather you not take the risk in case United do not score in the first half. Total goals of 2 is also considerable as the payout is at a high of $3.30. By the way, Jose Mourinho will be at Old Trafford tomorrow to watch his old team play as he prepares his Inter Milan for the Champions League clash with Man U in February
The Blues managed to secure a draw the last time both teams met in the league at Stamford Bridge so it will not be surprising if both sides end the game with a stalemate, again. United are the favourites since they have won their past seven Premier League matches at home. With all the good things about the Red Devils, it might be immense pressure on them and this will do Chelsea a favour
Both teams are desperate to close on the gap with Liverpool who sit at the top of the table. Both sides should attack from the start and their midfields will cancel each other out in the centre. Then, it will be a battle by the touchlines where the wing players will be relied heavily to provide ammunition. It is also going to be interesting to see Cristiano Ronaldo and Ashley Cole against each other again
In a whole, I predict a 1-1 draw. Man U will score first and it is during the first half before Chelsea equalize after the break. The home-draw bet at $13 looks attractive but I rather you not take the risk in case United do not score in the first half. Total goals of 2 is also considerable as the payout is at a high of $3.30. By the way, Jose Mourinho will be at Old Trafford tomorrow to watch his old team play as he prepares his Inter Milan for the Champions League clash with Man U in February
Friday, January 09, 2009
Merging ministries
Due to the global financial firestorm, the government has decided to come up with a new plan to cope with it. It is to merge ministries together like how they merge SMC into GRC. RealBlurPolitics® speak to Mr Angkat Bola, a spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office to understand better. Mr Angkat said that the government will combine at least two ministries together to form a new one. He mentioned that the move will save costs, provide greater interaction among civil servants and create racial harmony
Here is a rough overview of how it will look like according to Mr Angkat
The Defence ministry and Home Affairs ministry will become one and it will be renamed Safety ministry. Our country has been renowned for having a wonderful defence force. By making both ministries work together, we will have a strong defence force in, out and around our nation. Also, the defence side will be keeping a close eye on the Home Affairs side to make sure that silly incidents do not happen again, like letting a short and limping terrorist escape from a grilleless toilet window
Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts will also merge into a single one called Fun ministry. These two ministries deal with less crucial things in the country like counselling youngsters, making the country become world-famous for holding the first F1 night race, watching movies before the public do and cut scenes wherever they want, promoting arts to the people here who are more interested in doing something more useful instead etc
The ministries of National Development, Manpower and Trade and Industry will combine to become the Labour ministry. These three are the more rigorous ones and making them work closely will boost the economy. JTC Corporation, together with National Parks Board and Housing Development Board will sweat together to create more homes and parks in the western part of the country. Due to multifariousness issues, a Malay minister is needed speak up in parliament and watch the Chinese closely
Health, Law, Education, Transport and Finance ministries will all become one family as they are the ones who grab the headlines more often. Hence, the new name will be leading actor, oops I mean leading ministry. Civil servants working in statutory boards under this ministry will receive bonuses first before their counterparts from others and are the least possible people to get retrenched
The ministry of the Environment and Water Resources will team up with PMO to work together to achieve the goals they setted. Actually, it is more like the story of DBS and POSB where the latter gets "eaten up" but still operates with the former pulling the strings daily since the only significant thing MEWR came up with was NEWater. Those hybrid cars or whatever you call it costs a bomb and only our ministers with thick salaries can afford buying one
Foreign Affairs ministry will remain as it is since it maintains diplomatic relations with 165 other countries. Having another ministry to chup will only complicate matters. Furthermore, there are 55 resident foreign Embassies and High Commissions, 39 foreign Consular posts and 8 International Organisations here, so it will take a long time for them to adapt to a newcomer
Here is a rough overview of how it will look like according to Mr Angkat
The Defence ministry and Home Affairs ministry will become one and it will be renamed Safety ministry. Our country has been renowned for having a wonderful defence force. By making both ministries work together, we will have a strong defence force in, out and around our nation. Also, the defence side will be keeping a close eye on the Home Affairs side to make sure that silly incidents do not happen again, like letting a short and limping terrorist escape from a grilleless toilet window
Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts will also merge into a single one called Fun ministry. These two ministries deal with less crucial things in the country like counselling youngsters, making the country become world-famous for holding the first F1 night race, watching movies before the public do and cut scenes wherever they want, promoting arts to the people here who are more interested in doing something more useful instead etc
The ministries of National Development, Manpower and Trade and Industry will combine to become the Labour ministry. These three are the more rigorous ones and making them work closely will boost the economy. JTC Corporation, together with National Parks Board and Housing Development Board will sweat together to create more homes and parks in the western part of the country. Due to multifariousness issues, a Malay minister is needed speak up in parliament and watch the Chinese closely
Health, Law, Education, Transport and Finance ministries will all become one family as they are the ones who grab the headlines more often. Hence, the new name will be leading actor, oops I mean leading ministry. Civil servants working in statutory boards under this ministry will receive bonuses first before their counterparts from others and are the least possible people to get retrenched
The ministry of the Environment and Water Resources will team up with PMO to work together to achieve the goals they setted. Actually, it is more like the story of DBS and POSB where the latter gets "eaten up" but still operates with the former pulling the strings daily since the only significant thing MEWR came up with was NEWater. Those hybrid cars or whatever you call it costs a bomb and only our ministers with thick salaries can afford buying one
Foreign Affairs ministry will remain as it is since it maintains diplomatic relations with 165 other countries. Having another ministry to chup will only complicate matters. Furthermore, there are 55 resident foreign Embassies and High Commissions, 39 foreign Consular posts and 8 International Organisations here, so it will take a long time for them to adapt to a newcomer
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Earliest record I arrived in school
I reached school at 7.40am today. It is the earliest record ever thanks to the Oral Communication presentation. When I was in the toilet with Nas and Zhi Teng before going to class, we decided not to tuck in our shirts as the cutting was those tucked out kind. Zhi Teng's one looks like the tuck in kind but he didn't care too and the shirt looks a little too big for him, making him look like he is wearing a trenchcoat, those worn by British soldiers in World War 1
The three of us discussed the presentation last night on MSN and this the screenshot of Zhi Teng and I doing a video conference
and that is my feet "talking" to him
The bloody lecturer was late himself, he said he will be in the classroom by 7.50 to let us prepare but he arrived at 8 I think. Then the three of us stood outside the class like idiots perspiring in our long sleeve shirts. After the lecturer came, we prepared a little and took the advantage to quickly start our presentation as only a few people had arrived. Overall, I think we fared well and Zhi Teng spoke much better today. Actually we wanted to show a video at the end but did not do so in the end because of some problem but I shall show you all here what is it about
Then at Maths, the old witch continued her differentiation and all the dy over dx thingy. At Data Comm, we drew graphs which the lecturer said we have to memorize. I took some photos in class
Oi Jerry, sit down lah! Don't kaypoh other people!
Zhi Teng forever playing his handphone no matter where he is
And this is the photo of the day, taken in Character Developement class
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The three of us discussed the presentation last night on MSN and this the screenshot of Zhi Teng and I doing a video conference
and that is my feet "talking" to him
The bloody lecturer was late himself, he said he will be in the classroom by 7.50 to let us prepare but he arrived at 8 I think. Then the three of us stood outside the class like idiots perspiring in our long sleeve shirts. After the lecturer came, we prepared a little and took the advantage to quickly start our presentation as only a few people had arrived. Overall, I think we fared well and Zhi Teng spoke much better today. Actually we wanted to show a video at the end but did not do so in the end because of some problem but I shall show you all here what is it about
Then at Maths, the old witch continued her differentiation and all the dy over dx thingy. At Data Comm, we drew graphs which the lecturer said we have to memorize. I took some photos in class
Oi Jerry, sit down lah! Don't kaypoh other people!
Zhi Teng forever playing his handphone no matter where he is
And this is the photo of the day, taken in Character Developement class
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FAT ARM!!! Yes, that's my lecturer
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
I had a nightmare
Last night, I had a nightmare. It was about the presentation during Oral Communication on Thursday. My group was the first to present but both Zhi Teng and I were late. When we arrived there, Nas looked annoyed as he was waiting for us. Th audience had also arrived before us and had already settle down. This is part 1.
Part 2 is Zhi Teng's attire. He came in a T-shirt with jeans instead of the office kind of attire. Nas was getting more angry by then and Zhi Teng didn't seem to bother at all. Then we started presenting, Nas and I forgotten our lines and did not know what to do halfway but luckily Zhi Teng saved us. But he himself did not fare better as well, he kept on reading from the computer and did not look at the audience at all. This is part 3
When we finished our presentation, the lecturer asked why were we so "below standard"? Still irritated by our punctuality and Zhi teng's attire, Nas threw a chair at the lecturer and stomped out of the class. I think someone went to chase after him and I could not remember what happened after that
I will have to reach school before 8am tomorrow as my group is really the first to present, but being first has it's advantage as well, which is you can quickly get over with it as soon as possible
Part 2 is Zhi Teng's attire. He came in a T-shirt with jeans instead of the office kind of attire. Nas was getting more angry by then and Zhi Teng didn't seem to bother at all. Then we started presenting, Nas and I forgotten our lines and did not know what to do halfway but luckily Zhi Teng saved us. But he himself did not fare better as well, he kept on reading from the computer and did not look at the audience at all. This is part 3
When we finished our presentation, the lecturer asked why were we so "below standard"? Still irritated by our punctuality and Zhi teng's attire, Nas threw a chair at the lecturer and stomped out of the class. I think someone went to chase after him and I could not remember what happened after that
I will have to reach school before 8am tomorrow as my group is really the first to present, but being first has it's advantage as well, which is you can quickly get over with it as soon as possible
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
6 January
Today morning went for GEM lesson on psychology, only one-third of the class arrived when I reached and I only know two people there. One was my classmate, Nicholas while the other was Stanley from DIT. I sat at my usual place right at the back in a corner. Then feeling bored listening to the old female lecturer talking, I moved over to crap with Stanley, then we crap, crap, crap and the lecturer also crap, crap, crap. I was wondering where was Nas, he should have been in class by then given his punctuality everyday. Then finally at 8.30, my classmates all came and I reluctantly moved back to my usual place to pave way for the others to sit but only one person came to sit in my row. Then I called Nas and he said he will come later, betrayer
During some part of the lesson, we were asked to write down things we fear, so these are some which I penned down. Fear of no money, fear of white tigers in the zoo, fear of getting trapped in the Singapore Flyer, fear of going under an ERP gantry, fear of cockroaches and many more
Then went for Maths and that old witch talked about differentiation and the class was spooking quiet like a cemetery, so I tried to create some noise together with Nas and we sort of succeeded by making everyone awake. Next was computer hardware and nothing interesting happened. Just that when I first entered class and sat down for ten seconds, Teo Shin Jen who is the lecturer requested me to change the name I linked him on my blog to his blog address instead of his name. Yes, i did what he wanted as he said he wants to remain mysterious but I am going to tell you all now anyway. So there's no secret at all
At lunch, I asked Zhi Teng to buy the indian chicken fried rice for me. The thing looks red and I don't remember eating a single shred of chicken at all. We discussed about our Oral Communication project which is giving us lots of headache from the topic we want to choose to the powerpoint slides to the clothes we have to wear on Thursday. Suddenly, the girl from the bench beside ours came over and asked if she can borrow our computer. At first, it seems that she was asking me as she looked at me first(maybe because I'm so charming)but turned to Zhi Teng when she finished talking
So Zhi Teng entertained her and she brought her laptop over to our bench and sat with us beside Zhi Teng. Nas and I were sitting in the opposite side so we did not manage to see what they were doing so happily. After a while she left, looking quite satisfied but she left a book behind. It was about skyscrapers and all those building stuff. As she did not came back to take the book, we decided to return it to the library on her behalf
By the way, I am the one who suggested to return it to the library, don't you think I am such a kind and caring person?
During some part of the lesson, we were asked to write down things we fear, so these are some which I penned down. Fear of no money, fear of white tigers in the zoo, fear of getting trapped in the Singapore Flyer, fear of going under an ERP gantry, fear of cockroaches and many more
Then went for Maths and that old witch talked about differentiation and the class was spooking quiet like a cemetery, so I tried to create some noise together with Nas and we sort of succeeded by making everyone awake. Next was computer hardware and nothing interesting happened. Just that when I first entered class and sat down for ten seconds, Teo Shin Jen who is the lecturer requested me to change the name I linked him on my blog to his blog address instead of his name. Yes, i did what he wanted as he said he wants to remain mysterious but I am going to tell you all now anyway. So there's no secret at all
At lunch, I asked Zhi Teng to buy the indian chicken fried rice for me. The thing looks red and I don't remember eating a single shred of chicken at all. We discussed about our Oral Communication project which is giving us lots of headache from the topic we want to choose to the powerpoint slides to the clothes we have to wear on Thursday. Suddenly, the girl from the bench beside ours came over and asked if she can borrow our computer. At first, it seems that she was asking me as she looked at me first(maybe because I'm so charming)but turned to Zhi Teng when she finished talking
So Zhi Teng entertained her and she brought her laptop over to our bench and sat with us beside Zhi Teng. Nas and I were sitting in the opposite side so we did not manage to see what they were doing so happily. After a while she left, looking quite satisfied but she left a book behind. It was about skyscrapers and all those building stuff. As she did not came back to take the book, we decided to return it to the library on her behalf
By the way, I am the one who suggested to return it to the library, don't you think I am such a kind and caring person?
Monday, January 05, 2009
TLN finale
The Little Nyonya is coming to an end tonight. The final two episodes will be aired back to back from 8pm to 10pm. But I already know the ending and I shall tell you all, Yueniang and Chen Xi will not be together happily ever after. Yueniang will marry that ang moh lawyer called Paul while Chen Xi and Libby will tie the knot and have 6 children. It is a tragic yet happy ending for the show and viewers will surely be disappointed. The scriptwriter was really wicked to have made the story like this. Maybe in this way, people will remember this drama better and miss it more
Let's see if we will have post drama syndromes on Tuesday
Let's see if we will have post drama syndromes on Tuesday
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Saturday, January 03, 2009
First day of school
Yesterday, while I was walking in Clementi, I noticed something which I have not seen for at least the past four weeks. Yes, it is students wearing school uniforms and white shoes, carrying their bags and books, either alone or in a noisy group. Speaking about wearing school uniforms and white shoes, the last time I did it was during my literature examination during the 2007 O levels. I wore an office like attire to collect my O level results instead of our white or yellow uniform which most people wore on that day and my shoes were black. While walking into the hall, I met York Seng and he even commented about my attire and stared at those Converse sneakers which paled in comparison to his ordinary white shoes
Ok, back to the topic on what I saw on the streets. Yesterday was the first day of school for kindergarten, primary and secondary school pupils. Most parents of primary one students would take leave and stand outside(or inside)the school to take a peek at their little boy or girl if they are safe and sound. Primary six students will be preparing for their PSLE which decides their fate of which secondary school hall they will be sitting in with strangers exactly one year later. Secondary one students will find themselves in an awkward position as they have become the smallest in the school after being the eldest in primary school last year. Secondary three male students would also feel awkward as they are wearing long pants after two years of shorts. Secondary four students start to see both darkness and light as their dreaded O levels and exciting prom nights await at the end of the year
Exactly five years ago, I was playing this stupid pirate's game in the classroom with strangers or should I say new classmates? It was interesting and fun though I did not win it eventually. I remember Wai Yuen was the first one out of the game and he had to sing the pirate's song in front of thirty-nine classmates plus our form teacher, Pek Aik Soon(I prefer calling teachers by their full names). "Oh way oh way it's a pirate's life" I still recall it and you have to sing with your arm moving in one direction. Nick was one of the first few friends I made because he is just before me in the class list so we were always sort of together when we had to stand in a row
Two years later when we were all in long pants and still look so charming, we got to know more people who were our new classmates. Nick, Wai Yuen, Jian Nan and I were all together in the same class again and that is where I got to know Teck Cheong, Aarti, Jason etc. York Seng also became my new classmate but we have already known each other in NCC since sec one. Then we had a useless form teacher in Lindy Goh who only knows how to give reminders to students who are misbehaving in class. Three reminders and your parent will be called, correct me if I'm wrong Wai Yuen, Nick, Teck Cheong. I would like to elaborate more on sec three
We had the worst bunch of teachers in secondary three
Our physics teacher, Tan Puay Eng who is also the discipline master is a time bomb. He can give detentions anytime he wants to anybody in class. There was once when I answered a question wrongly on the whiteboard and then like that also kena detention. Our other science teacher, Anglie Ng who teaches chemistry is a mad dog. She can scream (or bark)like a mentally unsound person. You would be really suay if she is your neighbour. To top it all, there was our literature teacher, Jane Chng. Another champion in screaming but a little more humane than Anglie Ng. Until now, I still cannot understand how did she become the school's contemporary dance teacher with her big figure. Notice that I use the word "big" to sound more polite
When it was secondary four two years ago, we were all too familiar with one another and the school surroundings. Everything started to get boring although some teachers have changed especially our form teacher which everybody would certainly give a thumbs up. Our maths teacher, Portia Tan, told us that Lindy Goh was too tired to manage us. It is said that our class is famous in school for having the worst discipline and top in everything that is bad
That's the end of my long winded story which is only a small quarter of my secondary school life. I will write more next time when I have time
Ok, back to the topic on what I saw on the streets. Yesterday was the first day of school for kindergarten, primary and secondary school pupils. Most parents of primary one students would take leave and stand outside(or inside)the school to take a peek at their little boy or girl if they are safe and sound. Primary six students will be preparing for their PSLE which decides their fate of which secondary school hall they will be sitting in with strangers exactly one year later. Secondary one students will find themselves in an awkward position as they have become the smallest in the school after being the eldest in primary school last year. Secondary three male students would also feel awkward as they are wearing long pants after two years of shorts. Secondary four students start to see both darkness and light as their dreaded O levels and exciting prom nights await at the end of the year
Exactly five years ago, I was playing this stupid pirate's game in the classroom with strangers or should I say new classmates? It was interesting and fun though I did not win it eventually. I remember Wai Yuen was the first one out of the game and he had to sing the pirate's song in front of thirty-nine classmates plus our form teacher, Pek Aik Soon(I prefer calling teachers by their full names). "Oh way oh way it's a pirate's life" I still recall it and you have to sing with your arm moving in one direction. Nick was one of the first few friends I made because he is just before me in the class list so we were always sort of together when we had to stand in a row
Two years later when we were all in long pants and still look so charming, we got to know more people who were our new classmates. Nick, Wai Yuen, Jian Nan and I were all together in the same class again and that is where I got to know Teck Cheong, Aarti, Jason etc. York Seng also became my new classmate but we have already known each other in NCC since sec one. Then we had a useless form teacher in Lindy Goh who only knows how to give reminders to students who are misbehaving in class. Three reminders and your parent will be called, correct me if I'm wrong Wai Yuen, Nick, Teck Cheong. I would like to elaborate more on sec three
We had the worst bunch of teachers in secondary three
Our physics teacher, Tan Puay Eng who is also the discipline master is a time bomb. He can give detentions anytime he wants to anybody in class. There was once when I answered a question wrongly on the whiteboard and then like that also kena detention. Our other science teacher, Anglie Ng who teaches chemistry is a mad dog. She can scream (or bark)like a mentally unsound person. You would be really suay if she is your neighbour. To top it all, there was our literature teacher, Jane Chng. Another champion in screaming but a little more humane than Anglie Ng. Until now, I still cannot understand how did she become the school's contemporary dance teacher with her big figure. Notice that I use the word "big" to sound more polite
When it was secondary four two years ago, we were all too familiar with one another and the school surroundings. Everything started to get boring although some teachers have changed especially our form teacher which everybody would certainly give a thumbs up. Our maths teacher, Portia Tan, told us that Lindy Goh was too tired to manage us. It is said that our class is famous in school for having the worst discipline and top in everything that is bad
That's the end of my long winded story which is only a small quarter of my secondary school life. I will write more next time when I have time
Friday, January 02, 2009
New year resolutions
RealBlurPolitics®: Ever wondered how a politician's new year resolution look like? Read on to find out
PM
I hope I can have a pay raise this year but I must think of some ways to earn those money from the citizens first. Maybe I should increase property prices to absorb more money. Then retrench some civil servants to prove to people that those working for the government do not have metal rice bowls. Isn't that killing two birds with one stone?
Home Affairs minister
My wish is very direct and it is to hope that Mas Selamat will be caught or I might get sacked. I also wish that my little people will not let me down anymore and let criminals escape so easily. I want all windows in government buildings to have grilles. Lastly, I want to grow taller
Education minister
As the economy is rather bad now, I wish that all schools can cut down on costs involving less crucial things like student welfare and plan more activities which will make students pay more. As for the new seven thousand five hundred teachers which we will be hiring this year, I hope they can all agree to settle for a lower pay where we will tell a white lie saying that as they have little or no experience, so that is their starting pay which is rather little
Foreign Affairs minister
I want to change my position as foreign affairs minister, flying around the world every now and then has made me lose quite a lot of hair. I wish I was Information, Communications and the Arts minister. Look at that skinny guy, his hair is still intact even though he's over sixty which means that job should be easier and I heard he is stepping down this year, so here's my chance
Transport minister
I wish those poly students would stop complaining about their high transport fares. Maybe I should discuss with my colleagues from other ministries to offer them some perks that will silence them for the time being. Something should also be done to solve the ERP problem, never mind, I think I'll leave that to next year when more money is collected
Thaksin Shinawatra
When can I ever return to the land of a thousand smiles? I miss drinking my tom yam soup and watching muay thai on TV, the King is ignoring me forever. In the meantime, let me do some football club shopping, which EPL club should I buy next? With the experience at Manchester City, I think I can buy a better one now
Barack Obama
Everyone is saying I am thin or whatever. I hope to train those skinny legs of mine to be more muscular so that Arnold Schwarzenegger will not laugh at me again. I hope to hire a couple of bodyguards who are good at catching shoes, in case the same thing which happened to Bush happen to me
Chen Shui Bian
I am innocent. Can somebody believe me? Those ingrates, when I was president they bootlicked me, now I am a nobody, they want me arrested. Where is justice and fairness in this world?
Abdullah Badawi
Let me pray that Uncle Mahathir will reduce the number of criticism he has on me. Anyway, I am going to hand over to Brother Najib in March although I am sort of forced to do so. Just three more months to freedom, I can endure it, yes I can
Anwar Ibrahim
My Pakatan Rakyat will go all out to defeat the Barisan Nasional and I am going to be PM to see Mahathir off to jail and make sure he suffer a worse fate than me. People are starting not to believe me after I did not do what I said last year so I am going to gain back their trust
PM
I hope I can have a pay raise this year but I must think of some ways to earn those money from the citizens first. Maybe I should increase property prices to absorb more money. Then retrench some civil servants to prove to people that those working for the government do not have metal rice bowls. Isn't that killing two birds with one stone?
Home Affairs minister
My wish is very direct and it is to hope that Mas Selamat will be caught or I might get sacked. I also wish that my little people will not let me down anymore and let criminals escape so easily. I want all windows in government buildings to have grilles. Lastly, I want to grow taller
Education minister
As the economy is rather bad now, I wish that all schools can cut down on costs involving less crucial things like student welfare and plan more activities which will make students pay more. As for the new seven thousand five hundred teachers which we will be hiring this year, I hope they can all agree to settle for a lower pay where we will tell a white lie saying that as they have little or no experience, so that is their starting pay which is rather little
Foreign Affairs minister
I want to change my position as foreign affairs minister, flying around the world every now and then has made me lose quite a lot of hair. I wish I was Information, Communications and the Arts minister. Look at that skinny guy, his hair is still intact even though he's over sixty which means that job should be easier and I heard he is stepping down this year, so here's my chance
Transport minister
I wish those poly students would stop complaining about their high transport fares. Maybe I should discuss with my colleagues from other ministries to offer them some perks that will silence them for the time being. Something should also be done to solve the ERP problem, never mind, I think I'll leave that to next year when more money is collected
Thaksin Shinawatra
When can I ever return to the land of a thousand smiles? I miss drinking my tom yam soup and watching muay thai on TV, the King is ignoring me forever. In the meantime, let me do some football club shopping, which EPL club should I buy next? With the experience at Manchester City, I think I can buy a better one now
Barack Obama
Everyone is saying I am thin or whatever. I hope to train those skinny legs of mine to be more muscular so that Arnold Schwarzenegger will not laugh at me again. I hope to hire a couple of bodyguards who are good at catching shoes, in case the same thing which happened to Bush happen to me
Chen Shui Bian
I am innocent. Can somebody believe me? Those ingrates, when I was president they bootlicked me, now I am a nobody, they want me arrested. Where is justice and fairness in this world?
Abdullah Badawi
Let me pray that Uncle Mahathir will reduce the number of criticism he has on me. Anyway, I am going to hand over to Brother Najib in March although I am sort of forced to do so. Just three more months to freedom, I can endure it, yes I can
Anwar Ibrahim
My Pakatan Rakyat will go all out to defeat the Barisan Nasional and I am going to be PM to see Mahathir off to jail and make sure he suffer a worse fate than me. People are starting not to believe me after I did not do what I said last year so I am going to gain back their trust
Thursday, January 01, 2009
First day of 2009
Today is the first day of 2009 although some other parts of the world are still in 2008. Although I am typing now, there is de facto nothing interesting to talk about. Perhaps I'll have some pictures here to fill up the space
People walking past a Shi'ite shrine in Baghdad's Karrada District. In 2008, life in many parts of Iraq regained a sense of tranquility.
Bikers in a race at the 2008 Beijing Olympics at Tiananmen Square
In the centre, this is one my favs. Obama and Co. going to a victory speech in June last year after he became his party's presidential candidate
You have to be a good goalkeeper(shoekeeper)to be his bodyguard
This bird is rebellious, maybe a problematic adolescent
Divine picture of nature
Random photo. I took this at the 11th floor of my block where there is lift upgrading
People walking past a Shi'ite shrine in Baghdad's Karrada District. In 2008, life in many parts of Iraq regained a sense of tranquility.
Bikers in a race at the 2008 Beijing Olympics at Tiananmen Square
In the centre, this is one my favs. Obama and Co. going to a victory speech in June last year after he became his party's presidential candidate
You have to be a good goalkeeper(shoekeeper)to be his bodyguard
This bird is rebellious, maybe a problematic adolescent
Divine picture of nature
Random photo. I took this at the 11th floor of my block where there is lift upgrading
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