Aidos

I had a few quarrels with friends and blogders over some of my entries.

Long story.
but friends are more important than personal glorification.

Suffice to say, I decided to close this blog for good.
It has been nice writing here.

Godspeed.

Celebrity as it is.

After reading about the posts about celebrities in shelly and sheena's postings.

I feel that celebrites (in general, not referring specifically to xiaxue) are having to defend countlessly numerous actions that we guys do daily.

A normal blogger kaopeh-ing complaining a cab-snatcher is just doing what we humans do all the time.
whine whine whine.

but if a celebrity does it, woes to her for 'abusing' her power and demanding her way.
i seen it in movie stars. i seen it in local celebrities.

and now we have blog celebrity 'abusing' his/her status.


You see, because she's a celebrity, her normal daily activities that we normal people take for granted are scrutinised.

she was just complaining about some cab-snatcher, who fired the 1st shot at attacking her in some forums.
but it overblew, coz of her status.

and about her asking for her friend's blog address to be returned, she's just doing what most females would do for their girlfriends.
helping out, the best way she can.

it would have been fine if any other girl did it on her blog.
but coz its celebrity xiaxue, you get 1,000 feedbacks.


this reminds me of a quote from neofik spiderman:

"With great power comes great responsibilty"

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For that split second, I really thought THIS is a video game.
How cool.

I think the next time, we may have a sim game about suffering and dealing with AIDS or something like tat.

just a suggestion.......

Love is in the Air

UPDATED! Now, EVERYONE can watch this romantic episode here.
Scroll to the 57th minute!
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Got this from Agagooga.

Some kind of a romantic declaration of love....

Only NUS students and staff are allowed to view this love drama, so Agagooga narrated the whole incidence for the benefits of non-NUS readers.
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Lecturer: Okay, the next example, I think we will do it after the break. Alright, but before you go for your break, the surprise is not here yet, alright, so let me do something first.

Lecturer: Okay, what happen is that there's a guy... who liked a girl very much. And this girl, is in this class. *stirrings from audience*

Lecturer: Okay, but she doesn't know about it. *laughs from audience and chuckles from lecturer* So it can be any, any one of you alright. Okay, don't, don't be too worried. The guy is not me. *riotous laughter from audience*

Lecturer: Okay, this guy is quite shy, so he want me to show this Powerpoint to the girl. *flashes Powerpoint slide* Where is ***? Maybe he's too shy to come out. Ah, okay anyway actually the guy is not that shy after all. He's going to, he's going to come out and present a prower (Ed: flower) to the girl. *cheers and claps from audience*

*guy gives flowers and audience claps*

Lecturer: Okay, you should go for your break. Leave them alone. *laughs from audience*
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NUS students and staff, you can view the drama here. (at the 57th minute)

who said Singaporeans are not romantic?

Go out and romance your bf/gf now! Being engineer nerd is no excuse!
he/she deserves an extra kiss today.

the PAP would be so proud of you. (did i just ruin the atmosphere or wad...)

And so the rush is there.

They have B.C. (Before Christ) [meaning before birth of jesus christ]

They have A.D. (Anno Domini) [Latin for "in the year of Our Lord"]



I have A.T. (After Thesis)

Oh boy, so looking forward to it.

The thing I learnt from anti-AIDS campaigns

Regulation Pays Off

Many have pointed their fingers at Geylang Road, where there is a health-regulated sex industry. But the incidence of HIV among sex workers in the regulated sex trade in the years 2003 and 2004 was zero

Speech by Dr Balaji Sadasivan, Senior Minister of State for Health & Information, Communication and the Arts. (extracted from Straits Times, March 29' 2005)


NABEI, how come Minster for so many things, did the minstries merge or acquire one another or wad? Cost cutting is it?
Synergies from merging operations in HEALTH and ARTS is it? Got link meh?


Yup, synergy is my favourite word currently, no thanks to thesis 2005.
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There is this current bus-stop poster and she is hot!

The model wearing a sexy lingerie and looking deeply, and intellectually (really! I swear) at you. ( i will post picture next week, AT [after thesis])

And oh boy, I have been driving past a particular bus stop, and for ages, I have been, ahem, forced to slow down during this stretch.
Wondering what ad it is....until I, ahem, decided to do advance research on it.

"想跟我上床" she whispers.......(then a whole paragraph about AIDS stuff)

Anti-AIDS poster.


Damn ironic, if you ask me.
if the geylang chicks are that pretty, i'd be the first to go.


oooooooonnnnly kidding.
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I have been hearing this for a while. Its safer to visit the regulated chicks in geylang (those in the regulated brothels, not the china streetwalkers) than to have one night stand with pick-ups from clubs and discos.

Oh man, zero incidence of HIV in geylang.
this is so surprising.

Not that I'm encouraging anyone to go geylang. i think u can do better things with ur S$50.

Research and Thesis

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
- Wilson Mizner


Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Werner von Braun


Medical Research

A Stanford Medical research group advertised for participants in a study of obsessive-compulsive disorder. They were looking for therapy clients who had been diagnosed with this disorder. The response was gratifying; they got 300 responses the day after the ad came out. All from the same person.

Research Paper Glossary

They Write	They Mean
It has long been known that...	I haven't bothered to look up the original reference
...of great theoretical and practical importance	...interesting to me
While it has not been possible to provide definite answers to these questions.	The experiments didn't work out, but I figured I could at least get a publication out of it.
The W-Pb system was chosen as especially suitable to show the predicted behavior...	The fellow in the next lab had some already made up
High purity... Very high purity... Extremely high purity... Super-purity... Spectroscopically pure...	Composition unknown except for the exaggerated claims of the supplier
A fiducial reference line...	A scratch
Three of the samples were chosen for detailed study...	The results of the others didn't make sense and were ignored..
...handled with extreme care during the experiments	...not dropped on the floor
Typical results are shown...	The best results are shown...
Although some detail has been lost in reproduction, it is clear from the original micrograph that...	It is impossible to tell from the micrograph
Presumably at longer times...	I didn't take the time to find out
The agreement with the predicted curve is excellent	fair
good	poor
satisfactory	doubtful
fair	imaginary
...as good as could be expected	non-existent
These results will be reported at a later date	I might get around to this sometime
The most reliable values are those of Jones	He was a student of mine
It is suggested that... It is believed that... It may be that...	I think...
It is generally believed that....	I have such a good objection to this answer that I shall
It is clear that much additional work will be required before a complete understanding...	I don't understand it
Unfortunately, a quantitative theory to account for these effects has not been formulated	Neither does anybody else
Correct within an order of magnitude	Wrong
It is to be hoped that this work will stimulate further work in the field	This paper isn't very good but neither are any of the others on this miserable subject
Thanks are due to Joe Glotz for assistance with the experiments and to John Doe for valuable discussions.	Glotz did the work and Doe explained what it meant.

Attributed to Gabe Wiener of Columbia University

I used some of the lines above. Excellent.

A little extra information

kAren: who does the laundry at home?

cherub: mum

kAren: ooh. what if your mum goes on a holiday?

cherub: then i'll use what i have

kARen: how many pairs of underwear do you own?

cherub: 7 in all - 3 whites, 2 blues, 1 red, 1 pink

kAren: so what if she goes away for 8 days?

cherub: then i'll flip it over and reuse

kAren: what if she goes away for 15 days?

cherub: then no choice... have to use panty liners.

kAren: eewwwww

Quotes and Tyres

kAren says:
but late work is good and efficient. min effort max result.

bk:
thats the thing about data-collection. you'll find it just when you are least expecting it
miss kong:
isn't that love? thats e whole beauty of love: u find it when u least expect it.

WaRpEd:
I hope ur pc get damaged and u lose ur thesis.
cherub:
i just spilled cold water on my desk and CPU 30mins ago. but i think its safe.
WaRpEd:
it takes a while for the water to seep in
cherub:
don't worry, already emailed my supervisor my draft. sent it to my 3 email accounts.
btw, u're a bastard.

hell. if gmail, hotmail, and NUS webserver all burn down at the same time, i think NUS would forgive me.
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try not to be *that near* the kerb when you're making a right turn.
if u pierce ur tyre, its not so bad. tyre shop can repair the damange for roughly $10.

if u made a tear at the side....

thats a $95 tyre, thank you very much.

Who said the rubber industry is in a recession?
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4 nights hidding in my room.
i think even my mum is stunned, 4 mornings in a row to see me typing at 530am in the morning.
but then again, she probably got used to it some time ago, seeing me MSN-ing typing at the wee hours of the morning.

i love it when i can disguise chatting as work/project discussion. :)
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oh yah, a diet of green tea, instant noodles and Mamee is not good for your health.
Mamee, the golden crunchy noodles that we used to eat it as kids.


ahh....now MAMEE, next week Kaka and Xiao-Ding-Dang chocolate balls. (old pple of my age would understand)

Refining Data

Yes, I have finally started writing the 1st draft of my thesis this morning.

And thats after I learnt that my friends already submitted their drafts.
@#^%#@%#@

That's how ridiculously last minute I am.
14 more days.
how last minute. how exciting. how challenging.
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its not that I'm lazy and refuses to work. okok, i'd admit that I'm lazy, but the main culprit is "procrastination".
I done an essay in JC about "why do people procrastinate". (needless to say, I finished it on the spot) and i remember one of the reason from the numerous readings the GP teacher handed out was....

"quality"

yup, u procrastinate because u want the best.

I think I'm an extreme example.
There was this essay once that I badly wanted to submit 1 day in advance, so that I will have the day off & stay at home rather than in my hostel. So I started doing 2 days in advance.
It was a torture, I spent hours reading and churning out, a ridiculous 1 page introduction.

In the end, on the last night, I threw out the original introduction and done an entire essay in those hours. and a mighty impressive one, i have to boast.

I need the last minute adrenaline. the last minute excitement. the last minute stress.
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nope, i did not see him at the library.


neither did i see Meg there....

there are lots of babes in the library it seems!!
i spent more time at the library in the past few weeks than the entire 4yrs of my NUS life.
and lots & lots of babes.

makes me damn pissed why I haven't been studying much for the past 4 yrs...
purely for research, of course.
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The past few weeks have been spent in libraries, with each day lasting longer and longer. At a certain stretch, its library till 10pm and back to library 9am the next day.

and as much as i hate work......

i am actually enjoying this data-collection task. (either that or the numerous library babes..)

there are instances when I could make do with a particular set of statistics, but something in me bugs me, and i would be running off everywhere (literally) to verify different sources and refine the data.
not mere online research, but lots of offline sourcing (3 main libraries so far).
I would spent an entire morning just to adjust the data such that a more fair comparison can be assessed on the 30 years of data.
spent 2 days just to get some simple statistic correct for a REGRESSION.
and we know how much i absolutely hate regression.

this is so not me.

there is this huge sense of achievement when you managed to overcome the bureaucracies, the different accounting methodology over the years (oh how much i love singapore department of statistics), the different technical terms used by different government departments, even WITHIN in some department (oh how much I love singapore department of statistics) and of course, the super slow response of some organisations (oh how much i love singapore department of statistics; is it me or is this getting too frequent?) or even lack of response.

yes, i almost jumped in joy when i figured out a particular data.

tats how nerd i am.
tats how accomplished my life is.

Library is closing in 1/2 an hour's time

Oh my.

I never though I would ever work in the library till closing time.
but I did it.

twice.

one of them on a Sunday.

#!%$$#!@#, sunday afternoon spent in NUS library.
And I can't believe that when they announced that the library is closing in half-an-hour time....in my mind, I actually went..

"wat? so fast? I still need to do more work...."

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And yes, I have so much books, and oh boy, most of them are super thick.
imagine cherub on a large table meant for 2, with books sprawled all over them.

and yes, even the librarian who was clearing the stacks of books on the shelves came to my table and asked

"are you still using all these books?"

"yes" meek cherub whimpered.

I was so guilty with the large volume of books I had taken, i didn't want the poor librarian to return them for me, so I had to make 3 trips to the bookshelves to return all the books. too bulky to carry at one go.
And no, i didn't make 3 trips coz I'm too weak to carry all of them, thank you very much.

but i do think i need to get some sunshine soon.
on 2nd thoughts, i shld just sit closer to the fluorescent lights next time.


You grow taller with lights. How you think cherub grow so tall?
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Come to think of that, it wasn't just twice that I spent my time till closing time.
tat was only the NUS library.

I spent so much time in the ISEAS (institute of southeast asia studies) library too.

Which I really must hao lian here....

I am a user of ISEAS library!!!

Whats the big deal, you asked.

oh crap, u think wad? national library anyone can walk in ah?
ITS NOT OPEN TO PUBLIC, okay?!!!

I must ask my supervisor to use an offical NUS letterhead, with the proper authority to seek permission for me to use their library for a specific period of time can. :)
somemore i got to use their allocated visitor parking space.
Wah, i have been just promoted to a higher-level nerd!

hey, the nerds academic-inclined professionals using the library are very eh, well dressed can. i usually see the guys wearing jackets and etc, and even got photographer come and take photos for some interviews with this important-looking guy.

the important-looking guy took the hassle of moving a whole stack of unrelated books (i checked, they are all in Bahasa Indonesia) to the table for the photoshot.

Look like ang-mor also know how to wayang.

Funniest Email exchanges ever.

This is so damn funny. I really love corporate jokes. :)
Got this via LinkScan

E-Mail Runs Amok in the UK

Following the gloomy, foggy mornings we've had in the UK recently,
we were regularly getting a couple of e-mails each morning  distributed
to the whole site saying words to the effect of "Blue Ford Registration
W123XYZ lights left on".

This generated the following e-mails, also all distributed to the
entire site. These are all genuine, I have altered them only to remove
any clues as to the company/people involved...


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Ladies and Gentlemen,
whilst it is nice to be informed if you have left your car lights on, it
is not a very productive use of company resources.

A site-wide mail of this type will reach over 500 people/mailboxes, and
apart from clogging the network, adds to the load on the mail server.
Messages like these are currently generating over ten thousand mails per
week, which costs the company thousands of pounds in lost project time,
even if they are deleted straight away by the recipient!

Please can everybody consider their actions before using mail, especially
if sending it to large distribution lists.

Thanks.

Simon (IT)

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Re: car lights
I agree it may be a waste of resources to send such a message
as a site wide mail message.

I have however a proposal:
How about creating a list/index (maybe Excel spreadsheet) of employee
car registration numbers and making it accesible over the network?
With such an index we would be able to target the car owners much
more prcisely.
Human resources already have the relevant information.

 Just an idea

    Arne

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Right, lets sort this out once and for all.

Maplin sell a small kit (about a fiver) which you can install in you car
to buzz when you open the drivers' door with the lights on. It's not that
difficult to install (but depends on how awkward your car is).
It's called a car-lights-on-warning-indicator in the 'car' section of
'Projects and Modules' in the catalogue. Both Maplin and Maplin
Professional Supplies carry the item.

So, all you need is a fiver, some bits of wire, some tools and a
competent installer (possibly your good self).

Jonathan


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Surely the best way to avoid this problem is to turn your lights off
BEFORE LEAVING YOUR CAR.  This way you can avoid an unneccessary walk
back up to the car park in the rain.

However, if you are rather forgetful - like myself - then perhaps you
could tie a piece of string (although fishing line is probably more
durable) to your headlamp switch and to a finger on your right hand.
The pulling on your finger as you leave the car will remind you to turn
your lights off.

Jonnie.

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My, Mail clogging, recommendation is to walk or use public transport.

Regards
David

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Erm...

I was under the impression that most cars had a built in mechanism to
turn their headlights off automatically...

Usually after about 9-10 hours!

Byeee,
Steve.

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Top tip:

Employees: Persuade the County Council to install mirrors
along the length of the walls in the car parking levels. This way when you
park up, you'll notice some bugger dazzling you with their headlights.
When you realise that this is you, this will serve as a useful reminder to
turn off your headlights.

Paul.


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Avoid this problem by never tuning your lights on, instead paint the
bulbs bright yellow so, from a distance, they look as if they are on.
You will also save electricity.


Regards

  Alan ( where the hell's the road gone!!!!!)  G.

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Please note that although these proposals are quite ingenious, in this
instance, it would NOT be appropriate to submit invention reports to
the Patent Department.

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Simply power your lights from a small pedal-driven generator in the
passenger's footwell.  This both cures the problem of leaving lights on,
and also helps the environment by promoting car-pools.

Do I win 5 pounds?

Ian

P.S.  Alternatively, to avoid the problem of wasting people's time and
company resources by sending lots of email, a Bulletin Board area could
be set up for this sort of thing (and other non-urgent announcements,
requests, whatever).

P.P.S.  ...or ...did someone say Usenet News?  No, I didn't think so.
But Lotus Notes is just around the corner (cough) and will probably
provide the same sort of facilities.

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People,

I've got a good idea.  How about removing your car battery and
bringing it into work with you each day.  That way you can
be sure you've not left them on!

  Steve

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If you fit an array of photoelectric cells over your vehicle's
headlights then it does not matter whether you leave them
switched ON or OFF!

Regrds,
Pat

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> People,
>
>  I've got a good idea.  How about removing your car battery and
>  bringing it into work with you each day.  That way you can
>  be sure you've not left them on!
>
>    Steve
>

That is a brilliant idea. Now the next question is how to remind myself
to remove the car battery each day.

:-)

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>Top tip:
>
> Employees: Persuade the County Council to install mirrors
>along the length of the walls in the car parking levels. This way when
>you
>park up, you'll notice some bugger dazzling you with their headlights.
>When you realise that this is you, this will serve as a useful reminder
>to
>turn off your headlights.

>Paul.

Did any bright sparks spot the flaw in my earlier suggestion?

However, not to worry:

In the event that you should park backwards, and a car parked opposite has
a sufficiently matt finish that blocks reflections from your headlights,
simply re-negotiate with the County Council to install additional
angled/curved mirrors on the roof of the car park.

This way you can then check the status of your rear lights from
reflections bounced from the back wall to the roof, which can then be
viewed through your sunroof.
Level 5 and sunroofless cars would be a problem though, any suggestions?

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> > People,
> >
> >  I've got a good idea.  How about removing your car battery and
> >  bringing it into work with you each day.  That way you can
> >  be sure you've not left them on!
> >
> >    Steve
> >
>
> That is a brilliant idea. Now the next question is how to remind myself
> to remove the car battery each day.
>
> :-)
>

That is easy, simply ensure that your car headlights are on
when you leave the car in the morning, then as you walk away from the
car you will notice the lights are on and will be reminded to remove the
battery from the car.

:-)))))))))))))))))))))


Andy

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> > People,
> >
> >  I've got a good idea.  How about removing your car battery and
> >  bringing it into work with you each day.  That way you can
> >  be sure you've not left them on!
> >
> >    Steve
> >
>
> That is a brilliant idea. Now the next question is how to remind myself
> to remove the car battery each day.
>

Easy, if you are rather forgetful - like myself - then perhaps you
could tie a piece of string (although fishing line is probably more
durable) to your car battery and to a finger on your right hand.
The pulling on your finger as you leave the car will remind you to
remove your battery.

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Accidentally leaving car headlights on is only a problem
because it flattens the battery.
I suggest that all those who do not have warning devices
to tell them that their lights are on, re-wire their
ignition switches so that the engine remains running when
the key is removed.

By doing this, the car battery will be automatically topped
up by the alternator, in much the same manner as when the car
is being driven.

Peter
^^^^^

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On the subject of leaving your lights on, I think
I have got the answer.
Simply wire your headlights via the drivers seat
and then by wearing a metallic pair of pants the
act of sitting in the seat will make the connection
and turn on the lights. Thus there is no possibility
of the lights being left on while away from the car.

Be warned however that if you have a sunroof and
if you leave it open on a wet day you could be in trouble.

Barry.

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I think we must get back to the roots here - see Simon's original mail. The
lesson seems to be that in order to avoid using unnecessary bandwidth avoid
sending mails which say "to avoid using unnecessary bandwidth ..."

Could we extend this idea to save the company money?

To avoid ..... etc. etc.

Ideas on a postcard ( to avoid using unecessary bandwidth ).


JM.

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Fellow battery flateners,

You're probably fed up with useful hints on how to avoid leaving your
lights on, but I feel that I have the ultimate suggestion.

1) Ask your line manager to relocate you to a window seat overlooking
the car park

2) Buy a (large) box of spare car light bulbs.

3) Invest in a long range hunting rifle with telescopic sight.

If you accidentally leave your lights on there is no need to return to
the car park, just shoot your headlights out.

Regards

HR

PS If you see any other car's lights on you can shoot those out as well
for practice.


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Ladies and Gents,
in support of the company's values, namely 'Respect for the individual'
it IS acceptable to continue to use the company mail systems for uses such as
informing people if they've left their lights on.

Apologies for any offence that may have been caused, certainly none was
intended!

Happy mailing!

Regards,

Simon

The National Dress

I have just received an email from NUS...

The NUSS President and the NUSS Management Committee cordially invite you to the NUSS 50th Anniversary Lecture to be delivered by Mr Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Singapore on Saturday, 19 March 2005. Details are as follows:

Date : Saturday, 19 March 2005
Time : 8.00pm (To be seated by 7.40pm)
Venue : University Cultural Centre Hall, National University of

Singapore

Dress Code : Shirt & Tie / National Dress (ed: emphasis mine)
Website : http://www.nuss.org.sg/PMLecture.htm

For jupiter's sake, what the hell is "National Dress"?
so we guys are suppposed to come in shirt & tie, and the girls are coming in National Dress.

apple, a teacher in the National Education System revealed,

"The singapore dress is the one that SIA stewardess wear"

I'm definitely going to this lecture, just to see the national dress.
Woot! SIA girls!

let's drill oil

Hi blogders!!

This is a serious request for help (See, told you pple that I can be serious too).

I have, *gosh* 29 more days to the deadline of my thesis.
Oh god, surely you want cherub to graduate?

This is my first time dealing (dealing as in, real research instead of my magic wizard) with a local economics issue, and I was really stunned by the difficulties in gathering data from local private/public sectors. This inexperience is also reducing the help that can be offered by corporations who are unwilling to divulge corporate data to me.
No phd, no master, no nothing come and ask data...aiyoooo..

I have written down what are the main questions of my thesis, plus the rough guideline of the content page of my thesis.

The one in blue is my official proposal to NUS regarding my thesis that I submitted earlier.

Hope you get an idea of what I am trying to do.

These are the main questions that I am trying to answer:

What was the role of oil in Singapore in the past?

How about now - has the role of oil changed or has it remain the same?

What about the role in the future?

I am trying to answer these 3 questions by getting data of

1) Share of oil in GDP

2) Share of oil in trade volume

3) Share of oil in employment, value added

4) Share of oil in any kind of valuable statistics that I can find

Chapter 1: Introduction: oil - once the engine of growth in Singapore, revival of the engine in the offing or being petered out...

Chapter 2: Oil in Singapore: How has the oil sector contributed the Singapore economy to grow?

Chapter 3: Presesnt Status of Oil in Singapore: Is the oil sector being petered in the Singapore economy? Has the new form of the oil sector emerged as another engine of growth in the Singapore economy?

Chapter 4: How will the oil sector in Singapore be in the future? The role would be strengthened or remain as what it is now...

Chapter 5: Conclustion - good summary with some visions on the oil sector in Singapore.

EC4401 Economics Honours Thesis

Oil in Singapore: Past, Present and Future

Objective

Oil has always been an important strategic economic activity for Singapore, especially in her early stage of growth, where it accounted for half of Singapore’s GDP. Even as oil’s share of economic activities has been steadily declining in recent years, it still holds a strategic value in the heart of Singapore economy. And this is especially so as the oil industry here climbs up the value chain ladder, as evident by the growth of the oil financial trading and petrochemical industry.

However, there has been a lack of public data analysis and research on this engine of growth, and its role in Singapore. The aim of the thesis is to cover the past, present and future role of oil’s role in the Singapore economy.

Goals

The thesis will look at the past and present role of oil in the economy and analysis data to provide a collected review of the oil industry’s performance. It will examine the government and private sector’s roles in the Singapore oil industry, and to come up with a better evaluation of the perceived role of oil in Singapore from the view point of the government as well as the private sector.

Based on prevailing economic conditions and global trends, attention will be paid to growth of a Singapore total oil business centre, specifically with respect to the growth of trade in oil financial instruments and the development of a petrochemical hub. Analysis of data on past performance and the authority’s effort in promoting Singapore as an oil centre will be performed to come up with a detailed report of Singapore’s role in the global oil industry and future growth.

In that, the thesis will provide a careful study of the local oil industry and update data that has been lacking in the academic field of oil. A comprehensive study of the oil industry in Singapore and the position of Singapore in the global oil market will allow academics to have a more updated and proper understand of Singapore oil industry.

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The funny thing is, too many people are now clearly mistaken about the positive link between "cherub" and "last minute work".
I was dealing with 2 different assignments recently and you have no idea how many people just take it as normal that cherub is doing last minute work.
and of course "last minute work is always the best work from cherub"...

-.-"

Last minute work is very harmful to my health leh.
I'm collapsing over 2 simple tutorial assignments. If I have to handle last minute work for my thesis, I think I better reserve a space at the Institute of Mental Health.
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Was relaxing and wondering what a wonderful sunday it was on 27th Feb.

Till kAren kindly msn-ed me and asked for my progress on my Health assignment.

Wahliew! wat assignment?
*breathe in* to be submitted at end of Feb.

Why the hell is feb such a short month...
What happened to 29th, 30th, and 31st of Feb?!!

thanks kAren for reminding me!

*slap face* I got to stop doing these types of mistakes.

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Doing a 2page summary in day is not a big feat. The difficult part is reading the 9pages articles so that I can summarise it.

Ok lah, 9 pages only, I shall read it in the night time after I settled other more important things.

important things such as sleeping and watching tv.

sunday leh.
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Only to realise at 2am plus that the 9page article i downloaded over the internet was actually a cropped version of the full length article, which is a mind-boggling 33 pages.
WAH LIEW.

In the end, thanks to Benjamin who passed me the hardcopy article at 3am in the morning.

*slap face* I got to stop doing these types of mistakes.
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Technology tutorials, submission is on Wednesday (which in chinese, is the 3rd of the week), NOT 3rd of March.

*slap face* I got to stop doing these types of mistakes.

Had to rush and photocopy the 7 readings, which I didn't even possess, from a kind fellow economics student, who don't even know me personally but offered her copies when she realised I haven't even gathered the required readings.

Thanks Cheryl!! =)

One whole night of reading (okok, i napped now and then....)
and one whole day of slogging (by my standards, at least I was slogging)

55minutes late in submission.

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29 more days. Pray hard.