=)

i haven't been blogging....and er.
i don't miss it at all.
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i am in the midst of renovating my room, so i was going through all my stuff and throwing away junk.

saw lots of old photos (ah the good old days where fotos were in print forms only).
wow. i really had a lot of "friends" in those days.
hehe. i was having a hard time to identity pple...

think if i don't bother, most of my current friends now won't even talk to me.
hmm.
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since i've decided that i will not try so hard to maintain any friendships, even very old and cherished ones....at least those that I cherished.

and since blogging was my way of reaching out to friends.

and since i'm tired.

Adiós! ¡Cuidados!

Another year. Another milestone.

People who know me, know that I like to double speak.

Another year. Another milestone.

WRX prelude

so i went to the doctor to get myself medically certified to be fit for the WRX challenge tomorrow.

cherub: i need to be proved fit for a competition tmr.
doc: the Subaru challenge?
cherub: yah! a lot of pple came to you for medical certification already?
doc: nope, only 1.
cherub: oh me only or 1 before me?
doc: 1 last year. The winner.

Great. so i told the doctor that he's very lucky.
last year winner visited him for medical certification.
this year, the winner also visited him.

=)
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I promised him, and the 3 nurses out there that I would buy them cakes if i win the car.
for the sake of the local bakery, i better win.
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6 more hours to go.

here's my strategy to win the car

(for those confused, the WRX challenge is a contest where contestants have to place 1 palm on a car. The longest lasting contestant will win the car. Usually over more than 72hours)

Strategy 1:

don't bath for a week, so you go off to the WRX challenge stinky like hell.
contestants may gave up after 5 minutes with you.

Con: There are 7 cars in total. You can only chase away at most all contestants of 1 car.

Solution: Don't bath 1 month.

Strategy 2:

Go there talk insurance to all the contestants standing next to you.
Talk talk talk till either

a) they promise to buy insurance from u. (i win)
b) they run away (i win)

its a win-win situtation for me.

Con: i can only talk loudly enough for 1 car's contestant

Solution: Practice from the uncle selling durians at the local NTUC

来来！！ 五个，三十块！便宜阿！便宜阿！
"Lai Lai, DXO, 5 for $30!!! Cheap cheap!"

Strategy 3:

Arrange with the 319 contestants and agree to let 1 person win after 1 hour and split the money equally.

Con: that 1 person may run away in his WRX.
hard to chase him with my lancer, you know

Solution: Let me be that 1 person.

Con to solution: I may run away.

Strategy 4:
Stand there for whatever it takes and win the car!

Con: May die doing so.



uhm, first i need to pick the lucky ping-pong ball before i can even put my hand there.

Today's headline: "Standing at another turning point" (irony of the month)

"Bigger apartments fetching higher unit prices than smaller ones"

From the Straits Times, Singapore's leading self-acclaimed #1 mainstream english newspaper (machiam got competition lor).

I know they meant that bigger apartments are fetching higher prices PER SQ FT, compared to smaller units.

but at first glance, this looks like a headline (headline of the Money section) from "DUH Magazine".
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TODAY's chief editor, Mano Sabnani "resigned".

by "resigned" of course i meant that he was informed at the last minute that he either resigned, say nothing, received lip service on his past contribution and get his ex-gratia payment.

or get sacked.

I was reading Sammyboy's forum about this incident (EH, i read the "Alfresco Coffee shop for political and current affairs, NOT the other forum hor....)

Read abt the sacking resignation incident here.

Extract:

	122550.1
	Hello everyone I registered this nickname a little more than a week ago after I heard that there were parties inside Mediacorp who were making a move to sack Mano Sabnani as Today's chief editor. Little did I know how ugly it would become. On the surface, the corporate communications machine of Mediacorp will present everything as very nice and orderly. What you read here will be a reasonably accurate account related to me of what actually happened and not what you will read in Today, Channel News Asia, Straits Times or Business Times.

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And people ask me why I hate my own country.


I was born a patriot.
I would stand upright as a child when the national athemn was played.
I watched the NDP every year.
I love the country and declared that I would die fighting rather than fleeing in any war.


now, I hate this government, and i hate this country.

WRX Challenge Prelude

i went spluring $$$ again.

ironically, i've been spending big whenever i am near to poverty level.

i have now only $70 left in my bank account.

I always keep $500 emergency spare cash in my savings account, damnit.
time to utilise it...sigh.
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wanted to have a good steamboat meal because I'm 2 days away from the WRX challenge.

Yup, I'm in the 1st round of challenge.

(to get in the WRX challenge, there are 3 rounds.
1st round = be one of the lucky callers to selected radio station for the past few weeks
2nd round = pick up the lucky pingpong ball at Ngee Ann Civic Plaza
3rd round = put your hand on a WRX among with 300 plus contestants. The last one remaining wins the car)
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In the end, my intention of a great meal turn out up to be a full day rehearsal for WRX days without food.



i splurged on many little gifts for friends around me.
maybe tats why i super peeved today.
nvm, in the end i ate all the cookies & chocolates meant for others.


Yum Yum.

Great Thai Adverts Part 4

despite endless work and a very tired body...
and of course, lack of life. as usual....

i bring u happiness and prosperity.
Great Thai Adverts Part 4!!
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This was the first thai advert i seen many years ago.
damn bloody good. but i bet singapore would ban such adverts coz there is a slight trace of "sex" in it.
we need more creative funny adverts!


another tyre commerical. heehee


another good advert long time ago.



we all love adverts with sexy lady and big cars.




a gross advert coming ahead...

yogurts anyone?

Wee Shu Min "Creativity" video!

whoever said that Singaporeans have no creativity!!!

and to those who have not heard abt the "wee shu min" drama (her dad is Ang Mo Kio GRC MP Wee Siew Kim), go google it out or something.
I'm too lazy to explain. Its almost as big as NKF in the blogosphere.



I have zero love for this government, zero love for this country.
I would not send my kids to any singapore schools. (as long as i can afford it).

I would retire overseas, and bring my entire family over.

i have zero love for this country which my government corrupted.

I'm alone in this big world.

let's see.

army best friend: out with his love.
jc best friend: did not pick up phone.
army 2nd best friend: outside at ktv (dirty ktv somemore)
sec sch best friend: can't be bother to call him, confirm out with his gf.

uhm.


drove around mindlessly. slept in car for an hour plus at some romantic place.
wat a good friday.

Fish and rice is a good meal to have on friday.

when i was young, think i was in secondary school, i watch this pseudo-drama.

i think its sort of 1 story per episode, and i think its sorta based on a true story.


there was this man, he's sort of a loner.
all his neighbours like him coz he is a very gentle and nice guy. very sweet and helpful.

he drives a taxi and he lives alone.

i remember this particular scene where he prepares his dinner, he fried a fish for himself and ate it with rice.

just tat, a fish and rice.

i think from tat day on, i never eat alone again. (i do eat alone now, especially considering what I'm working as now)


a fish and a rice.
a whole fried fish.

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at night, when he got a prostitute as a paying customer, in particular, a drunk one, he would drive her to a dark corner.

nay, no sex was involved.

he would bring her back to his room (or is it a hotel? i dunno, details are sketchy, HEY, it was a show i watched 10 years ago), and he would murder her and cut her into pieces.


he has an immense hatred for girls, esp girls like prostitutes. i can't be sure, but i think it has something to do with how his ex treated him. or is it other girls? or is it his mother? eh, this was a show 10years ago.......

i have no idea how the story ends.
but i always remember the fish.
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1 day, i'll live in my nice little apartment, eating fish and rice for dinner.

Great Thai Adverts Part 3 (Life!)

For those of you thinking about life.


Do contact Cherub now!

and another decent one...


If you want to have a baby girl, I can't help.
Unless you very chio.

a very good one. love seems to be so treasured by the old, far less by the young...

we all love love stories. sigh.
this really brought vibes, playing musics to a loved one.
i wonder how many couples are separated due to illness and death.


darn, i must email these adverts to my insurance company. Ask them do such adverts in singapore.

heehee, u can always email me or call me :P
in any case, I LOVE THAI ADVERTS!!

after some touching life adverts, let's have some funny ones....
uhm.



erm.


I love thais.

Please don't call the police

i just read the newspaper and apparently this expatriate family was celebrating Halloween by hanging plastic skulls, "gravestones" etc etc.

the guy also displayed several witches' effigies in his driveway and spray ghostly images on his home's window.


Guess what his Singaporean neighbours did?
....
..
.
Yup, they called up the police.
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I have absolutely no idea whats wrong with Singaporeans and their obsession with calling the police.

Hang ghostly stuff, and your neighbours will call the police.
Walk around naked, in your own PRIVATE and PERSONAL home, and your neighbours will call the police.

I haven't the slightest clue why can't we walk around naked in our own homes.

I would have understand that if its offending in the public arena, but in the privacy of our rooms?

hey, neighbours, its called privacy! if you can't stand the sight of a naked guy/girl walking around in his home, u LOOK AWAY.

*cherub would like to clarify that he does not walk around naked......*
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Plus of course, we always read in the news that when there is a protest going on, someone would call the police.
(i have always wonder abt this "someone", sounds very communist)

Aiyah, protest protest lah, you call police for wat...


Plus, all these idiots who love to call the police when they read something they don't like.

A blog that is "wrong" in their moral values? Call the police.
something immoral in their neighbourhood? call the police.

HELLO!! WE DON'T LIVE IN A COMMUNIST STATE!! (oh wait...maybe we do..)

Honestly, our police force has better things to do.
Low Crime doesn't mean No crime!!!

Difference between "knowing" and "understanding" Part 1

it is of my most humble opinion that guys take soooo much longer to recover from a broken relationship.

yes yes, despite the common perception that guys can just shake it off and go off to mate with another girl.

myth.


the truth is, a lot of girls can and do move on much faster.

it baffles me.
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i was damn pissed by some insurance work the other day.
i can't comment because it was pretty drastic, and honestly, i can't believe i am still so affected, even today.

basically the results are as followed:
1) i made a pledge involving my future offspring.
2) i went off for some serious shopping.

so far, i bought cufflinks, shoes, and committed a few hundreds more to a belt.
plus car accessories.

and pledged another $1000 to new ties and shirts.

when i pledge, i do.



argh.
i have a very low tolerance.
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these few weeks have been dramatic. girls never cease to upkeep their species' commitment to astound and disconcert me.

and i have finally finished my 3-4 months of management course.
i must say, although i hate classroom lessons (nothing is more educating than practical fieldwork), this course has been very rewarding.

usually in insurance, u seldom mix with your colleague since this is not your typical office environment.
you don't do lunch with them coz usually lunch appointments are with clients.

so it was great as i have finally found colleages who think and can "click" well with me. plus it helps that we are all starting our career path in management, so we are facing the same difficulties and on the same track.

meaning = I can whine to them all about my job nonsenses and difficult clients.

我的心事，谁能知？
My heart problems, who can understand?

Great Thai Adverts Part 2 (Love!)

We love thais!

Nothing like a good old love story...

with violence, explosion and money. =)

and our singaporean model, jaymee stars in this one....

and of course some good old revenge.

oh how others suffered coz of love...

and sometimes we don't know it, but lives around u suffer when you are in love.
*nudge nudge*
sigh. love is such a bother.



and we love tragic stories.

Great Thai Adverts

A little while ago, I posted the best commerical I have seen.

Fart-in-a-jar found more great outstanding thai commericals.


A few of them here....



This is the best, I feel.
I will never park the same again.



a must-see for all sales personal.
my own advisers who read my blog, ROARRR!!! YOU SEE THIS!




not all of us are created equal. *smirk*

damn those thais!

I love taiwan variety show

whooo.
talk about spouting vulgarities legally and morally on a national TV show.

damn damn damn funny.
Looking forward to my taiwan trip :P

FYI, IMHO, this is damn ROFL.

From McSweeney's

P E R C E N T A G E S
O F I N T E R N E T U S E R S
G E N U I N E L Y E N G A G E D I N
T H E A C T I O N I N C O L U M N " A "
W H I L E T Y P I N G
T H E A B B R E V I A T I O N
I N C O L U M N " B " .

BY KEVIN SHAY

- - - -

A laughing out loud grinning being humble about an opinion seeking to provide information just kidding being thankful, in advance smiling winking rolling on the floor laughing hoping to talk to you later trying to conceive

B LOL (g) IMHO FYI JK TIA :-) ;-> ROTFL TYL TTC

percentage 2% 8% .01% 12% 21% 15% 4% 1% .00032% 6% 77%

If you have a sharp stick, I better get 1 too.

Imagine u stay in a hostile neighbourhood.

You consider yourself to be fairly "affluent", with a home that is the envy of others.
You make an honest living, working hard and sharing your wealth with all your relatives and you enjoy a great harmonious environment, definitely an envy of others in the neighbourhood.

Your neighbours however, not only make their money in an dishonest way, exploiting others to enrich themselves, but they indulge in seedy, immoral corrupting ways of lifestyle.

You are worried about these thugs, and the influence they bear on your kids.
Worst, you are worried that these thugs will do something bad, *gash* to your kids.

If it was you, would you be worried about your home? all those that you built up?
Would you worry for your kids?
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And these neighbours have some very large and sharp sticks. One of them had even once USED the sharp stick on another poor victim before. The poor victim was injured tremendously and had to give up his home.

If it was you, would you be worried that the sharp stick would be used on you?
would you want to get a sharp stick to protect yourself too?
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So you went to the grocery store to purchase some sharp sticks.
You bought a few normal poles (those for hanging clothes) and decided to sharpen it.

"Noooo", your neighours screamed!
"You are so unneighbourly!" they protested.
"This is an act of provocation! You shld not own a sharp stick because our kids are scared of you", they bellowed.

Since you are a good neighbour, you decided to talk to them at the local community centre. You told them about your fears and asked them to keep their sharp sticks. You asked them to promise not to rob your house, not to harm your kids.

They disagreed to promise not to rob your house.

If it was you, would you keep the sharp sticks?
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But being a good neighbour, you decide to keep those damn sharp sticks in return for future co-operation.
On 19th Sept, you decided to sign an agreement of goodwill with your neighbours.

Fine, you keep those sharp sticks. You would just be more careful around their big sticks.

4days later, your neighbours created problems at your work place, they made it harder for you to earn a living. They convinced the bank that handles the paycheck from your company NOT to deliver any paychecks and to freeze all the money in your current account.
You have money, but you can't write a godamn check to buy foods and pay for the utility bills.

All because of these neighbours whom you appeased and gave in countless of time.

If it was you, HOW WOULD YOU REACT?
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In those perspective, no one would trust those neighbours anymore.
Especially if you have seen a victim died from a sharp stick attack.

Especially when almost everyone around you has a sharp stick and you have none.

And no matter how much u tried, they just take your appeasement as a sign of weakness.
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North Korea has just joined the world's most exclusive club. =(
its not too hard to understand them. just substitute "sharp stick" for "nuclear weapons".

The world's most exclusive club, 1 more uninvited members.

Thank you India, for barging into the club in 1998, uninvited and showing everyone that ANYONE can do it too. Just intrude in, endure a few years of lectures and then everyone will treat you with respect after a while.
All those wrongs forgiven, all those respect back in vogue.

Thank you, America.

Nerds are cool

nerds do the job 1/500 of the efforts.

Days of misery

there are 2 days i absolutely hate.

My Birthday.
Christmas

Mid-autumn festival, welcome to the club.

Happy Mooncake Mid-Autumn Festival!

rats! i just learnt that today is "Mid-Autumn Festival"!

no wonder got so much thick, pasteries cakes with egg-yolks around recently.....
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Isn't it funny that people like to call mid-autumn festive, "Mooncake festival"?

eh "Happy Mooncake Festival"!!!
wah liew....“中秋节快乐” become “月饼节快乐”......

月饼节.......
so funny.
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sigh. i ought to be out there walking around with a candle-lit lantern (not battery-operated please), with a nice piece of mooncake and a girl with me, enjoying the moon....

so romantic lor....




oops. wrong picture.

Colours are fun.

so i was sitting at the back of the class with the usual gang.
then i realised something.

i patted the girl in front of me and told her....

"you're wearing a blue jacket and a blue bag."
"the girl next to you is wearing a yellow jacket and a yellow bag"
"the girl next to her is wearing a white jacket and a white bag"
"and the girl next to me is wearing a black jacket and a black bag"


i was commended for my acute observations.
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but thats not all. in the next 1 minute, i realised something i ought to have noticed earlier.

the blue jacket girl with the blue bag is wearing blue shoes.
the yellow jacket girl with the yellow bag is wearing yellow shoes.
the white jacket girl with the white bag is wearing white shoes
the black jacket girl with the black bag is wearing black shoes.

excellent colour coordination!

I'm not the worst singer, confirmed.

to all those who have sang KTV with me before.

I know i sing badly.
but i think i'm an angel compared to them....

Busy till I can sleep while driving.

i have been too busy to blog recently.

on a sunday, i had to work till 2am, stamping papers...


busy like hell and i had to wake up at 7plus am to do some other work
despite 1 painful bump on my forehead. somemore bleeding.
also can't be bothered to see a doc.


busy until i dulan.

tonite have to stamp more papers.
sleep late, wake up even more early tmr.

busy until i dulan.

Sadness engulfed my heart.

Once again, my earlier post abt "Inner Demons" garnered a grand total of 0 comments

u guys are really a bunch of bastards.


1 guy did msn me abt it, but lets just say that the contents have to be classified.
because we are scared of girls.
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with 24 hours, 3 best friends quarrelled with their respective significant others.

Mr A, B and C = 3 best friends, 3 business partners.

Mr A quarrelled with his WIFE.
Mr B quarrelled with his GIRLFRIEND.
Mr C quarrelled with his girl that he wants to be a girlfriend. (guess she would think otherwise now!)

Different stages of relationship.
Wat a weird combination of coincidences.

Inner Demons Part 2

i wrote an entry earlier about inner demons.

with it, i appealed to readers to ask yourself "what's your inner demons?"
I'm surprised there wasn't any response.
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Either
1) all of you guys are living great healthy lives and have absolutely no qualm.

2) your inner demon is soooo inner, that you can't share it with me.




so whats the answer? I'm really curious

Am i the only guy with baggage? with inbuilt hatred? with the desire to be with this someone who just took what I wanted to say constructively and rebuild it into a barrage of war?

hello, demons.

FHM is a good company to work for

Did u see that man doing makeup on her breasts? (at the 0:21 sec)
He used his HANDS to brush make up on her breasts.

WAH LIEW, he got a wide grin lor.

i wanna slap that bastard.
lucky guy.
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got another idiot (at 1:06) guy who tugged at her panties

ARGH....is that Jeremy (the FHM king, i heard) still reading my blog???

Can I apply for a part time job at FHM?
pleassseee....
i would pay to work......

Inner Demons

We all have our inner demons.

some mild, some suffocating.
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What's ur inner demons?

Have you commited a crime?
Broke someone's heart?
Angry at someone?

Rape a person?
sexually molested a friend?
Beaten someone up so violently, u can still see the blood?

Have u shifted the blame on someone else?
Scolded or quarrelled with someone important?
Said something that you regretted?

Let someone down?
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If you ask me, my own inner demon, is my ex-gf.

I let her down, and I hate her.

So what's your inner demons?

IMF = I'M Fed-up

so i went to Marina Square to have dinner with neofik & a close friend.

yes, someone read in the newspaper how business in Suntec area has suffered and he sympathise with them, so he decided to shop in suntec.

Dude! their business is suffering for A GOOD REASON!!
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I drove around a few rounds and i can't find a bloody open road towards Marina Square.
All the major roads around Suntec City have been closed.

Rows of steel fences.
Barricades that open only to cars with authorised pass.

Delegates got BMWs to chauffeur them from their hotels to Suntec.
We Singaporeans also must BMW into the Suntec area.

Bus, Walk or Mai-go there lor.
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so a 1 minute road entry turned into a 20minutes-trying-to-find-my-way.

In the end, I gave up and decided to park at Shaw Towers
and I tot my sufferings had ended.

it has only just began.
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A supposedly 10minutes walk from Shaw Tower to Marina Square turned into a 40minutes walk around suntec, around the steel fences around suntec.

i asked for directions 4 times, and with different answers twice.

all for a journey that is supposed to be less than 10minutes.
sigh.
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I have never seen so many policemen in my life.

In HongKong, I heard of this phrase where u turn in any direction and walk, within 100steps, u will definitely reach a 7-Eleven Store.

In Suntec, you turn in any direction and walk, within 50steps, u will definitely reach any policeman.
there are lightly armed policemen, all with 1 rather clumsy legbags, traffic police, normal constances, armed gurkhas, etc etc.
All we lack is some Tanks.

At a certain point, i turned and i saw about 50 policemen at 1 go.


Cancelled leaves, Overtime for all our policemen.
Now is a good time to commit some crime, OUTSIDE suntec city of course.

sure no manpower to patrol the suburban area one....dun take my words for it, go rob a bank please.
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Best part, my friend who wanted to shop at suntec was damn sian to find out that IMF-WB delegates enjoyed a 30% discount, and NONE for him.

WHAT ABOUT US SINGAPOREANS??

You come my home, i have to tidy my house for you.
but I live in my own house, i don't tidy for myself?
And I have to prohibit myself from certain rooms in my house?

sorry hor, its 3.999999 smiles welcome the world hor.
I is frown.

The adviser can't fight.

On giving my advice to someone (name censored to protect his life)

i must be the most well informed, giving the best advice, combining the street smart of Kevin, the frankness of Eddie, the logic of Chawyee, the understanding of Kokwee....

and yet, u dun listen to me

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i still don't quite get it myself.
here i am giving tons of love advice, matchmaking pple.......

and i can't read the mind of the girl that I like.....

纸上谈兵。。。
"Discuss war strategies on paper"

80s ISUZU GEMINI TV advertistment

TV adv of ISUZU Gemini, note that all were not computer graphic, those cars were really 'flying' in the air! (as seen on mrbrown.com)

Ups and Downs

seeing that july and august have been such favourable, productive months, I have a really bad feeling about september.

what goes up must come down.


i can feel all the bad vibes already.

Happy Teachers' Day

i just realised i posted the previous entry on a "teacher", the day after Teachers' Day.

:P


Anyway, to teachers all over the world, Happy Teacher's Day!


And I think its high time teachers get higher salary for their efforts and contribution.
whooo hooo! $250million to be spent on teachers!

Very Happy Teacher's Day!!

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Unintentionally, I drove past my old Junior college (AJC) on teacher's day's eve, with my old JC mate in my car.
Out of fun, we decided to drive in and visit our old teachers.

bearing in mind, that ever since we graduated from junior college, we have not visited our old school teachers. heh heh.

Obviously, our form teacher was very surprised, and happy to see us.
heh heh.

ahhh...i miss our schooling days.

Friends & Karma

A female friend of mine (who's a teacher) sms-ed me this the other day, after 2 unanswered calls.

"please don't call me anymore. I got bf liao"

WTF.


i replied "eh. I'm calling on you to discuss insurance, as we agreed 2 weeks ago"

This is from a girl that told me that she wants to purchase insurance from me, about 2 months ago, and i told her that we would discuss more later 2 weeks ago.

And she replied "oh its ok. My bf bought me insurance"

WTF. Since when a boyfriend will buy insurance for gf?
eh? why are pple like that, attached leh, then abandon all friends.

some friends really "got gf/bf, no buddy!"


And it has to be a female. I scrolled down my msn list and there are like 7, 8 MSN lovesick nicks. Bloody nicks that proclaim overwhelming love for boyfriends.
in fact, over a year ago, there were other lovenicks, but of course, as expected, most of these nicks now are of singlehood.

Of course, of course.
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To this girl, if you have the good fortune to read this entry, one word for you.

Karma.

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My friend did a social experiment the other day.
he broke up with his gf of 3.5 years and he was very upset.

he decided to conduct a simple experiment.
he sent sms-es to all his friends and asked them to accompany him out.

2 of our friends did not have the luxury of the time to accompany him.
ah, energy and time.

Time & Energy, something limited to be rationed out.
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I had a frank discussion with one of the guys who failed the experiment.
i know that he is a good friend, just that his priorities and planning in life is different from us.

actually i don't blame him, though from this thought-provoking experiment, i feel that one only need a handful of good friends, then strength the relationships with them.
All those other kinds of friends.
Just ignore ba.

its no use trying so hard to maintain so many groups of friends, only to be placed in 2nd priority once something new in his/her life pops out.
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i have 2 best friends who were betrayed by the ones they loved, once their girlfriends found something better (work, a better pasture, or simply new hunting grounds for better husband-candidates) than their current boyfriends.
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In a dramatic proof that real life is more coincidental than drama, while I was blogging this entry with half-a-heart, cuteandpretty (but she not cuteandpretty leh) got very moody coz she is fast losing her friends.

her 3 best friends are attached and stick to their boyfriends so much, its hard for them to go out as an all-girls outing.

she lost all her best friends to their bfs.

See? priority.
You were never close to #1 in their lives.
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Always choose friends that choose you.

Pens

recently, when i closed an insurance case, the client noticed my cheap ballpoint pen.

"cherub!", she exclaimed, "u should use a better pen".
By a better pen, she meant those branded fountain pen.


problem is, i would die a bankrupt.
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you see, i have a lifelong problem with pens ever since i started using pens (in primary 4? i can't remember when we switched from pencils to pens).

pens run away from me.
every single of them.

firstly, i tend to drop pens, rendering them useless.
ballpoint pens are pretty much, ehm, ball-based. so once u dropped it, the ball will get dislodged and the ink can't flow out smoothly.

"Then don't use Ballpoint pens lah, use other kind!" you say....
(actually i do, i use those japanese gel-based ones, much more sturdy, and still cheap. plus give me a youthful feel. at least when i pretend to be teenager, swirling the pen around)

if u think that those expensive fountain branded pen is indestructible, then obviously mont blanc did not include me as their "typical customer" in their durability and stress tests.

I humbly suggest that mont blanc pay me a handsome sum to test out and market a new range of "durable pen", for people who ought to stick to a dark piece of rock to write.

anyway, this durable pen would probably not be designed cos it would effectively ends the market for normal pens to those "who destroy pens like crazy". since we know these pple effectively contributes to 50% of the bottomlines of pen companies, i guess pen companies have no incentive to sell such a pen.

but then again, 48% of the market belongs to those "who lose pens like crazy".


uhm, i am one of those too.
in fact, it has come to the point, i may consider tagging all my pens. not with those ugly paper tags tat reads "Cherub's" but RFID tags (Radio Frequency Identification). those that they are trying to put in all products to replace barcodes in supermarkets.

U push 1 whole trolley of goods past the cashier, and "Bling!" the entire value is recorded.



Don't you love technology that takes money from you?


but let's not digress.

the reason why I'm considering to RFID my pens is that I can't control them.
seriously, before i break them, they know that they would have a tramatic and short life with me, and so they sneak away the moment my eyes left them.

I once pretend to be asleep and i swore, i heard "clicking" sounds, alike those sounds pens make when they tiptoe away.
of course, i can't be too sure cos I have not heard for myself those sounds that pens make when they tiptoe away.

so i hope that with RFID, at least when they venture 10m more than me, a device in my wallet or watch would beep really loudly and alert me.
of course, it would potentially embarrass me in the middle of orchard road, but i can live with that.
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I once bought a whole box of pens and it lasted less than a month.
pens hate me.

Pluto - Dwarf now

Do you know that Pluto is declassified as a planet?
Yup, in one of the gathering of the nerds, a group of scientists, academics have decided to downgrade Pluto to a "dwarf planet" status.

And to begin with, the meeting started off discussing whether to classified 2 large moons of pluto as "planets".
now not only the 2 moons failed to be classified, Pluto itself is downgraded.

Thats' really goofy.
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Quote from KingMeng, at a local regional (coz got malaysians mah) forum,

Although we think it's Dopey that Pluto has been downgraded to a dwarf planet, which has made some people Grumpy and others just Sleepy, we are not Bashful in saying we would be Happy if Disney's Pluto would join us as an eighth dwarf. We think this is just what the Doc ordered and is nothing to Sneeze at.

Paradox of Invisible and yet Pink.

(note: religious people, please do not proceed. article below may be offensive.)


something that gssq would probably find it worthwhile....

Religion fosters bad behavior (by Institute for Humanist Studies)
Drawing on a wide range of studies to cross-match faith – measured by belief in God and acceptance of evolution – with homicide and sexual behavior, Paul found that secular societies have lower rates of violence and teenage pregnancy than societies where many people profess belief in God.
.....~

Despite all its fine words, religion has brought in its wake little more than violence, prejudice and sexual disease. True morality is found elsewhere. As UK Guardian columnist George Monbiot concluded in his review of Gregory Paul’s study, "if you want people to behave as Christians advocate, you should tell them that God does not exist."
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The muslims have their cresent. the christians have their cross.
hmmm, what about atheists? is there a symbol for atheist?

so i went around wikipedia, and google. (i love google images).

turn out that there is quite a range of symbols for the atheists. Not a good thing, since nothing is as unifying as 1 common standard.

There is the "atom" image, as represented at the top of this post, probably a show of faith in science.
There is a simple band of circle. there is a logo of a cross being crossed (pun intended). And a flower-looking one (wth).

but the one that I really like.....the invisible pink unicorn (IPU).



From wikipedia,

It is common when discussing the Invisible Pink Unicorn to point out that because she is invisible, no one can prove she does not exist. This is a parody of similar theistic claims about God, i.e. that because God is omnipresent, inability to detect him does not reduce his believability. The IPU serves as a parodic demonstration that utilizing a lack of evidence as proof of a deity's nature is ultimately absurd; that by this logic the IPU is just as credible as God.

National Day Rally Aftermaths

Prime Minister Lee gave a pretty interesting National Day Rally speech the other day.

Interesting because quite a few jokes on him, i feel.
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He mentioned abt the funny podcast where a parody centred around a "bak cho mee" with no "tua kua".

so he said that the government can up it by doing a "mee siam" with no "hum" (cockles).

eh. since when mee sian got "hum"??


and of course mrbrown poke fun at him again....lol.
a new songtrack for our nation......damn funny.

wonder when would any politician takes action against any blogger.
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PM Lee mentioned abt "talkingcock.com".
Firstly, he uttered "talking cock" on national tv. Like what colin goh (creator of talkingcock.com) said in an interview afterwards, now that the Prime Minister said the words "talking cock" (a form of a vulgar expression, isn't it?) on national tv, we can die happy liao.

and he said "some jokes are funny, some jokes are not"

damn damn funny..coz i do believe he was referring to "Diary of the Dragon Prince", a series of make-believe entries of our beloved Prime Minister, which mocked fun of him, his fellow PAP politicians, and his wife. haha.
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PM Lee said singapore needs 50,000 babies, and we only got 35,000 babies last year.

he said "even i can't make up for the 15,000 extra babies needed" (i can't remember the exact wordings)

You would laugh if you read the Diary of the Dragon Prince regularly. he was protrayed regularly as a serious womaniser who can easily bed many womens in a year.

but seriously, i doubt it. haha!
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And the reaction of talkingcock.com being mentioned is hilarious.



Read more here.

Gay Boyfriend

From gssq,



Gay Boyfriends - The Hazzards.

the lyrics......nice!
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I'm trying my best to be a gay boyfriend.


Ahhh...the female mind. want a boyfriend, also want someone that thinks like a girl. wtf.

Abigail

uhm.

I've just learnt recently that "Abigail", the famous 'lady' who starred in the comedy "Under One Roof"......


used to be a man. (the photo above, from The New Paper)
she underwent a sex change operation 25years ago.

Since he was young, Abigail formerly known Caesar Chay (“I was named Caesar because I was a baby born through a Caesarian operation,”) knew he was a woman trapped in a man’s body and he grew up wishing and hoping that somehow things would change for him.

“My childhood to my teenage years were spent hoping that I could become a real woman, so that my fantasy can become real, and it won’t be wrong.”

From "The woman in the mirror"


i remember we used to laugh at her for being so.... grotesque.
and plus her wailing voice on TV....

i thought it was all make-believe, that a woman uglifies herself for entertainment purposes.


Oh god.
now i realise why she's so ugly looks different.... she was a MAN!!!

but then...25years liao leh!
enough time for all the hormones, make-up, mannerism to take effect right?


*cough*
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One more interesting nugget.
Remember the famous "McDonald's granny" in the mcdonald ads of 1992?
The one where the granny said "带孙子出去。。。很麻烦。。"
(the famous granny passed away in 2002)



She's Abigail's mother.

Games - Killers of all r/s Part 2

after feather blogged, in a short but 'forceful' entry about how video games ruin relationships (and which i did the gayest thing ever, complaining that my best friend spend more time on football than with me....), her mummy gave her this video link.


what an interesting mum. =)



(it was photobucket, but I found the same one on YouTube, coz photobucket can't load on firefox)


Now i know why my exgf bought me a Playstation......

"Human" behavior

I'm a misogynist.
and its just getting stronger, from hearsay, from personal experience, from scientific evidence.


and i'm worried that I can never find a female that can live with me.

oh well.
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Got this from The Dilbert Blog (by Scotts Adam, the creator of Dilbert)

--- start ---

The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the "Thermostat Wars" [from Dilbert comics]. He told me about one office with 30 women where they could never get the temperature to an agreeable level. At his suggestion they installed 20 dummy thermostats around the office. Everyone was told that each thermostat controlled the zone around itself.

Problem solved. Now that everyone has "control" of their own thermostat there is no problem.

--- end ---

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its actually titled "Human Behavior", but it seems so familiar to me that I think its basically a very female behavior.

And of course Scotts Adam can't risk annoying female readers right :P

Games - Killers of all r/s Part 1

feather's blog:

"Games. Killer to all relationships."

"Sorry", By her bf

"heehee", by Cherub

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Cherub: got plans? eat supper?
Absolut: Tonight got football... Ve premier league is back!
Cherub: football. killer to all relationships.

Friends are close acquaintances for a period of time

i just realised i haven't met a few of my friends for quite a while.

i wonder how many of my ex-hostel friends read my blog nowadays?

i only meet up with 1 hostel friend quite often, and basically gatherings for this group of friends are ONLY organised by he and me...so i guess tats why we two can meet up often.

i organise for him and me.
he organise for him and me lor.

haha!
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just saw an old photo of army days...
wah liew...last time we all look damn silly.

recruit hair cut and scared-shit face....

haha!
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Think really losing a lot of friends liao, but really don't feel like organising any gatherings for them. if they can't be bothered to try and meet up (not asking them to organise, just meeting up when we call them), then why should we bother?

beside......i'm getting a PS2.

HAHA!

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Tip of the Day: How not to lose ur friends.

I introduced my best friend (a guy) from secondary school to my bestest friend (a girl) in Economics.
there goes 2 of my friends!

how do u blog against 50%

so many things to blog.

so many things i can't blog because no matter how statistically accurate it could be, i would still be mobbed by 50% of the world population.


argh. Stop proving me right.....

If there is God, I don't mind having him on my side.

eh.

i spent abt 1 hour plus talking to pastor about career opportunities in my field.
and i spent an hour listening to his preaching.

oh god.
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eh, now i have to fulfil my promise of having a private conversation with god tonite.

somebody wish Him good luck.

Happy 41st Birthday, Singapore

this national day, i would like to highlight the gap we have between the national anthem and most singaporean citizens.

at least those not possessing a knowledge of malay.
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The national language of Singapore is Malay, for historical reason given that Singapore is in the middle of the Malay hinterland for a large part of her existence, even after the British landed here in 1819.

I do believe that more than about 70% of Singaporeans do not understand the national langauge.

And that our national anthem is sung in Malay, and most of us have problems singing it, let alone understanding the significance of the lyrics.

For many times, I have heard singaporeans singing the national anthem awkwardly, with wrong pronounciation of many words.

taken from Bao,

this is a rendition by Olivia Ong, a Singaporean singer based in Japan. She's a professional singer, so I can safely assume her pronounciation ought to be accurate

(i digress here, but I think she has a very sophiscated kind of chio..heehee)

when I hear her sing, i find many phrases seemingly unfamiliar.
Thats because my classmates, and most probably a large part of my schoolmates who have sung with me for the past decades, have not been singing it correctly.

whoot.


And then, how many of us understand the significance of the anthem?
I asked a good number of Singaporeans, and most of them are clueless.
At the very most, they know it means "Progress Forward, Singapore" or something like tat...

Actually it is "Onward Singapore", read the translation and meaning here.
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It may be true that in history, a large part of Singapura (the malay name of Singapore) was rooted in the Malay hinterlands. However that was a long time ago, and a vast majority of the population now do not understand Malay.

I do speculate that Malay was chosen as a national language due to historical as well as political reasons.
It is so much easier to promote relationship with your 2 bigger neighbouring countries when you can point out that you share a history and the same national language.

But as we mature and approach 50years of age, shouldn't we ponder our "roots"?
I am not too sure how other feels, but I don't feel a great sense of linkage with Malaya history.

I feel that Singapore has a stronger linkage to Britain or China, given that the trading post was started by British, and the population was filled by Chinese. But I would be appalled if our national anthem is in Mandarin. We are after all, not a mere colony of China.

But to feel so distant from our national language, and its anthem, the citzen in me just don't feel right.

I would have been more comfortable with English as the national language, given that it is understood by majority of the population. It is the true universal language of Singapore, and ought to be ranked as national language.

What is the use of a national language/anthem if the average nationality does not understand it?

Death > Critical Illness

with only 2 years of experience, it is with much regret that i did my first TPD (total and permanent disability), and subsequently my first death claim (even before the TPD claims are processed).

i remember senior agents have said that death/TPD/critical illness claims are not very common but once it happened, it may change your outlook in life.


though death was unwelcome, it was a blessing.
the curse of cancer is really devasting.
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i took 1 whole day to process the claims. there was numerous insurance companies to go.
basically, the deceased has purchased insurance coverage from all major insurance companies in Singapore.

death ought to be the most simple claim. there wasn't any police report, no accident reports. No statement required.
but even then, there was certificates to be verified, reports to be filed, and claimant's identities to be established.

Who said death was simple?
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I wish that all these insurance companies can band together and have a central system where u file ur claims in 1 location.
this way, its much more convenient.

at this claimant had me to go around all the service centres, I was aware of the locations coz I am working in this field.
Any other person would have sweat like hell walking around with a chunk of documents
(hell, even early preparations and prior work knowledge require me to make 2 trips due to extra documents required)


when you die, of course u need the money ASAP to deal with the funeral.
if not, as I retorted to an officer, how to conduct funeral? body throw on the ground ah?

I wanna be surrounded by Super Heroines

I wanna be like the guy in this MTV!!!




I mean, he is fat lah! but don't u find him cute? his style is damn entertaining, not to mention that he is a superhero (with cape and boots, no less....=p)


AND....

he's surrounded by 4 pretty girls!!! 4 pretty japanese girls!

somemore in boots. (i am such a boot-fetish guy => girls wear boots, cherub excited!)

Not just in boots, but colour-coordinated boots with their skirts!
and.....different colours for each girl!

Pretty Pink, Wonderful White, Babyish Blue, Passionate Purple!
(yes, i know the text of "white" is not white... don't get smart with me)

whooo...i love girls in costumes.
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Alright, let me summarise.
I love pretty japanese girls in colour-coordinated costumes involving sexy boots.

Dangerous Animal

Copied wholesale from Agagooga. (I'm liking this guy more and more),

A female friend:

"I'm watching a Japanese Drama about matriarchial lineage and the thorny issue of inheritance. I'm working in a company that has more women than men now as a part time contractor (ok, glorified pencil pusher).

Remind me never to offend women. Hell hath no fury like a women scorned is an understatement. Women are scary even without being scorned. Add greed, ambition and plain haughtiness, women can be more poisoness and cunning than the most dangerous animal anyone can think of.

[Me: Women are like elephants blah blah] Women hold the memory of the world in little pieces."


Another female friend - singaporean-born and currently foreign-based ("just put me down as An Enlightened Singaporean"):

"you might want to research why this is the case...heh. and i'm being serious

as in, do a series on Why Singaporean Women are Neurotic and Have Low Self-Esteem and Follow Trends Blindly and Cares (sic) About Other People's Opinions"

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Girls are nice pple, really. sometimes. well, at least once in a while.
=)

Hot Stuff!

its so hot in the USA, that u can bake cookies in ur car!!
Source here.



I wanna try it with my car soon!! :D
maybe can bake cake...

anyone's birthday coming soon?

Poems of creative Singaporeans.

I love artistic gangsters.

who say ah bengs cannot do poetic recitations?






i think its fun to be bad.

i don't like to fall.

aim for the sky and even if you fail, you touch the clouds.

one high-flyer taking a course with me

aim for the sky and if you fail, its gonna be a loooong and painful fall.

cherub
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I'm currently in the middle of a course where we learn about management and leadership.

compared to all other courses conducted by my company, this one is a killer.

they keep tab on attendance, every absence must be accompanied with a Medical Certificate and a letter from the manager.

and when you're late, ur signature at the attendance sheet is highlighted.

my name is highlighted twice already.
so far, the course is only onto the 2nd lesson.........
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its interesting hearing ideas and opinions from these high-flyers.....
and more interesting to hear the past experiences of others, from the Trainer.

70% of managers failed in their promotions.

70%

Smooth E Baby Face Foam!!

EXCELLENT!!
this is such a superb advertisment, though strictly speaking its shldn't be an advert coz it takes 6 minutes..
(only the 6min 42 secs at the beginning is the advertisment, the rest is the video repeating itself)

but nevertheless, i love this!

Smooth E Baby Face Foam!!
Any distributor in Singapore who wanna get them here?

we all hv a little north korea in us

so the whole world dislikes nuclear, and long-range missiles...

and so the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) decided that they will go nuclear.
and they will test their long-range missiles.

not 1.
not 2.

but 7 missiles.

in fact, they fired 6. but with all the world's capital sending their absolut condemnation and criticisms, they decided to fire a 7th just to guailan.

whoo! damn attitude.
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what's with communist countries and long fanciful name....
Democratic People's Republic of Korea...

the more u emphasis that u're democratic, and u're people's, the more un-democratic u r ...
super ironic.

these 7 missiles must have been very expensive.
but i'll say, i respect Pyongyang's attitude.

u dun like wat i do, i do 7 times!!!

but hor, if good, do 1 time swee swee can liao....

all ur missiles failed or too short range, in the end, Americans also laugh at u...
haih....
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many years ago, i read with amusement that the north koreans managed to launch a rocket, sending a satellite in space, and broadcast patriotic songs of their Great Leader in space.

HELLO?
u broadcast songs in space?
for whom? aliens ah?


sigh.

Europe Dance Trip

4 Losers.
Eastern Europe Tour.
With a dance.

Enough said.



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it was a good day to swim. dangerously.

01.07.06

This summer.


i'll be back.


01.07.06.

taking a break

i would like to write a long goodbye but i don't think there is a point since not many pple read this blog anyway.

so goodbye.

nothing to blog

nothing to blog abt.

boring.

WoW, GW Music Videos

for those girls who wonder what the hell their boyfriends/brothers/fathers were doing in their virtual worlds of Guild War or World of Warcraft.

They are obviously having too much time....



"The internet is for porn" music video....search it at youtube here.



cool music video below, of the characters of the games..
very nicely done.
watch it for some classic dance moves....



how did they manage to get the characters do those dance moves?!

Darth Vader vs Japanese Police

via ah Bao

made him laugh. made me laugh too.



the second one.

Large group of friends

the thing abt large group of friends, pple tend not to meet up after the very purpose that held them together is no longer existing.

Not just Army.
Not just NUS.
Not just economics studies.
Not just hostel life.
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having went through, hmmmm...

2 orientation groups (1 NUSSU. 1 Temasek Hostel) as a freshman.

a total of 5 groups [3 NUSSU, 1 Arts, 1 (?) Temasek] as a senior. (u can tell that the NUSSU orientations are more fun)


How many of these groups are we still meeting up regularly now and then?
Nil.
Zilch.
Kosong.
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I used to be very active in arranging dates and organising events.
but when the economics batch of 2005 graduated, i can't be bothered.

from past experience, I know that no matter HOW HARD i try, the group will simply die.

the few few months, everyone will gosh and gush abt how much they missed each other.
how much they love each other
how much they would wanna meet up again.

blah blah.

i give it at most 1 year.
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pple always are busy.
have pior appointments lah
ohhh sorry, i am supposed to meet my gf/bf/fb lah.

i too tired from work lah (knn, tat day haven't come, u already know u gonna be tired that day)

the most classis is this guy, neofik asked him and he said he has to do Overtime.
On the day itself, i called and he was on his way home on MRT. he said he going home.
where's ur OT!!!!
and i asked him to come, he said he tired.

nevermind that we haven't meet each other for 10,000 years.

nevermind that u just met ur gf/bf/very-good-opposite-sex-friend/fb and u cannot meet this group of friends who u never see for 10,000 years.
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and the WORST shit abt organising a group outing.

bloody bloody hell.

1) there will always be pple with a million questions.

"where we going? do wat? eat wat? drink wat? what time? do wat? for wat? then do wat? then do wat? then hor, do wat? then after that leh, do what? then do wat? do we go home? do wat?"

2) there will always be pple SUPER SIAO ON.

"i sure go!!!!"

then last minute never turn up.

3) got some pple everytime need confirmation one.
can confirm number of pple
can confirm location. can confirm the time when its 10minutes to the meeting time

why must confirm pple before u come? you're an adult leh.
why must confirm time? u so busy ah....?

4) sure got pple dun understand a simple question that only require "Yes or No"
they give u 1000 sentences and still no "yes" nor "no".
i very simple one leh, i only binary-trained can?

5) then dun like wat we doing, ask us why we doing that. is it really fun to do that
knn, u so smart, u come organise lah!
i sure follow watever u suggest!

6) OR dun like wat we doing, and offer other suggestions. AFTER i sms-ed, msn-ed 10million other pple.
dude, next time when u organise, u set, ok?

7) then hor. on the day, sure got 100 pple late, last minute ask u where is the location.
say later meet us can. ask us wat we doing.
or wanna change the location

if you feel that you are a lot of the above and I am writing this to mock at you.... don't be silly. a lot of pple act like u. you're not alone. I'm mocking at everyone.
if you want to refute anything, just comment here.
don't msn or talk to me abt it.
i very sian listen to theories and explanations.

you really feel my theory wrong, u go organise N times. :)

decisions are tough.

last year, i won an award from my insurance company.
i was ushered off overseas for some convention. at there, we took a photo.

now now, that photo was taken using special equipments coz i think there were, err, 300 people in that photo?

it was those kinda of camera that u rotate around a stand, and u have to keep still for many many secounds while the camera scan the whole room. powerful stuff.

well, today, after sooooo many months, they have finally sent me the photos.
everyone's name is listed under the photo (logistic nightmare)....

the photo is HUGE.
wow. its like 2 A4 paper laid length to length.
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i spread the photo on my table and took abt 2 minutes before I could find myself in it.

suddenly, at that moment, i feel very small.
i have always feel bigger than life, bigger than everyone.

suddenly, this very photo jolted me.
in the grand scheme of nature, I'm just a minor detail.

don't you feel small sometimes?
don't you feel irrelevant?
helpless?
that life is 1 big question mark?
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i gave swiss miss the biggest advice i can ever provide.
i asked her to listen to the Sunscreen song.
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sometimes i worry too much.

Bangkok is fun.

bkk is good!

good food. i've been eating, and eating and eating.
not much shopping.

just eating and eating.
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eating. and eating.

oh god, i'm gonna be sooooo fat :D
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i think i may try to be a politician here and make a living. at least there's democracy here.

I hv this feeling I forgotten more than a sleeping bag

#%#%$#@!%!!! I forgot to bring my sleeping bag!! (for hiking, just in case)

Argh...this is what happened when u pack ur bags just 1 hour before leaving the house


should have listened to Feathers / cowmoomoo / 10,000 other pple....

Boo. hope i won't have to go hiking.

Budget Terminal not really tat budget

I'm excited.

I just used my biometric passport!

You scan your passport, then impose ur thumb on the scanner. Once you are verified, you're through!

Very convenient. So much better than queueing up for to see a grumpy guy and hearing all these "chomp chomp" sounds (you know the sound of the stampings on the passport).
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And I tot Budget Terminal got no air-con?
Heng ah, some guy finally woke up and realised that was a dumb idea in warm singapore.

You don't wanna piss off too many tourists, man.
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while typing, Duty Free staff just broke a helluv bottles of wine. i think u can hear the crashing sound from everywhere.
there goes their profit margin. heh heh.
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Free internet. Free Local calls.

Not bad what, this budget terminal.


Give that man a Tiger!!

You got ur Lift Upgrading. Happy?

We cut the PAP's margin from 75% in GE2001 to 66% in GE2006.

So what? we are not a proportional representative democracy where 34% of the vote for opposition would translate to 34% of seats in Parliment.

The opposition only got 2 seats. :(


I won't be blogging anytime sooner. Got a plane to catch on Monday.
Ideally, I won't be returning home in a jiff.

Flags

Look what I've just bought.


I gave the flag to my brother to play. and when my mum saw him...

"why u playing with that! you would get caught if u do so!"

ehm.

Depressing Times

the Straits Times depresses me.

every single mainstream media (MSM) depresses me.


you would not believe the disparity of information from the MSM and the internet.
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the most depressing is that many educated people, from our premier Top 20 World-class university somemore......

dare not vote for opposition because of fear.
because of serial number on the ballot.

educated but yet they believe the votes can be traced.
and they believe they will be punished if they voted for opposition

[in case u're still wondering, no, the PAP can't trace ur votes. the serial number can't trace u, its only there to trace a precinct. they want to identify area of votes for statistical purposes.

when all the votes are cast, they are taken and counted in front of representatives from all contesting parties. once all votes are counted, they are put back in the ballot box and sealed with seals from both parties.
they are then locked up for 6mths.

within these 6mths, if there are no other disputes, they will be taken out and inspected by representives of all parties to ensure that both seals are intact.
Once satisfied that the ballots are all untouched, they will be transported to Tuas to be incinerated.

and i know of at least 1 civil servant who is well known for supporting opposition member, so far, he is still rising high in his job, so ya, no problem.]
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No fear in Singapore, my high and mighty ass.
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And then there are people, who have not bothered to gone to a single rally, nor to read abt the party, nor to try and find other sources of information

and conclude readily, most subconsciously from the MSM i bet my ass, that the PAP is high and mighty.

and refuses to read any extra information that i offered.
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good news is, every day, someone will get very disgruntled and tell me how annoyed they are at this election.

perhaps, i told them, u can join the opposition.

You take any PAP member, and I can't tell whether they are in it for the money or for the love of their country. I'm not saying they don't love the country, i just can't tell whether they join politics coz of money or patriotic reasons.

for Opposition members, its definitely not coz of money. u don't get much. u get sued every now and then. ur family probably get sleepless nights. more than 1 opposition member has his/her mum kneeling down to beg him/her to get out of politics.

Seriously, why do u think they join Opposition for?
Fame and Glory ah?

Election'06 - The Crowd is amazing

taken by yawning bread.

Comments by mrbrown.



PAP, the people would not forget what you promised in 2001.

I went many Workers' Party, 1 SDP's rally so far. and in every rally, i see people.
lots of pple. :)
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People should not be afraid of the government, government should be afraid of the people.

some pple are losing sleep, right now.

Election' 06 - My First Rally

I went to my first rally.


Workers' Party - You have a choice.
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Traffic was heavy, and the heavy downpour earlier created more chaos. There were policemen everywhere, probably to direct traffic, though I won't be surprised if they were there, uhm, just in case.....

the field was muddy. Neofik dirtied his leather shoes, and I sunk into the mud several times, in my canvas shoes......

to quote one speaker (as accurate as I remember),

thank you all for coming! Even in this heavy rain, you have gathered. Even when the PAP government gave us such a lousy site!! (Loud applause)

Another speaker:

I'm very touched today, when I look around, i can't see the end of the crowd. And all of you came willingly, we do not have buses to ferry you people here!! (in an apparent mock to the buses ferrying PAP supporters to boast numbers; Loud applause.)

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picture taken from sammyboy coffeeshop, by a WP supporter

The rally was fairly interesting, the different candidates speak on different issues to reach out to all sectors of the public. One candidate spoke abt corporate governing, and corporate scandals, how it applies to PAP, something that only the educated and the young can understand.

Another memorable quote:

They give you money every time there's election. Don't you wish every year is election year? (Loud Applause). 钱照拿！票照投！！(Take the money, Vote for us anyway!) (Loud Applause)

Actually most of the candidate brought out many important points, although I have to admit, they are definitely not the fiercy sort. I was really looking forward to fiercy issues and huge waves of protests and chantings.

I mean, let's not disappoint the policemen, right?
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I waited till this morning to blog about this because I wanted to see how much coverage the WP received in the newspaper. Barely.
Grossly unfair.

1 Rally can reach out to, at most, a few thousand people.

The power of the media is simply not available to the opposition.
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1 of the points the opposition brought out was a mere simple fact.
That they are singaporeans and they love singapore.

Its probably to address the fact that the opposition has been condemned by the PAP, as if they hated singapore and would do anything to ruin it.
Many of them have a great future, why would they risk everything to go against the ruling party?

JBJ was a prestigous lawyer. He gave up his career for to become a bankrupt.
Dr Chee Soon Juan holds a PhD, and a cushy job at NUS. Why bother doing all this?

Another speaker:

I am glad for my supporters. There was this supporter, he earns only abt $1000 a mth. And once the election started, he donated $5000 to the Workers' Party. Its just $5000, not $50,000, NOT ONE PEANUT. But its a huge amount of money to him.....

I can't remember the details, but there was this guy who, at the last minute, pulled out of the election'06 because of his 69yo mother objected seriously to him being an opposition politician.
and his family was against it because they don't want his brother's career to be affected by him being an opposition.

Yah, "there is no fear in singapore".
yaaaaaaaaah right.
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I'm going to another rally today. Another WP Rally.
I will try visit other rallies, esp of the PAP when I can find another friend to go with me.
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Remember, You have a choice.

Election'06 - no PAP, go USA!

As I was trying to find the time/location for the next rally, I saw this on www.channelnewsasia.com.


click on the pic for a bigger version.

Waaahh...got so serious or not.
PAP not nominated, then faster migrate to USA!!

Faster! only 50,000 green cards left!

What if - Part 1

i just had an excellent flashback.


remember these gamebooks?

choose your own adventure! for those long-time-ago-pple with no Final Fantasy!

you know, those that goes something like this....

suddenly you saw the soldiers running towards you, their spears raised in the air. without hesitating, you bolted for the inner cities. you turned into a dark alley, where u stumbled upon many long wooden poles. You turned to ur left and you saw a small hole in the wall.

Do you crawl through the small hole? Turn to Pg 154.

Push the poles to try and block the alley, so as to delay the soldiers? Turn to Pg 22.

Ignore them. Run ahead. Turn to Pg 86.

i shld hv known.....read LoneWolf, see lah! now become LoneMan liao lah!

I remember reading these books. Though for the really cheem ones, like LoneWolf and this Party Adventure book (where up to 4 players can play together. siao ah, gather 4 pple to play book-games..... -.-"), I can't be bothered to really roll dices, and "fight battles".


I go into God mode and win every single battle.

@#%#$...read 1 book need so complicated or not....


Anyway, i realised playing the books reflected on my character a lot.

Things I learnt from the way I play gamesbook 10years ago

1) I'm a cheater coz I win all battles
2) I'm too lazy to select my abilities, what strength, intelligence, wisdom, dexterity, aiyah! all FULL SCORE!

I would like to ignore the fact that I'm a cheater, or too lazy to fight battles, but hey, i don't think there is an idiot out there so dumb to roll dices alone and then if he died, he do wat? RE-READ THE WHOLE BOOK AH?? where got pple so dumb?

*wait...err..i'm sure some boys from boys-only schools sure like tat...*
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3) ....whooo...this is the most important.

whenever i meet a situation where i have to make a selection, say between choice [a] and [b]. I did this, I would go read [a], but I would let a finger stick in the section where i'm supposed to make the choice.
This is so that I don't lose that page....coz after reading [a] till a certain stage, i would go back and see what does [b] do.

Understand what I'm saying?

so usually choice [a] would lead to choice [c] and [d], and then [c] would lead to [e], [f] and [g], and [d] would lead to [h] and [i].
and there is [b] to go.

If i'm "lucky", one of the route would lead to death *yayy!!* or rather, eventually many of the choices would merge. for example, [c] would merge to same route as [g].
so 1 less finger in the book!!
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Okok, if you don't understand.....drink some water and re-read again.
and if you're in office, just read slowly....office time is leisure time anyway.

soooo...my point is, my whole life is a series of "What if".

Yup. "What if".
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Swiss Miss is going to kill me for this.

I believe I turned down an attractive job offer to go overseas.
An attractive job that pays well, let u learn well, mingle with chiobus, in Switzerland.

Swiss Miss would give an arm and a leg to go. :D

can't believe i turn it down coz of insurance and this tiny-huge business I'm working on it.....
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What if..... I had gone instead?