of gay Food and SAF picnic...

i went to the cowboy bar chalet......to celebrate their 1st year anniversary.

needless to say, it was damn fun. the barflies are really friendly, and well, playful.
playful with tons of alcohol, may I add.

i had to down 1 cup of really thick vodka as an newbie ceremony. think they really can drink..even the fruit punch is spiked with alcohol.
think its rather nice to know so many interesting and damn funny pple....off the internet.

hey, bloggers not all abt sex and flaming ok!!

oh wait...i forgot that the barflies always turn forum threads into sexual stuff......
ah nvm. and of course it was great to meet Zeus, the god of all gods.

the best line of the day, when He saw me eating Hello Panda (small cute animal cookies with chocolate inside)

why you eating this gay shit!!

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one big irony i found during reservist.

yes, i can actually be physically fit (in fact, i seem to run faster for 2.4km run than when I was still in the army), AND still hv a small tummy.

yah lor...i really got a bulging tummy. only a small one, i insist.

dun understand how a guy who swims, runs regularly, who does 200 crunches per day can get 1 bloody tummy.

damn gross can. 1 skinny guy with protruding tummy.
YES, LOOK LIKE THOSE MOVIE ALIEN rite.
u know those with big oval eyes those kind.


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Tomorrow its a start of a new exercise.....
a military exercise
a Brigade exercise (NS pple would know the bigger the exercise, the more siongness...)

sian leh. 4 days outfield leh.

4days without bathing, without a good bed, without pr0n, without good food.

4days without internet!!
@^%#@%#@
how to survive without MSN?

kk...at least i'm gonna make it as enjoyable as possible.

SAF picnic.

Fighting for my Land.

I'm on national duty for 2 weeks, hence the lack of blogging.

but tons of photos coming up. (as requested by blogder Steff)
eh. no nude photos of me though, I am quite SURE that you guys won't wanna see nude photos.

but of course if u are really interested, email me or leave a comment. we can work out a mutually beneficial arrangement.

[this arrangement open only to females, so those brokeback guys, go awaaay.]


So there, wait here...lots of army photos.....and some other interesting photos coming gradually in the next month (I'm a slow blogger).
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Things I learnt so far:

1) when you wear green, u feel sleepy immediately.
2) vulgarities are part of the package.
3) everyone cannot think properly in green
4) u can sleep ANYWHERE when you wear green.

• dirty concrete floor
• in the corridor
  
• dusty mattress (with no bedsheets)
• standing up. Neofik did this.

did i mention that wearing green makes u very sleepy......

i need to go sleep.....now...

Budget FY2006

Election Budget 2006 is out!

*ahem*
hmm, this year's Budget is full of goodies, and from what I understand so far, nothing bad is coming.
*ahem-2006-is-election-year-ahem*

Well well, let's see.

1) Progress Package.

This is by far, the most obvious feature of the Budget that screams "ELECTION".
Hey, they are not even coy about giving money.

Growth Dividends

It used to be "Shares" (New Singapore Shares, Economics Restructuring Shares), to give citizens a sense of belonging in Singapore (Inc.). Now, as part of the Progress Package, they are giving CASH.

Growth Dividends - You don't even need to go to the local bank or ATM to indicate that you want to cash out your shares. It is given to you as CASH.

$800 for most people (45% of citizens), $600, $400 or $200 for the rest, depending on income and wealth.
$800 COLD HARD CASH leh..... Suddenly, I love the PAP already....

Wow. what is this ringing sound in my head....."election, election, election....."

[Note: this Growth Dividend is given to all Adult Singaporeans. You don't have to do anything, just wait for a letter from CPF in March for instructions on how to sign up for the Progress Package]

Oh btw, New Singapore Share was pioneered in 2001.....wait, i am sure its a coincidence that 2001 was an election year as well.....

• Workfare Bonus
• Rebates for Lower income
• CPF Top-up for Elderlys
• Opportunity Funds for Students.
• NS Bonus (CASH for us! this time the amount is much bigger. $400 for people who have completed their NS cycle. i hear M16 gunshots amidst the yells of "election")

Wow. Incentives for EVERY SINGAPOREAN!!
3 Cheers for the Election, sorry, Progress Package!

2) Additional CPF Housing Grants

hey if all the Upgrading Projects is not enough for you guys to vote us back in power, maybe I'll make HDB flats cheaper than you!

"cheaper than market price", that is. I am sure many are not aware that "subsidised" HDB flats are not necessarily more expensive than construction costs.
"subsidised" means its cheaper than market prices.....

Oh well, no complain about this, since its abt helping the poor to get a roof.

3) No increase in Tobacco and Liquor Tax

This is such a gem, I have to admire the government this time. Tobacco tax has been increasing steadily 20% almost every year, and most of us have come to accept this as part and parcel of life. Smokers always get a bad deal out of the budget.

but guess what, so many uncles and aunties smoke...and smokers are voters too!!
very discreet.

4) Budget Deficit

By now, most Singaporeans would have accustomed to the PAP's reputed distaste for budget deficit. Every now and then, an opposition politician would call out to give out more, help poorer singaporeans more. But the government would point to the Budget and claimed that their hands are tied. This is a government that strives very hard to maintain a positive Budget.

In fact, when many governments all over the world adopted a budget that includes proceeds from land sales (an accountancy practice which UN endorses, if I'm not wrong), our Singapore government refuses this practice, transferring land sales revenue to other part of the government (reserve?). Even with this, the government does its very best to maintain a positive Budget, so that the reserves would continue to grow and serve as an alternative to natural resources that we are so lacking.

This is what make this year's Budget so interesting.
There is a $0.4 billion overall budget surplus for FY2005, and a projected surplus of $0.7billion before Special Transfers for FY2006.

HOWEVER, this surplus would turn into a deficit to the tune of $2.9billion after taking into account Special Transfers, which include the Progress Package, top-ups to the endowment funds, and investment in R&D.

A deficit-abhorring government endorsing this budget?

PM Lee assured the House that the Government will be able to finance this deficit from funds accumulated in its current term and will not need to draw on past reserves.

Well...at least they are sticking to their guns on not touching the reserves.



I love Election Budgets. now now, if only democracy works every year instead of 4...

poor NUS

From an email this morning......

Hi,

You have received an eCard from NUS Office of Alumni Relations.
Click here to view your eCard now!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Office of Alumni Relations
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This is all very sweet. except of course, I received this on 17th Feb' 2006.
Wow, even with technology, an E-card can be mailed 2 months late.
Outstanding.

But i guess I shouldn't be particular about such stuff. After all, they have many, many graduates. It must be hard working drafting each e-card personally, you know, writing the greetings, putting the cards in the envelope, pasting the stamps....oh wait...

uhm. well, to type out all those email addresses!! it must be a labourious process! (i'm not the only ex-NUS students to receive this late e-card).

no wonder they need to increase the tuition fees........

So far, some students have called for an EGM (Extra-ordinary General Meeting), called on the resignation of NUSSU's team, a letter in the Straits Times Forum was published (17th Feb'2006), highlighting the wasteful expeditures spent on the centennial celebrations, the absence of the "mysterious resources" that NUS had justified the tuition fees hikes for.

I heard there was a mass "Wear Black in Protest" day on campus.

I am not very good at such things, but if any NUSSU, sorry, I mean NUS-students-who-are-planning-to-overrun-NUSSU-and-replace-them people, if u happen to read this blog, i humbly suggest a mascot.




maybe we can have a Ninja turtle, u know, coz turtles can live more than 100 years old, very fitting for the NUS-100yo celebration. Also Ninja, because they are very good at *stealth*.

before u know it, there is a fee hike, u know, to pay for a new building, with koi pond and all that, so that students can learn better coz their administrators will be more relaxed and happy.
administrators very important ok!!


oh wait. I just learnt from here that Ninja turtles are already the mascots of NTU.
Ninja Turtle University (NTU).

I guess we can always use one of the archrivals of the ninja turtles (NUS always dun like NTU mah)....wat? Shredder?? NO LAH. Shredder way too cool for NUS.

I humbly suggest....



Rocksteady the rhino!

it would be very good coz, uuhhh..... coz from the previous post, one of my blogder requested for a dead rhino (as opposed to dead plants) for Valentine next year. since I have no idea where to find a rhino, perhaps a dead rhino mascot would be nice.

beside if she doesn't like a fake rhino, i can always give the dead mascot to Xiaxue.
i think she would love a dead mascot.

dead plants

guys only worry abt 2 things.

1) no woman.

2) got woman.
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i wonder who's the first person who decided to declare his love with a brunch of dead plants.

maybe one caveman can't get any food for the day, and so cleverly he grabbed some dead plants. and of course we know flowers taste like shit. he probably passed them to his wife:

"whoo, look, i got a clump of vegetables that tastes gross. here wife. give u. do something with it."

and woman, as we know, probably think its a nice gesture when all we know is that its not really delicious.


in fact, why stop at dead plants? to prove my superiority over other men, i shld give a dead animal! yup, nxt valentine day, i shall provide a dead cat or something.

i can't wait.

Anyhow collection

AXN gonna organise the Amazing Race, Asian edition. Oh wow. but the prize is only 10% of the Americans'. What to do. Asians, cheap wad. $100,000 then no need to work at Nike factory liao.

Any friends of mine who are interested in applying with me?
We can go as brokeback brothers, or if you're female, friends-with-benefits.

see? i keep up with latest urban slang via urbandictionary.com
i so hip.

K k, seriously, those who are interested in joining, read this for details.
Please email me if you like me enough. :)
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i saw a discarded bouquet of flowers, along with a bag of personal belongings, at the staircase near my home. the flowers are dried, but still in proper shape, maybe about 2 weeks to 1 month old.
my guess is that someone flung it out of her house.

boo. looks like someone is spending valentine day alone.
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some engineer friend of mine, talking to a female colleague.

girl: hw r u? u seem upset recently.
friend: i guess i watched too much porn recently. haha.
friend: just kidding lah.

friend: there can never be too much porn! hahaha.

girl: eh i think u must take care of urself.
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As a tribute to my another engineer friend, Redundant, who left for Taiwan on a 2 years working trip.
this sms was sent on the eve of the Chinese New Year. (the previous year was a Roaster Year)
i pondered earlier whether to write down this joke coz of its *ahem* strong language, but hey, Redundant, we're gonna miss you......

Happy cny! 我们一起跟鸡年说再见 1-2-3 鸡bye

All my friends very clever one.

blogged an entire entry abt lack of motivations or purposes in blogging, and the ONLY courtesy regard i received from a friend (i received much more from online friends via comments) is regarding this line.

"i can't bitch abt my friends because they are stupid."

blah.
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i don't like to hang out with people who are too clever. you feel strangled at times. yucky.

一山不能藏二虎

but i suppose most pple can't understand this pain. HAHA.

actually I choose my friends well, for example, in order to test whether they meet my minimum IQ limits to be a friend, i would ask them this question....

"Captain Klamus in medieval Europe was famous for 3 trips to Africa. He died in 1 of the trips. Which one?"

Of course if my friend is not very good in history, i would change the question.

Endless Blog

when i first blogged at livejournal, it was very personal.

when I moved to blogger, i told myself. Less me, More craps.

The more craps, the more readers would enjoy.
The less me, the less negative my life would be.

Depressingly Livejournal became a cheerful evolon.
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As the river flow, some parts of me got in.

abt school.
abt work.

but readers dun like work-related blogs, i feel.
its booorrrrrring.

i can't bitch abt my sex life eh, coz i dun hv any.
i can't bitch abt my love life eh, coz i dun hv any.
i can't bitch abt my company because i work for them.
i can't bitch abt my rival companies because i work for mine.
i can't bitch abt my boss because one day something will lead to this blog.
i can't bitch abt my colleages because blah blah blah.
i can't bitch abt my clients coz my business depends on them.

i can't bitch abt my friends because they are stupid.


i'm getting bored of blogging. -.-



Endless? [pic taken from the spinneè loungè]

Some religions are more equal than others

We are all Danes now

HINDUS CONSIDER it sacrilegious to eat meat from cows, so when a Danish supermarket ran a sale on beef and veal last fall, Hindus everywhere reacted with outrage. India recalled its ambassador to Copenhagen, and Danish flags were burned in Calcutta, Bombay, and Delhi. A Hindu mob in Sri Lanka severely beat two employees of a Danish-owned firm, and demonstrators in Nepal chanted: ''War on Denmark! Death to Denmark!"In many places, shops selling Dansk china or Lego toys were attacked by rioters, and two Danish embassies were firebombed.

it didn't happen, of course.
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World Peace!

The world doesn't belong to 1 culture.

Outraged Muslims! Oh My!

"Muslim outrage huh. OK ... let's do a little historical review. Just some lowlights:

• Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City. No Muslim outrage.
• Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning building because their faces were exposed. No Muslim outrage.
• Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged girls on their way to school in Indonesia. A Christian school. No Muslim outrage.
• (...more)
  
  Newspapers in Denmark and Norway publish cartoons depicting Mohammed. Muslims are outraged.

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Offensive Cartoons

The interesting thing is that there are regularly far more offensive and violently anti-semitic cartoons in the arab press LINK. And racist and religiously offensive lies are viewed as entertainment in the muslim world LINK. The hypocrisy is galling, and the threats of violence are an anathema to anyone who cares about freedom.
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Democracy in a Cartoon

Unless, we show some solidarity, unashamed, noisy, public solidarity with the Danish cartoonists, then the forces that are trying to impose on the Free West a totalitarian ideology will have won; the Islamization of Europe will have begun in earnest. Do not apologize.

This raises another more general problem: the inability of the West to defend itself intellectually and culturally. Be proud, do not apologize. Do we have to go on apologizing for the sins our fathers? Do we still have to apologize, for example, for the British Empire, when, in fact, the British presence in India led to the Indian Renaissance, resulted in famine relief, railways, roads and irrigation schemes, eradication of cholera, the civil service, the establishment of a universal educational system where none existed before, the institution of elected parliamentary democracy and the rule of law? What of the British architecture of Bombay and Calcutta? The British even gave back to the Indians their own past: it was European scholarship, archaeology and research that uncovered the greatness that was India; it was British government that did its best to save and conserve the monuments that were a witness to that past glory. British Imperialism preserved where earlier Islamic Imperialism destroyed thousands of Hindu temples.

This is one of the better article. If you can read only 1 article a day, do read this (democracy in a cartoon)
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Support Danes. Buy Danish! (link here, and here)



Delicious Danish butter cookies.
Carlsberg Beer
Lurpak Butter
LEGO

Just some of the wonderful products we can buy in Singapore.