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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