Singapore PM to earn almost 2 million dollars -- after pay cut

Agence France-Presse - 11/24/2008 12:05 PM GMT
http://www.msn.com.sg/

Singapore's prime minister is to lose 19 percent of his salary because of the global economic turmoil but will still earn almost two million US dollars a year, a report said Monday.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, his cabinet, and other senior administrators will see their pay cut by up to 19 percent next year because of salary components linked to the city-state's economic growth, The Straits Times website reported.

Singapore is in recession and the government said the economy could contract next year.
"In view of the clouded economic outlook and the likelihood that salaries will be lower next year, the government has decided to defer the January 2009 salary adjustment," the report quoted the Public Service Commission as saying.

The Commission could not be immediately reached for comment.

With the pay cut, Lee will earn 3.04 million dollars (1.99 million US) a year, while ministers will see an 18 percent drop to 1.57 million dollars, The Straits Times said.

Rare public fury erupted in April 2007 when the government announced salary hikes for politicians and senior officials. In response, Lee said the government would pay him the higher salary but he would "donate" the increase "to suitable good causes" for five years.

The White House said at the time that US President George W. Bush got paid 400,000 dollars per year for doing his job.

Singapore officials have said high salaries are necessary to recruit and retain talented individuals, and to prevent corruption.

Teo Chee Hean, the minister in charge of the civil service, said the government last year introduced the mechanism linking a significant proportion of senior civil servants' salaries to economic performance, a system which is working as planned.

"Public sector salaries follow the market up and down," The Straits Times quoted him as saying. "This mechanism allows salaries to respond more rapidly to market conditions."

Lets see. $3 million a year works out to $250000 a month and an average of $8333 a day. If we go further, our PM earns $374.20 per hour. Where in the world can we find a job that pays by the hundreds every hourly? You know where.

See, thats why I was comtemplating whether or not to join the civil service. You serve in the glory of the nation, its a more or less stable career (unless someone comes along to invade us) and once you reach a certain position, you can start practicing the art of Taichi. Above all, the job pays you good money. Heh. Go brandon go! I am rooting for you. You have become a potential candidate for the position of CP!

I went to sleep at 10pm yesterday thinking that its about time for me to start sleeping at normal hours instead of wee hours. When I woke up again, I thought it was tuesday morning already. I checked the time, it was tuesday morning all right... but its 12am. What felt like a 12 hours sleep is only a 2 hours nap. Damn. But what to do? I have been perpetually sleeping at wee hours for the past month. Obviously it will take time for my body to adjust.

But I am starting to feel the side effects already --- feeling lethargic even during the day, going to sleep between 2am-4am and waking up at 9am - 10am, no motivation to do constructive work when awake, can't sleep in the afternoon even if i wanted to, drop in neurological processing and generally just behaving like a bear during hibernation. In other words, I am not getting enough sleep!

If only I could tweak my biological clock like how I can adjust my alarm clock. That would have save me alot of trouble! But if thats the case, people will be hoping to replace damaged body parts like how they repair damaged machines with spare parts. Haha. Not a bad idea really.

While most others are having Monday blues in their offices, I am playing RED ALERT 3 at home! Its a fun game. Really. It will be even more fun if I can play online with friends. So, go get a copy of the game and lets play online together!

The day of the Shogun has arrived!

All hail the Great Motherland!

1 month after I cleared leave and 10 days after I ORDed - I am still jobless. Money's no longer coming in but yet it continues to go out. Not to mention that our world class ever almighty garment still owns me half a month of pay. Its not like I didn't try looking for a job. I did and I even went down to the recruitment agency for an interview. But that was 10 days ago and I still haven't gotten any news from them. Probably raymond was right. Its the recession now. DBS retrenched 900 and NOL, 1000. What makes me think I am better than these 1900 white collar workers? My insanely hostile attitude towards that Land of Pigs perhaps. Whatever it is, I need to get a job, pronto. Otherwise I might end up eating myself literally.

My "G" button just popped out of my keyboard.
GGGGGGGGGgggggggggggggggggGGGGGGGGGgggggggggg
ok. thank goodness the button is still working.

the world continues to move even while I am still at a standstill, gradually becoming a Singapore Idle. I must make haste. Its a canine-makan-canine world.

Janos Baranyai was trying to snatch 148kg(326lbs) in his third lift in the men's 77-kg division...





















... when his elbow popped out of socket.

No longer able to support the weight of the barbell, his right forearm bent backward. The 24-year-old Hungarian fell to the floor in shock, shaking and crying out in pain. If you want, the video is posted below:

A movie series that has span 22 films over 48 years. If it was any other movie, the audience would probably be bored to death by the never-ending clinche plot (if, there are any audiences) and the director would most probably be paying for the production out of his own pockets.

But its a James Bond movie we are talking about here. Like a fine bottle of wine, the longer you keep it, the mellower it gets. James Bond is a legend. Legends live on forever.

The latest installment of the franchise, Quantum of Solace only gets better. The plot revolves around Bond hunting down the culprits responsible for the death of his lover, Vesper (from Casino Royale) and how he matures as person during this process. Memsmerized by the film, I did a brief research on former James Bond movies and was surprised to discover that Pierce Bronsnan was not the first James Bond.

Dr. No, 1962 - Sean Connery

From Russia With Love, 1963 - Sean Connery

Goldfinger, 1964 - Sean Connery

Thunderball, 1965 - Sean Connery

You Only Live Twice, 1967 - Sean Connery

On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1969 - George Lazenby

Diamonds Are Forever, 1971 - Sean Connery

Live and Let Die, 1973 - Roger Moore

The Man with the Golden Gun, 1974 - Roger Moore

The Spy who Loved Me, 1977 - Roger Moore

Moonraker, 1979 - Roger Moore

For Your Eyes Only, 1981 - Roger Moore

Octopussy, 1983 - Roger Moore

A View to Kill, 1985 - Roger Moore

The Living Daylights, 1987 - Timothy Dalton

Licence to Kill, 1989 - Timothy Dalton

Goldeneye, 1995 - Pierce Brosnan

Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997 - Pierce Brosnan

The World is not Enough, 1999 - Pierce Brosnan

Die Another Day, 2002 - Pierce Brosnan with Madonna as his fencing instructor

Casino Royale, 2006 - Daniel Craig

Quantum of Solace, 2008 - Daniel Craig

Brutal Butcher, 2009 - CJ Yong

Fuck china the chee bai country.

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All chinese from that country are freaking dumbasses that has no brains and even if they do, their cognitive abilities are limited to only COPYING and MEMORISING.

Stulut shit from that shithole that comes to our country only knows how to mug and memorise and then steal all our scholarships and top academic honours. These shitbags are nothing but just retards with good paper results.

to hell with that country of pigs. if i can have my way they are all going to die.

What is love?

A B C D E F G...

Patience. Remember what you are waiting for.
Time is on my side...

I've been looking too hard
I've been waiting too long
Sometimes i don't know what i will find
I only know it's a matter of time

All right.

I am feeling somewhat saddistic tonight so I decided to watch Saw4 (UNRATED) which I dl-ed a few days ago. I was expecting alot of gore but it turns out that the 4th installment of the movie is more on expanding the very-chim plot of Jigsaw and his legacy than depicting the gruesome deaths of his victims (those who does not cherish their lives). Nonetheless, whats Saw without gore?

If you like, you might want to consider these new methods of suicide....



So, the film started with an extremely graphic autopsy of somebody. It is truly gruesome. Everything is shown in full details; the incision of the head and chest, removal of the skull, removal of the brain, peeling apart the layers of skin etc. The DVD quality of my movie made it even clearer. The white lump being removed is the stomach.



This woman was actually killed in Saw 3 but they explained more about her in this installment. See the claw like thing with pieces of meat hanging on it on the left side? There are actually 2 of these claws and they were initially attached to the woman's ribcage; one on the left and another on the right. When she failed her "test", the two claw just ripped her ribcage out. Ouch!



This is a Chinese classic. Five horse split body. Except that they Jigsaw did not use any horses in this case. The metal structures around the bed is meant to be attached to the victim's limbs. The victim's head is also attached to an "eye digger" device. In this case, the victim has a choice; he may sacrifice his eyes using the eye digger device in exchange for his life. Otherwise, once 60 seconds is up, the metal structures will automatically rip him apart.


As you can see, the victim tried but failed to sacrifice both eyes within 60 seconds... he only managed one. Anyway, the officer is not talking to the victim in the first picture. He is bending down to observe his lifeless corpse. See if you can find the hands and legs.





This, I must say, is a really innovative way of killing. The metal spikes in their bodies are pierced in such a way that they pass through vital artery lines in the men's body but non-vital parts in the women's. In order to survive, the woman just need to pull out the spikes one by one and let the men bleed to death immediately. After that, she will be free to escape. Otherwise, both of them can just stand there and slowly bleed to death together. The men is something like a sacrificial piece, whatever the women decides, he will still die.



The picture tells a thousand words. Use your imagination.

At the end of the show, I was at a lost. I totally lost track of what is going on. It is really chim. Saw4 tries to explain more of Jigsaw's intention but the knowledge of what transpired in Saw3, Saw2 and maybe Saw1 is required before you can understand Saw4. As a matter of fact, there is a scene in Saw4 which is the beginning of a scene in Saw3; they are occurring concurrently. I would not have catch that if I didn't read the plot on Wikipedia after watching the movie.

Saw5 is coming out. Hopefully it won't be as chim as Saw4.

People always say hope is what get us through the most difficult moments of our lives. Nonsense.

Reality isn't so kind. Things do not always go the way you want them to. Have too high an expectation and you will be smacked hard in your face when reality strikes. So keep your hopes low. It would be less painful that way. Although I can put it that way, it is still in human nature to hope for the best. We may deny something but deep down, we know that we yearn for it.

I would often paint a perfect picture for myself. I would tell myself "I can do it", "Things will go according to plan" and the likes to console myself. That was the hope I gave myself. I truly hoped and believed that I can do it. Then, the cruel hands of Fate came and ripped my picture to shreds, dashing my hope once and for all. The feeling of dejection that comes with the destruction is too excruciating to bear. I will realize how naive I am to have such thoughts of success.

It really hurts to be smacked in the face. Really. But even though I have been smacked several times before, I still choose to hope for the best. Even now, when I know that chances are low.

How many more times must I be woken up from my dreams by the knock of Reality's hand?

PS: I am not emo.
PS: I just have too much on my mind.
PS: Hmmm, I can be rather artsy fartsy if I want to.
PS: Eating too much pringles make you mouth dry.

You might have defeated me, but you now have an entire empire shouting for vengeance!

Hmmm, I wonder if I will ever get to say this line.
Having spent so much time idling at home, I have come to realise that my Imperialistic ambitions grows stronger with each passing day.

I already have everything planned out in my head.

I am going to make so much money that I can crumple many $10,000 bills and throw them at people for fun on a daily basis. With my unlimited wealth, I am going to sway and influence and ultimately control a certain very powerful country. Once I am in control, I am going to establish close diplomatic relations with some other powerful countries as well. When I have these countries under my thumb, I am going to find some way to merge them all together to create my own empire - the Scarlet Moon Empire. Of course, I will crown myself the Emperor. Once everything is in place, I am going to get my war mahine rolling.

First off, to quench my insatiable appetite for durians and more durians, I am going to invade and conquer a certain durian producing country. After which, I am going to gather the entire populace of that country and ship them off somewhere to be used as guinea pigs for my weapons testing etc. I will then turn that entire country into a gigantic durian plantation. OMG. I can't wait for my endless supply of durians.

Once I have my fill of durians I will start conquering the world. At the end of the day, my empire will encompass the entire Earth. Once that is done, I can proudly hold my head up high and declare that the Sun never sets on the Scarlet Moon Empire!

But, even though I might be the most powerful man by then, it will definitely get boring after sometime. So, I want some challenge. Somewhere in my vast empire, a hero will emerge to overthrow my regime. Eventually, he will gather enough manpower to fight me and in some epic final battle, I will be defeated.

During my final moments, with the bullets from his Carbine in my body, I will tell this hero:

"Well done. You may have defeated me but now, you have an entire empire shouting for vengeance!" and then I will "Mwahahahaha" to death.

After that, my empire will crumble and there will be many many uprisings in different lands. Soon, Earth will be split up into many different nations again.

End of story.

I will go down in history as the first and ONLY ONE man to ever conquer Earth. Sweet.
I also get to say my line and I get my durians too. No other better way to end my life.

With that said, its about time I stop dreaming and start working!

A somewhat psychotic conversation which I had with my friends earlier on spark off this creation of mine.

Ha! My mini Pikachu collection.

My script for tomorrow:

Hello everyone. How time flies. A year ago, I was on Pulau Tekong digging sanitary holes during my field camp. After that I underwent several months of police training at HTA and then here I am today, attending this ORD ceremony with all of you.

I am Cheng Jin and I am the OC Security. I am sure you have seen me around at one point or another in the division. My main role is to supervise the daily operations of the DSU officers.
This OC Security posting is actually a new posting for the OCTs. It is one of the several new frontline postings which are given to us in addition to the usual staff postings. In essence, we are the running pilot trials for these new postings.

To be a supervisor is something totally new for me because I never held any leadership position back when I was in school. I did not work any outside jobs before as well. So I was rather apprehensive when I was posted here. I do not know where I should start from. It was all Ground Zero for me. Fortunately for me, I have a very experienced colleague sitting next to me in the office. Our DSO Lawrence was formerly the OC Security way before me. He showed me the ropes and will assist me to solve any problems which I ran into. He is something like the behind the scenes man, supporting me from the dark. Then there is also my boss, ASP Ben who will drop me a couple of pointers every now and then as well.

Being a supervisor is definitely not easy. I must manage my men well so that they can keep the operations going. I need to deal with issues such as their welfare, morale as well as to look after those officers that are not so well off at home. Furthermore, the NS environment within my unit makes matters more challenging. Because all my officers are NSFs, I cannot choose who I want. Whatever Head PNS posts to my unit, I will have to take them in. Good or bad, willing or unwilling, they have all become my DSU officers. It is then my responsibility to do whatever I need to do to make them valuable assets to my unit.

Other than managerial skills, I also learned about the security system of our division, such as card access, CCTV just to name a few. The knowledge of these security systems are useful skills which might be helpful to me in future.

One of the more important lessons which I have learned is the responsibility which I shoulder as a supervisor. As a supervisor, I need to answer to my superiors and I have to be accountable for my subordinate’s actions. Sometimes, I may be given a demanding task. At times, my subordinates may give me problems. Whatever it is, I will need to solve the problems one way or the other. Of course, I am not saying that all superiors are mean and all subordinates are problematic. With the small trove of experience which I have accumulated over the past year, I believe I will be able to tackle any problems which I may face in future more effectively.

With that said, it was an enriching year I spent in Delta.

May I now invite all of you to stand up, look yourselves in the mirror and FUCK YOUR FACE!

"No matter how good public transport is, no matter how much it runs like clockwork, it will NEVER be a match for a car."

- Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear

Well said Mr Clarkson. This is the irrefutable truth!

哦 人类！能够将世人弄瞎的爱到底是何等之物？

(O mortals! What is love that blinds beyond life on Earth?)

Fate, how can you be so cruel?

You brought her into my life. When we set eyes upon each other for the first time, we knew that we were the right ones for each other. Since that fateful day, we had many joyous moments together. Our Love grows deeper and deeper with each passing day. Those days I spent with her were the happiest days of my life. I felt so fortunate. I felt that I was in paradise. I will walk with her through the endless flow of time, ageing gracefully and dying peacefully eventually. Nothing else matters... as long as I have her by my side.

Just when I am about to pledge my everlasting promise to look after her you took her away from me. FATE! How could you be such a bastard?

Why bring her to me when you will take her away from me again? Why? Is it so that you can watch me spend the remaining of my life in agony? Is it because you derive pleasure from others' sorrow? What gives you the right to do what you want with our lives!

Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! How could you!

OK. Please don't be mistaken. This is just a short anecdote I thought of to summarize "Nights of Rodanthe".

It - is - a - very - loving - movie.

Lovers are strongly advised to catch this movie. It will strengthen the love between you and him/her. Also look out for Richard Gere's smooth silky silver hair ('',)

"Fustuarium" was a Roman military form of execution by clubbing, which was imitated by later armies.

Since laxness on guard duty or desertion could endanger the entire corps and even the Roman state, a slacking soldier was liable to be found as unworthy of the uniform, stripped, and beaten to death with sticks by his comrades, whose trust he had betrayed, as a collective exercise of ultimate discipline (power!) against what could be considered as passive equivalents of high treason.

So cruel. No wonder the Roman Army managed to conquer half of Europe. Singapore? Wait long long. We don't get occupied very good already!

Money is the root of all Evil. Money makes the world goes round. Cash is King. Money is not everything but you are nothing without money.

These are the most common descriptions about money which I've heard since young.
Money money money.

It is really such a strange thing.
I remembered when I was young, I did not worry about money. Not at all. My parents were the ones keeping the book for me. They will decide what I need to buy and what I don't. Of course, as a child then, I simply obeyed my parents.

Then I started schooling and my parents started giving me allowances everyday. I had more freedom to choose how I want to spend my money now. Is it that bowl of wanton mee to exorcise my hunger during recess or that pack of trading cards after school to duel my friends with? I don't know if its just me or everyone else but once we have the priviledge to choose, I tend to become unsure of what I want.

That is when I realise that I do not have enough.

If I get this, I won't be able to get that. Maybe I should just get both of them but wait, I do not have enough money. When I don't have enough, I will wish that I have more.

But it is alright. Things are still manageable back then. After all, the things which I wanted as a schooling teenager were not exhorbitantly expensive. With a thrifty mindset and some coaxing skills, sometimes I can still get what I want.

As I grow older, I began to feel that it is inappropriate to keep drawing allowances from my parents. It might sound embarassing but I only stopped taking money from my parents after JC. But it was only then that I understand that I should work for what I want. No more spoon-feeding. Time to get my ass to work. I am no longer a teenager.

Naturally, the things which I desire are becoming more expensive; cell phones, gaming consoles, branded stuff, good food, cars etc. With a minuscule amount of monthly income now (courtesy of the Singapore government), it is clear that I cannot satisfy what I want. This is when I understand the mojo of money; it fulfills your desires. Maybe not all, but definitely part of it.

However, like a double-edged sword, money, or rather the lack of it, can be the source of your woes too. During this past year, I have come to understand that you are nobody until you become somebody and one of the things that can make you a somebody is money. Lesser money not only means lesser material comfort but also changes your stature.

Oh would you look at that fellow. Look at those clothes he is wearing. Giordano? Hang Ten? No no, I bet it is some cheap stuff from a bargain store. He must be a poor fart! Ha ha!

I am sure you must have had such bad experience at one point of another in your life. You are being criticized for not being able to afford expensive things. In other words, for being un-wealthy. What is wrong with being a person who has an average income? Nothing! With all due respect, we are the backbone of our country's economy mind you! Sadly, the problem lies with our society. This society, with its Elites (you know, those people with many money and thinks they are the Oracle), is too quick to judge and will not hesistate to stereotype blindly. Suddenly, having a luck of money is no longer an individual's problem. Instead, it has become the society's. Then again, I guess it is the same everywhere else. So there is no point complaining.

So, I am going to work hard. Earn many money. And I really mean many. So much that I can burn $10,000 bills for fun. Seriously, it feels abyssmal to be belittled and criticized by others. I am going to show them!

Funny. When I was a kid, I used to believe that it is alright to live a mundane life. There is no need to bother about what others say. Everything is fine as long as I am happy. But that is no longer the case now. People really change.

Life as a kid is so much better. I do not have to worry about anything because my parents are always there to handle everything for me. I wish I could go back in time.

But everyone has to grow up eventually.

Our then Chief of Army Major General Desmond Kwek (now Chief of Defence Force, LG Kwek) only has 3 medals while the Army Chief of India has like... 20? Note that he has so many medals that they has to be stacked on one another. Even so, he still doesnt have enough space on his left chest for his medals; they "spill" over to his right chest.

Is India embroiled in so many wars that there are so many medals of recognition to be given out? I wonder. Are the medals "quantity" in nature or really are of some "quality"?

Even the guard standing at the background has more medals than our LG Kwek. I guess Indian soldiers are really man of valour that are willing to sacrifice their life for India.

What could be worse than being forced to swallow down a piece of your own shit?

When you are forced to swallow 2 pieces instead!

WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~

As you go about your lives everyday, do take a break from your hectic schedule for a brief moment and consider the following:

There are 2 days in every week that we should not worry about. 2 days that should be kept from fear and apprehension.

The first is "yesterday", with its mistakes and flaws, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.
Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a certain act or take back a word we said. Yesterday is gone forever.

The other day which we should not worry about is "tomorrow", with its impossible adversaries, its burdens, its hopeful promises and poor performances. Tomorrow's Sun will rise either in splendour or behind a mask of clouds. Whichever it is, the Sun will still rise and until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow for it is yet unknown.

This leaves only one day; "today". Any person can fight the battle for just one day. It is only when we add the burdens of yesterday and tomorrow that we break down. The sadness comes not only from the experience of today but the remorse of bitterness which happened yesterday and the dread of what tomorrow may bring.

Yes, sometimes life might throw unpleasant things at you but do keep in mind that you are not the only one at the receiving end. When reality bites, we must endure and move on. It is ok to feel sad but never be depressed. Ultimately, life still goes on. Keep that in mind when you go about completing your never-ending workload everyday.

I am too free now to be bothered with these kind of things.

Our Mr. Boon Boon has been elected the President of INTERPOL today in Saint Petersburg. We can hope to see more action during his 4 years tenure.

MOSCOW: Singapore Police Commissioner Khoo Boon Hui was elected the new president of INTERPOL on Friday, the international police organisation said.

Delegates chose Khoo at the end of the general assembly of the 187—country police organisation in Saint Petersburg, Russia, INTERPOL said in a statement on its website.

"As the organisation’s new president, I will build on the progress we have made thus far and ensure INTERPOL can better meet the demands of international policing in the 21st century," Khoo was quoted as saying in the statement.

"INTERPOL plays a critical role in international police co—operation by equipping police forces around the world with the necessary infrastructure, training and operational support to combat transnational crime and terrorism," said Khoo.

Khoo replaces South Africa’s chief of police Jackie Selebi, who resigned in January after prosecutors announced their intention to charge him over his links to a businessman accused of murder.

Khoo will serve a four—year term as president of INTERPOL’s executive committee, in addition to his existing duties as commissioner of the Singapore Police Force.

He will be based in Singapore.

INTERPOL, which stands for the International Criminal Police Organisation, has 187 member countries. It facilitates cross—border police cooperation and helps organisations fight international crime.

- Yahoo News

哦, 我的天!
比尔斯.波斯南的声音没想到是那么的好听! 虽然他已过五十大关, 满头白发, 但他仍然宝刀位老, 还是那么的帅, 那么的潇洒。

要是我年老之后能像他那样那该有多好啊！

Fansubs:

OMG!

Pierce Brosnan has a really good voice! Even though he is already 50 years old and has a head full of white hair, he has not lost his flair. He still looks good and charismatic.

If only I can be like him when I am old!

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Sheez, it took me 12 minutes to type the chinese passage and less than 1 minute to translate that passage into english. Am I still a bilingual person like the government(MOE) certified me to be? I wonder...

But I am definitely not trilingual. I haven't even master mandarin and english yet! When am I ever going to learn a third language! Am I going to keep procrastinating forever?

1st november is coming soon. whoever you are, please be warned!

Anyway, Mr Pierce Brosnan does have a good voice IMHO. Check out the song he sang in 妈妈咪呀(Mamma Mia) which I uploaded.

They survived with mothers who have no maids. Their moms cooked and cleaned while taking care of them at the same time. They took aspirin, fizzy drinks, candy floss, shaved ice with syrup and diabetes were rare. Salt added to Pepsi or Coke was remedy for fever. There were no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets at that time. And when they rode their bicycle, they had no helmets.

As children, they would ride with their parents on motorcycle/bicycles. Richer ones will be travelling in cars with no air bags. Riding in the back of a taxi was a special treat. They drank from taps and not bottles. They can spend hours under bright sunlight flying kites, never having to worry about UV rays, which never seem to affect them anyway. they went into jungles to catch spiders without worries about Aedes mosquitoes. 5 pebbles would be an endless game for them and a tennis ball alone will generate hours of fun for the young imaginative minds. They caught guppies in drains and canals and when it rains they swam there.

They share a bottle of soft drink with 4 friends and nobody worried about being unhygenic. They ate salty food, sweet food, very oily food, candies, bread with real butter and drank very sweet soft drinks, ice kachang but they were not overweight because they were always outside playing. They would leave home in the morning and play all day till the streetlights came on. Nobody was able to reach them all day and they were fine on their own. They would spends hours repairing their scooters/bicycles out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to realise that they forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, they learned to solve the problem.

There were no such things as Playstation, Nintendo DS, PSP, internet, PC, Xbox360, cable TV or handphones back them. Instead, they had real friends and they went out to find them. They fell down from trees, got cut, broke bones/teeth and they still continued their stunts. They never had birthday parties till they were 21. They rode bikes or just walked to theirr friend's house and just yelled for them. The idea of parents bailing them out when they broke the law was unheard of. Parents actually sided with the law back then.

This were how the children in the past led their lives.

Look at how our society has changed today. Are we getting too pampered already?
Parents rush to defend their children against the slightest form of accusation. They pamper their little emperors and empresses so that they can have a "good life". Is that really the case? Or are such treatments actually detrimental to the young ones?

Hardships are necessary ingredients for a successful life. I look forward to our next generation of leaders.

I am tired of hearing news which warns us about harmful side effects of certain products with the most recent one being plastic utensils.

Plastic contains BPA, a chemical which is suspected to cause brain dysfunction and mood disorders. Under curcumstances where you purchase a plastic container solely for decorative purposes, there is no way the BPA can get into your body. However, I believe most of us uses plastic containers to hold our food so that we can eat them. Heres the catch; food contains acids which will gradually break down the BPA inside the plastic and when the BPA goes into the food, we will ingest them together with whatever we are eating. Similarly, microwaving and washing plastic containers with detergent and warm water will also contribute to this BPA breaking down process.

SO, for our health's sake, we have been advised to use glass containers.

What now? Are we supposed to exchange all our plastic containers to glass containers? No, definitely not. These kind of reports come and go. Who knows, one year down the road, some researchers will realise that actually there are microscopic glass shards inside these glass containers which will cut up our organs if we ingest them. So we should switch to metal containers instead. No, wait! The metallic atoms inside the metal containers will gradually get detached one by one and get ingested by us. This increases the chance of CANCER! Stop using metal containers at once.

What then? Use our hands like those people living near the Indian Ocean? No! STOP! Our hands are full of bacteria. Stop killing yourself!

Goodness. This is endless.

First, chocolate is bad for our health. Suddenly, someone realises something and dark chocolate is good for our health. Alcohol is bad for health but red wine helps reduce the risk of cancer. We should drink as much water as possible as it is good for health. But now, drink too much and we risk getting water intoxicated. If something were to be harmful to us, then why market them in the first place? Isnt it just so that some megacorps can earn heaps upon heaps of fortune from consumerism?

Ultimately, if we have the intelligence and discipline to take everything in moderation, nothing will affect us. I just feel that these reports are being generated just so somebody can be recognized for their works. In other words, redundant information.

Seriously, why is our world so shallow?

Steven Spielberg's blockbuster "War of the Worlds" epitomizes the philosophical conundrum of Are we alone out there?

It depicts the existance of highly-advanced intelligent alien beings which inhabitated another part of the universe way before we humans existed on Earth. Then, for some unknown reason, the aliens invaded us in 2005 and almost brought about our extinction. Luckily, it is just a movie. We are not an endangered species yet.

So, are we really alone out there? Could there really be some other sentient beings living across our galaxy, trying to figure out whether are they really alone as well? What if, say, these sentient beings do exist but are not so far away from us actually. They might be living amongst ourselves, on the same planet; but on a different plane parallel to ours. I am talking about the Demonic World.

Aiya. Screw it. Just go watch Devil May Cry. It is a good anime and is only 12 episodes long. I am running out of creative juice.

NEVER EAT AT CAFE CARTEL AT MARINA SQUARE. THEIR SERVICE IS ATROCIOUS AND THE FOOD IS HORRENDOUSLY INEDIBLE. HOWEVER, IF YOU ARE A TYPICAL SINGAPOREAN, YOU CAN GO AND EAT THEIR FREE FLOW BREAD.

The Eagle Eye is another movie dealing with an Artificial Intelligence that became so smart that it outwitted their creators and attempts to destroy humanity for a greater cause. In Eagle Eye's case however, the AI only wishes to destroy the existing American Government and replace the political vacuum with another administration which is more benevolent and credible(George Bush? Evil ruler? You must be crazy to think that!)

Ariah, the AI featured in Eagle Eye, believes that the current American Government has become corrupted and is no longer capable of executing its function in a rational manner. Therefore, in the name of the Constitution of the United States, Article 34, Section 147, Clause 12, Line 1: "When the Government fails to operate in the benefit of the Nation, the People will have the right to overthrow them", Ariah started plotting to kill the entire American top brass. Despite being a super AI, Ariah does not understand the Constitution. The Constitution clearly states that only the PEOPLE has the right. She is just a piece of inorganic machinery. But whatever.

Using her super-intelligence and state of the art technology imbued in her, Ariah managed to take control of 2 humans and forced them to do her bidding. But, as you all might already know, Ariah was still destroyed ultimately (even with her seemingly infinitely powerful technology) and the 2 humans lived happily ever after. End of story. If you liked movies like iRobots, Resident Evil and Matrix, then its probably ok for you to catch this movie.

A full set of Nachos and half a tub of popcorn will leave a funny stinging aftertaste in your mouth.


No, this is not the movie poster.
Yes, this is an Eagle.




The movie poster for Eagle Eye

I decided to utilize my free time to do some scientific experiments so as to trigger my brain cells to think and learn.

I took a bunch of newspaper and burnt them in my toilet bowl. Thereafter, I cleared the ashes and stains and recorded my findings:

1. Ceramics absorbs and retain heat well. My ceramic toilet bowl is warm even after I flushed it.

2. Hot air rises and brings stench away. Before the burning, my toilet was very smelly. After the burning, I can only smell smoke.

After the experiment, I took a leak and half way through my leak, a jolt went through my body. It felt good. At that point, a thought suddenly struck me: "Do women experience this jolt when peeing too?" My subsequent thoughts are not suitable to published so I will just stop here.

Not bad. A little exercise for my brain.

Many people told me that I need to grow up. Heeding the advices of these people, I decided to start by changing my blogskin. I bade goodbye to my beloved Pikachu skin and used one which is more appropriate for my age.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

I am making an effort.

Its 1.30am now. What could be more suitable than a ghost story at this kind of time?
Well, fret not. I am just going to write about this particular place of 'interest' that caught my attention while I was Google-ing for the term 'ghosts'.

Please don't blame me. Freedom at hand.

Anyway, this place is in Japan. More specifically, at the foot of Mount Fuji. Its called the Aokigahara Jukai (青木ケ原樹海), otherwise more commonly known as Sea of Trees. 　

The Sea of Trees is one of the few remaining ancient primitive vegetation left on the face of this planet, beautifully preserved by Nature and untouched by humans. This adds on to the mystery of the already mysterious forest. There were countless sightings of ghosts, monsters, goblins, trolls and other bizarre being by travellers who went in to explore - and manage to make it out alive. You see, the Sea of Trees is also known notoriously as the Suicide Forest. Apparently, the forest will lure any passer-bys into it and then 'instigate' them to commit suicide.

For all those critics, hold your horses. This is a fact. As a matter of fact, the Japanese Government organizes "Body Hunt" trips into the forest at a specific time every year to recover the body of those fallen ones. They even went as far as to erect "Please do not commit suicide" signs at the entrance of the forest. Of course, that didn't work. Bodies were still being found every year.

I am afraid we will never know what happened to those lost souls. What made them do it?
The only clue they left behind is their body but even the body shows only signs of suicide. However, we all know that is not the case. One can only wonder...

I am definitely going to this forest when I visit Japan. Who knows I may be that Chosen One to unravel the mystery of this forest and gain absolute power! But making people end their lives is kind of boring. I wonder if they have any other powers available.

SO HOT, interested anot. Hehehe.



The highlighted area shows the location of Aokigahara.

visit http://spi.com.sg/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11183&highlight=view+road to find out more. but you must be able to read chinese.

ZOMG!

I was totally appalled when I saw this footage. I thought I had seen the worst already since I am staying in the Central region. Apparently, things are worst on the far side of the island... But at least there is a cool and steady auntie around.

How on Earth did we managed to clinch the "Best Passeneger Experience Award" for our MRT in Denmark?

Thats the same as how on Earth did we get the SQA?

hmmmm

This looks kind of scary.

Freedom at hand!

Mamma Mia! Here I go again!

This is definitely one of the happiest film I had watched so far - I was practically smiling throughout the whole show! The musicals are not too lame and it is actually enjoyable seeing the actors dance and sing and simply enjoying themselves. Furthermore, the soundtracks from the past (think Abba) were a pleasure to the ears. There were also several scenes that were hilariously funny. [Dear, quick, bring the DONKEY TESTICLES!]

This is definitely a far cry from 12 Lotus, which is a rather sad (boring) show. But, as with all musicals, not all will find this film enjoyable. (I can feel some extremists cursing me for watching this film already) But if you are feeling a little retro and a little groovy, hesistate no more and go catch this movie.

Tomorrow is Monday but I need not go to work. It feels good. Damn good. Bloody good.

Screw work!

Remedy for sleeplessness:

2x Packets of Maggi Mee
2x Eggs

Cook and eat the noodles.
Then lie on bed and let your body digest the food. In the process, you will be lulled into La-
La Land.

Mwahaha!

Another one of those sleepless nights for me. Something is wrong with my brain, I am thinking too much.

I recalled the time when I wanted to buy a Nissan Skyline GTR-34 model to decorate my office desk to "challenge" my boss, who has a Subaru STI WRX model on his desk. That was so long ago.

How time flies.

I saw a Jude in my room yesterday night! And it crawled across my mattress! The very mattress which I sleep on every night! What the fish!

Fortunately for that lowlife, it was too fast for me. If I were to catch it, hehe...

Then just now, my mother woke up and took a life away, unintentionally! She just wanted to take a leak. But just as she lifts her foot off the bed and step on the ground, she heard a "squish" and felt something sticky on her sole. She took a look and realize its a Jude! OMG!

Prespoterous!

Why are there so many Judes in my bedroom? I believe a call to PestBusters is in order. Or I can do it for free by cleaning up the toilet-turned-storeroom in the bedroom. I guess the manhole cover is broken. Going to buy a titanium cover tomorrow to seal it up for good. Better still, I should move to an apartment on a higher floor. Studies have shown that Judes cant crawl to very high levels, which explains why he is still a Stuff Sergeant up till now (no pun intended).

Whatever the solution is, I must get it done ASAP.
I cannot conjure the scene of Judes crawling around me while I am in La-La Land. That is simply too gross.

mom: ah! jin! jin! quickly come!

me: SMLJ? so late dun slp?

mom: you this see gin na! got cockroach lah!

me: wtf? again! last night i just saw leh!

mom: issit? but why i step on it sia?

me: how i know? the cockroach suay lor. u wan to go pee also can kill something. quickly clean up the body and go slp.

Having sworn fealty, must I devote my entire life to servitude?

NO! NO SUCH THING!
The fact that I am going to be liberated proves it. Mwahahaha.

On a side note, now that I am about to resume my life again, I am thrown into the crossroads once more. What do I want to be?

The thing about this question is I've got only one chance to make the decision. Once I made a choice, I am going to have to stick with it till the end because in this time and age, second chances does not come by easily. And even if they do, it is not necessary that they will come to me.

Should I follow my heart or my brain?
My passion or the realities of life?

I am only 20 years old, why do I have to bear such a burden? A burden that will change my life forever! But then again, I guess thats how boys become man. Those who doesn't becomes gay, marry a rich guy and live happily ever after. Period.

Oh my gosh!

This was me; 10 generations ago!

Today is a good. I broke the rule for the first time in my life. I went to watch 12 Lotus behind alot of people's back. Surprise surprise.

The show was not what I had expected. I thought it would be a nice hokkien film but it turned out to be a Teochew-cum-Banglah film; not that the actors started speaking in Banglahdeshi but rather people will suddenly just start dancing and singing out of the blue.

To sum it all up, the show is about the lyrics of the song 十二莲花.
And 十二莲花 is about this girl with a sad life from the day she was born till the day she die. By explaining the lyrics to you guys will suffice to give you all an idea what the film is about. I think.


十二莲花

主唱：杨承锦
歌词：承杨锦
音乐：锦杨承


第一可怜罗莲花 出生风场昧快活

凄惨落泊就是我 做牛做马也得拖
(This pitiful Lotus was born in a fucked up environment and has to endure many hardships in her life)

第二可怜莲花酸 苦命莲花心头酸

后母不为仔打算 想要嫁人也久长
(With a stepmother that don't give a fuck about her, she suffers silently in her heart, wondering when will she ever get married)

可怜呀莲花呀 实在可怜代
(Pitiful Lotus oh~ very very pitiful)

第三可怜莲花姐 坏命做工到半暝

头烧目晕那是病 破病也得去赚钱
(She needs to work day and night in order to survive. When she is really sick, she can't even afford to take MC)

第四可怜莲花代 好坏人客阮招待

十分招待嫌阮坏 要打要骂又要塞
(Forced into prostitution, she has to attend to all sort of customers. She often gets beaten, scolded and slapped for providing poor services even though she actually did a good job)

可怜呀莲花呀 实在可怜代
(Pitiful Lotus oh~ very very pitiful)

第五可怜莲花种 有人实在无同情

也无外多钱阮用 要打要骂又要种
(The men she loved always abuses her. Never give her money spend never mind but still want to beat, scold and wallop her)

第六可怜莲花城 流落欢场歹名声

后母爱钱无爱仔 迫到阮呀无路行
(Lotus's chastity has been ruined and with a money-loving stepmother that don't give no shit about her, she is gradually being forced into desperation)

可怜呀莲花呀 实在可怜代
(Pitiful Lotus oh~ very very pitiful)

第七可怜莲花红 阮是可怜歹命人

后母当阮不是人 害阮痛苦一世人
(Lotus is very pitiful has a bad life. Her heartless stepmother doesn't help make things any better. She has to suffer for her entire lifetime)

第八可怜莲花头 流落欢场昧出头

后母顾前无顾后 害阮暝日目屎流
(Her stepmother guards the vagina but not the anus and this caused considerable sorrow for her. Doomed for the rest of her life, she has no future to look forward to)

可怜呀莲花呀 实在可怜代
(Pitiful Lotus oh~ very very pitiful)

第九可怜莲花时 做了这行已几年

可怜家人无相见 阮嘛不知企叨位
(Having been seperated for so long, Lotus wonders how her family are. She yearns to see them once more but does not know if she will ever get the chance to again)

第十可怜莲花光 归暝做工到天光

想到有厝唔汤返 终身再也难见光
(She has a home but is barred from going back. The more she thinks about it the sadder she gets)

可怜呀莲花呀 实在可怜代
(Pitiful Lotus oh~ very very pitiful)

十一可怜莲花怨 想到身世真哀怨

后母迫我做这款 越想心内越超烦
(Looking back now, she feels damn wasted. Being forced into prostitution by her fucked-up stepmother.. why didn't she resist? Now that she thinks about it, she feels damn frustrated)

十二莲花无了时 堕落黑暗难见天

少年赚钱是一时 老来怎样过日子
(The time is up for Lotus. She had to struggle to survive when she was young. When she is old, she still has to fend for herself. And now, finally, her sad life has come to an end.)

可怜呀莲花呀 实在可怜代
(Pitiful Lotus oh~ very very pitiful)

Alright. thats about it. Took me quite awhile but I managed to piece everything together. Please don't laugh, it is a really sad show. But one thing which perplexes me is the "stepmother". Even though almost every verse in the song mentioned about some "stepmother", there is no "stepmother" in the film at all. Hopefully you all will be able to catch some ball. Otherwise, don't worry, just go watch the film. Or you can ask me.

I bought the 12 Lotus popcorn combo today and got a free photo frame which comes with the above photo. It is sitting happily on my office table now. I wonder what Ben will say if he sees it. Haha.

When you realise that the person closest to you is actually not as close as you think he is, you will come to understand how little you have accomplished. Everything feels so hollow. All your goodwill have been naught.

How did I let that facade fool me for so long?
Ultimately, the world will still exist without me.

Thanks for making good use of me.

Goodbye my friend.

"From all this we may learn that there are two races of men in this world but only these two. The race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere, they penetrate into all groups of society. No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people. In this sense no group is of pure race."

- Victor Frankl

I totally agree, nobody is perfect. Everything is relative. Different people see things differently. One man's meat might be another man's poison.

So, who is to say that my ideals are bad?

I understand that I am not a perfect being, neither are my plans too. But the only way to make me perfect is to exterminate everyone else except for me. That way, I will be the one and only entity left which is capable of making judgment. Only then will I become the perfect One.

Which is why I must bring my plan to fruition.

I will start with that hopelessly infested land of the Dragons' Descendents.

I applied for leave today and before you guys are going to accuse me of going into the ORD mood, I would like to assure you all that I am not.

I am merely taking back what is rightfully mine. National Day falls on last Saturday and because of that, we are entitled to one day of off-in-lieu, which is why I am at home today.

"The 46th President of the United States"

No, I am not going to flap my gums about how great that country is. Its widespread knowledge that the United States is the world's best country anyway.

In one's life, wouldn't it be great if you can earn for yourself a legacy?
People will remember you for generations to come (for something good, hopefully).
You will be immortalized in the pages of history.
How cool is that?

In addition, people will refer to you using cool names like "Richard the Lionheart" and "Legendary Lees?"

I want a title for myself as well! A fabulous one that is.

Hmmm, "Singapore's Sprouting Leaf of Youthfulness" sounds not half-bad.
Wonder what I should do in future so that people might immortalize me with that name.

BURST OF YOUTH!

SUPER PROVOST OFF TO START HIS WONDERFUL DAY OF WORK!

NEVER LET THE BLUES BRING YOU DOWN!

MWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Goodness gracious me!
What was I thinking?

I had the opportunity all along. Why do I need to care about how others see me?
Its my responsibility and my commitment! That itself is more than reason enough!
Stagnate no more! Full-speed ahead!

Here comes the Spring of Youth - SUPER PROVOST!

*Ka-ching*

I was watching the Beijing Olympics 2008 - Opening Ceremony and I must say, I was kind of impressed.

The Chinese actually bothered to put some thoughts into creating their own unique performances for the event. There were really several interesting segments of the show which caught my attention. The location for the gigantic Olympic flame torch, which is supposed to be kept burning throughout the Games, is one good example of an out of the box thinking.

However, being the downright filthy mainland Chinese that they are, we cannot be 100% sure that they did not plagiarise. For one, the Chinese espionage services might have spied and stolen these ideas before the original creator can exhibit them. This might sound like a ridiculous possibility but we are talking about the inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom here where everything goes.

All in all, the Opening Ceremony was a good show, assuming that all the performance were actually truly crafted by the Chinese mind. But that does not mean they have won me over. At the end of the day, I still want to annihilate that country.

PS: If any of you out there thinks that our NDP fireworks were jubilantly exhilarating, please think again. Compared to those in the Opening Ceremony, our fireworks are nothing more than just some sparks and a few puffs of smoke.

"The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just."
-D. H. Lawrence

Judgment is never just. Mr. Lawrence is god damn right.

This feeling sucks. Am I so worthless?

Now that I think about it, I probably am.

Gwahahahaha!

Check out this police officer's rank. It was drooping over his right shoulder!

From the looks of it, he is presumably a senior police officer.

This picture made it to the front page on msn.com

Something like that on Singapore papers would have spark off a major bitching amongst our fellow countrymen!

Ahahahaha!

Whenever you feel very angry, follow these steps to cool down:

*Take a deep breathe and at the same time, clasp your hand in the WTF position and wave it*

Say "Its a wonderful world out there!"

*Take a deep breathe and at the same time, clasp your hand in the WTF position and wave it*

Say "The air is so fresh!"

*Take a deep breathe and at the same time, clasp your hand in the WTF position and wave it*

Say "Life is a beautiful thing!"

Repeat till anger subsides.

Remember, always keep your cool. Do not be provoked and do not be incited.

Happy be-lated birthday to America!

May God bless America forever so that America can continue to bless the world with perpetual peace and harmony.

Fuck Chai-nah. Fuck In-diah.

America prevails.

I am feeling misanthropic tonight.

Humans can be such ugly, pathetic beings. In the practical world today, what most cares about is money, career, glory and fame. One can go to great lengths just to achieve these superficial and self-gratifying goals. So much for being an intellectually advanced species.

Being rulers of this little celestial body called Earth does not give us the right to alter it in any manner we like. Then again, who says we were the rulers in the first place? Ourselves. We self-proclaimed ourselves as rulers of this planet. This self-proclamation holds no value at all. It doesn't counts. (Think about someone telling you tomorrow that he is the governor of all life forms on Earth. What would you think of that fellow?)

Our home is dying. Not yet. But surely and slowly. Businessman with no sense of business ethics at all and yet still claims to be sentient beings are abusing Gaia for their own selfish profits.

Forests are being cleared for real estate developments. Lands are being over cultivated just to produce more and more harvest. Sewages are being emptied into water bodies for convenience's sake. Animals are being killed for their body parts. Fossil fuels are being burnt to satisfy our insatiable thirst for energy. Resources are being mined constantly to fuel consumerism.

The greatest irony of it all is, mankind knows we will be digging our own grave if we carry on but we still choose to continue doing it! What will happen later, we can worry later. Its the profits in front of us that counts first. Whatever happened to the most intelligent species on Earth? Perhaps we have gotten way too smart for our own good.

I have this vision that is gradually being formulated within me. I will become the Green version of Adolf Hitler. I will start a war, not for myself, but for Mother Nature. If Earth, along with millions of other species in it, were to survive, the humans must go.

I will set into motion a war with a weapon so deadly that all 193 countries on the planet will be conquered by me. I will kill as many as I can in the war first and then ferry the remaining survivors to a detention camp in Central Russia. The remaining entire human population will then be concentrated in that camp, leaving the rest of the world devoid of this foul species.

I will then throw some of these survivors into Mother Nature herself, without giving them any supplies or equipment, and let them fend for themselves against the odds in the wild. I would very much like to see how powerful they all are, without their guns and fancy technologies, in the face of tigers, pythons, lions and other wild living creatures. I want to see them get decapitated and disemboweled by the animals. I want them to feel the pain seeing their loved ones getting chewed to death but they can't do a damn thing about it. I want them to be humiliated!

I do not know what to make of this feeling of uncertainty that has shrouded me since this morning.

The last time, I was undecided. Now again.

Haha, I should have known.

Whoa!

What an exhilarating night I had! I had my virginity taken away BUT before any of you perverted beings out there get the wrong idea - I am NOT talking about sex here. Rather, I am referring to my first ride as a pavillion on my friend's bike. A REAL motorbike that can go really fast, not some slow moving Vespa scooter. I am addicted to SPEED! No, not the drug you idiots, I am talking about the division of distance by time here.

I was somewhat apprehensive initially, having to grab on to the back handle on the bike in a rather un-glam manner. After some tips from my friends (sitting also got techniques; chinese got one pattern, malay got one pattern, indians got another pattern. A melting pot?), I managed to sit in the correct and cool way, that is by placing my hands on my thigh and sitting normally. This not only improved my posture but also saved the face of my rider as people won't think that he is ferrying some noob shit, which he really is though.

Tonight came as quite a surprise too because somehow, we were able to chill for 3 hours. From 12pm to 3am. The pre-conceived notion of tonight's outing being dull and boring by one of my friends was dispelled when I turned out to be more chattable and approachable than he had thought.

All in all I had a great time. Haven't felt so relaxed and, might I have the audacity, GAY(-adjective= happy), in such a long time.

My nephew was just born recently. I can't remember when but it should be somewhere around last week. I am so mesmerised by this tiny little existence! So cute and cudly! Awwww... Dunno how to describe. Just look at the photos!











His hands against mine. Isn't human life a mirable? Something so small can grow into something so big! Machiam planting seeds like that LOL.

Mobile Phone Evolution

I went to help my cousin prepare her speech for her upcoming test this Thursday. The topic is "How you felt on the day of your graduation from secondary school". She is supposed to come up with a script that is at least 4 minutes long but not more than 5. In order to meet the criteria, we threw in quite a fair bit of bullshits here and there. Ahaha. Hey! Don't look at me like that. Bullshit gets you everywhere in life IF used appropriately!

Anyway, her topic is a relatively easy one. We just need to recall what exactly happened on her graduation day and put it all in chronological order. Then she just need to blurt everything out and tell her audience about it. I can't imagine having to talk about "Who was your first date and how did it end up?" or "Talk about one pleasant/unpleasant experience which left an indelible mark in your life." The former might be to awkward to talk about in front of 20 people, most of whom are classmates which will be spending the rest of the semester with you. The latter is way too difficult to come up with probable and believeable bullshit - if you know what I mean (c",)

So, at the end of the day, after intensive brainstorming, our script, or rather, HER script was created. The introduction and conclusion part were exceptionally well-crafted thanks to you-know-who. Please, add in the special "Thank You" section for greater effects!

Come to think of it now, the questions given to her sounds much more like essay questions to me. As a matter of fact, there were several times where we add in too much details into the speech that it almost sounds like we are dictating an essay instead of crafting a speech. The thought of having to present these questions through speech never once did cross my mind. Hmmm, the disparity in the things we learn in JC and Poly.

While thinking of the speech, I got bored and looked around the room. Then I saw this cute little thing which I can't resist but snap a shot of it with my phone!

And after that, I went to M Sq. and saw an ever cuter thing which I definitely have to take a photo of! I almost went on stage to take a photo with it!!!

PIKA PII!

What in tua pek gong's name is the Burmese Government doing? Forcing the Cyclone Nargis's refugees back to their devastated homeland without giving them any food supplies, tools and shelter! This is akin to forcing these poor civilians to death!

The government's reason for doing so is because they want the refugees to start reconstructing their destroyed homes and farmlands to help revive the country's economy.

WHAT THE FUCL REASON IS THAT MAN!

Without proper shelter, clean water, supplies, tools and other aids to rebuild their homeland, how the heck does the government expect them to survive in the wild? The refugess have practically nothing to return to! Cant the Burmese top brass see that?

I bet they must be dumb and retarded to not realize the folly of their actions. NO! They are downright asinine! A bunch of demented pigs in power!

Tua pek gong please save the Burmese refugees!

Grrrr. This display of an obviously erroneous policy reflects on the incompetence of the Burmese government. What an utter utter mis-management of crisis and resources.

If they can't rule the country, let me do the job for them.

First thing I will do is to crown myself President for life with unlimited judicial, legislative and executive power. Then I will start picking my Cabinet members.

Hmm.... Its not such a bad idea hehehe. Right. Off to create and plan my empire now.

What the fish?

Back in 2000, the price of one barrel of oil is $25.
Now in 2008, it shot up to $125 per barrel!

A $100 jump in just 8 years thanks to Mr Bush messing with some oil producing countries in the Middle East. No wonder every driver is complaining nowadays about the exhobitant oil prices.

If I had known this is going to happen, I would have stockpiled barrels of oil at home and then sell them now to make big money!

Hmm... Interesting. Another idea comes to my mind almost instantly!

If I can dominate the global oil industry, I can practically dominate the entire world!
My evil plan to conquer the world!

Whichever country refuses to submit to my will shall risk having their crucial economic installations shut down; no oil will be sold to those that disobeys me! And because I dominate the oil industry, I can sell at any price I like! $5000 per barrel... sounds almost like an instant way to become the richest man on Earth. Mwhaha.

But first, I must find some way to unite all the major oil-producing country under my glorious banner. I will probably go and join the ranks of Gazprom, Russia's multi-national oil conglomerate, and then slowly rise up the corporate ladder. Then once I become CEO and the chairman of the Board of Directors, I will use my financial power and the political power I have from Kremlim to coerce those oil-producing nations to ally me!

They either join me, or face total annihilation by my invincible space cannon (courtesy of the Russian Space Agency)! I will have total control! With that, China, America and other so-called superpowers can kiss my a$%!

Mwahahaha. There is no need for war! I just need oil to rule the world!
Just you all wait and see!

News Flash : Today the world was stunned by the news of the death of the Energizer Bunny. He was six years old. Authorities believe that the death occurred approximately 8:42 PM last evening. Best known as the irritating pink bunny that kept going, and going and going, "Pinkie" as he was known to his friends and family was, alone at the time of his death. An emergency autopsy was performed early this morning. Chief Medical Examiner, Dura Cell, concluded that the cause of death was acute cardiac arrest induced by sexual over-stimulation. Apparently, someone had put the bunny's batteries in backwards and he kept coming, and coming, and coming...

Currently idling Staff Officer to Head Operations and Training recommended me this anime called "Ghost Hunt". The plot revolves around this ghost hunter, Shibuya Kazuya, who is the director of Shibuya Psychic Research. Upon receiving a request from a client, Shubuya will investigate into the paranormal activities afflicting his client. At the end of the day, he will always solve the problems; only after having faced off with many spooky incidents.

"Ghost Hunt" is a rather educational anime too as many forms of curses, rituals and other similar items were mentioned in it. Those looking into occult stuff might want to give it a try.

I was browsing the our local Singapore Paranormal Investigators website for ghost stories just now and found a particularly funny paragraph in one of the stories:

"Conclusion was that the club was supposedly to give offerings to the spirits there. So they invited some bomohs down, but the bomoh said these are Chinese ghost."

So... racial stratification exists even after death?

First Myanmar and now China.

Mother Nature is unleashing her fury upon us! You must stop reading my blog and shut down all electrical appliances now. Stop going to work and stay at home.

Back to basics. Let us re-live the natural life in the past.

Pollute the Earth no more.

Or risk facing Armageddon.

The end is near.

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Are we advancing towards evolution or devolution? Why does the latter seems more like the direction we are heading towards to me?

To lock away our true selves and pretend to be someone else. Can one really find contentment in doing that? Whatever happened to altruism?

"Master, as you requested, I have concocted the poison."

"Excellent. So, how is it like?"

"Lethal. Absolutely lethal. It is tasteless, odorless, colourless and the best of it, it does not leave any traces in the human body. It can kill a grown adult in less than a minute."

"Impressive... lethal... brutally lethal."

"Indeed. It would not be exaggerating at all to call it the Most Potent poison in the entire world!"

"Most Potent you say... is there anything deadlier than this?"

"Yes there is."

"What is it?"

"The human heart."

"The heart...? Ahaha. Well said. I thank you for delivering to me this Most Potent poison. You have lived your purpose, I no longer have any use for you and I only trust the dead to keep a secret..."

"Master, you!? Have mercy!! Noooo."

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"God created men but Colt made them equal" is an apt statement to demonstrate the disparity in the strength of an armed man and an unarmed man.

The naturalists will preach that humans should employ natural, routine physical and mental training to augment individual's strengths in the body and mind. Think Bruce Lee and Mike Tyson. Bruce Lee is one of the most renowned Chinese martial artists in the history of mankind while Mike Tyson is one of the most feared opponents in the ring. But their brutal strength and deadly accuracy didn't come by chance; they have trained for their whole lives to attain their physical power.

But, so what?

Why spend a lifetime training just to be strong and miss out on other good things, such as sex, booze and weed?

Humans are intelligent creatures. Perhaps too intelligent for its own good. But, we were bestowed with this "intelligence" in the very beginning. As usual, we always manage find a way to defy nature and do things our way.

The advent of firearms rendered the notion of natural training to enhance one's strength obsolete. With a gun in hand, you can easily take down an unarmed opponent, even if he is an unparalleled martial expert like Bruce Lee. Oh. For your information, Bruce was assasinated by a gunman. He died well before his time. All the time and effort he spent in building up his physical strength has gone to waste. Thanks to a bullet from a gun.

So people. Now that you know the truth, you can continue to enjoy and revel everyday. Do not worry about your physical well-being. You just need to own a gun and you will be strong! Do not have to be afraid of those so-called martial experts. Just erase them with but a click on your trigger! See! That itself is strength! You can literally kill someone with your finger!

You don't have to worry about those super fast gong-fu and bullet catching tricks which is so prevalent in the movies nowadays. Let me assure you that they are nothing more than bullshit. Just one shot to any body part of a human will be enough to put that person out of commission.

Alright. Let me come to my main point today. I discovered a new passion for guns!

This is the Colt King Cobra revolver. Cool eh! It fires 0.38 caliber magnum rounds; these are enough to throw a grown man off his feet if shot.

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I pledge alliance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with justice and liberty for all.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am pro-American and I am god-damn proud of it!

Someday, the world will open its eyes.