Cool cars.
Friday, June 30, 2006
Balm
And so a balm has been applied to sooth the wound. It works, and its easier to get up in the mornings.
But how long will it last. Is it Birdie-proof?
Who knows.
I dread to see the day it washes off.
But how long will it last. Is it Birdie-proof?
Who knows.
I dread to see the day it washes off.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Confessions
I have to confess. I don't really like lunching with my colleagues.
Don't get me wrong, I like them, and I think they are quite cool people. However, I'd much rather spend some time to myself, surf a bit, read some blogs, eat a cup-noodle rather than walk in the sun to squeeze at some hawker centre and have inane conversation.
Am I anti-social? Think not. I just like my own space.
So they think I'm on a diet, and don't eat lunch. Cos I decline everytime lunch comes around and they ask me to join them.
Weird huh.
Don't get me wrong, I like them, and I think they are quite cool people. However, I'd much rather spend some time to myself, surf a bit, read some blogs, eat a cup-noodle rather than walk in the sun to squeeze at some hawker centre and have inane conversation.
Am I anti-social? Think not. I just like my own space.
So they think I'm on a diet, and don't eat lunch. Cos I decline everytime lunch comes around and they ask me to join them.
Weird huh.
*Ahem*
So...
I have a friend... *ahem*
Who can't stand his Boss and wants to leave the company. But this morning, he was offered a promotion (the letter is in the process of being typed) and a raise.
What do you think he should do?
Is the economic situation good? Would there be jobs out there? Should he reach for the bird in the bush?
I have a friend... *ahem*
Who can't stand his Boss and wants to leave the company. But this morning, he was offered a promotion (the letter is in the process of being typed) and a raise.
What do you think he should do?
Is the economic situation good? Would there be jobs out there? Should he reach for the bird in the bush?
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Hurrah!
A few neanderthal hard knocks of my phone on the table and it works again!!!
And who says prehistoric methods dun work? Haha.
And who says prehistoric methods dun work? Haha.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Monday, June 26, 2006
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Anon
You know how when you start a blog for the first time, you are given so many options to customise your blog?
Colour, fonts, whether you allow anonymous comments to you posts...
I didn't think much about the last one, and allowed people to leave anonymous comments. (well, to be honest, I was a media whore and just wanted people to comment, a pathetic attempt on self-affirmation I know)
Anyway, so last night, someone left a series of 5 anonymous comments on my blog. She read my earlier posts, those I had written which were the reasons for me starting to blog in the first place.
I didn't think much about it initially, but then, on the last post, I think she knows me.
She wants to be buddies and I can only guess who it is.
But I think I know. And I was just looking at her picture last night.
Random. Hur. Hur.
Oh well, back into the busy world of work.
Colour, fonts, whether you allow anonymous comments to you posts...
I didn't think much about the last one, and allowed people to leave anonymous comments. (well, to be honest, I was a media whore and just wanted people to comment, a pathetic attempt on self-affirmation I know)
Anyway, so last night, someone left a series of 5 anonymous comments on my blog. She read my earlier posts, those I had written which were the reasons for me starting to blog in the first place.
I didn't think much about it initially, but then, on the last post, I think she knows me.
She wants to be buddies and I can only guess who it is.
But I think I know. And I was just looking at her picture last night.
Random. Hur. Hur.
Oh well, back into the busy world of work.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Monday, June 19, 2006
Another Day
1. Came into work with paint stained hands.
2. Eventful weekend. Spent it at home sulking.
3. Another day, and another one of my colleagues bites the dust.
4. More and more friends staying outside of their family home. I'm the only one in my office who still lives at home. Is this a sign of how our society has already changed?
5. W.R.T. point 3. Boss is panicking now, wants to meet at 7pm. Should I laugh at him? Or should I be sad that more shite is going to fly my way? Oh, and am going to be late in meeting the GF. Grrr...
6. Congrats to Mah who has found a job!
7. Lots on my mind... hmm... sigh...
8. Need to finish my resume...
2. Eventful weekend. Spent it at home sulking.
3. Another day, and another one of my colleagues bites the dust.
4. More and more friends staying outside of their family home. I'm the only one in my office who still lives at home. Is this a sign of how our society has already changed?
5. W.R.T. point 3. Boss is panicking now, wants to meet at 7pm. Should I laugh at him? Or should I be sad that more shite is going to fly my way? Oh, and am going to be late in meeting the GF. Grrr...
6. Congrats to Mah who has found a job!
7. Lots on my mind... hmm... sigh...
8. Need to finish my resume...
Saturday, June 17, 2006
The Beautiful Game
The World Cup brings together people who don;t even usually watch the Game.
Not even the Olympics can claim such a feat.
No wonder its called, the Beautiful Game.
Not even the Olympics can claim such a feat.
No wonder its called, the Beautiful Game.
Friday, June 16, 2006
Morning
I woke up this morning and I'm not sure I'm awake.
My mind is still a blank and I cannot string coherent thoughts together.
Its like I'm encased in a bubble, and everything around me seems muted and blurred. People are shadows, flirting in the background.
Damn.
Need a cuppa joe.
My mind is still a blank and I cannot string coherent thoughts together.
Its like I'm encased in a bubble, and everything around me seems muted and blurred. People are shadows, flirting in the background.
Damn.
Need a cuppa joe.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Weird
While picking up some supplies over the weekend, I spotted something in the lift of the industrial building I was in...
If you read closely, the building is owned by a temple / burial ground!
To be able to own a building?!? Someone has really been clever in using their donations for investment purposes...
If you read closely, the building is owned by a temple / burial ground!
To be able to own a building?!? Someone has really been clever in using their donations for investment purposes...
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Common Sense - or the lack thereof
I realised today, after a teleconference with the Boss, how little common sense the people I work with have.
Can this be trained?
Or are they destined to be stupid and slow ?
Argh!!! Grr....
Can this be trained?
Or are they destined to be stupid and slow ?
Argh!!! Grr....
I Rant
So, in today's Mind You Body Section of the Newspaper, some guy writes in and is totally clueless on how to have sex.
Yep, you heard me right. In this day and age, this guy is totally lost and is probably worried about sticking it in the wrong h*le.
2 virgins getting married. Thats something I haven't heard in a long time. But perhaps its just the circles I hang around in... (haha... no offence, guys)
Anyway, so this guy goes on to ask about whether he should pull his foreskin back before putting it in... what positions to use...
My mind went into overdrive and I immediately thought of a few things.
1. Aww, cmon! It comes naturally. Even in the animal kingdom, mother chimps teach their young how to find food, but do not have to teach its young how to f*ck. Chill. Relax, and do what comes naturally.
2. I think he is symptomatic of the society we live in now. The one where people think that everything can be read up, studied academically. People don't want to risk failure and hence prep-to-max before any event. Everyone wants to score (pardon the pun) full marks. What happened to risk taking? To wing it and see what happens? Sigh... sad.
3. Which hole did this guy crawl out from? Where have you been this millenia?
4. I noticed he did not ask about the use of protection. Either our safe sex campaigns have been really successful and he is in the know (knows about protection, does not know how to have sex - irony) or he intends to be a father real soon, or he is Catholic and hence protection is outta question.
5. He assumes his wife doesn't know how to either. Eh, women read Cosmo, Her World, which are much more educational than the FHM that men buy, ok. Who knows, your wife-to-be might know leh, talk to her lah.
6. Actually must applaud him lah. Not shy, can write to National Newspaper to ask how to have sex. The consultant referred him to the Karma Sutra.... haha...
Yep, you heard me right. In this day and age, this guy is totally lost and is probably worried about sticking it in the wrong h*le.
2 virgins getting married. Thats something I haven't heard in a long time. But perhaps its just the circles I hang around in... (haha... no offence, guys)
Anyway, so this guy goes on to ask about whether he should pull his foreskin back before putting it in... what positions to use...
My mind went into overdrive and I immediately thought of a few things.
1. Aww, cmon! It comes naturally. Even in the animal kingdom, mother chimps teach their young how to find food, but do not have to teach its young how to f*ck. Chill. Relax, and do what comes naturally.
2. I think he is symptomatic of the society we live in now. The one where people think that everything can be read up, studied academically. People don't want to risk failure and hence prep-to-max before any event. Everyone wants to score (pardon the pun) full marks. What happened to risk taking? To wing it and see what happens? Sigh... sad.
3. Which hole did this guy crawl out from? Where have you been this millenia?
4. I noticed he did not ask about the use of protection. Either our safe sex campaigns have been really successful and he is in the know (knows about protection, does not know how to have sex - irony) or he intends to be a father real soon, or he is Catholic and hence protection is outta question.
5. He assumes his wife doesn't know how to either. Eh, women read Cosmo, Her World, which are much more educational than the FHM that men buy, ok. Who knows, your wife-to-be might know leh, talk to her lah.
6. Actually must applaud him lah. Not shy, can write to National Newspaper to ask how to have sex. The consultant referred him to the Karma Sutra.... haha...
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Of Entrapment.
You know the Medic who was thrown in Jail and parents have to sell their house to pay off the bond?
This is my response to Mr Drinkalot. (any relation to Lil Ms Drinkalot?)
Hi.
Firstly, I agree that "entrapment" is illegal in most "proper" nations. Including the USA. But lest we forget, the FBI does go online posing as virginal 14 year olds to trap and arrest paedophiles. Oh, and so does Scotland Yard of UK.
Hence, in the same light, I do not think there was "entrapment" per se. The fundamental difference in purposely dropping $50 on a crowded street and arresting the picker (actually - thats no crime - lost property)and this case.
On a crowded street, people do not trawl with the purpose of looking for $50. This might not be the case for ppl who visit online sex sites, forums, knowing that they will probably run into an offer for sex.
Another case I've heard.
Smoking duty unpaid cigarettes.
Person leaves duty unpaid pack on coffeeshop table. Undercover police officer comes up and asks for one. Owner says, "its mine and please go ahead and take one" (him being nice and generous). Officer arrests him as the owner for smoking duty unpaid cigarettes.
Entrapment? Nope, cos the crime has already been committed. Officer is only identifying the perpertrator.
Don't get me wrong, I feel sorry for the family of the Good Doctor. But, hey, make wrong choices (drugs) and don't regret/bitch when you have pay for it.
This is my response to Mr Drinkalot. (any relation to Lil Ms Drinkalot?)
Hi.
Firstly, I agree that "entrapment" is illegal in most "proper" nations. Including the USA. But lest we forget, the FBI does go online posing as virginal 14 year olds to trap and arrest paedophiles. Oh, and so does Scotland Yard of UK.
Hence, in the same light, I do not think there was "entrapment" per se. The fundamental difference in purposely dropping $50 on a crowded street and arresting the picker (actually - thats no crime - lost property)and this case.
On a crowded street, people do not trawl with the purpose of looking for $50. This might not be the case for ppl who visit online sex sites, forums, knowing that they will probably run into an offer for sex.
Another case I've heard.
Smoking duty unpaid cigarettes.
Person leaves duty unpaid pack on coffeeshop table. Undercover police officer comes up and asks for one. Owner says, "its mine and please go ahead and take one" (him being nice and generous). Officer arrests him as the owner for smoking duty unpaid cigarettes.
Entrapment? Nope, cos the crime has already been committed. Officer is only identifying the perpertrator.
Don't get me wrong, I feel sorry for the family of the Good Doctor. But, hey, make wrong choices (drugs) and don't regret/bitch when you have pay for it.
The Blind Leading the Blind
I couldn't help but read over the shoulder of a Chinese National in the train today. She was reading some form of translated thesarus, the ones where fanciful English words are translated to Chinese.
The book looked as if it was printed in China, which I could tell from the quality of the paper, the fonts (anyone who has read old Chinese novels translated to English would know what these are).
I admired her tenacity, of learning English through what was essentially a dictionary.
However, as I peered over her shoulder.... *face palm*
Polygraph - "poly" - duo (many), graph - xie (write); polygraph (fu xie ji) - (photocopier)
and not:
Polygraph - lie detector.
With the rubbish standards of books they are reading, it is no wonder why they are not improving. I work with several Chinese nationals and they drive my pressure up sometimes with their "understanding" - or lack thereof. I can't blame them for not knowing better which books to buy, but....
oh well.
The book looked as if it was printed in China, which I could tell from the quality of the paper, the fonts (anyone who has read old Chinese novels translated to English would know what these are).
I admired her tenacity, of learning English through what was essentially a dictionary.
However, as I peered over her shoulder.... *face palm*
Polygraph - "poly" - duo (many), graph - xie (write); polygraph (fu xie ji) - (photocopier)
and not:
Polygraph - lie detector.
With the rubbish standards of books they are reading, it is no wonder why they are not improving. I work with several Chinese nationals and they drive my pressure up sometimes with their "understanding" - or lack thereof. I can't blame them for not knowing better which books to buy, but....
oh well.
Monday, June 12, 2006
Monday Ramblings
1. Boss is away on holiday this week... am going to try to find ways to skive... haha...
2. At least this gives me time to clear my back-dated work, and watch a few more World Cup games.
3. At dinner last night, my 6 year old cousin (who weighs 22 pounds) claims she is on a diet and hence eaing like a mouse. I think there is fundamentally something wrong with society when a small girl insists to going on a diet. Too much tv influence perhaps? Media? Slimming ads? Am frustrated and worried. Would need to digest and discuss.
4. Always though watching footie with girls would be boring. Watched a game at Su's place with a gang of girls, who surprisingly knew about the offside rule, the players of the teams and the tactics they use. Bravo! Go girls!
5. My increasing frustration with a Boss who is not trustworthy is creeping up on me. I shall take this week to look for a job. Any offers?
6. Lil' Bro is going to Italy this week. I envy. Have fun B3! Dun forget to take many lovely photos of Florence.
7. The best place to watch footie is in a pub, where all the players are fervent supporters of one team. Was in such a place in Euro 2004. Man, I miss it. The newspapers have complained about the lack of atmosphere in Singapore. Its not hard to see why. Imagine, Singapore does not have a team in the World Cup, and our only representative there is a referee and 3 children who hold the hands of players as they exit the pitch. So how are we supposed to be excited? Do we cheer whenever they appear, or when they make a good decision? Haha.
8. Discovered the GF likes to play PS2 too. Woopee!
2. At least this gives me time to clear my back-dated work, and watch a few more World Cup games.
3. At dinner last night, my 6 year old cousin (who weighs 22 pounds) claims she is on a diet and hence eaing like a mouse. I think there is fundamentally something wrong with society when a small girl insists to going on a diet. Too much tv influence perhaps? Media? Slimming ads? Am frustrated and worried. Would need to digest and discuss.
4. Always though watching footie with girls would be boring. Watched a game at Su's place with a gang of girls, who surprisingly knew about the offside rule, the players of the teams and the tactics they use. Bravo! Go girls!
5. My increasing frustration with a Boss who is not trustworthy is creeping up on me. I shall take this week to look for a job. Any offers?
6. Lil' Bro is going to Italy this week. I envy. Have fun B3! Dun forget to take many lovely photos of Florence.
7. The best place to watch footie is in a pub, where all the players are fervent supporters of one team. Was in such a place in Euro 2004. Man, I miss it. The newspapers have complained about the lack of atmosphere in Singapore. Its not hard to see why. Imagine, Singapore does not have a team in the World Cup, and our only representative there is a referee and 3 children who hold the hands of players as they exit the pitch. So how are we supposed to be excited? Do we cheer whenever they appear, or when they make a good decision? Haha.
8. Discovered the GF likes to play PS2 too. Woopee!
Friday, June 09, 2006
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Friday, June 02, 2006
Me
| Greed: | Low | |
| Gluttony: | Medium | |
| Wrath: | Low | |
| Sloth: | Medium | |
| Envy: | Very Low | |
| Lust: | Medium | |
| Pride: | Very Low |
Take the Seven Deadly Sins Quiz
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Loyalties
Making enemies is so much easier (and sometimes more fun) than making friends.
Grr...
More work just dropped into my in-tray... nabeh
Grr...
More work just dropped into my in-tray... nabeh
Blogging. Sin or Just Guilty Indulgence?
Excerpt from an email to a friend.
More and more, the blog should not be taken as a mode of expression. There will always be private thoughts that will only serve to hurt, and have no upsides besides the writer feeling better about himself.
Selfishness permades in the blog world. No matter what people like to believe, they feel good when they get a fan-base. Everyone wants to be a superstar. So they write tiltillating stories, or put people down on their blogs. Creative expression? Or writing for the masses?
More and more, the blog should not be taken as a mode of expression. There will always be private thoughts that will only serve to hurt, and have no upsides besides the writer feeling better about himself.
Selfishness permades in the blog world. No matter what people like to believe, they feel good when they get a fan-base. Everyone wants to be a superstar. So they write tiltillating stories, or put people down on their blogs. Creative expression? Or writing for the masses?
Fine line.
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