Sunday, January 11, 2009
Friday, December 26, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Senseless Persecution
Maybe I'm just totally ignorant politically or religiously, but the senseless persecution by the "Decaan Mujaheeden" is totally senseless, absurd and ridiculous to me. My heart goes out to the family of Ms. Lo. Not just because she is a Singaporean but more as she is a young person full of life and a future ahead ruined by this criminal style prosecution to be shot in the head and abdomen. The thoughts that went through her mind then...
Is this what they teach in whatever religious teachings? Exterminating the human race as their race and religion is superior than all other? Their "Almighty" told them that they are his loyal subjects of eternal life if they kill another person? May they crash and burn eternally.
May this serve as a reminder to us all that terrorism is closer to us than we think. Just because we always see the news about such events so far away and even though our hearts go to those affected by the senseless act, but this time it had killed a Singaporean. So terrorism is not in somebody's backyard anymore but it's really closer than we think...
Is this what they teach in whatever religious teachings? Exterminating the human race as their race and religion is superior than all other? Their "Almighty" told them that they are his loyal subjects of eternal life if they kill another person? May they crash and burn eternally.
May this serve as a reminder to us all that terrorism is closer to us than we think. Just because we always see the news about such events so far away and even though our hearts go to those affected by the senseless act, but this time it had killed a Singaporean. So terrorism is not in somebody's backyard anymore but it's really closer than we think...
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Life...Dreams....
Waking up to see your loved one next to you...a simple smile, a peck on the cheek and a lazy "Good Morning". Enjoying a good cup of coffee and toasts while reading the morning papers leisurely on a weekday. Taking a deep breath of the cool morning air. Running a good run. Holding hands. Having late night supper despite knowing the evils of it.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Oops...I did a Britney again
Have not been blogging for quite a while. Guess I had become to lazy to go online nowadays...maybe age had been catching up and have kind of lost the energy after work to log on. Have become more a couch potato lately too...haiz...this is bad. Had not been going to gym as in the past...well I guess staying alone makes me just wanna stay home and laze around as compared to when staying with mum and pap (erm...not the men-in-whites...but some how grassrooted...haha)
Guess it's time to re-think, re-org and re-train...wah...sounds like the gahmen talking...haha...
Resolutions 2008, time for review soon but guess the report card is as bad as the current economic situation...first of all won't be doing the 21-k this Dec...Haiz...I did a Britney again....
Guess it's time to re-think, re-org and re-train...wah...sounds like the gahmen talking...haha...
Resolutions 2008, time for review soon but guess the report card is as bad as the current economic situation...first of all won't be doing the 21-k this Dec...Haiz...I did a Britney again....
Sunday, October 05, 2008
It was an accident...an accident!
Just saw on the news that the some MIW interviewed during some event and said that we (reads the commoners) should not expect that all the food products that are imported to Singapore be fully tested of melamine as the process is tedious and there would bound to be an accident to have such food products (reads: commoners food) be released into the mass (commoner's) market. With regards to the 3 Singaporeans who contracted Dengue from tainted blood transfusion (who ask them to be so 'sway'), it was an accident as there is currently no quick reliable kit to test for dengue or chikunghunia. So too bad.
Hmmm...ever since the 'bai kah' horse ran away from its 'security tight' stable....it's a regrettable accident seems to be the best-est and easiest excuse nowadays.
I wonder if ever I get myself in some sort of trouble, if "It's was an accident!!" ever enough to cover my backside.
Hmmm....maybe I should wear all whites more often...haha
Disclaimer: It was a unforeseeable accident that this idle coffee shop rumble got uploaded onto this blog. It was an accident! Really!!
Hmmm...ever since the 'bai kah' horse ran away from its 'security tight' stable....it's a regrettable accident seems to be the best-est and easiest excuse nowadays.
I wonder if ever I get myself in some sort of trouble, if "It's was an accident!!" ever enough to cover my backside.
Hmmm....maybe I should wear all whites more often...haha
Disclaimer: It was a unforeseeable accident that this idle coffee shop rumble got uploaded onto this blog. It was an accident! Really!!
Friday, August 15, 2008
48年...终于赢了
有一个中国小朋友说，他看了刚才的比赛，一直都支持新加坡的球员，因为他们是中国人。
我不知应该高兴呢？ 还是感到困惑？言下之意似乎有著：“瞧！还是我们中国人的功劳！” 也许是我想太多了。
其实得赞韩国队的朴美英，给我们看到了一场好球赛。她的沉著和每一给反击，和每一给完美的飘球，真的是太精采了！
但我真的很为冯天薇开心，因为她的冷靜，沉著应战，让我们终于在48年后再夺得一面奖牌。反观李佳薇的冲动、沉不住气，白白失分。
我想人生就是要沉得住气吧！冯天薇，謝謝妳！
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Losing Thoughts...
Why am I always more impatient to people close to me than to anyone walking down the streets?
Because you are so dear to me.
Why am I easily upset by people close to me than by the neighbour next door?
Because your every actions and words matters a lot to me.
Each day it's an internal battle within myself telling myself to take things easy and not to get irritable over mundane stuff. I try to be at peace myself and not get overly upset over the smallest and pettiest of stuff.
Each day I try but each day I fumble and each day I try a little bit harder...
L..O..S..E..R
Because you are so dear to me.
Why am I easily upset by people close to me than by the neighbour next door?
Because your every actions and words matters a lot to me.
Each day it's an internal battle within myself telling myself to take things easy and not to get irritable over mundane stuff. I try to be at peace myself and not get overly upset over the smallest and pettiest of stuff.
Each day I try but each day I fumble and each day I try a little bit harder...
L..O..S..E..R
As the year goes closer to the end, the more I fear
For fear the next year come sooner
The distance grows longer...
Friday, August 01, 2008
August - Tribute to Singapore I
Do not onto others what you do not want others to do onto you. Yeah so we always say. But are Singaporeans ready for the renaissance city? Oh, let's start to be a gracious city first.
It always amuses me what people do in public. Apart from the famous PDA (read: Public Display of Affection - yes those smoochy feely act that people do in public as if the whole world does not exist around them), I always wonder what went through their mind when they do what they do in public.
Just saw a woman munching on her burger sitting next to a sign board that says no food n beverages. It is really such great contradiction and a contrasting nice photo shot. Had wanted to snap this picture but oh well damn those non-camera phone at work rules.
Is it just ignorance or feigning ignorance? Or just simply defiant?
Am i amused by an ugly act or am i too law abiding that i forgot the fundamental rights of human? Oh well, maybe it is not just a Singaporean thingie but an imported habit? Don't the schools teach 好公民 anymore? Or maybe its the young monkey sees their old monkey do at home so it's okay to do it too.
Oops, did I just pointed my fingers unto others? My bad, my bad.
It always amuses me what people do in public. Apart from the famous PDA (read: Public Display of Affection - yes those smoochy feely act that people do in public as if the whole world does not exist around them), I always wonder what went through their mind when they do what they do in public.
Just saw a woman munching on her burger sitting next to a sign board that says no food n beverages. It is really such great contradiction and a contrasting nice photo shot. Had wanted to snap this picture but oh well damn those non-camera phone at work rules.
Is it just ignorance or feigning ignorance? Or just simply defiant?
Am i amused by an ugly act or am i too law abiding that i forgot the fundamental rights of human? Oh well, maybe it is not just a Singaporean thingie but an imported habit? Don't the schools teach 好公民 anymore? Or maybe its the young monkey sees their old monkey do at home so it's okay to do it too.
Oops, did I just pointed my fingers unto others? My bad, my bad.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
先还钱，才能让爱川流不息
《让爱川流不息》﹣ 要捐钱得先缴行政费-$0.214-包括7%消费税? 不是不想捐款，但为什么赈灾还得付GST? 新电信难道就不能吸收每通$0.20的费用？行善还不忘生意利益，赞！这么多sponsors，都是用来做什么？新传媒的制做费？
要以什么方式捐款，应该很清楚吧。
要以什么方式捐款，应该很清楚吧。
Friday, May 23, 2008
All of Us TOgether Sure CAN - Thanks.Pardon.Ciao
Moving on again...today is my last day at work and will be taking 2 weeks hiatus from work. Well, am actually kind of glad to finally got out of the wretched company. But just 2 weeks ago...when Sichuan earthquake took away many lives and families, the company had an earthquake too...the ED, MD and the BD Director are all leaving by July this year...woah...lucky I made my move 2 months earlier huh? Hmmm but the MD had the same last day as me, which means he tendered earlier...serving his 6 months notice...hmmm...to believe he actually "try" to ask me if I would reconsider on a counter-offer or a job switch.
Oh well, wasn't really shocked about the news, rumours have it that the MD and the BD Director is leaving but was surprise that the ED is also ousted from her own company she started nearly 2 decades...office politics to the fullest...better than mediacorp drama!! Somehow these are all expected...it's only time.
Frankly I wouldn't really miss the people I'm working with...those foreign "talents" whom I've "grown" so fondly of and everyday I always ponder what are their talents? Skiving? Smoking out? Acting busy? Oh...the ever so difficult task of shaking their heads and not blinking a bit while they say things are tested and done!
Those I would miss are my customer and the users whom I've worked so closely with for the last 14 months. They, who see the worth in me and my contributions to the projects. They, who are ever so patient and understanding despite the problems due to the talents' incompetencies...and most importantly they, who encourage me to move on...haha...Well, I really wish them all the best. Thank you all!
Oh well, wasn't really shocked about the news, rumours have it that the MD and the BD Director is leaving but was surprise that the ED is also ousted from her own company she started nearly 2 decades...office politics to the fullest...better than mediacorp drama!! Somehow these are all expected...it's only time.
Frankly I wouldn't really miss the people I'm working with...those foreign "talents" whom I've "grown" so fondly of and everyday I always ponder what are their talents? Skiving? Smoking out? Acting busy? Oh...the ever so difficult task of shaking their heads and not blinking a bit while they say things are tested and done!
Those I would miss are my customer and the users whom I've worked so closely with for the last 14 months. They, who see the worth in me and my contributions to the projects. They, who are ever so patient and understanding despite the problems due to the talents' incompetencies...and most importantly they, who encourage me to move on...haha...Well, I really wish them all the best. Thank you all!
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Double Standards?!!
Everyday I ponder as I walked out of the door from the comfort of my sanctuary. Do I look like the world owe me a living? Or do I just look ultimately unfriendly? I'm vexed. I'm amused of the reaction that I get sometimes. I'm not sure.
I wonder are those "red haired" foreign talents - read ang mos - really more friendly than me or locals simply loved to suck up to them? Whenever I get out of home lately, I psyched myself to flash the best smile my facial muscle can flex after a night's rest to anyone I see but frankly more often than not, all I get were blank stares or even the "see through you" look. But amusingly, the ang mos who just shared the same lift as me walking behind, would get such a big "Good Morning!!" from the uncles sitting outside the lift lobby.
What the f**K was that?!! What did they do that I did not?!! Was their smiles more "colgatey" than mine?!!
Everyday I wonder do I not smile as "sunshinely" as them? Or maybe I should greet those uncles and aunties ever so loving-ly and loudly next time. I wonder "Did the ang mos recently gave them a treat of donuts and coffee or what?"
Recently a colleague of mine just mentioned that I always make her smile when she sees me in office and I joked "Do I have a funny face?" Her reply was that I had a cheerful personality. (Haha...how very wrong of her...maybe that's because I'm seldom in the office to begin with.) I was like "Yah..sure" Haha...then how come I don't get to see the uncles or aunties smile at me when I walk out of the lift lobby every morning?
Maybe it's time to practice those colgate moments more in the mirror or to admit that sucking up to ang mos - who are indeed more 'tua kee' than me - are the way of living in this Asian society...
Oh well...we see such double standards everywhere...starting from the time these ang mos boarded our national carrier...don't we?
I wonder are those "red haired" foreign talents - read ang mos - really more friendly than me or locals simply loved to suck up to them? Whenever I get out of home lately, I psyched myself to flash the best smile my facial muscle can flex after a night's rest to anyone I see but frankly more often than not, all I get were blank stares or even the "see through you" look. But amusingly, the ang mos who just shared the same lift as me walking behind, would get such a big "Good Morning!!" from the uncles sitting outside the lift lobby.
What the f**K was that?!! What did they do that I did not?!! Was their smiles more "colgatey" than mine?!!
Everyday I wonder do I not smile as "sunshinely" as them? Or maybe I should greet those uncles and aunties ever so loving-ly and loudly next time. I wonder "Did the ang mos recently gave them a treat of donuts and coffee or what?"
Recently a colleague of mine just mentioned that I always make her smile when she sees me in office and I joked "Do I have a funny face?" Her reply was that I had a cheerful personality. (Haha...how very wrong of her...maybe that's because I'm seldom in the office to begin with.) I was like "Yah..sure" Haha...then how come I don't get to see the uncles or aunties smile at me when I walk out of the lift lobby every morning?
Maybe it's time to practice those colgate moments more in the mirror or to admit that sucking up to ang mos - who are indeed more 'tua kee' than me - are the way of living in this Asian society...
Oh well...we see such double standards everywhere...starting from the time these ang mos boarded our national carrier...don't we?
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Britain's Got Talents...Do We?
Have heard about Paul Potts for a while...so here's the clip which made my eyes wet everytime I watch it.
Though we do have all sorts of talent shows locally with the most recent one where 16 male and female contestants shows off their...erm..."talents" in acting cool, cute , slutty and whatever. But well to each his own...I'll reach for the remote everytime...
I wonder do we have gems like Paul Potts locally yet to be discovered and be polished to be a shining star...Just like what Simon Cowell sums up at the end of the clip..."...where somebody who isn't a professional and has a talent and isn't aware of it, has a normal job and you see something else..."
Though we do have all sorts of talent shows locally with the most recent one where 16 male and female contestants shows off their...erm..."talents" in acting cool, cute , slutty and whatever. But well to each his own...I'll reach for the remote everytime...
I wonder do we have gems like Paul Potts locally yet to be discovered and be polished to be a shining star...Just like what Simon Cowell sums up at the end of the clip..."...where somebody who isn't a professional and has a talent and isn't aware of it, has a normal job and you see something else..."
Monday, April 07, 2008
Commercial Breaks
张 - FedEx
Deh...Mumbai lah...India! - M1
Which is correct?
哪个张？弓长的张！哪个张？弓长的张！
Or is it?
哪个张？工厂的张！哪个张？工厂的张！
耳东＝陈
双木＝林
木子＝李
三画＝王
弓长＝张
Deh...Mumbai lah...India! - M1
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Selamat Jalan
(Extracts from CNA dated 10 March 2008)
So he must still be in the country because he has
ORZ (五体投地)
The Police maintained that they believe he is still in Singapore as there is no evidence to show he has managed to leave the country. They also said there is no evidence that his escape was a result of help from others, although they are not ruling out the possibility.
警方是根据以下几点，认为他还没有逃离本地，这包括：他在逃离拘留所时，没有交通工具、身上没有携带钱或者是护照。此外，没有证据显示他获得其他人的支援，也没有消息指出他目前人国外。Huh? WTF?!!
So he must still be in the country because he has
- No Transport - cannot run away because he needs his EzLink card and he also forgot his car keys
- No Money - cannot run away because he is cashless and we are still holding on to his ATM card and cash card
- No Passport - cannot run away because he will need an immigration chop to cross the causeway or immigration at the airport
- No friends - cannot run away because all his friends have turned their back on him BUT there still some possibilities that he still help from law-defiant friends
ORZ (五体投地)
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Inaugural Flight
Was very grateful to have the opportunity to take the Singapore Flyer on it's Inaugural Flight. It was a nice experience but the hiccups and delayed departure definite was a damper. With unbearable hunger (supposedly to have food and drinks but there was not enough food to go around the 20 odd guest on board...almost everyone got only a miserable piece of 2cm x 2cm finger food) and basically not much to see up there as it's already dark and the reflective window doesn't help as if you don't stick your face (which I believe one is adviced not to) to the window, all you can see are the reflections of the cabin lights...haha...
I wonder if I would want to pay to go for another ride on my own in the near future...Hmm...not on my 'must-do' list at the moment I guess... ;-)
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
我笑了， 我又哭了
在晚报上看了一则报道，标题是：觉得很‘显’啊！工作倦怠症找上门。报道上写的一些症状，大多巳乎我都有。
但看了建議，我笑了。
今天听广播，听著那母亲的焦灼，突然感受到她的无助，孩子失踪了一个晚上，怎么办，怎么办？半小时后，听众捎来了找到孩子的消息。突然感受到她那一刻应该是喜极而泣吧。顿时，我哭了。新加坡还是人间有温情的。 再看了一些MC的相关报道，我又哭了。人真的要在走了后才会知道自己有这么多好友，有多么受爱戴吗？想想自己，如果走了有多少人会想起我？
有点无聊吧。我看我该去看医生了！
- 类似自闭现像，不愿与同事接处 ﹣checked
- 身体容易疲劳 ﹣checked
- 工作成就感低 ﹣checked
- 失眠 - checked
- 工作效率降低 ﹣checked
- 感情疲怠 - Hmm....erm...don't think so
但看了建議，我笑了。
- 沟通澄清自己 ﹣谁不想，落花有意，流水会听吗？
- 了解自己的长处与短处 ﹣erm...
- 提升自己 - erm...
- 沟通, 沟通, 再沟通 ﹣哈哈哈哈
- 假设情况恶化，公司需要给予协助 ﹣erm...上司会怎么看你呢？
今天听广播，听著那母亲的焦灼，突然感受到她的无助，孩子失踪了一个晚上，怎么办，怎么办？半小时后，听众捎来了找到孩子的消息。突然感受到她那一刻应该是喜极而泣吧。顿时，我哭了。新加坡还是人间有温情的。 再看了一些MC的相关报道，我又哭了。人真的要在走了后才会知道自己有这么多好友，有多么受爱戴吗？想想自己，如果走了有多少人会想起我？
有点无聊吧。我看我该去看医生了！
Monday, January 07, 2008
My Love Will Get You Home
If you wander off too far
My love will get you home
If you follow the wrong star
My love will get you home
If you ever find yourself lost and all alone
Get back on your feet and think of me
My love will get you home
Boy, My love will get you home
If the bright lights blinds your eyes
My love will get you home
If your troubles break your stride
My love will get you home
If you ever find yourself lost and all alone
Get back on your feet and think of me
My love will get you home
If you ever feel ashame
My love will get you home
When there's only you to blame
My love will get you home
If you ever find yourself lost and all alone
Get back on your feet and think of me
My love will get you home
Boy, My love will get you home
Boy, My love will get you home
- Christine Glass
Saturday, January 05, 2008
如果还有明天
听到了MC King过逝的消息，当时在驾车，眼泪却在眼里打滚。真不知为什么，我从不曾与他认识却突然想到了此时丽梅的感触因该比我更大，更难过。很多画面在脑里闪过，这35年里从身边逝世的友人都突然闪过。由其是CM，我真的好想念你。和你的约定，至今还是我心里的一块遗憾。真的好恨，好恨。连你最后一个SMS也没有回到，连你逝世的消息也是从国外回来后才从同事口中得知。
刚上了丽梅的blog, 我哭了。
如果没有明天，我会做什么？真的无法回答。
如果还有明天，就好好的渡过吧。人生无常，就活在当下。
Ｓ謝謝你。
刚上了丽梅的blog, 我哭了。
如果没有明天，我会做什么？真的无法回答。
如果还有明天，就好好的渡过吧。人生无常，就活在当下。
Ｓ謝謝你。
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Days Gone By...Farewell 2007...Hello 2008...
Last year really went by in a flash...So many things happened in 2007.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
Monday, December 31, 2007
Reality Checks
Expectations can be such a dangerous thing. When one is looking forward to something...one must also be prepared to be let down or disappointed one time or another. Some have commented that I often have a pessimistic outlook of life. But I guess I'm somehow trying to soften the blow of a disappointment if things don't work out as I hoped it would be.
Be it a relationship, a promotion, a meeting or many more goings in my daily life. I often tell myself to take it easy and be ready for the worst. Still I can't say I don't feel the tinge disappointment and frustration when things happened at the other end of the scale. Some say I don't take too well to things that don't turn out well...but do I? Maybe.
I often too ask myself what happiness is? I'm not too sure myself. Often little things that makes me happy are somehow tie to being having some expectations.
Waking up to see your loved one next to you...a simple smile, a peck on the cheek and a lazy "Good Morning". Enjoying a good cup of coffee and toasts while reading morning papers leisurely on a weekday. Taking a deep breath of the cool morning air. Running a good run. Holding hands. Having late night supper despite knowing the evils of it.
Not too tall an order I suppose? Only simple things that will be able to bring a smile of contentment on my face. But then again...when one has expectations of little happiness like these, it does come with the disappointments when one cannot enjoy it. Oh well...reality checks I suppose...
Be it a relationship, a promotion, a meeting or many more goings in my daily life. I often tell myself to take it easy and be ready for the worst. Still I can't say I don't feel the tinge disappointment and frustration when things happened at the other end of the scale. Some say I don't take too well to things that don't turn out well...but do I? Maybe.
I often too ask myself what happiness is? I'm not too sure myself. Often little things that makes me happy are somehow tie to being having some expectations.
Waking up to see your loved one next to you...a simple smile, a peck on the cheek and a lazy "Good Morning". Enjoying a good cup of coffee and toasts while reading morning papers leisurely on a weekday. Taking a deep breath of the cool morning air. Running a good run. Holding hands. Having late night supper despite knowing the evils of it.
Not too tall an order I suppose? Only simple things that will be able to bring a smile of contentment on my face. But then again...when one has expectations of little happiness like these, it does come with the disappointments when one cannot enjoy it. Oh well...reality checks I suppose...
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Vexed . Incompetence . Dejected
Received an interesting note from my senior management after urging the HR a couple of times over the last few months on my confirmation and pay adjustments which was 6 months overdue.
Just had lunch with my user last week and she made a comment. "Your company is famous for slipping the project schedule. The last PM had slipped the last project by a year! Thank goodness this time you only slipped a week."
Am I supposed to feel happy about the comment? I guess I should. Since taking up the project in March, step by step I try to solve the issues of hardware under specifications, incompatible in-house application software with the new proposed OS, near zero system administrator assistance, inexperience engineers over installation and network infrastructure or any system knowledge at all and buggy off-the-shelf software!!! Proposed deployment in end August but manage to deliver in 1st week of September. It was a great learning and hands-on (all by myself) experience for me no doubt but does the management see the efforts I put in? Incompetence? Was it really all me?
Two years in the row without any pay increment, bonus or even AWS since I left my 1st job while other's pocket just get fatter and coming with all sorts of reasons to adjust their own pay.
Time to move on...move on...
Feeling so so dejected.
Dear Alex,Vexed.
HR was brought to my attention that you have not been confirmed and we should rightly review your case.
Please make yourself available for a meeting between HR, you and I. We shall update XXX, your Operation Head, on the details finalized during our discussion.
Understand that the delay of your confirmation is partly due to YYY’s departure, your PM role expectation. We also want to take this opportunity to discuss about the intended plan of your PRD role next year.
Best regards
- YYY (my current boss) only tendered his resignation in October but I was due for confirmation in June...so what got his departure got to do with the delay?
- My PM role expectation. Was the delay due to my expectation of my role as the PM? Or was it that they think I did not meet their expectations as a PM?
Just had lunch with my user last week and she made a comment. "Your company is famous for slipping the project schedule. The last PM had slipped the last project by a year! Thank goodness this time you only slipped a week."
Am I supposed to feel happy about the comment? I guess I should. Since taking up the project in March, step by step I try to solve the issues of hardware under specifications, incompatible in-house application software with the new proposed OS, near zero system administrator assistance, inexperience engineers over installation and network infrastructure or any system knowledge at all and buggy off-the-shelf software!!! Proposed deployment in end August but manage to deliver in 1st week of September. It was a great learning and hands-on (all by myself) experience for me no doubt but does the management see the efforts I put in? Incompetence? Was it really all me?
Two years in the row without any pay increment, bonus or even AWS since I left my 1st job while other's pocket just get fatter and coming with all sorts of reasons to adjust their own pay.
Time to move on...move on...
Feeling so so dejected.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Carpe Diem
The heart may freeze or it can burn
The pain will ease if I can learn
There is no future
There is no past
I live this moment as my last
There's only us
There's only this
Forget regret
Or life is yours to miss
No other road
No other way
No day but today
- RENT
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Runspiration 2007
Did my first Singapore Marathon Run...okay...I only ran 10km...but at least I fulfilled my resolution of 2007 and did my personal best of almost under 1 hr...damn...hahaha :)
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Home coming
In memory of 5 ordinary men - Stephen, Jeremy, Reuben, Boon San and Wei Cheng, whom left behind an extraordinary legacy to people like me whom never got to know themMay you guys rest in peace and be always in the hearts and memories of many.Pulang marilah pulang
Marilah pulang bersama-sama
Monday, November 19, 2007
Random Rumblings...
Up Up
Bus Fare Up
Petrol Up
Flour Up
Petrol Up (Haiz...5 cts)
Bus Fare Up (Erm...wasn't it just adjusted in July?)
Petrol Up (Haiz...closing US$98...)
Paper Up
CPI Up Up Up
BUT
Petroleum Company's Profits Up
Public Transport Company's Profits Up
Ministerial Pay Up (Oh....that was in April)
How come my pay still not up?!
Screaming Vigilantes
Singaporeans had gone on the printed media and blog site of a "celebrity" blogger as the heroes to the damsels' rescue from an ang mo bullying the weaker sex. Wonder if one have seen the video on YouTube? Sorry for not linking here as I just can't stand the screaming and shouting of the vigilantes and the "victim(s)". See it to see who are the victims and who are the aggressors. I'm not saying that Singaporeans should not stand up to help other Singaporeans but then I do not know the actual facts of the events. So I shan't comment more.
If the one sided story published holds true, no doubt that the ang mo was wrong to hit on the girls...But the crux of the issue was that the self proclaimed "celebrity" blogger's bag did bumped into the lady, and did she remember to say sorry in the first place?
Come on, we get bumped by clueless people who had forgotten that their big bulky bag is part of their body once they donned it on almost everyday on MRT, buses and shopping centres. Most of the time we do not even get a word of sorry but instead some rude stares as if we are in the wrong to bump into their bag?!! The incident do not need to turn ugly if the "star" blogger in all her "celebrit-i-ness" could have minded her manners and said sorry in the beginning.
Bus Fare Up
Petrol Up
Flour Up
Petrol Up (Haiz...5 cts)
Bus Fare Up (Erm...wasn't it just adjusted in July?)
Petrol Up (Haiz...closing US$98...)
Paper Up
CPI Up Up Up
BUT
Petroleum Company's Profits Up
Public Transport Company's Profits Up
Ministerial Pay Up (Oh....that was in April)
How come my pay still not up?!
Screaming Vigilantes
Singaporeans had gone on the printed media and blog site of a "celebrity" blogger as the heroes to the damsels' rescue from an ang mo bullying the weaker sex. Wonder if one have seen the video on YouTube? Sorry for not linking here as I just can't stand the screaming and shouting of the vigilantes and the "victim(s)". See it to see who are the victims and who are the aggressors. I'm not saying that Singaporeans should not stand up to help other Singaporeans but then I do not know the actual facts of the events. So I shan't comment more.
If the one sided story published holds true, no doubt that the ang mo was wrong to hit on the girls...But the crux of the issue was that the self proclaimed "celebrity" blogger's bag did bumped into the lady, and did she remember to say sorry in the first place?
Come on, we get bumped by clueless people who had forgotten that their big bulky bag is part of their body once they donned it on almost everyday on MRT, buses and shopping centres. Most of the time we do not even get a word of sorry but instead some rude stares as if we are in the wrong to bump into their bag?!! The incident do not need to turn ugly if the "star" blogger in all her "celebrit-i-ness" could have minded her manners and said sorry in the beginning.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
《当我老了》 — 写给孩子的一封信
我老了，不再是原来的我。
请理解我，对我有一点耐心。
当我把菜汤洒到自己的衣服上时，
当我忘记怎样系鞋带时，
请想一想当初我是如何手把手地教你。
当我一遍又一遍地重复你早已听腻的话语，
请耐心地听我说，不要打断我。
你从小的时候，我不得不重复那个讲过千百遍的故事，
直到你进入梦乡。
当我需要你帮我洗澡时，请不要责备我。
还记得小时候我千方百计哄你洗澡的情形吗？
当我对新科技和新事物不知所措时，请不要嘲笑我。
想一想当初我怎样耐心地回答你的每一个“为什么”。
当我由于双脚疲劳而无法行走时，
请伸出你年轻有力的手搀扶我。
就像你小时候学习走路时，我扶你那样。
当我忽然忘记我们谈话的主题，请给我一些时间让我回想。
其实对我来说，谈论什么并不重要，
只要你能在一旁听我说，我就很满足。
当你看着老去的我，请不要悲伤。
理解我，支持我，就像你刚开始
学习如何生活时我对你那样。
当初我引导你走上人生的路，
如今请陪我走完最后的路。
给我你的爱和耐心，我会报以感激的微笑。
这微笑中凝结着我对你无限的爱。文章择选自墨西哥《数字家庭》2004年11月号
Friday, October 26, 2007
Lame Musings - BenGay
Penetrating Pain Relief...better than KY.....
They also come with Deep Penetrating Pain Relief...hahaha
They also come with Deep Penetrating Pain Relief...hahahaSunday, September 30, 2007
Friday, September 07, 2007
Monday, September 03, 2007
绕梁一世
《天冷就回来》也已演完了19场，公然的在昨天落幕了。上星期看了那一场演出后，就一直想写一写自己的感觉，脑海里一直在想著："这一次，一定要以中文写！" 但就是一直跟自己喋喋不休的争个有的没的，然后就是一拖再拖。
真的很佩服杜国威能以梁文福的近35首歌曲铺排成一部可说是新加坡派的音乐剧。但如果和《我和春天有个约会》比较，我总觉得《天》就是还缺了一些...但又说不出来的什么。其实《天》并不是梁文福的第一出音乐剧，在1996年看了和叶良俊合作的《雨季》后就一直蛮期待能再看到下一部属于新加坡的华语音乐剧。虽然不像《雨》都是和叶良俊的原创音乐和歌曲，但能在《天》中以另一种方式来诠释伴我成长的新谣，的确给了我一些惊喜和感动，并让我重新了解一些歌词中的意义。不能不说梁文福的词曲真的很能不经意的将我们的情绪牵动。当然演员的努力，大家所付出的，都得到了满场的掌声与感动。
其实蛮惊讶的是一直都以为George Chan (田伟鸿)是一位舞蹈员和口操英语的舞台演员，所以当我在看到海报时，的确有点讶异，"华语leh!! 不要像May and Choy在《881》 這樣吧？ 倒想看一看他能在剧中会有怎样的演出。" 就在这样的心态下而决定买票的。但我真的是有眼不識O-yee-O! 哈哈哈！他那嘹亮而厚实的歌声的的确确的把我给慑服了。Joanna (董姿彥）的声音也有很吸引人的地方，带点英文腔但又不会有洋人味。她猫女郎的一举手，一投足和她水的肢体都让我吸引。但Rose 和阿乐的初遇，却给我像在《RENT》里Mimi和Roger初识的影子。
虽不是什么声乐专家，但大多演员们歌声的稳定度，有时真的会为他们捏一把冷汗... 對Sebastian Tan (陈瑞彪)的声音有点小小的失望，也许累了或也许和George的比较，他的声线就显得有点单薄。小演员们的有点难以控制, 资深演员(黄家强, 吴悦娟)和歌手(郑展伦)也再一次证明了姜还是老的辣！王欣在戏中的串场有点小小的遗憾。
林燮毅的可爱，也许是他的外型，一出场就很有comic feel。其实和燮毅有过那小小的认识，7年前在纽约通过朋友认识时就是那么圆圆的。还记得我的millenium就是在纽约和他与另三个朋友吃著饺子渡过的。当时就很喜欢纽约的生活，看燮毅在那儿主修声乐和另一位在那儿跳舞的女孩(想一想...那女孩好像就是郭劲红...郭宝崑的另一位千金...但不确定也想不起）那時好崇拜也羨慕他們，觉得他们都很勇敢，敢为自己的目标奋斗。所以当我看到燮毅在台上時，就好像看他们当时给我的感慨。Rose和成叔在纽约的奋斗，就好像在说著他们的故事。不知他们是否还记得我这位无名的过客。
真的很佩服杜国威能以梁文福的近35首歌曲铺排成一部可说是新加坡派的音乐剧。但如果和《我和春天有个约会》比较，我总觉得《天》就是还缺了一些...但又说不出来的什么。其实《天》并不是梁文福的第一出音乐剧，在1996年看了和叶良俊合作的《雨季》后就一直蛮期待能再看到下一部属于新加坡的华语音乐剧。虽然不像《雨》都是和叶良俊的原创音乐和歌曲，但能在《天》中以另一种方式来诠释伴我成长的新谣，的确给了我一些惊喜和感动，并让我重新了解一些歌词中的意义。不能不说梁文福的词曲真的很能不经意的将我们的情绪牵动。当然演员的努力，大家所付出的，都得到了满场的掌声与感动。
其实蛮惊讶的是一直都以为George Chan (田伟鸿)是一位舞蹈员和口操英语的舞台演员，所以当我在看到海报时，的确有点讶异，"华语leh!! 不要像May and Choy在《881》 這樣吧？ 倒想看一看他能在剧中会有怎样的演出。" 就在这样的心态下而决定买票的。但我真的是有眼不識O-yee-O! 哈哈哈！他那嘹亮而厚实的歌声的的确确的把我给慑服了。Joanna (董姿彥）的声音也有很吸引人的地方，带点英文腔但又不会有洋人味。她猫女郎的一举手，一投足和她水的肢体都让我吸引。但Rose 和阿乐的初遇，却给我像在《RENT》里Mimi和Roger初识的影子。
虽不是什么声乐专家，但大多演员们歌声的稳定度，有时真的会为他们捏一把冷汗... 對Sebastian Tan (陈瑞彪)的声音有点小小的失望，也许累了或也许和George的比较，他的声线就显得有点单薄。小演员们的有点难以控制, 资深演员(黄家强, 吴悦娟)和歌手(郑展伦)也再一次证明了姜还是老的辣！王欣在戏中的串场有点小小的遗憾。
林燮毅的可爱，也许是他的外型，一出场就很有comic feel。其实和燮毅有过那小小的认识，7年前在纽约通过朋友认识时就是那么圆圆的。还记得我的millenium就是在纽约和他与另三个朋友吃著饺子渡过的。当时就很喜欢纽约的生活，看燮毅在那儿主修声乐和另一位在那儿跳舞的女孩(想一想...那女孩好像就是郭劲红...郭宝崑的另一位千金...但不确定也想不起）那時好崇拜也羨慕他們，觉得他们都很勇敢，敢为自己的目标奋斗。所以当我看到燮毅在台上時，就好像看他们当时给我的感慨。Rose和成叔在纽约的奋斗，就好像在说著他们的故事。不知他们是否还记得我这位无名的过客。
天冷你就回来
别在风中徘徊
我猜我眼里有明白
还有一丝无奈
天冷他没回家
我仍然在等待
明天的雨点洒下来
那滋味就是爱
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
迷宫
现在是什么样的心情
自己也说不上来
也许想太多
也许是一直对生活都太执著
常问自己
到底心里想著什么
又在执著什么
我也无法说出口
只觉得好累好累
对生活开始没有太多的冲动
我真的也不想想太多
好想出去好好的出走
让自己好好的放松
是生活的牵绊
还是自我的束缚
就因我一直都想太多
我真的不想想太多
只要好好的放轻松
自己也说不上来
也许想太多
也许是一直对生活都太执著
常问自己
到底心里想著什么
又在执著什么
我也无法说出口
只觉得好累好累
对生活开始没有太多的冲动
我真的也不想想太多
好想出去好好的出走
让自己好好的放松
是生活的牵绊
还是自我的束缚
就因我一直都想太多
我真的不想想太多
只要好好的放轻松
Saturday, August 11, 2007
八八么 (Papaya) - 摇啊摇 - 发啦!!!
Hmm...trying not to don my movie critic hat at this hour of the night, but I guess it does not harm just to give my cents or two of the movie...even though I know practically no one really read my blog...hahah...
First and foremost, I must say I really did enjoy the movie quite a bit and leaving the cinema red eyed and red nosed *blush* Too emotional I told myself but I'm always a sucker for those tear jerking moments and sitting at the last row of the theatre with no one else helps...hahaha
[Spoiler Alert]
Frankly the main cast especially the girl power namely from Yeo Yann Yann 杨雁雁 (simply love her even more since Singapore Dreaming), Mindee Ong 王欣 (has seen her mature since her debut in the early idol times in the then TCS - I must say she was very impressive in the show) and lastly Liu Ling Ling 刘玲玲 (outdo her performance in any J-Team movie, though she left an impression in I Not Stupid) really propelled the show to be as entertaining and touching as it can be. Though I must say the supernatural element (歌台娘娘), the laser shooting bra and the 如来神掌 like duel between the payayas and the durians are somewhat stupidify the movie but somehow hilariously funny.
But I must say, I was not overly impress by 715's performance. I guess there were so much rave comments and accolades about his performance in the papers recently that I expected more than those pair of talking eyes. Hahaha...at times I don't even know if he is smiling during sad moments or sad during happy moments in the show. And do we need really to cast May and Choy as the Durian Sisters? Yes...they are gaining lots of attention in the Singapore media scene but they were really a pain to see on screen especially when they spout those lines in their nearly non existence mandarin.
However, I guess it was quite an interesting hokkien musical movie to watch. Really like the songs , the many impressive 歌台 costumes and the way Royston Tan handles his shots and good editing. The narration by Royston Tan himself never fails to impress since I first watched <<15>>. His voice has a certain magnetism and is able to draw out the inner feelings in you to flow with his narration. 感性之音?
Well, who says hokkien songs are "orbit" and "obiang"? I would say great job to Royston Tan for making a great film to pay tribute to our heritage, our tradition, our culture. Frankly I believe this film is also a tribute not only to 陈金浪 but also to the unsung heroes and heroines of the 七月歌台.
摇啊摇 - 发啦!!!
First and foremost, I must say I really did enjoy the movie quite a bit and leaving the cinema red eyed and red nosed *blush* Too emotional I told myself but I'm always a sucker for those tear jerking moments and sitting at the last row of the theatre with no one else helps...hahaha
[Spoiler Alert]
Frankly the main cast especially the girl power namely from Yeo Yann Yann 杨雁雁 (simply love her even more since Singapore Dreaming), Mindee Ong 王欣 (has seen her mature since her debut in the early idol times in the then TCS - I must say she was very impressive in the show) and lastly Liu Ling Ling 刘玲玲 (outdo her performance in any J-Team movie, though she left an impression in I Not Stupid) really propelled the show to be as entertaining and touching as it can be. Though I must say the supernatural element (歌台娘娘), the laser shooting bra and the 如来神掌 like duel between the payayas and the durians are somewhat stupidify the movie but somehow hilariously funny.
But I must say, I was not overly impress by 715's performance. I guess there were so much rave comments and accolades about his performance in the papers recently that I expected more than those pair of talking eyes. Hahaha...at times I don't even know if he is smiling during sad moments or sad during happy moments in the show. And do we need really to cast May and Choy as the Durian Sisters? Yes...they are gaining lots of attention in the Singapore media scene but they were really a pain to see on screen especially when they spout those lines in their nearly non existence mandarin.
However, I guess it was quite an interesting hokkien musical movie to watch. Really like the songs , the many impressive 歌台 costumes and the way Royston Tan handles his shots and good editing. The narration by Royston Tan himself never fails to impress since I first watched <<15>>. His voice has a certain magnetism and is able to draw out the inner feelings in you to flow with his narration. 感性之音?
Well, who says hokkien songs are "orbit" and "obiang"? I would say great job to Royston Tan for making a great film to pay tribute to our heritage, our tradition, our culture. Frankly I believe this film is also a tribute not only to 陈金浪 but also to the unsung heroes and heroines of the 七月歌台.
摇啊摇 - 发啦!!!
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Sometimes a Bastard We Must Be
We have a vision for tomorrowWhile exiting from ECP, how many times do I feel like a stupid fool queuing up behind the car on the right most lane to filter out into the connecting lane just to be nudged by some rude drivers on the left lane nonchalantly cutting into my lane as if it was their right to cut into the queue I'm in?
Just believe, just believe
We have a goal for Singapore
We can achieve, we can achieve
While boarding the bus, how many times do I feel like a stupid fool, patiently queuing up behind the next boarding passenger just to be nudged by some rude passenger (mostly
aunties) cutting into my queue as if I have to respect the old and give way to them?
While boarding the MRT, how many times do I feel like a stupid fool, patiently queuing up the at the side of the door just to be nudged by some rude passenger who nonchalantly stand right smack in the centre of the opening door forcing their way into the train or best still cutting in front of you because he/she is "courteously" letting the passenger alight from the train? Same goes to alighting the train, where someone stares right back at you as if why am I blocking their way boarding the train?!
I've already lost counts. So many times...I feel like an idiot and cursing at myself for queuing up while others just get their way. Well, quite true isn't it? I guess we have to be a bastard in life sometimes. Like the saying goes, if you can't beat them join them.
You and me, we'll do our part
Stand together, heart to heart
We're going to show the world what Singapore can be
We can achieve, we can achieve
Yeah...I think we can sure to achieve if we just do our part to be an ungracious society. Sometimes a Bastard we must be to get be happy.
Well, Happy Birthday Singapore!!
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Moments
Dinner
"Come let's eat, thank you for working so hard for the family"
Was having dinner with my friends a week ago when I overheard this from the table next to ours. My head turned and found a family of six (mum, dad and their 4 kids) with their maid eating dinner. It brought a smile in me, to see the mum actually serving the maid the food on the table. It was already a heart warming moment to see a family treating their maid with dignity sharing the same food on the table. Then the kid (guess it was the eldest son) stood up and gave the maid a drumstick and mouthing a shy thank you to her. As Singaporeans get more and more effluent and coupled with the many cases of maid/foreign workers abuse, this really made an impression and definitely a moment for me to remember. The parents really showed the children that maids also need to be treated with pride and dignity.
"Come let's eat, thank you for working so hard for the family"
Was having dinner with my friends a week ago when I overheard this from the table next to ours. My head turned and found a family of six (mum, dad and their 4 kids) with their maid eating dinner. It brought a smile in me, to see the mum actually serving the maid the food on the table. It was already a heart warming moment to see a family treating their maid with dignity sharing the same food on the table. Then the kid (guess it was the eldest son) stood up and gave the maid a drumstick and mouthing a shy thank you to her. As Singaporeans get more and more effluent and coupled with the many cases of maid/foreign workers abuse, this really made an impression and definitely a moment for me to remember. The parents really showed the children that maids also need to be treated with pride and dignity.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Mask
We wear a mask for so long
We no longer remember the person we are underneath
Beneath this mask there's more than flesh
Beneath this mask there's an idea
And ideas are bulletproof
- V for Vendatta
Monday, June 18, 2007
Life Lessons and Sand Castle
To many, building a sand castle was a kiddy thing but this evening I had a life lesson just seeing a demo at the Sand Castle Corner (yeah...didn't know we had such corner...haha) near the Lagoon Hawker Centre in East Coast Parkway.
Yeah...as most typical Singaporean I was drawn by the crowd crowding around the Sand Castle Corner and I saw this uncle teaching the kids, maids and parents how to build sand castles. First impression, sales talk trying to sell his sand castle building equipment...Second impression, some ex-army (his tone was like a RSM) guy trying to make a living. Third impression, a teacher of life lessons (only to find out later that he gives motivational talks and the creator and patenter of the "Ang Ku Kueh" Sand Castle Builder).
As I stood there listening to him, I was impressed...no doubt his constant taunting of the Singapore education system and how Singaporean kids are pampered and different with the Ang-Mo kids struck a string in me...the more I listen to him the more impressed I was of him pricking at the very fact of life.
"Ideas without action is worthless"
"I don't know, let's try it to see if it works"
"Getting your hands dirty and try it out is more important than standing there to look at what I'm doing"
Probably these are not his exact words but the gist of it. I was really quite impress how he can make sand castle building into a lesson of life especially to the crowd of kids.
Really never judge a book by its cover and you'll never know in some corner of this little red dot...who knows there is always a teacher hidden somewhere where one can learn a life lesson or two.
Yeah...as most typical Singaporean I was drawn by the crowd crowding around the Sand Castle Corner and I saw this uncle teaching the kids, maids and parents how to build sand castles. First impression, sales talk trying to sell his sand castle building equipment...Second impression, some ex-army (his tone was like a RSM) guy trying to make a living. Third impression, a teacher of life lessons (only to find out later that he gives motivational talks and the creator and patenter of the "Ang Ku Kueh" Sand Castle Builder).
As I stood there listening to him, I was impressed...no doubt his constant taunting of the Singapore education system and how Singaporean kids are pampered and different with the Ang-Mo kids struck a string in me...the more I listen to him the more impressed I was of him pricking at the very fact of life.
"Ideas without action is worthless"
"I don't know, let's try it to see if it works"
"Getting your hands dirty and try it out is more important than standing there to look at what I'm doing"
Probably these are not his exact words but the gist of it. I was really quite impress how he can make sand castle building into a lesson of life especially to the crowd of kids.
Really never judge a book by its cover and you'll never know in some corner of this little red dot...who knows there is always a teacher hidden somewhere where one can learn a life lesson or two.
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Sentiments Libéraux
Est-ce que je suis trop libéral avec mes sentiments?
J'espère pas
J'espère pas
Je ne peux pas attendre pour me réveiller demain
Et trouvez dehors cette promesse est vrai
Je ne devrais jamais aller de nouveau au jour avant vous
J'espère pas
J'espère pas
Je ne peux pas attendre pour me réveiller demain
Et trouvez dehors cette promesse est vrai
Je ne devrais jamais aller de nouveau au jour avant vous
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Numbing Rumblings 2007
So many times
Lingering in my thoughts
I want to know the reason behind it all
Demanding to make the pain and hurt go away
But each time the struggle gets harder and harder
Was it pride?
Fear?
Or was it resentment?
Let it be
Let it just whither and die
Not wanting to ruffle its feathers
But this time it took a longer time
Lie still
Blankly...Quietly...Peacefully
Waiting to be reanimated back into life...
Lingering in my thoughts
I want to know the reason behind it all
Demanding to make the pain and hurt go away
But each time the struggle gets harder and harder
Was it pride?
Fear?
Or was it resentment?
Let it be
Let it just whither and die
Not wanting to ruffle its feathers
But this time it took a longer time
Lie still
Blankly...Quietly...Peacefully
Waiting to be reanimated back into life...
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Sunday, May 20, 2007
爱．倦怠
我以为我已把手轻轻放开
让失落的心 慢慢的释怀
但我却还沉迷在那不再的未来
伤还未癒合 心碎的感觉 还那么的熟悉
牵你的手仍有余温 但已感觉到你渐渐退去的热情
是累了吗？还是已经没有了感觉？
还爱我吗？还是已经厌倦？
真的不想醒来 面对你对爱情的倦怠
让失落的心 慢慢的释怀
但我却还沉迷在那不再的未来
伤还未癒合 心碎的感觉 还那么的熟悉
牵你的手仍有余温 但已感觉到你渐渐退去的热情
是累了吗？还是已经没有了感觉？
还爱我吗？还是已经厌倦？
真的不想醒来 面对你对爱情的倦怠
Saturday, May 12, 2007
What Hurts the Most
[Never found a song so close to my heart....'cher...just want to share this with you...]
I can take the rain on the roof of this empty house
That don’t bother me
I can take a few tears now and then and just let them out
I’m not afraid to cry every once in a while
Even though going on with you gone still upsets me
There are days every now and again I pretend I’m ok
But that’s not what gets me
It’s hard to deal with the pain of losing you everywhere I go
But I’m doin’ It
It’s hard to force that smile when I see our old friends and I’m alone
Still Harder
Getting up, getting dressed, livin’ with this regret
What hurts the most
Is being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
And never knowing
What could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was trying to do
What hurts the most
Is being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
And never knowing
What could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was trying to do
Not seeing that loving you
That’s what I was trying to do
I can take the rain on the roof of this empty house
That don’t bother me
I can take a few tears now and then and just let them out
I’m not afraid to cry every once in a while
Even though going on with you gone still upsets me
There are days every now and again I pretend I’m ok
But that’s not what gets me
What hurts the most
Was being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
And never knowing
What could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was tryin’ to do
It’s hard to deal with the pain of losing you everywhere I go
But I’m doin’ It
It’s hard to force that smile when I see our old friends and I’m alone
Still Harder
Getting up, getting dressed, livin’ with this regret
But I know if I could do it over
I would trade give away all the words that I saved in my heart
That I left unspoken
What hurts the most
Is being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
And never knowing
What could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was trying to do
What hurts the most
Is being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
And never knowing
What could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was trying to do
Not seeing that loving you
That’s what I was trying to do
- by Rascal Flatts from Me and My Gang
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Love Changes Everything
Found this old MV by Michael Ball.
'cher...Thanks for sharing this song with me.
Thanks for what we shared...though short...
I'm grateful though sad to let it go....
'cher...Thanks for sharing this song with me.
Thanks for what we shared...though short...
I'm grateful though sad to let it go....
- from Aspect of Love
Monday, March 26, 2007
Way Back Into Love
['cher - If you ever read my blog...hahaha...;-P]
I've been living with a shadow overhead
I've been sleeping with a cloud above my bed
I've been lonely for so long
Trapped in the past, I just can't seem to move on
I've been hiding all my hopes and dreams away
Just in case I ever need'em again someday
I've been setting aside time
To clear a little space in the corners of my mind
All I want to do is find a way back into love
I can't make it through without a way back into love
Oh oh oh
I've been watching but the stars refuse to shine
I've been searching but I just don't see the signs
I know that it's out there
There's got to be something for my soul somewhere
I've been looking for someone to shed some light
Not just somebody just to get me through the night
I could use some direction
And I'm open to your suggestions
There are moments when I don't know if it's real
Or if anybody feels the way I feel
I need inspiration
Not just another negotiation
I've been living with a shadow overhead
I've been sleeping with a cloud above my bed
I've been lonely for so long
Trapped in the past, I just can't seem to move on
I've been hiding all my hopes and dreams away
Just in case I ever need'em again someday
I've been setting aside time
To clear a little space in the corners of my mind
All I want to do is find a way back into love
I can't make it through without a way back into love
Oh oh oh
I've been watching but the stars refuse to shine
I've been searching but I just don't see the signs
I know that it's out there
There's got to be something for my soul somewhere
I've been looking for someone to shed some light
Not just somebody just to get me through the night
I could use some direction
And I'm open to your suggestions
All I want to do is find a way back into love
I can't make it through without a way back into love
And if I open my heart again
I guess I'm hoping you'll be there for me in the end
There are moments when I don't know if it's real
Or if anybody feels the way I feel
I need inspiration
Not just another negotiation
All I want to do is find a way back into love
I can't make it through without a way back into love
And if I open my heart to you
I'm hoping you'll show me what to do
And if you help me to start again
You know that I'll be there for you in the end
- from the Original Soundtrack of Music & Lyrics
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Reflections of 33
Took quite a long hiatus since my last entry. Yeah, as Britney Spears will say "Oops I did it again!" Haha...indeed she did it again with her 'bald' move...haha
Had been searching and trying to find new directions for the past 3 months.Getting on feet and releasing the grip of the past to look forward to a better 2007.
The year passed did not end with pomp and circumstance and in fact I got into quite a rut, a mess in the 33 years of my earthly existence. Taking a step back and looking at the months that had gone by...I was simply indulging myself in self-pity and emotional rollercoaster. I've lost friends, lost trusts, lost passions and lost my life (ok don't worry I'm not being suicidal...haha).
Quick reflections of the last months:
27 Jan
Finally decided to let go and move on...no point holding on to something that is no longer yours...
CNY (18 Feb - 20 Feb)
Getting out and start catching up with my friends whom I have neglected and isolated myself from. Thank you all for your concerns and encouragements. You all are really friends indeed.
01 Mar
Final showdown and decided to walk out of the rut. Tendered my resignation.
17 Mar
Was it fate or was it by chance that we finally met...
Had been searching and trying to find new directions for the past 3 months.Getting on feet and releasing the grip of the past to look forward to a better 2007.
The year passed did not end with pomp and circumstance and in fact I got into quite a rut, a mess in the 33 years of my earthly existence. Taking a step back and looking at the months that had gone by...I was simply indulging myself in self-pity and emotional rollercoaster. I've lost friends, lost trusts, lost passions and lost my life (ok don't worry I'm not being suicidal...haha).
Quick reflections of the last months:
27 Jan
Finally decided to let go and move on...no point holding on to something that is no longer yours...
CNY (18 Feb - 20 Feb)
Getting out and start catching up with my friends whom I have neglected and isolated myself from. Thank you all for your concerns and encouragements. You all are really friends indeed.
01 Mar
Final showdown and decided to walk out of the rut. Tendered my resignation.
17 Mar
Was it fate or was it by chance that we finally met...
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Happy Enlistment
15 years ago...I was enlisted into 2BTS Foxtrot Company...
夕阳西下，海风轻送晚霞
德光岛 我的家
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Is it going to be a Happy New Year
Back from 2 weeks of ICT for the Christmas Holiday.
From the un-nerving "not looking forward to ICT" feel in the beginning to the sudden lost after makes this Christmas even loneli-er and weirder.
2 weeks were all it took for a bunch of us...all new to one another...all forgotten by the ministry between 4-15 years...to bond and build the comradeship like recruits. Maybe it was the sweltering heat in the 1st week and the wet thundery stormy 2nd week that makes us bonded stronger all pushing to go through BMT all over again in 2 weeks. Wow...what an achievement.
Frankly, though I'm glad the hell is over, but somehow I wish it didn't have to end so fast. Maybe I should have been a man in green afterall...haha...I must be out of my mind. But it did cross my mind 12 years ago...hmmm...or maybe I was just a lonely soul seeking company and during the 2 weeks I had abundance of company...haha
Christmas came and went...feeling so stupid to spend it in Orchard Road...seeing everyone spraying foam snow and party streamers at everyone that cross their path...chasing one another till they got a stern warning from the police to stop the ruckus...totally no Christmas mood and no proper countdown in Orchard...lame and alone...*haiz* I must be out of my mind to spend my midnite there...
Now it makes me wonder...will it be a Happy New Year?
From the un-nerving "not looking forward to ICT" feel in the beginning to the sudden lost after makes this Christmas even loneli-er and weirder.
2 weeks were all it took for a bunch of us...all new to one another...all forgotten by the ministry between 4-15 years...to bond and build the comradeship like recruits. Maybe it was the sweltering heat in the 1st week and the wet thundery stormy 2nd week that makes us bonded stronger all pushing to go through BMT all over again in 2 weeks. Wow...what an achievement.
Frankly, though I'm glad the hell is over, but somehow I wish it didn't have to end so fast. Maybe I should have been a man in green afterall...haha...I must be out of my mind. But it did cross my mind 12 years ago...hmmm...or maybe I was just a lonely soul seeking company and during the 2 weeks I had abundance of company...haha
Christmas came and went...feeling so stupid to spend it in Orchard Road...seeing everyone spraying foam snow and party streamers at everyone that cross their path...chasing one another till they got a stern warning from the police to stop the ruckus...totally no Christmas mood and no proper countdown in Orchard...lame and alone...*haiz* I must be out of my mind to spend my midnite there...
Now it makes me wonder...will it be a Happy New Year?
Friday, December 08, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
夢醒了
我想起你描述夢想天堂的樣子
手指著遠方畫出一棟一棟房子
你傻笑的表情又那麼誠實
所有的信任是從那一刻開始
你給我一個到那片天空的地址
只因為太高摔得我血流不止
帶著傷口回到當初背叛的城市
唯一收容我的卻是自己的影子
想跟著你一輩子
至少這樣的世界沒有現實
想賴著你一輩子
做你感情裡最後一個天使
如果夢醒時還在一起
請容許我們相依為命
絢爛也許一時 平淡走完一世
是我選擇你這樣的男子
就怕夢醒時已分兩地
誰也挽不回這場分離
愛恨可以不分 責任可以不問
天亮了我還是不是 你的女人
天亮了我還是不是 你的女人
﹣﹣﹣ 夢醒了 - 那英
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving
We learn
We fall
We heal
We grow
Another life experience under one's belt
Though there's no turkey dinner
Or corn galore
We give thanks to all the teachers in life
Thank You!!
Happy Thanksgiving...
We fall
We heal
We grow
Another life experience under one's belt
Though there's no turkey dinner
Or corn galore
We give thanks to all the teachers in life
Thank You!!
Happy Thanksgiving...
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Lost In October
How do you leave the past behind
When it keeps finding ways to get to your heart
It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out
Till you're torn apart-- from RENT the Musical
Never thought things just spiral downwards like free falling objects for the past weeks. Already feeling so lousy for the month of October with work and emotionally drained and tired, having to cope once and again with the broken down communication.
What's wrong with me?
What is it with me?
Am I such a difficult person?
Why are people putting me down?
Do I deserve not to be happy?
Am I so full of myself?
也許坦然面對或許是走出自我的第一步...
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Numbing Thoughts
But who am I?
"Alex has got his work"
"Alex lives for his work"
"Alex's in love with his work"
"Alex hides in his work"
From what?
From facing my failure,
Facing my loneliness, facing the fact I live a lie
I live a lie
I'm always been preaching not to be numb
I'm always in pretence to be happy and to lead a life
When I'm really detach from feeling alive
-- Adapted from RENT - The Musical
"Alex has got his work"
"Alex lives for his work"
"Alex's in love with his work"
"Alex hides in his work"
From what?
From facing my failure,
Facing my loneliness, facing the fact I live a lie
I live a lie
I'm always been preaching not to be numb
I'm always in pretence to be happy and to lead a life
When I'm really detach from feeling alive
-- Adapted from RENT - The Musical
Monday, October 16, 2006
Lost In Haze
It starts with
One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even mather how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To explain due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down till the end of the day
Clock ticks life away
It's so unreal
You didn't look out below,
Watch the time go right out the window
Try'n to hold on
Didn't even know, I wasted it all
Just to watch you go
I kept everything inside
And even though I tried
It all fell apart
What its meant to be
Will, eventually be,
A memory of a time,
When I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter...
I had to fall, to loose it all...
But in the end, it doesn't even matter...
One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even mather how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To remind myself
How I tried so hard...
Dispite the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so far
Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me
In the end...
You kept everything inside
And even though I tried it all fell apart
What it meant to be, will
Eventually, be a memory of a time
When I tried so hard,
And got so far,
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall, to loose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far, as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know
I've put my trust, in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know...
I tried so hard,
And got so far,
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall, to loose it all,
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
-- In The End by Linkin Park
One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even mather how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To explain due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down till the end of the day
Clock ticks life away
It's so unreal
You didn't look out below,
Watch the time go right out the window
Try'n to hold on
Didn't even know, I wasted it all
Just to watch you go
I kept everything inside
And even though I tried
It all fell apart
What its meant to be
Will, eventually be,
A memory of a time,
When I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter...
I had to fall, to loose it all...
But in the end, it doesn't even matter...
One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even mather how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To remind myself
How I tried so hard...
Dispite the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so far
Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me
In the end...
You kept everything inside
And even though I tried it all fell apart
What it meant to be, will
Eventually, be a memory of a time
When I tried so hard,
And got so far,
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall, to loose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far, as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know
I've put my trust, in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know...
I tried so hard,
And got so far,
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall, to loose it all,
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
-- In The End by Linkin Park
Monday, October 02, 2006
Singapore Dreaming Comes True
Congratulations to Colin Goh and Woo Yen Yen for winning the tier 'A' Mont Blanc New Screen Writer's Award!! Take that Jack!!
A Singapore Dream comes true indeed.
Tag: singapore dreaming
A Singapore Dream comes true indeed.
Tag: singapore dreaming
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Breaking Down
The radio broke down...the news stopped
The CD player broke down...the music stopped
The microphone broke down...the recording stopped
The communication broke down...the action stopped
The whole world broke down...the passion stopped
My work is done...it's time for me to stop
The CD player broke down...the music stopped
The microphone broke down...the recording stopped
The communication broke down...the action stopped
The whole world broke down...the passion stopped
My work is done...it's time for me to stop
Monday, September 11, 2006
What Are You Dreaming Of?
Saturday, September 09, 2006
The Object of My Affection
Finally caught the show on Star Movies (all thanks to cable). Touched...very touched by the show. Hmm...maybe I'm just feeling sentimental at the moment. But really liked the show. Have to give credits to Jennifer Anniston.
Some memorable quotes:
Nina (to George): I want you to be with me, I want you to marry me, I want you to love me the way that I love you.
Nina (to George): You have to pick one person in life and make it work.
Rodney (to Nina): One shouldn't be too hard on oneself when the object of one's affection returns the favor with rather less enthusiasm than one might have hoped.
Human relationship are just so complicated but yet can be so uncomplicated if one can see and take things easy and in stride. Lives will be so much easier.
Some memorable quotes:
Nina (to George): I want you to be with me, I want you to marry me, I want you to love me the way that I love you.
Nina (to George): You have to pick one person in life and make it work.
Rodney (to Nina): One shouldn't be too hard on oneself when the object of one's affection returns the favor with rather less enthusiasm than one might have hoped.
Human relationship are just so complicated but yet can be so uncomplicated if one can see and take things easy and in stride. Lives will be so much easier.
Friday, September 08, 2006
Do I...
Do I have the courage to let go?
Do I have the courage to be free?
Do I have the courage to walk out the door?
Do I have the courage to make the choice?
Do I...
Do I have the right to be happy?
Do I have the courage to be free?
Do I have the courage to walk out the door?
Do I have the courage to make the choice?
Do I...
Do I have the right to be happy?
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Singapore Culture
"Singapore culture unlikely to emerge - not even in the next few hundred years" : predicted MM
Spending a lunchtime in the Tanjong Pagar or Raffles Place area, generally known as the Central Business District (CBD), one would find a peculiar behaviour of the fellow Singaporean lunch-goers. I believe this is not something new to many and I believe it was discussed in the MSM (i.e. the newspaper and TV). All it takes is to be armed with a packet of tissue paper or an umbrella and you are all set to "chope" a seat in the busy hawker centres or foodcourt. No fear and seat guaranteed, though it raises an eye-brow or two by the new immigrants or foreign talents.
Hmm...truly an unique Singapore culture or is it not? *scratch*
[Footnote]
Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society." As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of behaviour and systems of belief.
Spending a lunchtime in the Tanjong Pagar or Raffles Place area, generally known as the Central Business District (CBD), one would find a peculiar behaviour of the fellow Singaporean lunch-goers. I believe this is not something new to many and I believe it was discussed in the MSM (i.e. the newspaper and TV). All it takes is to be armed with a packet of tissue paper or an umbrella and you are all set to "chope" a seat in the busy hawker centres or foodcourt. No fear and seat guaranteed, though it raises an eye-brow or two by the new immigrants or foreign talents.
Hmm...truly an unique Singapore culture or is it not? *scratch*
[Footnote]
Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire society." As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of behaviour and systems of belief.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Singapore 2006
Hmm... the biggest event of the year is coming soon in a week's time. So much rumblings heard round the island city in the past months.
4 million smiles welcome the foreign delegates and their entourage to Singapore.
Outdoor street protests are ban but indoor one are allowed. BUT only if you are the represntatives from the 200 odd accredited Civil Soceity Organisation and participants must register with the police and protest only at designated area.
Hmm...read an article in Bloomberg News
"We cannot allow processions, demonstrations in the streets," said Goh, a former prime minister. "It got out of hand in Seattle, it got out of hand in Hong Kong and this is Singapore. We will not allow that. Lives must not be disrupted"
Hmm...lives not disrupted? Yah sure....as any obedient citizen, I have been trying out alternative routes as recommended to go to work from East Coast to Shenton Way as I can't use Nicoll Highway (ERP charges: $2.50 - 1 gantry) and advice not to use North Bridge Road (ERP charges: $2.50-$3.50 - 2 gantries) during 10-20 September. So here are my findings:
Leave home at 8.00 am.
Traffic is slightly heavy on roads like Victoria Street and Hill Street going into Tanjong Pagar but many traffic light junctions...ERP charges: $2.50-$3.50 (if the traffic is heavier, will be charge at both gantries else first gantry (Kallang) is free) - 2 gantries - 40 mins
Traffic is heavy on ECP as usual going into Tanjong Pagar....ERP charges: $5.00 (2 gantries - Fort Road : $2.50, Keppel : $2.50) - 35-40 mins
Hmm...these findings are my experience for the past few days without any traffic accidents and normal traffic condition, no diversion to these alternative routes yet. So I cross my fingers on the effects of the closures and pray hard no accidents during the period of WB and IMF meetings.
Hmm...with the road closures of Nicoll Highway, Temasek Boulevard, Raffles Boulevard and lane closures of Bras Basah Road and restricted entry into to SUNTEC area for the most period of the WB and IMF Meetings, I wonder how are our lives not disrupted?
Cost and time to travel to work is definitely going to go up (like many other things after May 06). So our lives are not disrupted? Hmm...will the ERP charges and our working hours be adjusted and concessions be given if I smile?
Hmm...Singapore Dreaming 2006...
4 million smiles welcome the foreign delegates and their entourage to Singapore.
Outdoor street protests are ban but indoor one are allowed. BUT only if you are the represntatives from the 200 odd accredited Civil Soceity Organisation and participants must register with the police and protest only at designated area.
Hmm...read an article in Bloomberg News
"We cannot allow processions, demonstrations in the streets," said Goh, a former prime minister. "It got out of hand in Seattle, it got out of hand in Hong Kong and this is Singapore. We will not allow that. Lives must not be disrupted"
Hmm...lives not disrupted? Yah sure....as any obedient citizen, I have been trying out alternative routes as recommended to go to work from East Coast to Shenton Way as I can't use Nicoll Highway (ERP charges: $2.50 - 1 gantry) and advice not to use North Bridge Road (ERP charges: $2.50-$3.50 - 2 gantries) during 10-20 September. So here are my findings:
Leave home at 8.00 am.
Traffic is slightly heavy on roads like Victoria Street and Hill Street going into Tanjong Pagar but many traffic light junctions...ERP charges: $2.50-$3.50 (if the traffic is heavier, will be charge at both gantries else first gantry (Kallang) is free) - 2 gantries - 40 mins
Traffic is heavy on ECP as usual going into Tanjong Pagar....ERP charges: $5.00 (2 gantries - Fort Road : $2.50, Keppel : $2.50) - 35-40 mins
Hmm...these findings are my experience for the past few days without any traffic accidents and normal traffic condition, no diversion to these alternative routes yet. So I cross my fingers on the effects of the closures and pray hard no accidents during the period of WB and IMF meetings.
Hmm...with the road closures of Nicoll Highway, Temasek Boulevard, Raffles Boulevard and lane closures of Bras Basah Road and restricted entry into to SUNTEC area for the most period of the WB and IMF Meetings, I wonder how are our lives not disrupted?
Cost and time to travel to work is definitely going to go up (like many other things after May 06). So our lives are not disrupted? Hmm...will the ERP charges and our working hours be adjusted and concessions be given if I smile?
Hmm...Singapore Dreaming 2006...
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Courage and Choice
[Spolier Alert: Please do not read if you had not watch or intend to watch "The Devil Wears PRADA"]
The Devil wears PRADA may be an commercial flick. But Meryl Streep shines "like the beacon" (pardon me, I really cannot resist) and is the prima donna, the diva who completely stole the show and blow me away in her potrayal of Miranda Priestley, the dragon lady of Runway Magazine. However, the show not only gave an insider look of the bitching, struggling and back-stabbing world of the glittering high fashion industry, I somehow find the show interestingly thought provoking.
Some interesting lines:
Love Thy Work
Nigel: Other girls dream of working here. You merely deign.
Prove Thy Self
Miranda Priestly: The details of your incompetence do not interest me.
Make Thy Choice
Andy Sachs: What if I don't want this?
Miranda Priestly: Oh don't be silly, EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be *us*
Andy chose to walk out of a highly sought after job at the end. She made her choice after realising that she had gain recognition for her work at the expense of her personal life. But how many of us are willing to make this choice? How many of us are willing to walk out of a decent paying job (which pays the bill and buy the bread) to live a perfect balanced (family comes first) life? Do I have the courage to make this choice?
The Devil wears PRADA may be an commercial flick. But Meryl Streep shines "like the beacon" (pardon me, I really cannot resist) and is the prima donna, the diva who completely stole the show and blow me away in her potrayal of Miranda Priestley, the dragon lady of Runway Magazine. However, the show not only gave an insider look of the bitching, struggling and back-stabbing world of the glittering high fashion industry, I somehow find the show interestingly thought provoking.
Some interesting lines:
Love Thy Work
Nigel: Other girls dream of working here. You merely deign.
Prove Thy Self
Miranda Priestly: The details of your incompetence do not interest me.
Make Thy Choice
Andy Sachs: What if I don't want this?
Miranda Priestly: Oh don't be silly, EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be *us*
Andy chose to walk out of a highly sought after job at the end. She made her choice after realising that she had gain recognition for her work at the expense of her personal life. But how many of us are willing to make this choice? How many of us are willing to walk out of a decent paying job (which pays the bill and buy the bread) to live a perfect balanced (family comes first) life? Do I have the courage to make this choice?
Friday, August 25, 2006
Local Delights Galore
Local Delights with TurKwa (Pig Liver)
Local Delights with Hum (Cockles)
And thank you for the podcast of the NDR speech by the MSM if not I would have definite missed this powerful punchline by reading the edited transcripts (Thanks to the wonders of technology) I nearly fell off my chair...Ouch...
- Bak Chor Mee - OK
- Mix Pork Congee - OK
- Satay Bee Hoon - OK
Local Delights with Hum (Cockles)
- Satay Bee Hoon - OK
- Nonya Laksa - OK
- Mee Siam - Huh???
And thank you for the podcast of the NDR speech by the MSM if not I would have definite missed this powerful punchline by reading the edited transcripts (Thanks to the wonders of technology) I nearly fell off my chair...Ouch...
Monday, August 21, 2006
Of Humour, Migrants and Being Singaporeans
I read with amusement the National Day Rally on both the Main Stream Media as well as on the New Media. Yes, I read them but did not catch the 'Live' Telecast on our TV No.1 station as a loyal Singaporean. (Hmm...come to think about it when you are the only one TV station minus the other only cable provider...I wonder will MCS ever be known as Singapore's No.2 TV station? Hmmm...)
No goodies this year. Guess it was given out before May. Hmm...
Interestingly, this year's rally tries to be both hip and happening...with lots of buzzwords like 3Ms, blogs, podcast and vodcast, MSN, MySpace, ClubSnap, Flickr...wow...so hip and happening...Hmm...Hip-factor up for MIW. Haha...
However, daily musings or humourous depiction on 'A day in the life of a Singaporean' is still a No-No. Hmm...wonder when had a humour column in a Main Stream Printed Media suppose to be having a hidden agenda to mislead, distort truth and manipulate the minds of the ignorant readers...Wow...power sia...Mr Brown. One should not be Talking Cock too. Another sweeping statement (a.k.a. insult) coming from the 'it's all for you own good' leaders in white? Hmm...hidden message: "Singaporeans are all too naive, stupid and ignorant, we, the MIWs, must protect them before they hurt themselves from the trecherous world of the New Media." *sigh* When are we allowed to grow up? Self Censorship *poof*
Well, more foreign talents or now to be known as immigrants are encourage to come to Singapore. I have no qualms about that for we require them to boost our workforce in return would boost our economy and thus my stocks...hahaha. But the question remains...will they be enjoying the expat treatment doing the same job as any home-grown Singaporean? Will they be better off then those Singaporeans who stays in Hougang and Potong Pasir? *sigh* Will we be seen as one only when the shades of white cover every constituencies?
One People, One Nation, One Singapore. Remember?
No goodies this year. Guess it was given out before May. Hmm...
Interestingly, this year's rally tries to be both hip and happening...with lots of buzzwords like 3Ms, blogs, podcast and vodcast, MSN, MySpace, ClubSnap, Flickr...wow...so hip and happening...Hmm...Hip-factor up for MIW. Haha...
However, daily musings or humourous depiction on 'A day in the life of a Singaporean' is still a No-No. Hmm...wonder when had a humour column in a Main Stream Printed Media suppose to be having a hidden agenda to mislead, distort truth and manipulate the minds of the ignorant readers...Wow...power sia...Mr Brown. One should not be Talking Cock too. Another sweeping statement (a.k.a. insult) coming from the 'it's all for you own good' leaders in white? Hmm...hidden message: "Singaporeans are all too naive, stupid and ignorant, we, the MIWs, must protect them before they hurt themselves from the trecherous world of the New Media." *sigh* When are we allowed to grow up? Self Censorship *poof*
Well, more foreign talents or now to be known as immigrants are encourage to come to Singapore. I have no qualms about that for we require them to boost our workforce in return would boost our economy and thus my stocks...hahaha. But the question remains...will they be enjoying the expat treatment doing the same job as any home-grown Singaporean? Will they be better off then those Singaporeans who stays in Hougang and Potong Pasir? *sigh* Will we be seen as one only when the shades of white cover every constituencies?
One People, One Nation, One Singapore. Remember?
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Singapore Dreaming
Here's doing a part to mark the 41st Birthday of our Nation. :)
A Singaporean Dream
I am the citizen of Singapore,
Pledge myself to strike on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday & Sunday.
Regardless of TOTO, 4D or Big Sweep.
To buy hope and earn extra,
Based on Quickpicks, System 7 to 12 and Big Sweep Tickets with 4D Bonuses.
So as to achieve Car, Cash & Condo as part of my aspirations
Happy National Day, Singapore!!
A Singaporean Dream
I am the citizen of Singapore,
Pledge myself to strike on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday & Sunday.
Regardless of TOTO, 4D or Big Sweep.
To buy hope and earn extra,
Based on Quickpicks, System 7 to 12 and Big Sweep Tickets with 4D Bonuses.
So as to achieve Car, Cash & Condo as part of my aspirations
-- adapted from a circulated SMS
Happy National Day, Singapore!!
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Happy Anniversary!!
Wow...a year had passed and though I'm trying very hard (ok ok maybe not that hard) to at least create an entry every month. I'm surprise how much I have written and also how much I have not written.
Well, here's giving myself a pat on my back after a not so good week, and telling myself - "Well done and Happy Anniversary!!" :)
Well, here's giving myself a pat on my back after a not so good week, and telling myself - "Well done and Happy Anniversary!!" :)
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Damn those f**king sicko vandals!!!
Damn pissed off first thing in the morning and had my whole day spoilt by some bloody sicko. Someone scratched my car leaving 2 f**king long wavy scratches (~ 1.5m long) on the passenger side of my car from the boot to the bonnet...f**king idiots!! Imagine even in your very own carpark!!
What had I done?!! Who have I stepped on?!! Why me?!!
I really got no answers but this is definitely not the first case of vandalism in the carpark. Some sicko had punctured (letting out the air of the car's tyres slowly by stuffing small pebbles into the air-valve) my neighbour and my dad's car on 2 different occasions. Now this...*sigh* Looks like he/she simply like to do a car at a time.
This estate (or the world) is definitely not safe from sick idiots like these at all. Arrggghh!!!
What had I done?!! Who have I stepped on?!! Why me?!!
I really got no answers but this is definitely not the first case of vandalism in the carpark. Some sicko had punctured (letting out the air of the car's tyres slowly by stuffing small pebbles into the air-valve) my neighbour and my dad's car on 2 different occasions. Now this...*sigh* Looks like he/she simply like to do a car at a time.
This estate (or the world) is definitely not safe from sick idiots like these at all. Arrggghh!!!
Friday, July 07, 2006
I am Singaporean
(In response to Mr. Brown and Mr. Miyagi's "I am Singaporean" meme)
I spend my early childhood running along the mud paths amongst the last kampongs in Hougang. Watching teochew wayangs and enjoy snacking the street hawkers' fare with my cousins. Always on the look out for the "atap chee" man.
I grew up in the shop houses in North Bridge Road before they covert them into Bugis Junction and enjoy the sights and sounds along the back lanes of Bugis Street. "Goo Bak Kway Teow Tng" (Beef Kway Teow soup), "Yeoaw Bak Tng' (Chinese Herbal Mutton Soup), "Heer Chok" (Fish Porridge), "Kway Cho" (Chicken Porridge) and especially "Fun Choy" freshly steam in those tin bowls and the suave move the uncle use to knock the steaming hot "Fun Choy" out of their bowl.
We used to only need to pack 4 people into the car to drive into CBD for FREE or need to just pay once for a CBD day coupon and display them on the windscreen to gain unlimited entry and exit.
I went to a JC instead of going to the Poly because back then you can't go to the university unless your are sure to be in the top 5 percent in the Polys.
I enjoyed the army days even though it was tough and many say I'm "siow". "Cheong swa cheong hai" without anytime to think about the right and wrong but it never fail to creep back into the conversation with your old NS mates. The OO then, was just another appointment holder to me in the unit. Never knew back then that we have the power to complain. But again I still enjoy the rough times in army, because it moulded me to be who i am today.
I embrace everything Singlish in my everyday life and I try to learn different dialects before they are forgotten in the tide of times, though I'm still quite "lau pok" in speaking them. I'm sadden that we are not encouraged to speak Singlish or have dialects spoken in the public media but I do try to write and speak proper English or Chinese at work.
I enjoy the greens of the reservoirs and hope that pulau ubin was still in its rural self I remembered 12 years ago. I'm saddened to see the old buildings torn down to make way for new ones in the name of urban planning and losing our cultural heritage and history forgotten to progress.
My name is Alex, Alex Tan. Like many others, I like to complain and may not provide constructive solutions. Despite all, Singapore is and will always be my home.
And I am Singaporean.
So say we all...
So say we all.
Technorati tag: iamsingaporean
I spend my early childhood running along the mud paths amongst the last kampongs in Hougang. Watching teochew wayangs and enjoy snacking the street hawkers' fare with my cousins. Always on the look out for the "atap chee" man.
I grew up in the shop houses in North Bridge Road before they covert them into Bugis Junction and enjoy the sights and sounds along the back lanes of Bugis Street. "Goo Bak Kway Teow Tng" (Beef Kway Teow soup), "Yeoaw Bak Tng' (Chinese Herbal Mutton Soup), "Heer Chok" (Fish Porridge), "Kway Cho" (Chicken Porridge) and especially "Fun Choy" freshly steam in those tin bowls and the suave move the uncle use to knock the steaming hot "Fun Choy" out of their bowl.
We used to only need to pack 4 people into the car to drive into CBD for FREE or need to just pay once for a CBD day coupon and display them on the windscreen to gain unlimited entry and exit.
I went to a JC instead of going to the Poly because back then you can't go to the university unless your are sure to be in the top 5 percent in the Polys.
I enjoyed the army days even though it was tough and many say I'm "siow". "Cheong swa cheong hai" without anytime to think about the right and wrong but it never fail to creep back into the conversation with your old NS mates. The OO then, was just another appointment holder to me in the unit. Never knew back then that we have the power to complain. But again I still enjoy the rough times in army, because it moulded me to be who i am today.
I embrace everything Singlish in my everyday life and I try to learn different dialects before they are forgotten in the tide of times, though I'm still quite "lau pok" in speaking them. I'm sadden that we are not encouraged to speak Singlish or have dialects spoken in the public media but I do try to write and speak proper English or Chinese at work.
I enjoy the greens of the reservoirs and hope that pulau ubin was still in its rural self I remembered 12 years ago. I'm saddened to see the old buildings torn down to make way for new ones in the name of urban planning and losing our cultural heritage and history forgotten to progress.
My name is Alex, Alex Tan. Like many others, I like to complain and may not provide constructive solutions. Despite all, Singapore is and will always be my home.
And I am Singaporean.
So say we all...
So say we all.
Technorati tag: iamsingaporean
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
WTF?!!
EMAS
3 years back...EMAS was turn off...because the cost of maintanence was too high.
3 years now...EMAS was turn on...because the information provided was beneficial to the motorist.
WTF??!!...3 years ago it was not beneficial??!!
Native Language
Singlish: Ai jiak lunch mai?
Perfekt Engrish: Shall we do lunch?
Singlish: SMS me to confirm later ok?
Perfekt Engrish: Text me later to confirm our appointment ok?
Singlish: Aiyo...why u so like dat?!
Perfekt Engrish: Oh dear me...what are you doing?
OMG...I wonder if the MOE had ever done a study on the native slangs or the colloquial language used by the english native speakers? Why are we stifling our own unique language culture? Hmmm...maybe we do not have a culture to speak of...*sigh* the sad truth of our life, Singaporeans are already losing our own roots...are you expecting all the uncles and aunties to speak perfect english in our daily lives? How many youngster speaks their native dialect now? I guess the only flourishing dialect is Hokkien. So often heard are such words like CB, KB and KNNBCCB!! Hmm..WTF?!!
Distortion of Truth
Hmmm...some smart woman from MICA wrote to the papers talking about distortion truth by the celebrity blogger mrbrown. Interestingly in the letter at least 2 points pointed out which (i believe) was also a distortion of truth.
Distortion 1 : Mr Brown is hiding behind a pseudonym.
WTF??! Which person in Singapore who read mrbrown.com doesn't know how he look like or that he is Mr. Lee KM himself? Doesn't she do her homework before writing her 'oh so sah kar' letter?! Wonder if she had ever surf the web to read the blog or was she meerely handed the article from TODAY and told to do a letter of rebuttal by her boss??!!
Distortion 2 :Electricity tarrifs and taxi fare revision is due to high oil price
WTF??! Singapore has been using natural gas for a large part of our electricity generation. Remembering the last major blackout islandwide, was it not due to some gas valve defect? So how had oil price actually greatly affect our cost of electricity generation? As for taxi fare, if high oil price cause the cost of operation for taxi to increase, how come the profit made by the "public" transport operator remain high and never a large dip in profit margin? So is the price revision exercise to "help" keep the profit margin high for the shareholders like those MIWs? WTF??!!
Hmmm...will I be implicated for merely doing my not so daily ramblings of the Singaporean's everyday life? WTF?!!
(Afternote: Pardon the use of my language in this post...just trying to destress after a hard day's work....Wah That's Fun!!!)
3 years back...EMAS was turn off...because the cost of maintanence was too high.
3 years now...EMAS was turn on...because the information provided was beneficial to the motorist.
WTF??!!...3 years ago it was not beneficial??!!
Native Language
Singlish: Ai jiak lunch mai?
Perfekt Engrish: Shall we do lunch?
Singlish: SMS me to confirm later ok?
Perfekt Engrish: Text me later to confirm our appointment ok?
Singlish: Aiyo...why u so like dat?!
Perfekt Engrish: Oh dear me...what are you doing?
OMG...I wonder if the MOE had ever done a study on the native slangs or the colloquial language used by the english native speakers? Why are we stifling our own unique language culture? Hmmm...maybe we do not have a culture to speak of...*sigh* the sad truth of our life, Singaporeans are already losing our own roots...are you expecting all the uncles and aunties to speak perfect english in our daily lives? How many youngster speaks their native dialect now? I guess the only flourishing dialect is Hokkien. So often heard are such words like CB, KB and KNNBCCB!! Hmm..WTF?!!
Distortion of Truth
Hmmm...some smart woman from MICA wrote to the papers talking about distortion truth by the celebrity blogger mrbrown. Interestingly in the letter at least 2 points pointed out which (i believe) was also a distortion of truth.
Distortion 1 : Mr Brown is hiding behind a pseudonym.
WTF??! Which person in Singapore who read mrbrown.com doesn't know how he look like or that he is Mr. Lee KM himself? Doesn't she do her homework before writing her 'oh so sah kar' letter?! Wonder if she had ever surf the web to read the blog or was she meerely handed the article from TODAY and told to do a letter of rebuttal by her boss??!!
Distortion 2 :Electricity tarrifs and taxi fare revision is due to high oil price
WTF??! Singapore has been using natural gas for a large part of our electricity generation. Remembering the last major blackout islandwide, was it not due to some gas valve defect? So how had oil price actually greatly affect our cost of electricity generation? As for taxi fare, if high oil price cause the cost of operation for taxi to increase, how come the profit made by the "public" transport operator remain high and never a large dip in profit margin? So is the price revision exercise to "help" keep the profit margin high for the shareholders like those MIWs? WTF??!!
Hmmm...will I be implicated for merely doing my not so daily ramblings of the Singaporean's everyday life? WTF?!!
(Afternote: Pardon the use of my language in this post...just trying to destress after a hard day's work....Wah That's Fun!!!)
Thursday, June 08, 2006
5 leSSons for the workplace
Story: 1
A young executive was leaving the office at 6 p.m. when he found CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand. "Listen," said the CEO, "this is a very sensitive and important document, and my secretary has left. Can you make this thing work?" Certainly," said the young executive. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button. "Excellent, excellent!" said the CEO. As his paper disappeared inside the machine. "I just need one copy."
Lesson I - Never, never assume that your BOSS knows everything
Story: 2
A crusty old man walks into a bank and says to the teller at the window: "I want to open a damn checking account." To which the astonished woman replies: "I beg your pardon, sir; I must have misunderstood you. What did you say?" "Listen up bitch! I said, I want to open a damn checking account right now!" "I'm very sorry sir, but we do not tolerate that kind of language in this bank." Having said this, the teller leaves the window and goes over to the bank manager to tell him about her problem customer.
They both return and the manager asks the old geezer: "What seems to be the problem here?" "There's no damn problem, sonny," the elderly man says. "I just won 50 million bucks in the damn lottery and I want to open a damn checking account in this damn bank!" "I see," says the manager thoughtfully. And you're saying that this bitch here is giving you a hard time?"
Lesson II - If you are RICH, you can get away with almost anything.
Story: 3
An American and a Japanese were sitting on the plane on the way to LA when the American turned to the Japanese and asked, "What kind of ese are you?" Confused, the Japanese replied, "Sorry but I don't understand what you mean." The American repeated, "What kind of -ese are you?" Again, the Japanese was confused over the question. The American, now irritated, then yelled, "What kind of -ese are you...Are you a Chinese, Japanese,Vietnamese!, etc......???" The Japanese then replied, "Oh, I am a Japanese." A while later the Japanese turned to the American and asked what kind of 'key' was he. The American, frustrated, yelled, "What do you mean what kind of '-key' am I?!" The Japanese said, "Are you a Yankee, donkey, or monkee?"
Lesson III - Never insult anyone.
Story: 4
There were these 4 guys, a Russian, a German, a British and a French, who found this small genie bottle. When they rubbed the bottle, a genie appeared. Thankful that the 4 guys had released him out of the bottle, he said, "Next to you all are 4 swimming pools, I will give each of you a wish. When you run towards the pool and jump, you shout what you want the pool of water to become, then your wish will come true."
The French wanted to start. He ran towards the pool, jumped and shouted "WINE". The pool immediately changed into a pool of wine. The Frenchman was so happy swimming and drinking from the pool. Next is the Russian's turn, he did the same andshouted," VODKA" and immersed himself into a pool of vodka. The German was next and he jumped and shouted, "BEER". He was so contented with his beer pool. The last is the British. He was running towards the pool when suddenly he steps on a banana peel. He slipped towards the pool and shouted, SHIT!!!!!!!........."
Lesson IV - Think twice before you say something, because sometimes what you say accidentally does happen.
Story: 5
A junior manager, a senior manager and their boss are on their way to a meeting. On their way through a park, they come across a wonder lamp. They rub the lamp and a ghost appears. The ghost says, "Normally, one is granted three wishes but as you are three, I will allow one wish each" So the eager senior manager shouts, I want the first wish. I want to be in the Bahamas, on a fast boat and have no worries for a month. "Pfufffff, and he is gone. Now the junior manager could not keep quiet and shouts, "I want to be in Florida with beautiful girls, plenty of food and cocktails for a month." "Pfufffff, and he is also gone. Then it's the boss's turn, and he says calmly, "I want these two idiots back in the office after lunch"
Lesson V- "Always allow the bosses to speak first".
A young executive was leaving the office at 6 p.m. when he found CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand. "Listen," said the CEO, "this is a very sensitive and important document, and my secretary has left. Can you make this thing work?" Certainly," said the young executive. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button. "Excellent, excellent!" said the CEO. As his paper disappeared inside the machine. "I just need one copy."
Lesson I - Never, never assume that your BOSS knows everything
Story: 2
A crusty old man walks into a bank and says to the teller at the window: "I want to open a damn checking account." To which the astonished woman replies: "I beg your pardon, sir; I must have misunderstood you. What did you say?" "Listen up bitch! I said, I want to open a damn checking account right now!" "I'm very sorry sir, but we do not tolerate that kind of language in this bank." Having said this, the teller leaves the window and goes over to the bank manager to tell him about her problem customer.
They both return and the manager asks the old geezer: "What seems to be the problem here?" "There's no damn problem, sonny," the elderly man says. "I just won 50 million bucks in the damn lottery and I want to open a damn checking account in this damn bank!" "I see," says the manager thoughtfully. And you're saying that this bitch here is giving you a hard time?"
Lesson II - If you are RICH, you can get away with almost anything.
Story: 3
An American and a Japanese were sitting on the plane on the way to LA when the American turned to the Japanese and asked, "What kind of ese are you?" Confused, the Japanese replied, "Sorry but I don't understand what you mean." The American repeated, "What kind of -ese are you?" Again, the Japanese was confused over the question. The American, now irritated, then yelled, "What kind of -ese are you...Are you a Chinese, Japanese,Vietnamese!, etc......???" The Japanese then replied, "Oh, I am a Japanese." A while later the Japanese turned to the American and asked what kind of 'key' was he. The American, frustrated, yelled, "What do you mean what kind of '-key' am I?!" The Japanese said, "Are you a Yankee, donkey, or monkee?"
Lesson III - Never insult anyone.
Story: 4
There were these 4 guys, a Russian, a German, a British and a French, who found this small genie bottle. When they rubbed the bottle, a genie appeared. Thankful that the 4 guys had released him out of the bottle, he said, "Next to you all are 4 swimming pools, I will give each of you a wish. When you run towards the pool and jump, you shout what you want the pool of water to become, then your wish will come true."
The French wanted to start. He ran towards the pool, jumped and shouted "WINE". The pool immediately changed into a pool of wine. The Frenchman was so happy swimming and drinking from the pool. Next is the Russian's turn, he did the same andshouted," VODKA" and immersed himself into a pool of vodka. The German was next and he jumped and shouted, "BEER". He was so contented with his beer pool. The last is the British. He was running towards the pool when suddenly he steps on a banana peel. He slipped towards the pool and shouted, SHIT!!!!!!!........."
Lesson IV - Think twice before you say something, because sometimes what you say accidentally does happen.
Story: 5
A junior manager, a senior manager and their boss are on their way to a meeting. On their way through a park, they come across a wonder lamp. They rub the lamp and a ghost appears. The ghost says, "Normally, one is granted three wishes but as you are three, I will allow one wish each" So the eager senior manager shouts, I want the first wish. I want to be in the Bahamas, on a fast boat and have no worries for a month. "Pfufffff, and he is gone. Now the junior manager could not keep quiet and shouts, "I want to be in Florida with beautiful girls, plenty of food and cocktails for a month." "Pfufffff, and he is also gone. Then it's the boss's turn, and he says calmly, "I want these two idiots back in the office after lunch"
Lesson V- "Always allow the bosses to speak first".
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Reality Check...So You Think You Can Dance?
Blake was voted out instead of Jermile who obviously was the weakest of the 3...very sad...obviously the judges were all shocked by the results
Maybe this is the reality of life...the weakest of the lot may not always be vote out...if you have strong backing miracles can happen....sounds so familiar...just like real life drama right in front of me through the goggle box...
Reality can be so unfair and cruel no matter how good or talented you are ...*sigh*
Maybe this is the reality of life...the weakest of the lot may not always be vote out...if you have strong backing miracles can happen....sounds so familiar...just like real life drama right in front of me through the goggle box...
Reality can be so unfair and cruel no matter how good or talented you are ...*sigh*
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Musings of the Sword, the Mirror and the Hand
Sword
A sword double edged
It can cut someone
It can cut yourself
Mirror
A mirror reflects
It can reflect someone
It can reflect yourself
Hand
A hand slaps
It can slap someone
It can slap yourself
5 fingers
1 finger points at someone
4 fingers point at yourself
Musings
Always think before you comment
Look at yourself before you condemn
For your words can be a sword, a mirror and a hand
A sword double edged
It can cut someone
It can cut yourself
Mirror
A mirror reflects
It can reflect someone
It can reflect yourself
Hand
A hand slaps
It can slap someone
It can slap yourself
5 fingers
1 finger points at someone
4 fingers point at yourself
Musings
Always think before you comment
Look at yourself before you condemn
For your words can be a sword, a mirror and a hand
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Competition
Act I Scene I
Zen: People loves me...people love me not...people love me...people love me not.....
Act II Scene I
Zen Jr: People people of the world who is the fairest of us all?
People: I-P-O-D......
Zen Jr: Arrggghhh....
Act III Scene I
Vidz Zen:
It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all that I've done
You won't believe me
All you will see is a MP3 PLAYER you once knew
Although she's dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you
I had to let it happen, I had to SUE
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window, staying out of the BOOKS
So I chose PATENT
Running around, trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to
Don't cry for me SINGAPURA
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance
And as for LAWSUITS, and as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired
They are illusions
They're not the solutions they promise to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me
-- adapted from Don't Cry for Me Argentina (Evita)
Zen: People loves me...people love me not...people love me...people love me not.....
Act II Scene I
Zen Jr: People people of the world who is the fairest of us all?
People: I-P-O-D......
Zen Jr: Arrggghhh....
Act III Scene I
Vidz Zen:
It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all that I've done
You won't believe me
All you will see is a MP3 PLAYER you once knew
Although she's dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you
I had to let it happen, I had to SUE
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window, staying out of the BOOKS
So I chose PATENT
Running around, trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to
Don't cry for me SINGAPURA
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance
And as for LAWSUITS, and as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired
They are illusions
They're not the solutions they promise to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me
-- adapted from Don't Cry for Me Argentina (Evita)
Friday, May 05, 2006
GE2006
Liar Liar...Pants on Fire
"Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up" -- V for Vendetta
Someone was said to have put up a wayang and called a liar....hmmm...so is he telling a truth?
Someone said that the overall unemployment rate had dipped to 3.4% but he did not tell you that the unemployment rate for those > 40 had doubled....hmmm....so is he covering up the truth?
Thousand Apologies
Someone wrote a statement personally, vetted by his leader and made a public apology and is ready to move on.
Someone's press secretary wrote a statement and apologises through the press secretary and is ready to move on to fix them and buy more votes. (sorry...just couldn't resist...)
One Day More
Tomorrow we'll discover
What our God (Lightning? Hammer? Or with Rings?) in Heaven has in store!
One more dawn
One more day
One day more!
-- adapted from Les Miserables
"Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up" -- V for Vendetta
Someone was said to have put up a wayang and called a liar....hmmm...so is he telling a truth?
Someone said that the overall unemployment rate had dipped to 3.4% but he did not tell you that the unemployment rate for those > 40 had doubled....hmmm....so is he covering up the truth?
Thousand Apologies
Someone wrote a statement personally, vetted by his leader and made a public apology and is ready to move on.
Someone's press secretary wrote a statement and apologises through the press secretary and is ready to move on to fix them and buy more votes. (sorry...just couldn't resist...)
One Day More
Tomorrow we'll discover
What our God (Lightning? Hammer? Or with Rings?) in Heaven has in store!
One more dawn
One more day
One day more!
-- adapted from Les Miserables
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Musings
The Form
26 April - The Form is Missing
27 April - The Form is Still Missing
28 April - Why is the Form Missing
29 April - Why is the Form Still Missing
30 April - Honey, The Form is Missing
01 May - Honey, The Form is Still Missing!
02 May - The Form Must Be Missing...
03 May - The Missing Form Man Must Go
Dis-Enchantment
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
-- Les Misérables
CCTV
In the Past Past
A: Help!! Someone jump onto the track!!
B: What happened? Any witnesses?
A: No. Maybe we can take a look at the CCTV to see what happened?
B: Erm...sorry there's no recording function for the CCTV
In the Recent Past
A: Excuse me, where's my form!!
B: Erm...You did not submit it
A: Yes I did!! Do you have witnesses?
B: No, you didn't!! And I have the CCTV recordings to prove it!!
26 April - The Form is Missing
27 April - The Form is Still Missing
28 April - Why is the Form Missing
29 April - Why is the Form Still Missing
30 April - Honey, The Form is Missing
01 May - Honey, The Form is Still Missing!
02 May - The Form Must Be Missing...
03 May - The Missing Form Man Must Go
Dis-Enchantment
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
-- Les Misérables
CCTV
In the Past Past
A: Help!! Someone jump onto the track!!
B: What happened? Any witnesses?
A: No. Maybe we can take a look at the CCTV to see what happened?
B: Erm...sorry there's no recording function for the CCTV
In the Recent Past
A: Excuse me, where's my form!!
B: Erm...You did not submit it
A: Yes I did!! Do you have witnesses?
B: No, you didn't!! And I have the CCTV recordings to prove it!!
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Growing up under the umbrella
When will we ever be allowed to grow up?
Since young, we are so used to be living in a safety shelter, under the umbrella of what they call "care and concern". They always tell you: "It's all for your own good"
Parents tend to do it, even the MIW do it.
Are things in life always in definite Black and White but never exist in shades of Gray?
In school, whenever someone question things out of its known scope, this person will be term as a renegade and destruction of order. In the real world, whenever someone think out of the box and speaks their mind against the ideology, this person will be threat to peace and harmony.
When will it be time for us to have the freedom and trust to know what is right and wrong and have the capacity to differentiate between the truth and bullshit?
Maybe in time...people never really grow up...in Never never land....
Since young, we are so used to be living in a safety shelter, under the umbrella of what they call "care and concern". They always tell you: "It's all for your own good"
Parents tend to do it, even the MIW do it.
Are things in life always in definite Black and White but never exist in shades of Gray?
In school, whenever someone question things out of its known scope, this person will be term as a renegade and destruction of order. In the real world, whenever someone think out of the box and speaks their mind against the ideology, this person will be threat to peace and harmony.
When will it be time for us to have the freedom and trust to know what is right and wrong and have the capacity to differentiate between the truth and bullshit?
Maybe in time...people never really grow up...in Never never land....
Friday, April 14, 2006
A Note and Some Thoughts
Six Weeks
Neither long
Nor is it short
Over before we know
Different pursuits here after
A Thank You note
A heart warmed
A friendship formed
Stress
"Stress is self implemented" ... I'll learn to endure
Two Words
Two words so common
Two words so taken for granted
Two words to warm and touch a heart
Two words are all it takes
Thank You!!
Neither long
Nor is it short
Over before we know
Different pursuits here after
A Thank You note
A heart warmed
A friendship formed
Stress
"Stress is self implemented" ... I'll learn to endure
Two Words
Two words so common
Two words so taken for granted
Two words to warm and touch a heart
Two words are all it takes
Thank You!!
Sunday, April 09, 2006
The Value of History
"There is a matter of balancing historical values against the income that the site can earn if it were developed for other used"
-- Preservation of Monument Board
"No one knows whose responsibility this fort is. No one is going to come forward and be a hero"
-- President National Heritage Soceity
Lost was Bugis Street...what we have is Bugis Village
Lost was Satay Club...what we have is Satay Club @ Boon Tat
Lost was Lau Pat Sat...what we have is the New Lau Pat Sat
Lost was National Library...what we have is the National Library @ Bras Basah
......
Looks like another piece of history really going into history...Maybe Fort Tanjong Katong is not lost but merely buried in the aim to keep this history in tact from the effects of weather...how thoughtful...so the next generations still have a piece of history to hold on to discover...Or perhaps economical value currently outweighed our heritage...our history...our identity...
-- Preservation of Monument Board
"No one knows whose responsibility this fort is. No one is going to come forward and be a hero"
-- President National Heritage Soceity
Lost was Bugis Street...what we have is Bugis Village
Lost was Satay Club...what we have is Satay Club @ Boon Tat
Lost was Lau Pat Sat...what we have is the New Lau Pat Sat
Lost was National Library...what we have is the National Library @ Bras Basah
......
Looks like another piece of history really going into history...Maybe Fort Tanjong Katong is not lost but merely buried in the aim to keep this history in tact from the effects of weather...how thoughtful...so the next generations still have a piece of history to hold on to discover...Or perhaps economical value currently outweighed our heritage...our history...our identity...
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Random thoughts in a mixed up mind
Streats
Does anyone still remember Streats? My daily breakfast read till it's death sentence after the merger of the media. Somehow the word Streats had been forgotten like many things in History. Looking closely at Today today...the word Streats is gone forever...
Like Chained Elephants
Yeah...was reading Today during my breakfast in solitude @ Tanjong Pagar Market. "Working Like Chained Elephants" was it's title. Yeah...the elephants are back in the press...just that they are not white and disappearing this time round. Duh!! (okay okay lame joke)
Are we really working like Chained Elephants? Repeating our work tasks day after day chained to our desk? We have heard so much about SOHO, Teleworking since many years ago. But how many companies are actually practising it? I have yet to hear anyone I know working from home daily uless if they are the boss. But then again...they will still be popping by the office everyday to ensure no one is skiving.... I guess we are afterall not mature enough to handle such an 'advance' concept. Remember, we still require the Men In White to tell us what we can watch and cannot watch on TV or in the movies? We still require the MIW to tell us what creativity is all about and teach creativity as a subject in the schools? Hmm...humans afterall do not have faith or trust in one another. Hmmm...as long as you are not at your desk and the boss cannot see you, you must be skiving...
Work overtime and be Promoted
One must always know how to impress your bosses...like sending an email to your boss late after office hours...Oh yah...time to send out an important email to the boss....hahaha...
Does anyone still remember Streats? My daily breakfast read till it's death sentence after the merger of the media. Somehow the word Streats had been forgotten like many things in History. Looking closely at Today today...the word Streats is gone forever...
Like Chained Elephants
Yeah...was reading Today during my breakfast in solitude @ Tanjong Pagar Market. "Working Like Chained Elephants" was it's title. Yeah...the elephants are back in the press...just that they are not white and disappearing this time round. Duh!! (okay okay lame joke)
Are we really working like Chained Elephants? Repeating our work tasks day after day chained to our desk? We have heard so much about SOHO, Teleworking since many years ago. But how many companies are actually practising it? I have yet to hear anyone I know working from home daily uless if they are the boss. But then again...they will still be popping by the office everyday to ensure no one is skiving.... I guess we are afterall not mature enough to handle such an 'advance' concept. Remember, we still require the Men In White to tell us what we can watch and cannot watch on TV or in the movies? We still require the MIW to tell us what creativity is all about and teach creativity as a subject in the schools? Hmm...humans afterall do not have faith or trust in one another. Hmmm...as long as you are not at your desk and the boss cannot see you, you must be skiving...
Work overtime and be Promoted
One must always know how to impress your bosses...like sending an email to your boss late after office hours...Oh yah...time to send out an important email to the boss....hahaha...
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
U.C.V
C
The carrot in front of the horse to make it run faster...Hmm..a carrot in front of the man to make him work harder...
V
V for Vendetta...a thought provoking movie and definitely on my best movie list this year. An ingenious movie with clever and witty lines makes the show so impressionable...
"Who are you?"
"Who? Who is but the form following the function of what... and what I am is a man in a mask."
"I can see that."
"Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking on the paradox of asking a masked man who he is."
"Behind the mask is a man, behind the man is an idea and ideas are bulletproof."
U
Upgrading, the Carrot before the Vote...what's new this time? Lifting the Whip? Let's see...
No vote no honey, people...I wonder if those in the alternative wards pay less tax...
=> V: People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people. <=
The carrot in front of the horse to make it run faster...Hmm..a carrot in front of the man to make him work harder...
V
V for Vendetta...a thought provoking movie and definitely on my best movie list this year. An ingenious movie with clever and witty lines makes the show so impressionable...
"Who are you?"
"Who? Who is but the form following the function of what... and what I am is a man in a mask."
"I can see that."
"Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking on the paradox of asking a masked man who he is."
"Behind the mask is a man, behind the man is an idea and ideas are bulletproof."
U
Upgrading, the Carrot before the Vote...what's new this time? Lifting the Whip? Let's see...
No vote no honey, people...I wonder if those in the alternative wards pay less tax...
=> V: People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people. <=
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Everyone is dyslexic?
cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in
a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the fri st and lsat
ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you
can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid
deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in
a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the fri st and lsat
ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you
can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid
deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
Monday, March 06, 2006
Sunday, March 05, 2006
To forgive is to forget...
Hmm..maybe the title is a bit harsh but this is an issue that I have been grabbling with for a while. Do we have to forget before we can forgive? Or do we have to forgive before we can forget? So many things happened in the pass few months... some closer to my life...some revolving in the world around me.
Yet to find enlightenment.
Ommmm.......
以惡制暴？以德報怨？以和為貴？
Ommmm.......
Guilty until proven innocent? Innocent until proven guilty?
Hmmm....
Is it the primate nature of an animal for human to decide the life and death of another human? Or is it another of human's invention of justice just like the invention of monogamy or polygamy system? The self righteous justifications of jihad or a normal life?
Hmmm....
I think I'm a nut case....
Yet to find enlightenment.
Ommmm.......
以惡制暴？以德報怨？以和為貴？
Ommmm.......
Guilty until proven innocent? Innocent until proven guilty?
Hmmm....
Is it the primate nature of an animal for human to decide the life and death of another human? Or is it another of human's invention of justice just like the invention of monogamy or polygamy system? The self righteous justifications of jihad or a normal life?
Hmmm....
I think I'm a nut case....
Monday, February 06, 2006
A New Beginning....
Finally the Lunar New Year holidays come to an end and everything is back to clockwork.
Today also mark the first day of work at the new office. Hmm...feeling a little loss and intimidated. Kinda miss the old colleagues...kind of lonely with most of the new colleagues much older than me. When being introduced to them..they must all be wondering what is this young boy doing here...Haha..feel like I'm in an old folks home! Just kidding ;-) Guess I'm now in a different playing field in my working life. Now I'm suppose to be playing with the big boys...hahaha
Today also mark the first day of work at the new office. Hmm...feeling a little loss and intimidated. Kinda miss the old colleagues...kind of lonely with most of the new colleagues much older than me. When being introduced to them..they must all be wondering what is this young boy doing here...Haha..feel like I'm in an old folks home! Just kidding ;-) Guess I'm now in a different playing field in my working life. Now I'm suppose to be playing with the big boys...hahaha
Saturday, February 04, 2006
Importance...
I guess it is really true that one man's meat may be another's poison. What is important to you may not be important or even deem trivial to another...I guess to each his own. Maybe it's always me and my failure to communicate...
Well, today is 正月初七-人日. It's also 立春. Spring actually starts today.The NEW year finally arises...
Well, today is 正月初七-人日. It's also 立春. Spring actually starts today.The NEW year finally arises...
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