Everything & a JERK

REVIEW: iWatchz Carbon Collection (iPod Nano Watch Strap)

2012-02-12T05:01:00.001+08:00

Have been hunting around for an iPod Nano Watch Strap. And I gotta say there's not much good options to choose from... because I don't want those plastic/rubber straps, seriously... does these manufacturers actually think that people would like it once the better option comes along?

So to break it down, 3 brand names that really caught my attention;

1. Hex
2. TikTok+LunaTik
3. iWatchz

After much research and investigating, here's my thought on these 3 brand names and their straps;

HEX

They do have nice selections of straps to choose from but the reason that I decided not to go with Hex is simply because the designs of all their straps (almost all of them) looks like an iPod Nano being clipped onto a strap albeit nicely done.

Although the plus point would be one can buy a Hex strap and actually get to change the strap itself at those watch shops with alot of options to choose from due to its size. But personally i feel because of the narrow strap, it doesn't look like a watch but an iPod Nano on a strap.

TikTok+Lunatik

I was really interested in Lunatik as they were the first serious strap manufacturer when everyone else were just dishing out those lame plastic/rubber straps. The reason I didn't go with them is basically I didn't like the bulky look of Lunatik and didn't like the plastic base of TikTok...

But the great thing about those designs are that you won't scratch your nano that easily, especially with Lunatik design.

iWatchz

Well... technically they managed to get one thing right and that is making the whole concept looks like an actual watch while make it look good. And that is the whole point!!

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So I bought an iWatchz Carbon and have been using it for more than a week now prior to writing this and I'm pretty pleased with it;

Bought this at an Apple Premium Reseller in Singapore for S$49.95 (Hurray for discount!!). Unfortunately there's no other means of getting it, Apple gotten the exclusive rights to sell them at least in Singapore. Oh well...

The base that holds the iPod is made from a type of aluminum which feels hard so I don't think the whole thing will snap in half anytime soon.

The only bad thing about this design is that I am very likely to scratch the iPod as I would when I'm wearing a watch. But then again I did wanted to have a strap that looks very much like an actual watch and doesn't have a bulky look or with a plastic base, so can't complain much.

Youtube has alot of video reviews of all these straps so make your way over to check it out further if you haven't.

iPod Nano G1 Replacement Program

2012-02-09T00:21:00.003+08:00

My first iPod; iPod Nano 1st Generation which I had been using it for almost 5 and a half years...

The reason why it lasted so long was because when my sister gave it to me as a gift (Thank you sis) it came with an INCASE Cover that saved it every time I dropped the iPod... and with it being light also helps.

And there are scratches all over it. It's as if it was designed to capture scratches. And the battery only lasted me for 3 to 4 hours continuous listening. Aaaand just when I thought this would be my last iPod and I should look into other gadgets to listen to my musics.... Apple came out with the replacement program due to battery issues. Oh Apple... how can I not love you. Apple Website

Without wasting too much time, I went over to SAPURA TECHNOLOGY SINGAPORE and participated in the program. Was told to wait for at minimum 6 weeks which is OK considering the free replacement I'm getting.

So just last night they emailed me to retrieve it and...

They gave me an iPod Nano 6th Generation (Silver)... with 90 days warranty. And it's a bump up from 4GB to 8GB. So if you still have an iPod Nano 1st Gen (even if it is dead for years) you can get a replacement for it.

Thanks Apple.

Chinese New Year Wishing - 50 Years...

2012-02-05T01:05:00.000+08:00

All That Glitters...

2011-12-23T00:24:00.001+08:00

Would it be weird if I actually kinda want to walk in the MRT tunnel at least once.

Souvenir from Japan: Lotte Gum

2011-12-05T00:26:00.001+08:00

After much digging around turns out Lotte is from South Korea... and it is their best selling product overseas according to here.

And checking on wiki about the ban of chewing gum in Singapore, well turns out that it's still being banned. I've known some that says that gums brought in for personal consumptions are legal... well, turns out it ain't. Good thing chewing gum ain't addictive.

Aaaaanyway, I've gotten a souvenir from a friend that went to Japan for holiday (I know right!!) and what I find Lotte interesting is that it's not only tasty but it's design is... thoughtful.

No gum was chewed or brought into Singapore during and before the writing of this entry. XD

I hope that it's not me that's not being getting updates of the constant changes or revolutions of chewing gums, I mean I never really gotten to a stage where gum is a part of my life. It's fun chewing it but other than that, I never gotten a moment in my life that I crave for gum... well, except for a couple of times when I was smoking weed.

Riddle of the East

2011-12-02T00:38:00.001+08:00

I will have to give them credit for having a spell checker but seriously?? I can't even understand it after translating it directly to chinese... I guess they might have found someone else to translate their chinese instructions. It's like they didn't even try!

Oh... and this is on a blender.

Lost in IKEA

2011-11-27T18:42:00.001+08:00

Staying in Red Light District

2011-11-13T01:47:00.001+08:00

Gosh... rent these days are fucking unbelievable.

Queuing for iPhone 4S

2011-10-31T00:00:00.000+08:00

As my G1 is starting to act funky... probably due to its age. It's two and a half years old so i guess that's pretty old for a phone. So was thinking what the hell... even though Android is still my fav (I got a Dell Streak 5), I'll give apple's phone a try. I was thinking, there shouldn't be any mad rush for iPhone 4S seeing that it's pretty much an iPhone 4 with some internal upgrades.

I was almost completely wrong...

All three telcos have people queuing for iPhone 4S... and I was looking at the people that is queuing, I realized that lots of them are playing games, texting, or calling on their iPhone 4 while they queue to buy iPhone 4S.

Oh well, I guess I'll wait a little longer... and if this idea of owning an iPhone don't pop up again, I'll probably just get another android. And with the battery issue with iPhone 4S, very likely another android.

Protest Protest

2011-10-29T19:02:00.001+08:00

Healthy Diet

2011-10-16T20:58:00.001+08:00

Old Membership

2011-10-02T23:36:00.002+08:00

Personal Loans in Singapore

2011-09-23T07:00:00.000+08:00

I've gotten personal loans from a couple of banks in Singapore, not all so won't say I know all of 'em. But for those I've asked and applied;

1. Citibank Ready Credit
2. POSB Quick Cash (Cash in 5 Minutes)
3. OCBC ExtraCash Loan
4. Standard Chartered CashOne

OK now the general concept here is that the higher your salary the more you can loan and with better interest rate... So it's true when they say bank borrow you money only when you have money. And you can get as many personal loan as the bank lets you. I asked them what's the basic guideline they use to evaluate the loan approval, the general reply I gotten back was it was up to the creditors/banks. (not sure what that means). And applying for these loans requires a 6 to 12 months of cpf contributions transaction slip (which you can get from the cpf website). Anyway here's my experience;

1. Citibank Ready Credit
Out of this four, Citibank quoted me the least amount of money they can borrow me which I declined. I know I don't earn a lot but seriously, why would I want to go through all the trouble for that small amount of money.

2. POSB Quick Cash (Cash in 5 Minutes)
It really only takes 5 minutes and with the standard amount and rate. I really wonder some times, they're not really giving much of a good deal in this. Hell, I feel like they're not even trying. Still the whole process was brief. Loan Payment is done via reduction from account.

3. OCBC ExtraCash Loan
True story, I went in to OCBC twice and talked with 2 different staffs there and I get the same responds. Whenever I mention about if they have any personal loan that I can take, they always introduce me the Overdraft Account. It's only when I went in the third time and specifically state that I want to apply for ExtraCash Loan will they start to process me. Turns out ExtraCash Loan does not falls under Personal Loan category... weird. Anyway, the amount and rate is pretty standard and they have something extra whereby you can pay nothing for the first 3 months but you'll have to pay more on the last payment. Payment is done via reduction from account. Since I don't have any form of account with them, they open an account just for this. So every month I have to make sure there's money in it. Kinda troublesome.

4. Standard Chartered CashOne
Of this four I like StanChart most. Although rate and amount pretty standard, every month I get a bill that looks like a credit card bill and I can pay at those AXS machine. Pretty neat. And above all;

Ok, S$20 is nothing compared to the amount I'm paying them back in interest but it's a nice gesture on their end.

Actually the whole point of me doing this post is none other than posting that picture and...

OCBC & POSB, come on leh... you're not even trying~!!

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Alcohol + Movie

2011-09-18T19:18:00.002+08:00

The opposite of sex is.... death.

2011-09-14T22:54:00.000+08:00

WARNING: Wall of Text

I just watched the speech delivered by Steve Job at Stanford;

Death and sex has always been my favorite topics. Too bad I have not cheated death before... only comes very close to it, all thanks to either my own stupidity or the stupidity of those around me. So nothing special about it as I believe almost everyone has experience it. And the funny thing is that it was mostly me suffocating, is God trying to prepare me for my actual death? LOL... I guess I'll find out about it eventually.

And never did once life flashes before my eyes, the only thing I remembered during those excruciating moments was always been me trying to survive. I'm guessing there are only certain ways to die where we get our life flashes before our eyes.

I believe it was an inevitable decision that I would eventually make after observing people around me and reading books that talks about death, I wanted to live a life accepting death. And after years of going through the turmoils, I am where I wanted to be 10 years ago. And looking back, I realized that I actually gone through the same but slightly different 5 stages of grief;

Stage One: Denial
One quiet night, I was sitting right beside a cradle with my youngest brother sleeping soundly in it and he was only a week old. Looking down upon this adorable little thing, I thought to myself this is the first time I've come to observe the beginning of a life so closely. 8 years old and I wasn't even told of it but something inside my head connected the dot, whatever that has a beginning will have an end and so does life. It was the first time I told myself 'I don't want to die'. I was crying and felt something unlike anything I felt before... it wasn't sadness, my heart was in pain and I was having a hard time breathing... little did I know, I was grieving for the very first time. And so beginning of stage one.

Growing up without religion, I dealt with this new found knowledge by not thinking about it. As time goes by, it gets harder to maintain. So I did what I could, I believed there's a God up there and to make it believable for myself I rationalized God doesn't have a beginning hence there isn't an ending. I believed in reincarnation, when that doesn't sound believable anymore, anything that can just lift the sorrow every time I think of death. I even believed that I won't die no matter what at some point.

Until one day I decided that it's time to accept it and don't want to lie anymore... thus the beginning of next stage

'Stage Two: Anger' & 'Stage Three: Bargaining'
The anger here are usually towards myself. It gets really frustrating that I would go about the same way of life and doing the same thing and with the same habits as previously. I mean before that, I don't see any problem wasting my hours away doing nothing or having no goal and purpose in life... but not anymore. And I could no longer do shit I don't want to do... it was weird.

The bargaining part is whenever I feel I just can't take it anymore as I was constantly reminding myself of death can come any day, a certain part of me tries to comfort myself by saying 'You know, reincarnation does seems possible. Plus death is not just nothing... people seen ghost of dead people. It has gotta be true'. I have to constantly pushed it away and tell myself 'When I die I will cease to exist, what do I want to do?'. This process goes on for years and as time goes by, some of my habits changed and way of thinking changed drastically... eventually I was no longer angry or tries to bargain whenever I thought of death.

And here comes the part that sucks...

Stage Four: Depression
I would really feel depressed whenever the thought of death comes along. I was really confused because I didn't know accepting death means I would be depressed like this. During this stage, whenever death comes to mind, my thought would be 'Fuck, if it comes it comes'. During this stage, my grandmother died and I was staring at her lifeless face and wondered 'Were you happy?'.

Yeah, kinda fucked up.

It's not all gloomy though, I was still going about my daily life, jokes around like usual, work per normal... generally everything happens as usual. In fact, I was nice and sympathetic and was very attentive to the details around me. Don't know why.

And finally the nice part...

Stage Five: Acceptance
I didn't gradually come to this stage. I reached this stage due to my latest close encounter with death only this time I didn't just trying to survive (nope, not gonna share what it is... =P ), I had a moment of pause... a short one but long enough for me to really believed that I'll die. And suddenly a question 'What have I done?' just pops out of nowhere.

Now I appreciate life as much as death. And now whenever the thought of death comes along, I would ask myself what if I would just die right here right now what would my last words be? I would picture my lifeless face in my head some times with blood all over and the words were 'Fuck... That's it?'.

So are there any good that comes from this? Other than being more of an asshole now... I honestly don't know for sure.

Another video to share (forgot where I seen it originally) which I find very funny because I personally feel that the writer of the script don't understand what a person with that short amount of time to live would do (of course everyone would reacts differently in this event, I just don't see this happening...).

If I'm writing the script, the character would call his parents/siblings/best friends and go straight to his girlfriend... because all the things in between these two event doesn't matter at all... of course then the video would only last for like 2 minutes.

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Deciding The Decided

2011-09-07T17:55:00.001+08:00

Organizational Culture

2011-08-28T21:20:00.000+08:00

So this is what being Santa would feel like...

2011-08-22T23:40:00.000+08:00

I bet that most people have at least gone through this at least once before in their lifetime... It's the week where you have two or more of your friends or relatives celebrating their birthday and you're trying to buy everything within a day and you're trying to buy something you think they would like but with a limited budget as you're pretty broke because your employer is an asshole that doesn't consider giving you a raise anytime soon.

As I was carrying these gifts around the whole day while shopping for more, as my hand starts to hurt a little due to the long exposure to carrying relatively heavy stuffs... a question just pops up.. "Would a real Santa be happy?"

Understandably Santa ain't real... (Yeah kids... it's true, stop crying and live with it) but seriously, could someone live a life giving out free material goods and still be sincerely happy?

As I was carrying these gifts, it occurs to me I'm simply just carrying a future garbage which I bought with couple hundreds of dollars. And taking my own experience into account, material goods either self-bought or given are really hard to be appreciated when we're getting tons of them. It's just our nature...

So assuming Santa does exist then he must be either crazy or non-human because anyone that would come out once a year giving out free gifts to 'good children' while not only he gotta have a hell lot of money to burn or he can simple just make gifts out of thin air, he gotta know what each kids really want. And kids being kids will only remember Santa for the gifts... and without gifts, Santa will just be an overweight old man in red suits. It seems to me it really is not rewarding being Santa...

I guess now I understand why he has a big belly... Those are beer gut~!! Remember kids, don't leave milk and chocolate cookies for Santa when he drops by to deliver your gift... to show him how you appreciate his effort and how much you love him... leave beers... =)

Apple - What Really Happened...

2011-08-14T16:32:00.000+08:00

Assumption

2011-08-07T18:35:00.001+08:00

(wiki entry)

When I was a little kid, I was confused and trying to make sense of this world which usually ended up with more questions than answers. And answers provided by adults were questionable. The answers to most of the questions I have was' I don't know'. Then around the age of ten I realized... I can basically rationalize & make sense of things that I never knew I could. At the age of 12, I actually think to myself, I have this world figured out because... I can make sense of everything. Maybe it was my upbringing or just something I ate but I just said to myself 'Lets see how far these logic of mine can go when pit against reality'. Then I hit puberty and it was all just a blur... growing up with hate, anger & lust... I wonder how kids these days are doing.

To assume is the ability to imagine, to construct theory and to make sense of things in order to move forward. Assumption by itself is not a problem... the problem starts when we actually believe that our assumptions are facts. As I have discovered, we can make sense of everything in this world if we wanted to even when it isn't true. To make matter worse, I found out that the assumptions I made would somehow be influenced by the state of emotion I was in, the beliefs I have and even to the point of being influenced by other people.

As people starts to become more interconnected and population becomes concentrated at desirable locations, it's a real problem. IMHO schools only teach kids how to be obedient and employable and not enough about critical thinking and all the necessary skills we need to fully utilize our human capabilities.

The funny thing about assumption is that even though I know I'm just bullshiting myself without any knowledge on the matter, I can't help but to assume that the recession is not gonna happen as it got punched it in the face so hard that it will stay down at least in my life time... everything's gonna be all.. right.

One form of assumptions that I always find interesting is assumptions by generalizing. Sentences that starts with 'Women are...', 'Men are...', 'Malaysians are..', 'Chinese are...'. Then to reinforce it, we pick and choose to acknowledge cases that agrees with it. Then it becomes who we are.

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Poke

2011-07-31T19:41:00.002+08:00

Flip Phone Going Extinct

2011-07-23T18:58:00.000+08:00

Hair Loss

2011-07-17T20:16:00.000+08:00

Long John Silver...

2011-07-09T23:58:00.002+08:00

(Long John Silver... Something seems out of place)

What happened to your oh so tasty fries?? I feel so cheated... =(

Transformer III Criticism

2011-07-04T22:29:00.000+08:00

SUPERHULK

2011-06-26T20:05:00.001+08:00

Drawing Portrait

2011-06-19T18:10:00.000+08:00

(Linda Park)

Was trying to look for a picture of myself and realized, I don't take much pictures at all... at least most of them don't include me. Thinking I would just randomly pick an individual so I picked Linda Park because I was watching House MD Season 7 Episode 21 and... Vwala.

It's pretty easy these days to do portrait drawings digitally, I'm basically just tracing on the actual photo. Just something I wanted to try after seeing some ads that features something with a similar concept.

Review: 2400mAh HTC G1 Dream Battery

2011-06-17T00:09:00.000+08:00

When my HTC G1 Dream's battery started dying as in it will only last half a day, I decided to try looking for a replacement battery on ebay. Really tempted to get a new phone but as I liked android based phones, all the exciting ones never seems to reach Singapore fast enough. I guess it's expected as Singapore is pretty much an iPhone country. Oh well, just gotta sit this one out until the grand daddy arrives.

Came across this entry on ebay and thought, since the original battery is 1100mAh then with 2400mAh the phone would be able to last twice as long. And then I thought how funny it is that they also come with a back cover. Bid the thing and paid via paypal and 2 weeks later it arrived... And I'm surprised.

The rule of thumb with battery capacity has always been that if the device's original battery is 1100mAh whereas someone sells you a 2400mAh battery with the same physical size, unless there was a scientific breakthrough in battery making in recent times then it is basically just a false advertisement. And from my experience, those 'high capacity' battery usually under perform compared to the original.

Well... this time I get to see what would happen if the 'high capacity' battery is actually as being advertised.

So twice the capacity means twice the size... LOL.

So the inclusion of a new back cover made sense... ugly but made sense.

I always thought that my phone was bulky as hell... well, it has just gotten worse...

And the battery life... fwaaaah... Even on heavy usage of browsing, calling, messaging I still can't get it down to 30%.

PS: Samsung... what is taking so long with your new Galaxy Products?? ppaleuge!! ppaleuge!!!

BED BUGS... Kill 'em All

2011-06-12T17:29:00.000+08:00

McDonald's Free Can Glass

2011-05-29T22:37:00.000+08:00

This batch should be by far the most interesting glass McDonald has to offer. And as I would eat at least once a week at McDonald, evidently it's only time before I get one of my own...

Out of curiosity, I wanted to know how much it differs compared to the actual can...

After using it for couple of days, the only annoyance with this design is that I cannot touch the inner-bottom of the glass when I am washing it due to the small opening. But still, it's one of those things that are free and nice to look at... like sunrise and sunset... ok, maybe not that nice but still nice.

Broken Heart... 2

2011-05-22T20:40:00.000+08:00

Broken Heart...

2011-05-16T00:14:00.000+08:00

When warranty ended...

2011-05-07T18:06:00.000+08:00

I bought Samsung SyncMaster™ 931BW 19" LCD monitor 3.5 years ago and last week it suddenly started acting weird. Sometime it works and other time it just sit there staring blankly at me. So I called up Samsung Repair Center in Singapore, they informed me that they do not have any form of dropping point around Singapore. Meaning I have to go all the way to their Repair Center at Toah Guan Road (Jurong East MRT).

As to eliminate as much hassles as possible, I brought it along to work and unfortunately for me I go around to client places the whole day. Anyway, when I reached there and was served by one of their staff... it was obvious that I have wasted my time...

Labor Rate means the payment for the labor to fix the stuff. Evaluation Charge is simply you paying them to check what is wrong with your stuff only. So unless I bought something costing more than SGD1000, it's really not worthwhile.

Staff: "Sir, I have checked with my technician and the circuit board for your monitor will cost SGD150 to SGD200."
Jerk: "You mean on top of that there will be a SGD60 for labor charge?"
Staff: "Yes Sir. So it would roughly cost you SGD260 total."
Jerk: "Wow... I bought this for SGD199 and it takes SGD260 to fix it... Can I like... leave this monitor here?! I mean, I'll give it you for free"
Staff: *Shaking his head with a serious look* "No sir. Sorry"

So much for trying to be green. >.<"

Alien Invasion 2011

2011-05-03T01:13:00.000+08:00

This is the video I'm referring to...

Characters in Manga/Anime

2011-04-24T20:49:00.000+08:00

Have been reading manga since primary five but have only read those popular ones... and for some reason I haven't come around to reading One Piece. Although after a while they all seems to share the same formula...

I usually draw when I'm stressed from work... and from the drawings you can actually see just how much stressed I am actually in at the moment. And seeing as I drew mostly of Berserk, Tormented Soul and Lunatic characters... Yeaaah... think I should be planning my job hunt already. lol.

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MRT Reserved Seating

2011-04-17T18:01:00.000+08:00

While was having dinner with my brother and friend, this topic came up and I realized that it came up before and I can see how it will again.It's an interesting topic that says a lot of what general public perceive as courtesy and much more.

We can basically look at it from multiple angle and justify them but if I am to make one point that is of any significant is that we all understand the word 'reserved' differently from one another. To make matter worse, the sign is vague.

The way I look at this is; putting up this sign and implementing this reserved seating policy signify that general public is being perceived as lacking of ethics and need to be told on how to be. On top of that it promotes the concept of 'entitlement' to everyone and how the young, the healthy and the able have to not only give up but to offer to these categories of commuter just because they are entitled to it.

From time to time I would play this game whereby I would sit on the reserved seat and look out for anyone I can offer my seat to... like actively scanning (it is pathetic but hey, it's a cheap fun).

Although it may seems like no one noticed this but... sitting on the reserved seats can cause most people to fall unconscious... It's a scary phenomenon. Proof:

Holy Shit ~!!

Introducing... Groupon

2011-04-10T23:17:00.000+08:00

How can anyone resist... with savings of 50% to even 70% in discounts which translates to 10 dollars and some even up to thousands of dollars. A buddy of mine introduced it to me like as if it's some sort of hidden treasure... and I can understand why.

And after almost a month of coming and going, I... can't find anything that interests me. Don't get me wrong, I'm one of those guys that goes to IKEA hoping to just have a breakfast (their meatballs... MMMmmm...) but still end up buying a carpet, a table lamp and a chair. One of the reason could be because most of those Groupons are from shops/sellers that I never heard of.

And one day this same buddy of mine was telling me to get something which he would send me a recommendation link so that he would get a 10 dollars credit out of it. He introduced this Groupon of a western food restaurant thinking we would try it out during lunch break.

Thinking what the heck since I never managed to find anything to buy just for the sake of trying out. So purchased it. And here's when Murphy's law comes to play... Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

To say it went wrong is an overstatement... it just didn't turn out as I have imagined. Firstly I have to print the voucher. I thought that they have a back-end system to keep tracks of these stuffs... I thought too highly of them. Secondly we need to make reservation for this deal. And finally... it isn't valid during weekdays from 11am to 2pm.

Yeah so... note to self, always read the terms and conditions. So out of retaliation, I am not gonna invite that buddy of mine anymore.

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Movie Review : Sucker Punch

2011-04-07T00:32:00.001+08:00

Website: http://suckerpunchmovie.warnerbros.com/

Fucking love this movie. I mean the trailer is awesome but kinda scared that it won't live up to its hype... Then after waiting for more than 2 weeks, reviews were everywhere and most of them are bad. Thinking to myself, is it really that bad? And so I went to watch it with my brother and I was blown away... I mean the story and the graphics are just... Amazing.

I've come across a lot of reviews that uses feminism as an argument for criticizing the movie. Sickening is when I open up the Magazine 8Days to briefly read through the interview they have with the actresses with most of the questions pointed toward how the movie objectifies women (I still don't understand this argument of objectifying of women thou). I guess one of the reason that made me really wanted to watch the movie is when the actresses replied by correcting the interviewer's point of views.

I used to understand feminism as in fighting for equal rights for women... and I support it... these days, I just find feminism to be like a Sexist, Whinny, Sadistic Bastard (lol... I know, me calling others bastards).

I don't find the movie to be sexist at all, and the story... first of its kind. This is so gonna be in my movie collection.

SLAM DUNK

2011-04-03T16:25:00.000+08:00

Passport Renewal at High Commission of Malaysia

2011-03-25T07:18:00.000+08:00

Google 'Renew passport high commission Malaysia' and there are couple of blog entries that provide detailed experience on this matter. I feel that I want to provide details on how to do this as swift as possible...

Location (Main Entrance: it's to the right from Guard House):

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Location (Guard House: It's to the left from Main Entrance):

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Preparation Items:
1 x SGD120 + Spare Changes (we are trying to be fast here)
1 x Photostat front & back of both Malaysian IC & PR IC on the same page. (sorry guys, forgotten to take pictures of it for sample but it shouldn't be too hard to imagine..)
1 x Take a passport size photo with blue background (3.5cm x 4.5cm).

note: Pardon the shitty scanning skill, I tried to match the blue to the actual color so this is the blue that they want. The size and the position of the head is important so if you're thinking like me to actually do a DIY digital photo printing, just use the photo as a guideline.

Originals Items:
- Current Passport
- Malaysian IC
- PR IC

Note1: Try to obtain the preparation items before going so that you can save 2 to 4 hours of waiting. If you want to go without any preparation items, then read Note3 for the details.

Note2: Goto Guard House 1st and exchange the pass with anything other than both of your ICs (good thing they accept alot of cards, they even accept credit cards... although I doubt that it's a good idea.). Tell the guard you want to renew passport, you will be given the pass and the form (Don't know why, I didn't pay anything for the form... I thought it cost 50cents? Oh well...). To avoid crowd, I was told by one of the staffs that just simply avoid those days like school breaks, some holidays... you know, those days that most people think is the day to do this kinda things.

Note3: Assuming you don't have preparation items;

Take a queue number from the photo booth first then go to queue for the photocopying of ICs (photocopy no need queue number... but still there is a queue). I waited for 2 hours just to take a photo... The staff was actually telling people to go to another place outside of the high commission that provide the same service so you might wanna ask them if the queue is too unbearable.

Note4: Fill in the form as you queue (multi-tasks dude...) and there's a field that ask for birth certificate number, I just ignore it and they didn't ask for it so I guess it's ok. Asked a staff there to verify if I filled in correctly (gotta ask them, cause so far the guy almost always have to give corrections... it seems filling out forms for this shit ain't simple after all.). Get the queue number resit with the expected collection time in the afternoon printed on it.

Note5: Come in the noon accordingly and WALLA... NEW PASSPORT!!

Basically if you have the preparation items, you can go in around 8am and come out of there before 10am... and from what I can see... there are more people queue-ing for photo than they are queue-ing to submit their application.

Huh... I have to do this every 5 years until I die... interesting~!

Name After Me

2011-03-20T20:21:00.000+08:00

Still Using Prepaid Mobile...

2011-03-13T22:48:00.000+08:00

I am still using prepaid and I only have one mobile line. It's a strange phenomenon because people will ask why whenever they found out about it. And I will be the only soul in my workplace who submit mobile claims by attaching a resit rather than a mobile bill.

Even though I'm still using prepaid, there are obvious disadvantages;
1. I have to pay cash for all my mobile phones. As a buddy of mine put it, sign up a contract and get free phone... ok, not exactly free but sure beat having to pay so much cash up front.
2. Calls & Message rates are slightly more expensive compared to postpaid. All 3 of the telcos have the exact same rates... I just wonder, doesn't that considered as price fixing??
3. No free incoming calls.
4. Expensive Data rates.

Usually my reply to all that asked why I'm still using prepaid... I still have quite a sum of credits on my prepaid mobile. Here's the deal, I top up monthly with the S$28 (Happy 128 on Starhub) that provides S$100 credit for local calls and S$20 international calls, even with chargeable incoming calls I still can't really finish it.

But thanks to postpaid plans, Singapore is basically an iPhone nation. Oh Steve Job would be so proud of himself.

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Traffic Jam on CNY

2011-03-07T00:12:00.000+08:00

Pocket Dictionary

2011-02-27T23:54:00.002+08:00

One of the fun thing about growing up at least for me was when I start to realize and see examples that most mature adults exceed the younger generations not by knowledge but simply experience. It's sort of like the feeling we get when we realized that our parents can no longer teach us what we learn in school (apparently this doesn't apply to everyone).

For the past 100 years, 'new' seems to be showing up at a faster pace. Thanks to capitalism, consumerism and globalization I guess. I personally feel that we can still go faster, and at the current pace earth should be less familiar in the next 100 years.

and hopefully someday...

Oxford can figure out that we no longer have such big pockets.

Saddest Lunch I've ever bought...

2011-02-24T20:33:00.001+08:00

It was the usual weekday's lunch break, trying to figure out what we can eat just to add a little spice to our otherwise mundane life. And we have decided to try out XINWANG TAIWAN at City Hall after someone mentioned about it.

After we were seated, we were each given a menu and I realized that there wasn't really that many people eating here. huh. That's odd considering it's 12pm on a weekday.

I come upon one item, I forgotten the exact name but it was something thick soup with rice. Thinking to myself it would probably be something like Soup Spoon. I mean for SGD7.80 I was expecting something almost similar. So when it came, the first thing that comes to mind was 'that's it?'.

Look at that thing, that is a sad sight in the land of food. I don't know why but as I was eating it, I can't help but feel so sad... I think my stomach cried. It felt like I was on some super diet.

And so I did what any person would do... I steal my friends' food. Not actually stealing, more of like just taking them.

Not Nerd Enough

2011-02-19T18:32:00.003+08:00

Start my new year by doing something stupid...

2011-02-10T22:49:00.004+08:00

I spent my Chinese New Year in West Malaysia with friends and logically anyone would have bought a 2 way air tickets... but nope, not me. Yup I only bought 1 way and no return ticket. If I was actually going there to start a carefree life with no other responsibility but myself, it would have been one heck of a story! Sadly, I have to work on the following Monday. I guess deep down I really do want to let it all go even just for a little while... either that or I'm a complete idiot.

So comes Sunday morning sleepy, tired and ready to go back to Singapore... I checked on AIRASIA, MAS and FIREFLY. Now as I think back, why the heck only that 3 airlines?? There are some other airlines going to Singapore too!! As you would have guessed, all 3 are full. Thinking to myself "Holy shit, I might have to give my boss a call after all." and figured gotta give the bus express a ring, they should have some.

Called up those hotlines that sells Coaches Tickets for like RM60 - RM90 to Singapore, no luck. There was one particular receptionist, when I asked if they have any more tickets for 'today' going to Singapore she replied "You mean toooodaaaay ah??" in disbelieve kind of tone... She sure have a sense of humor. I LOL-ed.

So admitting defeat... I picked the last and only option I had...

I bought the earliest Monday flight from the nearest airport (I live somewhere near Subang) back to Singapore and made it on time to work albeit very sleepy and tired as I only slept for only 3 hours...

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Happy Chinese New Year 2011!!!

2011-02-03T01:00:00.001+08:00

Recommend: Popular Card

2011-01-27T23:12:00.001+08:00

Website: www.popular.com.sg

Hear me out first...

The previous bookstore card that I had was from Times Bookstore and I didn't find it that great because I found out way later that I can get the same book elsewhere cheaper. And yes, I read books... Surprise~!!

I wanted to know which bookstore's card would stand out the most and I picked Popular Card once I read the benefits. They have good prices on books although not a lot of varieties. And the card I subscribed to was 3 years membership costing SGD30 which is kind of on a high side. But despite having said that, I would still prefer it over others because...

I get to have ONE DOLLAR off from KFC's two piece meal set... ok, they will switch your pepsi with nescafe frappe (warning: this coffee is STRONG) but sometimes they'll give you pepsi out of kindness or frappe machine is down (apparently not many ppl order it)... but still... it's ONE DOLLAR people!! I managed to get my SGD30 back just by eating 30 sets of it. How can you resist~!?

Yeah so... that's basically the whole point of getting the popular card.

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Giving a Helping Hand

2011-01-21T09:00:00.001+08:00

Declining Sales/Donation Approaches

2011-01-15T15:06:00.009+08:00

There seems to be getting alot more people selling insurances, credit cards, donations etc here in sg which I find it can be annoying sometimes. Of course, they themselves know that they are annoying but hey, it's their job... tough luck I guess.

Statistically I have to at least decline once a day on average... and from observation they are usually nervous and I seldom get to see the same faces. Getting so much declines a day, I do feel it for them. Then again, it's part of the job.

The general ways to decline all of them are;
1. Ignore as they are invincible (Continue walking). No matter how persistence they can be, this will usually turn them off very quickly.
2. Apologetic decline (Continue walking). Saying "Sorry, not interested". I usually use this with a smile as I kinda understand what they're going through... it's not as effective as the first approach but it will still work albeit taking a little more time.

So far the interesting approach strategies they used;
1. Doing a survey. A fake Q&A just to sell their products. I used to find it interesting to see them trying to perform this transition from Q&A to Selling. When they starts dispatching a huge number of fleets, I just ask them "You're selling insurance?". No matter the answer, I'll just decline it.
2. Self Introductory. Usually starts with asking "Hi, nice to meet you! I'm XXXX. And your are?" while offering a handshake.
3. Standing in your way. I would try to do a small run to get ahead/away from them. lol.

It could be due to boredom or whatever but I thought to myself what are the responds I can give for these approaches. So I have tried the followings on couple of occasions;
1. Say "But I'm still studying". You can try this see how many times you can pull this off.
2. Say "But My salary is only S$800". Apparently this only works for credit card and some charity agents.
3. Start asking about how they like their job so far and keep asking whatever that comes to mind at the time. Try to be the person doing the asking and cut off any attempt to turn the table.
4. Impersonate someone else (Preferably someone famous). I personally like this one... I can be anyone~! And I sometime introduce myself "My name is DE HUA. Surname, LAU".
5. Request to be approached by his/her teammate. I actually tried this once on a little girl selling insurance to me. And to hit it home, I stated that her teammate was pretty... which actually got her very upset (to be fair, she was adorable herself). I got an sms from her later calling me a pervert (or something worse... I can't remember) and further mentioned her reliability in performing as a financial adviser. Haha... My bad.

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What I have been drinking in 2010...

2011-01-09T20:01:00.003+08:00

I'm not so sure how common is this but I constantly have a bottle of liquor around... I mean I actually drink it at least once a week. And no, I'm not an alcoholic.. at least not yet. There is a saying that when we're young we drink for many reasons but as we get older we actually enjoys the drink. Nope, I don't think I'm there yet.

And thanks to the high alcohol tax, beer is definitely out of my menu... So the followings are my thoughts on all the alcohol drinks I had in 2010 which I kept at home.

WINE - Daniel Bessiere

Got this as a present from a lovely friend of mine and it tasted like... wine. You know those that leaves your tongue feeling weird after drinking it. I really fail at wine... never could understand what's the thrill in it.
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WINE - Dourthe

I forgotten how I gotten this but I definitely didn't bought it. Anyway, the taste is again just like wine but doesn't have the after taste as the Daniel Bessiere.
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DESSERT WINE -Long Flat

This was recommended by a lovely friend as the wine that is sweet. Initially without much knowledge in wine, I didn't know wine CAN be sweet. This is a good one for those that doesn't like the taste of alcohol in general.
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DESSERT WINE -Renmano

This one is the sweetest among the dessert wines I had... which is not a bad thing. I like it so much that I keep forgetting I'm actually drinking wine.
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DESSERT WINE -Primo Amore 'Romeo'

This was introduced by the lady working at the wine section when I queried on dessert wine. The taste is... sweet~! lol... it's pretty obvious I was trying out alot of dessert wine for some reason.
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DESSERT WINE - Primo Amore 'Juliet'

This is my first white dessert wine and it's just nice. There's one thing that I still find confusing is the saying drink red wine when eating red meat and white wine for white meat... I tried it but damn, I just don't get it. But I personally feel that dessert wine goes with everything. It's like soda with alcohol.
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WHISKEY - Chivas

This is usually my choice of liq to have in clubs... Mix it with coke or green tea... fuuuuuuhhweeeee...
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WHISKEY - Jack Daniel's

Every time I had this the thought that comes to mind is 'damn, this taste dirtier than Chivas'. lol...
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VODKA - Absolut Vodka

I usually mix it with Sprite or Ice-Cream Soda... and some time I mix it with orange juice and coffee~!! I'm still thinking of what will go along with it...
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So far from the numbers of bottle... I still seems to prefer Chivas & Absolut Vodka. As for wines... it seems like I was only into it for a period of time.

I was kinda hoping that HDB would provide those bins for recycling but no luck even after waiting for a year. Oh well...

End of 2010 Equals Start of 2011

2011-01-01T22:28:00.006+08:00

Woohooo... another new year~!! As of today, I've been blogging for two and a half years and I gotta say, I'm really looking forward to 2011.

I was reading my previous entries and I found out a couple of things; like my number of entries dropped from 3 entries a week to twice a week to once a week. LOL. And the reason for this is pretty simple, I no longer have the luxury of youth... that is lots of free time and doing what I like most. Yeah, it's sad.

And I also realized that my writing skill still sucks. LOL. Unbelievable. I was reading through my old entries and thought to myself; Damn, these writings are really shitty.

Happy New Year y'all~!! Keep your inner-child alive and happy~!!

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Merry Christmas 2010

2010-12-25T00:00:00.002+08:00

Human Placenta / Placenta Hominis

2010-12-19T00:00:00.001+08:00

I only found out about this thing from my friend Michelle which got me really interested. Just in case; here's a wiki link for placenta.

The Chinese name for it when translated directly is 'purple river car'... And I am as clueless as you why is it so. Anyway, here is what I gathered from the net so far on this;

1) There are basically 2 ways to consume; oral (in powder form) or injection.

2) It is legal in Singapore. (I ain't no lawyer so this is just my understanding so far)

3) Some researches done concluded that it does not contain any nutritional value.

4) Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), is a hormone found in the placenta

during pregnancy.

I plan to give it a try for 1 week to see what will happen. I was told to take half of the given plastic spoon. So I decided to just put it in my mouth and then proceed to down it with water. It actually smelled like....

肉松 / Rousong / meat wool / meat floss / pork floss / pork sung (wiki entry)

Damn. That is a lot of name for a simple thing. It taste like powder-ish and stale. So really not that bad.

So this is my 3rd day consuming this but so far... I still don't see or feel any changes. Maybe it's because I'm a guy?? Nah.. I don't think that's it. Oh well, I guess I just have to increase the dosage.

Will update this post if I get any significant changes...

What to do when a family member died...

2010-12-12T14:53:00.003+08:00

Ah death, the topic that is never to be spoken casually... or so I was made to believe. I find it funny that 2 things in life which society (is it just in asia??) deems taboo-ish are related to ending and creating of life.

Anyway, it has always been a question which I have no clear answer... Imagine the following scenario;

One day, you went back home and found your great grand father lying lifeless on his bed. You're first to reach home and all the rest of the family members will not be home for another 2 more days. Everyone have prepared for this day and it's just so unlucky of you to be the only one here when it happened, so what do you do?

I tried asking around with an almost similar question like...

Then I tried Google-ing 'What to do when someone died' and Usually I get the checklist that starts with call those funeral service provider, get death certificate, then checking on wills and all that. Then there are some about how to cope with the sadness blah blah blah.

Finally I come across Yahoo! Answer page where someone asked an almost similar question and the chosen answer was basically to call a non emergency police number. It seems my friends got it right.

Seems like an obvious answer... well, turns out police departments get a lot of calls unrelated to them. I guess people would prefer to call them when in doubt. (got this from words of mouth).

Then I wonder... won't it make more sense if I am to just carry the corpse out of the house and put it in a car and drove to a hospital and let them nurses do the rest while at the same time skipping the process where lots of people coming to your house? Won't it?

Nescafe Frappe

2010-12-09T07:03:00.001+08:00

If you need a coffee that can keep you awake the whole day after a less than enough sleep... I introduce to you;

ok, you can get espresso shots which works very well but where's the fun in that!? Anyway, I've personally tested the effectiveness of this little sucker and it is amazing. I'm not sure if there's a discrepancy between places but so far I have been getting it from the KFC at Tampines Mart. So...

My first experience was when I ordered the KFC 2 pieces meal with it. I finished the drink around 11pm and I freaking stayed awake until 5am on a monday morning. I was kinda stumped because being a coffee drinker, I would drink coffee then go to bed usually without any problem.

I decided that the following Saturday, I'm gonna have myself KFC with Nescafe Frappe for dinner again. Finished around 9pm and then managed to sleep around 2am... but keeps waking up from time to time during the night. Shit... Frappe is STRONG...

To go even further, on the following friday I did the same thing but only this time I went drinking and drank some more before I went to bed around 3am+. Yup I slept like a pig the whole night and woke up around12pm... with a terrible hangover.

And then last last Sunday I bought Frappe again for dinner (I don't know why). Long story short, I only slept around 6am on a Monday morning and the whole day at work felt like as if I was dreaming. Yup, I'm not very smart some time.

I just don't get it. I always thought that these types of coffees are meant to be recreational... you know all taste little substance. Guess I was wrong.

Watermelon Viagra

2010-12-02T23:11:00.003+08:00

You probably read an article about this but I only heard it from a taxi driver as he was taking me and brother home...

I think kids today will know very well that sex sells be it sex appeal or anything related to it. And for those who says sex is over-hyped... they are either lying or don't know what they're talking about... or they are suffering from lack of libido (poor thing).

Anyway, this taxi driver was telling me how Viagra was never meant for human but was actually meant for horses (Hey, I heard another story about another drug that was related to horse too... that's weird). And as a free advise from a senior to juniors, he recommend eating watermelon for greater sexual satisfaction. At least half of the whole watermelon should be consumed and for assurance he shared his experience as being truly effective.

skeptical.

Googled 'watermelon viagra' and I read through a couple of article and the conclusion; another sensationalized scientific findings by journalism. It's not that it's completely false, it's just not as advertised.

articles 1

article 2

Sitex 2010

2010-11-29T00:38:00.002+08:00

Killing Time @ Safra Jurong

2010-11-22T07:00:00.002+08:00

Was attending my little nephew's birthday party at Safra Jurong's 'Kidz Amaze' and as all the kids running around chaotically as expected, sitting right beside a pillar; a machine with a touch screen that provoke a sense of familiarity. Why, it is none other than the machine that gave us the favorite 'Photo Hunt'!! 50 cent per credit while only accepting $1 coin, money changing was inevitable.

My bro & I tried 'Photo Hunt' couple of hands, turns out lack of sleep in the early morning just made it impossible to even gain much scores. So after giving up on that, I wondered is there any other game in there that I can play by myself without too much memory usage.

Finally I concluded 'Mystery Phraze' doesn't look too hard. Come on, I've seen Wheel of Fortune lots of time since I was a kid... it should be a piece of cake. Too bad reality disagree with me.

I can't even win the bonus round... not even once and turns out losing in bonus round means game over. Couple of dollars poor and without much accomplishments, I proceed to go back to the birthday party for food.

Dying For Brunch

2010-11-15T08:00:00.001+08:00

What if... Earth's Gravity Isn't a Constant

2010-11-08T08:00:00.002+08:00

Introduction

Gravity (wiki entry) is perceived as reality and generally understood as the force that keeps us from falling to space. After much digging around on the internet (Hooray for internet), I manage to find a lot of information on gravity... but somehow, I can't seem to find any posting that shares my idea (probably because I sucked at it). What I found so far about gravity that which I can understand;

1. Gravity on the surface of the earth is not always the same, depending on where you are.

2. Astronauts living in space without gravity for a certain duration of time may suffer from weakening of muscles, bones and other health problems.

3. Anti-Gravity and Gravity Chamber, where you can go into a room and with a flick of a switch you'll float and another switch lets you feel the burden of having twice the usual earth gravity... sadly doesn't exist. (Resulting point 2... Only now I know that astronauts only float in space, there's no button for them to push that will allow them to walk around or sit like we normally do.)

4. We know very little about gravity (From what I gather, lots of current insights regarding gravity are being regarded as incorrect).

The Idea

The idea or more like a question, what if earth's gravity isn't constant throughout the earth's lifespan?

In school we learn that gravity equals 9.81 m/s/s and that gravity is what keeps all the planets circling around the sun predictably. But what if earth's gravitational force was stronger in its early years and got lessen after a long while due to whatever reason ? I understand that there's a theory whereby a planet's gravity is due to its size (hence moon and mars are smaller than earth), but what if it isn't entirely true.

I just feel like it's an interesting idea that may explain why dinosaurs were so big in size compared to any living things on earth today (So far no one has an affirmative answer). And the ice age would make more sense with it.

This idea implies that millions of years ago, earth would have a stronger gravity which would means the air would be denser and cooler. Creatures will have to be bigger in size to withstand the gravity and the environment. And for whatever reason, the earth's gravity weaken (maybe gradually or in an instant) thus changes to the whole environment. With evolution in play, creatures adapts. And if we can actually know for sure what causes the weakening of gravity, we might have a glimpse of where this earth is heading.

The implications are huge.

Conclusion

I believe someone other than me would have thought of this and probably still trying to prove it with scientific researches. Too bad that I'm not a scientist of any form, otherwise I would sure as hell make this my thesis.

Like Your Ear is Sending Spam to Your Brain.

2010-11-02T22:01:00.004+08:00

MC for 2 days.

The most obvious symptom is I feel like the world is spinning when I turn my head to either side while lying on the bed (actually that's the only one I can recognize). Visited a doctor in the morning... when it comes to sickness, I can safely say we are more knowledgeable as we grow older from hearing about it and experiencing it. This is new to me which kinda confuses me. The only cause that I can think of is some sort of poisoning.

The doctor did a series of diagnosis and concluded that my inner ear (vestibular system: the part that controls balancing) is actually suffering from infection. Not only there's no definite mean of getting the infection (I was given a couple of probable scenarios), there's actually no cure. The reassurance given was that it will take 10 days to heal by itself and medicines were given to ease the symptom.

I don't know if the doctor was trying too hard or just being friendly but he explained that the symptom is due to my ear sending spams to my brain. I was looking at him with a blank stare while the first thought that comes to mind is; "what? are you telling me my ear is trying to sell something to my brain?".

What I learn from this experience is that I constantly get woken up fairly easily (for 2 nights) from just a little 'off-balance'. And with the whole day to myself, I decided to watch the movie Inception and ironically there's an explanation of waking up from a dream by causing the vestibular system sensing off balance.

For some reason I feel like this sickness kinda spoiled that part of the movie for me. Sheeesh...

Jog Like The Wind

2010-10-30T18:08:00.003+08:00

Haze Is Finally Here...

2010-10-23T16:26:00.004+08:00

Yay... Haze is here... OK maybe there ain't much to be jumping with joy about. Honestly, I find it interesting. I mean we always only have either rain or dry, where's the fun in that? Plus it's funny to listen to those aunties talk shit about the country that is causing it.

Am I the only one to find that the PSI definition is really vague;

PSI Value	PSI Descriptor
0 - 50	Good
51 - 100	Moderate
101 - 200	Unhealthy
201 - 300	Very unhealthy
Above 300	Hazardous

Looking at it I just assumed that Above 300, people would start to drop dead. Then checking on wikipedia (link);

PSI	Descriptor	General Health Effects
0 - 50	Good	None
51 - 100	Moderate	Few or none for the general population
101 - 200	Unhealthy	Mild aggravation of symptoms among susceptible persons i.e. those with underlying conditions such as chronic heart or lung ailments; transient symptoms of irritation e.g. eye irritation, sneezing or coughing in some of the healthy population.
201 - 300	Very Unhealthy	Moderate aggravation of symptoms and decreased tolerance in persons with heart or lung disease; more widespread symptoms of transient irritation in the healthy population.
301 - 400	Hazardous	Early onset of certain diseases in addition to significant aggravation of symptoms in susceptible persons; and decreased exercise tolerance in healthy persons.
Above 400	Hazardous	PSI levels above 400 may be life-threatening to ill and elderly persons. Healthy people may experience adverse symptoms that affect normal activity.

The 1 to 2 words description is really hard to understand... I mean how to differentiate Unhealthy and Very Unhealthy? I would propose my version of PSI definition;

PSI	Descriptor	-
0 - 50	Healthy	-
51 - 100	Poorly Ventilated Smoking Room	-
101 - 200	The Only Time You Can Be A Ninja & Not Getting Weird Stares.	-
201 - 300	You're Practically Smoking Shit You Don't Want To Know About!	-
301 - 400	SILENT HILL, BITCHES!!	-
Above 400	DEAD BODIES EVERYWHERE!	-

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10 Days Trip in Australia

2010-10-17T13:23:00.005+08:00

Had a trip to Melbourne & Sydney with friends lasting 10 days. Like any other trips, we learn new stuffs... and I get to know a little bit about Melbourne & Sydney (in general at least). Followings are the profound ones;

1. Get to feel for the first time how it is when the wind/air is freaking cold while the sun is hot. It's funny compared to SG... when I hide under shade, I'll be freezing.. then if there're sunlight I would be frying. Confusing and funny at the same time.

2. I feel like we're slaves working in sg (or asia in general)... working long hours with less than enough wages. Although they say the income tax is high and if minus everything it is pretty much the same. I don't know... it is still debatable.

3. Eating out is EXPENSIVE. A can of soft drink starts at AUD 3.00 while foods generally starts at AUD 10.00. So if you plan a trip there, consider cooking if on budget. Fast Food is still considered normal priced (Avoid side orders, just the meals). Burger King is called Hungry Jack.

4. Public Transport is EXPENSIVE. Someone mentioned to me that it is because it's privatized. So like on my trip, there 4 people... for a taxi ride from airport to sydney central cost roughly AUD 30++ whereas a train cost AUD15 per person. (Hey, at least cars here sells pretty cheap).

5. Australians are generally vocal & friendly... which I find intriguing and interesting. I guess it is because I feel out of place as I live and grew up around lots of assholes. lol.

6. Material stuffs are cheap... even cheaper than sg. Especially apparels... And no I didn't bought much except for 2 t-shirts. what?

7. Australians are really passionate about their rugby. (there are probably some other things... but that's what I know for now)

8. GPS takes some time to learn before it can be used efficiently.

9. Night time is just eat and drink... I just feel like I missed something. There's gotta be something they do at night that only the locals know about...

10. They have a Chinese Restaurant that sells Singapore Noodles.

I didn't know there is such a dish until now...

Oh and note to self; if going to the beach is part of the plan, try to make sure that the weather is not freaking cold. No one goes to the beach when it's 15 degrees Celsius.

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Passenger from Hell

2010-10-10T01:08:00.002+08:00

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Beer Goggles

2010-09-20T00:54:00.004+08:00

Beer Goggles - The illusion that someone is more attractive than they are, brought on be excessive drinking.

I heard of this theory when I was in college, even until today I still have some doubt in it. Lately there are couple of articles approving of this theory by saying that drunk tends to see faces more symmetrical than they actually are. Articles on this;

Article from neontommy.com

Article from fermentarium.com

Video from Mythbuster

I'm annoyed by these studies because I just find it kinda dumb. The theory starts with beer goggle let us see others being more attractive than they really are. Then far far away there is a team that tries to find out what makes us decide which faces are attractive compared to others and their theory is symmetrical faces are more desired. Combine this two and we have new studies being made to see if drunk can actually differentiate symmetric and non-symmetric faces.

Followings are article about symmetrical faces being attractive & etc;

ScienceDaily

TheIndependent

Viewzone

I don't buy it that it is simply just because a drunk sees everyone having symmetrical face hence find them attractive. Are the team of researchers high on drugs or something?

They usually go around places where they can find drunks with pictures that looked something like above and have them choose which they find more symmetrical (which to them means attractive).

My annoyance is why pictures? With the understanding of hormonal and chemical reaction of alcohol in the body, I honestly don't find it anywhere near plausible for any drunk to look at pictures of faces and think to him or herself, "I would do him/her!". If for the sake of convenience, why not give a full head to toe photos and have the face edited just to see if it mattered that much. But if I am to do the experiment, I would try to get real people.

And finally, why can't they experiment it on themselves? Because from my own experience, when I'm drunk.. I kinda feel like I really don't give much of a fuck to most of the things that concerns me while i am sober. And that is the conclusion I always get from my self-financed-one-man-research-studies.

Singapore Driving License For Malaysian

2010-09-12T16:29:00.004+08:00

A Continuance from previous post...

Turns out I was unable to renew my Malaysian driving license after getting my Singapore driving license. Was told to go back to Johor JPJ to rectify the problem.

So In order to have both Malaysia and Singapore Driving License valid without any bribing/dirty money;

1. Go to Singapore Traffic Police HQ (10 Ubi Avenue 3 (S) 408865).

2. Said I want an ABSTRACT of your driving license and they gave me a letter (with a cost).

3. Go to the JPJ (Johor Branch) where I got my letter of verification.

4. Go to the second floor and told the guy at the corner table that 'Singapore license, getting back Malaysian license'. (more than half of people are there for the same reason so they understood).

Note: READY A PASSPORT SIZED PHOTOS, SINGAPORE LICENSE AND MALAYSIA IC. PHOTOCOPY EVERYTHING TWICE.

5. Upon Completion, you'll get your Singapore license punctured and a new Malaysia license.

6. Go back to Singapore Traffic Police HQ (10 Ubi Avenue 3 (S) 408865).

7. Just showed them the license with a hole in it, given a queue number and proceed to have a new license done. (I went on tuesday so everything was done instantly). Told that they will mail the new license to my home address.

Note: Prepare a passport sized photo.

There is a way to avoid all these hassles without feeding those fiendish agents at Johor JPJ. Friends of mine actually went back to Sarawak to request the letter of verification for obtaining Singapore license from the JPJ there. The JPJ staffs there told em that they would send the letter to their singapore home address. The reason given was that doing so somehow allows them to bypass the stupid system that will void the malaysia driving license.

What I don't understand is why Malaysia JPJ have to be so stupid with voiding the Malaysia license? Oh wait, there is no reason for being stupid... urgh...

Tough Door

2010-09-05T18:30:00.002+08:00

Supplements... It's good for us!

2010-08-29T00:13:00.004+08:00

Was given 2 bottles of the same supplement by my mother ( I guess mothers are like that ).

It's bought from Cosway and on the label it writes 'for maintaining general well-being'. Upon further probing, I found out that it is actually for healthy liver. (I thought I would realize whenever my liver starts to go bad)

Do they actually test out all these supplements in the markets to confirm that they do what they say they'll do or do they test it just to be sure that it won't harm or kill the consumers? Then again it is being widely accepted that it is not remedy but prevention.

And how many people today takes supplements? Taking a guess, I would say probably majority. and taking a guess I would say that we take supplements because we feel that our daily consumptions are unhealthy, not healthy enough or even simply 'Just in Case'.

Since 4 years ago, I have been taking a supplement on a best effort basis... yup, I keep forgetting to take them. Hhhmm... maybe I should take one for my memory.

It's a once a day all that you need supplement... and I still forget to take it. But it's ok cause I'm only taking it for 'Just in Case'. This is just one of the brand among dozens of others that does basically the same thing.

Anyway, my parents told me that an uncle of mine have a sort of health problem where his hand would constantly twitch uncontrollably and recently someone introduced him this multivitamins and after a while of taking it he now has a steady hand. OK, I have not verified the authenticity of the story or follow up with an update on it but I can't help but wonder... he has gotta change his diet.

Moving House: The Hardcore Style

2010-08-20T23:32:00.005+08:00

I'm not gonna say who it is but someone close to me just moved to a new place. First thing that comes to mind when we heard mentioning of moving house is lots of boxes.

But that's too tedious and time consuming. So how did this someone moved his stuff from one place to the other...

(1/10th of the whole stuffs >.<" )

Fuck Boxes... We go plastics... as in plastic bags... keeping it real.

Self Reflection... Migraine Inducing.

2010-08-16T01:59:00.005+08:00

For the past couple of days, I was trying to re-evaluate what made me tick and what I picked up (external influences) when I was little that shaped my thoughts and believes and personalities. Yup, it's gonna be another deep thought shit again.

Understanding that we remember things more vividly when it is associated with feelings. The stronger the feeling, clearer the memory. And sometimes fake memories are formed from feelings alone ( Like remembering something from your childhood but neither your family, relatives nor friends remember you having what you remembered? )

So what better time to play this game other than when my parents came down to SG for fun. What I did was do everything as per normal and have a constant alert on what everyones actions and reactions including mine. Most importantly constantly monitoring my own emotion and see what triggers what. I do this mostly when I'm at my hometown or places where I grow up.

Everyone should try this.. but I'm guessing that it is a bit easier for me as I don't stay with my parents anymore. The conclusion that I get from playing this little game is that we are simply the products of our time, environments... and gene. Seriously.

Urine Detection Device (UDD)

2010-08-03T23:22:00.003+08:00

I lol'd.

After staying in SG for so long, I only seen this recently. The first thing that comes to mind when I saw this was "Smart is enough, don't act smart".

Let me see if I can decipher what the sign actually tries to imply;

1) It is sophisticated and lethal that it cannot be defined as installed but armed. Yeah, they armed the elevator with it.

2) Yeah, it has a name that strike fear into the heart of... eeh urinators?

3) It has an abbreviation so it's for real!!

4) When it detects a present of urine, it will... take pictures??

I really really really really wanna try to see how it work... but then again thinking of urinating in an elevator just because of this... Hhhhmmm...

MicroSD Royal Rumble

2010-07-28T09:33:00.003+08:00

Due to my line of work, having multiple thumb-drive means flexibility and efficiency.

So to eliminate the trouble of carrying around a dozen of them, I decided to use a reader combined with memory card to act as thumb-drive. This theory is great but comes with one problem, poorly built reader breakdown fairly fast (one S$5 reader that I bought last for 1 month). And I choose MicroSD as my choice of memory card because... well, I have a lot lying around plus it's so tiny.

While going through all the spare MicroSD I have, I realized I actually have 4 different brands...

Now if I am to ask you what brand would you consider when buying memory card... of the four brand listed, which would be your pick?

Honestly, all this while I have always thought highly of SanDisk because it is slightly more expensive than Kingston. Ya, I'm just as dumb as aunties when buying branded handbags.

To put all these MicroSD to test, I used CrystalDiskMark 3.0 and the Kingston MicroSD Reader (in pic). And the result ladies and gentlemen;

Conclusion is I was wrong. Of course this test doesn't really reflect the whole reality but it does give us a glimpse of it. And I thought the Sales were bullshitting when they say PNY MicroSD outperform other brands. Well I'll be damn...

Safe to Drink

2010-07-21T22:28:00.004+08:00

Is tap water really safe to drink? Like most things on earth and beyond, depends on who we ask. Like Asians, cooked water is my number 1 choice. From time to time due to laziness I would just drink straight out of the tap. So far so good.

And currently with the floods in Singapore, I am hearing some theories on it. The famous theory is that the world is turning to shit with global warming taking drastic effect. Another theory is that it is due to the building of the circle line (New MRT route).

My thought on the flood; Fuck the idea on building underground cities. (Note: Not long ago an article in the newspaper was saying SG should consider building underground cities to elevate the issue of scarce land). And secondly, I feel like I should stop considering buying a car and consider building a boat... maybe a canoe should suffice.

11 Jul 2010: A Wedding Celebration

2010-07-16T09:09:00.002+08:00

A wedding dinner at Holiday Inn Atrium Singapore for Stephen & Michelle.

Usually I would attend such an event as a guest... give red packet and try to eat as much as the person sitting next to me.

If that was to be, I would very probably be a guest cum photographer. Instead I got to be something better, I get to be the MC. No biggie... except the part that I have to do it in chinese while my brother doing the english part.

Understandably I'm chinese so I do know how to read chinese... a little bit... like primary 6 level of chinese... ok more like primary 5. But hey, I can still use pinyin and there are numerous people around that I can get pointers..

And this is the script...

It's fairly simple.. I can roughly read a third of them. If you wonder why I don't just prepare it before hand as the script was given to me like a month in advance... ya, well I wish I know why I do half of the things I do.

Anyway... the problem with pinyin is that I can never get the tone and pronounce right... and thanks to my fellow friends constantly point out to me with deafening laughters, I read '百年好合' as '百年合好'. Ha.. ha.. very.. funny..

(Taken by Lyleson)

Thanks for the food, the fruit, the wine (It left a dry after taste) and beer... eh wait, technically I am entitled for them. Never mind.

And so... they live happily ever after.

Cuz Batman Can't Fly

2010-07-10T22:52:00.003+08:00

3 Point Parking

2010-07-04T12:00:00.002+08:00

Jerk Visit a Dentist

2010-06-27T15:47:00.003+08:00

Got a big cracked tooth...

I'm all with capitalism and paying for great service, still... S$240 to have that gap filled?

The cool thing is that I get to get an X-RAY (actually I got 2 X-RAY before the filling, can't help but feels like got ripped off.. oh well) that shows all my teeth.

And another funny thing is I get jabbed to have half of my mouth go numb. I don't know, but I feel like it's such a waste since it is just a filling. Maybe I'm just old fashion in the dentistry world. I mean this is the first time I get X-Ray and have my mouth numbed just for filling.

At least I get this cool x-ray of my teeth. XD

NEWS from ST: S'pore girls are more 'garang'

2010-06-20T12:50:00.008+08:00

Jun 19, 2010

S'pore girls are more 'garang'

By Cara Van Miriah

TWO recent high-profile incidents of women allegedly beating up men have got people wondering: Is this a growing trend of garang (Malay for fierce) girls going wild?

Singapore's showbusiness circle is buzzing after well-known Cantopop singer Jason Chung, 38, was reportedly beaten up last month by two young women outside Dragonfly club in St James Power Station, where he performs.

One of the women involved in the fracas is aspiring singer Foyce Le Xuan, 30, who in March claimed she had spurned veteran film-maker Jack Neo's advances after he allegedly hit on her in 2004. Although the incident happened two weeks ago, news of it emerged only recently after Chinese newspapers reported the incident on June 8.

In another public spat last year, a woman was caught on video hitting a man repeatedly in the groin with a high-heeled shoe. The video was posted on Singapore Press Holdings' online site, Stomp.

Figures released by the Subordinate Courts indicate a growing trend of abusive women. Last year, 326 applications of personal protection orders (PPOs) and domestic exclusive orders (DEOs) were filed by husbands against their wives. This is a 16 per cent spike from 2008, which saw 280 such cases. The figures exclude other applications filed against ex-wives by their former spouses.

Counsellors and psychiatrists say the spike in such cases is due to the rise of women's economic power. Dr Adrian Wang, a consultant psychiatrist at Gleneagles Medical Centre, says: 'Compared to 20 years ago, women are more vocal and assertive now. They hold powerful positions of authority and leadership these days, and it's not only socially and culturally acceptable for women to speak out, it's also politically correct.'

caravm@sph.com.sg

(LINK)

The way this article being presented is stating that being a bitch and an asshole is not only socially and culturally acceptable, it is also politically correct. Damn, somehow I felt like I always knew that to speak out also means to be a bitch / an asshole (NOT!).

So there you have it ladies and gentlemen, fuck being nice... being nice means you're not vocal and assertive... and that my friend means you ain't got what it takes to be a leader.

What you waiting for, go fuck someone up now. It's the right thing to do.

Once every 4 years

2010-06-18T01:26:00.003+08:00

Because it is a once every four years thing... more the reason to at least gamble a little.

Manga: Detective Conan

2010-06-13T22:09:00.004+08:00

It has been a long while since reading it and lately I've started rereading from the beginning cause... well, the last time I stopped reading it was like 5 years ago. Who the heck remembers that sort of stuff. And it is still in production.

So the story in 'Detective Conan' is basically a high school detective that is unfortunately shrunk back to his younger primary school self (they force feed him a drug) after he meddled too far into their business. He's hanging around with his 'girlfriend' (it's complicated) whose father is a detective for hire while trying to find the group of people that did that to him and hopefully get to go back being a high schooler. All this without letting his 'girlfriend' finding out his identity.

Now with Conan (that's his cover name) solving cases after cases by making adults around him sleep and using a voice modifier to mimic his or her voice, he or she usually will be praised for solving a case. And the father usually get the credit as he is being used the most.

Most of the murders happen around Conan wherever he goes and he usually goes with his 'girlfriend' or/and the father (I guess that is how the writer want the cases be found and solved). The inspector in the story that handles those cases even mentioned how ironic it was to have the private detective there as well.

Like all fantasies or over the top stories, there is always an urge to imagine... how would the world be if they are true. So if reality is as such.. Damn, All these criminals are fucking smart and with admirable boldness to carry out the plan with such precision. Then I think, if I'm the inspector I would without a doubt try to hire that private detective to solve all cases in existence.

Shit, if I am the inspector... I would fucking lock those three up first. I mean twice is a coincidence but dozens of times to have people dying around them? Something is definitely wrong here. But then again, lets assume that it is possible that they are just that lucky to constantly be around when it happened... damn, Japan will have death rate so alarming that in the few years time, half of the citizen will be in prison due to murder.

OK.. so it doesn't have a very good logics. But there's one thing that makes me interested enough to keep reading... there are so many ways to kill a person without getting caught. Cool shit.

Think your way to... slimness

2010-06-06T02:11:00.003+08:00

From personal experience, when I was still doing coding aka programming I always find it funny that I get hungrier than usual whenever I was doing some heavy duty programming. Meaning thinking causes hunger. And hunger deters my ability to code with swiftness. So I always code with full stomach.

Today while I was setting up my website... What fuels the brain to process thoughts? Common sense would be calories. So thanks to google, it sure seems that way.

Now that explains why I can't sleep with empty stomach.

Mind The Platform Gap

2010-05-29T00:00:00.002+08:00

Shrek 3

2010-05-24T00:47:00.003+08:00

Paid S$14 for to watch Shrek 3 in 3D... and hey what do ya know, I don't get headaches. Now come to think of it, S$14 is damn expensive.

The story is ok. but the jokes, sheesh.. just giggles. They sure lost their mojo.

After the movie I can't shake off the part of the movie about Shrek doesn't know what he had until he lost it. I heard the saying while i was 10 years old and time and time again it keeps coming up.

I'm gonna go a bit psychological here;

If we take the concept that 'we don't know what we have only until we lost it', then we really don't know we have it whether we have it or not. So when something we lost caused us grief, sadness, emptiness, etc. we usually refer to it as something of important (even just slightly).

Of course there's another way to interpret it, where we only found out what we have only when we lost something. The emotional outcome is opposite of the previous concept. Generally people don't think like this so... nvm.

Back to the initial concept, it ain't always the case cause people do fear losing something in their life. So that quote refers only to those that others presume to take that something for granted.

The basic human nature is that we weight things out in our mind to decide which is more important, valuable, desirable, likable, doable, etc. Taking things for granted is simply just that we've mistaken the weight of that somethings. Because after carrying something even of great heaviness for too long, we won't know how heavy it is until we let go of it.

Some will try to get it back and some would to learn to let go, or some would do both in that order. Taking things for granted to some extend is normal and simply just human.

Then I think... Dammit, Shrek is just too human.

During a pause in life...

2010-05-16T16:18:00.004+08:00

Was in GuangZhou for almost a week. It was an AWESOME place. LOL.

And I get to know about AirAsia a little bit more this time around. One is;

Another is that if in the case an online booking gone wrong where multiple bookings or wrong bookings being made. No refund of cash, and the best thing they can give is provide Credits... meaning your money is theirs but you can pick another flight with that the credits.

And finally I found out that if I am famous I can...

Yes... That is signatures of famous artists or someone... I asked if I can sign it but I was being brutally rejected.

And so, I made up my mind... I will become famous for... something... so I can put my signature up there.

DIY Passport Photo

2010-05-02T14:17:00.003+08:00

Used one of those instant passport-sized photo booth and realized... damn, I think I can do this myself.

The hardest part is actually when taking the picture. Can't use flash means gotta find a light source coming from the front and bright enough but not too bright.

Since I don't have white walls, I will have to use my navy blue-ish wall.

A self taken picture, using both hand holding the camera while trying to level the shoulder. And after that is photoshop-ing to meet the specifications ( ICA Guideline ). And the result;

As for printing, I got myself those A4 glossy paper;

Note: Get a better photo paper. This one is decent but just not good enough for me.

A4 measured at 210mm x 297mm.

Passport-sized photo measured at 35mm x 45mm.

So 1 row of 6 Passport-sized photos fits perfectly on an A4 sized paper. Turns out my printer's ain't as smart as it is supposed to be...

So to make it fool proof, I make it so it starts printing not at the edge of the paper. After cutting out the printout...

...

Memorial for 'America Ever Star'

2010-04-26T09:30:00.001+08:00

Have told countless souls of the story (Ya, only one) that comes with this pair of shoes. It's old ( 9 years and counting) and it's a bit dirty and it won't be long before it is to be considered rubbish. Anyway so that story about this shoes is that I wore it when I was climbing Mount Kinabalu (wiki entry).

Just in case, I'm on the left-est. And what is this wonderful shoes... Seriuosly, I feel like really wanting to advertise for them.

America Ever Star. WTF u say. Yup I don't blame u if u never heard of it cause I tried googling it, it seems it never existed. As they say, if it ain't on the internet it doesn't exists.

Seriously, I know there are hiking or mountain climbing shoes. But hey, if I can use that to climb it and make it back alive... well, I'll let you be the judge of it. Although I gotta say, my feet were in pain cause these type of shoes don't absorb shocks very well... so hiking for more than 20 hours within 2 days really can be a problem.

Even after that, the shoe is still uninjured.

Personal Best

2010-04-23T08:00:00.001+08:00

Breaking Wine Glass

2010-04-19T00:30:00.003+08:00

Breaking a mirror is said to bring seven years of bad luck. But I broke...

Troubling thing is I broke it and some of the broken pieces might still be on the bed. With best effort I manage to find 2 small pieces. Well... I'm not so sure if it's safe but one way to find out. Sweet Dreams.

Beef Burger Meat...

2010-04-15T23:34:00.003+08:00

WARNING: This may make you lose appetite.

Don't ask me why. I honestly don't know why but I bought one pack of frozen beef burger meat when I thought of adding something to my usual instant noodle feast. Yes, I could have bought hotdog meat, fish ball or even just the usual meat. But nope.

Have you boil cook a beef burger meat before? It's not pretty. I know that I can just fry it but I'm trying to eat healthy... ok ok it's because it's too troublesome. Wanna see the beef after sitting in a boiling water for 5 minute?

OK, maybe it's not THAT ugly. but then again who am I to say if it's really ugly since I'm the one who cooked it.

And yes, I ate it even though it looked like a rotten flesh submerged in water for more than 3 days and it sure lost its grease and taste. Yummy!!

My 1st DSLR

2010-04-12T09:00:00.001+08:00

Was asked about which DSLR that I have in mind of getting, and my answer was not the expected ones. I mean usually when ppl ask for opinion on what DSLR to get, Canon and Nikon are the popular choices. I can understand why... you can't go wrong with them.

Anyway I have just gotten my 1st DSLR... and it's PENTAX K-x... Reasons? Just one;

It comes in White Color!!! OMGWTFBBQ!! (Note: In SG, they have Red, White, Blue and Black)

Such beauty... who gives a fuck what it can do.

BBQ Chicken

2010-04-09T09:00:00.001+08:00

It's korean based... I say so because although there were no korean letters or phrases to be seen ( aside from baby pictures on the wall that looks like they were born in korea... I think ) they play korean songs only. And the reason I am writing this is because;

and I admit, I do taste good.

Good Friday 2010

2010-04-04T09:30:00.001+08:00

Monday Morning Wet Bus Seat

2010-03-31T09:00:00.001+08:00

The Monday morning breeze, there's something different about it. Feels like I was breathing in different air yesterday... who the fuck am I kidding.

The bus came just right on time after just waiting for a minute. And for some reason I never seems to see the same people getting on the bus as I do every weekdays' morning. Got on the bus and as I was heading towards an empty seat, I noticed that one is slightly wet as if someone spilled their drinks on it. Actually it's kinda like someone peed but then again who cares, I simply sit on the seat next to it and started reading 'How STARBUCKS Saved My Life' with only half a book left to go.

Bus halted on the next bus stop. As people got on the bus, all but one lady (wearing all black outfit and heels) goes up to the wet seat and she stood there for a second. Thinking to myself, she must have seen that it's wet and scanning for another... I was proven wrong. She sat right beside me on the wet seat.

Me: while giving her a nudge "eh, that seat was actually wet."

Lady: giving me a confused look "Oh sorry". She quickly got up. Yeah.. apologies doesn't mean what they used to.

Me: "Oops, well... seems like it's dried already. You can sit back down now."

She decided to stand without saying anything and I went back to my book. Damn, I didn't know working at STARBUCKS can be so much fun.

Fountain of Wealth

2010-03-28T17:26:00.004+08:00

Almost 3 years here and only now I know there is such a thing; Fountain of Wealth (wiki entry). Was sitting there looking over, then the water stopped pouring down. And then;

People starts to walk to the center and going round and round with their hand in the water. My friend thought that we have to buy tickets for it or get the ticket from spending certain amount on the shopping spree. I honestly have no idea... So we went to check it out.

Well... apparently it's free. And after doing it ourselves, it's kinda feels like... my wish is coming true. Oh I can see it now, how the future will unfold in my favor.

Due to that, I feel that I have no point in sticking around to watch the water-light-show that starts after that when my wish was coming true... I sure ain't gonna stick around with empty stomach.

Skytrain, that would mean...

2010-03-23T22:03:00.003+08:00

The plane just landed and as it was taxing, a girl asked the guy sitting in the middle seat something but I wasn't paying attention to it. While still staring out from the small usual plane's window, the girl raised her voice a little while tilting forward as if it is needed in order for her voice to reach across the guy in the middle and be heard by me.

Girl: Excuse me, can you tell me if we'll be landing on terminal 1 or 2?

Jerk: I have a good feeling that it is terminal 1. (I try to put my serious face on as to make it look as if I put a lot of thought into my answer)

Girl: I'm sorry? (looking confused)

Jerk: YES. TERMINAL ONE. (obviously she didn't understand the seriousness on my face)

Girl: Then can you tell me how can I go over to terminal 2?
Jerk: (For some reason the first thing that came to mind was to tell her that she can take a taxi from terminal 1 to terminal 2. Lucky her, I'm nice) They have a train that you can take to go to terminal 2.

Girl: Is that the Skytrain? So I can take the Skytrain from terminal 1 to terminal 2?

Jerk: (I paused. I looked up to the ceiling as to show her the obvious human expression that I was in some sort of deep thought) Ya, Skytrain... oh but wait, Skytrain will have to mean the train have to travel through the sky. But that train is more like traveling on the ground so I'm not sure it is actually a skytrain.

Girl: ... (She's silent and confused. The guy in the middle trying not to laugh.)

Jerk: (Seeing as she still doesn't get the drift) You better ask the stewardess or someone else.

And I turn back to my small little window... welcome back to Singapore and that means... welcome back to work.

Food Log: Teh Ming Hu

2010-03-19T20:35:00.004+08:00

2 fish balls, a few squid tentacles, and that 'kueh tiaw'-like white thing... oh and that black thing is supposed to be veggie. And we have here is an old legend dish called 'Teh Ming Hu'. No idea what it means but I know 'Hu' is fish in hokkien.

That's the great thing about small towns, classical stuffs like these don't fade as fast as stuffs in cities. Who am I kidding, it tasted OK only.

Weather: Rain Like... Just a Full Day

2010-03-15T09:30:00.001+08:00

Raining Season?