my point of view

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Post 21st thoughts

Never mind the fact that I wore the uncle-est looking shirt I've ever owned(uncle even by MY standards) to a dinner where I took photos which ends up on a present, this birthday week is really enjoyable.

Big thanks to all who remembered; I left birthday out on Facebook because there's no point in having people leaving me wishes when it's Facebook that reminded them ~~and also to give myself a reason to make myself feel less shitty for the dismal number of friends who remembered~~.

By chronological order, Big thanks to the cousins for the early and yearly meet-up; thanks to the few Bocelli people(Marcus, Amelia, Jianxuan, Nat, Samantha, Malcolm, Eunice, Fiona, Wallace) who turned up for the buffet and board games; thanks to the Rubbish guys(Delwynn, Wei Liang, Kai Quan) for bursting their wallets, and the 2/4 Clique(Chee Wee, Xiu Ming, Sin Kuan, Sin Yee, Pristine) for giving Uncle Tan so much 面子 by all(yes, ALL, wow) turning up.

I don't do shout-outs frequently so this is the special-est and rarest post you'll ever see here.

For a weird guy who usually doesn't make a big deal out of birthdays or special events, I guess I am really lucky not to be left all alone these days.

scribbled @1:56 AM;

Thursday, December 17, 2009

So go

scribbled @10:04 PM;

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The Ruling Party's Handbook on Question Answering

All characters and dialogues are fictional, any similarities to living persons or real-life scenarios are purely coincidental.

One day, in an unknown education institution,

Tina: "Mr Tan, what does recalcitrant mean?"

Mr Tan: (silence)

Tina: "Mr Tan? Did you hear what I asked? What does recalcitrant mean?

Mr Tan: "Ok Tina stop and ask me another time, we will do Maths now. Here are your test papers from last week's test and because I'm feeling happy, you will all receive bonus 5 marks! It's ok if you don't understand it, as long as you're happy you shouldn't have too much questions ok?"

Tina: "Mr Tan, then what does doctrinaire means?"

Mr Tan: (goes on about maths)

Tina: "Mr Tan, then how about 'beating around the bush'? What does it mean?"

Mr Tan: "Ok guys, please be reminded that next week there will be a History test. If you fail that test you will be forced to stay back in school everyday for revision. If you continue failing it, the school's average score will drop, it will close down and every student will have to go somewhere else and maybe die from malnutrition. Please be worried sick about that instead and forget about the other 'minor' issues."

Tina: "Ok then. I have a History question for you Mr Tan. What's the difference between Hitler's Germany and our..."

Mr Tan: "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH TINA. You are being a bitch. You already have gotten detention for general indiscipline for listing out the names of students who got kicked out of the school on your diary, have you left your manners in the dentention room? You have a dubious record therefore you cannot ask me anymore questions."

Tina: What? The dentention was meant to be a secret and the Principal promised that it will not be revealed! You're a lousy teacher! You don't answer my questions directly either!

Mr Tan: "AHA. Now the whole class can be my witnesses. All your report cards are with me so you will tell the truth and that is Tina is being rude by calling me names and starting this argument. For this, I will ban Tina from speaking in this class from now on. And Tina, if you're disenchanted with this arrangement, you can can always leave the school."

Tina: " I, but I..."

Mr Tan: "Be quiet. Now class, turn to page 264 on public policies..."

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Random story I thought of. I'm not lying, it is random.

*cough*Anway, on an entirely unrelated note, the recent spat between YPAP members and a certain outspoken S'porean on FB, which is really nothing important since the mainstream media aren't saying anything much about it, has caught my eye and I'm checking up on it! Quite interesting, you can read about it here and here.

scribbled @11:51 PM;

21 years ago, an evil spawn was conceived

I think it's the latter.

Anyway, there it goes, the 'big' 21st birthday. I think it's only 'big' because everyone thinks it is. In the end, it's just the few people who matters that remembered and bothered. Or maybe the periodical reminders from me leading up to the day itself helped.

STARS in two days! Shit.

scribbled @1:07 AM;

Monday, December 14, 2009

And I was wondering how can I blog about today

(In light of the sensitive subject discussed and the author's inherent nature of going overboard, the author has decided to practice self-censorship and all inappropriate content has been removed.)

Went down to Zsofi Bar at Little India earlier in the evening for a CS event, Unplugged, where we had our talents from WKWSCI doing acoustic performances. I've never been to the Little India station since its opening and boy, was I surprised when I alighted. There was                                                      so many                                   queueing up                   escalator!

As we made our way to the bar, passing through the streets, the number                                astounding. It's about 20 times worse than the situation at Boon Lay, I tell you,                                 flooded and                                        grass field! Seriously, I've lived in S'pore for 20 years and I never knew                    so many                                   wa lao!

Of course, me being me, I made enough racist comments to ensure karmic retribution on myself for the following year. Like for example, when                                                                                             HAHA. I'm not the only one of course. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ made their contributions to the momentary racism.

Dinner afterwards was fine but I can't take spicy stuff so it's not as fufilling for me.

And with this, begins my 4-days of activities. Will update if there's anything interesting!

scribbled @12:01 AM;

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Fashion idiot

Shopping is like abstract art, I can never understand how it's done. It's made worse by my absolute lack of fashion sense and unwillingness in leaving the house.

I resolve to get myself clothes to wear by the end of this year otherwise I'm going to start wearing the grey admin tee out.

On an unrelated note, I'm watching 海派甜心!

Taiwanese idol dramas get on my nerves for its predictable plots and certain draggy arcs but thanks to improved connection speed, I can skip the boring parts. Plus, 罗志祥 is kinda funny AT TIMES (I skip the act cute parts) and there's oh-so-cute Rainie Yang. She's the only celebrity who can act cute and not piss me off; though for the show I think she really can't look fierce enough for the part.

But it's only at the sixth episodes so I might get sick of it like I did for the previous 蒋小花 drama.

My life is really boring. Sheesh.

scribbled @1:18 PM;

Saturday, December 12, 2009

I'm awake not because I woke up early

There's lot going on in this country that I think people should know but are not being told. But I guess this probably happens anywhere. We are safe, clean and rich(relatively speaking), but at what expense? Freedom does come with a price, doesn't it?

scribbled @9:22 AM;

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Mean World Syndrome

I believe in karmic retribution; I know it exists because I've been on the receiving end of it for a very long time. And no, it's not the positive type.

I kind of like the idea of 'an eye for an eye' as well. Contrary to what most people would believe, I don't think the whole world is going to go blind because not everyone is evil and had done bad things that would cause them to suffer retribution for it.

So, as a hypothetical example, if a villain plucks out the hostage's teeth as a form of torture, he should receive the same punishment, preferably from the hostage him- or herself.

I'm having such morbid thoughts because I just watched 学警出更 and I'm mortified at Winnie's predicament. Hello she's pregnant lei, at least give her anaesthesia(shit I didn't get the spelling right at 1st try) lah. Geez I sound like an auntie already.

Somehow bad people have it easy. There's a lot of injustice around and bad guys don't seem to get what they deserve.

I should start watching happier shows.

scribbled @11:19 PM;