Irritants on the train

They encourage us to take public transports, giving tonnes of reasons why you should take public transports. Here, I give reasons to why you should not take public transports (MRTs).

Irritant number 1:
SMRT always decides to save power and turns of the lights at specific timings. You know I know, no elaboration needed, lest the law gets in the way.

Irritant number 2:
You stand near the door, waiting to alight. The door opens and even before you step out, uncles, aunties and banglahs rush in to snatch seats.

Irritant number 3:
You suddenly find your seat getting smaller. You turn your head, and find 3 (electricity saving) people sharing 2 seats.

Irritant number 4:
You feel itchy at your arm. Again you felt it. Caused by short people, especially girls/women/bitches with unkempt hair, all puffed up, and irritating.

Irritant number 5:
You see someone already leaning against the glass panel/door, and yet still wants to raise his (no her) hand to grab hold onto something. Especially irritating when its crowded.

Irritant number 6:
You hear (loud/noisy/irritating) songs you can't really identify. From handphones of irritating people.

Irritant number 7:
Leaning on the pole. No explanations needed.

Irritant number 8:
You feel the person sitting beside you moving closer to you, and closer, and closer, and closer. Hey! Stop sleeping!

Irritant number 9:
Excuse me, Excuse me, Scuse me, Kew me, *quiet* (and just squeezes his/her way through). Its still another one minute before the train reaches the next stop.

Irritant number 10:
Idiots that thinks that the train door always opens on the same side.

Irritant number ##:
Go to YouTube, you will find alot more there.

The third reply

I received a phone call this afternoon. Yes, like why I would blog about a phone call. It is not a normal phone call that you receive every now and then. It is a very special phone call. A call that was made to my hand phone. A call that lasted 10 1/2 minutes. A call that was received at around 4:30pm. A call that was received while I was playing MapleStory. A call that allows me to lengthen my post with crap.

To the point: from Ronny Tham. Of course, like he will call me for any other stuffs, One Fuckedup Retarded lecturer.

One of the few things that made me felt SO good after hearing is about him not turning up for the makeup lesson. RT claims that OFR a-p-o-l-o-g-i-s-e-s for not turning up for his makeup lesson. (Take out your foundation, mascara, lipstick, eyeshadow, ...) Although I doubt the credibility, but it would be so rare to see such arrogant person to be apologetic.

Next, I suspect RT is the same breed as OFR. He told me that after he approached OFR, OFR told him that he did not find any mistakes in his answer scheme. Like HELLO, if he had found the mistake, he wouldn't have made it in the first place. Anyway, its so long ago, I just tried my best to point out to him about the mistakes. He should understand, unless he is the, urm..., OFR breed.

I gave the in vitro fertilisation example to RT and hope that he would go tell OFR, let OFR laugh at his own stupid mistakes.

Lastly, RT said that OFR, on his part, will try to be better in his attitude towards future batches. RT also asked me if there were any specific actions that I want RT to make. However, being the kind me, I told him nothing. (Like who don't want him to be sacked?) RT assured that he would put close monitor on OFR for future students.

And that OFR must be cursing and swearing hard, for he must regret giving me that Distinction for his module. He is totally pwned.

This post doesn't need a title

Sorry for not updating for so long. Alot of people came to tell me that my posts are interesting. But, interesting things do run out. My blog is not the normal blogs you see when the blogger just go, in chronological order, from the moment he/she wakes up, to the moment he/she fall asleep. Its like, do I (the reader) even need to know all these? To add on, I've came across a blog that even goes into his dreams. 8 out of 10 posts is about his dreams. He should see a doctor for dreaming so much. [miin] or rather [myz] should know quite alot about this guy. :P

Ok, the weather has been so cold the pass few days. Yes, raining consecutively for 3 days. Now, YOU CALL THAT GLOBAL WARMING? (That's so not scientific. Whatever.) And I don't think I have anything else to say for the cold weather.

So let's move on to Sensodyne. Anyone noticed the similarity of its commercials to the Colgate commercial? If you noticed carefully, they labelled the man as 口腔卫生专家 (Oral hygiene professional), or something like that. If so, why do they portray him as a dentist? With the background enhancing his portrayal as a dentist? Then why can't they label him just as a 牙医 (Dentist)? Obviously trying to mislead the consumer right? Well, I can't do anything, but I can wonder if Sensodyne was produced using the same methods as Colgate.

How Colgate was made?

Bet you have seen the ever irritating and super lack of creativity Colgate commercial on television - Colgate Total 12 Professional Clean. Ever wondered how it was made? I wondered. I have some guesses on how it was made:

1) Take some dentist,

grind them into paste form, inject into tube.

2) Take some dentist look-a-likes,

grind them into paste form, inject into tube.

OR

3) Take some fake dentists (like those in the commercials), grind them into paste, inject into tube.

To create: Colgate Total 12 Professional Clean

with "dentist-like" ingredients.

Second reply

This is the second reply I received.

From: His (PhD) superior (Masters), Ronny Tham Quin Fai.

Thank you for your feedback.

We are now looking into the matter. I would appreciate if you could provide us with your contact number so that we could reach you regarding the matter.

Thank you.

Regards,

Ronny Tham Quin Fai
Section Head/Manager, (SP CARE)
Singapore Polytechnic

Reply

Thank you for your feedback. We have forwarded your feedback to the Director of School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering for his necessary action. We will response to you after our investigation and analysis of your feedback.

We shall see. Check back for updates.

Computer safety

I know not what some people are thinking. They happily let virus infect their computers. So many ways to get your computer infected nowadays. Well, if you read and practise what I am going to say, then your computer will stay generally safe.

Most commonly seen is the "file" people try to send through MSN Messenger. I don't understand at all why do people accept the files. Who on Earth will use complete sentences with correct punctuation and capitals (Like how I do in my blog.) to chat with you? And mind you, the file is a "whooping" 27Kb for a rar/zip file which contains pictures. Even Edison's scandal pictures are not that small in size (People/Kira reduced its size for speedier transfers and spreading.). Of course, most people got infected with this virus due to the fact that they set their MSN Messenger to automatically accept requests. So go change this option already, dumb fucks. Sorry, but I am seriously irritated in those virus messages.

One myth is that your computer gets infected with virus easily when you surf porn. This is not totally untrue, but generally you are safe while enjoying.

If you are still afraid, go install an antivirus software that runs real time. I.e. they scan continuously whilst you are using the computer. Some use Norton, some use One Care, some use AVG, some use blah blah blah, so many to choose from. But key word is a 'resident scanner'. I use Avast!, and haven had any problems till now.

Next common one (Still spreading and developing.) is the e-mail "You have been blocked". Wow, you would really wish to know who the heck in this world blocked you. You want to find out; but found virus instead. Is it really important to know who blocked you? You should know who are or are not your friends. If you need to rely on these things, then you somewhat failed being a human, go be lonely.

It doesn't take one long (not even 1 minute) to Google/Yahoo/Find/Meta/Ask/... (General: web search) anything that is suspicious. Take the previous example, just go to ANY search engine, type in 'youareblocked.com' and *you will get what I mean*. For any files/links/applications/... that are potentially harmful, got do a search. Would you rather spend less than 1 minute to search for something, or spent 1 week trying to fix that virus (and ended up formatting your hard drive). Your choice.

It doesn't take much to keep your computer safe. Take it as the whole world is trying to sabotage your computer. Keep up your awareness. And stop bugging people for remedies for your stupid mistakes. These are things you ought to know if you have an Internet connection.

The Earth

After so long of not updating my blog, my returning post is about the Earth. Read on, it’s not a boring topic, at least for me.

Do you know, the Earth has a diameter of 12753km? (That’s not interesting.)
This makes the circumference 40064km. (That’s not interesting either.)
And Earth takes 24 hours to make a complete rotation. (Fuck. It’s NOT interesting! _l_)
Therefore, all of us living near the equator are moving at up to 14m/s. (Wow. Interesting?)
Faster than how fast you see an Olympic runner runs a 100m race. (Feeling giddy?)

Let's move on to something more interesting about the Earth.

When I first saw this:



It is a 10 minute video that would probably confuse you if you don't know anything about geography. It is a video saying that the lands of the Earth fits together nicely on a smaller Earth, i.e. without the oceans. During the past hundred millions of years, the Earth expanded from a small, ocean-less globe into what it is now. Prove is how the lands are able to fit nicely, the sea beds are not as old as the land (and shows varying degrees of ages to depict how the Earth expanded), and how the trees in America and Russia are of the same kind (as they were once together).

The video also ruled out subductions. Subduction is one denser section of the Earth's crust moving towards and underneath another lighter section. This, if present, would totally make this expanding Earth theory all useless. The video mentioned that if it was true that subductions were not present, hundred years of physics theory would go down the drain as they cannot be used to explain the absence of subduction.

I thought, how the heck can Earth expand? (Interesting on how the land fits together on a smaller Earth though.) And where did all that water come from to form the oceans?

Until I read an article on National Geographic website that a huge underground "ocean" is found beneath Asia, I knew that oceans were formed through water "baked" by the Earth which escapes as volcanic gas. This process is now reversed, which explains why the moisture is found in the Earth itself.

Now, that leaves us with subduction. Subduction is proven, with evidences, and almost all scientist/geologist/geophysicist/teachers/students/presidents/monkeys agree that subduction is indeed present. However, nuclear waste disposal is banned at subduction zones. Thinking in the point of conspiracy theories, it’s banned because subduction doesn't exist at all. Subduction zones are drawn up by humans, but no subduction is actually present in these areas. It was only proven, remember? Not verified.

So, I believe that the expanding Earth theory is true, even though it’s being ruled out few tens of years back. (It’s always interesting to believe in interesting things.)

强词夺理 (To distort the right and talk speciously). Whatever. I believe in what I say.

Adding on to the "ocean" found beneath Earth, water is now going in reverse: back into the Earth. As we learnt from physics, evaporation causes cooling, Earth is loosing water, which gives a partial explanation about global warming. Less water to evaporate, less cooling.

Also, temperature changes on Mars suggests that global warming is caused partially by the Sun. But scientists claimed that it is only a small effect on the overall global warming on Earth. Heck, if the change on Mars was so obvious for people 56~400 million kilometres away from it to detect, I don't see why it shouldn't have a big effect on Earth.

People are just trying to scare others, and trying to save/make money. (By DENYING us of free plastic bags, and FORCING us to buy UGLY looking bags, which you have to REUSE like nobody's business, for a few ten cents each.

奸商s (Profiteers) indeed.

Flooding

I just found out, I can't stand (whatever that is in the post before this) to be up smack onto people's face when they come to my blog. So here, some flooding would do.



















Done.

Some Videos

I rather not have the new year.





Fucking disgrace. I don't want to be a Singaporean liao.

The letter of death

Following is the letter to Singapore Polytechnic for O.n,g F_o-o&k R$h^u (this is to prevent his name appearing up on search websites, read the red), also known as One Fuckedup Retarded lecturer.

To my ex-classmates: The letter will be sent to the Quality Service Manager. If no reply is given, it will be sent to Director MM office. Still no action, to Principal, and lastly MOE, till a reply is received.

By default, your names will be included in the letter (full name and admission number). If you do not wish your name to appear on the letter, please contact me immediately. Also, if you happen to fail Biomechanics, please do inform me straight away and I will remove your names.

Results will be released on 27 Feb and I will send the letter on 28 Feb 23:59:59:99:99:99:99:99.

Should the number of people who is willing to let his/her name appear on the letter be less than 15, NONE of the names will appear on the letter, and the letter will be sent anonymously through snail mail.

Read through the letter and inform me if you want any changes made.

And here, the letter:

Mrs Yap Siew Lay
Quality Service Manager
Singapore Polytechnic
500 Dover Road
Singapore 139651

28 February 2008

Dear Mrs Yap

FEED BACK FOR LECTURER DR O.N,G F_O-O&K R$H^U

We were a class of students being taught under Dr O.n,g F_o-o&k R$h^u for MM3330 Biomechanics in academic year 2007/08 semester 2 and would like to feed back on the teaching quality of Dr O.n,g F_o-o&k R$h^u which has not met our expectations.

We were disappointed as Dr O.n,g F_o-o&k R$h^u has shown irresponsibility and incompetency for providing quality education. He is also being suspected of marking test papers against wrong answer schemes.

During the first test, he made an official verbal statement which rendered that particular question to be unsolvable. Also, minutes before the second test, a query was made to clarify methods to solve a particular question. He showed unwillingness in clarifying doubts of students and gave a perfunctory explanation. This explanation caused a question in that test paper to result in having multiple possible answers.

He showed unwillingness to clarify doubts of students in many other cases too. We were brushed off with “Go read your notes.” and “You didn’t even try solving the question.” when queries were made. Students under him for MM1305 Engineering Materials 1 also faced this problem.

He was also irresponsible for his teaching as was shown during his last lesson for MM3330. He was talking about things not related to the module which resulted in him not being able to finish teaching the syllabus. He ended his lesson by requesting students to visit BlackBoard for tutorial answers and self learn the remaining of the chapter. However, when students tried to clarify doubts, the above mentioned problem was faced. Another scenario where he showed irresponsibility was when he had planned for a make-up lesson on 4 January 2008 which he did not turn up. No explanations or apologies were given during his next lesson.

As a professional educator, he is not expected to know everything. However, he should be expected to not provide students with incorrect information. On 19 November 2007, upon knowing that we have a test following his lesson, he kindly offered to, at his best, clarify doubts for that module as there were some similarities between the two modules. It is at which he provided two pieces of wrong information out of the few questions posted. Solutions to tutorial questions posted on the BlackBoard for MM3330 also contain multiple errors.

The impression he gave students was that he is more concerned in his research studies than in educating students. He would sometimes spend time during his lessons to speak about his research studies. He is also unreachable by students most of the time and the reason he gave was that he was busy with his research stuff.

Being a renowned educational institution, we believe Singapore Polytechnic is targeted to provide quality education to students. Singapore Polytechnic has done well so far and we believe would tackle this situation promptly to provide an even better education to students of Singapore Polytechnic. We would appreciate a reply for acknowledgement of this case *removed if sending by snail mail*.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully
Students of class DMA/EO/3C/208 (Its obviously wrong, again, to prevent it appearing on search engins.)

*admission numbers* *full names* (in admission number order)

Chinese New Year

Anyone who knows me well enough will know that I always talk about negative stuffs during festive seasons. Same goes for Chinese New Year. But since it's my race's holiday, I am going to say some, just some, good things. It’s still just any other day.

Well, happy Chinese (Lunar) new year to my fellow friends, go get more money, and stop grumbling about not having enough money. Yay.

Okay, now for the negative stuffs (Yes, its only that little of positive stuffs). People like to do or say some stuffs to signify some good things. But they don't know the hidden meanings. Here they are:


1) Action: Sticking "福" (Luck) upside down.

In Chinese (mandarin) it signifies:
Direct: "福倒" (Inverted Luck)
Meaning: "福到" (Luck come)

In my definition, it signifies:
A dead person being buried. Why?
Let's take a look at the picture below. On the left is the upright "福" and on the right is the inverted "福". Looking at the inverted as a picture rather than a word, the "一" looks like a flat surface, the base of a coffin. The "口" means "mouth" or some Chinese use it to represent a person. Now, the person is (lying) on the flat surface. "田" means field, earth. Putting these 3 things in order, you get a person lying in a coffin, and is under the earth, buried. Oh, an additional 3 blades of grass to the right!




2) Saying: 年年有余

In Chinese (mandarin) it signifies:
Leftovers every year, meaning you lack nothing, everything is more than enough.

In my definition, it signifies:
Wasteful. Although I don't quite believe that this causes the climate change (Will tell you why in another post, stay tuned), but still, its wasting. Think about the starving childrenSSS *brings in pictures of black skinny children, so often seen, it makes no more impact*.


3) Saying: 财源广近

In Chinese (mandarin) it signifies:
Fortune comes in big groups.

In my definition, it signifies:
"裁员广近", exact same pronounciation, meaning retrenchment comes in big groups.


4) Singing: 迎春花 (Scientific name: Jasminum nudiflorum)

In Chinese (mandarin) it signifies:
正月里来迎春花儿开
迎春花开人人爱
迎春花呀处处开
幸呀幸福来
幸福来呀幸福来
大地放光彩
迎春花咱们大伙儿栽
嗨嗨那胡呀胡嗨
合力培养勤灌溉

(On the month of chinese new year, "spring welcoming" flower blooms.
When the "spring welcoming" flower blooms, everyone loves it.
"Spring welcoming" flowers blooms everywhere.
The fortune, good fortune comes.
Good fortune comes, good fortune comes.
Brilliance is everywhere.
Let's pluck the "spring welcoming" flowers.
Hey hey na hu ya hu hey.
Together, we plant and irrigate hardworkingly.)

In my definition, it signifies:
(With very similiar pronunciation)
正月里来淫春花儿开
淫春花开人人哀
淫春花呀处处开
醒呀醒不来
醒不来呀醒不来
大地放棺材
淫春花咱们大伙儿栽
黑黑呀妈呀乌黑
合力培养勤灌溉

(On the month of chinese new year, *a sexually transmitted disease* blooms.
When the *STD* blooms, everyone is sad.
*STD* blooms everywhere.
Can't, can't wake up.
Can't wake up, can't wake up.
Coffins are everywhere.
Let's all get infected with the *STD*
Black black ar your mother very black (Okay this is out, but still sounds funny)
Together, we spread and mutate the *STD* hardworkingly.)


5) Action: Not sweeping the floor for the whole CNY period (15 days).

In Chinese (mandarin) it signifies:
Not sweeping away the good luck.

In my definition, it signifies:
Not sweeping away the bad luck.


6) Action: Buying lots of new year goodies (food).

In Chinese (mandarin) it signifies:
You start your year with an abundance of food.

In my definition, it signifies:
Spending hundreds to get fat and sick. These foods are fattening and "heaty".


That’s all I can recall for now. Anything else will be posted next year.

I am back!

Finally I am back. Miss me? Sure you do! If not you wouldn't have came to my blog. Yea, thanks for missing me. Do continue to miss me.

A brief update on what I did these few days. I had never played so hard ever in my life. The unofficial graduation was havoc. So many activities, and surprisingly, NONE of them was with my ex-polytechnic classmates (Wow, sounded so old).

Went directly to a chalet after the last paper, didn't sleep for that night.
Overnight mahjong for the next day, didn't sleep for the night again.
Steamboat the next night, better, but still slept late and woke early the next day.
Night safari the following night, slept late.
Blogging for tonight, finally a good sleep, I hope.

As for the details, I think I will skip. Don't want you blog readers to have an eyesore reading such a long post. I don't feel like typing them out either. But generally, it was super tiring, but fun.

Plans for the next few days is to enjoy the holidays, although it doesn’t really matter to me. So now let's just move on to a separate post to talk about the Chinese New Year.

Titleless

Tomorrow is the last paper of my polytechnic life. You are seeing this now because I will only be back after enough chaleting, mahjonging and mapling. Don't worry. It's fast.

I know some of you can't wait to preview the letter. I can't wait to celebrate my unofficial graduation too. So, WAIT. -.=

Bomb-ed Bill

Nope, I am not planning to bomb Bill Gates. I am referring to my bill, phone bill.



People may say: "Hey! Its only $68.96. What's the big deal? My bill goes up to hundreds."

Take a closer look. My previous bill was $9.23. A 7.471289274106175514626218851571 times increase. Ever seen this happening to you?


Let's make an analysis:

15.9 mins off-peak, 60.9 mins peak of talk time, total 76.8 mins.

Main contributing factor? FYP. Where the leader just likes to keep calling me, and better still, chooses to call me during peak hours. Worse still, every time without fail, he would try to find things to discuss when everything is already settled. He will go: "尔。。。还有什么啊？" (Meaning: Er... What else ah?). Which, roughly estimated, amounts to at least 15-20% of the total time. But now, FYP is over. So I won't comment anything more.

But I want to say/announce/shout something IMPORTANT: To ALL my friends out there, DO NOT call me unless ABSOLUTE necessary CAUSE I DON'T FREAKING HAVE FREE INCOMING (and caller ID too). An SMS will do better than calling.

Next, 1475 SMSes:

Wow, wow, WOW! I don't even know how I manage to achieve that. I doubt many of you out there can even break 1k. Yes, 2 people to blame. You know who you are. Do that again, and I will chop you up.

So, you are free to send me as many SMS as you like. But don't make me waste money like how my FYP leader did. Don't message crap. I am fine with going straight to the point. You don't have to spend 20 messages to express one idea.

Yea, this better don't happen again, or I will chop up whoever that is largely responsible for it.

The face

Starting deleting sequence... Initiated.


Deleting Chapter 1 : Scope of Biomechanics... Done!

Deleting Chapter 2 : Basic Anatomy Terminology... Done!

Deleting Chapter 3 : Mechanics... Done!

Deleting Chapter 4 : Strength of Materials... Done!

Deleting Chapter 5 : Bone... Done!

Deleting Chapter 6 : Tendon and Ligament... Done!

Deleting Chapter 7 : Skeletal Muscle... Done!

Deleting Chapter 8 : Musculoskeletal Statics... Done!

Deleting Chapter 9 : Musculoskeletal Dynamics... Done!

Deleting ... Failed!

Retrying... Failed!

Retrying... Done!

Deleting One Fuckedup Retarded Lecturer... Failed!

Retrying... Failed!

Retrying... Failed!

Sequence aborted... One Fuckedup Retarded Lecturer delete failed!


Error details: Unable to delete One Fuckedup Retarded Lecturer.

Possible causes: You have not sent the letter of death.

Finished FYP

FYP has finally ended following the VIVA earlier this morning. Felt so relieved, so good. SHIOK ARR!!! Machiam like recover from AIDS.

Just waiting for tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day. One Fuckedup Retarded lecturer's last test. Oh ya, some updates about this One Fuckedup Retarded lecturer. Tuesday was his last lesson. He had the whole hour to finish teaching what he didn't, which was totally sufficient. But he used at least 60% of the time to talk some shit that isn't going to benefit us for his test. Yes, he obviously knows that he can't finish teaching and yet he goes on talking crap. To add on, this was how he ended his lesson:

"*Just finish talking some crap*, can I stop now? The answers are all in the BlackBoard. Go and see yourselves. Anything don't know then come find me." How irresponsible. Know why he wants to end the lesson? Cause he always have this mindset: You can fail my module, but I must have my lunch.

Ok, and some people may argue, he offered to help if you don't understand anything, so what's the big deal? Well, let me tell you. For the past whole semester, no one in our class had successfully found him during after lessons. He is forever busy, always always always busy. So what makes you think we can find him anytime before the test?

Tomorrow is the day to get him out of our lives!!! Well, maybe not yet. There is still, the letter of death for you. Wait~~~

Aftermath: Pain 3 days, Bored 4 days

While some of you may understand my previous 2 posts, some do not. Well, that THING is my Fuck Your Pussy. If you can't see the whole word (which I suppose everybody can't), please copy and paste it somewhere else. Now, THAT is the hidden meaning behind FYP.

Anything else, that thing actually moved at the last minute. Not really well, but still, it moves; and knocks onto me. Aftermath? Pain 3 days. But still, the main point is that it moved. Full stop.

Even though its under the same heading, but they are totally not related. What followed on after that thing moves is 4 days of pure boredom. Putting it in nicer words, our project went into SPINNOVEX. But actually, its just crap wasting our time. No one came, and left exhibitors of SPCARE playing with laptops.

Whatever, its finally over. What is left is the final report, which was completed just earlier today. YAY! Thursday viva then its TOTALLY over.

The last 2 hours

Please move.

Please......

Today is the last day to salvage that thing. Please MOVE!!!

Again

Back again, with updates of the One Fuckedup Retarded lecturer.

He left us waiting for 5 hours for his lesson, where he went missing.

So expected

Please note that my previous post was written BEFORE I saw or read any news. The rubbish part was so expected. So ya...... Once every festive season.

A not-so-new year

"Hey, its the new year! My resolution for the new year is to start everything all over again! This time, BETTER!" - A very common new year resolution.

New year, everything should theoretically be new from the start of this day. Yea~ You should dump your soulmate yesterday, and find a new one today. End your life yesterday, and hope you will be reborn today.

If you have celebrated the new year eve by going to the countdown yesterday, then I guess we should meet up today and countdown to 2nd Jan 08. And 3rd Jan 08 too. Wait...... Isn't 4th Jan 08 a NEW day? We should countdown to it too. Heck. What's after the countdown? You still have to live life, continue doing things from the PREVIOUS year. And yes, have you ever noticed, each countdown you do, represents one year closer to your death.

Also, not to forget the forever available mess after these events, and then the news, and then the global warming, and then the blah blah blah~, never ending, once every festive season.

Tomorrow is the start of school (again). However, its not a new school term. Continuing from PREVIOUS year (sounds so long ago), is also the FYP, which is kind of screwed up. Also continuing from the PREVIOUS year are all the modules. Which has tests and exams scattered all over January, even eating into 1st Feb. Just spoils the CNY Feb.

Whatever, I have exactly 1 month left to finish whatever that has started 2 3/4 years ago. And I will make sure I finish it.

Griddlers

Have too much time, brain cells and eyesight to spare? Try Griddlers, where art meets logic.

Griddlers is a site with nonograms. Nonograms are picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid have to be colored or left blank according to numbers given at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture.

I have been working on a triangular puzzle (Triddler) for the past 3 days, total of 7 hours. Its amazing how this (click to enlarge):




can become this:



Great way to waste your time away.

Stacks and stacks of...

MONEY! Yea... You wish...

Since no one cares, I think i shouldn't too. Let's do something else!

What's this?:



Yea, you guessed...... Staplets.


New upcoming property: Staplets Heights



Want to live in it? Looks nice eah......


Wait, there's also a moutain beside it: Mount Staplets



Wow. Nice mountian for the hikers.


And on the other side, is the shopping centre: Staplets Trades



Looks unstable. Fret not, its certified as a safe building.


But how do you get to Staplets Trades (Sesame Street)? By the Great Staplets Bridge of course!




Note: ALL are done without glue. They are only stable under their own weight and friction.

Stay tuned for pictures of other stacks I've done!

Bye~

If no one cares, why should I? Bye~

Indigestible truth

Why do some people prefer to believe in themselves, rather than the truth?

A few days ago I was telling someone some truth, but he insisted to dismiss what I've said and to believe what he thinks. I had a hard time convincing him that what I said was the solid truth that couldn't be changed, never had, never did, and never will.

Is the truth really that hard to believe? Or is it that what I have tried to explain was just to "good" to be true? It all boils down back to trust. And only now, have I known, that I can't even convince a person whom I had known for 7 years.

Its either that the truth is too indigestible, or there was something wrong with the 7 years of fun, joy and laughter we shared.

Mean what you say

When you say something, make sure you are able to do it. Don't just say, and then do nothing.

Yes, its that One Fuckedup Retarded lecturer again, who said that he would post up our test results on the blackboard and has yet to do so.

Enough of deliberate pickings of OFR, it really is irritating (just like that chicken) to have someone say something, and then never gets it into action.

To put it in other words, its like giving false hopes. You wouldn't want false hopes right? Then don't say what you can't do, and do what you say.

Irritating

Communicating effectively

"对话要对时 也要对人"
Translated to be: "Say the right things, at the right time, to the right person".

Everyone communicates. The normal, the dumb, the deaf, the blind. Communicating may just seem to be an act of making your stand known to others; but there is much much more than that. Communicating, in this context, basically just means talking or chatting, verbally or non verbally.

For an effective communication to take place, 3 conditions must be satisfied: Saying the right thing, at the right time, and to the right person. Should any of the conditions not be met, it will not be considered as communication; even though it may seem so. 3 conditions, which would effectively be 2^3 = 8 combinations.

I don't know why, but I always have people talking to me with the wrong content or to the wrong person. I am so, totally, NOT interested in the topic, yet, they just don't want to give me peace.

Can't understand what is going on in these people's mind. They talk non stop, about a topic you hate, or would bore you, or even hurt you. They don't care, they just fucking go on and on and on. SHUT THE FUCK UP FUCKER.

Exclusive: Yusof Ishak wearing hats!!!

Probably first in Singapore, Yusof Ishak wearing hats.


Partying Yusof Ishak:




Schooling Yusof Ishak:




Yusof Ishak as Sultan:




Yusof Ishak as cowboy:




Now, let's put the quadruplets together:




Yep, all folded by me. All using only one piece of note. If you want to see the real thing, please arrange to meet me before its too late. (when I feel broke I might just spend them)

Now, only if they can smile... ...

Oh ya, forgot something:

Haste

"欲速则不达"
Translated to be: "The faster you want to complete a task, the more difficult it will be to complete."

Haste, a word often heard in MapleStory parties. Denotes a skill which allows you to move faster, thus killing monsters faster and leveling faster. Anyway, let's not talk about haste in virtual context. Let's apply it to real life.

Let me ask you. How many vehicles do you think can go pass an amber light in Singapore? The answer is (highlight it) stunningly 1 bus, 1 car and 2 lorry trucks, not a 4 lane road, but a 2 lane. I saw them really speed pass that amber light.

Is being hasty really that important? Yes, only when you are such a procrastinator *hint hint to [miin]*, and the datelines are coming. But other than that, I don't see a reason to why you should do things faster than a speed you are comfortable with. You are just giving yourself a chance to make mistakes.

However, there are somethings, which I really don't know why, approach it with or without haste, you can never get it done; at least not yet. Failures of being hasty, and never occurrences of being not hasty. When you don't rush into it, people think that its totally not important to you, and never take any actions to it. Rush into it, and others think why the heck are you so fucked up with something like this.

Life, so fucked up that you don't really know what to do.

One Fuckedup Retarded lecturer

After 3 weeks of totally being on books, I am free~~~ For the time being.

Now I want to say about One Fuckedup Retarded lecturer. Just an amplification of Mr Fuck Ruhua in Lecturers Nowadays.

Lost count of how many things he pisses me (and others) off. Let's do a count now:

1. He teaches wrong things in class.
2. His Blackboard materials information are wrong.
3. His notes contains quite a few broken English.
4. His test paper has too much questions, no one finished.
5. He marks our test paper against his wrong answers.
6. His attitude sucks.
7. He is constantly looking down on people.
8. He degrades other peoples' works when his is nowhere better.
9. He thinks his Permanent head Damage and his experience (when he is in his late 30s) is everything.
10. He makes use of our assignment to "help" him in his research.

Wow! 10... I think there are definitely more, but lets just concentrate on this 10.

1) He teaches wrong things in class.

One of the things I just can't get over with. If he don't know what something (stress-shielding) means, then don't try to act smart and end up giving a whole lot of shit which is so god damn wrong. I can't remember what he said, for I can't find any logic in what he said that could help me remember.

Still acting smart, he goes on to explain "in vitro". "Something that is happening in a dead body", he exclaimed. Oh well, I would like to see you perform an in vitro fertilisation. Nowhere, seriously nowhere on the Internet can you find a definition of "in vitro" as being in a dead body. He has his own "Permanent head Damage" dictionary, printed in Malaysia.

2) His Blackboard materials information are wrong.

"Sensors and transducers", he gave. When sensors ARE transducers. What's worse is that he has been fiddling with sensors for years.

3) His notes contains quite a few broken English.

Well, self explanatory. Had a hard time studying his notes, with all that Engrish, and all that long sentences that he always includes in almost every page you can find at least one in every page and of course he seems to like to use them without knowing that he has been typing for the past few minutes without using fullstops or commas or any other punctuation like... . and , and ? or " or : or ; and ( or ) and '. You get it.

4) His test paper has too much questions, no one finished.

First time I've heard that no one in the whole class can finish a paper. List 5 reasons, and give 3 examples. 8 points to write about. He only gives 4 marks. 100 marks paper, 200 points, 2 hours. He may be able to finish, but he can't compare himself with us. He has been doing that for don't know how many years and its only 9 weeks for us.

5) He marks our test paper against his wrong answers.

Well, I couldn't confirm this yet, but he said during our test that Qn #, ### is just a value to confuse us, there is no need to use that value for the calculation. And after the test, I questioned him why that value should not be used. He gave a reasoning that was totally wrong (I only found out it was wrong a few days later). So I suppose he has a wrong answer scheme as he gave a wrong reasoning.

6) His attitude sucks.

Well, it just sucks. See 7, 8 and 9 below.

7) He is constantly looking down on people.

From students to lecturers, from civilians to government, from Singapore to Causeway (NOTE: NOT into Malaysia), even his own boss. Constantly giving comments which, I don't deny that some are interesting, has a hidden meaning to all of them. Nothing in his eyes is good. Everything just seems to be wrong when it passes through his mind. Ah~ 1 thing that isn't wrong - anything that concerns him. See 8.

8) He degrades other peoples' works when his is nowhere better.

Lots to mention, but I just really feel like saying this to him: "Well, your markers' positional accuracy is very precise, but the shift in rotational axis in the joints are unpredictable. Looks like there is nothing you can do. Awwwwwwww. But you know what? You are just blaming the nature for the fact that you can't solve it. You are supposed to be doing a research on it. Meet problems, solve problems. *I love this* But what have you done till now? NOTHING!!!"

9) He thinks his Permanent head Damage and his experience (when he is in his late 30s) is everything.

Yes, we may have less knowledge and experience than you. But yours is not everything. Don't try to use it on anything. Having me to spot so many mistakes you make, you seriously have a problem with the piece of paper (PhD) you have.

10) He makes use of our assignment to "help" him in his research.

During our assignment briefing, this was what he said: "What you do, will, hopefully, help me in my future works." So now what? He is taking us as free labour for his R&D? Using the fact that it has a weightage in our final grades to trick us into helping you? Try something better. Of course, I won't waste my marks away just because I don't agree in what you do. But seriously, despicable.

Seriously, seriously, seriously. As a professional educator, you failed. Go back to your Malaysia, I (we) don't welcome you here. Or maybe your Malaysia also have people like me? Hmmmm. But well, people like me is due to people like you.

Rest assured, our class now won't be like what you have for the past semester. Give not even a B for the whole class? Then, I will, within ALL my means, make you give me at least an A. We will see.

Different Lives

"同人不同命"

Translated to be: "Same, we are all humans, but we have different lives".

Do you believe a person can live 2 totally different lives? I do, cause I did.

I "was" a pure engineering student. Free time, boring lessons, quick revision and easy papers. These was what I had been doing for the past 5 semesters. This semester, I am doing something different. Biology. This is how I would describe it: "Time consuming, memory work(SSSsss), library, library, library and books."

For once, I am actually able to sit in front of my computer, and the whole day was just work, assignment and report (not today of course, but if you were to not take into consideration my blog time, then yes, today is also counted). The power of biology.

Few days ago, on my way home, with 3 books, total 10.5cm thick, to be used for my reports, I walked pass a malay (for identification purpose only, not in any part racist *although those who know me well should know what kind of person am I*). I heard 2 words behind my music from my ipod. "Total Nerd", loud and clear. This just shows how stupid he (note that i used "he" and not "malays") can get.

First, he doesn't have an affinity for books. He is knowledge-less. Second, he was stupid enough to think that I can't hear what he said (which I pretended to) through my earphones. Third, maybe he was just born stupid. Whatever. And I am going back to school on Monday with 4 books :D 12 cm.

Same, we are both humans, but he lives a stupid life, I don't. Same, me, but I can live 2 different lives - that of a engineering student and that of a biology student. Although to be exact, I have 3 lives. Sounds like in a game or what.

Anyway, different people really have different lives. Which life you choose to live depends on you. Live 1, find it hectic? Why not live 2? Or choose to be like me, 3.

Choices

"人生道路千万种 唯独一道必行之"
Translated to be: "There are many different paths in life, and one must take only one path."

We make choices everyday on every smallest possible thing you can think of. You think before you make that choice, or you don't. And you will only have two outcomes - favourable or unfavourable.

For things so familiar, you don't even think before making a decision. And when the outcome is unfavourable, you only have yourself to blame. For things so important and influential, you can, need and must think before making decision. You may take awhile, few days, weeks or years to make your decision, but when it has to be decided, you have to decide.

After you make your choice on something, you could suddenly think you had just made the wrong choice. You go moody. Sleepless. Regrets. Nothing you can do, its your choice. You try to change your decision. You try to avoid the possible unfavourable outcomes that may surface. Bad? Definitely as it sounds.

Most unexpectedly, the outcome din't come as you had imagined. It may not be understood why your anticipated unfavourable outcome never appear. And you start to wonder why were you worried in the first place. That, is life. Full of unexpectency.

Still, you have to face outcomes of your own choices. Regret or not, you can't do anything to change your choice.

Make choices, don't regret, and face its outcomes; with joy or sadness. That, is making choices in life.

2012 Dec 21st Doomsday

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Lecturers nowadays...

Being lecturer specific here, a few actually, but I am not going to name them (directly). You know, lecturers (teachers) nowadays do a blog search about posts regarding them.

First on the list: The die-die-do-it-my-way lecturer.
Mr A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q U S T U V W X Y Z *name*
This lecturer, forbids you to approach a question in another way other than his. Worst of all, he demands you to use a specific coloured pen to draw a specific line on a specific page.

Second: The Oh-everything-is-so-not-going-anywhere lecturer.
Mr Fuck Ruhua
Criticize almost everything except his own works. *Blah blah blah*, results? NOTHING...... *Blah blah blah*, results? NOTHING...... *Blah blah blah*, results? NOTHING...... *Blah blah blah*, results? NOTHING...... *Blah blah blah*, results? NOTHING...... Goes on forever. Gives a 狗眼看人低feeling (look down on others).

Third: The one-week-change-once-clothing a.k.a forever-chewing-something lecturer.
Mr 令狐冲 (A character in Jin Yong's novel "Swordsman")
Always see him with the same 2 set of shirts walking around the campus; and when during the new year he appears with a new set of shirt and pants, everyone is so excited.

Fourth: The forever-having-orgasm lecturer.
Ms Sneezing
Well, according to our blackie, she sounded like she is always having the orgasm.

Fifth: The 3cm-thick-5cm-diameter-spectacles
Mr Red Lips
The nickname says it all! :D

Many more, can't recall now.

Food Hygiene

Yes, you guessed right. I am here to warn others about a (in my point of view) fucked up stall.

Singapore Polytechnic Foodcourt 4 Ban Mian

Although I frequent FC4 almost everyday, but till now, 2.735294118 years since I came into SP, I only ate from that stall 4 (or 5) times. And guess what? I am just that lucky to receive a bowl of noodles from that stall with a bug. Poor, dead, roasted, stewed and marinated bug, about 57/113 the size of the nail of your little finger (that, of course excludes people like *you know who*, who has freaking long little finger nails).

When I found the bug, I 'what the fuck'-ed and stomp back to the stall. I waved to him, pointed to him the bug and kept quiet. Then, I heard the two girls, who were waiting for their noodles, exclaimed *out of my vocabulary*-ly, :"咦~~~为什么有虫的~~~???!!! (Eeeee~~ Why got bugs one~~~???!!!)". I am not sure if they managed to finish their noodles. He apologised 4 times in total. Refunded me my money, and offer to prepare a new bowl.

The bug here is not the main focus, because eating that bowl of noodles may (would) not result in any deaths or uncomfort. But, isn't just disgusting? To find a bug in your food. Lucky for me, I was still stirring the noodles when I saw it. Imagine you only saw it until you finish your last strand of noodles. You would curse and swear (not for someone who enjoys eating bugs). Well, if for me, I wouldn't be just returning the noodles, I will call upon the NEA. I will not just keep quiet and show him the bug 'sleeping' there, I will make sure the whole FC gets to hear what I say. I will not just make do with a refund, I will make them lose their licence.

Moving on to the refund. Now, this is my main point. With his right hand holding to the bowl, passing on to my right hand, his left hand holding on to $3, trying to pass on to my left hand, below the bowl, trying to hide his act of refunding. What does this mean? What does this look like? Maybe you can't visualise the whole situation, so let me tell you, the whole scene looks like bribery. Trying to save some reputation? Fat hope! I am going to tell everyone. BlehXz. :P

And one more thing. I saw a guy, helping himself with more anchovies (ikan bilis). While caught red handed by the guy inside, his reaction was: "诶！不可以，很贵的。。。你没有付那么多钱，不要拿酱多！(Oi, very expensive, this one. You never pay so much, don't take so much.)" Come on! Anchovies expensive? Who the fuck are you trying to kid? Noodles + veges + meat + egg. Collecting $3 still not making money? Taking a few more anchovies will make you bankrupt? Don't be an ass! Pucker! (With a 'P'~~~~, as quoted from "SHH").

I have said my piece. I am not going to eat from that stall ever again, so does my friend(s). How about you?

Save the Earth(?)

Still remember the concert that stretched across 7 continents on 07/07/07? That was a call for people to "save" the Earth. And now I am blogging about "saving" the Earth.

Nope, I am not trying to "promote" "saving" the Earth, but I am here to ask :

The concert ended with rubbish, literally and figuratively.

Tons of rubbish left behind by viewers of the concert was so much helpful to "save" the Earth. Imagine the monoxides produced by incinerating them. I think the Earth liked it very much.

No doubt, the concert did awaken many people to the "importance" of "saving" the Earth, but is it enough? NO!

Its very common to see recycle bins around Singapore nowadays. However, how often do you see people using them? OR, how often do you see old people digging cans and papers from these bins for their living? OR, how often do you come across a fully filled bin; with the excess just being thrown at the sides of the bin? OR, have you ever seen them catch fire? OR, (you get what I mean).

"Save" the Earth? Great effort by the civilians and government.

Take public transport, that's the way. Yet, more and more trucks and lorries are moving around the roads of Singapore to transport building materials. Development: another great way to "save" the Earth.

If you did pay some attention while you were on the train, you would have noticed how many places are building buildings (English, weird -.=). Beyond Boon Lay Station (2 upcoming stations and a LRT system), Boon Lay station (former bus interchange), Lakeside station (Lakeshore condominium), Chinese Garden station (along the lake), Jurong East Interchange (IMM, infront of IMM, somewhere around International Business Park), Clementi station (Tradehub 21, former bus interchange), Dover station (SP), Buona Vista 'Interchange' (MRT Circleline).

Wow! All the way from beyond Boon Lay straight to Buona Vista, you have trucks, cranes, bulldozers, humans, .etc giving away 'gases'. Not to mention other places like Somerset, beyond Marina Bay (future), IR, Sentosa, any other places with MRT Circleline, future MRT Downtown line, (I can't finish mentioning them).

Again, "saving" the Earth? Great effort by the government and developers.

The importance of money, still overrules the need to save the Earth, for now, as shown by the government.

So, why waste your efforts to "save" the Earth? Only to be overpowered by developments.

Preparing for the worst

Imagine this situation: You just bought a new phone. Happy and so, stored all contacts into it, and you lost it the next day. Few hundreds of contacts gone.

Or imagine this: You calculated how much your retirement needs. Did all necessary arrangements and preparations so that you can retire. One day, after you retire, you fell ill, spent all your retirement money, you recover fully, but you are left with nothing.

These are still not the worst scenarios that can happen. Still, they are enough to make you feel like an idiot. There is nothing you can do. You can't turn back time. You can't get back to your original status for most cases. You just can't, even with money or power.

My phone almost died on me today, and the first thing I did when I reach home was to start backing up my contacts. Typing them onto a word document, name by name, alphabet by alphabet. Now, that's preparing for the worst.

Although (bad) things may not be necessary at all happening in your life, precautions still had to be made. Make sure everything had been taken care of. Imagine the worst case scenario. Make arrangements. Waste time. It's worth it. Even if your precautions never had a chance to be utilised, enjoy the satisfaction of being safe.

Crap, I feel like I am advertising for insurance companies. Whatever may be, prepare for the worst.

Adults nowadays...

Day in day out, we hear the older generations teaching us to be courteous, but do they really practice it?

Do you disturb and demand people to reply you when they are on the phone? Do you "request" to see something that someone else is reading? Apparently, older generations like to do it. That is their apprehension of courtesy.

Been to a wedding dinner recently, and these things did happen. I was obviously on the phone and busy with stuffs, but they don't seem to care. They continue talking to me and asking me questions, this and that, endlessly, as if they will never ever get another chance to talk to me. Yes, I do have two ears, but they can only work cooperatively not individually (even if they do, there is only one brain processing).

Also, while looking at the menu for the day, one of them said to me :"Is this the menu? Let me see. (and proceed to move her hand towards the menu I am holding on to)". She could well just say:"Can I have a look at it?". "Can" still sounds demanding, but still, asking; rather than just demanding it.

You have seen the older generations "disciplining" the younger generations just off the streets, many times. Some of them was necessary, while some of them were just redundant. But have you seen the older generations being ticked off when they did something un-courteous, wrong, or annoying? No. Because we were all taught to not talk to strangers. Whatever.

Just why is it that younger generations have to put off with older generation's nuisances? Just because you older generations can't get use to seeing (看不惯) something that us younger generations are doing, doesn't give you the authority to chup jit kah (poke their noses into the matter). Just because us younger generations didn't tick you older generations off, doesn't mean you are right. Its because we are avoiding trouble.

Is it not funny that the moment we voice our views (of the older generations) to them, we are being rebutted with:"Oh! How can you talk back to me? I am your older generation. I ate salt more than you ate rice. You should listen to me. You are rude."? If you do eat that much salt, you shouldn't be still alive, much more to say to discipline us. If we were rude, so are all those who "scolds" younger generations in the public. And yes, I would like to listen to you on how to use the computer, since you said so.

Not that I say that all of us younger generations are right, but when you older generations are faced with reasoning rather than "don't kaypoh/diam la/your problem arr?", you should start rethinking if the society have changed, or were you really wrong.

Generation gaps, caused by older generations being unwilling to accept modern reasoning.

Being cheated

"防人之心不可无"
Translated to be :"No one can be trusted"

Have you been cheated before?

People can be cheated in many ways - money, feelings, service, sex, or anything else. In TV serials (or real life) where there is a love polygon (almost to be considered as a circle), they cheat around. Old people get cheated with apples and oranges. Teachers get cheating students. Friends cheat each other, for fun or for ownself. Cheating, and being cheated, is everyday, everywhere, everytime, and everyone. I wouldn't believe no one has cheated or no one hasn't ever been cheated.

We cannot stop others from cheating, but we can prevent ourselves from being cheated. Trust, is the key. Do you trust everyone? No you don't. No one does. There are different levels of trust. Absolute trust, partial trust, or totally no trust at all. How many friends to you trust absolutely? How many friends do you tell everything to? For me, its only one. The more people you give trust to, the more vulnerable you are to being cheated.

How many people do you trust? That is not important. What is important is how many people do you not trust at all? Well, nobody likes to not trust someone, but we have to do it. There is nothing we can to about it. Some poeple are just ment to not be trusted. They cannot be trusted and must not be trusted. Trust them, and get cheated.

When you tell a secret to a friend, and he promised to not tell others, but went around to spread it like peanut butter, kaya, butter, jam... ... (alright, you got it already). Even this "simple" act is an act of cheating on friends. You trusted them, but it was misplaced. Unlucky. That is all that you can say. Prevention? Trust no one.

Would you give 100% trust in a relationship? In theory, you should. Idealy, you should. To have a happy relationship, you should. But, will you? Can you? I wouldn't. Maybe 99.999999999999... ..., but not 100. Just can't. You can't be sure when your other half will bluff you on (an answer for a question you are stuck on) or (when he/she gives you a surprise even though you asked what he/she is up to). Maybe that will be the only times they would not be telling the truth, but that is still equivilent to being cheated. What I am trying to say here is that, big or small, never totally trust them.

Trust.

Limits

There is a limit to everything, how true. (originally quoted from [miin])

Everything has its limits. Just like me trying to upload an 11Mb attachment onto an e-mail and triggered [miin] to come up with this. Limits are there, of course, to limit things that we do or things that can happen.

Things that are meant to be done have to be done. Like for [miin] who procrastinates her assignments again and again for the whole holiday, there is a limit to slack time, I say. Also, limits exists for the amount of assignment one is supposed to get. But unfortunately, this limit is totally different between a student and a lecturer.

Life, also has its limits. When a person has to die, that person must die.

When achieving things, we often don't know the limits we can reach. We naturally continue moving forward irregardless of whether we have reached our limits. Behind our limits could be an impassible wall, or a cliff, with the latter being the more dangerous one. Therefore, we must know our limits to prevent irreversible disasters.

Now, lets limit x to infinity... ...

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Jumping into conclusions

骑白马不一定是王子　也许是唐僧
长翅膀不一定是天使　也许是鸟人

Translated to be:
The one who rides a white horse may not be a prince. He could be Tripitaka.
The one with wings may not be an angel. He may be a bird man (jiao lang).

Sometimes, somethings are just too often seen that we jump into conclusions. That is the result of constant exposure to the same cause and effect over and over again. These exposures are beneficial, but people use them in the wrong way - jumping into conclusions.

The result of doing the same thing may not turn out to be the same. It could just be that some results appear more often than others. Take running as an example. Not everyone finishes with a better heart, some finish with a dead heart.

Even during something that can determine the life and death of someone, in a court trial, lawyers often jump into conclusions and throw back at the witness. Such acts can sometimes make complicated things easy, or make them even more complicated. Decision of life and death... ...

Jumping into conclusion is something no one should ever do. How much it affects, how positive or how negative, varies to each individual. Such acts are more dangerous than it can do good and therefore one should not jump into conclusions.

But, its the human nature to do so... ...

Small world

First, I got to know that one of my friend is staying at just the block beside me. Next, when we were taking cab back home, the driver lives in the same block as my friend.

How small can this world get? How often do you face these kind of situations? You average walk pass the same person 50 times in your whole lifetime. Scary? And you won't even know who he is.

Go take a look at you friendster. How many times have you been shocked that your friend is your friend's friend? (of course that doesn't include "oh you viewed my profile, let me add you")

Your sister's classmate's brother is your classmate?

By chance you meet your teacher in school when he was just only back to use the toilet? (he was nearby -.=)

And of course, in the ***(lets just let somebody know what I am talking about and leave some others in the dark), every time you meet people you know or had seen before. Your enemy could be your friend's good friend. Your enemy's enemy is your friend. Your friend's enemy's friend's friend is actually you. Whatever.

The world is so small that it scares me. Too many times of coincidence, just too many.

You say, isn't the world small? Or is it just that Singapore is small?

Secrets

"世间无能守之秘"
Translated to be:"No secrets in this world can be kept"

Everyone has secrets. Everyone. They are kept for a number of possible reasons:

• protecting oneself from harm,
• protecting others from harm,
• keeping your views unknown,
• preventing a disaster,
• or simply just for the fun of it.

But secrets will eventually not be secrets. The harder you try to keep them, the easier they will be exposed. Secrets are meant to be shared anyway.

Nobody can keep a secret. Secrets are hard to keep anyway. Friends drill and dig you for the secret. You blurt it out when you are drunk. Your trusted friend betray you by spreading them. You need this secret to prove your innocence. And of all, you get sick from keeping the secret(literally, or non literally).

And when the secret is exposed, you blame yourself(or others) for leaking them. You wish you could turn back time and continue keeping it. Whats done is done. It is not a secret anymore. However, if you were to settle down and think for a minute, exposed secrets are not that bad after all. You get the relief of keeping a secret. You can discuss it openly and come to a conclusion that you could never think of. Your friends can help you in any difficulties you encounter. Continue thinking and you can come up with a thousand of reasons why secrets are supposed to be made known.

Self denial? Absolutely not. To a certain extend, yes, they relief your pain for your loss of secret. But these reasons are not lies you tell yourself. They are not for self denial. These are actual benefits that can't be compared to benefits of keeping a secret in anyway. That, is how it should be.

Sometimes, outcomes of revealing a secret can be unexpected. Your crush may be having a crush on you too(what everyone hopes for), your friends ostracise you(if so, they are not fit to be your friend anyway), your parents disown you(till then, you may start to debate if your parents are really your parents), or worse of all, someone gets jailed or dies over this secret(but still, it shouldn't be kept). It will reveal how true your friends are, who are the supportive ones, and who are those that should be shunned. Painful as may be, reality. But definitely worth the truth you get.

So go ahead, tell your friends what ugly things you did, tell your crush how much you feel about them, and best of all, tell me all your secrets(evil laugh).

Enjoy Life

"人生好比被强奸 不能挣扎就好好的享受一番"
Translated to be: "Life is akin being raped. When you can't resist, enjoy."

How contradicting. An optimist first post(and heading) with a pessimist blog address. Who cares.

There are many things in life that we can't do anything about(as in, preventing it from happening). Like having a bad exam(the questions you get) resulting in bad grades, the loss of loved ones, betrayal of friends, and many other things that no one with a right mind would want it to happen. The only thing we can do is how we react to these mishaps. You can rant and complain about them for one day, one week, one year, or forever. But one thing for sure: You still can't do anything about it. It HAS happened.

Of course, you can do things to make yourself better(rantings), or to seek justice(revenge, reasoning, quarreling). In fact, these should be done and must be done. One must stand up for the unjust one has faced. When people say:"恶人自有恶报"(Translated to be:"Evil doers will eventually pay for their doings"), they are telling others that they are weak. They don't dare, and don't have the ability to seek justice. They are just waiting for others to seek justice for them.

Waiting is not an option in life(unless you are faced with the danger of being ostracised and whacked like in the case of cutting a queue). Do things when they are supposed to be done. Procrastination only ends up in traffic jams(of your own time-traffic).

Ignore people whom asks you to stop seeking justice(sounds nicer than revenge? shouldn't be called "revenge" too; that's a wrong word to use), for they are just trying to stop you from enjoying life.

Ignore people whom labels you as someone without humanity, for they are wrong. You are just acting as a reflector. Send everything back. Protect yourself.

The key to enjoying life depends on how you face your unhappiness in your life. Forgetting is not an option. Neither should it be.

Go ahead. Do what you want(leave this out when you are in army). Enjoy life the way you want it.