Is over....and life has juz begun

finally, exams over.

traveling begins.

pls mug hard for exams for those who are studying..

n for those who r working...juz too bad. =p

We are all part of an equation

Did you know that in order for those in the developed countries to continue to live that kinda lifestyle, poverty in the world have to exist. There has to be people doing that kinda jobs that nobodie wants to do. In order for some people to earn lotsa money, some will have to make do with minimum.

Doesn't that put all of us into part of the equation on earth.

The happiness of some will be built on the sufferings of others.

One's lost is another's gain.

I feel that my life is so fortunate, but there is someone out there who is born to be less fortunate so as to balance the equation.

Why should I feel happy when I know someone out there will be sad? Sigh, the world isn't fair. Nobody say it is to begin with.

Is it true that this equation really exist?

I'm sure as long as you are able to read this post, you are considered very fortunate, bcoz you are one of the 1 billion internet user in this world. I can't help but to feel disappointed in myself, bcoz so mani times, I have been taking so many things for granted, and getting upset for the little things in this world. sigh....

There was a blind girl who hated herself just because she's blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend.
He's always there for her. She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boy friend.

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and then she can see everything, including her boyfriend.
Her boyfriend asked her, "Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?"

The girl was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend is blind too, and refused to marry him.
Her boyfriend walked away in tears, and later wrote a letter to her saying, "Just take care of my eyes dear."

This is how human brain changes when the status changed.

Only few remember what life was before, and who's always been there even in the most painful situations.


LIFE IS A GIFT!

Today before you think of saying an unkind word
- Think of someone who can't speak.

Before you complain about the taste of your food
- Think of someone who has nothing to eat.

Before you complain about your husband or wife -
Think of someone who's crying out for a companion.

Today before you complain about life - Think of
someone who went too early too soon.

Before you complain about your children - Think
of someone who desires children but they're barren.

Before you argue about your dirty house, someone
didn't clean or sweep - Think of the people who are iving in the streets.

Before whining about the distance you drive -
Think of someone who walks the same distance with their feet.

And when you are tired & complain about your job
- Think of the unemployed, the disabled & those who wished they had your job.

But before you think of pointing the finger or
condemning another - Remember that not one of us
are without MISTAKE and we all answer to one LAW.

And when depressing thoughts seem to get you
down - Put a smile on your face and thank
Goodness you're alive and still around.

Life is a gift…. Live it…. Enjoy it…. Celebrate it…. And fulfill it….

CARING makes U a better person n the WORLD a better place.....

Think again

This is so funny, my mum send me this.

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An 80 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45 years old highly educated son. Suddenly a crow perched on their window.

The Father asked his Son, "What is this?"
The Son replied "It is a crow".

After a few minutes, the Father asked his Son the 2nd time, "What is this?"
The Son said "Father, I have just now told you "It's a crow".

After a little while, the old Father again asked his Son the 3rd time, What is this?"
At this time some ex-pression of irritation was felt in the Son's tone when he said to his Father with a rebuff. "It's a crow, a crow".

A little after, the Father again asked his Son the 4th time, "What is this?"
This time the Son shouted at his Father, "Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again, although I have told you so many times 'IT IS A CROW'. Are you not able to understand this?"


A little later the Father went to his room and came back with an old tattered diary, which he had maintained since his Son was born. On opening a page, he asked his Son to read that page. When the son read it, the following words were written in the diary :-

"Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa, when a crow was sitting on the window. My Son asked me 23 times what it was, and
I replied to him all 23 times that it was a Crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question again and again for 23 times. I did not at all feel irritated I rather felt affection for my innocent child".

While the little child asked him 23 times "What is this", the Father had felt no irritation in replying to the same question all 23 times and when today the Father asked his Son the same question just 4 times, the Son felt irritated and annoyed.

So.. .

If your parents attain old age, do not repulse them or look at them as a burden, but speak to them a gracious word, be cool, obedient, humble and kind to them. Be considerate to your parents.

From today say this aloud, "I want to see my parents happy forever. They have cared for me ever since I was a little child. They have always showered their selfless love on me. They crossed all mountains and valleys without seeing the storm and heat to make me a person presentable in the society today".

Say a prayer to God, "I will serve my old parents in the BEST way. I will say all good and kind words to my dear parents, no matter how they behave.

Questions

This is an add on to kaixin's entry....

Does having a 4.3 GPA makes u smart?

Does earning lotsa $$$ makes u successful?

Does spending alot of time in a relationship means u love each other alot?

Does a pretty girl/handsome guy in Ms/Mr Universe really is the best representative of the country or the universe?

Does approaching 30 means u gotta get married soon?

Does being fit makes u strong?

Another down...

In less than 24 hours I have completed 2 papers. That is some kind of feat.

Something really strike me today. While I was doing the paper, I suddenly cannot find a reason why are you taking exams? Like seriously, i know is to do a check on whether we know what we have been studying all these while. Duh, of coz i noe that logic...

what i mean is what the hell am i doing? like, i didnt prepare much, the papers is about bullshitting, questions are asking about your opinion and you can start smoking your ways. Some will say if you pay attention in class or know your work, your quality of the shit is better. But I reallie hate exams. U can flood me with project, reports and assignment but I detest exam to the core. because it is not realistic. And is like forcing u to learn ya semester well. Oh well, luckily I only left one exam this semester and one last one next semester and I will be done with it.

till now i still dun haf an idea of what I want to work as and definitely how i want my future to be. but one thing that is for sure, traveling is in my plans.

had a conversation with my fren, i was saying how cum u so zai, and he say he is not zai because he is not earning more than 10k each mth. lotsa pple deemed success as earning that kinda money? My close fren is the top student in his fac, and he is happy with his pay even though it is nt high, neither is it low la. but the fact is he clearly cherish his life n everything around him more than the stopid salary.

if given me a choice, i juz wanna work in my farm n be able to feed myself for the rest of my life. i think $$$ is either a want or a need. haha, i think i need $$$ to travel ard. but i dun necessary want it that much... sigh. hw i wish we can go bac to the past, where we dun need $$$ for anything. so shiok...

oh well, last paper on monday n holiday here i go. for the rest, mug hard n gd luck.

losing the gift...

i wonder if i have lost it...

the ability to effectively communicate!!!!

i find it increasing hard to understand people nowadays...

and i think it is very frustrating when people do not understand what you are trying to communicate to them after so many tries...argh, whats wrong man?

n i thot i so have the gift of communications, ya rite!!!

can someone please also enlighten me what is "my bad"? is this a new form of expression or was is typo...sianz.

i feel so lost...so so lost...

I feel as if my skin is the only thing keeping me from going everywhere at once.

Different way of grading...

Today I attempted my spanish exam. Well, how hard can it be considering the fact that I was given the liberty of using my dictionary. And yes, a beginner spanish exam with the aid of a dictionary.

The test wasn't exactly hard, but were things that I weren't taught before, and certainly I can't learn it myself. And dictionary didn't help me much other than understanding what the whole passage was all about.

I reluctantly submitted my paper for my prof to mark. Before he mark, he read my paper and say that it was well done, and my first reaction "how was this possible?" He then took his pen and mark my paper, and guess what, i barely passed it. It was slightly more rights than wrongs.

What surprises me was not the difficulty of the paper but rather, after he explained to me my mistakes he asked me if i want to take back the paper, and I say yes. I swear he did not even count how many right or wrong I have, and he told me my presentation result and assured me that I will get a 9/10 for overall.

Then I say, how is this possible, u mentioned 50% for presentation and 50% for finals, and judging my finals, I am not anywhere near even a 7. Then he say, his idea of an exam is not to test how much a student know but to do a self check on where he did not cover in his teachings, and will make extra effort to cover this in his next class. So the final exam is to actually to access his teachings instead of our competency. Oh my gosh, never have i gotten such funny logic, but oh well, I believe teachers are also a form of inspiration to many in lotsa ways. And this prof have definitely touch my heart, not bcoz he gave me the high grades, i dun even need like even a 7. I just need a 6 to successfully transfer this course back home.

After the exam, went out with the prof for lunch and for a couple of beer. Shared some of our views on politics (school, country, etc) and our perspective of our lives... It was an interesting 2 hours chilling, and I'm sure I will visit him again before I eventually leave Mexico.

On the other hand, my risk mgmt prof is making me hate indians from india 100 times more. Never have i been racist, but i think he is not being very kind and fair to me. Oh well, I'm sure god has his plans, come what may.

2 more exams to go...

Change of weather...

temp drop more than 6 degrees since last friday.

i thot i was sick that is why im feeling so cold.

i went to school yest, n everione is in thick clothings. as for me, im NZ-trained, so the temp is ok for me, esp when i got thermal and is sumting that they dun haf it here. so yeah!!!

nz was colder but i wonder why m i freezing to bed everynight, then i realize....there is heater when i was in nz, but there is none here....

thankfully tonite cabernet sauvignon is providing me with xtra warmth, esp when my illness is gone and tml is my last 7am lesson. hooray

1GB file sharing

For those who wants to send video or photo album to your friends via email but prove unsuccessful. Many turn to yousendit.com which allows you 100mb.

Well, 100mb can't exactly send videos, but Pando is able to provide that kinda platform for you to do more....

Surf this site and enjoy~~~

http://www.pando.com/

All of these for just a PS3?

One would think that the Holy Grail is up for sale.

The launch of gaming consoles seems to bring out a most bizarre side of human behaviour. Rarely is a product so coveted that man would be reduced to throngs of ant-like automatons, living and functioning only for one sole purpose above all else.

Last week's launch of the Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) in the US, showed just how ridiculous it could get.

Some want the product for personal enjoyment. Others simply want to sell it for a hefty profit. Whatever the case, hardcore gamers and entrepreneurs across America braved bad weather and even heckling by passer-bys, to camp out in long queues outside electronic stores. With no guarantee they would even get one.

Sony only released 400, 000 units in the US and they were snapped up in next to no time. To ward off disgruntled customers and violence, stores sent out repeated notices of limited stocks.

But the crowd kept coming in droves. Since medieval times, mob mentality has always been a potent force. Except that now, the mob wants a state-of-the-art PS3 console.

Police were called in for crowd control as stores held midnight launches across America. One man was stabbed after he tried to rob two others of the consoles they had waited 36 hours for in Sullivan Indiana.

In Englewood Ohio, masked men stole five consoles at a game store after holding up the employees at gunpoint. In Pennsylvania, a teenager gave up his console to a man with a handgun.

The madness spread elsewhere and led to other forms of violence and mayhem. Buyers have to put up with hecklers, who fire BB pellets in drive-by shootings. Elsewhere in the America, gunmen tried robbing customers.

In Hartford Connecticut, thugs shot a man who refused to give up his money.

It seems even going out to buy a PS3 console is a hazard in the US. But the crush reinforces the success of Sony's gaming technology.

Sony Computer Entertainment America, told the Associated Press that even though the company has only managed to deliver limited supplies due to production glitches, and is doing its level best to replenish stocks, the crush of people clamouring to lay their hands on the console "kind of makes all the effort worth it".

The long awaited PS3 is supposedly Sony's panacea to a string of corporate follies that saw its shares plunge and reputation marred, by faulty laptop batteries prompting worldwide recalls in the past few months.

Sony hopes that the PS3 will help maintain its market lead in consoles, a pie that is being chomped away by rivals Microsoft and come-back hopeful, Nintendo.

The hype and insanity that its latest console has sparked looks like it might have just struck gold again.

CAn you believe this? it is not even like they are rushing for some survival products. what is the world coming to... or is it only americans?

Adventure begins on 27th Nov

Yesterday I tok to my prof and he allowed me to take my spanish test on Friday. I have one paper on Sat and one more on Mon, and thats the end of the skol for me.

I think I'm really blessed bcoz official lessons only end next week and exams officially ends on the 22nd Dec, and i already finish skol on the 27th nov. I think i made all exchange students here in ITAM jealous big time. All tried to change the exam dates but was futile, so the bulk of them have to stay in mex still 22nd. Dun worrie guys, i will njoy and party hard for you guys.

Now that I have turn in all my term papers, I'm just afraid they will throw the paper back at me and tell me to improve on it. I mean, it is pretty ridiculous, because I have already edited once, so they better stop harassing me.

And as for exams, hmm, i think i have already passed all my courses, but I just have to make sure I pass the finals so that overall will be a pass for me, and getting a pass for all is not exactly hard, so these few days I have been having movie marathons, it was so so good. :)

And I'm so looking forward to my adventure on which begin on 27th nov which will take me round half of central america. woohoo... I will be going with Damian from swizz for this trip, and he will have to rush back half way for his exams, at least he is accompanying me for the most dangerous part of the trip. So no sweat....

So dun think I will blog much, unless I have got internet or super free which i doubt so. if not, juz drop me a mail at my gmail yah? Take care all, n for those who will be having exams, my heart feels for you and I promise to enjoy the max for you guys. *hugz*

Cute pix

12 or 13?

Look at the picture below. Count the number of men that appear, wait for about 5 seconds and when it changes count the number of men again.

How is this possible?

Do you really think there is only one perfect mate?

Well then how can you be certain to find them? And if you do find them, are they really the one for you or do you only think they are? And what happens if the person you're supposed to be with never appears, or, or she does, but you're too distracted to notice?

Then let's say God puts two people on Earth and they are lucky enough to find one another. But one of them gets hit by lightning. Well then what? Is that it? Or, perchance, you meet someone new and marry all over again. Is that the lady you're supposed to be with or was it the first? And if so, when the two of them were walking side by side were they both the one for you and you just happened to meet the first one first or, was the second one supposed to be first? And is everything just chance or are some things meant to be?

Bonus is coming....

Like I mention in my earlier blog...u will know govt bonus is coming when....

Singapore's growth raised to 7.5 % to 8% for 2006
The upward revision from the earlier forecast of 6.5 to 7.5 per cent is on the back of continuing economic improvement, even though the economy grew at an annual rate of 5.7 per cent in Q3, below expectations.

So now all our minister is gonna get pay 20 times more than the US president...lol

Democratic Society?

"I applaud a society where people are free to express their opinion," he said at a joint news conference at the Bogor Palace, a graceful presidential retreat surrounded by vast gardens. "People protest. That is a good sign of a healthy society." - George Bush

I wonder why he didn't say this to Singapore.

Impact of the 7% GST Hike

Example 1 (Middle Class)
In 2006, if after rebates etc and your net taxable income is $60,000, the income tax you need to pay is $2,700 (8.75%). If you spend $800 a month on needed goods and services, the GST paid for 5% will be $480 Total=$3,180 in Tax paid.

In 2007, if after rebates etc and your net taxable income is $60,000, the income tax you need to pay is $2,600 (8.50%). If you spend $800 a month on needed goods and services, the GST paid for 7% will be $672 Total=$3,272 in Tax paid.

From $3,180 to $3,272, the effective increase is 2.89%.

Example 2 (Lower Class)
In 2006, if after rebates etc and your net taxable income is $400,000, the income tax you need to pay is $61,650 (21%). If you spend $4,000 a month on needed goods and services, the GST paid for 5% will be $2,400 Total=$64,050 in Tax paid.

In 2007, if after rebates etc and your net taxable income is $400,000, the income tax you need to pay is $58,700 (20%). If you spend $4,000 a month on needed goods and services, the GST paid for 7% will be $3,360 Total=$62,060 in Tax paid.

From $64,050 to $62,060, the effective decrease is -3.11%.

Example 3 (First Class/Elites)
In 2006, if after rebates etc and your net taxable income is $25,000, the income tax you need to pay is $187.50 (3.75%). If you spend $800 a month on needed goods and services, the GST paid for 5% will be $480 Total=$667.50 in Tax paid.

In 2007, if after rebates etc and your net taxable income is $25,000, the income tax you need to pay is $175 (3.5%). If you spend $800 a month on needed goods and services, the GST paid for 7% will be $672 Total=$847 in Tax paid.

From $667.50 to $847, the effective increase is 26.89%.

The fact is: Which part is govt trying to tell us that the rich are tax heavier? The poorer you are the more the GST is going to make you poorer

3+2+11+37.5=??? , 7+14+7+9

3 tops
2 bottoms
11 degrees in Mex City
37.5 degrees in body tempreature

hungry yet no appetite.
want to do work yet i want to sleep.
feeling hot in the inside, cold on the outside.
first time falling sick in mex...

Another..
7 days to go bcoz I will be traveling for
14 days to yucatan, belize, guatemala, chiapas, and then
7 days in LA to meet kim to stay in the dessert for a few days, follow by
9 days of endless sushi n ramen in tokyo

alvin, pang n keong
remb our date
im so lking forward to a gd meal
n a dire need of a haircut

The next chapter?

So many of my friends around me are graduating and many are feeling a strong sense of farewell. People kept telling me this is the last week 13 and this is the last presentation in this uni. haha... Well, I choose to look back for the many moments in schoool for the pass 3 years. It comes with a mixed feelings...

Made lotsa gd frenz, enemies, and lotsa people with the love-hate relationship, but at the end of the day, the one thing that I will allwaiz keep with me are the memories.... Memories of my varsity life, being happy or sad, fun or dull, love or hate, i will not deny i truly enjoy every single bit of any and every experience.

No, I have not yet starting to miss skol, despite me being away for a yr. I have so many things to look forward too... At this point of time when everyone is just waiting and njoying their "final days" in school and waiting to graduate, I'm looking forward to go bac to sko, the exact same feelings I have juz b4 i enter varsity. The feeling of excitment, the feeling of dunno-what-to-expect, the feeling of being new to the environment. and also the feeling of wanting to experience much much more.

I believe many are already closing this chapter of their life, while I'm actually having that kinda feeling same as the one u have when the examiner tells u that u left 15mins and you are just half way thru your final essay question, and you would wanna perfect it and fill it up as much as possible. I feel that Im at the bottomless pit, I just wanna to continue to experience as much as I can with the days that Im left in my varsity. I'm totally not thinking about my graduation at all, because at the end of the day, i feel that my life wont change.

Not looking for a competitive life or getting involve in a rat race. I just wish to constantly challenge myself with new experiences and making new n good frenz.... And no, I'm not moving into the next chapter, my book has no chapters, it juz goes on and on, the future is what it is build on from the past and the present is something that I cherish alot. And with this, i would like to share some of my experiences on my varsity life here....

Taken with Gan with PNE CFO on our EF interview. His house is a pennhouse in Novena. Gosh.

GLs for orientation camp when we were yr2s.Was in a community service camp for another LTB. Pict with Thomas and Sihui(sg varsity's fastest female) China B5M with my grp mates. May, Sisi n tt.
Convocation with my OBS group. Too bad now the freshman have no more OBS.
D2d 2005, a service learning proj with YRP. Kayaking in M'sia and appear in ST.
IVP for the run team as we did well....
SIF Host Fellowship Prog with my uni's Most Brilliant Student - Zing My 1st open house in varsity.
BGS grp mates...power team.
The first ever sailing expedition for my uni to Riau Islands....
LTB proj grp mates in Andrew and Grace home. We build the house behind. Not the building, but the house. This is one of my best proj grps....
Comms grp. Power team with all girls and one guy. U can see I have no choice by to wear pink too. OBS group...the most happening OBS group. My uni's Floorball team. Next year is my final IVP. sobz....
Ethics grp...another power team.
And finally, the Crew - All highly capable individuals, and it is rare to have a grp pix, well, this is the most complete pix, other than shaun who is happy playing away in sweden when we took this.

Have you changed?

Lately, I have quite a handful of serious conversations with friends, and I realized lotsa them have changed....have you?

When I say change, i mean like the general feel is all gone. I have friends who changed to be very cold, losing the human touch and alot more...all these causes the interaction to be so stale. Maybe is because of the lack of my physical prescene, which I doubt is the case, but rather, i strongly believe the environment shape them to what they are now.

Is not hard to change, and people do change. Everyone change... Is not that I want to persistently hang on to the past, but I would like to know what causes the change...
Change is imminent, but change also means destruction to lotsa stuff, though it can also means improvement to many studf as well....

But to a certain extend, I strongly believe that individuals choose to change, or is something like self-inflicted change to ensure survival and fitting into this humanic system. Most of the time, I feel the change is fake. The person actually know that he/she should not behave in this way, but they choose to do so... Well, is juz a personal thot, but i strongly believe many a times, this is true. How can one juz totally forget about who he is and what he is suppose to do.

The world is cold, the interaction between homo sapiens shld be warm...the human touch as well as the physical touch need to really be prescene. I juz pray that if people do change, they would take in consideration that other people who will b affected by their change.

At the end of the day, i strong believe in kong zi, as his saying goes, ren zhi chu, xing ben shan...all humans in general are kind pple deep within them. And overall, everyone is good...and i would want to continue to believe it this way.

Forecast of my life

I know this week will be a great week for me because I always get a very good forecast for my week ahead on weekends or mid week.

Everytime MAN U win, my week following it will be better, and everytime they win again in Mid-week, it will just make it even better. It is not too bad this season as MAN U is top of the table now with a 3 points lead infront of chelsea, so my morale and motivation level is super high in positive relation to MAN U's chart movements.

It is just how wonderful that TVAnt provide me with all LIVE MAN U matches. Matches that I will have to visit Changi V every weekend to watch or keep my pathectic livescore.com on.

Good, man u juz won the game with a rooney double dramatic fashion. yeah...and another wat to forecast me week ahead will also be that all the top clubs other than MAN U start losing every week. hahaha... evil but i like.

Basilica de Guadalupe y Angel de Indepencia

Went for a short tour in Mexico City right after my lessons yesterday. Went to the much the two places which I am dying to go and dunno where is it only until like 1 week ago. I must say visiting Basilica de Guadalupe makes my trip to Mexico complete.

Basiica de Guadalupe is a holy ground. The site is nearby the place where it is said Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in front of Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin. This site is also known as La Villa de Guadalupe.

The new Basilica is the most important religious building in Mexico. It houses the original apron of Juan Diego that shows the icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Thus it is an important pilgrimage site and is visited by several million people every year. For more information please click here.

This holy ground has more than 7 churches altogether. It is really amazing, everything that gives you the feeling of a holy ground. From the paintings to the statue and to everything. The main church is half the size of Singapore Indoor Stadium. And I saw the apron. Oh my god, it is the image of Mary that miraculously appear on the apron of Juan. It is placed in the altar and u can view it from the basement which is situated strategically under the centuary. Is just amazing....

Now I can't wait to visit Vatican and the holy lady...

Then after which, i quickly rushed to the center of the city to catch a picture of Angel of Independence. This statue is like the representation of Mexico City. Very nice, I arrive just before sunset, but too bad, in Mexico City, you hardly get to see the sun, if you see it, u can replace once in a blue moon to once in a sunny sun.

Then I realize the night scene lights in Mexico City is so similar to that of HK (my dream working destination). Plus the cold air, and the rushing traffic, it makes me miss HK so much, argh, i want to go back to HK.....

Then as I was walking to my subway, decided to prac my nite shot skill, and i thot the lightings n the walkway was quite nice....

Went for this small tour with 2 hours of sleep the night b4 plus no breakfast n lunch and it was appraoching dinner time. I was almost dead when I finally had my bite of tacos...but the tacos is juz magical. hahaha...nice and gd. I will miss the food soon in less than a month.

The story about Adam and Eve

Success is when opportunity meets preparations.

Salary

To further provide evidence for my previous entry about govt salaries...

The information if just a rough idea of how things work in SG.

Watch only if you have the time.

It is guranteed an eye-opener for many....

http://www.yeocheowtong.com/Salaries.html
http://www.singaporedemocrat.org/ministers'%20pay.html
http://www.sfdonline.org/Link%20Pages/Link%20Folders/Political%20Freedom/payraise.html

Anyone is interested in going to the govt sector now? hahaha

Good clip...

Hi guys, this is a very good clip. If you guys were to look at the lyrics, everything is so true.

Anyone heard about the political tear?? I'm still trying to get my friend to send me his thesis about the political tear. It is really interesting. WIll share when i get it, meanwhile enjoy this...

http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs12/f/2006/317/3/f/SINGAPULA.swf

Life is too short for drama & petty things, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.

having said that, i'm gonna change my tagline for life....no more live is short, play hard.

it is gonna be....

ordinary people, extraordinary life.

Sakura fascination

Oh my god, I'm so fascinated by my research my for xmas in Tokyo. There are like 1001 things to do in Japan. Even though it is supposed to be the most expensive city in the world, I managed to find lotsa decent and amusing stuff to do.

Yes, another can't wait.....

Ok, will continue searching for my info, right now, going to hit on my last paper.

May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face.
And may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars

GST increase in good, but...

Sigh, I knew it would come right after the elections. But I never expected it to be so fast. Well, GST increase is overall not a bad thing in economic sense, with the increase in government revenue, you can expect more government spending and support in other areas such as elderly benefits, 3M, infrastructure and etc.... Yeah, and also, GOVERNMENT SALARY.

My main point of this entry is not to highlight my grumblings about the increase in GST, a mere 2% increase is really not much, considering the fact that our neighbours all have higher tax rates. However, I think it will all end up in the increase in GOVERNMENT SALARY. Y so?

Well, if u guys realized, everytime towards the end of the year, government will report +ve growth, therefore, it will be justifiable for them to rec'd year end bonus. So imagine this, when u increase in taxes, and assuming that consumer spending is inelastic because of this small increase, the economy as a whole will be better off, and thus lead to the increase in govt salary.

Obviously, if the economy turn for the better, the government should be rewarded, then again, if they are all highly committed and sincerely individuals who are willing to serve the country, why should $$$ be a concern. I'm always thought that passion should be over monetary values, then why bother giving them and increase in pay.

The government always say, SG is free from corruption. I totally agree with it, but with that kinda pay the politicians get, who will wanna be corrupted. Just look at the PM's salary, it is so much higher than US pres. The govt allwaiz says, give peanuts, you get monkey. Are you trying to say that US pres is a monkey, well, maybe this is true (to a certain extend everyone think bush is one), however about the rest of us....?? Aren't we all paid peanuts, does that mean that we are all monkeys?

The best part is that the PM highlighted that the lower n middle income will not be affected, and for the higher income, they will be affected the most. Oh well, just look at it this way. The govt who will be paid bonus estimated to be 100k (trying to be conservative here), they will only be affected if they want to buy stuff, and well, with an increase in salary and bonuses, which is definitely more than 7% why would I even be worried about the 7%.

Overall, I feel the tax is a good move, the economy and the people will be able to benefit from this, and what will be a better move is the volunterism of the govt reducing their own salary, because at the end of the day, isn't the increase in taxes trying to reduce the income gap, so why dun they do a deliberate pay cut on themselves, this way, we dun need to make everyone suffer, just the "elities" will do. =p

Can u imagine that...PM of SG still earns so much more than the Pres of USA. haha, now this is the food for thought on why is this justifiable....

Good to know...

It is always good to know that there are people outside admiring you. hahaha, the following click is made by my fan club.... enjoy.

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Mad Rush

Was asking if help was needed for the presentation tml last nite, and they say no need, everything is alright. Today, when I went for meeting, everything is in a mess. I have already discount 100% of my standards, and still have to end up doing the powerpoint, because really cannot make it la. It doesn't help when my stupid risk management term paper is not any easier....argh

Enough of ranting....

Remember I was supposedly going Cuba with lotas people. Those people actually planned to go like this weekend, about 13 of them, and just last weekend, they all backed out one by one. hahaha, if I had listen to them and go later, i wouldn't even have gone to Cuba. And standard reasons, dun wanna miss skol, wanna study for exams, and no money. And that girl that was played out supposedly played me out the other time. She wanted to celebrate bdae there, this is so sad and traumatic experience for her.

Now, gonna pia my term paper oledie. Mummy is back from Vietnam, going to give me a prelude of my graduation trip. :)

How did I fall, in love, with you?

Remember when, we never needed each other
The best of friends like
Sister and Brother
We understood, we'd never be,
Alone

Those days are gone, and I want you so much
The night is long and I need your touch
Don't know what to say
I never meant to feel this way
Don't want to be
Alone tonight

chorus:
What can I do, to make you mine
Falling so hard so fast this time
What did I say, what did you do?
How did I fall in love with you?

I hear your voice
And I start to tremble
Brings back the child that, I resemble

I cannot pretend, that we can still be friends
Don't want to be,
Alone tonight

chorus:
What can I do, to make you mine
Falling so hard so fast this time
What did I say, what did you do?
How did I fall in love with you?

Bridge:
Oh I want to say this right
And it has to be tonight
Just need you to know, oh yeah

I don't want to live this life
I don't want to say goodbye
With you I wanna spend
The rest of my life

chorus:
What can I do, to make you mine
Falling so hard so fast this time
What did I say, what did you do?
How did I fall in love with you?

What can I do, to make you mine
Falling so hard so fast this time
Everything's changed, we never knew

How did I fall, in love, with you?

Spiderman 3

Oh man, i can't wait...

Dreams

I juz realized i gave up alot for my dreams. Both tangibles and intangibles. But i reckoned it is worth every shit of it man.

At least, what I strongly believed in 3 years ago, i still feel the same now.

Many times when we set off into achieving something we really want, we often neglect or give up lotsa things along the way. It is plain too obvious to go unnotice of these stuffs.... I was feeling that i may have forgo some impt stuffs along the way.... somehow, my believe have been shaken a little. thank god, i have a very clear direction of what i want the end state to be, so as of nw, there is no immediate task that i wanna achieve, as for my trip to europe, im putting it on hold for some personal reasons which i hpe to resolve asap.

Was in a deep conversation with my friend, dunno if it is deep to her anot, coz she is quite a bimbo. Was in a discussion about the things we do and for what purpose. It seems to me that she had a very clear direction of where she wanna go and what she wanna do, but she may only see ONE route in achieving her goals, when i wld assume there r more than one way to achieve it. Oh well, dun wanna stick my leg into her affair, but i think she taught me a gd lesson. Dun fixed ya mind to something only in one particular way, there are 1001 ways to do something. I'm juz so happie hw so mani tings turn out so well for me even though is not something that i planned for, and it reinforces to what my feelings are now...

Unmotivated n ill discipline

Totally wasted my day away by not doing anything fruitful. Well, fruitful is subjective anyway....
2 essay due in 2 days. As much as I so strongly believed in the theory of eventuality (ie, at the end of the day, everything will get done at its own course), but i will risk the standard of the work, but why m i bothering so much when im actually on exchange.

i juz realized that it has been a long time since i last blog, thou it is only 3 days, but i felt quite long. not that i'm lazie, n is oso nt that i haf no time, but rather, my comp is idoltically lagging and hanging that i felt so turned off to reply mails n to blog.

i haven't been procrastinating, but more like unmotivated to finish my paper, dunno why, but argh!!! i juz realized that i feel most efficient when i have entries here. y? bcoz it tkes time n effort to do all these, and know that i can blog, oso means my comp is running at super fast speed, and i wld wanna treasure this type of opportunity to mke the best out of what i haf... so yesh, mayb after this entry, i will feel so much motivated to do everything again. yes, i can do it. after this, i can start to plan for all my trips.

Updated home news...

Even though I'm at the other end of the world, my current home affair still up to date. Thanks to my trusted asiaone.com.sg and of coz my recent addiction of mr. b**** show.

Moving on, I find the recent saga abt this "elite girl" quite amusing. How such a comment from a young girl sparked out so much emtions. Take a look at the comments http://www.suchvividnothing.blogspot.com/ . Well, not that I agree or disagree with her, but I think we should just take it like a pinch of salt, why read so much into things....ren bi ren, qi si ren. Relac lah....

The next thing that I find it rather funny from mr. b**** show is about the transport minister encouraging more singaporeans to take public transport. hahaha, so wouldn't the rich and famous aka the law-makers lead by examples? hahaha....that is like stabbing himself. I believe those "up there" are of a certain intellect, such statements are pretty unnecessary and it is really stupid to say.... Luckily there is no way for people to air their views, bcoz freedom of speech is 200% impossible back home. So no worries...

I was sharing with friends and teachers here about the "system" back home. About the "democratic" society. Stating nothing more/less than the facts, and all of them are so concerned that they asked me if I like staying in SG. hahaha, that is so funny. I dun even sound sad or unhappy when describing my country to them, yet, people are feeling for me. I wonder y? Everyone is so amazed/shocked by the fact of many things bac home like NO CHEWING GUMS, DEALTH PENALTY, NO FREE SPEECH, etc....

Well growing up from there, i think everything is perfectly fine, at least we all know we are staying in peace and harmony, or at least it seem so. When was the last time u felt patriotic to your own country? how often was the patriotism natural? u can see the law-makers are doing so much to mke pple feel for the cty. all the national day songs, all with a motive of instilling a sense of patriotism. Isn't all these instilling artificial. It sounds like in times of war, u are forced, or conned to die for the cty instead of u reallie doing what u felt for.

had so many things i wanna share, but i dun wanna risk shutting dwn my blog. and all the coded words are used to prevent HITS from viewers who randomly used the search engines. So u dun see my using the cty, n etc. But I'm sure if ur one of us, u will noe wat im toking abt.

gg bac home soon....6 more weeks....

The best meat is still Human's meat

A lady from Philippines has killed many people and kept their meat on her Refrigerator She was enjoying eating human meat.

She said that she had made so many parties for her relatives & guests and gave them this human meat to eat with out their knowledge .

Her guests said that they found very good taste of this lady's cooking with out they know which type of meat she has cooked for them . Some of them didn't know that they would be her next victim. She has killed her husband too.

Later on, she was caught by the Police .

Love package

Love package finally arrives. full of noodles, all from HK, damn shiok. Half the parcel is tim tum, this is so sinful and i got ba teng. wah lau. and all these have to come on the last 20days of my stay in Mex. damn hilarious la.

10q so much abbey for the love pack. and got another mail with my skol's paper, how nice to remind me i'm gg bac to skol next yr. sigh sigh..but thx anyway.

hugs and kisses for all ya prezzies....

The bug that runs in the family

argh, pple shld juz stop saying i'm traveling too much...

my mum just came back from changmai last month and this weekend she is going to vietnam

and year end hk. wth.

doing all these without the son. tsk tsk tsk.

How can you fail when this is your dream?

It is because you are dreaming of the wrong thing.....

Breaking news

Today, the president of Mexico, el Presidente Fox visit ITAM because it is celebrating its 60 years anniversary. Something like patron's day back home. That's not the good news, the good news is class is cancelled. Woo hoo...hahaha Nobody really bothered about seeing the President, but all are happy that the class is cancelled. Yeah.

New breaking news, the republicans lost the senate to the democrats. Sorry, I think is because of my Politics class which got me so involve in this. haha. You will realized that it is almost impossible for Bush and the democrats to work together. I mean look at it this way, why would the democrats want to make things easy for bush, so in simple words, Bush is gonna have 'the time of his life' for his last 2 years of presidency. Any good things that happen, people will just say that is because the congress is doing their job, but if anything sux, Bush will get all the blame. Good luck to him.... Found this quote quite interesting and funny, so will end this post with it....

"Passions were even higher in Pakistan, where Bush is deeply unpopular despite
billions in aid and staunch support for President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. One
opposition lawmaker, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, said he welcomed the election result
but was hoping for more. Bush "deserves to be removed, put on trial and given a
Saddam-like death sentence," he said. "

Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead)

This day is also affectionately known as Halloween and it is a national holiday. It is widely celebrated by all mexicans, just like how the chinese will do for hungry ghost festival. The idea is the same, but of coz the celebrations is different, with the mexican believe that it is a good day to be happy and you get to see all the skull and ghost candies all around mexico.

Even our prof gave us some candies yesterday during class for this day. It is really a big celebration, and thus explained for the long weekend that I had last week. Oh well, it is suppose to be a thurs and fir off, but being someone who dictate my own life, i decided that the eve of all this hols shld be hols for me too, and so, I got a good getaway. woo hoo....

and now back to mugging and will be done in 20 days. omg...

Guadalajara - Copper Canyon - Chihuahua

Left on the night right after my risk management test. Veronika told me she wants to join me, so I'm not traveling alone after all. Took a night train to Guadalajara. A 7 hours bus turn out to be 10 hours. Guadalajara is the 2nd biggest city in Mexico, and is the prettiest city here. Everything is just so....colonialised. I know I use this word so much, but is really nice and peaceful, and I love the architecture. Impressive!

Have like 6 hours to cover the historical sites there. Not enough, but we made the best out of the time we have. Was like amazing race, trying to go everywhere we can. Stop at this chinese resturant, that have a buffet. Finally, some chinese food for this poor miserable soul. It was not fantastic, i spoke mandarin and cantonese to the owner, but they dun seem to understand. Funny, i thot there were chinese too. and i thot i heard mandarin or cantonese from them. oh well....

Then another mad rush to the bus terminal to catch our bus to Los Mochis, this time, we were promise a 11hours ride but it turned out to be 12. And we got a train to catch at 7am that morning, the lucky thing is the train did not leave on time, so we were safe. We met other exchange students from ITAM too. Britta, Peggy, Thomas and Merijn was there at the train station. They went traveling like 5 days before us, lucky bastards. If not for my test, i would have done the same.

The train was late and left late (what's new here in mex). The ride was promised to be one of the most scenic experience here in Mexico. It wasn't so initially, and it only became slightly better from midway. Sigh, i guess after what I have seen in NZ, nothing else seem beautiful enough. And we arrived 3 hours late at Creel. the weather there is comparable to the winter of NZ. K, i'm gonna stop making comparison to NZ. =p

Stayed in a hotel for 10USD with breakfast n dinner included, and the meal was marvellous. We got a big room to ourself for the 6 of us. What else can we ask for. =) The next day we visit the canyon. First time in my life seeing a real canyon, less the time I saw a stimulated 3D grand canyon in Sg science centre. hahaha.

Copper canyon is very very big, and there are quite a number of indegionous pple. They dun speak spanish thou. And I can totally understand why ms pek can't take good pictures in the Canyon. Oh well, after a few trying out, i figured out the trick of taking pics in the canyon. Bcoz of the radiance from the sun, it causes blur in the photos, so u must adjust light, n position, too much technical stuff to go into, but overall, the canyon is amazing, and this make me wanna go to grand canyon even more.

The holland guys are trying to be gay with me for the 2 nites. tsk tsk tsk. And I'm impressed that they all know how to play dai dee, and I played with them, it is so shiok to play with ang mohs dai dee. coz they r so funny. but it was fun.....they are impressed with dai dee when they visited beijing and see pple enjoyed playing it so much. they call it the chinese poker. hahaha.

Then another mad rush in the morning to catch a bus to chihuahua. Chihuahua has too much northern influence. It is like a spanlish state. With lotsa american influence. Nothing really much is happening there, other than lotsa Chihuahua dogs statue around. And yes, the dog name chihuahua was named after this state because it was first found here.

And after that, we sat thru 17hours of bus ride back to DF. Yeah, i know, so many bus ride, I'm like a pro in many sleeping positions on the bus. haha. Look at the distance i covered in the whole of Mexico. hahaha. Impressive eh?

All pictures for this trip is uploaded. Coppoer Canyon pictures is a must look. Next stop will be Yucatan, Belize, Guatemala and Chipas b4 i hate to LA and then Tokyo. Alright, that all amigos, will see u guyz back at home in 2007.

Say You Love Me

Don't you know that I want to be more than just your friend
Holdin' hands is fine, but I've got better things on my mind
You know it could happen if you'd only see me in a different light
Maybe when we finally get together, you will see that I was right

Say you love me
You know that it could be nice
If you'd only say you love me
Don't treat me like I was lice, ooh, woo, woo

Please love me
I'll be yours and you'll be mine
If you'd only say you love me, baby
Things would really work out fine

Don't you know that I want to be more than just your friend
Holdin' hands is fine, but I've got better things on my mind
You know it could happen if you'd only see me in a different light
Maybe when we finally get together, you will see that I was right

Say you love me
You know that it could be nice
If you'd only say you love me
Don't treat me like I was lice, ooh, woo, woo

Please love me
I'll be yours and you'll be mine
If you'd only say you love me, darlin'
Things would really work out fine

Say that you love me
Mmm...mmm...ooh...ho...ho...
Say that you love me
Mmm...mmm...mmm...

Hoo...hoo...baby
Would you say you love me
You know that it could be nice
If you'd only say you love me
Don't treat me like I was lice, ooh, woo, woo

Please love me
I'll be yours and you'll be mine
If you'd only say you love me, baby
Things would really work out fine

If you'd only say you love me, darlin'
Things would really work out fine
If you'd only say you love me, darlin'
Things would really work out fine

Pretty prisoner and prison caretaker

A pretty woman was serving a life sentence in prison.
Angry and resentful about her situation, she had decided that she would rather die than to live another year in prison.
Over the years she had become good friends with one of the prison caretakers.

His job, among others, was to bury those prisoners who died in a graveyard just outside the prison walls.
When a prisoner died, the caretaker rang a bell, which was heard by everyone.
The caretaker then got the body and put it in a casket.

Next, he entered his office to fill out the death certificate before returning to the casket to nail the lid shut.
Finally, he put the casket on a wagon to take it to the graveyard and bury it.

Knowing this routine, the woman devised an escape plan and shared it with the caretaker.
The next time the bell rang, the woman would leave her cell and sneak into the dark room where the coffins were kept.

She would slip into the coffin with the dead body while the caretaker was filling out the death certificate.
When the care-taker returned, he would nail the lid shut and take the coffin outside the prison with the woman in the coffin along with the dead body.
He would then bury the coffin.

The woman knew there would be enough air for her to breathe until later in the evening when the caretaker would return to the graveyard under the cover of darkness, dig up the coffin, open it, and set her free.

The caretaker was reluctant to go along with this plan, but since he and the woman had become good friends over the years, he agreed to do it.
The woman waited several weeks before some-one in the prison died.

She was asleep in her cell when she heard the death bell ring. She got up, picked the lock of her cell, and slowly walked down the hallway.
She was nearly caught a couple of times. Her heart was beating fast.

She opened the door to the darkened room where the coffins were kept.
Quietly in the dark, she found the coffin that contained the dead body, carefully climbed into the coffin and pulled the lid shut to wait for the caretaker to come and nail the lid shut.

Soon she heard footsteps and the pounding of the hammer and nails.
Even though she was very uncomfortable in the coffin with the dead body, she knew that with each nail she was one step closer to freedom.

The coffin was lifted onto the wagon and taken outside to the graveyard.
She could feel the coffin being lowered into the ground. She didn't make a sound as the coffin hit the bottom of the grave with a thud.

Finally she heard the dirt dropping onto the top of the wooden coffin, and she knew that it was only a matter of time until she would be free at last.
After several minutes of absolute silence, she began to laugh. She was free! She was free!

Feeling curious, she decided to light a match to find out the identity of the dead prisoner beside her.
To her horror, she discovered that she was lying next to the dead caretaker.

Many people believe they have life all figured out..... but sometimes it just doesn't turn out the way they planned it.

lucky lucky lucky

if there is a time i need luck, this is the time. came at the right time, and i thank god. muacks.

Last time u feel Great and now u feel like shit

Have you ever wondered how does it feels like being 'not there'. Can't actually really describe it, but I have always wondered how does it feels last time when you totally cannot make it.

Was like almost brillant for maths in sec skol n JC. Treated like the gods, then I allwaiz wondered how come is so hard for others to understand Maths. Then now, i totally realized, haha, especially when I'm taking my finance in spanish, i realize is not hard not to understand and the feeling is indeed frustrating. Not that I nv try, but I guess the stupid language barrier is kicking in. hahaha...

Last time when I was in army, I always wonder, how is it possible for me not to run under 9.30, not I even have problems running under 11mins.

All these tell me that u cannot be the best for long, and unless u made a deliberate effort to stay up there, u nv will. I shld just stop taking things for granted and continue to where I left off...I totally hate this feeling of knowing that I can do it but yet I am so ill-discipline to maintain it. The feeling sux...really suxxxxx.....