[Pubic hair hair...]
I was on the bus yesterday and I didn't manage to get a seat. So I stood. Duh. Anyway, I stood facing this old woman. And then I realised something.
You know how old women like to perm their hair? I don't know why they do, it looks like shit. In any case, you probably won't notice it if they still had a full head of hair, but if their hair was thinning, then it's very obvious.
Perming their hair to give them the "afro-look" essentially makes the hair on their heads look like pubic hair. I kid you not. Take a look next time. I know not all perms will result in the pubic hair type of...hair. I don't know the different names for the different types of perms (they are all shit anyway...sorry if your mum or grandmother has such perms, that's just how I feel).
I tried taking a picture but my phone could not capture the texture of the hair on the old woman in front of me. Trust me, if you saw what I saw, you'd agree with me.
[Fashion disasters...]
Today's the first day of Chinese New Year. I used to love CNY as a kid. Lots of goodies to eat and ang-pows to collect. Then, as the years passed, I grew up and got sick of it. Same shit every year. Fake smiles and meaningless conversations. But I still looked forward to it, somewhat, because of the ang-pows. Now that I'm working, I no longer care about the ang-pows and so it's basically lost all meaning.
I came across some WTF stuff today while I was out visiting relatives.
The visual impact of the scene above could not be captured properly in a photo. What we have here is a group of (probably) foreign workers crowding around an ATM. Only one of them was withdrawing cash. Where in the world would you find a scene like this? It seemed funny at the time...I thought they could be saying, "We need to get a machine like this for our village. We'll never run out of money!" Hahahaha!
I don't know why people dress this way:
Do they think it's cool? It's not. Only douche-bags dress this way. Do you not know how buttons work?
Next, we have this joker:
Red skinny jeans with pink shoes. Seriously, what the fuck? Skinny jeans on guys are gay as it is, and he's gone one better by wearing them in red. With pink shoes! Pink!
To top it off, he was blasting some stupid songs on his mobile phone. But when he needed to make a call...
He had to use a public phone. Blast music on your mobile, and call people on a public phone. People like this should be shot. Our gene pool's murky enough as it is...For the sake of mankind, he should not be allowed to reproduce and pass on his obviously-defective genes.
[Free petrol...]
I've been hearing this promo on Class 95 for the past few days and I just don't get it.
Basically, there's some contest or something going on and you can win free petrol. They interviewed the people who won. The typical I'm-so-happy stuff. Except for the last guy. He said something along the lines of, "I glad that they are giving petrol vouchers instead of cash because I am having my wedding next year."
I don't get it. Is he planning to serve petrol at his wedding or something? What has winning free petrol got to do with his wedding?
[Shorts...]
I'm kinda rushed for time, but have lots to say. I'll make it brief:
I don't know about you, but as a football fan, I find that own-goals are hilarious. Of course, if it happened to the team you're supporting...not so funny.
Well, the men-in-white have scored yet another own-goal. These are comments made by MP Charles Chong regarding the recent civil-servant-spent-insane-amount-of-his-own-money-attending-a-cooking-course-in-France-instead-of-at-his-own-CC:
"Maybe it made lesser mortals envious and they thought maybe he was a little boastful," he said. "Would people have taken offense if his wife (a senior investment counsellor at a bank) had paid for everything?"
This is not about the civil servant, who as far as I'm concerned, is simply guilty by association. This is about the comment made by Charles Chong.
Lesser mortals, indeed.
Isn't it nice to know how we stand in the eyes of this guy? The dumbass people who voted for him are "lesser mortals" in his eyes.
It's scary how much someone can find out about you just by typing your name in Google. I just did it to someone and now I'm worried that I might slip up in conversation and make reference to something that I wasn't told but found out via said-someone's blog.
It's official. I'm full of nonsense. Testified by three colleagues. One of whom had coffee coming out of her nose from reading the stuff I wrote on work-MSN.
[Random stuff...]
You'll never guess what I saw today.
Cows! At a common area near my place. There were goats too, but I did not get any photos of them.
They were there for some sort of Indian festival. Not too sure what it was.
Cats never cease to amaze me. This one probably got there from the corridor ledge on the left, so that's not too unusual. But I've often seen cats on the 2nd storey balcony ledge of the block of flats opposite mine. I have no idea how they got there. It's gotta be quite a trick.
I think it's a good idea to have some cats running around. I saw another rat in the drain today below my block. More cats, please!
I've been meaning to blog about this for a while, but every time I passed by this sign, I did not have my camera phone with me.
After the lift upgrading programme, they installed new signs around the lift areas. The one for my block made sense. The one for this block, on the other hand...
...made no sense.
This has got to be the world's most useless "you are here" sign. Practically no information.
[Perspective...]
Those who know me, know that I'm not a religious person. Nothing against anyone who is; but I'm just not. However, I do believe that there are some sort of "checks and balances" in life. Some call it fate, some call it destiny, some call it lady luck. It goes by many names. For me, I see it whenever I encounter something that puts whatever problem I was facing into perspective - my problems are really not that big.
When I came home after work on Tuesday, my rig wouldn't start. After some fiddling around, which luckily did not take too long, I realised that my display card was dead. This display card will be the death of me. I bought it about one year ago and got it exchanged after a month because something on the card fried. After a year, it died completely. It's still covered by warranty but I'm not sure if I would go get it fixed.
I did not get much sleep throughout the night. I was too preoccupied with what to do with my rig. I needed a bigger hard disk as it is, should I get a new one with a new display card? How about a brand new monitor? I've been meaning to get a new one too (I'm still on a 4:3 LCD). But in order to get a new monitor, I need to change my table, etc etc.
On Wednesday morning, I was still considering my options. Money is an issue, since most of my pay-check every month goes into servicing my school loans. I don't have a lot left at the end of most months. On months with extra expenditures, I actually end up in the red. Time is another. If I were to do a semi-major upgrade, I would need to reinstall the OS, applications and do a whole bunch of other stuff. That would take me maybe two to three days? I could take leave...But the idea of going through all that trouble just doesn't make me feel very enthusiastic.
I was still wrestling with the decision on the bus to work yesterday morning. I was seated on one of those facing-each-other seats. The bus was packed. I was trying to take a nap but my brain wouldn't let me. I heard the woman in the seat opposite mine take a call on her mobile and she said, "He/She left already?" She spoke in Chinese, hence I didn't know whether was she referring to a male or female person.
Doesn't sound like anything, does it? I never thought much about it. Until the next time my eyes drifted over to her face.
Her nose was red and she was wiping tears from her eyes. She was crying, not bawling or anything, but it was really obvious. I immediately realised what had happened. When she alighted at NUH and rushed all the way across the overhead bridge more or less confirmed what I thought.
I didn't know that woman, nor the person she was referring to. But my frustrations towards my current computer problems vanished in an instant. It's really not that big a deal, compared to what some people are dealing with in their lives.
Anyway, after doing some research and looking at the SLS pricelists, I've weighed the options and decide to use on-board display for the time being. It sucks, the colour's off for some websites and I can't play any games that require 3D acceleration (read: all good games), but I can live with it. I plan to get a new table for my room sometime in the middle of the year and I would do a major overhaul of my current rig at the end of 2009.
[I didn't see the queue...]
I was at the coffee-shop earlier buying chicken rice. This particular chicken rice stall has been operating at the coffee-shop for ages. A lot of other stalls have come and gone, but this stall stood the test of time because their chicken rice is absolutely delicious.
In the past, they did not have any "crowd control" measures and people would just mill around the stall and shout their orders. It was really chaotic. Now they've implemented a queue. As we all know, Singaporeans love to queue. Show them a long queue, they will definitely join it. Sometimes, they don't even know what they are queuing for. "The queue is long, so whatever they are selling must be good!"
Anyway, this auntie came along and went straight to the head of the queue, gave her order and said she'll be back later to collect. When she did, the stall assistant said that her order's not done yet and that there's a queue.
This stupid auntie had the cheek to say, "Oh, I didn't see the queue."
You didn't see the fuckin' queue?
Are you freakin' kidding me?
This is the reason why I don't like giving up seats on the bus or MRT to people who fall in the auntie/uncle demographics. They are probably the most inconsiderate group of people in society. They would squeeze their way from the front of a packed bus all the way to the last row just so they could squeeze their huge asses into the last row of seats (there are five seats in the last row, but realistically, it sits only four). They would think nothing of putting their bags on the seats next to them, depriving others of a seat. They talk loudly, smell bad and use too much medicated oil. They expect others to give their seats up to them just because they have a purple EZ-Link card (stole this from Keith). They would think nothing of stepping off the pavement and right in front of you just so they could get on the bus first when it arrives at a bus-stop (I meet this uncle sometimes in the morning when I go to work and he always does this; I can't wait for the day when one of the wheels of the bus goes over this foot...I'll shake the bus driver's hand, give him my name-card and offer to be his witness that he did nothing wrong and the uncle with the crushed foot had it coming because he was such a douchebag).
I just realised that I started the above post talking about queuing up for chicken rice to complaining about public transport.
Public transport is uncivilised. Anyone who thinks otherwise has been brainwashed by the MIW going on and on about our "world-class public transport system". If it's so good, why aren't they using it?
I believe it was yesterday morning...I was looking at ST Online in the morning and an article was posted about PM Lee saying that our CPF system has worked well. Later in the afternoon, another article was posted. It was about a survey done in Asia-Pacific regarding pension plans. We were rated the lowest. And yes, the people who did the survey counted CPF as pension.
I wonder if anyone else saw the irony. I thought it was hilarious.
I did not read both articles thoroughly, but to be fair, the people who did the survey did not count the money in the ordinary account as pension for old age and only considered the money in the special account, which was 13+% returns or something like that. If they combined the amount in both the ordinary and special accounts, it would be 82+%.
I haven't had time to follow the developments in the entertainment industry's attempts to sue Internet users into adhering to their old business models - the ones that existed and worked before the Internet came along. An article on ST Online was published on Thursday about this issue which I thought was interesting because "intellectual property" experts have finally said what academics and industry watchers/commentators have been saying for years - Copy protection doesn't work and the entertainment industry needs to adapt and change.
[2009...]
So this is what 2009 feels like. First working day of 2009 and I'm on leave. Could be worse...I could be sitting at my cubicle at work right now with nothing to do. December is always slow at work. Some colleagues don't turn up for an entire month. Not kidding. They have that much leave.
The first half of 2008 was not that good for me. Filled with uncertainties and unknowns and I was venturing into uncharted waters. Second half was good. It's not perfect, but then again, nothing is. I can't complain. There's always some concerns before and during change. When it is all over, one would probably realise that it's not that bad.
I have two personal resolutions I would like to accomplish in 2009. Actually, they are resolutions left-over from previous years. Oh well...Sometimes it takes longer than you would think to get some things done. The silver lining is that I actually have more time to try and get these things done now than when I was still studying.
My cousin got married yesterday. The banquet is today. I think it's getting more popular to schedule your wedding over two days. Less of a rush and the couple could spend more time on the details. In any case, it was the first church wedding I've attended. It was interesting....But personally, I'm not a fan of wedding ceremonies or traditions. I don't think it serves much practical purpose and the cost of everything can easily pay for the renovation of a new flat - twice.
Broken for now. :( If anyone knows of a good way to display tweets without using Twitter's awful looking widgets, please let me know. Preferably something that allows me to retrieve my tweets in plain-text format.
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