まだまだ夢は覚めないで
この道の向こう何が待ってるだろう
きっときっと答えはあるから
諦めきれない立ち止まれないんだ

でも後ろ髪引くあと少しだけでも
その柔らかな笑顔の隣に居たいけれど

真っ直ぐに駆け出す晴れ渡る青空が眩しい
追い風に煽られ新しい旅が始まる
いつかまた会えるよ振り返らずに明日へ向かうよ
GOOD LUCK MY WAY　信じる道へ

あちこち駆けずり回って
叩き込めないと答えは出ないみたい
きっときっと後悔しないで
笑い合えるよ進み続けるんだ

ほらもう怖くない 明日何が起こっても
乗り越えられそうここまで躓けまくったから

移り行く世界の片隅で君に会えて嬉しい
溢れそうな思いを言葉に出来なかったよ
いつかまた会えたら　もっと上手く伝えられるかな
GOOD LUCK MY WAY　微笑みかけて

真っ直ぐに駆け出す　晴れ渡る青空が眩しい
追い風に煽られ　新しい旅が始まる
いつかまた会えるよ　振り返らずに明日へ向かうよ

GOOD LUCK MY WAY　SMILE AT ME

移り行く世界の片隅で君に会えて嬉しい
溢れそうな思いを言葉に出来なかったよ
いつかまた会えたら　もっと上手く伝えられるかな
遥かな虹を越えて
GOOD LUCK MY WAY　信じる道へ

Recently I've been,
Hopelessly reaching
Out for this girl,
Who's out of this world.
Believe me.

Goodbye blogger?

If you think people are keeping secrets from you or avoiding you...





Shamrock(2007) - UVERworld




I wanna express it, but
Keep the horsepower to the max
I've gotten here
surely 'cause you were there
I'm still fighting
your words become my provision,
so I'll keep running, keep running



So never leave my side

And a barbecue to conclude this tired week.


Finished at 1pm today after finding out there's differential equations after definite integrals. My poor heart. Argh. But all was well after I rushed down to Far east plaza to have some carls' jr. Mmmmm mmmm goodness. Saw some of the mostly-nanhuarian biology NJC class.


Was really gluttony today, like, people can attest to my meals today

1. Yong Tau Foo - (with rice!)
2. Lucky Star with cheese and extra pickles!
3. BBQ! YEAH.

Oh gosh, its high time I gained a few kg man.

ahma won 4D so I got some of the booty, hehe.


I was thinking about how fast JC life has passed.
And then I thought about the date, 28th august.

Yeah like, 28th? FoP was just a month ago! It felt like forever. Like, seriously forever. Im talking a few months-ish kind of forever. Midyear was 2 months ago. Woweee. Not that it helps me any better in promo preparation.

Neither does watching a crap load of Japanese movies, and playing King of Fighters, and sleeping later and later each day.


Confession : I took one of my spare attendance slip papers and began to realistically mark out the classmates who might retain next year. I felt so bad after doing that, that I started to have visions of myself screwing up the GP promos. Ahhh, penitence, penitence.


I forgot about the 2nd type of person that was starting to show up and get on my nerves.

2 kind of people that tick me off lately


1. People who say "Cute = Ugly but adorable"

Hello? Some asswipe decided to write that in a chain e-mail so his definition is all-of-a-sudden correct? These people are plain annoying when they think they're so smart when they go "Ohhh, that's cute ah? But cute is ugly but adorable lehhh". Cute is cute. Proof?

From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary. (Yes that's right, Cyanide and happiness fans. Merriam as in the length between a man's foreskin and rectum)

• Main Entry: ¹cute
• Pronunciation: \ˈkyüt\
• Function: adjective
• Inflected Form(s): cut·er; cut·est
• Etymology: short for acute
• Date: circa 1731

1 a : clever or shrewd often in an underhanded manner b : impertinent, smart-alecky don'tcute with me
2 : attractive or pretty especially in a childish, youthful, or delicate way

Unless I happen to be a total spaz, nowhere does the dictionary ever define cute as unpleasant to look at. You know what's cute? Kittens are cute. Otters are cute. They're probably as ugly as you are intelligent.


Edit I forgot which was the second party so I'll just fill another group in first.

2. Users of Respira(bleach fans will get what I mean)

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD/JESUS/BUDDHA/ALLAH/VISHNUJUMPOVERTHEWALL CAN YOU PLEASE LIKE GRAB A DRILL, SHOVE IT IN YOUR MOUTH AND SET THE POWER TO MAX. THEN AFTER THAT YOU CAN POUR IN LIKE INDUSTRIAL 99.0% PHOSPHORIC ACID.



Got that off my chest.

http://temasekreview.com/?p=12170

By Eugene Yeo, Consultant Editor

The worldwide study conducted and released by UBS lately, titled “Price and Earnings 2009″ has some unflattering results for Singapore. (download the study here)

While our economy has the highest GDP (PPP) per capita in Asia at $49,288 according to a World Bank report (source: Wikipedia), our people do not enjoy a quality of life which commensurate with it.

Though we are technically a developed first world country, some economic indictators as shown by the UBS study suggested that Singaporeans are not that better off than those in Third World countries.

Low wages

Singapore has a GDP (PPP) per capita higher than Switzerland, but our wages are way below the Swiss.

The UBS study found that employees in Copenhagen, Zurich, Geneva and New York have the highest gross earnings. With its extremely high gross wages and comparatively low tax rates, Switzerland is a very employee-friendly country.

The net wages used have been deducted for taxes and social security.

Zurich and Geneva have wage indices (gross) of 119.8 and 107.5 respectively. In contrast, Singapore has a wage index of only 31.3, comparable with Moscow (30.9), Tallinn (28.7) and Johannesburg (26.7).

In the Asia-Pacific region, it is exceeded by Tokyo (83.0), Sydney (74.1), Auckland (44.1), Hong Kong (42.3), Taipei (35.5) and Seoul (32.3)

Low domestic purchasing power

Where does an average income buy the most products and services? Wages alone do not determine the standard of living in a particular city or country.

A better way to measure prosperity is to divide the average annual salary by the total price of a selected basket of goods and services (as used in the UBS study). This tells us how much purchasing power local wages.

Again, Zurich (106.9), Sydney (95.9) and Luxembourg (95.4) topped the list - its citizens have the highest domestic purchasing power.

Singaporeans have a low purchasing power of only 39.9, comparable to Kuala Lumpur (39.5), Warsaw (34.0) and Bogota (33.7).

Other countries in the Asia-Pacific region which are ahead of us are Tokyo (82.2), Auckland (68.9), Taipei (58.9), Hong Kong (58.1) and Seoul (57.4).

In other words, though the cost of living is higher in Tokyo, the average Japanese has a domestic purchasing power more than twice that of an average Singaporean.

Though Malaysia is still a developing country and has a GDP (PPP) per capita of only $14,215, less than 3 times of ours, the ordinary Malaysian citizen has about the same domestic purchasing power as the Singaporean.

Low relative purchasing power of wages

This is calculated in the UBS study by using a specific, highly uniform product that is available everywhere in the same quality, and then calculate how long an employee has to work to afford it in each city.

For the purpose of this article, the iPod nano (with 8 GB of storage) is used.

An average wage earner is Zurich and New York can buy a nano from an Apple store after nine hours of work. A Singapore worker will have to work three times longer after 27.5 hours.

The figures for selected Asia-Pacific cities are as follows: Sydney (9.5hrs), Tokyo (12hrs), Auckland (16hrs), Hong Kong (19hrs), Seoul (22hrs) and Taipei (23.5hrs). Again we came in last among the 4 Asian Tigers.

Long working hours

People work an average of 1,902 hours per year in the surveyed cities, but they work much longer in Asian and Middle Eastern cities, averaging 2,119 and 2,063 per year respectively.

European cities had the lowest working hours per year. A global comparison showed the people in Lyon and Paris spend the least amount of time at work: 1,582 and 1,594 hours respectively.

Singaporeans spent on average 2,088 hours at work per year with 11 days of vacation.

This is less than Hong Kong (2,295) and Seoul (2,312), but more than Tokyo (1,997), Taipei (2,074), Sydney (1,747) and Auckland (1,884).

Singaporeans also took the least number of holidays after Hong Kongers (10 days/year).

High cost of living

Singapore was ranked the second most expensive place to live in after Tokyo, surpassing Hong Kong for the first time.

Let us compare the food prices in Singapore and other developed countries since food is a basic necessity.

In the UBS study, a basket of 39 food items is put together and weighted mainly according to Western European consumption habits. The average worldwide cost of the basket is USD385.

In Asia, Tokyo topped the list with an index of 124.7, followed by Hong Kong (96.5), Singapore (89.4), Seoul (89.0), Taipei (67.9) and Sydney (66.3)

Conclusion

The high cost of living coupled with low wages and domestic purchasing power condemns the average Singapore worker to an ignonimous, monotonus and stressful working life.

Singapore workers have to work harder to earn the same amount of money and save for a longer period to purchase the same product.

In 1991, then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong promised Singaporeans that we will be able to achieve the “Swiss standard of living” within a decade. Ten years later, we have a living standard which is closer to Russia than Switzerland.

Like Singapore, the Russians has a low wage and domestic purchasing power and Russia, especially the city of Moscow, has one of the highest cost of living in the world.

In the next part of this article, we shall examine the uncanny similarities between life in Singapore and Russia immediately after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

I just watched Nana and Nana2.

Nana O's character always puts up a strong front but ends up being uncertain all the time. Nana K(Hachi) desires the need to be loved so much she foolishly pits herself in bad situations.

Throughout the movie I felt like shedding every tear for Nana O but strangling Hachi until she bled. The kind of imperfections that every person has within themselves are always so hidden deep down that we tend to forget they exist. But when they do surface, we see both the beautiful and ugly side of humanity.


Anyway, back to today.

Photo taking session! Ok, wasn't anything particularly interesting. Well at least I know I'm like 3rd tallest in class, which isn't really tall but yeah. Isn't as amazing as PXY being tallest girl in class though. Damn cute can.


Chem spa, how can our calculated mass be more than the experimental mass? D: That's like in geog you say erosion occurs upwards and you are asked to account for it. Or worse, imagine atoms sharing protons then the question ask you to calculate internucleic distance. LOL.

End of the long windy story = PLP sux


Don't know why but I recently have this habit of catching up on my sleep in school. Maybe because I'm drinking less coffee? But will going cold turkey on caffeine really make one tired? You tell me.

Anyway, integration calls :( O dear life, return doth to me. So I may thus live again.

I was quite surprised to read about VAMPS in this week's time magazine.


Anyway, week 8 concludes and we are now 49-4 = 45 days away from promos. Shit. That seems so bloody short.

and I have to deal with douchebags and dunces in school, sigh.

How I wish these 2 years of my life fade away as quickly as life itself :(