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 :(

Asian Kung-Fu Generation (アジアン・カンフー・ジェネレーション, Ajian Kanfū Jenerēshon?), typeset as ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, is a Japanese rock band formed in Yokohama, Japan in 1996. For nearly its entire career, the band has consisted of vocalist Masafumi Gotō, guitarist Kensuke Kita, bassist Takahiro Yamada, and drummer Kiyoshi Ijichi. The band's musical style is influenced by seminal Western punk and alternative rock acts in conjunction with their own local Japanese indie rock background. As a result, their songs maintain a balance of various aspects of the genres, most typically expressing fast-paced tempos and prominent, hard-edged guitar riffs as well as rhythmic flow and emotional lyrics.


taken from Wikipedia.org

Ish indie turned mainstream leh. And not crap that decided to change their style. They made their style mainstream >: welly powerful.

31 July 2009, FOP





August 2 2009, Changi airport T3







Come get me now, bloody stompers.




August 7 2009, CJC C2-007





13 Aug 2009, Home



This drink is the new sex.

pick it up then throw it all away. says:
*hello klinsen soh. muii IisH g0NnA rEaD eCc0nS dErX w0RxX. =))




I buckled at this because it redefines how Twit I thought the human limit was.

Nationalistic post, in my own indie way;

There’s a jewel on the ocean,
a gem upon the sea
Where the future is an open book
A land of destiny
We could set our sights into the wind and sail the seven seas
or climb the highest mountain top as long as we believe
What do you see? What do you see?

See the moon and the stars, look how far we have come
Look around at our faces, they shine brightly in the sun
With our hopes and dreams, imagine what tomorrow it may bring
What do you see? What do you see?

Now the time has come to reach out,
To open up to see
That we stand together in this land
Cos we are family
As thoughts of reaching to the sky are carried on a dream
With hearts and minds united, our dreams we will achieve
What do you see? What do you see?

See the moon and the stars, look how far we have come
Look around at our faces, they shine brightly in the sun
With our hopes and dreams, imagine what tomorrow it may bring
What do you see…

What do you see when life makes you take on a mountain
You’ll see that nothing’s gonna stand in your way
Together we can share
The strength of a million
and the courage of a million more

See the moon and the stars, look how far we have come
Look around at our faces, they shine brightly in the sun
With our hopes and dreams, imagine what tomorrow it may bring
Cos the sky’s the only limit when you’re not afraid to dream
What do you see? What do you see..

Every anti-establishment blogger in Singapore is actually the benchmark for the ultimate patriot.

We must stop living in the past
Stop using old chinese education systems
Stop tyrannical oppression by those whom rule us
Stop resisting the sands of time


It starts with a song.

How far can you show Singapore's growth, development and progress if you compose a national day song that sounds exactly like what Dick Lee composed 20 odd years ago? Crescendo chorus, no harmonizing, "physical" lyrics? Just describing the awe of the national flag doesn't make you more Singaporean than the next bloke spending all his money domestically in a local club getting drunk on diluted liquor.


Food for thought yo. Remember, its five stars, a crescent moon, red and white stripe. Not white background, blue ring, and red lightning bolt.

The other day I was taking 966 back and I saw someone with like 1.5cm~2cm fake eyelashes, gross.

Eyes.


The things that don't grow with your body, those which deteiorate to reduce your clarity of perception of the outside world.

I love looking at people's eyes. Sometimes it tells you their story, sometimes it doesn't cause it just looks flat. Like a very shallow kind of reflection.

It tells you what their lips don't. Is someone lying? How nervous is the guy? Is the guy avoiding you or is he giving you unnaturally large amounts of attention.



*anticlimax*, on the other hand, Asians have really small eyes so the extent of all the dramatisation I gave about eyes is totally reduced to scale.

Singapore Lights Timelapse from Weehan Yeo on Vimeo.

and in case you people didn't know

Did you hear? Gahmen want us to say the pledge to our TV at 8:22pm this national day!

Ok guys, dry run, repeat after me


We, the citizens of Singapore
pledge ourselves to serve the foreign people,
regardless of their race, language or religion,
to build a foreigner-dominated society,
leveraging on 66.6% Singaporean stupidity,
so as to achieve happiness, prosperity and
progress for our foreign talents.





How will you spend this life granted to you? Will you spend it saving others, killing others, or ignoring others?