Woke up last Saturday n found my left eye like this. Looks like I am infected with the rage virus. heehee. Went to the company doctor and found that it is just a burst blood veins like a bruise, either due intense rubbing of the eyes or violent coughing. Probably will take 2 weeks to heal up. I can still see clearly without any pain but Angie does not like to look at me now. She say the eye gives her the creeps. :P

Men & Women Contradictions

Men:
1. All men are extremely busy.
2. Although they are so busy, they still have time for women.
3. Although they have time for women, they don't really care for them.
4. Although they don't really care for them, they always have one around.
5. Although they always have one around them, they always try their luck with others.
6. Although they try their luck with others, they get really pissed off if the woman leaves them.
7. Although the woman leaves them they still don't learn from their mistakes and still try their luck with others!

Women:
1. The most important thing for a woman is financial security.
2. Although this is so important, they still go out and buy expensive clothes and stuff.
3. Although they always buy expensive clothes, they will still say that they never have something to wear!
4. Although they never have something to wear, they always dress beautifully.
5. Although they always dress beautifully, you hardly care.
6. Although you hardly care, they still expect you to compliment them.
7. Although they expect you to compliment them, when you do, they don't believe you!

Coming Full Circle

Was talking to my wife last night and it suddenly strikes me that the year of the tiger is just 2 years away in 2010. According to the Chinese, the year of the tiger is always considered to be an inauspicious year due to the character of the animal. From the way the US economy is heading into a recession, this might hold true when the tiger comes knocking. A look back to the last tiger year in 1997, Asia is experiencing the Asian economical crisis. The previous tiger year before that in 1985, it is the last recession. Coincidence? As you can see, the wheel has started turning. By the time, we usher in the year of the tiger, we will be feeling the full-blown effects of the US recession. So start saving your money n cut down on unnecessary spending. You have been warned...

No Youth Olympics Please

Call me a traitor, but when I heard that Singapore is one of the final two nominees for the Youth Olympics, my first reaction is to pray that we dun win. After the World Bank and IMF fiesta, organizing any big international events locally turns me off. Dun really feel like going thru the process of seeing the city turn into a police state with all the erected fences and heighten security. Wasting all the money in painting a fake picture of our country. And most of all, being ask to smile idiotically again to the “ang mo”. Another reason is I am sick and tired of hearing our government boasting how world class in the event that they won, giving them another excuse to get a pay raise.

Golden Path to Shitty Ending

Just watch the final episode of 黄金路 and once again TCS has ruined a good drama series with a crappy ending. PUI! After captivating the audience over 29 episodes, they decided to screw themselves and end the series hastily without any real conviction. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth. My first reaction when the credits roll is "That's it?!!" The whole ending sinks. Lin Nanxing’s character, after suffering so many misunderstandings against him committed suicide without his family knowing the truth about Tay Ping Hui's evil deeds. And Tay Ping Hui, get his retribution by just getting rob n murdered in some backwater country hotel room. I feel he got let off too easy. At the minimum, it should at least make everyone around him realize how evil he is n the bad deeds he has done. While, I guess TCS dun have enough budget to make episode 31. Heck, I think they dun even have money to complete the series, hence the choppiness in producing the last episode.

One thing certain is, the newer generation of artistes really CMI. Chen Liping, Li Nanxing and Zhou Chuming are really top class. Compare to them, the newer actors and actresses only know how to look pretty. Joanne Peh completes her transformation into another Phyllis Quek aka vase. Honorable mention also goes to Joey Feng (Jin Feng) and Cai Pei Xuan (Bak Gu Tek Girl). Many of my friends and colleagues believe this series will see the raise of Felicia Chin to replace Zoe Tay n Fann Wong as the Queen of Caldecott

Totally Bejeweled!

Angie and I are crazy about this game, Bejewelled, lately. Ever since my sister-in-law installed the game on my home PC, we have been playing the game whenever the PC is on, each time trying to achieve new high scores. I am so addicted that I even dream or hear the game sound ringing in my ears.

The bad week has just gone worse. So much so that I dun feel like working. Feel like staying at home to rot. Just last week everything is bright n shiny. Then suddenly things become dark and gloomy. Maybe this is my life as claim by the fortune teller. Every step I made forward, I will be force by circumstances to take one step back. Hence I am always circling in the same position all my life....

This is a bad week for me. Duno what's wrong with me. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed for the past two days. Feel very vexed and frustrated. I was feeling fine over the weekend. Maybe it's due to my work. Keep having problem in compiling the code for my project. I hate doing Windows Mobile. Stupid compilation takes damn long and is such a resource whore. Can't do anything when the build is running as if the PC steps down from a Core2Duo to a P3. Everything seems to work against me. I am piss with everything n everyone. Losing my patience easily. Shit....

Finally... X'mas and New Year celebration is over and life goes back to normal. Finally got rid of all the X'mas carols ringing in my head and guess what? They are replaced by Chinese New Year songs! Everywhere I go, be it malls, shopping centres, even the local provision shop, everywhere is playing those irritating CNY songs. It's is only 1 month before CNY and it is giving me a freaking headache. Can't imagine the type of punishment I have to endure next month? SHIT.....!

A $olution for More Problem$

Updated: After the revised taxi fare increment, a trip from Punggol to Orchard during non-peak hours.
Before fare increment: $12
After fare increment: $13.50

Verdict? From the looks of it, after the fare increase, the taxi driver earnings will increase. Or did it? Truth is, the sharp increase will make people think twice thrice before opting to take a cab or avoid taking a cab during the peak hours. Yes, they solve the problem now that there are many empty cabs available during the peak hours. No more long queues or waiting time. But it creates another. Cab drivers now will find it even harder to get a passenger. The increase in fare prices does not cover the loss in the number of passengers. So they are back to square one. This time, the jump in fare prices might be hard to swallow for a lot of us. It may take a longer time before the passenger starts coming back or will they even will?

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Have not been updating my blog regularly these days, as I am busy with a lot of things. A lot of things have happen and have a lot of thoughts and grievance to voice out. Most notably, the raise in the taxi fares. It was not too long ago the fares have been raised "adjusted", as put nicely by the relevant government spin-doctors. A 35% of the metered fare is a lot. How much more do they want to raise? If the taxi companies really wanted to help the cab drivers, they can jolly well reduce the taxi rental. But no... cutting taxi rental is a forbidden sin which cuts into their profit margins. So what do they do next? Using the standard solution of passing the problem to the consumers by raising the fares. After all, it's their problem, why should they hurt their profit for our sake? So who’s going to suffer the most for this? Not the passengers, we have a choice to reduce or not take taxi. It's the poor taxi drivers. Their earnings will reduce as people shun from taking taxi. So what we end up with? Lesser business for taxi drivers, the drivers start to do funny things to earn more money and the taxi company raises fare again to "help" out. It's a vicious cycle...

Finally, Gears of War on My PC!

Finally, one year after the release of Gears of War on the Xbox360, the PC version is out. Saw someone selling it second-hand on the net and immediately grab it. MUHAHAHAHA! Now I dun have to buy an Xbox360 liao. Just install it and the graphics and game play are damn solid. Definitely worth the wait.

My Childhood Toys

Troops Fall In!

Was packing my stuff at my parent's place when I came upon the toys that I play when I was little. Wow, bring back a lot of my childhood memories. Children those days dun have computer or PlayStation; we play with toys like this, making our own pretend play and stories. I still remember each and everyone of the toy and who bought it. Look at the Transformer toy, Hound. 20 years ago, it is the most popular toy and cartoon. 20 years later, Transformer is popular again due to the movie.

Autobots! Transform!

England Staying Home for Euro2008!

Feeling a bit moody today. Hiaz another monotone day untill I reach my office and read the news on the net. ENGLAND OUT OF EURO2008! This changes everything. Haha, serve you right, you arrogant English. Always boasting how good they are and they have the "best" league in the world. Talk about having the best league and players when you can't even beat a Croatia team, which is hardly a top team in world football. They thought they are through when Israel beat Russia and all they need to do is draw with Croatia. But no.... Croatia has other plans, beating England 3-2 at England's home is a f$#%king slap on the England's face. 天有眼啊! Serve you right, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, John Terry etc... HA! As for Steve McClaren, I think its time you start looking at the job recruitment ads. Birmingham City seems like a good start... Hahaha

2-3 England vs. Croatia | EURO 2008 Q
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News Around the World

Everyday there are some funny events happening around thw world. Take this for example, a Indian married a dog in an attempt to remove a curse. Bring a whole new meaning to the phrase – my wife is a bitch.

Nuts about Donuts

Thanks to the popularity of Donut Factory, the current IN thing in Singapore is DONUTS! Remember kopi buns, bubble tea and Luohan fish, now everybody is jumping onto the bandwagon selling donuts. Pop by a bakery the other day and saw the different types of donuts on display. Singaporeans are really a crazy bunch. All along we have Dunkin' Donuts and nobody is interested in them. Just because someone claims that the ones by Donut Factory is nice, everyone started queuing for it and everyone else started jumping in to grab a share of the market. Let me tell you, 6 months down the road, you dun even have to queue to buy a donut at Donut Factory. You should know why. As for me, I still prefer the plain jane sugar donut by my neighborhood bakery. ^_^

Talking Cock MPs

Another perfect example of how our government is disconnected with the situation on the ground. Mrs Josephine Teo, MP for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC, who urge women to consider putting their careers on hold to have children first. My question is, with the raising cost of living everyday, do they really think we can afford not to work and have babies first? Even if we are working, its still very difficult to juggle between career and family at the same time. And everyone knows in the working society, women will be at a disadvantage once they have a family. These MPs are filthy rich, so they will never experience what we are facing. All they know is talk cock. Like the chinese phrase, 讲风凉话

Buying Your Own A380

Talk about having your own private jet... Now we know why oil prices sky rocketed lately...

How Cruel We Can Be

Not a big fan of Stomp but my wife brought this story to my attention. It doesn't matter if you are a animal lover or not, reading this really sadden me. How can someone be so cruel in treating an innocent animal? If you don't want the pet, you can find a new home for it or send it to SPCA. Instead, these lazy people choose the easy way out by abandoning it or rather kill it through such sadistic torture. How can they have the heart to do this? Is this what our education system taught us to be, cold-blooded humans that only care about themselves? There's this poster at Mickey's vet clinic that says, "To you, it is a dog. To him, you're everything" Imagine how the dog will feel, being betray and left to die after being so loyal to the owner. I pray that the dog will find a good home soon. As for the irresponsible owner, I hope you burn in hell.

I hardly go to movies these days. Going to the movies is so expensive, $7.50 a ticket on weekdays and $9.50 on weekends. This is only the price of a ticket, add another popcorn and drinks, you can say goodbye to your $50. Furthermore, most movies are not really worth the ticket price. A quick check in the papers show the theatres are dominated by cheap haunted movies, brainless comedies and sadistic torture slasher films. Worse of all are the action films where most of the time, all the exciting parts has been shown in the trailers already. Some of these movies story are so meaningless that you wonder why they bother to produce it in the first place. Given a choice, I rather just go to The Movie Spoiler to read about the story and its ending than waste my time and money in the theatre. Once in a while, I may go rent or download the movie to watch. But even so, I would just skip through the film quickly and go to the ending just to find out how the story ends. Think I am starting to lose interest in the movies, sign of growing up?

PM self-owned Himself Again

Haha, thanks to the attentive VR-Zone forumers, our PM self-owned himself again here. In another feeble attempt to try to show that he understands the plight of the public, he only ended up showing how dumb and disconnected he is.

"This morning driving out of town I was watching the trains going down into town, along the CTE, every carriage was packed and I think we need to improve the public transport system and we have some ideas what can be done. But at the same time we need to keep the roads free flowing. And there're no easy ways to improve the road traffic it means painful measures like the ERP and COE and we've to do more with them. We're working out schemes and I think they'll be ready to be worked out and start to be implemented early next year in January"

1. Since when does the PM need to drive?
2. Where from Bishan to town area does the MRT runs above ground so that it can be view from the expressway?
3. And lastly, since when does the MRT line runs along side the CTE???