Perceptions are the truth

Im pissed.

Just the other day, while i was mugging for my finals (throw in some TV time, newspaper reading time and multiple naps in between everything else), i decided to start looking for job.

Yes, the truth has sunk in. NTU is never going to offer me a slot for their PhD prog even though im most likely clever smarter wiser almost as smart as some of the ah lian and tactless a**holes very smart people in my faculty.

So i decided to start looking for job. Almost right away, i recieved an interview form (those that you need to fill up to qualify urself for a shot at an interview).



At 9am in the monring, i needed 2 referees. I never really understand the need for it but i guess it was a formality. I decided to turn to my long time friend. This is a friend that i have known for the past 8....err...9 years.

SMS msgs.

Me : Cs, do you mind being my referee? Im applying for a job.

Cs : Huh? What happen? I tot you dun need to work? Your papa is so rich.

Me : Papa went bankrupt the other day. Now need job to pay off debts (and to buy myself a car and a condo and apply for some credit cards)

Cs : Dun lie. Tell me a good reason why i should be your referee. How can i be sure that you are not using the info for something else?

Me : Errmm... Why would i use ur info for something else, let alone anything bad? <-- is that a good enough reason?

Cs : What kind of reason is that?

........


At this point of time, the recpeptionist was eyeing me suspiciously and i was somewhat paiseh because i was taking so long to fill up something so trival.

I must clarify that this friend of mine does speak some truth. You see, I come from a very very very very very very very very rich family. How rich??

You guys know Mr Sim? Or Mr Wee? (If you dun noe who they are, Mr Sim is our very own CREATIVE SUPREMO...and Mr Wee is from UOB.)

That would give you a rough idea how rich my family is....or rather was..

I swear, im not lying. About a 3 dozen years ago, in 1969, My dad has at lesat $2 as pocket money when he went to school. You guys go ask how much Mr sim has back then! so the story goes...

Using that as a yardstick, u can imagine how much my family is worth... up till 2 weeks ago.

But thats another story.

So I guess its understandable that my friend of 10 years refuse to pass me his particulars. Maybe he got wind that my family is a bankrupt now and that he fear that i would use the info to get some money from loanshark. hmmm....sounds like a good idea huh?

But still....Im pissed! He should have given me the benefit of the doubt. COme on! 9 freaking years and you refuse to let me use you as a referee... =( Im hurt..

Anyway, i didnt get the job. becoz i couldnt think of anyone else whom i could have called. Come to think of it....even if he gave me his details, i would have needed another referee. But thats not the point. It was his outright refusal..

Okie, im broke and im friendless..

This is an appeal to all fellow bloggers. Pls be my friend so that you can be my referee. Thanks.

Hi all...

Im going to make this official.

Im done with exams.

NO MORE! NIL! ZERO!

BYE BYE STUDYING! IM SICK OF STUDYING! SHOW ME THE MONEY NOW! PAY me $10K per month!


Disclaimer : the author reserves the right to retract the above statements if his lecturers decides to fail him. =(

I need a serious BREAK!

Lets do a quick and dirty one...

its about 13 hours before i finish my exams. All is calm.

I look at all my pencils and pens and my almost new liquid paper.

I wonder when i would pick them up to use again.

I wonder when i will open my pencil box after 12pm tomorrow.

I wonder when i will touch my calculator again.

Everything looks to fall into place now. ALl these years of work and slogging and countless sleepless nites. It has all boil down to this last 13 hours....

And then i turn and look at the heaps of notes sitting at the corner of my table... suddenly, it dawn upon me that....maybe, tomorrow wont be my last. =(

Hi all..

Im not dead. Juz alittle busy. Be back in 75hours.

=)

When i was younger, i have always wanted to be a super hero.
Perhapes it was becoz i had too much time on my hands and i wasnt very keen on studying hard and getting infront of all the rats...err...my peers. So i spent a fair amount of time dreaming of which super hero i wanna be.



Superman was always one of my favourite. Even up to now.

But since im quite sure that i cant fly, i started looking for more 'realistic' heros.

A few names crop up but in recent years, my little toe wiggle each time i watched Matrix. This lead me to conclude that my true calling is to be 'THE ONE', Neo.

Yes, i dun look anything like Neo and i dun have a single peice of black clothing. *My favorite color is white incidently and i have like a dozen of white polo-t* but i figure i can NEO all the same as long as i master his gravity defying moves.

One of my all time favourite moves by NEo was to see him suspend in the air while doing his karata kick and deep inside me *somewhere*, i really felt i could do the same.

So i came up with this scenerio that if ever a car was to come charging at me, i would run straight at it and jump on the bonnet followed by a reverse spin into midair followed by a perfect 10 pointer landing at the back of the car. Nevermind that i might sprain my ankle or back while doing the reverse spin in mid air. Looking good is everything if u wanna be Neo.

I had that scene anchored in my mind for the longest time....

But of course, Life is full of surprises and you can never be too prepared for anything....

This morning while rushing to take my first paper, a 1985 BMW 3 series (almost knock me down at a pesdestrian crossing. it was travelling at about 20km/hr)came charging at me while i was crossing the road.

Wasnt surprising that i didnt managed to execute any of the above mentioned moves and all i mustered was to turn and hit the dirty, old car real hard on the bonnet. No jump, no reverse spin and no perfect 10 pointer landing. The car stopped. The driver look stunned. He wound down his windows and he looked as if he was trying to apologise but i juz looked on and hurried away disappointed that i didnt do my reverse spin to take my first paper....

Shacks... soo much for planning.

2 Integrated Resorts!

Waaaaoooooo..... Im all excited. Now all there is left to do is to bring F1 to our shores too.

Shacks. TIme to go back to studies.

Im trying to get into the mood...

Im trying to save really hard...

Im trying to hype myself up for the CASINO!

Yesyes, the decision is not going to be known until tomorrow. But already, you have comments like 'Can we afford not to have a casino' and regrets not bringing casino and F1 into singapore early (MM Lee). And if you still think that we are going to be casino-less in 2009, you must be from china? *This is not a potshot since China really doesnt have a casino! I'll tell you if its a potshot when i make one. Thanks.*


Adopted from THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY, 17th April 2005.

READ THE 'ON' Article? It could have been 'NO'....

Just for the record, i really really dun noe whats the fuss about..
Its just a casino. Its juz going to bring in more tourists and more jobs and boost the economy by a few percentile and maybe in the process piss a few anti-casino lobby-ist off but at the end of the day, does it really matter?!

Im not too sure but i know im enjoying every minute of this debate. It kinda brings out some really childish comments from some very prominent people. Pardon me, but if i make a childish comment, its me. What do u expect from someone who blog to get attention and in the process boast about his IQ of 75 and his all but vanishing chance of getting a PhD offer from his university? But if it comes out from the mouth of a opposition party, its another issue altogether. Okie, i shouldnt write too much. I dun have alot of money to be engage in some defamation dispute.

Life is good. Im going to look forward to the papers tomorrow and the day after for all the comments and maybe hope that they throw in a F1 somewhere down the road while i wait patiently for my PhD offer.

Bring on the Casino.....When will F1 come to Singapore?

Singapore juz gotten more exciting. =)

Phew..
This wait for my finals to start is killing me.
3 days more to go before my first paper and obviously, all is not well. They should give old man like me a 10pt advantage when it comes to exams. Reason? My brain cells are dying at a faster rate than some of the young impressionable, lots of opinion scholars from india, malaysia and china + some from singapore younger students. Look, we are talking about at least a 5 year difference here. I know of someone who is barely 21. And not surprising, shes scoring more 'A's than i do...

SHacks. Life is unfair theres never enough channels for me to raise all these issues. Then again, i wonder why i never did well in primary school and secondary school when all the students were of the same age. I can only put it down that its my parent's fault for giving me genes that does not generate brain cells faster than my peers... hahahahah....I have excuses for everything.

Nvmind. im 11 days away from freedom. In fact, in exactly 11 days, I will be sitting somewhere doing my final final paper of my life...

IM STILL WAITING FOR THE PhD offer from NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME WRITE IN TO THEM TO CHK FOR MY ELIGIBILITY. NONO...IM SURE IM ELIGIBLE. HELP ME CHECK WHATS TAKING THEM SO LONG....

Anyway, i was doing a survey the other day on Channel News Asia Website... and guess what. The tribe has spoken. WE WANT A POPE FROM ASIA!!!



Waaaooooo..... I hope he speaks mandarin.

How many of us have our own island where we can tuck ourselves away the hustle and bustle of the noisey city? In isolation and where we can choose what we want to be around us.. yes, you can bring more than babes clad in bikinis *pls do*.

And since we cant have our own island and we'll have to put up with little inconviences like..



Heres another look...



Sheese...
Whatever happen to corrective work order?!


Nvmind. Anything is better than Mr Chan the Everitt Road family feud. But thats another story altogether.

Im glad no one lives above me.

Some days, you meet really nice people that touches your heart. People who goes out of their way to help you at their expenses.

Other days, you meet not so nice people who empathizes with you but do little else.

On very few days, you will read about meet unscrupulous bad people cheaters people who will squeeze you dry and take every chance to make a profit out of you while pretending to be nice..

Frankly, i dont really know what im driving at...

Anyway, i was reading something on the Channel News Asia Website

It was this article about insurers wanting to charge a premium for damage caused by earth quake tremors. Nothing wrong with that until you realise they have been giving it for free all along until recently knowing jolly well that singapore doesnt lie on any fault line and that damage caused by tremors from earth quake happens only about ZERO time since singapore's independence. SO WHY THE F do you offer something so redundent?!?!? Its like offering me a pair of panty hose knowing jolly well that i dun need one and then suddenly realised that i have turn gay and you decide that you have to start charging me .


In the very same article, it also state that damages caused by the more common vibration work is not covered.

Oh well, what can i say... smart a** move!! =)

Time to sleep.

Does anyone need proof that today is a very hot day?!

U know its a hot day when



Laalaa wears two layers of clothing.

Naaaaaaaa...... Laalaa has gone bonkers so he wears 2 layer of clothing permanently. Not to mention that shes kinda protecting herself from pervertic Chinseng. Hahahah... Im juz kidding. But when u have too much of some OILY CURRY CHICKEN from a certain fastfood chain instead of sticking to the CURRY CHICKEN that MAX'S MAMA cook, u are entitled to some level of pervertic-ness.

Anyway..

The only reason why im suggesting that today is a very hot day.



Normally, Tap water that comes out from your tap should have a temp close to 31 degrees.

Today...



Its 37!!!

Someone stop me from getting heat stroke.

You know something is wrong when things aint going your way and you still feel nonchalant about it..

either you are

1) Extremely confident about the entire issue

2) simply nonchalant?

Its kinda wierd coz you are suppose to get all hot and excited about taking possibily the last exam in your entire life, note the word 'possibly' since i have not rule out the chance that my school decides that im a raw gem and finally offer me a spot to do my post grad studies instead of offering it to some tactless but very academically inclined malaysian, ah-lian or some only look for you when they are in troubl really smart people. some very smart stduents.

Judging from the way things are moving, this is definately going to turn into an anti-climax. The agony would only be relieved when they offer me a post grad spot.

Its really kinda cool becoz from what i know, u get preferred treatment when u are gunning for one of the top honours in my school. These includes private meeting with dean, department heads and you mix around with the 'IN' crowd who are almost as smart as you. Not to mention that during each and every of the meetup, u get to taste the finest bueffeut spread possible at the expense of tax payers money. Coupled with the fact that u turn sneaky on all your friends ( plus it gives you the right to look at your friends from the corner of your eye)becoz u are among the elite and you can only indulge in the above mentioned activities discretely so that you can keep them guessing on the preferiential treatment that you are recieving.

Its not everyday that you are high and mighty...

Its not everyday that you enjoy these high praises...

Its not everyday that you get accepted and invited to do research for the benefit of mankind.

Its not everyday that you rub shoulders with the smartest FT around...

The only way to top it all off..

is to reject the offer.

Now its time to hit the books again... im getting carried away.

I think im getting addicted to blogging.

Believe me, its not good at this point of time.

But heres something i extracted off Channel News Asia Website (at least some good people are still providing news for free).

Pls visit their website at the following address for good up to date information. http://www.channelnewsasia.com

Anyway, heres a paragraph from the article.

BEIJING : More than 1,000 anti-Japanese protesters hurled rocks and bottles and shouted abuse at the residence of the Japanese ambassador to Beijing as part of protests condemning Japan for its handling of its wartime past.

A cordon of riot police belonging to China's elite People's Armed Police appeared to be trying to maintain order, but did not attempt to stop demonstrators from raining rocks and bottles down on the compound in northeastern Beijing.

Another embassy bites the dust...errm...nono, this is personal. they are targetting the embassador. I hope they didnt spoil any gates or spray any grafittis...

ANyway, rocks and bottles are just as bad.

Oh....realised its a 'IN' thing for law enforcers to stand around or not even appear in times like these.
HAhah...coincidence? U decide.

Time to hit the books again.

I need some happy posts.

U know how sometimes u get a kick out of sabo-ing your closest friends..

Yes, hes the one who is around in your darkest hour and hes the one whom u can count on to share 20 pieces of nuggets, knowing jolly well that hes too health concious to go beyond the 5th piece so u end up eating 15 pieces of nuggets which u absolutely adore while paying only half the price. Wait, sometimes, he even gives u a treat...

No, u really mean no harm but u juz feel like doing something naughty and pissing his head off... thats what being buddies are for isnt it? U piss each other off and try to see who can tolerate more...

For those who know who bubblemunche is....

Im going to expose him and his beloved boon lay girl <----Dud! Boon lay girl? What a name, im going sick from rolling my eyes...
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Thats his body....and her body.

Tough luck....
hahahahhaahhaha...............

Sometimes, we get caught in the funniest pose.

I got this in my email not too long ago. It would have been 'i got this in my email last nite' if i haven been so busy recently.

HAhahah...Shacks. Life is a blur now. 20 days to end of it all. I deserve a good break.
Anyway, heres the pic.



Frankly, i dun noe what shes doing. IN fact, i dun know what the entire group is doing. If u know, pls PM me and u stand to win a pineapple tart.

Life is good. TIme to take a nap. this headache is killing me.

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Further notes

I was looking at the pic again when i reloaded the blog. Heres a couple of other things that i noticed besides the funny expression..

1) SANTA's Red hood (far in the background, christmas gathering?)
2) Teenagers! Young Adults! All of them!
3) This lady in the foreground has a name tag!

I can only come up with the following...

i) They are all trying to make contact with something, someone. God? ET? Its any body's guess. But whatever it is, i think the lady in front is having difficulty.

ii) They must be having fun. Really. Lots of teenagers with christmas around the corner. It must be a joyous occasion.

Still, it brings me nowhere close to where they are or what they are doing. Do PM me if u know. The pineapple is getting stale..

Life is good. No more headaches..

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Furthest Update

NPNT! <----I must be getting blind. Whats this suppose to mean anyway?!

This is really troubling..

I know this is alittle late but i feel that i should dedicate a post in this Blog to john.

Pope John Paul II

Have a nice trip. Good bye.

Update.

PRICE OF MOVIES ARE GOING UP! $9.50!
Who can help me buy pirated VCDs?

Further Update on previous post.



We are going still.



Despite this! Shame on you, Indonesia! Oh well, not all of indonesia but those who kick up a big fuss on the alleged hazardous waste.

THOSE CHINOOKS YOU SEE ARE REAL. WHY DONT YOU GUYS COME OUT AND SHOW YOU APPRECIATION NOW? THE SINGAPORE EMBASSY's gate could use a NEW PAINT JOB!

Oki, i should stop harping on the above. It wasnt unexpected anyway. =)