~ Im Out ~

ok. I am officially out of NUS liao. Withdrew everything already. No repercussions or what. haha. Hope the person who gets my slot will be happy with FASS. =]

Bought a new wallet just now! WAHAHA. my current one quite cui already so i thought what the heck. Still got it from fossil though. No moolah to spend on a braun buffel. lol. but impt thing is i like my new wallet. haha. some pics.

the old wallet. thank you my friend you have served me well. Now its time for you to "retire"

New wallet. I like the the white line that cuts in the middle. cos it adds that fun element to the otherwise plain/dull outlook. There was a white version with black line but i went for this cos black can carry off a professional look as well. LOL. white gets dirty easily too.





Lastly some pictures which i took some time back. Felt like uploading them for awhile liao but always forget. haha. nth much. its just plants again.

So thats it. hah. Enjoy labour day guys. Why is it called labour day when you don't have to work on that day... haha. Maybe last time we broke the record for most number of babies born in a day on that day. Haha, could be what.

~ Cute Poem ~

Check out this poem. haha. i think its quite cute.

The Square Root of 3 by Dave Feinberg

I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three

The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine

For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic

I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality

When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three

As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer

We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands

Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed
__________________

~Mars vs Venus~

saw a what women do/what men do joke today on someone's blog.
then i saw MORE on a forum. so thought i'd share. haha. enjoy.

Men vs. Women
NICKNAMES
If Laura, Suzanne, Debra and Rose go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Suzanne, Debra and Rose.
If Mike, Charlie, Bob and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla, Peanut-Head and Scrappy.
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EATING OUT
When the bill arrives, Mike, Charlie, Bob and John will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller, and none will actually admit they want change back.
When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.
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MONEY
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he wants.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't want.
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BATHROOMS
A man has six items in his bathroom: a toothbrush, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.
The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify most of these items.
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ARGUMENTS
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
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CATS
Women love cats.
Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.
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FUTURE
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
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SUCCESS
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
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MARRIAGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change and she does.
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DRESSING UP
A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.
A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.
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NATURAL
Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
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OFFSPRING
Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Any married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing.

=D

~ Dreams DO Come True! ~

haha. you know how some people say "in your dreams", or how they say dreams are usually the opposite of reality. hah. well last night i had a dream which can prove all of these dream theories wrong! cos my dream really happened!

last night while sleeping, i dreamt, that i fell asleep! WAHAHA! and i woke up to realise that i really was sleeping when i dreamt that i was asleep! WOW. DREAMS DO COME TRUE.

haha. nothing much to blog for today leh. heh. today rained so i didn go running, just grow fats at home after work. haha. going for ippt soon, gotta train...

Speaking of trains... ohhhh nvm. i already posted on his facebook so i guess its bad enough. haha.

k thats it. byebye!

~ Ore Wo DARE Ga TO Ommotte Yagaru!! ~

Hah. The title translates into: "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM!!!" lol. its a quote from a very nice anime i just finished watching. VERY NICE. lol. incidentally that quote caused some erhh misunderstandings... LOL. but yea do check out the anime, i HIGHLY RECCOMEND IT. its 27 episode long so in my opinion, anyone can finish it in a day if he/she doesn have any important commitments. i finished half in one night and another half in another night. cos i cudn get all 27 in one go. lol.

heres a pic..



click on it to link to a review/summary of the show. waha.


haha. heres something which someone with too much time on his hands did...







WAHAHAHA!!!

ohhh yea. previous post i wrote bout stevy's bday bbq... I left out an interesting detail... haha

That night when the bbq came towards an end, we were pushed along by some over enthusiastic ppl to catch the movie at tiong bahru. as we were already running late we quickly loaded up stevy's bbq stuff and everyone loaded into the cars. we had 3 cars... So we were out of the carpark and on the main road already when my phone rang...

It was stevy.
"Where are you all ah?"

I WAS SHOCKED. we actually left the bday boy behind! OMG!

turns out when we were busy loading up the stuff, he was settling stuff with his other friends cos some of them haven left the bbq pits... so when he went to the carpark... everyone was gone. lol. wth la. sorry stevy.

what was worse was, SENO'S CAR WAS TOTALLY EMPTY!. haha. omg.

k thats all for now. bye

~ Happy Belated Bday To STEVEY! ~

waha. yesterday went J.E library to study with my jap class friends. cos got test today! OMG! haha. it was a VERY tricky test but i'd say overall im still safe ba. i hope =x

Studied till evening then took 2 176, cos the first one was in the wrong direction... zzz... to west coast park to meet up with the gang for stevey's bbq bday celebration! wahaha. i was already late by 1hr plus i tot, wah go there straightaway can eat. end up nobody started cooking anything yet...

so yea basically i TOTALLY didn see it coming but kee chun went as well. haha omg. i tot things wud be pretty awkward but ok la we still managed to have fun as a grp. i didn go up to him and "so... hey........." that wud've been pretty weird wudn it. hah.

after the bbq a portion of the group went home, stevey had his church frens over as well so naturally after the bbq they went their way we went ours. and ours was towards TBP to watch... waddaya know. Forbidden Kingdom. -_-

its a REALLY crappy show. its almost like the whole of china suddenly magically learn how to speak english to accomodate the "foreign talent" Oh. did i mention there was the Monkey God and 白发磨女 as well. And they were fighting enemies who sometimes held ninja daggers. WOW. typical american thinking of "asians". They can never differentiate between chinese and japanese. Even if they do, still have koreans to add to the pot. haha. so yea. DUN WATCH THAT SHOW. urgh.

thats bout it for this post. ciao. anyways we got stevey a digital photo frame =] cos he likes photography and techy stuff. and i think a photo frame is quite meaningful a gift. Now that its digital, the cost justify the sharing, hahahaha, and its alot cooler. hohoho.

~ Please Offset Me! Summore! ~

Haha. No prizes for guessing what this entry is going to be about. lol. anyone haven recieve their happy goody bag letter from the CPF yet? wahaha. as long as its free money, everyone is happy.

due to the difference in the "payout" that everyone gets, its not uncommon to hear people talking bout "WAH. why you get $100 more than me!!"

this is a stark contrast to when i was in camp. IPPT silver wins u $100 and ippt gold wins you $200...

The typical answer to talks about getting gold was:
"AIYAH. CHIONG so hard for what... silver and gold $100 difference only."

Notice that in both cases its a difference of $100, but in the 2nd scenario, 100 dollars was ONLY.

hahaha. PLEASE PLEASE great red lightning, offset me more with your unique offsetting powers!

but yea when you think about it, we really gotta learn how to spend money wisely. Or else bai su will come find you. hahaha. ok nvm.

Anyways i've got a job again. actually i just went back to the first job i had(HENG NOT THE 2nd) Can't afford to be job picky now liao. lol. anyway just nice my ex-successor left for poly. so now my ex-successor become my predecessor! haha. The difference now is that, same work, used to be 3 person handling. Now its down to 2. Lucky the other person is daniel and he is can chiong one. haha.

so same working environment and all that... but like i said i cant afford to be job picky now. plus i've been bumming around for quite awhile already. Although i didn really get my room TOTALLY fixed up in the way i want to... haha. my mom's still complaining everyday. and i KNOW. i promised pictures... =x ごめん

~ HEART PAIN ~

wahh... today, or rather yesterday, was a very painful day for my heart!

first time i use the max limit on my nets! wahhhh



at first i thought would be able to get bank loan or use my dad's cpf to pay for my sch fees... well apparently theres no bank which liaises directly with laselle like they do with the likes of NUS/NTU

then i thought ohh ok use my dad's cpf to pay first ba...
Turns out he just used it to invest in something or some insurance or wad. then have to pay for house... no money to help le. -_-

SIAN DIAO. what to do. pay by cash loh. went down today to give the acceptance form and pay for 1 sem. 2k! wah. heart is very pain...

~ The Bucket List ~

waha. just watched the bucket list with few of my friends just now at vivo. its quite a nice movie. worth a watch. some parts you will really laugh out loud, but overall its still a very meaninful movie. just a little spoiler here. the name bucket list is derived from the fact that its a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket. so the show is basically bout the things you wanna do before the 2 old guys die. it also touched a little on the pt where people's list will change over time... like when you are young and full of energy, maybe in your bucket list is to earn a million dollars. when you get older(and possibly richer) you might not want that anymore. Or it might have already been done. so people add new things to their bucket list. Maybe write a book? haha. thats a common one. so, i think it will be interesting to come up with a bucket list say... every once in awhile, and see how many things you can strike off inbetween the lists. Anyone care to try? haha.

Lalo's Bucket List:
1. cook a meal for my family
2. make an ad that everyone talks about
3. give flowers to the one i love
4. learn to play the saxophone

well... just some things to start off la. i dun see ANY of these in my near future yet but i think its nice to have some goals to work towards. haha. and i tink my mom will just flip if i bring back a sax one day. lol. i don't know if i will even remember to work towards these goals but i tink it would be nice if we could live our lives from bucket list to bucket list. heh.

On to the next matter at hand...

was sorting through my stuff the other day and guess what i found... haha.




BABY PHOTO! haha.

haha. take a look this too...









After yrs of tumbling around, this NCC marksmanship badge has morphed into something more... crude. haha. im sure u notice the 2 "fingers" at the sides. suppose to be M16s. lol. quite apt... like a symbol of being lao jiao. cos when ur lao jiao already can F arnd more. lol.

some photos of the renovation process









Moving out the old furniture(some of it remains). Wall cracks filled with wall putty.






The painting process.



After painting.



Some new furniture in. I realised my orange amp fitted in the shelf VERY nicely. haha...


Hmmm... so thats about it for now. hehe. Kopi Luwak Dinosaur anyone?

~ This Is Late ~

but saw this from a forum which quoted it from mr brown.

http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/2008/04/some-good-news.html

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Some good news finally?

Govt to cut ministerial salaries and fees

SINGAPORE: SINGAPORE may be cutting ministerial salaries as an inflation-taming measure. In addition, government fees will also be cut.
A government spokesperson disclosed this yesterday in response to media queries on what steps the Government could take to alleviate the impact of rising prices.
He said: 'Government fees, although their going up is justified, will be cut indefinitely.
"Where it is within our control, we will cut whatever needs to be cut. Our ministers are already the best paid in the world, they can live with a few hundred thousand less a year."

Consumer price inflation in Singapore hit 6.5 per cent last month from a year ago. In particular, food prices have gone up sharply.
In addition, Woodleigh MRT station will be opened finally, and all trains will run with one-minute intervals during peak hours, and three-minute intervals during off-peak hours. Public transport will no longer be treated as a primarily profit-driven commercial enterprise but a real public service. The rail operators will also not be allowed to raise their fees for three years or pass any costs from fines to their customers.
This was revealed in the Land Transport Masterplan by the Land Transport Authority.
"As part of our people-centred land transport system, we want to end the overcrowding and long waits. No more overcrowded trains and buses, and unnecessary feeder buses!" an LTA spokesperson said.
ERP rates will be cut next month, by as much as 50%. This is in response to motorist feedback on roads where the ERP has not eased congestion in any way. Some gantries may even be dismantled.
Bicycles, previously ignored as a means of transport, will be given dedicated bike lanes where possible, and sharrows where it is not practical to have a bike lane.
The LTA has acknowledged that cycling is more than a leisure or recreational activity but is an environmentally sound mode of transport, and a healthy one too.
"We plan to make it safe for cyclists to ride again, instead of making piecemeal measures towards bicycle and pedestrian safety. We will no longer be using Singapore's land constraints or hot weather as an excuse to ignore this growing group of road users. One more cyclist may mean one less car on the road, you know?" said a spokesperson.
The measures were also introduced to reduce the dangerous practice of pedestrian sidewalk cycling, the spokesman told us.
Lift and estate upgrading will be carried out for all estates, regardless of whether they belong to the ruling party or the opposition. The government has accelerated this program in order to stimulate the economy and because there is a real need for lifts, especially for the elderly.
"An elderly person in an Opposition estate is still an elderly person," said a government spokesperson.
Oh, and Happy April Fools' Day.

haha. thats why i say its late. wudn it be nice if it was true...

~ Renovations ~

haha. so sorry for long haitus again. heh. i've been doing up my room. Just finished painting 4 walls and ceiling. tml see if there are any problems do some touch up then can bring in some new furniture liao! hoho

wah painting is tough work man... haha. ESPECIALLY the ceiling. Gotta crank ur head up and stare at ceiling. Then roller cannot load with too much paint or else it will just rain down on u when u paint, but when the roller is dry its very hard to paint. Need to keep rolling over the same area over and over again.

SO GLAD THAT ITS DONE. hah

gonna get new bed! new shelf unit! haha. possibly a new table? its good to live beside ikea. heh. will show the room when im done. =D

on another note, i STILL haven found a job. =x anyone got job offers or hole heads to intro? hehehe.

jap lessons are really picking up momentum! im starting to lose track of things already. now at numbers and counting. bleah. and i was late for first half of lesson that day too... =x first time late. ½ lesson gone already abit catch no ball =x then exams coming... wah... maybe tml i will sit down and go through my jap for awhile. hmmm hmmm.

so thats all for now. =D take care ppl