HI ALL
WILL BE AWAY FOR FASS CAMP
DON"T MISS ME TOO MUCH
(oh what big ...ego you have)
Monday, June 25, 2007
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Not much random things happening in the world today... tat's why the blog is growing quiet..
but in order to do justice to the amazing creation of the singapore government that is the GSS , like any good member of the proletariat i took my wallet out and spent. a lot. bought a nice top from topman, cargo jacket and pants from S & K. Now i mourn my loss for the next week or so while i pray i recover in time before the sale ends. woe is me.
am looking to acquire a nice tagger bag. Tagger bags for those not in the know allows you to choose the flap, base colour and strap. And the parts are all interchangeable. My eventual creation was this...BEHOLD! Nice eh? 129 gotta start saving.
but in order to do justice to the amazing creation of the singapore government that is the GSS , like any good member of the proletariat i took my wallet out and spent. a lot. bought a nice top from topman, cargo jacket and pants from S & K. Now i mourn my loss for the next week or so while i pray i recover in time before the sale ends. woe is me.
am looking to acquire a nice tagger bag. Tagger bags for those not in the know allows you to choose the flap, base colour and strap. And the parts are all interchangeable. My eventual creation was this...BEHOLD! Nice eh? 129 gotta start saving.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Sorry Qiuyu
hai all if your wondering where the post been i have moved it to drafts together with all the comments. If any of you so called "friends" want it put back up just tell me, i'm sure you would want whats best for your girl.
first of all sorry qiuyu you weren't supposed to see that. I post a lot of personal stuff about that blog and just recently it was made public, so it really was an oversight on my part. if it means anything i didn't really think of all those things your "friends" said. I just thought you could do without the makeup thats all. period. you didn't need it you are already very pretty without it and i would have told you so myself if i knew you any better.
second the post was really less malicious than it looked. i didn't say anything about her beauty without makeup. i didn't use vulgarities. my main point was the makeup looked ugly. and she didn't need it because she looked distinctively better without it! I would have told her if i didn't think it wouldn't be rude, becos frankly speaking qiuyu and i are not very close and she knows that as well. When was the last time any of you went up to a girl you don't know very well and said her makeup was ugly? it would be better if someone she knew hinted to her about it and not spread the link like wildfire becos seriously by doing that, your not being much help.
third i don't know who you all and what sort of things you all blog about. but i don't blog every single mundane event of my life. i blog stuff which i remember when i come home late and just when i'm about to hit the couch. and most of the time this stuff just comes straight out of my head into the computer. so yes forgive me for devoting one single offhand post to one single thing that i can remember in one single day. each one of your posts was way longer than that. you guys win hands down for blowing it out of proportion.
first of all sorry qiuyu you weren't supposed to see that. I post a lot of personal stuff about that blog and just recently it was made public, so it really was an oversight on my part. if it means anything i didn't really think of all those things your "friends" said. I just thought you could do without the makeup thats all. period. you didn't need it you are already very pretty without it and i would have told you so myself if i knew you any better.
second the post was really less malicious than it looked. i didn't say anything about her beauty without makeup. i didn't use vulgarities. my main point was the makeup looked ugly. and she didn't need it because she looked distinctively better without it! I would have told her if i didn't think it wouldn't be rude, becos frankly speaking qiuyu and i are not very close and she knows that as well. When was the last time any of you went up to a girl you don't know very well and said her makeup was ugly? it would be better if someone she knew hinted to her about it and not spread the link like wildfire becos seriously by doing that, your not being much help.
third i don't know who you all and what sort of things you all blog about. but i don't blog every single mundane event of my life. i blog stuff which i remember when i come home late and just when i'm about to hit the couch. and most of the time this stuff just comes straight out of my head into the computer. so yes forgive me for devoting one single offhand post to one single thing that i can remember in one single day. each one of your posts was way longer than that. you guys win hands down for blowing it out of proportion.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
at·ro·phy (ăt'rə-fē) n., pl. -phies.
Pathology. A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use: muscular atrophy of a person affected with paralysis.
A wasting away, deterioration, or diminution: intellectual atrophy.
Oh god i need an exercise regime.
Pathology. A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use: muscular atrophy of a person affected with paralysis.
A wasting away, deterioration, or diminution: intellectual atrophy.
Oh god i need an exercise regime.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Saturday, June 16, 2007
My first wikipedia edit!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stylistics
lol.
Also i'm thinking about starting an article about gatsby and mandom. currently there's really none on english wiki :)
lol.
Also i'm thinking about starting an article about gatsby and mandom. currently there's really none on english wiki :)
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Saturday, June 09, 2007
my antisocial tendencies are kicking in again...more and more i feel like i need some ME time..
MEMEMEMMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEM
I'm a very terriorial being...i need my own personal space lol i remember when i was in pri/sec school i used to fight with Teng Soong all the the time cos one his arm would slightly extend over to my table. Its true what they say GEP boys are more immature..
Anyway more and more i feel like i need to recharge and just do some of my own stuff again haven't had the time to do it anymore..have a piling stuff of things i want to do.
just got Avril Lavinge's new album and i'm not ashamed to say Avril your still the best. In spite of all the obscure/indie pop-rock/alt/folksy stuff i listen to...i'll still come back to you, you two-faced skinny bitch.
MEMEMEMMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEM
I'm a very terriorial being...i need my own personal space lol i remember when i was in pri/sec school i used to fight with Teng Soong all the the time cos one his arm would slightly extend over to my table. Its true what they say GEP boys are more immature..
Anyway more and more i feel like i need to recharge and just do some of my own stuff again haven't had the time to do it anymore..have a piling stuff of things i want to do.
just got Avril Lavinge's new album and i'm not ashamed to say Avril your still the best. In spite of all the obscure/indie pop-rock/alt/folksy stuff i listen to...i'll still come back to you, you two-faced skinny bitch.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Recently there's been some uproar in the local anime community because the main distributor of anime in Singapore, ODEX has just sent a settlement letter to an anime fansubber who downloaded one of their copyrighted materials. Now people are complaining well, because they love to complain (not talking about you tk!)
http://www.riuva.com/astuff/letter.pdf - copy of that letter
Now just several points to highlight:
1. Downloading copyrighted material infringes copyright law. And the company who owns the copyright has the right to prosecute. No argument there. Unless you can somehow twist the law. In which case i salute you.
2. In the US theres the mentality that if an anime is licensed for release, distribution of the fansub is halted at least by those who care about the companies who care to spend money to bring the stuff in. Now thats respect. No such mentality here.
3. If your willing to spend money on anime merchandise you should be willing to spend money to buy the medium on which the anime is stored on. Because this directly affects the companies who produce the anime as well.
4. Local fansub watchers know they have been playing a dangerous, illegal game. in the words of TK you gotta know when to fold, before the house crashes on you.
5. ODEX can't and won't bother to persecute you, if your not distributing material for which they have not obtained license for, and which they will not get revenue from. they don't have the incentive to, they don't have the right to, its god damm free speech. So go ahead and choose wisely.
6. http://miyamoto-sensei.com/lolicontrol/2006/12/31/i-talked-to-odex/
According to this the goverment plans to blanket ban all anime downloads. first of all they wouldn't have much incentive to. Second of all they would not be able to (see point 5). The most they can do is publicise via their local mouthpiece the legal persecution. And other speculation is just playing into their hands by driving fear into the minds of fansub downloaders.
So basically the situation has't changed overnight. the stakes just got higher.
http://www.riuva.com/astuff/letter.pdf - copy of that letter
Now just several points to highlight:
1. Downloading copyrighted material infringes copyright law. And the company who owns the copyright has the right to prosecute. No argument there. Unless you can somehow twist the law. In which case i salute you.
2. In the US theres the mentality that if an anime is licensed for release, distribution of the fansub is halted at least by those who care about the companies who care to spend money to bring the stuff in. Now thats respect. No such mentality here.
3. If your willing to spend money on anime merchandise you should be willing to spend money to buy the medium on which the anime is stored on. Because this directly affects the companies who produce the anime as well.
4. Local fansub watchers know they have been playing a dangerous, illegal game. in the words of TK you gotta know when to fold, before the house crashes on you.
5. ODEX can't and won't bother to persecute you, if your not distributing material for which they have not obtained license for, and which they will not get revenue from. they don't have the incentive to, they don't have the right to, its god damm free speech. So go ahead and choose wisely.
6. http://miyamoto-sensei.com/lolicontrol/2006/12/31/i-talked-to-odex/
According to this the goverment plans to blanket ban all anime downloads. first of all they wouldn't have much incentive to. Second of all they would not be able to (see point 5). The most they can do is publicise via their local mouthpiece the legal persecution. And other speculation is just playing into their hands by driving fear into the minds of fansub downloaders.
So basically the situation has't changed overnight. the stakes just got higher.
Monday, June 04, 2007
The Roundtable Discussion
Yes somewhere amid all that playing and the eating and the chilling out, of all the conversation topics that had to come out, it had to be religion.
I believe that we spoke close to about 3 hours on the damm topic. it began innoncently enough with me expressing my personnal preference to someone close by to be atheistic (?SP). chiefly being that i think a life in heaven playin harpies castrating prostrate in front of GOD is not a life i would want to have. (at this point in time i would like to add that this recreation has been heavily embellished and is chronologically wrong). And that believing in a life after death is simply dimishing the life you have now.
And suddenly i found my views being challenged in the open . Now i hate open confrontation. chiefly because i tend to lose :) But because i was fairly confident of my position well i let it go :)
On my side was the non- christians. On the other side was Daryl - evangelical/charismatic christian. Brian - conservative christian. and Marcus - liberal christian. And because i'm tired and fairly biased (oxymoron? pun?) I'll just briefly sum up their points.
We discussed some fairly heavy topics. Like the evidence for god in the beauty of the world. And the longing inherent in all of us to believe in a god which they said was instilled in us for god to worship him. Which i countered came naturally from us being able to differentiate between whats good for us and whats not bad for us which is in fact a survival mechanism. That same ability to differentiate is what gives us the ability to imagine a perfect life, a perfect world, a perfect being. And this ability is what causes us to form god in our imagination and not the other way around (ie god created this inherent longing in us versus we long for a god, thats why we create god to worship him).
They said how about all the evidence thats been accumalated in favor of the bible like noah's ark and evidence of a flood. I said i believe the bible is a historical record but i don't believe which should take it to be a god's word in the same way that we shouldn't expect billy graham's books to be become a holy book in the future. And they replied that Billy Graham didn't proclaim himself to be the son of god. (which in my mind simply means that billy graham has something that jesus doesn't - sanity). About the most absurd idea i believe i heard was that Noah didn't have room on his ark for dinosaurs thats why they went extinct. haha wtf.
At this point in time it was still ok i believe because they were exposuing about God in general and about morality and sinfulness in the world and about christians in general which i didn't really have an opposition to...But at some point in time the non believers hit upon a fallacy in the system. Daryl was explaining that God was the alpha and omega and he already had a written plan for all of us. At the same time he also said that we each had a choice to make be obedient to god or disobedient to him. Which begs the question....if god wrote the story for all of us..we don't have a choice do we? So why test us in the first place if he already knows the outcome. And then they brought up this analogy of a maths teacher who was giving a test to students. And one of them was a student who always failed, never studied and was patently stupid. The teacher still had to give the test else it wouldn't be fair. But there's obviously something wrong with this analogy. the teacher isn't God. she doesn;t know the outcome of the test. God does. So why does he still give us the test?
At which point QH replied:" because GOD is a bitch."
And so for the rest of the night it settled on this one topic and because they couldn't answer it sufficently enough the tide turned. In the end all the answers pointed to "no one knows what god is thinking" and " its all about faith". We demand understanding, accoutability and logic in all we do why should rely on faith on something so important as this? Because we can never prove god exists but to say that he might exist just because we can't prove it is so wrong. But Yaochen brought up a good point that actually we go about out lifes with a certain degree of uncertainty and actually its all about how much unknowns you can live with. For me between a belief founded on logic and known constants and one that is based on so much faith its pretty obvious which i would choose.
In the end brian put it in succintly when he said why care so much about the things that do not affect you in the end. these macro issues can never be resolved but in the end you should only care about the stuff that affects you...
will add more if i do recall but thats about the gist of it.
I believe that we spoke close to about 3 hours on the damm topic. it began innoncently enough with me expressing my personnal preference to someone close by to be atheistic (?SP). chiefly being that i think a life in heaven playin harpies castrating prostrate in front of GOD is not a life i would want to have. (at this point in time i would like to add that this recreation has been heavily embellished and is chronologically wrong). And that believing in a life after death is simply dimishing the life you have now.
And suddenly i found my views being challenged in the open . Now i hate open confrontation. chiefly because i tend to lose :) But because i was fairly confident of my position well i let it go :)
On my side was the non- christians. On the other side was Daryl - evangelical/charismatic christian. Brian - conservative christian. and Marcus - liberal christian. And because i'm tired and fairly biased (oxymoron? pun?) I'll just briefly sum up their points.
We discussed some fairly heavy topics. Like the evidence for god in the beauty of the world. And the longing inherent in all of us to believe in a god which they said was instilled in us for god to worship him. Which i countered came naturally from us being able to differentiate between whats good for us and whats not bad for us which is in fact a survival mechanism. That same ability to differentiate is what gives us the ability to imagine a perfect life, a perfect world, a perfect being. And this ability is what causes us to form god in our imagination and not the other way around (ie god created this inherent longing in us versus we long for a god, thats why we create god to worship him).
They said how about all the evidence thats been accumalated in favor of the bible like noah's ark and evidence of a flood. I said i believe the bible is a historical record but i don't believe which should take it to be a god's word in the same way that we shouldn't expect billy graham's books to be become a holy book in the future. And they replied that Billy Graham didn't proclaim himself to be the son of god. (which in my mind simply means that billy graham has something that jesus doesn't - sanity). About the most absurd idea i believe i heard was that Noah didn't have room on his ark for dinosaurs thats why they went extinct. haha wtf.
At this point in time it was still ok i believe because they were exposuing about God in general and about morality and sinfulness in the world and about christians in general which i didn't really have an opposition to...But at some point in time the non believers hit upon a fallacy in the system. Daryl was explaining that God was the alpha and omega and he already had a written plan for all of us. At the same time he also said that we each had a choice to make be obedient to god or disobedient to him. Which begs the question....if god wrote the story for all of us..we don't have a choice do we? So why test us in the first place if he already knows the outcome. And then they brought up this analogy of a maths teacher who was giving a test to students. And one of them was a student who always failed, never studied and was patently stupid. The teacher still had to give the test else it wouldn't be fair. But there's obviously something wrong with this analogy. the teacher isn't God. she doesn;t know the outcome of the test. God does. So why does he still give us the test?
At which point QH replied:" because GOD is a bitch."
And so for the rest of the night it settled on this one topic and because they couldn't answer it sufficently enough the tide turned. In the end all the answers pointed to "no one knows what god is thinking" and " its all about faith". We demand understanding, accoutability and logic in all we do why should rely on faith on something so important as this? Because we can never prove god exists but to say that he might exist just because we can't prove it is so wrong. But Yaochen brought up a good point that actually we go about out lifes with a certain degree of uncertainty and actually its all about how much unknowns you can live with. For me between a belief founded on logic and known constants and one that is based on so much faith its pretty obvious which i would choose.
In the end brian put it in succintly when he said why care so much about the things that do not affect you in the end. these macro issues can never be resolved but in the end you should only care about the stuff that affects you...
will add more if i do recall but thats about the gist of it.
EMO BOYS.
CS SHOT. DOOM EAT YOUR HEART OUT
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION I"LL ELABORATE MORE LATER
THIS SHOT SUMMARIES NEATLY WHAT THE VACATION IS ALL ABOUT.
hehe its been a fun 4 days thanks for all who participated in one way or another. and for those whom i have yet to meet (you know who you are) please carve time from your schedules :) be warned what is to follow will be an extremely girly post.
first of celebrated with my working colleagues on thursday. wanted to treat them to ramen and then board games...but they sprang a surprise on me by hiding money in my bag. sneaky bastards. Too bad i don't have photos of the trip its been some time since i played board games :) and to jingfeng if you do read this you missed the point of the trip it was for you to spend some time with us, not for you to enjoy free ramen or for me to get a present -____-. you lose for not coming ...speaking of which they bought me a very nice springfield long sleeve shirt which i love its so warm and cuddly!
friday it was off to bintan which thankfully i have pictures of :) first of a disclaimer the place is a bloody ripoff. Its probably run by singaporeans to suck singaporean money. Seriously the food there is so freaking ex and there's not much you can do there. We went sun tanning , played a beach volleyball shot a few rounds of pellet guns, did archery and a bit of snorkelling but there wasn't much you could see. Would love to post more pictures but i'll prob just wait till someone puts them up on facebook or friendster and link to it. Which i know they will do cos well..theyre photo whores. Especially marcus.
came back, slept till sunday and then it was off to IT show to grab a printer and hard disk after which i scooted off to dinner with family. again no pictures :( but it was a $158 meal with shark's fins, chili crab and black pepper crab, teochew steamed fish, cereal prawns, a real chinese seafood meal. and then scooted off again to KTV session with my precious bottle of Absolute Kurant. Which right now is sitting prettily (prettily empty) on my desk.
total haul with a bit of creative steering (actually quite obvious steering as my colleagues will attest to :) : one springfield shirt. one fossil watch. one myuk wallet. one hard disk. one goldlion tie. keep them coming.
so point of this story? i wasn't hiding i was celebrating my bday phuckers.
first of celebrated with my working colleagues on thursday. wanted to treat them to ramen and then board games...but they sprang a surprise on me by hiding money in my bag. sneaky bastards. Too bad i don't have photos of the trip its been some time since i played board games :) and to jingfeng if you do read this you missed the point of the trip it was for you to spend some time with us, not for you to enjoy free ramen or for me to get a present -____-. you lose for not coming ...speaking of which they bought me a very nice springfield long sleeve shirt which i love its so warm and cuddly!
friday it was off to bintan which thankfully i have pictures of :) first of a disclaimer the place is a bloody ripoff. Its probably run by singaporeans to suck singaporean money. Seriously the food there is so freaking ex and there's not much you can do there. We went sun tanning , played a beach volleyball shot a few rounds of pellet guns, did archery and a bit of snorkelling but there wasn't much you could see. Would love to post more pictures but i'll prob just wait till someone puts them up on facebook or friendster and link to it. Which i know they will do cos well..theyre photo whores. Especially marcus.
came back, slept till sunday and then it was off to IT show to grab a printer and hard disk after which i scooted off to dinner with family. again no pictures :( but it was a $158 meal with shark's fins, chili crab and black pepper crab, teochew steamed fish, cereal prawns, a real chinese seafood meal. and then scooted off again to KTV session with my precious bottle of Absolute Kurant. Which right now is sitting prettily (prettily empty) on my desk.
total haul with a bit of creative steering (actually quite obvious steering as my colleagues will attest to :) : one springfield shirt. one fossil watch. one myuk wallet. one hard disk. one goldlion tie. keep them coming.
so point of this story? i wasn't hiding i was celebrating my bday phuckers.
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