114096863421963570 Sunday, Feb 26 2006

ok now i’m having a little trouble typing here.. but i’m taking pains to go backspace and correct all the typo mistakes. i injured my left hand, particularly at the wrist part that i can’t move or twist my hand too much else there will be a pain.

went roller blading today with andre shiqing and dezhi. i was the only amateur amongst the rest. when they went to a slope i was feeling rather exhilarated by the high speed i’m sliding down that i didn’t realise i was losing control and fell hard on my back while still at high speed. fuck…
back hurts very much immediately but now the pain has subsided. used my left arm to break the fall. which explains why my wrist hurts like fuck now. apart from that, a graze on my left knee which resulted in three unsightly blood stains on my berms.

it’s ok, after that we all went slowly (and i felt guilty for that) but upon reaching another slope, i obviously haven’t learnt my lesson and… fell again. this time i wisely used my right hand to break the fall. just then, a rollerblader whizzed past me, with the blades brushing past my middle finger. had two rather bloody grazes on the middle finger (which thank god are superficial, but painful still) and as a result now i can’t point middle finger at anyone, since i’m right handed.

maybe will see doct tomorrow.. on off already anyway..

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114062679732428114 Thursday, Feb 23 2006

after we were done with all these rather interesting johari / nohari analyses, jov and i questioned why it’s so hard to accept the noharis of everyone else at times. i can be *quite* intolerant (not surprising mah), despite my utmost efforts to accept the shorts of those around me. just that i try my best not to show it heh. in fact, i think everyone resist differences in others. if not, why would there be so many conflicts around? a pacifist is usually weak, but there’s this trait in a pacifist that we really ought to have. for a start, we can try looking at the joharis in everyone before making ourselves mad at their noharis. but of course this is really really easier said than done. still, we must try.

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114042869350572913 Monday, Feb 20 2006

heh. the long-awaited season of clearing off / leave is here. finally!! but i think i’m like the only one celebrating… together with a few others? muahahahaha.

the past weekend hasn’t been total boredom. had a barbecue session at my grandmother’s house specially for esther, just before she leaves for sydney. as usual, didn’t eat much at barbecues, but had a hell lot of tiger prawns which tasted really nice.

after which, we made an impromptu decision to go kbox. for nine of us, the 3-hour period (2300 – 0200) allocated for us wasn’t very long. each of us did probably around 6 or 7 songs… good enough. we had a brief moment of comic relief when esther and i transformed a super sentimental albeit overheard song (“wu ding”) into a test of our vocal abilities, when we decided to switch our gender at the second portion of the song. fine, everyone was laughing when i projected my falsetto but i thought it was quite well done.

watched “jarhead” with richie and jeff on sunday. hmmm. i personally feel that his first show (“american beauty”) is still way better. but luckily the rest of us found it decent. (which assuaged my guilt for keep pestering them to watch, esp. richie, since the start of the week.) had a cheap dinner before walking from PS slowly to orchard, in between stopping by HMV and listening to richie introducing to us all his favourite opera singers.

enjoyed and even took pains to relish my half day today. just came back from nydc lunch, complete with more rubbish talking with qx.

sounds like a lot of money spent the past few days… not when my aunt magnanimously paid for all our kbox expenses, and even our cab fares.

a slight dampening on all the pleasant thoughts of going home early from now on, if at all. realised that there is a FUCKING retreat on the 7th march. but to be fair, the announcement came early enough. just that my leave / off schedule has been planned even earlier. now have to cancel leave / off etc because all my days are either filled with off or leave and i can’t combine the two together. sounds damn jialat right?

…

ok, i know this is damn bastard of me lol. just that…. i seriously don’t want to go to the retreat. it’s…. so…. bloody… out of point! if only they hold the goddamned thing on say 26th april or something. argh….

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113975769794694192 Sunday, Feb 12 2006

think i’m falling sick again. it’s really my fault, for not taking care of myself despite having a bad cough / sore throat for a few days now. and sleeping at five, then waking up on my own at nine (even though i already set the alarm at 1130) didn’t help.

anyway, went to holland v (good old holland v!) to have chicken rice at the newly renovated food centre with zhiyun, dexter, lincoln, huilin and xiaowei. sort of a final gathering before zhiyun and dexter fly to melbourne for their studies…

it’s quite funny to see how our casual conservation slowly evolving into slight disgruntled attacks on the yong yoo lin school of medicine (issat how it’s spelt now? hmm..) for rejecting us: zy, dexter and i. for their case, they were saying it’s probably a blessing in disguise that they are studying medicine in melbourne since melbourne offers more research options. and when they happen to make a huge breakthrough next time they’ll thank melbourne for giving them the chance, and nus for rejecting them so that they had no choice but to go to melbourne. we are all talking rubbish, of course.

after that, hl and xw went off for church, while dexter drove us to kallang river for a slow walk along the park and reminiscing the good ol’ canoeing days (for the case of dexter and zy) before we proceeded to taka to watch some teenage superstar thing.

i don’t know whether to laugh or to be annoyed at how this whole superstar program is saturated with anti-drug propaganda. ok granted, this is a program aimed at teenagers, so maybe it is appropriate. maybe it’s just me who thinks that the propaganda is a tad out of place. (really i feel they should’ve separated these two altogether!)

i mean, imagine how one feels when one is treated with a slew of “funky” dance programs, each followed by an “sports in drugs out message” which always sound something like this:

“why would you wanna takes drugs when you could have spent the time playing soccer? soccer is cool! drugs are not! stay cool!”

or

“do you want to live longer? then don’t take drugs. play hockey instead. drugs will ruin your life!”

i am constantly reminded of the brief scene in “harold and kumar go to white castle” where , erm, harold and kumar, were watching this tv featuring an “anti-drug commercial”:

two guys: (after having some pot brownies or something) oh man! we’re so stoned!
guy 1: i am sooo high i can do anything! (proceeds to take a rifle and aim at his own mouth)
guy 2: nooooo!
(bang)
message: drugs can KILL.

but do take note that the latter is meant as a joke, while the former isn’t. that’s why zhiyun and i just kept laughing throughout! it’s so bloody hilarious..

other stuff worthy of mention….

1) watched “the constant gardener”. some drama from the director of “city of god”. this guy really produces pretty cool shit!

2) downloaded “waxworks” from this cool abandonware page (together with other games) and parents are complaining that games today are violent?! this is a game made 13 years ago and we are bombarded with images of people with their ribs removed, throats slit, eyes gouged, most of them dismembered brutally…. maybe it’s just that parents are more aware of such things in recent years… which sucks for their kids of course.

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113961566556884538 Saturday, Feb 11 2006

i don’t know if i was a bit high on all the drinks; i actually shook master’s hand very forcefully and told him (almost tearfully) that i would really miss him.

i wouldn’t have done the same thing at other times. although, i did mean what i said very much..

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113958904640347904 Saturday, Feb 11 2006

although i’ve made only a minor contribution (my students are very hardworking and willing to learn, thank god), i’m still very happy that they did well for their o levels. such is the satisfaction of teaching. yea, all those days of setting questions / preparing notes / researching through the internet etc., at the expense of my life, is really worth it, no matter how tiring it has been.

congrats to my students for getting the courses they want!

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113948319992472791 Thursday, Feb 9 2006

thanks to our epi supervisor who chose to conduct some rehearsals at the last minute, i have to cancel my half day leave tomorrow. but no matter, my boss has compensated by letting me go “ooc” and i reached home at 4 plus. hence, out of boredom, i imitated this from the actual song.

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113915315091630175 Sunday, Feb 5 2006

thinking that i have saved a great deal of money by staying at home all day yesterday, i decided to indulge myself in some cds which i have been eyeing for a long time. hence, $40 gone just like that.

“in between dreams” – jack johnson

“hypnotize” – system of a down

both albums rock, (although their highlight songs, which i already have, are still the best.) but i think i enjoy SOAD a bit more.

swam 20 laps with jeff today. had a bit of a misunderstanding with him. his idea of 20 laps is 20 times to and fro. which is equal to my 40 laps. luckily we followed my plan instead. lol…

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113915248887235097 Sunday, Feb 5 2006

on the danish cartoons. theoretically there is nothing wrong with publishing them (initially.) under the grounds of “free speech”. there is no reason to compromise when people have poked fun of other religions, esp. christianity, even to bigger extents than this. if they give way this time, they are indirectly implying that those harmless asian jokes or gay bashes should also be considered taboo.

but on the other hand, in the current light of the situation, maybe it will be wise if they practise some tact when publishing articles. i mean, i don’t think the singapore government or the states will condemn the act so vehemently if it’s a joke about jesus christ. so basically we are not against making fun of religion; but rather we want to avoid the violent backlash that will result from the publishing of the cartoons. (and for the US, to gain much needed support from asian and middle eastern countries.) they should have better sense to expect this kind of reaction and not publish such so-called offensive cartoons, at least not now, or in the near future. practically, it’s not wise to do so. but still it’s understandable, because we must all advocate free speech.

what’s truly unforgiving is the other papers’ retaliation by reprinting all the cartoons everyday. anyone can see their intentions of doing so. (burn motherfucker burn) the argument of free speech cannot stand in this situation.

then again, chanting “down, down, EU” and burning flags and staging violent protests in response to … 12 cartoons, is really inappropriate, and childish, to say the least. to those very small minorities who threaten with something even more deadly: there’s nothing wrong with protesting (remember: free speech) , but why can’t you protest in a peaceful manner, basically, like what everyone else is doing?

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