what a day 2

what a day

My laziness is getting worse, same as my eye sight.
Leave a comment if you have any constructive suggestions or thoughts.
There's a reason why i did not put up a tagboard. Thank you

I GOT FIRED...FINALLY

Finally…yes finally. It has all come to an end, the day I end my service to the government. End of it all and all I feel is a little gladness and tiredness. To think that last year I actually plotted to sabotage my CO’s office with a dead rat while leaving my name there, just so that he would FIRE me. But of course I didn’t, I wouldn’t get fired, I’ll just be AWARDED with more opportunity to bring extra service to my country. I’m not so stupid.

It is definitely a good feeling, leaving the island with all my bags. Passing by people and it will immediately strike to them, “ This is a good man. Leave and don’t ever look back.”

I still remember this year’s Chinese New Year, where I had my futile effort to collect more red packets for extra allowance. I actually brought mandarin oranges to camp for my chief clerk, which then she took out her son’s donation card and I donated $5. She later, out of guilt, gave me a red packet with $4 inside. Very scheming woman. This is just one of the many funny moments I was recalling while on my way home. I was trying to hide my smile so that other commuters will not think I’m a lunatic smiling to myself.

Had numerous handshakes, farewells and answering to the question “Hey when you ord ?”

“Today today”

“Wah. All the best man.”

…I did this at least 10 times today.

Usually for ORD personnel, they would be bringing in food, drinks or treating others to lunch. I however, did not. Mainly because I wanted to save money and secondly I find it unnecessary. I thought of this act as an act to repent guilt or an act to make people remember you. Firstly, I do not feel guilty at all, I had done my best for my job and secondly, for those who would remember me as a true friend, WILL remember me. When leaving the place, I already knew who are the potential ones who will still call me out for a movie and who are the ones I will only meet on a very coincidental-one-fine-day, but of course I would keep these names to myself.

This is definitely a rewarding experience for me. Making new friends and finally understanding the importance of sincerity while socializing. A formula I told my understudy, Joel, whenever he faces a problem, is to know the subject and know who to look for. Even for the Head Manpower officer who I very seldom or close to zero socializing with, told me something meaningful today. He assured my decision to study and to continue living like a brat, is a correct decision. No of course he didn’t agree with the living like a brat, but to me these two come together.

Regarding my reservice, i already had a rough idea at a very early part of my service. It was that day i saw this old, no i shouldn't say he's old but more like very matured, man at the headquarter. He was slogging on the office chair while reading newspaper and he could practically use his belly as a coffee table for his convenience. It was that day that i know..."This is my future. This will be me." It was that day that i know i will have a self-rewarding reservice time, reflecting on my life, reading up on current affairs and deciding on whether i should be switching inbetween chaw kuay teow and laksa for lunch on alternate days. Yes.

End of the day I just want to say that it feels good, to hell with that island and lastly, that my mother will be shocked to see the amount of clothes I brought back home to increase her productivity. I know she will go like this…

“ Wah! WO DE MA AH~~ ” translation: “ Wah! Ma Ma Mi Ah~~ “

one for another 3

one for another 2

one for another

My first comic strip. Click to enlarge.
Yes i am lazy on the details and i even shrunk the size to hide them, thank you.
Enjoy or be cursed

Motivating Changes

Received my transcript from Temasek I requested last week, which cost me $10. Further proves the fact that I am an average student, looking at the grades. B,C,B,C and occasional Ds, even F for model making. But to my surprise, I got an A for one subject and that is Cultural Anthropology. I have to recall very hard on what the hell I did to get an A for that and then I finally remembered I did an observation on how people can motivate changes.

My observation is done on basic daily activities, on the things people do for their convenience which inturn motivates how differently things can be done.

For example, the pavement around the neighborhood, you will find certain constructed pavements that guide which way people should be walking or pre-thought on which way people will be walking. The pavement leads to the road and there is a traffic light 30 meters to the left. Across the traffic light is a shopping mall which people often visit. So instead of walking by the proper pavement and then making a left turn to the traffic light, some people will cut across the grass patch diagonally to shorten the distant. Day after day, an obvious path will be seen on the grass and more people start to take that shorter path instead of the constructed pavement. Then after some time, you will see proper pavement is laid on the dried grass patch. Same to certain fields you see next to bus interchange, Pasir Ris is one of them.

If you put serious casual thoughts about it, you may notice such changes and how it could be due to previous actions done. The stairs, lifts, corridor, seats at void decks and etc. By observing the changes in the surrounding and studying the behavior of people interacting with the surrounding, you may even deduce what you will be expecting before it even happens. Or maybe you could intentionally motivate such changes by indirectly motivating the common users to follow your actions. This will generate more users to drive this change permanent. Now wouldn’t that be fun?

Chinese Room

I went Peninsula today and then gab around for awhile. Went in Gramophone and saw this album which interest me pretty much to buy, but did not because it is $50!!! Maybe some good hearted will buy me this as a present? Or if anyone knows where to download this illegally, i will expose the webmaster to the officials, yes. Below is a review by an Amazon customer.

Reviewer: KC "metroxing" (Northern CA)
This is a serious blending of Chinese traditional music and trip hop downtempo acid jazz. If you like both equally as much, you will appreciate this nicely blended mix of East & West. For mixologists and DJ's - If you want a few exotic tracks to drop into your mix for an audience that appreciates you stretching the boundaries - then this CD is for you.

There are a lot of dance CD that purports to be Chinese exotic but are afraid to venture too far - just dropping in a few gongs, a few pipa or a few zithers and some audio sounds of a martial arts movie over a thumpa-thumpa bed of bass lines ... if that's more your cup of ... er ... Lipton ... then this CD is not for you.

This is a serious mix of Chinese traditional music and trip hop ... but also know, it's not just some New Agey attempt at 'chill.' This is not just some quasi-Asian riffs dropped over a bed of drum machine bleeps ... but serious downtempo trip hop all mixed nicely with the traditional music of China.

Your path outside the safe begins with this CD ...

Tracks

1. Wandering Strongstress - Chow Hsuan

2. Old Fashioned Thief - Duran Y Garcia

3. Emperor's Main Course in Cantonese - Kid Koala

4. Musical Bonzeye - High Tone

5. Supervision - Wang Lei

6. China Girl [#] - DJ Cam

7. Tied by 12 - East Flatbush Project

8. Beijing by Night

9. Shangaï Streets

10. Xian Red Silk

11. Villée - Magic Dragon

12. Ghetto Blaster

13. Peking Hustle [#]

14. Erthu Style

15. Inspector Cube

16. Keep Walking