Thought of the day

"It is not very wise to use the word 'cartel' in the name of a cafe."

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Happy Birthday Hoiching (boy, this is late!)

Thanks for inviting me to the chalet, even if I didn't stay for the whole thing.

checking chequeing cheque checks

Rachel's got a laptop!

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I'm not going to work 9 to 5. Eww. Not on this job at least. Staring at the computer for the better part of the 9 hours, increasing my myopia by at least a hundred degrees. Clearing cheques is so monotonous, I fell asleep. And when I asked around, I wasn't, fortunately, the only one.

Here are two of the most interesting stuff I've come across today:
The largest amount chequed that I handled: 1.5 million SGD
The smallest amount chequed that I handled: 2.50 SGD
I was imagining a man clad in a three-piece business suit who ordered a bowl of meepok-ta at a hawker centre, only to find out that he forgot to bring his wallet, so he went "Uncle, uncle! Got accept cheque onot?"

See how boring this job is. I even found such trivial things amusing.

At least the people are nice.

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My Infatuation.

I don't care what he is.
blue
red
purple
orange
yellow
brown

I'll love him.

It really is all about him.
Beautiful, gorgeous him.

His presence is louder than anyone else's voice.
He feels more tangible than anything else.
He smells better than Chanel No.5.

I hope you'll love me too Mr Money.

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Ok that was really stupid.

Ok really really stupid.

fob

the missing pieces have come together
criticism under the facade has come through
enough of the masquerading already
i now see the true you.

merry new year

spent the last day making full use of my ezlink card.

my heart sank when i finally heard only one beep when i tapped the card on the trip home.

it cost $1.25 to get back from orchard.

i am so mercenary. i only care for my bus fares.

what's the point of playing like mad on new year's eve and start the new year zombified. haha. off to sleep!

Merry New Year everyone!!

Merry Christmas To All!

happy christmas guys. Spread the cheer and laughter. Two days late (:

ok I was quite busy on christmas eve with the party thingie with the lyes, a little groggy on christmas morning and afternoon and had dinner with the family on christmas night. Follow that up with another gathering on boxing day morning and meeting up with a friend in the afternoon and yet another gathering at night. Phew.

The party was pretty fun. It wasn't really meant to be an ultra-christmassy christmas party but just a gathering before more guys go to NS. It'd be really hard to get them for future gatherings when that happens. I'd like to thank all the lyes for contributing and the birthday present and especially cy for the surprise birthday cake, that was real nice of you. And oh ya! I loved sweet serendipity. Gratifying confections on every page. Sweet.

Popping over to peach garden (the road name not the restaurant) for lunch later with my aunt and watching Narnia after that with shar.

Going out with Tang Wei to get his crumpler bag and lunch on Wednesday.
And King Kong after that with 6J people at 6pm. Sooo looking forward to that, it's been so long since the last outing.

I'm not really the type who posts events up diligently. I'm just writing my schedule down because I'm afraid I'd forget. Haw.Haw.

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After leonard's description of his hot chocolate, I was so impressed i decided to make my own 50ml of pure ultra-sweet melted chocolate . Slathered on loads and loads of whipped cream. The amount of whipped cream was so much more than the chocolate though. haha. Whipped cream is my weakness.

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Here's a song I'd like to dedicate to Ming. Lol. I think my repeated singing of this song was the origin of the rubber duckie nickname. I had so much fun squeezing the rubber duckies along with the song (:

Rubber Duckie
sung by Ernie (Jim Henson)
Written by Jeffrey Moss

(spoken)
Well, here I am in my tubby again. And my tubby's all filled up with water and nice fluffy suds.
And I've got my soap and my washcloth ... look at this ...
and I got my nifty scrub-brush, to help me scrub my back.
And I got my big, BIG, fluffy towel to dry me off when I'm done.
And there's one other thing that makes tubby-time the very best time of the whole day and you know what that is? A very special friend of mine, my very favorite little pal ....

(sung)

Rubber Duckie, you're the one
You make bathtime lots of fun
Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fond of you
(woh woh, bee doh!)

Rubber Duckie, joy of joys
When I squeeze you, you make noise!
Rubber Duckie, you're my very best friend, it's true!
(doo doo doo doooo, doo doo)

CHORUS:
Every day when I
Make my way to the tubby
I find a little fella who's
Cute and yellow and chubby
(rub-a-dub-a-dubby!)

Rubber Duckie, you're so fine
And I'm lucky that you're mine
Rubber duckie, I'm awfully fond of you

Hey Rubber Duckie, would you like me to scrub your back with my nifty little scrub-brush?
You would? Okay!
How's this?
Hey, you want me to scrub behind you ears?
Oh I see! You don't have any ears, do you?
Well how about your tummy? Scrub your little duckie tummy! Ooo ticklish!

(repeat chorus)

Rubber Duckie, you're so fine
And I'm lucky that you're mine
Rubber duckie, I'm awfully fond of
Rubber duckie, I'd like a whole pond of
Rubber duckie I'm awfully fond of you!

(doo doo, be doo)

hydrogen bull

From Speech by Dr Yaacob Ibrahim:
Given the current global energy supply situation coupled with the concern over climate change, I think it is timely for such a gathering of experts and specialists to take place. Hydrogen, as we know, is a clean-burning fuel. It can be burnt or used in fuel cells where hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water, generating electricity without the emission of pollutants or greenhouse gases normally associated with the burning of fossil fuel. I understand that this convention will showcase the latest developments in hydrogen and fuel cell technology, which has long-term benefits for both our environment and the industry.

Ah. The promise of clean air and a better environment. With the efficient burning of hydrogen in the new oh so environmentally friendly hydrogen-powered fuel cell cars, who needs conventional gasoline? What a load of crap.

While it's true that water is the only by-product and there'd be zero emissions from the car, it is necessary to realise that it is not easy to extract hydrogen. Remember electrolysis of water? That's the way to produce hydrogen, but we're forgetting that electrolysis requires electricity, which comes from our usual power stations that burn oil, again. And that just means that the pollution will not be coming directly from the car, but concentrated at the power stations. The process, per car, produces about 40% more pollution than the emissions of a car running on gas. Hydrogen is also expensive and dangerous to compress and the lousy hydrogen fuel has lousy mileage and travels real slowly and my point is, stick to the conventional gasoline until we find a better fuel.

So much for "revolutionizing fuel technology". Unless they use natural gas to replace oil as the primary fuel for power stations or use clean renewable resources like the sun for electricity, there really is not much point of using the supposedly-cleaner hydrogen fueled cars.

I really liked the idea of Mr. Fusion from Back To The Future II that used rubbish as fuel. Or, more accurately, would be using rubbish as fuel. Cool!

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Thanks for the birthday treat guys. It was great.

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Haha. Ah Mok is FINALLY 18.

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Yay going out to have seafood later with minxuan! Cool.

The Groovy Movie Week

The Disney channel's groovy movie week so lives up to its name :) Dinosaur's on now.

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I love Gerald Durell books. His "My Family And Other Animals" was the one that inspired me to be a zoologist, at least for now (: Too bad that's the only one I have. Saw "A Zoo In My Luggage" the other day, but my pocket had too huge a blackhole to allow it.

On Playgrounds

Why don't new playgrounds have monkey bars. Or swings?

Monkey bars and swings are what make playgrounds, playgrounds. And the reason they're removed? Safety. Have the kids half a generation younger than us become more puny, or in any way, more susceptible to playground dangers than we were? What's a few cuts and grazes, or a little splinter or splintered bone? Depriving children from normal exposure such as these (ok, maybe not the splintered bone) and the learning of playground etiquette would probably cause even greater mishap.

Swinging and monkeybar-ing are the apex of playground life. Especially the art of swinging at least 50° from the vertical and feeling the wind at 80km/h. I can't imagine a babyish next generation that cannot SWING or hang upsidedown from the monkey bars. It's deplorable. It's tragic.

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Mulan rocks. The cudgel scenes were so cool. I think it's the last disney cartoon movie that left a lasting impression. Lilo and Stitch was cute, but not memorable. Chicken Little lasted a pathetic 1hr 10min.

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Oh man. Can't go Taiwan.