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1:55 PM
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Hi guys, I've just completed the picture link on my blog, feel free to go and take a look and leave a comment on my tagboard, thanks. Cheers !
Friday, October 19, 2007
Ok i think this is stupid, they are freeing the bird or whatever it is and the bird just wont fly.
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12:46 PM
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Gotten this from some sites, here to share.
Dear Ah Beng,
You know, ha, the recent thing about the Gahmen Salary Top-up (GST) has made the fambly si peh unhappy!
The lau hiao my husband, now comprain so much at home, I have to send him out of the flat everyday. I told him ah, you retire orredy also can go back to work again, now with booming economy and prices all going up. You espect us to eat kiam her png everyday ah, when other peepur got abalone porridge! Can go wash the foodcourt jamban and get paid mah, instead of whole life hanging out in Geylang Lorong 44 wasting money on the kway! Everything soon want 7% GST. Even the kway, I tell you.
I also very unhappy with my mahjong kaki, they also think of following Gahmen, want to charge GST on bets! Where got fun?
Only my sway kiah, that one who works in the cheng hu chu, the Manpowder one, ah, he smiling now. Smile for futt, I say! You give your lau bu 7% more kopi money then you smile!
Everybody got living standard. How you espect a lau ah mah to live lai dat, ah? Got advice or not?
Lim Bu
Dear Lim Bu,
All the hiah tee kia here at the Chap Sar Tiam Secret Society are also si peh too lan about the Gahmen Salary Top-up. The Gahmen make us all look damn lau kwee!
They say high salary is meant to make corruption more difficult. Na beh! How do you think that makes us – the people who work in the corruption industry – feel?
Chao Gahmen, whole life interfering and taking over private sector business! With this pay increase, now they also want to potong jalan the corruption business!
But neh’mine, it just means we all must upgrade our services and compete. Our bribes must just be higher, that’s all. After all, the message we’re getting is that public service is not the driving force behind the Gahmen or civil service. It’s just money. So is all a question of price only.
Eh! Sorry for going out of point. Pai seh, pai seh!
So… you want to know how to live in a more and more espensive society, ah?
Not easy, leh. Because unless you’re a Minister or some tua kee professional, just working hard and relying on pay is not enough.
Taking on extra job also no point. No matter how many food court jambans you clean, also cannot earn enough to make a difference.
And then last time, if we really got no money, can always go Geylang and sell backside. But now, here got all the China, Thai and other foreign talent kways who are so much cheaper. (And don’t get angry, hor, Lim Bu… but I also think Geylang dun have a lot of demand for your lau ah mm backside.)
We just have to accept globalization and that we boh pian must compete worldwide.
But why must we stay here and accept the Gahmen’s double standards? Why not go to another cheaper country, and start our own double standards there?
After all, if Ministers need more money so they won’t quit, then we all should learn from them, mah. And since they say we cannot be paid more in case we develop a ‘crutch’ mentality, then following their argument, we should quit.
So maybe other countries won’t treat you as well as their nationals. But then, our Gahmen also treat foreign nationals better, so sama-sama. It’s easier to just get out of their elite, uncaring face.
Don’t forget to take out all your CPF when you go, hor.
AH BENG
Extrated from: Dear AhBeng (http://www.talkingcock.com/html/article.php?sid=2261)
Dear Ah Beng,
You know, ha, the recent thing about the Gahmen Salary Top-up (GST) has made the fambly si peh unhappy!
The lau hiao my husband, now comprain so much at home, I have to send him out of the flat everyday. I told him ah, you retire orredy also can go back to work again, now with booming economy and prices all going up. You espect us to eat kiam her png everyday ah, when other peepur got abalone porridge! Can go wash the foodcourt jamban and get paid mah, instead of whole life hanging out in Geylang Lorong 44 wasting money on the kway! Everything soon want 7% GST. Even the kway, I tell you.
I also very unhappy with my mahjong kaki, they also think of following Gahmen, want to charge GST on bets! Where got fun?
Only my sway kiah, that one who works in the cheng hu chu, the Manpowder one, ah, he smiling now. Smile for futt, I say! You give your lau bu 7% more kopi money then you smile!
Everybody got living standard. How you espect a lau ah mah to live lai dat, ah? Got advice or not?
Lim Bu
Dear Lim Bu,
All the hiah tee kia here at the Chap Sar Tiam Secret Society are also si peh too lan about the Gahmen Salary Top-up. The Gahmen make us all look damn lau kwee!
They say high salary is meant to make corruption more difficult. Na beh! How do you think that makes us – the people who work in the corruption industry – feel?
Chao Gahmen, whole life interfering and taking over private sector business! With this pay increase, now they also want to potong jalan the corruption business!
But neh’mine, it just means we all must upgrade our services and compete. Our bribes must just be higher, that’s all. After all, the message we’re getting is that public service is not the driving force behind the Gahmen or civil service. It’s just money. So is all a question of price only.
Eh! Sorry for going out of point. Pai seh, pai seh!
So… you want to know how to live in a more and more espensive society, ah?
Not easy, leh. Because unless you’re a Minister or some tua kee professional, just working hard and relying on pay is not enough.
Taking on extra job also no point. No matter how many food court jambans you clean, also cannot earn enough to make a difference.
And then last time, if we really got no money, can always go Geylang and sell backside. But now, here got all the China, Thai and other foreign talent kways who are so much cheaper. (And don’t get angry, hor, Lim Bu… but I also think Geylang dun have a lot of demand for your lau ah mm backside.)
We just have to accept globalization and that we boh pian must compete worldwide.
But why must we stay here and accept the Gahmen’s double standards? Why not go to another cheaper country, and start our own double standards there?
After all, if Ministers need more money so they won’t quit, then we all should learn from them, mah. And since they say we cannot be paid more in case we develop a ‘crutch’ mentality, then following their argument, we should quit.
So maybe other countries won’t treat you as well as their nationals. But then, our Gahmen also treat foreign nationals better, so sama-sama. It’s easier to just get out of their elite, uncaring face.
Don’t forget to take out all your CPF when you go, hor.
AH BENG
Extrated from: Dear AhBeng (http://www.talkingcock.com/html/article.php?sid=2261)
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11:34 PM
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Hey, guys!
There will be a dance workshop conducted by Gin and Daniel, both from O School, tomorrow (14th Oct) at Esplanade @ 5pm. What's the deal? It's absolutely free of charge! So get down and join in the fun for that lovely sunday evening!
There will be a dance workshop conducted by Gin and Daniel, both from O School, tomorrow (14th Oct) at Esplanade @ 5pm. What's the deal? It's absolutely free of charge! So get down and join in the fun for that lovely sunday evening!
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10:44 PM
We will be meeting 5pm at HOUGANG MALL for a dinner at Ajisen Japanese Restaurant (place for eating might by changing due to the majority choice.) Please comfirm ASAP for the attendance wise. Thank you. =))))))))
Red,lawbaoman.
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5:58 AM
Friday, October 12, 2007
Saturday, October 6, 2007
*(Got this from some forum)
Did you always believe that it was only the poorly-educated
Singaporeans who believed in feng shui and all that unscientific
mumbo-jumbo? Well, I did until I started to pay attention to the conversation around my parents' dinner table. Then I discovered that maybe I did not know as much as I thought I did. So, here goes ...
WHY PLANT TREES?
Ever wonder why Singapore is known as a Garden City. Why would Singapore go around planting trees? After all, maintaining a Garden City is very expensive. Well, here's the answer - if you were to look at Singapore from the top, Singapore resembles a crab, with its mouth the Singapore river and its back facing Malaysia. We all know that cooked crabs (that means dead crabs) are red, the colour of barren ground. But a live crab is basically a dark shade of green. So, by planting trees, you make Singapore look green and not red, and therefore alive.
TWO PROMINENT DISTRICTS
Lee Kuan Yew runs Tanjong Pagar while Goh Chok Tong is in Marine Parade. If you look at Singapore as a crab again, these two locations are situated at the positions where the claws of a crab will be. We know the strongest parts of a crab are its claws, so there they are.
HOW SINGAPORE WAS CONQUERED
To kill a crab, you stick the chopstick at the side of the crab... which is exactly where the Japanese attacked and conquered Singapore.
KALLANG RIVER CLEAN-UP
Why clean up a river that spells different memories for many Singaporeans and was one of the reasons for our prosperity in the early years? During the 80's recession, we had just completed the Benjamin Sheares bridge... which happens to suspend over the Singapore river, the mouth of the crab. This is as good as tying the mouth of the crab, thus choking it .. .. which explains the recession. In order to get out of it, one way was to clean up the river so that the mouth is clean and wealth can flow in without obstruction.
Sounds unbelievable? But it seems logical, doesn't it? NBC
Here's another thing for you to think about whether you believe it or not. Please reach into your pocket and search for a one-dollar coin, and take a good look at it. It is round, no doubt, but it also has a unique Octagonal design - which is an imporant symbol in Chinese Geomancy or feng shui. This is where the story of this coin begins.
On the island of Singapore lived a very influential man named Lee. He is very particular about feng shui, i.e. man's balance with nature. There is a particular day and also time of day to inaugurate any important event. There is also a particular colour of dress, when it comes to important occasions, and so on. He has a feng shui mentor - a famous monk, a particular Venerable who died recently. Lee would seek the advice of this Venerable, whenever he had to make an important decision. The one-dollar coin came into circulation at the time of the MRT construction on the island (check the date if you don't believe me). The story goes that the Venerable had advised Lee that MRT tunnelling work would be bad for the feng shui of the island, its prosperity, etc. Firm however on pushing ahead with the project, Lee asked if there was anything that could be done to circumvent the bad feng shui. "Yes", replied the Venerable, "but it may be impossible to implement". Said Lee to the Venerable - please speak. The Venerable then said that EVERY household on this island must have or must display a 'pak kwa' or a symbolic octagonal (8-sided) object. Oh no, there would definitely
be racial riots. How could Lee force every household to have a 'pak kwa' then at home? Hehheh... said the wise Lee - I have an idea. I know how to make EVERYBODY like to have as many 'pak kwas' as possible and so, our one-dollar coin was born.
NEXT CHAPTER ...
But then, the economy didn't do quite as well as expected after the circulation of the one-dollar coin. Remember the '85/86 recession?? So the Honorary Venerable was consulted again. He said that whilst the one-dollar coin did symbolise the pak kwa, it was of no use if everyone had it in his pocket and failed to DISPLAY it. So the next novel idea was born - the ROAD TAX LABEL. If you recall, it used to be round and now, it's OCTAGONAL and it is DISPLAYED. Maybe now, you think this explains the many years of booming economy Singapore had been experiencing. However, with the recent turmoil in the region and now that the Venerable is no longer around, what shall we do next? Know any feng shui experts?
*By the way, the monk mentioned is the ex-head of a temple. When he passed away several years ago, Bishan Park was born because his temple was not allowed to be blocked by any HDB flats.
Did you always believe that it was only the poorly-educated
Singaporeans who believed in feng shui and all that unscientific
mumbo-jumbo? Well, I did until I started to pay attention to the conversation around my parents' dinner table. Then I discovered that maybe I did not know as much as I thought I did. So, here goes ...
WHY PLANT TREES?
Ever wonder why Singapore is known as a Garden City. Why would Singapore go around planting trees? After all, maintaining a Garden City is very expensive. Well, here's the answer - if you were to look at Singapore from the top, Singapore resembles a crab, with its mouth the Singapore river and its back facing Malaysia. We all know that cooked crabs (that means dead crabs) are red, the colour of barren ground. But a live crab is basically a dark shade of green. So, by planting trees, you make Singapore look green and not red, and therefore alive.
TWO PROMINENT DISTRICTS
Lee Kuan Yew runs Tanjong Pagar while Goh Chok Tong is in Marine Parade. If you look at Singapore as a crab again, these two locations are situated at the positions where the claws of a crab will be. We know the strongest parts of a crab are its claws, so there they are.
HOW SINGAPORE WAS CONQUERED
To kill a crab, you stick the chopstick at the side of the crab... which is exactly where the Japanese attacked and conquered Singapore.
KALLANG RIVER CLEAN-UP
Why clean up a river that spells different memories for many Singaporeans and was one of the reasons for our prosperity in the early years? During the 80's recession, we had just completed the Benjamin Sheares bridge... which happens to suspend over the Singapore river, the mouth of the crab. This is as good as tying the mouth of the crab, thus choking it .. .. which explains the recession. In order to get out of it, one way was to clean up the river so that the mouth is clean and wealth can flow in without obstruction.
Sounds unbelievable? But it seems logical, doesn't it? NBC
Here's another thing for you to think about whether you believe it or not. Please reach into your pocket and search for a one-dollar coin, and take a good look at it. It is round, no doubt, but it also has a unique Octagonal design - which is an imporant symbol in Chinese Geomancy or feng shui. This is where the story of this coin begins.
On the island of Singapore lived a very influential man named Lee. He is very particular about feng shui, i.e. man's balance with nature. There is a particular day and also time of day to inaugurate any important event. There is also a particular colour of dress, when it comes to important occasions, and so on. He has a feng shui mentor - a famous monk, a particular Venerable who died recently. Lee would seek the advice of this Venerable, whenever he had to make an important decision. The one-dollar coin came into circulation at the time of the MRT construction on the island (check the date if you don't believe me). The story goes that the Venerable had advised Lee that MRT tunnelling work would be bad for the feng shui of the island, its prosperity, etc. Firm however on pushing ahead with the project, Lee asked if there was anything that could be done to circumvent the bad feng shui. "Yes", replied the Venerable, "but it may be impossible to implement". Said Lee to the Venerable - please speak. The Venerable then said that EVERY household on this island must have or must display a 'pak kwa' or a symbolic octagonal (8-sided) object. Oh no, there would definitely
be racial riots. How could Lee force every household to have a 'pak kwa' then at home? Hehheh... said the wise Lee - I have an idea. I know how to make EVERYBODY like to have as many 'pak kwas' as possible and so, our one-dollar coin was born.
NEXT CHAPTER ...
But then, the economy didn't do quite as well as expected after the circulation of the one-dollar coin. Remember the '85/86 recession?? So the Honorary Venerable was consulted again. He said that whilst the one-dollar coin did symbolise the pak kwa, it was of no use if everyone had it in his pocket and failed to DISPLAY it. So the next novel idea was born - the ROAD TAX LABEL. If you recall, it used to be round and now, it's OCTAGONAL and it is DISPLAYED. Maybe now, you think this explains the many years of booming economy Singapore had been experiencing. However, with the recent turmoil in the region and now that the Venerable is no longer around, what shall we do next? Know any feng shui experts?
*By the way, the monk mentioned is the ex-head of a temple. When he passed away several years ago, Bishan Park was born because his temple was not allowed to be blocked by any HDB flats.
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