Sunday, May 30, 2004

Today i can say with great pride that i can say that two of my greatest friends have become baptised members of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.

Wait a minute... isn't that a cult? That doesn't believe in the bible, but in Ellen G White? A church with believes they are the only ones to be saved, thus calling themselves the remnant church? Don't they believe that they are superior to every other church?

Nah. We believe in the Bible, and nothing else. We believe that people who don't go to the Adventist church will be saved, that's up to God, not us. We are the Remnant church, not because we're the only ones to be saved, but the ones with the Truth. Doesn't every church believe THEY have the truth anyway? Else why would there be so many denominations? And by no means are we superior to other churches, deh, there are some churches that are more passionate than us.

So, confirming that we are not a cult, Edwin and Brian, its been an honour being your friend and youth leader. You two have taught me so much, i'm forever grateful you have come into our church.

Of course, being Edwin and Brian, its not possible to have a 'normal' baptism. While most baptisms are quiet, solemn occasions, i believe Edwin and Brian made it what it's supposed to be, a celebration of two people dedicating their lives to God, showing the world they're not ashamed to be called Christians, Seventh-Day Adventist Christians. I have never in my life seen two people more happy to be seen in their baptismal gowns. I have never seen two people smile more on stage while being baptised. Usually the people are looking at the ground. They're happy to be Christians, and it showed on their faces. I'm proud of you two!

In the words of Jimmy...

Eternity, Take it, ITS YOURS!!!!!

Friday, May 28, 2004

Blogs all over the world will be saying that Fantasia won, and whether they agree or not. Well.. i'll say i agree. I've never liked Fantasia. Since the first time i saw her, i didn't like her style of songs. I never planned on buying her CD, thoug i would buy a Diana, La Toya or Jasmine CD. I've always been a ballad person, which is why i'm such a big Clay Aiken fan. Which i feel cheated, by the way, cos he just released his enhanced album for the same price as the first album, but contains TWO extra songs and a VCD. i feel so cheated. Anyway, good job to Fantasia. After i heard her sing I Believe, i may just buy it. It says something if you can convince someone who doesn't like your genre of music to buy your CD.

And I can't stand Ruben Studdard now. His song What If was boring to be with a capital B.

Thursday, May 27, 2004

So Fantasia and Diana sang their hearts out yesterday. I love Diana, i like her style of singing more than Fantasia's soul music. I thought Diana was brilliant on her first two songs, her rendition of I Believe was beatiful. Fantasia started off badly, but then sang, for the 3rd time, a wonderful version of Summertime. THEN she sang her version of I Believe, which blew me away. It was like... WOW. What i didn't get is this.. why the heck did the producers make both finalists sing the same song? Why why why? They're making the winner release I Believe as her first single, but they didn't have to make them BOTH sing the song. Fantasia's version, in my opinion, was much more special than Diana. But that's just me, i would have voted for Diana anyway.

What's up with the drink companies? First Pepsi comes up with Pepsi Twist, pepsi with lemon. Then Coke comes up with Coke Lemon(i forget what its called). Then Sprite comes up with Sprite Ice. Now 7up comes up with 7up ice. Eh...

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Yesterday, in the forum pages, there's someone complaining about the smses on American Idol and how it shows Singaporeans in a bad light. And i agree, many of the smses are absolutely horrible. But one thing i don't agree with. She's complaining on the bad english, and how it teaching children bad english. That we should not be showing ourselves as a country that is unable to use good english. Its SMS!!! Who bothers to use proper english in an SMS??? it so troublesome. She cites examples as using 4 for for and stuff. Standard SMS language. What's up with that? Nobody care about using proper english in smses. well... almost nobody. I usually spell out my smses properly.

Some minister in Malaysia opened his big mouth again.

"If you cannot fight rape, better lie down and enjoy it." Mr Roselan Juhar said.

Needless to say, a whole bunch of women were outraged. His response? He said he was quoting the Chinese sage, Confucius, and claimed it was misconstued or misinterpreted.

"I did apologise for the remark. It could be in bad taste but i did not mean for it to sound like that." He later said.

Wow... Confucius said something like that??? I never knew.And i also didn't know that there was a way to say that without it being in bad taste..

Friday, May 21, 2004

So Jasmine's finally out. Lots of people gotta be happy. hehe... lots of Singaporeans will be happy, judging from the stupid smses that keep getting sent. For goodness sake, PLEASE STOP THE SMSES, CHANNEL 5!!! It just shows how STOOOPID we singaporeans are, how mean and how racist we can be. I couldn't believe it when i saw an sms telling Fantasia to go back to her abusive boyfriend and leave the finals to Jasmine and Diana!!!! What's up with that?? So many racist, idiotic and mean smses being sent. I cannot stand it.

Anyway, its going to be a great final, with Diana and Fantasia, both of whom can sing twice as well as Ruben Studdard.

Also, did you know Fantasia's only NINETEEN?? and she's a mother of a two year old? I always thought she was 25 or something...

Taped Average Joe(it goes on during the same time as American Idol XD). I've been following it since the first episode last week, and i have to say i like the show. I've gotten bored of bachelor, bachelorette, blah blah blah and all other copycat shows. For Love of Money 2 caught my eye, it was interesting with more twists than any other dating show i've seen. But Average Joe, where they get nerds, fat and ugly people to compete for the heart of a beautiful girl is by far the most interesting for me. Seeing 'normal' people fighting for a girl is much more interesting. You get to see so much more character, as compared to a ton of hot guys showing off their bodies making out with an equally hot girl. So far its been very interesting in Average Joe, with the hot girl beginning to 'fall' for some of the guys. But what gets even more interesting is that next week, 6 hot guys join the remaining 6 average guys to fight for the hot girl's heart. Man, this is what reality TV is all about!

And by the way, for those who have watched Troy, mrbrown has found one of the best summaries of what went on in the movies. Troy in 15 minutes

They've got one for van helsing, but i haven't watched the movie so i'm not reading that one yet.

Thursday, May 20, 2004

I have a tradition. You see, every three months or so i try to donate blood. I've been donating since i was 16, about 11 times already. So yesterday i went to donate blood. And i have a tradition when donating blood. See, i love milo. I'll take it in almost any form : iced, hot, whatever. Milo Beng(ice milo) from the hawker center, ice milo from McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Milo in a can, Milo in a packet... So after donating blood and i get a choice of free milo, coffee, tea, barley or chrysentenum(how do you spell that?), of course i choose milo.
And EVERY time i drink hot milo after donating blood, i ALWAYS scald my tongue, thus losing the function of half my tastebuds for the rest of thd day. When i drink hot milo any other time, its fine. But for some reason, whenever i drink it after donating blood, i'm always too impatient and scald my tongue.

Saw Jasmine, Diana and Fantasia perform yesterday. They did well, except for Jasmine. I thought her final song was all right, but not great, which is what is supposed to be happening now. Sometimes i feel sorry for Jasmine. Week after week she does her best, and week after week she gets criticised by the judges and scolded by Americans after they keep her in. In yesterday's episode she sang a song, got extemely bad comments, then sang another, and got worse comments, then sang the last song, and got very bad comments from simon. Simon said she has to go out this week, and i will say i agree. As much as i'm a huge jasmine fan(seriously, i'd buy her album), Diana and Fantasia sing better. And she'd endure so much more criticism and insults should she stay at the expense of one of them. You know, maybe she'd have a career in TV... she sure is cute enough in my opinion.

Monday, May 17, 2004

Teacher accused of airing pornographic videos in class

A MARRIED teacher is facing an investigation after a female student complained to the Education Ministry that he had shown pornographic videos during class.

Two of her classmates, whom The Straits Times contacted, alleged their teacher had been airing the videos since March.

They claim that he would turn off the lights and close the door and windows before playing the video clips, which had been downloaded onto his laptop.

He is alleged to have told his students that he wanted them to relax and take their minds off work for a while, and shown clips lasting for up to 45 minutes as a 'treat' at least three times a week.

A male student, 17, said: 'Our class is made up of mainly boys who obviously enjoy the show, but the girls are not so comfortable with it.'

Michelle also alleged that the teacher offered to give her the answers to the mid-year examinations when she told him that she wanted to quit because she could not manage the subject.

She claimed to have told him 'that there was no point in getting a certificate without really understanding what I'm supposed to learn.'

When The Straits Times contacted the teacher, he said he had been given strict instructions by his school not to say anything.

'But I will clear my name,' he added.


Hmm.. showing pornographic videos in class, you say? Now THATS daring. But i'm sure that it really took the student's minds off work and helped them to relax, so the teacher got that right... hehe...

Carina Lau, a middle aged actress, had her breasts touched by a caucasian executive. But later she said she forgave him, cos he's just 'being warm'. Wow.. if being warm means touching t3h boobies...

Sunday, May 16, 2004

Wow... boy am I tired... after a Saturday of walking(4 hours worth, can you belive it? and carrying a heavy bag, too), i went to my class chalet where i hardly slept at night. Comming home today, i slept a bit before heading down to Karate class.

Boy, am I tired.

But hey, the walk was VERY fun(though it got rather painful towards the end), the swim and dinner at the Gerbers was fun, there were more good looking girls in a place than i've seen in a long time. It was probably the first time at a Jabez outing that the girls actually OUTNUMBERED the guys. It was amazing. I hope that happens more often. The chalet was good, met up with some very good classmates. We talked soccer for about an hour before sleeping. I miss having someone i can talk about soccer with for hours on end. The closest in Jabez is Jimmy, but even he can't talk soccer for hours.

And the weather sucks. Its so hot i probably sweated twice as much during Karate class.

I don't know where i'm going with this.

I really don't know what i'm typing.

I like girls.

Friday, May 14, 2004

La Toya London's out. The arguably best singer of the competition is out, and Jasmine Trias is still in. What's gonna happen? People all over the world will be complaining and blaming Jasmine for La Toya's outing. But hey.. its hot her fault, just like it wasn't John Steven's fault that people kept him in ahead of Jennifer Hudson! America voted, and Jasmine gets all the insults and stuff. Being called no talent, staying through on a pretty face.. blah blah blah.

I'm a Jasmine fan, and i would be her album should it come out. I like her voice, she's just ultra inconsistent. I say don't blame Jasmine. She expected to go out, it showed in her face. When she was voted in, she almost cried. She knew she was supposed to be in the bottom 2. You could see the guilt on her face. The poor girl. I hope she sings well next week to justify her being in the top 3.

Thursday, May 13, 2004

Whose Line is it Anyway, one of my favourite shows in the world. If you've never heard of it, boy you're missing a lot. Its one of the funniest improvisation shows on the planet. And one of the best parts of Whose Line is it Anyway is the Hoedown, where they sing on a topic. And, i've found a website that has TONS of hoedowns, over a hundred for download, from both the UK and US version since the beginning of the show.

http://www.geocities.com/hoedownsite/downloads.html

Check it out. EVERY hoedown is funny! They're mp3 files, so if you're using broadband, it'll take less than a minute to download each hoedown!

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

You thought Singapore was the only country where National Service for couples means making babies for the country? Well... think again! Our neighbor down south is doing it too!!

Do It for Your Country

We're not alone, people, we're not alone!!

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Women can be vicious creatures. Its true, especially when it comes to divorce. Ray Parlour's wife wants HALF of his salary for maintainence, even though she's neither poor nor in need. The court, at the point of her divorce, awarded her two houses worth 3 million dollars, a $750,000 lump sum as well as a $750,000 a year maintenance. So basically, she's getting $62,000 a month for dong absolutely nothing. This is not even including their children's maintenance, its solely for her. But is she happy? No.... she's not happy at all. She claims that her husband found playing for Arsenal more important than her family, and she had supported him and played a big part in him doing so well. So she wants 1.3 million dollars a year, exactly 50% of Ray Parlour's salary as maintence.

Does that make sense, i ask you, does that make sense? In the past maintenence made sense, as a lot of women were housewives and not as educated, so finding a job was difficult, and thus the man still needed to support her. Now, women like that are abusing the priviledge. Sigh. How this can happen?

But hey, it doesn't concern me. I'm very sure that if i ever get married, my wife will love me so much she'll never divorce me nor want my money.(she'll probably be more qualified and richer than me anyway, and i may very well ended up a house-husband.)
watched Survivor All-Stars finale and reunion yesterday. It was interesting season of Survivor, i must say. Having the most famous, well-liked and notorious people from all the past Survivors was a great idea, thus ending up with one of the highest ratings for Survivor in recent years. Amber won. Good job to Amber for winning, sticking with Rob(he literally saved her from being voted out once, then he betrayed the people who helped keep Amber in the game). Good job to Rob for marrying the winner of Survivor, thus making the million bucks his too.

But what was the highlight of the reunion for me was when Jerri walked out in the middle of the show. She had just given what i would like to call the Gladiator speech. The whole "Does this entertain you?" thing. She was griping about how this is a game, and how people are getting hurt just to entertain you all. The crowd booed her, and she left, hurt and bitter.

I will say this. It is a game, and it is like the ancient Colloseum(how do you spell that?), where people fought against people for the sake of the entertainment of the public. Only now, instead of fighting with weapons to kill, they're fighting with the worst weapon of all : the tongue. Once again, it's all for the entertainment of the public.

Is Survivor wrong? I won't say that. Richard Hatch(the original Snake and winner of Survivor 1) said this when he left : "I've been Bamboozeled! And i never saw it comming." He got voted out, betrayed badly, but he was still happy. At the Survivor Reunion, he said its a game, you have to have thick skin and not take it to heart. Lex got betrayed and voted out, but he was bitter at Rob, and said that the relationship was gone, even though they were best friends before the show.

Richard Hatch said it best. Its a game, and no one forced you to participate. If you participate, you should take it for what it is, a game to win a million dollars. Everyone went into the game. When Jerri played the game, she too betrayed many people, and singlehandedly orchestrated the voting out of someone by outright lying about the person, who had been very nice to her. Thus, she was badly hated by the general public even before she participated in Survivor All-Stars. She knew that.

You make a choice on how you play the game, and how you come out of it. Rob chose to play the game like the backstabbing jerk that he wanted to be, and he came out of it a winner. Rupert chose to play the game without lying or backstabbing, and even though he didn't win, he came out of it a stonger and happier person. Tom was angry that he got betrayed, but after the game was over, he left his emotions with the game and was happy with Rob. Richard Hatch tried to play around with people's minds again, and it worked to a certain extent, but he was still all right when he got voted out. Lex chose to stay bitter after the game was over, stay angry. Jerri chose be bitter about the whole issue.

All in all, everything's a choice. In life, we either choose to let things go and be happy, or keep grudges and stay bitter. I would like to say that I choose to be happy.

Monday, May 10, 2004

Oh My Goodness.

30 Hornets own 30,000 honey bees

I cannot believe it. How this can happen????

Sunday, May 09, 2004

In The New Paper on Sunday there are, quite appropriately, plenty of articles on mothers. Succesful mothers, suffering mothers. There's a story about a Malay mother who's divorced her husband, living on a 2k salary with 4 kids. I'm not really sure why, but malay people always have plenty of kids(the government should learn their secret and teach it to the chinese) no matter what they're income is. i've read of couples with a stay-at-home wife and a husband earning only about 1.5k and they have like 5 kids. And they're suffering, and i'm not surprised. I guess they really love kids.. but even then, to have so many when you can't afford it is a little bit much don't you think? I'm not judging them. If they're happy, so be it. but i know that if i ever get married no way i'm having any more than 2 kids. Of course, accidents do happen, and it really is up to the woman whether she really wants to go through all that pain, getting fat and stretch marks blah blah blah. We guys just have it easy.

Speaking of which.. apparently Wong Li Lin is has gotten married six months ago and is four months pregnant. Allan's Wu-man is the horrible headline that went alone with it. *shudder*. Anyway, so the beautiful girl is pregnant! What say you some slimming center signs her on after she gives birth?

Anyway, another article in The New Paper is about a single mother who had a kid at 17. She's now 20, with a 3 yr old kid. I'm not belittling her plight, or even going to say that she had a choice whether or not to sleep with her boyfriend and this is the consequence of not practicing safe sex(or the condom spoiling). Oh wait, i said it. Oh well. But that's not my point. She is quite poor thing, having to support a kid since 17 when most girls are still in school and collecting pocket money from parents. She's struggling, and i feel sorry for her.

HOWEVER.... the article also mentioned that in order to make up for the time she doesn't spend with her 3 yr old, she buys branded clothes worth TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS for her. For goodness sake, does a 3 year old kid even CARE about branded clothes? They don't even care about clothes in the first place. Man, if you're struggling on a 1k salary with a kid to support, the last thing you wanna do is buy branded clothes for your 3 yr old!!!
ARGH!!! I HAVE NOT UPDATED FOR 4 DAYS!!!! I AM SORRY!! I feel so depressed because i have not updated in 4 days. I need to get rid of the guilt.. i must... I need too.. update.. now....

ARGGHH!!!!!

*hangs meself*

Wednesday, May 05, 2004

The principal resigning. The hot topic of discussion among forum boards all over Singapore, and with a flurry of letters written in to the forum pages of all major newspapers. Dozens of articles writen on it(ok, maybe about ten, but still a lot). For those not in the loop, a principal hit a student with a soft cover book, then resigned. That's what happened in a nutshell. There were many more letters supporting the principal, saying how in the 'old days' when you got punished by your teacher, you went home and got whacked even more. Now, we have spoilt brats who dare their teacher to punish them, threatening to lodge a complaint, and their parents support them all the way.

Like some of the writers in the Forum pages in the Straits Times, i agree that the principal had to resign. He had no choice. He lost his temper, and physical violence is a no-no nowadays. But hey, kids are becomming brats. I hear horror stories comming in in The New Paper, TODAY, STREATS about how horrible and disrespectful students are nowadays. Don't have to say my parents time... even my time in secondary school but 5 years back had much, much better discipline.

But my take is this. You don't need physical punishment to have students fear you. In San Yu, our most effective discipline master was a man by the name of Mr Kenneth Chee. Now, this man never resorted to physical punishment. But students feared him like the devil himself. When he's teaching, he's a wonderfully funny person, able to make even A Maths and Physics class interesting. But step outside the rules of the school.. and boy, you're in for it. His words probably are much more effective than a slap on the face. They can cut even the most rebellious of students, keeping them in line. I have personally seen it happen. He doesn't insult you, but the words just cut. That, my friends, is what a real teacher is about. Its someone i wanna be like if i ever become a teacher.

Rebecca Loos. The woman who shagged David Beckham. She is having her own 2 hour TV special comming this Saturday. What's up with that? She didn't act in any blockbuster movie.. she isn't a war hero, or a victim of some great tragedy. She didn't win any sporting events, nor is a politician. So what in the world did she do to deserve a 2 hour special? She did absolutely NOTHING but shag David Beckham, and she's earning hundreds of thousands of dollars selling her story to the tabloids and newspapers and TV interviews. Its crazy. What is the world comming to? The TV networks will buy anything nowadays. Who in the WORLD would want to watch a woman tell, for 2 hours, when, where, how and why she shagged David Beckham??? What kind of people are so perverted and kaypoh that they'll want to watch a show like that?

Oh yeah.. me.

Tuesday, May 04, 2004

1337 SHIRT FOLDING VIDEO!!!111

Man, we all gotta learn to fold shirts like that!!!!

I wanna get myself a BMW next time.

BMW Drivers Get Most Sex

The German magazine "Men's Car" found in a survey of 2,253 motorists aged 20 to 50 published in its inaugural May issue that male BMW drivers say they have sex on average 2.2 times each week while Porsche drivers have sex 1.4 times per week.

Ah... BMW, here i come!

I belive that there is a conspiracy going on with the lifts near my house. See, ever so often there will be two lifts waiting on the first floor. So i go up to one and press the button. And the other lift opens, causing me to walk to the other side. It doesn't matter if i choose the left or right lift. The other lift always, always, ALWAYS opens instead of the one i'm waiting at. i have no idea why. Stupid lifts.

Monday, May 03, 2004

Glenn Ong. He's the person many people are saying should be one of the judges for Singapore Idol. Others are saying he is not qualified enough. But i say, IT DOESN'T MATTER!!! Singapore Idol needs someone like him. Someone who is brave(or stupid) enough to actually say what he thinks. He may not have Simon Cowell's cutting words, or be able to think as quickly as the brit, but what Glenn always has been is direct. He doesn't honey-coat words for you. And he's just plain crazy.

This morning, on The Morning Express, Rachel, the FHM girl in Eye for a Guy, the Singaporean version of the Bachelorette(how do you spell that again?).

Glenn : "And today with us on The Morning Express is Rachel, the trophy for the show Eye for a Guy

He was trying to get Rachel to reveal who she had chosen.

Glenn : "So who did you choose to be with?"

naturally, Rachel refused to tell. but Glenn did not give up. Five minutes later..

Glenn : "Which one of the contestants is your favourite?"

Still not getting an answer, he continued..

Glenn : "Lets say you were to go to Paris. Which one of the contestants would you bring with you?"

After plenty of questioning, Glenn finally gave up and went on to another more interesting topic.

Glenn : "So, did the producers choose you to be the trophy for Eye for a Guy because you have big boobies?"

Not satisfied with her answer of no, he proceeded to say,

Glenn : "Now can you unzip your shirt towards the webcam and show ALL our listeners.."

By now Rod and FD had managed to cut him off and stop his nonsense. Ah... i love The Morning Express.