Whoa

Caught "Burn the floor" last Sat, went to aikido on Monday(and was down with fever for the next 2 days), went with Adam to scout for good photo location on Tuesday(possibly breaking a few law here and there), went for an Israeli Film Festival show yesterday, going for dinner with a gang today, going down to support a sportsman breaking a Guinness World Record this fri-sat. Didn't get any studying done though.

Strange News

Have a day off today and was browing through the newspaper while having a leisurely (late) breakfast. Came across an article on Li Ao's comment that Singapore are "stupid". Just as I was pondering over this, I came across this article.

Three Singaporeans were found safe Thursday after getting lost on what they said was a mission to find a legendary karate expert on a snowy mountainside in Japan.

All three were dressed in light clothing, and get this, were instructed by one of the guy's dying father (a Singapore karate teacher by the name "Shui Jen Shui"), to seek out a legendary karate master in Soma Village, a district of Hirosaki, who would then give him a secret book on the martial art.
The quote of the day have to be this:

"Japan looked so small on the world map that we thought we would be able to find him straight away."

We could make a movie with this.

On another note, Scientists have discovered fossils of a 375-million-year-old fish, a large scaly creature not seen before, that they say is a long-sought missing link in the evolution of some fishes from water to a life walking on four limbs on land. Fossil Called Missing Link From Sea to Land Animals.

"...Other scientists said that in addition to confirming elements of a major transition in evolution, the fossils were a powerful rebuttal to religious creationists, who have long argued that the absence of such transitional creatures are a serious weakness in Darwin's theory."

In an interview, Dr. Shubin, an evolutionary biologist, let himself go. "It's a really amazing, remarkable intermediate fossil," he said. "It's like, holy cow."

I think it will be cool to create a series of balloon sculptors showing the different stages of evolution of a species. Maybe starts with the fish, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, mammal, and then human.

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Update 14 April 2006: This just in, "Singaporeans believed to have found Japanese martial arts master". Just when I thought the world couldn't be more weird.

Chilling out

As I write this post during lunch hour on a really "dibert" day. I couldn't help but delicate it to the glorious ghost of weekend past. Had a great time with friends and movies.


sight, my time is up. Reloading back to the dibert universe.

Discussion on marriage.

A few of us from work went to dinner the other day and ended up with a heated discussion on

Marriage: before/after, are rules important?

...or something like that.

Not surprisingly, the view of the 2 married ladies differ from the view of a single lady. This interesting debate went on for some time between them with occasional input and summary from me and Brandon.

My crazy photos.

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”

-Albert Einstein

A well deserved break

Felt a little guilty about leaving office. But I thought, what the hack, I deserved a break. Goodness, I don't even take MC.
Went to minnie's shop yesterday with adam. He wanted to take some shots for minnie. We went around scouting for good locations. I as usual, was there to have fun and be the idiot I love to be.

Of course there was also some time for some quite reflexion.


We finally droped off at minnie's,



before catching "V for Vendetta". Great movie, really. Make me want to stand up and cheer for him.
"Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. There is an idea, and ideas are bulletproof."

Thud! Apprentice! And a worrying message

Must thank Lin for lending me Thud! Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Where is Mister Vimes when the world need him?

Watched the Apprentice. No matter how much people and evidence points against a single person, the person will always very strongly believe that he/she is right. So much for human huh. The scary thing is that these are the "cream of the corp" from all walks of life; if these people are incompetent and such jerks, what are the chances that the people at the top are actually any good, or that they even care?

Anyway, just tried to apply for financial aid for my course in NUS and that this message that says that the application period is over. Great. Now what?

William Blake, balloons(again), and the forever to do list

Stumbled across the works of William Blake, a 17th century poet, painter and printmaker. Very interesting and thoughtful verse. Example:

'The hand of Vengeance found the bed
To which the purple tyrant fled;
The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head
And became a tyrant in his stead.'

How often we do the very things we disapprove of, and become the very persons we dislike.

In my personal life, lots of chores and tasks to finish and in work, even more so. Friends have commented that I carry an ugly frown where ever I go. Gave up trying to finish work, instead adopt a guerrilla attitude.

Jul asked me about doing balloon sculpting for this year charity walk. Finally something to spark up my life. I was getting bored.

Have a few dinner appointment coming up.

Piss off at work by an injustice (again), there is really something very wrong and unfair about the way we do things, sigh, if only the voters know. Seems like I'm making enemies left, right, center; our unofficial motto stilly stands: Untill we are good, at least try to look good.

Got my permanent offer today, considering.

Too tire to string sentences together.

No news from the U yet. W'll see how it goes.