Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Though-provoking

I supposed those who watched Phua Chua Kang yesterday had a good laugh. Yesterday's episode was a collation of 5 skits written by our fellow Singaporeans, actually it was submitted for competition and of course these were the best 5.

1) Plasma TV - Phua Chu Kang wins a Plasma TV from a lucky draw, but tries to hide it away from Rosie so that he can watch it all from himself. And so the scene starts with Chu Kang, with his other 2 workers, KingKong and the other guy, whom I forget the name, unwrapping the Plasms TV. And KingKong was like..."wah sir, new plaster TV huh hahaha"

But anyway in the end they heard Rosie coming down the stairs and ChuKang hid it under the cloth on the dining table. So it kinda looked protruded. Then Rosie was like "Eh? How come the table like that?" And ChuKang starts asking her to get out of the house for dinner, and when finally he can't give any other more reasons, he says he saw a mouse in the living room. And you know, Rosie being afraid of mouses ran up crawling on the dining table ON THE PLASMA TV, and then you hear a "crack"...

2) World's Oldest Television - The scene starts with ChuKang's two workers arguing over who's TV is the oldest, and reasons include, "My grandmother watched the television, and she's older than your grandmother! So of course mine bigger, lah!"

ChuKang then shows them the world's "Oldest Television". He takes a rope, and a basin. Then he said, "In Malay, rope in malay is "tali" (or something like that), and basin in malay is "besin"! So this is the world's oldest..talibesen! (television)

And KingKong was like...wow...sir nice te...ta...telibisin! Haha! Then ChuKang pours in water and asks them to look inside and they actually think it's a television because of their reflection. -.-

3) KingKong's Job Interview (my favourite) - So Chu Kang's brother asked him how he got KingKong as his worker in the first place. And Chu Kang remembers...

PCK: Come in. Take a seat.
KingKong: (picks up seat) Take to where?
PCK: -.- ASK YOU SIT DOWN LAH!
KingKong: Then how I know? YOur english very bad hor.
PCK: What's your name?
KingKong: KingKong!
PCK: I ASK YOU YOUR NAME NOT YOUR FAVOURITE MOVIE!
KingKong: But KingKong is my name! and my favourite movie...
PCK: Hmph. ok where you stay?
KingKong: USA!
PCK: HUH YOU STAY IN USA?
KingKong: Upper Serangoon Avenue lah! Wah your english very poor hor, which school you stay ah?
PCK: err...err..Sang Nila Utama Secondary! ahhhh...why?
KingKong: Wah next time I don't send my children there already, later become as stupid as you!
PCK: WHAT? YOU'RE FIRED!
KingKong: Huh? You haven't even hire me how to fire me?
PCK: Ok I employ you then I fire you ok?


Then the flashback ends here and Chukang's brother asks what happened next?

ChuKang: "I haven't finish then he go for tau huey (beancurd) break lah!!!"

Aloy gets married - This one was rather boring, PCK gets a call while watching soccer and he heard the man asking whether "Aloy got married." But actually it was "Aloy got merit." And the news spreads around the house until they finally solve the misunderstanding

The Coconut - PCK drinks coconut drink and drew a face on it. Then some haunted stuff start happening...


The day is pretty much the same, flicking people I don't know, and I got slammed on the table once :X Not a nice thing but that's life. Then I got Jun Sean begging me to stop that because its irritating. Now this is the main topic I'm going to talk about.

When I was secondary 2 I wanted to ask SungMing why he kept flicking me. Some of his replies were like for fun? But seriously, in his case, I know its for fun. Now I'm doing this to other people. Am I considered as a bully?

What was I thinking when I flick other people. Simple. I list these reasons:

1) For fun
2) To irritate people
3) To act cool
4) Peer Pressure

I think its mostly to ac cool. Now when I get to sit down and think, I realised that it was just really to impress my other friends, to show them I dared to do it. And flicking random people without any orders, its just to make them feel pain. But why should they feel pain when they never done anything wrong?

What made me do that?

I guess I have nothing to say about it. As the chinese proverbs go, the outsider sees the most. When someone questions me why I had to do that, I could say nothing but just apologise and say I wouldn't do that again. But that wouldnt satisfy. I now want to know the answer why I flick random people.

I guess if I amounted all the pain of all the flicks I gave to all the people I flicked onto me within a second, I would die. An estimate.

Exposing the Human Psyche. Same applys for Smoking. But unlike flicking, smoking can't really be helped because your body needs it. It's not as if once you start flicking people you really have to continue it or else your body systems fail.

Someone question me?

But back to reality, I have my Social Studies to do, and my Chinese list for Jonathan to be made by Friday.

Shide asked me a few hours ago what my blog was about. I told him this, that the basic aim of my blog is to question and stimulate your brain cells, to provide answers and to calm the heart, to search and seek the unknown. No I didn't tell him exactly that but this is what I want to do.

For example my latest 9/11 post...I supposed most of you'll should have read it. Yep, something like that. To question whether the truth is authentic.

Maybe 50 years down the road, when we'll old and married and gone, or when Bush passes away, someone would step up and reveal the truth of 911. Or whether its true.

Bye!

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Tuesday Anecdote

I attempted to borrow a book on the Al-Qaeda, and I managed to grabbed hold of the book in the Hullett Memorial Library, but on my other hand I was holding a cane, and naturally with my character I would eventually lose the item I grabbed hold of on my right. And so unfortunately I don't have the book in front of me now.

The Library is fun. You get to flick and irritate random people, and go "shhh, talk louder." Or flick someone and scream at him to stop irritating you. Then he will look at you with these eyes (.)(.)
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How childish. No wonder girls say I'm imature. duh of course I am!
Maybe its because of music connections. Or is it an excuse?

We just fetched our new car, a Toyata Altis. Don't even notice it reached 90km/h, maybe its 1.6 CC so the ride is smoother.

I'm quite nervous for my physics test tomorrow, but I know I have to learn how to read the micrometer and vernier callipers, zero errors, and standard form.

I'm currently listening to "He ain't heavy, he's my brother" sang about 50 years ago. A beautiful ballade, male voice, quite sad and lots of will needed. Its about this guy carrying his brother on his back on a long long road...

Would have to thank Zhong Ren, Norman, Nigel, Jun Sean, Joseph for offering their tissue packs when I was having morning sinus and sneezing like some crap. Thanks guys!

Joshua and Joseph are some good back partners. When you really need a break just turn your head and talk to them. (turn your head 180 degrees, not 360, class joke)

Sunday, January 28, 2007

911

Many things are happening around the world. Bomb blasts, political confusion, suicide attacks, nuclear plans, inter-countries ties. I supposed it all began from 9/11, leading to the invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq. The Al-Qaeda was made known to the world. But have we ever considered what were the causes or who was really behind the 9/11 attacks?

I'm not saying that the 911 attacks were not carried out by terrorists. But as years pass by, there is talk that the 911 attacks were actually "ordered" by the American Government. If you go to YouTube and search 911, and read the comments, you would definitely see the word 'conspiracy', 'controlled demolition' and the like.

Then there is also word that Israeli may be behind the 911 attacks. Here are some sources I collected from the Internet. The first source I am about to show you is a complete timeline of 911 managed by a Paul Thompson (possibly a fake name). This project is managed by one of the several grassroot investigations hosted by the Cooperative Research website.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/project.jsp?project=911_project

Up till today this issue is still rather vague and unclear.

Here is a text I would like to show you.

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On September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 out of Boston for Los Angeles, crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York at 8:48 a.m. Eighteen minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767, headed from Boston to Los Angeles, crashed into the south tower. American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 from Washington's Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles, crashed into the western wall of the Pentagon at 9:40 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 flying from Newark to San Francisco, crashed near Pittsburgh.

Within days Osama Bin Laden was offered as the prime suspect, although Bin Laden himself denied this "in a statement issued to the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera," and in an interview published in the Ummat -- a Pakistani paper, is reported to have said: "I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States."

Europol's director, Jurgen Storbeck (London, Telegraph, September 15, 2001), stated: "It's possible that he [bin Laden] was informed about the operation; it's even possible that he influenced it; but he's probably not the man who steered every action or controlled the detailed plan."

President Bush, however, ignored Europol's doubts, reneged on Secretary of State Colin Powell's pledge to provide evidence, and named Osama bin Laden, and Al Qaeda as the perpetrators.
Now many insist that the U.S. government's version of events is either incomplete, or inaccurate. A best-selling French book, The Frightening Fraud, by Thierry Meyssan, makes the farfetched claim that the "U.S. invented air attack on Pentagon."

We believe that it's premature to draw conclusions about what really happened--relevant questions have yet to be answered.

For starters, in the Pentagon crash site photos, there's little or no evidence of the plane that struck the Pentagon. I live about one-half mile from the Pentagon. The first question that I asked other onlookers as we viewed the crash site was, "Where's the plane?"

The hole in the Pentagon wall appears too small to have been caused by a Boeing 757. Indeed, early reports claimed that a truck bomb had exploded, and the damage was similar to that inflicted on the USS Cole in Yemen. The gash in the hull of the USS Cole was reported to be about 30 feet by 40 feet.

Arlington County Fire Chief Ed Plaugher, at a News Briefing held by Assistant Defense Secretary Victoria Clarke on September 12, 2001 at the Pentagon, when asked: "Is there anything left of the aircraft at all?" said: "First of all, the question about the aircraft, there are some small pieces of aircraft visible from the interior during this fire-fighting operation I'm talking about, but not large sections. In other words, there's no fuselage sections and that sort of thing."

Did Chief Plaugher not see the plane's engines? Wouldn't the engines have survived in some recognizable form? An engine from one of the planes that struck the World Trade Center was shown lying on the street on network television. So was an engine from American Airlines Flight 587 which crashed shortly after takeoff in New York on November 12, 2001.

Another question put to Chief Plaugher at the briefing was: "Chief, there are small pieces of the plane virtually all over, out over the highway, tiny pieces. Would you say the plane exploded, virtually exploded on impact due to the fuel . . ." Plaugher responded: "You know, I'd rather not comment on that."

How did "small pieces of the plane" end up "out over the highway" when the plane reportedly disintegrated inside the Pentagon after it crossed the highway and hit the Pentagon?
It is curious that at this Department of Defense News Briefing, held approximately 24 hours after American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757 which departed from Dulles airport is said to have crashed into the Pentagon, the words "Boeing," "Dulles," "flight," and "passengers" were not even mentioned. The word "plane" was mentioned once, but Chief Plaugher would "not comment on that."

It is even more curious that national news media failed to follow up on Chief Plaugher's comment that "there's no fuselage sections and that sort of thing" when dozens of onlookers, relatives, and firefighters were interviewed on network television about the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center.

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This is just one of the many texts that point to the American Government of an "inside" job.

Here are some questions:

- What are the odds that all the "black box" flight recorders were damaged beyond use?

- Why were the alleged hijackers' names not on the passenger lists?

- Why are several alleged hijackers reported to be still alive?

- Why did Mohamed Atta, one of the alleged hijackers, take a suitcase containing a curiously worded will and burial instructions on a suicide flight?

- Why did the seat numbers of the hijackers, given in a cell phone call from Flight Attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney to Boston Air Traffic Control, not match the seats occupied by the men the FBI claims were responsible?

- Why were none of the attacking planes intercepted? It is reported that planes are routinely intercepted if they deviate from their flight path and contact can't be made. (Is America's intelligence that bad not to realise there is an attack to be made on the twin towers?)

- How did the terrorists obtain top-secret White House and Air Force One codes and signals--the stated reason for not returning President Bush promptly to Washington on September 11?

- Why did the Justice Department deny a surveillance warrant for Zacarias Moussaoui? Since 1978, it is reported, more than 12,000 such warrants were issued, only Moussaoui's was denied.
- Why does the U.S. not hold hearings on these questions, when it would serve the U.S. objective of keeping Americans focused on the "war on terrorism?"


By the way only less than 11 Israelis were killed in the attacks.

Meanwhile I have to stop blogging because I have to practise piano. Will update some other time. I hope that you'll readers would ponder what I talked about.

Bye!

Friday, January 26, 2007

Is gastric a contagious disease or something? Because I just had a severe bout of gastric. I was hurting somewhere in the middle of my upper body, which was between my lungs and my stomach, and my mum told me that was gastric. Well I do have a history of gastric illness, but this one seemed different.

I have constipation too, and immediately after I got back home I was served a plate of apples (fruits rather for aid of digestion)

They tell me Paul is gay. I'm not in doubt, yet I can't confirm it too. And he thinks Miss Elsa Chew is sexy -.- Btw both of them (student and teacher) share the same surname!

And then I realised this morning that everyone greets Miss Edelweiss Yong. Hongrui told me about how he saw her walking with 3 other teachers, and a student walked past. And instead of greeting, "Good morning teachers" in the monotonous voice, he went, "Good morning Miss Yong" Maybe quite blatantly but I didn't see the incident.


Once again there is CCA today. Came out 1.30pm, played soccer till 3.30pm, which is like absolutely crazy. And I managed to score the fifth goal I ever scored in a period of 3 years. That goal was quite special, and I couldnt believe it too. A low shot to the corner of the small goal, from a distance of 5-6 metres? No one mentioned the word, "Taiko", which is apparently what they call it as lucky, but in Malay it means "skin problem"?

And then a few minutes before that I was in the RJC canteen (which was extremely huge) and my cousin walked past (second time I seen her this month in RJC, which explains how big the place was) and I was eating with David and some of his friends. Comments given was that she was chio, and "someone" even stated she had a nice ass. -.-

A few days before I met her, this time I was eating with my classmates and they told me the same comments that she was chio, and that Paul said that it would be nice if he had her as his girlfriend OR have a girlfriend like her.

And I don't even realise because I have seen her for many years, probably 14? (my age) In other words I have been seeing her for like my whole life, and don't recognise the qualities of a person whom you're quite closely related to. On second thought I don't recognise the qualities of my mum. That's bad but considering the way she tortures me maybe its good. :)

Joking nia.


Bye!

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

A Tuesday of Anecdotes

Physics, English, Maths, Philosophy, Assembly.

In Physics I did the measurements with the vernier callipers and the micrometer screw gauge. Mr. Desmond Tan is quite a nice teacher, for those who are taking Physics too I suppose you'll think the same?

TO ALL MY CLASSMATES
On Monday after recess our relief teacher for Chemistry asked me whether his lesson was boring. And you could see the disappointment and sadness in his eyes...! Alamak I think we all look very distracted and not interested in his lesson. -.- He was like, "Erm do you think my lesson was very boring?"

Me: Hmmm...(perplexed and thinking) Not really lah! (which is politically correct and I personally think its true) Although you should be a little more clearer in what you are trying to say? Otherwise if they ask you questions you can (think, think, think!) answer very well and clearly!

Sir: Hmm...ok I will try to work on that.



So you see guys, act more interested or else he may end up depressed and do crazy things. Crazy things.


Next subject was English. The moment she mentioned about anecdotes I was like crap. Because obviously I haven't prepare yet. And I thought of the most frightening person in my life to talk about. Congrats to Matthias for coolest and best anecdote! I thought it was crazy especially the part where you started imitating the girls... :)

Maths. Still the same, flash answers on the visualiser, write on board, do do do, look up, answers flashed, write on board, do do do, look up. Now this is what I called boring. Sorry Mrs. Tan.

Then recess.

Then philo. Cham I never complete the worksheet but Mr. Dennis let me sit down. Heng. We discussed fallacies, and write down on the board, and 1 hour was gone.

Assembly. Whole class gang flick Jaren. Our class so famous for flicking -.- Especially yesterday when SungMing managed to arm-lock me and flick me. By the time I managed to get away I was in yellow-red health, like wtf? And plus I was suffering from maim damage, and I was kind of slowed. Then he run up to me while I was heading back to base and finger of death me.

Like wtf? It was 10.30 already and I had to respawn back at Raffles Square?!?! I hate life man. And plus the one minute respawn time I was late for CLE. Damn it.

Wah piang damn lame. Nvm forget what I said. Morrisonian meeting at the Rajaratnam Block, class gang flick Jaren, vertical taupok, paper masking (take the song lyric paper and pressing them on other people's faces), destroying the song lyrics...2G 06 rocks like totally. And I'm proud of it.

Eng Han is a sad man,
I flick him everyday.
Zhong Ren was so tall,
I had to make him pay.




Monday, January 22, 2007

I talk you listen

This is my third blog.
The first was the Musical Chord, which I updated from August 2005 till December 2006. I remember fondly in about September 2005 where some NY girls apparently started spamming my tagboard, and up till today I still don't know who did the spamming. I stopped updating it once I reached 100 posts, but actually over these years I should have posted about 200. I stopped updating for once and deleted the blog somewhere in March, but however I opened it again after the June holidays, which should make the total number of actual posts to be more than 100. Maybe 200?
My second blog is the Piano Lounge, which started functioning since last month. I have not been updating it since 29 December, and it mostly talks about music, technique, interviews, and maybe some reviews I am going to add into it. I suppose maybe I need more helpers as music is an extremely huge topic to cover.
As you can see, and I quote from Andrew, brother of Matthew (section leader), son of a Chua, classmate of a Shin, "I am writing in perfect English".
That's because the aim of this blog is to record down stories, anecdotes, stuff that happens in your daily life. For my English assignment.
And the assignment reads: Blog of Personal Response to Current Affairs
Current affairs.

Content: You are to look up articles online or in print about current affairs, provide URL links to them or scan them clearly to post on your blog. You are to write a response to the articles you have chosen. For each submission, you are to submit a response for an article in two of the following categories:

  • Politics/societal issues
  • Environmental Issues
  • Educational Issues
  • Issues regarding teenagers

Suddenly the word "Issues" seems like weird stuff. And from what I read in Readers' Digest, its the opposite of deja vu.

It says here to feel free to post articles other than those required to enrich your reading, but you will not be penalized if you do not write a response for those.
Word Limit: The write-up is to be 350-500 words. (wth? Personally I think its a little for blog writing. Sorry guys.) The word limit should be strictly followed. Should you exceed the word limit, every 5 words outside of the word limit will cost you 1 mark.
Following that Bryan would then ask can exceed by 2.5 words? Is that 1/2 mark deducted? (By the way Bryan's from my class)
Lastly my blog title. "I talk you listen" It was quite spontaneous, thinking about this phrase which has been mentioned to me many, many, times in my entire life. From primary school teachers, to leaders leading a group, to teachers on the podium, and of course, in the classrooms.
This phrase, I talk you listen, is used countless of times, between teachers and students, between parents and children, between dominating mums and submissive dads, and in countless of relationships.
This phrase, I talk you listen, is essential, because if no one talks, then ultimately there would be no discussion, no arguments, no decision finalized, and if no one listens, the result would still be the same, only lots of discussion, but no decision finalized, and no conclusions made.
I chose this phrase as the title of my blog because I am the only one posting here, so it would kind of seem logical for me to be the only one talking, and you viewers "listening".
But don't worry, there will be time when You talk I listen, and thats when the tagboard comes into play...
So I hope you all can voice your opinions of my day-to-day life stories, my political reasonings, and my criticisms!
Bye!