Random thoughts

Singaporean parents are either ignorant, kiasu or both.

But what can you expect from a nation where maids sometimes get abused.

Where the whole of August revolves around the giving of free gift packs and tickets.

Where volunteer work is a way to get your kids into the 'best " schools, or generous donations.

Where there are teachers who didn't want to become teachers at all.

Where there are kids who ask for air-conditioning at a camp. (from gage)

Where one of the annual national events is a Sale spanning a month.

Where there are queues for anything from soft toys to tickets.

Where parents request for the total replacement of everything a teacher, whom they deduced had HIV because he's gay, touched.

Where evacuating customers had to pay before they could leave.

Where a weird old man sits naked in the swimming pool changing room.

Where a neighbors tiff can become news fodder.

Where TV programmes get recycled so often thay are now stale.

Where you actually have to pay for the right to own a car.

-VOID-

I'm not the same as him,
I'll always appreciate when you specially make your way down to surprise me.

You told me that maybe it's a good thing that you're going to be overseas for the next few weeks. I knew you said it in anger. But I can't help feeling lost. I was trying my best not to think about it, knowing that a guy should never cry.

Yet while i walked home, I could only try to dry my eyes as fast as I can, not wanting others to see.

I'm lost, not knowing what I'm supposed to feel. Not knowing why I do things the way I do. I just do.

Nothing

I know not how i came to start pampering you,
But we both are now used to it.
At times, you seem to care only for your wants,
And I am trying to get use to it.
I know that sometimes I'm being unreasonable,
So I'm trying not to get used to it.

The one thing I'm used to is your presence.

読物

Last night, i picked up a book to read.
I read and i read without barely a pause,
soon i read it to the very end.
I looked up and saw that it was three.

Somedays when I'm feeling restless,
A good book goes a long way to settling me down,
when tv and games fail to do so.
I've always been a sucker for books.

Now, I need to look for a good thick book
so that i wouldn't be able to finish it in a single night,
and so that I'll no longer need to make so many trips to the library.
I'm thinking that my future home will require many many shelves.

Books i recommend for boring days.

Science:
The curse of adam - Bryan skyes
The seven daughters of Eve - Bryan skyes
A brief history of Time - Stephen Hawkings

Fantasy:
The Xanath series by Piers Anthony
Discworld Serise by Terry Pratchett
Books by Tom Holt
Ruled Brtiannica by Harry turtledove
Good Omens by Neil Gaimen, Terrypratchett

Non-fiction:
Egyptology- can't remember the author. It's a book on Hieroglyphics
The curious incident of the Dog

That's all i can manage to pull off the top of my head.

Ideology

Go take a look at this.
Store Wars
it's funny.

But I'll say first of all, I DO NOT support organic foods.

They forget that without conventional farming methods, the yields will be too low to sustain the human population.

And that without the pesticides and the rest of the so called insidious methods, there might not be an internet for them to use as a vehicle.

They oppose pesticides and chemicals, yet they also reject one way in which we might be able to increase yields while reducing use of such chemicals. Genetically modifying food.

I agree that it has its risks, and that genetics still has a long way to go. But Genetics is one of the possibilities that will give the human race a further edge.

disappointment

Garion disappointed
but now I know not to expect anything despite promises.

On the other hand,
I've gotten my results, and at the rate I'm going,
I'll most probably end up with only 8 A for my four years.
Garion bemused

Flash

Three little piggies slept peacefully.