According to Facebook app

You would fall for a Nerd

Your man is socially awkward and completely sweet. Although other people may make fun of him now, just wait a few years and those same people that made fun of him will probably be working for him. He will worship the ground you walk on and love you like crazy, although he may not always know how to express it. You find his awkwardness endearing because you know that underneath all that nervous stuttering and passion for obscure subjects is a really great guy who adores you!


i think it sums up D nicely.

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Everyone hates Singapore.

I'm not quite a global citizen, I may have gleaned my information from the net, but I find the world is not making much sense. Misconceptions are merely lying in wait for anyone to send it flying across the world at the speed of a quick email/youtubeˇ­.


1) Islam is a violent religion.

Even though I'm Chinese and non-Muslim, I am VERY offended by this statement. One of my best friends is a Muslim and I get riled when people make such sweeping statements about a religion that they only saw through twisted news stories.

Singapore resides in the South East Asian archipelago, and the 2nd largest ethnic group is populated by Muslims. It's surrounded by Muslim countries like Indonesia, Malaysia etc, who frankly despises Singapore. Ask any Singaporean driver to drive his/her brand new car with Singaporean plates in to Malaysia a highway across and chances of him/her getting mugged rockets to 70%.

So I WOULD know what I'm talking about.

It's also true that Singapore had/have been/still is targeted by Muslims extremists. But I liken such extremists to Christian evangelists who con senile old people of their pensions, but merely on a different scale.

Muslim extremists distort the truth of the Koran, and exploit faith so as to gain power to control countries and wealth (look at how filthy rich Osama bin Laden is!) , while Christian evangelists, tries for a shorter timeline, going for wealth and fame during their 15 minutes of fame on TV. Buddhism has it share of bogus monks asking for alms clad in the sacred orange robes. I've even heard tales of temples being fronts for money laundering. The Catholic Church is plague by children fondling priests, the good Christian community oppressed blacks in the 1950s and Christianity has a long and bloody history long since forgotten by the modern society. (Think witch hunts and the crusade and Hitler)

There are black sheep in every religion, who parades in the name of their "God","Buddha","Allah" and all the rest of the pantheon of holy idols for personal gain. And its unfair to judge based on a minority group of radicals.

Yes, Muslim radicals killed many with their terrorist's acts. So did Hitler, decidedly white and quote,

"Although Hitler did not practice religion in a churchly sense, he certainly believed in the Bible's God" http://www.nobeliefs.com/hitler.htm "He justified his fight for the German people and against Jews by using Godly and Biblical reasoning."

Strangely, no one discriminated against whites and Christians then.

Take a good look, you will realise that a religion which advocates, no alcohol, no gambling, no usury, no prostitution, and humane slaughtering of animals for food is hardly the one that would advocate "kill all non Muslims!"

2) Singaporeans speak lousy English

I was outraged when I read this from T's blog.

http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20080207-48643.html

You've got to be kidding me!! Taiwan who tries to imitate American English pronunciation and comes out sounding all wrong? Taiwan whose President can't speak a full sentence of English has Taiwanese artistes mocking Singaporean English on national TV???

Taiwan is primarily Chinese (mandarin speaking) and Hokkien (dialect) speaking community. The only proper English I have ever heard from Taiwanese artistes are from the ABCs.

I do not deny that Singaporean English is far from perfect, and most speak pidgin English aka Singlish. Colloquial English in Singapore is generally a mesh of abbreviated (or shortened) English, Malay, Mandarin and a couple of dialects, stirred in with one or two Indian words.
It reflects how the cultural mix in Singapore is something unique. Malaysia calls itself, "Truly Asia" but it's not quite on the same level as Singapore on that count.

Anyway

It's sad that Taiwan doesn't recognise this as a part of Singapore's uniqueness and instead chose to insult Singapore's brand of English. I'm pretty sure that if called for, Singaporeans would be able to speak proper English to anyone who cares to listen. Singlish is often used to show good will and friendliness as compared to a put on English accent. Such English is deemed to sound as if the person speaking it is politely sneering at the other person especially if he/she is not English educated.

It's exactly the same as when Taiwanese speak in their not-perfect hokkien.

Haiz.

This is long.

Ok. I'm going home now. Its 1.25pm. I'm at the office and it's a public holiday, for Chinese New Year!



Gong Hei Fatt Choy!!

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major recap coming up... with tons of photos!

in chronological order

countdown 2008
(i know this entry took a long time)
was bizzare but still fun outing with D and his friends. watched AVP at Bugis.. and some questions still bugs me. why is it that the blue dissolving substance... which there is only one test tube of never runs out? why is it that an alien baby inserted into the predator's body forms some sort of hybrid but not a human and alien hybrid? why at the start of the show, 1 alien killed off the entire ship full of predators without much of a fight, but later on, 1 predator can take on probably a mass of 30 (at least) aliens? I know , i know, its only a movie. a sci-fi fantasy movie at that, and it should be allowed to stretch logic.

o well...

headed on to chijmes for the countdown party..




the guys were standing around while us girls were enjoying the party. we wouldn't have even made it into the party if not for some gentle persuasion and a lil bit of luck. *grins* its been a long time i danced at a party.. or maybe it should be called i moved my limbs in an erratic fashion to the dance music instead. LOL... WHICH i think is much better than being an old fogey at a party and refusing to take part. speaking of old fogeys, the guys got shown up by this ang moh Caucasian white haired and wrinkly old gentleman who showed them some moves, granted the moves were probably circa 1960s but i thought it sure looked better than a cluster of tree trunks.






My Birthday!

i just wanna show off my bday presents!
I'm so happy with them! There's actually this largish Jack soft toy which Lindy brought back for me from HK which I didn't include, cause it kinda overshadowed the rest.

anyways here's the rest



Bag from xue and elaine... its perfect! just when my current bag is falling into pieces, literaly!

Flowers from Fad... whu delivered them to my office.so sweet!

Jack Calander from Lindy.. whu has a quirky habit of giving pple presents

Mickey n Minnie jigsaw from D which I thought was cute and commented on months ago and he remembered

Gorgeous wallet from LayEng, which coincidetally was something i was eyeing and considering to get

Lastly Post secret book from T which he generously offer to get for me. the book was shipped from US to UK, after which he passed to Yuan Feng who brought it up to my place and passed to my family since i was at work. Friendship at work eh?


Next up...

My Mums bday!

we celebrated at this Chinese restaurant which specialized in sharks fin and other Chinese seafood delicacy. The place is called Tam Kah Sharks fin and its pretty reasonably priced. its along the shop houses just opposite china town point.





mum happy


mum n dad


nothing else to do, waiting for food to come


family photo


1st dish!


a small one, but abalone just the same


Pig sister


YuM!


San Bei JI, chicken was soft and tender not bad at all


one of my all time favorites! Peking duck


ice cream cake for dessert


my sis is cam whoring again


this time with mum


Total bill

feeling very broke (i paid) but happy!

CNY prep

guess what i found while clearing my room


strange but true... the birth certificate of Miss Audrey Tay Wei Lin

Bought new year clothes!

my mum says i look dumpling like in the black trad chinese top. oh well.

did all my spring cleaning yesterday... now my room is absolutely spic and span. Just don't open the cupboards tho.

Today
I'm sick and at home. That gives me time to mull things over, and make my decision. no doubt I'm sick at an inconvenient time. but i dun choose when to fall sick. haiz
Either ways i its time i gave up

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