Rainy day today… Some parts of Singapore must be flooding now.

Maybe they’re going to blame it on fengshui next. Since the severe floods started to occur about the same time as the marina sands’ opening? ;p

Got stopped by a police for jaywalk today.
Funny thing is, we didn’t realised we were checked for jaywalk until he told us.
XD

It was a bus interchange traffic light.
What are the chances of buses coming out at a non-peak hour?
And they stationed two persons there to “collect money”.

I was amused by our blurness though.
And we even said ‘Thank you’ to the police after that. X)

After thoughts…
Should the police be stopping people from jaywalking?
Instead of standing there and watching people jaywalk across and then fine them?
So for people like us who are blur and just followed across, if so happens a car comes dashing across*touch wood*, they are going to watch us cross and get knocked over??

What’s the key objective of stationing police at the traffic lights?
From the way things are, my guess is “To punish people who jaywalk.”
But what should be the key objective of stationing police there??
Fine-ing is never going to deter blur people, who did not intend to jaywalk at all… =P

Recieved a notice from NLB yesterday that they have levied a $1.05 administrative charge to my card for the late payment of $1.55 fine (for a book I reserved last year but never received that the notice for collection). The administrative charge for sending two mail notice within the last 6 months.

….
What amazed me was that the notice sounded more threatening than a gentle reminder.
Let me qupte it the next time…

This is something new.
Talk about service in Singapore.
If you don’t bother sending me the notice to collect my book, then why did you bother to send me two notices to repay my reservation charge?
Is that a value-add to me? or you?
Isn’t that a sunk cost to you, if I don’t intend to repay it.
And that’s 100% of the charges I was supposed to pay.

I would naturally repay it the next time I want to borrow a book or enter the library. You just need to lock my account.
Why waste the resources for just $1.55 and make me pay for your waste of resources.

Makes me wonder… if….
1) NLB is on the verge of collapsing n desperate in need of money.
2) NLB is trying to make a business out of the services they provide to public.
3) NLB has too many staff and they need to find something for them to do – i.e. to monitor fines as little as $0.01.
4) I am blacklisted on NLB for some reason and they think that I would run away from paying the $1.55.

So now I am suppose to rush to the library to pay the $2.60 fine…
Or else I would not be able to borrow books until I repaid it?
It doesn’t really make sense to me…
So if I don’t intend to borrow books… what incentive do I have for repaying the fine, which just doubled over the last 6 months?
The more you double it, the more it will deter me from entering the library again.
Singapore needs to be a more service-oriented society (service in quality, not quantity), starting from the public services..

Let me think of how to draft a more polite suggestion to them.

Passed by it on the way back from Jurong point. It’s so freaking big now.75% of tchs maybe?

Still remember those days. And yes, I am more Chinese educated. Never speak in English till I reach jc. Now I m finding it more difficult to write in chinese. Ar well… I m never good with languages.

Visiting rv in two weeks time…;)

End of another week.
With the recent flood of bad news… what’s next?

We just said hi not too long ago n now u left without saying goodbye. I don’t wan to say a one-sided goodbye.

Thanks for bringing me thru all those thinking process. It was only a few days but u’be summarized everything I’be learnt for a few months. I’ ll always remember u as a very patient and smart senior. The very few conversations we had, I was my usual lost-for-words self n yet u could grasp the meaning… N continued my thots. Many will remember u as a cheerful n helpful friend. I wished I had more time to feel the same way too. I’ll also remember u as the most gentlemanly tchs guy I’ve met. I just got to know u better…. Just. So recently.

Reality sets in as I begin to close the engagement that we were working on. Even the client saddened over the loss of a good n patient auditor.

I’ve always believed that nice pple will get to leave this evil n contaminated world early..to another better place. Maybe it’s really true. May u rest in peace….

Blogging on my phone now. I love my phone. Perhaps cos this is my first smart phone.

It costs only 48 sgd with the cheapest data plan.;)

And it is red!

Bought it at sgtel shop. The guy waived my reg charge in return for a feedback. I dunnoe how much was the charge but I think I must be the easiest-going customer around. Guilty of fluffing up the feedback a bit.. looks like SingTel need to improve on their method in measuring their service level quality.

Very nice movie.
If you can leap through time, which point in time would you want to leap back to?
I would want to leap back to primary school.
But if everything is fated, leaping through time, are you just reliving every moment again? or are you re-writing fate completely?

I remember a conversation with a jc classmate on the train many years ago.
He said that there might be many different instances of us in different dimensions…
At each decision point, we split ourselves into the number of instances based on the number of possibilities.
We are only one instance of ourselves down a certain decision path..
If that’s true, it doesn’t matter whether we leap through time..
We will just live through another instance of ourselves.

Garnet – Oku Hanako
グラウンド駆けてくあなたの背中は
空に浮かんだ雲よりも自由で
ノートに並んだ四角い文字さえ
すべてを照らす光に見えた

好きという気持ちが分からなくて
二度とは戻らないこの時間が
その意味をあたしに教えてくれた

あなたと過ごした日々をこの胸に焼き付けよう
思い出さなくても大丈夫なように
いつか他の誰かを好きになったとしても
あなたはずっと特別で　大切で
またこの季節が　廻ってく

はじめて二人で話した放課後
誰も知らない　笑顔探していた
遠くであなたのはしゃいでる声に
なぜだか胸が痛くなったの

変わってゆく事を怖がってたの
ずっと友達のままいれる気がした
終わってく物など無いと思った

果てしない時間の中で　あなたと出会えた事が
何よりもあたしを強くしてくれたね
夢中でかける明日に辿り着いたとしても
あなたはずっと　特別で　大切で
またこの季節が　やってくる

いつまでも忘れないと　あなたが言ってくれた夏
時間が流れ　今頃あたしは涙がこぼれてきた

あなたと過ごした日々をこの胸に焼き付けよう
思い出さなくても大丈夫なように
いつか他の誰かを好きになったとしても
あなたはずっと特別で　大切で
またこの季節が廻ってく

As you were dashing on the ground, your back
Was freer then the clouds that floated in the sky
And in the light that illuminates everything, I could even see
The square letters lined up in your notebook

I didn’t understand the feeling known as love
So this moment in time that wouldn’t return again
Taught me its meaning

I’ll sear the days that I spent with you into my chest
So that I’ll be all right even if I don’t recall them
Even if I were to fall in love with someone else, someday
You’d always be special and important to me
And this season would come around again

When we first talked together after school
I was searching for your smile that no-one else knew about
For some reason, my chest felt painful
To your cheerful voice far away

I feared changing
I felt that we could always stay friends
I thought that there was no such thing as an ending
Made me stronger than anything else
Even if I were to make a desperate run for tomorrow
You’d always be special and important to me
And this season would come about again
Since the summer when you told me you’ll never forget
Time has passed and just now, my tears came spilling down

I’ll sear the days that I spent with you into my chest
So that I’ll be all right even if I don’t recall them
Even if I were to fall in love with someone else someday
You’d always be special and important to me
And this season would come around again

“We killed them because we were against their relationship. If someone comes to your house to meet your niece at midnight, what more do you do?”–Asha Saini’s uncle, Om Prakash, who is charged in the killings. Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/08/india.honor.killings/index.html?fbid=AdiOqthqilf

…
what an answer to the question.
What more do I do.
I would at most lock her up.
Or send her abroad..
what on earth would make a parent wanna kill their child?

I thot it was a bit too easy to get over the loss of a fren.
Until I start looking at facebook… and the workpapers.
…

I wonder why..
Sometimes we don’t get to meet the person everyday, or every week.
But we just wan them to be around, somewhere.
We still feel sad at the thought of not being able to meet them again.
Even though, there were no arrangements to meet again….
…

Human feelings are weird…