My my, look at the time. It’s 6.35am now and the sun haven’t even officially rise yet. I just woke up from a good solid 9 hours of sleep, since I had an overnight session with the doutei gang outside on Fri night, and only came back home around 7am in the morning on Sat. We met in the evening for dinner and Mission Impossible 3, then after that it was more chilling out at the Swensons @ Orchard for some ice-cream with lotsa random guy’s talk and crapping around, and before we headed back we even had our morning breakfast at the Mcdonald’s near Shaw Tower which was opened 24-hours. Anyway come to think of it, I haven’t really did something like this for quite awhile, really have to hand it to the guys for that night-out session heh. I had certainly enjoyed myself, thanks to the great company.

So well, the Elections are finally over. I believe most of us already know the results of the voting by now; PAP won by a good margin of 66.6% votes and managed to return their mandate to the Parliament with the results. It’s over now and I won’t try to discuss this over and over again, but let’s just say I voted for what I thought was right. I had always believed that there’s a need to strike a balance when it comes to democracy and power in a society, and having the same group or a bunch of people ruling the country for over a couple good years, is certainly not very healthy in my opinion when it comes to building a balanced society in our current era. Still I don’t deny that PAP has done their fair share of good part for us, since they did helped to tide us over during the hard times like the economic downturn after the Sept 11th and SARS issue, and that’s something worth applauding for. But it’s probably just me, cos I’m not really comfortable when a certain power lies in one’s hands for too long. That thought is just enough to make me uneasy, that’s all. Everyone knows when one has the power to make decisions, power corrupts easily. This is so true even till today, in lotsa countries other than Singapore.

To be frank, I’m not someone who’s really interested in political stuffs, so these are just some of my personal perspectives and views abt it, and I don’t think it’s too sensitive either since everything is over now. I’m just expressing some of my afterthoughts abt the whole matter, considering how this thing was quite popularly debated and discussed over at one of my fav local forums. It’s over now, and we just have to move on and hope eventually everything will turn for the better for all of us, as what the PAP has promised all of us earlier on, if they managed to return their mandate for their side.

More photo updates and stuffs coming up soon, later guys. : ))

In light of the recent events of the Australian drug trafficker, if you had been following the local news, it has already been known and decided that he will be executed in Changi Prison today at 6am promptly. As much as I have no compassion towards drug traffickers, I do have something to say about this particular matter.

All along, I for one have no interest nor liking for diplomacy and politics. It’s not because I’m afraid of getting flamed by anonymous readers of this site, or the fear of getting into trouble with local authorities. It’s just that I had always felt that in regards to democracy and political issues, there is no way you can have your way of idealism, because it’s all just one-way, a one-sided affair. Not convinced? Take a look at this article I found here.

So is this the only way out for diplomacy? I certainly do not think so. While Singapore and it’s government is known for its firm and strict law followings, my personal take on this matter is that the rejection of clemency on this issue would certainly hurt Singapore in a way or the other, no matter how you view it. Please read this article here to understand why I’m saying this, if you have no freaking idea of the cold logic behind it.

So is the death penalty for that Melbourne guy really that mandatory? I believe behind every case there’s a true and sad story, and all of us knows his story. He did it for his brother, he’s had a clean record, and is also a first-time offender. And look at what his friends has done for him over at Australia outside the State Library in Melbourne. You would certainly not see something like this over here, what death penalty? Life still goes on, local people always have this kind of mentality, that who would give a flying fuck about some nobody, regardless of whoever’s gonna land on the death-row. See the difference here?

Somehow, I’m disgusted by my own country, after the events of this matter. As much as I love my country, (oh I really do love Singapore, it’s such a nice place) I’m so put off by its democracy and political issues. But can I do anything about it? Sadly, not even one bit.

Realist? Definitely not.

Some guy I really detested had the cheek to write about me and my stuffs on his blog again, despite my stern warning to him sometime back. Below are some of his distasting comments he has written on his blog. (heh talk about talk is cheap)

I also asked about him and I heard he was coming late and other stuffs.

I’m ain’t the kind to keep my emotions and feelings locked by a random selected password. What’s the use of keeping an online blog when it’s all a deception?

Pretty stupid right? I mean, why make such comments in the first place? Does it make you feel better? Do you even know me well at all? I’m sorry to say, but as much as you wish to acknowledge my relationship with you, I would say I’m not even interested to acknowledge your existence in the first place. You are not even acquainted with me to start with. You’re just that someone whom I had helped you before previously, even offering you a free working keyboard when you asked me for it, but you chose to turn sides in response to some people condemning you, because you didn’t choose to accept the principles of life, as well as respecting your friends around you. First and foremost, you made use of the trust your friends has given you. Talking about borrowing money, and not even telling your friends when you would be able to return them, with no given dead-line. (Even bank loans also have a dead-line) Despite them threatening you, you can give excuses like you need to save your money for your future studies and stuff. But when your friends go to expensive restaurants you can just tag along with no problem, giving the excuse that just because they are your friends, you have the rights of tagging along with them. What kind of bullshit is this? Do you even know the term liability? You actually borrowed money from your friends, expecting that you would have zero-liability for it. Taking them for granted, you shirked your responsibility aside and chose to prioritized your values over your purchases of games, rather than returning the money back to them, when you could. Just ask anyone, while touching your own heart, do you even think they would think twice next time about lending money to you, say when you really need it in future, for dire purposes? Honestly I don’t think so.

And about the quotes you spoke in your blog, of course I have something to say also. Firstly, no I didn’t arrange to meet them promptly at the Natsu Matsuri event on Saturday. I told Brandon I would meet them at the venue itself, you can verify with him if you don’t believe me. I was late because of the weather, and I chose to go at whatever time I feel fit. I didn’t stood anyone up, so no I believe I didn’t do anything wrong at all. About you referring to other stuffs, I have no idea what it is. If you have to courage to own up about it, I would be most glad to entertain you. (there’s always the comments page, please feel free to use it) And why would you even try to ask about me in the first place? Did I tell you that I really detest you in the first place? If you didn’t know that, now you know. And please stop stalking me ok, you fucking gay shit.

Oh, and if you didn’t realise, I chose to password-protect some of my entries, because it’s to prevent people like you from intruding my privacy. Please respect people’s privacy, have some self-respect. Thank you very much. That’s all gentlemen. The show’s over. Comments are definitely welcomed. (^ ^)

Well well well, so Singapore is finally big o’ fourty now. We’ve been enjoying 40 good years of independance, prosperity and peace and I’m sure damn glad to be part of this little proud country located on the globe. As I’m slowly shaping up to be a responsible young adult and hopefully in future, a successful local entrepreneur too, I sincerely wish to see certain things here that would improve eventually, like the public transport system (SMRT still doesn’t improve during peak hours, and accidents still happen) as well as some other political issues here and there (which can be found on the Home section of the ST papers occasionally) and not to forget the recent NKF organisation issue that took place, hoping in future things will make for a better turn with a more reformed system in place and all that, so as to make this country a better place for everyone to co-exist and live in. All in all, I think it’s still very important to appreciate and be contented with what we have currently at present, and how things are slowly shaping up to an improvement, slowly but gradually.

Aside from that, recently things in my life ain’t exactly on the right track, or should I say optimistic. Usually, I always think of myself as a happy-go-lucky kind of person, but recently I don’t seem to be able to put or fit myself into that characteristic anymore. Am I slowly shaping up to be a different person? Maybe. Perhaps it’s the environment, or perhaps it’s just the people around me, that caused the change in me to that effect. I don’t deny, sometimes I’m quite influenced by the people I hang around with, but all in all I think I’m still trying to be myself, and not ‘faking’ to be someone else I’m not. It’s just like, you’re trying hard not to create a pseudo of yourself, but sometimes you do see an ‘alternative’ image of your own self while you’re with others. Does it sound familiar to you? If so, you might have been in this kind of scenario before, probably due to your peers around you, or mainly because of that particular situation or circumstances you’re in, that’s all. Some things just can’t be helped, I guess.

Anyway, let’s talk about happier stuffs shall we? Let’s talk about food. I haven’t really been checking out the latest fast-food chain or restaurant in downtown, but if there’s anything new in my food dictionary at the current moment that I haven’t tried out, it’s gotta be Pepper Lunch and Carl’s Jr. To my knowledge, Pepper Lunch is based off the Japanese fast-food joint in Japan, which serves mainly teppanyaki BBQ food. They have grilled steaks, hamburger plates in very nice decent servings, at least from the menu I have seen on their website. Looks pretty oiishi, no? Do check it out soon, only one outlet so far and it’s located at the basement of Takashimaya.

Now let’s move on to Carl’s Jr, which is based off the popular American fast-food joint in US. I think I’m pretty late on this one, cause most of my friends have told me they had already tried this one, compared to Pepper Lunch. It’s something like Burger King, they serve burgers in huge servings, at least 1.5 times that of BK’s Whopper, for example. And for $10.50, you get a combo set meal which includes a small packet of fries and free-flow soda. Ahh, free-flow of soda? Sounds nice to me, no more of that one-dollar stupid top-up crap at Subway. Still, I think for american-style burgers, nothing beats Billy Bombers. But I guess I will find time to try Carl’s Jr someday. At present there’s 2 outlets, one at Marina Square and another at FE Plaza if I’m not wrong.

Guess I will stop here for tonight. I have a couple more stuffs to write about, but I guess I will leave those for tomorrow, will make time to blog again. Till then adios and enjoy the holiday minna-san! (^ ^)

“Our distrust is very expensive.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them.” - Troy Kennedy as Martin, The Italian Job

All along in my life as far as I had realised this, in my dictionary there’s no such thing as an absolute, perfect sheer of trust. Either for anyone or for my friends who are close to me. However you always tend to give a level of trust to someone whom you think you can believe in, regardless of how close he or she is to you. And of course trust has to be earned, rather than given amiably based on some kind of bias kind of faith. But at certain times, even someone who seems the closest to you, does things unexpectedly that makes him or her more or less trusted. There are also things that may irrevocably destroy your trust in a person. And once trust is lost, it may be hard to earn back.

The above afore-mentioned subject, is written in the hope to let someone else whom I trust to understand, the way of things that works around in my life. Given that no matter how trival the issue was, no matter how it has affected our friendship, it’s all passe now. I have spoken to you, you had given your explaination, how we take off from here is all up to the both of us. And I still want to say this, the reason I bothered to clear this up with you, regardless of how serious it was, it’s because I take my friendships seriously, and because I know you value your friends too, so I wanna make things work. I may have over-reacted pior to the matter, and somehow if you think I was selfish with my thoughts in the first place, let’s just say the scenario I had in my mind was all a misunderstanding, so if you felt that I had accused you of something I shouldn’t, here’s my apology again to you, I’m so sorry. (let bygones be bygones ya?)

On the other hand, I can’t believe that blasphemy poser maligned me in his blog again. And I think the guys were right afterall, this guy always likes to comment stuffs even though it’s not related to him at all. I mean HELLO CMON lah, please go get a life. Don’t you have anything else better to do than to speak evil of someone else? Do you really derive so much pleasure from writing gossips about people? I certainly do not wish to use this chance to spill your beans about your ugly stories again, even though you certainly have a huge backlog of history I can write about but I choose not to, cos it’s simply unsatisfying and I would be so silly to waste my time writing about you, when I have so much else to do. And for once, oh please why would I give treats for my own good and use it as a handle against others? Like I said, I do small monetary favours for my friends out of goodwill, nothing more than that. And if you would recalled, when you asked for a working keyboard, I gave one to you. When you need help for your website, I offered to help you with it and I did, and I didn’t ask for anything in return. Go touch your own conscience before you throw your verbally abusive words at me. And like I said earlier on to you, if you want things to patch up between the both of us, you jolly well know your off-limits, and not do things like spouting verbal nonsense like this. All I can say is you simply disgust me, so fuck off please. My impression of you just went down another notch, if you’re interested to know.

Ok I’m off to lunch. Today’s such a nice fine day so I shouldn’t spoil my day. Later everyone! (^_^)ノ”"

Hmm let’s see, been awhile since I wrote something substantial. So let’s touch on the current affairs, both concerning world and home. Those of you who have missed the news recently or don’t read the newspapers at all (I know there are lazy ppl out there, quit denying) Japan has finally apologised for their World War II atrocities that affected South-east Asia. Honestly to me, this history doesn’t affect me at all, as an individual. Of course this has somehow a big impact on the history, especially to us Chinese. But my point is not this. What I mean is, yes people’s actions do make and change history, but why blame the country and it’s countrymen, for things that has happened for several decades ago? Everyone wants to move on, and yet the freaking China has such a big-ass ego, that still bitches and maintain its hostility towards Japan with the recent issue going on. I mean c’mon for goodness sake, it’s already been god damn sixty years, just accept the damn apology and forget the past. We don’t need more tension among countries in respect for diplomacy in the world. Let bygones be bygones. Peace be with all. No one wants a World War III for goodness sake. *shruggs*

As for the current local affairs issue, there’s this very disturbing thingy going on, about young teenage girls selling their bodies for money, if any of you has read the local newspaper recently. If this is really true, our current generation is really at stake. Frankly from my point of view, this is really sad. So what about our human values? Can we really blame on materialism for this? Or they wanna shift the blame on us guys again? That it’s because of us guys, been so freaking horny and all, that we think money can buy us fresh virgin sex? A few black sheep doesn’t account for all men, but I think this is a seriously disturbing issue. So next time whenever a girl talks about us guys not valuing our chastity (I think most guys don’t give a heck abt it), well think again. It may be because girls themselves don’t even value their own moral values at all, no offends to any opposite sex, this is just what I think. I just think it’s when topics like this, I should defend for my own gender, our integrity as males, guys. snags.

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No, not the balance of the ‘force’. This has totally nothing to do with the upcoming blockbuster flick Star Wars Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith even though I’m really anticipating and damn hyped for it. I just couldn’t think of a better topic for this entry, but oh well never mind about that.

So well today, me and Jimmy finally had our ‘embroilment’ with him (read my previous blog entry for details) on IRC over the evening. Frankly, I think he’s still not quite convinced nor has he accepted the fact, that it’s not only me who’s at loggerheads with him now, and shifts the blame and everything and the cause to me, pointing fingers at me for causing all these ‘feud’ between him and the others. But the main point is, if the rest ain’t happy with him too, and wishes to stay away from him, what can he do? Nothing. Nil. Nada. Now he seems to be blinded by the fact, and lives in self-denial. In absolute reluctance.

I have said my part and told ‘him’ firmly just now, and I will not hesitate to say this again. If he’s sincere to offer me an apology, he shouldn’t be doing all these behind my back, telling the others ‘untrue’ stuffs abt me behind my back. I may not have ‘ultrasonic’ ears to hear all these myself personally, but a scandal is still a scandal afterall, gossips are bound to be leaked in some ways. He, been the gossipmonger, thought that he will be able to uphold and protect his own reputation by maligning me, and not spilling any beans. But boy was he wrong, the reason been? It’s all within the balance. In life I had always believed that, everything has a balance. Good & Evil. Light & Darkness. The Kind & The Cruel. Yeah you get what I mean. When there’s a beginning, there’s an end to it. And end it shall.

So now, I think he has finally got ‘our’ message. I use ‘our’ because what I had just conveyed earlier on in IRC and also in this current entry, is the will of ‘us’, and I believe this message should be firm and straightforward enough for him to understand. What we really want now, is just some peace. And please do not come and talk to me or even try to tag along for outings when we never even ask or invite you in the first place. Asking is a basic form of courtesy or manner, and we will talk and ask you personally when the time is right. In the meantime, please make yourself sacred so ‘we’ can get to enjoy and keep our privacy, thank you very much.

I honestly think this post entry should be firm and clear enough, and I really hope he gets the message. And what surprises me even more is what Jimmy has told me over the phone conversation just now. It’s just so amazing that I didn’t even know he has so much bad blood with some ‘others’, people I would have never expected. Then again, I already sort of know his character and his way of principles, so it’s of no real surprise actually. I really hope in time to come, this event would prove a lesson to him, and make him change for the better. We are all humans afterall, and we do make mistakes. No doubt we do have regrets some point in our lives along the way, but at least we learn from it, from our mistakes we commit. Only then can we improve ourselves and strike a balance for everything, thus making a better place for everyone, to inhabit and mix with.

So much for today. Gonna retire for the night. And I’m gonna watch Swing Girls with Valentine and gang tomorrow, yeah another movie outing. Then there’s the upcoming Steamboy anime screening this Thursday at Shaw Lido with the rest of the peeps from sgGamers. Definitely looking forward to it. Oyasumi nasai minna-san! (^_^)V