Buying a Hope…

“ Today is monday, i buy a ticket and i look at it everyday till Wednesday. Then, i’ll buy another ticket and wait for Saturday. Sometimes, i’ll complain to strangers about the government. Sometimes, i’ll blame everyone else. “

Many people are from the Kampung crossover when Singapore was rapidly urbanised. Some embraced change, exploited it and became rich. Some accepted it and lived normal lives. Those who don’t move along with the times get stranded.

Any 3 dishes for $2

The economical mixed rice stall at the hawker center around my neighbourhood sells ANY 3 dishes for $2. That means 3 meat , 2 dollars. 3 fish, 2 dollars, 3 Bean Sprout, still at 2 dollars. I’d then proceed on to get a bean curd water for only 0.40 cents at the store beside.

The presentation is not all that appealing but the taste is like your home cooked food and it is healthy. The Bedok “Lao Bai Xing” depend on this store for healthy wholesome meals (my hair is standing) everyday. The portion is huge. So there we have it, for $2.40, it is a hearty meal!

3 Gig Data Plan

A side note :  Called Singtel with regards to how much data usage used in the last 2 weeks , reply was 22mb out of 3 gig.

1000mb = 1 gig.

Welcome to the Information Age

Here I am on the bus with connection to macdonald’s wireless@sg as the bus has stopped beside a mac, boosting my current dataplan speed while surfing the net for news that might affect monday’s market. With my senneiser earphones connected. I am listening to my childhood fav blink182 album, enema of the state. Occassional calls and smses disrupt my music and surfing as I reply to my lovely friends. My msn messenger running in the background has 2 unreplied chat windows that causes the l.e.d. light on the top right corner to blink continuously. Email logo appears on the screen indicating new mails, upon checking, I find out that church bowling activity for next saturday has a change of venue. Reaching great world city from bedok, my battery has been reduced by 1/10. This is what mobile phones of today are about, and boy are they addictive. This post was done entirely on my blackberry with spellcheck.

Lovely Song

Cause you give me something
That makes me scared, alright
This could be nothing
But I’m willing to give it a try
Please give me something
‘Cause someday I might call you from my heart

You already waited up for hours
Just to spend a little time alone with me
And I can say I’ve never bought you flowers
I can’t work out what they mean
I never thought that I’d love someone
That was someone else’s dream

My Best Electronic Gadget to date…

It's 2 Year old

My best electronic gadget so far isn’t my laptop or handphone but this little gem here that is probably one of the cheapest but most useful of all the electronics. To date, not a single instance did it hang on me, neither has the battery ever died on me.

This 8gig mp4 player turns on in an instance and there is 0% lag. Buttons are extremely durable and it’s size is insanely tiny for it’s large display screen(Readers, any mp3 player without a screen is frustrating). It’s sound quality, according to cnetasia, is supposedly better than Ipod’s due to it’s 4 way channel as compared to Ipod’s 3 way (No difference in my opinion, to the untrained ear).

What i love most about it is that it is durable like a stone. I can’t count the number of times i have dropped this piece of rock and yet not feel a pinch of heartache. It is THAT solid! Some parts of it’s outer coating have been chipped off, by judging from the picture above, it still looks as good as new. I have always seen Sony products as durable and user-friendly and this product has raised the bar of my expectations. Newer models of this WalkmanTM series do not appeal to me as they are larger in size. The battery lasts 33 hours on music. Transfering songs is DARN easy as a cable and dragging of files over sums it all.

Cnetasia has rated this baby 7.7 but i’d give it a 9. Sony sells extra cables and the cradle dock at a really high price which is a turnoff. I don’t remember how much i had bought this for but i remember it being a tad more expensive tha the other brands back then.

New Bike

Just taken this beauty out for a ride in the morning to Tampines (Tem Pines) and back which took me about one and a half hour (Yes i know it’s a long duration).  Can’t say how tired my body is after the workout but it sure felt good.

My childhood friend had lend me his bicycle with instructions to return it only when i grow sick of cycling. It is a branded bicycle that costs over a thousand!

Places i have been to so far with this bike are Simpang Bedok and Tampines, which are probably places 4 year old on tricycles are able to conquer.

I cycled on the road but images of accidents caused me to keep turning my head around just to make sure no cars are coming my way, unfortunately, human reflexes causes my bicycle to drift in the direction of the road as i turn my head to the right. Strangely im still in one piece as I type this entry.

Buying Cheap

If you cultivate your children in such a way that they are always thinking they should not afford luxuries, you are cultivating a child to fear spending.

Some parents ought to be shot dead.

Buying a cheap product also gives you cheap performance and spoils easily. In this new information age, spending more may in turn lead you to gain more.

Can’t afford someting? Four ways to go about getting it. 1. Give up on the dream. 2. Save for Longer period. 3. Go for something cheaper. 4. Work Harder to get it now.

I like 4.

Today, i spend 1 and 1/2  hours trying to print 10 pages from my cheapskate Epson printer which i had bought under the unfluence of someone of that genre. Never again… never again.

Mr Brown Funny Video

Steps to BGR

I learned something really interesting today that applies to organisational behaviour during class today.

Know → Accept → Trust → Care

Know your employees, accept them, trust them and then care for them and they would in turn do the same for your customers.

According to my lecturer, this applies to a relationship as well.

Get to know someone first, take it slow.

Then, do you accept that person?

Then learn to trust that person.
Trust the person with your problems and know that that person will make it all okay.

Care for them.

So what happens when we are blinded as the person is really, really HOT.
Real Life Law:

Accept → Care(Blind) → Know → Heartbreak

Upon first impression:
“Oh my god that friend Alicia introduced is so hot i want him/her as my BF/GF.”

Upon first date:
“Hi, these flowers are for you. I’ll drive you home after our movie. Oh, you have work tomorrow? Isn’t it a Saturday? Poor thing. I’ll drive you to work tomorrow morning. What !? 6am? Oh… sure, no problem. You are like my dream date.”

Upon first realisation:
“Did he/she just check out the hot person beside us?”
“Why is hot date on the phone all the time when hot date is out on a date with me”
“Is having a conversation with me while having one side of hot date’s Ipod earphones stuck in his/her ear considered as a good conversation with me? After all, hot date said that he/she feels really comfortable with me and that hot date did not feel shy to do anything shameful when I am around.”

Game Over:
Hot date’s sms replies take 4 hours to get back to me while i sit anxiously in the office, checking my phone every 45 seconds.
Isn’t that picture of hot date on facebook showing hot date at Zouk last friday when hot date told me he/she had overtime work? Who is that person with arms around hot date!?