Tuesday, July 29, 2008

What can a PSLE certificate do?

I was just thinking....if the students I'm teaching now, quit school...

They will only have a PSLE certificate which is practically useless now and will be totally phased out in a decade.

They will be stuck with jobs that pays below $1000 for life? With increasing inflation that will erode away the value? An average of 3% inflation per year will in 10 year's time erode away 30% of that $1000 and this year's inflation rate is already what...6%?!!!

Thursday, July 24, 2008

A twist in the Bhutan perspectivet

I wished the celebrity couple had never held their wedding in Bhutan.

Now, I am not so sure that I want to go there anymore.

Ok, more like, I think it is still one of the place where I have to be, except that a little bit of the magic and charm is lost. I will be part of the massive hordes of tourist that will be visiting Bhutan simply because someone famous has held their wedding there.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Wynner's concert

Nana had tickets to Wynner's concert over the weekend, so we went. I picked her up from Kallang MRT and we went off in search for dinner. The area was unbelievably packed. We went from restaurant to restaurant and all they could tell us was that they couldn't give us a table without a reservation. (-_-")

In the end we ended up eating Indian food at Vansh. The lighting makes me look good, as you can tell from the collage of pictures below. HAHA. I think the food was ok but we were in a rush and didn't took the effort to properly savour the food. It tastes ok. However I must admit I am not exactly the most enthusiastic fan of Indian food and so cannot say for sure that I will patronise the restaurant because I am uber in love with the food.


The concert was not exactly exciting for me. They were conversing in Cantonese the entire concert and dialects are so not my thing. I can profess to understand a bit of Hokkien but Cantonese is so out of my league other than the Ngoh Ai Loi (I love you), Ho Mm Ho (How are you guys or literally translated as 'good or not'.
The songs were retro 80's so there were a couple of English songs and one or two Cantonese songs sounded familiar. Anyway just in case anybody is curious, Kenny B still looks freaking hot. Alan Tam has a tummy !!!
Initially I thought that nobody would be THAT enthusiastic but I was wrong. The crowd was quite worked up and I heard that the concert was a success, at least 90% of the tickets were sold out.
Ah well, Nana and I were contemplating a movie after that but I went back to school in the morning to settle some stuff and to see a student so I was pretty tired. We went over to a cinema in Orchard and all they were showing were Hancock, Hellboy2 and Batman plus maybe 1 or 2 other unappealing movie. I was only interested in Batman but the next screening was at 2 a.m. so *shrugs..we went to do a little shopping and I got a big Winnie-the-Pooh cup so I can eat ta-pao food in.
There are other minute details but I'm too lazy to blog about them. It was quite a good weekend I had. So I hope many had one too. :)

Friday, July 11, 2008

唯一的庇护是距离
与天与地
一天又一点
越抗拒越放松绳子拉长距离
拔河
下一秒
往前还是后退
倾向又转身背对
怎么就像飞蛾扑火
许着不该许的愿望
就悬困在空中
两半心的摇椅
摇摇蓝蓝
忽高忽低
与天空地面的拔河
近天近地
伸手摘星无法如愿
脚踏实地无法情愿

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

falling,smiling

Falling slowly into entrainment
Sunshine coming through
Little shared moments
Sparkle and smile