My car condition after 1.4 years....

Every time you will see nice and flashy cars, not those convertable types but those polish unitl machiam mirror type, then you would envy them, "wah... so shiny, how I wish I can do until shiny-shiny for my car", but actually, in this cruel world, having a shiny car comes with a price, either the owner is damn rich and pays like 400-600 bucks for professional grooming, OR, he is a DIY frantic and polish until you can see his arms muscles like Rambo...

And it's tough maintaing the car in tip top condition, i'll let my car show u why...after being on the road for just 1.4 years...


My front bumper, with a stone chip, proberbly as a soveniour from the AYE-TUAS expressway


I've no idea where the scatches came from....sianz...


Never drive when you are like still awake at 5am in the morning. Got this when i introduce my bumper to a hyundai Getz right front bumper...

so... if you do see a nicely polished car that seems just fresh out from the showroom, give the driver a thumbs up for his hard work or deep pocket, or you could throw eggs at his car in envy. I know what I would do. *heh heh*

Interesting Article from Phillipines

SINGAPORE - Singapore's government urged drivers to apologize for "errors of judgment" on the road and wave to fellow motorists, in its latest behavior modification campaign rolled out Thursday.

"If you do make an error of judgment on the road, a simple apologetic wave on your part will go a long way to defuse the situation and avoid confrontation," said Ho Peng Kee, the country's senior minister of state for law.

"Singapore roads need not be stressful if we all drive with consideration, with care, with courtesy in mind," he said.

Ho said the Singapore Road Wave would be incorporated into the annual road courtesy campaign.

Around half a million leaflets with road safety messages will be distributed as part of the promotion, he said. And there's road courtesy for children too.

"A story book entitled James and the Big Red Car, which highlights the importance of child seats, will be re-launched to incorporate road courtesy messages at the back of the book," Ho said.

Singapore, a tiny, wealthy city-state, is well known for its campaigns to modify behavior. Among its efforts have been campaigns to teach Singaporeans to speak English properly, to show people how to be more romantic, and to flush public toilets.

Critics have denounced the numerous promotions of morality as Orwellian and condescending toward citizens. AP/The Manila Times
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Hahahahaha..... I love the sentence in bold. Obviously taking a swipe at us. Beware people! Our behaviour is being modified! Mwhahahaha.....

Glum.

The whole world seems to be on a roll. I'm not. Every single day of my life I felt down. people pass me by. people talked to me. But no one knew. Knew of my misery. My Pain. My Sadness. My path before me. Each step I took. I wish it was better. Better than the step after me. Alias. No. Its always the same. Same old misery. Nothing more.

I want out. OUT!




But i can't.

I can't get out.

Can't.

NUS got new ATM machine out LT27

New member to NUS, an ATM machine outside LT27, finally leh...so hand itchy went to queue to draw money from the new machine...

very long queue...sianz...nvm...still queue, then those people in front of me kept drawing $50 bucks... farnie leh... students so rich one time draw $50 bucks heart not pain meh....then my turn to draw, wah...button so nice to press, got 'NEW' feel to it... *press* *press*... shit! ATM new machine got no more 10 dollars notes, no wonder every one draw 50 dollars.... @#$%^&^ draw lor...no choice..if not no need to eat my favourite vegetarian food liaoz...then while drawing, Cuiying also came and draw...

CY: Jarvis!
Binks: Yo!
CY: Damn sianz I'm going SGH!
Binks: for wat?
CY *points to a Cole box*: collect tissues samples lor....and taking MRT with it leh..
Binks: Wah... don't leave that box unattended or your face will be in the news liaoz ha ha

She must have guarded the box very jealously cos until now, newspaper also never report buona vista got bomb attack by terrorist... *heh heh*

Am I missing something?

Taken off CNA website:

Singapore's electricity price the same despite sharp oil price hike
By S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia


From Answers.Com


Competition in the electricity market and measures to enhance efficiency and reliability have paid off in Singapore's electricity industry.

One positive result is that the price of electricity has remained the same as that about five years ago.

This is according to the Energy Market Authority's (EMA) latest annual report.

The price of electricity and the amount chalked up are a closely-watched expense item in Singapore households.

The EMA report says that competition in the electricity market has led the price of electricity to fall by about 10%, had oil prices stayed the same.

Even so, with oil prices up by three times, the price of electricity is still about the same as that five years ago - due to greater efficiency.

The EMA also reports that it has learnt from the lessons of last year's major power outage on 29 June which had caused disruption to both homes and industries.

The EMA chairman said the incident was a reminder of the need to maintain a robust electricity system in Singapore.

In that incident, a disruption in the gas supply from West Natuna caused a two-hour power failure.

Conoco Phillips , which operates the gas receiving facility, has implemented 80 percent of the measures it identified to prevent another such incident.

Most gas generating companies have also since ensured that they can switch to a second source of gas if the first fails.

In the last five years, Singapore has become more reliant on natural gas.

It has replaced fuel oil to become the main source, generating 70 percent of total electricity. - CNA/ir

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In my opinion, this article is pure eye candy to me.

Firstly, the first bold sentence said that electricity prices remain the SAME as of 5 years ago. Is it really THE SAME? i thought they had just raise electricity by a few cents a few weeks back? Give me figures and not quantitative crap and I'll believe.

However, the real shit is the following point:
The article claims that they have been more reliant on natural oil over the past 5 years. According to NaturalGas.org, the Department of Energy states that natural gas costs less than 30 percent of the cost of electricity, per Btu (British thermal unit). if Natural Gas is cheaper than oil and they have been using it over the last 5 years, not baring the recent increase in oil prices, then how come our electricity bill doesn't get any lower? WHERE have the cost savings gone to?

In summary, this article can only mean one thing. And it's not hard to guess what that is.

Wake up and Smell the roses....

Source

Warwick lecturers vote against Singapore campus
By John Burton in Singapore
Published: October 14 2005 11:57 | Last updated: October 14 2005 11:57

Senior lecturers at Warwick University in the UK have voted against setting up a branch campus in Singapore due to worries about limits on academic freedom, dealing a possible setback to the city-state's ambitions to become a regional hub for higher education.


Singapore requires international educational institutions operating in the city-state to agree not to conduct activities seen as interference in domestic affairs.

The lopsided 27-13 “no” vote by Warwick's senate this week is believed to be the first time a foreign university has rejected the conditions set by Singapore. Although the vote is non-binding, it is likely to put pressure on the university council to abandon the Singapore plan when it makes a final decision on October 18.

Warwick and Australia's University of New South Wales are the only two foreign universities selected by Singapore's Economic Development Board to set up a full-scale campus.

The city-state has succeeded in attracting smaller schools operated by several top institutions, including Insead and the University of Chicago Graduate Business School, in an effort to triple the number of university students to 150,000 in the next decade.

The Warwick vote came as the outgoing US ambassador to Singapore warned in a farewell speech that Singapore's limits on expression might cause the government to “pay an increasing price for not allowing full participation of its citizens”.

Faculty and students at Warwick have questioned the costs of the nearly £300m ($525m) project and the university's ability to attract quality students and staff to the Singapore campus. But much of the criticism has focused on limits on academic freedom and civil liberties, including curbs on gay rights and high execution rates for criminals.

Warwick recently sent a letter to EDB asking that its students in Singapore be exempt from strict laws limiting freedom of assembly, speech and the press, and the removal of bans on homosexuality and certain religious practices on campus.

It also sought guarantees that staff and students would not be punished by the Singapore government for making academic-related comments that might be seen “as being outside the boundaries of political debate”. EDB said it would not comment.

The demand that the Singapore campus enjoy the same degree of academic freedom as in the UK came in response to an advisory report by Thio Li-ann, a law professor at the National University of Singapore, which said freedom of “speech is permissible as long as it does not threaten real political change or to alter the status quo”.

She warned that “the government will intervene if academic reports cast a negative light on their policies” but said the presence of Warwick in Singapore could “serve as an impetus for continued liberalisation”.

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I. Do. Not. Need. To. Say. More.

My RSS Feed is up!

Yesh..student syndrome is in effect...suppose to do some work but instead, i added an RSS feed into my blogspot(but hey! it's for my 4251 sake you know?). Anyway, for those using FF/Mozilla, all you need to do is to click on the orange icon at the bottom right corner whenever you are at my page.

I'm Tired le....

I'm now listening to "Colors of the Wind" by Vanessa Williams. I do not know why, but everytime when I listen to this song, I feel kinda relaxed... and I feel that I should...

I'm so tired, I try my best every semester including this semester but things seems to go wrong at each turn, I struggled every tutorial, every assignment to get some positive signs that can encourge me on for the next 6 months or so....nothing...I tried to motivate myself, telling myself that the next tutorial will be better, the next day will be better...nothing...

The saying goes, one cannot stop the tide... Even though my heart is willing, I can't do it alone... I tried every turn, every corner, but I just don't have the strength anymore...i'm so tired....I need a miracle...