Archive for October, 2005
October 31, 2005 at 1:14 pm · Filed under General
This time, it is the New Balance Corporate Triathlon 2005. The third one I have taken part in. Think I’m starting to become a triathlon junkie… heh heh…
This sure is one heck of a way to see if you’re fit or not… if you’re not, then it kinda puts you of your misery… Either way, I guess it’s not bad eh?
Ok ok… it does not have to be this way, check out the Sunday Times dated 30 October for some… hindsight tips… the media is always famous for this… something tragic happens then they start to publish shit like… you could have done this… you could have done that… to prevent the shit from hitting the ceiling…
Basically, it states all the shit about getting your health screened before taking part in the event, progressive training and shit like that… now why wasn’t this made known before the event?
Guess it’s a ‘let’s try not to spook our participants before anything happens’ kind of mentality eh?
October 31, 2005 at 9:47 am · Filed under General
How many of us were approached by stangers in public asking for small change, a spare stick of cigarette, and stuff like that? I have, and I bet many of you have too.
On one occassion, I was asked by an old man (who looked like he’s lived forever) to spare a cigarette. I did.
On another, I was asked by a lady on a bus for a dollar so that she could make her way home, I did. (Without wondering how she got on the bus in the first place.) Silly me. When she opened her purse to stuff the dollar in, it was oozing with one dollars!
Then I was at the bus stop outside Hotel Meridian Orchard. Another elderly man approached me to ask for coins, so that he could take a bus home. He spoke in perfect English and sounded pretty educated. I could be in the same situation. I game him $2 in small change… Two weeks later. I was in the same bus stop, ans so was he. He asked me for small change again, obviously not remembering me. I told him off… he just walked off the the next guy in the bus stop and started his sales pitch again… I went home more cynical than before… ah, may the higher intelligence bless his poor soul.
Then I was at MacDonalds’ East Coast having lunch with Pamela, a good friend of mine when again, an old man approached us for small change to buy food. Pam’s the best. She refused to give him a cent, but offered to buy him a loaf of bread from 7-11. She did. I thought that was brilliant. For slightly over a dollar, if he really needed the food, he’d appreciate it. If not, he’d look really stupid walking around with a loaf of bread and asking for food money… heh heh…
Then, on another day, a young guy came up to me to ask for cigarettes, said that he was really stressed out after losing a job. I was down to my last stick. So hey, self preservation right? I refused. I got an earful from this guy!
Last week. As I was driving, an auntie stopped my car at the road junction. Asked me in perfect mandarin if I speak mandarin. My reply, “I’m sorry, I don’t understand.” I don’t really care if she had an emergency. There’s just no point anymore. There’ll be some others to help. Otherwise, petty con artists won’t be thriving in Singapore.
Yes, I shall be super evil to any strangers who approach me for favours in the streets henceforth.
October 25, 2005 at 11:26 am · Filed under General
Uh, title does not make much sense? Well it sure does make sense in Sweden where their trains run on cows. Yes, cows!
The rising oil prices have forced people to search for alternative fuel sources and the Swedes have found it in the most unlikely of places… cow guts.
Cows are butchered and their entrails stewed to produce methane which is then used to run ‘biogas’ powered trains, taxis and trucks. Diesel powered vehicles will eventually give way to these cow powered vehicles.
I guess this could be the reason why the Americans are studying the “greenhouse gas” emissions of cows eh? 
October 21, 2005 at 7:36 pm · Filed under General
Yes, it was the eve of my birthday and I must say, I’m pretty glad we took this picture in CPG Labs.
What you see in the picture is 5 people covering up my really messy desk.
Of the 5 of us, ur… none of us are technically there now… heh heh…
Those were good times.
October 21, 2005 at 11:36 am · Filed under General
Well, as ponted out by Angie in her blog, we never had a picture together so here goes the very first… Photo op during salsa at Union Square. From left, Ruth, me and Angie…
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This time, it is the New Balance Corporate Triathlon 2005. The third one I have taken part in. Think I’m starting to become a triathlon junkie… heh heh…
