this, is so funny. for those who cant be bothered to click, somewhere on that webpage it goes:
Earth Hour + Official Search Party for Miss Earth Singapore 2008 The Arena, Clarke Quay 8pm - 10pm (Drinks promo 1 for 1) 10pm - 10pm (Free flow of house pours) Showtime: 10pm Cover Charge: S$30
More info: Saturday, 29th March 2008 , the lights at The Arena, Clarke Quay will be switched off for one hour, from 8-9 o’clock, also known as the Earth hour. Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, which is global warming. Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to deliver a powerful message about the need for action.
Therefore, being environmentally responsible businesses, Miss Earth Singapore, together with Lifestylebash and The Arena have decided to support this movement by promoting Earth Hour in conjunction with Miss Earth Singapore 2008 search party…. JOIN US!.
okay. not that i dont applaud everyone's efforts at some kinda awareness raising and all *polite applause* but... i think its just a leetle bit farnee beecause in that one hour, just the air-con alone will zap up dunno how manee times the energy potentially used by the lights. not to mention the music/sound system etc. and not forgetting the energy for travelling saved if everyone just stayed at home and slept through the night instead. but all in all, good job i guess. could it be that in this case it's really the thought that counts? oh wait, i forget. how is it we're supposed to slow down and eventually reverse climate change/global warming and all? surely it cant be concrete action instead of well-meaning thoughts alone?!? *mock horror*
okay well not that i can really say very much about concrete action, huh.
etc etc.
11:45 pm
Thursday, March 27, 2008
"There is no purpose to existence, only nothingnes."
i absolutely refuse to even venture there. yes even if it means deluding myself.
seriously. why do we not do something/anything sometimes. i am so guilty of it. there was once i was at some coffee shop getting dinner and before me was this unkempt-looking guy who was like asking the hawker what he could get for a certain amount of coins. obviously even that humble meal cost alot to him.. i was really tempted to like just ask him to order anything he wanted and pay for it.. BUT THEN i didnt know how to do it and basically was quite an ass, procrastinating until he left. these people are all around us sometimes, if we care to look. there was once this pastor who did chapel long long ago in mg. it was one of those that really stuck with me, what he said i mean. haha cos i cant even remember who that pastor was. he said that our conscience can be likened to this pointed triangle thing within us that has sharp edges and when we like do wrong (whatever its definition) or anything it kinda turns and pricks us -- so we feel bad and stuff. but then the more we do it the edges get more and more blunt and in the end we dont even blink an eye at certain things anymore, and wrongs and injustice dont spark moral uhh.. outrage anymore. i think im quitequite morally watered down at the moment. when will i wake from this apathy?
oh well.
11:03 am
Monday, March 24, 2008
okay. so the next Big Project. out of many other half-baked Big Projects which turned out to be not quite so big afterall considering the half-doneness of them all. but anyways. have been spurred in recent times to well say, find out more. to find out exactly what it is that i hoohah about sometimes. and so, i got myself this book. figured might as well start at where i am. which is, not much of a place i guess. its more like a hovering in between. which kinda sucks.. a little. knowing that in some ways that means that youre a fence-sitter. or i guess you could say that in being one of those so-called fence-sitters youre actually being more honest than either side in what you believe etc. but it is rather convenient, isnt it? to... simply sit. because we just dont know. or do we? anyhooow, i think its high time i poked around abit since my behinds getting rather sore from this balancing act here. sooo.. for every for religion book i get ill get an against one. and vice versa. cool. and somebody please pinch/slap/do something to me if i start favouring one side in this book-buying spree. btw, how come a hardcover and a non-hardcover book can cost the same arh? anyways. not that this thingthing was completely randomfied i suddenly feel like doing this kinda thing.. last night i tried to read The Book. tried. which mean to say, was more successful than on previous attempts where i fell asleep. a random flipping took me to this:
You Pharisees are in for trouble!
repeated like a gazillion times in Luke 11:37-54 which nearly made me laugh out loud, it was so funny. but never mind that was from some youth edition some well-meaning relative gave so hmm maybe language a bit farnee. but a quick check with the TEV gives How terrible for you Pharisees! which, while better, doesnt help much. but no. i think im reading all this in the wrong way.. it should be about the message/idea and not the language right.. or something like that at least.. in v for vendetta apparently ideas are more important than words. but then without words ideas can never be fully formed, no? *starts to flounder in the deeper end* so i figure if first-hand doesnt work i need second hand stuff to sift it out a little, water it down summat.. else my eyebrow muscles will get as much excercise as this guys. so well here i am.
anywaysies. not quite sure of what to make of tomorrow's 830 lesson. sometimes going for lessons is like drawing a wild card. you really, really dont know what its gonna be like. just when you decide you think you know how its gonna go, these wonderful students somehow manage to turn those preconcieved ideas on their heads leaving you with a rather vague lost "uhh.. okay.." like today like the reason why im bouncing around a little was because she and i, we were having so much fun! and then the mother was like kancheonging, asking to like go through all the stuffs that she needs to practise and stuff can practise on her own but then we were havin so much fun :( ah well. i know that girl tmr, she doesnt like to do things out of her comfort zone.. ie. test times tables, learn cheemer new words, do science papers, basically all the things that she needs to do to improve lah. haiyars. oh wells. but when shes good shes good lah. (is reminded of a realleh realleh farnee song mg choir is singing for syf this year) and tmr's that other boy who can just talk right over you about computer games and lame (but funny) stuff. his lessons can get quite hilarious, really. when youre not too busy getting annoyed and exasperated and stuff. he keeps like playing with the chair and falling down sometimes and then there was once he like dropped the chair on his foot. like, o.m.g. its like watching a comic strip sometimes. hahaha and oh, he was telling me about road safety park (which i didnt get to visit in p5 cos i was sick) where he got other people booked by suddenly appearing at the zebra crossing and then the drivers went and did something wrong. andand he took some shortcut by jumping from the grassless areas around the trees because youre not supposed to step on the huge grass patches and supposed to make a huge detour.. then people started copying him and they got booked too which, by the that time, he was far far away. andand he gave one of his friends this bottle of coke with mentos in it.. and i suppose we all know what happened after that.. so oh wells, wonder whats gonna happen tmr.
reminded me of this msn conversation i had with a cousin back when i still used msn. hes like really cool lah, the one who got me hooked on fantasy and stuff.. before he told me about the wheel of time fantasy was just a passing interest kinda thing. like how many years on and the furthest ive gone is book six. or seven. out of what, twelve? (if the last is out already) aiyar but so over that already. and i suppose he is too. into those kinda political stuff and im like huhhh. *stifles yawn* as long as it doesnt change my life or those around me i realleh cant be bothered. sucky attitude right but oh wells. i mean its like cool/interesting and stuff, but there are just too many long words which have like even longer meanings.. :/ anyone spell the word l-a-z-a-e. anyways. so we were like mock-planning the destruction of humankind because apparently we're the ones who're killing the earth and all.. so yeah. it fun while it lasted. my cousin is way cool lah. just dont tell my mum that, shed be horrified. like, what? got so many people to learn from you wanna learn from sean! hahaha
anyways. about everything else. if you sit quietly enough you can actually hear the doors opening and shutting. the trouble is making out which ones are for you. its really hard not to feel like a sheep right now but i think i should try harder and make up my mind quick because otherwise, ill end up looking like this http://www.americanidol.com/contestants/season7/jason_castro/ the sheep-guy. anyways. i still cant believe amanda is out. humphyhumphs. while kristy lee cook and ramiele are still hanging around. and danny and the nerdy "future president" guy should have gotten in in the first place. and most of all i cant believe that watching american idol is getting to be a habit.
11:28 pm
Friday, March 14, 2008
you really gotta hand to mcdonald's. they are like so ons about constantly improving. theyre running these ads for their online ordering or sth like that. i mean like, !!! fast food.. online! not that id actually order but hey, one cant fault them for not trying, right? theyre always like coming up with new stuff on menu. like their porridge and nasi lemak and their orange mcfizz! omg, i loved their orange mcfizz like crazy. although it was just sprite and orange juice or sth. all previous attempts to recreate it werent exactly successful.. and they took it away :( oh wellsh. suppose nobody much liked it heh. oh yeah and their prosperity burgers and their curly fries have become like seasonal chinese new years things. wasnt exactly wowed by the prosperity burgers when they first came out though. maybe cos i was trying to eat while walking haha. dunno how they taste now. oh yeah and another stayer is the the mcwings. yumyum. and another flop, the mcCrispy. not just the food k.. theyre like adding the ezlink, reward thingthing, the receipts, more efficient service, decor renovations (not everywhere though) etc. omg, i sound like a mcdonald's fan now. not that their food is too die for, but they really are one step ahead of the competition when it comes to innovation. pity theyre not health-foodish though not for the lack of trying to shed the mcdonald's = unhealthy perception. i am so lovin' it.
anyways. i never realised just how much we can do with our mouths. i mean like, wow. how many muscles does it take to form a word, especially those with double consonants. like bread. and green. we take them for granted lah. and t-h sounds.
haha, and omg, have you read the lyrics to rent? i never have till now.
To sodomy, It's between God and me (la vie boheme)
haha, like, seriously.
10:12 pm
hahaha, its pretty cool whats happening in malaysia. yaysh. got my father pretty excited and cant-wait-for-the-news-ish! coolios!
12:52 am
Sunday, March 09, 2008
ALRIGHT. i refuse to cry over spilt milk. one sunday of moping is bad enough. doesnt solve the whats next question but oh wells.
anyways, sometimes i feel more than a little scared for our primary school kids' educations. today was slightly horrifying, what with listening to pseudo-science and people puzzling over math questions for which theyre supposed to be full-time tutors for over two hours. these previous homemakers, bandying around the word "professional" like theyre truly deserving of the it. and she! the supposed trainer and ex-school teacher, no better. :( okay lah. granted, definitely more than mere knowledge is needed here, but at least you know, keep in touch a little bit?
10:51 pm
i am so reminded that plans are only plans without any action. remember all the grand plans for jc? shucks. so what now?
10:42 pm
Thursday, March 06, 2008
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” Edmund Burke
:( i, am not doing anything. that, is bad. real bad. as i would tell my sisters, you, baddie! *frowns*
that aside, a level jitters arent exactly the most comfortable feeling. nay, not at all. no matter what i told the parents, ie. worry for what? the results are already decided, worrying wont change anything.. (causing some head-shaking there) one cannot help but think of all those little dingdingdongdongs that could/couldnt have been done. like uhh, the vectors question that was so duh.. (yes, i will have mei you lian to jian jason if i like get a C for math) a dangerous question choice for gp.. like uhh, religion or something like that.. like, hello? i hadnt written on that topic before, like, absolutely not? why couldnt i have done something safe, like education or something. like the prelims. and another off-colour essay in the music paper :( forgot what the question was half way through.. oh and chem.. hohoho, need i say more? anyways. shall not ruminate upon such depressing (hate that word, by the way) thoughts. after all, cant change anything, can we? no regrets. http://youtube.com/watch?v=jbljhS4xDlU
speaking of results. some of those cutie pies' results are back and theyre kinda mixed. i can already feel myself setting their targets for SA2. is that scarey or is that scarey. :/ andand, what can i say.
simple plan is back. humphumph. to laugh or to cry, that is the question. judging from the only thing i could find, they havent really gone anywhere. so much for being gone and nothing being there anymore. oh youre there alright, simple plan. where youve always been. whining/shouting about how somehow every day is the worst day and how youre somehow the poor misunderstood one. youre pushing thirty, man. move on. sure, youve tweaked the music some. and progressed from stopping traffic and umm, jumping to *gasp* twirling round in circles? but leave teenage angst and stuff to well, teenagers, you know?
alright. that being said. i did use to dig this.... *sheepish look*
1:45 am
gail.
loves anything new
gets caught up in causes, events, loves
but doesn't do anything about them.
professes to be a supporter of the green movement
but leaves the lights on
disapproves of mcdonalds
but eats there anyways.
godwise, the jury's still out.
schoolwise, fass rocks my socks
but why do i have like a ton of work to do?
familywise, i guess theyre/its great
we just need to figure out what to do around each other?
freindswise, hey you guys are awesome.
blogwise, realises that the profile section is crappy
but doesn't know how else to fill up the space.