Just the other day, my friend and I were talking about quotable quotes. So we had the ’usual’ quotes from generals, politicians, wise people, latin ‘cheem’ sounding ones, etc..
Then we talking about best quotes/exchange of conversation that we heard personally. And both us of us agreed that the one below wins the prize..
This happened while climbing Mt. Kinabalu and we came to stretch of steps that never seem to end, something like the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ which all SAF boys are used to.
T: (On looking at the above mentioned flight of steps) Oh my f&@##@g God! There’s no way i’m going to climb that.
L: You know, cursing the Lord’s name is not going to make it easier to climb.
T: Well, praising him is not going to help either.
Haha, funny right… right? Tell me i haven’t lost my sense of humour.
Every once in a while, when i get moody or suddenly dis-illusioned with life, i would ask philosophical questions like, ‘What is the purpose of life’ or ‘What is my life’s calling’. Basically questions to which there is no definite and immediate answers.
Recently i came across a speech delivered by Steve Jobs at a commencement at Stanford Uni back in 2005. I’ve heard and seen the phrase ‘Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish’ couple of times, but never really assocciated it with anything else. Just thought it was another catchy quote.
Please do read the speech. I found it rather inspirational and moving. In a nutshell, he talks about the trials and tribulations he went thru, right from the day he was born. He also talks about how the decisions he made in the past, however wrong they may have seemed to others at that point, turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to him.
I particularly like this passage:
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
I still do not know what is my heart and voice saying, though i think i have a slight idea. But i can only hope that, i too, will have the courage to follow my heart and intuition.
The content page of a Lonely Planet guide book found at the hostel i stayed in at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
So i just need to flip to page 478 for the best attractions in Sabah.
Ok, so far so good. Just one page left.
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SOME BASTARDS TORE THESE PAGES OUT!
Ahahahahaha… it is this little things in life that make it so enjoyable when it appears to be rather sucky. (For lack of a nicer and more inspirationally sounding quote) =p
Figured out writing everything in one go is very un-reader friendly so for today it will be the summary and the details will follow in the subsequent weeks. So if you want to spend a wonderful, crazy 6 days on just a total budget of $500 Sing, listen up.
What i did, in random order:
We almost missed the plane by buying drinks.
Took a boat trip, fell in love with snorkelling.
Climbed a mountain in between.
Took a train ride.
Got dunked into water several times.
Visited Sentosa.
Watched 2 movies at 5RM each… One Hollywood Blockbuster and the other a locally made horror movie.
After coming back from a 6 day trip with almost no access to the internet or newspapers, I spent the whole day catching up on news i had missed out.
True enough, the Virginia Tech shoot-out certainly shocked me but it is this article from our local Straits Times that caught my eye as well.
Extracted from the 1st page of the Home section, Straits Times, 20th Apr.
Read it and see if there is something wrong about this article.
Criminal charges are expected to be filed in court today against a prominent business leader, who was also a four-term Member of Parliment.
This follows a protracted investigation by the Commercial Affairs Department, over nine months, into the positions he held with different private limited companies.
The businessman is expected to face charges under the Companies Act.
Although each of the charges carries a punishment of a $5,000 fine or a maximum one-year jail term, they were not serious enough to warrant a police bond for him.
The charges all relate to the positions he held in various companies, which have business dealings with one another.Under the law, he is required to inform the different companies of his position and interest within these companies in order to avoid any potential conflicts of interest.
The ex-MP, a director in several public listed companies, is accused of failing to disclose that he was a shareholder in a company which dealt with three other companies where he was also a director.
In fact, all four private limited companies are subsidaries of the same parent organisation.
The former MP, whose business interests ranged from food to shipping to manufacturing, is accused of failing to formally inform the companies of his stake for well over 2 years.
At various board meetings between 2003 and early last yearm he allegedly failed to disclose the information.
Still, lawyers say the offences are ‘minor’ and it seems unlikely that the former MP would be jailed, or disqualified from acting as a director, even if he is convicted.
LONDON (Reuters) – A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message.
Quite cool eh? All the more reason to get smashed with your friends all night long and then in the morning call a person who could be your wife.
“I’ve no idea how I ended up with her number in my head — it’s only a few digits different from mine.”
I think he had so much to drink that he even forgot his own number, but somehow the numbers stuck to his head, giving the ‘i-know-this-from-somewhere-but-not-sure-where’ feeling. Proceded on to message that seemingly familiar number – that too he got it wrong. And hey, presto, they hit off and got married in the end.
And i thought this kind of things only happen in the movies.
So, if you do not hear from me for next few days, I am busy trying out numbers that go like 9183-xxxx. Well, I might get lucky too.. hehe..
Ever since I over-stretched my hamstring trying to execute a reverse kick without sufficient warm-up, walking and even sitting down has literally been a pain in the ass.
Even day to day activities such as a car-ride or sitting in a chair would soon turn into a irritating feeling. It’s as if a mouse was nibbling away at my hamstring.
So I decided enough was enough, and so followed one of my friends to this acupuncture shop in Potong Pasir. Seems like they only moved from Toa Payoh only today, so the shop wasn’t really fully set up yet.
So it began with the usual massage, nothing special there. Then the masseuse took around 20 glass jars and a long lighter. She lit up the flame, put it near a glass jar, then quickly stuck it to my leg.
She did the same for all 20 glass jars. Seems like the flame sucks up the oxygen gas in the jar – and by quickly sticking to my leg, she sort of maintains a vaccum inside the jar. Which is supposed to help out in the blood circulation within the leg. Even TCM uses cheem stuff..
Next was the dreaded part – the needles. The masseuse was like, ‘The Needles are next’. Making it sound like some feared criminal gang or something.
4 needles – calf, behind the knee, two more on the upper thigh. She would insert the needle until i felt the nerve twitch, then she would stop. That meant that the needle tip, was in contact with my nerve and would send up and down signals. The worst was the needle just behind the knee. I literally felt the whole leg jerk. According to the masseuse, the area behind the knee is a crossroads for the many nerves in our leg.
So once all 8 needles were in place, she put this infra red radiation lamp over the needle on the affected area. So the needle started getting warmer, the area where the needle was inserted also started getting warmer.
Once 15mins were over, I was finished, forked out $15, and attempted to stretch my hamstring. And to my surprise the pain was really gone.
Not as bad as i thought it would be and a pretty decent deal for $15.
In a nut shell, a Malaysian Minister has critizied Jeremy Clarkson, host of the popular show, Top Gear, for beating up a Perodua Kelisa with a sledgehammer before blowing it up. Mr. Clarkson had also described the car as “unimaginative junk, with no soul, no flair and no passion”.
You have to view this video to understand what i mean..
Jeremy Clarkson Destroys Perodua Kelisa
Sorry it’s a bit long..
Well, Mr.Clarkson maybe did really hate that car that badly, or maybe he was trying to raise viewership and boost sales of the magazine.
I wouldn’t know cos the only time i came into contact with a Proton was back in Sec 3, when a fellow prefect, let’s call him GS, proudly told us his dad bought a new car – a Proton. So some of us went to the school foyeur to check out the car. GS was also taking something out of the boot of the car and he slammed down the boot. That’s when it happened.
The car’s boot fell off.. Yup serious, the boot actually fell off.
Anyway, was digressing from the point i wanted to make.
The article of the Malaysian Minister critizing Jeremy Clarkson was dated 4th April 2007. However, the video I found on Youtube was posted on 18 Dec 2005.
That’s a gap of 16 months. Hmm.. it took 16 months before people in the parliment started noticing? Or did i miss something out here? (As in, should even classify this as Current Affairs??)
Well if it did happen this way, here’s what possibly could have happened. Mootzman attempts to go behind the scenes.
15 months ago:
Minister’s Aide: Eh, Boss, got people make fun of our car in UK la.. Now how?
Minister: Hmm.. yup those guys were right, our cars are crap.. Ok tell you what, threaten Singapore that Pedra Branca is rightfully ours. Then our locals will be distracted and continue to buy more Protons.
Aide: OK Boss, you the man..
10 months ago:
Aide: Eh Boss, still got people talk about the Top Gear show whack our Proton.
Minister: Ok, ok.. Now release a press statement that says Singapore is not being friendly by not allowing our ‘Question Mark’ bridge and threaten to cut the water..
5 months ago:
Aide: Eh Boss..
Minister: Blame the haze, blame the unrest in South Thailand.. Blame something..
And Finally Last Week:
Minister: OK, I finally managed to sell off all my shares in Proton.. Now for a public condemnation of Top Gear, so that my personal reputation will increase and be promoted..
Right… Just a reminder in case i get hauled down to court for dunno what reason.. Everything was said in a tongue-in-cheek and foot-in-mouth manner..
When I posted the article about the ‘Zombie Outbreak’ on 1st April, I had thought no one will actually fall for it because it was so obvious that it was bad. Come on, zombie outbreaks in South East Asia? And nothing mentioned in the media?
Haha, Thanks to Loud Wheat Keet ( Names are not real to protect the person involved), I had a good laugh when he told me, he actually thought it was true. Don’t feel bad, I thought it was real too, until I googled it.
And speaking of April Fool’s Jokes, I’m sure you have heard about the latest ‘announcement’ from the wonderful people at Talkingcock.com. Another bag of laughs.
The more I look at this proposed plan for our new sports hub, the more i’m convinced somebody was trying to pull a quick one on us. According to news reports, the field is bulit in such a way that it can be detached and floated out, so there will be something like a huge pool in the middle of the stadium.
Which led to my brother asking me a question: Won’t the field being re-attached be dangerous if people are still in the pool?
Interesting question, couldn’t find an answer then, but now shall attempt to answer that and as well other possible uses for this stadium.
1) People can escape by holding on and climbing the toilet paper from the giant toilet paper roll by the side of the stadium.
2) Now if one day, if a giant comes to Singapore, like in the book Guiliver’s Travels, we now have a place readyfor him to do his *ahem* business.
3) Singapore can now be the next location for the next James Bond movie. In it, the bad guys will trap him in the pool and slowly back the field into the stadium, hearby dealing him a slow and painful death. Buahaha..
4) Manchester United and Chlesea and whatever super rich clubs will hire out the moving stadium and use it for their latest ‘Around the world’ Global tour. Pity the ball boys though.
And talking about James Bond reminded me of this joke,
What did the Sodium Chloride secret agent say to the fiesty, Hydrogen gas molecule?
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