Pissing in public

I saw a kid pissing in the middle of a crowded coffee shop during dinner (at the NTU extension). This kid stood on a chair and sprayed his yellow piss into the plastic bag which his mum was holding. And yes... the boy was half naked and his shorts were at his ankles revealing his willy in full glory. (-.-")

So much for Singapore being a civic minded society. Where is the decency and respect for the surrounding customers? Surely the parents knew that this was inappropriate? Besides, the toilet was only less than 20 steps away. Ugly Singaporeans. I am totally grossed out.

NYP Tammy scandal

I'm certain the name "Tammy" needs no introduction to the country of "Sillypore". Her name is on almost everyone's lips nowdays. After that scandalous NYP affair, even the Straits Times newspaper got excited and wrote an article on it. Poor Tammy, a victim of technology. I'm sure everyone knows the entire scandal by now but in a nutshell, there is this girl called Tammy from Nanyang Polytechnic who had her hand phone stolen by some jealous fellow cheerleader. Whatever the reason, she was unlucky enough to have her sexual exploits exposed via her state of the art video camera phone. The person who stole the phone even went to the extent of publishing her personal details and mass mailed it to the entire staff and student population of NYP. As if this is not enough, the video is now generously available on the net. To further hype the attention, rumour has it that the videos were released part by part.

The hype is not so much on the closer to life "Made in Sillypore" ponography video that is available. People will always be curious for sleazy and unorthodox news. Afterall, it is not everyday that sex scandals are revealed in our own sunny island "Sillypore". Some people in "Sillypore" do silly stuff, really silly stuff. There is no doubt that the person who released the video was all out to make Tammy a household name. In fact, Tammy may just be the next star after the infamous Anabelle Chong. Technorati even reported that the topic "Tammy NYP" was the top search topic for the week in "Sillypore". I heard many people talking and laughing that Tammy's home made video puts Paris Hilton's sex video to shame. Sure... this may be interesting to talk about and for a good laugh but has anyone thought of the consequences?

Tammy is already a victim for a vicious attack. Her time is in a total mess and she has to live a life of a refugee. I will say that her plight is worse that the victims of the 911 attack, 2004 tsunami, Bali bombings and the latest phillipine landslide. Has anyone spared a thought for this poor girl? Many of you can argue that she shouldn't had let her boyfriend film their sexual escapades. Some of you can also argue that a 17 year old polytechnic student should not even be having sex in the first place. The rest can even argue that she should be punished and expelled!? Let us get the facts straight, why is all the attention on poor tammy and not her boyfriend? We can only guess. People all around the world have sex, so what's the big deal? Why should a victim get further abused? It's like sentencing a victim of a robbery to jail because he/she was robbed. Does this even make sense?

I openly condemmed the person who released the videos. This is too extreme a revenge for anyone. This is living hell. What is the cause for this act of revenge? Fear? Anger? Hate? Tammy ain't no celebrity or a prominent figure in the media and yet, all the spotlight is suddenly on her in a notorious manner. Let's be clear about one thing.

Fear leads to Anger,
Anger leads to Hate &
Hate leads to SUFFERING.

A beautiful life, a bright future has been shattered. I have NO IDEA how tammy is going to pick up her life again. She can avoid her friends, breakup with the boyfriend and other stuff to get away, but can she face her parents and relatives? Is it ever possible for her not to be scorned by her elders in a conservative asian society? Nobody deserves to be a "tammified" and be on the receiving end for such a matter. Revenge only begets revenge. Somethings in life simply cannot be repaired. Shattered souls remain shattered like broken glass, never to be beautiful again.

Just give the poor girl some privacy.

The art of Star Wars (Sneak Peak)

Feel my lightsaber you will !!!

Stay tuned...

Love me, Kelly (2)

Kelly Mania!

As promised earlier, here are some pictures of kelly's album which I bought last week. After days of continuous listening, I'm still can't get enough! I LIKE! Here are the tracks in her debut album labelled Love Me, Kelly. (Change your font encoding to unicode if you can't see the chinese words.)

Love Me Again

爱, 无力
答案
计时炸弹
有些爱
非爱不可
那一秒说的话
魔力
美丽笨女人
关于爱情 (Feat. 洪俊扬)

爱, 无力 has definitely got to be my all time favourite. The lyrics are just so true, so real.

In case some of you readers have yet to see her latest MV, click here to directly watch a preview. The MV is a preview version, so there are some lip sync issues but hey, it's as close as you can get. Please stop telling me that her blue "raincoat" looks ugly. It's a funky nice dress for goodness sake. Love Singapore's very own superstar & want to know more? Check out Kelly fan club by clicking on the kelly fan club website image below.

Speaking of which, did I mention that I got a poster of Kelly upon purchase of the CD? I'm elated that I've got the mega sized poster of her. Haha. Now I have a hot chick looking down at me every morning when I wake up.

Looks like I will not have problems waking up early.

In order for me to stay motivated and awake, I even placed the CD casing on my desk space! Did you know that Kelly is my friend's (Michelle) friend? So cool right? What a small world!

Grooving in the beat as Kelly sings.

Oh! Did you buy this week's issue of I-weekly? Kelly's the cover girl. I specially bought the issue with the plastic wrapping. Haha.

100% Kelly and no less

Meantime, please stop asking me to rip the tracks into mp3 so that I can send them to you. Go get her album (either the normal or limited edition versions) if you have yet to do so. Go get an exclusive copy of i-weekly too! Your eyes and ears will thank you for it. :) GO KELLY!

Side tracking, in case, you are wondering about all that Star Wars stuff which I have all over my desk space, that's because I visited "The Art of Star Wars" exhibition at the science centre a few days back. More on that in another entry.

Love me, Kelly (1)

I bought Kelly's debut album, "Love me, Kelly" the day before (wednesday) and I've got an exclusive mega sized poster!!! I've put the poster up on my hostel room. Woo Hoo! I've been listening to it over and over again and loving every tune to it. SHE ROCKS! Even the newspapers gave her debut album a 4 out of 5 stars rating. Really great stuff. To those who have not bought her album yet, get her album asap! You will not regret it, fantastic tracks. Go Kelly! Always my superstar.

More on this later. I'll upload some pictures soon. :) Meantime, Ed has informed me via msn that Kelly is the cover girl for this week's issue of "I-weekly". I'll definitely rush to get my copy the first thing in the morning. Her music video is also available for preview here. (Wait for kelly's picture to appear in the flash and click on it). The full MV will be out on channel U on 19 Feb 06 at 8.45 pm. Do remember to catch it!

There she goes

Jer told me that she'll be off to Hong Kong tomorrow on a holiday with her friend (that police kid/ guy who is giving/gave her the supplementary credit card as mentioned in my previous entry.) Hmm... a holiday for two? I'm surprised on how fast things progressing. She told me that she bought tickets there two weeks ago. Oh well, she explained to me the whole rationale that she wants to get used to travelling abroad and other personal reasons on how she ended up flying off with just this guy. I get this melanchonic feeling, but on the other hand, I'm also worried about her safety. Remember the song "Leaving on a jet plane" by Chantel Kreviazuk? I have the exact sentiments. I'll give her the benefit of doubt in any case. Either way, I'm in no position to interfere. She lives her life and I'll happily live mine. She'll be flying out of Singapore again after this Hong Kong trip. Apparently, her company will be sending her for a business trip in March. Ah... I hope she enjoys herself there. Afterall, she really wanted to go yo HK for a long long time. Have an enjoyable trip Jer. Remember the promise you gave to me. Bon voyage and take care!!!

Speaking of which, I want to go to Japan in the near future. I've always dreamed about experiencing and visiting the land of the rising sun. Someday, I'm spread my wings out and fly around high above the clouds... ...

*Sniff sniff* Need a MC?

It's drizzling as I write up this entry. There have been showers that go and off for the past 2 weeks or so. What's it with the weather? Someone should write a complain to the Ministry of Rain to complain about the inconsistent spells of mini showers. Not surprisingly, many people have/had been suffering from the *sniff-sniff-ha-chew* syndrome (including myself).

As I pop in another miracle pill that helps to alleviate my cold like symptons (aka the vitamic C pill), I thought back on how my fellow national service friends used to fake illness just to avoid the 5km morning in the wee hours of the morning. Afterwhich, they will run over to the medical centre after practicing their *I'm too weak to do anything* facial expressions in front of the mirror.

Here are some of the common practices which were successfully implemented. Introducing....

" How to get Chao Keng in front of the MO"
for dummies "

• Buy one tube of toothpaste (super fresh and minty type), squeeze out all the contents and eat them up. Sure to get stomach upset and fever overnight.

Effectiveness- 2 days MC, 1 week light duty

• Steal a jumbo sized box of Kong Guan buscuits from the mess. Crush them, and mix them container with drain water. Finish them quickly before you get caught by your sergeant. CONFIRM get "lau sai" (diahorrea).

Effectiveness- 1 day MC, 3 days light duty.

• Go to the medical office, when it is almost your turn to see the doctor, hurry run to the toilet and take some water+ soap and rub it into your beloved eye. Rub your eye until it become swollen, then cry in front of the doctor saying got bee sting your eye.

Effectiveness- 1 week MC plus a chance to chat up with
the nurses at Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

PS- The last time I heard, none of the following tricks work anymore ever since the cleaner complained about constantly refilling the hand soap in the toilets and having to clean up metal Kong Guan biscuit containers found near the drains.

Collective events!

Finally! I am able to squeeze out some time to blog again.

As my hectic schedule eases its way through, I am beginning to gain back some of my sanity. All the late night reports and research has taken some toil on my body. I've been down with a slight runny nose since yesterday. Being a little paranoid from what I see from the news I was beginning to suspect the possibility of contacting bird flu. :/ After all, I did had chicken rice for lunch a few days back and the chicken looked kind of bloody. Despite that good old glorious bloody mess, I ignorantly wolved the plate of chicken rice in a record time.


Hmm... A little too late to regret? Edwina commented that it was probably due to the lack of sleep. I guess she's right, I do feel a little better after some intensive sleep and some cold medicine.

I was down at parklane with KW last Saturday evening when I bumped into something quite unexpected! As I was walking towards peace centre, I saw an entire army of black people! They were cheering, screaming, shouting and punching their fists in the air. Taken aback, I turned my head 90 degrees and saw police cars with the blinkers flashing on. I looked back and I saw roads being cordened off. Before I could blink my eyes, more Indians flooded the vicinity and were walking all over the main roads causing slight traffic congestion. I was stunned! A revolt? A mutiny? Mass protest and demostration from the Indian community? Isn't Singapore suppose to be a harmonious place right where people from all walks of life fuse together as one? Hmm.... But wait! There are burly looking Indian men who were carrying Kavadi(s) pierced onto themselves.


"It's Thaipusam!!!" KW shouted at over the surrounding noise. Cool... A festival celebrated by Indians all over the world. There were hundreds of devotees carrying offerings to their Hindu gods and there were some who pushed their devotion to the test by piecing themselves with Kavadi's into their flesh as a large offering to the Hindu god, Lord Subramaniam. I must say that their pain threshold is very high! That Kavadi looks heavy and it's pierced into this flesh without any visible wounds. Amazing! I'm just bewilded on why there is no blood flowing out the piercings. Wanting to test out whether it was painful to have all those piercings, I told KW to offer his arm as I pierced my fingernail into his flesh. *Ouch!* Not surprisingly, he brushed me off saying I was crazy. Ha.I seriously wanted to stand beside one of the Kavadi carriers and take a photo but decided not to. Afterall, this is something very sacred to the Hindus. There were many people whom I believed to be family and friends of the Kavadi carriers who were shouting and cheering to give the Kavadi people encouragement and support. Some even had drums as they hit a rhythm to motivate the people around.


Of course, not every Hindu devotee celebrated with extremities, some of them carried offerings on their heads decorated with flowers and religious ornaments. Many of them were walking barefoot as a test of their resilience. If i recall correctly, the devotees started off from a major Indian temple at tank road (near little India) and walked 3km to the next major temple.

I also noticed female Kavadi carriers. The ladies were carrying smaller version(s) of Kavadis but they still looked heavy. One middle aged woman was on the verge of tears as she hobbled in pain. Such is the power of faith and devotion. I can't help but to have a deep sense of respect for the devotees.

It was definitely an eye opening experience. I'm glad to be in Singapore. The fusion of different races and religions does really spice up the life and exposes different people to the cultures of other races.

Before I forget, today is V-day! Yep. It also coincidentally happens to be Kai Shun's (my younger bro) 16th birthday. Incidentally, Siew Lan's birthday also falls on the same day too! We're gonna have a belated celebration for her tomorrow. It must be fun to have your birthday falling on valentine's day. Some much love around. The entire campus is flooded with V-day booths, performances and love food. Flowers are going all around!! Wispie even distributed chocolates wrapped in pink papers to her friends. Way cool!


To everyone out there reading this. Happy V-day to you irregardless whether you are single or attached. Have you told someone you loved them yet? Look around you and you'll realise that actually, love is all around.

Special dota guide

JUST IN!

This entry is meant for all DOTA gamers out there. I was chatting with my friend "Dao Ming Shi" when he sent me a special guide on how to use lina inverse. This is some funny guide! Useful to a certain extent for those who are trying to master the skills involving this heroine. He has just brought Warcraft 3 to a new level. Click here to read up on this exlcusive guide.

Blog entry eating ghost lurking in blogspot.com

I'm fumed !!!

If you have been reading the past entry on 4 Feb 2006 titled "Better man found in ancient china", you will have realised that I blogged about the the kung fu movie flick on "Huo Yuan Jia" aka "Fearless" featuring Jet Li. Just 2 days back, I realised that the entry disappeared into thin air even though I did not do anything to my past entry.

In fact, if were to scroll down, you will see an entry that reads "Coming up- Better man found in ancient china" That post was DELETED by me after I posted my entry on the movie "fearless". Somehow, my "fearless" entry was deleted and the "coming up" entry kinda of ressurected from the dead. In short, the post which I deleted, came back by itself and the post which I posted, got deleted mysteriously. What the hell is wrong with blogspot??

I hence deduce 3 conclusions.

• There is something wrong with the blogspot server.
• Someone hacked into my account and did something funny without me knowing.
• There is a phantom ghost in blogspot.com that pulverises blog entries at its own sadistic will.

Somehow, I choose to believe the 3rd conclusion. I am disillusioned that an entry which took some real effort on my part just disappered into thin air. I'm still hoping that it will magically reappear. This totally suxs.

In the meantime, I'm screwed and drained from my projects. Living in the lab makes my ass hurt.

Projects in crisis

I have been boogled with serious issues for my final year project recently. It seems that I spend more time in the laboratory than attending lessons. A typical school day will comprise of around 4 hours of lesson and 7 hours in laboratory and 1 hour for breakfast/lunch/dinner.

Prof Butler has been really helpful, but it seems that the problems are mounting. I hope I will not break his limit. I have been doing everything except doing my FYP which is basically the planarization of silicon wafers via Chemical Mechanical Polishing. I have to coat the wafers with photoresist, pattern the film and develop the wafer. This may sound really simple, but on average, it takes about 3 hours to prepare 2 wafers and I have 20 wafers to prepare in total. I also have to spend time making slurry solutions which keep agglomerating and refuse to liquify. It seems that I have to spend time mixing ammonium to my gelated fumed silica to liquify it. Whats more, there seems to be insufficient slurry powder to go around. If you thought that was worse, I have to spend time with machines that break down on a frequent basis or machines that shatter my wafers while processing.

Argh! As I quote from my prof, I am indeed an over glorified technician. Problems + Trouble + Frustration = Crisis. All I want to do is to polish my wafers and get my results nicely plotted out. Surely that is not too much to ask for? I don't wish to get stressed over trivial issues, but surely this cumulative problems are beckoning me to send a "SOS" signal???

Apart from my FYP, I still have to deal with my M460 design optimization project. Edwina was kind enough not to kill me when my zen micro could not be detected on the computers. We had spent hours (at night) trying to work our optimization design in the CAD/CAM lab. I appreciate her tolerance and kindness not to tick me off. Fortunately, we managed to get some more designs up and going (even though we had problems trying to get ANSYS working.)

Wait! There's more. M464 is another project to tackle. It seems that my current tutor is more demanding as compared to M364 tutor. My team is now required to show research papers and do indepth analysis week after week. I am however glad that my team mates, Mel and Ming yao are very nice people and are pretty great to get along with. It seems that people with the same frequency seem to get things done more effectively.

Meantime, with my 3 projects to handle, I still have to study for my prescribed elective M480 Surface Mount Technology module which is due NEXT WEEK, still have to do up on my M428 Quality Assurance CA assignment and slog for my M463 Fluid Mechanics CA which is due by the end of Feburary.

May I survive a turbulent month of Feburary and come out in one piece.

Impossible is nothing - ADIDAS

PS- There may be a lack of postings over the next few days. I'll probably be cracking my heads out over my crazy schedule.

Coming up (This is a phantom entry)

Better man found in Ancient China!

(This blog notice was deleted but it somehow resurrected)
(This space used to have a movie critic entry on "Fearless" featuring Jet Li)
(I have no idea how my entry vapourised into thin air)

Meet Mr Hitler Chaplin

A new year! New lecturers teaching new chapters. New faces, new inspiration to doodle during lessons. There is a new lecturer for my M481 prescribed elective with a distinct tinge of uniqueness. In what sense you may ask? Read on....

The time was 1530 @ LT 14 , Prof XXX (Name changed to protect his identity) stepped in and started to introduce himself to the class. He started off with introducing some upcoming semi conductor industry talk. Not surprisingly, most students started dreaming away in the freezing lecture theatre. As he started talking about the industry trying to share some industrial knowledge with us, I couldn't help but to look at Prof XXX in wonder due to his unique style of grooming. Both Winston and myself were self entertaining ourselves with this drawing. The head was drawn by me (in blue ink) and the body was drawn by Winston (in black ink).

Quoting some of my lecturers who seem obsessed with equations.....

I shall now derive this
linear relation mathematically.



+



=

A starking resemblence aint it? I hence deduce that the law of superposition applies not only in mathematics but also in real life. Let's just say he looked a bit like Charlin Chaplin and Adolf Hitler combined. Haha. I'll post a photo of the man himself once I get a chance to take a snap shot!