Fryday~~~

Hey yozz everyone...wassup!!!!!

Haha did i sound hippety hop??So how's everybody's mood for the day??I know my mood's quite ok lar..not too bad also :) Didya all like the Laffaday thingy i posted up previously?I seriously feel that laughter is really the best medicine..a laugh can make you forget a lot of things...and actually at the same time,i ironically feel that tears are also the best 'side dish' laughter can have.Because sometimes it feels good to cry..for example when you watch a movie and your emotions get affected..or when you feel angry and you've got tension piling up inside of yourself,a good crying session followed by a laughing session is very very good indeed.

Well well well,Friday is supposed to be a good day because it heralds the end of the work week :) I guess most of my friends would concur with me on that...cos they are really working very hard thruout the week...hope all friends can manage to relax well during the weekend lor :)

Does this seem like a strange posting??haha i don't think so lar...sometimes i just like to blabber about what is churning inside of my head.Ohh yahh and i said before a lot of my friends and cuzzies are gonna have exams hor??GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU!!!!Must take good care of health man....dun let the stress get to you all.

Yet another short post from me..haha dry dry for the blain...write again soon then.

Chowz
Joshy

funny stuff

I subscribe to an online newsletter named Laffaday and haha there are some good laughs everytime...here's a witty and funny excerpt from one of its issues.


The Washington Post's Style Invitational asked readers to
take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding,
subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new
definition.

Here are some recent winners:

Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts
until you realize it was your money to start with.

Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose
of getting laid.

Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the
person who doesn't get it.

Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running
late.

Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease (this one got extra credit).

Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these
really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes
and it's like, a serious bummer.

Glibido: All talk and no action.

Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter
when they come at you rapidly.

And, the pick of the literature:

Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.


For those who want to subscribe to Laffaday,click on the link below
Laffaday

Have a nice day people...ohh aww and my interview for the Esplanade job was unsuccessful and so i guess have to go find other things already.Wish me luck :)

Cheerioz
Joshy

Aching bones~~

Heylozz everyone...how did the weekend turn out for all of you??

Haha as you all can see from the title of the blog for today,i have aching bones and joints all over right now.This is because i went to play soccer on Sunday..whew its been quite a while since i managed to play soccer at anywhere.The basketball court is the place i like to play the most cos well haha i just like to play at there lorr.Went to play at the old TK Tech premises and it turned out quite well..at least managed to run a bit and kick about.But after the game,i slowly felt the pain in my joints and whew i felt like a broken down taxi.

Finally eh,the govt has passed the judgement over the casino case.Its actually been an open secret that the casino would be approved already and true to the effect,there would be not one but two casinos being built.I just hope that the MOM would not renege on its promise of more jobs for Singaporeans...because from what a lot of people are seeing,the casinos or rather IR(Integrated Resorts) as the ministers call them might most probably hire cheaper foreign workers than hire Singaporeans.Wouldn't that make the job creation a hoax again??Just hope things can be better lorr.

Wow,seems like i was being slow already because there was this dude who was exposed on Sunday Times(well actually exposed much earlier but i guess the editors wanted to leave it for publication on Sunday Times) for having racist content on his blog.I guess there are both sides of the matter here.One is very plain to see and that is the dude being racist on his own blog,while the other side is wow he was being reported to the papers(in Singapore,being reported to the papers is akin to being reported to the govt) for something he wrote in cyberspace?What happened to freedom of speech?I know a lot of people must be thinking why i support the racist dude..in fact no i do not support him being racist at all.Its just that i feel that there is a certain privacy or space when one writes a blog.Never mind if its on the WWW and anyone can conveniently see it,but there is an unwritten rule of courtesy among Netizens that if there is offensive material,one should go and tell the creator of the offensive material first and not go out in the open and show him to public.This would cause a public furore that no one would wanna see.Ohh haha and i guess why most people lambasted the dude was because he was a PSC scholar and a future civil servant and they wouldn't want racist people in the govt.Good thing was the the dude and the person who disclosed his identity to the public both apologized to the public and somewhat to each other..happy ending of sorts?

Haha a lot of people have been asking about some kind of news that stated that Michael Jackson had actually died quite a few years back and that the present dude is not him but an imposter.But it seems that all that hullabaloo was for nothing because the news was just a parody from The Onion and its the real Wacko Jacko that is on trial for the child molesting case.Does any of you support him??I seriously feel that its his own mind that is at fault,not the individual.Doesn't anyone feel that he is really lacking in a childhood and thinks on a different wavelength from all of us??And he's running out of money soon too...so i shudder to think how his kids would be like in the future and how would they be brought up.

Guess i will stop here for now...getting writer's block wahahahhahahaha.

Cheerioz
Joshy

Saturday Saturday Saturday...Triple S hahaha

Hey yazz pple...how's the weekend??Haha surprised to see me post again so fast??

Well i decided to post again cos its kinda a boring Saturday mahh..haha nothing much to do and the weather so gloomy like that one..whew...so here i am typing my blog entry.And never mind the title of the blog cos i juz din noe what to name the title for today :)

Hmm just got digital cable a few days ago and they are letting us have the preview for all the channels haha..if i remember correctly Noormie had the same experience also..whew it sure is nice surfing thru all the channels..so many channels to watch worrrr.I think should be anytime now that the channels would revert back to those that we subscribe to.

Did anyone try out the quiz in the previous entry of mine??I still can't believe my color of death is so morbid and macabre...hehe M&M...or mebbe i do have that kind of seedy personality??I do tend to think of more happy things,cos its quite sucky to feel down and sad.Crying though is something nice,i like to cry when i see sad shows or certain sad scenes of a show.Last night i was watching 人间有情(also known as The Umbrella Story) and there were some scenes that made me cry,although i have watched this show almost 5 to 6 times already.I do recommend this show to people who have not watched it before.Its in the mould of 南海十三郎(The Mad Phoenix) where there is drama,history and comedy all rolled into one.An apt description of the above two shows would be Forrest Gump haha in Asia..cept that the protagonists are not mentally challenged..and indeed the Mad Phoenix was a talent of his trade,chinese opera composition.The two chinese shows are acted superbly by a lot of HK stage artistes.

Hmm i seem to come across a lot of interesting topics on the forum i frequent.One such topic that caught my eye was this "Is it compulsory to offer pregnant ladies a seat?" This topic was first being discussed in the forum page of the Straits Times..where this preggie lady wrote in that she wasn't offered a seat on the bus and her hubby had to step forward and ask for a seat.Then another lady wrote in admonishing her saying that when SHE was pregnant she did not expect other people to give up a seat for her at all, and it was only courtesy and not law to give up the seat. So what do you all think?Well i think most of us would give up our seats to the pregnant and the elderly eh?Its some kind of common courtesy only i guess??Cos who would want the pregnant and the elderly to get into any accident if the bus or MRT train suddenly jerks(haha ok mebbe not that jialat in the case of the MRT) right?haha but does anyone have the reaction of people looking at you weirdly if you give up your seat to someone??I think that happened to me before when i offered my seat to an old uncle,haha he looked quite gruff and other people around me were looking at me with weird stares.

Hahah i just went for a interview at the Esplanade yesterday for the position of a stage casual...hmmm 70+ people went for the interview altogether,and i was for the 4.30pm time slot...haha in the end i went in for the interview at 5.30pm like that.There was only one ger interviewing for the job and she sat next to her guy friend whom she came along with haha.The interview was by Theresa the HR manager and Peter the staging manager.Hmm i was at a loss for words as i din speak much lol....and i even said that staging might be thrilling..haha at the sound of the word,Peter laughed out loud...hmm haha cos i said something silly?Haha wish me luck that i get good news next week.

:) Guess i will stop here for now..will continue my posting again and u all will know it wun be too long :)

Cheerioz
Joshy

Death quiz

Heyhozz people

Saw this on my friend Ken's blog and decided to post it also...eeee my result is as follows



BLACK


??Which colour of Death is yours??
brought to you by Quizilla


Hehe u all also do go and try and see lor..hope its not too morbid.

Cheerioz
Joshy

Exams are over~~~

Halloz everyone...how's everybody??No rainfall for these few days and so its a bit hot hot hot.

Haha finally the final of my 2 papers was finished on Monday..now considered free already.But the strange thing was that i went to check my schedule for next semester and there weren't any modules for me!!!Patsy sent an email to Julian asking if he could help already..i sure hope we can at least take a module or something lorr or else we would be graduating even later liaoz lehh.

Read in the papers that Star Search would not be held this year.It seems that Mediacorp would be going for a revamp of the competition which has churned out artistes such as Zoe Tay and Li Nanxing.In recent years it went regional as people from Malaysia,Taiwan and even China participated in the competition.But the foreign winners of the competition did not all become stars..a few of them left in the end.Guys such as Chang Lu Feng,Zheng Wen and the latest one from China whom i have even forgotten the name hahah..all of them din stay on in Mediacorp..and Chang Lu Feng i think even had more fame in Taiwan than he ever had in Singapore.What do you all think??Haha yahoo had its own poll on the Star Search format..i guess i will put one up also.

I accompanied my friend to the Project Superstar audition on Saturday and haha in the end it was too jialat lar it seemed so she never join the long queue.The reason was that besides the long queue,the people had to have a live audition singing at a small pavilion and without any background music,plus a lot of people would be crowding around the area...whew it seemed real scary.A lot of people sounded very good..and some went a bit out of tune but i guess it was because of being nervous.Haha the turnout consisted of a lot of lil gals and whew i even saw my sec sch mate Susan,but hha she was not the one auditioning..i think shld be her boyfriend??Sure wish all the people who go thru good luck :) I am all for new talent rising up.

Hahaha Sunday i participated in this treasure hunt game at Plaza Singapura..and i let my friends down :*( cos i think at the last moment i either pressed some wrong number on my hp calculator or what.The premise of the game was to be paired up and then we would choose one envelope which contained a number.we chose 999.90.we would have to go to 10 tenants at Plaza Singapura and take Polaroid pics of 10 items within half an hour..and if we get the closest amount to the number we chose,we would be able to keep the 10 items we chose.Aww and it all came down to my mistake.I really gotta apologize to my team mate and my friends who supported me.

How does everyone feel about racism?And how bout racist jokes then??I came across this article in the Straits Times that was talking about some jokes on Talkingcock.com
that were deemed too derogatory for posting upon the website.It seems that the ST reporter either had too little time for writing her editiorial or that ST had some creative editing of the piece,because the editiorial was actually taken from an interview the reporter had undertaken with Colin Goh through email.The full effect of Colin Goh's replies were diminished when a few of his more politically correct replies were not published at all.
Talkingcock.com
had actually placed a lot of disclaimers on its opening page,and on the pages where the jokes were at,telling those who felt offended should not visit the website at all.Somemore the jokes were not targetted at any particular race,every race had its own jokes.I don't see any wrong in placing the jokes on the websites especially since the jokes were submitted by a lot of people who wanted to share the humour and a lighter side of things.I just hope a lot of people would not just complain for such little things,and people from abroad wonder why Singapore is so lacking in creativity?

Ahhh the coup de grace for today would be this webbie...
Hokkien Lang


Haha i came across this in a forum and it seems that *gasp* its written by a Malay from Malacca!!!!Haha can it be possible??People do go and read and be amazed...mannn i even have to stop to read thru the words and pronounce them aloud then can noe what they mean hahahaha.

The anti-Japanese sentiments in South Korea and China have risen yet again...a lot of burning of the Japanese military flag,disturbances at Japanese shops and scolding of Japanese people have been done by a lot of angry South Koreans and PRCians.I personally feel that its ok if its done thru non-violent protests.There shouldn't be any sort of violent behaviour from any of the protestors lor i feel.I really do hope that the Japanese government does apologize for the atrocities it committed during WW2...its not to say that the PRC government is an angel,but its just that a lot of the atrocities committed by the Japanese were for their sadistic pleasure.I read up from wiki about Iris Chang,a Chinese-American who wrote an award selling book about the Nanking Massacre and who committed suicide after going thru depression from further research about the subject...I know i am harping a lot on this event but whenever i read about Nanking,i feel extremely sad because i am Chinese..even though i am from Singapore.The current generation of Japanese have no memories of that event as they have been taught otherwise so i do hope the protestors do not perpetrate any bad things against the innocent.Its the old guard of the japanese government,the fat cats of the bureaucracy,that need to apologize for the bad things they had done.

For that...i end the posting for now...hope everyone takes care and stays healthy :)

Cheerioz
Joshy

exams tmr!!!!

Heyhoz everyone :) how has the week been??a lot more rainy days this past week eh??Mostly i guess is due to the fact that this week was Qing Ming festival week...not to be superstitious but every year during this period,the weather is always rainy...and always when we go 扫墓(the process of visiting the graves)the rain would be falling.It is actually a good thing also lar...cos the cemetery would be a very uncomfortable place to be in during a very very hot weather.This year would be the last time i visit my maternal grandfather's grave already,cos his body would have to be exhumed and cremated,then placed at a temple in bukit batok in the future.No choice i guess as Singapore has very scarce land for burials.

Talking about burials,the Pope's funeral was on just now,may his Holiness rest in peace.I wonder how long it would take for him to be beatified and then sainted.I remember there was a great hoo ha about the decision for Mother Teresa to be beatified,being that she is now known as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta...For her to be beatified,there had to be an authenticated case of miracle performed by her..i am thinking how His Holiness's beatification and canonization would proceed.

As all of you know,i have been watching a lot of Taiwanese news and the most recent one i deem fit to write about was related to Japan.The chairman and members of a political party 台联(Taiwanese Union) went to visit the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during their visit to Japan.For those who do not know,the Yasukuni Shrine is the shrine that houses the A-grade war criminals during the WW2.And in doing that,the politicians were chided for being 卖国贼和无耻(traitors and baseless) because of the fact that a lot of Taiwanese people were killed by the Japanese during WW2 and a lot of women were seized as sex slaves.Their response to this was that there was 28000 taiwanese nationality japanese soldiers being housed at the temple also and so they had the right to visit the shrine.But one thing they shouldn't have mentioned was that some members of the TU exhorted that 8 out of 10 of the sex slaves did it willingly and for monetary returns.THAT is such an insult for the people who had suffered during WW2.Sighh and another thing linked to this was the changing of certain events in Japan's history textbooks to being far away from the truth.One thing written falsely was that the occupation of China was stated in the textbook as being retaliation for aggresion in the beginning from China...one more event was the Nanking Massacre where the brutality of the Japanese soldiers was just passed off..the next event was the war in South East Asia where the textbook claimed that Japan wanted to help SEA and chase out the colonial powers.Yes we should thank the Japanese for helping us do that,but the textbook neatly left out the fact that the Japanese Army benefited a lot from the space and supplies it got from occupying the SEA nations.These changes in the Japanese history texts resulted in protests from China and even South Korea...where a lot of people called for the boycott of Japanese products.I wouldn't go so far as to boycott japanese goods but i just hope that the japanese government at least apologizes and gives the victims of the war their dignity back.

Well well..i guess i should talk about lighter things then now...hahah yet again on the taiwanese channel..i saw quite a nice bit of news...and it was about love.hahahaha well its abt this couple who got married..but what is so special about this couple??I guess its not special but its the way they got to know each other.The couple were primary school mates and the boy was paired up to sit with the girl.You would think that since they got married now they should have been very lovey dovey?On the contrary, the guy bullied the gal a lot by doing things such as pulling her hair and disturbing her.The parents of the gal even got into quarrels with the parents of the boy.The boy later went for further studies in USA after his primary sch and the girl actually also went to USA for her further studies too and they did keep on and off contact.It was only finally when they grad from college...they ended up at UC Berkeley together and the relationship blossomed from there :) Hehe it turns out that actually the boy already liked the girl during pri sch and the bullying was just ways to attract her attention(yesh perverted ways of gaining attention but i can understand how he feels cos i think i felt like that before haha) and even their primary school teacher played a part it seems,because the girl's mum had requested for her to be seated away from the boy,but the teacher mebbe sensing the liking for the girl from the boy,said that seats shouldn't be anyhow changed..hahaha wish them all da best in the marriage :)

Whew tomorrow is my exam already and yeahh you guys must be wondering what the heck i am doing blogging eh??Good luck to all of us who are taking the paper tmr :) haha i will try and revise as much as i can before i get sleepy later lor :) dunno my memory will be good enough to remember models and theories or not.

Guess i would stop here for now then :) baibaizz everyone...wish me luck also ahhh hahaha.

Cheerioz
Joshy

Let us pray....

Heyhozz everyone...how's everyone been since my last post??Have the savageries of sickness gone away from those who had been afflicted???

Din post for almost a week and boy a lot of things have happened already.First up...which is in my opinion most important of all..is that Pope John Paul II passed away during the wee hours of the night at 3.37am.Let us all say a prayer in our own way for this man who was an big advocate of peace.Religion knows no boundaries when someone who has done a lot for other people goes on to a better world.His last words were that he was very happy and he wanted all devotees or rather all people to be happy also.I dare say that the world would not find a better Pope at least not in the future 10 years i believe.Where would the Vatican be able to find someone as charismatic and full of love as Pope John Paul??I do hope that his successor would try his best to follow up on what a huge legacy Pope John Paul has left behind.Let us pray.......................


I seem to be talking about deaths a lot eh..cos the next thing i am gonna talk about would be another death.This death is a bit peculiar..not in the case of the deceased but because of one special individual mourner.Last year,in Taiwan, there was a case of an old man who had been rearing a monkey as a pet and he came to look upon the monkey as his own grandchild..and likewise the monkey really was very intimate with him also.Too bad..good times were not long and after 558 days of being together,someone snitched on them and the authorities came to bring the monkey(named Niu Niu) to a zoo..this case was actually fought in the court but old Mr Lee lost the case.Below is the pic and the news link



TVBS News


Mr Lee passed away last week and Niu Niu was allowed to come out of the zoo and travel to Mr Lee's funeral.The family members had even wanted to put Niu Niu's name among the obituaries as one of the grandchildren but the family elders decided that it was not possible.Mr Lee had been not feeling well ever since Niu Niu was taken away and eventually culminated in his death last week.Let us also pray for Mr Lee and that in the future, Niu Niu would be able to be reconciliated with Mr Lee in the netherworld.

Another news worthy of mentioning(well at least to me) was the death of Taiwanese director Wu Nian Zhen's sister,who committed suicide by burning coal and died of suffocation.Mr Wu's younger brother had committed suicide in the same manner a few years back,whereaa Mr Wu's father had also passed away within the same time period.My condolences to Mr Wu who has won accolades in the film industry but who doesn't seem to have the same kind of positive energies in his family.Hope that he pulls thru the sad event and that the media do not draw too much attention to his family.At the moment he is filming a short film which acts as an advertisement for a government body in Taiwan,it stars Lin Zhi Ling.

Lotsa sad news galore..the sentence has been passed on the man who robbed or rather you can say attempted to rob the Maybank branch.He has been given 4 and a half years of sentence in jail....does everybody feel that that is a fair judgement??Ok i know that he did try to rob a bank,but i feel that more consideration should have been given by the judge on the case due to a few things.One thing was that the guy went in with a toy gun and who would really expect him to be really able to come out unscathed in that manner??True enough he was shot in the head and now he is blinded(not sure one eye or both but at least one eye).Another thing was that he was penniless and wanted to find money for his family..yes i do not condone the act of stealing or robbing to get money for the family but 4 and a half years of jail sentence for a guy who is the sole breadwinner of the family?The judge could have given him parole or something considering all the facts of the case?Not every case has to be straight by the book...I sure hope that outside of the court,help is given to the man while he is in jail and also to his family too.

Sorry people for harping on and on about sad things,but its just that i wanted to let all of this thoughts out of my head.Well there are good news also i guess.There's one Tsui Hark movie coming up that i would be interested to watch..haha everybody remember Tsui Hark of Once Upon A Time China?His new movie would be Seven Swords,which is an adaptation of 梁羽生's 七剑下天山.梁羽生 is the author of The White Haired Demoness and so you can imagine how nice the show should be :)

I managed to watch Old Boy and BOY!!!!It was such a twist and turn plus a lot of gory scenes....eeee....but it was a well filmed movie..no wonder it won best foreign film at the HK Film Awards.for those who want to watch a show with a different genre,go rent the VCD...but be warned of some gory scenes.Another two shows i watched were Survive Style 5+ and Swing Girls...two excellent Japanese movies.Esp for Survive Style 5+, the settings are so surrealistic and excellent..plus the soundtrack was awesome..haha a highly recommended show by me..somemore it has good acting from an actor i like, Tadanobu Asano, whose past credits include Last Life In The Universe,Taste of Tea and also Zatoichi.I recommend his shows also :)

Next week's gonna be the exams already...everybody ready??haha and for other friends their exams would be within the month also so GANBATE EVERYONE!!!!!(did i spell correctly?)The weather is still a bit wobbly..hope it settles down and at least would be more comfortable..meaning not so hot and not too rainy :)

Okaiz..i shall stop here for now..haha everybody must have been bored of my ranting by now.Tudeloo...do take care everyone :)

Cheerioz
Joshy