At this rate, it will take forever for me to finish a topic.


Shan't say much cos students are reading this and I won't want to spoil this set of photos just like that...

Right now I feel like this...



Trapped and can't share my goodies with everyone...

Wished I was like this instead...





FREEDOM!!

Furry animals... I know they are cute but please refrain from scratching your monitor.

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I rambled about impatient buggers on the road... exactly a week later I get to witness it again. This time round somebody got hurt. This young lady was lying on the road with her body curled in a foetus position. Around her you can find 3 to 4 passerby crowding around her trying to show their concern by reducing the amount of oxygen in the air around her while the traffic behind just started to build up and NUS was greeted with the musical horns that came with each vehicle in this rush hour.

Sucre was hysterical and simply refused to look at the scene of crime while I was too busy looking for a puddle of blood that I totally forgot to note the license plate number. (Not that I buy 4D but I could share this with my Dad though). In truth, I did not witness the actual crime itself, just the moments after it happened judging from the relatively short jam at that moment. It might not have been a road accident. We might have an undergraduate succumbing to the stress of university life and spontaneously curled and collapsed in the middle of the road while walking back to her hall of residence. Or it could be a freak accident.

Which brings to my next point. That was the spot that I always crossed the road back when I was staying at old Kent Ridge Hall not very many years ago. I stayed in block C facing the stadium and the fastest way to Science Faculty was down this not so gentle slope leading towards ground zero. We had almost brand new furnitures in the hall during those days as Kent Ridge and Sheares hall were refurbished for about a year before news came down that Sheares will be torned down so they can build a new University Hall (an administration building) to replace the almost 5 year old University Hall down at Engineering Faculty. Now those leeches administrators dare to ask alumni for donation money to support the needy students? No way man! Over my dead body. They even spend money to print nice postcard and mailed it to us to get our moolah...

Meanwhile, we had our 3rd student councillor investiture for junior high section, introduction to the candidates running for student councillor for the senior high section and birthday celebration for about 1/3 of staff.


Swearing into their positions


Many people celebrating their birthday together


No idea who had this side of the blackforest cake


The longest and the shortest presidential candidate, in terms of speech wise


The one with and the one without socks visible in her shoe


Visitors to the meeting...

Pardon the white balance. Camera on jpg mode and am too lazy to correct it in post... just too busy these few weeks...

Moral of the story? Don't jaywalk especially near bends and blindspots.

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Pictorially that is... here's some clues to what's next in my photo series...


Tickets for a trip to somewhere...

I'm noticing a certain phenomenon with Singaporeans lately. Or specifically, local drivers. It seems to me that their patience level is inversely proportional to the size of the car that they are driving. I mean, I saw like 4 or 5 cars beating the red light in this month alone?! One of them even drove into the yellow box causing a minor jam along Clementi Road during the peak hours by swerving dangerously to avoid me as I stopped to wait for the traffic across the road to clear. And that bugger even horned me while doing his stunt risking a 3 hour massive jam all the way from AYE by doing so should an accident occurs. Darn that bus should crush his BMW when the lights turned green.

How many seconds could you save by beating a red light dangerously with your overpriced and environmentally unfriendly piece of metal on four wheels? What happened to all these folks (obviously from the upper income quarter) when they are behind the wheels? Had the rat race corroded their ability to think for themselves and for others? It's ironic for Singapore to have one of the most stringent driving test when all we do is churned out reckless drivers after reckless drivers.

Drivers are not the only folks guilty of that on the public road, just a few days back, I had a pedestrian crossing the road at a junction by cutting across diagonally. He started by blocking my way as I waited for my chance to turn right out of the carpark and he crossed the road diagonally so he could save a couple of seconds. In doing so, the lady driver trying to turn right into the carpark I was in could only stare with disbelieve while the van behind her overtook her and turned into the carpark. 2 impatient buggers at a junction, what more could I say. I hope they have adequate insurance cover because some day, Mr BMW will be around the corner to send them to their maker. Who knows?

Singapore had progressed remarkably in the past many many years but we had failed miserably as a society. Singaporeans are told to depend on themselves because if anything bad happens to us, its our fault if we did not a) buy insurance, b) upgrade our skills ... In fact, that's what the social 'elites' believed anyway. We are asked to give selflessly to the Nation (or NUS for that matter) but when we have problems, we are told to deal with it ourselves because it's our fault. The only time the nation is going to step in to help you is when you have lost your job and sold your house and generally at your wits end, then you could either a) jump off the mrt track or b) get some support from society.

(This is also why I seldom donate money for the needy during flag days. Because I don't believe that we would have so many needy if we are doing things right.)

However, there is nothing wrong technically if citizens are told to fend for themselves but we have to live with the consequences of such a society. Most citizen will end up becoming a selfish bastard if all they could do everyday is to think of themselves. If this is the future of Singapore, I do not wish to be part of it. Just look out and observe the world around you, do you find a lot more selfish acts compared to selfless acts?

When was the last time you offered your seat to someone who needs it more than you on the train? I know my answer, it's 3 years ago, about as long as I stopped taking public transport and started to drive around. What about you?

Let's take small steps for a better future and please signal when you want to turn, don't be selfish and keep others from turning so you could have your own way.

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Yes yes.. I know Christmas was like a month ago and 11 months away but I had to share my photos like slowly right? I'm sure you won't complain after seeing some cute photos of xiaobudian and yuxin... and you would surely forgive my mega photo intensive out of this world crazy I don't know what I'm talking about post.