Tuesday, November 30, 2004
However, we would pay you if we had the money, but since we are all poor students, as it is now all we can do is provide meals ^_^;;
We need kind souls to help us out on the following days as these characters:
6th Dec: theatre-goers and restaurant patrons
8th Dec: restaurant patrons
11th Dec: VJC students (if you have the uniform even better!)
12th Dec: people walking about
16th Dec: people getting off a bus
23rd Dec: bar/pub patrons
26th Dec: family members of guys about to enter army
30th Dec: people in a queue
2nd Jan: guys about to enter army
If anybody is free on these days and are willing to spare some time to help out, please contact me asap! If you have any questions or you need to know more feel free to ask me also.
Thanks! =)
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Saturday, November 27, 2004
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Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Did interviewing at the CATI labs today, and for the first hour, every number the computer generated for me was either a business number, disconnected, or a fax number. Stupiak computer. Then after that I got a whole spate of Chinese speaking ah mas and aunties for me to practice my mangled Chinese on. Some used all kinds of excuses to run away, including the classic "No there's no one else in and I'm going out now" and one screamed at me because she was in the middle of a mahjong game. I should have blackmailed her with something like, if she doesn't help me complete the survey she bound to lose all her money (these people usually very superstitious right?)
One auntie really lagi best. Said she didn't understand English, so never mind, read the Chinese introduction. Then she went all "Internet? What? Don't know lar, don't know lar, very busy, nobody is at home!" and puts down the phone. Auntie... so if nobody is at home, what are you? Disembodied spirit ah?! A bit too late to tell me nobody is at home after you've picked up the phone lor...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Probably because of my excessive not studying... hahaha...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2004
It sounds like the people upstairs are playing bowling O_o WTF?
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Saturday, November 13, 2004
Pardon me, but if you commit suicide, aren't you kind of... dead? What health problem? Or more specifically, what health? (Of course there're things such as completed suicide and attempted suicide, and they are talking about mental health, but the phrasing just amused me.)
Other interesting observations: The opposite of euphoria is dysphoria. But why is the opposite of a dystopia an utopia, and not an eutopia?
| Ghazal of Hope
by Alfian bin Sa'at
Let me tell you about the death of happiness.
How it should not be misunderstood as grief.
The final gesture is the motion of surrender.
The signal for the sky to collapse like a tent.
Two wildflowers yesterday and suddenly: seven today.
I demand to know what has driven my eyes to notice.
All suffering will end in a matter of time.
In the meantime think not of suffering but time.
My sorrow is not large enough, its knots are weak.
How else could that bird have escaped my nets?
Alfian, in your anticipation you stole joy from the future.
But take heart: you have not robbed your future of joy.
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Friday, November 12, 2004
Is to say that you are happy
And to trust yourself
That you have said
The right word.
(by Alfian bin Sa'at)
Finally had the mood to do a new template. Colour scheme inspired by Alfian's book "A History of Amnesia". Kinda missing my shades of grey now, but... well, I guess I just needed a change. I regret to inform you my dear readers that if you find the new layout offensive, it's going to be here for a while - I won't have the time to change until probably when school starts.
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Monday, November 08, 2004
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Saturday, November 06, 2004
Anyway, I find people from my faculty so interesting. When they discuss things on the edventure discussion boards, they always add these quantifiers like "just my 2 cents worth" or "I might be totally wrong but..." Kinda amusing really, the way everyone is so polite even when there are dissenting views. Of course, these boards are all monitored, so I guess flaming isn't much of an option... but then again people always kena flamed on the VJC boards even though there are a lot of moderators, and I keep having to warn and ban ppl. *sigh* And it can't be much of an age thing, because the alumni boards can get pretty touchy too.
| Why Did I Dream Of You Last Night?
by Philip Larkin
Why did I dream of you last night?
Now morning is pushing back hair with grey light
Memories strike home, like slaps in the face;
Raised on elbow, I stare at the pale fog
beyond the window.
So many things I had thought forgotten
Return to my mind with stranger pain:
- Like letters that arrive addressed to someone
Who left the house so many years ago.
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Thursday, November 04, 2004
Should have just gotten an iBook. Somebody please do the world a favour and kill Bill Gates. And whilst they're at it, kill Bush too. Thanks.
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Wednesday, November 03, 2004
But then again my exams only take up about 50% of my final grade *smirks in engineering ppl's general direction* This sem I shall be able to test out me and my roommate's hypothesis: provided you have at least a B for your continual assessment, as long as you turn up for the exam and don't hand in a piece of blank paper, you will be able to at least get a C overall.
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