got this from another blog about Gemini woman:

GEMINI WOMAN
A good looking woman with brains, a very interesting person. She has a fast movement and she could not sit still or stand still long. She is able to do many things at the same time and do it fast.

yeah, i could agree with that, i could not sit or stand still long, i think i can multi task.

If you date her, you will feel like dating many women at the same time. You can not tie her down with the word "Love" because she cares about love but is it not a major factor of her life. You have to be able to adjust yourself to get along with her many different characters. She is a dreamer and has many dreams. She eager to learn something new all the time. Even she is the 2 in 1 mixed character type, she is quite lucky in love. You have to put all your efforts to win her affection. Even when she likes you and wonder about your wit, she will also see and inspect your bad side at the same time, because it is in her nature.

hmmm, am i that difficult in love? i dunno. A dreamer? well, maybe, who doesn't have dreams? Quite lucky in love? probably. to win my affection? hmm, i dunno.

She able to keep all kinds of mixed emotions without annoying you or letting you know at all. She can cheer you up by acting like a free little bird. Her conversation will not bored you. She able to talk to you in any subjects. She can make you feel like you are the luckiest man alive. She can make you feel like she needs all your care, but once she needs to stand alone, she can stand alone firmly an comfortably. She can be your best buddy and talk to you about anything. She can join all your activities with the same energy that you have.

yeah, that i can agree with, i can keep my emotions quite well. and that part about standing alone, yeah, i think i can stand alone firmly and comfortably, if i needed the quiet time alone.

She is a quick wit person and learn new things very fast. She can see your projects and she can give you good advice. If she thinks you are not sure that you want her for yourself, she will act like your best friend only, a cool woman. She can easily make a guy fall in love with her. Her multiple changes and many moods is a "Charm" for many men. She can be laughing for 2 minutes and later suddenly quiet. She wants to find only 1 true love and she wants to meet her dream guy. She expects a lot and nearly too much. She is constantly waiting for her knight shinning armor even she is with a steady boy friend. She can fall in love or fond of someone else while she is with you. If you break up with her, she will forget you quite fast, because change is in her nature. The Gemini woman breaks more heart than woman in other Zodiac. Because she is a dreamer and always waiting for her knight shinning armor ,so her love life can be complex ! or a mess.

wah, was my love life in a mess? did i break many hearts? i dunno. am i still waiting for my knight in shining armour? i dunno. (hehe, only i know the answer in my heart, but i think i'm not very prepared to share it here)

She hates to write a long letter, so if you write her a letter and expect a prompt reply, forget it.
Because she has a multiple personality and multiple ideas, so she hates to put them down in written proof. Because she knows what she belief today can be different tomorrow.

that part about the long letter is not true, i do enjoy receiving emails and letters. but i strongly believe the last sentence, what i believe today can be different tomorrow.

She could communication with more than 1 languages , a real gifted linguistic.

no, not true, i'm horrible at languages. prob only EL and CL.

If she wants to tell you any bad comments, she won't say it straight away, but she will talk to you about many other things and accidentally come to that subject without offending you. Normally she will not lie.

yeah, that's true, when asked for my opinion, i usually beat around the bush, hoping not to offend the person.

She will work hard and once a while take a long rest. She can get bored and tired with her own surrounding more than at work. She never feel content with her present work, money, or reputations, she will drive to have more. Don't ask her what is her ultimate contentment for she will not have an answer.

yeah, that is very true also. never content.

Once you get to know her, she will be a supportive person and always be beside you. She has a beautiful dream and she loves to have someone walk side by side with her, together and equally.

yeah, that is very true again. will be supportive and beside the one i love.

ok, so the conclusion is, no matter where u found this zodiac sign thing, looks like it's about 85% true of me.

this is so funny, dunno whether to be angry with marcus or juz laugh at him.

he was cycling at the corridor, the next thing, i heard a scream. apprarently, he cycled down the stairs. omg, how silly can he be? he must be playing too much xbox, thinking that his bicycle can fly like the lightening mcqueen. funny... he had a slight bump on his forehead and head. will monitor. think he was in a shock straight after the fall, but i guess he is ok.

yesterday, officially hand over the keys to the buyers of my house. as i walked to the lift and looked back at my house for the last time, i actually felt a tinge of sadness. believe it or not, i wanted to cry. no matter what, this is the house we queued for since 1996/7. it's been like 5 years we waited for this new house.

i remembered when i first sold my potong pasir flat and moving to punggol, i didn't have this feeling. maybe i was happy that i would be getting my punggol flat, so i was eager to move out. this time round, however, i juz felt sad. probably because this is where marcus and mabel grew up in, this is where it keeps me going in my work. probably this is my source of motivation.

well, i will always remember this place. it will be a part of me even though i've left the place.

moving house

moving house is actually quite fun. It's stressful, having to balance your work, family and then to pack the house. it taught me to maintain my cool.

also, threw away lots of things. if u are not moving house, imagine all the rubbish that you have been keeping. threw torchlights, lamps, some decorations, quite a lot of other stuff away.

darn tired...

songs unite

i like to wind down the windows of the car in the morning as i drive. as usual, this morning, i did the same thing and was listening to jay chou's songs, volume loud.

at the traffic junction, red light, had to stop. so there was this black car, also windows wind down, music loud. then i realise, we are listening to the same cd, juz that i'm at song 1, the other car is at song 3. it's like i turn, then we smiled and then we each continued our way.

i juz feel that songs unite people.

Haze

think everyone will agree that the haze is pretty bad on fri and sat. no carrying of lantern on fri evening as didn't want to add to the haze with all the candles burning. also some children are putting those fireworks, very pollutive and dangerous also.

glad today the haze is much better.

today celebrated mabel's birthday. had fun cooking with my sis. all had a good time, and the appel soup was gone, not a drop left. i cooked quite a big pot of the soup. of course, mabel received some presents and she was happy. in fact, she is still playing with her new toys now. if i were to insist that she goes to sleep, she will definitely cry out for sure. oh yes, she looks lovely in her white dress today, like a princess.

I very stupid 2

No, this is not the sequel to I Not Stupid Too. it's about the china woman and 3 men saga.

1st stupid
the 2 men involve in this scandal is indeed very silly. i shall not elaborate more, because i think i understand the betrayal of love and trust they must be feeling now. and to add on to this, i believe many Singaporean woman must be saying this: "See, another xiao long pao. cheat our Singaporean men of their money." well, i'm sorry to say that, but i've overheard many Singaporean ladies have this perception of xiao long pao. and this scandal serves to reinforce that perception. Some even generalise that they wreak people's families and after the men's money. This is from the mouth of not only educated ladies, but also not so educated ones.

2nd stupid:
reading the scandal is actually very interesting. But it also make me realise that I was very stupid. Here i am working my ass off to provide for my family, and this lady here, no need to work, juz service 2 men and she is 'earning' much more than i do.(for those who didn't follow the scandal, apparently, she got $7,000 monthly allowance) and on top of this, sometimes she ask them for a big amount of money like $30,000. Kao, what is this world becoming. i take my hat off her.

*fumes*

found something i enjoy doing recently:

driving alone at night, windows wind down, listening to music played on the car stereo, mind relaxing.

it was very refreshing, most important, i felt at peace.

it's been a long time since i took pic with my PDA or digital cam. was looking through the photos juz.... some photos juz brought back some memories then i remembered feelingnism and this is the photo that got me tonight:

It's going to be busy busy busy until end of october. guess that's the way with working life.

getting back into the pace of work... but time really passes very fast when you work. no time to think too much, no time to think of other things. Just work, rest and children. good and bad, i suppose. good because this helps me not to anyhow think and bad because seems like rather routine like that. so fast, it's the end of sept and we are left with the last quarter of the year. really, as you grow old, time is really going faster and faster.

it's funny how life comes a full circle. how we always end up in the same place, no matter how far we go. we are always moving in circles.

circle of life? think i heard before somewhere, or was it a song?

my head is in a mess, my heart is crying.
i can see the future, whatever the prediction is right.
all i can do now is to pray hard and wish for happiness.
they say this, right?
if u love someone, u should let him/her be happy

argh.......... that's all i can say for today. and to think that i have to end the day with a horrible class. what a nice way to start my weekend.

never mind, i'll 'yoga' to rid off the anger inside me. but now i juz want to shout out loud and cool off.... S T U P I D I D I O T S !

Yes, welcome back to school. slowly getting into the pace of things in school. my voice broke down after the first lesson on the first day. i'm also easily tired out, by the end of the day, juz felt so drained.

first to put on record:
Thanks Shirley for the happy teacher's day greeting.
Thanks Charlie for the chocolate. and i love Hershey's chocolate.
Thanks Belmont for the red pen.

These are my ex students. So sweet of them, at least i know that they still remember me. i was caught most surprised by Belmont's red pen, it was like i have not taught him for the past 3 years, and yet.... it is really very sweet when you have your ex students remembering you.

and to the three young ladies of 3E5, yeah, you pass Humanities! so happy for all of you. i'll only get to teach you all in Week 3 which leaves me little time to 'repair'. but i'm looking forward to seeing the three of you in class.

Yes, welcome back to school. slowly getting into the pace of things in school. my voice broke down after the first lesson on the first day. i'm also easily tired out, by the end of the day, juz felt so drained.

first to put on record:
Thanks Shirley for the happy teacher's day greeting.
Thanks Charlie for the chocolate. and i love Hershey's chocolate.
Thanks Belmont for the red pen.

These are my ex students. So sweet of them, at least i know that they still remember me. i was caught most surprised by Belmont's red pen, it was like i have not taught him for the past 3 years, and yet.... it is really very sweet when you have your ex students remembering you.

and to the three young ladies of 3E5, yeah, you pass Humanities! so happy for all of you. i'll only get to teach you all in Week 3 which leaves me little time to 'repair'. but i'm looking forward to seeing the three of you in class.

still in semi state of shock.

Juz knew that a friend got into trouble with the narcotics officer. and you have to know this through reading the newspaper yourself. then you will begin to wonder if is it that friend, then you start calling up friends to double confirm. this is the second time i have to read from the newspaper about a friend getting into trouble. the first time happened to one of my JC friend.

it's really kind of sad to have to read about your friend from the newspaper. can't do much, can only pray for them and wish them all the best. It will get kind of tricky next time if your paths meet.

so a word of advice to the young readers out there and my dear students, really, do not get into trouble with the law. if your name has to be reported in the newspaper, it's really very embarrassing.

Monks receive luxury car as gift

in today's newspapers, some people made comments after the Shaolin monk receive a luxury car as gift. some people felt that the monk shouldn't have receive the gift.
i was thinking: (anyway, a fren told me this....)

Monks in Thailand do eat meat. (Shock! thought monks not suppose to eat meat) yes, you are right, the monks go out every morning to ask for food, so they are eating what people has offered them. It would be wrong for the monk not to eat what people has given to them. so who is in the wrong? the person who gave the food. If you know that a monk cannot eat meat, then why give meat to the monk?

same as the above, if you know that monk should not own secular things, much said about a luxury car, then why give a luxury car as a gift? so the Shaolin monk was technically not wrong to accept the gift.

also, i do hear that for monks, their body is not theirs to own, what matters is the soul, the enlightenment of their soul.

ok, my mind is very heavy now, too philosophical for the day.

God, Faith and Science

Copied this from a friend's website:

AN INTERESTING CONVERSATION (God, Faith and Science. Think about it)

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and.....
Prof: So you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Prof: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes.

Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then?
Hmm? (Student is silent.)
Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fellow. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From...God...
Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes. Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct? Student: Yes.
Prof: So who created evil?
Student does not answer.

Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir. Prof: So, who created them?
Student has no answer.

Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student: No, sir.
Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.
Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.

Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.
Student: No sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?

Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir? (The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher? (The class is in uproar.)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain? (The class breaks out into laughter.)
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student: That is it sir... The link between man & God is FAITH. That is all that keeps things moving & alive.

****************WANT TO KNOW WHO THAT STUDENT WAS?
NB: This is a true story, and the student was none other than.........Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the present president of India.

This conversation touched me in a way as i grasp with my own walk with God. and somehow the next day, Aunt Cherie called me and talked to me about faith, how we will be answerable to God if we dun have faith in Him.

It is true, if students can accept my teaching of Geography and Social Studies, aren't they taking in all that i've said in faith? then why can't I have faith in God?

i guess the problem lies in humans put a definition to everything, everything has to be finite but the truth is God is indefinite.

3 disgusting things

1) how can a father be so disgustingly rich to buy a Subaru WRX for his son? anyway, this is getting common nowadays, with greater affluence, parents are able to afford to buy cars for their children when their children get their driving license. obviously, the father didn't realise that his son do not know how to handle a fast car. how many fatal accidents have occur? it's very common, fast cars, young drivers. well, the father paid for his foolishness, he lost his only son. peace be with the parents and peace be with the lost soul.

10 years ago, when we wanted to buy a car, oh yes, it was a subaru alright, but it was a 2nd hand car, the car was 4 or 5 years old already, it was a subaru viki, M70 somemore. and i had to fork out about 5k for a second hand car. youngsters nowadays are very lucky. they get to drive brand new car. After driving for so many years, only last year, only last year, then i get to drive a brand new car. All along, i only have money to buy second hand car.

also, driving is the accumulation of experiences. i remember in the first year of driving the car, (p plate) i had 2 small accidents. i dunno how to explain this, but everyday as u drive, u learn new experiences. that's why i believe, after getting a driving license, drive an old car, not a brand new one. old car, yes, no doubt may have engine problems, but u learn to handle these engine problems, what is radiator, change oil, tyre rotation. Bet not many people knows how to change a punctured tyre? i know, changed punctured tyres twice before, once, my own viki, the other time changed for my mum when her viki's tyres was punctured. i've driven cars where the radiator was spoilt, the temp needle kept going up and u learn to get to the the service workshop fast. skidded on a wet road before driving my mum's viki, then i learnt, oh yah, someone told me never never to run fast on wet roads, now i know why. u may never learn all these things from driving a new car. also, no heartache if the car is spoilt due to my careless driving.

2) disgusting item no 2, gosh, the person actually stuffed subutex into his ass hole. gross. hope subutex users are put off by the fact that the pill was stuffed in someone's asshole before and they are going to use it. anyway, the guy was caught.

3) disgusting item no 3. i actually dreamt about going back to work, i actually dreamt about the Block G and i'm walking to 3E5! Gross, i actually dreamt about work.... pui pui pui.

this is getting frustrating.

1) thought i could access websites faster in the wee hours of the morning, but i was wrong, esp for Singpass website. without the necessary information, i cannot compute sales proceeds from selling flat and the monthly instalment of buying another flat.

2) morale of my story: You can only own 2 flats in your whole entire life if you are Singaporean. for youngsters, juz a note of advice, never put your name for your parents' flat. HDB considers it as you have already owned a flat. so next time if you want to buy a flat with your spouse, even if your spouse is first timer buying a flat, you are considered a second timer and so the brand new flat you are getting, it's considered your second property. ok, this ruling doesn't really irks me that much.

what irks me is that now buyers of flat who are not eligible for HDB loan has to go to banks to borrow the loan. Ok fine, they call this deregulation, got competition good, consumers are at an advantage. ok, i'm fine with this ruling also.

But 5% cash payment? copied and paste from website:

HDB flat buyers who are getting a mortgage loan from banks have to pay a cash payment with effect from 1 Jan 2004. The cash payment will be eventually aligned with that of private property purchase, that is, 5% based on the lower of the purchase price or market value of the flat.

i was thinking, we are buying a HDB flat here, it's supposed to be affordable. but hello, looks like it's not getting very affordable already. Buying a flat is now aligned with that of a private property purchase. let's juz take an ordinary 4 room flat whose valuation could be easily $272,000. 5% means you have to take out $13600 hard cash. this amount can be easily be used to pay for a undergraduate's semestral fees. Or better spend at renovating a house. what if you still need to renovate the house? and whether you get a bank loan or not, it's another issue. It seems that if it's too low, like $100k, the bank is reluctant to lend (that means buying a 3 room flat with a bank loan is quite impossible) and from the newspaper, if you buy a property in certain areas like geylang, sorry, the bank deems it too risky to lend you the money.

some may argue that you get some money from selling your flat, the money gained can be used. oh come on, who makes 100K from sellling the flat now? yah last time, our parents' time or when police wear bermudas time, yes. But now? a new 5 room flat is easily 200K and above. You think you can sell your flat at 300K or 400K when it matures? yah probably 10 or 20 years down the road, if you are lucky. that means you would be 40 or 50 plus years old. then you would rather not sell and stay put. See, it's yet another way to encourage you not to sell your flat and stay put.

ok, i'm prepared to overcome all these hurdles. but then check this out:

Since 1 January 2003, the CPF withdrawal limit for a housing loan obtained from a bank or financial institution is set at lower of 150% of the Valuation Limit or the Available Housing Withdrawal Limit (AHWL).The 150% Valuation Limit will be reduced to 120% over five years as shown in the table below.

went to CPF website and tried to understand AHWL. i dun understand a GD thing after reading it. so all in all, the past 1 hour has been very frustrating, trying to make sense of everything.

so it means that it's not so easy for buyers to buy a HDB flat if they are getting bank loan to finance their flat. This means that it's not easy for sellers to sell. Then where the heck did they get the figures to show that housing has upped in the last quarter? All these figures are bull shit.

Then it kind of dawn on me that, to be on the safe side, only own 2 HDB flats in your entire life. GDI, talk about taking risks. Now i'm taking the risk, going to sell the flat and a 3rd timer at buying a flat. Now i'm going to induce economy growth through this transaction. But why are there so many hurdles to discourage me from selling and buying? Why am i being 'punished' for taking a risk? don't you always encourage creativity, risk-taking and blah blah blah?

oh yes, i better put a disclaimer before i unintentionally slander any 'boards' any person or accused of not being professional enough.

All things said above are of no intention to slander or caused any grievous hurt to any being, be it a board or a person. All things said above are in the heat of frustration and once the heat is dispalled, all things will be calm and back to the submissive old self, trying our best to fulfil this criteria and that criteria. (in another words, LL)