Posted by jerry
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:12:36 GMT
Didn’t update my blog last night coz I was doing some seriously heavy reading on Stephen King’s “Stand”. Perhaps I have a few nuts loose up there in my think-box… who else would be crazy enough to read non-stop from 8pm to 1am in the morning, only pausing a while to take a bath, have a drink and take a leak? Gosh… 300+ pages within 5 hours. If you ask me, that’s considerably slow for a speed-reader like me.
Am going to take 2nd driving lesson today either in the morning or early afternoon. Wish me luck.
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Posted by jerry
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:03:30 GMT
Just read a book that says, some guy called Robert. G. Allen. wrote in his book “The Long and Short of It”, that “For insects, the tempo of life, not the passage of time, determines how long they live.” It means that, for bugs, the slower their tempo (speed or ‘rentakan’) in the ways of living the longer they will live.Lazy bugs who hardly move around live longer than bees, who spend all day collecting honey and stuff…. Get it? If you put a roach in a large cage, it’ll run around looking for out non-stop, and so probably can last 15 days. Put it in a 30cmx30cm space maybe a month. Put it in a 2cmX2cm confinement and stuff ‘em in the freezer and it’ll last 3 months. Interesting stuff. I wonder if it applies to humans… Maybe if I take life easily and lazily I’ll live 130! :)
Am feeling a bit sick recently for no apparent reason at all. Slight dizzy spells, headache, tiredness and fast heartbeat. Maybe it’s the stress. Anyway am looking forward to the vacation trip to Desaru a bit later next month.
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Posted by jerry
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:03:30 GMT
Just read a book that says, some guy called Robert. G. Allen. wrote in his book “The Long and Short of It”, that “For insects, the tempo of life, not the passage of time, determines how long they live.” It means that, for bugs, the slower their tempo (speed or ‘rentakan’) in the ways of living the longer they will live.Lazy bugs who hardly move around live longer than bees, who spend all day collecting honey and stuff…. Get it? If you put a roach in a large cage, it’ll run around looking for out non-stop, and so probably can last 15 days. Put it in a 30cmx30cm space maybe a month. Put it in a 2cmX2cm confinement and stuff ‘em in the freezer and it’ll last 3 months. Interesting stuff. I wonder if it applies to humans… Maybe if I take life easily and lazily I’ll live 130! :)
Am feeling a bit sick recently for no apparent reason at all. Slight dizzy spells, headache, tiredness and fast heartbeat. Maybe it’s the stress. Anyway am looking forward to the vacation trip to Desaru a bit later next month.
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Posted by jerry
Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:56:11 GMT
Horoscope reading says that Lady luck will be turning her back on me. Well¡ I¡¯m not exactly superstitious, but yup, early around 10am in the morning, yours truly, who has a PhD in the Arts of Butterfingerism, for some kind of a stupid reason accidentally did broke a crystal glass mug. Good thing nobody said anything about predicting how many years of bad luck you would get if you broke glassware, because there must be at least hundreds of glass fragments after the ugly incident. Just imagine having bad luck throughout your life till Kingdom Come or whatever! Ouch.
Today had driving lessons, and in fact drove a car for the very first time of my life. Steering was not a problem, but being a son whose parents drove automatic-gear vehicles, I have no idea how to operate a gear clutch untill 3pm today. And yet am still having problems about the timing to release and step on the gear, so every time I had to use the gear clutch, 60% chance I¡¯d get it wrong and mess it all up and just stall the goddamn car engine. Ah heck. My driving instructor probably had one of his toughest rides of his life driving with me today. Hmmmph.
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Posted by jerry
Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:56:11 GMT
Horoscope reading says that Lady luck will be turning her back on me. Well¡ I¡¯m not exactly superstitious, but yup, early around 10am in the morning, yours truly, who has a PhD in the Arts of Butterfingerism, for some kind of a stupid reason accidentally did broke a crystal glass mug. Good thing nobody said anything about predicting how many years of bad luck you would get if you broke glassware, because there must be at least hundreds of glass fragments after the ugly incident. Just imagine having bad luck throughout your life till Kingdom Come or whatever! Ouch.
Today had driving lessons, and in fact drove a car for the very first time of my life. Steering was not a problem, but being a son whose parents drove automatic-gear vehicles, I have no idea how to operate a gear clutch untill 3pm today. And yet am still having problems about the timing to release and step on the gear, so every time I had to use the gear clutch, 60% chance I¡¯d get it wrong and mess it all up and just stall the goddamn car engine. Ah heck. My driving instructor probably had one of his toughest rides of his life driving with me today. Hmmmph.
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Posted by jerry
Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:43:32 GMT
Hmm… very bright full moon outside. You know, it was said that on days with full moons, men tend to get lovesick. Well… believe it or not, up to ya.
I always thought that my chinese name is for one thing definitely a weird one. It¡¯s hard to pronounce (a bit of a tongue-twister), and even if someone attempts to do it, will by no doubt get it wrong, or even at least, sound wrong (Most people tend to get the ¡®hanyu pinyin¡¯ sounds wrong). From ¡°Zee Wei¡± to ¡°Ze Wee¡± (to be pronounced with a certain French accent and air), ¡°Zhe Weh¡± to ¡°Chee Wei¡±, I can probably even proudly declare that, yup, I¡¯ve seen it all. (In fact, that was why I¡¯ve decided to resort to an English name ¡°Jerry¡± to avoid confusion among other English-speaking friends I might get to befriend later along the path of life) Anyway, it was a pleasant surprise when I¡¯ve finally found out that there are other sufferers else than yours truly. It was about, umm¡ one or two weeks ago around 12am to 1am, when before going for my much-deserved snooze I decided to check out what¡¯s on TV. On Singapore¡¯s Channel 8 was a gameshow ¡°Fei Chang Nan Nu¡± (roughly translated as ¡°Extreme Men & Women¡±¡ whatever), and god, I could hardly express my feelings when one of the contestants had the same chinese name as I do! Ok¡ so maybe I¡¯m overreacting but darn, it really feels so familiar, yet so unfamiliarly weird, when your name is broadcasted over TV and viewed by millions of humans all over the world. Gee¡ it¡¯s one heck of a sensation that words cannot express even!
Had one of those ¡°eureka¡± moments today this morning when I was reading those ads that sell operator logos, ringtones, and screensavers for handphones. Being a guy who seldoms let a chance pass by without giving a second thought, a lightbulb literally lit up within my head! Why don¡¯t I start one of these businesses? I mean, it¡¯s easy, it¡¯s profitable, and it¡¯s popular! Hmm¡ am seriously considering doing it¡ however am pondering over the various ways to actually start doing it. Credit card? Cash? Toll numbers? On second thought it could be seriously tricky¡.
Sigh¡ am under considerable amounts of stress recently. Am unable to make a choice about where to pursue my studies after I¡¯ve got my government examination results. Though currently I have settled down to apply for an entry into MMU I still can¡¯t exactly decide. The choices are just so vast and limitless: Taylor¡¯s, HELP, Sunway, INTI, UTM (Yup¡ at least it¡¯s cheap. And my father promises me a car if I decide to enroll there. Wow), Stanford, KBU or KDU (I still dunno the difference), U.Telekom, MMU, Poli¡ then there¡¯s the ADP (American), Cambridge A¡¯s, SAMs¡¡¡ Argh.
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Posted by jerry
Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:43:32 GMT
Hmm… very bright full moon outside. You know, it was said that on days with full moons, men tend to get lovesick. Well… believe it or not, up to ya.
I always thought that my chinese name is for one thing definitely a weird one. It¡¯s hard to pronounce (a bit of a tongue-twister), and even if someone attempts to do it, will by no doubt get it wrong, or even at least, sound wrong (Most people tend to get the ¡®hanyu pinyin¡¯ sounds wrong). From ¡°Zee Wei¡± to ¡°Ze Wee¡± (to be pronounced with a certain French accent and air), ¡°Zhe Weh¡± to ¡°Chee Wei¡±, I can probably even proudly declare that, yup, I¡¯ve seen it all. (In fact, that was why I¡¯ve decided to resort to an English name ¡°Jerry¡± to avoid confusion among other English-speaking friends I might get to befriend later along the path of life) Anyway, it was a pleasant surprise when I¡¯ve finally found out that there are other sufferers else than yours truly. It was about, umm¡ one or two weeks ago around 12am to 1am, when before going for my much-deserved snooze I decided to check out what¡¯s on TV. On Singapore¡¯s Channel 8 was a gameshow ¡°Fei Chang Nan Nu¡± (roughly translated as ¡°Extreme Men & Women¡±¡ whatever), and god, I could hardly express my feelings when one of the contestants had the same chinese name as I do! Ok¡ so maybe I¡¯m overreacting but darn, it really feels so familiar, yet so unfamiliarly weird, when your name is broadcasted over TV and viewed by millions of humans all over the world. Gee¡ it¡¯s one heck of a sensation that words cannot express even!
Had one of those ¡°eureka¡± moments today this morning when I was reading those ads that sell operator logos, ringtones, and screensavers for handphones. Being a guy who seldoms let a chance pass by without giving a second thought, a lightbulb literally lit up within my head! Why don¡¯t I start one of these businesses? I mean, it¡¯s easy, it¡¯s profitable, and it¡¯s popular! Hmm¡ am seriously considering doing it¡ however am pondering over the various ways to actually start doing it. Credit card? Cash? Toll numbers? On second thought it could be seriously tricky¡.
Sigh¡ am under considerable amounts of stress recently. Am unable to make a choice about where to pursue my studies after I¡¯ve got my government examination results. Though currently I have settled down to apply for an entry into MMU I still can¡¯t exactly decide. The choices are just so vast and limitless: Taylor¡¯s, HELP, Sunway, INTI, UTM (Yup¡ at least it¡¯s cheap. And my father promises me a car if I decide to enroll there. Wow), Stanford, KBU or KDU (I still dunno the difference), U.Telekom, MMU, Poli¡ then there¡¯s the ADP (American), Cambridge A¡¯s, SAMs¡¡¡ Argh.
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Posted by jerry
Sat, 26 Jan 2002 07:49:46 GMT
Damn. Wasted considerable amount of time to look for ringtones of a coupla my favourite songs on the Net, then after wasting more time and effort typing it in, realised that all of them sounded really horrible. Damn.
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Posted by jerry
Sat, 26 Jan 2002 07:49:46 GMT
Damn. Wasted considerable amount of time to look for ringtones of a coupla my favourite songs on the Net, then after wasting more time and effort typing it in, realised that all of them sounded really horrible. Damn.
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Posted by jerry
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:38:27 GMT
Darned rain. Got me fully drenched when, around 2pm in the afternoon as I was going to walk from the post office back to the bookshop where I work, it rained helter-pelter as if some kind of dam up in the heavens had a super-huge leak in it. Attempted to use umbrella, then horrified to find that it seemed to be dysfunctional. Damn. Got wet, technically soaked, nevertheless as I tried to travel the 500 metres of distance. In fact throughout the day I seem to have this weird smell on me. Wonder if the customers noticed¡. Ah heck.
Watched ¡°Black Hawk Down¡±. And by god, it¡¯s the most disgusting, goriest and bloodiest movie I¡¯ve ever seen! Mangled body parts, with the pinkish soft tendons and blood vessels and strands of wet slick gooey flesh still hanging and dangling from what remains as dark red damp sticky blood oozes from the openings¡ Jeez, maybe it¡¯s just me, but darn it¡¯s really so realistic it¡¯s damned disgusting. Also it¡¯s really quite unnerving, and also mentally disturbing to see humans being shot like flies. Being a pure pacifist I really can hardly stand watching live breathing individuals, with a conscience and soul of their own, mown down helplessly like grass in front of a lawn-mower. Like weeds to a sickle, like mosquitoes to the human palm, like ants to the huge boot¡ you know. Not to mention that the movie seems to potray Somalis as very pathetic, stupid and sadistic barbarians who got nothing else on their minds except fighting and yelling warcries like numb-minded idiots. Sheesh. Supremacists. But heck¡ nevertheless Black Hawk Down is worth a watch. Go check it out.
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