photos!

Couldn't think of a better time to experiment with photos. Couldn't resist these cute MSD pencils.


Pencils!

Or who's to say our mr photogenic himself, cpl(soon_to_be_ns) chooky?


Joshua!

[evil grin]

spoilt knee

it's official. my knee is spoilt. turns out that something or other is swollen and pressing against something else or other, making it painful. told you i wasn't a doctor.

so anyway, because of my fall last week, i am now excused running and ippt for 31 days. and a speciallist appointment in a month at SGH.

ah well. it could be worse. i could have spoilt hips .

=)

more from mr brown...

From http://www.mrbrown.com

Friday, March 25, 2005
No excuse to not know you have AIDS
I read that there are plans to legislate to curb the Aids epidemic. In the proposed change in legislation, any HIV-positive person who has unprotected sex, or intends to have unprotected sex with someone, would have committed a criminal offence — even if he did not know of his own condition.

I say go all the way, man. Get these HIV-infected people to wear a badge, or at least a T-shirt, that proclaims their promiscuous and risky lifestyle to everyone, so we know to avoid them. Better yet, tattoo everyone who is HIV-positive.

I think we need to also clarify what “intends to have unprotected sex with someone” means. I think we need to be strict about this. If you have HIV, even if you didn’t know it, and you so much as look at a woman (or a man, depending what you like) with lust in your eyes, the Sex Police will arrest you.

I mean, you die your business lah. Don’t spread your immoral lifestyle to others who are living clean mah.

In fact, I heard that a charity concert by gay pop duo Jason and deMarco was not approved by the MDA, because “alternative lifestyles are against the public interest” and "these singers use their musical performance and their own example of being a couple to celebrate and promote a gay lifestyle”.

While I am not familiar with the gay music scene, not being of this persuasion myself, I am curious as to what this duo performs on stage that is so appalling. Do they take their clothes off in mid-song to engage in acts that contravene Singapore Penal code 377?

Maybe we should ban all concerts by performers with dubious and risky lifestyles. At least only admit performers who declare on their Customs form that they never have risky sex, or are not HIV positive. That will help society.

We will only have respectable classical music concerts, the kind where the patrons do not feel like going off and have unprotected sex with strangers after the performance.

But not Tchaikovsky’s music though. That one must also ban. He was gay. Oh, and no Elton John concerts too. That one also a bit off, one. You can tell from his big fancy glasses and his loud dressing.

I say we should set up testing centres at all Red Light Districts (in fact, I think we should ban them too). All patrons at houses of disrepute will have to undergo compulsory testing. Remember to bring your IC and comb your hair. Your picture will be taken.

Don’t worry, like CCTVs, all this is for your safety only, and will not be used against you, unless you plan to rob a 7-Eleven while buying a condom, or you plan to have sex without that condom.

In fact, I think we should legislate against sex. This sex thing seems to be spreading all these evil diseases, and Singaporeans who want to have sex must be medically checked first, and they must be married and plan to have children. Then they can get their Certificate of Consented Sex (COCS). And also the Precoitus Universal Safety Instructions (PUSI)

So make sure the next time you plan to have sex, go and get your Government-issued COCS and PUSI first. Remember, the only Safe Sex is Government-Approved Sex.

42.

More random sound bites....

Where are you over....
In front of you over....

How do you eat this leaf?
Open mouth, put leaf in, chew, swallow, repeat...

I don't know this song....
You played it this morning....

............

Vagaries of 4-day cycle and FOE (a.k.a. whining time)

Some poor section is getting all the s#!t this month. based on the 4 day work cycle, they got:

8th - Coy BBQ
12th - Coy Range
16th - Base Life Run
24th - Seminar
28th - Seminar
1st - Seminar + ORD function

Oops.

Why are SAF personnel so disorganized? They have a seminar on the 28th, and don't inform the access control personnel at all. On the 24th, the last working day before the 28th, we (i) literally have to call the organizing department and ask (beg, demand) for the necessary information. At 4pm, nonetheless. For a seminar which starts at 0800 the next working day.

Typical response is "Why do you need the information?" to which the answer is invariably "So that we can allow your guests in for the seminar." So they send the email with everything but the nominal roll. Oops. So their guests who conveniently forget their invitation card will be stranded with no recourse because we have no method to verify their attendance. And it will all be our fault.

i dropped my phone

bleah.

my new phone, the got scratched! yes, despite 6 years of never dropping a phone, i have thus managed to drop my brand new 1-week old phone. oh the pain and agony. what made it worse is that the phone was in the phone cover just before it dropped. waving goodbye to friends caused the phone to jump out of the cover. ow.

ah well. time to get a proper cover for it.

funny stuff

getting old(er)

turned 24 yesterday. went to kushin-bo at suntec for dinner with aunty p. again, mudder made a competition of the 'who can pay the bill first' event. ah well. mudders will be mudders.

otoh, the food was excellent. free-flow everything, which actually turned out quite well. the alaska crab was huge and sweet, if a little messy, and fresh prawns, well, are fresh prawns. pity about the customer service though. nobody had any initiative to give the birthday boy any discount, or even a complimentary slice of cake. hmmph.

back to work today. spent the whole morning printing ******* passes at mike sierra delta. supposed to be incoming pass ic job, but somehow that got foisted off onto me. ah well. at least oscar charlie's happy.

workplans coming up for all 4 services. going to cause a huge problem for all of us, esp. on the logistics and carparking side. hopefully they all get their act together and everything turns out nicely. having to issue 2500 passes in 1 week is no laughing matter, esp. when i have to inventory all of them. maybe i can arrow someone to help me.

i crack myself up.

=)

had a lively discussion about off and leave with wilson and yoke boon before going off. YB claims that he'd rather take the triple-dismount route to clear leave than clear block as it gives him a much earlier "effective last day". wils mentioned that we should be getting number(off)=lim(x) [x->oo] for all the work we do. somehow i'll just take what comes my way. i haven't even bothered to claim the offs i'm "owed" by the system for staying in 3x and helping OHTA's section do night GR...... i'll still expect a substantial retirement bonus though.

another of those days at work

SES is supposed to be providing the wonderful new visitor registration system. to that end, they have given us a trial set consisting of some outstanding hardware. a xeon and 2GB of RAM for starters. and some other hardware that you probably don't need to know about. Thing is, the software sucks.

Read that again.

The software S-U-C-K-S.

Imagine something really complicated. nope. more. right. take that image and multiply it a hundredfold, and then some. then imagine trying to play the nutcracker waltz on the piano and the flight of the bumblebee on the tuba. simultaneously. with your image. blindfolded.

The software isn't user friendly at all. For the purposes of this, what we want = "type type click thank you sir next please". What we get = type type click click type type scan print oops can we try that again sir?". Non-intuitive, cumbersome, clumsy, non-user-friendly comes to mind. And they've had a month to improve on the software. there are not administrative front-end tools for database maintainence, so anything to do with modifying the current database has to be done at a very low level - mucking around with 1s and 0s in what can only be described as approximating assembly language. the turnover rate isn't something to write home about, and efficiency has dropped dramatically. tempers get shorter, on both sides of the glass/counter as "technology" improves our lives.

looks like we might not get this set after all. hey, i've asked for some improvements almost a month ago. 4 major updates and 7 revisions later, the items are still "in the works". Which interface forces the user to use scroll bars? bah.

did i mention i like my phone? Treo 600

more more sound bites

me: you what?

him: i dropped my pass down the elevator shaft.

me: still not as champion as the guy whose house burnt down.

an exercise in following orders

him: get x, y, and z done.

me: [do x, y and z]

someone else: how come [me] said that [him] wanted x, y, and z done?

him: i never asked [me] to do that.

hmm.

more random sound bites

[random sound bite 1]

....

me: ask the visitors where they are going and who they are meeting, over
him: they don't speak english, over

----

[end random sound bite 1]

[random sound bite 2]

....

him: can i have a parking coupon please?

....

[end random sound bite 2]

back to work

back from sickness, the mountain of work piled up wasn't too bad after all. thing is, livia is going to have like 100 emails to reply to tomorrow when she comes back from leave. ah well. she gets paid to do her job anyway.

i like my new phone. Treo 600 got it at a discount bargain price at IT Fair 2005, which, by the way, was super crowded and packed.

...... [begin random]

Me: "Please meet your guest at the podium."
Him: "Which podium?"

[end random] ......

someone, or rather i should say some people, picked up 4 kittens near the I/R blocks today around 1740, and decided that the guardroom MPs (multi-purpose) would be the best people to foist them onto. the current options are:

1. call spca
2. cook and eat them
3. changkul and bury them
4. give them away

not my problem anymore. =)

another mr brown post

The right person for the right job
Got this from ngader in Cowboy's Bar:
Does your Company have a problem in recruiting the right person for the right Job? If yes, try this simple experiment.
Put around 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with an open window. Then send 2-3 candidates into the room and close it from outside. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours, and then analyze the situation:
If they are counting and recounting the number of bricks - PUT THEM IN ACCOUNTS DEPT.
If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks - PUT THEM IN ENGINEERING.
If they are arranging the bricks in some other order - PUT THEM IN PLANNING.If they are throwing the bricks at each other - PUT THEM IN OPERATIONS.
If they are sleeping - PUT THEM IN SECURITY.
If they have broken the bricks into pieces - PUT THEM IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.
If they are sitting idle - PUT THEM IN HUMAN RESOURCE DEPT.
If they have thrown the bricks out of the window - PUT THEM IN THE MATERIALS DEPT.
If they are clinging onto the bricks - PUT THEM IN TREASURY.
If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has moved - PUT THEM IN SALES.
If they have already left for the day - PUT THEM IN MARKETING.
If they are staring out of the window - PUT THEM IN STRATEGIC PLANNING
AND last but not least....
If they are talking to each other and not a single brick has been moved- PUT THEM IN TOP MANAGEMENT.

Saw this on mr brown......

15 Words That Should Exist
via Mel's Mindcave


1. ACCORDIONATED (ah kor' de on ay tid) adj. Being able to drive and refold a road map at the same time.

2. AQUADEXTROUS (ak wa deks' trus) adj. Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub tap on and off with your toes.

3. CARPERPETUATION (kar' pur pet u a shun) n. The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.

4. DIMP (dimp) n. A person who insults you in a cheap department store by asking, "Do you work here?"

5. ECNALUBMA (ek na lub' ma) n. A rescue vehicle which can only be seen in the rearview mirror.

6. EIFFELITES (eye' ful eyetz) n. Gangly people sitting in front of you at the cinema who, no matter what direction you lean in, follow suit.

7. ELBONICS (el bon' iks) n. The actions of two people manoeuvering for one armrest in a cinema.

8. ELECELLERATION (el a cel er ay' shun) n. The mistaken notion that the more you press the lift button, the faster it will arrive.

9. FRUST (frust) n. The small line of debris that refuses to be swept onto the dust pan and keeps backing a person across the room until he finally decides to give up and sweep it under the rug.

10. LACTOMANGULATION (lak' to man gyu lay' shun) n. Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk container so badly that one has to resort to the 'illegal' side.

11. NEONPHANCY (ne on' fan see) n. A fluorescent light bulb struggling to come to life.

12. PETROPHOBIC (pet ro fob' ik) adj. One who is embarrassed to undress in front of a household pet.

13. PHONESIA (fo nee' zhuh) n. The affliction of dialling a phone number and forgetting whom you were calling just as they answer.

14. PUPKUS (pup' kus) n. The moist residue left on a window after a dog presses its nose to it.

15. TELECRASTINATION (tel e kras tin ay' shun) n. The act of always letting the phone ring at least twice before you pick it up, even when you're only six inches away.

it's saturday and i'm still feeling like c**p

doctor gave me some strong medcine, and about all i've done in the past two days is sleep. this morning, wake up and still feel bad. the phlegm is thick and building up, and there's a headache i wish weren't around.

at least i still have 1 day of medicine to take. hopefully i'll feel well enough to attend church tomorrow.

bleah...

got the flu bug from C.Q. during the bbq. yup, the same one where there wasn't enough food to feed 50, let alone the 90 that they catered for.

caught the bug from c.q, then stayed behind and woke up to watch chelski-barca. very good match, even if the result wasn't up to my liking. barca got hit for 3 with chelski's first 3 attacks. lost possession 3 times, next thing you know the ball's in the back of your net. ah well. at least we got to see the wonder ronaldinho goal. really good.

woke up yesterday morning feeling like crap. still managed to get through half the day before anyone noticed. then c.q. told me to go home and get some rest. had to see a doctor though, and got 2 days mc. now have that whole wonderful mountain of work called mustering to look forward to when i get back.

how wonderful is life.

so this is how any budget-based organisation works.

ok, so we got a brand new shredding machine today. thing is, we've been asking for one for months. apparantly, the reason we got this one is, there's a surplus in the budget (unforseen, of course), so they're spending for all they're worth to make sure that they get the same or more money next FY.

oops. there seem to be no guidelines on which type/model/etc of shredder to buy, so our dear CQ went out and got a "heavy-duty" shredder. this one eats paper like nobody's business, and lots of paper, at that. however, it doesn't conform to a certain department's guidelines on shredders. the spagetthi that comes out is 5mm wide, which apparantly is 2-3mm wider than guidelines. also, it's a straight cut shredder, whereby a cross-cut would have been better. so that's another big oops. now onto the shredder itself. the paper strips don't actually fall properly, so we keep on getting "bin full"messages when in actual fact the bin is barely 30-50% filled. keep having to open the f$%^ing door to flatten the paper. ah well. another $500 well spent. i think.

and how about this for communication. there's some american big shot coming tomorrow to get some medal or other from one of our big shots or other, so there's a guard of honour parade. all nice and cool, right? wrong. seems that someone from FMLB forgot to notify JMPD about the parade, so the flowers and all weren't actually ordered till 4pm. so they arrived and set up at around 5.30 (kudos to the efficiency of the flower people - flower power?). at the same time, at 4pm, APC SAFPU were blissfully unaware of the ceremony tomorrow. chalk up another big oops for the SAF. frighteningly enough, these are the same people we depend on to defend our country.

stuffed

just back from dinner. walked across to the place opposite beauty world (i gotta find out the name of the street someday). the prawn mee was strange. the soup is super thick and probably laced with msg and other stuff. but good overall.

then came dessert. at al-amin's. (the one in the middle of the row). $2 for a bloody huge bowl of ice-kachang. quite the filling. it's like, huge. more huge than huge. mega-huge. and generous with the servings too, i might add. bleah. remind me to not eat too much for dinner if i plan to go there.

amusing though, their menu. things like nasi muifan and other chinese delicacies. at a muslim shop. ah well. gotta go back someday.

so i'm here. blame choo.

so the kychoo comes up to me and says you should have a blog. next thing i know i've got a blog. bah.

somehow i never thought i would get caught up in the blogging craze. maybe i won't. and this site will die away.

maybe not.

only time will tell.

don't know what to put in a blog though. some thoughts are just more private than others. oh well. is anyone going to read this anyway? suppose i should contribute something, after all i'm reading choo's blog, chiayi's blog, jonas' and thien's amongst others. ah well.

hello world

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