Life Sucks

Without my regular lunch colleague who has since retired, my choice of food for lunch has actually widened but recently I been hankering for simple food for lunch. So I will drag myself in the hot sun to Maxwell or Chinatown for what I call comfort food. Two bowls of porridge with fish cake, 'chaipoh' (preserved turnips) egg, and pickled vegetables. Hmm simple but so pleasurable. Is this a sign of growing old?

The outcry over Changi Airport continues 3 weeks after the result of an international survey showed that Changi Airport has dropped 2 ranks from 1st to 3rd in the survey. Now I always find it amusing that Singapore is so obessed with ranking. We pride ourselves on being first or the best in all sort of surveys like best worker, best ports, and we go and do all sort of weird stunts to be in the Guiness Book of World Records - biggest dumpling, biggest mass display...... We ranked our schools and now we are going to rank town councils. Does everything need to be ranked? It is really so important to have the best airport, best port, best worker blah blah blah and if we can't win, is it such a terrible things that we have to agonize over it for so many weeks. Come on, I like Changi Airport and I think it's great but seriously, for those who have traveled often enough, yes Changi Airport is great. It's big, efficient and near to the city but you know - it lacks something. Just ...

Was on the train on the way and I couldn't believe what I saw. There sitting in the train was a guy with a tattoo of a typewriter on his forearm! I seen many type of tattoos but a typewriter? Now who in the world will have such a tattoo? Me think he was previously a typist or stenographer. M think it is a picture of his first typewriter. Whatever it is, it looked totally unglam and uncool.

Another cat killer on the loose! I wonder what turn normal human being into cat killers? And what happened to these people later on - will they turned to killing people when people get in their way or become a nuisance to them? Hopefully he/she will be caught soon and as punishment - maybe made to eat cat food for the rest of his life! But one strange thing about this incident. How come Bayshore which is a private estate has so many stray cats? Much as I love animals, the number of strays who had felled to this looney is now 19 and that is a tad too many even for a big development such as Bayshore. How did the MC allowed the cat population to grow until this size? And me think the kind souls who are feeding them should stop doing so and let nature take its course. Previously, my place too had some problems with cats. They were climbing into the windows of houses on the ground level and there was a huge hooha when one of the residents got scratched trying to chase a cat out of the house...

Was at a dinner the other day. Was talking to a guy at the same table and he was complaining about the government, the economy, the people and practically everything we talked about he had something negative to say about it. Back in the office, there is this colleague who is also forever mouthing bad things about everything Sg. From the people to the government and even to the lack of beautiful buildings, trees and even what lousy scenery we have! Then in the forum, there are many people especially those who came from overseas who day in day out badmouth the local races. To all these people who have see nothing good about Sg, this is what I have to say to them. 1) If you are a foreigner and think Sg is so bad or our races are so rotten and not up to your international standard, please go back to your utopia land and don't take part in our races. 2) If you are a local and think Sg is so bad, stand out and be counted. Do something, make a difference. Blabbering behind the background ...

"As quickly as you can, snatch the pebble from my hand". I will always remember this line from the tv series Kung Fu starring David Carradine. Then he was a young man acting as a half blooded who joined the Shaolin Temple. I remembered this series well because it was a show of good vs bad and of how the good will always triumph and of course because I spent many hours in my neighbour house watching it and being chased out whenever they want to switch channel. It is therefore sad to read of the way he died, starked naked in a hotel room in Thailand with a rope tied to his neck and another to his genitals. What the hell was he doing and at his age some more! The Bangkok authorities think it was either sucide or a sex act gone wrong. His family thinks it is murder. Errr I don't think it is a sucide. From the picture in the Thai papers, I don't think it is physically possible for him to tie himself up that way and suffocate as a result. Neither do I think it was murder. M...

Lifted this off Mr Brown Town . A bit behind time but still good for a chuckle

Read in the New Paper today about a lady who bought a few car and thereafter sent a complaint letter to the Cat Welfare Society and the Town Council to 'remove' all the cats in the area. Her reason. The cats will scratch her cat. What bladdy arrogance. First she should get her facts right. Cats don't scratch car. They are only looking for a bit of warmth if they lie on the car. The cat's claws are retractable and cannot hold on a car's smooth paintwork. Secondly, if her car is so precious, she should not be parking it in any public area at all. Cat should be the least of her worries. There are many idiots out there who love to scratch cars with their keys for no other reasons that they are bored. So maybe she should petition for all humans in her neighbourhood to be banned so that nobody touch her precious car. Leave the cats alone. If the car is so precious, install a proximity sensor alarm system which will go off if anything warm, be it human, cats or lizards go ...

Nowadays it seems there is no way to avoid those credit cards telemarketers. Now you don't just get phone calls but it seems like the card companies have now invaded very corner of this little red dot. Used to be they set up their road show at the shopping malls but now one can find them at food centre, bus interchange and practically any place where they can find space to set up their booth. And these people are still so pushy. I know it tough trying to get people to sign up but geez, sometime I really wish I can just shove them aside, the way they keep following you. And to make matter worse, joining them are the insurer people and the fund raisers. Seriously, is it really that easy to sign up customers like that?

I really don't understand why Singaporeans are so intolerant. Maybe it is the highly stressed environment we live in but still.... Take Sunday morning at the Tampines Park Connector. A group of us had been up all night just below one of the HDB flat cheering the runners participating in the Sundown Marathon. This lady came down about 7am to complain that we had disturbed her sleep with our clapping and cheering. I admit we were a bit noisy at times with our cheering and clapping but then how do you give support to the runners if we don't cheer them? I admit I was a bit pissed off by her accusing tone and did not apologise but instead 'suaned' her and told her that I was surprised she only heard us from around 5am when we were in fact doing it since 10pm. Similarly I remembered at my late father's funeral some years ago, almost on a daily basis, we had the police turning up nightly at the wake to investigate complaint of noise from the ceremony. Of course the ceremon...