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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 :::

by your powers of observation, find just one glaring mistake in this seemingly normal photo of a street.

streetpic

the answer will be shown in a couple day's time.

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::: posted by Richard Wan at 11:43 AM

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 :::

senior minister lee kuan yew went overseas this morning. a gas pipe exploded this afternoon, causing the nicoll highway to collaspe. one died, three injured and four were trapped. power was disrupted momentarily.

which frighteningly confirms the truth of one of singapore's most well-kept myths.

when old lee is not around, singapore cannot hold.

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::: posted by Richard Wan at 10:10 PM

Monday, April 19, 2004 :::

5566 left singapore early this morning at T2. i wasn't there, i was at T1, but it isn't the point. our friends told us that there were about 20 fans there, presumably skipping school, just to wave their idols goodbye.

it is then when my sergeant, got angry. he screamed in mandarin and profane hokkien, " *** ** **! got books to study don't want to study, *** ***, skip school come airport support what *** *** 5566! ". ( haha, the askterids here makes it look like a text message beckham would send from his phone. )

he then continued with his ranting, " if next time i got a daughter and she like that, skip school chase what 5566 7788, i will ** ** ** whack her silly i tell you. chase until like dog ( pun on paparazzi ) like that. wait i chain her up see how she chase. she can only ( mimics a dog at the end of its leash standing on two legs) , ' yelp! 5566! yelp yelp!' *his crazy laughter begins*. " then he asks," so what will you all do?"

( stunned ) we, " well..ermmmmm.... ". suddenly, the minibus reaches the airport police station. we all scramble away.

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::: posted by Richard Wan at 12:39 PM

Monday, April 12, 2004 :::

got pretty worked up reading the yesterday's new paper about these chinese scholars' comments about singaporean students.

so we are stupid, lazy and filled with pig's swill? and what a singaporean student does in four weeks you can do in a single day? well, how much china has progressed in 5000 years, we did it in less than 40. efficiency and effectiveness indeed.

what infuriated me most is that they say " the singapore government is stupid, give us scholarship grants, but i'm leaving as soon as i'm done. " no one cares a hoot about where you came from or where you intend to go, but you do not scold my government in my country, not after you happily use our money for your education. can your government afford to give you a proper education? can your government even use money without taking some of it for themsevles?

so you come over here, and when you are new and foreign, you say we singaporeans are helpful and such. but after you are familiar about how things work here, you think you can castigate and get away with it because you will be " leaving as soon as you're done "? it's like going to your friend's house to stay over for a night and complaining the fridge has nothing you like to eat.

so why don't you go back to the place you came from and see if there is even a fridge? why don't you return right now? " oh, i'm not that stupid. this government gives me money to study, but i will leave after that and never come back ". so after you have a career and get married, you are going to send your parents to an old folks' home and never visit them? start burning the bridge before you have even reached the other end?

i'm more angry you talking negative about our government, calling it " stupid " than about us being filled with pig's swill. you seriously think you are a genius and that our government is tripping over itself to give you an education and hopefully work for them, at the expense of its own citizens? no. we have more to gain from your country than you from ours. much more.

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::: posted by Richard Wan at 4:16 PM

my dad repaired my guitar! i thought it was irreparable after i knocked it over and snapped the neck inhto two. haha..i think my dad is a genius. i love this guitar of mine even more now, it looks so cool with those screws and super glue. haha! here's how it looks now.

well, i think i take after my dad's ingenuity. cause i just discovered a new easy way to reheat last night's veggies for my instant noodle meal. haha! i was thinking whether to put the plate of veggies into the mircowave or re-fry it when i came up with

reheating last night's veggies

ta-dah! removing the lid of the saucepan i'm cooking my noodles in and letting the steam heat up the veggies! synergy, i say.

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::: posted by Richard Wan at 2:41 PM

Saturday, April 10, 2004 :::

my second ever blood donation today! it's been one year since my last and first donation. ah..the deja vu feeling before the blood donation. the dread, the fear and the feeling of just going back home. all so vivid. haha..but this time, the sensation was different. if anyone recall my blog last year, i said i dreaded the prick of the finger using the harmless-looking device most. but just now when the nurse used that, somehow it really only felt like a prick, like accidentally touching the ends of my guitar strings. now that i've gotten over the prick, there is nothing about blood donation i really fear now. haha!

plus there are really a lot of things in the goodie bag this year. let me just quickly state them. a thermal flask for tonic and soups, quite stylish i say, the brand's logo is so inconspicuous you might think the flask might cost you tens of dollars. then there are these health supplements, iron and complex b for replenshing blood and vitamin c. there's also two little boxes tissue paper, just in case you decide to cry when the needle is inserted. and lastly, there is this very cool watch they give. it's so nice i cant bear to wear it. if only i had two, so i can keep both!

yup..after all these promotion and self-ad, if you or anyone you know might be interested in saving lives, the blood donation centre is at joo chiat community centre on this sat and sun, apr 10 and 11. there will be free shuttle bus to the centre at eunos mrt from 9am to 3pm. be there!

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::: posted by Richard Wan at 4:26 PM

Friday, April 09, 2004 :::

there has been some unhappiness recently between my shift's prowl teams and our force 2IC. it is a known fact, perhaps not to our force commander, an officer, but to the rest - the force 2IC, the ops specialists, the reserves, the orderly, and even the drivers, they know we tuang. in other words, we do not really go out and prowl the airport sometimes, but just stay in the pass office. when we coms back to report our location, saying we are at the transit area or at the taxi stand, well, most of the time we are actually in the pass office.

on tuesday afternoon, our unit RSM did an unannounced spotcheck on T2. by a stroke of luck, the team which was on duty happened to be the most on-the-balls of all the teams, and no one was caught. so on that very night, which was my shift, the force commander, decided to conduct a spotcheck to see if this shift's teams were tuang-ing. he sent his 2IC, a sergeant whom we all like and are friendly with, to the two terminals to see if we are actually working.

when he came, he found that T1 was sleeping and T2 was playing dai-dee. so he just smiled and left, but after a few hours he got the 2 team ICs to sit down at burger king's and talk about it. he said that he will settle this amongst us privately but warned us to buck up because the top are doing spotchecks, sometimes without even first going to the ops room at the airport police station, and that no one can warn us in time. which was fine, because after that and in our following shifts, we did do our 5 required rounds of prowling.

but after that, we found out he actually told the force commander that we tuang-ed when he did said he would not. and we were scolded and given a stern warning by a infuriated force commander, who said the next time this happens, we will be charged. so we all felt that we have been unfairly backstabbed by the 2IC, firstly because he did not keep his word and that he still told on us when we listened to him and did our prowls properly after that.

just yesterday, when he did another spotcheck on us, we completely ignored him, and now he seems even too embarrased to look at us after all our blatant suan-ing and merciless sarcasm. he does not conduct arms loading and unloading drills for us nor deploys us at the airport anymore but stays in the ops room now and mans the coms.

of course i realise being a force 2IC is not easy. it is hard finding a balance between not letting the 12h prowls get too xiong for us and not letting us tuang and covering his own ass. but saying one thing and doing another is quite another matter altogether.

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::: posted by Richard Wan at 3:34 PM

Tuesday, April 06, 2004 :::

FRIENDTEST

hehe..my own version of it. a bit old-fashioned by now, but still fun i guess. the conventional sites send tests by email, which i think is considered unsolicited mail, or worse, spam, so i thought i'll put it on my blog, and probably learn some HTML along the way. therefore, you will not get to click click and then receive your mark, but instead you have to do it manually ( yep, that will mean getting out your pen and paper and then marking it yourself at the end ). have fun!

p.s it not meant to be easy. bring out the dice!

Q1. the which-music-rocks-my-socks test : i'm listening to my favourite song: it is..