Weird Life

Yes I missed the Mayday concert on saturday and this the first time in a long time that I regretted something I had not done. I never allowed myself to regret over decisions made in life. I choose the path in my life and make sure it appears right for other people to see. Perhaps I cared too much about how people looked at me.

For some reason or other I don't feel right today. Waking up at 11 am was a thing of the past and I managed to do it today, furthermore awakened by a phone call and not myself. Wonder if I would ever wake up if I were left alone. And the weather is damn bloody hot.

It could be due to the book I am reading or for some unknown reasons that I am feeling like that, or a mixture of both. Life is so weird. And there is this tinge of blame for this world that I'm having now. It seems that money can buy you a lot of stuff and the life you want. But a sad life. There is this belief in people that money and happiness are inversely correlated. I don't believe in that. Money and happiness are not mutually exclusive. But, how much money can buy you happiness?

I missed cycling.

New shoes

Bought a new pair of shoes at Heeren yesterday. It is from Converse. The reason I bought it was because it's cheap, not that I got too much money. I don't think it's easy to get sneakers at $39.90 nowadays. Even though I never liked Converse, I would be happy if it can last me for 1 year and seems that it's not easy to slip and die on this pair.



I never liked Converse for the fact that they make basketball apparel. I hate the sport. Since young, the only sport that everyone choose to play is basketball and nothing else. Basketball courts everywhere. You tell me why. Bounce bounce bounce and get your hands dirty. Yucks. Oh ya, and if you still don't know me, I have got this bloody elitist mindset. I hate things that majority like.

The most important factor is that their quality control is sucks. Saw a few pairs that should have never made it onto the shelves if I were the QC manager. And it's not the first time I see shoes that don't pass my QC appearing with the Converse logo. Is it so costly to dump those away for somebody else to pick it up and resell it in Thailand or Vietmam?

The manufacturing process needs some looking into. Maybe my high expectations is due to the fact that I know what is Six Sigma (yea I worked in GE), things that don't pass QC shouldn't be happening and it should never be sold. Luckily my pair is ok.

Anyway, who the hell is Jack Purcell? Why is his name appearing on the back of my shoe??

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This is a gift. and the gift wrap has a name. It's called the Ziplock.

Handphone For Sale

Hi friends and visitors, I have got a Nokia 7610 for sale.

It was the phone that I yearned to have for a long time when I was in the army. I told myself that I didn't need such a good phone at that time cos it wasn't allowed in the army anyway. I stopped thinking about it for some time and continued with my army life. Then one day I got an offer from a relative of mine that there's a deal for this phone at $400. It was too expensive for me then. Being a very loving relative, he offered to pay for me and I could repay him though four installments of $100 per month.

It became my weekend civilian phone. I loved it so much that I couldn't get my hands off it and occasionally smuggled into camp so that I could spend another minute with it. Eventually, I ORD-ed with my 7610 becoming a permanent fixture in my pocket.

I used it for another year and decided that I need more storage space for my music and found that there was another phone for sale at $0. This new phone was definitely nowhere better than my 7610 and I told myself never to sell it cos I still liked it and would like to spend some quiet time with it occasionally.

So it changed hands to someone else in the family. My mother took ownership of it. 7610 was very quiet with her. It rang less than two times a day and was always kept nicely in a pouch. My mum was far-sighted and could not see the numbers displayed on the phone properly. Recently she got a new phone as a gift (also from a relative) which has got bigger fonts and she decided to return 7610 to me.

My phone is three years old. I still don't feel like giving her away but I would rather her being utilised properly as a useful handphone. So here I am, offering her for sale to my friends only. She still has a great figure and plenty of years to go. I will put in an additional pair of clothes for free. Both are genuine with 9/10 condition. All yours for $120. I am selling at other sites for $140, so in order to get the discount, please quote, "Ze Qi is very handsome." Thank you.


Comes with box, charger, battery, 2 casings both 9/10. All original.
No data cable and software. You don't need that. There's a better technology called bluetooth.

You Know

If I have the choice of scoring 30 or 40 in my exam (34 is the passing mark), I would rather take the pain of getting 30 and repeating it next year than getting 40 and let it haunt me for the rest of my life. The fact that I need to empathsise time and again that 34 is the passing mark shows that nobody really care. The right side of 50 should always be the mark a rational student will want to obtain. But it's not true in SIM. Most of them just want a pass and scrape through the exams (and probably their lives). None of them behave rationally, or behave like a proper student I would say.

One week of intensive UOL revision has passed. The few conclusions that I drew from the Economics class:

1) We don't know anything about Economics at all
2) Every single one of the Economics lecturers in SIM suck
3) The study of Economics in England is the best in the world

And I realise the fact that alot of people who did not make it in Singapore's rigorous education system leave for Australia to further their study, which makes me come to a conclusion that Australian degrees are so easy to obtain. No offence here.

I bet the depth of Economics I learn in this past 3 days can trash any first year student in our beautiful local universities majoring in Econs. Not happy with my comment? Tell me and I will pose you two questions from my mock exam. Solve it and get a prize from me.

"I don't treat education as a business."

-Amos on SIM education

Short of 2 stickers =(

Save our trees

Ok I believe by now every Singapore citizen above the age of 21 with a mailbox would have received the letter handed out by our CPF board to inform you how much money you'll be getting in three different payments. I, for one, got the highest amount allowed in the payout. That $750 divided into 3 payments. Our govenment dotes on poor people like me. I love them deep deep.

The thing I'm not bloody happy is that I don't bloody understand why is there a need to waste so much paper to just to inform? Is the media not bloody clear enough? Is it not possible to send just one letter per family summarising the amount each member is alloted? Is their technology so backward?

You know I get bloody angry when people waste paper. The whole of this study year I am still using the same foolscap pad, and I'm doing my work damn mind you. I don't know how many trees did we already kill by printing handsome Mas and making the point to paste on every bus stop and every other pillar possible, and now here we are depleting the forest further just to let us individuals know how generous our government is.

I really don't know how people go about promoting saving of mother earth. We bring our own bag to NTUC every first Wednesday of the month to cut down the usage of plastic bags. So should we only cut on that day of the month and waste on the remaining 353 days of the year? Stupid. Plain bloody stupid.

I'm sorry but to inform that I've already dumped the letter into my rarbish bin. They are good in the sense that they utilised both sides of the paper and I can't use it as scrap paper. Thanks, you ugly earthlings.

School of Idiots

Another two days into my UOL revision and I'm encountering more and more shitty students (I don't wish to be assiociated with them, no thank you). It (the shit) comes in all directions, totally impossible to avoid them, sad to say.

First of the week occured on the first day of the week. This particular lady (big sharp nose, big eyes with long lashes, the exact same kind you see in Bollywood films) asked me whether there was anyone sitting next to me. Obviously I said no (I have got not much friends and it doesn't matter if I sat with them anyway), I would had said no to her if I knew those in front were her friends. Halfway through the lesson she started to ask her friends questions which I couldn't believe. Here I am feeling like being in a Sec 3 A maths class and there she is asking questions on basic integration? Did she just came over from north India or what?

How I wish I was wearing this t-shirt I saw some day ago with an arrow pointing to the right and with the caption "I am with STUPID", and probably with "and she's noisy" to heighten that effect. Never mind, I told myself, everyone should be given a chance to learn.

AND TODAY, I saw a particularly disrespectful guy. He came in an hour late (60 bloody minutes). I have nothing against late comers. Students who can't be bothered don't bother me. He, tall and handsome in bright green, walked in holding stuff that only a McDelivery man will bring. I really cannot tolerate idiots, especially fucking idiots like him, not showing a single bit of respect for the Londoner by pouring sugar into his tea and sinking his teeth into his $2 Sausage McMuffin.

How I wish that cup of tea would topple off the tabletop and onto the floor, via the shirt of the lady (not the same as above) in front . I would love the sight of her screaming. Then I can proceed on to do my favourite thing. Laugh out loud and shout IDIOT!

Fucked up human being. (me)

Distinction in Summer

Had my first UOL revision class today and I would say it's a very fresh encounter for it's my first time being taught by an ang moh. She was summarising the results for our mock exam and said "the mean mark was 46%."

I couldn't believe it when she said the paper "was rather difficult and this result was understandable." Cos I thought my JC C-maths paper was far higher than this standard. I wasn't too sure how many people actually put their heart into doing the paper but it was appalling. Disgusting to have the mean mark at 46%.

Then I took back the paper



Sorry if your result is lower than 46. It was my fault for pulling the mean mark a little too high. I gave you people false hopes... hahahaha

Seriously, the paper was damn easy. You give it to a JC student most probably he will come back with above 80. I lost 11 out of 19 marks to those shitty theory questions. Let me wish for a happy summer. I want both figures to be 9. Laugh at me if I don't achieve. That's the whole purpose of being so ya-ya.