Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Whines & “881 啊，摇啊摇”！！
A recent update of myself. A few weeks ago, i was pleasantly surprised with a pay raise from the boss. All of you guys reading this post now better hold on to yourselfs now before you start calling me for treats... As a employee designer, my pay is nothing compared to all those bankers/lawyers/engineers out there. Let me whine for a while here, i'm sure all my fellow designer buds have the same gripe. Why is it that i can never find the occupation "Designer" when i'm filing some application? Why do we always have to tick "OTHERS"??
Why? Last time gahment think designers' are not considered a occupation? Always remember, designers are responsible for the simplest things you have in life. From the toilet bowls you shit in, to the computer you are viewing this post now...
Anyways, BAH to that. A lot of things irritate me nowadays. For example -
Public transport : Why issit that buses always runs off in 2s when you are rushing in the morning? You wait for a good blardy 20mins if you're unlucky and then see 3 buses coming together at once. And when you complain, SBS retaliates with a stupid advertisement on their buses, featuring 2 same buses in the jam and insinuating that sometimes 2 buses arriving at the same time cannot be helped. FUCK YOU UNDERSTAND?! How different is that retaliation different from slapping you and telling you - "stupid idiot, just shut up and wait. you can't do anything anyway coz i monopolize singapore! hahahaha!" Then they will cite many reports saying that a lot of countries say our public transport is world class. World class my lan jiao! You dare to take your public transport and compare with BETTER cities like Japan? SBS asks for "quality" cash but do they provide quality service? If you think public transport is cheap, think twice! Yesterday, my family of 4 wanted to head to my aunt's place in street 82 while i lived in street 21. To get there on public transport, i have to spend $0.65 plus another $0.35 as i change bus at the interchange. (0.65+0.35) X 4 = $4. We took a cab and guess what was the fee? It was $3.50! Wow, if i took an SBS bus, i would have to put up with dirty buses who doesn't arrive, take another effort to change bus at the interchange and the whole cycle of waiting comes back again. The more you calculate, the more you start thinking about how bad public transport is. I shall stop here now and stop complaining, because you know what, i'll still have to take it tomorrow morning. How oxymoronic!
On a lighter note, weekends were well spent with great friends and activities. We caught 881 on the big screen. Was a really good movie for a local production, sans the usual suaning of gahment and acting as ugly singaporeans to gain laughter and box office. Take that, Jack Neo. I highly recommend this show, go catch it also if you have a hidden beng/lian in ya. Saturday was spent at wing's house for a good mahjong session. Had a pretty good winning hand at first but when tapi and cindy come and 5 fan 5 fan all the time, we suffered huge losses. Heng, i near the end also 4 fan 4 fan win back some cab fare *sob sob* Heard tapi is going philippines for a job, hope he'll be safe there and looking forward to a great dinner/mahjong session to send him off!
Why? Last time gahment think designers' are not considered a occupation? Always remember, designers are responsible for the simplest things you have in life. From the toilet bowls you shit in, to the computer you are viewing this post now...
Anyways, BAH to that. A lot of things irritate me nowadays. For example -
Public transport : Why issit that buses always runs off in 2s when you are rushing in the morning? You wait for a good blardy 20mins if you're unlucky and then see 3 buses coming together at once. And when you complain, SBS retaliates with a stupid advertisement on their buses, featuring 2 same buses in the jam and insinuating that sometimes 2 buses arriving at the same time cannot be helped. FUCK YOU UNDERSTAND?! How different is that retaliation different from slapping you and telling you - "stupid idiot, just shut up and wait. you can't do anything anyway coz i monopolize singapore! hahahaha!" Then they will cite many reports saying that a lot of countries say our public transport is world class. World class my lan jiao! You dare to take your public transport and compare with BETTER cities like Japan? SBS asks for "quality" cash but do they provide quality service? If you think public transport is cheap, think twice! Yesterday, my family of 4 wanted to head to my aunt's place in street 82 while i lived in street 21. To get there on public transport, i have to spend $0.65 plus another $0.35 as i change bus at the interchange. (0.65+0.35) X 4 = $4. We took a cab and guess what was the fee? It was $3.50! Wow, if i took an SBS bus, i would have to put up with dirty buses who doesn't arrive, take another effort to change bus at the interchange and the whole cycle of waiting comes back again. The more you calculate, the more you start thinking about how bad public transport is. I shall stop here now and stop complaining, because you know what, i'll still have to take it tomorrow morning. How oxymoronic!
On a lighter note, weekends were well spent with great friends and activities. We caught 881 on the big screen. Was a really good movie for a local production, sans the usual suaning of gahment and acting as ugly singaporeans to gain laughter and box office. Take that, Jack Neo. I highly recommend this show, go catch it also if you have a hidden beng/lian in ya. Saturday was spent at wing's house for a good mahjong session. Had a pretty good winning hand at first but when tapi and cindy come and 5 fan 5 fan all the time, we suffered huge losses. Heng, i near the end also 4 fan 4 fan win back some cab fare *sob sob* Heard tapi is going philippines for a job, hope he'll be safe there and looking forward to a great dinner/mahjong session to send him off!
Friday, August 3, 2007
memories, thoughts, et cetera...
These few days i have been catching a DAMN sad jdrama. All along, no drama i've watched can ever make me tear, but i think i totally bawled over this drama. It's called, 1 Litre of Tears.
I wouldn't reveal too much of the plot, if you guys are interested, sign up at crunchyroll and view it online. I can only say it gives me a new perspective of life, and enforced my idea of living my life as much without any regrets.
Couple of weeks before, my mates and i went back to our old campus Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts to pay a last visit.
Reason being, they have already built a newer campus around Sim Lim Square area and they are vacating the old premises for the next occupant SOTA (School of the Arts). I will definitely say lasalle days are one of my best spent days in my life. I got to know true friends, who have been friends till now. We went thru shits together, met fucked up lecturers before, rushed through deadlines together...
Pictures below -
Fine Art Block. Where all the 1st year students go thru foundation studies of sculpture, printmaking (my personal fav!), Pottery, Painting, Glass etc. That row is supposed to be our lockers, if i dun remember wrongly, have to pay about $50 for usage every semester. Was a large amount during my days, so most of us share the lockers. It was said that the toilets was haunted in this area...
Design Block. This building was donated by SIA, thus the name SIA is incorporated in Lasalle. The architecture is one of it's own as i dun see another building built in a half arch, quite a nice work actually. The point where the picture was taken is the photography lab (yes, it's haunted too, my friend Ah Nia actually heard noises in the darkroom when she was developing films alone, eeeeeeeee, reminds me of shutter lor!). The opposite point is the fashion branch.
We found an old marker, and being artsy fartsy designers, how can we not leave our territorial marks? MWTBDLTR (Only the chosen ones knows what that means - it's gonna be our hidden code next time when we're old and famous!). And yes.....i dunno why i spelt my OWN name wrongly. Apparently this area, especially our design head's office, is supposed to be rumored to be haunted as well. I think i remembered that time the "flashdance" secretary heard typing noises coming from the office but found no one in there.....eeee....EVERYWHERE YOU GO IN LASALLE IS HAUNTED!
The school where we nutured our design ambitions. I can dare say we are all doing quite well in our fields of expertise. In the background looking over us is the sculpture done by the late founder, Joseph McNally. I really hope they bring the sculpture over to the new campus, how can they just throw aside something so symbolic and of importance to the school and happily move their butts to a "newer" campus. From my own opinion, i think the statue's open arms symbolises acceptance and nurturing, a very basic in education. If i don't see the statue in the new campus, i'll definitely write into the forum!
We love acting silly. Who says you need to act your age?
Time to say goodbye. Goodbye Goodman!
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