No more Mr. Nice Guy

It's time to take down the big cheese...time to forget friendship...time to finally let go the fact that I will be a bad friend...it just sucks to go through all the emotions of why I made the mistake of trusting someone you thought would have been more credible.
Never lend out $ without considering the fact you will never get it back...Debt collection is worse than loaning $...when people borrow $ from you..they are your best friends, they claim ancestral relationships, they worship the ground you walk..but when you want back your $...they somehow fell off the face of the earth...you are a parasite, you are detestable...it's like I owe them $ instead.

Anyway time to kick ass and no more looking back...I am coming for you Big Cheese, this time no mercy.

Helpless

When I sometimes feel helpless about things, the energy within me have to be expended, either through extreme sports or lots of punches. Hunting down my wooden dummy right now.



Wish sometimes I have the power to do more...instead of just punches.

Step Up or F Off

Seriously...just to end this saga which I have blogged a couple of times about. Here and here. I just hope everybody can see, why it is utmost importance our country has accountability and transparency...and fark say no to paying millions to idiots, it is like a double slap to your face (Screwing up and not apologising yet legit looting off millions in salaries). Enough said, since they now steal from you...LTA/PTC screwed up allowing Public Transport operators to rip S$300k off commuters.

Let me focus my rant on this Mas Selamat Saga. We all now know how he escaped, but now will heads roll for the stupidity and mistakes made? You have the biggest manhunt in history and this terrorist is hiding in his brother's home.

We have this damn "intelligent" question asked in Parliament by an NMP.

Nominated Member of Parliament, Viswa Sadasivan asked, was: “On the day of the escape, shouldn’t it have been standard operating procedure for the security forces to actually go down to the homes of the immediate family members?”

This is your..yes YOUR million dollar reply.

Shanmugam’s reply: “[The Member] will remember that I have said taking into account his family members, which numbered more than a hundred, and with contacts they number many more. I don’t want to go into details on what surveillance was done because they are really operational security matters …”

Fark me.

All good things come in pairs..Here's the double slap.

And then Shanmugam added: “[It] is not in the interest of our country for us to disclose these matters. However, Member can be assured that what was done has been reviewed and I’m satisfied that all the necessary steps were taken.”

Seriously...fark me..this new guy is not just going to fill the shoes of the idiot..incumbent. He is just so right for it. As I love to say..my late grandmother can protect Singapore better than you.

Here we go again, more BS to come.

Ten Rules for Being Human - Live and Learn

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. "There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.

- Cherie Carter-Scott

For a friend.

Truth in numbers

Like my earlier blog entry, numbers like words can be presented in a misleading way if not known to the untrained eye. Numbers like data can be manipulated. So how well you sieve out the truth depends on how well you read or understand what is presented and why it is presented that way. That is why I love statistics, the art in numbers in this field is very interesting. I have been following this guy, Mr Leong for quite some time...there is little bullshit one can pull when it comes to presenting the truth in numbers. An interesting interview of the man himself and how this dare-to-be-different-Rafflesian thinks in his perspective.

Everyone has to start thinking or decide if the blue pill of blissful ignorance is really the way to go. In order for anyone to have a future, be it for yourself or generations to come, you have to make choices. Or would you rather have none? I remembered my favorite quote in "A few good men" - You want answers? I want the truth...YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH. In all cases, we deserve what we have decided on.

Not an accountant but I think

...we should all put some heart into reading what is presented often in the papers.

Just some points to ponder as I did some additional reading over the weekend, quite a bedtime sleepy companion - The Department of Statistics’ Singapore Yearbook of Statistics 2010.
According to the yawning...book, the amount of CPF contributions from Singaporeans/PR has grown by almost 90%, from S$88 billion to S$167 billion in 10 years (1999 to 2009). Around the same period of the last decade, our public domestic debt has grew by 132% from S$126 billion to S$292 billion. Something to think/worry about?

Other interesting stat is that English newspaper circulation has been dropping aggressively with a 24% drop since 2004 (1.038 mil to 790k), other languages have seen an increase since 2004. So is it because the English readers have all gone online or are we experiencing a change in population racial mix? It would be unwise to think that they are becoming like me, sick of the BS we read in the papers and cancelled it. We only have weekend papers for the adverts...haha

If I had more time and apathy, it will be interesting to study the foreign investments of countries like Myanmar and Cambodia. But I got pissed off just enough to see corporate income tax went down as personal income tax grew; and our Govt operating expenditure especially in the Govt administration portion - it grew a whopping 55% in the last decade (S$689 mil to S$1.071 BILLION). FYI, we spent about that amount on environment and water resources (S$661 mil) and transport (S$372 mil) combined.

Shining Through

Siem Reap 2009

As I take whatever limited time I have from this hectic month to review and edit my travel pictures. I hope you like this picture of sun rays shining through the fields at Angkor Wat, Cambodia.

Angkor Wat 2009

Be patient with everything, else you might lose that anticipated feeling of a wonderful surprise sunrise.

Would you?

Scotland - Skye 2009

If I just lay here

Would you lie with me

And just forget the world?

Don't rush

Grand Canyon 2010

Nature has it's way of creating beauty, when it's left all alone to do it's own thing.

Starting to travel again for work, with no time for photography, hope I retain some sanity.