Watching the world go by

I can sit here all night checking out the view and watching the world buzz by. View from GFBFF's cool place.

Had a nice quiet weekend couple of weeks ago, spending time with loved ones and just catching up.
Sis has gone away and moved to NY, and the house seems quieter though she isn't as noisy as she used to be. Going to have to deal with the fact she will always be 21 hours away. Change is unavoidable and we all have to learn to deal with it - good or bad.

The moment just reminds me of a song I used to repeat it over and over again in my music player.

If I lay here.
If I just lay here.
Would you lie with me,
And just forget the world?
~ Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol

Apple does it again

Just when I switched out my iPhone 2G to an Android, Steve Jobs did it again. Damn you Apple!
FaceTime looks really good...this will be good for late night calls to catch me dozing off!!

Can't wait for Google to launch something even better, but seriously Apple streamlines everything from product design to manufacturing...their control over a product launch is not just an OS.

Cool Joy

This is way cool.

British Transparency

Since we were British ruled before...I hope we reach the plateau of transparency soon with acknowledgement that this is necessary for generations of Singaporeans to come.

Government reveals 172 civil servants earn more than PM

Meanwhile, Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the British TaxPayers' Alliance, said the move to publish public spending data "is long overdue but is nevertheless extremely welcome".

"Taxpayers have a right to know how their money is being spent and anyone earning a large amount of money in government should have their pay packet open to public scrutiny, so people can judge whether they are providing good value for money," he said.

Source.

So apparently ours is the highest paid cabinet; politicians; civil servants in the world. So we Sillyporeans have every right to demand nothing but the best.

Kudos to the Singapore Police Force in catching 5 knives-wielding foreign workers around Kallang area, and hope they can catch the remaining 2. But it is no relief that 2 were caught trying to sneak back into Singapore, means they did a Mas Selamat? Or worse..they walked straight out of immigration exits. I just applaud the way Shitty Times write their stories...quoted "It is not known why they try to come back". One would expect more investigative-type questions to the police on how did they leave in the first place, instead of questioning criminal stupidity? So now crazy foreign workers can come in and out of Singapore holding weapons to terrorise our heartlands? Soon we will need police patrol all over our island to prevent such acts which reminded me of Mumbai, India... just that ours is crazier as we do have millions of foreign workers living in our midst from Serangoon to Jurong. I do hope well-known high budgeted military spending can come to good use in that seemingly likely event. Looks like I need to spend more time with my loved ones and practising my Wing Chun!

Belonging to someone

Often wonder how worlds can revolve around each other and yet remain totally spinning on its own axis?

The return to normalcy as your sleeping time reverts; your weekly routines start to take shape with new timetables, and somehow realising you ain't missing much as schedules which went away isn't worth your time anyhow. What was seemingly important at a certain point in time, somehow isn't anymore.



Recent days have been great and you wonder how much happier you have become as past blog entries appear way too invested, too crappy. You start to have more days of wondering-how-could-24-hours-just-pass-like-that? Days like those could not have been possible...your usual skepticism has thinned within months and you have moments classified as nothing short of a miracle.

The careful slow steps you take is slowly leading up to a mad pace towards an imaginary finishing line which somehow seem unreachable...then you pause for sanity and start to breath deeper and ponder with walks of patience.

Over time, the perfection I once knew, erodes with the attrition of compromises, yet the inner stubborn nature never relented, praying and holding on. Then suddenly with a sneaky accurate strike of an arrow, hitting you in an unlikely fashion - you belong to someone...perfect.