Things we should learn from Angmos.

At my workplace, as you all should know, I have a lot of interaction with the Ang Mos(Caucasians). It isn’t like they are all perfect and without flaws, but I do think there’s lots to learn from them.

Apart from the simple mannerisms like saying ‘thank you’, ’sorry’ and greeting each other, which isn’t all that important, I want to emphasize on the fact that they give more freedom to their children.

You know I often see their probably 3-5 year old kids walking around on their own. Some of them could barely even balance themselves. The parents? They always just stay from afar and watch over them. Of course they are worried. But still they let their children wander around on their own, because they know that it is a very healthy activity. It is a learning process for them, it teaches them independence by the most effective way- letting them go on their own.

What do I see with singaporean parents? Just when the 5 year old boy walk off about 1m, “AH BOY AH! DONT ANYHOW RUN”. Ok, if he still doesn’t stop, a strong arm will pull him back to the ’safety zone’. If he dares to step out of it again, he better eat some caning.

OR

The little girl sticking close to her mummy so closely, no one can ever separate them. Cries when they are separated. Throw tantrums. Make fucking lots of noises just for the things she wants. In this case, the girl is already depending on her mum fully. So it would be very difficult for her in the future if she lives by herself.

Actually, that is exactly the problem with my parents. Everybody says this “they are over-protective” No fuck.. No matter how me and my bro try to convince them that they should loosen up a little bit(CAUSE WE ARE ALREADY BIG KIDS), they wouldn’t listen.

So I say learn from the Angmos for this.. It is the best, the best, the best.

Another thing singaporeans should learn from them is to be more friendly. Did anyone notice that you have some minor or even major problem in communicating spontaneously if you compare yourself to the Caucasians? Maybe it is just me, but I see that Caucasians can talk very smoothly and naturally on the spot. But I myself can’t do that very well, sometimes I even stutter. That’s because we are very cold to all the strangers around us. The Caucasians, on the other hand, can almost talk to everyone and engage in an active conversation when they don’t even know each other’s name. So just like ‘practice makes perfect’ they are very good in it.

Hah, but easy to say it. It isn’t so easy to have a brand new culture for singaporeans. So maybe we should leave it.

Anti-bored.

My life has been boring, cause I had been doing the same old thing almost everyday. That’s why the lack of updates. lol. Since lingxuan requested, no matter how boring, I shall type it all here.

lol kiddin. Maybe I shall write about all the trivial yet interesting stuffs I encountered the past few days..

My perception of ah nehs are changing for the better these days. Cause I got to know some indian colleagues. One is a solid security guard- a total opposite of CSS’s one, and two are fellow waiters like me. The two waiters are really funny people, and smart, and steady. They are so not like the void deck loiterers. One of them likes chinese girls, so, any girls finding a boyfriend? This guy is quite good-looking. lol

Edit: But there is one crazy indian cleaner at my workplace. He was singing the new OSIM model so loudly. uPAPA uPAPA! Then he saw me and said “HELLO!” And another time I saw him, he danced. lol
On the other side.. my perception of mats and minahs went deeper down into the drain. When one group of minahs who occupied the whole stretch of seats on the train. And they started polishing their nails for one another. One of them still on some horrible music on her phone. In addition, when I work earlier-than-normal-shifts (which is damn early), I could see mats hanging around. So it was hours after valentine’s day, I saw mats gang fights. Some bloody gangfight and the chef told me it was normal. lol

And on friday after a function at night in my workplace, it was late. I drank the most amount of wine I had ever drank in my life. ONE GLASS OF WINE LOL. ok. And my face went totally RED but I wasn’t suprised la. I ain’t a regular alcholic and my face turns red just by running. One glass of white wine and I felt a little giddy. Just by my willpower I went home. Fortunately I didn’t faint. BUT I THINK EVERYONE WAS LOOKING AT MY RED FACE AND LAUGHING. Maybe not..

Anyway, after the function I collected lots of goodies. Including some fondue’s liquid chocolate! Brought home to slowly eat, Song ah.

*stops typing for awhile as yeemeng noticed a cat coming into his house, he wacked it with his +4 38% att up Rolled up Newspaper.*

Okay, sorry for that. I smashed it and it flew up and disappeared. It reppeared 50 cm away, dead. Heh. It wouldn’t go away so my parents fed it some of our steamboat food. It is now still lying down in my house damnit. (lol, a copy of jonathan’s style)

Ok where was I? Oh, I am done with my post wahaha. Alright lame.. Hopefully I can stop working for the rest of my life.. Getting sick of it.

Happy Lunar New Year.

Yo.. Everyone(the mungens) must have gotten lots of ang baos. Congrats man. lol. Money is so very important nowadays.

And I recall saying that I wanted to own all the mahjong peeps and win all their money. But now it looks like I have to forgo it and go sleep. Cause I have to work tomorrow. lol. And WHATHELL it starts at 9pm. It is omfg-ing late, do they think that everyone is like crazy gambling tai-tais or something like that? I would be asleep by 9pm. Still go and play mahjong.. Oh well, I am sure there will be more. Those obsessed gamblers My good friends will surely organise more mahjong sessions! Just kiddin. lol
Anyway, just started playing Granado Espada too. Hohohooh!

Can’t wait.

No matter how comfortable or how good it might be sometimes you just feel like it is a chore to work. After completing the JAE, my will to work seemed to have started evaporating. I started looking forward to the end of work. Maybe because chinese new year is drawing near, maybe because I started working longer hours, maybe because I can’t wait for poly.

I had actually been waking up even MORE early than usual these days, due to some changed in my working schedule. Usually: 5.30AM. Recently: 4.30AM. As a result I felt really tired during work. Plus, I work longer hours. Usually: 4h. Recently: 8h. So you see I am really damn tired man.. lol.

But what really brighten my days are the good news from the animes. Bleach stopped its fillers a few weeks ago, and Naruto’s fillers ends today. They sure are gonna get exciting and I am gonna watch em all. Naruto is coming back looking more matured, probably going to be acting more matured too. lol

Can’t wait for poly. I will be so disappointed if I can’t get into digital media design. Cause all my other choices were written for the sake of being written. Kind of regretting them now.. lol

Yes, I had quit gambling. But Chinese New Year will be the time I make a comeback! Cause they say gamblers who makes their comeback will win. Prepare to get owned mahjong asses.

JAE.

All right man! It is done and I am good to go!

Wish everyone whether you going to JC or Poly or ITE good luck and no regrets.

Anyway, noticed the new header? Took me so long to do that effect, though it isn’t perfect.

Courses?!

Let me warn you. Don’t ever look down on people who are like blur sotongs.. Just look at hanisah. Normally always said to be ‘blur queen’ by us, yet she just scored 5 distinctions. WTF WTF. So we were the blur sotongs!

Anyway, I was thinking the whole day on what course to take, even when working. lol. So much that I broke a jug and dropped a tub of ice-cream overturned. I was only lucky all the ice-cream didn’t came out, only a bit.

Much as I have made people think twice about their JC choice, I myself thought of going JC too. But I still got rid of that idea though.

The problem is, if I choose a course with a seemingly brighter future, like hospitality, I don’t seem to really have an interest in it. My interest is in digital media design(animation, CG special effects). Who knows about the future in it? It is an easy-to-go-in course, cause obviously academics got nothing much to do with it.

O damn. I gave myself a deadline and that is tomorrow. Even if I apply for these courses, there are only two choices. I’ll probably dump some others in then. Any recommendations, just tell me.

O level. Results.

Well well, was quite shocked with my results. I haven’t really been a frequent B-scorer, but this time I had 6 of them.

My prelims had like so many Cs and only 2Bs. During mid-year exams, I had no Bs at all.. 3Es, 1D, 3Cs and only 1A! So I think I ought to be happy with my results.

Eng- B3 (it was one of my Es, thanks to mrs lee)
Chi- B4 (re-take can get from C5 to B4)
Amaths-B3 (amazing. was one of my Es , ms tay was happy)
Maths- A1 (I’d kill myself if I don’t get this A1)
Bio- C6 (damn.. was one of my Es too)
Chem- B3 (another amazing one)
Phy- B3 (not too bad, it was a D7 during MYE)
Humans- B3 (very happy with it. lit results weren’t good throughout)

L1R5 16 L1B4 13

So yea. What do I have to complain? I am eligible for the courses I have in mind. Now need to think for more.

And JC just ain’t my type. I can’t sit down and mug for god’s sake.

Sleep first, tml then think..

Perception of Beauty.

lol! Anyone saw mr brown’s blog?

Anyway I’ll just post the links here.

I remember seeing somewhere a youtube video one our perceptionof beauty. It is a dove advertisement. Link-dove

I thought it was quite cool, until another sort of parody came out. And it is EVEN MORE COOL. lol! In fact I think the parody/spoof holds more truth than the original. Link-parody.

Tomorrow is the results day. So to relieve everyone’s nervous mood, lets have another video that is so damn funny, for everyone to relax.. Link-sesames streets.

My stomach.

It probably isn’t new news to you that YEE MENG CAN EAT.

I don’t know and I ain’t sure too. My eating habits are irregular. Sometimes I can eat a shitload of stuffs, sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I don’t even feel like eating. My studymates probably remember that I started eating a lot when Exams came. That’s when I concluded that my eating habits might be due to stress or pressure.

Well, I have been eating damn lots lately. Like yesterday. I ate at lunch my workplace already, and I went home. My mum bought me waffles and I ate them. Then I ate some ‘ji dan kao’ (egg cakes) and drank a cup of HL milk. Then I ate 2 packs of chicken rice at about 5pm which is also for dinner.

And today, after eating lunch at my workplace, I went to eat chicky rice at yishun and then went chong pang, intending to buy my shampoo and go home. But I drank a big cup of soya bean milk, and ate some of my aunt’s chicken.

If it is really due to stress. It must be subconscious. I don’t know anything about it and just felt like eating. So maybe it is because of the coming O level results. And my stomach apparently can contain anything at these points of time.

I am going to become a fat bastard! Ok, jogging time.

Results ar..

I would be lying big time if I said I ain’t nervous about the results. I guess everyone is.

And it would be due to the nervousness we start dreaming about the results day. I dreamt that I got A2 for my emaths, shit. Panicked the hell out of me, then I thought, the results day haven’t come yet. And woke up suddenly, it was 4.12am. I have been waking up at 4am these days la damn. A waste of time.

And would it be amazing if I told you I am sleeping early these days? I sleep at 9pm or earlier these days.. lol, thanks to my early work.

9th feb. can’t wait for it or dread it? I don’t know. Maybe it is both..