WTF

The Month of feb is about to come to an end. How I wish it was sooner. To summarise the month of feb, is to say that it was a month with many bad patches.

Having braved through sickness to meet assignment deadlines and the psych exam, and then accepting a job which took up some of my studying time during the exam period, not to mention Chinese new year was not enjoyed to its fullest and also affected my concentration...

Top that up with countless incidents when I was on duty and having had my butt buttered at various occasions…It was really not a very good month.

Whatz worst, is that within 2 weeks, I encountered 2 accidents, each more horrid then the other. This also means I now average an accident a week. The consolation is, that there were no fatal injuries in both cases. And that IS the only consolation.

And just when you thought that it was already a bad few weeks…the Grand finale just pounces on you right when u are at ur lowest…Liverpool loosing to Chelski in the league cup final after Steven ‘ captain supreme’ Gerrad scored an own goal that cost them the victory within the 90mins, which eventually, cost them the cup in extra time.

They say, when you go down hill…it just goes down further…*sigh*

And the 2nd accident’s really gonna cost a bomb this time. Not just financially, but oso some rather unnecessary inconveniences. Damn Luck.

Dunno what’s wrong. Think I gotta go see a feng Shui master to rearrange my room or something…maybe even plastic surgery to change my luck?!?!?...

Whatever it is, there is still the 28th to get by with. And thankfully its not a leap year…
Gotta take extra precaution from now on. And pray, pray and pray….Really need a miracle now.

Tired.

Long days are nice, Unless they have a happy ending.

It has been a long day, exam in the morning, attempted sleep in the afternoon (surprisingly stayed awake), went to dentist to get stitches removed for the wisdom tooth operation in the evening, sent Nick off at the airport later still in the evening coz he's away to study for 5 years, had an accident with a taxi, and met my boss for tea.

Supposedly, supper was included but Boon pulled out last min…

I think all vehicles should be made of rubber!!....There are so many logical and sensible advantages of rubber vehicles!!!

The advantages of building Rubber Vehicles:

1. They will never dent.

2. Since they will never dent, if there’s an accident involving two or more vehicles, non would be damaged!!

3. Since they can’t be damaged thru hitting one another, unnecessary cost thru accidents are saved!!!

4. And last but not least, it would save lives!!! Because everyone inside the veh will be safe!!!

Are u reading this Performance Motors!!??? Ford?? Honda??? Whichever car manufacturer!!!.....remember U got your Idea from here!!!

Dun laugh.

Coz if this gruesomely new technology gets in the market, I just want 10% of the net profits. Then U can laugh.

For now, I’ll just have to pay for the damages I caused…consolation is, I’ll probably be banned from driving the veh for awhile, which means safer streets in Singapore for the next few weeks…plus!! No one was injured.

While the accident has taken some of the lime light off the Exams from this morning, an update of how it went would be harmoniously appropriate.

Before I tell U the paper was a killer and I could hardly manage, I must say that every student which took the paper has came out asking themselves why they bothered to study in the 1st place, which inlcudes me, myself and I.

I should have just gone to bed instead of struggling. I think keeping a fresh mind would afford U to make better and more appropriate choices, in my case, deliberately well organized guesses. Oh well, as promised, I will reveal wat the paper was like…It was a killer!!! And I could hardly Manage!! *crickets*

Lets hope they moderate the paper, so I can pass…

Where's my happy ending??...at least career's slowly coming to light...

Final Hour...

Into The final hour in the battle with destiny... I have decided to skip several topics and go to the ones I think I will remember best. Risk has its rewards, and consequences. So be it.

Gotta quickly run thru watever's left...And whatever's left of me will attend to the battle later at 830am.

Let there be light!!! Let me sing my victorious song of celebration!!! After 2ml, nothing will stop me...for I!, Marcus Chow!... will sleep till the sun sets...(*crickets and insects*)

And then, I'll prepare for the next battle.

10 Hours.

OK. The challenge is this - 10 hours before bedtime, and 4 full chapters + at least one practice exam to go thru before the paper tomorrow morning at 8am.

Focus focus. I can do it!!!.....with all the Miraculous help from anybody anywhere in the world!!!! God Save Me!!!!!

Ok, mayb it wasn’t a good idea to start revision 2 days before the exam…I shall not find excuses, other than the fact that I was sick for a month and had to work straight after that. No excuses. Nah. Not me. Other than the fact that I was sick for a month and had to work straight after that… oh? I said that already?...forgive me.

A can of beer in the afternoon should perk me up. I feel it’s working already…

Now. Back to work… I will beat that deadline and beat it Bad!!!...MUUuaaahahhhh!!! *thunder and lightning*

Hang on a minute.

Wait. It suddenly occured to me that the Syndicate might not be the cause of liverpool's bad away form afterall...after analysing the facts and statistics...I realised it's something more then a syndicate. It's a supernatural phenomenom!!!!

I have mounting suspicions that Chelski, Manu and Arsesnal, plus a certain extent Evilton paid huge amounts of money to bomohs to put a jinx curse on Liverpool on away games. And to curse the home games would naturally cost too much, so none of them could afford that. It all gels now!!!

Chelski reported a 90mil pound loss last season, we know where that money went now...not to player transfers....they pay on credit remember?? Its the Bomohs!!!!
Shit!! no wonder Liverpool is loosing away.....It also explains why Evilton win 1-nils as do chelski. ANd it also explains Arsesnal's 52 game unbeaten run...and Manu's impeccable ability to beat Arsesnal away!!...

It makes sense!!!! Now I can go to bed and have a good rest, knowing all Liverpool need to do is to counter Bomoh these teams. A good Bomoh should do the job... recommendations anyone?

Another Defeat!!?!?!?!?!!?!?

Yet another defeat. Liverpool’s away form is atrocious…and I bet I know why….there’s a syndicate controlling it!!!...so the old Houllier players have to be flushed out before it’s too late!!!

Ah well, at least Everton lost. Wouldn’t take it as a consolation, but at least they have not pulled too far away…5 pts for now is still ok, considering they have to play manu and arsesnal, while we play arsesnal only…plus we host them at Anfield, which the syndicate is absolutely right in giving Liverpool full form this season for home games.

I think a nice poem would be appropriate now…

What is that? A performance so devalued!?
Where is the fight when a win would revalue,
A golden chance to catch those toffees,
And make them beg to give up the trophy…

Back to more work again as Benitez would put it…we’ll just have to work harder. MUCH MUCH MUCH HARDER.

Full-time woes for Part-timers, What would singapore face?

In yesterday’s The Straits Times dated Tuesday Feb 8, 2005 under ASIA, there was an article on the Japanese economy titled ‘Full-time woes for part-time workers’, stating its deteorating quality of employment. It talks about how Japan’s unemployment, though at its lowest in 6 years at 4.4%, but the paucity of jobs available for whom Japan’s one time promise of stable life-time careers has become a myth.

This would mean that though Japan had its lowest un-employment in 6 years, the statistics do not tell that the jobs available were mainly part-time or contract based and therefore paid less. And the policy makers in Japan are actually worried that this may effect its people by discouraging them from having children due to an uncertain environment.

It was surveyed that 70% of those who opted for the more flexible part-time work in the past, now prefer full-time jobs. Jobs offered to new graduates are also decreasing, employers opting for people with experience and could fit immediately in.
This prompted many youths who were turned off by the job hunt to rely on their parents for support.

The Question is this, if Singapore, who seem to mimic the trends and structures of the Japanese economy, possibly face the same problem which Japan has on their hands now? The full-time woes for part-time workers?

Singapore already has the trend of a declining birth rate which is already in the pipeline and running, and it poses a real population situation. The root of this problem may not be the time and current finances of couples as what was initially proposed, but the lack of a certain future that hinders the subconscious of the average Singaporean that prevents child birth.

Everyone wants the best for their children, and if we can’t provide the best, then why have them?? Sentiments anyone?

I have not worked on a solution as yet, but my immediate sentiments say that free education is a key component.

Could the economy be heading towards a trend whereby there are more and more contract based and part-time works available in Singapore? It seems so. The classifieds has a reasonable and increasing amount of part-time/freelance jobs available, and it seems that most employers would want people with experience too, based on advertisements, jobs for new grads seem to be dwindling in Singapore too. If every job asks for experience as part of the criteria for employment, then where is the opportunity for the new grad??? How can he start???

How many study a degree of choice and yet not be able to enter the field they were taught for the purpose of fulfilling their potential in the chosen field?

If the University is where u study and train for a job, why is it you don’t get the job you were trained to do???

Personally, I believe something is wrong. Sentiments? No wonder childbirth rates are effected, with so much uncertainty looming.

Song of the week:

As Long As It Matters
by Gin Blossoms


How can I find us something
That two can take
Without stumbling as we
Walk into our future's wake

I'm like a broken record
That you can play
Repeating as if it matters
Everything I wanna say

**I'll be alright
As long as it matters
As long as you're here with me now

Forget that time
It's nothing we touch and see
All this time
Even as it crushes down on me

I'm looking around
There's nothing I could want
More than to tell you
There's no more than we've already got

Crept In.

Isit agreeable that there must be neccessary evil? Its like the fuel of a car, or the wax of a candle, yet, we cannot find a balance delicate enough for its existance to be justified...


CREEP by Radiohead

When you were here before, couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel, your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather, in a beautiful world
I wish I was special, you're so very special

**But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo, what the hell am I doing here
I don't belong here...

I don't care if it hurts, I wanna have control
I wanna perfect body, I wanna perfect soul
I want you to notice, When I'm not around
You're so very special
I wish I was special

Whatever makes you happy, whatever you want
You're so very special, I wish I was special

**

Life starts again.

After a tremulous period over the past month, where it has seen me hit by a viral fever which adopted a guerilla war within my body (nicely timed before assignments were due), followed by another viral attack on the throat for almost a week plus (also well timed before my last essay assignment was due)...

to the nerve destroying parasite wisdom tooth which made me go on pain killers for almost another week plus (supposed to have got it out earlier if it wasn’t for the throat which made me postpone the operation), this time while I am trying to prepare for my exams…of cause, I had it removed, so now its on the road to recovery, nonetheless, with some inconveniences.

Glad the whole physical pain and suffering is almost over. Now to recover whatz left of my voice and myself, and hopefully, will be able to start singing again.

I have decided to take up the job offer which starts officially on the 1st day of march. Which means… I’ll be switching to part-time studies. I definitely have to brush up on my time management and fuel my itsy bitsy discipline tank. I guess I’ll have to start somewhere…

Well, life starts again…

(btw, WHY is it my www.blogger.com is in Chinese??!!??)