Entries from April 2009
This morning I found a note from the lab officer stuck to a form telling me I should update my particulars. So I duly did so and returned the form to the officer. Then I asked why the update?
“Suan Foo is coming. Very dangerous. Need to keep track of people”.
“Who’s Suan Foo?”
“Suan Foo! You don’t know about Suan Foo? Suan Foo is coming!”
“Suan Foo? I’ve never heard of the name! Who is he?”
“Suan Foo! That’s why we need to keep track of people. Remember during SARS we had to keep track of people and take their temperature?”
I was still trying to figure out who this Suan Foo guy he was talking about was when 5 minutes later I thought, “OMG… I get it… swine flu!”
Categories: singapore
Tagged: singlish, swine flu
The cultural guarantee could personally take the form of the object made by humankind, did not move or move that took the form of unity or the group, or a part-a part or the remnants the rest of them, that be aged at least 500 years.
Have any idea what the paragraph means? No? Neither do I. But it’s on the welcome page of Jakarta Tourism website. I have my suspicion they wrote the contents in Indonesian, then used Google Translate to convert everything into English and that’s that. Couldn’t they hire someone who actually know how to write in English? With the bad english rendering it almost useless to anyone looking for information on Jakarta, the website seems just like another unecessary spending by the Government.
Categories: bitching · indonesia
Tagged: bad english, incompetence, jakarta tourism
As a volunteer for one of Singapore’s museums, it disturbs me that many people have never visited one, or even know where they are located.
ONE. Museums are not boring.You can learn a lot about a lot of things in museums and they keep changing the exhibitions.
TWO. The tickets are not expensive, and students / seniors get discounts, and they do open house few times a year (although free entry all the time for Singapore museums would be great)
THREE. It’s not only a place to see old things or things you don’t understand. They have programmes for public, talks, film screenings, festivals, workshops, and a myriad things to match your interest.
If you’re thinking “Well I don’t think I’ll be interested in whatever’s inside those big old buildings” – prove it. Go there and take a look. If you really don’t like it, fine. At least get a first-hand experience.
It’s the INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY on 23-31 May (OK it’s 9 days). See the many things you can learn about this weekend at the museum:
http://museums.com.sg/imd09/ (programme for int’l museum day)
http://www.nhb.gov.sg/
Categories: Events · museum
We’re moving to the West side of this city/state/island next month. West Side Story happens to be one of my favorite films. Nothing to do with it but yeah. Just trying to fill up this blog. Blah blah blah blah blah.
OH I HATE PACKING!!!!
Categories: bitching · me
Bah. I barely look at my blog nowadays. I think it suits my moody and inconsistent personality or something like that. Actually I’m spending more time in the real world now (not that I was stuck on the internet all this while) and jotting down stuff with the more traditional paper and pencil or the occasional ballpoint pen et cetera. It’s a better and faster way to write or scribble down inspirations. But I still find blogging (like this) is a good way to just bitch. So here are some things that annoy me:
1. Overuse of multi-color LEDs on building facades. You see this everywhere. The building walls changes color seamlessly thanks to the new technology. It looks kinda nice if it’s done correctly and only on a few buildings. But the thing is it seems that it’s the IN thing right now and so all around Singapore we see buildings changing color like a discotheque in the 80s. Hell why not add lasers as well. UGLY. OVERDONE. BAD TASTE.
2. Our landlord is selling the house we’re staying in and it seems he’s quite desperate at it. Comon we all know this is exactly not the time to sell a house. Anyway the flat is small, expensive, and the crowd downstairs tend to get a little too rowdy for family living. But it’s located very strategically. A good 2 dozen or so buyers have come and go and it’s still not sold.
What pisses me off the most is that the agents hold the key to the house and on more than 1 occasion, they just let themselves in the house without giving us a call beforehand. So we’re caught sleeping / showering / on bad hair day. The owner is not much better in keeping forgetting to tell us that buyers are coming. I should put up a “trespassers will be shot” sign on the door.
Uhm.. yeah that’s about it for now. Anyway I’m kept quite happy with my weekends. I love my art class and the museum keeps me from wandering aimlessly on weekends.
Categories: Random
Tagged: bitching, me, Random
