posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wow, I haven't blogged in ages, =D. Anyways, I'm not gona have a long and extensive post because, I forgot most of the happenings already I do have a funny story though, that happened just 2 nights ago, but it will be quite long, so I'll post it next time round =X.
Yesterday I managed to meet up with my good buddy since secondary school days. It was great to be able to catch up with him and stuff and I guess nothing much has changed even though we haven't met up for donkey years... I'm glad....
And so, today was my first day doing my practicum, it was really boring cause I sat there for 4 hours reading up on my textbook with no one to counsel =(. I was given a classroom myself, and there isn't any air-con so I opened all the windows, left the door wide open and switched on all the fans. Because of the openess, all the students that walked past my room were like peeking in, and then whispering to each other, (well seems like only really "bad" students get sent up to me so I guess they probably ain't saying any good thing about me =X) then walking away looking really scared of me. I felt like an oversized alien in the school lol.
I went to PS to play some games while waiting to meet up with a friend and at the arcade I over-heard something quite interesting. There was a couple near me and the girl was asking the boyfriend to "catch" the softtoy for her (you know the whole bunch of machines that let you "catch" soft toys in the arcade) and the guy was like whining about how he doesn't play such games and he don't know how to. So the girl was like bugging him saying stuff like, "can la just try la... catch for me...." kinda things... and the guy went on whining like, "wah lau, I really don't know how to play la, I never ever played it in my life blah blah blah" and at a point of time the girl got kinda fed-up(or so I think) then she use her "ultimate" move and said to the guy, "Ok la, you give me money I catch for YOU" there and then, it left the guy speechless, defenseless, and the only can guai guai go and change money for her to "try" lol.... poor guy.....
the time is right;
{8:35 PM}
Words, Food, Tall Women, Complains and.... seat challenge?,
posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Well, today I went out with some of the guys (Cooper, Calvin, Melvyn and Joshua Kim) to watch red cliff 2... here are some of the things that caught my attention...
1. Words.....
I went earlier in the hope to get us some good seating places and while queuing for the tickets, a bunch of 3 guys came behind me. One guy asked, "hey what show you wana watch?" and another went like, "oh I want to watch that [chinese pinyin] zi(4) bi(4) show. I think that zi(4) bi(4) show is very nice. Lets watch zi(4) bi(4) ok?" and the third guy went, "yeah ok lets watch zi(4) bi(4)." Then the first guy was like, "ok then we watch zi(4) bi(4)"
By this time it was becoming quite amusing to me at how all of them pronounced it wrongly. Just for information, the the chinese pronounciation for red cliff is chi(4) bi(4) which means red cliff (duh) but the guys pronounced it as
zi(4) bi(4) which meant autistic >.<. And at that moment I was imagining to myself how they would go up to the ticket counter and say, "can I have 3 tickets for zi(4) bi(4) please?" At that thought, I almost burst out laughing, ahahha. 2. Food....
Well, this is nothing much I guess. I went for dinner at Astons with Calvin Low, and we both ordered chicken double up (yeah we got kinda greedy). One of Calvin Low's choices was the teriyaki chicken which came with a really strong smell of the bbq sauce, which, also tasted really like bbq sauce. But when we question the waiter why it smell and tasted like bbq sauce, he took Calvin's plate away, then brought it back almost immediately with an explanation on how it is impossible for the cook to get the sauces wrong because they are placed "miles" apart.... Well that didn't really answer our question but we didn't really care that much either in the end since Astons does taste good anyhow....
3. Tall Women
While walking towards Plaza Singapura, I saw a lady that was taller than me. When I walked near her, she was like 1/2 a head taller than me or something. Well I'm like 1.83m so it's quite a rare sight for me so I thought I'd note it down haha.
4. Complains
Well, after the movie I needed to make a run to Daiso to get my handphone lcd screen protector and while on the way there walking really fast, I heard a a short conversation of 2 office ladies. Lady 1 asked, "your boyfriend leh?" and Lady 2 answered with a very upset face, "Playing Dota la!"
Well upon hearing that it reminded me of something my American friend told me before. I was once crazy about World of Warcraft, and one day one that friend of mine told me she wanted to divorce her husband, erm... cause of the game... yes. And when I probed further, she told me it was becoming somewhat "common" that couples divorce cause of the game and usually its because 1 party neglected the other for the game.
It was quite a shocking news to me, well it still is... so let this serve as a reminder to all gamers, play when you can... don't prioritise it above everything else, especially your loved ones =D
5. Seat Challenge?
On my way home on the MRT, it was unusually crowded at like 10pm and so there were many people standing. After a couple of stops I noticed there was 1 seat where no one would take it, well I was kinda lazy to walk to the seat so I remained standing. After another stop, the people beside that empty seat got off too and there were 3 seats. There, I noticed a fairly large woman and a fairly small man (yes he is small) moving towards the seat. Just when the woman wanted to take her seat, that small man jumped onto the chair and took 2 seats for himself including the one where the woman was about to sit on. The woman was kinda forced to squeeze herself on a little more than half a seat, then she got irritated after a min or two and moved herself to the third seat which was on the other side of the guy. (hope you guys can picture this whole sequence =D) As for that guy, he carried on reading his book as tho he can neither feel the slight bump in the middle of the 2 MRT seats on his bum nor the consistent irritated looks from the woman whom he offended.
Alrights thats all for today.. =D have a blessed time for the remaining week! =D
the time is right;
{10:47 PM}
A "fruitful" study trip
posted on Sunday, January 11, 2009
Yesterday I met up with Spencer, Cornelius, Shanmei and Bernice to study at burger king. While studying some interesting things happened. At first before shanmei came, we noticed a couple sitting diagonally across to us, there the guy was like gropping his girlfriend's butt while she was eating... then after shanmei came, we saw him "necking" her and shanmei told us that "oh when I came in I saw him lying down on her boobs"... I guess the couple was really in their own world, like totally ignoring all the curious looks around them.... on by the way, burger king was super crowded at that time....
Well after that little show we had, Spencer seemed to got a little, aroused and he became the main character for the next "show" to come. I forgot how all it started by from where I remembered, Spencer initially insisted that he has chest mussels(not my spelling poor hor, you know what I mean =X) and not moobies(just in case you don't know it means male boobs). It was then he started touching himself, well his chest, and tried convincing US to TOUCH it because he insisted that they were mussels not moobs because they were hard!(well no one touched it so only he knows the real answer hahaha)
Having failed the latter, he began stretching himself so much, his translucent P.E. shirt became so tightly stretched, his nipples could be seen by everyone. And Bernice (I think), being so very nice, told him that his nipples were exposed but to everyones' horror, Spencer's reply went like " you wana lick it?" AND he gave that very aroused tongue wiggling action (yuck, that's disgusting Spenny =D). That caused Shanmei to freak out, me and Cornelius were laughing like mad but Bernice kept her cool and with an almost calm expression she said, "oh please man Spencer you are sick" with a totally uninterested tone of voice.
Feeling rejected by Bernice, Spencer then turned to Cornelius and began poking his own moobies, opps I mean mussels AGAIN. Then he was like, "Corny, I think yours smaller right" and guess what he did?!?! He stretched out his hand and fondled Cornelius' chest!!!!! The poor Cornelius who was super vigilant throughout the study time, doing this work non-stop, was totally violated by the.... !!!!!
Thankfully, Cornelius managed to protect himself from further violation from Spencer and he just sat there laughing himself silly while the girls were totally grossed out by that action, I was laughing like crazy at both the action and the reaction to it hahahaha.
This was one fruitful study trip man where I actually managed to do up my Bible Study lesson for the next day, which took pretty long, and also finish up a little bit of my school work yet all these happenings made the study trip really fun and I didn't even feel weary at all =D
P.S.Sorry Spencer, I had to write all this in cause I know people will enjoy reading this! =X Don't worry, we will still love you! and I know you still love me right?!?!? =DDD and will carry on supporting my blog too right?!?!?! hahahahahaha the time is right;
{10:18 PM}
My complaining post...
posted on Friday, January 9, 2009
Today I met up with some long-time friends, whom I haven't met for donkey years. Initially we wanted to go for dinner at paya lebar but last min some of us decided to try out a bbq+steamboat (I won't name which one la but it's the one we always see on TV advertisements that says they charge $16 EVERYDAY. Oh if you must know, trying translating everyday into chinese and you will understand.) buffet at bugis. I agreed readily since someone was paying for me.
The place wasn't too hard to find especially with a large bright green signboard with a huge "$16 everyday" printed on it. Upon sitting down, we were instantly asked what soup base we want, then someone came and wanted to collect $$ from us. Instead of $16 (EVERYDAY), we were charged $21.30, and the worker explained that $16 is for steamboat only, and if we want both steamboat + bbq it's $18 and the soup costs $3. Well, we felt kinda cheated cause for that price we coulda gone to a much better place, but we went with it anyway.
The concept seemed kinda appealing tho, there was an electric stove for the steamboat and then there was the gas stove for bbq where they placed some charcoal on the metal plating that was just above the flame and then the bbq grill. I guess the idea was to heat up the charcoal through the metal plating and allow their customers to do some "real" bbq on the spot.
Well, the first thing that happened after we paid was that we picked up all the food we wanted and waited for like 5-10mins (looking silly) and no one came to turn on the fire for us. Feeling kinda silly, one of my friends tried looking for the switch then asked me if it was the one by the side, well I turned the knob and there was fire. The famished group of us couldn't wait to eat and thus we quickly placed our food on the bbq grill and into the steamboat thinking that it won't be long before we can actually fill our stomachs.
But we were so, so wrong. After 15 mins of flipping our food on top of the bbq grill, the food did not seem any less raw than before. The flames were at the max but the charcoal did not look any different than before and the grills just ain't getting any warmer. The electric stove did not do very well either. We only put in minimal stuff like thin slices of beef/mutton, some tou fu, dumplings and meat balls yet it's like, not even close to boiling after 15mins on MAX heat.
It was like almost 30 mins when the soup began to boil very slowly. I quickly took the ladel and help myself to the beef and some soup but guess what, the first sip of the soup made me lose my appetite totally. It was like horrendously blend and tasteless even though it was tom yam, it was like plain water with color and oil. Yuck man the taste was horrible. The bbq wasn't getting any better either and my first serving of bbq beef wasn't even close to getting cooked. I was totally upset with that place man, and started complaining non-stop to my friends about how bad the place was.
It took like almost an hour for the charcoal on the metal plate to actually heat up and thus, heating up our grill for bbq. Even though the bbq tasted not bad, the smoke from the steamboat kept blowing in my direction and the smell of it made me kinda sick. I was really upset the entire evening about the charges and soup and I went complaining away the whole time (yeah like a girl LOL). To make matters worse, there were 3 uncles who were beside us and they started mocking us and said that we don't know how to eat all the good stuff (by that they meant like seafood i.e. prawns, cuttlefish, and other shell stuff). I was so uber pissed with everything man seriously.
AND that was not the end! On the way home, I took the same bus with this girl friend of mine and we sat somewhere at the back. There was this fat girl with her small eyed friend right at the back who kept glaring at my friend and me. She gave those kinda super pissed of glare at both of us which really got on my nerves and I whispered to my friend about it. The funny thing was that she went like "the fat one ah?" really loudly and we both just laughed. Both of them immediately looked straight at our direction and most probably realised that we were talking about them.
Bleh, this is one of the horrible horrible buffet experience I've got in a long time. I won't ever go back there again man. the time is right;
{12:11 AM}
Long... Long.... post.. =D
posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Hi people, wow its been quite a few days since I last blogged, oh wells, I'm hardly home nowadays cause I don't like to be at home so yeah, I hardly get on the com and so I don't really blog. Oh wells, I have been farting non-stop for like 3 days, I really wonder why, poor me, and I have been feeling super tired, no matter how much rest I get, poor me again... zz anyways yesterday was the first day of school for me. The new time table for this semester is super hectic and I have lesson from 10am - 5pm on my birthday!!! poor me x3 sobs.... anyways some interesting things I've learnt this week on the history of "madness", mental illnesses or psychopathology.
In olden days, theologians, scholars, philosophers believed that all mental illness are the result of supernatural forces like angry gods, possession by demons and the likes. And these are some of the ways people use to "cure" mental illnesses in chronological order (hopefully I'm right haha)
In the times of demonology(I think thats the earliest times), mental illnesses are believed to be results of demon possession and so, the method of treatment was to drive the demons out of the body. They tried doing this in numerous ways, for example using exorcism rituals like force feeding vile brews to the victim, by flogging or starving the victim. It was believed that once the body was rendered useless, the demon will leave the person. It wasn't too useful I guess, if they cause the person to become literally "useless"(disabled) due to the flogging or if the person dies of starvation. Yet an even more brutal way was to actually crack a hole in the skull of the "mad person" to let the evil spirits out. Well, the "mad" people usually dies of massive blood loss before the demons can get out.
Then in 5th Century B.C. they believe that mental illness is due to physical diseases, it was the time of Hippocrates, heres the definition from Dictionary.com (Greek physician who laid the foundations of scientific medicine by freeing medical study from the constraints of philosophical speculation and superstition. He is traditionally but inaccurately considered the author of the Hippocratic oath.). And they believed that "madness" could be cured by balancing the four humors in the body i.e. blood, black bile, yellow bile, & phlegm.
Then years down the road, demonology made a come back and their main treatment this time were using exorcisms. And in the 1300s mental illness was deemed to be the result of witchcraft. Hallucinations and delusions were seen as evidence of witchcraft. Those who were "thought" to be guilty were bound and dunked in water consistently. The rationale was that you are a witch if you can survive the water dunking. Well, then of course those who died are not witches but that doesn't make much of a difference anymore does it? Anyways at that era, the main treatment for mentally ill were to beatings or death by hanging or burning. Most accused were not mentally ill, but forced to admit symptoms they didn’t have.
In the 1500s there were crusades and the mentally ill are finally housed in asylums. The asylums were originally leprosariums that were converted when leprosy was on a decline. But the conditions were bad, there were little food, little patient care and spreading of diseases. At a point of time, asylum/s became tourist attractions. The mentally ill were placed on display for all to see.
The main treatment at that time were were draining of blood and purposely "frightened". Letting of blood was thought to bring the patient to his/her senses but that of course, left many dead because of the excessive loss of blood and they also believed that a patient can be "frightened" back to his/her senses and cure the "madness".
It was not until the 1790s where mentally ill people, were treated morally. And of course today, mentally ill people are treated with medications and psycho-therapy, thank God for that.
Well well this is like 1/2 my lecture last night. An interesting story my prof told us last night...
He was sitting for his clinical examinations by which he was required to counsel a guy (fake client) with a given case, and he needs to diagnose the guy and give his examiners a diagnosis at the end of 40mins. Well he was given a case where the guy came with a gun, a knife and after 40mins he went on to his examiners (not singaporean) and gave his diagnosis. He said that the patient was sufferring from some anti-social personality disorder and when questioned why, my prof mentioned the weapons, some other things and told the examiners that another reason was also because he is homosexual. Well, the results, of course is that he failed, only to later find out that one of the examiner was actually, you know, homosexual and because he doesn't see homosexual as a problem, of course he failed my prof hahaha. Anyways, the moral of this story was that "IT PAYS TO KNOW WHO YOUR EXAMINERS ARE" hahaah.
Oh by the way, by now I believe that most of us, young and old, would have known to a certain extent how costly medical expenses in Singapore can be. Guess what? There is good news for us (well maybe), It is cheaper to be mad in Singapore than to be sick! =D If you don't believe me you can check out the prices to see a psychiatrist/psychologist at the IMH and compare it to a GP price or hospital prices =X... haha
*P.S. To all my friends that are working with youths, here is a quote from my prof's wife that really touched my heart,
"'No Kid is a Bad Kid' - many a times, they just need someone to show concern, believe and affirm them. I'm sure all of you can be that someone."!!
Let us learn to be patient working with young people(yeah it definitely ain't easy), and not follow in the footsteps of Job's counsellors - giving advice before making sure they understood the problem. Never try to win a person to your point of view until you are sure you understand theirs. (Proverbs 15:23) =)
Alrighty, uber long post =D have a blessed week!! =D
the time is right;
{7:43 PM}
New Year's Eve Sightings... nothing impressive...
posted on Thursday, January 1, 2009
Randomness
On my new year's eve day out I saw, 1. a couple sitting at the back of the bus, the guy kept trying to touch the girl's boobies and the girl kept pushing his hands away (they were beside me), then they went smooching away.... (talk about PDA)... 2. a guy with the shirt that says "satan conquers bad Christians", boo to this guy... 3. the area near esplanade where the fireworks went off was filled with foreign workers.... or at least I was surrounded by tons and tons of them even while walking towards my destination... (and yet we complain theres no jobs o.O) 4. while waiting for my bus, I saw a bunch of bengs and lians that seemed really bored.... some of the lians wore pyjamas out and even when they try to sabo people with a trash bag they seemed totally unexcited.... (well at least they tried)... thats all for a day =D....
the time is right;
{3:19 PM}
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