:: bachelor's notepad. ::

:: Thursday, December 29, 2005 ::

i'm at a jc class outing at steven yit's house. thanks very much for hosting us steven but well it's only me steven zong and eunyce left here and eunyce's conked out on the sofa so well tonight's no conversation for any of us.

our class outing has become a eating festival and now me and zong are savouring cheryl chia's tiramisu cake while i'm blogging and watching discovery channel.

GEE.

:: kiathy. 1:10 am [+] ::
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this year's christmas spirit has been kinda non existent for me.

i have written no christmas cards, and do not intend to write any.

i have bought no christmas presents, and do not intend to buy any too.

the only christmas plan i've made is for a mini gathering at my place, perhaps followed by a movie later at night.

maybe i'm jaded by christmas. i can't even tolerate the huge christmas crowds anymore. every evening i see huge crowds in town and i'm thinking why these people aren't at home, for they do have work the next day so get home and stop crowding the late night mrt trains already.

haven't been in a particularly joyous mood lately, nor am i feeling in the dumps.

wonder what's coming up next.

:: kiathy. 2:36 am [+] ::
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3.81

a satisfying end to the first term.

: ) .

:: kiathy. 3:05 pm [+] ::
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today i caught pride and prejudice. very much not my intentions when i decided to catch a movie this week. but i'm a nice friend so off to pride and prejudice it was, the star attraction being the supposedly very pretty keira knightley.

well i neither read literature nor know anything about this classic of a novel, but i guess the movie was kinda enjoyable in a lovey dovey kinda way. like the perfect christmas romantic movie just like love actually was for 2004 (?).

keira was always dressed down in the show so she had no chance to showcase any stunning beauty, but well she was plain but pretty so yea i guess that's it.

cineleisure's movie system definitely cocked up today cos we were held up for our movie and when we came out we saw a queue of people waiting to enter the cinema, presumably for king kong. never ever have i seen a proper queue to enter a cinema, perhaps it was a preview with first come first serve seatings.

so yup instead of r21 a history of violence i watched a chick flick instead. up next on my movies-to-catch list..christmas, narnia, maybe violence. only maybe because all who have caught it have panned it, so it might be a critic's top choice but audience killer ala Lost in Translation.

wow first post in damn long.

:: kiathy. 2:04 am [+] ::
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my study area. sigh.

:: kiathy. 8:27 pm [+] ::
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condiments.

:: kiathy. 9:25 pm [+] ::
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matchsticks.

:: kiathy. 9:23 pm [+] ::
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electric guitar.

:: kiathy. 9:22 pm [+] ::
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p1. when i study i need to eat.

p2. when i eat i grow fat.

p3. i study.

c1> i grow fat.

:: kiathy. 4:44 pm [+] ::
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2006 arrives in about 50 days. have you guys realised that? i think we've all been so caught up with our lives that it felt damn weird for me to understand that the year was gonna turn again.

my graduation is in year 2009 and in 50 days' time it'd be about 3.5 years to go.

well last night was an excellent night with respect to looking for obscure music (one of that things that make me think i am unique and cool). i chance upon this gem of a song by The Montgolfier Brothers, titled The World is Flat. The song is all irony and well u can read more about it at these pages:

The World is Flat - can download it from here.

and the lyrics are at...

Lyrics

it's a rather old band so i'm not all that cool but yups i loveeee the song.

:: kiathy. 12:40 pm [+] ::
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okay the sad thing is that even when i'm sick, i never lose my appetite. even when i'm supposedly suffering from stomach flu.

and i eat even more and move even less.

damn it!

:D.

:: kiathy. 1:45 am [+] ::
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today has really been the longest time i've slept since school started!

waking up at 7 am to a fever and queasy stomach didn't feel good. so i went to the doc at 830 and decided to go to class late.

at 10am, 4 stops into my mrt journey to school, i took the train back instead.

and then i slept from 1030 to 2. then 4 to like 9. and like 10 to 12.

:: kiathy. 1:10 am [+] ::
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i really would like to get this book!

Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters

hope borders stocks it. in my attempt to get intellectual (again) i've decided i do need to read (again)! this book's about a vagrant who killed himself by jumping into the path of a train, before this book based on his life was published. nominated by guardian for its first book award.

well the worst of my project presentations are now over and i feel mightily happy again. i also feel better now in general terms of my life. no it's not the consecutive 4 am sleeping nights that're getting me high but feeling a sense of normality in my life just today really really made my day.

anyway my 2nd last project is tomorrow and after that it really will be mug mug mug. i'm right now too tired to really do any work, and yes i'm rather slow but i'm enjoying the benefits of finally setting up a wireless connection by typing this blog entry on my bed. soon i'll get a webcam again and maybe i'd be really interested in podcasting and etc etc etc.

my prediction is podcasting will include videos soon, what with the advent of the vpod. trust me. confirm plus chop.

anyway just to bore everyone with my school life...it is now week 12 of my term! exams are in week 15 and i haven't mugged since week 9 so really i hope to get started.

and i need to lose weight.

i will be trim and fit by summer 2006.

hahahahaha.

:: kiathy. 11:37 pm [+] ::
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well i'm in school again, like seriously where else would i be man. presentation today went well so i guess the 3 am mad rush last night to prepare for today was worth it.

today was rachel's birthday so happy birthday rachel. and she only just turned 19 which means she'll be 21 only in 2 years' time. that seems simply surreal to me actually like in two years i'll be 23 and there my classmates will be turning..21? kinda weird huh.

it's saturday night and i'm sitting on a couch by the window with a beautiful view of...nothing. i'm tired and need sleep but i guess sleep never takes priority when you're not actually doing work. tomorrow i have a meeting in school yet again for another project presentation on tuesday. that's what my life's been so far.

i think real friends in school are really hard to come by. i wonder if i have issues but i find that i don't belong to anywhere in school yet. i basically hang out with the slackest group of people in my class and they're great and all but i wouldn't say i belong. i don't belong to the nerdiest bunch of people too. neither do i belong to the people who go home immediately after class everyday, nor to the people who're in the room with me everyday. so it's funny how much contact i've had with so many new people in school and yet i feel no sense of closeness to any of them, no one to just say 'hello lets go eat' or 'hello i'm bored lets go out' to. those that i do ask do not hang around those around in school anyway. people say that comes with time, but i guess returning to my comfort zone of older friends is still my best bet for a happier time.

alright maybe i'm just tired, pensive, paranoid and lack dinner.

:: kiathy. 8:27 pm [+] ::
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i am still in school.

2 am.

friday night.

biz law and me.

i love smu.

:: kiathy. 1:54 am [+] ::
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hello i am his whale.

and that was all that she said.

smlj.

:: kiathy. 9:04 am [+] ::
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i am happiest in school doing my samba music.

:: kiathy. 12:40 am [+] ::
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/sci_nat_enl_1129737426/html/1.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4355628.stm

:: kiathy. 1:23 am [+] ::
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discovering obscure music on your computer has never been fun and fulfilling unless you start sharing them with people who appreciate it. and so i did. now i'm the proud owner of some songs by Modest Mouse dono who the hell they are, and beginning to appreciate The Doves.

i also sense my readership has hit rock bottom so right, hang in there guys i'll come up with something creative soon.

:: kiathy. 12:49 am [+] ::
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you know that you're spending too much time in school when you tap your school matriculation card when entering the mrt gantry.

:: kiathy. 6:09 pm [+] ::
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hello world. i hate my bgs prof.

:: kiathy. 9:00 am [+] ::
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:).

:: kiathy. 4:37 pm [+] ::
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salsa king + ms paint.

:: kiathy. 12:39 am [+] ::
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night out at hooters and union square!

:: kiathy. 12:37 am [+] ::
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today is eugene's birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EUGENE. HOPE YOU HAD A BANGING GOOD 21ST BIRTHDAY IN ADELAIDE.

:: kiathy. 2:07 am [+] ::
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Ben Folds Five - Still Fighting It

Good morning, son.
I am a bird
Wearing a brown polyester shirt
You want a coke?
Maybe some fries?
The roast beef combo’s only $9.95
It’s okay, you don’t have to pay
I’ve got all the change

Everybody knows
It hurts to grow up
And everybody does
It’s so weird to be back here
Let me tell you what
The years go on and
We’re still fighting it, we’re still fighting it
And you’re so much like me
I’m sorry

Good morning, son
In twenty years from now
Maybe we’ll both sit down and have a few beers
And I can tell you ‘bout today
And how I picked you up and everything changed
It was pain
Sunny days and rain
I knew you’d feel the same things

Everybody knows
It sucks to grow up
And everybody does
It’s so weird to be back here.
Let me tell you what
The years go on and
We’re still fighting it, we’re still fighting it
You’ll try and try and one day you’ll fly
Away from me

Good morning, son
I am a bird

It was pain
Sunny days and rain
I knew you’d feel the same things

Everybody knows
Tt hurts to grow up
And everybody does
It’s so weird to be back here.
Let me tell you what
The years go on and
We’re still fighting it, we’re still fighting it
Oh, we’re still fighting it, we’re still fighting it

And you’re so much like me
I’m sorry

:: kiathy. 2:00 am [+] ::
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well today marks the end of week 5 of school.

it has been a wretched week i think.

1. my friend took one of my shoes as a prank and i ended up with no shoes for about 2 hours cos some other person took my shoe from the hiding spot thinking it was their friend's shoe.

2. i lost my jacket from prague :(((.

3. i finally got my laptop today and it fucking came with a harddiskdrive that goes CLICK every 3 mins and even when it doesn't it sounds like a time bomb going off. all this after waiting a month for this thing. i really should ask for compensation.

4. i don't feel very well for my MA test.

5. i didn't study at all this week.

6. i jogged on wednesday and almost died after that, only to lose all my efforts jogging on thursday with non-stop eating from 830 pm to 330 am, and today with marks & spencers choco viennese biscuits and a good catered-buffet dinner and one beer after all that.

oh boy.

:: kiathy. 12:37 am [+] ::
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i'm trying to re-ignite my passion for many things.

top of the list: jogging.

okay i've never had a passion for jogging and i absolutely abhor it. but since i can't be anorexic for a week as a hope, i guess the next best alternative to losing weight is exercising. however i'd plainly like to state that my preferred way of losing weight is still dieting.

next up, music making.

i play the guitar and i've played it since a long time ago. my only wish is really to form a band to have a platform to perform. my love affair with the guitar is really an on-off thing, like i didn't take it up just to woo girls like many others would thing but yea i really like playing and singing along lah. so if there are any bassists out there who can really play bass then er. drop me a msg or something. of course er eugene doesn't count. cos he doesn't play bass. gerald want to play bass? or u can play lead then u find bassist i got alot of singers/drummers. bassists are damn difficult to find lah.

anyway school's really gone by damn fast. this is week 5 and counting. i am enjoying nearly every moment of it. oh well my creative juices have run out i'll be back again.

:: kiathy. 10:05 pm [+] ::
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my computer's fan sounds like it's grinding something. i hope no insect's body is found there.

:: kiathy. 1:42 am [+] ::
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wow this is a bumper crop. 3 posts in a day.

let me regale you sad people out there with tales of the scunchies.

once upon a time, there were scrunchies.

and then there is a shop commonly known as Auntie Anne's.

okay basically i always thought scrunchies were pretzels that u bought from auntie anne's. as in i never knew scrunchies were stuff u tied around your hair and they really sounded correct when you said "i'm going to get a scrunchie from auntie anne's." i forgot why i never knew auntie anne's sold pretzels. or maybe i thought they sold both pretzels and scrunchies.

:: kiathy. 1:01 am [+] ::
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wannabe.

i'm a
yuppie
banker
metro
wealthy
wannabe.

:: kiathy. 12:00 am [+] ::
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today i attended a talk at 1.30 pm.

it was organised by my school's investment club, of which i am a member of.

the whole seminar/lecture/day camp started at 9 am but i only attended at 1.30 cos i couldn't wake up cos of the previous 4 am post.

anyway basically i found out some useful information which i shall share with the rest of the world.

compounded interest rates are a great way of making money, and more money, and more and more money. --> if you can wait and can afford to live to a ripe old age.

diversification and leverage will cut your risks but maintain your returns rate.

if you are lazy, just invest in the snp index. i dono what it is though.

and then the next speaker was an ex investment banker. he's 38 this year and he's already retired from the banking world and lecturing for fun. an adjunct prof at my school, he was rather cool. taught me these:

1. to be an IB, you have to be greedy and have no fear.

2. IBs' bonus totally trash what we swoon at for my lawyer friends. they go as high as 36 months' bonus. and their basic salary is already like..you know.

3. i really had a misconception of what IBs did. now i think what i really wanna do is trading. could any traders talk to me please?

anyway in a short discussion with ahtong i've calculated that it's more economical to print my notes in the school library at 5 cents per piece instead of buying a laser printer to churn out notes at home cos the variable cost of printing 1 page is 4.6 cents (est). fixed cost per page is obviously more than 0.4 cents in the 4 years that i will be in school, so i'll print in school anyway.

:: kiathy. 11:49 pm [+] ::
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back at 4 am.

there's really a dearth of ideas for my blog. as in i really don't know what to say. i don't try to make anybody laugh anymore and i really can't be bothered to log chronological events.

as usual, my interest level in blogging (as with my whole life) has dwindled. i have an attention-span problem. that is why i do not watch television. i can't stand sitting there watching something for an hour or so, or planning my life around tv programme timings, cos i'd much prefer to do something else like 1. chat 2. play my guitar 3. eat. those things aren't static. maybe that's why.

the only tv programme i really enjoy are the football matches. but once again if there is 1. conversation, i'd much rather have conversation.

i have a commitment problem too.

i think i have issues.

anyway let me enlighten the world as to why i have to be a mugger in school and really love studying.

premise (p) 1 - School gives us alot of readings
p2 - readings have to be done by me
conclusion (c) 1 - i have to do alot of readings.

well okay that's not a very valid argument.

anyway basically it struck me on tuesday evening that even after just 1 week of school, i'm already lagging behind.

this is because

1. i don't remember what was taught in week 1.
2. i never finished my readings for week 1.
3. the profs did not finish teaching everything for week 1 during week 1 and skipped chapters we're supposed to read.
4. week 2 just ended and all of the 3 above points apply to week 2 as well.
5. when my projects and presentations come along i will have no time to finish my readings.
6. i will not know what the heck the profs r saying during class.
7. i will fail my exams cos i'd only be able to read maybe 3 weeks of a 13 weeks course.

therefore, i love to study. and i'm going to live in the library as often as i can.

anyway here's an argument that is valid but unsound. i.e. a 2-premise argument with 1 premise false and the conclusion false.

p1 - only trees breathe. (false premise)
p2 - i breathe.
c1 - i am a tree. (false conclusion)

however, this is a valid argument because if p1 and p2 are true, c1 is true. it is unsound because p1 is not true and c1 is not true.

the marvels of analytical skills!

:: kiathy. 4:16 am [+] ::
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woohoo.

school's starting tomorrow and i'm totally unprepared.

i have..

1. no writing materials
2. no laptop
3. no brains
4. no textbook
5. no notes

it's kinda weird how everything's just been a mad rush since i stopped work around the end of june.

since i love to tell everyone what's been going on in my life, and then repeating the same things to the same people again, i figure i should blog it so that i don't ever have to talk about it and malu myself by repeating my stories to the same person for the 5th time only to be met with 'uh huh you said that already.'

life's been a blast these past 8 weeks (?), ranging from doing some community service project to the various camps i've attended. being the enthusiastic and friendly and sociable me, i went for sports camp and biz camp in addition to the compulsory orientation.

so my life was like this for 3 weeks.

wed to fri - orientation
saturday - comm svc/chorale
next mon to wed - sports camp
thurs - fri - comm svc
sat - chorale

okay to be continued!

:: kiathy. 2:08 pm [+] ::
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hello world. i am back. with no vengeance.

right now i'd like to say that yea, life begins.

i'll post some stuff soon. haha.

:: kiathy. 10:05 pm [+] ::
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i have to say that i'm no longer a fan of spg. after all the fanfare surrounding her, i think she'll just sell out and it's no fun reading something everyone else reads anymore. only mrbrown i read now.

i'm so full i feel like puking. i really wonder whether i've gotten used to puking. ok i haven't been puking regularly but 3 times in the past year beats once in the past 5 years. and i seem to be getting used to the gravity defying emptying of my stomach.

the more i think of puking, the more i seem to induce it and want to puke to ease my discomfort. fuck am i getting bulimic. don't laugh.

:: kiathy. 10:22 pm [+] ::
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my daddy is playing sonic the hedgehog on a sega megadrive 2.

omg.

:: kiathy. 7:42 pm [+] ::
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hello!

today i shall post about how dumbfuck my colleague is!

but actually most of you already know how df she is so it won't be interesting anymore!

and anyway i wasn't the one who came up with the name dumbfuck. it was yenling. she's really in sync with the world nowadays, coming up with words like dumbfuck and fuck buddies!

okay anyway wed was probably the first time i puked at zouk and still had fun.

so now i've puked a grand total of..3 times at zouk.

puke #1 - ended up lying on the pedestrian walkway right outside. getting kicked by my friends. and suffering from a bloody headache and dizzyness. cos of that i couldn't sit up.

culprit: long island tea

puke #2- ended up sitting by the pedestrian walkway right outside. this time already preparing myself by sitting

to be continued...

now continued...

by the drain waiting for the puke to travel upwards and into the drain. i psyched myself into puking by thinking of the food travelling upwards and emptying my system. so i puked in full glorious view of other strangers besides me. quite proud that i managed to hit the spot. cabbed home immediately with a throbbing headache.

puke #3 - just downed a few drinks. a shot of b52, apricot brandy shared jugs, vodka lime shared jugs, a flaming lambo. then to the dance floor. then back to the table where i managed to get an empty jug to prepare for the moment. didn't wanna go to the loo cos it was gonna be damn bloody troublesome to get back so i sat at a corner cradling my jug waiting for my system to release that shit inside of me. and then i puked into the empty jug. about 3 cm worth of puke. could feel the chicken i had at dinner leaving my system. after that i was good though. no headache no nothing just not high anymore but went back to dance anyway.

maybe i should stop clubbing.

or maybe i should just stick to beer!

:: kiathy. 10:31 am [+] ::
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ahh.

:: kiathy. 12:04 am [+] ::
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: ) .

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hail lord vader.

:: kiathy. 1:29 pm [+] ::
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wah lau the gahmen is really screwed up increase erp charges on orchard road then expect people to go for great singapore sale. then want to increase public transport price also still increase erp to make more people switch to public transport.

fartup.

:: kiathy. 11:57 pm [+] ::
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angry..

:: kiathy. 9:31 pm [+] ::
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angry..

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after many attempts at it. finally have what you see on msn as this. 8o|.

:: kiathy. 9:30 pm [+] ::
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superb example of power to the people..

on local shores i hear you need to apply for a permit to go on strike.

from Guardian.

Strike brings BBC to standstill

Owen Gibson, media correspondent
Monday May 23, 2005
The Guardian

A strike today by up to 11,000 BBC journalists, producers and technicians over a move to cut 4,000 jobs will drastically alter radio and TV schedules.

Politicians, newspaper editors and more than six million other listeners who start their day with Radio 4's Today will be hit, with the familiar tones of John Humphrys and James Naughtie replaced by recorded comedy and drama.

The 24-hour strike ends at midnight tonight, followed by a 48-hour stoppage next week. There is widespread anger across the corporation at director general Mark Thompson's aim to do away with one in five BBC jobs and cut budgets by 15% across the board in order to release £355m to reinvest in programming within three years.

Staff, including some senior executives, are convinced it will lead to a drop in quality, and leave those remaining overworked and lacking in essential support services.

Today's main 1pm, 6pm and 10pm TV news bulletins will be cut to between five to 15 minutes. Because technical staff, graphics artists and cameramen will not be working, the programmes will resemble a 1970s nostalgia show - with just a newsreader, a desk, and a single camera.

BBC News insiders said it was "impossible to say" in advance who would read the news; staff who did not have a show would be told to stay at home. Darren Jordan, a regular on the One O'Clock News, has been lined up to present some of the main bulletins, but was believed to still deciding whether to work last night. In the last big strike in 1989, Nicholas Witchell was branded a scab for reading the Six O'Clock News.

George Alagiah was scheduled to present this show today, but will not cross the picket line. Other well-known presenters refusing to work include Fiona Bruce, Moira Stewart and Sian Williams.

Feelings are highest in the news division, where several managers privately support the staff action.

"This is a very sad day for the BBC," said broadcast union Bectu national official Luke Crawley yesterday. "It's a shame that it's come to this, but there's no question that Mark Thompson's cuts will cause huge damage in the short and medium term. We realise there will be disruption for viewers but believe it is for the greater good,"

The skeleton staff has the added complication of the unions refusing to talk to BBC crews about major stories of the day; instead, the BBC is likely to have to buy footage from Sky or ITN.

Regional programmes that follow the early evening news will be hit even more severely, with managers presenting bulletins of a few minutes rather than a half hour; some will be without an autocue and speak to a single fixed camera.

The BBC will attempt to air some news in place of the Breakfast show, although regulars Dermot Murnaghan and Natasha Kaplinsky will not cross the picket line and the show will be drastically cut.

BBC2's late night Newsnight will be off air. Jeremy Paxman has already questioned the validity of the cuts, which Mr Thompson argues are essential to remodel the BBC for the digital age and convince the government to hand it a generous licence fee settlement.

"I don't understand why it's necessary, particularly at a time when you can spend hundreds of millions building new buildings, moving staff to Manchester and all the rest of it," Mr Paxman told the Guardian earlier this year.

Picket lines will surround Television Centre in west London, Bush House, Broadcasting House and other offices around the UK.

Unions also plan to picket the Chelsea Flower Show, where the BBC2's live coverage will try to recruit freelancers to stay on air; because unions have no legal right to protest there, the corporation is likely call police to move them on.

Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live will be among the worst affected, with nothing live for most of the day. On Radio 4, the Today programme, the World at One, and PM will be replaced by recorded programming. Short hourly bulletins will be read by managers or freelance staff willing to break the strike.

Radio 5 Live stars Nicky Campbell and Victoria Derbyshire will not work, but the network is determined to continue coverage of the British Lions against Argentina from Cardiff tonight. In the absence of reporters, it is believed former internationals Jason Leonard and Martin Bayfield will try commentary as well as punditry.

The National Union of Journalists, Bectu and Amicus said yesterday said support had been "overwhelming", with applications to join them running at record levels.

Mr Thompson sent a conciliatory email to BBC staff on Friday, insisting he wanted to talk to the unions "at the earliest possible moment", and adding that management would not begin talks "in an intransigent spirit".

However, the unions want a 90-day moratorium on the cuts, no compulsory redundancies, and a promise to negotiate over total job losses. Otherwise, the next strike will go ahead a week tomorrow for 48-hours, with the promise of further action into summer.

:: kiathy. 2:34 pm [+] ::
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i've had this blog since 2002. and it's never changed. the template's the same old boring one and stuff. but it's alright i like it.

everyone's getting that cool flickr thing on their blog. maybe i should follow the trend and get one too.

i have an affinity for mothers-to-be-taking-the-NEL. this morning i met one on the train again. and while the rest of the train was busy reading/sleeping/looking busy, i was wondering why nobody wanted to give up their seat for this big-tummy-ed-lady. maybe it's cause everyone was busy looking away. and so i gave up my seat again. this is no bachelor's notepad anymore man it's gonna be erm, incidents-on-the-NEL.

anyway back to a normal blog. i think class 95's morning show isn't funny anymore. i don't really listen to it but everytime i hear the flying dutchman trying to sound funny by sounding like an australian when he does the traffic news it makes me cringe. he's really an old guy who's really trying too hard, IMOH. the glory years were when joe augustin and him were on air and they had funny people like tau huay sellers calling in to talk cock with them. we'll never know whether they were staged but well yea the show can't cut it now, and i honestly think FD should retire to some other programme or maybe gold 90 fm, like brian richmond u know. it's obvious his jokes aren't funny cos when he tries to crack jokes his fellow dj just cracks out in sarcastic laughter. if you can't even entertain your fellow dj i think it's gonna be a big problem moving us!
well i don't get to listen to them much now cos i'm always on the underground NEL during the morning show.

anyway any idea why our underground mrt stations offer no radio signals? as in if mobile phones can be used, why don't they set up radio reception underground too?

i have about 200 dollars left for the next 18 days of the month. how to lead my yuppie wannabe lifestyle liek that. and yc just enlightened me on what yuppie was. Young Urban Professional-pie. so those rainbow people at new urban male are simple Young Urban Male -mies. Yummies. i'm not rainbow. okay. i admire boobs.

:: kiathy. 9:48 am [+] ::
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well i guess my prose is more well received than my photography non-skill.

wait before you comment 'as if your writing damn well received', it was just meant to be a comparison. an influx of 7 comments must be proof of that. i mean. thank you guys. i am no xiaxue lah so i'm not famous yet.

i can't believe someone like that can actually say the words 'before i became famous..i blogged for yadayadayada.' wait you saw that right. 'before i became famous'?! wah lau she very famous meh. ok lah must be quite famous to be interviewed on channel news asia. all xiaxue lovers don't slam me ok. i'm just really not a fan.

well anyway. this is a 'i am kind' kind of promotion. i was at chinatown mrt on the NEL. and since i felt it was still rather early, i decided to take the NEL down to harbourfront, which is the wrong end of my trip, in order to catch a seat all the way back to punggol, the right end of my trip. and there i went. and so when i took the train..it went to outram..harbourfront. i got off, crossed and took the train again..harbourfront..outram..chinatown(where i was)..

and then a thought came about. it went 'now that i have a seat, what if i have to give it up.'

and tada at clarke quay, a mother-to-be boarded. and i didn't pretend not to see it. i waited 5 seconds for anyone else to give up their seats cos i thought 'wah lau i wanted this seat' but no healthy young man around me budged so well i gave her my seat.

ok it's actually not a 'i am kind' topic. it's a 'don't think bout mishaps' kind of thing. cos just about 2 weeks back, this same shit happened to me.

i deposited money at a dbs cash deposit with my dbs debitcard/atmcard. and so after depositing i was walking on the way to look for my mum. and then i thought to myself 'wah must be damn stupid if i deposited money then forgot to take my card back..'

flipping open my wallet. i discovered no dbs debitcard.

i should quit thinking bout mishaps.

:: kiathy. 6:04 pm [+] ::
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helloooooooooo.

okay i've decided that the 'iwannaphotoblog' phase is now officially over and my camera's left at home again. damn loserish i know but well to all that know me, you'd know this is the typical me. fickle.. not being able to sustain interest longer than 3 weeks..etc etc. like girl sia.

anyway yesterday was taufik's birthday. we celebrated at her house lah she seems to be having birthdays once every few mths so we'll celebrate again in 3 mths yea. anyway happy birthday u're now 19 like amazing u actually have grow to the age i was awhile ago and i'm only 20 lah u're really not that young i guess it always seemed like that cos of yr fubu jeans and super tied back hair. haha DAMN LOSER.

and so at the

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EVERYTHING THERE BELONGED TO HIM.

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yum.

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opitcal.

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chain mail letter. copy the text below and paste it on your blog. and update the date. starting from after this

to eugene:

on behalf of gerald, kiat, yiren, matong, and whoever else we'll invite etc etc..

thanks for our future treat man!!! hahaaaaa. it's down in black and white now. 210405. remember ah.

:: kiathy. 9:35 pm [+] ::
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trying hard to look pretty.

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hongkong central!

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: ) .

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SALT IS HEALTHY.

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he had a chin.

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skunk the flagman.

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2004. in a mac's in bremen's train station. haha.

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retart!

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back then in 2004. : ) .

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ya la ya la your face is worth as much as skunk's middle finger!

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remnants of lunch at soup central @ raffles place. it wasn't worth the moneyy.

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well dull enough..my office desk.

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sago lane cow park.

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our favourite supper haunt..

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my dad.. was exterminating cockroaches in the midst of our dinner.

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well even though he showed me the finger..we managed to share dinner.

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this is our dear friend skunk in his futile attempt being civilised.

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skun's beloved 3 headed green dragon..that i tried to kill.

:: kiathy. 9:03 pm [+] ::
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hello everybardy.

ok first things first. after constant nudging from my inner self and the stagnated (is there such a word. i don't wanna use stagnant) nature of this so called-blog, so-called blog, cos i don't update it much, i have decided to change it into a photoblog! like. YES. once i nudge myself more to bring my trusty huge KM 10x zoom camera out every single day to take pictures of what's happening in my life, i will update this space as much as i can.

disclaimers though. i think my camera sucks. and i have no photog skills. i simply take pictures that appeal to me. so i will take any criticism of my photographs posted here to heart. so just refrain from screwing me cos of stuff like 'wah lau you should use iso 400 here mah. or you should up your shutter speed etc etc' or i'd just say balls to you.

you can however, comment on the subject of the photograph. or i'd say that you must for example, if i take a picture of myself somehow, you may say that the subject of the photograph is ugly.

i will post an example up later.

so anyway. after first things first, comes second things second.

i'm contemplating buying a mic to join in all the podcast nonsense on blogs and also to record my own sorry self in my own sorry room singing with my sorry red guitar. so once i find enough moolah to transport myself down to sim lim square - yes transport is a big issue for me cos i'm getting retrenched soon sigh - i will attempt to find some ways to upload my rubbish. and of course i'd link up with eugene and gerald on skype and you can listen to drowning's bullshit. like somebody's cup z. but that was a different story told by gerald and yiren.

if you have simply no idea what a podcast is, either google it or visit mrbrown. he's really cool and an entertaining read. though i haven't caught any of his podcasts and don't intend to cause i love to do the talking and less of the listening.

i'd really like to change that though. but in order for me to change, i'd require the following:-

a) friends who will talk more than me.

b) friends who will talk more to me.

c) friends who will talk more to me and seriously believe i'm interested in everything they're saying.

but i seriously hope to have a one-way conversation. you speak, i listen. and i REALLY will listen to everything you say. and not add in anything until the end.

i don't have friends like that.

ok end of monologue.

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do all good movies become your favourite ones?

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well the Pope has just gone to heaven and even though i'm no catholic, it's still kinda sad huh.

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: ( .

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oh i really like the psp now

:: kiathy. 12:15 am [+] ::
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oh yea i think the psp is the next gadget i'd really like to get, even though i really don't play any games besides cm4 and fifa.

but due to my really nice optimistic plan of saving 800 bucks per working month in order to survive thru 8 months of sch, i really don't have the cash to get one.

ANY KIND SOULS OUT THERE?

:: kiathy. 12:15 am [+] ::
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alright msn is down.

back then we used to be all flustered when icq crashed. or well at least i was flustered. but now we've all gone down to msn and now that freaking microsoft isn't doing a good job, i can't logon, can't talk to anyone and thus need another outlet for my favourite past time- talking.

alright i haven't blogged for so long because, mother of all cliches, there really isn't much to blog about. as much as i hate to say this, i think working is sapping the life out of me. not that i'm working alot i'm just a temp who works for a few dollars an hour for a few hours everyday, but well yea i realise that at work i have a purpose in life but now out of work i don't.

i could almost say that i feel empty.

i've said this to maybe 3 or 4 people already, but i guess this really sums up what i feel.

i have nothing to say to anybody at all. as much as i DO like conversation, i really find nothing to talk about to the 20+ people online on my msn list every night. msn is really becoming like what icq was, where you had 200 people on your list, went on Invisible mode and only spoke to the 15 you put on the visible mode. the problem with msn is, we don't have this great function.

but anyway yea. actually i've updated my blog before this post. i was writing about how much i miss my childhood. not the cliched type of 'oh i miss the freedom of yadayadayada.' well i specifically miss these things: -

a. the fact that my parents could and did carry me around when i was a kid. the kind of feeling you get when your dad carries you from the car back to home cos you dozed off after going out with them. yea.

ok i guess it's THAT thing. yea. as much as anyone'd say i am like. a screwball already, i really do miss that specific feeling yea.

anyway back to work. i have a feeling that i'm going to be a workaholic who only finds purpose in work. and thus by hrm. induction. i am going to be like sam who works his ass off cos he loves to see his bank account increasing in numbers and also to sign up for useless credit cards just cos he now qualifies for it. and since he's a freaking malaysian his pay has to be higher than us to qualify for any card. so he's rich, single and available. somebody contact cleo quick!

so my life now is this. my dad fetches me to the mrt station in time to either catch the 9.18 am train or the 9.23 am train in order to reach the office by 10 am. i take the toilet keys, go shit, fill up the water container, and wash whatever cups are in the plastic container. after that i work work work until it's lunch time, which is an hour off from 1230 pm till 230 pm. where do i go for lunch? well usually i'm content to pack lunch back from the opposite maxwell hawker centre and enjoy my food in air conditioned comfort, back at the office. of course at this time i'll refuse to work and simply surf the net and msn and eat, cos my hours at work exclude an hour of lunch and so since i do not get paid for that hour i figure i won't bother to work so hard.

after which i'll go down to collect the mail and open the mails and work work work again until it's time to either:-

1. go down to indochine to continue working as a waiter at night from 7 to 11 pm.

2. head off home to come online, stare at my msn screen and wonder what to say to the 20+ people who are online. at the same time, read my soccernet, read the forum, read others' blogs, read my own blog's comments (of course there aren't any cos i haven't updated), go back to the blogs again and realise that shit i'd just been there and so on.

3. go out for whoever is willing and free to dine with me. the pity is that, i'm really not particularly enthusiastic about asking anyone out for dinner too. so usually it's the usual suspects.

after that i prepare to sleep by: -

if 1., then 1 am.

if 2. or 3., then 12 am.

and after which i wake up at 8.40 am in the hope of leaving the house at 9.10 am and catching either the 9.18 am train or the 9.24 am train to work and...

haha. this has been my life since i've started work.

:: kiathy. 11:58 pm [+] ::
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ord loh~

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if you've caught the movie, Hitch, would you be a Hitch or a Albert?

I'm an Albert.

:: kiathy. 10:30 pm [+] ::
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if you've caught the movie, Hitch, would you be a Hitch or a Albert?

I'm a Albert.

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haha in case you can't read, it says

"What did the fish say when it hit a concrete wall?"

"dam."

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i had alot of random dreams last night. or more like i can only remember random bits.

1. i was talking to someone who looked like a woman but sounded like a man. in my mind i thought she was a she until we discussed her sex and she said 'aiya never transform finish yet lah still got final stage to be fully woman.' and so i asked 'so are u man or woman?' 'WOMAN LAH!' weird.

2. we were fighting some mini battle with whoever. "we" refers to me and whoever too. but well it was sorta like fought in a room and the arrows rained down on us slowly but we managed to hit everything away using rulers. yes rulers. and then we had our own bows and mine was crocked so it only reached the no man land. then i found a damn zai bow and kept shooting straight into enemy territory. after that i thought of a better idea, cos our arrows seemed to be too light and floaty in the air. so i went to a bookshop/giftshop right next to the war-zone (classroom?) and picked up some heavier stuff like paper weights i think. by the time i got back to the war zone and flung some over, somebody told me 'eh the war is over lah still throw for what.' weird.

3. i was in some faraway land again. i shouted out to the sea in a certain direction after spotting someone out there. and then i asked someone else 'hi is that the enemy?' he confirmed they were. so i shouted back to our tribal base and said the enemies were coming.

4. there was a plan to kill/sabotage someone or to steal something. it involved nelson yenhan and shu qi. nelson was the mastermind while yenhan was like the main person carrying everything out. there was joel too. anyway after the war in 2. we walked into some hangar-like area. as in joel and nelson and yenhan walked in first. i didn't follow cos they closed the door after that and didn't signal for me to follow. but then shu qi appeared and opened the door and ran away. and so i went in and joined in the discuss with nelson yenhan and joel. i was supposed to ferry someone to a hospital it was 'part of the plan'. while yenhan was supposed to set some codes in the newspapers for nelson to decipher. they decided that a restaurant's ad would be the most appropriate way to hide their hidden code. i fetched some guy in this weird scooter thing, where the person sat below the rider in a carriage while the rider (me) sat above the carriage. well ok picture a normal motorbike and then picture someone in the space that is the engine. expand that space till it's big enough to fit someone and you'd get what i mean. and so i fetched someone to some hospital and upon reaching the hospital which looked like alexandra hospital i realised SHIT i fetched the wrong person. and so i sped back on my weird vehicle to try to fetch the right person to the hospital. and i did lah in the end. he was wearing a top hat. kinda cool. like hrm that tom hanks gloomy show. oh i recall i think this was the guy we were supposed to kill.

alright that's all i remember.

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i'm awake!!

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nice to feel kinda busy. been working in the day and some nights. for the week beginning tomorrow, it's monday wednesday friday nights and monday to friday day. kinda crazy i guess.

what's the right way of spending fridays anyway?

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oh ya i also got 50 gmail invites. who wants just leave a note.

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news article of the day:

1. i refer to the above matter.

2. i have not been reading the papers at all so i have no news article for today.

3. thank you.

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i need a sunshine girl in my life!

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okay i've found 2 jobs in 2 days.

in the day i'll be at a law firm at maxwell house doing admin from 930 onwards till about 5.

in the night i'll be serving at indochine at club street from 7 to 11 some nights.

fully employedddd.

:: kiathy. 6:56 pm [+] ::
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today we were at rice table. i think i ate too much cos my stomach's damn big and full of gas and i feel like it's exploding. i need to fart but i can't make myself.

i have found a job. i'm a professional bummer with gerald. though he'd probably not agree but i think it's true.

anyway yea i hope yiren enjoyed today even though it's not his birthday. his 21st birthday is on monday. he's turning 21 on 21. wow. ok since i posted it here i will remember to wish him on monday so i'm not wishing him today.

wah lau where's eugene man.

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i'll need a place of my own soon.

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lion emerging from the dark.. 

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YOU'VE BEEN PUNKED!

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hahaha. 

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back view..

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vroom vroom..

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okay no more pictures! time for some lyrics. haha. alright rather old and wussy song but yea i like it cos i just heard it on class 95 recently.

Somebody

by Depeche Mode

I want somebody to share
share the rest of my life
share my innermost thoughts
know my intimate details
someone who'll stand by my side
and give me support
and in return
she'll get my support
she will listen to me
when I want to speak
about the world we live in
and life in general
though my views may be wrong
they may even be perverted
she'll hear me out
and won't easily be converted
to my way of thinking
in fact she'll often disagree
but at the end of it all
she will understand me

I want somebody who cares
for me passionately
with every thought
and with every breath
someone who'll help me see things
in a different light
all the things I detest
I will almost like
I don't want to be tied
to anyone's strings
I'm carefully trying to stay clear
out of those things
But when I'm asleep
I want somebody
who will put their arms around me
and kiss me tenderly
though things like this make me sick
in a case like this
I'll get away with it

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black me.. hahaha. 

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manga me.. 

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