:: bachelor's notepad. ::

:: Monday, May 30, 2005 ::

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:: kiathy. 11:48 pm [+] ::
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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..

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

:: kiathy. 12:00 am [+] ::
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