Gone for a while

No updates till thursday unless I find any interesting stuff to blog about. Gotta work on my ethics essay (which I know nuts about). Oh! One more thing, Teamspeak has been such fun with the Clan kNs guys. What's more worse then gamers playing games together is gaming talking and making absolute talk cock conversation when playing games. 1. Yoda Voices are fun. 2. So are impossibly chinese accents 3. Singing is not good for your ego. 4. Dreamchat voices (Joelene) are always a good thing. God, I hate ethics. Well I find it interesting but I have no idea what is going on and since we have NO tutorials... This is crap. I should write a complain letter. Cheers~

What Robot are you?

Got this off Mr Brown. I kill at Night!!! And I repair your computers also!!! Cheers~ :D

The last dance you DON'T wanna see

http://media.putfile.com/China-Idiol

Btw the url idol is spelled wrongly. Haha.

And as I was telling Selena:

If she was the last woman on earth and the procreation of the human race depended on her dancing, i seriously hope the guy is blind.

Cheers~

Fate sucks

I had left it up to fate, but obviously fate sucks. Oh well. Anyway presenting my super cheesy poem, derived from many a pop ballad. Can you guess where most of the lyrics came from? :D If only I could, Turn back time. Sorry seems to be, The hardest word to say. If I got down on my knees, And I'm begging you please. If you come back in my life, Baby till the end of time. I want you back, Want you back, for good. Relight my fire, Your love is my only desire. Don't wanna wake, wake up alone anymore. Made a mistake, When I let you go baby. Oh you to me are everything, The sweetest song that I can sing, oh baby. I don't mind spending everyday, Out on your corner in the pouring rain. If tomorrow never comes, Will she know how much I love her. Stay with me, Let loving start, let loving start...

Every 2 lines is a different song. SUPER CHEESY HOR? Cheers~

Stupid HMV Australia

Bloody hell. Lucky I didn't buy my DvD from them. I found the SAME DvD from another retailed for only $9.99 as compared to $25.99. Fucking big difference ok? I finally decided to publish a first part for A Mosaic Story. Now only have to wait for Jenn to come back from her holiday (with my present! More thick skin, better chances) to continue on. And why are some Singaporeans so bloody blind? Can't they open their eyes to how the government works in Singapore? Why blindly accept everything that the Son says? Why don't they question what is going on? Or is the status quo so comfortable to them? The casino is gonna be a really fucked up thing. And no one seems to care. Tmd. It's not like we need a bloody casino on Sentosa to be world class. We could do alot with just improving service quality. Argh. Must end on a happy note. Happy Birthday Huishi! :) (See happy le) Cheers~ p.s. I think I'll post some sec school stories soon. I think they are fun to recall and write. Heh.

Shit I need to take a CRAP

First things first, I apologise for the lack of updates, especially the story. I've been working on it, but I don't feel it's up to publishing yet. I really want the first story to have the just there for the beginning. It will be short, about 300 words or so, so the reader doesn't have to have a word headache. Then Jenn will be able to write something to add on and the way the story will flow, will get going when we get Elisa on board. I'm hoping to get Kit, but I have yet to speak to him about it. BUSY LAH! Anyway, on Sunday the Journ gang (well some of it) had a Yum Char (Dim Sum) outing in Chinatown, King of Kings. I can tell you, the standard is so so nia. Not that good. But the place like got so many awards, so relatively speaking, Aussie dim sum so so standard also can do well. Calling Crystal Jade, now's your chance to make alot of money in Aussie! Anyway, after the lunch (12:30 to 2:45?pm), we headed our own way, I had to rush the assignment for the Group Management Report which was really crap. Which when I reach the city, I had the overwhelming desire to shit. TMD. I went to the toilet at the basement floor (controlling all the way...) toilet, when to my horror, I saw a row of guys standing outside. I was like, ok..please be waiting for your girlfriend, wife and not lining up to use the toilet. As I turned the corner, I saw... yah you guessed it, a queue. NABEH! (Wahaha no need use benglish translator!) Why everyone suddenly got the urge to shit. Tmd. So I control abit more, boarded the bus, endured for another 30 mins, walked really fast home, and crapped. Never felt so good in my life. Cheers~

Flyday! Fryday! Fliday!

Jenn's flying off, so bon voyage (AND GET ME SOMETHING). I'm so tempted to use strike out for the above, but everyone uses strike out.. it's like zZz. Anyway, A Mosaic Story will be ready soon, I'll be posting the first story out by the end of today cos it's Flyday and I've cleared some assignments. I'll be also working on a "what kind of blog are you" thingy but with some changes I thought of before I sleep. I just realise, everytime before I sleep I get all these great ideas but I am too lazy to get out of bed and type it. Tmd. Also, I can't remember what else I wanted to add in. I know I had something. here. Argh. Poor Kanna stalked by gay person is having some erm stalking issues. Funny to read. Which reminds me of how gays are much more free over here in Aussie. I've seen hunky guys kissing, holding hands, kissing, holding hands, kissing, having sex. Erm yeah I used strike out. But I couldn't resist. And no I didn't see anything with regards to the last part. Thank goodness. When I remember what the hell I wanted to blog about in the first place... Edit: TMD, after I posted, then I recall what I wanted to write about. I think my stupid profile name is too bloody long. I think I'll change it back to callandor. And hor, I just realised the title of my blog is an oxymoron, like Jenns. Except hers is really an oxymoron url. Cheers~

How to get nabeh!!! in your blog

In a shameless attempt to test kenny sia's benglish translator (No i'm not linking it it's just one blog post down), I have decided to make a pointless post and then see how the nabeh!! translation works. I was talking to Jenn about this nabeh!!! thing. I figured it out! Like dun have. I can't seem to see it. I have liao! Why don't have? I know that you just wasted your time reading my post for today. On a side note, I'm so glad the presentation went well and the class liked it :D Peanuts is good. Nabeh where? I want one last one! Cheers~ p.s. You need to use the benglish translator on this blog post. Click here if you're fuck lazy.

How to be Rockson Tan

For those ah bengishly impaired. My Blog, Ah Beng Style Damn funny leh. Kenny, you rock man. Your benglish translater is damn funny. Cheers

Nothing to see here, move along

So that's about the end of my political rants. I'm now rushing assignments and working on my story for the mosaic story and also my project story. I'll post something constructive on friday when my stuff is finally over. Trivia question: (if you get it right I'll give u a prize!) What word(s) is/are the Knights of Ni! afraid of? Post your answer in the comments blah blah blah. Cheers~

Good character and reputation my ass

The Truth is here From that one dictionary, he mastered the language and became such a good translator-interpreter that he was moved upwards from one organisation to another, until he found himself attached to the top official in the Japanese civilian police. Bloody traitor. Self confessed Japanese war helper. Tmd.

Bloody walkover

Thanks to Jenn for the info (via her blog). Biased Article This article really got me pissed. It says Singaporeans are happy that Nathan had a walkover. I'll now list why this article is bloody propaganda and plainly stupid. Said one Singaporean, "He tries to participate in all activities organised by the grassroots; he tries to be close to the people." That's not his job as a President. He's supposed to be the check and balance, not the popular figurehead that goes around cutting ribbons and planting trees. (And if I really want to be offensive, making prata.) Another said, "He interacts with the people, he comes down to the people's level. I think that is important for a leadership role." Leader of what? What leadership abilities has he displayed. Compared to OTC's request to check the finances of our country, what abilities has he displayed besides the above? Or is being a leader just putting your photo and your wife photo in official rooms? Said a third person, "I am pretty happy with his performance as a president. Before, he was an ambassador for Singapore to Americans; I thought he did a good job." On what basis does this aforesaid Singaporean made the judgement that he did a good job as an ambassador? I bet, that Singaporean thought... USA NEVER INVADE SINGAPORE...GOOD JOB NATHAN! And why are you happy with his performance? He did absolutely nothing except fly around the world planting trees and inspecting foreign soldier uniform and showing the world he's just a PAP figurehead. Geez. (and making prata :D) The rest of the article is just more bullcrap rehash of the above except with names. Now as to why it's a walkover, the only other candidate that has a chance to pass the board's scrutiny would be Andrew Kuan, who according to this article, here: JTC Corp is a statutory board with S$11 billion in assets and its Chief Financial Officer is mentioned in the JTC Act as being responsible for financial administration of the corporation. And yet, the board says that being a CFO is not enough seniority. Sure, a S$11 billion asset company and I'm in charge of the finance of the company and I'm not senior nor responsible enough. BULLSHIT. What is a CFO Isn't the job of a CFO emminently suited to performing the duties of the Elected President? Any idiot can do what Nathan has been doing the last six years, but someone who has the experience of a CFO would be much more able to perform the other constitutional duties of the Elected President. From the Constitution: (iv) in any other similar or comparable position of seniority and responsibility in any other organisation or department of equivalent size or complexity in the public or private sector which, in the opinion of the Presidential Elections Committee, has given him such experience and ability in administering and managing financial affairs as to enable him to carry out effectively the functions and duties of the office of President. Funny how the board completely missed article (iv), which would qualify Kuan no? Seriously, if you tell me JTC fufils non of the above, then wtf has the Singapore government been doing? (Oh wait, that's a oxymoron question) This is a complete mockery of democracy. But then again, living in Singapore, one gets used to it no? So poor Kuan, you can't appeal, since it's final, unless you can get like a shitload of people doing a petition, then PAP got no choice. Anyway, PAP has been giving strong signals to the board itself not to let Kuan's application be passed. Look at this Just look at the remarks made by PM Lee. I could summarize it in two sentence. Don't let him run or there will be dire consequences on you, the board. Singaporeans watch out, this guy got nothing but I want to imply he got alot of fishy stuff. Please, just say out loud the bad things. Don't hide behind a curtain of unwanted advice. So, 24 this year, three years after I can vote, and I can't vote. Why? Should be obvious no? Cheers~

4v1 Power Man

Well since I'm on a political rant for the last two days, here's something interesting that just happened on our sunny island.

I can't believe you need 12 riot police in full gear to have formation to handle 4 ppl in T-Shirt and jeans. Gahmen everything also kiasu and kiasee.

And while it's fine that if you're not 5 people protesting, and you're still safe. Sorry. Gahmen smart, make another rule called public nuisance.

Also, very smart, send your sister to go do protest. That's so bloody stupid. You want to make a protest(oh wait it's not 5 ppl, cannot be protest), don't bloody have such obvious links.

I bet, someone gonna do an outright denial that his party has nothing to do with it...

BUT SHE'S THE SISTER.

It only shows again the stupidity of that party. He could have made a bigger issue by saying normal singaporean citizens protest. But guess what?

Also saying that the protesters were inspired to protest...cmon, sure have political reason behind. Especially since it's the sister that's protesting. God damn stupid party. I'm so glad the WP is at least playing smart. Gogo Sylvia Lim :D

Geez. I wonder how he got a PHD.

Cheers

Insomnia

So it's like 3:30am and I can't sleep. And the computer just died on me. Like instant die. No warning screens. Just power off. I hit the power switch and the cpu fan wasn't blowing. So...off for 15 secs and on...and it's working again. Phew. Think tomorrow I'll have to open the chassis and clear out the dust. Prob clogging the fan and stuff. Argh. On another note, someone said he/she/it couldn't get the joke, so I'll post another easier one. Mind you, I have nothing against Mr Goh, I'm just not happy with the nepotistic old man. It's so bloody obvious what you are doing. *rolls eyes* Ah well. Contrary to rumours, a "Goh Chok Tong Sandwich" is not a Lee Kuan Yew on top and a Lee Hsien Loong below, with a "Goh" in the middle. It is a Lee Kuan Yew on top, a Lee Hsien Loong below, with nothing in the middle. Btw, these jokes were taken from a website, here. We need more satires on Singapore politics. Although I'm sure the government will most probably just clamp down hard on it. Gahmen, no sense of humour one. Edit: (I think I should clarify abit. Satires in local papers about local politicians are what we are missing. The Net and the Blogs are fine and all, but it's not really mass circulation. Unless something has changed, I don't remember reading any satires in papers about ANY political figure since the last time I read local papers e.g. Feb 2005) Cheers

WTF did it go?

I've been searching for ages (well the last 1 hour anyway) for materials for my presentation project thingy on the NKF saga. It seems I can't find Mrs Goh Chok Tong (aka Ms Tan Choon Leng)'s actual peanut quote from either CNA or Asiaone (STI). The latter is understandable due to the stupid STI locking people out unless they are paid suscribers. However, it would seem that the really useless party managed to list the source of the newspaper. But why can't I locate it online? And why doesn't CNA carry the article? Tmd. Stupid media censorship. But on a bright side, there are other articles online with that elusive quote: "For a person who runs a million-dollar charitable organisation, S$600,000 is peanuts as [NKF] has a few hundred millions in reserves," Mrs Goh said Though I can't seem to google it with STI and the quote. If anyone who reads my blog manages to get a hold of it, let me know, else I'll pass it off as part of the censorship thingy in my presentation. Lastly, I stumbled upon some really good political jokes while doing a peanuts search. It's old but *shrug* worth a laugh. excerpt: Ho Ching was reading a nursery story to her children when she came across a word she didn't know. So she turned to her husband Deputy Prime Minister Brigadier General Lee Hsien Loong, "Honey, what's 'general-lie-zei-shun' mean?" Her husband replied: "It's when you get promoted from Cadet to General in an unbelievably short time." You may not get the joke though :D Cheers~

Seasons in the Sun

Happy belated National day... I'm not a big fan of the government but the ideal of a nation deserves at least some mention no? :D Of course it could be argued that the government is the one that fosters the ideal of a nation (as per phil) but I doubt the government had much to do with the actual land itself (except for certain parts of the island). Anyway, I digress. Happy National Day! (NDP is stupid though. Waste of taxpayers money. Just have a holiday and give the money spent for National Day back to us as tax cuts.) I wouldn't even go into the ERF and other monetary incentives that usually almost happen co-incidentally before elections. To the main subject of this blog post then. I was just pressing forward on my I-Tunes mp3 player on my computer when it played the original Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun, and boy did it brought back memories of secondary school. Some of you may not know but I hated my secondary school for it being extremely retarded and the lies about swimming pools which never materialised. But there was one teacher (well 2) but today is just about Miss Tan, who was my English teacher in sec 2? Or 3. She was also in-charge of the library and brought me and other librarians (I wasn't one though; she just wanted me to pick out books for her cos she knew how much books I read the library, I think) Anyway, she had a really cool way of teaching English that was really different from any other lessons I had in school. (let me tell you how I did chemistry practical another time :D) She would bring us to the audio room and used music to teach us English and sentence structure. I think she got abit fustrated with me cos I used to answer her questions by saying it sounds right. I dunno, maybe I have an instinct for using grammar and stuff. I never really learnt past perfect, past tense, past continuous and whatnots. Which I am paying for it now cos my lecturer is pretty particular about sentence structure for radio broadcasts. Argh. Her lessons were really fun. We had the lyrics to the songs like Seasons in the Sun, Tell Laura I Love Her, Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree, 25 Minutes. I can't remember more though. :D I'm sure there was one or two more I missed. We sang along and learnt the stories of the songs and she would then explain the sentence structure and stuff. It really gave me the inspiration to use songs for my compositions (which scored pretty well (like the top in class) wahahaha). Every composition for my classes would see me sitting in my chair for 15 minutes digging through my head for a song that would fit the topic, then using the essence of the song into the story, which tended to be sappy love stories (Due to the fact the 90s had tons of sappy love ballads ok...). Miss Tan Lye Hwa, thanks for everything. I still recall the pen you gave us (cos we were like the worst class, which is another story for another time) that told us, "Even eagles need a push". I hope u're still teaching and inspiring a new lot of students that people have condemned. I'll try to visit when I'm back in Singapore to thank you personally (if u still remember me that is :D I hope you do, but that's just my vanity/ego speaking). Cheers~

A Lot like... Love

(Click on title for link to the imdb database!) I just watched the show and I found it really sad. Even though it was a happy ending, I know, in real life, happy endings would never happen that way. This show would prob be the closest thing to how I feel but I can't yet describe. Just looking at the plot of the show itself reminded me of certain stuff. At this point I'm supposed to explain the plot or at least describe it but... I'm not gonna bother. Watch it yourself. Tis for the romantics in you. Have you ever had someone you knew you liked but you knew that it would never work out? The whole story would have been more realistic if it didn't work out at all. Because honestly, how many happy endings do you see in real life? So I'm cynical, so sue me, but I honestly can tell you this, if I could have told that someone ever and get a happy ending, I would have. And in case anyone is wondering, no I didn't break up over this, and it's just my thoughts on the past and the show. Gotta stop sniffing :D and watch media watch for homework. A Lot like... Love? Cheers :(

Butter Chicken to Rendang Chicken

So I asked Karina for the method of cooking her wonderful butter chicken during lecture one day, and was abit disappointed to hear that she used those pastes thingy. Cheh, I thought she made from scratch. Haha. So anyway, since we had some chicken leftover from the lasagna that I made last Sunday, and since Auntie Lina is flying back on this Sunday (which means no more meat. Argh.), I decided to cook some butter chicken. I went to Woolys (Woolworths, think NTUC kind) and bought the paste. Not too sure which one as there were 2 butter chicken pastes, I bought the Maggi brand. I followed Karina's recipe and fried some onions...

After which I diced the remaining 3 chicken fillets. Then I threw in all the cubes of chicken and cooked them till they are cooked. And then threw in the powder and some water and then let it simmer. However, the chicken didn't turn out like what Karina's butter chicken looked like. Then I realised I had screwed up by adding too much cream. So I let the cream simmer and simmer....

Until it became really thick, so instead of butter chicken...

I got rendang chicken.

o.O

T_T (durai)

Ah well, it tasted really nice. I only regret got no yellow (pineapple) rice. Here's the final picture, with some cut up french toast and cheese sausages. (MELTED YUMMY CHEESE)

Belle said that I look like a houseman (husband, maid etc). Errrr. Cannot say I look like a chef meh. Tmd. Bleah. I cook the cheese sausage cos you said you want leh! Sad. Ah well, this blog is turning into a houseman's blog. Soon you'll see me doing nothing but cleaning the house everyday, sitting at the couch waiting to fetch my wife's slippers. Weeee. Cheers~ (*burp*)

The Essence of Prata

Ok here's what happened... Long long time ago (like 4 days back), I attempted to make some prata. I made the dough, which took me like 1 hour of kneading. Tmd. Knead until me hand ache. Not to mention stickified because I added too much water. I had to slowly add more flour to even the water out and stuff. Anyway, after awhile I managed to get the dough done and oiled it, as you can see in a few post down. I left it overnight. Then overslept. Then went to make. I tell you, making prata is not as easy as it looks man. You need, a really large working space to thin the dough out so you can make it really thin. The work space needs to be oiled like nobody's business. Your hands also have to be oiled like a teenagers over hormoned pimply face. (or like my brother, b4 they cleared up but that's another story.) Else the dough will be damn thick and not as flaky. Anyway my first experiment attempt not that good also. But I got pics. It looks nice. Muahaha. Someone told me it looks like a crossiont (Dunno how to spell) Ah well. My seafood lasagne also didn't go too well. Cream just doesn't go well for lasagne taste. I found it just bearable to eat. Ah well, back to tomato paste. Heh Lastly, I'm starting a new mosiac story project with some peeps. Gonna be fun. Oh. I volunteered myself to do a presentation in the 4th week. Tmd. Now I need to think how to make it funny. Argh. Cheers~

Interesting Stuff

cool bird cool birds cheers

Each Time

I'll update the prata story tomorrow, but today I feel abit happy sad. So I'll end with a song lyric instead. Not much of a post I'm afraid. Anyway I realise I need to put some links to people on the sidebar. Else quite antisocial. Rest assured, if you told me NOT to link you, I won't :D Each time when we're alone, I guess I didn't know, How far we were part, Should have spoken through my heart. No Cheers this time :D) Congrats ger.

Prataaaa!

Yeap. I've been saying I was gonna to try making roti prata since last week (for those who dunno what the heck prata is, it's a flat indian bread type (think of it as indian pizza and you should be close, sorta close) And no, I didn't buy any of those pre made type. What's the fun? So without further ado... here's the pictures of the ball prata, oiled and ready for leaving overnight. Tomorrow will be my attempt to flip the prata. So, as Kit asked me, who is going to be my guinea pigs, well they are my poor unfortunate housemates who like my lasagna and therefore am forcing them to sample my lastest experiment, and Joanne, who is coming over to try my seafood lasagna that I am experimenting to do tomorrow also. (Unless she read this post, then she changes her mind and decides not to come instead. Muahahahaha) And me. Duh. Suckers. (Except me. Duh.) So anyway, my wallet is kinda aching right now. Stupid course readers cost me 70 bucks. And I still haven't asked about the dance class yet. Argh. I need a job, and some funds. Do you think I could make money selling lasagna at roadsides? Hehehe. If anything, even if I fail my course (touchwood! choy!), I can always fall back to making roti prata (if it is successful, that is). Not bad career prospects no? Cheers~

I forgot the ice cream....

Which to placate Elisa, HEY AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH I mean ice scream. cream. :D Rachel is back too. LOL (10am reach Brisbane today. How cool is that?) I am now thinking hard. Should I spend 70 bucks for dance class, 70 bucks for course readers and 100 bucks for shorthand lessons? Expensive lah. Tmd. The 2nd is a must, while the 1st and 3rd are optional, but if I don't continue my dance, it's like wasted my first lessons. If I learn shorthand, it will help me out for the other journalism stuff. Grrrr. Oh yes, as certain people have pointed out, I've been spelling lasagna wrong. But I'm not the only one!!11!!!11 ok.. Here's proof: Lagsana And FYI, I didn't use any of the recipes here. They all want ingredients that I don't have. Experimentation is the best way!!! (Well, not really but failed experiments are bad...) I'll think of something interesting to write (something about literacy and blogging naysayers soon. Or just some random funny crap. Or just pr0n.) Cheers