a.spot.of.white

I have a corneal ulcer.
It started off as a white dot.
It still is.
But I hope it goes away.
It shall always remind me not to put on my contact lenses for prolonged periods.

alcohol.is.illegal.in.france

To be honest, other than Voronin's spectacular shot for the Reds to win Toulouse 1-0, this video is nothing really special.
Except for the fact that, upon closer inspection, there seems to be something wrong with Liverpool's jerseys - their sponsors "Carlsberg" are totally not reflected on their jerseys!
And apparently, the reason for that is - alcohol advertisements are not allowed in France on the soccer jerseys.
And to think that the French consume 60 L per capita of wine per year! That's a really alcoholic-indulgent nation out there for you.
I'd reckon that they just have a thing against BEER companies. =)

uni.qlock

This is pretty quirky.

g.s.s.+.g.s.t.hike

After the Great Singapore Sale (GSS), comes the Great Goods and Services Tax (GST) hike.
From 5% to 7%.
They gave everyone a pittance of $200.

Let's do some sums.
Imagine on the average you take 3 meals a day total about $15 - One month about $450.
Public Transport $5 daily - One month $150.
Put in some shopping/groceries at $200 a month.
Total $800/mth.
Now increase 2% = $16.
$200/16 = 12.5mths
So they expect your GST package to last one year.
And that's without paying your sundry bills, handphone bills, big ticket items, holidays, etc.
And with the NETS surcharge - if you use NETS, I assure you that your $200 will not even last half a year.

And this goes to provide for a bunch of people in white robes who ensure that our mothers and sisters do not become maids.
Wonderful, isn't it?

n.e.t.s

Now there's a surcharge for using NETS!
The result?
It's forcing everyone to get a credit card? Or carry more cash?
So there'll be more reports of robbed grannies and grandpas who wanted to avoid paying the 2% surcharge?
And if you pay cab fares with NETS - it's a leviable surcharge of 30 cents on top of your metered fare?

What sort of stupid idea is this?
Get the nation to use NETS, "NETS IT!" here, "NETS IT!" there... and then slap the surcharge now when using the system is 2nd nature when buying groceries, books and even electronics?
Or rather should we say it's a damn brilliant and heinous ploy by the little men in white?

On a related article, read Brown's "Start carrying more cash."
Another article on the new meanings on talking.cock.com on N.E.T.S.

chip.on.my.shoulder

I always had one.
I just wished it would turn into a casino chip worth $1000 that would win a 1:5000 payout.

Speaking of which - glark.ware has interesting teeshirts like these below:

appraisal.mean.ings

武

It is interesting to note that the very word that embodies "Martial art", is an oxymoron made up of the very 2 words that briefly means "to stop conflict". Isn't the Chinese language such a delightful play of words?
Some believe that the "Wushu" - literally Martial Art, was so coined as such and conceptualised to prevent hostilities rather than to encourage strifes between people. The masters and practitioners of these arts maintain their ideals of their pursuit a purely gentlemenly sport, with the aims of improving oneself through mutual learning rather than showing off in displays of superiority from conquering your opponents.

leaning.tower

... of Sentosa.
With the dawn of a new era, the old makes way for the new.
Down with heritage, Up with the New Age!

cute.knut

So this was the little German furball who was rejected by its mother.

jap.air

Necessity is the mother of all invention. This applies to weird art forms of self-expression too!

hike.hype

Earning 300k per annum at age 32? What the f@!#?
and take a look at this - Revised Civil Service Salaries.
Mind you - this is NOT what your ordinary 'civil servant' earns. So why should those guys get like 10 times what the ordinary servant's pay (like say 30-40k a year) - do they do 10 times more work? Are they the ones who make it work? What they do all day is pay lip service, and find ways to spend the extravagant amount of money in excess of other civil servants' salaries. The hike in salaries should be inverse for once - say 100% for the bottom rung, and 1% for the top rung. That would still work out nicely to be a 30k pay increase for both the PM, and the cellar-sweepers.
Shocking.

on.top.of.the.world

Well, maybe not the world, but Singapore, at least.
These photos were taken some time ago aboard the DHL hot air balloon, somewhere near the 7th storey hotel (if you know where THAT is.)
I have vertigo so it took a lot of balls (pardon the sexist distinction of the haves) for me to get my ass up there. To be honest my knees were wobbly as the balloon started rising... and it just rose... and rose some more... much to my (very much suppressed) horror. But having said that - it was perfectly safe. Or at least that was what the rest of the unalarmed passengers who were jumping up and down excited at the view impressed upon me. =P

What a load of hot air.
Yes - it went higher than Gateway towers.

I'd recommend anyone who likes birds' eye views from above to try this.

goths.become.architects

Read this report.
Some other titbits:
1. The term "Goth" comes from Germanic tribe that invaded the Roman Empire in the 3rd to 5th centuries.
2. Goth was thought to be first used to describe bands around 1979, with Joy Division and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
3. There are sub cultures within the sub culture, such as cyber goths.

egg.1st.chicken.2nd

The Chicken or Egg issue has been around for centuries.
A study as reported on BBC in May 2006 claims to have answered the question.
Now you know - the egg came first! =)

hyper.cube

This intriguing construction supposedly illustrates the possibilities of a 4th dimension, which many have believed to be Time, but in this case it is the turning inside-out of the original form that achieves the 4th, internal dimension.
(I do believe this page doesn't show it metamorphosizing - you have to click on the picture and it will bring you to another page where the effects can be seen.)

underground.connections

Check out if where you are residing is going to be well-connected in future.