Being friendly will help foreigners feel more at home
Tue, Nov 30, 2010
my paper

By reader Ms Tian Guiqing

I AM a 21-year-old student from China, and I find that Singapore is the best place to live in Asia - not only is the city safe, but the greenery also livens up the urban environment.

There are people from all over the world living and working in Singapore, and this is helpful in fostering cultural exchanges.

However, there has not been enough sharing between cultures. People here need to communicate with one another, and learn to understand the social customs and habits of people from different backgrounds.

If we understand and respect people from different countries, it is easier to be friendly with one another.

Perhaps we should start from the basics - with commuters practising courtesy on public transport.

A friendly smile or a hello will be a nice gesture to fellow commuters, instead of being plugged into headphones all the time.

This takes only a few seconds but will go a long way in making the atmosphere in trains and buses friendly and will help foreigners feel more at ease.

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1. why would we want to make foreigners feel at HOME?

2. why must we share between cultures? cultural integration takes centuries to accomplish, its not something we can simply check off in a to do list.

3. who the fuck are you to tell people not to listen to music just so we can smile at you and make you "feel more at ease"?!?!? do we not even have the right to exercise freedom of what we want to do?

stupid idiots. just go back home if you don't like the way we do things here. or else shut up and be grateful.

LOL at 2 comments

"I do effin love 2AM...those belts and flowery things just make me sad"

"From afar, those black belt things make the whole outfit look like taekwondo uniforms."

update revealed!




:D to quote a certain someone, "my boyfriend is the best!" <3 <3 <3

update of previous post:

teaser:
oh joy! oh rapture!

i want THIS more than any inanimate object in the world right now.

i will pay my dues.

ryan ftw!

colin: stinky man
ryan: giggling nipple tweak man
chip: captain lou al (bano)
wayne: temper tantrum kid

"mozart would have said 'fuck yeah!'"

reading nodame cantabile puts a smile on my face. it's funny not because of the exaggerated expressions in comic scenes, but because of the little details that make you chuckle from the inside. the author ninomiya tomoko has probably spent time in the places observing before she could actually capture the details so subtly. i'm now at chapter 101, where nodame and chiaki have already been in paris for almost a year.

not sure if molly remembers that day, or if b and v remember the chicken i bought back to the apartment, but this was exactly what happened to me in paris:

one of the most random conversations after we saw a cheeky essay written by a student to his teacher titled "我最敬爱的一个人"

T: who you write about ah last time? i dun remember mine lei

me: mother loh

T: haha yeah hor..

me: or grandmother

T: haha. if we were kids now i will write about chang min. HAHA. he lost 30 kg ok HAHAHA. you you??

me: HAHHAA u wil fail and yr teacher will bring u to see the counsellor

T: HAHAHAHAHA my mom will be quite worried after that

me: YES i will write jokwon abt how he never gave up even though he train for 7 years lol

T: HAHAHA then we will see each other in the p's office together

me: WHY!!! mine is valid. yours is abt weight losing lei. mine is abt perseverance its valid!!

T: but you need perseverance to lose weight also! hahahaha and because he really wanted to pursue his dreams so he lost weight haha i mean that is just a small part of my writing hor not the whole essya about lose weight leh! hahahaha damn funny

me: ORHHH i tot u wanted to write u are inspired to lose weight like him so u will need to see the counsellor hahaha

T: heeheehee LOL i think it will be much fun if we were in the same primary school

me: with our 24/25 yr old mentalities! if not we may just end up as enemies

T: huh! why! cos we like 2am?

me: i dunno! primary school i always haf good friends den suddenly next day quarrel and become enemies den after that become good friends again

T: hahaha hmmm yeah hor but normally mine is every other year change one cos change class yeah hor then we will bitch with a about b and b about a

me: hahaha

T: then we will be very jealous of v cos she will always have iphone first and new bags

a message for nichkhun from a fan:

khun, stop being so damn perfect.
if you keep this up you will never be allowed to have a girlfriend.
seriously girls will hunt you and that girl down.
GOD, why did you make him so beautiful?
i think it was to hurt us.
i mean you are an eye candy but you are so perfect that you makes us delusional and we get mad at ourselves because almost all of us are never gonna be with you.
but who are we kidding?

LOL.

holy crap... i need to blog this to mark the occasion!

miryo (from the brown eyed girls) just got herself a twitter account and is still currently totally in the mood to check it daily and reply to anyone who @s her. so i decided to try my luck:



and she really replied!!!!



omg i love the internet.

i'm loving this



magnae doing rain!

more 2am!

another dose of jo kwon...

after resisting kpop for the longest time... i'm a convert.
fuck!!!!
wait. but not for any tweeny groups (zzz.)
2 words.

jo kwon.

excuse me while the fan girl in me unleashes.

EPIC.







"yes nice to meet you first waiting for a slide as a korean star im am very happy confirms that i am very good performance that yes for sure im very first to mention you in canada should i come first should i fail or show they"

LOLOLOLOLOLOL.

but more amazingly...

Live rendition


Remake collaboration with W&Whale (original artist: Lee Seung Hwan, 1994)


ok back to thesis.

how in the world did son ga in from BEG transform from this:



to this hawt shit!!!!

i love also!

i love.

the only man in my life who is allowed to grow a beard and not shave.



theme song for manga-turned-drama 僕は君に恋をする (oddly enough i haven't read it yet)
that aside, i can't seem to find information about where this video was shot. breath-taking scenery. reminds me a little of scotland.

ma brother from another mother (fucker).

我累了。 你累了吗？

the olive backed sunbird is a very common species of sunbirds in Singapore. but i think their life cycle is very poorly documented. on 2 separate occasions, they made nests amongst my home plants at the corridor/kitchen balcony. my mom made my family very unhappy by demanding us to take countless of photos and videos of part of the process. one photo turned out pretty nicely which i used it to take part in the sheares hall photography competition.



and they're back! for the third time, also at the corridor. but i have a great view of it right outside my bedroom window. so i got this great idea to document it in this blog as i observe them.



today, the female sunbird came to do a thorough evaluation of the plant. apparently it chose a pretty bare and skinny branch to start construction, and has already entwined some leaves with the branch. it came back and forth for around 5 times, each lapse taking almost 15mins, and each time staying for around 30secs-1min. but towards the later part of the day at 430pm, the bird came at shorter intervals, and chose a new spot with more leaf coverage but still skinny braches and proceeded to manipulate the leaves. but the last time it came at 5.15pm, the bird darted off suddenly. i suspect it could have been because my mom went too close to the window and moved her head for a better look and startled the bird (there's always a limit to the performance of a mirror window)

fuck. now just have to pray the bird comes back again.

i was trying to find out more about Gakuen Alice, another shoujo mangaka when i came across the author's name higuchi tachibana. googling "tachibana"... and one click led to another.

重点是, out of curiousity and amusement of the website name, i clicked on this....

view it: http://www.madame-tachibana.com/

HAHAHAHA OMGWTFBBQ. i totally loved this part:

From perezhilton.com



apparently after the russians finished this dance routine, they got slammed for being insensitive to the culture of the australian aborigines. the routine was choreographed after observing the aborigines' dancing.

if i were to think of a reason, i would believe that pple got offended probably because they conveniently milked the aboriginal culture, packaged it into a skating routine, used the aboriginal motifs for their costumes, made the bodysuits a little darker, all for trying to clinch a gold by being "different" from the usual elegant/romantic genre. (doesn't matter how accurately they portray the culture!)

but that was some kick ass skating!!!!

how come you always look so shuai in photos taken when i'm not around... and then when i come prancing along all the shuai-ness just goes diudiudiudiudiu. hmph.

Perez Hilton is fucking funny. and YES i say fucking funny because he never fails to crack me up with his "private" jokes i.e. if you have been following tabloids of a particular celebrity, he usually refers back to them when he starts blabbering on her/his latest news.

For example:

Brad Pitt buys more children land



Time to expand!

Sources say that Brad Pitt has bought the adjacent home to his own in Loz Feliz for $1.1 million to expand his property. The 3,232-square-foot, 1920’s key-shaped home has a 0.25 acre lot and boasts a stone fireplace, a huge main room, a bonus room,a bar and a secret cave.

Secret cave? Was Bruce Wayne the previous tenant?!

We couldn't imagine what he would need with MORE space, considering that he already has a five bedroom, 5,760-square-foot house, with an adjoining 1,653-square- foot house, a 1,307-square-foot strip of vacant land, and yet another a 1,534-square-foot house.

Hopefully, it isn't to accommodate MORE children!!! Haven't you had enough, Angelina?

seriously. don't you think she was totally asking for it?
no one shld have (and good thing no one did) gone to her rescue.

read it here .

its.another.year.

already??!??

as you can see, it is already the 4th of january. usually i eagerly await the first day of every new year to religiously blog about my resolutions of the year. but now, at 24 pending 25, resolutions to me are just a list of rules in disguise, waiting to be broken.

therefore, this year i shall practice self-moderation, cynicism, and reality checks into this new year resolutions.

these are my new year resolutions:

1. i shall exercise regularly, when time permits.

2. i shall reduce my food intake and my weight, when im not feeling very hungry.

3. i shall do my best in the final design and the dissertation, if my tutors don't make things difficult for me.

4. i shall be nicer and more tactful to people around me, unless they are seriously being a bitch and if i'm not feeling like one.

5. i shall not hunch and will walk properly, when there are people around to see.

6. i shall brush my teeth at least twice a day, if my mouth stinks bad enough.

7. i shall strive hard to graduate well and find a stable job in a firm and try to be a QP. unless i find a better paying job. or unless the firm makes me work ridiculous hours. or unless the job gets really painfully unbearable. or unless...