Thursday, March 31, 2005
Offering Support

I don't usually do this but maybe it's because of any people around me whom I feel needs a listening ear.But anyway,I just emerged from reading the blog of my friend,Celina and feels that yeah,maybe she needs a listening ear somewhere,from someone.So if and when you do read this and maybe need someone to write or talk to me,I offer my ears,Celina.You can write to me via the address link on the right-hand "Contact Me" column.Anytime.I'm all ears.

I keep looking for a place to fit
Where I can speak my mind
I’ve been trying hard to find the people
That I won’t leave behind

They say I got brains
But they ain’t doing me no good
I wish they could

Each time things start to happen again
I think I got something good goin’ for myself
But what goes wrong

Sometimes I feel very sad
Sometimes I feel very sad
(can’t find nothin’ I can put my heart and soul into)
Sometimes I feel very sad
(can’t find nothin’ I can put my heart and soul into)

I guess I just wasn’t made for these times

Every time I get the inspiration
To go change things around
No one wants to help me look for places
Where new things might be found

Where can I turn when my fair weather friends cop out
What’s it all about

Each time things start to happen again
I think I got something good goin’ for myself
But what goes wrong

Sometimes I feel very sad
Sometimes I feel very sad
(can’t find nothin’ I can put my heart and soul into)
Sometimes I feel very sad
(can’t find nothin’ I can put my heart and soul into)

I guess I just wasn’t made for these times
I guess I just wasn’t made for these times
I guess I just wasn’t made for these times
I guess I just wasn’t made for these times
I guess I just wasn’t made for these times
I guess I just wasn’t made for these times

From The Beach Boys' "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times"

Army Daze

I've just returned from my annual ICT on Monday and spent the entire Tuesday at home resting.The camp was supposed to end on Tuesday but owing to the fact that those army buggers had us stay back on a Saturday to do live-firing,we were released one day earlier...but even that came with a condition.

The condition was that people who wanted to out-process on Monday evening had to either have obtained silver or above (there's only gold left) at the earlier IPPT held on the 18th or for this subsequent retest,have to at least complete the entire test (that is,no forfeiting of the 2.4km torture).So that meant that I ran my first ever 2.4 in over a year.Ok so it didn't really kill me because I was jogging at an extremely leisurely pace but the temperature was still pretty infernal.And just for your information,I clocked 16:54...stop sniggering,you buggers.

The real "highlight" of the ICT wasn't this of course...so many things happened throughout this ICT that I'd count it as one of the most frustrating and "siong" ones I ever had.First off,before the live-firing FATEP (it's some kind of an examination for artillery units),we had a three day two night exercise...which was the most "siong" exercise we ever had as a reservist unit.Mind you,we were actually allowed back to camp on the first night to bathe and rest.The catch was that we had to draw arms and move out at 3-4 plus in the morning the next day.By the time,we came back to camp,it was close to 12...you do the math.

The FATEP dry exercise that followed was "siong" not in the sense that we had loads and loads of deployment.It was for two other reasons instead.First,our unit is a towed mortar unit...but this time,they simulated heli-borne.This meant that instead of having a tonner tow the mortar to our deployment sites,the men had to manhandle (in layman's term:push) the 2,000,000kg mortar to the deploymnet sites instead.Keep in mind that each mortar is handled by a detachment no more than six in strength...or less,if you had men who deferred from this particular ICT which a large number of men did.There were not enough signallors,storeman,drivers,mortarmen and yes,even officers.That should tell you how bad it was,yeah?

The second reason was the temperature.The second day wasn't that bad but the third day...phuah.It must have been about 36 degrees or something.And we were deployed in areas where there were no shade at all...open ground that left us to the mercy of the sun.And the sun showed no mercy.One after another...the men were struck down by heat exhaustion.It's no laughing matter because I happened to be one of them...but I stand proud that at least I was only the fifth one to be struck down in my company...hahahahah.I'm only the fifth weakest there.

I don't know whether I should bother you guys with details of the story but anyway,I was also deployed to an unfamiliar role.I am usually a HQ signallor assigned to the QM.In other words,I bring food to people,go back to camp and bathe and then go out again to deliver food and so on,so forth.This time,I was assigned to be C Coy Recce Officer's signallor.WAH LAU EH!A recce officer's signallor's job isn't really to mann comms.It is to do measurement taping for deployment and draw local defence maps.It was my first time doing it...I did a decent job...but I wouldn't want to do it again.Let me deliver food anytime.I'm a F&B guy.

It was also the camp where people lost a lot of things.My signallor platoon lost a walkie talkie pouch.An officer got a handphone stolen and still another officer lost...of all things...an army laptop.Wah lau eh...you know how dua zhong such a loss is?We had our bunks as well as our bags searched.And they delayed our out-processing for 3 hours...from 6 to 9.WOOOOH...

The thing nice about going back to the army is that you get to meet old friends again.People getting married,people getting desperate,people getting migraines,people getting best soldier awards.Very interesting.I'd leave it at that.

Happy April Fools' Day!!!

Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Complain Complain Complain

Aiyo,tor long ah,Singaporeans can stop complaining or not?Some of these people ah,really complain about the weirdest things.Witness first a complaint letter in the ST Forum today.Written by a certain Mr Lim Ah Kheng (if you're a Miss then I'm mistaken and terribly sorry but you should change your name lah...),he complained about the IT Show in Suntec.Eeee,so many people and so much goods being moved around,fire hazard leh,he complained.

Wah lau eh,uncle ah.You want the hall to be empty,is it?Then the vendors hold an IT Show for f#$%?You think what?IT Show for ghosts and spirits ah?So must hold it during lunar seventh month,is it?You tell me who want to hold exhibition if restrict number of poeple?And goods being moved around,you also complain.Then what you expect the vendors to do?Pay on the spot then go to their warehouse in Tuas to collect ah?Who want to buy anything then?I tell you,if that was the case,the show will be lukcy to generate $100 total sales for its entire duration.

You go to a show,you expect it to be crowded what.I don't know what kind of a 山龟 Mr Lim is but he must be detached from reality.Does he know how many exhibitions we have to cancel a year if we went by his criteria?And what about places that are crowded during various times and occasions,do we restrict people's movement too?So lunchtime at foodcourt...clear them out!Fire hazard!Somemore kitchen confirm got fire.Jerry Yen autograph signing at Heeren...clear them out!Fire hazard!So many screaming,senseless girls confirm someone will do something stupid and burn the place down one what...but don't ask me how lah...Mr Lim will tell you how.

And then I got to mention Dr Balaji Sadasivan and his gays = AIDS epidemic talk.Relak lah,brother.311 cases and you make it sound whole of Singapore dying of AIDS.I didn't know Singapore got only population of 400,I thought it was something like 4 million (?).Aiya,but then Singapore so small,311 people die is damn jia lat already lah.So it's all those bloody 基佬's fault!KILL THEM ALL.BURN THEM ALL.SEE YOU IN HELL...

Ok ok,relak a bit.I saw the stats on HIV cases in Singapore and although cases of infected gays has increased quite a bit,majority...and I mean majority are still straight people.Guys who go after gals.Get it?Don't blame it all on the poor gays lah.Dr Balaji makes it sound like the gays solely responsible for the 28% rise.It's not like that so don't pinpoint them like that lah.So paiseh.They already so ostracised in this tiny country and you make it worse by saying they're killing us all.Hey,wait a second...I detect a conspiracy...they say they afraid foreign gays infect local gays.Those foreign gays include Malaysians.So in effect,the Malaysians are trying to kill us all!Badawi is plotting to reclaim Singapore!Kill the Malaysians back,tit for tat.Poison the water we sell back to them.Don't say my theory is not based on substantial evidence,ok...it's got as much substance as Mr Balaji's theory.Make of that what you will.

And then then (I got to use 2 thens since I used "And then..." to introduce the last topic) there is the issue of the Singapore Guvment syaing that Guvment not supposed to lead the drive to buy local...they talk can already,everybody else do.Guvment tender different mah...must curry flavour foreign MNCs so that they continue FDI here.Why buy stupid Ranger desktop when you can buy Dell?Michael Dell employ people here leh...wait,or is that in India?But anyway,local construction companies lousy one lah,must employ Japanese or Ang Moh then better.Ang Moh contractor may have built The Esplanade (one of the seven wonders of the world...you wonder why people actually pay to build it.) and its durian structure isn't really that nice but if you hand it to a local contractor,you know what you will get?Two rambutans...you know,a lot of fibreglass antennas sticking out.Nothing bad what you say...but wait till you juxtapose that against the Westin Stamford Hotel...now you not only get a giant woody,you also get two hairy b#$%s.At least the Ang Mo version not hairy.

Aiya,seriously,who want to buy local?My mum buy oyster sauce also call me buy Lee Kum Kee,no Sin Sin or NTUC brand for us.It's a bit too 水 already.Who buys Akira anyway?We want Panasonic,Sony,Toshiba.Akira sounds like a cartoon...oh,it is one?And Creative MuVo or Zen Micro...f#$% lah.Just buy Apple Shuffle or iPod Mini.No control nevermind,the adverts look good what.Like Apple say:Life is random anyway what,you know...like when you choose schools or courses,you eenie manie moh one also what,correct?Where got people make informed choices one?

Life is random...f#$% control.Don't control my CPF money,give it to me now!

Monday, March 14, 2005
Mind Your Language

It's good that I don't set New Year resolutions like "I will not write blogs during office hours" because 1)I don't know how long I'd be able to keep the oath going and 2)I really don't know how long I'd be able to keep the oath going.Hmmm,funny,1 and 2 looks almost alike.I'd leave a short post here because I really don't feel like working at the moment.And blogging kills time which I have plenty of.

I'd be going in-camp on Thursday for my annual ICT.That's In-Camp Training for all the uniniated out there.It's funny.When we're in the army,we can't wait to get out of it.But when we're 臭 reservist 老兵,it really doesn't seem all that bad.The first few ICT days are usually spent basically lying in bed and waiting for meals or things to do...or we are doing things quickly so that we can quickly go back to our bunks to lie in bed.Then when the action starts,we are usually lying prone on the ground to set up perimeters or we're eating hot food in our rovers.So you see,in camp,we are either lying horizontal and growing horizontal.It's not that bad at all.

One of my good army friends,General Custer,just messaged me to ask me when I am going in.He's going in on Wednesday,one day before me...so he's lamenting how come I always get the luck.What luck???HELLO???!!!I had to remind that CHOW KENG KING that for the last five in-camps,he lasted only 3 days per in-camp before the number 4 camouflage uniforms started giving him the rashes and he bailed out via MC on all 5 occasions.Now who has the luck???I always have one question for him...how come he managed to serve 2 1/2 years during NS in camouflages WITHOUT getting any rashes and then after he ORDs,he gets rashes everytime he puts the ugly green thing on.What does he store his uniforms in?A suitcase of sulphur?Well,protects his uniforms from any snakes that may slither into them.And I am quite sure he probably eats any snakes which he killed...that 吃蛇王.

I had a bad weekend but I'm not going to talk about it.Life is a matter of ups and downs...of peaks and troughs...you ride through the lows and enjoy the highs.I'm riding right now...or trying.Anyway,a more serious subject matter is at hand.The subject matter of proper parliamentary langauge.

Last Friday,our nation-building paper,ST,reported on NMP Ong Soh Khim's unparliamentary language she used during,where else,a Parliament session.She apparently uttered "SHIT" and "RUBBISH" during a parliamentary debate on MOE's Budget.

Actually,what's so wrong with those two words eh?It's not as if she shouted out SHIT!!!! while the debate was going on.Some very educated and refined MPs apparently couldn't stand the sound of such a dirty word and complained to the House Speaker about it.Wah lau eh (Is that also considered unparliamentary if I uttered them in Parliament?),I mean let's not be so anal retentive lah.The entertaining Taiwanese government MPs throw punches and pizzas at each other while we censure someone for whispering shit?No wonder our entertainment scene is so backward.And come on,what if her whole sentence was really..."When is this debate going to end?I need to go and shit."Then isn't she very 冤枉?But then again I guess,by government standards,she still shouldn't be using the word shit...so unrefined...she should have said 我需要去方便.

And if she really wanted to utter those expletives in retaliation to what she feels is wrong about the Budget,she should still have used more refined words...for instance,in place of shit,say 米田共 or what's really known as 屎 to us and in place of rubbish,say 垃圾...pronounced Le She in true-blue Taiwanese style.Remember 华语Cool!We got to 享应政府号召 to brush up on our Mandarin.And speaking expletives in Mandarin also makes you way cooler.

Ok ok,maybe I don't know the whole story and context lah so I'm really defending her for fun.But hey,come on,compared to Ling How Doong's "You don't talk cock lah you" comment,she's small fry.Mr Ling apparently also uttered "bastard" and "arsehole" during his time in power.Woah,Mr Ling,salute man...but no real respect.Because if you got REAL balls,you'd be aiming those words at PM,DPM or any of the ministers...not at poor old Chiam See Tong.

And anyway,Ling's words do have an element of truth in them...we hear so much cock during the parliamentary sessions on the subject of the casino,that I take these debates on the issue as more of a play than a serious debate.

Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Let's Get Pretentious

You know the local entertainment scene is in trouble when the biggest star of the moment is an infant barely a month old...yes,step forward Brayden Chionh,the offspring of veteran has-been TV queen Zoe Tay (Am I offending legions of Zoe fans here?But look here,when was the one time she headed a big-budget TV serial...and didn't see it flop?) and RSAF hunk Philip Chionh...not that I really know what Philip looks like,of course.

Brayden,of course,doesn't know what the farce is all about and come on,give the kid a break.He sure didn't choose the name himself but has to grow up with it,that's trauma enough to scar him for a lifetime.The rest of us (The plain old Johns,Peters and Jameses) don't have to suffer the indignity of our primary school friends going..."What kind of a f#$% name is that?".So just be grateful that your parents are dour pusses who didn't bother checking up Celtic dictionaries for names.

Those who read Monday's version of TNP will have found out about other exotic names that our local celebrities gave their precious babies.Pastor Sun Ho...wait,that's Helper Sun "I am not a pastor" Ho and her hubby,Senior Pastor Kong Hee named their son Dayan after Moshe Dayan (I do have a question here.If they wanted to name their son after Mr Dayan,why wasn't he named Moshe instead?Why Dayan?Because it sounds more exotic?).Aaron Aziz named his son "Danish" and said that it meant "Love Of My Life" in Malay.I just wonder which country's Malay is he talking about?American Malay perhaps?And of course, Ivy Lee names her offspring after cartoons...Miki,Dash and Wolverine.

To meet the demand for exotic names by loony parents ("Let's destroy our little boy's life by calling him Focker"),I decided to come up with some good names for the above celebrities for any future offspring they may have...

Aanmatigend Chionh

Good name for Zoe's next boy/girl.Looks impressive and is very meaningful.It's Dutch by the way,which makes it extra-exotic...to find out what it means...simply use Altavista's Babelfish tool to translate it back to English.

Stripperella/Hulk Lee

Ivy Lee is a silly woman to name her daughter after a Disney character.Why would she want people to make a Mickey out of her daughter's name?And Dash?Come on,it'd be horrible if he came in last in a 100m sprint.And Dash is but a silly kid's name anyway.Your boy isn't going to stay a 10 year-old for the rest of his life,you know.On the other hand,you should really name your kids after super-heroes.That's immortal.And it must be a name which can hold up later on in his adult life,something he won't be ashamed of.And what better name than Hulk?He sure won't get bullied..."Don't make me angry,you won't like me when I am angry".And well,if the kid is just one unfit bloke who turns green after running 2.4 km,the name fits too..."He's turning green..."

And Stripperella...woah...the girl will be the most popular lass wherever she goes...

81 Tan

Jack Neo apparently names his kids after hotels.What better name to give to his next kid than one of the greats of the local hotel scene,Hotel 81?Don't laugh,ok!Do you see any other hotels in Singapore with more branches?No,right?Hotel 81 is the real biggie in the local hospitality scene,froget Raffles.Show respect,Jack.

Flame Of The Forest Wu

Allan Wu named his daughter after a herb...not ambitious enough.Why not name a kid after a tree?

Adu Huang

Silly Huang Shinan thought naming his kid after David Beckham is the best thing for his kid.Of course not,you silly bugger.Beckham will be or is a has-been and 10 years from now,nobody will remember who he is.Nobody remembers a footballer for the ads he shot.We only remember the achievements he made,the medals he won or the skills he showed...none of which Beckham has.On the other hand,Freddy Adu is almost universally adknowledged as the greatest talent since Pele and he's only 15.Name your kid after Adu instead and enrol him in a football school.And if he can't cut it as a footballer,at least people might still think you named the kid after Singapore's greatest pop-singer,阿杜.

Swedish Bin Aaron

It means "Love of My Life" in Nigerian Malay.

Hitler/Gates Kong

What's Dayan compared to Hitler?In fact,what's anything compared to Hitler in terms of fame (or is that infamy)?Besides Bill Gates.

Sunday, March 06, 2005
Singletons Of The World Take Heart

This is a strange time for me...a strange year.The year when I feel that yeah, I'd really like someone by my side.It really started this past week when one event after another became a first.

On Wednesday night,my cousin Hill (I am using her real name here because I figure nobody will figure out who she is anyway), suddenly messaged me about my sprained ankle. For the uniniated (which most of you are),I sprained my ankle while travelling around Taiwan a few weeks back.It is 90% ok now...90% because it is still stiff when I try to straighten my foot.Anyway,that is not the point.The messaging between us progressed to her asking about my lovelife (or lack of it)...hah.

It is a strange occurance.Strange because despite knowing her for my entire life,she never asked me about this until now.Why now?I have no idea.It's probably just a matter of co-incidence. That is,it co-incided with my sudden decision to go for my first ever speed dating session with SDU at Ya Kun.The messaging had nothing to do with the decision though,because I had signed up for the event before she messaged me...in fact, just exactly before she messaged.

And of course, the timing also co-incided with Bishop getting hitched recently.Ok,semi-hitched since things are still in a stage of limbo.Dating and unofficially a couple but still a couple nonetheless...whatever that means.I wonder if they are even holding hands.But the point is: My good pal...the mechanical,uptight but devout and honest (these were adjectives spewed by his gf regarding him.Out of the 4,2 are bad...you can't win all the time I suppose) Bishop has finally got a gf...and I don't?!I feel so ashamed....kekekeke...

Now let me go talk about the speed dating session.It was held on Friday night at Ya Kun Robinson Point.I am still undecided whether to talk in specifics or in general.Specifics as in the individuals whom I met.I am also tempted to use real names here but do any of them read my blog?Would I expose my identity?But if they did,the fact that I mentioned speed dating at Robinson Point Ya Kun would have more or less exposed my identity,right?So there shouldn't be any bother over revealing names right?Another bother I have is that I do not have nice things to say about everyone...

Let's start with the general though.I thought the general format of the event was badly organised.It didn't afford everyone a chance to speak with everybody.I certainly didn't talk to everyone there and a lot of others probably didn't either.The orgainsation of the event was like this:They joined several tables together to form six large tables of six each.Each large table is supposed to have three guys and three girls.The unfortunate thing is,as some of you future speed-daters may find out,there seems to be usually more guys than girls.So yeah,it's not exactly one to one.My table for instance had four girls and two guys.Not a good thing because seriously how do you engage two persons...sometimes,three at one go?

Another thing.The guys at each large table were supposed to switch seats after every eight minutes to talk to a new partner.I'd have preferred it if they had strictly enforced this rule rather than leave it to our own devices.Because people don't switch.If you have a really interesting partner,that's not a problem...but if you have one you have absolutely no interest in or who puts you off, then like they say in Constantine:"Eight minutes in here (hell) can seem like a lifetime".

A few tips for people who are going:

1) Do NOT be too serious or too shy.Be Jovial and Bubbly.

You'd be much easier to talk to when that is the case.As I'm writing this,I am aware that jovial and bubbly may be more a personality trait/characteristic and cannot be changed to suit any particular event.I don't know.I am someone who can switch between talking out loud and joining actively in exchanges to being an effective mute in conversations so I think it can be done.Just a mental model shift,that's all.A serious person is a pain-in-the-arse to talk to during such events.We are speed dating here,not debating at a Parliament session,man...so take it easy,ok???

2) Do NOT go on an empty stomach

The point of conversation is talking.You do not talk and eat at the same time.And seriously,what kind of impression will you create when you are talking with your mouth full?So effectively,whatever restaurant is hosting the event 在吃钱 because they know they won't really have to serve too much food.In fact,they can serve smaller portions than usual since everyone is talking and not eating.Damn these corporate blood-suckers.Damn them all.Here we are trying to find a life partner,there they are sucking our hard-earned money dry.Anyway you get the drift right?You won't be eating too much during the event so eat beforehand...another question...if you are eating halfway and have to change seats (applies only to the guys since girls just sit and wait to be entertained by guys),are we supposed to carry our half-eaten food with us wherever we go???

3) GET a contact number!!!

Yes,there are no rules to personally exchanging contact details:Email address,handphone number,home number,home address,foreign property address,Batam gf's address (since that's where you'd be found every weekend)...whatever you want.So from the word go...exchange these details.

But my personal advice is:Get the HP number.Don't stop at merely email address (You have to wait for a reply which you may not get).Home number is also ok...but you might have to get past a burly-voiced mother who asks you what you are doing calling her 乖 daughter at 11:30 at night.In such a scenario,get that excuse ready...such as,you know,you are a 大耳窿 and the daughter owes you $2 million and that in order to repay her debts,she has to marry you.So in the end,you get the girl,don't have to pay dowry and have steady repayment income from your in-laws for the rest of your life.How's that?Better than striking Big Sweep, I say.That's only $1 million only mah...small change.

With a HP number,you can bombard the person you're interested in day and night...until you get arrested for stalking,that is...

4) Keep an open mind and not be afraid of rejection

Very important.Remember one thing.Rejection should not be an issue here,the main objective is to meet more people.Whether or not they like you is out of your hands.Just be yourself and be cool.If they like you,they like you.If they don't like you,buzz off.What's to fear about rejection from A BUNCH OF STRANGERS anyway???!!!If they rejected you,you'd probably never see them again for the rest of your life,so why be so sad/uptight over any rejections?No point what...not as if you'd see them again,yeah?Keep an open mind about this.

Now do I wanna talk about specifics...the event itself?Ok,I think I will...but with falsified names to protect identities.

I was seated at Table A first with YC (a nerdy IT guy),Annabel (a Finance exe),Alicia (a sales Exe), MP (an IT girl) and April (a HR exe).First off,I have something to say to YC...

You ARE a damn yokel.You come to a speed dating event,you're supposed to talk.You just sit down there for f#$%???There were a couple of times when I had to step back and invite him into the conversation before he started talking...I thought I was supposed to speed date,not babysit.What the hell were you thinking when you signed up?Wanted to eat some Ya Kun bread is it???

Of this lot of girls,Annabel and Alicia were the easiest to talk to.Annabel is quite a gregarious and bubbly person,which is the type you'd just like to meet on a speed date.Alicia is also ok...talks when spoken to so not bad.During an extended period of silence,she also suddenly brought up this chimp question of "Do you think couples must have certain common qualities before they can get together?"Phuah...most of the conversation before that was on jobs and jobs and jobs and jobs.Suddenly she talk so chimp.But I appreciate it because it was different.It wasn't boring like the other standard questions everybody, including me,was asking.But it was also the first and last chimp question of the evening.

MP and April.MP is awfully quiet...hardly spoke in fact.She's a painfully shy girl whom I think that people when engaging her should be more pro-active and prompt responses rather than just give up on exasperation.I am sure she'd be an interesting person to talk to.April?So damn serious.So scary.Talks like she's a counsellor.Please lah,I not a close-to-suicide case, so don't have to be so serious and grave with me.And if I was a close-to-suicide case,I'd defnitely commit suicide after talking to her anyway.

Onto the next table,the girls are Cornflakes (a LAWYER...PHUAH!!!), Chris (a PO) and PG (I don't know what she's doing).

I spent most of my time talking to Corn,who's very engaging.I'd think that would be the personality of a typical lawyer.And thanks to YC,I had to engage Chris as well since she had no partner to talk to (after switching tables,there were only five here since only guys move).Chris is also relatively shy...but not as shy as MP.Back to Corn though...Corn's a really interesting person but just not my type...how I know?There was times when we didn't really get each other's jokes until a short while later.Not a good sign.As for PG,I never spoke a single word with her.

Onto the next table,the girls are Sol and M (both HR exes).I think M is very motherly motherly kind of figure which makes her scary.Told me to stop talking so that YC could talk.What the f#$%???For God's sake,you see me gagging the guy's mouth???He should be an adult and interject when he wants...must wait for me to allow him in meh???And M also behaves in a pretty weird way...pretends to be not desperate when subtle signs seem to suggest otherwise.Shouldn't have to pretend,I think.

Sol is an ok and ordinary girl.Neither outgoing nor shy (Do you realise shyness actually makes someone noticeable?It is true in an odd way,isn't it?)Not memorable.She can sit beside you for ten years and you won't notice that she was there at all.Part of the furniture.

Onto the next table...now this is the MOST interesting table.The girls are Sally ( an engineer...and a quite chio one at that!) and Pendulum ( a HR girl...not bad looking either,just didn't strike me as much as Sally).These two are friends by the way.I asked that about them straightaway because I saw the two of them walking in together so I thought they must know each other.I genuinely do like these two girls.They're easy-going and very easy to talk to.Light and fluffy and laughs easily.Very lovely girls.Relatively easy on the eye as well.That's why I am cursing that I only got their email addresses.

I will introduce the next table as the last since I don't want to talk about the others.This "last" table I must talk about...because it has two relatively "obnoxious" girls sitting at it.Mun (a teacher) and Rude (a doctor).Mun is still ok...although I feel that there is a fakeness about her banter (You don't see me talking about fakeness in the other girls I've talked about,right?).As for Rude...as her name implies...she's the rudest person during the entire evening.Totally uninterested and aloof...with almost a smack of arrogance.I just wanna say to her:If you're so good,how come you are still not attached???Come down from your high horse lah,you lousy NUS-educated doctor.Yours sincerely from a lousy NUS-educated business grad.

Ok,that's that for SDU.I'd now talk briefly about the Fish Leong conceert I went to last night.Let it be said that I am not a fan and I have not been converted as a result of attending the concert.That doesn't mean that she's not good or that the concert wasn't done well.Maybe her music is not to my tastes really.Fish has a very pleasant,sweet and coy girl-next-door quality about her which translates well when she banters with the audience.She sings well too but I'm just not familiar with her songs.She also has this knack of transforming any cover version she does into mid-tempo numbers...it's the way she sings really.I bet she can turn a Metallica song into a mid-tempo ballad.

She had two special guests last night.Jaycee Chan and Emil Chau.Jaycee,the first to come on,was super nervous.It is the first time he's a special guest after all.His singing...well,it's competent but still raw around the edges.A bit pitchy here and there and he tends to shout during the higher notes rather than scale through them.

Emil Chau,seasoned performer that he is,almost stole the thunder from Fish.It's obvious why. His 互动 with the audience is quite superb really and he overshadowed Fish in that department.And he also has a cache of classic songs to fall back on.I think I'd like to attend his concert if he ever holds one here again.He's impressed me.

As everyone knows,there were two proposals from a couple of boyfriends live on the show that night.It was ok really...a bit of silly fun here and there,a bit corny here and there and a little touching here and there too.As a small gimmick,it worked alright.But it's the fact that two couples got together that night that really counts...makes me wanna get married too...