You are the apple of my eye

It's year 2012.

久しぶりなんですよ。。もう２０１２年になりました。早いですね。

Returning back to blogspot a year later gave me a huge shock. Due to the change in the layout, I had to take some time to learn how to navigate through blogspot again. It's also become scarier - you can see how many views you get per entry... and also how many hits per day, from which countries, etc. So stalker-ish!! haha. But well, I concluded that my hits are probably all spams. There can't be anyone (I know, at least) still reading this dead piece of blog.

Anyway, today is a happy day! Or rather, a day filled with strange, yet strong emotions. That's probably why I decided to write again.

I learnt from sensei that today is "Tanabata" day - on 7th July of every year. Something about it being THE DAY that lovers meet on the milky way. I am not sure about the full details of this day celebrated in Japan, but I am definitely convinced that there are strong powers holding this day.

For one, everyone seemed to be holding their weddings on this day. haha. On my facebook, I could see at least three different groups of people attending the weddings of different people. Even I myself have attended the wedding ceremony of a friend today. I think this day holds a special meaning to this couple as well. And if I'm not wrong, it's the date of their anniversary. Well, he's a really good guy - I could tell from the way he supported his wife as he mouthed the words of the wedding vows along with his nervous bride who may have trouble finding the words, or the way he looked lovingly (as instructed by the reverent, nonetheless) at his wife all throughout the ceremony. I could have sworn seeing his eyes fill up with tears of joy as the bride walked down the aisle. I did not expect myself to be that overwhelmed but I am indeed moved. It is afterall, a long time since I attended any wedding ceremonies (that I could care much about), and what more my first time witnessing the marriage of a friend.

If I hadn't expressed it well enough, I really wish them the best in their lives together ahead. :)

And then just now, I had the time to catch the movie "You are the apple of my eye". It was a movie that caused a great hoo-haa in Asia to say the least. I had tried watching it on youtube when it first showed, but I couldn't understand it. I couldn't understand what was so nice about the show. What was the meaning of the show? But in any case, I gave up on it after watching half of the show.

Or so I thought. When I re-watched it again just now, I realized that I couldn't have watched for more than 15minutes, because I could not remember any of the scenes from the 15th minute onwards. That's when I realized I haven't been putting enough effort the first time round.

But well, after the whole movie, I realized it is indeed something that people will like, or could relate too. It's a little bit cliche but not boring, and perhaps touching as well.

Love is a topic that keeps coming up in every part of my social circle these days. I guess it is inevitable since we are growing up, or old. I've had many meaningful conversations about it as well, and heard about the perspectives of many people - the hurt, the bochup, the desperate. haha! It's such a complicated feeling... no wonder attending wedding ceremonies on Tanabata day and watching a love movie could spark off an entry like this that actually doesn't really have any point...

Just stop it seriously...

GE fever taken too far - it's a day later already and everyone is STILL talking about it. Please just stop it man... Get over it.

Just so annoyed at everyone's posts/comments. I have the tendency to be an "opposition" myself so might I say everyone who is blindly voicing out what needs to be done consider the feasibility of your ideas. Firstly, petitioning for a by-election - Persuant to Section 49, Sub Section 70, Paragraph A of the Parliamentary Act, Mr Yam has already declared those elected into the Parliarment. Please just respect that - anyway those were the choices of the people what. Isnt this what democracy is all about? Majority rules. Even if just by a hundred over votes (actually I'm not sure cuz I simply can't be bothered). The people in the ward have decided who they want as representatives of their area, so just let them live with their decision, be it good or bad. What gives everyone else from every other area who are just merely plain pro-opposition the right to join in the fun and do a "petition"?

Come on man.

I know I sound super pro-government, but in fact I'm not. I'm neither. I'm as apathetic as it gets... as previously mentioned. Just that it is impossible to just be in your own world living a blissful ignorant life now when everyone is forcing their opinions into your face.. Maybe I should quit social media.......... Life was much simpler when I adamantly refused to open a facebook account (yanling are you reading this? haha. and what happened to your blog!).

Secondly - TPL issue. Okay seriously why is everyone finding fault in her? I really really don't get it. What's with all the "I don't want TPL in paliarment" sentiments? For this I strongly strongly agree with xiaxue's recent blog post. You don't want her, then who do you want? Discount Nicole - would anyone be able to name the other 4 MPs from NSP? (Other than that dude singled out as the weakest by xiaxue hehe). For sure I won't be able to. I haven't even heard their voices at all the entire time. It was all Nicole talking.

Actually I can't name the people in TPL's team as well hahaha but at least I know there's SM Goh inside, someone who has done his part in shaping our country to what it is today. So you'll rather sacrifice him for another party (with quite frankly low credentials) to be in the GRC? It's not easy leading an entire GRC yeah. One may be superb leading an SMC when you can devote all resources into one area, whereas you're playing a totally different ball game in GRC. I don't know man, to me it seems really childish to just disregard a good team just cause of superficial issues like this. I'm sure TPL has her capabilities too, since she is an auditor (comeon man I GOTTA give credit for that. Aren't auditors good at planning, calculating, and whatnot).

Remember, GE is not a popularity contest - we can always tune in to Singapore Idol for that. We need a country to be well run, and for that to happen we have to get the best people. Sorry but this is just life.

By the by on the side note, God knows what will happen if Singapore moves towards the welfare system direction. Next time you are going to be screaming more when you find out that all your taxes are being channeled towards helping people who don't wanna work cuz of excessive dependence. You wanna get a better life? Work for it man. Like how I'm gonna be working like a dog in 5 month's time for that amount of pay......... :(

And for those who keep saying they wanna replace TPL for GY.. As attractive as it sounds... sadly I don't think that will happen. So please again, stop suggesting that. Otherwise, wouldn't it trivialize the whole GE system? Like you can suka suka do whatever the hell you want.

Don't hate me, you have your own opinions and I have mine. I'm just choosing to take a more logical viewpoint. And I'm so sick of listening to all the angry people's voices (so tired of it!!!) that I have to retreat to this little blog I have to dispel all annoyance. Hopefully nobody I don't know will ever read it, but to those select few who have my blog address, I am quite sure they will agree with what I've said. I'm really so glad that there are still people whom I can identify with. =)

GE 2011 is over, so let's just take a chill pill and be as apathetic as before okay? We'll see what PAP will provide us (I'm sure they would have gotten a strong wake-up call just like in the early 90's) in the coming years, and if we're not happy, we can scream again in the next elections alright?

General Election fever

It's that once every five year period again, but somehow, this year's general elections seems to be the talk of the town. I duno if it's because we've reached the age where such things start to matter to us, or if it's simply propagated by the social media. Every status update is about GE, every post is about GE.

Nobody used to care about such things, but now, you're almost considered backdated if you dont at least talk about it. And so, I shall try and be in the loop just this once. But very frankly, I'm still that politically apathetic person that I was since the beginning of time.

I don;t really wanna air too much of my views on the internet (afterall, it is still very unsafe to do so, say the wrong thing and you are doomed). But I just have a burning question - is everyone just so pro-opposition because they truly feel that they have the capability to lead and change our lives for the better, or is it just a very fashionable thing to do so? I mean, I'm no political follower, I'm no economic expert, but the policies that they propose are simply out of the world. And people just buy it because it SEEMS good in the short run. Note, seems. Risking social problems from immediate gratification is no good. The world is already as screwed as it is, thank you very much.

If these policies are really that good, don't you think the current government had already thought of that, probably debated to hell with it, and decided that it's simply infeasible?? I mean seriously..... Although I would really love for my pay to rise........ But what's the use if inflation is just going to hit us more than ever and offset the benefits of "pay rise".

Next, simply raising issues is not going to make Singapore a better place. Stop telling us what we already know - I know about the MRT squeeze - I feel it everytime I travel during peak hours. What we need is solutions. So far I'm not hearing any yet, other than vague proposals here and there. Don't even get me started on the "solutions" that will simply bring about more problems (see above).

But anyway, I'm so sick of all this. May the 7th be over and done with soon (yippie audit exam on that day too). Remember, your vote is a SECRET so please stop posting your views all over on facebook. haha.

yabai~

This is bad, week 6 is coming and I'm acting as though I'm on holiday. Whenever I'm free I'll start idling around and stream variety shows, and whenever I'm burdened by projects or school work I escape reality like a 7 year old and still idle around and stream variety shows.

Yabai.

And it's not as though my workload is as chill as a normal year 3 sem 2 accountancy student with probably 2 cores and some electives. I'm taking 4 cores and all are not easy. I'm lost in every class and piled up 5 weeks of readings for every module.

Yabai.

hahaha. Oh well, life still goes on. Hopefully I will find enough motivation to properly think of points for my group presentation on Monday. Yawns. I seriously hate HR courses. hate. People ask me, why do I take it or continue with it. My reply has always been standard - since I've already cleared 3 out of 5, I might as well just go on with it and graduate with a second specialization. But lately I have been unable to convince myself with this argument. It would have been more valid if I don't suck at all the HR modules. All they did were to pull my GPA down. If I hadn't taken it in the first place, I seriously think I might manage a first class honours, or at least a high second upper (I;m not bragging, I;m just lamenting) quite comfortably.

Sucks........

And not to mention my ear has been giving me lots of trouble lately. Started off with earwax buildup at the end of last year.... Then midway through it started bleeding... Then it became well after medication and subsequently the doctor flushed out the gooey wax (ew) out. Lately this earblock returned again. And it's now become a full blown ear infection + pus discharge (double ew), which I believe has been there since the time it started bleeding. That led me to think of how much information assymetry a doctor and a patient has, and how helpless we are to have to trust everything a doctor says. After so many trips to the clinic, I believe one or two of them are telling me bullshit. What are the right questions to ask?

Anw, if it doesnt heal up by this week I guess I would probably have to be referred to a hospital. Oh well, on medication now and I hope it will stop bothering me ever again. Keeps fingers crossed!

Everything you might want to know about Malaysian Citizenship Renunciation, or Minor Oath Taking

In my bid to become a kinder and more helpful individual come year 2011, I've decided to document my experience of the loooooong process of Minor Oath taking in gory detail, so as to serve as an info guide to help out anyone at all who happens to be googling desperately just like i did a month ago. Cuz I can understand how it is like to be clueless and unmotivated, help from veterans surely does help.

Anyway, amongst all the lucky Singaporeans, there are people like me - who are Singaporeans by registration. Although I may have been born in Singapore, by law, I had to follow the citizenship of my parents, who were then still Malaysians. It was only when I was about 7 or 8 when my parents decided to renounce their Malaysian citizenships and become full fledge Singaporeans. To cut the story short, although I had already renounced my M'sian citizenship back then together with my parents, being a minor, I guess it wasnt really counted as official. So now, at 21, I had to re-renounce (heh) my Msian citizenship, as well as to confirm my loyalty and pledge my allegiance to Singapore. We have a year to do so btw, and normally I would have done some serious last minute work but because my passport had expired and you couldn't renew your passport without taking the oath, I was forced to do everything up early in order to get it ready to book tickets for my grad trip (YAY).

Disclaimer: Information applicable as at Jan2011. It may change as time goes by....

Step 1: Renouncing your Msian citizenship!!! (i.e. Doing up what they call Borang/Form K)

Documents needed:
(please see http://www.kln.gov.my/c/document_library/get_file?p_l_id=245759&folderId=573173&name=DLFE-6212.htm)

ALL requires original plus 2 photocopies
i. Letter of approval from the Singapore Registrar of Citizens and ICA (i.e. the letter they mailed you to tell you to take the oath)
ii. Malaysian identity card (if any)
iii. Singapore pink/blue identity card
iv. Malaysian Restricted and International passport(including expired & cancelled passports)
v. Malaysia/Singapore birth certificate
vi. Borang W (i.e. Msian citizenship cert if you are holding singapore birth cert)
vii. Two photographs + 10SGD fee
viii. Some renunciation letter you received if you had renounced ur Msian citizenship previously. But somehow I didn't have that letter and I insisted I couldnt produce it. Thankfully the person let me off the hook, phew. Would be good to bring it.

please see the link above for full info. It says that you need photocopies of some of your parent's essential documents as well. But somehow....they didn't ask me for it. So I guess there isn't a real need..... But you'll never know right, so it would be good to have it ready first. Photocopying services there at the embassy rips people off by the way!!! 20cents (or was it 40??) per piece, are you kidding me? Okay, so armed with all your documents, you may stroll down to the Malaysian Embassy located at Jervois Road (you can take bus 32 from the nearest busstop you see when you exit redhill mrt station) to get it all done up! Contrary to some of the older information I had read in the blogs when I was doing research, the efficiency at the embassy is surprisingly good. So good in fact. haha

1) There's no need to schedule appointments at all! Apparently you had to do so last time just to submit your forms but it is really so efficient now you can definitely do so on the same day. I didn't even see the need to go down EXTREMELY early at the opening hour... Just be there early enough in order to fill up and submit all the forms by 11am. Filling up of forms should take you about an hour or so..

2) After submission, you'll pay your 10SGD processing fee, and after which they would issue you a collection slip to tell you to return to the embassy - I think 3 working days later, to collect your renunciation memo, which is basically an application-in-progress letter to let ICA know that you have submitted an application for renunciation, but the process hasnt been completed yet. Cuz the whole process takes about a year, they will only mail you the original Form K in a year's time if I'm not wrong. Anyway, note that collection time is only between 2:30pm and 3:30pm. This memo is very important because you gotta bring it to take your oath. =)

Step 2: Halfway there - Oath taking!!!!!!

The oath taking process is definitely much more straightforward and don't require much explanation. With your renunciation memo at hand you can once again take a leisurely stroll to ICA for oath taking. Bring along your IC, Singapore Citizenship Cert and the oath form as well. Just head up to 6th level and get a queue number for Oath taking. Before you know it, you are already a true blue Singaporean.


Step 3: Renew your passport!!!!!!

After oath taking you can just head down to the ICA lobby area at level one to remake your passport. Submit an application the usual way, just remember to attach a photocopy of your Singaporean citizenship Cert (front and back) to the back of the passport app form, because they will attach some documentary proof of your oath taking on ur citizenship cert. so yeah... patiently await for the passport collection slip to be mailed to you - mine did yesterday and I will be collecting my passport tomorrow! yahooo..

Haha, so as you can see, the whole process seriously doesn't take very long. Getting everything done within 2 weeks is definitely a possibility. Mine took slightly longer - all in about 3 weeks cuz of all the chinese new year fuss and also because I could only go down on wednesdays due to classes... But yea, moral of the story is, DONT PROCRASTINATE!!!!

Don't miss your oath taking because if you don't do so within a year you WILL lose your SG citizenship. No such thing as rescheduling another oath date I can guarantee you that. So don't sit around too long, get it done!

zombie

Hmmmm, am I really the type who can't take criticisms?

I wonder....

I will usually not criticise someone or something if I know that he/she/it is very well liked by my friends, even if i have strong feelings of dislike towards him/her/it. Afterall, you wont die by keeping your mouth shut.

Yet........ this makes me seem a little fake? I wonder.

But recently people have been expressing their ill opinions (which frankly, I don't care) about things or people that I like in my face. I know you are entitled to your opinions however bad they are, but I am as well, so please don't drown mine with yours.

You have the freedom to like whatever you want. You have the freedom to dislike whatever you want. Just don't superimpose them onto mine.

Just thought you should know.

All the petty thoughts aside, happy new year! 2011, yoroshiku onegaishimasu!

yamashita part 2

Remember i ended off last entry with Yamapi, quickly do something interesting? Well, he has!! Showing off skin is definitely the way to go. yummy.

Let me start off with some older pics of him i have:



I think it should be in 2007, during his Pro Dai period. With proper cheeks. :D


















Mid 2008... during Code Blue period. Look at the abs......altho most would divert their eyes to his chest, and call them moobs.














-_-"""

Calling them moobs certainly piss me off really bad. Because from my understanding, I believe it is a term used to describe fat men who have...well, boobies. I remember referring to one particular PE teacher of AJC that (GUESS WHO???? *coughs*ART**R L*M*coughs*) But usually I dont refute to that cuz it seems that fangirls are always gushing about yamapi's "moobs". so I thought. oh okay.

But recently, I'm finding it more and more odd, and am uncomfortable with that. So to satisfy my OCD tendencies, I went to google moobs to settle this internal argument once and for all. Haha. Here's a few hits I got:

"A combination of the words "man" and "boobs." This is what happens when fat gathers in a male's chest area, and gives him the appearance of having breasts. Usually seen in overweight males"
"Male Breasts,large in the cheast area not in the musculatory sense."

So there you go. I've had it with those comments. People should really find out what they're saying before they do... Not just in this sense but in life, in general. If you go around shooting your mouth in front of the wrong crowd, there's gonna be hell to pay. =)

Anyway, and then in beginning 2010 he became so skinny :(



.....Something like this. I was going to petition to force feed him.









But fastforward a few months after Ashita no Joe filming. Now he's sizzzzzzzzling. (With nice hair too) HAHAHA. Still skinny with even more sunken cheeks :( ....but wont you look at his biceps! So toned and tanned. AHHHHH hugs.



Armsarmsarmsarmsarmsarms... From the latest magazine scans. Haha... So this is actually the motive of today's entry.










ENJOY!!!!!! hahahaha. TAKE OFF THE SINGLET!
















Still dare to call him puny, Joyce Winchester???? :P