No Pics today

Sori boys and girls... no more pics today.... Been rather tired and sick lately. I suffer from IBD or more precisely NUD.... Waaaaaahhhhh more abreviations.... We Sillyporeans just love to abreviate things.... ERP.... ECP... HDB.... whatever!!!

Anyway... IBD is Irritable Bowel Syndrome and NUD is Non Ulcer Dyspepsia. Both are problems you really do not want to have man..... both mean that your stomach is easil irritated and this can be from the food you have eaten or even the speed you ate the food. Sufferes who are at the epitomy of this problem will be throwing up and or having Diarrhoea and so on. This means that virtually nothing can go in and once in can come in violently in both ways... hehehehe... Like I said.. not a good way to enjoy lfe.

Anyway so much for sickness..... I am actually pretty tired of this old life of mine... so am ready to go anywhere else..... Don wori lah... I do not believe in killing myself..... But then the thing is.... having a look at life nowadays.... Sometimes it is better to even escape by any other means to any other place. Death to some is a scary thing.. but to me is a new adventure..... and I do not have any notions of being like Nichlas Cage in Ghost Rider or Spawn or other movie dead beings... To me being dead is just the body rotting away. As for the spirit and the higher consciousness.... I do not really care lah.... Why be afraid of something you do not know when the things you know should be more scary?

I am not kidding when I say that nothing much really scares me nowadays. I was deadly afraid of cockroaches.... I would scream like a girl...(Shhhhh please don't tell anyone) and run like a headless chicken. There was once when we were in the army and we were in our bunk an a big cockroach flew into our room..... All 15 of us ran out screaming like girls..... There was also once when I was nearly killed by a cockroach.... This was when I was living alone in Japan.... It was during summer when the insects came out. My bed was just beside the wall and I saw a cockroach crawling on the wall on top of my bed. So I climbed on the bed, took out the bug spray and sprayed the mother F..... It ran away, then turned round and came back towards me..... I got scared out of my wits.... Took a step back.... my foot found nothing but open air.... and fell flat on my back....OOooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh..... I could not move....could not breath....."think I need to call an ambulance......".... But then the next question is "What the bloody hell do I tell the operator?? A cockroach almost killed me????" Man with broken back because he fell from bed... and because he tried to kill a cockroach but was attacked by the very same cockroach..!!??? People sure laugh till they turn purple man.... So I slowly regained my feeling... moved a toe... moved a finger and so on.

Now surprisingly.... I am not afraid of those little damn things anymore.... The stupid Lancer I was driving had the little damned idiots running around.... and when I saw them I would just whack them with my hand.....

I am also not really afraid of "ghosts" and so on.... Though I would really not like to meet one... but I am not really scared.... Perhaps because I have nothing to hide and have done no evil.... This was from waaaaaayyyyy baaacccckkkk in my younger days... I think it is because I learnt to adapt to my fears.... Imagine..... as a very young primary school student and secondary school student... I had to take buses to school. And school started at 7.30am... My school was rather far so I had to start a bit earlier..... earlier meant darker.... and I had to cross a wooded area beside a river.... people have drowned in the river...... dark shadows can be seen on the trees.... And one fine day.... (actually it was a dark and eery morning) my stupid mom....(hhhmmmmmmmmmmm maybe the signs that she had a weak mind was clear from the start) told me...."Son... you have to be careful... someone told me that a pontianak has escaped from Malaysia and is in Singapore!!! A pontianak is a Malay Vampire...... If that doesn't scarea child and scars his life.... I do not know what will.... And some more.... if she were so bloody concerned..... then why the bloody hell did she not send me to the stupid bus stop???? Scarred of the pontianak must be..... Nowadays.... Mat Alamak escape.... people do not really care... tell them a pontianak and see how they laugh at you.....

So my fearless attitude grew from these humble beginnings..... Even in the army.... I could walk alone in the middle of the night in the jungles... in the training fields...."aaaaahhhhh what is there to be afraid??" "I already kenna a pontianak fear from young man!!! Chey!!!"

Damn this blog is long man..... but tired and sick and bored..... Anyway... thanks for listening man....

Cheers and peace out

A new Pic and a New test

This is a pic I sorta played with on the Photoshop. It was a very ulu part of Thailand and we were waiting for a train. So my wife snapped the pic. I used Photoshop to turn parts of the pics into Sepia so that I could highlight the "oldness" of the place. Not meaning anything disrespectful by that. We rarely have any "old" places left in Sillypore. So this proves that at least we have a past and with thepast, we have a future.

Of course I am not one of those antiquated dinosaurs who think that the whites should rule the world...(if they think so... we have over a billin yellows to over-power them and re-populated the world man....heheheh)

Back to the pic, I am not going to fight with V for a pic a day, but I will post as many as I can.... then at least some people will not think that I have been naughty.

Cheers and peace out.

The Hoo Haaa about marriage and falling birth rates in Sillypore

There will be no pics my gentle reader as today will be a blast of hot air from an old man.... ME!!!

There was this recent study or survey or WHATEVER done stating te various reasons why people do not get married here..... Its plain and simple lah..... attitudes....!!!!

When we date, the very process of going into a date is a sparring match... almost.... Most guys want a pretty sexy lady... (Come one guys admit it lah.... If given a choice of a sexy babe and fat old plain Jane.. who would you choose??) Guys oso choose based on the ease of getting a lady into bed... The lady on the other hand chooses a guy based on his looks...(Come one tell the truth and shame the devil!!! If you looked at short and fat ole me and Edison Chen... who would you choose) and the size of his wallet. I am not sure if th girls are as direct as before, but the first question girls asked me when I was dating many many many moons ago was "What car do you drive"?... Well now I drive a fucking evo and if you dare ask me that question, I will ask back..."I drive and Evo but only super models like Rebecca Lee and pretty babes like Fiona Xie can sit in it..." Seriously man...

So back to the sparring... when each couple has sized out the other part, then comes the part of"qualifications"

GUY: Hmmmmm ok ok body.... nice smile.... cheerful outlook.... Ok onsssss
Girl: Hmmmmm drives stupid Altis only... lucky not Vios lah.... holds a gold card.... chey now people got platinum liao.... works in MNC... ok lah... onsssssss

Then of course the datng process starts.... and after a few years... if the guy hasn't strayed or the girl hasn't blown the guy's finances to S**T, they decide to get married... Firstly... a house... most people unless born with a golden laddle will buy a HDB.... But they are not cheap hor. And unless daddy and or mommy dearest want to help you pay..(which is another bloody issue I want to bring up... how can a guy who is already 20-30yr old still be beggin from his parents.... Even he guy who drove and killed other people... I am sure that the cars were paid for by their parents.... Imagine... a car is at least 5k in deposit.... where a young punk got so much money?) (Parents.... u disgust me) So they have to wait a few years to cough up enough for a downpayment for the hdb.... and what about the weddin dinner?? Nowadays the dinners also not cheap... though the people who come are getting cheaper... and also they are now doggy bagging the food as we are gobbling it down... I swear!!! A fren told me that he saw a couple putting some stuff into container to bring home to their children... bloody hell!!! Why spoil your children so much and of course this is not fair to those who paid their red packet money and want to eat their fir share.... Or even those cheapo nana who did not give a fantastic ang pow and still hope for a "fair share"

So now after getting married... strapped with house loan... car loan (if you are not sponging off yor parents) and study loan (because if you were not a graduate... u can dream of getting married) and whatever loan you have.... You are stuck in a shit job with a shit boss (lets face it... people always think that they are so smart because they are at the top and also because they all think they deserve to be on top)the guy is now feeling a lot of stress... unless he is sponging off his parents still lah....(The reason why I am harpin on this point is because there are still a lot of these guys AROUND!!!)

After marriage... comes the need to entertain clients, to go out drinking...to be with buddies and so on.... and no time for the char bor.... Of course lah... sex was only while dating.... after marriage.... what sex? Too busy lah...

But actually to be fair.... it is also too expensive and too stupid a venture... After all... going to see a gyne will cost money.... giving birth will cost money.... and even after that money will be spent on the child.... and guess what.... after the child grows up.... he will sponge on u like u sponged on your parents..... want children???? NO WAY???? Buy monkey better....!!!!

So u see.... ladies and gentlemen.... it is simple.... our way of lfe has made it almost impossible to get married and to have babies.... It is not only up to the gahmen.. but it is also up to the individual. Are we going to "stand up" and "deliver" for our country? I don think so.......

Cheers and peace out!!!

Ooohhh Memories and old past

Here are some more pics I chose from my set of pics. Basically nothing great, not like V's, but at least I'm pottering around playing with my cam instead of certain other appendages.... ahem ahem... if you know what I mean.

Oh yea about the memories and old past, I was just talking to an od friend N. H is Thai and we have been frens for ages. But with all frens, people come and go. But I will never forget what he said to me when I was at my lowest point and that was that if I were to go to Thailand, all I needed was 500 baht for my airport tax and the rest he would look after. Not many people have bothered to say that to me, but this is what is expected from Silyporeans I guess. So my wife has a fren who is in the shoe business and after the China quake, she needs to find other factories and N doe have a connection to one. So I called on good old fren N. It is like a nostalgic journey because of the group of idiot Sillyporeans, I think only I am the one who stands by his side. All others have gone on to other things and or are too busy with other things now. But for me, frenship is most important. Of course, there are other considerations lah.

So like I said, fond memories lah....

Oh yea, I had to find out for myself that over 20 Evo SST have arrived in Sillypore yesterday!!! What th blood hell ismy SE doing? He should be all over the case since I yapped at him the other time. Yet he did not eve bother to check or maybe his fren in CnC doesn't know how to do his job. I am not sure if my car is in the shipment though my "secret sources" is pretty sue it is. So now to have LTA homogulate...(Till now I still haveno bloody idea what that means) and then to have it registered and my hell starts. Hell is because of the repayment. But I guess that I will have equal pleasure too lah.

Do not wori gentle readers.... I WILL NOT!!! modify the car... I will be too broke.... I will be paying for the tax of the other car and also the insurance.... so that is why from now onwards... cash will be tight.

Furthermore.... Wifey M checked out this hospital that specializes in IVF in Osaka.... its relatively cheap lah.... about 5k per cycle.... and success rate of 34%.... That is better den Sllypore's rate of 25%... or are the docs here just mor conservative????? So money money money.... my white hairs are all coming out by the bunch..... But it is okay because I am sure tht I am doing the right an proper thing and the money I use is earned by proper hard work.

Anyway..... peace out brothers and sistas and hope I can get my wife pregnant.

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures

I was playing with my camera and when I downloaded it, I had some pretty interesting pics.... so will put the on for all to see.

One is a pic of Jumbo in Hong Kong, it was a pretty nice pic of the night sky. I like the night.... I do not know why, it is always challenging to shoot something in the dark ad hope it comes out ok. The other two shots were from my flat in a part of Sillypore, (I will still not tell you where) 1 is a night shot but with long exposur and the other is using a super long shot of some place green that I could see from my window. At least we can see green sometimes. I will try take and then insert more pics as the days go by. At least you all can see that while my wife is away.... I am still beinga good boy.... Hhehehehehee

Hai......(sighs)

My wifey dearest lau puo is gone.... no lah silly... she did not die and we did not divorce.... She just went back to Japan. She may not be back for about 1 and a half years. The reason for this is that if she is pregnant, she will not be able to travel for the first 3 months. Then for the last 6 months, she will have to go back to her hometown in Akita Prefecture to find a hospital and get ready for the birth. So 9 months gone. Then eve after birth, she will have to go back to Osaka and bring the child up for another half a year at least, so that the child will have all his or her shots and also the much vaunted Japanese citizenship. Yes my dear readers, I will let them have Japanese citizenship.

I am not saying that being a Sillyporean is not good, just that being Japanese is better. A Japanese child gets free medical till age 5!!!! A Sillypore child gets to pay for all their own medical from birth.... Yeaaaaaa! BS$%^&*()(*&^$%^&*()!!!! Imagine a country that is having a falling birth rate and yet there are no goodies.... Yea... there are tax incentives... whoopeee.... If I were a poor man... how much tax would I be paying in the first place??? Oh yea... the Child Development thingy account thing... We put in X amount of dollars... the gahmen puts in the same amount.... Same argument... we give peanuts... we get peanuts.... And these peanuts cannot be spent on anything other than study, school fees and so on. Not even for bus fare and or books....

But you see my dear reader... It is not the price of education that really scares me... If my childis smart, will find ways of giving him or her an education. But if the child is sick... that is what I am scared of. Imagine if a child has childhood cancer.... you never know in this new world of ours man....chemicals in baby bottles.... whatever shit in diapers and so on..... But if the child needs an op.... 30k please!!! Who and how to pay? Max out the credit cards, max out the easy loans??? Borrow from your friends and family till they pretend they are not in when you come over (Hmmmm good way of avoiding family gatherings from now on.

So as you can see.... I am not going on a tirade against the gahmen... but it is the reality of the situation. We do not have a choice.... I do not mind my children going to a normal GP, I am not thinking of bringing them to specialists and or pediatrics... but still the idea of having to pay a hefty bill is scary.

Even for my half demented (or shouldI say prett fully demented mom).... if she has to go ino a home... it will be at least 1k a month..... How the hell does one pay for such things? It may have been called a luxury some while ago, but it will become necessity soon. Imagine.... demented old folk can actually start eating from the trash bin... This is because they may not even have the ability to understand the dangers of doing so. In fact, depending on which part of their mind is dying or has died, they may not even be capable of thinking. So if a family has to have dual income to survive, who will look after the old person? A maid??? Perhaps.... but now they are such a pampered lot that they can complain and the police will look into every case of ill-treatment. A home? Like I said... 1k plus if you are unlucky.

Things are getting ex here.... and yet the pay is not really catching up. Especially for us the "sandwiched generation", you have no idea when and where the pain will come from.

Another life wasted on the road

Yesterday an accident happened in Orchard road. An Evo crashed into a taxi and he taxi flipped over. Condolences to the driver.

I am not here to say who is at fault or what. This should be left to the police. owever, the reason why I am printing this is because both cars are known culprits of dangerous road habits. I am not saying about the drivers of the cars hor...

Evo's are very high performance cars. they come off the factory with 280hp. It takes very little to push the power even higher. Change a few parts and you have a car pushing above 350hp. Make more drastic mods and you can even have Evo's that are 700hp. But then no matter how much u can mod a car, you cannot mod a driver. If he i a hot head and cannot resist a "challenge", he will try to blast down every road there is. In the report, his passenger was a lady. I can only make the educated assumption that he was trying to impress her and perhap others on the streets.

This brings to mind Little Mr. Lee of the Mazda Mx5 fiasco. If you cannot really handle the power of the car, then it is best you stay off th roads. Please leave other people to have a safe drive!!! We are paying enough in money to the government and we deserve to have safe roads. The probabtion period for new drivers should also be longer and the punishments be longer. I do not want to expose me and my family to dangerous drivers who cut into your lane without much clearance forcing you tojam brakes and so on.

The local cab driver is also another danger. With the rising price of everything, he now is faced with lower income and he has to work harder to make enough for his family. However, some uncles do it the wrong way. I was nearly forced off the road by a speedin Merc cab this morning. He was on the centre lane in TPE, and he filtered left to over-take me, then to over take into the right. Doesn't the passenger even feel as though he is in danger?

Wasn't there a recent report where an uncle crashed into a centre pylon because he was speeding?

So who is in the wrong in this accident? Who is to blame? We may never know. But then seriously, if we wish to race, then lets race at clear places where there are no further traffic. Please do not endanger other people on the road.

Though I have bought an Evo and though I have a history of performance cars, I am always thinking about the scenario of what if someone you love got hurt by a racer. Do you want to be a racer who hurts other people?


Cheers and peace out

ERP and a new friend

A new friend came unexpectedly and she also sent me an interesting mail. It was on ERP. Where will it end? There will be more ERP on more roads and for longer times. It makes travelling more expensive. Of couse there will be people who will say... "take public transport lah!!!" but lets be practical hor.... If you live in an area where you have to take a bus then 2 trains to your office and you have to face illogical situations on the way, you might decide you want to Pay More to get to work in decent shape.

Kudos to the transport companies like MRT for putting more trains on the tracks at peak times. And bus companies for more buses at peak times. The waiting times are now on average 5 plus minutes. Great, but the people are just a many.

I am used to crowded trains, and if you see the movies of people getting on the Yamanote Line in Tokyo, you will most probably see a very small and pudgy little guy trying to squeeze on. But in Tokyo, the people respect you and respect your space. They do not push their bags into your ribs, step on your foot or worse still.... breath their morning breaths on you....(turning green and wanting to throw up at the thought). They also stand by the side of the door, then proceed in after eveyone has left the train. Here is a mad scramble to get in, the kia su fear that they will be left behind if they do not hamper or block the way out for those who wish to alight. They also do not move inside and do not give way to those who wish to move around.

So we come to the car.... No choice mah... idiots on the trains spoil your day, so yougo by car lor..... Then you will see idiots who spoil your day on the roads. People who road hog, people who come up to you butt and try to push you faster. People who cut into your lane with no warning or the slightest hint of a signal. If you jam your brakes, the guy behind you will bang into you. If you do not, you will ang into the guy who cut into you.... Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

But back to the new friend. I have never met her and probably never will. But I thank her for showing me that it is getting really difficult and expensive to live in Sillypore nowadays. I am sure that many will say move... but I came back to live because it is my home.... No matter how imperfect it is.