I can’t believe I did a 50 minutes run. Feeling really tired now.

This shows that the run and walk thingy is working as planned. 

Any way I hate the fact that I can only blog this via my mobile because sing net fucked up and doesn’t allow me to connect to my blog. Thank god for m1.

Success! But I can feel my body straining to keep up. I dread the longer sessions next week.

Gotta slow down the pace.

Week 1 session 1.

Already feeling tired from the first running session. I thought run and walk would be a piece of cake but I thought wrong.

A lot tougher than I imagined it to be. But at least I have started on it instead of just saying I would. More sessions to come…

Source: http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100811/11/2aw9s.html

… This is quite upsetting. Like what the Taiwanese people love to say, Justice is dead.

法院的爭議判決又添一筆，最高法院法官蕭仰歸的兒子蕭賢綸，因為肇事逃逸被基隆地檢署起訴，一審判6個月，但二審審判長高明哲恰好是蕭仰歸的大學同學，全案改判為無罪，此案引起司法界譁然，更傳出蕭仰歸疑似有打電話關切案情。

Well going live was a lot smoother than I expected. Things do work out and human ingenuity do beat the odds. There is nothing that can’t be fixed given the will.

Hopefully this relative calm will continue to last when the dawn breaks.

Good luck to all the batch jobs.

Various parts of Singapore were hit by flash flood this morning. Exactly one month after the “Worst flood in 50 years” that happened in Orchard we see that the same problem occurred again.

This immediately reminded me of what Prime Minister Lee has to say about this topic. “…but it is not possible to expect Singapore to be completely free of floods. The realistic objective is to prevent widespread and prolonged flooding, and limit the risk to lives and damage to properties, and to have contingency plans.”

In any other countries, for example, Taiwan. The opposition and the media would have scream for blood when the country’s highest leadership blatantly admit that they cannot stop the flooding. Taiwan is an island that’s hit by yearly typhoons, and floods are almost the norm, something to expect every year during the summer season. On the other hand we have Singapore, an island sheltered from almost every natural disaster, barring the haze and the occasional tremors we get.

And we are told that we cannot be completely free of floods. Seriously? No reasons or explanations at all?

So did the contingency plans kick in this morning? Looks to me that they just waited it out.

The PM needs to get some heat from the parliament and the people. The ruthless and aggressive kind.

Remember this during the elections.

Under the recent immigration policy of the Singapore government, there is a torrent of Chinese nationals getting PR or citizen status in Singapore.

They are cheaper to hire and most work as hard as the average the Singaporean. Some of them also don’t mind doing the “dirty” menial tasks that the educated Singaporeans loath.

Before you know it, the less competitive Singaporeans are complaining that they are out of jobs because of these “China man” who are willing to work for less. What if the person holding the post is an “ang mo”? I wonder if the Singaporean will just admit his inferiority.

But the Singaporean argues that the ang mo got the job simply because he is an ang mo and people think ang mo are superior. They get paid more even though they are roughly of the same caliber, at least in terms of academic qualification. Interestingly, if you think about this by switching the ang mo with a typical Singapore graduate, and the complaining Singaporean with a Chinese national… does the argument still hold water?

Prior to 1819, Singapore was under the rule of a Malay-Hindu Prince and was a Hindu state. The people on the island, if any, were Malay aborigines. When Stamford Raffles inked the deal to start a trading post, he started a Malay settlement. As a free port, Singapore attracted the attention Arab and Malay traders as well as the Peranakan Chinese in its early years. Then came the explosion of Chinese immigrants, as in the ones from Mainland China, during 1827. They flocked to Singapore to escape the economic hardships in China and many worked as coolies and indentured laborers.

That’s right, the Chinese people that Chinese Singaporeans are so xenophobic about actually share the same roots. And that common root is actually not too distant in time. Less than 200 years ago, that’s just like 4 generations, a typical Chinese Singaporean’s great grandfather is probably a coolie who worked for pennies on the docks.

They will probably turn in their graves when they hear their great grand children complaining about the “Ah Tiong”.

Doubt that I will ever find the time to revamp this site. I wonder what I am doing with site every time when the domain renewal period approaches.

It doesn’t really record much of my life end I don’t really have anything interesting to write. Or rather I don’t bother to maintain the site.

It might be a sad reflection of my life though. Work eat Dota and sleep. The monotony is eating into me. I suppose this is better than the time I was wowing and not generating any income. Improvement nonetheless.

Report the ramen page? Write a ramen application? I need something fun. And not a new game. Save my already dying attention span.

First mobile post on desire!

Simply put, desire is the best phone that I have ever used. It hasi got every thing that I want packaged in a cool looking interface. If I really have to.come up with a downside, I guess that’d be it’s short battery life.

Ok I haven’t got it yet, but I am planning to tomorrow.

Time to see what Android is all about!