"Happy" Chinese New Year

All the visiting has come almost to a close. But thanks to NUS for evilly timing the Lunar New Year holidays to clash with the Mid Term break, I think I'm officially doomed for the slew of tests to follow next week.

Random pictures to rattle on...
Ah... The ever-so-enthusiastic Engineering Canteen Drink Stall, complete with full costumes for the uncle and auntie and fake firecrackers which can make helluva noise.

The first Wei Qi game for the year, accompanied by white wine from South Africa. Man, I really suck in the game now...

Countless steamboats and glorious food. But neh... Didn't take many pictures, as I was more interested in shoving down food than photography.

Flower Power

Outside Central Library (at 3PM)
Price of 1 Rose: $7.00

Central Library Bus stop (at 6PM)
Price of 1 Rose: $1.50

Drink stall at NTU Canteen (at 8.30PM)

Happy Valentine's Day, suckers.

Lonesome Lunch

Recently, I've been hooked to another one of those dangerously time-consuming web comics. Aptly named, "Piled Higher and Deeper", it chronicles the life (or the lack thereof) students in graduate school. Although the focus was about students in graduate school, I thought it depicted some of the situations I faced uncannily.

THE LONESOME LUNCH
Just last week, at 1.13pm, I received an sms from 'Dreamchat'.

Have you eaten lunch yet? Want to eat together? Call Dreamchat 1900 ******* now and we can have lunch dinner and breakfast together.

Coincidentally, I did not have lunch khaki for that day. And I did not want to end up like...

But NO, I did NOT make a phone call to that dubiously tacky hotline.

iCynical

Do not be cynical.
Do not be cynical.
Do not be cynical.
Skepticism is okay, but not cynicism.

Chanting the above became my daily ritual, before I read the local papers. But I knew I was a lost cause when I read the most interesting page 3 of The State's Times (How Prof. Thio Li-Ann would describe it... Heh.) this year.

SM's call to wealthy: Give 0.5% of annual pay to needy.
He hopes Singapore will one day become a country known for philanthropy.

Placed strategically beside the above article was this:

PAP moves to counter criticism of party, Govt in cyberspace.

I giggled, cried, laughed and went into spasms all at the same time. If you thought ROFL wasn't possible in real life, you would be definitely convinced otherwise.

So I speculated our dear president, Mr Nathan who drew $2.6 million in 2006 (with an impending increase of $200,000 this year) would be "compelled" to donate at least $13,000. If we were to assume that our various ministers will follow suit, the poor is set to have another windfall!

Woohoo!

And move over Xia Xue, get ready to be dethroned by kuanyew.blogspotless.com or choktong.wordbest.com!