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:: Monday, March 31, 2003 ::

ok Tat, you're eating up my blog space. If you want to post anything in opposition to me do it on your own blog, or on my tag board below. If not, i will obliterate you from the surface of the earth.
er...I don't mean to be nasty really, we shall settle this on a diplomatic and gentlemanly basis.

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Music: Theme from Oliver!

Hmm, how amusing, JC students are starting to petition for school to be open at an earlier date...thats so gross. But I won't mind if the petition was accepted. I'm dying of boredom and its only monday!

:: Stuffy 3/31/2003 03:50:00 AM [+] ::
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who gives a hoot about the UN HR charter?

i can and i will. *heats up oven*

:: pike 3/28/2003 09:51:00 AM [+] ::
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You can't. Its a violation of the UN Human Rights Charter.

:: Stuffy 3/27/2003 07:27:00 PM [+] ::
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"Caught up with Tat and the lastest updates in school and out of, sometimes its so interesting listening to that small little mouth gap gap gap. How educational!"
hmm...steph, ever wonder how i'm gonna roast you after you've said that? argh.

:: pike 3/26/2003 11:44:00 AM [+] ::
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Music:Go the Distance - Michael Bolton (Envision the golden curls falling of the back of his shoulders) "I'll be there some day, I can go the distance, I will find my way, if I can be strong"

=) I just stuck the card that mich gave me yesterday onto my bulletinboard. I guess sometimes its nice to pass small little things to people for no reason or rhyme. When I stare hard enough at the front of the card, I get lost into a nice simple meadow with a stream running through the middle. Lovely.

Just came back about 2hrs ago after meeting up with Zuck, Elson, Ruhan and Tat. Unfortunately the poly dudes have school tomorrow so they couldn't join us for a small reunion. It just feels like the post-Olevels all over again when my mind was alot more carefree. Caught up with Tat and the lastest updates in school and out of, sometimes its so interesting listening to that small little mouth gap gap gap. How educational! Of course coming back to reality, I need to focus myself on what I am suppose to be doing and my purpose of doing it at this point in time. (When I think of it, it isn't that bad, really)

Had a nice bowl of two half boiled eggs and some Kaya toast at Killineys. Elson suggested going there, and I thought it wasn't such a bad idea. I guess going to classy cafes too often gets you jaded to the point that all that iced mocha to cappacinos to whatever stylish designers coffee they have on the menu. I've been patronizing Starbucks one time too often. (I almost feel that I can write freely given the next week ahead with no school...write until the server runs out of bytes, I wonder if they would take the ban off tomorrow hmm...wonder how many more people would be going to the hospitals...)

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I was walking back from studying just a few days before the march common tests started, and I couldn't help but take notice of a few kids about 13 at a nearby playground. Its all too familiar. Just five and a half years ago (which seems like ages) I was there doing the same thing. Except probably more boldly armed with Super-soakers and fart bombs stationed at the playground opposite Aaron's flat Diagonally opposite, about few meters away, my rivals camp-out would have about 6 to 7 'soldiers' on ground about 3 of them on the top platform armed with the same ammo as my commrades. It was so fun! Taking hostages and tying them with raffia strings to the see-saw until the ransom was paid. LOL When I think about it, it isn't one of those things which lifts my spirits, rather its a mixed feeling of sentimental nostalgia coupled with layers of vague heaviness of the heart. As much as I would like to go back to a playground and do what I did that 5 and a half years back, I can't. (This is where I would go onto a long rhetoric on Time and its essence, but I think its quite about retarded to do so)

But really, everytime I see a bunch of young teenage kids at a playground, I feel that sudden urge to tell them to be more adventurous to play that game of playground-warfare, or so thats what we called it back then. I'd gladly join them or sit by the sidelines to watch. Back then, how old am I know. Its almost appalling to say the words 'back then'. Makes you sound so...aged. Sometimes I wonder where Aaron and company (Rob, Tze Siong, Zhi etc...) disappeared too. I see them around sometimes, but I don't recognize them anymore, or maybe I don't want to. I guess the only person who has known my 'that kind of childhood' would be zhi. Haven't seen him for quite a while since hes been to poly, but I'm bound to see him at some next gathering. Just wondering if he still remembers all that.

:: Stuffy 3/26/2003 10:09:00 AM [+] ::
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In the middle of Common Test
I just heard on CNA that theres no school tomorrow til 6th April, hmm...guess the bug is becoming more and more serious...and to think that yesterday after the Math test, I wanted to tell Sarita, if I had a choice, I would be put down 'The patient got SARs and it died' (for that question on how much glucose the patient needs to survive by doing some differential equation)

Its so annoying....why can't they get over with the common tests first, sigh...so unfair...whine* Oh well, that means i'll have to start coming on with my chinese and blah...argh.......okay life goes on as per normal...just plain studying to pull up my already abnormal grades. Off to meet Tat and gang...just made plans to go CA for fun......

:: Stuffy 3/26/2003 03:25:00 AM [+] ::
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Sometimes I need to nip myself in the butt (yes nip myself in the BUTT), gain a little inspiration and get my inert blog rolling. I guess its because I've been so drained lately that I can hardly write anything except for what I read in the papers. Hey you have to admit that budget day can be really exciting! *smiles enthusiastically. After all, what is there left except to stare at line and see them run continously page after page after...Its just mentally draining to have to cramp all that stuff just for one exam. Then again, I do recall what Sarita said when we were sitting under Lt van last week, "Mentally draining, but its the mental stimulation which makes it all worthwhile". *smile I couldn't agree with her more, and I guess thats why I chose the humanities.
But theres a stark difference between leisure-studying and exam-studying. Cramming and remember stuff doesn't really give me much room to digest and think creatively (and yes, I have SLOW memory power). And of course under exam conditions, my sentence structure starts to go heywire and my handwriting into disgusting scrawls. Urk. I hate to think of Mr Thompson's contorted features whenever he looks at my paper and go , 'Stephanie! Ah! You have good ideas but you handwriting is terrible! (Looks at me) You seem to be confused!' (Withers away and die)

:: Stuffy 3/21/2003 06:26:00 AM [+] ::
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On Budget Day

Just read the Straits Time Pg5H, its amusing how parliment debates go, I should try to catch one sometime. But yesterday's debate was probably the most eye-opening and fruitful. Which makes me wonder whether the government has only been propagating an all-talk but no-action campaign on entreprenuership. In my opinion, I think they have been doing this far too long since donkey years ago when I was still in sec2. Red tape has become an serious problem in Singapore, and this is probably one of the main reasons why the entreprenueral spirit never took off that well when the goverment started championing its cause. Aside from the high land cost which burdens the PSA, this doesn't pose as large a problem as red tape. I suppose that one of the reasons why the American economy survives without so deep a scar after every economic recession and its stupendous and unneccesary wars is probably because red tape doesn't pose as heavy an obstacle as it does for Japan and here in Singapore. It is therefore much easier to mobilize factors of production, hence effectively starting up entreprenuerial buisinesses. The Health Management International decision to switch from providing health servies to training healthcare workers was hindered by bureaucratic red tape; NTUC's Foodfare took more than a year to set up after having to deal with several government agencies. Clearly, the ineffectiveness of the goverment to quickly endorse firm decisions has led to "every day spent waiting means another day of lost opportunities". If the goverment is really earnest about making this entreprenuerial spirit work, then it is high time they did something about the existing level of Red tape which is hindering economic progression.
Perhaps the main dilemma of the goverment would be whether liberialising the economy is as good as it sounds. Mindsets is another hinderance to economic progression, and this is not entirely the goverment's fault. Will we ever pull oursevles out from the conservative stereotype of 'the successful scholar'? With the number of unemployed graduates from NUS on the rise (relative to those from NTU and SMU), only the well-informed, educated section public who followup with such stats would think twice on whether it would be wiser to go to a polytechnic than to a JC. For the rest of the unfortunate lot, this means living in ignorance until it is too late.
(To be continued sometime...)

:: Stuffy 3/12/2003 04:32:00 AM [+] ::
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