apparently i've been missing out on quite a number of happening events since i left for HK..
alright, i watched a short telecast of the royal wedding over a TV in a 茶餐廳 when im having supper on fri nite & heard about the youtube song cum video as the wedding present for Prince William on fri morning in 深圳..
but what i din manage to know until on my return flight is Mr Low is leading a team to contest Aljunied GRC and this team is an A* team..
wow, it certainly upped the intensity of this upcoming election!!
& my FB homepage is full of comments/notes abt e various parties/GE
now i wanna get a piece of e action.. hee
didn't wanna come back to sg...
i wan more shopping!!! =P
yay yay yay!
i got to vote in e coming elections!!
& this time round the opposition party is also fielding quality candidates..
perhaps i really need the cooling day to seriously think it over..
just when i think 7 may might be too rush a time for elections as e gahmen prob wants e undergrads to vote wisely, it is now the E day...
& 5 years back, its 6 May the E day..
anyone like to bet e next GE date? =P
shd i say tt i practiced singaporean's kiasu-ism to great heights??
these are e magazines i bought during e past month..
to get e following freebies...
okay, there are 2 magazines i bought cos i wanna read them & not bcos of e goodies..
tho there are 4 which i bought solely for e freebies..
& doing a calculation, it is actualli not tt cheap..
all these cost me close to $100
time for a rethink??
esp e jap magazines.. right now im not impressed by e bags tt are given out free...
& i realise perhaps im a hoarder as well, after one tidying up session of my warerobe..
dun think i shd run amok when i go HK next week...
seriously dun need more new items with e exception of shoes for now & probably 1 or 2 branded bags to pamper myself(??)
so its jus eating & more eating there =P
but can i really resist e tempetations??
& speaking of eating, somehow im getting more & more disappointed with e food i got recently..
seems like most food suffered a drop in standard..
Eg 1: e famous chicken rice @ Bishan..
the rice is not as fragrant and abit dry
Eg 2: Milk tea from Muji
this is one milktea i love and when i dun feel like queuing for KOI, it is a good alternative minus e pearls..
but right now, e milky taste is gone =(
Eg 3: fried prawn noodle @ Seah Im Food Centre
was recommended to it by one of my frens several years back..
& now e noodle is not as soft and taste bland..
perhaps it's just a one-off thing (i wont expect everything to be perfect everytime, e normal curve exists for everything), or maybe my expectations had gone up??
i just hope e food providers will continue to put in e effort to serve good food, ur efforts would not go unappreciated..
& back to current affairs..
looking at all e new candidates put forth by PAP, i will say im impressed by some of them..
but one thing i cant help to notice is tt a majority are from the public sector.. plus quite a number of scholarship holders..
is this e kind of diversity PAP wants??
is this considered diversity to the general public??
at least to me, it is not exactly e kind i have in mind..
& also not forgetting e 'which sch they go to argument' i pit forth 5 years ago..
it still rings true now..
even tho i consider myself to be a heartlander, i realise at times my behaviour, thinking etc differs quite a fair bit from peers who did not went thro e same 'good sec sch to branded jc to local uni' route & at times try as i might, their actions etc baffles me to some extent..
don't like to think that e candidates will be in ivory tower but there is this possibility
& sidetrack a little to mention abt Ms Tin.. e points by several senior PAP members saying why she shd stay in GRC as a response to a petition going on to place her in a SMC reminds me of e infant industry argument...
& is it an admission tt e GRC system has deviated from its original intention/objective??
finally cant help but look at e spoken language proficiency of e candidates & realise a handful of e chinese speaks zero dialect..
not tt it is e prerequisite tho kinda feel sad tt e speak chinese campaign is kinda a victim of its own succcess (or did it even succeed in e first place?)
somehow e more i learn of a dialect, e more i find it beautiful..
& hokkien/teochew is actually a much closer version of e chinese spoken by e ppl in china back in e Tang/Song Dynasty!!!
e mandarin spoken now is e manchu/beijing (okay i admit this one confuses me) version & it would have been Cantonese being e 'Mandarin' right now if it din lose by just one vote back in 1911/1912...
jus feel that we sg chinese ought to treasure more of this culture heritage brought by our forefathers...
somehow i think human's thinking that we can be God and try to act against nature is something i beg to differ...
this perception cant be more evident in e issue of procreation...
read quite a fair bit in recent years about how some middle age Asian 名人 trying their hardest to get a child and their success/failures..
if they belong to the category where they met & dated their right one for e past 1-3 years, im fine cos i know bearing a child is not a small matter and anyone will like to hav a child with e right person..
unfortunately these ppl belongs to e category where they hav dated each other for e longest time (say 6 years and more) and jus decided to go for a child in their late 30s/well into 40s.
this is one which i don't have empathy for..
i suppose its common sense to everyone tt femals hav a bio clock and the threshold age is 35. males hav too but heard e age is prob 40.
this means tt even if a child is conceived after this age, e quality is probably not as good..
if these ppl hav alr been tgt for years and even alr have tied e knot, i dun understand why dont they start e procreation earlier??
is it realli that worth it to pursue career at e expense of a family??
time waits for no man!!
somehow i feel tt reproduction is similar to investment, e best time to do it is usu yesterday/last week/last month/last year...
japan revised e nuclear crisis to the highest grade 7..
kinda surprises me tt e matter is still not resolved & actually worsen after one month..
or is e japan side not forthcoming in e first place?
reminds me that china has been arrowed for not revealing the actual stats on several occasions..
& now even japan?
or perhaps i shd have expected it looking at her attitude towards WWII..
家醜就真的就這麽不可以外揚??
但人命關天嘞!!!
瓶颈
孙爱玲
彳亍歌
人的一生，总有遇到瓶颈的时刻，那时候，是什么话也不想说，什么人也不想面对，什么书都看不下去，什么事都提不起劲；在这种情况下，可能就要离开所处的地方，潇洒走一回。
人到了瓶颈也未尝不是好事，下一个动作最好就是飞出瓶口。乐观的人说，飞出瓶口就海阔天空，天有多高就可以飞多高，离开那封闭的瓶子，地有多远就可以走 多远，远得不再回头。悲观的人说飞出瓶口，那会消失无踪；殊不知，消失也是自由，化成灰，化成风，成为气态的生存，精灵般的生活着。
最 无法度的是人到了瓶颈，还要留在瓶子内，我明明是无回旋的余地，还要自得其乐。有时想冷却自己，宁静得没有杀伤力；有时要冲破瓶子，可是哪来这样大力度。 好！不如加强热度，奢望化成核子爆炸物，同归于尽；成为福岛第一核电站，爆炸！但爆炸后就要被放弃。心想能成为最后一种状态就能鞭策历史。
最最了不起是在瓶颈的时候，能呆上很久的静止状态，这犹如尘缘快尽的境界，但不至于死，此时心哉美矣！
有说：“禅是一种心灵之道，一种人生态度，一种思维方式，一种审美感受；禅是一杯茶，一首诗，一幅画，一本书…… 禅是一种当下的美妙存在。”早上搭德士，车上播放佛曲，好像在说人生如何走来。我问开车师傅，这词曲从何而得，他说从“净土”而来，他问我会太大声吗？我 说不会，词写得很好，曲也谱得宁静。他说你是佛教徒，我说我是基督徒！
传道书说：“虚空的虚空，凡事都是虚空，人一切的劳碌，就是他在 日光之下的劳碌，有什么益处呢？一代过去，一代又来，……弯曲的不能变直，缺少的不能足数。”换句话说，已经过去的事重新再来，许多的事我们也无能为力， 那为什么要劳苦呢？传道人说上帝叫人劳苦，使他们在其中受经练，那就是说人来世间走一回，必要经历这历练。但劳苦担重担的，可以到神那里得安息！
苦苓因痛苦退隐山中，如今担任台湾雪霸国家公园解说员，逍遥自在！他说人本来就是从大自然来，人在生病的时候，在不开心的时候，在不妥的时候，就要回归大自然，和大自然多多接触。对！这瓶颈算什么？回归自然去！山中走一回。
野马脱缰
易 一
帮腔人语
往年的惯例是：每逢春节到来，百物“趁机”起价，之后就一直卡在原位，不曾随着春节的落幕调回原价。如今有了新 例，即佳节还不曾到来，就已盛传衣食住行成本将节节扳高的“警讯”，要每个“活口”做好充分心理准备，重要的还是预先进行“瘦身”运动，以免临危措手不 及，不知如何继续“摸石过河”才好。
连续不断的侵蚀，什么稜稜角角也终告蚀平；年复一年的希望也年复一年成泡，美梦又将何以为附？不迟不早“正好”走到这个时段，“正好”遇到这种或那种“流感”袭击，“蚁民”们除了无奈、无力、无助继续苟延残喘之外，又能有什么选择？
以金本位为基础的币值由于含金量不断流失，时值相应折损；做为国际流通货币的美元，如今又由于一再“量化”，大量“注水”供应，而激化以美元为核算的原 材料／原产品的成本攀升，更进一步驱使币值含金量递减。“数字游戏”、市场波动莫测高深，“蚁民”本来一概不懂，也漠不关心，但“落实”到衣食住行的每一 个具体项目，挤压到人人存活的“一线天”，大伙儿难免切肤之痛与忐忑不安日以继夜盘踞不去。
“水涨船高”展现眼前的新一轮景象使人明 了：自然生态遭受破坏肇致全球气温变暖，而气温变暖又肇致全球水位增高——大势逆转无门，一叶扁舟连带舟中的“船民”从兹也就落在风口浪尖上，欲下不能。 一觉醒来，你我这才发觉：“钱可以通神”的日子已成过去，认为钱决定一切，只要有钱就可随心所欲买到任何东西的“常态”甚至倒转过来，显示钱未必能够买到 你所看中的东西，纵使能够买到，你也必须付出更多的代价。阁下当年以约合现在四分之一“低价”买到的一栋房子，趁着房价飙升的良机“高价”出手，看似着实 大大赚了一笔，殊不知经过这么多年来，钞票悄悄地又一点一滴地持续贬值，钱越来越cheap已是不争的事实／趋势，因此只要稍加核算一下，你可能就会发觉 你引为得意的“高价”，一经“缩水”的币值“抵销”后，和当年的“低价”又有什么实质的差距？接下来你可能还会吃惊：你以现在的“高价”也未必能够买到当 年“低价”的同一栋房子，毕竟今钞并非昔钞，货品自然“时价”不同。
咖啡、茶水每杯起价一角，没得商量；鸡饭、叉烧饭、云吞面、虾面每 盘／每碗分别起价三角至五角，没得商量；其他与接着下来还有什么东西……没得商量，CPI的每月／常年增幅又达到多少百分点……没得商量。除非阁下下定决 心从此不食人间烟火，否则还是只好持续“处变不惊”撑到最后一口气方了。
