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...
