Saturday, October 14, 2006
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Drug issue - my thought
Nguyen Tuong Van will almost certainly hang on Friday after Singapore today cut a thin thread of hope that his life could be saved.
In case you don’t know here is a short summary of what happened. Nguyen who is an Australian citizen was caught in Singapore trying to smuggle almost 400 grams of heroin from Cambodia to Australia three years ago. Anyone who carries more than 15 grams of heroin into Singapore will be sentenced to death if found guilty. The Australian Government had appealed for clemency for Nguyen, who has been on death row in Changi prison since being sentenced in March last year. He now faces execution on this Friday (2nd Decmber 2005).
Erm… honestly I have mix feelings for this case. Every country has their laws and punishments for different kinds of crime committed. Every time before we enter, say, Malaysia and Singapore, we are warned that drug smuggling is a serious offence and will be sentenced to death if it exceeds a certain amount. But yet people still try to challenge the law and gamble their life just to get the money they craved for. I don’t understand and perhaps I can never understand why these people put money ahead of their precious life? Or may be you can argue that if they don’t get that amount of money they will be dead as well. Anyway… for me it is still a stupid thing to do – having known that nowadays the customs, particularly in Singapore, is so strict.
We have to know that drugs really blight the community and I am sure that you won’t be please to find out your children are addicted with marijuana or heroin when you become parents. So I have to say the punishment has to be stern as ‘kill one (may) scare the rest’. Whether it has to be a death penalty or not I think it will be an issue to be discussed for years to come. Anyway, for me I rather choose to have a death sentence rather than a life prison sentence. I think I will become insane if I have to spend more than 50 years in jail so I would rather choose to die instantly.
Australian government had appealed for clemency for this young 25 years old Aussie man but every time the clemency was turned down immediately by Singapore. Singapore is well known with its strictness when it comes to laws and I don’t think they will change their mind anyhow anywhere although the Australia government may ask Singapore to have Nguyen Tuong Van's execution referred to the International Court of Justice. And I think it is a bit unfair if they change their mind to call off the death sentence, because it is unfair to have a set of rules for Australian and a set of rules for other nationalities. But recently there are rumours that Australia might protest against this death penalty by using economy boycotts. If that happens I think the relationship between Australia and Singapore will be well deteriorated.
Anyway... back to Malaysia. I am not very certain how the customs in Singapore is but I am very certain how the customs officers in Malaysia are doing their job. This is what exactly happened to my relatives, friends and me every time we enter Malaysia. There are normally two officers, each standing at a side of the gate of the exit, ‘looking’ at us before we walk pass the gate and officially go into Malaysia. They never ever check our baggage to see whether is there anything forbidden to bring into the country. We are allowed to buy a litre of liquor for tax free and any addition of that will be taxed, accordingly to the tax system. But one of my relative was ‘smuggling’ 4 bottles of liquor in her baggage and nothing happen to her.
Last year when I was in the plane back to Malaysia, a Caucasian sitting next to me asked me, what he needs to declare or show to the officers before he enter Malaysia. I was a bit uncertain how to answer him. Really… how should I answer him? I think for a while and I decided to tell him the exact situation which is happening all this while. From his gaze he looks stunned and shock. But anyway I ask him to declare just in case the officers check on him. Then we have a good chat about the cultural in Malaysia, as he was heading there for tourist purpose. This time I was stunned by him. The first thing he asked me was about the ‘bribery cultural’ in Malaysia. I ask him how would him know about this cultural was well practised in Malaysia. Yet he told me Malaysia is well known about that, aren’t we? I did nothing than nod my head.
I want to make a point here. Death penalty is still a legal sentence in some countries around the world. But yet those countries that applied this rule have the worst record of drug smuggling case. If the customs of every country do their job strictly and seriously, the number of drug smuggling cases will be well decreased. Not that I wanted to praise Australia but I do think their customs really do a good job, don’t they? So if every country can take them as an example, and by using newest technology, every drug smugglers could be easily spotted. If that is the case, is there still a need to apply death sentence?
Terrified by nothing terrifying
The first thing came into my mind was “shit… Sydney is under terrorist attack”. I was really anxious and wondering what had happened and prayed that none of my friends got hurt. Ok… I was wrong… absolutely-utterly-truly wrong… indeed it was just a small fire!!! Something went wrong in the air conditioning system and part of the vents caught fire and there were black smoke coming out from the vents so the whole 3 storeys underground station was evacuated. Since that station is located right at the centre of the city it causes 30 minutes of delayed for the whole railway system in Sydney. Anyway.. other than chaos of 20000 passengers, nothing much happened actually… and hopefully terror attack wont struck Sydney anyhow anytime anywhere. Finger cross~
I watched Flightplan with my friends today and I thought it was quite a nice movie… but still a bit disappointing. At the beginning I thought it was a ghost story coz of the daunting music and those annoying sudden deafening sound effect… I really really hate that kind of sound effect… scare the hell out of me out of nothing… anyway… I start liking it as the story develops. I was really hoping that it is a ghost story and craves to know what happened to Julie Foster’s daughter and husband. But after knowing it was another aircraft hijacking movie I was really disenchanted.. a bit anticlimax… aiyo… how many plane hijacking movie already oh… still plane hijacking… but I have to admit out of so many plane hijacking movies I think this is probably the best I have seen… thumbs up to Julie Foster.. her emotion was really good!!!
To sums up everything today… I was terrified by nothing terrifying~
Sunday, November 20, 2005
And so...
And so… it has been exactly a year… exactly a year since I broke up with her… many things have changed and happened since then… the good news is I’ve move on and so does she… and the bad news (or good news if u like :P) is I am still single… Sometimes things just turn out not as what we wish they should have been… and being a human… or I should say being a successful man, we just have to cope with it and move on…
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Lovely odour !?
This lovely uncle is incredibly fat I would say, and has a huge belly… not big.. I have to emphasize… is huge!!! May be I am just one third of his body size. Seeing he wearing a blazer at this weather just drove me nuts… with his long outdated big glasses which covered nearly half of his face and holding a big sack on his hand, his looks just makes me laugh… anyway something weird happened and drew my attention to him.
The first thing I realised was the people around him were trying to move away from him. Everyone in the train starts wondering whats happening there… “Is him carrying a bomb? Are we going to die?” that was what I heard when the girl sitting beside me murmured to her friend. The two girls are hot… I would say they are around my age.. but is angmo (Caucasian).. *sigh*.. whatever.. Deep bottom in my heard I was laughing like shit.. terrorist… WTF!!
But then I sort of understand why everyone was avoiding him. People around him were using tissue paper, handkerchief and newspaper covering their nose… so I guess he must be really ‘fragrant’. Then the smell started to spread… I was sitting like around 10 feet away from him and I could smell it after a few seconds he entered the train. The odour must be very intense and if I was standing next to him I guess I would have thrown up or fainted.
Then I saw this lady not far away from him took out her perfumed and start spraying to the air like spraying an air freshener. When I saw that I just couldn’t resist it and starts laughing but I tried to look down to the floor so that no one would realise… but the two hot chicks sitting next to me basically just laugh out loudly… they knew I was laughing about it and they looked at me and we just keep laughing and laughing for so long… the funniest part was the way that lady sprayed her perfume… it was like those air freshener advertisement, spraying 180 degrees up to the air and her gaze was just so funny… funny shit…
Luckily that uncle got off the train just after a couple of stops… and those around him heaved a big relief sigh right after he went off… and the girls look at me and we start laughing again... BTW we did chat a bit and they are lovely girls.. *sigh* .. angmo…
So please lar.. those who have odour after sweating… wear some perfume la if you wanna take a public transport… don’t suffocate people around you la…
Friday, November 04, 2005
Ok... what actually happened was our this so called ‘study group’ had spent 26 hours studying, sort of continuously. We started in our own uni library and afterwards invaded UNSW’s as their library opens till midnight which I was so jealous about… my uni, Sydney uni wor… a uni with a big name wor… but the library always closes at 10pm the latest and we have no place to go if we wanted to stay any longer. Unlike us, UNSW is just so considerate to their students and allowed them to stay in the library till midnight. So we went there surreptitiously and pretended as a UNSW student hoping that there won’t be any ID inspection.
Up till midnight, we then went to a nearby 24/7 McD and thought we could continue our ambitious marathon there. But the music they were playing was just so funky and makes me feel like dancing rather than studying… seriously... it was hip hop music… wonder anyone could concentrate and study in that atmosphere…and we saw a couple studying there though… anyway… the main thing is the music was really too loud and so we went to Kim’s place to study. From then on.. we started going out of track…
First there was this orange juice party… everyone was served with orange juice to freshen up our mind… so that we can concentrate in our study, NOT!!! Things started getting wrong and wrong, someone was catching beetle, eating ice-cream, eating biscuit, sleeping, playing with ice, taking photo, recording funny video, smoking, then more orange juice party, girls peeping, fixing contact lens, telling lame jokes… and the list go on and on… and then one by one fell asleep and abandoned me… until 7.10am this morning… everyone was asleep and left me alone… and that was the time I could concentrate the most… haha...but then I just couldn’t stand it anymore and crumble at 1pm. Whatever… u guys rock!!! Keep it up!!! How about tonight??? haha
So everyone should be assuming that I am a soil mechanics expert by now after spending 26 incredible hours of studying… but I can tell u all that I am not!!! Out of the 26 hours I think I just studied for 10 hours or so, may be, and the rest of the time was discussing problems with friends and doing other things. May be because of over strained my brain, I think my brain is a bit malfunctioning… spent a lot of time to figure out whats the lecture notes are talking about. I don’t know why, may be is just a bit jaded, every time I need to read a sentence twice just to understand whats the sentence is about… and then interpreting and memorizing..
It’s 6 o’clock in the evening now and I just woke up. After 4 hours of nap I am fresh and sexy again… going to kick off right after my dinner!!!
Anyway just feel like writing something after seeing all the numbers 93345624876934 for so long.
GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE HAVING EXAM!!! STUDY HARD, STUDY SMART, PRAY HARD!!! … then … PLAY HARD!!!
Sunday, October 30, 2005
雨天
前几天都是被那炎热的气候热醒,而今天却恰恰相反,好睡得不想起床。赖在床上发懒的我,突然想起一首歌——燕姿的《E-Lover》,奇怪~ 于是打开Laptop翻查MP3档案,play了那首歌。
雨天 想着我们不曾碰面 望着你的照片
你问我台北好吗 伦敦阴着天 两个城市雨绵绵
………..
………..
Don’t you know, I love you 爱我请你试着疯狂一些
不听不管不问就算是种危险
不再害怕裹足不前 爱个人就该相信直觉
其实也没什么特别意思,只是第一句是“雨天”,所以才让我想起这首歌。听完后立刻跳下床,干活去了!
傍晚……望着窗外那绵延已久的细雨,很想抛掉眼前的讲义到屋外让雨浇一浇,滋润一下那疲惫的身躯,然后再踢一场球,那该多好啊!
不能!还得继续努力奋斗!!!
Chicken Flu
“The chicken is sick, and then you kill all the chicken;
The dog is sick, and you kill all the dog;
If the human is sick, will you kill all the human?”
As everyone knows, the world is now having a crisis – the bird flu. From what I know and what I heard, the crisis couldn’t be solved only until a bird flu vaccine is ‘invented’ (don’t know what the correct word is). Perhaps the vaccine is already there but just to be tested in more advances to make sure it really works… I am not sure la…
I can understand bird flu is really hard to control, as bird got wings and they can fly to everywhere, anywhere they want. In the name of ‘controlling the spread of the flu’, authorities started killing poultry in the farms. Heaps and heaps of bird (chicken, duck, bird…) have been killed and are to be killed in the next few months time. At this instant, without the vaccine, is that mean that only by killing can stop the flu from spreading? But there were also news and rumours which said the flu can spread among humans. If that is the case, I think the authorities need to start killing those human infected by the flu!!! (If that happens, then all the HIV carrier also has to be killed – to control the HIV from spreading!)
If the killing spree continues, surely by the end of this decade the bird flu can be fully under controlled!!! But I afraid that birds will be extinct or…… perhaps human will be extinct too… hmm…… may be can start storing a few chicken now – to show my son how actually chicken looks alike!
Friday, October 28, 2005
自大狂
嗯……说一说我最后一个星期的威风事吧,好让我能安慰安慰自己一下,最少让我今晚能睡得着。前几天我代表了我的组员在 PRESENTATION 里 PRESENT,好久没面对这么多人演说过,有点怯场,不过仍有希望得到最高分; 其中一个土力学的 REPORT 得了满分(好像只有我一个 :P);其它的 REPORT 也得了满高的分数。(自大狂又发作了!)只希望这些分数可以补救我那考得很烂的年中测验啦!
我这个人非常 ‘大心’,什么都有兴趣,什么都想做到最好,可是往往就被那可恶的惰性和那 ‘爆棚’ 的自信心征服。有些朋友说我太有自信了,又有些自大,导致我不能向更广更专的方面发展。其实我也知道,也完全认同他们的说法,不过那是我的个性啊,我也觉得那是我成功的原因之一。
无论如何希望在来临的考试中我能征服它们,之后再脱颖而出,至少让我有个完美的成绩回家面见深爱我的父母!
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Deteriorated Chinese
The previous short story or love story (or whatever you want to call it) is actually what exactly happened to one of my close friend here. I wrote that up basically is just to kill off my spare time and he actually asked me to write it (er… dunno wats the reason behind -_-). Trust me… it wasn’t a fun thing to do writing up that story in Chinese… I never know that my Chinese has deteriorated so badly till I wrote that… No fluency, not touching as what it supposed to be, no romance, no nothing… what left may be just a couple of vocab that seems to be very amaze which perhaps not… I think I spent more than an hour to write that piece up... forget lots and lots of vocabulary… even with the help of the computer I still couldn’t remember lots of the words… Whatever… cheer up~~ jack
Sunday, October 16, 2005
杰与妮
这天夜晚,杰载着朋友到市里吃晚餐,心里带着一线希望可以在茫茫人海中见到妮。果然,在一个红绿灯路口他真的见到了她!当时杰在车上不能下车,他急忙的拨电给妮希望她能在原地等他,只想见见妮闲聊几句,但妮拒绝了他!在杰再三要求下妮终于答应了,不过只给杰一分钟!她还说“我只等你十秒,十、九、八……”蛙!恐怖!
杰急坏了,挂了电话快速找了个泊车位然后跳下车冲了过去。一身打扮得满有型的杰,用着毕生最快的速度,穿梭过街上的人群,向着妮的方向跑去。街上的人都以疑惑的眼神看着他,而他却不以为然继续努力的奔驰。到了,杰到了……让他感到最欣慰的是妮还站在原地等着他。妮很幽默地说“你跑得还满快耶!”那一瞬间,呆着的杰心里只叹着“一切都值了……” 杰万万想不到分手一个月后,他们竟然会在这重情况下偶见。
他们闲聊了一阵然后杰约了妮下周一同吃饭,妮终于答应了!杰也终于等到他渴望的答复了!几句老套话后,两人背对背各自朝向目的地走去,完结了那难能可贵的几分钟。杰满面春风的回去找朋友,妮也许,可能,应该是吧!杰只能猜测着……
下周的那顿晚餐会是怎样的呢?杰与妮的感情有否转机的可能性呢?妮会扑约吗?杰会因此看到希望而不再失眠吗?妮会因为杰对感情的执著被感动而改变主义吗?没人知道。现在杰只能抱着乐观的心态等待那永恒的夜晚……
上述所说的好像很戏剧般,像排电影又像爱情小说似的,但那一切的确发生在我身边啊!“悲欢离合”,人与人之间的感情真的只是四个字那么简单吗?我不认为,经验告诉爱情是复杂无章的。但我深信不疑缘分的存在……信缘惜缘!
Busy, Away, Be Right Back...
I start wondering… are they really away? Are they really busy? So busy that they have to tell the whole list that “I am really busy, don’t chat with me!” or they just simply mean “I am busy, but if you want to chat with me, then may be I can spare sometime chatting with you.” Hmm… if really that busy then why bother to on the msn? For those who are ‘away’, may be I can understand… as they are really away and if you idle for a couple of minutes then msn will automatically change to away mode. Hmm… but I afraid that they are not away!
I don’t know whats the reason behind all these away and busy mode… but I do know that most of the time when I chat with those busy or away users they did reply me. Hmm… so those are either their ‘spirit’ or they are not really away or busy la… right? Then why have to put away or busy mode? So that the msn logo besides the nick got a small red circle and looks nicer? Or they are designing their picture with a red circle in msn? Weird…blur~~
Anyway… that’s most of case... but there are some of the busy mode user are really busy and sometimes I get scolded by them, “you cannot see I am in busy mode ga?”… I then replied them that “whole list also in busy mode, I cannot differentiate which 1 is telling the truth and which 1 is lying…” whatever… I just know that most of the users already defeated the purpose and meaning of ‘busy’ and ‘away’……
Saturday, October 15, 2005
神话
不知道我是一个音乐怪还是因为长时间被音乐熏陶下,我的耳朵战胜了眼睛,戏里的音乐重是比情节更吸引我。无可否认那些打仗的局面和士气都比不上LOTR和TROY等,但是我非常佩服中国电影里通过音乐、词句和表情表达出来的内涵,真的是一流!其中有三部分另我印象特别深刻,其中一段是成龙和金善喜掉到河里然后在山边休息还有他们下雪在山洞里避寒时,那弦乐奏出的音乐我觉得非常有味道。还有一段就是成龙闯进陵墓后和金善喜相见的一幕,又是弦乐感触了我。总而言之整部电影的音乐词曲配合都非常好。
整部电影唯一不喜欢的就是结局。对,很多像盗墓或寻宝这类电影的结局都是说盗墓一定不成功,然后一定活不出去。《神话》的结局也差不多一样,但是我觉得要是能让秦皇的陵墓毫无损坏而且不公布于世,那不会更好吗?成龙在戏里最后一幕写了一本关于陵墓探险之类的书,那么是否陨石的秘密公开了?陵墓有否被发掘呢?其实结局也不赖啦……只不过因为戏名是《神话》,所以如果能神圣一点也许会好些。
如果每个人梦里都有自己的神话,希望在我梦里曾经出现的那一幕也会在现实里成真……
Thursday, October 13, 2005
孙燕姿
我是被孙燕姿首张同名专辑里的《天黑黑》而吸引的,非常喜欢那首歌……当时每天都要听了才能睡得着-_- 没那么夸张啦……只是记得每天都在听……直到后来连中间钢琴solo那段都听到会弹了才甘愿把HIFI里的cd换掉! 后从此我就深深的迷上燕姿了……最让她全部歌迷感叹的是她的男友……曾看过他的照片,他除了胖过我以外没什么比我好!
很多朋友曾问我干嘛喜欢燕姿,她不但没身材,还很瘦,又不很漂亮。我完全认同他们的说法,她的确瘦,真的真的很瘦,好像皮包骨似的,身材不必说吧……但是我觉得她的歌唱出了我的心声,她每出一张专辑的timing都非常符合我当时的心情……每一首歌都好像在说着我的故事,从《天黑黑》到《我要的幸福》到《绿光》到《逃亡》到《Hey Jude》到《爱从零开始》到《我不难过》到《遇见》到《我的爱》……都细叙了我过去几年发生的点滴。而且我很喜欢她唱歌的感觉和她拉音的格式。
希望听多几次后我也会喜欢这张新专辑吧~
“我站在靠近天的顶端 张开手全都释放 用月光取暖 给自己力量
才发现关于梦的答案 一直在自己手上 只有自己能 让自己发光”
〈逃亡〉——《风筝》
“永恒不能赶快 还是岁月不名白 风风雨雨宁愿相信 明天晴天”
<明天晴天>——《完美的一天》
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Yet Again
Not too long ago I was accused to have plagiarised others people work which was actually the other way round… the lecturer sorted it out and I cleared my name… but that was just a minor issue compared with what happened today…
During the lecture with the same lecturer this morning, one of the reports was returned to the students but unfortunately two of my friends and me didn’t get ours… I supposed something went wrong again… three of us went to see the lecturer after the class and the lecturer look really incensed and told us that there are three almost identical reports and wanted us to give our explanation individually… and yeah… I was laughing to myself because I knew this would happen again…
Two of them went in his room before me and they told the lecturer my report is original and they start giving their own reason why is it so similar to mine… I never want to know whats their excuses... because the level of similarity is just too much(will get into that later)… at that very moment I was literally furious deep inside although my visage just looks usual… and at last the lecturer speak to me… he told me that they got zero for that report… he knew I was innocent and joked with me that my reports are just too good and understandably why is it so popular among my friends… I was wondering what he meant by that.. he then gave me back my report and told me that actually I got the highest mark in that particular report.. and oh yeah.. that makes my day… for sure he asked me to learn my lesson – NOT TO LEND MY REPORT ANYMORE!
Two of them are my friends… one particularly close… I never hesitate to lend them as I trust them so much that they would never copy… and turn out exactly, if not exactly then 70%, same with mine… come on la… chibai wei… if wanna copy also use brain a bit then paraphrase la… used my picture, used my graphs, used my results tables, used my description, discussion… everything la…. I write 12345 then they write 13245… sure can spot la.. so similar… if change to 52431 or 32415.. then may be not that easy to spot ler…initially I wanted to help them to explain to the lecturer but after seeing their report I just refused to do that.. because it is just too much… but I am not angry with them and they will remain my friends.. always will be… just think that they are too dim-witted to have copy so much.. u think lecturer no eyes ge meh…
Ok… now good la… I am the most famous student in the department now… not because that I am smart… and not because I got the highest mark in my report… but just because I was being too nice and too naive to lend my reports to others... my guts feeling told me that there will more plagiarism stuffs happening in the next couple of weeks as some of my friends did lend their reports to others… I start liking the show now… I will just sit back and watch this chi bai show… see how many of them will get zero… enough la.. chi bai.. copy copy… END
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Hot~
I never know whats the peak temperature till I watched the evening news just now. According to the reported it reached 34 degree Celsius and it was the hottest day in October since 30 years ago. This reminds me what happened almost around this time a year ago where there was a day it reached 39 degree in September which is very very odd here. Yeah.. we knew that the global temperature has been rising since don’t know when cause of the increase of greenhouse gases or other whatever reasons.
Throughout the years water issue has been discussed thoroughly here in Sydney as the drought continues with no sign of improving. I was wondering are all these climates weather just a one off? I afraid not! Seems like all these climates weather is a climate change – a permanent change that can never recover. The drought here is not getting better but getting worse. It hasn’t rain at the catchment area for years now. Is it going to rain there sometime in the future? Hmm.. Unlikely…
Anyway, remember to throw your rubbish not anywhere else but in a dustbin. Perhaps that’s the least we could do to help this earth and hopefully everyone could do that someday in the future (very ambitious hope which will never come true anyway anyhow…) and may be is the way I was brought up or whatever reason… I hate seeing people throwing rubbish all over the place and I never (or should say really seldom) do it… seems like I am getting a bit too far… I was first grumbling about the weather and now ending up having an immense hope… hmm… ~~
Friday, September 30, 2005
Time flies
Time flies… my semester break is finishing in a split of a second. Have been spending most of the morning on the bed during this break… basically just eat and sleep for the first few days… luckily my room hasn’t smell… if not really looks like a pig farm.
Anyway I did go back to uni everyday to do the group project. Got fed up with all these non-stop incoming assignments, reports and quizzes… literally sick of those stuffs… luckily now just left a couple of them to summit before the end of the semester. The final exam is coming really soon or I should say just a month away from now but seems like I still don’t have the ‘ohm’ to kick start my revision. I have to motivate myself anyhow start revising to avoid what happened last semester.
So happy that at last Chelsea drew their first ever game this season… I admit that they look pretty strong and seems like they are not going to crumble with the bench players they’ve got… seems like they can only lose a game when 11 of their first team got injured before January and Roman Abromovich got bankrupt… but I do believe they will deteriorate anyhow during the season… so hopefully Liverpool can kick their ASS this weekend to make Mourinho looks like a clown – claming EPL is a one horse race!!! Anyway… glad that Ruud is back and MAN UTD still RULEZ~
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Forget about it
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Bad Spell
Sunday, August 28, 2005
迟迟不来的春天
眼看着路上的恋人都出双入对,好像很恩爱似的,心头有些酸溜溜的感觉。这时候我又不由自主的想起三年前的这个时候,当时我也像他们一样,有着自己的春天…哎…过去了始终还是过去了!想到这里,只能渴望春天和我的下一个‘春天’快点到来……哎……迟迟不来的春天……