Simple things in life are the best. Whoever came up with that notion must be under appreciated.
Simple things like laughing together over how every good eating place for miles around are closed.
Simple things like des[s]ert.
Simple things like a walk at night and looking at the pretty lights round the Esplanade and Fullerton Hotel.
Even simpler things like nearly geting lost. If it's not a desperate situation, it is funny. Really.
The company is important of course.
The simply nice cool breeze and mildly warm sunshine at work.
A smile and thanks would be nice from customers. It's a simple gesture. Really.
Please don't make things difficult for me. I'll hate you since I still have to smile.
Please don't renovate/demolish/"spruce up" any more of our nation's treasured past, if we value our identity. Clifford Pier looks awfully lost under the white glare of construction work; and the red string tied acros its wide entrance is worse. Let's just restore it and liven it up instead. Or is that too difficult?
A Simple Life. And I don't mean Paris Hilton and whats-her-name.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
When reality is this ridiculous you actually start believing crap
It wasn't Friday the 13th. 06/06/06 was 2 weeks ago.
So, it was I assume, an appropriate time for all these to happen since I wasn't going to expect anything out of the blue. Was happily locked in yesterday and found out 2 minutes before I was due to leave the house for work. What happended you see was that my mum took her house keys and MINE out with her when she left earlier to meet her gal pals.
You can imagine what I did to the gate to get out. Of course, the next thing to happen would be that the bus would take an unusually LONG time to come, and then conveniently stop at every traffic light between my home and Tanglin Mall. That by the way is a lot of red lights even though part of the bus route involved an express way. Upon cursing everything there could possibly be to curse in this situation, I rushed out of the bus and to my work place. Dramatic entrance was quite ruined seeing as I was 5 mins early. Then I broke a Snapple bottle.
I decided to research on Murphy's Law which took on some interesting routes like how: what we usually refer to as Murphy's Law is actually known as Finagle's Law (whatever that is). Truly, what can go wrong will, including the fact that people will actually mistake what your Law is named for... which is bad.
BUT!
Here is an interesting sample of dear ol Murphy's Law:
When you need an item that is in a heap, it will always be the one at the bottom.
Buses take ages to arrive, but when they do they always arrive in sets of three (in Britain "you wait ages for a bus, then two come along at once!"). There actually is a logical explanation for this: the first bus is slowed down because of the time needed to let passengers get on and off. The subsequent busses are (typically) not allowed to pass the first bus, so you tend to end up with a full bus followed by a line of empty ones.
Everything takes longer than you think, or twice as long as it should. Except that which appears easy, which takes three times as long.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
If something simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
All small objects of value will disappear when set down.
Airline Travel Variation: The time you have to catch a flight is inversely proportional to the distance to the gate.
There is even a military variation known as Murphy's Law of Combat operations:
Friendly fire - isn't.
Interchangeable parts - aren't.
You are not Superman; Marines and fighter pilots take note.
Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
If your attack is going really well, it's an ambush.
The worse the weather, the more you are required to be out in it.
The complexity of a weapon is inversely proportional to the IQ of the weapon's operator.
Full list is available at Wikipedia's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law
That in case u don't know, is also where I got the sample list from. Duh.
So, it was I assume, an appropriate time for all these to happen since I wasn't going to expect anything out of the blue. Was happily locked in yesterday and found out 2 minutes before I was due to leave the house for work. What happended you see was that my mum took her house keys and MINE out with her when she left earlier to meet her gal pals.
You can imagine what I did to the gate to get out. Of course, the next thing to happen would be that the bus would take an unusually LONG time to come, and then conveniently stop at every traffic light between my home and Tanglin Mall. That by the way is a lot of red lights even though part of the bus route involved an express way. Upon cursing everything there could possibly be to curse in this situation, I rushed out of the bus and to my work place. Dramatic entrance was quite ruined seeing as I was 5 mins early. Then I broke a Snapple bottle.
I decided to research on Murphy's Law which took on some interesting routes like how: what we usually refer to as Murphy's Law is actually known as Finagle's Law (whatever that is). Truly, what can go wrong will, including the fact that people will actually mistake what your Law is named for... which is bad.
BUT!
Here is an interesting sample of dear ol Murphy's Law:
When you need an item that is in a heap, it will always be the one at the bottom.
Buses take ages to arrive, but when they do they always arrive in sets of three (in Britain "you wait ages for a bus, then two come along at once!"). There actually is a logical explanation for this: the first bus is slowed down because of the time needed to let passengers get on and off. The subsequent busses are (typically) not allowed to pass the first bus, so you tend to end up with a full bus followed by a line of empty ones.
Everything takes longer than you think, or twice as long as it should. Except that which appears easy, which takes three times as long.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
If something simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
All small objects of value will disappear when set down.
Airline Travel Variation: The time you have to catch a flight is inversely proportional to the distance to the gate.
There is even a military variation known as Murphy's Law of Combat operations:
Friendly fire - isn't.
Interchangeable parts - aren't.
You are not Superman; Marines and fighter pilots take note.
Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
If your attack is going really well, it's an ambush.
The worse the weather, the more you are required to be out in it.
The complexity of a weapon is inversely proportional to the IQ of the weapon's operator.
Full list is available at Wikipedia's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law
That in case u don't know, is also where I got the sample list from. Duh.
Friday, June 02, 2006
Watch with Me: an update
My aunt's taking me to watch Cabaret! And I didn't even ask her! So long as she doesn't suddenly change her mind, Yay for me!! Hahahaha
Thursday, June 01, 2006
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