update on damages done by tenant

latest damage report by a Mr Kim Tae Hyeung aka Andy. Skinny guy aged about 50, divorced with shaggy hair and wears glasses.

public utility bills owed: $867

i mean.. wth?! you damage the house due to neglect and you even owe public utility bills and still have the nerve to ask to rent the house again?! just go somewhere where i won't see you until i want to find you and get the money you owe back. idiot.

in the middle of my exams and i have to get such idiotic news. urgh.

exams

ok.. 2/6 are over, 2 more tmr and what am i doing here? just sian of studying already.
someone pls fastforward time till my holidays so that i can be free?

ok. just plain complaining here. -shuts up-

Famine in Niger

This is from yoke's blog and the clip just makes me feel nauseated as an economics major. How can such things be happening in this world that we live in? How can we substantiate the food that we are eating even, when such things are happening? We aren't talking about ten or twenty years ago, this is just -two-, i must emphasize, -two-, years ago.

So much for welfare economics, so much for public finance, so much for developmental economics, so much for economic theory, when they can't even -see- such atrocities happening. Its in the news, it may be just one side of the story, there's UN presence there, there's obvious monitoring from IMF and World Bank, there's international aid presence there, so why the heck are they ignoring the basic principle that people should sell off excess only after their basic needs are met?

isn't the right to food and drink for survival part of the basic rights of all human kinds as stated in the Genova convention? so is all that just plain talk and all fluff?

anyway, the video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw9OARpp-KI
just watch and form your own opinion.

mine: disgusted

おしりかじりむし

concert

Da Capo 2007 is now over and this post is late by a good 3 weeks. >.< it was a really good concert and a night to remember and i have to thank the ex-co and the rest of the section and everyone in nusws who worked together to make the concert a success. even though the response from the audience is a mixed one, i guess what really matters is that we gave our all in the concert. truth be told, i think the rehearsal playings were a lot better than on concert day itself. the addition of people into the hall really warps our sound a lot. sigh.. didn't help that the recordings are so screwy!

anyway, had a good time after the concert with the section at crystal jade and at haagen daz. i still think that i bumped into something that night though i have no idea what. jinxun, if you read this, i apologize for making you giddy with that drive up the carpark. i'll drive a lot slower the next time. promise.

thanks for making the section a fun place khee nguen.
zijun, ian, lai yee, ruixiang, francis, thanks for taking time out of your schedules to play still. clarinets have the most alumni kaes! we are united past, present and future!
jinxun, sharon, jasmine, joel, cedric, thanks for playing as seniors!
song wee, hwee lee, cheng huat, thanks for playing as guest players.
xiuyu, huikoon, wan ting, kenny, thanks for being enthu yr 1s!
hope i didn't miss out anyone in the section.

most importantly, thank you jolie and lionel for being the emcees for the night even though you couldn't play in the concert, it is really appreciated. =)

everyone that has exams, jia you! for those working, may your jobs provide you with more satisfaction. for chenghuat, look forward to your day of ORD!

photos:

preparing for the concert

yr1 ladies

the year 1's + jinxun. yr1 as alumni counted too? haha

just the year 1's. chenghuat considered as one too!

our dear alumni. thanks!

well, xiuyu and huikoon, what more can i say? they are attached to each other!

all the alumni. =)

khee nguen and me

the skinny ones of the section

khee nguen and francis

zijun and me. the person that put the clarinet in my life ^^

natalie and me. we look alike?!

marketing '06 and marketing '07. lets take a better looking photo together next time

kee cai and me. grade 8 flute distinction! grats!

zoe tay and me! thanks zoe for arranging the rooms and other logistic matters. i'm not that scary la.. dont worry. =p

xx and yb. i think i'm quite extra in between them, but oh well.

well, this is just for fun. lol!

huikoon, dont play with ur food la! haha

section photo outside haagen daz. anyone has a better photo tt doesn't have keejun blocked, pls send me!

belated bday greetings!

ok, i know this is not appropriate considering that i forgot about their birthdays in the first place, so, i'm sorry!
just not appropriate to forget, even with the crush of datelines of projects, essays yada yada. lets not go there.

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happy (belated) birthday to zijun (cloud) and huijuan!
this post is one day late as their birthdays were yesterday.
so sorry! wish you both the best in the upcoming year kaes?

cleaning up

it really sucks big time when your tenant runs away, without paying the rent, and leaving a hell of a mess behind.

1) aircon was spoilt
2) blinds were taken down w/o telling us
3) the refrigerator STINKS of kimchi (they are korean)
4) ALL the spotlights blew up. (some of them shattered in my face when i was changing them)
5) white walls turned YELLOW
6) the washing machine is spoilt
7) the PLUG of the cooking hood is COATED with OIL
8) the stove was so clogged we had to scrub it to clean it out
9) the shower heater was short circuited
10) a BED was stolen
11) ALL the remotes were spoilt

it was so bad that the boss of the cleaning agent we hired told us he will return us $100 to stop cleaning. horrible.

i'll post that horrible tenant's name later..

rants and raves

what's wrong with drivers these days?! or just today.
decided to take clementi road to hit the highway home. before clementi mrt, first up, a harrier posing as a lexus decided to swerve right into the middle lane when i was trying to filter in. i SIGNALLED and he didn't. and i had to swerve away. 20m away, a toyota wish had his front poking out from the left lane. that's so FREAKIN DANGEROUS can?

so never mind... filtering into PIE from clementi, someone (not going to mention make or even the license plate) CUT IN FRONT OF ME ACROSS DOUBLE WHITE LINES. naturally, it was really close so i horned him and guess what? he gave me the finger.

seriously, not my day.

got home and looking forward to relax, and i finally cooled off from the drive home. i turned into a blind corner into the carpark, and ta-da, a lady and her daughter were walking straight smack in the middle of the road. being nice, i highlighted her, and no response, so i horned to inform her that i was going through. her reply: the finger. URGH

just not my day to drive... should have just been late this morning and took the train. sigh

final presentation for TR2201

erps! execution in progress!

relaxing before the final presentation

loh mei mei.. wahaha

TR2201 - Crossroads Corporate Video

Our corporate video for module TR2201, Entrepreneurial Marketing for Technopreneurship Minor. Too bad, I'm not in it as I'm 不上镜！=P

Comments anyone?

pets

seeing your blog post, i still remember your pet jumping up and down and trying to get something out of me. still remember the fleas, still remember you laughing and scolding your pet(s) as though you were scolding someone.

God bless