Friday, December 31, 2004

End of the World??

I admit that when I first saw the News on the earthquake/Tsunami I wasn’t concerned about it. But soon, I realize the matter got really bad when e news reported the number of deaths increasing each day, those clips showing the humongous wave and how people are swept away by it, the harden and lifeless struggled bodies that gradually floated to the shore and the list just goes on. The tidal waves are much scarier then I’ve expected. I wasn’t physically affected but emotionally I am. I guess this is one of the symptoms that the world is coming to an end soon. First is terrorism, then the Sars outbreak and now the earthquake. Maybe all these happened because of the sins that the human race had committed…and we may soon be like the dinosaurs – extinct…another thing will then conquer our land and take over us. They’ll rediscover us and tag us as another living thing that have once existed. All these are always in cycle, as people are always saying history repeats itself.


Here’s an email I’ve received maybe u guys will like to take note


Dear friends,


In response to the Emergency Appeal that was launched by the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the Singapore Red Cross is launching a public appeal to raise funds for the victims of the Bay of Bengal earthquake and tidal waves.


The earthquake that struck off Sumatra measured 9.0 on the Richter Scale in magnitude according to the US Geographical Survey, making it the world's biggest in 40 years. The current death toll had risen to over 27,000 according to Reuters.


MONETARY DONATIONS
The Singapore Red Cross is appealing for monetary donations to help these victims from the affected countries. The money collected will be sent to IFRC to fund purchases and direct delivery of emergency items like medicine and first aid, food parcels and other relief supplies for the displaced and homeless victims. Please note that due to logistical reasons, we would not be accepting donations in kind.


Cheques should be made payable to "Singapore Red Cross Society". Please write your name, contact number, address and "Tidal Waves Asia" on the back of the cheque. The cheques can be sent to:


Singapore Red Cross Society
Finance Division (Tidal Waves Asia)
Red Cross House
15 Penang Lane
Singapore 238486


For cash donations, kindly proceed personally to Finance Division on Level 2. We have extended our collection hours from 9am to 8pm from Monday to Friday, and 9am to 12.30pm on Saturday.


For further enquiries, please contact us at 6334 9152 / 6334 9154 / 6336 0269.


We look forward to your support and generous contribution to our appeal to help the victims of the Bay of Bengal earthquake and tidal waves!


Belle

Btw the death toll are now hitting 100,000 and not just 27,000.

-updated by ting-

Thursday, December 30, 2004

Haizz

After a very long break, I’m back here once again to blog something…and this blog I predict, shall be the longest blog I ever written. At the moment, the most suitable word I can think of to describe my feeling now is “Haiz…” or maybe “Haiz” shouldn’t be consider an English word then it shall be “Sigh..”


Today is a bad day for me, within a day I’ve received quite a few bad news. My OIC had put me under her subordinate (who is one of e leaders in my ELiTeS project team) to be in charge of me. This nice lady gave me hope – she wanted me to call up the Human Resource department to ask if I’m entitled to 2 days break in replacement to the 2 public holidays that falls on Saturdays if the answer is a yes then she’ll give me 2 days off….so I called up the HR during my lunch break…and I’ve expected the answer to be a “Yes” BUT the answer turn out to be a disappointing “No”..sadly I messaged my dear Shanny bout the bad news, I’ve thought of getting the 2 days off on the same day as Shan’s leaves so I can get to go out and spend time with her..after that went to e cafe trine to have my lonesome lunch of Ipoh “hor fan”.


Soon after my lunch I went back to the office or rather room, though I can take about an hour break but there’s simply nowhere I can hang out at traffic police especially when I’m alone. Spent a few peaceful hours until my OIC called..she wanted me to go CDC (comfort driving school) at Kampung Ubi on Monday to do monitoring on our system ALONE for the whole day..SUX am I so fated to be alone?..ALONE to face an unfamiliar environment…I can picture myself on Monday, dangling around the place not knowing where to stand or sit


“….So do u understand the objectives? I’ll repeat…I want you to be very clear about our objectives..This is important I need you to get all these very clear because if we don’t get to track out the problems and when these problems get to the heads/directors we’re in for a big trouble…….” She sounded so stern, serious and stress…I got so pressurize from her words because she uses so many strong words.


Thought tat tonite’s treat from my aunt will cheer me up abit but soon after I hang up the call from my OIC…received an sms from my aunt saying tonight dinner is cancelled..I’ve look forward to the meal tonight but it’s all dashed..haiz..replied back to my aunt and soon she called me…told me some bad news...one of it is that my maternal grandmother’s cousin(her “tang jie”) passed away this morning at 6...the day before, my GM’s cousin have requested to see my GM for the last time, and my GM had initially decide to pay her a visit the next morning, but she din manage to hold on…L..sound so much like my situation some years ago when my paternal grandmother passed away. She had also hope to see me for the last time, and I’ve decided to pay her a visit e next day because I’m busy with my school works so I couldn’t make it on tat day..sadly, she left us in the morning, I paid her a visit but what I saw is her lifeless body..I’m extremely regretful and sad but I’m consoled to see the peaceful look from her face….


-Moral of the story-
Treasure your love ones and love them with all your might because u’ll never be 100% certain that there’s a tml.


Ronan Keating If Tomorrow Never Comes


Sometimes late at night
I lie awake and watch her sleeping
She's lost in peaceful dreams
So I turn out the lights and lay there in the dark
And the thought crosses my mind
If I never wake up in the morning
Would she ever doubt the way I feel
About her in my heart


If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face this world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes


'Cause I've lost loved ones in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them never were revealed
So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much she means to me
And avoid that circumstance
Where there's no second chance to tell her how I feel


If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face this world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last


If tomorrow never comes
So tell that someone that you love
Just what you're thinking of
If tomorrow never comes


-updated by ting-

Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Death

Many people died.

Tsunamis.
Caused so much grief to people.

Patches died too.
I hate this feeling I'm having now.
I don't know if it is the sight of seeing Patches with only half a head left.
Or is it the sight of seeing the hamster murderer walking past Patches's dead body nonchanantly. I whacked Muffin.

Or maybe it's just seeing the grief on people's faces everywhere on tv and newspapers.

How can terrorists still bear to do more damage after seeing so much terror broght down to this earth.
I know there's more to come.

I'm asking for God's strength, to allow me to open up my eyes, see the path I should take, and cure this world of terrors.

In Loving Memory Of Patches :: 28.12.2004


-Esther-

Sunday, December 26, 2004

Blogger Hack: Remove Banner Ad

If you host the webpages in Blog*Spot server, visitors will see Google-ad banner everytime, in every pages. Use a little trick to remove that banner:


Step 1: Open Go to Template > Edit Current option.


Step 2: Find Search for <body> the tag. If you use Internet Explorer browser, press Ctrl+F to open the Find dialog box.


Step 3: Replace Just replace the <body> tag by following lines:

<noembed>
<body>
</noembed>


Step 4: Save Click on the Save Template Changes button.


Step 5: Republish Republish the entire site or index page only.


Done!


Note: Save the template code in a plain-text file before editing.


(found at Jia Hui WebLog)

Saturday, December 25, 2004

Todays World

This is definitely a sign of the times...


Only for the computer literate!


Modern romance
--------------


Cyrus SAYS: Daddy, how was I born?


DAD SAYS: Ah, my son, I guess one day you will need to
find out anyway!


Well, you see your Mom and I first got together in a
chat room on MSN. Then set up a date via e-mail with
your mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a
secluded room, where your mother agreed to a download
from my hard drive.


As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that
neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it
was too late to hit the delete button, nine months
later a blessed little Pop-Up appeared and said:


You've Got Male!

99 Facts about Guyz(Very True)

1. Guys don't actually look after good-looking girls. they prefer neat and presentable girls.


2. Guys hate flirts.


3. A guy can like you for a minute, and then forget you afterwards.


4. When a guy says he doesn't understand you, it simply means you're not thinking the way he is.


5. "Are you doing something?" or "Have you eaten already?" are the first usual questions a guy asks on the phone just to get out from stammering.


6. Guys may be flirting around all day but before they go to sleep, they always think about the girl they truly care about.


7. When a guy really likes you, he'll disregard all your bad characteristics.


8. Guys go crazy over a girl's smile.


9. Guys will do anything just to get the girl's attention.


10. Guys hate it when you talk about your ex-boyfriend.


11. When guys want to meet your parents. Let them. .....dun think so...


12. Guys want to tell you many things but they can't. And they sure have one habit to gain courage and spirit to tell you many things and it is drinking!


13. Guys cry!!!


14. Don't provoke the guy to heat up. Believe me. He will.


15. Guys can never dream and hope too much.


16. Guys usually try hard to get the girl who has dumped them, and this makes it harder for them to accept their defeat.


17. When you touch a guy's heart, there's no turning back.


18. Giving a guy a hanging message like "You know what?!..uh...never mind!" would make him jump to a conclusion that is far from what you are thinking.


19. Guys go crazy when girls touch their hands......yeh rite...


20. Guys are good flatterers when courting but they usually stammer when they talk to a girl they really like.


21. When a guy makes a prolonged "umm" or makes any excuses when you're asking him to do you a favor, he's actually saying that he doesn't like you and he can't lay down the card for you.


22. When a girl says "no", a guy hears it as "try again tomorrow". ......so tru


23. You have to tell a guy what you really want before he gets the message clearly.


24. Guys hate gays!


25. Guys love their moms.


26. A guy would sacrifice his money for lunch just to get you a couple of roses.


27. A guy often thinks about the girl who likes him. But this doesn't mean that the guy likes her.


28. You can never understand him unless you listen to him.


29. If a guy tells you he loves you once in a lifetime. He does.


30. Beware. Guys can make gossips scatter through half of the face of the earth faster than girls can.


31. Like Eve, girls are guys’ weaknesses.


32. Guys are very open about themselves.


33. It's good to test a guy first before you believe him. But don't let him wait that long.


34. No guy is bad when he is courting


35. Guys hate it when their clothes get dirty. Even a small dot.


36. Guys really admire girls that they like even if they're not that much pretty.


37. Your best friend, whom your boyfriend seeks help from about his problems with you may end up being admired by your boyfriend.


38. If a guy tells you about his problems, he just needs someone to listen to him. You don't need to give advice.......very tru


39. A usual act that proves that the guy likes you is when he teases you.


40. A guy finds ways to keep you off from linking with someone else.


41. Guys love girls with brains more than girls in miniskirts. .......sumtimes


42. Guys try to find the stuffed toy a girl wants but would unluckily get the wrong one.


43. Guys virtually brag about anything.


44. Guys cannot keep secrets that girls tell them.


45. Guys think too much.


46. Guys' fantasies are unlimited.


47. Girls' height doesn't really matter to a guy but her weight does!....


48. Guys tend to get serious with their relationship and become too possessive. So watch out girls!!!


49. When a girl makes the boy suffer during courtship, it would be hard for him to let go of that girl.


50. It's not easy for a guy to let go of his girlfriend after they broke up especially when they've been together for 3 years or more.


51. You have to tell a guy what you really want before getting involved with that guy.


52. A guy has to experience rejection, because if he's too-good-never-been-busted, never been in love and hurt, he won't be matured and grow up.


53. When an unlikable circumstance comes, guys blame themselves a lot more than girls do. They could even hurt themselves physically.


54. Guys have strong passion to change but have weak will power.


55. Guys are tigers in their peer groups but become tamed P**** with their girlfriends.....sumtimes depends wen they want sumat


56. When a guy pretends to be calm, check if he's sweating. You'll probably see that he is nervous.


57. When a guy says he is going crazy about the girl. He really is.


58. When a guy asks you to leave him alone, he's just actually saying, "Please come and listen to me"......sumtimes.


59. Guys don't really have final decisions.


60. When a guy loves you, bring out the best in him.


61. If a guy starts to talk seriously, listen to him....very important.


62. If a guy has been kept shut or silent, say something.


63. Guys believe that there's no such thing as love at first sight, but court the girls anyway and then realize at the end that he is wrong.


64. Guys like femininity not feebleness.


65. Guys don't like girls who punch harder than they do.


66. A guy may instantly know if the girl likes him but can never be sure unless the girl tells him.


67. A guy would waste his time over video games and football, the way a girl would do over her romance novels and make-ups.


68. Guys love girls who can cook or bake. ....they love u regardless


69. Guys like girls who are like their moms. No kidding!......true but only wen the guys are ready 2be settled down


70. A guy has more problems than you can see with your naked eyes.


71. A guy's friend knows everything about him. Use this to your advantage.


72. Don't be a snob. Guys may easily give up on the first sign of rejection


73. Don't be biased. Try loving a guy without prejudice and you'll be surprised.


74. Girls who bathe in their eau de perfumes do more repelling than attracting guys.


75. Guys are more talkative than girls are especially when the topic is about girls.


76. Guys don't comprehend the statement "Get lost" too well.


77. Guys really think that girls are strange and have unpredictable decisions but still love them more.


78. When a guy gives a crooked or pretentious grin at your jokes, he finds them offending and he just tried to be polite.


79. Guys don't care about how shiny their shoes are unlike girls.


80. Guys tend to generalize about girls but once they get to know them, they'll realize they're wrong.


81. Any guy can handle his problems all by his own. He's just too stubborn to deal with it.


82. Guys find it so objectionable when a girl swears.


83. Guys' weakest point is at the knee.


84. When a problem arises, a guy usually keeps himself cool but is already thinking of a way out.


85. When a guy is conscious of his looks, it shows he is not good at fixing things.


86. When a guy looks at you, either he's amazed by you or he's criticizing you.


87. When you catch him cheating on you and he asks for a second chance, give it to him. But when you catch him again and he asks for another chance, ignore him.


88. If a guy lets you go, he really loves you.


89. If you have a boyfriend, and your boy best friend always glances at you and it obviously shows that he is jealous whenever you're with your boyfriend, all I can say is your boy best friend loves you more than your boyfriend does.


90. Guys learn from experience not from the romance books that girls read and take as their basis of experience.


91. You can tell if a guy is really hurt or in pain when he cries in front of you!


92. If a guy suddenly asks you for a date, ask him first why.


93. When a guy says he can't sleep if he doesn't hear your voice even just for one night, hang up. He also tells that to another girl. He only flatters you and sometimes makes fun of you.


94. You can truly say that a guy has good intentions if you see him praying sometimes.


95. Guys seek for advice not from a guy but from a girl.


96. Girls are allowed to touch boys' things. Not their hair! (very true)


97. If a guy says you're beautiful, that guy likes you.


98. Guys hate girls who overreact. ......


99. Guys love you more than you love them IF they are serious in your relationships.

Questions and Anwers

Q: What's the difference between cricketers and condoms

A: Cricketers drop the catches and condoms catches the drops.


Q: What is the difference between riding a bicycle and a woman?

A: Riding a bicycle you fix your ass & move your legs, riding a woman you fix your legs & move your ass.


Q: What makes a happy man?

A: Daughter is on the cover of Vogue, son on the coverof Sports Illustrated, mistress on the cover of Playboy and wife on the cover of Missing persons.


Q: What three things are common between the sun and woman's underwear?

A: Both are hot, both look better while going down and both disappear at night.


Q: Why do men ask for a woman's hand in marriage?

A: Because they are tired of using their own.


Q: What's common between men and video?

A: Both go backward...forward...backward...forward...backward....forward...stop and eject.


Q: What is the closest thing similar to a woman'speriod?

A: Your salary, it comes once a month lasts about 5-7days and if it doesn't come means you are in big trouble


Q: What goes in dry, comes out wet, and gives warm satisfaction?

A: A teabag.


Q: 7 qualities to be a perfect wife:

A: Beautiful, Responsible, Energetic, Adorable, Sweet,Truthful and Self-Organized. In short, she must have good B.R.E.A.S.T.S


Q: Who is a gynaecologist ?

A: He is the only fool on the earth who looks for problems in a place,where most people find pleasure.

Check Your EZlink card transaction

It's useful when u suspect u've deducted wif d wrong price or forget to tab ur card b4 u get off the bus.....


Note: only the transaction of last 3 days(excluding today) and maximum of 20 transactions(latest) will be displayed.


http://www.ezlink.com.sg/ezlinkcardQuery.jsp


PS - I'm not very sure.. I have not try yet.

ONIONS & CHRISTMAS TREES

A gorgeous family is sitting around the supper table. The son asks his father,
"Dad, how many kinds of breasts are there?"


The father, surprised, answers,
"Well, son, there are three kinds of breasts. In her twenties, a woman's breasts are like melons, round and firm. In her thirties to forties, they are like pears, still nice but hanging
a bit. After fifty, they are like onions."


"Onions?"


"Yes, see them and they make you cry."


This infuriated the wife and daughter so the daughter said,
"Mum , how many kind of penises are there?"


The mother, surprised, smiles, and looks at her husband and answers,
"Well, dear, a man goes through three phases. In a man's twenties, his penis is like an oak, mighty and hard. In his thirties and forties, it is like a birch, flexible but reliable. After his fifties, it is like a Christmas tree."


"A Christmas tree?"


"Yes, dead from the root up & the balls are there for decoration only!

Thursday, December 02, 2004

Top 10 Email Addresses

Many colleges and business's tend to strip the last name down to 6 characters and add the first and last initial to either the beginning or end to make up an E-Mail address. For example, Mary L. Ferguson = mlfergus or fergusml. They are just now beginning to realize the problems that may happen when you have a large and diverse pool of people to choose from. Add to that a large database of company/college acronyms and you have some very funny addresses. Probably not funny to the individual involved, however:


TOP TEN Actual E-mail Addresses
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10. Hellen Thomas Eatons (Duke University) - eatonsht@dku.edu


9. Martha Elizibeth Cummins (Fresno University) - cumminme@fu.edu


8. George David Blowmer (Drop Front Drawers & Cabinets Inc.) - blowmegd@dropdrawers.com


7. Mary Ellen Dickinson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) - dickinme@iup.edu


6. Francis Kevin Kissinger (Las Verdes University) - kissinfk@lvu.edu


5. Barbara Joan Beeranger (Myplace Home Decorating) - beeranbj@myplace.com


4. Amanda Sue Pickering (Purdue University) - aspicker@pu.edu


3. Ida Beatrice Ballinger (Ball State University) - ibballin@bsu.edu


2. Bradley Thomas Kissering (Brady Electrical, Northern Division, Overton Canada) - btkisser@bendover.com


1. Isabelle Haydon Adcock (Toys "R" Us) - ihadcock@tru.com

Try This! Bill Gates can't explain why

Even Bill Gates can't explain
Open a blank Word document (microsoft word) and type the following:


=rand(200,99)


and then Press 'Enter' and wait 5 seconds...


Surprise........ :-)

About Sugar Cane drinks

A friend whose dad works for the government health inspection passed on this info. Their job is to inspect all hawkers, their cooked food, their store hygiene, etc. They found sugar cane juice has the highest content of bacteria among all food. In fact, it has exceeded the set limit. Hence, these guys had to find out why.


They went around all sugar cane stores and watched the way the hawkers handled their sugar cane, wash their glasses, their entire procedure. But they couldn't find the problem. One day, they stayed till closing time and discovered some shocking facts! Whenever, the hawkers closed their stores, they would wash the floor with detergent. As we know, the remaining sugar canes will be placed at the back of the store, vertically standing and as sugar canes are very porous, they tend to absorb whatever liquid around them. Besides the soapy water, the dirt on hawkers' boots, cats' urine, etc, will all be absorbed.??


A friend, who loved sugar cane juice, was pregnant.She was always drinking sugar cane juice. Anyway, one day she miscarried and the foetus was already like 6 or 7 months old, I think. When the doctors did an autopsy to find out why all of a sudden the foetus had died inside her, they found traces of some chemical substance, which was found in cat urine. Large traces of it. While it would not be able to harm adults, it was extremely toxic to babies, what more a foetus?


So they tried to determine how this cat urine thing could have ended up in the foetus. This meant that it had to be digested by the mother, right? And the only logical conclusion they could come up with was that since these sugar cane juice stall holders just leave the canes lying around on the wet and dirty floor, it would not be impossible to think that stray cats could have peed on those sugar canes or near those sugar canes.

Milkman

A father put his three year old daughter to bed, told her a story and listened to her prayers which she
ended by saying "God bless Mommy, God bless daddy, God bless grandma and good-bye grandpa."


The father asked, "Why did you say good-bye grandpa?"


The little girl said, "I don't know daddy, it just seemed like the thing to do."


The next day grandpa died.


The father thought it was a strange coincidence.


A few months later the father put the girl to bed and listened to her prayers, which went like this: "God bless Mommy, God Bless daddy and good-bye grandma."


The next day the grandmother died.


Oh my god, thought the father, this kid is in contact with the other side.


Several weeks later when the girl was going to bed the dad heard her say, "God bless Mommy and good-bye daddy."


He practically went into shock. He couldn't sleep all night and got up at the crack of dawn to go to his office. He was nervous as a cat all day, had lunch sent in and watched the clock. He figured if he could get by until midnight he would be okay. He felt safe in the office, so instead of going home at the end of the day he stayed there, drinking coffee, looking at his watch and jumping at every sound.


Finally midnight arrived, he breathed a sigh of relief and went home.


When he got home his wife said "I've never seen you work so late, what's the matter?"


He said "I don't want to talk about it, I've just spent the worst day of my life."


She said "You think you had a bad day, you'll never believe what happened to me. This morning the milkman dropped dead on our porch."