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Monday, May 11, 2009

At the cross road and getting nowhere

It's has been a long time since I last blogged. Well, I finally found myself a receptionist cum admin job after a month of job searching. Although the work place is quite a distance from home, it's better than slacking at home and waste time. The recruit agency really knows how to suck blood during this recession period. They are like taking 40% of part-timer's pay. While you are thinking this is really a lot, I can tell you getting a full time job through the agency is even worst. I heard from my colleague that the agency is taking 80% of her 3 months pay. I am wondering how she is going to survive for three months, feeding only on water I guessed. What can we do in this period of recession? You can only find better jobs nowadays through agency if not it's hard for you to get yourself employed.

Talking about university admission. I am starting to regret entering polytechnic. Local universities just look down on polytechnic students. My advice to the fellows O level students is that if you are sure that you can maintain a GPA of 3.9 and above throughout your poly life, then entering polytechnic should not be a bad choice for you. However, if you are an average student like me, getting nowhere, please take serious consideration before you make your choice. I have been feeling quite depress lately especially after that NUS interview. Now, I am thinking whether should I continue with studying or find myself a full-time job first. I hate this feeling of being average cos being "not bad" is not enough. Universities are looking for elites not students. Not bad is categorized as bad in uni. What should I do? I am getting nowhere.

ends at 11:51 PM

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Wasting Life

My internet connection has been acting weird recently. I wonder if the major reason is with the internet provider starhub. This problem has been persisting. It just keeps coming back and gives me headaches. Singnet seems to be better because most of my friends who are using singnet have got no problem with their connection. How bout yours?

Anyway, I am already feeling the aura of recession in Singapore. Part-time jobs are so difficult to find. I guess u need recommendation if not it is really hard to get a job by yourself. Can any kind soul please give me a hand. I just need to job!!!!

ends at 12:09 PM

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Super Accurate Personality Test

I came across this personality test by chance and I find it super accurate. You should try it too at http://www.quizbox.com/personality/test82.aspx

My result is as follows:

Your view on yourself:

You are intelligent, honest and sweet. You are friendly to everybody and don't like conflict. Because you're so cheerful and fun people are naturally attracted to you and like to talk to you.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:

You like serious, smart and determined people. You don't judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren't necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people's eyes.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:

You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.

The seriousness of your love:

Your have very sensible tactics when approaching the opposite sex. In many ways people find your straightforwardness attractive, so you will find yourself with plenty of dates.

Your views on education

Education is very important in life. You want to study hard and learn as much as you can.

The right job for you:

You're a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you'll be set for life.

How do you view success:

You are confident that you will be successful in your chosen career and nothing will stop you from trying.

What are you most afraid of:

You are concerned about your image and the way others see you. This means that you try very hard to be accepted by other people. It's time for you to believe in who you are, not what you wear.

Who is your true self:

You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.

Labels: quiz

ends at 4:10 PM

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Mayan Prophocey

Anthropologist Christian Ratsch translated the following sad prophecy of the end of the world according to the religious tradition of the peaceful Lacandone Maya of southern Mexico:

"The End of the World will come, so it is said, so it was told. Our end will come when there are no more trees. Then, when all are cut down, when people are everywhere, when there is no more forest. So it is said, so it was told by the ancient habo-people. They said this:

"Kaxon bake xen, well, if it is true, if the forest is overcrowded by people, if there are settlements all over, built up by the kah-people, which are settling close together, when all the trees are cut down, when there are no more mahogany trees, when all trees are destroyed, when only the hills remain, then the end of the world will come. Not now, but very soon. The end will reach us. This is said. Our end will come. Nothing will be left of us.

"It is said, but who really knows, if it will be a storm or if it will be the sun, which will burn us, which will destroy us. Fast, very fast the end will reach us. It is said, it will only last as long as dawn lasts, as long as the sun needs to reach the treetops. Fast it will be. And nothing will be left of us. One hour and we are all gone

"Perhaps a great coldness will come or something else. Hachykum, Our True Lord, will get our blood. He will gather all of us there in Yaxchilan (at the center of the universe)... The gods will bring us to Yaxchilan. All the people with good blood will be gathered. When they arrive there, their necks will be cut. So it is said.

"Then when the world’s end is coming nothing will remain. Everything will find its end. There will be no thorns and spines, no flies, no bloodsucking bugs --- nothing. But then the souls will come, the souls of the ancients, the souls of the deceased. They will inhabit the earth. They will stay together with the gods."

Another eschatological Mayan vision proclaims:

"Eat, eat, so long as there is bread; Drink, drink, so long as there is water; A day will come, when dust will darken the sky, when a stench of pestilence will cause the land to wither, when a cloud will rise, when a mountain will be raised, when a strong man will seize the city, when all things will fall into ruin, when the tender leaf will be destroyed, when eyes will close in death."

Adapted from
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/profecia/esp_profecia01h1.htm#3.%20Mayan%20Prophecy%20~

OMG the world is ending pretty soon and we will be burned to death by the sun.

ends at 5:49 PM

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Random

I had this sudden motivation to change my blogskin today. Then I realized the reason as to why my blog can never be archives was because the function had been disabled. Stupid right? I have been blogging for this long, yet I only realized it now. Out of bordem, I slightly read through some of my oldest entry. Oh my! Now I realised how childish I used to be and all my entries filled with lots of dots and I dunno why.

I am taking Basic Theory test tml and yet I am here changing blogskin and posting. What is happening to me? There is so much to remember!!!! Wish me good luck. Anyway, my parents are away to attend a wedding in Malaysia for four days. It seems like I am left all alone at home with the two idiotic bullies. They are none other than the torturous dog and my invisible brother. I felt as if I owe them in my previous life. That dog kept pooing and peeing everywhere in the kitchen. He likes to do it especially under my nose but there is no used wacking him because he just won't learn. Next is my brother. He is really getting on my nerves. I was trying to be nice to stir fry some nuggets and hashbrown for him to eat before he go to work. Basically, you know those things are par-fried and frozen but I didn't want to fry it cos it will mess the kitchen up. So, I defrost with the microwave and then stir fry them. In order to ensure whether the centre of the nuggets are heated up (not cold), I used the sampling method where i cut up a small piece from one nugget with a scissors to try. That's the part! He consumed the whole plate but not that piece that was cut! After explaining to him that I never bite that piece but cut it, he still refused to eat and rushed off to work. He really had this "over reaction" with cleaniness of food but in a weird way. There was once he complained a bottle of milk which was just freshly opened by himself had unknown bubbles/ foam on the surface. Then he rejected the whole 1 litre of milk saying it was a defect. If he ever work in any QC department at Government Authorities, I guess the public of that particular country will starve to death with his super stringent quality checks. Thank god, I am not him.

ends at 6:53 PM

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Are you sure you know exactly what you are eating?

I have just watched a Taiwan entertainment show. In this show, they invited a Chemistry Professor to tell them how some manufacturers or stall holders go about doing food adulteration. Let me tell you what they did?

These are some common products that ppl usually consume. These evil manufacturers can product a common product totally without using any ingredients related to the food products. As we know, colourings and flavourings are used by manfacturers to add on to the flavour of their real products. However, some evil manufacturers use solely artificial flavourings to produce food products in order to save cost. (As you know raw ingrdients are getting more and more expensive)

Food Product No. 1 : "Chemical" Coffee

What does it contain?
1. Caramel colouring (for the brown colour)
2. Chemical caffaine (added to fake coffee when it comes to food testing by govt)
3. Artificial plant-based protein AKA Creamer
(Have been widely used in industry as non-dairy creamer to cater vegetarian. It is safe and approved by govt organisation. However, if manufacturers are getting cheap source of it, melamine might be present)
4. Chemical coffee flavouring

When all these ingredients are added...There is no different from real coffee. Through naked eyes and tasting, you will not know that this coffee contains no trace of coffee beans. This scenario will most likely occur in instant coffee powder or ready packed coffee.

Food Product No. 2: Faked Yam paste

What does it contain?
1. Corn flour
2. Artificial yam essence with colourings (produced chemically not from any trace of yam)
3. Water

End product smell, taste and look exactly like yam paste. However, no yam was used.

Food Product No.3: Faked Dark Soy Sauce (worst!!!)

Information of this product was widely spread through E-mails only. So far it has not been reported. Somehow, the chemistry professor believe that it is possible.

Guess what raw ingredients they used to make this "special dark soy sauce"? Of course not soy beans! If not why I call it SPECIAL. You thought it will be some other food grade ingredients although the original food ingredients of a dark soy sauce is not used.

WRONG!

They used human HAIR to produce the dark soy sauce. Why? According to the chemistry professor, all the other ingredients used in the soy sauce (from colourings to flavourings) are chemical so most likely they do not have much nutrition content in it to fit the definition of the product. The raw ingredient to produce dark soy sauce is soy beans, this means that protein content of the product is high. So evil manufacturers add human hair which contain amino acids to make up the protein content.

Why sample testing cannot point out their evil doing?
Most of the time, labortary testing is unable to test out the exact ingredients used. What they test is the amount of the nutritious content. For example, protein, carbohydrates contents in this end products. The amount tested out are then used to estimate the type of raw ingredients and amount used. Generally, no one will expect non-food ingredients to be added by manufacturers to fake the content and hit the standard levels that the ingredients contribute. In the first place, how can we even think that this ppl with super brains will ever do such thing and the end products cannot be differentiate with layman observations?

After watching, I am starting to get suspicious of food I eat. Especially, processed food(ingredients' orginal form are nowhere to be seen) in liquid and powder form. Beware, these products might not be even food in them.

ends at 7:51 PM

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Beware! This is atrocious!

Dear all,
especially parents out there,
Please beware of receiving fraud phone calls telling you that your son is being kidnapped by them (loan shark).

Description of the scenario:
Once you pick up that call, you will hear someone crying miserably saying,"mum help me!!! You really must help me!" Then the person on the other end of the phone will claim that he is your son being kidnapped by 2 people and whacked brutally. It sounds like he was really in pain. You could also hear in the background that the place seems to have a lot of people there, really what a scene of underworld meeting place seen in movies.

Then the person who claimed to be your son will say these people are loan sharks and they want you to give them money in order to save him. If you ask them where is his place, he will say in some basement but he will not reveal the exact address. His excuse was that he dared not tell you because he is afraid that the "loan shark" will bash him up even more. When you asked "your son" to pass the phone over to the "loan shark", another person will pick up the phone. He will start off by saying that your son is in his hands and he owned him money for 2 months already. He will ask you to send money in order to save "your son".

There is no way you can trace the phone call as the number on the caller ID shows "Out of area". Furthermore, please try as much as you can try to make him find the loop holes of what he said. I know at that kind of condition, you will be very panicked. I recommend here you to remember to ask them if your son name is tom or harry. Give them any name you can think off as long as it's not your son's name. If he says yes I am that person then you can hang up the phone immediately with no worry at all.

My mum just got a call like this today in the morning. So beware of phone calls you pick up especially in the morning.

ends at 1:02 PM