Have been blogging nonsense for the past few posts. Today, I'm not going to vlog for a bit.
Yuki Nagato and the band! For those who did not watch the anime, Nagato is the guitarist in the witch costume. The lead singer is Haruhi Suzumiya - the all boring lead of the show.
Shifted to YouTube Archive
Argh! I'm so bored, can't concentrate on doing finance, or any other subjects! Number 1 reason, my finance calculator is spoiled. Haven't got a new one. Number 2, I haven't been watching the finance videos for sometime. Number 3, too many things up in my mind, I don't know which one to do first!
Its one week before the first exam - NTR 108. But I am in no freaking mood to study! Then theres the Christmas party this Saturday. And oh my goodness! The Loreal submission next week - we haven't done anything. Toastmasters on Monday. The course at SIM Namly next Saturday.
Crap. Seems like I am super packed during exam week. But damn free just before exam. What the heck is wrong!?!
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I am so freaking addicted to Toastmasters now. When I first joined Toastmasters, I thought I would be bored to death when we are going to have meetings every week. But Zhenzhi told me no, it's only on every alternate week. How I wished I had tried persuading him to have it every week - at most help him think of something to talk about during his President's opening speech.
So, yesterday evening, I went down to SRC quite early. Not because of the time (I left IMM at about 4.30PM), because I took the cab. The cab driver was driving so freaking slowly. Trying to cheat my money. Not only that, he took a freaking long route. Told him to get to the road in front of Fullerton to go down, but he took the route in front of City Hall building and then to Suntec and turning to SRC. Cost me another dollar for that route.
So I was there at 5PM odd. Went to take a shower and then went straight to Lounge 1883. I was the only one there for about 40 whole minutes. Bored to the brains. Without the President around, all the ex-co went missing. Only two members from the ex-co turned up at the meeting, Raymond, because he's the TME and Jenny, because she's my evaluator. Elton should come to our meeting one day so I could introduce Jenny to him.
Raymond came at almost 6PM or was it pass 6 already? Lily came next. And one by one everyone started coming in at 6.30PM onwards. By then I had already rehearsed my speech countless times. I got to interact more as only 14 people turned up. The room was so empty. There were only 3 projects (no voting because one was disqualified and voting is not allowed when there are only 2 projects). And we also went pass the taboo line with speeches related to Politics and Sex. Word of the Day was cancelled. And we had about 15 minutes of English lesson in place of it, and about half an hour of English lesson again during language evaluation.
Took the train back after the meeting. Crappy. There was this black guy and malay woman trying to be funny right in front of me. And he put his arm right in front of me to grab the bar at the side. Feel like chopping it off. So irritating to have an arm right in front of you blocking you. Worse, this stupid guy stood right in the center of the entrance/exit blocking the passage way.
The whole journey from City Hall station to CCK interchange was filled with nothing but music from my reliable shuffle. So reliable I couldn't hear any announcements that I almost got on the wrong train and almost visited Ben at Yew Tee. It was almost 11.30PM when I reached CCK interchange. Thinking I could take a number of buses, I stood at the screen waiting to see which bus will come first. And it kept refreshing to display only one screen. The fury I got into. Until I realized most of the buses have gone off service. Even 985. I was lucky there was still 985W. So I reached home, supper in hands, and went to wake my parents up for the delicious supper from SRC. My stupid little brother only ate the so-so tasting chicken fillet with satay sauce instead of the wonderful curry fish with eggplant.
- Food courtesy of SRC Toastmasters
Did I comment wrongly on Lee's speech? Did I criticize the hike wrongly? No… I have proof for that. This was published a day after I made my comment. From the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce (The Straits Times, 16 November, 2006):
A KEY business organisation has warned that the impending rise in the goods and services tax (GST) will hurt Singapore's competitiveness and affect middle-income earners.
About the middle-income earners
'The move aimed at raising revenue to pay for increasing social needs is a commendable one. However, middle-income groups are likely to feel the brunt, as they tend to spend a larger proportion of their wages on essential consumer goods,' the chamber said.
The squeeze felt by the middle-income earners compared to the poor
These earners 'might end up feeling the squeeze most if the offset package is aimed solely at low-wage earners'.
About the corporate tax reduction
Mr Lee also said on Monday that Singapore may have to cut the corporate tax rate from its 20 per cent level to compete globally for investments.
But the chamber was cool on this proposal.
'Such a reduction would only benefit profitable companies and not the significant majority of small and medium-sized enterprises which have to contend with high business overheads and a dwindling bottom line,' it said.
