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*facepalm*
One whole SECTION on NUS...hahahahahaha...
Jeremy Ee, Lotus-lee Chin, Mamta, USP, NOC.
It's weird reading in the papers people and programmes you've met, are part of, or have met.
Posted at 11:47 am by fayeth
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Wala Wala tonight...Germ and Sha! Whee! =p
Dinner at home first though...my dad's got delicious laksa from Johor...albeit only because he went to Malacca for a cousin's (his cousin not mine) funeral. I wonder if this was the same cousin whose wedding we attended yonks ago in Malaysia, before which our family snuck out to the KFC nearby because we were famished but as typical in Chinese weddings, nothing was starting on time.
Listening to 93.3fm now. Interview with William and the rest who got kicked out (honestly, I don't care abt their names =p)
From now on, when you watch and they have the 3 people go up for elimination, you just know it's the middle one who'll get kicked ok. I mean, they probably do that cos it's easier to hug. But yes...I STILL FEEL WILLIAM SHOULD BE IN. *fumes* lol.
That guy is exactly like his younger bro, Anthony.
[Simin, Rena, any other Vulcans/Siriusians reading: Yes, William's Anthony's brother...Anthony the jie-mei =p]
They're both so damn funny, you could hyperventilate laughing.
Read the forums, and he really was the person with the least support...cos they thought he looked dao and all...but...*splutter* but he's about as dao as Anthony is anti-social. Try: Impossible.
Bah. Enough. There's nothing else to watch.
It's better to create something out of nothing, than to create something out of something that's already there.
Wise words of encouragement from Ant ;p heh. Can also be wilfully chosen to apply to a certain *ahem* who's already got "something that's already there". Okok, I'm mean, I know. shhhhh =x heh
This is an email I wrote, but I didn't want to send it out yet, so here're some pointers for potential job-seekers. If there's anything I've left out, do leave a comment ok? (at the end of the post, silly. Not on my tagboard)
Public service announcement from me. And a benefit for you.
- Speeling mistaks. There is spel-lcheck in Word for a reason. Use it.
Even then, it's not perfect. Read through again and again - it is YOUR invitation to the red carpet of employment, don't mess it up. If you're not confident of your grasp of English grammar or think you need someone to help you with your vocabulary, do not hesitate to ask someone else to help you.
And for goodness sakes. Don't spell your own name wrongly.
Your surname is your LAST name. Your given name is your FIRST name. eg. Mr. Tan Ah Kow. Last name: Tan; First name: Ah Kow.
- Don't put words in if you aren't sure of its meaning. eg."My undulating enthusiasm for all the work I undertake is an enormous advantage to the firm that hires me." If you don't know what 'undulating' means, please check dictionary.com
- Make sure you know who you are writing to. If you are applying directly to the company, find out who you should be addressing the cover letter to, and confirm their address with them. The last thing a HR Manager wants to see is his/her name misspelt, or him being addressed as a "Mdm" or "Ms", or her being addressed as a "Mr".
- And do not address your letter "To whom it may concern"
Read point above. The last thing you want to do is alienate the recruiter/HR Manager. And it shows a lack of initiative on your part, because you didn't bother finding out what the person's name is. Unless you've been asked to address the letter to the position (eg. Human Resources Manager) and only that, please bother to find out the name.
- DO NOT WRITE IN CAPS - unless it is specified that you should to do so. (Usually they will only ask you to write your surname/last name in caps.
- If you call up a company, at least be polite. Please don't call up demanding why you haven't heard from them. "Why haven't I been contacted even though I applied a month ago????" just doesn't sit well. If you must call up, try "Hi, I applied for (the position) more than a month ago, and I haven't been contacted regarding my application. Is it possible for me to find out about the status of my application please?"
- On your resume itself, no one wants to see too much repetition. Instead of "Assisted in building of...A", "Assisted in building of B", "Assisted in the building of C" etc, it'd be better to write it this way;
Assisted in the building of:
- A
- B
- C
- Why bring this up? Because I really don't want to start my day reading a resume that says
-> Erection of Building A
-> Erection of Building B
-> Erection of Building C
-> Erection of Building D
Many "Erections" in a resume do not a qualified candidate make. =) Especially if you are male.
- Most of my "readers" are undergrads or fresh grads, but there's something that you should take note of when writing your resume in the future. Instead of
Job Title: Cost Controller
Job Description: Controlled Cost (.......who dunno cost controller controls costs????)
Write details that impress your potential employer enough to want to interview you at all. To beef resumes up, include numbers (real ones, do NOT fake numbers)
eg. Job Description: Was coordinator for a USD 100 million project, and coordinated the processes and progress of 5 different worksites.
Actually, this applies to just about every industry and position. In my opinion, they're really really basic points to keep in mind, but there's a surprisingly large number of people out there who do not bother impressing. Unless you're good enough to be head-hunted, your first contact with any potential employer is still through your resume, so make it count yeah?
Posted at 11:04 am by fayeth
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Singaporeans have no ears.
William's out, *kableeeeepbleeepbleeeep* is in.
WTH?
Posted at 01:16 am by fayeth
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Anyone who's read my blog for a fairly long time (and has an incredible memory) would remember Jon Fong, a blogger I once met at Zouk while fairly intoxicated, whom I'd met through Johnny Gao. I once plugged his mixtape madness gig at Hideout - his first mixtape madness, back then, if i'm not wrong.
I regret that everytime he was up for a showing at Hideout, I was never able to make it. Exams, Tests. I kid you not. He always performed the night before I had a test/exam. After two or three SMSes he mass-msged to his friends, which I had to reject because of those reasons, I never heard from him again. I guess we all get tired of hearing the same reason. BUT THEY WERE REAL REASONS, NOT EXCUSES.
For the longest time, I've been trying to find Jon's blog, because he's a huge sweetie pie nice guy. I swear, the man has HEART, not just that, but also made of GOLD.
So when the bloggers started flocking to Hideout in the past month for meetups, I was wondering why I found it familiar. A few days ago, it finally dawned on me that this was the place Jon always said he performed (mixed? spun?) at...So I thought, how small a world that daryl sng DJs there as well, but thought no further.
Until today, when I went to darylsng's blog, lo and behold there's Jon's URL. They were DJing together last night =) I always remembered Jon's URL as having something to do with a superhero, and a bug one at that, but I never got it right, no matter how many combinations I tried.
Turns out, it was really quite easy:
http://thetick.blogspot.com/
Silly me. =)
Posted at 04:38 pm by fayeth
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Quizzes of a different sort from philosophersnet.com:
Taboo - The Results
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Results
Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.13.
Your Interference Factor is: 0.00.
Your Universalising Factor is: 0.00.
What do these results mean?
Are you thinking straight about morality?
You see very little wrong in the actions depicted in these scenarios. However, to the extent that you do, it is a moot point how you might justify it. You don't think that an act can be morally wrong if it is entirely private and no one, not even the person doing the act, is harmed by it. Yet the actions described in these scenarios are private like this and it was specified as clearly as possible that they didn't involve harm. Maybe, despite these stipulations, you just can't believe no harm would have resulted. The trouble is that you were asked to judge the scenarios as described, not as you think they would have turned out in the real world. And given how they were described, it isn't clear what form such harms could take... |
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How did you do compared to other people?
Taboo has been played 44150 times.
Your Moralising Quotient of 0.13 compares to an average Moralising Quotient of 0.34. This means that as far as the events depicted in the scenarios featured in this activity are concerned you are more permissive than average.
Your Interference Factor of 0.00 compares to an average Interference Factor of 0.25. This means that as far as the events depicted in the scenarios featured in this activity are concerned you are less likely to recommend societal interference in matters of moral wrongdoing, in the form of prevention or punishment, than average.
Your Universalising Factor of 0.00 compares to an average Universalising Factor of 0.42. This means you are less likely than average to see moral wrongdoing in universal terms - that is, without regard to prevailing cultural norms and social conventions (at least as far as the events depicted in the scenarios featured in this activity are concerned).
As for
Staying Alive
Sorry! You're dead!
You chose:
Round 1: Take me to the teletransporter!
Round 2: I'll take the silicon!
Round 3: Let my body die!
Here's the problem. There are basically three kinds of things which could be required for the continued existence of your self. One is bodily continuity, which actually may require only parts of the body to stay in existence (e.g., the brain). Another is psychological continuity, which requires, for the continued existence of the self, the continuance of your consciousness, by which is meant your thoughts, ideas, memories, plans, beliefs and so on. And the third possibility is the continued existence of some kind of immaterial part of you, which might be called the soul. It may, of course, be the case that a combination of one or more types of these continuity is required for you to survive.
Your first two choices were consistent with the view that psychological continuity is necessary for survival. In Round 1, you decided to have your body zapped and rebuilt from scratch, and in Round 2 you decided to have your brain replaced by synthetic parts. Both these choices give you psychological continuity. But your last choice sees the end to your psychological continuity, since the continued existence of the soul does not provide it. So you first ended bodily continuity and then you ended psychological continuity.
Perhaps you made these choices because all along you thought that the continuity of the soul is what counts? If so, there is still a puzzle. How could teletransportation or replacing your organic body with synthetic parts ensure that your soul continues to exist? After all, the teletransporter transmits information about body states. Why would the soul follow this information? Given the lack of reasons to suppose a soul would do this, you have been pronounced dead. (Although technically speaking you haven't so much died as lost track of where your soul has gone!) However, it is conceded that the autopsy is not absolutely conclusive!
Posted at 04:39 pm by fayeth
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From here via mrbrown
speaking of drinking.
Ridiculous conversation last night with my daughter and my s-i-l.
Me: I don't want to go pub alone and look like a loser nursing my lychee martini
them: then we go with you la!
me: Yeah, like anyone would come talk to me if they see me with a couple.
them: then we bring zm along lor!
me: And then all the attention will be on zm, cos he's so gay magnet! Then I'll be relegated to some corner! And worse, all the heteros will see zm and the homos with me, then will think I'm a fag hag, and no heteros want to talk to fag hags.
them: ok la, your daughter sit with you, s-i-l sit with zm, we separate table ok?
me: wa lao. put me with my daughter, I confirm lose out lor. Sit in a corner and sulk.
them: ok la, then zm and us sit one table, then you sit another la!
me: then we're back to square one where I didn't want to look like a loser nursin my lychee martini alone!
them: ...........
Yes, i know, with or without them, I will not get people coming up to me to talk so shut up it's a totally hypothetical conversation. Damn sad conversation.
Think the recent bout of illness actually really screwed my biological states up very badly. VERY badly. Help =(
SHUT UP ALREADY. geez.
Posted at 01:30 pm by fayeth
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Definitely something wrong.
>10glasses of water
>5trips to the toilet
>normal melancholy
Posted at 04:34 pm by fayeth
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One of those days when you blog and blog and it just doesn't seem enough; just check out the time between my posts for today.
One of the reasons for this is because I'm alone in my office right now. And I've been reading Tetanus (author of previously mentioned A tiny blip in the continuum), and it strikes me that I've never thought a man could write a blog that would speak so beautifully - to me at least.
There's something about the way he writes that touches me - maybe just the way he phrases things, but I think...I think it's to do with the way he thinks. maybe it's just the way time seems to slow down when I imagine what he's describing.
One of his entries is about a conversation he had with OneLittleTwit, where she gave him a poem, and described how he seemed to her. I don't know about how or who he is offline, but the poem was a perfect description of who he is on his blog.
It's just one of them days, when I'm particularly emo for no reason. Maybe it's to do with my very full bladder (I've had 6 huge glasses of water since i started work 4hours ago. I'm well on my way to fulfilling my 8 glass requirement), maybe it's to do with the period. I don't know.
"I don't know" seems to have become the driving motto in my life recently. I have to stop questioning like this - questions without answers.
Posted at 01:45 pm by fayeth
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And then there was this... And then right after that super-emo-thinking entry, I link to this. sigh.
Something from A tiny blip in the continuum:
The Company
It was a humbling experience. And it was at that moment I realized that all my life I have been surrounded by people who gave me opportunities freely.
Indeed. The moment you realise that life has been one un-bargained opportunity after another, you appreciate how much you have, and stop wondering about what you haven't.
And you think, "So this is what it feels like to have realisation dawn on you".
Have a good day. It's a good day out there =)
Posted at 01:12 pm by fayeth
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You ask me if I love you, but that's not the question. Everyone should've realised that posting anything on the web is not going to be "your" secret anymore - Google is a very powerful search engine. Even blogging about everyday mundane things can lead someone to suss you out on the web, even if the person merely knows the barebones of your life.
Which leads me to think - what would possess a person to write his innermost thoughts about another person (whether a person he likes or detests), and post it on the world-wide-web.
The puzzlement is further deepened when you realise he has allowed few people to link him, and one of those few is the person he's written much about.
Is it fair to say someone who does that is crazy? Or has been pushed beyond numb?
I know I can never blog that thoughts I associate most congruently with a person when I am talking about the person. Everything here is crafted, and in that sense, inaccurate. Just about everything you read here is a lie, especially if it speaks about a particular someone. I write in circles so few know who I'm talking about, but do not rejoice even if you know who I'm talking about and what I'm talking about, because I'm not telling you the whole truth.
Why do I not allow many people to link me?
Because I am afraid of who will find what out.
I am afraid of the unknown.
I do not know who will tread upon this.
As you can see, I suffer from slight paranoia (Paranoia is good. Taiwan is alive because of extreme paranoia. I'll send you the article if you want to read about it =p)
I write in circles, I write in code sometimes, and I don't like being linked.
How many layers of us await unravelling to our closest friends?
Everyone has so many onion layers, and everytime someone manages to peel a layer off, we don't know if this will be the one to make them cry or not.
On a completely unrelated note, it's frightening how little I know of the people around me.
You, him and her. I don't know how much of you, you want to reveal to me, because just like I have my dark and/or deep secrets, so do you. But if you're willing to tell, I'm mostly willing to know (unless this involves *cough*awoman/manhavingsexualfantasiesaboutyou*cough*)
And now I know why working adults slowly lose friends. It's hard to keep track of who you've kept in touch with and who you haven't, when everyday you're zonked out after work and all you wanna do when you go home or during the weekend is veg out.
Posted at 12:26 pm by fayeth
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