I am wasting away.
I shouldn't be here.
I feel sick.
I was happy.
But that was yesterday.
When will this all pass me by? :(
I shouldn't be here.
I feel sick.
I was happy.
But that was yesterday.
When will this all pass me by? :(
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA MADE MY NIGHT.
Surfing Harry Potter fan tumblrs now, no reason, just felt like it :-)
Oh I haven't blogged about the chalet yet I realize, another time!
This post reserved for the hot stuff that is Robert Pattinson. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH x4327879427582340
I just read this contribution by Chua Yeow Chong off the Forum page on ST:
Three ways to discourage property speculation
The following are my suggestions to discourage residential property speculation:
- Impose a high stamp duty on property flipping: for example, 20 per cent within a year and 15 per cent within two years.
- Remove property tax exemption for unoccupied properties. Land banking and property squatting are economic waste.
- Impose capital gains tax on profit realised from investment property.
Demand for return and demand for dwelling are very different objectives. Hot money will find a better place to go in a jiffy when the situation changes, and Singaporeans will bear the burden of hugely inflated home prices. Singapore needs to fix this vulnerability.
Suppose these take immediate effect on future transactions, that would make implementation tricky and time-consuming. Lots of existing Singaporean investors would also be caught by the second point.
I don't know, but they sound like bloody damned good ideas, albeit radical. Or am I missing something here?
Three ways to discourage property speculation
The following are my suggestions to discourage residential property speculation:
- Impose a high stamp duty on property flipping: for example, 20 per cent within a year and 15 per cent within two years.
- Remove property tax exemption for unoccupied properties. Land banking and property squatting are economic waste.
- Impose capital gains tax on profit realised from investment property.
Demand for return and demand for dwelling are very different objectives. Hot money will find a better place to go in a jiffy when the situation changes, and Singaporeans will bear the burden of hugely inflated home prices. Singapore needs to fix this vulnerability.
Suppose these take immediate effect on future transactions, that would make implementation tricky and time-consuming. Lots of existing Singaporean investors would also be caught by the second point.
I don't know, but they sound like bloody damned good ideas, albeit radical. Or am I missing something here?
Dear fellow Singaporeans
I am a Singaporean historian looking to speak to people who remember the British bases and their withdrawal in the early 1970s. The withdrawal was the first major crisis independent Singapore faced. The 56 bases, contributing a fifth of the country’s GDP, were its largest industry, and the pullout threatened the livelihood of one-sixth of the labour force, including an estimated 8,000 amahs.
The pullout also transformed the economy, society and landscape of Singapore in the 1970s. Most of the bases were converted to commercial use, while many base workers underwent a 3-month retraining crash course. Technical and vocational education also expanded, as new laws sought to increase labour productivity and attract foreign capital investment.
These developments resonate with us today: the retraining programmes, the mobilisation of the young, the philosophy that ‘no one owes Singapore a living’. There is also a forgotten social history to unearth: how retrenched base employees coped with the crisis and how workers adjusted to new work routines.
If you remember the British bases and rundown, or have a family member, relative or friend who does, kindly contact me to lend your voice to an important episode of our national story.
Please pass this message along to those who might be interested.
Thank you.
Loh Kah Seng (Dr)
Visiting Research Fellow
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
Email: LKSHISatGMAIL.COM
I am a Singaporean historian looking to speak to people who remember the British bases and their withdrawal in the early 1970s. The withdrawal was the first major crisis independent Singapore faced. The 56 bases, contributing a fifth of the country’s GDP, were its largest industry, and the pullout threatened the livelihood of one-sixth of the labour force, including an estimated 8,000 amahs.
The pullout also transformed the economy, society and landscape of Singapore in the 1970s. Most of the bases were converted to commercial use, while many base workers underwent a 3-month retraining crash course. Technical and vocational education also expanded, as new laws sought to increase labour productivity and attract foreign capital investment.
These developments resonate with us today: the retraining programmes, the mobilisation of the young, the philosophy that ‘no one owes Singapore a living’. There is also a forgotten social history to unearth: how retrenched base employees coped with the crisis and how workers adjusted to new work routines.
If you remember the British bases and rundown, or have a family member, relative or friend who does, kindly contact me to lend your voice to an important episode of our national story.
Please pass this message along to those who might be interested.
Thank you.
Loh Kah Seng (Dr)
Visiting Research Fellow
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
Email: LKSHISatGMAIL.COM
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So who should I trust now? I was right not to tell ppl stuff. Especially those that seem to be close to me. Good bye world. I will be closing myself off the rest of you now.
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Hello pearlswine denizens!
Wanted to apologize for the absence of comics over the last couple of days, and let you know that there will be a slight delay for comics over the next few days.
It's kind of a funny story, really. I'm doing NaNoWriMo -- the National Novel Writing Month. Sadly, the other night, when I was at a write-in--an event held at different locations where NaNo writers get together and write like fiends for a couple of hours a night. Unfortunately, Tuesday night, one of my fellow writers came back to our table with a large caramel latte. I had my back turned, but heard a gasp escape from my writing partner. I turned to my computer, only to see my little iBook covered in large caramel latte!
We immediately cleaned the computer and I pulled the power and the battery, and I left it overnight to dry, after getting all the coffee out from underneath the keyboard. I hoped (and prayed, in my secular way, to the universe) that all would be well.
Sadly, I turned on my computer last night, and there are problems. My keyboard is dead, and I don't know about anything else. So at the moment, my only Internet access is at work--where I am often busy, um, working. I should still be able to get the comic up, it just might be delayed a little while until I get my home computer issues resolved.
Thanks for your patience, and for your awesome comments! I always enjoy posting the comic and seeing your entertaining posts.
Jim
pearlswine denizens! Wanted to apologize for the absence of comics over the last couple of days, and let you know that there will be a slight delay for comics over the next few days.
It's kind of a funny story, really. I'm doing NaNoWriMo -- the National Novel Writing Month. Sadly, the other night, when I was at a write-in--an event held at different locations where NaNo writers get together and write like fiends for a couple of hours a night. Unfortunately, Tuesday night, one of my fellow writers came back to our table with a large caramel latte. I had my back turned, but heard a gasp escape from my writing partner. I turned to my computer, only to see my little iBook covered in large caramel latte!
We immediately cleaned the computer and I pulled the power and the battery, and I left it overnight to dry, after getting all the coffee out from underneath the keyboard. I hoped (and prayed, in my secular way, to the universe) that all would be well.
Sadly, I turned on my computer last night, and there are problems. My keyboard is dead, and I don't know about anything else. So at the moment, my only Internet access is at work--where I am often busy, um, working. I should still be able to get the comic up, it just might be delayed a little while until I get my home computer issues resolved.
Thanks for your patience, and for your awesome comments! I always enjoy posting the comic and seeing your entertaining posts.
Jim
what a seriously hectic week this has been. from assignment to project, to a groupmate who in a way "stood us up" in writing his part, to little errors after handing in the assignment, then to a lovely afternoon. the week has been pretty trying. but then when you think about it it's just another 6 or 7 full days to the start of exams. freaaaak.
i'm so tired. can't wait for this semester to be over. (and then the whole cycle repeats itself where you wish hope pray that the next semester will be awesome. but it usually isn't.)
oh, and if you're bored to death, you should watch ferris bueller's day off from way back in 1986. freaking hilarious movie in a quiet kind of way. all those cheeky people who like to fool their teachers should watch it. oh and all those who love matthew broderick's boyish face too.
(fan's blowing at my face, getting increasingly sleepy. but i have to somehow attempt to do this damn tutorial for tomorrow's 2 hour 234 revision tutorial...)
i'm so tired. can't wait for this semester to be over. (and then the whole cycle repeats itself where you wish hope pray that the next semester will be awesome. but it usually isn't.)
oh, and if you're bored to death, you should watch ferris bueller's day off from way back in 1986. freaking hilarious movie in a quiet kind of way. all those cheeky people who like to fool their teachers should watch it. oh and all those who love matthew broderick's boyish face too.
(fan's blowing at my face, getting increasingly sleepy. but i have to somehow attempt to do this damn tutorial for tomorrow's 2 hour 234 revision tutorial...)
- Mood:
sleepy
Really... I need to stop using expletives in my exam situations in the exam hall. Need to stop substituting superlatives with expletives when I memorize stuff. Need to start respecting the stuff I study and stop cursing. Need to stop cursing with lips that praise. Come on!
EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.
Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!
Thanks![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!
---
On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.
Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.
We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!
As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.
Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!
Thanks
mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!---
On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.
Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.
We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!
As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.
ofdaysandwishes
You touched my life
With your softness in the night
My wish was your command
Until you ran out of love
I tell myself I’m free
Got the chance of livin’ just for me
No need to hurry home
Now that you’re gone
Knife
Cuts like a knife
How will I ever heal
I’m so deeply wounded
Knife
Cuts like a knife
You cut away the heart of my life
When I pretend
Wear a smile to fool my dearest friends
I wonder if they know
It’s just a show
I’m on a stage
Day and night I go through my charades
But how can I disguise
What’s in my eyes
I’ve tried and tried
Blocking out the pain I feel inside
The pain of wanting you
Wanting you
You touched my life
With your softness in the night
My wish was your command
Until you ran out of love
I tell myself I’m free
Got the chance of livin’ just for me
No need to hurry home
Now that you’re gone
Knife
Cuts like a knife
How will I ever heal
I’m so deeply wounded
Knife
Cuts like a knife
You cut away the heart of my life
When I pretend
Wear a smile to fool my dearest friends
I wonder if they know
It’s just a show
I’m on a stage
Day and night I go through my charades
But how can I disguise
What’s in my eyes
I’ve tried and tried
Blocking out the pain I feel inside
The pain of wanting you
Wanting you
Two a.m and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,
can you help me unravel my latest mistake,
I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to critisize,
hypocrites, you're all here for the very same reason
'Cause you can't jump the track,we're like cars on a cable
and life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button girl,
So cradle your head in you hands
And breathe, just breathe,
Woah breathe, just breathe
May he turn 21 on the base at Fort Bliss
Just today he sat down to the flask in his fist,
Ain't been sober, since maybe October of last year.
Here in town you can tell he's been down for a while,
But my God it's so beautiful when the boy smiles,
Wanna hold him, maybe I'll just sing about it.
Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table.
No one can find the rewind button boys,
So cradle your head in your hands,
And breathe, just breathe,
Woah breathe, just breahte
There's a light at each end of this tunnel, you shout
But you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
These mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
If you only try turning around.
Two a.m and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, its no longer
inside of me, threatening the life they belong to
And i feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to
Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button now
Sing it if you understand.
and breathe, just breathe
woah breathe, just breathe,
oh breathe, just breathe.
can you help me unravel my latest mistake,
I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to critisize,
hypocrites, you're all here for the very same reason
'Cause you can't jump the track,we're like cars on a cable
and life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button girl,
So cradle your head in you hands
And breathe, just breathe,
Woah breathe, just breathe
May he turn 21 on the base at Fort Bliss
Just today he sat down to the flask in his fist,
Ain't been sober, since maybe October of last year.
Here in town you can tell he's been down for a while,
But my God it's so beautiful when the boy smiles,
Wanna hold him, maybe I'll just sing about it.
Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table.
No one can find the rewind button boys,
So cradle your head in your hands,
And breathe, just breathe,
Woah breathe, just breahte
There's a light at each end of this tunnel, you shout
But you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
These mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
If you only try turning around.
Two a.m and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, its no longer
inside of me, threatening the life they belong to
And i feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to
Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button now
Sing it if you understand.
and breathe, just breathe
woah breathe, just breathe,
oh breathe, just breathe.
- Music:Anna Nalick - Breathe | Powered by Last.fm
Happy Birthday, sweets. :)
My family was supposed to catsit Sheba while her owner (i.e. my elder sister's friend) went on an overseas exchange program for 2 months. However, after 2 months, her owner never took her back and even came up with a (really lousy) excuse to leave her with us. It's been 8 months since Sheba's been with us. (Months because my sister first tried looking for people she knew but to no avail.)
As much as we would like to keep her, we live in a HDB flat, which the government doesn't allow cats as pets in. Plus, our flat has really limited space for her to run and jump about because 1) we have a lot of stuff lying around, and 2) she's not allowed into my mother's and brother's rooms, and the kitchen. (My brother has asthma and my mum doesn't like cat fur flying all over.) We also worry about how she might jump out of our windows because we live on the mighty 12th floor.
( More details and pictures of her here )
Experienced cat owners preferred. Please direct anyone in Singapore you know (who has owned cats before/ interested in getting a cat) here!
How to contact me:
- E-mail: gawdilovegod@gmail.com
- Comment on the latest entry of my journal,
gawdilovegod- Tweet: crystalheng
- Even though I'll probably be reading every comment here, please do not leave a comment here if you're interested in taking her in.
Thank you!
this song, NEVER fails to invoke the feeling of something so awe-inspiring, so sublime. never fails.
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