Facebook has shrunk the world more than what the invention of internet has done.
At first, emails, newsgroups and IRC (internet relay chat) made information sharing fast and easy enough such that human beings were amazed and impressed.
When Facebook comes into action, it starts to attract users to an extent that most internet users own an account and many cannot miss logging into the social networking site at least once a day. Great amount of personal information and whereabouts is being released every moment. Some users even update their statuses before they go to the washroom.
You do not even need to click on anything to view your friends’ latest statuses. Facebook’s Ajax feature helps to insert latest data from the database into the home page. Facebook has helped to link up everyone from every part of the world (probably not so much of China residents though) that has internet access.
Great things do come with negative impacts sometimes. Users join random groups and pages created to raise awareness or vent anger, creating a stir. Many groups are created for good purposes, such as quit smoking and saving the ozone layer, but some are just some wrong assumptions that many users are influenced and thus joined.
“my school cares more about my appearance, than my education”
Many students are unaware of the importance of their appearance and many hope to detach that from their education. They do not see the overall picture. They are expecting more from others and also things to work in their own ways, in this case, they want school to provide education in their own ways too. One day, they would even expect themselves to take over the principal or the ministry’s positions.
The educational systems in the entire the world are facing a great challenge.
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I have failed to sing a song for you, I have failed to write the ending of the story. There are too many things I have failed to do, which are some of the greatest regrets of my life.
Now that I can only sit back and watch, I never want to find out more after hearing stories about the cruel facts of life; I can no longer withstand any hurt. All I wish is that you can accomplish the three things I want you to do ever since knowing you:
- Stay happy. - Love yourself. - Live a meaningful life.
Does a person who always laughs and smiles considered a happy person? How many guys have really loved you before? Is going wild all day long meaningful?
Maybe one day you will realize why guys like to play pool with girls and why guys would pay for the midnight cab fare just to meet up with girls. Maybe, you do not mind at all.
Updating Microsoft Office 2007 seemed to cause a big bug in the Word application. It nearly boiled up my blood throughout the morning since after midnight.
Every time I wanted to open up a document for amendment, it started to hang. It was so urgent that I had to finally remove the MS Word 2007 application and install MS Word 2003 instead. The removal of the application took so long that I dozed off in between.
It was a draining day.
I would never do windows update for MS Office 2007 again.
Last Friday, 06 March 2009, I received a call to ask me to go for interview. The person addressed himself as Mark from VE group.
I told him I did not apply for any job and I was not interested. He asked me a couple of times why I was not interested but I only replied him I was not interested. I questioned him how did he get my number and he told me his company had conducted surveys in universities. However, I had just changed my number a few months ago and I did not take part in any survey at anywhere. I requested him to remove my contact from his company's database but he continued to ask me why I was not interested in the interview. I raised my voice and warned him not to harass me again, or otherwise I would call the police, and he scolded me that I would not be able to find a job next time with my attitude before putting down the phone.
The number of the caller was 65368488 and soon, I received calls from the numbers 64409271 (missed call), 64403706, 64404807, 64409271. I picked up the call and I could only hear noises like a fax machine.
I checked his number out and found out that the company was “Venture ERA Group”. There were quite a few cases of complaint over websites regarding this MLM company was conning people.
It is difficult to control a batch of kids who simply cannot take in words. No matter how soft and how friendly you treat them, they probably just enjoy what they are already doing.
After a year of observation, I have concluded that how they behave depends a lot on the form teacher. Is the teacher showing good example to the kids? Is the teacher able to maintain the discipline?
Situation nowadays has turned so bad in some educational institutions those teachers who simply only hold high qualifications are junks as compared to disciplined teachers who do not possess big papers.
Has the society realised that the character development of kids nowadays is more important than anything else?
No.
Kids are being over well-pampered by parents nowadays that many show no respect to the teachers. There is no way to handle the kids when no disciplinary action can be taken when the parents are shielding their kids with AK47. Sadly, there are other cases such as kids having broken families, which have caused them to give up on themselves.
It has come to a point that fewer dedicated people are moving into the educational field but more money-minded youngsters are seeing the high salaries government is paying them. The kids are too difficult to handle, such that the good people are giving up, leaving a big empty space to fill in, which is why the useless ones are tempted. These people cannot handle the kids well enough that they turn worse, and start to influence others to an extent that they are beyond control.
Kids who are brought up in an educational system such that academic is supreme to anything else are growing up to pass on the same logic to others, especially if they choose their career path as teachers. Of course, the society that requires certifications has a share to place the poison to the system.
The long draining process over the years has killed the dreams of dedicated teachers.
Out of the big group of workers who situate themselves in the educational system, I can easily spot jerks. It becomes so obvious when the teacher brings his kids to another institution and start asking the lecturer if they can play poker cards inside the classroom, that we know he is such a bastard.
The frequent celebration resumes again. There is nothing to be surprised about, but it does provoke irritation no matter how all of us have got used to.
My mum suddenly asked if I did encounter pains on my gums. Then, she proudly announced that she had bought a special tube of toothpaste which was recommended by her friend. I almost thought such a product better than Colgate, Oral-B and Darlie existed until she suddenly told me it could be used to apply on pimples, I knew she was conned again. My blood pressure rose to the mountainous area and when she told me it actually cost her thirty bucks, I felt numbed.
Just a while later, somehow she celebrated her great purchase with my younger brother who went online to search for the product, which I was lazy to do. He also realised the box indicated thirty-nine "yuan" (China's currency) and the conversion rate was around five or six times lesser than Singapore Dollar.
This time, the trickster is a China lady and my mum is not even close to her, but still, are friends. Three other friends of my mum are also being cheated together.
This world is simply too cruel. Those cons are out there to fool old aunties out of their hard-earned money, and indirectly, robbing my money as well.
It took me quite long to finally switch my entire website from HTML to PHP due to the programming method.
All the while I was using IFRAME and probably nobody could notice it if he was using Internet Explorer; Firefox lovers had serious problems viewing the website. Occasionally I had also been amending the website’s coding to synchronise with both Firefox and Internet Explorer, and thus, if you had been observing the site carefully, you most likely would have found some small improvements in Firefox’s view for certain features.
Since the scripting method I had been using depended too much on the frame, it was a very tedious progress to switch.
What are actually done? - Entire site is changed from HTML to PHP - All coding is amended to suit both Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 6.0 - Internal site structure is improved for easier future update - Menus and submenus are shifted and improved - Scripting and presentation for various pages are improved
Shifting to PHP also means that I would be shifting from Blogger to Wordpress in near-to-come. Next progress is to edit and update the contents. Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, please highlight if there is any error.
Yesterday when I was returning home after getting my lunch from Amara hotel, I met an uncle who looked like “ah beng” at the lift lobby. He disgusted me badly when he started spitting on the floor, though, by the side.
This type of uncivilised action was common but it was still very pissing, especially when the place was quite nicely done. I started flexing a little.
Inside the lift, I noticed he was holding something and a closer look at the items stunned me. He was the distributor for the recycle plastic bags.
Basically, this green life program allows all families to donate away unwanted but recyclable items like newspapers or clothes. Those second-hand goods collectors (garang guni) are not allowed to purchase anything kept inside recycle plastic bags, or otherwise, they would be fined.
The problem is that this program is supposed to be a very meaningful and thanksgiving one, and yet, the organisation has employed someone who is so environmental-unfriendly to do the job. What kind of image are they trying to give?
My elder brother left Singapore again last Saturday night. It is probably not a very good job even though he gets to go overseas every month to gain new experience; at any place, it is the people which matter the most.
My entire family including my elder brother’s girlfriend will be going to Hong Kong on 24th till 29th April 2008 and therefore this year, I will not be celebrating her birthday on the day itself – 25th.
I will be alone for five consecutive nights, which I have not yet tried before.
There is high chance which I will die of starvation or even stink to death because I’m so lazy that I will not even go downstairs to buy my own meal or cook my own instant noodle, and that my stinky clothes will be left on the bucket for the days. When my family get back, the smelly clothes will be added on.
On the first night, I would be return with my ultra stinky volleyball gear, which will definitely penetrate through the entire house.
I definitely need maids.
As far as the public is concern, everyone knows how easygoing I am and therefore there will never be any problem working for me. I only need massager, cook, dishwasher, clothes washer, sweeper and probably someone to switch off the electricity after I doze off accidentally. Once again, I repeat, I’m very easygoing. No experience is required as anyone can learn on the spot.
To apply for being my free maid, please kindly email me your particulars and pictures.
Some types of crimes are repeatedly broadcasted in news or special documentary shows but people still fall to the tricks.
We cannot blame the elderly for not watching television or not remembering the scam. Perhaps, those scammers are resorting to very despicable methods to con the poor people. The power of love sometimes does cause harm.
On Thursday (31 January 2008), my mum suddenly called me during office hour to check me out. After work, I realised someone have called her earlier on and was in a very soft and sorry tone, addressing her as “ah ma” (grandma in Chinese). My mum was usually naïve, but managed to put down the phone immediately.
Luckily, just a moment before she received the call, our neighbour had received a strange call from an unknown person, telling her that her son was in trouble, and someone was crying in the background. My neighbour was old but alert. She told the person she had no child and that person scolded her in Cantonese vulgarity before putting down the phone. After which, this neighbour quickly called my mum to inform her of the scam.
This group of shameless and stupid scammers were trying too hard to play this “trial and error” trick, and probably was targeting the entire neighbourhood. If the owner of the house was not calm enough, he or she might be fooled and would probably have to fork out large sum of savings to “redeem” his or her child from “loan shark” or for “medical bill”.
Anyway, the funny thing is that my mum has no grandson yet. Nice try, losers!
It would be good if everyone can inform the elderly at home about such scams. If possible, pretend to fall for the trick and call the police immediately after putting down the phone. Let all the bastards be caught.
The server management company picks the best time early in the morning to reformat the server. It will probably take two hours and after which, we have to transfer all files back to the server, including the databases. It gives me the excuse to stay up till daylight again.
Mike: “after this format...we will have a faster, more stable, security server !”
During the process, however, all the sites will be down. Even for my blog, which is currently hosted in Blogspot or Blogger, will be affected since a couple of scripts and files are linked from my main site.
- Visit http://beachvolleyball.sg - Register as a member - Make noise by posting in the threads or even create new threads - Give feedbacks, suggestions and report on bugs - Spread the site to your friends or forward this around - Link to it if you have a blog/website
Why join? - Organise friendly matches - Find teams to join - Even if you are not a volleyball lover, you can get to enjoy the following - Make more friends - Get updated about volleyball competitions and results - Get to know cheap items and equipments
Recently there are circulations of flyers going around, boasting how eating mangosteen can retrieve life. Do you think such moron will exist in Singapore, going around wasting money and time just to tell people eating mangosteen will save your life like curing strokes?
At first instant, I knew someone was trying something funny; it was simply business tactic.
A second flyer reveals the businessman’s cunningness, proving my analysis correct. The advertising of the company is well planned and the culprit shows a brilliant talent but I’m never impressed.
The flow chart of the scheme is of following: 1. Purchasing or ordering of large quantity of product 2. Spread news of how the product can improve health 3. Spread news of your company selling the product
My neighbour has bought a bottle of mangosteen juice for eighty dollars. This amount of money matters a lot to a pair of old couple and average Singaporean would certainly need to work two days for it. I can survive for two weeks with the eighty bucks.
If it appears on the news that scientists have announced the miracle of taking mangosteen, I would probably believe it.
If you get to co-broke with an agent called Vincent Chan with the number 9297138*, please be prepared that he would override your right as your clients’ agent and approach your clients directly. This act of dishonest and unprofessional might end up bringing conflicts between your clients and you.
He is probably active at the west of Singapore, wearing a spectacle. More details about this smoker shall not be disclosed in order to protect his ass.
If you have the chance to bring clients to his listing, you may wish to play him out in order to educate him in order to save all Singapore’s agents and
Disclaimer: I do not encourage you to destroy his creepy face even though he deserves to be castrated. I do not have liability for anything you do to him.
There are many fake Friendster accounts surfacing recently. The culprit manages to register different accounts and uses his/her script to join Groups and post announcement/discussion to ask members to add “her”.
Do not anyhow add new friends especially for guys, since the fake accounts are usually uploaded with hot girls’ pictures. One way to easily identify them is to look at the total number of groups they have joined – those bots usually join MANY of them.
At present, no harm is seen to be done; but future lies uncertain. To avoid any problem, just simply do not add those accounts.
If anyone spots any such account in the group, please notify the administrator to delete them.
When I’m online, it does not mean I’m in front of my computer.
When you message me, it does not mean I owe you a reply.
When I’m in busy mode, it does mean that I’m unavailable for everything except, maybe for causal chats.
I do not need to entertain you for your question bombarding because you do not pay me to problem-solve for you. Even if it is just a simple straightforward question, it costs more than just my inspiration or momentum of work.
Do not force me to go against my principle to use the “invisible” mode, or perhaps, block you to be fair to other friends.
Do not do what you do not want people to do to you.
