Archive for June 2009
If…
Hey, you. If you
1. are from Hwa Chong.
2. are a Biology student
3. haven’t been studying.
Here’s what to do.
1. Press the button with a red cross at the top right hand corner of your screen.
2. Go mug.
3. Thank me someday for the profound impact this set of instructions had on your life.
ST701 Property Review
If you have been to ST701.com before for online shopping, why not spend a little time wandering into the property section as well? There’s quite a good chance that you can find a house (for your parents) to buy!
Clicked on the search engine located at the top, switched it to singapore HDB, typed in 5 room… all the details, and hit search. It threw up this…
Kidding. What makes me happy is that my house’s nominal value appreciated about 6 times since my parents bought it 20 years ago. But if they bought a house in Namly 20 years ago, the value would have jumped 10 times.
The website’s really quite easy to use, good recommendation for parents with a lazy personality like me! Check out http://property.ST701.com for hot Singapore property today!
Middle finger worthy news.
Schools to re-open as scheduled despite H1N1 situation
By S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 22 June 2009 1823 hrs
SINGAPORE: Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan has said schools will re-open and the Asian Youth Games and National Day celebrations will carry on.
But recently-returned students who have travelled to affected countries will stay at home for one week before joining their classmates when schools re-open on Monday.
The Ministry of Education (MOE) will provide more details soon, added Mr Khaw.
The health minister was speaking at a news conference on Monday to give an update on the latest developments on the Influenza A(H1N1)situation.
Mr Khaw said that overall, life must continue as normally as possible with targeted control measures.
One of them would be to close a school when a significant cluster is found so as to break the transmission or to isolate a competing team from other athletes as was done with the Filipino and the Hong Kong football players.
Mr Khaw also revealed that the scientific committee, chaired by the Director of Medical Services, is effectively evaluating the characteristics and the genome of the virus.
The committee has determined that the H1N1 virus in Singapore remains identical with that in North America.
Hence, the consensus view was that the virus remains moderate-risk and Singaporeans need not panic over the development that there is now community spread in the country.
Mr Khaw is confident that almost all infected cases will be able to recover fully and that Tamiflu and Relenza remain effective against the disease.
He, however, added: “But I thought I should explain that moderate risk does not mean no death. Just like the seasonal flu, there will be some deaths. That’s why we need to target the high-risk patients, especially those with underlying medical conditions and to render the best chance of a full recovery. And that is why we need to allow our hospitals to be able to focus on the high-risk cases and not be distracted or overwhelmed by hundreds of mild cases.”
Among those in the high risk include pregnant mothers, people with asthma, those on kidney dialysis or on chemotherapy.
The Health Ministry intends to advise these groups of patients with direct mailers of what they can do to protect themselves.
On its part, the Health Ministry is also gearing up all its polyclinics and a few hundred general practitioners to treat suspected H1N1 cases in Singapore.
Giving details of measures to tackle a wider community spread of the influenza, Mr Khaw explained that these will be called Pandemic Preparedness Clinics or PPCs and they can be recognised by their decal to handle walk-in suspect cases.
These clinics will only refer some categories of high-risk suspect patients to public hospitals.
Mr Khaw said the Health Ministry would publicise to Singaporeans where these clinics are so they know where to seek advice.
He explained: “When the local bio-surveillance data confirms significant community spread and we need to move from containment to full mitigation, we will signal to the public to use these PPCs instead of going to the hospitals if their flu conditions are mild. And this may happen over the next few days.”
The Health Minister also revealed that the government would secure adequate supplies of the H1N1 vaccine for the population.
Besides the existing supply contract with the vaccine manufacturer, Mr Khaw said the ministry is also in active negotiations with other vaccine manufacturers. The aim is to diversify the supply of H1N1 vaccines.
Concluding, Mr Khaw said that last week has been eventful in the development of the outbreak in Singapore and the ministry expects this development.
That’s because June would be challenging, given the large number of travellers returning from their holidays.
But the seven-week head start in battling the virus has been extremely useful, Mr Khaw said, to allow the government to gear up its system for the community spread phase of the outbreak.
His advice to Singaporeans: just carry on with your lives normally but keep up the high standard of personal hygiene.
- CNA/ir
_|_ -_- _|_
SHERIOUSHLY.
Your momma’s so fat when she bent down to pluck taugay she flattened the rest of the paddy field.
Wah siao ATE A LOT outside today, not only feeling fat but really fat now. My wallet, my body have been corroded and corrupted and I don’t want to budge anymore. Let’s just hope I can maintain this same feeling at the study table later on and throughout the week.
I’m sick.
How prophetic Han Chih can be. When I received her message that day I was like, okay… Really doubt I will fall sick at such a crucial time. But now I’m sick so maybe there’s some truth to having a good rest instead of relying on extra shots of espresso. Having sore throat sucks, every time I get a sore throat I abhor myself, because the drink-too-much-water feeling is really irritating.
But somehow D&E is more alluring than the bed. I think I’m turning psychotic.
leo! it’s all a plan says:
sian
leo! it’s all a plan says:
how
leo! it’s all a plan says:
how
leo! it’s all a plan says:
how
leo! it’s all a plan says:
wad if i screw up block test
leo! it’s all a plan says:
lol
blubber!ee sick. says:
then you emo la duh
[edit @ 1054PM]
Feeling much better now, after tonight I will be HyperBolah, Sunday I must head out of home I swear!
A day in the life of Jie Yang.
Tomorrow! Can’t wait. Gonna sleep early too because
- I skewered my brains on satay sticks of Normal Distribution.
- I am gonna run tomorrow morning.
- I don’t want eyebags for tomorrow.
- And simply because tomorrow will be a better day and I must be on my best.
Blubberlee will lose his wait 0.1% at a time. He promises.
[edit @ 20 minutes later]
My favourite blog post in a long while, sent to me by my good friend:
this post is a special one because i’ll be talking about the prettiest girls in the school (the j2 cohort) and what i think of them. what i mean by prettiest is that these are the names that pop up most often when guys talk about girls and when i randomly ask people NAME ME THE TOP 3 MOST ATTRACTIVE GIRLS IN SCHOOL. and anyway i think they are quite attractive too.. of course to me some on the list are more attractive than others but this list will be in no particular order cause don’t want to hurt people’s feelings
ok i think i’ll go by alphabetical order..
siyu – i don’t know her in person, but i think she’s the most confident girl in school, and i can conclude that simply by observing the way she walks when she goes past the right wing on the way to the canteen. perhaps she has reason to be confident – she has a pretty face, she’s slim and tall, and she can dance well (apollo dance i/c leh wtf?!?!) but she comes across as quite dao, not the type of girl you would want to approach if you’re afraid of rejection. though i think she’s friendly to the people she knows.
chit yin – lots of people think she’s one of the hottest girls in school. i agree that she has good looks, but it seems like she carries this negative vibe of unease and mild anxiety a lot of the time. but the good thing is that my impression of her is that she’s pretty humble and down-to-earth although she can dance damn well and is very popular.
pris soh – despite the fact that i estimate that at least 30-40 guys in school have a crush on her (though i think most of them don’t dare to make a move cause they don’t think they stand a chance) and about half of all the guys would agree that she’s attractive, she doesn’t seem to come across as the type who’s caught up in her popularity. so she’s similar to chit yin in that she’s humble.. which is cool and respectable! it’s interesting when attractive people don’t think so highly of themselves that they wear an air of arrogance telling people outright that they think that they’re superior.
(this was supposed to be in alphabetical order but never mind la)
liping – another dancer.. but don’t want to comment la cause she’s taken by an indian already.
nicola – she exudes a highly positive vibe and is quite friendly, confident and humorous. plus she’s damn pro at touch rug, captain of the championship winning team leh, respect!! and she’s damn smart, i don’t know about her other results but apparently she got AAAA for her j1 block test (but too bad B for gp wasted la)! despite all these she still comes across as quite humble, again i find that pretty cool. oh and from what i know, she’s really sharp, as in socially intelligent, even if she doesn’t show it.
ok la that’s all for now.. feel free to comment on what you think, then it’s more fun! especially people like JUNNIES who will dare to speak their mind. don’t be afraid cause i don’t think any of them read this blog. and even if they do, it’s no big deal la.. no fear!
Tag Yujie’s my new favourite blogger!
Spammacs.
Was quite happy today though, not gonna share it here.
Two HC girls were bitching about how they don’t like people and why and blah blah, much like me and Weisheng at Bukit Batok Macs, but with a bitch tone and 10 times more irrationality. Heard familiar names like Meow’s favorite track girl’s in the conversation, and got progressively more interested (and distracted), but when I looked back (to check them out) and never did look back again. They were horribly in no position to comment on people’s looks, that’s for one.
After they left two grown up men, around mid 30s sat down, started talking rather seriously till I heard terms like “stunning” and “tanking” and lots of other DOTA terms. One of them swore rather a lot and I really wanted to tell them they had no lives because I look at them and they don’t look like those who are pro enough to make a living of cyber gaming, nor rich enough to live their lives without working, nor sociable enough to make conversations not involving DOTA and cars.
Now I feel rather judgemental but half the time my observations are astute, so I guess… whatever. Anyway I’m probably never gonna meet them again.
I’m still quite happy now. Um chio to the maximum value of infinity.
Mini (Chalet) Phlood.
Thank god I brought my own digital camera. No one is sending me photos tonight. No one.
At the 500m mark. We walked around for around 1-2km finding the resort.
Swear there’s something wrong with the balance.
Sheila had a headache. I was delirious.
Leroy the brave soul taking 20 bucks of Macs on his bike. I took 4 1.5 litre bottles. Nearly died balancing.
Raping Randy.
CHIOBU SPOTTED AT THE BEACH. Moon-tanning.
And all these, thanks to the most most most brilliant Koh Ling En 
Stupid card.
I can’t upload photos from chalet from the memory card, there’s something wrong with it, so yeah waiting for Yufei to send me tomorrow. Yesterday was… kinda waste of time, disappointing too, because I had NS medical check up, and it was just hopping from one station to another, and at the end (before the vocational test), finding out I had 15.2% body fat, making me lose bet with Felly and feeling super fat after that. But I think I kinda conquered my phobia of needles, with the Medical Officer poking me twice (“Eh sorry ah, I’m having a bad day.”) Yeah. Really cool and all, noticed EVERYONE’s body sucks (mine too because it has 15.2% of fat).
Passed Li Fern and Mommy their presents today. Wahlau Li Fern I totally wanted to vomit chicken rice la. But yeah, happy birthday to you! Mommy I want all the photos! Jerrold please send me ALL the photos with people I know inside too!
Dance Expression is over too! Can erm do some moves better now. I hope. Picked up stuff too. Yay the week has finally ended. I guess this week has been really tiring but really fun as well
Drunk on fatigue.
Class chalet just ended, it was so surreal. Walking terribly long distances with heavy loads to find the resort with Weilin, 1 BBQ, 3 30 minutes long bike rides around the park, a 20 minute night run with both thighs cramping, horror stories and psychometric tests till 2, doing up stuff throughout the night, then learning/playing mahjong (and winning 18 bucks in total with Wong Jiaying) till like 6, going to see sunrise but being too impatient to wait, having gastric twice in 3 hours while sleeping in weird positions between Jiaying and Tianyu, getting frozen stiff by the aircon, then finally sleeping for half an hour and then, getting up to camwhore and then waking people up like a security guard, then finally going for lunch and cabbing home, god, I think this is the one day in 12 years of my life I’ve felt part of my class despite having my brains fried now.
Taxi driver: 去哪里？
Me: Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…
Weisheng: West Mall.
Me: Ah. West Mall.
