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An advertisement for NUS Business School, filmed and aired in America.

Wow.

“I hear the boys are way too cute for my liking.”

No offence to my dearest Singaporean male friends in NUS, but, uh.

Hahahahahahaha.

*passes out from happiness*

I love sales!  Sales!  Discounts!  Cheap cheap cheap!

Great Singapore Sale started today.  The score:

Beth: 0
GSS: 1
Beth’s wallet: -$42

Dorothy Perkins seduced me with 30% off!  Purchased a pink shimmery spaghetti strap top and a red tube (the red version of the green tube I bought for Bin!  Bin we can exchange tops! :D).

And my fingernails are now deep red-black. 

So sad, Good Earth Nail Spa was full up til 5pm so I had to go to the shop downstairs called 2Love to do my nails.  It also costs $10 but doesn’t include nail art or hand massage - still, for $10, a decent enough manicure.  I miss Linda :(

1. Visible panty line - especially granny undies! Excusable if it’s a thong/T-string.
2. Dressed to the nines - and carrying hawker centre type plastic bags.
3. Tying your hair up with rubber bands - the red and yellow type.
4. Garment loops hanging out of your top’s armpit holes.
5. Cheap Casio-type digital watches with black rubber straps.  Yucks.
6. Girls with unshaven pits in sleeveless tops.
7. Wearing running shoes with jeans - especially New Balance army-issue sneakers.
8. Dandruff on the shoulders of black tops.
9. Nipplegates.  For the love of God get a bra or nipple tape.
10. Severely chipped nail polish *guilty*

A few close-up shots of the museum facade and its new look. 

So they’ve denied Ike See deferment of NS to go study the violin in one of the best music schools in the world.

And Singapore wants to be an international arts hub?  Go figure.  This whole deal really upsets me because being the age I am, most of my friends have already gone through or are going through National Service and I can’t see what’s so dadblamed important about it that they should deny a world-class talent his chance at world-class education just so he can rub camou stick on his face and run around the jungle eating frogs.

As Michael Phelps (19-year-old winner of eight Olympic swimming medals) put it most succintly: “Phew, thank God I’m not Singaporean.  I’d be shooting blanks instead of breaking world records.”

What really, really pisses me off is that the gahrermen readily hands out dispensations and deferments to their own scholars to go study abroad - I have quite a few friends who did this, including my own cousin - but won’t allow Ike to defer his own NS.

“Min*def is prepared to grant deferment to pursue university studies under very exceptional circumstances. Such cases are rare and can only be considered when there are exceptionally strong reasons.”
-Col Benedict*Lim, Min*def

Oh please.  That’s a bare-faced lie.  It’s not rare at all.

They talk a lot about nurturing talent and encouraging creativity because Singapore aspires to be a regional if not international arts center.  Ha.  HAHAHA.  WHAT FRICKIN’ IRONY.

I can’t believe they’re standing firm on this.  Consider this:

What is Ike’s value to Singapore as a world-class young violinist who is so damn good he received an unanimous 12-judge vote from the auditioners at Curtis Music School - the best music school in the whole world?

Compare that to Ike’s value to Singapore as a bored, uninspired NSman - of whom we have so many.

We’ve got tens of thousands of NS drones already.  We aren’t in dire need of Ike’s ability to hold a gun.

I hope Ike gets out of Singapore before it completely stifles his talent.  Go!  Leave this suffocating place.  I have no talent to quash or NS to quash it with so I have no real impetus to leave - but you, Ike, you deserve a heck of a lot better than this.

Read the Min*def reply and assorted other comments at:
Mr Wang Bakes Good Karma

I’ve completed my 3,000 word final report on my professional internship at SAM and handed it up to my tutor.

Complete with pretty pictures - shown below.

“You have completed your paper obligations to NTU for your internship.”

Man, that feels good.

I took these photos for an artist who’s coming to SAM with an architectural exhibit.  Graffiti artists have painted the whole outside of SAM with a riot of beautiful spray-paintings.  They are gorgeous.  They look fantastic.  More detailed photos to come later.

and for a nice finale:

The body art models from the Fiction@Love opening.

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I was coming out of the train at City Hall coming back from lunch when this *ing * of a *ing kid pushed his *ing way into the train and *ing pushed me over.  That little * is lucky that I was on the phone with Shyam or I swear I would have cussed him out right there.  *!  So *ing pissed off.

Breathe.  Calm.  Peace.

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Damn kid and his frickin’ mother who obviously doesn’t teach her child manners.

Ugh.

Jean sent this link to me saying that it was ’so you!’ 

Yes!  I want this tee-shirt!

Available on Threadless T-shirts.  My birthday is coming up! :D

They voted!

And he won!

This is the worst American Idol ever!

Taylor Hicks hurts my eyes and my ears.

The Purple Velvet Jacket OWNS
by Dave Della Terza

In the knock down, drag out finale of American Idol 5, the final 2 competitors knew that the VFTW votes would make or break them. Forget that guy with the messed up teeth or that Penis With Ears. Their fans have stopped watching the show. Even the casual viewers have stopped watching. The ratings have dipped down to about 100,000 people a week. VFTW is the only small thread of survival to latch onto. We… are their last hope. The only way to win at this point is to go all out and suck hardcore.

Of course, that may be somewhat fabricated. But Taylor and Katharine treated some of their performances as if VFTW was the way to win the show. The judges again treated the show as if they were at a strip club and they’d had one too many (OK, in Paula’s case, five too many). Randy dawged it up, Paula’s incoherent rambling was out in full force, and Simon’s sense of self-importance was through the roof.

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I have a new pink bag of Scrabble happy!

It arrived on time to be gloriously unveiled at Saturday’s tournament - my pink SamTimer case, a ‘lovely red bunny’ and a blue one with a blue bag, plus a pack of ProTiles.  And my wooden racks!

I’m a little upset that the wooden racks don’t fit in the multicase :(  So for now my regular green Scrabble racks (I have to figure out some way to vinyl dye them pink :P) go into the bag with a pen.  I can’t wait for the tournament if only to put my new happy Scrabble bag to good use :)