Monday, May 31, 2004

its the last day of may. im going chinSeeblacKk today. lets see what i have tml
napfa and economics. my arms are aching.. darm. dont wanna do napfa yet. maybe some other day. i went gym yesterday and did abit of running and weights. maybe i'll go run 2.4 later.. hrmm

i feel sleepy so often this week. whats wrong?

posted by iambrianfu [ 12:58 PM ] |

dear pops.

i was a nice guy today. i was waiting two hours for you at suntec. and the shops were all closed. i was walking around alone. i bought dinner for myself and finished it. i called you about seven times but you didnt answer and i was getting very fed up. then pops you called and i asked you what time we were going home. pops u got v mad with me for no apparent reason cuz i was waiting 2 hours for you and you didnt answer my call. so you told me to come down to find you. when i went down, i asked you what time we were going home but you got mad at me.

i didnt want to look you in the face coz i knew i would say nasty stuff that i didnt mean to. pops.. if i were your eldest son i would just stomp off. i'll bet that with you. i would say i wasnt interested in this low class shit that i didnt believe in. i would say i was an atheist.. i would just do something to make you embarrassed.
but they talk about the love a parent gives to a child.. and why not a child to the parent. pops, when i turned around to see you immersed in the programme, i decided i couldnt. i would not.

pops.. we seldom talk. but when we talk, its about some trivial nonsense that we wouldnt actually want to talk about. pops you wouldnt read this. and you'd never read this. but this is from your son..

me

posted by iambrianfu [ 12:30 AM ] |

Sunday, May 30, 2004

dear bloggy. im not writing much today.
i had a headache and woke up late today. shitty missed the alfas challenge.
now they're gonna think im an irresponsible boy.
i played mahjong on the dumb wu zhong xian game my brother bought. and i got quite bored.
went over to lorraine's house to eat after piano
played pool w the juniors..
rather boring.. yawnnn

im always tired when i blog.. sian

on the bright side.. im going to gEt a new phone tomorrow! yay!

posted by iambrianfu [ 1:48 AM ] |

Friday, May 28, 2004

hi blog.. im looking at you with half opened eyes. 'fatigue-gified' from yesterday's 2 hours of sleep. i think im playing much too much games already.
i nearly couldnt wake up for school today. took a cab.. (Merc!) to school to realise it was a half day. darn.. shouldnt have came in the first place
so today was yOngXiang's bday. HAppy puSsy 18! u are certified for clubbing! yay!
we went k box after school and literally spent the WHOLE day there. yes.. was like 2pm to JUST NOW! damn.. i havent sung so much for as long as i can remember. maybe in HK. but tt wasnt so long too. anyway.. i learnt that i cant really sing chinese songs cuz i cant read many of the words on the screen. its sad. im a chinese. chinese aO level exams for some of my frens and the year ones are soon. great luck. tough luck. pussified. dont fail like me and get a b3 again.
i was at mph today. and i saw yanhan! she's working there part time. she looks the same.. pretty! and she said looked v different. hrmm...when i talk to her, i sorta feel like a young boy ,transported back to my secondary school days. she,(and probably some of the other female seniors) were the reason i joined CO GuzhENg! haha.. but that was past. and i was a small boy with the big girls. but i am a big boy with big and small girls now. hey... i think im kinda cranky today.. must be the music at kbox.
WU YUE TIAN's SHI JIE MO RI echoing at the back of my head
tata young's seXy nAughter dirrRRrrty... and kengyang and yx acting gay together.
sure was funn..my voice's gone

damn.. im not going for the psc psychometric test on monday cuz i diDnt darn put the tick on "interested" on the form. 200 pple going and how can i not be going... damn damn.. anwyay, there's round two and ms ding said she'd keep me informed.
*dingyi.. spotted with khoyangthong at parkway today. again! my form is just scandalous. haha!*

oh another interesting thing today..
we stripped the bugger birthday boy in class. and joel gropped his aRSe! hahaha!!!
and if tt's not enough, some girls came by and one popped her head into the class. You should have seen the shock in her face. i turned back to look at our birthday boy lying haphazardly on the ground with his pants and belt by the side. HE wAS Stripped to the uNddies .. Dark bluE unddies lying on the ground of the S&T centre. as naked as a plucked chicken, shamed beyond recognition. i literally laughed my balls out. the girl must have been traumatized to see his Blus Arse!!! hahAHAHAHWHAH!

posted by iambrianfu [ 11:08 PM ] |

i didnt go to school today again.. this time i just couldnt wake up. im sorry.
anyway.. it was a half day. seeing the kids hanging all about the malls and streets.
i went to meet the yr1 bowlers and watched them bowl for .. er hem.. 2 hours. yaocheng came n left so i went with weihong,diana, jane and nic to parkway. we played pool at this cheap place which's above Giant. yeah.. so when nic left, wh n diana were hAppiLy playing their pool while i was showing jane some of my trick shots.. oh well.. it was a kinda fun and relaxing day.

i just realised that school's gonna be over in about 12 hours time. and it'd be 30days of holiday. so much stuff to do. im getting a new phone. im gonna do lotsa gym. i could find a girlfriend. id attend a few parties. probably dye my hair. id catch movies. and id finish all my school work.

im listening to josh groban again... one day im gonna play the piano and sing like him..

btw.. anyone's interested in going China black.. pls contact me at 97264784
Party@ChiNaBlack on 31st May,monday. tickets@ $16guys $14ladies. 1 drink, RnBhipHop top40s. aLL niTe lOng! teQshots $5 hSe shoTs $2

posted by iambrianfu [ 2:39 AM ] |

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

so we won sajc... so we won sajc by 4-1... so we won sajc by 4-1 so that tan yew hui can get all cocky again... big deal.
so we won sajc so that yew hui can get all cocky and kengyang still hasnt scored a goal yet.. baddddd. that wasnt the highlight today though

i didnt go to school today, but headed to smu for some china talk shit. anyway... it was kinda uninteresting cuz the speakers all seemed like newbies going overseas for the first time. and the guest speaker was an old arse who talked li--iike t---hh--i--s... yea.. he was damn slow and old and bOring.
anyway.. what i learnt from the talk might be.. China's market is evolving from the Gen-Xers to the Gen-S kids. these are the young pampered single child big spenders as compared to their predecessors who were just big spenders having born into the rapidly evolving-away-from-communism-China. Anyway.. a speaker went up to talk today and she was saying that the difference between India and China is that the former is a successful democratic nation while the later is still deeply communist. i realise this in true in many ways. look at China's stockexchange market. Many foreign companies invest in China but do not list on China's stock exchange. instead, they are listed in other asian countries such as in the KLSE. this is hardly surprising given the strict requirements of being listed in China. The company has to give up a large proportion of market share to the government, have 2 out of 5 being chinese nationals runnign the company, and restructure the company as directed by the government. I was reading about the Russian economy on my way to SMu today. its kinda similar to the chinese economy now. In Russia, putin is warding off the oligarchs (who had been the partners of Yeltsin with the old economy), and relying on the silovikis to clear opponents of the government. i dare say that the arrest of Mikhael Khodorkovsky was purely to warn the other oligarch not to interfere in governmental issues. this is so like China, where the SOEs (state owned enterprises) are seen to have an increasing hold of the country's assets.
Ok.. so back to CHina's Gen S. they seem to practise a large degree of conspicuous consumption. although the case studies of the beer industry sort of proves otherwise. 2 type of beers are consumed in CHina. the economy beer and the premium beer. The economy beer market is made up mostly of local brands and come in all kinds of flavours. This market cannot be touched by the foreigners because of distribution costs and other reasons such as familiarity and nostalgia for the local brands. the premium brands include Tiger beer etc. and comes in limited flavour. this signify the affluence of the Chinese and their rapidly growthing economy. this is similar to the cosmetics industry where conspicuous consumption is almost the backbone,

so i learnt a little of that shit and bits and pieces of the economic parts here and there. i guess i made a couple of new friends too..

so we took a cab down to the national stadium after the conference thinking we were darn late... probably only able to see the second half. but we were wrong cuz we practically waited 2 freaking hours before it started.
anyway before that.. we got off the cab under the grandstand wearing our long sleeved shirts and ties looking like FIFA scouts. there were many vj students trying to get to the grandstand but it was raining.. so they just had to make a run for it. so.. there was this lobby under the grandstand and some idiots were trying to get in. (but they couldnt cuz they were wearing uniforms or some other apparel of tt sort). Being the smart ass, i walked to the door and pushed it open holding my name tag from smu.. and guessed what? they let us passed! it was damn funny seeing us four fucks walking to the lift as some vj dumbasses looked in surprise seeing us get in. and when we got in.. there was this little indian boy in the lift giving out the programme sheet for the match. the whole thing was damn hilarious.. ending up in the middle of the grandstand.

yay.. so soccer tournament's over. i can start mugging with ky for a levels..

posted by iambrianfu [ 10:41 PM ] |

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

so im not going thailand afterall.. which is good too. can go chinablack on the 31st. i'll bring lotsa pple. anyway, i think its kinda rushed to go overseas too. havent really prepared stuff and would be leaving on wednesday. wednesday.. so sad i cant go watch the soccer match. darnn..anyway, tan yew hui's a bastard. and if it werent for kengyang and a few others...

i'd hope they lose.
and see the look on tan's face. the pathetic mutha fucka..
30 buses! i cant believe it. cant believe that they're gonna waste so much of the school's resource on such trivial matters. tell me to donate to the school anymore? not a chance man.. unless i can be their chief economists and decide where the funds are gonna be directed.. like for buying strong firm steel bars.. or maybe scaffolds.. the type where the bangalas use to swing about to clean or paint windows. yeah.. buy those sturdy pillars and stuff them up his cAndyy Arse.

hrm.. i dont really know why im at the comp lab now. kinda bored i guess. having the killer six period lectures later.. bio maths then econs.

posted by iambrianfu [ 9:31 AM ] |

Sunday, May 23, 2004

i just went for a jog-cum-walk. which lasted about 35 minutes. haiz.. i think im quite fagged in runnning. so i didnt go gym today.. but probably will go school's one tml.. unless some teacher calls me to stay back to finish some assignment.

i went uni surfing last night again.. and i was talking to waihin about the london unis. he's applying for UCL.. i wanna take economics. according to guardian or times, ive narrowed my choices to .. hrm... LSE (hrrmpph), warwick, nottingham, UCL, and.. tadaa.. cambridge (which is maybe but most likely impossible.. unless i suddenly turn so brilliant to be a President scholar! haa) then again, im specializing in economics and mathematics .. with s papers in both areas to back up.. lets say i get AA and maybe a distinction and merit. i shouldnt be too off for the BA economics right?

i think that life in uk will be so cool. i just received another university package from Bath uni. (my second package after the wales university sent me some uni shit which i wasnt quite interested) hrm... bath's to the west of london and an hour by train. waihin said that train's expensive. say maybe 30 to 40 pounds for a 3 hour ride. i wanna stay somewhere not too far from london. its where everything's happening. i wouldnt mind nottingham. will do more research on that.

then again, the motive for me going to UK. is to BUY the degree. my first choice would be LSE .. cuz its so popular worldwide. i could just get a job anywhere. thats the main reason why i wouldnt wanna go NUS.. or even NTU. cuz its not recognized. its hopeless learning all the shit theory and when u go out to work.. no one wants you. SMU's not too bad though, but i wouldnt go for a singapore Uni. cuz fundamentally...

IM not loyal.
social studies has failed.

mom told me again.. 'go get a scholarship.. if you cant get it. dont worry'. thats the safety zone for me. and this mean i will be applying for my unis regardless i get a scholarship or not. the conventional method that people go about doing this type of shit is that they are afraid to spend. and they are limited to what the scholarships ask for. im different. i do the reverse.

when i grow up and get rich.
i'll open a chain of universities in uk and us. ha!

posted by iambrianfu [ 5:38 PM ] |

Saturday, May 22, 2004

hello bolggy. its the last week of school next week. my aunt called and asked me whether i wanted to go bangkok with her. i guess she wanna get some cheap cloth material or teenage stuff for her shop and she needs some of my expertise. hrm.. should i go? anyway.. since ive pretty decided i'll use this hols to finish my a levels, im not gonnna squander it in any way.
finally bowling's over. the guys team didnt get anything but the girls did well. its gonna be funny from next week onwards cuz im gonna be rather free. i guess i can put my energy into my piano playing. it's sad that ive been neglecting it so much. week in week out, i havent had much improvement. afterall, i need to do well.. taking examinations in september. for the eighty-8 concert, they changed my piece. im not gonna play bramnhs anymore but some nutcracker suite. its pretty loong and i havent got to know my partner yet.

im going gym tomorrow morning.

posted by iambrianfu [ 9:00 PM ] |

Thursday, May 20, 2004

i will go running in the morning i will go running in the morning i will go running in the morning i will go running in the morning i will go running in the morning i will go running in the morning. YES . i will go running in the morning.

so that will be number one aim tomorrow. then, i'll go to school to collect my bowling ball and attend bio practical. (ha! my first 2 lessons of the week) and it'll be bowling again. so.. tml is the last day. Last day of my whole bowling career. yes.. its the beginning of the end. i went to the bowling website just now.. and looking at all the pics sort of invoked warm feeling within me. bowling has been a different and new experience altogether(for this year)... the year ones have really been a fun group to be with.. and i know i will Surely miss them. let me recall some of the significant stuff that has left a deep impression on me. i remember the times when there were two dunman boys telling me that they were joining bowling. and i saw them at piano ensemble .. and i saw them at sea regatta with me all in that stupid flowery shirt. and they offered me a drink. it was nice of them.. and i thought they were nice juniors. and they're bowling in my team now.. the dunman team! . then there was this big poppa pump china guy who was always complaining of the food at cineleisure. and i too, always complain of eating the same food over and over again. so we ran to taka to get other stuff. then there was jeeteck and i would always make fun of his 'the best is yet to be'.. cuz he's an AC boy. and there's kenny the Ji ko pek.. Hose the maris boy and his ah weii... who else?? oh yes.. Benngg.. cuz he's name is benjamin ng.. and he asked me to fight with him the RI way.. but i couldnt even see his forehead.. so.. oh well.. and kenneth the wierd dicky who's always bullying johnny and walking in a funny way, pushing up his spects(hahAa_). not forgetting the girls.. with jane who's just LOUDD... di-anne the little girl who runs around with a fluff ball on her head... eunice with the large ct council badge..

so.. back to the quartets. we'll be bowling next to cj girls.. so it wouldnt be as boring as today. just imagine yC's furtive looks.. i hope i get a high game tomorrow. i bowled on tuesday at cineleisure and i got 201 . the pins were just like feathers. come to victor's and its a diff story. its so difficult to get consistent strikes. cine's strikes just come so fast n furious .. u dont know how to handle them. the moral of the story : dont train at cineleisure or you'll bowl dung at the competition. so i got 13plus today. which is cow pOoOoo.. i set my msn nick to 165165165165165... i wanna hit some high game man.. i wont be bowling anymore!


my friend just send me some calorie programme..
i am 141 lbs.
i train 1hr/day (well.. to include walking and draggin of bowling bags)
Basic Energy Requirements =1997 Calories (1.3 calories/kg/hr)
Extra Energy Requirements =544 Calories (8.5 calories/kg/hr)

Total 2541 Calories/day 10673.69436kj

This breaks down to: 362 grams of Carbohydrate, 85 grams of Fat, 83 grams of Protein

posted by iambrianfu [ 12:00 AM ] |

Monday, May 17, 2004

bear with me while i launch into an account of today's tournament because it is absolutely mandatory.
despite all the crap about today being-the-free-games-at-last, i was rather kancheong at the start. the first game was slow... slow too as in the lane often got cock up. and the freaking gay lane marshall wasnt doing a pussy about it. anyway, thats besides the point. i think i opened only 3 frames. which was reasonably ok. but i kept flunking my first ball. so my score was 132. darn.. and hardly a strike. so i told myself to focus on the first ball and put all my energies into it. and for the second game. my score was lower.. 12plus. i was darn pissed cuz i got about 4 or 5 splits all thanks to the damn straight first balls. yes. i kept whacking the head pin, but head on! by the 3rd game, i was quite heck" already. i went to listen to some music and popped around kaypoy-ing around other pple's score. and it kinda helped cuz i wasnt so worried about the game already. my release became more natural and smoother. and i then worked on my spares.. yea.. abt 3 open frames. my score was 149. still hardly a strike though!. i decided that i'd do my best for the last game. heck the score. work on my release, and keep bowling till they tell me its my last frame. i guess it worked out, cuz i hit a couple of strikes (though they were all spread out), and closed most of the frames. disappointed though that many of the first balls were around 7. so i improved to 156.

im happy that im doing a "post-mortem" of my game today cuz it is only by analysing the mistakes will you know where you went wrong and work on them. as i told benng, dont every fault is a learning experience. i will work harder for wed's game.

going to school later for investiture rehearsal. can you believe it? 8pm. oh my ..

posted by iambrianfu [ 6:17 PM ] |

Bowling tournament is later. Yay! After 2 years.. it boils down to 3 days. I have a firm goal for today. 165 games.. all the spares can get whacked. and my nemesis, 1.3.6.8 will be of no more. but wait a minute.. i say there'll be no 1.3.6.8 cuz that means missing the head pin. No.. not acceptable. im gonna have fun..

Talking about yesterday. i was thinking of going to the gym or running. then i thought.. what if my arms ache tomorrow. What if my legs get tired..
so i stayed at home and started playing computer games. and guess what.
i played all the way from 4pm to 12am. NON-stop. no dinner. which was a super marathon. it was worse than that day at yaocheng's house, where i played from 1am to 6.20am. madness. But on hindsight, its good that i could play so long. it means that i have built up my stamina and focus. lOok.. i have the mental capability to do something for 8hours non stop. i could apply this to my studies. then whoOoa.. i could be a whizz. yea.. so that will be after this week's competition where i will complete my A levels by the end of June.

posted by iambrianfu [ 9:52 AM ] |

Sunday, May 16, 2004

shit, i woke up two today.. which meant my whole morning was just lost cuz i was planning to do so many things in the morning. anyway, it was the brought-over effect cuz we stayed at yaocheng's house the previous night after joel managed to sneak us into GV to watch TROY. it was quite a nice show, the types with plenty of butts and screwing but no porn, and stuff like that.
read this...

Achilles was the son of the mortal Peleus and the Nereid Thetis. He was the mightiest of the Greeks who fought in the Trojan War, and was the hero of Homer's Iliad.

Thetis attempted unsuccessfully to make her son immortal. There are two versions of the story. In the earlier version, Thetis anointed the infant with ambrosia and then placed him upon a fire to burn away his mortal portions; she was interrupted by Peleus, whereupon she abandoned both father and son in a rage. Peleus placed the child in the care of the Centaur Chiron, who raised and educated the boy. In the later version, she held the young Achilles by the heel and dipped him in the river Styx; everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remained dry and therefore unprotected.

When Achilles was a boy, the seer Calchas prophesied that the city of Troy could not be taken without his help. Thetis knew that, if her son went to Troy, he would die an early death, so she sent him to the court of Lycomedes, in Scyros; there he was hidden, disguised as a young girl. During his stay he had an affair with Lycomedes' daughter, Deidameia, and she had a son, Pyrrhus (or Neoptolemus), by him. Achilles' disguise was finally penetrated by Odysseus, who placed arms and armor amidst a display of women's finery and seized upon Achilles when he was the only "maiden" to be fascinated by the swords and shields. Achilles then went willingly with Odysseus to Troy, leading a host of his father's Myrmidons and accompanied by his tutor Phoenix and his close friend Patroclus. At Troy, Achilles distinguished himself as an undefeatable warrior. Among his other exploits, he captured twenty-three towns in Trojan territory, including the town of Lyrnessos, where he took the woman Briseis as a war-prize. Later on Agamemnon, the leader of the Greeks, was forced by an oracle of Apollo to give up his own war-prize, the woman Chryseis, and took Briseis away from Achilles as compensation for his loss. This action sparked the central plot of the Iliad, for Achilles became enraged and refused to fight for the Greeks any further. The war went badly, and the Greeks offered handsome reparations to their greatest warrior; Achilles still refused to fight in person, but he agreed to allow his friend Patroclus to fight in his place, wearing his armor. The next day Patroclus was killed and stripped of the armor by the Trojan hero Hector, who mistook him for Achilles.

Achilles was overwhelmed with grief for his friend and rage at Hector. His mother obtained magnificent new armor for him from Hephaestus, and he returned to the fighting and killed Hector. He desecrated the body, dragging it behind his chariot before the walls of Troy, and refused to allow it to receive funeral rites. When Priam, the king of Troy and Hector's father, came secretly into the Greek camp to plead for the body, Achilles finally relented; in one of the most moving scenes of the Iliad, he received Priam graciously and allowed him to take the body away.

After the death of Hector, Achilles' days were numbered. He continued fighting heroically, killing many of the Trojans and their allies, including Memnon and the Amazon warrior Penthesilia. Finally Priam's son Paris (or Alexander), aided by Apollo, wounded Achilles in the heel with an arrow; Achilles died of the wound. After his death, it was decided to award Achilles' divinely-wrought armor to the bravest of the Greeks. Odysseus and Ajax competed for the prize, with each man making a speech explaining why he deserved the honor; Odysseus won, and Ajax then went mad and committed suicide.

During his lifetime, Achilles is also said to have had a number of romantic episodes. He reportedly fell in love with Penthesilia, the Amazon maiden whom he killed in battle, and it is claimed that he married Medea.

Interesting Facts:

-Archilles was shot in the archilles tendon guided by the arrow of paris by Appollo, whose temple he desecreted
-In a greek story, the god of strife(though not invited), Eris threw a golden apple entitled to 'the fairest" during the wedding of Peleus(Father of Archilles) and Thetis. the apple was claimed by Aphrodite, Hera and Athena. Zeus was asked to be the judge but he did not choose as he knew the other two would vow vengeance. He chose Paris to decide. The three gods offered Paris gifts of which Paris accepted Aphrodite's "love and possessing the most beautiful woman of the world - Helen". He therefore was able to break into Menelaus palace to kidnap Helen. Though he was cursed such that he would bring the downfall of Troy.
-Helen was believed to have borned from an egg. She was daughter of Zeus
-The attack of Troy was due to a vow by Helen's suitors (who were many) to Menelaus that he who took Helen away from him(Menelaus), would be attacked and brought to justice.
-Lord Agamemnon married Clytemnestra, who was sister of Helen, daughters of Zeus
-Agamemnon did not die in Troy. He was killed by Aegisthus, illicit lover of Clytemnestra
The God Aphrodite prevented Paris from being killed by Menelaus during the duel, but Athena prompted a return of hostilities

posted by iambrianfu [ 4:00 PM ] |

Thursday, May 13, 2004

check it out...


I have taken up the role as a student leader when I joined the CT council in year one. This student-body enabled me to challenge myself by taking up leadership roles in the organization of school events. I applied for the Sea Regatta 2004, and was selected as the IC of the event. Basically, the planning process was a great opportunity for me to work with fellow CT councilors in an ad-hoc (about 6 people who plan the whole event). We had to ensure that the proposal we put forth were feasible and fulfilling our objectives. By evaluating upon pass proposals and formulate new ideas within the ad-hoc, I learnt many things about critical problem solving and people management. I was given the opportunity to take charge of my council during the event, work with other CCAs (students’ council etc.) and garner the support of the school and the new batch of year ones. Subsequently, I was chosen as the emcee of the event, which allowed me to witness the smooth running of the whole event.

Another feature of my second year in the CT council was the successful organization of the Funfair. My council had been working upon the project months before the actual event. It was a period of time we had to rely upon ourselves to predict and come up with plans on how the event would be run. Prior to the event, I had put in my best effort to aid in the planning processes (such as the calling up of sponsors).

I joined the Piano Ensemble in my first year at VJC. So far, we had a couple of public performances such as Eighty-8 in 2003 and the year end Pop concert ’03. I was involved as a performer in both concerts. The series of auditions of which I had to go through allowed me to push my set of skills to a higher level, and at the same time, forcing me to be more sensitive to the musical aspects of good piano playing. This year, the piano ensemble is organizing another concert (Eighty-8) in July. I have been selected, and will be featuring a duet in this concert.

I am also part of VJC’s bowling team. I joined the team in year one. This year, we are competing in the A divisions events in May. Personally, I am playing in the quartets, doubles and singles events.

In 2003, I was involved in planning committee of City Chinese Orchestra (external organization). The aim of our committee was to permeate Chinese classical music into the lifestyles of Singaporeans young or old. We held meetings to plan for concerts and activities for Chinese music to be accepted as part of Singapore’s aesthetics culture. The City Chinese Orchestra has constantly been looking for young members for its orchestra. I was from the Chinese Orchestra in Dunman High and upon graduating, I had a choice to continue as a performer of the City Chinese Orchestra, or part of the Alumni and a planning committee member. I chose the latter. I thus became very involved in coaching and transferring of technical expertise to my juniors (who are the future performers of the orchestra). I conducted training camps and coaching sessions to help promote Chinese classical music.

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In March 2004, I was placed in charge by the City Chinese Orchestra to organize the two day concert - Spring Melody’04. I drew out a structure and formed a committee to assist me in the planning processes. As the head, I was responsible for overall publicity, ticketing, programmes and logistics. My ad hoc worked for about a period of a month before the actual concert. We did preparations such as negotiations of tickets, posters and distribution with Sistic through venue confirmations, advertising of the event by schools, committee centres and external dance and music organizations, music and programme arrangements, contact with relevant coaching associates etc. On the day itself, my group was down to oversee the smooth running of the whole event and for the rehearsals. Overall, the two day concert was a successful one with a combined total of about one thousand tickets sold.

I took part in the Shares and stock competition organized by the NTU in 2003. After a week of preliminary rounds, I qualified as a finalist to take part in the second round. Subsequently, I was part of the team which helped VJC win the best JC award for this competition.

posted by iambrianfu [ 11:27 PM ] |

i realized that doing things without a clear aim and expecting the results is something that is clearly not possible. that's why i shouldnt be sabotaging myself by bowling lousy streaks when i all along had a clear aim in mind .. .to reach 175 by monday. so i havent blogged about my last last training... the one that i aimed for 150.. well.. i reached it. *hOOray* so i half heartedly decided i'll improve to 160 today. obviously ive not accomplished that. so im going to hit again tml. 160. if i dont reach it, i'll train throughout the weekends.

let me quote a few lines here..
If you fail to plan. you plan to fail.
The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.
fall seven times, stand up eight
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
and finally, MLK's I Have a Dream..

i have a dream and i have a plan. my short term dream and plans are that i will have a beautiful testimonial and i that i will finish studying A levels at the end of june. sounds impossible. but nothing is impossible in my vocabularly.. something like the case where the obstacles that hinder me are just the weeds that grow onto my path. i Trample on them.

posted by iambrianfu [ 9:24 PM ] |

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

im back after two days.. Cheerss* So today has been another tiring day. i went for some lessons in the morning and left halfway cuz i saw riliang strolling about in the canteen. so we went to eunos to half lunch. and i learnt that riliang got a2 for a0 chinese. Can YOu believe it!? riliang got a2 for chinese. anyway, i came back and saw beng in the library. so i stayed there for awhile, attended 2 tutorials and went down to board the SMU bus. ok the talk was quite ok.. cuz Augustine Tan speaks about a third as fast as jackcook. and the lecture was pretty A level rather than S level. yup, so it was by far understandable. by the way, crystle kwek has quit s level economics ( i suppose so cuz she didnt come today again, nor has been coming for s level lessons), which is quite sad, cuz i think she's quite an interesting person. but anyway...
i came back to vj for the bowling team bonding stuff which wasnt too impressive ..haha. though it was quite happy to see some of the seniors talking to the juniors and having fun with em.. (though not me reallly cuz ive all along been a nice guy and ive built rapport with my juniors without these session, no matter where i go.. like ctc, piano ensemble, dunman high.. bowling.. watever. ha!! ) we went to hans for dinner, and ya.. thats about it.

so here's the economic bit for today...

ANIMAL SPIRITS
The colourful name that KEYNES gave to one of the essential ingredients of economic prosperity: confidence. According to Keynes, animal spirits are a particular sort of confidence, "naive optimism". He meant this in the sense that, for entrepreneurs in particular, "the thought of ultimate loss which often overtakes pioneers, as experience undoubtedly tells us and them, is put aside as a healthy man puts aside the expectation of death". Where these animal spirits come from is something of a mystery. Certainly, attempts by politicians and others to talk up confidence by making optimistic noises about economic prospects have rarely done much good.

we were talking about competitive devaluation earlier on today.
let me be a nice guy and share what i know. the US today faces the BIG problem of the Twin deficit. this is the budget deficit and the current account deficit. the former is due to a greater spending supplied by little taxation on the public. Hence, the government has to borrow from foreign countries or tap onto its reserves. the other part of the twin deficit - the current acct, is due to large amount of imports and little exports comparatively. Why is this so? The cost of production in America is partly due to high wage cost as trade unions are strong there (well not to the extent if we compare with European countries such as Britain, or even worse, France) Exports are expensive and thus are unable to compete in foreign markets. Local consumption shifts to imported goods. This has been caused largely by many of the Asian economies such as China and Japan. So what has America been trying to do? It has been urging these coutries(esp China) to revalue their currency. In other words, COMPETITVE DEVALUATION is meant to enhance a home countries competitive advantage by making its exports cheaper or causing foreign countries goods or services to be more expensive. A problem however, is that we have to assume perfect mobility of such resources and goods and a floating exchange rate. (which by far is the most irrealistic assumption) Singapore works on a managed float system and its currency is tied to a basket of foreign currency. Henceforth, fluctution are not great in such countries as there is a certain limit (high or low) that a country's foreign exchange can reach.
this brings me to my next point. Why does the US dollar not plunge into the state where the indonesian rupiah and thai baht were during the Asian Currency Crisis given the state of the US economy now. Afterall, we are talking about the twin deficits of America. The answer is that, Firstly, foreign countries buy up the US dollar as part of their foreign reserves. Therefore, there will always be the demand for the dollar and it will not depreciate as how the rupiah had. Secondly, the US borrows money from foreign countries in US Dollars. this means that the US will not have the problem of repaying the loans cuz they could simply print more of the US dollars ( given that the Federal reserves thinks this is a rational decision)

Henceforth, competitve devaluation is apt in our argument in the case of america because of the twin deficit it faces. This might well be the only way for america to alleviate this problem.

ok.. im quite tired so good bye for noww...

posted by iambrianfu [ 9:57 PM ] |

Monday, May 10, 2004

hello bloggy.. my sister photocopied some four page song which's called ballade pour adeline. i played thru and it sounds nice. its a layman song which is easy but sounds good to a non music person... its the type of songs where the girls will crowd round you while u play at the concourse..
anyway, ive been studying for chemistry test and ive finished electrochemistry, -COOH, alcohols, and Nitrogen. i think that should be enough for the one hour test tomorrow. its difficult to test on something so darn profound in such a short time.. so im not too worried den. i went to meet weilie and his friend in the morning today and he asked me to join him for some MLM thing. ok, i wasnt too keen in the first place but i was wondering whether this idea could be used for my party shit so i just tagged along. Well, the binary structure's pretty cool. see it at ww.usana.com ... the opportunities and then pay plan. ok.. i'm a nice guy and i'll come straight to the point. i'm not interested in health products.. i just wanna learn. and if you wanna gain from me, just be my friend. cuz i'll need you when im a millionaire.. hhaa.
everyone just has this sinister side popping up once in a while. i am just imaginating... i see my enemy walking down the street fifty years from now. He's poor and im rich. den i tell him," hey i know you! you''re XXX" and he looks back at me with a half scowl but trying to force it into an awkward grimace and i can see that he's trying to pretend not to know who i am (but i know that he knows, cuz im rich!) and says.." you look very familiar." ok so we begin talking and he's trying to hold things back behind a defensive barrier but i finally dig it out from him that he's jobless and he's in dire need of a job. so i tell him. "i think i can put you some where in my division" and he brightens up and i can see the cunning desire from his twitching mouth. with earnest regard, i tell him.. "we might need someone to work on our sanitations cuz we're having persistent problem with 'em". And he imagines himself armed with a mop in such a situation. he's smile turns into a big wide frown stretched across his face. he storms of chanting expletives to the pavement while i drive off in my rolls royce.
But then again, im a nice guy and i dont have enemies. and im a nice guy. i wouldnt do this to anyone.


Einstein once said " i never plan for the future, it comes too soon" but i plan for the future everyday. Its boring to not think of what's gonna happen tomorrow. "the future becomes the present, the present becomes the past, and the past becomes everlasting regret if we fail to plan"
i dont know why i suddenly thought of these two lines. i know it came out from that new ideas from dead econmists book (which i finally am in the last few chapters).

posted by iambrianfu [ 1:03 AM ] |

Saturday, May 08, 2004

ive just been watching the asian bowling tournament and this stupid Indonesian Ryan Lolita (or whatever he's called) scored a freaking 300 point game. And if that's not enough.. he's uSing the SAME ball im using. A Green columbia Wired !!! (though his ball is sure to be much much heavier than mine) which speaks alot of my ball.. its like a hidden jewel that ive been trying relentlessly, but with no avail, to unravel.... like trying to get an oyster open with a toothpick. I'm UNDERMINING my bally! oh no that is bad. after watching, ive suddenly got an urge to go bowling... maybe tomorrow.. maybe monday...

ok, so today was quite a tiring morning cuz im feeling particularly lethargic now. went to school early for a PJ RJ AJ talk about FTAs that was rather dull though i liked the AJ indian speaker cuz he was going " Vee are goving to talkv avout vhhyy thee free trade agvreement vith Iran is venefiting Singapore" Cute right (",)
Then we went to the scrabble board area for a game of CASH FLOW which is a robert kiyosaki 300 dollar game that can, and only prove why i am going to be a millionaire. I just dont get it. when i tell my frens i'm going to be a millionaire, they tell me to go fuck off... But anyway, i won the game with a overall passive income of about 40.000 income per month.. though mervyn was trying desperately hard to get out of the rat race while i was already on the fast track of life. But dont worry mervyn, i dont blame you.
So to speak, i learnt a few things from the game which i think is really good. Firstly, The world doesnt end after you earn your first million. Just as mervyn thought he had won after earning 2 million from shares, he soon realized the difference between income and money. Which brings me to my next point. We should strive for higher income and not money. Money is a stock, not a flow. Income is the flow. If you have a million today, it doesnt mean you are still going to have a million tomorrow. Recognizing the difference is just the crux between being an Oei hong leong and a ken-air boy. Lastly, and more often than always overlooked, society rewards those who are magnanimous and give 20c to society for every dollar earned. Im not asking you to give up all your money when you're rich and be a mother theresa. It's the self re-assuring mechanism that seems to help those rich businessmen prosper. anyway, im into social entrepreneurship so i shouldnt be too concerned about this.

We're having buffet dinner at gramps place later though im not toO sure whats the occasion. Anyway, i'm gonna sleep now so prob i can start studying chem tonight. I'm so screwed for thinking my chem's so fking good that i havent gone for the electrochem lectures. But dont worry guys, cuz i'm a ready guy. ready for all challenges at all times.

posted by iambrianfu [ 6:55 PM ] |

Friday, May 07, 2004

ok i just got back from bowling and i'm pretty tired.. with this stupid recurring flu that has been bugging me throughout econs lecture today. So today we began on macroeconomics.. which was so damn traumatizing. (oh by the way... i got 11 for the econs s test ... yuppiee) We have this stupid graph that goes 360 degrees. yes, there are four axis and four quadrants. it's ISLM analysis. its like there'll be periods of time where i just get dazed and wander off.. then, i'll look around the LT and see puzzled faces, and the occasional nodding heads (although i know they simply dont understand too! ha!).. anyway.. it was quite abit of mathematics here and there.. so i guess today's lect wasnt too impt

now bowling.. my thumb feels good today cuz i made the hole bIG and ROUND. the release feels easy now although i drop the ball occassionally. so overall, im quite happy. i missed my target of 140 for this training. i think i got around 135. I dont like the feeling of missing a goal. when i set a goal, there is a REAlistic factor in it. so there shouldnt be any excuses for any leeway or whatsoever. then again, there is no failure in my dictionary .. for a mistake is only an outcome. Sucess is the alternative. and as always.. success is A DAY TO DAY PROGRESSIVE REALISATION OF PRE-PLANNED PERSONAL WORTHWHILE GOALS. MY ultimate goal is 175 by the END of next week. YeS. IT is achievable and specific. so i will work hard. i set a goal 150 for next training and limit myself to 3 open frames per game.
the team jersey is white and the other one's red. its new balance and quite ok after all, though i preferred the old black adidas one. well.. anyway

had dinner with the juniors and yes.. jonathan.. haha.. they're quite a lively bunch and im happy to see them so close to each other. its so diff from last year where all the seniors were so distanced from us. i hardly spoke to most of them till the tournament.. which was how sad.. now i cant remember some of their names.. haa

ok now i'll like to tell a story about food.
when your mom tells you to finish your food and not waste it cuz someone is starving in Africa, you say she's obviously not talking sense. First and foremost, whether i finish my meal or not, does NOt affect that poor boy in Africa cuz it wont go to him either way. its either i eat it and shit it out or it'd go into the bin. If you're talking about the mentality, then i guess it'd branch out to a whole lot of philosophical shit of i-dont-eat-i-affect-you-you-affect-him-whatsoever dilemma thats not even worth mentioning. that i cant use economics to explain with. Next, i bring in the fact that the marginal food (which is the excess yucky cabbages left on our plate) is WORTHLESS. The aim of our meal was to fill us. thats it. period. We have a meal for two reasons - one is to provide us with all the energy to do our work, grow and stay healthy, the other is that 'eating' in itself is a utility-contributing action (which is why we eat so much, and why the food industry is so thriving) . So the first reason is a mandatory explanation of Why we eat, while the second one is an optional one. we may not like to eat, but we HAve to eat. Similarly, we have to eat and we may LiKe to eat. That is why i propose that if you like to eat, eat ALL you can. Eat to your death ! eat till you become an obese blob of lipid and sink down the drain. Dont bother to go on a diet and come bitching to me all about it cuz i know you like to eat! you were born to eat. so go eat your shit. if the yucky cabbages dont taste good, then dont eat it! we've had the rice and thats good enough. eating it would be minus-ing our consumer satisfaction, which is against my second point of eating! to enjoy food! If the African boy is wondering what the hell i'm talking about, heres the point... Cardinality is the emphasize we place on an item, lets say the stuff we consume. We say that a government regulated policy (maybe a minimum wage) which so appears to be social optimally beneficial, is not flawless cuz of cardinality. Like i say, everyone has his own bible and thus we place different emphasis on the same stuff even though we may be twins and look, talk and eat the same way. the minimum wage may not be good for a schoolboy whoose father is having the same job, and got sack cuz of the drop in demand due to price of labour increasing (excess supply too little demand)---> market not at equilibrium, though the minimum wage may be good for a school boy who thinks he can make big bucks without the aid of his millionaire father who might, at this period of time, be at some hawaiian resort enjoying the hula girls. So to speak, cardinality is an issue if we are considering whether the small African boy would eat our food if it "Ooops so happen" get transported to the other side of the world by cranes with food sacks in their mouth, sort of like the Americans dropping food into nazi Germany. But wait a minute... Shit.. why am i talking about cardinality. its besides the point!!! oh no help.. the African would surely eat our food if it got shipped over cuz he's literally starving on Somalia-paste. Even if there's poison in the cabbages, he'll gladly eat it. At least he dies happy and filled.

The Point now.. ahhem.. is that Africa is backwards. there is no supply of cabbages for them due to structural difficulties in the economy that will not be eased overnight. It is a problem of poverty and how the United Nations or any other NGOs can help them. Not me, the school boy having a meal which has come from grain stores and fields that are so plentiful of food stuff IN MY COUNTRY or any affiliated ones. Though not Africa. To help afrikaans is to increase supply there and not limit the demand here so that there'll be more supply there.

In conclusion, it is not rational for food on our plate to be wasted cuz the African boy is suffering, because it would not be rational to ship a few pieces of cabbages ( even though it may be a titanic-filled with cabbages for our whole country). if it so happened, we might just get stopped by some despotic crap there. this corruption is in addition to the structural difficulties of lack of reqd infrastructures and facilities.
ok, this is quite hazy like marxian economics and i think im gonna go and bathe now.. so bye!!

posted by iambrianfu [ 11:36 PM ] |

this is fucken stupid. when i woke up today, i saw the sun shining Brightly into my bedroom and i was thinking , fuck... i must be fucking late for school. Then i laid back and closed my eyes thinking - why the fuck didnt anybody wake me up? And i reached down for my fucking ph... now where the fuck is my phone...
so i got up rather grumpily and i looked at the fucken clock and it was already 7.30 and then i thought about it. there is no fucking way i am gonna be on time for school and ms ding is gonna kaobei me again. Damn.. big damn. its like 3 times this week already. and by then, the room was already fucking bright and no sight of my maid or anyone one. damn , fuckens.
and then i went to the living room and the first thing i saw was this bloody black briefcase (which was there all along, like fo how many years) and i was damn mad and i gave the stupid bag a damn hard kick. That is gonna be the biggest regret i i'll have today cuz my leg started to bleed. Fucken stupid aint it?? this is a fucken day

posted by iambrianfu [ 7:56 AM ] |

Thursday, May 06, 2004

the bowling teams are out. its me and yaocheng n weihong n andrew. Hrm.. so its like 2 yr twos and 2 yr ones in each team eh? anyway.. my team is the dunman team, and yeah... we will work hard.. the dunman way.. haha
So i think the bowling competition is quite near. I'm gonna start being more serious. ever since we shifted from cine leisure to victors, my scores have been disgraceful. and as time passes, i sort of sub consiously accepted it. which is bAD! ok .. i'll set myself a goal .. no more 110s from next training onwards. i'll set a more realistic and achievable goal for tml.. 140. No less! we'll see hows it after tml

anyway.. im kinda tired today. so till another time . good buy.
oh ya.. we're getting our econs s test tml. Yuseong got 4/20.. he said William got 3/20... haha!! i hope i get a more respectable score

posted by iambrianfu [ 10:40 PM ] |

Wednesday, May 05, 2004

i went to bedok today after piano lessons and called rong as usual. I think he's so freakin free nowadays cuz he plays soccer with lubricant on his gloves. So anyway, we bought some soccer bets... Uefa Championship winner - Valencia 2.10 and Chelsea to draw against monaco. 3.80!! anyway the second one's just for fun and to accompany rong only.
ive been thinking about the party that i'd be organizing in june. I guess its time to sit down soon to do some serious discussion. Anyway, the current options are gonna be zouk or embassy.. though China Black and induz3 might not be ruled out cuz we have cONNections now and these two places are easy to negotiate. so its gonna be RnB again with .. yes... HOUSE! good house music with house pour in your hands and shake the night away. this makes me wanna go party again this saturday. Go check out the hot babes..

Ok... So today wasnt a really good day at school cuz MRs K scolded me like a freakin primary school boy. Fucken. i havent been scolded for ages and this is really damn sad. But on a serious note, i do feel sorry for Mrs K cuz no one seems (at least from what i observe) to be listening to her during bio tutorials. I feel sorry for MRs K when she tells us to pack up from bio lab lessons but no one usually gives a fucken about her except, say, maybe nice guys like me who quickly put back the friggin microscopes and shit. I feel sorry for Mrs K especially during the L20 bio tutorials where we just sit at the back row and kaopei throughout the lesson, scolding each other for being such a pussy when we are only human to feel cold under the aircon, den scolding shawn for no apparent reason cuz he looks like he needs some scolding. Although these acts may be so disturbing to Mrs K, i guess they are the tiny bits and pieces that i will be remembering for the years to come. Just like all the shit we've been doing in secondary school.

tomorrow is thursday. I think i will be going for GP lessons to make my rare cameo appearance. after which, i hope the guys will be 'on' enough to have lunch at parkway. Till then, im gonna go do some maths S.

posted by iambrianfu [ 10:35 PM ] |

its economics lecture. and they're teaching about unemployment...
hRm... let me teach YOu about unemployment. what do you want to know? Claimant employment? Paticularly.. i do not believe that a government should reduce unemployment. In fact, the macroeconomic aim should be changed to ' increasing employment' (alongside economic growth, low inflation and a stable Balance of payments) What is the difference here?
Unemployment involves those who do not have a job and are actively looking for a job. This means that the old, women (housewives), the disabled and children are not included. This is great wastage of resources as these group of people are equally able to work and their productivity is seriously undermined.

“The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from exploiting this is a plain violation of this most sacred property.”

shit the lab technician suddenly said that there's virus in the lab.. haha
gotago

posted by iambrianfu [ 1:19 PM ] |

Tuesday, May 04, 2004

i wrote on a little piece of paper and sticked it in front of my desk. it has stuff like this..
GOAL.. take control of my life. If you want to reach your goal, you must see the reaching in your mind before you actually arrive at your goal. I Can do it. Goals: SMMART goals - Specific, Motivational, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-Dimensional. I have three goals now.. Study Bowling Piano. And this egg caricature which is the epitome of goal making - Spiritual, Mental Development, Health, Study, Financial, Family, Social, Behavioural... BALance!
And not to forget, as always, Success is a day to day progressive realisation of pre-planned personal worthwhile goals.

Its quite funny when everything comes flooding like a recurring memory at the back of your head. Its like - shit.. this all sounds so familiar. I know it. Why the hell aint i doing anything about it? damn...

I didnt go to school today cuz i supposedly had a freakin headache in the morning. So i went to the doctor at about 8 plus. tomorrow is wednesday, which is piano day i need to be practising soon...

posted by iambrianfu [ 6:59 PM ] |

shit i just woke up like 2 hrs ago.. and i'm online again.
i have a bio test in maybe less than10hrs time( or maybe more? i seriously cant memorise the timetable up till this point of time) and i think i'm pretty screwed this time cuz i dont do my bio tutorials( or at least until i started to do 'evolution' and that's about it ) and i shut my ears off the world when the bio teacher is talking. And i still have two more chapters to go, which is about the point becuz the test is on two chapters.
And there youd be thinking "fuck you".. you'll still score so high. But hey? you know what's the diff? iM not as thick as you. i have my STanDards. That's the bad thing about vjc, people are kinda selfish and they dont like others working hard while they mug under the sun or moon. But anyway, that isnt too smart cuz the people here are kinda thick too, unlike the RJ pple who smile at you and stick a knife up your ass while you aint lookin'. I like that anyway. I like smart people, who can think and pull a fast one anytime, anywhere. It's like what darwin says - survival of the fittest. How can one stay relevant when he cant take the criticism and remain standing under the barrage of remarks?

I dont really know why i got all angsty today like a PMSing school boy. Maybe its because i'm just finding i'm wasting away, Maybe its becuz i bowl badly. Maybe its becuz the food at home sucks. Maybe becuz i'm just tired. Maybe.. maybe i should just go off and study....

posted by iambrianfu [ 12:01 AM ] |

Sunday, May 02, 2004

hi this is my second entry for today.. which is rather rare for my standards.. so anyway..
i went out to have dinner with my dad at bedok and i was thinking (as always) about the stalls at the market. I asked how much it would be for the rent for each stall. Its about 2000 by the way... abit higher than the usual 1500 for a stall elsewhere. Then as i looked at the closed stalls there, i was wondering why they would close at such a good time of 7. the demand is so damn high. the HDB could well open up a few other food centres elsewhere. afterall, demand creates supply .. (not the other way round) So i came to a conclusion after this observation. To survive in such a competitive market (so many stalls), the food HAS to be good in a place like bedok.. pple can get tricked the first time round but they wouldnt be so irrational to go to the same stall again. The stall cant survive right?

So.. i was practising piano when i reached home with songs like 'hero' from enrique iglesia (ok i cant spell his name)and 'my immortal'. Im practicing so i can play it for my chiobu one of these good days, the same way i played the piano for serene during the musicfest period. Ok, so i have to say i did like her for awhile. But only for a very short period of time. I dare say it was a vicarious infatuation though, cuz my good fren was talking about her 24/7. So had couldnt possibly ignore her and not check her out yea? oh well.... anyway im glad i did practise for my other Serious piano pieces ... cuZZ.. my piano exam is in aug or sEptember! oh my

when i reached home.i took up a little book called "the curious incident of the dog " and started reading it. Its amazing how these new-aged contemporary (ok they mean the same thing) books about life or spiritual shit has suddenly and SUBconciously hit the market so hard. the book im reading is about a little boy getting accused of muredering the dog and he's gonna go find the murder. i havent read till there yet though.

posted by iambrianfu [ 11:19 PM ] |

hey mama, i'm back from from a nice little movie with lap and wg. Its Lap's bday! HAppy bdaY duDE! Im such a nice guy cuz i always remember my frens bday regardless or not whether i personally celebrate it with them or not...So then, we decided to meet up and talk about his army shit and our dreary school lifes..
Anyway, we watched KOma... which was reall nice (freakin' psychopaths turning into even crazier psychos trying to cut out each others kidneys, or simply piercing eyes with knifes, or axing the toes out) anyway, the show wasnt real goOoory, cuz parts were cut out by our lovely i-think-this-isnt-suitable-for-young-kids-to-watch-or-else-they-cant-sleep-censorship-board. Hey! this is the greatest limitation of a goverment beneficiary. Judging the population economic welfare by imposing their rights upon them! Hello?? i DAre say that the marginal benefits of cutting off segments of the show are more than offset by the marginal cost of doing so. People get unhappy and start kicking a fuck up , like me, or they'll write in and complain. My policy is that they simply put an age limit like m-18 to curb the excessive demand. (cuz i am ever so resourceful and can get a suitable IC to get in, while other like-minded people like me, who wanna get in by doing the same thing simply cant do so cuz they arent so resourceful!) SO to speak, the policy WorkS! Go ahead with it! However, i recommend that the government not put the age limit to 21 cuz of 2 reasons. The demand will be cut so severely that the act of showcasing the show would be economic unjustifiable. Secondly, Lim pei cant get my ass in! (i'd be watching RA shows if i could get my hands on a 21yrs old pass, but even then, i doubt i'd be able to pull a fast one against the old foggies at the cinemas although 1. i look rather mature 2.i can grow a goatee or a beard to get through if you are unconvinced that i look mature or 3.the old foggies suffer much from myopia)
Back to the point, Let me mention an economic phenomenon about the theatres. As some of you might not know (Dont worry, I dont blame you), cinemas are in an imperfectly competitive industry. They're in monopolistic competition. And i physically witnessed this today. The theatres at century square are as bare as a rabbit after shedding its coat during metamorphosis. Some might think that this is disastrous for the firm. (they are losing business! they cant survive with other super full firms like LIdo or orcharD cineplex!) But well, the empty seats are sort of enticing to the customers cuz they'll be thinking (HeY! the cinema is so comfortable. I dont need to cram with young kids or old bastards to get in. I can stretch my leg to the next seat in front while i watch the steamy part of show!" Just think about it. In a similar case, a patron walks into a cafeteria and thinks. "i wanna chill out and enjoy the ambience" Of course the customer wishes that the cafe isnt crowded. otherwise, there wouldnt be no more ambience to savor. The crucial part comes in here - monopolistic competitive firms (note: not monopolistic firms. They are completely different) are "monopolistical-ly compettive" bcoz they have excesss capacity, and the industry will ALWAYS not be utilized to its full extent. aka..all the seats at the restaurant will never be occupied (well at least not unless on rare occasions). The empty seats denotes much marginal utility to the patrons and these count in luring more customers. ITS an economic ploy geddit? Anyway.. do watch KOMA if you can. Its a real nice show!
So anyway, i just learnt that my chiobu has just broken up with her boyfren some time ago. So hey Brian! its time to act soon. Real soon

posted by iambrianfu [ 5:46 PM ] |

Saturday, May 01, 2004

today was a superb day... it was such an adrenaline-flowing, nerve-psyching, powerpacked day. funfair kicked up to a flying start with a couple of goondos flocking to our hot chicky mama stall, and by 2-3 pm, the stall was fucking eXhausted. so i flew home to get 30 nice juicy chicky mamas which was wrapped up in like 2 mins after placed them for sale in school. Ok, so our stall was kinda screwed up, but it wasnt that bad....

Things aside. I met lotsa pple today, which was so fun, making my day so eventful...i met my superteen friend samantha. It was like.. 'hey you look famliar... oh i know you..." , "yeah i know you too, you were our camp leader" . " oh i remember.. you're samantha.!" and yeah... we started talking about the old days like friends who havent had drinks for years... about the times with adamn khoo, about all our other friends and how successful and motivated they were, or at least how they ought to be, like me ...

I felt that the Haunted House was.. WAAAaaaaay cOoool.. cuz if u missed it.. your kinda shouldnt have come for the fucka fair. I didnt go for the ACJC haunted house. so i cant really compare. BUt anyway, Vj one was Cheaper..( 6 compared to 10), we have TSD people, and we had only one Haunted HOuse... which means two things. The talent pool was not spread out like the ACJC one, and that they could specialize and improve with greater efficiency if anything was unsatisfactory, though i dont talk about the welfare loss due to the lack of competition to force each Haunted house to innovate and compete for each other's market share.
I guess i Found it so fun cuz of the pple i went in with. three bloody guys (me included) , 2 hcjc girls who were..screaming all the time throughout the walk.. .and some 2 small girls.. Anyway the 2 small girls were like..we fugling cared them thruout , and they werent really freaked out either.. so who cares..
So to speak, i was particularly freaked out myself esp when some fucking dick suddenly grabbed my leg from nowhere and rubbed some red goo over it.. and so the hwachong girls were so afraid they asked me to go in front.. and the weakling merv and rong stayed behind me. Great stuff

Elsewhere, i was chillin' out with lotsa frens arnd school(with or without a drink), like what a sociable me would do in a party, and knowing girls thru imaginary friendster networks that start with..' Hey.. where' ye from'.. so to speak..

Ok.. a great part of today can be credited with due thanks to the bail or torture class. CUz their idea was just so damn cool. I was joining in the fun whenever i saw anyone on the podium ( i saw yuseong and his coral sec, frens and i just took a watergun and filled it with some green shit and started shooting him) and just throw some shit at him ( say maybe a shoe or a sponge.) As the day wore on, a gp of us decided to sabo many of our frens., and we pooled in 70 or more bucks to form a protective shield to threaten out frens to go for a torture and not bail themselves out, less they wanted to initiate a price war, that would cause both of us consumers to lose out in the end, but them to lose out more cuz they sIMPLy CANT match out defense shield of 70 plus buckS ,... muhAahahahaha.. So the case of prisoner's dilemma, but us having and upper hand( due to information , or should i say.. uneven distribution of resources) I easily-bored-out me got easily bored out and decided to add in the fun by adding some additional shit to the game.. yES..! MALT CANDY>> FUCKING sticky malt candy that i forked into their underwears leaving them to rot and decay. We tried other shit too, like wastepaper basketing their head and knocking em with sticks, whipping them with belts, or scotchstaping them wif an entire fucking roll frm head to toes.

Its sad that the day has past

posted by iambrianfu [ 10:58 PM ] |