It's that time of year...
It's finally December, and in a week it'll be Christmas. Honestly, I've never looked forward to Christmas more than this year mainly because for the past 20 plus years of my life (excluding 2 of course) I'd be in the middle of a long holiday right about now, and Christmas would just simply be another day. But now that I'm slogging my butt off at work every week, Christmas is starting to appear oh so much more attractive. Add to that the all the Christmas related stuff that's going up in the office and it's kinda hard to ignore it. So, although it's a little early, I'd like to wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR. Hopefully, the new year brings good news for everyone.
I'm sure most of you will be having a nice dinner/lunch with your family and friends. And a common phrase we love to use when eating out with friends is to "Go Dutch". Such phrases kinda irk me a little cos what has paying for your meal gotta do with the Dutch? Especially when we are halfway around the world probably eating at some hawker centre. So, I googled this phrase and the following came up:
For those of you who remembered/are using my Calendar program I developed last time, well I've made some updates. Why you ask? Well mostly cos although I've been quite busy with work, my work also entails that I go out of office to visit certain areas where there is no internet access. So to keep myself entertained, I sometimes do a little programming just to pass the time. Anyway, here are some screenshots of the updates.
As you can see, I didn't really do much. Just added an option to not clear the events at a fixed rate of 1 week but rather a choice of durations. Also, I've modified the Todo list editor so that you can change the colours and fonts of the text you enter, something I found particularly useful as my Todo list got longer and longer. The new Todo list editor is basically based upon an open-source html editor called Ekit, it's not perfect and has some bugs, but I'll probably iron them out soon (when I'm free...). For those of you who are HTML inclined, this means that you can decorate your Todo list in any manner you could decorate a basic HTML page.
Ok, I think I've rambled enough for a while. I'll end this post by once again wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. Have a nice holiday season.
I'm sure most of you will be having a nice dinner/lunch with your family and friends. And a common phrase we love to use when eating out with friends is to "Go Dutch". Such phrases kinda irk me a little cos what has paying for your meal gotta do with the Dutch? Especially when we are halfway around the world probably eating at some hawker centre. So, I googled this phrase and the following came up:
"Going Dutch"
Definition: To evenly split the cost of a group expense, like a meal.
Origin: The origin of the phrase is unknown, but there is one explanation. In the 17th century, the Dutch were hated commercial rivals of the British, and have been a verbal target for them since. Anyone who "went Dutch" may have been considered a tightwad. Not surprisingly, the Dutch don't seem to love this phrase.
Use it in a sentence: The last girl I went out with called me a superior patriarchal misogynist who didn't respect her independence just because I offered to pick up the tab. So last night I decided I'd play it safe and suggested to my date that we go Dutch. She called me a cheap bastard!
It seems that "going dutch" is actually quite a degradatory term in the past, and possibly in the present as well. So be sure not to suggest going dutch to any of your Dutch friends. In case you want to know more about the origins of some other phrases, you can look here.
For those of you who remembered/are using my Calendar program I developed last time, well I've made some updates. Why you ask? Well mostly cos although I've been quite busy with work, my work also entails that I go out of office to visit certain areas where there is no internet access. So to keep myself entertained, I sometimes do a little programming just to pass the time. Anyway, here are some screenshots of the updates.
As you can see, I didn't really do much. Just added an option to not clear the events at a fixed rate of 1 week but rather a choice of durations. Also, I've modified the Todo list editor so that you can change the colours and fonts of the text you enter, something I found particularly useful as my Todo list got longer and longer. The new Todo list editor is basically based upon an open-source html editor called Ekit, it's not perfect and has some bugs, but I'll probably iron them out soon (when I'm free...). For those of you who are HTML inclined, this means that you can decorate your Todo list in any manner you could decorate a basic HTML page.
Ok, I think I've rambled enough for a while. I'll end this post by once again wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. Have a nice holiday season.
posted by CS at 11:21 PM
9 Comments:
Happy New Year 2007!
May all ur dreams come true!
Cheers,
Xiuling
Thanks!
Haha... sorry for the late response. You have a nice year too!
May you take on your own ignorance, suffering, liberation
whether conceivable or inconceivable
within your abilities, limits, and means..
Is the author of this blog still around? I'd like to get in touch with you regarding a blog post from back in 2003 (!) If you're still around I'd love to chat, can you email me at mes09j@gmail.com??
He sure ought to be around, heck, am recycling the term 'lamejuicyorange' as well as 'applemangoes' coined by him possibly as part of dharma propagation. Copyleft licenses and free distribution mostly. Fyi.
My FYP professor Alvis Fong moved back to Singapore after spending time at Down Under and is now working at Republic Polytechnic a walking distance away from my said Woodlands residence. Little time catching up with your kakis, especially Xiuling and Chyeheng who are respectively still within my sights almost every other moment. The former's husband Gabriel Foo with her is living a stone throw from my cousin who were Methodists like them. The latter's significant other and his younger sister gave me more creeps than I thought I gave myself. Out of sight, out of mind.
The last time I read your palm with your mother around - you should be a father and senior executive by now either that or my belated congratulations again to Chia Lee and spouse - LOOK AFTER YOUR HEALTH if I am anybody but a hero you jolly well be taking enough tonics. We compared dicks before in Taipei and our highest threshold of saunas and sulphur are mundane.
As of today I am formally diagnosed with past medical histories of weak kidneys - possible recurring cases of protein in urine, marfan syndrome aka hyperlaxity of ligaments, vasomotor rhinitis, generalised anxiety disorder possibly also generalised fear disorder if I make distinctions between anxiety and fear. Chronic insomnia and chronic depression comes and go that's why they are called chronic, apart from that, the usual cholesterol issues although blood pressures the usually low - more of a borderline anaemic and / or anorexic person than a bulimic. Have done my fair share of CT scans, they found a liver grown awkwardly higher than usual while the diaphragm is slanted higher on one side - possibly a hereditary condition although imho it's due to masturbating too much, probably you know what happens in masturbation while you were an undergrad telling us about your five-finger exercises, your lungs breathe amidst strains, one of your hands in my case I'm a right-handed guy like you too well that hand does all the work it's difficult - I tried using two hands to masturbate the dick is anything but a long pointy rifle - one hand is all it takes. Do that too often, even the bodily muscles also get affected.
:) My present significant other Alicia Ngiaw Sze Sien of Kuching is recently separated in 2013. She already had a husband when we met in 2010. My dad was from Kuala Lipis in Pahang that recently flooded in January. She tasked me on finding somebody else possibly an ex in 2013 when I made a probable proposal, well, tracing backwards led us learning that the Singaporean 'Xiaobai' as Chyeheng once fondly recommended as being more 'suitable' - whatever that meant - may still be single and available. As a matter of dualisms, this one and that one, singlehood and self-employment worked better.
Don't have resources to attend weddings, housewarmings or baby bashes as always, a West Bengalese orphanage Kripasaran Buddhist Mission that I had been helping out with over these years remotely barely escaped the recent Nepalese earthquake.
Won't be keen on catching up further unless the Kwam Im figurine that I recall at your mother's place came across my mind.
*Namaste*
Om Mani Padme Hum
Lin Rongxiang or Jayan Tashi
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This is typewritten in follow up to the above-mentioned comment by me Lin Rongxiang NRIC S8134028E then using the pseudonym Bodhi Studio.
As I have learned informally that my significant other Alicia Ngiaw Sze Sien may also be a single mother, in other words firstly she was from Kuching and she apparently may have a sexual partner in Malaysia where she may also be a parent. Her offspring may be in Malaysia or Singapore as of this point of typing. My study found that whether she was married in Malaysia or otherwise, she came to Singapore to work somewhat under the guise of being a student, and she married a Singaporean male several years my senior. In doing so, alongside with working several years in Singapore with proper CPF contributions, she became a Singaporean permanent resident. As of now she can be a Singaporean citizen already, however she has since been separated from her Singaporean husband. Her Singaporean-now-ex-husband is known to be working as a taxi driver. As they have separated, the following areas are either grey of oblivious to me:
1. Her divorce may be that of a convenient i.e. sham marriage, it is not known to be recorded as a criminal offence.
2. Her entire marriage lasted around three years during which her permanent residency in Singapore was granted, it is not known whether was a divorce annulled in a Singapore court or overseas court, and whether was there any form of alimony or legal proceedings that resulted in certain legally binding decisions.
3. It is also not known whether her offspring, if any at all presumably with her previous partner before the Singaporean husband, is at present in Singapore or in Malaysia, and whether is it a actual fact, i.e. the child has not been proven by me to be known as anything more than a rumour.
4. As I am also not a legal professional but a computer engineer, my studies have not found any actual criminal offences coming from any parties, in other words the above-mentioned romance is an unfortunate encounter that may deserve a community review or general confession, but there has not been any official legal transgressions known from my part or the other parties involved.
5. From my limited understanding of Singapore recent case studies on family issues, in the event that Alicia Ngiaw Sze Sien is indeed with a child whether in Singapore or Malaysia, she has the probable right to request for certain alimony or legal assistance from her prior husbands or boyfriends, or she may also be a single mother and divorcée in practice. This is generally not a major legal issue except that there are certain concerns about schooling in Singapore if the said offspring joins his/her mother in Singapore and seeks education. As far as I am concerned, she is also eligible for remarriage 3 years after her separation in certain legal advisories that have been offered me, in other words we are not against divorcees and single mothers marrying and / or remarrying if this is their choice and / or preference, in which case I have not ruled out the prospect of becoming her subsequent legal husband although at this juncture it does not seem feasible given the fact that there could be a child under her direct and / or indirect charge whose basic identity remains obscure from my radius of practice and association.
I do not rule out follow up encounters with Alicia Ngiaw, however at this point of typing, I do not see how I may be of benefit and / or help.
I also do not rule out the possibility that it is my wish seeing Alicia Ngiaw being reconciled with the child's biological parents thusly Alicia Ngiaw's previous partner, or in the case where her rumoured offspring is also born from her, that the offspring should rightly consider reconciliation between Alicia Ngiaw and the father of the offspring whose identity I am even less sure of.
I declare that my knowledge may not be perfect but has been somewhat to my best effort till date.
All these years I do not say sorry, but today I happily will.
Sorry Chia Sern, I missed your wedding and baby bash.
Sorry Chye Heng, I missed your wedding and baby bash.
It took ten years, this is the year 2017 when Doreen Tan Jinglan finally also got married and I saw her off with her new husband. Let it be formally said that with Ong Siew Leng Jacelyn eradicated alongside Ong Teng Cheong as part of standing orders of HQ, with TJLDoreen addressed, the next step is that I want to see Alicia Ngiaw Sze Sien remarry her husband whom she divorced in 2011.
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