Random stuff:

I remember in primary school there's this song that goes "look right look left look right again" when crossing the road. Then I wondered why you look right twice and look left once.

Recently I realised that it's because the cars always come from the right side when you are standing on the kerb.
Unless you are in Orchard where the road is one way.

Which makes me wonder if the primary schools in, say, US, learn "look left look right look left again" cos their roads are different.
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If you're from RI, you'll remember that the headmaster made a speech about the NUTS(No-U-Turn Syndrome) where in Singapore, only places where U-turns are allowed have a sign that indicates so, and elsewhere it is assumed that U-turns are not allowed. Whereas in other places, only places where U-turns are not allowed have a sign that indicates thus, elsewhere it is assumed that U-turning is allowed. As such, it was said that legislations that specify what are allowed would stifle creativity, and we should instead only specify what is not allowed.

It is only recently that you'll see a sign with a bold circle around a cigarette. This specifies that smoking is allowed only in that area, and not elsewhere in the coffeeshop. This makes more sense than putting a "smoking prohibited" sign outside the yellow box area because the yellow box area is always much smaller than the area outside it.

So does this stifle people's creativity about where smoking is allowed? Perhaps, but it doesn't really matter.
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The popiah stall with great service and great popiah closed down.
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Many stories in Doraemon speak of Nobita getting bullied, Doraemon giving him a gadget that makes him more powerful than the bully, Nobita punishing the bully, and finally abusing the power that Doraemon's gadgets confer to him.

Perhaps the author of Doraemon wants to teach us that power corrupts.

Which is thicker? Thinner or turpentine?

If thinner is thicker, then turpentine is thinner. Since turpentine is thinner, and thinner is thicker, then turpentine would be thicker.

I am super free now, after chem O prac and kata seminar.

Chem O prac was the kind where you have this feeling that everyone else will do very well. Everyone else got >100% yield while I got 45% yield in organic synthesis. Probably calculation error because I remember I did the whole thing quite carefully. Either that or everyone else forgot to subtract the weight of the filter paper. :P But that's not very likely, considering that Daniel Lo also got >100% and he is usually very careful. Hope I can get some prize.

I'm amused by the tv mobile on laptop advertisement. The guy and girls are all staring at the strategic spot.

TOFLMAO.

I laugh at the ad wars between star hub and singnet.

"There's something fishy in here." Join the fat green pipe today! - Starhub


"Rarrrr I'm fat!" "I may not fat, but I'm fast!" - Singnet

I noticed a widespread problem with expiry dates!

Okay when you compare three or more things, you say that one of them is the best, but if there are only 2 objects to be compared, you say that one of them is the better.

Here's the problem. Expiry dates usually follow the words "Best before:" Now there are only 2 things under comparison: the quality of the product before the expiry date, and the quality after the expiry date. So shouldn't it be "Better before:" instead?

Also, which is better, milk 1 day before expiry date or milk 2 days before expiry date? Its quality is already the best before the expiry date, so how can anything be better than the quality of the best possible quality of milk?

Then logically speaking, if the milk is really "Best before" the expiry date, that must mean that the quality of the milk remains completely unchanged at any point in time before the expiry date, and only starts deteoriating at the point in time of the expiry date.

Make of that what you will.

I am seriously bored. When I'm bored enough I'll consider buffing my nails.

If you happen to pass by, do tag. At least I would try to think of something to blog about, then I wouldn't be so bored.

Can't imagine I'm saying this on my 298th post.

As I read my previous posts, I feel quite stupid then. Maybe 2 years later I read what I wrote this year I'll feel quite stupid too. I must be changing by the year.

Random note: When was the last time you contemplated the meaning of life with your parents?

I saw this on haojin's blog:
"not that im complaining but shouldn serve customers with black cutlery lar reflects damn badly."

Like LMAO black reflects badly! So RJC's white uniform serves to reflect well on RJC? Maybe should wear silver jewellery too?

Finally beat normal comp in Warcraft! But quite tyco also, because I was massing gryphons and the comp's army happened to have very few anti-air units.

It ends here.

Oh no why do I have so little to say?

I feel weird saying stuff. Speech seems like an action. We can interact with people through action, we can obtain stuff through action. We are held responsible for actions.

Sometimes we trip, sometimes we swing our arms but accidentally hit someone. Just like sometimes we twist our tongue, or we accidentally offend someone.

So sometimes speaking is like scratching yourself... it just makes yourself feel better, but other people may not be interested. Sometimes it isn't so clear why we speak at all.

I feel so limited with words, but that seems to be the best communication medium I have. Perhaps it's best to use words prudently. Like credit card.