faster and faster and faster... what's happening ar?

watched a movie yesterday...a feel good movie :) with my good friends may, hy & de. then at yam cha, i was saying (as i have many times before), how nice it would be if there is no handphone and internet. pace would be so much more enjoyable. don't you think?

the above was a draft posting, which i did not have time to work on. and just the other day, i read in TheStar that one of the writers was given an assignment, that is to switch off her mobile and computer for one week (or was it one month?)... anyway, the result was : pace was slower, there was better quality of life, and the mobile and computer? not really that necessary really!!!!

a normal telephone was adequate, there is just less redundant calls, msg, etc

we should try that! maybe i'll try that!... then I suppose I will have to inform all my clients. hmmm.... wonder if it'll work.

traffic

i don't understand why or how can town planners or whoever is in charge of planning the network and size of roads, and the approval of development of housing area/ residential buildings can make the same mistakes over and over again?

i don't understand why we have to pay toll to use roads which leads us to a bottleneck and hence, horrible traffic, only closer to home?

i don't understand how anybody with some working grey matter would approve buildings which would house hundreds of people when there is only a two lane access road?

i was almost certain peas for brains was just an expression...?

i have a wonderful idea. we, the road users should be able to decide on a route. which these very brilliant road planners will have to drive along. there should be check points along this route where they need to park, and get down from their cars to scan their finger prints. and this has to be performed daily starting from 8am and 6pm. Check points must be reached within a certain time frame. And for the planners who don't reach within the stated time frame, their salary should be deducted, along with that of their superiors.

we'll have no traffic... or at least not such unreasonable ones.



i don't understand...

alexandria... about 5 months back

7 June 2008.... so perfect! :)

raya @ sherry's

a gathering of sorts... old friends... good friends... so nice....

sherry & arnil

teik lee, lena, allan (left to right) and pei sze (standing)

movie nite out

with my beloved friends... arcade before movies... (btw, the blur effect is intended!)


training for ski trip

aspiring drummers

what is love?

according to kenny who watched "dog fell in love with cat" (!!), love is...



when cat like flowers, dog will pick flowers from garden for cat

when cat like to eat chicken drumstick, dog will feel sad if cat don't get to eat chicken drumstick

dog will feel sad when cat is bored and lonely

... so simple.

10 years later....

we were in restoran hong lim, SS15 when i asked :
"what do you think you'll be doing in 10 years' time? what would you have achieved by then?"


hy answered :
1) don't HAVE to work, but will have no money problems
2) might be doing some form of volunteer work
3) married, hopefully to a guy as devoted to his girl as wall-e is


yj :
1) would have started working
2) would have reached senior management level


ey :
1) working for fun
2) married with kids (two)
3) wake up at whatever time i want, can take my own time to talk a walk before going to do whatever i want to do
4) have time for my kids when i get back from work


mc :
1) have a very nice single storey bungalow/ semi-d with a lot of land, a corner lot single storey terrace also can
2) a dog, or two (need not be a beagle)
3) not much work, but a lot of money
4) work comprise of approving/ not approving something
5) would have backpacked for 6 months
6) would gone bald


tf
1) still playing psp
2) still playing wii
3) see the world
4) debt free


me
1) ceo of own successful company
2) able to dictate my own time
3) have a villa in bangkok
4) hopefully my very exclusive club for very-active-old-people-with-a-life will be up and running



funny how this question is answered in a more cautious manner than it if it was asked 10 years ago... and how the answers are preceeded by "i should be" or "i think" or "hopefully" instead of "i want to be" or "i am going to be"

funny how being older seem to mean we have shorter time... when we actually didn't know how much time we would have had when we were young (i mean a lot of ppl die young... especially the talented ones)...

or were the answers affected by the fact that the previous goals stated were not achieved? not realising that it is neither due to lack of opportunities nor lack of ability, but lack of courage and lack of will power/ discipline...?