Cs are OUT, Hs are IN

29 02 2008

Interesting entry from Otaku Yasu

Cs are OUT, Hs are IN

Last time, some women I knew look for boyfriends who possess at least 5Cs out of the 7Cs, which are mainly Cash, Car, Credit Card, Career, & Certificate. They don’t really expect the other 2 Cs, which are Condominium and Country Club, since it is quite hard in the “market” to find such super rich young guys unless they are willing to settle for the “old fishes”.

But then, looking at the current situation, it seems to get worse. Cs are out and Hs are in.

Some young women I knew start to look for boyfriends who possess the following Hs.

1) Hunk-material (Handsome face with Hot tall muscular body)
2) High-Class Vehicle (like Mitsubishi Evolution X?)
3) High stable salary for income (with at least $3K monthly)
4) Healthy (No smoking or bad drinking habits)
5) Highly-educated (with at least a Bachelor’s degree with Honours)
6) House (with at least 4 rooms and air-con installed)
7) Humor (to entertain the girl with jokes when she is bored)

As you can see, some Hs are “upgrade versions” of the traditional Cs. Meaning to say, the thirst for materialism gets more and more.

Sighz… This is the reason I like to give to people why on earth I still can’t find a girl friend after donkey years as seriously I won’t be able to achieve so many Cs or Hs as these women wanted. So instead of slogging like a Cow for Cs and working like in Hell for Hs, I rather stay single forever. I am just looking for a simple love, not a love based on materialism.

当你把你爱的女人当成是女王时,你已经是她的奴隶了。当你变成她心目中的白马王子时,她已经愿意为你做牛做马。

这就是被爱冲昏了头而付出的代价。





福, 祸, 他人,自己, 自私, 无私?

29 02 2008

新生命的降临 是祸 还是福?
有人欢喜 有人忧

新生命的开始 是权利 还是责任?
有时清楚 有时惑

活着 是为了他人而存在 还是自己的梦?

有梦 是否一定就是自私?
为了他人 是否就一定无私?

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A Mayonnaise Jar and Two Cups of Coffee

29 02 2008

A Mayonnaise Jar and Two Cups of Coffee
A professor teaches his students a lesson about what’s really important in life.

By Laura Bankston

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember this story about a mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee…

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.

He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor! next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous ‘yes.’

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed. ‘Now,’ said the professor, as the laughter subsided, ‘ I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.

The golf balls are the important things-your God, family, your children, your health, your friends, and your favorite passions-things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, and your car. The sand is everything else-the small stuff.

‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important.’

So, pay attention to the things that are most important. Take care of your health–cook with your kids!– spend time with those you love.

There’s always time to clean the house–it’s a never ending job anyway :-) .

Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.

Wondering what the coffee represents?

No matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple cups of coffee with a friend–or a soda if you’re like me and don’t drink coffee!!

Please share this with someone you care about!





Things to bring for a tour

28 02 2008

Do you know what things to bring when you go for tour???

Fret not, there is available checklist done by MsSheepy

Will need that for my BKK trip in April… and more to come!! WeeEEeee





JLPT4 result!

28 02 2008

Yo Yo …. I knew I will get my JLPT4 result this week..

Know abt it from the admin uncle (hmm forgot his name liao *pondering hard*) in JCS last week – he stated we can get it this week.. so I thought I can get my result today (thursday) later when I go for my Jap class… *looking forward excitingly* =)

But received a letter yesterday from JCS… opening the letter .. it was the score report of the Japanese-language proficiency test….

I PAASSSSEEDDDD!!! WoooHHHoooooo

————– Results ————-

Writing.Vocabulary もじ。ごい 文字。語彙: 91 /100

Listening ちょう かい 聴解: 53 / 100 (quite weak at this… *sianz*)

Reading.Grammar とっかいぶんぽう 読解。文法: 168 / 200

Total: 312 / 400  (78%)

————————————-

I have practiced the past year JLPT4 exams then .. think they are good gauge to see how well you can score in actual JLPT4 … I scored abt 75% for yr 2006 paper and abt 80% for yr 2004 paper.  JLPT4 2007 was quite difficult, I felt… I have done easier past year papers….

Anyway …. Anyone wanna borrow these past year papers, may ask me.. =)

Though I am happy… I have bad news as well…. Jo didn’t make it this time…  The passing score for JLPT 4 is 60% (i.e. 240 marks). She is short of 43 marks… =( Hopefully she doesn’t take this as a blocking pt for her… and stop herself from progressing. In fact, she is improving a lot… her Katagana tests these few days were always full marks – with clover (teacher will draw clover for those full marks in test) … Her Writing.Vocabulary scored very well… 73/100 – proud of her.. coz those are not in the syllabus we took last year in our beginner year. Normally we need to study Beginner and Intermediate courses (2 years) to take JLPT4…. but we plunged in and decided to take JLPT4 after we finished our beginner course and hoping for the best (if not we have another chance – that is to take JLPT4 again or JLPT3 this year 2008). See more here.

Got this from JCS, not sure if it meant for the whole JLPT level, or only Sg’s applications or only those who registered in JCS…. But from these figures/results, Level 1 and Level 2 are really difficult lehh…. imagine the failure rate is higher than the passing rate!! *GOSH* scary nehh!! ={

2007 Japanese Language Proficiency Test Results
 

Candidates will be notified by post.

  • The objective of the test is to let Japanese language students know their level of proficiency as well as to enhance their enthusiasm for the learning of the language for mutual understanding among nations.
  • The test is made up of three sections: Writing/Vocabulary, Hearing and Reading/Grammar.
  • Test Date: Tentatively, 1st Sunday of December (Sunday)
  • Registration: from 1st week of August to 1st week of September (Monday to Friday, 2.30pm to 8.00pm)
  • Registration centre: The Japanese Cultural Society at Midland House, 112 Middle Road #05-00. Tel: 6-3383428.




JCS Elementary Results

28 02 2008

This post is a bit outdated..  but never mind .. I just wanna record down my Jap scores.. =)

Remeber my JCS Elementary Level final exams post entry????

Hmm.. was hoping that I will score 225 and above! And my guess break-down then was:

  • Listening 40/50
  • Dictation 48/50
  • Vocab and comprehension 98/100
  • Oral 40/50

I was in A15 class (484) – course duration 76 hours (January to November 2007)…

The result is PASSED and I did score 225 above!! YuuHHuuu I thought I was one of the better one.. and even dreamed (fantasized) that I will be awarded the so-called-top-student!! haha I was in the rank of 50!! =p The top student scored 250/250!! *incredible*!! I meant to score full marks in listening and oral is GOOOODDD!! *thumbs up* Maybe that’s where I am weak at …

Total score is 236/250

  • Listening 46/50
  • Dictation 47/50
  • Vocab and comprehension 96/100
  • Oral 47/50




What kind of smile do you have?

26 02 2008

What kind of smile do you have??

Juskawaime has innocent smile.. Hoohooohooo =)

innocent smile

Wanna know yours?? Oh well… took the test from Facebook =p





What type of heart do you have?

26 02 2008

What type of heart do you have?

Ahem… juskawaime is a careful person with a guarded heart! =p

Actually I fall in love easily, but not really fall in love easily…. HA!? o_O Confused? Yes I know… but love is confusing in the first place… *wink*

what type of heart do you have





再见,沈殿霞

24 02 2008

2008年2月19日早上,沈殿霞在玛丽医院病逝,终年60岁. Good bye…. 

香港演艺界的一颗被誉为“开心果”明星殒落了,尽管如此,她在娱乐圈曾发挥过的光芒,未因此而立刻消息。在过去40年的演艺岁月里,她为大家所带来的快乐,不少都被纪录起来,新动网特地选播沈殿霞几年前在新加坡参加慈善活动时所唱的一段《相思河畔》,歌词犹如唱出她的心声:不要把我忘记。沈殿霞是新加坡的永久居民,曾参与新传媒《肥姐驾到》的演出,也多次参与本地的慈善活动,为有需要的人出一份力。沈殿霞(肥姐)与肝癌搏斗半年后,於19日与世长辞,享年60岁。肥姐长期患有糖尿病和高血压,前年9月因为胆管手术后出现并发症,曾一度在玛丽医院留医长达50天。去年7月,肥肥患上晚期肝癌,之后多次入院治疗。她的病情今早急速恶化,最后斗不过死神,在8时38分与世长辞。沈殿霞和前夫香港艺人郑少秋留下女儿郑欣宜。

Source

肥肥沈殿霞生平介绍及简历

沈殿霞近年病情全记录

More, More

Catch her video here at tudou





Latest trendy haircut in town!

24 02 2008

After much ‘lao tao’ (nagging) from Jo, juskawaime has decided to make an appt with her hairstylist in town

Having permed hair for 1 year+++  (used to have rebonding long hair before that, went to perm/curl for my bro Hendra’s wedding then.. thought it will be a nice change and more ‘glam’ look! =p ) without ‘touching’ up it for past 1year+++, except for those hair styling cream, my hair is indeed long, not as curly anymore (‘lost the magic curl/touch liao), dry and lots of split ends.. haha It still looks ok if I wet my hair in morning, apply some cream and do the actions like ’twisting’ of the hair.. If not, some other days, it will look as if i have a very BAD Hair day! haha =p

Been pondering whether I should just cut short, or trim the bad ends a bit, or/and rebond hair, or/and curl my hair again… Confused … big decision leh… =p Anyway most frens (surprisingly) said that I look better with my curl/perm hair (instead of my re-bonding hair then..) and so adviced me to trim my hair shorter and then curl it.

deep-sixed send something like a Yr 2008 Most “IN” Hairstyles… very interesting.. and I somehow picked up Mush, Neo-Wave and Fuzzer-Bob. Alicia and deep-sixed mentioned Neo-Wave should be suitable for me =) Jo likes the Fuzzer-Bob, she said she will try that hairstyle when her hair is longer (which is quite long now… *Gosh* her hair grows extremely fast leh!!!)

Yr 2008 Most “IN” Hairstyles

yr-2008-most-in-hairstyles

So yesterday finally went for my hair cut appt. Was sharing with the hairstylist that I have not really decided on what hairstyle to cut… but added on saying if my hair cut this way this way it is ok?? Suitable for me?? Will it make me look ’slimmer’??? etc He was quite confident and said something like it should look good and it will be refreshing change, since u have ur current hairstyle for almost 1year plus…  Feeling confident in him, I have decided to place my ‘fate and life’ on him!!! haha I gave the green light..

I think I was mentioning the design on ‘Milky Bob’ or ‘Straight Bob’ to him…

Jo came in late.. so by the time she reached the saloon, I am in the midst of my haircut…. She looked at it and in her usual high pitch…. she is like… “KK, are you sure you are cutting your hair short?!?!” And she gave me that kind of ‘horrified’ look… But well… the damage was done and it was irreversible. So I just prayed for the best….

It turned out that I really regret cutting my hair short!! *GOSH* I forgot how wavy and ugly my short hair can be… I really wanna kill myself for making that stupid decision of cutting my hair short!!!!! -__-”"

Jo also said it is ‘ME’ who decided to have such hairstyle… She said I could just let the hair stylist to help me design a hair style that will suit my face instead of ‘forcing’/fixing a hair style to the hair stylist … Oh… whatever…

And I thought that is it…. I shall always wear a cap/hat for the rest of my life… (to hide my hair) haha.. I forgot my hair structure is quite rough, a bit fizzy (a bit wavy here and there..)… and then when the weight of the hair is no longer there (by cutting it short).. my hair is like 大解放 … all like gone crazy!!! -____-”"

As what Jo have said….. “Thanx to Technology, luckily there is ‘REBONDING‘…” And yes… I was then RE-BORN!!! haha you can see the difference between my normal ‘ugly’ hair and the beautiful rebonded hair!! haha

Normal fizzy short hair

fizzy short hair

Magic of rebonding technology

rebonded hair

So I was given the 2nd chance.. and it didn’t look that bad…’The short rebonded hair’… At least, it was much better compared to ‘the short hair’ only!! Initially wanna to cut short hair and then highlight the hair (coz my hair is really black!!) with maybe… blue, red, reddish brown, bronze… etc Then $$ on rebonding/perming can be saved..

But it turns out that a rebonding is a MUST!! So I forgo the highlighting this time round… coz not good to do rebonding and colour/highlighting at the same time, the hairstylist said. Perhaps will consider going it next time.. Check out the price liao for my hair – colouring is $98? Highlight is $150/- Hmm… shall consider consider…

Presenting my new hairstyle – Do you like it?? =)

Final product

I am quite happy with overall result … (with the rebonding, of course), though I am still not used to it… Took photos.. but cannot recognize myself!! just scared that I will have pimples on my forehead… (for covering it) *choy choy* hopefully not!!  haha Well it gotta be good considering the amt of $$ and time I spent in this saloon… $275 & 4hrs +++

And hopefully with this short hair, my hair loss will also reduced… my hair is getting thinner!! And also with new hairstyle.. hope it will be also a new great beginning for me!! =D

My hairstylist for the day – Ritz from Estique (He is quite cool, friendly… and we both look like bro & sis here!!) hahaa v(^_^)v Oh welll… I need to lose some weights/fats.. not some.. but MORE though… =p Ritz is the art director of Estique, his cut price is one of the cheapest for an Art director – $75

Ritz and me

After that, we went to ISETAN supermarket (Lido basement) to buy some vege needed for Jo’s home (Yu Sheng).. they are having Kyushu Harvest Fair.. many japanese food…  we are atonished of the high price of their bai cai 白菜.. $7++ for a half piece!! o__O

Kyushu Harvest Fair

Kyushu Harvest Fair

Those fish eggs look yummy!!!

Kyushu Harvest Fair

Finally, we headed back to Jo’s house to fix Jo’s wireless router issue (but was not able to resolve, we decided to not to install the protection (then it will work well)), have steamboat dinner with Jo’s family, then followed by mahjong game!!

Jo’s first time ‘ga tio(‘ 咬到’) 4 animals at one game! And I was the one who gave her the winning tiles.. 5 ‘fan’ lehh!! She said she must took photo of the moment then..

mahjong’s titles

juskawaime is the biggest loser this time!! HooHooo… nevermind I WILL BE BACK…. to win everyone’s money again!!! hahaa *cheers*

me playing mahjong

Flowers taken at Jo’s house

flowers flower1 flowers2





陈冠希郑重道歉 宣布会退出演艺圈

24 02 2008

Not sure if you know Edison’s issue of the scandalous photos which affects lots of actresses like Gillian Chung, BoBo Chan, Cecilia Cheung … etc I got to know it at first from Xiaxue’s blog

Anyway this issue is getting bigger and bigger … till we have this….

以下是陈冠希发布会上声明全文(中文译文):  我回到香港,独自面对这一起,我从来没有想过逃避,我的家人始终和我在一起,他们支持和帮助我。  我承认这次事件中的大多数照片都是我拍的,但是它们都是在很隐私的情况下拍摄的,有人非法从我这里窃取了这些照片,没有经过我的同意,并在互联网上恶意传播,造成恶劣的影响,我非常遗憾。

  我诚挚地表达我的歉意,向所有人,向相关的女士和她们的家人,在这件事中受到的伤害。我向我的家人道歉,我向父母道歉,最重要的是,我要向全香港的人民道歉,我衷心地表达我的歉意。

  我知道这个时代的年轻人崇拜偶像,但我不是一个应该被崇拜的人,我不是正面的榜样,我希望这次的事件可以教育大家。

  在完成现在的工作之后,我将退出香港娱乐圈,我将会在最近几个月的时间里做一系列的慈善的工作,医治自己的伤口和灵魂,然后我将永远的离开。

  我希望这一切可以能尽快的结束,谢谢警方这段时间所做的一切,我相信当务之急是尽快停止现在的一切,和它造成的一切伤害。不要进一步失控,不要让更多的年轻人受到伤害。

  我要求我的律师在法律允许的情况下可以帮助年轻人,我会发放今天的新闻稿。我要谢谢你们可以到这里听我的解释。

  最后我要再次向被牵扯到这次事件中的女士道歉,向她们的亲属道歉,向我的家人道歉,向全香港的人民道歉,希望将来可以得到你们的宽恕。

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World’s first global Monopoly

24 02 2008

Vote for Singapore to be enter to world’s first global Monopoly!!! You can vote up to 10 of your favourite countries/cities! =)

Global Monopoly

Have your say in the world’s first global Monopoly!

I’m creating the world’s first global Monopoly so I want to know what your favourite cities are!

I’ve pre-selected 68 great cities for you to choose from but you can nominate any other city you want – these are known as Wildcard cities. Vote for your top 10 cities… and keep voting every day!

The 20 pre-selected cities with the highest worldwide votes on February 29 2008 will make it onto the board. Plus, you will have from February 29 to March 9 2008 to vote on the most nominated Wildcard cities. Only the top two will make it on the board!

Successful cities will be represented only by their common city name and selected imagery.