Music

If you have noticed, the music to my blog is gone. And I will not be putting up a new one soon. If you have been following the news recently, I think it was last week, you would probably know the reason.

There has been is fiasco lately about the music industry saying that now embedding music in a blog or web site has always needed a license. They even said, the licenses were cheap, only about $5000 a month! That is only if you do not allow other people to download the song being played. WTF! People are giving your music free publicity, and you want to charge them! What is this world coming to?

Next thing you know, if you play a song at an event like a fun fair, or some party, they would be asking you to pay to do so. Everyone who buys a CD would have to lock themselves in a soundproof room so that only they can hear the music and no one else, or face being forced to pay for a license. CDs would come with the warning label: For buyers ears only. You never know.

On another note, didn’t blog over the weekend because I was busy helping my mom shop for New Year things, and cooking the pineapple for tarts. Cooking the pineapple involved grating the pineapple, before cooking it in a pot for 6 hrs, stirring constantly so it doesn’t stick. My hands were totally wasted after all the stirring, but I got the reward of freshly squeezed pineapple juice. Which incidentally drank a little too much, and it dried up my lips. Haiz… I’m still feeling the effects, 4 days on.

Got to go to camp, I will continue blogging another time. Ciao.

Tagged

I got tagged recently by Nili. Not a great fan of surveys, but here goes!

The RULES:

Remove the Blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone else up a notch. Then add your Blog to the bottom spot.

1.abbie
2.Furkids in Hong Kong
3. Missyong
4. juz_A_gal
5. Smallsliceoflife

You then victimize 5 people to pass the LOVE on to. Yes, only 5, not 15.

And the lucky few are:
1. Chiang Wei
2. Desiree
3. Jeannie
4. Pei Hui
5. Siewmay

1.What were you doing 10 years ago?

Studying for PSLE. Has it really been that long?? Old liao.

2.What were you doing 1 year ago?

Same thing I’m doing now. Rotting away in NS.

3. Five snacks you enjoy.

In no particular order:
1. Harvest Tree Wasabi Peas
2. Ruffles
3. Prawn Crackers
4. Chocolates
5. Beef Jerky

4.Five songs to which you know all the lyrics off your head right now.

Don’t test my memory, its been fickle.
1. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
2. 25 Minutes
3. All for one, One for Love
4. Love Me
5. Seasons in the Sun

5. Five things you would do if you were a millionaire.

1. Make myself a billionaire
2. Buy a house
3. Buy a Lambrogini
4. Invest enough so I will never have to work. Ever.
5. Donate to a worthy cause

6. Five bad habits.

1. Procrastinating
2. Being late
3. Being stuck to my bed
4. Being Fickle minded at times
5. Spending too much time SMSing ppl and not calling enough

7. Five things you like doing.

1. Sleeping
2. Reading
3. Playing Computer Games
4. Watching TV
5. Watching Movies

8. Five things you would never wear, buy, or get new again.

1. Anything bright pink for myself
2. Siemens Hp
3. A branded PC. I assemble my own frm now on.

Bright Pink covers pretty much the rest…

9. Five favorite toys.

1. My Computer
2. Basketball
3. Star Cushion

I think that the computer makes 3 items lar…

Sun! On Friday the 13th

I finally got a glimpse of the sun today! Although it was amidst a slight drizzle, it was a welcome sight. The drizzle also stopped soon after anyway. After all that rain, everything was getting kind of damp, so it is nice to have a bit of sun today. I know that there are people breathing a sign of relief that the sun has finally decided to come out of its long holiday. I know I have a MSG who has been at home ironing all his clothes dry for the past few days. He was starting to consider buying a dryer… Hahaha…

It still drizzled every few hours, but they lasted no more than ½ an hr. I got stuck doing the servicing for 2 post repair aircraft. Problematic job… One of the aircraft was actually still in a few pieces, and had not been completely assembled yet. Still had to make do and complete the task. Good thing that they are not actually flying that aircraft yet. It still needs some test first.

Anyway, as predicted, the squadron is flying tomorrow due to the rain this past week. Lucky thing is that I have been allowed to go for an off day, one reason is that I have a driving lesson, and another is that next week I got to go back for guard duty on Sat anyway. Whew~ waking up early to go to camp on a Sat is simply not a good thing. Guess that Friday the 13th is not that unlucky after all. It has been my lucky day for some years now. Heehee.

On another note, this morning when I was preparing to go to camp, I switched on my monitor to shut down my computer which was running the night downloading stuff, and an amazing thing happened. The monitor lit up, before fading to black right in front of my very eyes! Then a few seconds later, jumped back to life, as if nothing had happened. Maybe this is a sign for me to start monitor hunting. If I have to change my monitor, perhaps I might take the opportunity to upgrade to a LCD. Only problem is, I got a budget for a digital camera that I’m looking to buy, but not one for a monitor. Haiz. Hope it doesn’t die too fast. Time to rob the bank again I guess…

Think I better stop here and continue tml. Got an early driving lesson tml. Crazy me took a 7 am slot. Ciao.

Nice Weather

The weather has been pretty good this week, though I know there will be a number of people who beg to differ. Starting from last Sat, it has been raining almost constantly. This has kept the whole of sg pretty cool, too cold for some in fact. Except that water is constantly falling from the sky, which seems to come in an endless supply, it’s nice to go around with the whole island feeling slightly air-conditioned. On the down side, my house is slowly filling up with wet laundry, with the fan running constantly to dry the clothes. And if it keeps raining, I will have to go back to camp this Sat and the one after that in order for them to fulfil the amount of flying hours per pilot. Mind you, in this case it will be considered a working day and no day-off will be awarded. Haiz. Also, I think I haven’t seen the sun in over a week, and I’m starting to wonder if its still there. Hahaha…

Anyway, I’ve been having this quarrel with this encik in my camp for the past week, practically coinciding with the rain. Hmm… This encik in camp is this old fossil, who always feels that his view of things is always the bigger, clearer, and better picture than the one anyone else sees, his methods are always the better ones, and claims to be a modern warrant officer who actually listens to the suggestions of his men.

I have found this to be very contradicting, because whatever suggestion is given, give him 10 reasons why it is a good suggestion, he will give you 11 why his idea is better. And when he knows he can’t win, he will say that the decision is his and he has decided his idea is better. End of discussion. I even offered him alternatives, which required 3rd parties to agree. Expecting the other party not to agree, he agreed that if I can broker the deal, then it is settled. But once I have completed the deal, he comes back and says that it was subjected to his approval. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother trying to reason with him. It’s a dead end anyway.

On another note, I think I shall try to increase the frequency of my blogging, even though, like this week, the weather is so nice to sleep with that it’s been making me lazy to get off my bed to blog. I'm starting to get complains about it. Des, just for your info, my blog has just been updated. Hahaha… Still thinking whether I should pay 5 bucks to travel all the way to Potong Pasir on Sun, just to listen to Desiree and gang destroy music. I just might be crazy enough to do so. Ciao.

New Year

2005 has been a blast of sorts, and 2006 has finally arrived. How time really flies. It seems just like last month that 2005 was starting, and now it’s 2006. Well, now comes the time for most people to make resolutions, most of which would probably never be fulfilled within this year or the next or the one after for that matter. But one must have a target in life, or life would all be pretty aimless wouldn’t it? So as not to become an aimless soul in this sea of lost souls… Here are my New Year resolutions:

1) Complete the packing of my room & keep it in that pristine condition for a min of 3 weeks. (Very long leh!)
2) Pass Driving!!! No car… but one thing at a time.
3) Start brushing up on my past poly work. Forgot all liao… Chiam.
4) Finish reading the list of books I want to read. (The books & not just the list)
5) Change my blogskin.
6) Find a girl I like & not drive her up a wall or off a cliff going after her. Heehee.

I think this should last me a whole year. Whether or not this list joins the many others not going to be completed will have to be seen. Though I am open to suggestions on how these can be quickly completed.

Anyway, spent my new year watching movies, before switching to the countdown on tv. The countdown looked pretty lack of life from the tv, although the fireworks looked nice. I was pretty lazy or I am sure I could have found friends who want to go nearby there just to see the fireworks. One of them is that walking stick Old Fun. She seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth recently, but I’m sure if you went to mount faber/ harbourfront area, she would be there somewhere. Unless she really walked till she fell off the edge of the earth, which now seems a very likely possibility. Hahaha… Anyway, all the best to all for the New Year! Ciao.

P.S. That anonymous person on e tag, wanna try to say your real name? A new year as an anonymous is not a good thing...