Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Points Of Interest

Zhi Mei: You and I are inseperable!
Sha: But what about Marcus?
Zhi Mei: Marcus is inside me.

Chemistry tomorrow, but this won't be long, and besides, it looks like you don't need an education to do well in this country.

Just get into politics.

I'm not sure how accurate this is. I have enough to do without tracking the state of our ruling cabinet's tertiary education. But my dad says it most likely is. I trust my dad.

Sort of.

And I don't normally read mail, but this one caught my eye. I thought it was a chain letter from the education minister.

Here it is, reproduced in full except for the colors of the national flags (dutifully added by me).

It is not to say Singapore is really good, (it says) but looks like our cabinet ministers are really teruk!

Singapore Cabinet

Malaysia Cabinet

PM Lee Hsien Loong
Cambridge University –
First Class Honours (1974)
Harvard University –
Masters (1980)

PM Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi
University
of Malaya –
Bachelor of Arts Honours (1964)

MM Lee Kuan Yew
Cambridge University
–
First Class Honours (1949)

Deputy PM Dato' Sri Najib Razak
University
of Nottingham –
Bachelor of Arts Honours (1974)

SM Goh Chok Tong
University
of Singapore –
First Class Honours (1964)
Williams College, USA –
Masters (1967)

Minister of Foregn Affairs Syed Hamid Albar
(can someone tell me his univeristy?) –
Bachelor of Arts

[UITM]

Minister for Law Prof. S Jayakumar
University of Singapore –
Bachelor of Law Honours (1963)
Yale Univerity –
Masters (1966)

Ministry of Works Dato' Seri Samy Vellu
(Education Unknown)

[Form 6, Anderson School]

Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng
University
of Singapore –
Bachelor of Arts & Business Admin (1977)
London Business School –
Masters (1979)

Ministry of International Trade & Industry Rafidah binti Aziz
University of
Malaya –
Bachelor of Arts Honours

Minister for Foreign Affairs BG George Yeo
Cambridge University
–
Double First Class Honours (1976)
Harvard Business School –
MBA w/ Distinction (1985)

Minister of Agriculture Muhyiddin Yassin
(Education Unknown)

[Polytechnic Ungku Omar]

Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang
Cambridge University
–
First Class Honours w/ Distinction (1976)
Harvard University –
Masters (1986)

Ministry of Domestic Trade Shafie Apdal
(Education Unknown)

[Form 5, Failed English]

Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean
University
of Manchester –
First Class Honours (1976)
Imperial College, London –
Masters w/ Distinction (1977)

Minister of Education Hishammuddin Hussein
(Education Unknown)

[Bachelor of Arts, Social Science]

Minister for Education Tharman Shanmugaratnam
London School
of Economics –
Bachelor of
Arts
Cambridge University
–
Masters
Harvard University
–
Masters

Minister of Home Affairs Radzi bin Sheikh Ahmad
(Education Unknown)

[Kolej Islam Malaysia, Diploma]

Then it says,

**That is why they are so desperate to get Khairy Jamaluddin up so fast, because he is from Cambridge. God knows how he got in!

Okay, maybe you don't need a whole bunch of fancy degrees to head a nation. But this guy here... it says he failed english? In form five?

How do you fail english?

Maybe we should send all these guys back to school or something. Just to get a better looking testimonial.

No one's perfect though. If you read the thingy closely, you'll notice the guy who wrote it mispelled univeristy and foregn.

Though I would like to, I'm not going to show you a photoshopped picture of Samy Vellu sitting in Chemistry, getting chewed out by Haslina. I've got exams.
During English, I fell asleep. I had this weird dream where I think I was planning a party. I remember calling up this malay guy and asking, "Encik, siew pao ada?"
I was thinking about it so much I wrote the words siew pao into my essay.
That was fun. On to my second topic of interest...

I have to tell you about Spiderman 3 again. Some of you didn't like it. That's fine.

Myself, I really enjoyed it. But check out all the scenes they deleted from the movie!

- Following up on his firing, Eddie goes to see Gwen to ask her out. Gwen wants nothing to do with him and explains that they’ve only gone on one date, not counting the time they bumped into each other at a coffee place. Gwen admits that they did kiss, but is confused when Eddie insists she told him that she loves him.

- At the Spider-Man appreciation ceremony, Peter runs into a little boy with toy web-shooters. After getting sprayed on, Peter shoots a little webbing on the kid’s shoe as the boy’s walking away. The kid sees the webbing, turns around and points to his mother that he just met Spider-Man. The mother sees some guy in a ****py suit nearby and figures that’s what he was talking about.


- Some of the Eddie/Jameson dialogue got cut, including a great exchange.
“What’s that smell?”
“Brock, sir.”
“What kind of cologne is ‘Brock’?”
“No, sir. My name is Brock.”
“Why are you named after a cologne?”

- Harry goes up against Venom one-on-one for a round, not counting the impaling scene.

That's just a sample. There's lots more if you clicky clicky.

There's also a petition for the release of the director's cut DVD, which would be pretty interesting if it did include all those scenes.

I really wanna see the last one (Harry and Venom).

Yeah, that's it for now. Just thought you should know.

junian: i just had an idea

oh! ky: what?

junian: one day i will get you and esther ho to stand together

junian:
and i will say
junian:
look! its OH AND HO!
oh! ky:
uh yeah, we wanted to put that on our jerseys
oh! ky:
xP
junian:
gosh
junian:
you beat me to the lameness

Friday, February 02, 2007

In Which My Blog Receives An Accolade

accolade (noun)
1. a. An expression of approval; praise.

b. A special acknowledgment; an award.

Pandamomium just won the Blog of the Month award for February over at Rantings.
My award.

It feels a bit undeserving to win since my blog's only been active for like... nine days.

I guess all that stuff I did last year counts for something.

Eh, I just won a blog award and I have nothing to blog about.

I guess I could blog about how I have nothing to blog about.

But that's not really my... thing.

If you're reading this Joey, get a cbox. The same goes for all you xanga punks.

Lesson #1: Politics suck.

There were a couple of problems between the prefects and the club this week.

Major problems. Really bad things. Some of you noticed, but I don't think I should be telling you any more than that.

Just know that there were politics involved, and it was very sucky.

But it's all better now. I guess.

Wesley Methodist s05.e02 - The Jogathon

I'm just gonna say this once... response has been pretty good so far, especially from the form threes but we need more people from all forms.

Except form ones and twos. Cause you guys are, yknow, underage.

I did not make that decision. The school says you're too young to run!

Click to enlarge.
See? It's a good deal.

By the way, I brought four of those posters to school. During the lower sec lunch, two went missing.

Does anyone know who has them? I don't really need them but I would like to know what happened to them.


If you haven't already signed up, it would be a really good thing to go to school on monday and do so. There are like 3 prizes each for forms three, four and five, guys and girls in seperate categories so that's like... 18 prizes plus treasure hunt prizes plus lucky draw prizes...

Basically we have a lot of stuff to give away.

The iPod shuffle is... undeniably sexy.

Larger than actual size.
Just try and deny how sexy it is. You can't do it.
You get this shirt when you sign up. I think it turned out pretty well.

...

Alright, I don't actually have anything to blog about.