Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Thursday, July 19, 2007
The Kate Moss Talk: Reasons why you can't buy Topshop's Kate Moss collection clothes
Friend: Why do you think people all rush out to buy the Kate Moss collection clothes when they don't exactly suit everyone and some of them are just hideous!
Me: Because everyone's trying to be Kate Moss.
Friend: But they are not Kate Moss and somehow some of the stuff look hideous on a normal person, worst on Asians but lovely on Kate Moss.
Me: Yes that's why it's called the Kate Moss collection?
Friend: ......She's a narcissicist!
Me: I'm sure she knows that already.
Friend: ... ... I'm never gonna get kate moss-ed.
Friend: Why do you think people all rush out to buy the Kate Moss collection clothes when they don't exactly suit everyone and some of them are just hideous!
Me: Because everyone's trying to be Kate Moss.
Friend: But they are not Kate Moss and somehow some of the stuff look hideous on a normal person, worst on Asians but lovely on Kate Moss.
Me: Yes that's why it's called the Kate Moss collection?
Friend: ......She's a narcissicist!
Me: I'm sure she knows that already.
Friend: ... ... I'm never gonna get kate moss-ed.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
It's better to be talked about than not talked about
In the real world, everyone gets bitched about every now and then, and the sad truth may be that you don't even know the other person very well or that you've never done anything bad to the other person, that's just life.
One quirky Russian girl, Natasha from ANTM's cycle 8 taught me at least something positive about being bitched about, that is, it is better to be talked about than to not be talked about because this means that you're noticed (and illustrates also that people are clearly jealous of you).
Another thing life has shown me thus far is, karma, we all reap what we sow and for every seed of doubt you plant, there are consequences.
Rumours, gossips are scary and to put them in legal term, they are but hearsay. The one thing I've learnt about hearsay is they are unreliable evidences that cannot be presented to court because the maker of the statement cannot be cross-examined to verify whatever he/she has said in court and as such they are not admissible evidence.
Fairness and justice requires for the person to stand before the court, to be challenged for his/her statement that concerns the accused (otherwise it won't be relevant evidence) and in a way it gives the accused a chance to hear what has exactly been said in court, in his presence and in a way it gives him (his defence counsel) the opportunity to cast doubt on the witness's statements.
But that's not the case in life, is it? People bitch about you for whatever reason (and yes it's so sad that they've only have the guts to do so behind your back) and you don't get your shot at refuting them.
The only consolation is, with time people will see you for who you are and also that people who know you for who you are will not buy these juicy gossips / rumours.
Character assasination is old and sometimes I wish people will just concentrate on their lives and not live and thrive on gossips / rumours. That's just so high school and we all need to grow up.
I mean if you don't have anything nice to say about somebody, don't say it. Adhere to Grice's maxims and you'll become a better person that way. And this is no uphill fight, why should it be? Gossips does not (contrary to popular beliefs) make us look better or make us much more superior than others.
But all that being said, I do acknowledge that we can never stop anyone from shooting their mouths off, all that we can do is to love thy enemy and to forgive thy enemy and just hope that one day these people will see the light and just stop planting seeds of doubt in others and causing unnecessary tension and realise that with time, people will surely be able to see through them and know what kind of person they really are. And believe it or not, individuals practising such abusive acts suffer mightily because they can't focus on their own personal lives, their work suffers and they may suffer from stiff necks from watching their backs when their victims strike back. Hence if there's anything that's worth practising it's self-censorship, watch what you say, keep your mouth closed, do not make a bad situation worse, that way you'll be more likeable and other aspects of your life will gradually become better for all these good karma you've accummulated. It's just so not worth it when you get karmatized (I know there's no such word) just to make things bad for others because when karma bites, being sorry's not good enough.
In the real world, everyone gets bitched about every now and then, and the sad truth may be that you don't even know the other person very well or that you've never done anything bad to the other person, that's just life.
One quirky Russian girl, Natasha from ANTM's cycle 8 taught me at least something positive about being bitched about, that is, it is better to be talked about than to not be talked about because this means that you're noticed (and illustrates also that people are clearly jealous of you).
Another thing life has shown me thus far is, karma, we all reap what we sow and for every seed of doubt you plant, there are consequences.
Rumours, gossips are scary and to put them in legal term, they are but hearsay. The one thing I've learnt about hearsay is they are unreliable evidences that cannot be presented to court because the maker of the statement cannot be cross-examined to verify whatever he/she has said in court and as such they are not admissible evidence.
Fairness and justice requires for the person to stand before the court, to be challenged for his/her statement that concerns the accused (otherwise it won't be relevant evidence) and in a way it gives the accused a chance to hear what has exactly been said in court, in his presence and in a way it gives him (his defence counsel) the opportunity to cast doubt on the witness's statements.
But that's not the case in life, is it? People bitch about you for whatever reason (and yes it's so sad that they've only have the guts to do so behind your back) and you don't get your shot at refuting them.
The only consolation is, with time people will see you for who you are and also that people who know you for who you are will not buy these juicy gossips / rumours.
Character assasination is old and sometimes I wish people will just concentrate on their lives and not live and thrive on gossips / rumours. That's just so high school and we all need to grow up.
I mean if you don't have anything nice to say about somebody, don't say it. Adhere to Grice's maxims and you'll become a better person that way. And this is no uphill fight, why should it be? Gossips does not (contrary to popular beliefs) make us look better or make us much more superior than others.
But all that being said, I do acknowledge that we can never stop anyone from shooting their mouths off, all that we can do is to love thy enemy and to forgive thy enemy and just hope that one day these people will see the light and just stop planting seeds of doubt in others and causing unnecessary tension and realise that with time, people will surely be able to see through them and know what kind of person they really are. And believe it or not, individuals practising such abusive acts suffer mightily because they can't focus on their own personal lives, their work suffers and they may suffer from stiff necks from watching their backs when their victims strike back. Hence if there's anything that's worth practising it's self-censorship, watch what you say, keep your mouth closed, do not make a bad situation worse, that way you'll be more likeable and other aspects of your life will gradually become better for all these good karma you've accummulated. It's just so not worth it when you get karmatized (I know there's no such word) just to make things bad for others because when karma bites, being sorry's not good enough.
Monday, May 21, 2007
I've been tagged by Dom, here are the 6 weird things about myself which perhaps no one knows?
1. I am a rebel at heart
2. I am a selective risk taker though I seem risk adverse to most, but I'm just waiting for the right opportunity and the appropriate risk to come along before I leap on it!
3. Though a Christian by faith, I don't always trust the people working for the church because some part of me sometimes feel some people are there for their personal interests and this has led to me developing my own set of logical (or so I think) beliefs on Christian faith.
4. I'm "married" to Orlando Bloom *HAHAHA*
5. The longest I've slept was 2 days in a row and mind you, I did not even get up to visit the toilet.
6. I want to dress up as Gundam Seed's Cagali!
Now I wanna tag Kelvin Goh and Shangli!!! Hee~!~
1. I am a rebel at heart
2. I am a selective risk taker though I seem risk adverse to most, but I'm just waiting for the right opportunity and the appropriate risk to come along before I leap on it!
3. Though a Christian by faith, I don't always trust the people working for the church because some part of me sometimes feel some people are there for their personal interests and this has led to me developing my own set of logical (or so I think) beliefs on Christian faith.
4. I'm "married" to Orlando Bloom *HAHAHA*
5. The longest I've slept was 2 days in a row and mind you, I did not even get up to visit the toilet.
6. I want to dress up as Gundam Seed's Cagali!
Now I wanna tag Kelvin Goh and Shangli!!! Hee~!~
Monday, April 30, 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Chances Are
Friend: Chances of a regular bloke like me dating a lawyer girlfriend (Proper: Girlfriend who's a lawyer) in Singapore are like what? 5%?
Me: And why so?
Friend: Well look at the number of lawyers we have in Singapore forget about those who's already in the industry, they are too old for me, so since the number of lawyers called every year are well below the magic number 300 including all you overseas peeps and contrast that with all the NUS, SMU, NTU, SIM graduates in all other disciplines, the chances are just, you know 5%, hm..then again on second thoughts, it may just be 1%! ok maybe 0% since I've only got like 2 lawyer friends and unless I turn gay for the other one and unless you break up with your boyfriend soon, my chances are 0%. OMG if I were your boyfriend I will so treasure you!! He's like so privileged, like one of the few selected ones....
Me: ...........
Friend: Hm..then maybe you can up my chances by introducing your lawyer girlfriends to me! I mean lawyers are not very good with maths and economics right? I am! etc etc etc
Me: .......................................................................
Sometimes I think I have a rather strange set of friends and what say you?
Friend: Chances of a regular bloke like me dating a lawyer girlfriend (Proper: Girlfriend who's a lawyer) in Singapore are like what? 5%?
Me: And why so?
Friend: Well look at the number of lawyers we have in Singapore forget about those who's already in the industry, they are too old for me, so since the number of lawyers called every year are well below the magic number 300 including all you overseas peeps and contrast that with all the NUS, SMU, NTU, SIM graduates in all other disciplines, the chances are just, you know 5%, hm..then again on second thoughts, it may just be 1%! ok maybe 0% since I've only got like 2 lawyer friends and unless I turn gay for the other one and unless you break up with your boyfriend soon, my chances are 0%. OMG if I were your boyfriend I will so treasure you!! He's like so privileged, like one of the few selected ones....
Me: ...........
Friend: Hm..then maybe you can up my chances by introducing your lawyer girlfriends to me! I mean lawyers are not very good with maths and economics right? I am! etc etc etc
Me: .......................................................................
Sometimes I think I have a rather strange set of friends and what say you?
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Today's Ben & Jerry's day, where everyone gets a free scoop of Ben & Jerry's! Ultimate indulgence! Went to Cathay's Ben & Jerry's with da mee and did the typically Singaporean thing, to queue for a free scoop of ultimate indulgence!
The queue was crazy, it went all the way up to the 3rd floor of Cathay when B&J's located on the 2nd floor! See how much Singaporeans love ice cream? Hehe ah well, the only good thing is we waited only about 15 minutes for our scoop of heaven!
And oh, while waiting, we made donation to this charity organisation, which B&J supports and am raising funds for, I can't remember the name of the organisation but all I remember is they raise funds for kids whose brains are damaged or severely injured.
Hur hur hur! And obviously at the end of it we were very satisfied and not to mention happy :) Cheap thrill! Well gets me all the time!

Your very happy typical Singaporeans!
Thank you Ben & Jerry's For Making Our Day!
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Maybe it is just in me
I think the ability to be content is the best gift God has ever given to me. It prevents me from reaching for more than what I can take and it keeps me happy all the time because I am satisfied with most of my life save for the troubles and worries but well they come and go so no biggie, not like they are permanently draining me off my energy.
I think a lot of people destroy themselves by being greedy, sometimes overly greedy and the problem with being greedy is you don't and won't know when to stop. More often than not, people lose a lot of great things along the way of their route of desires.
Sometimes everything is nothing and nothing is everything. Sometimes being easily content is everything. Maybe I just want a simple life, a life where I am happy all the time and not a life where I have to stress over how to get x amount of things by when and waste my energy away thinking of all the good things I'll be getting if I have x amount of stuff. Maybe I just prefer cherishing what I have and leaving my fate in the hands of God, maybe I just believe that how much a person gets to earn / keep in his/her lifetime is totally up to God.
Maybe, I just am not interested in the blings blings and all the vain pleasures of the world, maybe I just want to keep those materialistic people away from me that way I'll always have genuine company. So long as I'm well fed, well looked after, have a good relationship with people I care about, have a healthy and happy life, having a decent job earning an okay salary, what more can I ask for?
Sometimes the vain pleasures of the world are not what we should seek to be hungry for, for sometimes all they ever bring are misfortunes, many years down the road, you might have attained most of these vain pleasures of the world, you might have already been someone significant, you might think you would then be the happiest person on earth, but is that true? Will you truly still be happy? What if you lose all that matters to you and gained nothing but vain pleasures of the world. Strip yourself of these worldly pleasures what are you left with?
I say no thank you to all these corruptive worldy possessions and I say welcome all the happy mushy warm feelings of happiness deep within that shines through me so ever brightly that they themselves are the biggest blingblings you've ever seen in your life!
I think the ability to be content is the best gift God has ever given to me. It prevents me from reaching for more than what I can take and it keeps me happy all the time because I am satisfied with most of my life save for the troubles and worries but well they come and go so no biggie, not like they are permanently draining me off my energy.
I think a lot of people destroy themselves by being greedy, sometimes overly greedy and the problem with being greedy is you don't and won't know when to stop. More often than not, people lose a lot of great things along the way of their route of desires.
Sometimes everything is nothing and nothing is everything. Sometimes being easily content is everything. Maybe I just want a simple life, a life where I am happy all the time and not a life where I have to stress over how to get x amount of things by when and waste my energy away thinking of all the good things I'll be getting if I have x amount of stuff. Maybe I just prefer cherishing what I have and leaving my fate in the hands of God, maybe I just believe that how much a person gets to earn / keep in his/her lifetime is totally up to God.
Maybe, I just am not interested in the blings blings and all the vain pleasures of the world, maybe I just want to keep those materialistic people away from me that way I'll always have genuine company. So long as I'm well fed, well looked after, have a good relationship with people I care about, have a healthy and happy life, having a decent job earning an okay salary, what more can I ask for?
Sometimes the vain pleasures of the world are not what we should seek to be hungry for, for sometimes all they ever bring are misfortunes, many years down the road, you might have attained most of these vain pleasures of the world, you might have already been someone significant, you might think you would then be the happiest person on earth, but is that true? Will you truly still be happy? What if you lose all that matters to you and gained nothing but vain pleasures of the world. Strip yourself of these worldly pleasures what are you left with?
I say no thank you to all these corruptive worldy possessions and I say welcome all the happy mushy warm feelings of happiness deep within that shines through me so ever brightly that they themselves are the biggest blingblings you've ever seen in your life!
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Always remember you are special, just like everyone else. And then you wonder how are you special / unique when you are just like everyone else.
Well intrinsically, we are all different individuals, no two beings can be said to be perfectly homogenous not even twins but then extrinsically, we share the common factor of each and every of us being different from one another, with everyone else.
It's not complicated really, the notion is simply, while on the one hand each and every one of us shares nothing in common based on our individuality, on the other hand, we do share something in common in that we share nothing in common!
Inference from the above passage: Libby's bored and thus the reason for her rambling repetitiveness.
Quote of the day: With half the race gone, there is still half the race to go!! (whee!!)
Well intrinsically, we are all different individuals, no two beings can be said to be perfectly homogenous not even twins but then extrinsically, we share the common factor of each and every of us being different from one another, with everyone else.
It's not complicated really, the notion is simply, while on the one hand each and every one of us shares nothing in common based on our individuality, on the other hand, we do share something in common in that we share nothing in common!
Inference from the above passage: Libby's bored and thus the reason for her rambling repetitiveness.
Quote of the day: With half the race gone, there is still half the race to go!! (whee!!)
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Monday, February 12, 2007
Thursday, February 08, 2007
1. You know school is crap when you raise a question in the aim of being enlightened by your learned professor at law school and to which the response is:-
Professor: Enlighten you? Hahaha, if I am enlightened myself first...(those are not the exact words but somewhat close to whatever he said, can't really remember if he said if I can be enlightened first or if I am even enlightened myself etc etc)
2. You know school is crap when your professor dodge your question a few times (you had to ask the same question a few times, no, not even paraphrasing the questions, just repetition)
3. You know school is a complete waste of time for reasons 1 & 2 and last but not least, you walk away from the seminar not knowing the answer to your question.
Somehow times like these really make me feel a lot better that I was educated at University of Manchester and not locally, at least even though some of the seminar takers at University of Manchester (then when I was around) might not always be right or have all the answers at their finger tips, they make a point to go find the legal position on your question, discuss with the course directors and get back to you with what they've found and most of the time, they add on their two cents on the correct legal position, sometimes arguing against the legal position sometimes further justifying the legal position when in favour of it.
And at the very least, professors in Manchester law school never dodged issues that are uncertain or issues to which they have no answers to, at the very least, they give their point of views or what they think the direction of the law would be after evaluating all the possible options and burying their heads into piles and piles of journals/caselaw etc. I mean that's why you go to school for, yes no?
Just when you think lawyers are trained to think on their feet, professors as such proves you otherwise. Just when you think whatever that sets professors apart from those they teach is that they are a little more intelligent than the mean average of those they teach, times like these, you really wonder if professors are indeed wiser than the mean average of those they teach, I mean isn't he as clueless as I am? Making me teach my peers without first addressing my concerns on points that I myself am not clear of simply makes me wonder why am I paying him to make me teach, why not he pay me and my other peers since he's making us teach everyone (and that includes him too).
Professor: Enlighten you? Hahaha, if I am enlightened myself first...(those are not the exact words but somewhat close to whatever he said, can't really remember if he said if I can be enlightened first or if I am even enlightened myself etc etc)
2. You know school is crap when your professor dodge your question a few times (you had to ask the same question a few times, no, not even paraphrasing the questions, just repetition)
3. You know school is a complete waste of time for reasons 1 & 2 and last but not least, you walk away from the seminar not knowing the answer to your question.
Somehow times like these really make me feel a lot better that I was educated at University of Manchester and not locally, at least even though some of the seminar takers at University of Manchester (then when I was around) might not always be right or have all the answers at their finger tips, they make a point to go find the legal position on your question, discuss with the course directors and get back to you with what they've found and most of the time, they add on their two cents on the correct legal position, sometimes arguing against the legal position sometimes further justifying the legal position when in favour of it.
And at the very least, professors in Manchester law school never dodged issues that are uncertain or issues to which they have no answers to, at the very least, they give their point of views or what they think the direction of the law would be after evaluating all the possible options and burying their heads into piles and piles of journals/caselaw etc. I mean that's why you go to school for, yes no?
Just when you think lawyers are trained to think on their feet, professors as such proves you otherwise. Just when you think whatever that sets professors apart from those they teach is that they are a little more intelligent than the mean average of those they teach, times like these, you really wonder if professors are indeed wiser than the mean average of those they teach, I mean isn't he as clueless as I am? Making me teach my peers without first addressing my concerns on points that I myself am not clear of simply makes me wonder why am I paying him to make me teach, why not he pay me and my other peers since he's making us teach everyone (and that includes him too).
Friday, January 19, 2007
After so many years, who would have thought that I would still be missing him since the day Dad gave him away. Charlie's an absolute sweetheart apart from being my puppy and I watched him grew then, he was smart, accommodating, forgiving, he was my great playmate and he was the one and only pup I looked forward running home to every single day after school. I love him so very much. The good thing about reminiscing times spent with him is I get to relive those happy moments but the downside is I miss him terribly to the extent I feel my heart ache a little every single time I think of him. I miss him. I really do.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
"I never realised I was so close to losing you until it happened. And then without a sign, everything that made me happy was gone. Reflecting, I often wonder what is it exactly that I've done wrong to make things between us go bad. Then I realised it's not about what I've done but rather what I've not been doing, keeping you close to my heart by cherishing you. Never thought you would actually leave me but when you did, I realised no one else in this lifetime can make me any more happier than you did and now that you're gone, all I feel is a void because you've filled up every inch of my heart since a long time ago."
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