20080825

2300 HRS AUGUST 25TH 2008

This fucking Swingabore government

every fucking year

they raise tobacco taxes

in the name of

"discouraging smoking".

All well and good.

You win,

you're the good guy.

I'm trying to quit smoking.

But,

one question Sir,

if the government is trying

to discourage smoking

by imposing high tobacco taxes,

why the hell fuck

is the cost of nicotine gum

TWICE that of cigarettes?

If you really want to

"discourage smoking",

why didn't you subsidse

part of the cost

of giving up smoking,

using the hefty income

you made from

tobacco taxes?

Its so fucking easy

to expose

the fucking money grabbing

greed

of this fucking Swingabore government.

Fucking hippocrites.

20080820

1755 HRS AUGUST 20TH 2008

So Singapore

won its first

Olympic medal

since 1960.

Big cause for celebration.

Chinese players

wearing a Singaporean shirt.

Sports Minister said

the players maybe

Chinese born and bred

but they are

Singaporean citizens

and they played their hearts out

for Singapore.

Yeah right.

They just happen

to be paid

alot of money

$750,000

to get that medal.

The highest in the world

for an Olympic medal.

They were paid alot of money

to migrate to Singapore

and be Singapore citizens.

They were paid alot of money,

and its all our money.

Tax payers money.

They did not come here

because they love laksa.

They did not come here

because they love doing

national service.

They did not come here

because they want to learn

Singlish.

In fact they do

everything they can,

not to learn Singlish.

The only thing Singaporean

about them,

is their NRIC cards

and they earn tax payers money.

Lots of money.

Why celebrate?

Well, Singapore has for

about 12 years now

been trying to buy

us an Olympic medal.

We finally got

what we paid for

after about 12 years.

Yeah,

big cause for celebration

20080804

1635 HRS AUGUST 4TH 2008

Old friends

we were once young

naive and innocent.

now we're past middle aged,

past 40,

pushing 50 soon

like a tired old

bulldozer.

when was the last time,

we met?

did you say 15 years ago?

we've put on some weight

our hair is greying

our knees ache

i didn't know.

we shared our life stories

thrills and spills.

how we fell

and how we rose again.

but we always knew

we're still there

to have a laugh.

years apart

but yet

we were so

at ease

with each other.

its like as though

there were no years

in between.

you used to complete

my sentences

when I ran out

of words.

all these years later,

somehow we just knew

what each of us

would say,

even before we began

a sentence.

where are those years guys?

where have they gone to?

we were wild.

we were rebellious

we were angry

we didn't know why.

we thought

we were different.

but now we know

we were just stupid,

at least I was.

those are memories now

distant memories.

but because we remember,

we remain friends

dear to our hearts.

i forgot how

friendship used to be

so innocent.

we had nothing

we could use.

friendship was pure

with no monetary benefit.

networking was not invented

when you were in college.

So lets raise a glass

or two

as we talked

about our dreams

aspirations

failures

successes.

how our lives

diverged

and how we can still

pick up so easily

where we left off.

it made us laugh

it made us cry.

we lost all those years

drifting apart

lets not make

that same mistake

again.

Friends like Us

don't always come by

you realised that.