Tuesday, August 29, 2006

It has been a long time, hasnt it? How is everyone doing on with their life? Fine I hope. Mine have been a hectic grasp of time. I never find the chance to slowly stroll my way into the MRT Station after work everyday. This explains my deeply regretted and apologetic absence from this wonderful place. I guess its human nature at every certain point of time to release their emotions and thoughts verbally or otherwise as a form of relieve, de-stress, unwind, or whatever they call it. My excuse for this literature diarrhea would be for closure. As much as I would like to deny I am a sucker for closure however let’s not get that confused with sentimentality because I am not.

In days to come young, depressed man-to-be creatures like me, Andrew, Andy, Leroy and many more innocent homosapiens across this tiny island will be mercilessly conscripted into the brutal, sinister and vicious mechanism plotted by the government to exact revenge on its citizen under the cloak of disguise: the notorious army. Sighs! I guess that is the price to pay for claiming ownership to that pinky flimsy card us all proudly safe keep in our wallet. So hereby I bid you farewell, loved ones, treasured friends, family, bed, TV, civilization, the land of liberty which we stepped on and the sweet air of freedom we breathe.

Nevertheless it would be a new phase of life for us and many more as the girl behind each unsuccessful boy playing soldier. In retrospect so much has changed and the sense of familiarity eroding, for the good or worse? Gazing ahead, I ponder what is there of to desire in the alien future. Over lunch last weekend, my Aunt commented that the September 11 got her seriously thinking about her job security and eventually she did seek a different employment opportunity at another bank in the midst of wide scale retrenchment. The nature of the incident ushers in an era of unpredictability and dispels the notion of certainty, she said. It inevitably deprives everyone the cushion of conformability under the illusion of familiarity. And scare you not; this is the era that we will carve a career out and earn a decent living to form a family and raise our children.

It brought to my mind a part of this ideology I was reading from in this book "Bush at War". The advisers were the best brains ever in the world, bagged with decades of invaluable experience in leadership, and boots on the ground were a bunch of intensively trained and highly motivated men. They tirelessly held numerous hours and hours of comprehensive meetings, scrutinizing, analyzing, strategizing and planning over days, weeks, and months and alas! Finally when that first shot was fired across the dessert, the field of the battle, the light sparked in the complete darkness surrounding and that echo rang across the night into the depth of fear in everyone’s heart. Unprecedented events slowly spiral into troubles then chaos and ultimately land themselves into a quagmire that baffles the commander in chief how did it all begin with?

Isnt the scenario quite similar to so many of us how we negotiate our life through? We think and plan, plan and think, strived and lazed, work begin to multiply, concurrent events starts to swarm and we paddle through it over the days and finally we ask ourselves how did we end up here? Doesn’t seem like the place I initially planned to step foot.

Sir Winston Churchill (Im a great fan of him):

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

We must not underrate the gravity of the task which lies before us or the temerity of the ordeal, to which we shall not be found unequal. We must expect many disappointments, and many unpleasant surprises, but we may be sure that the task which we have freely accepted is one not beyond the compass and the strength of ourselves. In this solemn hour it is a consolation to recall and to dwell upon our repeated efforts for peace. All have been ill-starred, but all have been faithful and sincere.

Outside, the storms of war may blow and the lands may be lashed with the fury of its gales, but in our own hearts this Sunday morning there is peace. Our hands may be active, but our consciences are at rest.

..........The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past-not only distant but prosaic; these young men, going forth every morn to guard their native land and all that we stand for, holding in their hands these instruments of colossal and shattering power, of whom it may be said that

Every morn brought forth a noble chance
and every chance brought forth a noble knight

Just_Jazz blogged at 12:59 AM

Sunday, May 07, 2006

guess tonight everyone's fixated on the election. can see how quiet the street is when I came back from work earlier.

Just wanna show u guys a photo of the worker's party rally at Hougang last Sunday. Went to the one at East Coast on Monday, WP contesting for Aljunied GRC. Man, I was really a little touched when I saw the crowd, I can't count, at least 3 to 4 thousand people carrying umbrella walking towards the stage. The rain was huge in the evening but everyone stayed on. The most funny thing was I saw one familiar face standing in front of me. MR TANG!! Our biz stat lecturer!! hahahas, went over and chatted wif him. He came all the way from West Coast. Steady ar! Finally had my first chance to hear the Teochew King Low Thia Kiang speak. Always wondered why he's so powerful in the Lorong Ah Soo area where my grandma lives, but listening him speak, I can't help but... YAY!!! and the thunderous applause follows = )



okay back to watching the teevee, see if Aljunied GRC will go into whoose hands...think everyone can conclude the political ground in Singapore is shifting

Just_Jazz blogged at 12:30 AM

Monday, May 01, 2006

Haven't been updating this page for a period of time. Have been rather busy this month. Time really flies, today marks the end of the 1 month I've been working at the Ministry of Environment. Working late at night in office used to be relaxing and comforting but now because of the election things are getting hectic and everyone's on their best performance = )

think after this I'll be back doing exhibitions. Will be going back to school on next Sat to sit for an exam. Anyone will be dere? lemme know.

Okay too long never write blog, really don't know what to write anymore, my mind's complete blank now. Anyway finally got 1 free day of off tmr, thinking of going to attend the election rally tmr night. Ha ha seems rather fun = )

Just_Jazz blogged at 11:30 PM

Friday, March 31, 2006

With much dismay I finally conclude, Stupid Andrew is road blind. last night wanted to go eat supper at Geylang but in the end we landed ourselves somewhere nowhere. but the food was great though. went to apply for SMU today with him. then he raised the idea of going with him to Minnesota and stay wif his cousin for 2 weeks. It's kinda my dream to leave Asia and set foot on the soil of the United States of America, the great super advanced country of the world. Money isn't an issue, time wasn't an issue, but something is holding me back from going. I think I know what is it. I don't wanna leave behind my dear. I will miss her. and worst part, I hafta take the 20 hours flight alone and meet that idiot there. 20 hourrrssss!! it's gonna kill me. think maybe I should save the money and wait till the next time when I graduate from Uni, saved enough money and travel with my dear. Richmond-->Washington-->Philadelphia-->Boston.

We went to see A.D.E (aka FAT GIRL; named by Yappie boi, who by the way now has her own namecard as a product designer) product design show at Bugis. was kinda interesting, so many funny funny product. something like those u will find in Molecule. it's outside the National Library if anyone is interested.

and we discover a new venue to watch movies, Cathay Cineplex = ) nice nice place. wanna bring my dear go.

Just_Jazz blogged at 1:35 AM

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Listening to Soul Jazz (William So's jazz)

Hey Everyone!
How is everybody? Haven't been keeping in contact with many.
Trying very hard to think of what to write here, but the only thing I can think of is my little HO Jia Li. Hope she does well for her interview = ) Anyway we're watching Ice Age2 later at P.S in the late afternoon. So let's see who I'll bump into dere later : )

I WANT TO SING KTV!!! it's been a long time man.

Jus to update everyone, I'll be starting work on Sat again, Sighs! call center of DBS. ytd company my dear down to Citibank at Raffles Place for her interview. Andy was working at the Ocean Tower across the road for HSBC. kinda weird feeling, a financial district whereby you deal and trade with people opposite your window or upstairs and downstairs all congregated in the same small lil area in Spore.
you know, many many years ago during the Depression in America, when the stock market crashed to it's century bottom low, a few hundred ppl working in the financial district of New York all stopped their work and came out to the main streets and stared in dismay at the big screen of stock prices. Just before mid noon when the market closed for the break, things was really bad, 10 over people jumped from their windows and committed sucide. few hundred others lost their jobs immediately. same happened during the HK financial Crisis in 1989, ten over jumped out of their windows in the Central Financial District in H.K when the market crashed.

It's been a hundred years since the last depression. you know the cycle, the next global market crisis is coming soon when the Dow Jones crash. then you know where to see flying superman and woman? make your way down to Shenton Way and Raffles Place : )

Just_Jazz blogged at 11:26 PM

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Just_Jazz blogged at 9:13 AM

Monday, March 13, 2006

My best buds n their partners = )

Just_Jazz blogged at 8:23 PM