s t a r m | s t April 30th, 2004
Was reading my International Management notes when I came across this section about Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions consisting of four elements; power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism vs collectivism, and masculinity vs femininity, and got reminded by an amusing moment during the lecture of this very topic.
Lecturer (explaining about masculinity and femininity in different countries): “… As for Singapore, it is quite well-balanced. The gap between male power and female power is very narrow and there is much equality present…”
Ms Ho: (unconsciously, in an indignant and audible voice) “Nonsense!”
Everyone started laughing while Ms Ho, realizing belatedly that she has spoken aloud, ducked her head in embarrassment and emerged seconds later with her face as fire-red as her blouse.
s t a r m | s t April 28th, 2004
You,
Congratulations on being an official befriender for the children of Cancer Foundation… May you bring hope and joy into their lives and make their world a brighter and more colourful one.
Me
s t a r m | s t April 27th, 2004
It was bad. The paper, I mean.
B A D.
s t a r m | s t April 26th, 2004
Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
16 hours, 2 mins and 11 seconds from now, I’ll be having my 1st paper for the semester.
My marketing oh-so-much-information-and-terminologies-overload paper.
The extremely boring informative 726 pages worth of distribution channel processes that I need to know about.
The I-can’t-remember-chapter-one-after-finishing-chapter-three textbook that came along with the course.
The rack-jobbers, and servqual dimensions, and systems selling, and cooperative advertising, and so on and so forth.
And all I want to do now is to sleep!!!
s t a r m | s t April 23rd, 2004
Decided to take a break from mugging for exams and post this lovely poem which my secondary school friend, Erwin, has shared with me.
IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!
-Rudyard Kipling
s t a r m | s t April 20th, 2004
1- Two words… “Ally McNaked”.
2- When a cop gave you a ticket, every smart-aleck answer you responded with would actually reduce your fine. As in: Cop: “You know how fast you were going?” You: “All I know is, I was spilling my beer all over the place.” Cop : “Nice one, That’s $10.00 off”.
3- People would never talk about how fresh they felt.
4- Daisy Duke shorts would never go out of style again.
5- Every man would get four real “Get Out of Jail Free” cards per year.
6- Telephones would cut off after 30 seconds of conversation.
7- The victors in any athletic competition would get to kill and eat the losers.
8- It would be perfectly legal to steal a sports car, as long as you returned it the following day with a full tank of gas.
9- Instead of a fancy, expensive engagement ring, you could present your wife-to-be with a giant foam hand that said “You’re #1!”.
10- When your girlfriend really needed to talk to you during the game, she’d appear in a little box in the corner of the screen during a time-out.
11- Nodding and looking at your watch would be deemed as an acceptable response to “I love you”.
12- The funniest guy in the office would get to be CEO.
13- “Sorry I’m late, but I was wasted last night”, would be an acceptable excuse for tardiness.
14- At the end of the workday, a whistle would blow and you would jump out of your window and slide down the tail of a brontosaurus and right into your car.
15- Hallmark would make “Sorry, what was your name again?” cards.
s t a r m | s t April 16th, 2004
Introducing my very 1st Ah Beng friend, no, Ah Beng brother… *drum roll*
tada!
He is my closest brother, my confidante, my good buddy and *gasp* he has turned into an Ah Beng at the ripe old age of 24!
s t a r m | s t April 15th, 2004
Got this off a site…
1- Breaking up would be a lot easier. A smack to the butt and a “Nice hustle, you’ll get ‘em next time” would pretty much do it.
2- Birth control would come in ale or lager.
3- Valentine’s Day would be moved to February 29th so it would only occur in every leap year.
4- On Groundhog Day, if you saw your shadow, you’d get the day off to go drinking. Mother’s Day too.
5- St. Patrick’s Day, however, would remain exactly the same. But it would be celebrated every month.
6- Garbage would take itself out.
7- Regis and Kathie Lee would be chained to a cement mixer and pushed off the Golden Gate Bridge for the most lucrative pay-per-view event in world history.
8- The only show opposite “Monday Night Football” would be “Monday Night Football from a Different Camera Angle”.
9- Instead of “beer-belly”, you’d get “beer-biceps”.
10- Tanks would be far easier to rent.
s t a r m | s t April 13th, 2004
Happy 24th birthday, dearest Iv bro!!! =)
May you find your happiness soon~
And thank you, for being such a great brother! *muaks*
s t a r m | s t April 7th, 2004
I’m bored.
I’m so bored, I need to get a social life but I’m too lazy and tired to do it.
Been immersing myself in my new books and living life vicariously these days but it’s not enough.
Restless. Lifeless. Bored. Argh!
