Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Funeral

The band was assigned a military funeral last Saturday.

All I know was that a NSF collapsed while playing soccer in camp and died.

While at the funeral, a friend commented how sad it was for his friend to be the coffin bearers. I thought it is an honour, at least it is the last thing you can do for your departed friend.

Little did I realize that the deceased was actually someone I knew from secondary school. He was Perry Koh.

A friend asked whether I was affected by funerals and I said no at that time. Come to think about it, it actually does. I had been to quite a number of funerals during the course of my job. From military funerals with full honours to a state funeral, I've seen most of it. No matter what age the deceased is, it is always heart wrenching to be there.

How ironic it was to learn that I was at an ex-school mate's funeral without realizing it.

Rest in peace.
fjozn at 9:20 PM

Sunday, September 18, 2005

Queue, Ads, Sign

I saw this in the papers this morning:

Have you ever been to a hawker centre and see a long queue at a stall? And you think: "The food at this stall must be good! There are so many people queuing up for it!"

However, upon sampling the food, you discover that it's totally mediocre.

Have you ever thought that there was a queue in the first place only because the hawker is slow?

Well, I haven't!

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There are some quite clever advertisements on TV these days; I always enjoy a good humourous advertisement with a good punch line.

The couriers' ads are pretty good: The delivery man who walked on water, I like that concept.

The Mentos ad had me scratching my head though.

Why would anyone paint their floor? And in lime green?

For anyone who can trap themselves on the balcony after painting the floor lime green, I don't know what to say.

If I am dumb enough to trap myself on the balcony. I think I would chat to the nice pretty lady on the next balcony who was nice enough to toss me a stick of Mentos. Heck. I would jump over to the next balcony if the distance is near enough!

The man in the ad apparently had the smart idea of just painting the soles of his sneakers green and walking back into the room.

He must be gay.

Or dumb.

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On my way to camp yesterday, I saw a sign.

NDP EXCO 06

DON'T LAH!!!
fjozn at 11:26 AM

Monday, September 05, 2005

Technology

I'm back to blog!

I shall not keep my faithful readers (if any) waiting for too long!

Technology is really moving.

I still remember the times when people bring along huge brick-sized and weight walkman. It soon evolved into discmans which could double as discuses for the Olympics.

With the introduction of mp3, the trendy crowd changed to carrying ipods around. Me? I have my big, heavy Zen touch.

Oh! Guess what? Handphones had evolved too! From the huge water bottles to the light speed 3G today, they had gone a long way! But which genius came out with the idea that a handphone should double as an mp3 hi-fi set?

I was on the train the other day and this nincompoop has to stand in front of me and demonstrate that he has the latest state-of-the-arts handphone which is capable of playing songs at an audible level for the listening displeasure of anyone in a 10 metres radius.

I was so annoyed, not only at his indiscretion, but at his rather distasteful choice of music. I'm sure all of us had heard enough of how much mouse love eating big rice.

I wonder how the general population will feel if I do the same, playing music from Mahler on my phone?
fjozn at 10:31 PM