Susan Boyle

Susan Boyle........

Watch it from youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY&feature=related

After watching her video on youtube, I learnt that judgement shoudn't be made by just seeing one's outward appearance.
She doesn't have a very good-looking face, but she looked very motherly and loving. Her inner beauty which can be seen from her taking care of her elderly mother until she passed away at the age of 91. Just for the sake of taking care of her mother, she gave up her singing. She attributed her courage to audition for Britain's Got Talent to her late mother.

Being in front of such a big audience in Britain's Got Talent might be quite nerve-wrecking for someone who hasn't had any experience of being in the spotlight. Her appearance on stage got many cynical expressions from the audience, as can be seen from the youtube video. Most of the people were laughing at her. People must be thinking how can such an old looking person, who outwardly really had no link whatsoever to the word 'talent' appear on stage? Does she really had something good to show us? Or is she one of those who just wants to appear on TV and will perform something of no quality? Even Simon, one of the judge, gave a cynical look when Susan said her age was 47. What's so wrong about being 47? Stop stereotyping against older people.

She totally changed the whole mindset of the people once she sang. Her voice filled the whole auditorium. The audience were suprised! Totally suprised by what a talent she has. That day, her name shot up to fame. She had been interviewed 60 times and her youtube video has been viewed 21 million times!!!
She even had an interview for the early morning show on CBS News. From her interview, she looks really overwhelmed by the fame she has gotten overnight. She doesn't even know how to react to questions asked, giving only short answers, standing rather stiffly in front of the camera. And her voice sounds similarly astounding even early in the morning!



Never ever judge a book by its cover!




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Unluckiest Day Ever....

Having to deal with the stress of starting work in the cardiopulmonary department is already very exhausting....... Just the thought of it exhaust me to the core. Everyday seeing patients with heart and lung problems is going to be extremely tough, as compared to seeing patients with musculoskeletal problem or neurological problem. More precautions and contraindications. More of everything............ ~go away, thoughts~

As if God thinks that this isn't challenging enough for me and put me through another day of tests. These are the days when I do not want to get out of bed but was forced to, and when I get up, it feels like I got up from the wrong side of the bed.

As a foreigner in Singapore, I got to apply for an Employment Pass. So, here's my ordeal (in the form of a timetable):

8:00am: Go to hospital to get my forms and medical check up form

8:45am: Got into the MRT, travelled 2 stops away before realizing that the HR woman didn't
give me my employment pass form, only my PR form. WTF!

9:00am: Back at hospital to get my EP form.

9:10am: Inside hospital's lift to go to MRT station, when to my horror, my medical check-up form is EMPTY! WTF 2! Called the woman and she say 'souli' 100 times and ask me to go back.

9:15am: At the HR department again to get my medical check-up form from 'souli woman'.

10:30am: Reached the Ministry to do my EP. Got my number and waited for 20 minutes.

10:50am: My turn!! Finally.....! Well, spoken too soon, I guess. The nice counter lady told me that the doctor did not tick in the box indicating that I am 'normal', and instead cross out the whole section of 'abnormal'. So? So, I am not allowed to apply until the nice, old, balding doctor tick in the 'normal' boxes. WTF 3!!!!

11:00am: Returning back to the hospital, to see nice, old, balding doctor who doesn't know how to tick.

11:15am: Reached the counter, empty counter with no one. Waited impatiently for 10 minutes before another 'souli lady' came out.

11:25am: Explain my problem (or rather the doctor's problem) to 'souli lady'. She got another doctor to tick and sign for me, coz the other doctor has gone to learn how to tick.

11:35am: 'Souli lady' came out and return me my form, saying a thousand 'souli' until I say 'never mind' and smiled unwillingly.

12:20pm: Reach the Ministry AGAIN!! Took my 2nd number (should buy TOTO) and waited.

12:40pm: My turn. Hope nothing will screw up again.......OK, everything ok! But must wait for 3 hours before they give me my EP. WTF 4!!!

12:50 - 3pm: Had lunch, roam around in shopping mall - wasted damn lots of money, rot in Starbucks.

3:30pm: Finally, my EP is ready.............!!

What a long, long, unlucky day. My feet hurts, my body aches, I am totally exhausted!!
Well, the only positive thing that I can think of is - I had a good workout...!





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Trip to Kota Kinabalu

Wanted to write on my trip to Sabah....
But then, after reading my friend's blog on the trip (she went together with me and another friend, 3 of us), it will be better to read hers, so that I don't write a duplicate one....haha!

So here you go: http://travelcrazay.blogspot.com

Lots of beautiful pictures (taken by me :), detailed information on the places we visited.




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State of Pearl

I just came back from SABAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! The state of pearl!

I had a really great time there. Everything was natural, nothing man-made! Natural and extremely beautiful! I will never forget this experience ever in my life.

Will be blogging more about my experience there is the next few posts. Stay tune!



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Everyone in Acting

Life is like a drama. You are the actor/actress in that 'life drama'. Everyone surrounding you is the audience, watching you with hawk's eyes. Watching every single scene of your life. I mean the important scenes.

Credibility comes on how well you acted. How well you maintain the standard that people wants. How well you suit their taste, customs, culture and what they really want. "Standard", that's the word. You have to follow "their" standard, not the ones that you plan for yourself, the way you see things. Because, there is a certain "control" that is needed. Like how the Chinese government control the birth rates in China, that is how people around you controls you and make you fit into the mould that they want. Not what you want.

Life is drama --------- to maintain "standard" --------- and to be "controlled".

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Push.....Push.....Puuuusssshhhh!!!!!!!

Don't get carried away by the title...........

It's not about delivering baby.......It's about a very very bad behaviour of people whose hobby is puuuusssshhhing. Ever heard of this hobby? To perform it, you need to use both of your hands, bonus points added if you use your shoulders, elbows and hips. All you need to do is just to use a lot of force, transmit it through the body parts that I just mentioned and further transmit it the anything or anyone in front of you.

That's the 'power' that a lady transmitted to me when I was entering the MRT, on one of those days when you feel unlucky........ I was just innocently trying to enter the train when the door opens, when this lady (I should give a really nasty nickname instead - something like 'pusher syndrome lady') from behind suddenly gave a really big nudge from behind. Then, when I was halfway in, I was pushed so hard from behind that I almost felt being thrown forward to whoever was in front of me. WTF! Ok, no swearing...... It's not like the train door was going to close, why does she need to push that way?? And there wans't any empty seats for her to rush for!!! I don't see the point....maybe she is training her upper limbs strength?? Or just trying to perform her 'hobby' innocently.......

When I found a cosy little place for me to stand, I turn around to find the 'pusher syndrome lady'. There she was, standing innocently, not apologetic at all! Well, I decided to forget it, until I the next stop when I was about to get down, another lady was trying to stand up from her seat. The 'pusher syndrome lady' innocently pushed her way through from where she was standing and quickly sat down before the other lady's butt was fully lifted from the seat!!! WT....oops. Another syndrome.......'seat grabbing syndrome'.

What a bad behaviour!! It's kiasuism..............

Unwanted Calls

I had received lots of unwanted calls before in my life. But nothing is like this one.

Today, while I was in school, I got a call from "no number". I thought it was from my family members in Malaysia. Since overseas numbers appear as "no number" on my phone. But my dad just called me like 5 mintues ago.........who the heck is this??

Pick up? Not to pick? Pick up? Not to pick?

Pick up la..............................

Unknown person: Hello, this is calling from XX Relax Travel Agency (in a slang that I can't understand)
Me: (oh oh....not again)
Unknown person: We are giving out a promotion to 50 people who are chosen from our list. There will not be any obligation, no string tied, no fees. You will receive a membership card with a free vacation to Danga Bay, Johor - 1 night stay in a 3-room apartment. You will also receive discount for restaurants and hotels in Singapore once you show this membership card. And you will.......(I can't hear the rest, since it's too slangish and I am not really paying attention)

She kept babbling away for another 10 minutes in a "you owe me" kind of tone, while I just kept walking without hearing to every single word she said until she say....

Unknown (annoying) person: Can I have your block number so that I can deliver the package to you through courier?

Me: Actually I don't simply give out my house address to people I don't know.

Unknown person: Oh..as I said, I am Jennifer XX from the XX Relax Travel Agency (you never told me your name in the first place).

Me: So how did you manage to get my number? How did you all choose the 50 person to receive the promotion package?

Unknown person: Oh...we choose it from a list of people who travelled out of Singapore in the last 5 years (Crazy man...you mean you know all the people who travelled out of Singapore in the last 5 years?? I travel every weekend back to Malaysia.....)
Then we choose 50 people from that list, and you are the 50th person!!! Congratulation!!! (Wah...what a coincidence...I am the 50th person?? Must be my lucky goddess....) We had already despatched 35 promotion packages and had received good feedbacks. We had only 3 time slots to despatch the packages, so please choose from the following time. bla bla bla...

Me: Ok, tonight 8 pm.

Unknown person: OK. I will send the package over and you just need to pay $59.90 for the membership......................
Please prepare the cash when the courier man arrives (in a matter-of-fact tone again...)

What the...........you never told me anything about paying in the first place. And I don't owe you anything, so why keep talking as if I must pay for this membership package?? Anyway, I don't want to Danga Bay and stay for 1 night in a 3-room apartment with ghosts.....and I don't need discounts for hotels and restaurants in Singapore, even if it's real.

Me: I am not free to talk now.

Unknown person: Please talk to my promotion manager.

Promotion manager: Hello, do you need any clarification?

Me: I am not free tonight for the package to be sent over.

Promotion manager: What about day after tomorrow?

Me: I thought there were special time slots for despatching the item?

Promotion manager: Oh...you can also apply online and send you payment by Mastercard

Me: I don't have Mastercard

Promotion manager: Never mind, i will talk to XX manager about this and call you back.

What the.......................DON'T EVER CALL ME BACK!!!

I check on the internet for whatever relax travel agency and the one I found wasn't at the address they stated.

Please stop wasting my time, people. If you want to promote your services or products, please do it during a road show or in places where people can see you, and not cheat people in this kind of way.

Amputee with 3 Feet!

Amputation is a surgical process to remove body's extremity(ies). The major cause is due to complications from diabetes. Others can include vascular disease, cardiac diseases, trauma - accidents, malignancy, infections and congenital deformities in infants.

There are 700 occurrences annually in Singapore and 80% of those occurs in the lower limbs......which means one or both legs gone!

Does that means no more walking? You can still walk with a custom made prosthesis......

But some other people can just walk without a prosthesis, because......









...........after amputation, he actually had another extra leg!

Very creative indeed!

Pests' Playground Part 2

More on the pests' story. Got no time to update on it until today.

Well, if you can remember, my bf's previous landlord agreed to pay the deposit as well as the 1 month rent. What happen was, on the day my bf was suppose to meet the main tenant of the house (chinese lady), she only paid the deposit.

Which means the landlord don't want to pay us the 1 month rent ($360), eventhough my bf only stayed there for 2 weeks....

2 weeks of suffering + seen doctor twice + painted the room + bought insect repellant x 2 + bought and thrown away mattress + thrown away a lot of other things - since we do not want anymore crawling creatures to be brought over to the new place.

So my bf told the landlord, since he doesn't want to pay the 1 month's rent, then he can pay for the paint + painting work done + medical bills x 2 which will all equals $360............He STILL refuse!!!!!!!!!!! Wait till I sue you!!!!!!!!Then my bf called the housing agent on the spot and told him about the situation. This made the chinese lady a bit nervous and she quickly said that she will pay him next week.....but will bank in into his account. My bf don't believe that she will do it, so my bf told her that he will go over to collect the money personally. Smart, eh?

What kind of people are they hah?? Only think of cheating money. If like that, can earn money very fast.... rent room, make people shift out, don't pay back deposit, rent room again, make people shift out again, don't pay deposit again....can keep on earning money.....

The bites that my bf had (worse than mine).

If the money is not returned, we will need to lodge a complain since we have 2 witnesses, the housing agent who saw us paying the deposit and rent and also the doctor who seen my bf twice.

Good luck to you, landLOATHE!!

Pests' Playground

I would never imagined that I will ever experience this in my life. Battling with dust mites and fleas! The thought of it makes my whole body to itch....!

My bf viewed a new room and decided to shift in 2 weeks ago. Since the previous landlady wasn't a very nice person, if fact was very grouchy and rude sometimes. She looks like a neglected housewife who is suffering from aneroxia nervosa. Anyway, back to the main story, my bf successfully moved all his things, with my help, of course, into his new room. There is this cupboard about 1.75m in length which we need to push from one block to the other block. We had to borrow a trolley and push it almost in the middle of the night, like thieves stealing things.........

Anyway, back again to the main story (how come I kept sidetracking), we saw quite a few holes on the wall with some black spots. We thought it was lizards' shit and decided to clean them the next day, since it was already very late. The 1st ight was still ok, no problem. Problem starts during the 2nd night - my bf was bitten by dust mites? fleas?....he got red spots all over his body, both arms and legs, back, shoulder....almost everywhere. It was really terrible! After helping him to shift his stuffs into the room, I too sustained some red spots on my body.

Red spots on my right calf Red spots on my thigh

The red spots were very itchy and scratching them will cause the spots to enlarge to a bigger size. I got 1 that swell up to a size of a piece of bread! That one itch like nobody's business........We even saw a few 'dead bodies' lying on the ground, maybe too tired after an overnight shift of sucking out blood of innocent people who are just trying to get some sleep, until they drop dead.

We do not know how many alive ones are there in the room, since there are a lot of holes on the wall and floor. We decided to do something.

Solution #1

My bf called his dad to come over to cover up the holes and paint the room, hoping that that will solve the problem. After painting, night no.1, my bf was bitten 3 times in 3 different areas. The next day, the rest of the remaining red spots start to swell up, become red and hot. He went to see the doctor. Solution falied. (The sealed holes started to break in 2 days time, black spots start to form on the wall....ewwww............)

Solution #2

He decided to call the pest control experts.Pest control expert told me that if there are foreigners who works in construction area staying in the house (that house has 2..wouldn't say what nationality), even if they clear the whole 4-room flat (which costs about $800), the pests will still be back in 2-3 weeks time. Normally, customers take up a full year treatment plan, which costs about $20,000!! That's crazy, I mean even if that's the responsibility of the landlord, it's still very expensive. So I told my bf the only solution is to change room!

Solution #3

Lucky us, we found a really nice room online, without having to pay an agent fee. Then we quickly confirm the room and then called the main tenant of the old house to inform the landlord to pay back my bf's deposit and 1 month's rent.

We met her when we were going to move the things out of the room.

Conversation with main tenant (chinese lady):

Lady: How can you just move out like that? I already provided you with the solution (solution: stay in her friend's house in somewhere very far and wait for the pest control people to clear the room, can't guarantee the room will be pests free)

BF: Your solution is unreasonable. We are already badly traumatized by this incident.

Lady: By right, the landlord will not pay you the deposit.

BF (angry): OH! SO IT'S OUR FAULT NOW?! We help you to paint the room and didn't even ask for payment!!

Me: Why not you give us the landlord's number? We will talk to him.

Lady (unwillingly): ~looks at hp~ 9xxxxxxxx

Telephone conversation with landlord:

Me: Hello, uncle, I am Esther, tenant of the 2nd room

Landlord: Ah you! Actually if you don't follow procedure (to give 1 month notice before you move out), I am not suppose to pay you back the deposit.

Me (very angry): Uncle! My bf already have NO PLACE to stay! This is not a small matter. Wait for pest control to clear will take 3 weeks, where do you want my bf to stay?? If he continue to stay in that room, he will end up in the hospital!!

Landlord: ~pissed, coz no chance to talk~ OK, OK, i talk to chinese lady.

Finally he agreed to pay us back the rent + deposit. Really pissed off. After getting bitten by those monsters, my bf still have to stay there and continue to get bitten?? What kind of thing is that??Anyway, it's settled right now. Shifted everything to the new room already. The new room is so spacious and clean. My bf had to clean ALL his clothes with hot, boiling water, to kill those pests, if there is any leftovers.Sprayed all his stuffs with insect repellant. Check all his items one by one. Throw away mattress, pillow, books and many other things.....just because of the pests! NO TO PESTS!!!