Month: May 2006

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Everyday News

Singapore General Election 2006

All along, I thought I belonged to the Yio Chu Kang Single Member Constituency (YCK SMC) because I am closer to YCK MRT (Mass Railway Transit) than anywhere else. I took my “On Government Service” voting card to Andersen Primary School at late afternoon (voting time was from 8am to 8pm) and surprisingly it was pretty empty. I literally walked straight through into the counter A2 whereby they ticked my name and gave me a voting slip. On it, it said Ang Mo Kio GRC (Group Representative Constituency). I was so happy because I would love to be in the same ward as the Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong. His father, the founder of Singapore, was the reason why I migrated to Singapore and I got to vote for him!

At 10pm, I turned on my TV and watched the result coming out on live. I was so excited that Cynthia was calling me a patriot in a nice way. I was logged onto an online game and I was so surprised that there were may PAP supporters within the online community.

Overall, I am very happy with the election result of government party PAP wining 66.6% (what’s up with this 6-6-6 thing and Cynthia’s birthday will be on 6-6-06) and PAP has won 82 seats in the Parliament out of 84 seats. A status quo …

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Diary

A New Song!

I wanted to write a fast tempo song began with the word “Forever” and after sending Cynthia off to the airport, I set up my home studio and got the new song “Chasing Forever” going. I love to write songs.

Happy with the General Election reasult. Happy that Katherine will stay in American Idol for a couple of round. I mean, if she doesn’t screw up (she has a tendency to do as as I don’t think she really works well under stress), in a contest of 3 guys and 1 girl, she can easily land herself to the final. Just my thought.

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I See I Write

American Idol, Hooters, 6 Figures, and Power

Alright. The above was taken when Katherine performed last week in American Idol. Remember last week I was sort of upset that she was misjudged (and Simon did an apology on the result day). This week, she sort of messed up on the first song. Hope the second song saves her.

Met up with RC for lunch at Hooters – his beloved restaurant. Seriously, the standard of the waitresses have gone down real bad. While RC was still mesmerised from one of the DVD Chinese series (and he will lend to me while my wife Cynthia will be gone overseas next week), I was jaw dropped by his 6 figures leave encashment when he switched job and his ex-company paid him a performance bonus (or commission so as to say) in another 6 figures. Wow … that is a lot of money!

I was sharing with him how I have upgraded my PC and that I am considering getting a Plama TV. Our discussion went wild and if I am to upgrade my PC’s power supply (as a matter of time) and if I am to use my Hi-Fi and Plasma TV to play game … the power consumption would be … my PC (600W), Plasma TV (350W), and Hi-Fi (200W) … a total of closed to 1,200W of power! Well, to help you imagine, when the iron is on, it consumes 1,200W of power and the iron will go off once it is hot enough. My new entertainment system won’t.