Baptism by Fire!! Surviving the Mad Week

If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day, but if u teach a man to fish he will eat for a week, then again, to cap it off, it you take a picture of the poor man, cleverly staged in the most bleak surroundings, with the man dressed in tattered rags, with the expert photographer capturing every heartrending sense of his dispair... He will probably get a donation of more than a lifetime's worth of fish, and probably never have to fish for a life time.

Put it simply, you can never keep the good entrepreneur and business eye down. Never resist the great offers in life that come by.

Once again, another of my random ramblings. As I go through my life indeed i apparently have become more padentic as i address stuff. Whislt my childhood was full of nonsense and total senseless behavious, this strange methodical approach to things seems to be growing on me. So perhaps i should hereby create a list of things that i shall be erm.. crapping about today.


1. School Life (The astounding amounts of Homework and the incredible incredulous instructors (teachers -- but man did u catch that alliteration?))
2. How to Improve your Essay 101 -- How to create the best introductory sentence?
3. My thoughts on the interesting nature of the Blogosphere...

Gosh this is one heck of a long post............

School Life
OK fine... got it.. everyone knows school life sucks... I mean how good can school life get? Really if you didnt know how bad school life was... I can assuredly say that you are not a Singaporean. (but maybe we won't go into THAT today) But there is something interesting about the usual stacks of homework, the boring lessons and the sometimes funny moments in school, its the incredulous teachers. I mean how can they give you one stack of homework and then keep a straight face while saying " all rite everybody, i expect you homework in the next day, if you do not there will be a lot of punishment meted out".

I mean, its like... (Picture teacher pushing items into students' hands) Right here, your math textbook about 1 page only, quite easy to do right not more than half and hour you should be done.. then heres you chinese worksheets. Comeon dont tell me 1l2 hr is too little to finish it? Then perhaps you can top it off with erm a history essay... OH looks like that stack of paper is toppling over... hmst maybe if i add like these 4 readings on top of it, it might stabilize it. Gosh you balance is real good with that pile of books there... hmst gosh i keep on getting distracted.. Ahh now i remember, heres a geog worksheet, and hmst what else.. gosh u got such an interesting expression on you face... Yes got it physics... heres you physics and chem worksheets and that should be it. Gosh you got real balance with that stack there. YOu've got real talent... Perhaps you should organize a sabbatical to teach people how to carry these stacks... I mean that's so cool.. Oh and remember, deadline's tomorrow!!

I mean... Wow real baptism by fire... Then comes the cool bit -- the Explanations -- I think later theres a cooler bit -- I think its called the teacher's meting out punishments....

Well in the first bit its like... You know in Harvard (at least if you dont die of stress in secondary school) you also have to do so much work... So if we kill you now, you will reincarnate into an immortal in your future life and then this work will seem like peanuts to you... Then the meting out of punishments is like... Hmst so how should i punish you? the hapless student goes ... but.. but.. Ahh i know maybe if i punish you more than the other teachers you will do my homework first. So everyone will punish you because you dont have time but if i punish you more... My job is complete...

Was that an evil laugh in the background??

Yeah so anyway thats school life for you. Comeone... homework -NO problem compared to those incredible teachers we've got!!

How to Improve Your Essay 101
Honestly, i would have wanted to do this another day, but since im in the mood, let it roll!! Well so one day i was thinking.. Say i wanted to write an essay but you know, the first word is so important. If the first sentece sucks, well the reader will not want to read it because he thinks its boring. So today, i have decided to give some examples that i have heard in my short span of life that offer some interesting, captivating and at times corny startings to essays speeches and what not.

heres one...

On a topic about confessions -- I've got a confession to make - I totally adore teletubbies
(ok... great er herm.. think its a bit cheesy? yeah teletubies are kind of green, purple and something else... but... well... Put it simply, i will spend the next 5 mins or so trying to figure out why you have this strange fetish.. and perhaps another 5 mins to call the hospital to arrange an appointment for you with the psychiatric dept)

hows another one

On a topic about secrets -- Shhhh Let me tell you a secret
(hmst actually quite ok except for the fact that erm when you tell a secret, its not really a secret anymore? hello? hope youve realised that...BUt the problem is, a good intro should not be screaming out to the reader "Someone told the writer that he needed a good intro so he did this" )

For fantasy stories, there actually are some good ones around

Perhaps someone took it too literally...
Yet another time, he choked, convulsed...
Thud... The sound of shit hitting the fan...

I certainly hope that you dont do the real "cool" ones like

"Lets go to the park today!" exclaimed my father as he burst into the room excitedly

My interesting comments on the Blogosphere
The blogosphere is certainly very interesting. I mean aside from the fact that it is made up of people who actually have a lot of time to blog... The fact remains that most of the blogs that function as diaries contain very jazzed up versions of their life. I admit that even in this post i have done so. So what exactly is a blog? Well people said its like a diary, but other people do use blogs as advertisement, story blogs, music, picture blogs, blogs which contain the works of an aspiring writer... Indeed in this new world, there is a great market for people who want to sell themselves (not in the bad way) but sell their ideas, to advertise how great they are. American idol did it, so do blogs, youtube, my space, friendster.

How about me... Well, i think that blogs are very beneficial to me. Firstly, I get to practice my english language, perhaps consider the thoughts that have been flying around my head for a long period of time. As cliche as it sounds, it does give you some time to reflect about stuff that happen to you. Generally, you shouldnt keep any pent up emotions in you, and blogs are an excellent way to relieve stress.

So now my stress is relieved, i shall now embark upon another day of erm say chipping of that top part of the stack of homework for no reason except to appease the teachers.

So now.. see you guys and well signing off on my second post... rite you can wakeup now.. im done...

Well on second thought, you must admit that the teachers are quite adorable arent they? they are like little kids competing to see who can dish out the worst punishment!!

Edit: I bet you when u read my first post (where i said that iwould be longwindded) you thought... Cant be very bad.. I mean how bad can a blog get... Then now you are thinking gosh ive seen the limit... Come one relax man.. its an acquired taste

Welcome to the Madhouse

Indeed, typing my first blog post sends shivers of excitement coursing through my veins. Nah... just joking. Having previously abstained from this interesting practice, peer pressure and its increasing popularity has influenced me to attempt to join this interesting blogosphere, a term if it is not already in existence that i have attached the meaning of the "blogging circle" to.

Generally, as is consistent with my nature and perhaps a pretaste for those who dont know me well, i will be either chatting casually giving cynical comments (as is my nature), or i will be trying my very best (but perhaps not succeeding to be poetic) or perhaps a little artistic when i try writing a story, others will probably include intellectual discussions of some random article that interests me.

Well, i have not had time to start up a blog and will probably not have time to continue updating it regularly. So please be forewarned...

Btw. If someone does find some interesting stuff on my blog and decides to use it for some project or other, or perhaps gains some inspiration from my blog... Pls put in a good word for me will ya?

Ps. Did i mention that i've got quite a big ego too??