Dickie be grippin the dick in his ass, hang the black fag at the end of the mast!
I wonder what lesson they're trying to impart to the kids who watch this show.
Today was a mixed day. It started bad but turned out to be pretty good.
I almost dislocated my left shoulder when I was waking up and that really sped up the process.
I guess I really need to maintain my shoulder muscles. I haven't been doing any sort of exercise for my arms for months.
It's still uncomfortable now.
Anyway after all the errands I ran in the morning, I passed by the Burger King at Burlington Square, so I decided to buy several burgers for lunch and redeem some of the drumlet coupons.
Took out 4 but the one in the black shirt (probably supervisor or something) told me I'd have to wait.
So I asked him if I could get the drumlets immediately if I only redeemed two of the coupons.
He went to the back and came back with a negative.
So I handed him the four vouchers. If I had to wait, might as well get them.
Strange thing was that instead of boxes of six, which was what the voucher described, the drumlets were actually packed in boxes of four.
That's why 20s after I walked out of the restaurant, the supervisor ran after me and explained he had only given me 4 sets of 4 instead of 6 sets.
I was confused because I thought 4 sets sounded right but he took my bag immediately and ran back.
So I strolled back. Might as well take it slow since I was going to have to wait anyway.
By the time I got back, he was just finishing with the packing and apologized to me again. Even gave me a free ice cream pie. Awesome!
It was delicious, though not something I'd normally buy. Then again, I don't buy desserts from fast food chains at all.
1) The last time I forgot something from a BK, nobody ran after me and apologized for it.
2) Free pie for absolutely nothing! I wouldn't even be too concerned about the missing 8 pieces of drumlets because they were free of charge for me in the first place. Nothing minus nothing is still nothing.
Coincidentally during the 10-min wait I took one of their feedback forms as reading material and slipped it into my bag after that, so now I'm going to send them a compliment. The form came with free postage anyway.
I even made it a point to look at his name tag so I think he'll receive something. Even if BK doesn't give him anything I believe compliments like this should make him feel good.
It's interesting how such small gestures actually mean something to some people. Just something I learnt in the past.
TUE
For the first time in human history, PC gamers have helped scientists to make a major breakthrough in their research.
Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade.
No, I wasn't involved. Foldit wasn't very well-known in the first place. The only similar thing I have ever used is Folding@home, which I consider to be the only charitable thing I've ever constantly helped with for a long period of time.
Foldit sounds like Folding@home, except the former requires manual work while the latter is purely automatic. Both are about making virtual 3D models of proteins.
Truth to be told, I'd totally forgotten about Folding@home ever since I lost my bookmarks in my previous computer.
I've installed it again just now :D
You should too, if you have a good computer that isn't struggling just to handle your daily routines.
Also installed Foldit but it's unplayable due to the traffic surge caused by the news.
I like the part where they kicked the nun out of her own church... during a zombie apocalypse.
OMFG A FLYING SHARK!
GASHUNK!
So here's another attempt to encourage local youths to speak openly about national policies.
Or at least give the appearance of it.
Be the Change!
Be the Change! is a youth-driven initiative organised by a team of youth volunteers, and supported by the National Youth Council and the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports.
Hah!
If local youths have any say in those things, the Republic of Singapore will have to add "People's" in front of our country's name.
I don't really know why but there are so many socialist ideas being supported by them online.
It's like they still don't get what "meritocracy" and "capitalism" mean, or are unable to accept the facts.
Maybe it's because Singaporeans generally don't discuss politics enough, and I mean "discuss" as in "discuss", not "whine". And that probably made a lot of them unable to understand the implications of what they think they want in our national policies.
I'm not saying I'm anything close to being an expert in political science, but I can recognize it when people are leaning to the left. And there are plenty of such people these days on this island.
Hopefully they know what they're doing.
I cannot say which is right because
1) there is no absolute proof that socialism and/or communism don't work.
2) again, I'm no expert.
So yea, I'm just hoping they're not just ruining their own country.
Even if some of them are trolls, I think a number of them have trolled themselves.
Here's what I think happened:
1) Some people started spamming left-wing stuff together with anti-government comments all over the Internet during the last two elections, but don't actually believe in them.
2) Other people are stupid enough to think these ideas actually sound right and continue to spread them around.
3) Eventually the friends of the original trolls spread the same stuff back them them, and they think," OMG I was right!"
Such things can happen and have happened before in human history.
You can't whine about not having free stuff (eg healthcare) while whining about having high taxes at the same time. You can have low taxes or free healthcare, but not both.
I don't want our country to have free healthcare, and I seriously look down on Singaporeans who want it.
Free healthcare is essentially the average guy paying the medical bills of the sick. Ill or not, every working adult would always be paying someone's medical bills.
It's totally fine, morally speaking.
Except morality is not of utmost importance in capitalist societies. In our case, the words "moral" or "compassion" are nowhere to be found in our national anthem or pledge, so that's a pretty obvious clue for everyone.
Of course I know this is subjective. But this is my blog, my opinions. If you don't like them, the "Next Blog" button is right on top of the page.
Whoa! Wooden dildos??? WTF happens if you get splinters from one? Pussies are fine, but who's gonna suck splinters out of someone's ass?
Oh wait, you can't just suck them out of either.
So OpenNet finally set up the optic fibre cable at my home. 300 bucks. Man...
But we were getting really annoyed with out dying modem and we thought we might as well apply for a fibre connection that comes with a new and different modem instead of a simple replacement of the current modem.
But the good promotion is gone. My bro actually wanted the crappier 50Mbps promotion because it came with the Samsung tablet. It's useless for him but we both agree it's preferable to the laptops that the ISP offers for more expensive fibre plans.
We were actually going to ask the ISP if we could get a 100Mbps connection and downgrade our promotion option from the more expensive laptop to the cheaper tablet.
But it was removed the day OpenNet arrived.
Derp.
Made this. Ee noodles aka Ee Fu noodles aka fried egg noodles with mystery sauce.
Originally it was going to be a failed experiment in which I tried to fry the already-boiled noodles.
These noodles stick to the wok like whores to a billionaire.
Bad metaphors, my forte.
Currently soaking the wok in water so that the remaining noodles can soften enough to be scrubbed off.
Anyway I boiled the noodles and that part was alright. It was when I tried to make fried noodles that everything went wrong.
I poured some oil into the wok, then dumped the dried noodles into it.
Fuck.
As a result, well, nothing was burnt fortunately, but so much of them stuck to the wok and I had to scrap as many as I could off with some chopsticks.
That resulted in a bowl of ee noodles that was mostly fine but contained crunchy bits.
Perfectly edible, perfectly flavourless.
So I made that gravy.
That, I consider a separate experiment.
In this experiment, the objective was to see if a starch solution could thicken by itself, perhaps when it was heated. This was because Chinese cooks often make a thick sauce in their dishes by merely adding several tablespoons of starch solution.
Apparently, it doesn't work that way.
Instead, the starch solution must come in contact with oil.
Basically, a thickening, like the roux I made long ago with butter and flour for a failed pasta experiment.
If you were one of those who ate it, looking back, I'm sorry about it.
It was bland.
Anyway the result of the experiment was that gravy in the photo.
It was fine initially, then when it cooled it became almost like jelly.
Too much starch.
For the bowl or two of water, I added 5 heaped teaspoons of potato starch.
Yea. Bad idea, huh?
Also added some oyster sauce, soy sauce and a little chicken stock.
Still too bland.
It needs meat.
Next time.
The other dish wasn't as interesting, just broccoli with minced pork. Nothing much.
The only thing I had to note was that the broccoli had to be boiled beforehand because it takes too long to cook. Simply stir-frying it would take too much work and attention.
And my turtle seems to love broccoli. I threw it quite a few slices of the stem and they vanished quickly.
Also, fishcake does not work in this gravy.
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