The Hungarian Code

I thought I had seen it all at the CCTE (centre for teaching English) where I used to work before coming on exchange - I mean we had indians, vietnamese, chinamen, thais etc coming to us for help with their English. However, no offence to Hungarians but I think they just stole the thunder from those blokes back in Singapore. Here I am at 5am, wide awake trying to make sense out of my corporate finance group mate's work....

"The NASDAQ Composite and the S&P 500 together will be a problematic part through the research because both of them are a strong market index of common shares. That is why they always have a connection with each other and that variables depend on the financial market but the return on REITs depends on the real estate market. Otherwise this result is a good example why can be the REITs in a financial portfolio with the stock indexes and the bonds (basically the 10 and 15 years bonds)."

Someone please kill me. I've got another 10 pages more of this to go through... I think my brain would have haemorrhaged by then... (-_-)

Easter Backlog - Old Trafford: Man Utd vs Sunderland

Sigh, waited so long for this game, all the hype about a record goal feast against the bottom club plus the fact that United were pushing Chelski to the finishing line... and what did the record crowd get? A 0-0 stalemate. Embarrassing, sad and shameful all come to mind as suitable words to describe the performance that day. Oh well, at least I managed to see United play "live" for once in my life...

I Know What You Did Last Summer...

Do you? Well, if you don't, here's what I did last summer in a nutshell - The Himalayan Bicycle Diaries Expedition: A cycling extravaganza from Tibet to Nepal.

I think this is really one of the highlights in my rather mundane life, an experience that I'll always cherish and remember fondly =). When ever again will I cycle a 1000km to get from one country to another? At the rate I am eating and ballooning, I think the answer is pretty straightforward.

I need to study, so here are the video and slideshow from the post-expedition exhibition (try saying the last 2 words really fast repeatedly). For those of you curious about how the whole preparation for the expedition and the day to day summary of our life in Tibet/Nepal, you can visit my team's expedition blog (written by me sans the confucian saying) here.

The Expedition Video


The Expedition Slideshow

Easter Backlog - Chester

Hoho, its weird that i always choose the strangest of times to write and update. Now is a strange time cos I've got a big exam on Monday on Corporate finance which I am really quite clueless about...hmmm

But then again, the blog must go on and so, here are pictures from my day trip to Chester during my Easter homestay with my aunt in Manchester. She kindly took Princess and I there for an afternoon and we thoroughly loved the place. Unique architecture coupled with some nice calming scenery... a really lovely town. A pity the weather was up to its usual tricks that day by raining one moment and scorching us the next. Still, it was memorable =)

Here are the highlights...

Au Revoir Paris =(

We let Paris go last night cos we realised she was anything but a stray and probably had an owner nearby who was worried sick about her. There were countless signs that she was not a stray like the fact that she was so human-friendly, so strikingly pedegree-like, so FAT, so domesticated (she slept comfortably under my arms for an entire night).... and then there was the registration number imprinted on the inside of her ear lobe. (-_-) That, we could not miss...

So here's a series of snapshots of Paris, our adorable one-night pet...

Live well Paris! Do come back and visit us at Fuglesangs Alle!

Barca 2 - Arsenal 1; Fuglesangs Alle +1

It was a fantastic European Cup final, with drama action and skill gracing every single minute of it. A fantastic end to the showcase event on Europe's footballing calender.

After the game, a different kind of joy and surprise sprung our way as we walked home from Klubben, the school disco which had shown the final "live". A gorgeous stranger walked our way and into our hostel (ok, shetook a bit of coaxing) and is now soundly asleep in my room...

Meet Paris!

More to come!

Find X

Got this off my bro... a bit lame but worth a chuckle...

Lol =P

Keep rollin rollin rollin!

This is an oh-so-silly video of me rollin down Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh.

What have you done with your progress package?

It's just so amusing to hear about all the funny stuff that people have used their gahmen dividends for... here's a list of really diverse items that I've come to hear about from friends:

1. Xbox 360
2. Motorbike (real one)
3. Clothes (standard)
4. Leather bag (me!)
5. Travelling
6. Food
7. Sunglasses
8. Air Jordans
9. Romantic getaway
10.Election votes (oops!)

Feel free to add any more whacky items to the list, heard of or own-purchase!

Hard Gay

This is just simply hilarious...


Part 1


Part 2

Ever wonder what is ...

Everyone knows what a full stop or hyphen or colon is but how many people know what the 3 dotted punctuation mark we use so liberally in online conversations is...

I do now. It's called an "Ellipsis". That, or you can stick to the more literal dot-dot-dot.

Ellipsis Έλλειψις (plural: ellipses ελλείψεις, Greek for omission) in linguistics refers to any omitted part of speech that is understood; i.e. the omission is intentional. Analogously, in printing and writing, the term refers to the row of three spaced dots ( . . . ) or asterisks (* * *) indicating such an intentional omission. This punctuation mark is also called a suspension point, points of ellipsis or colloquially, dot-dot-dot.
An ellipsis can also be used to indicate a pause in speech, an unfinished thought or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence. Ellipses are sometimes used in this manner for internet chat, email, and forum posts.

Why U So Like Dat?

Princess just kept singing the same line over and over again today whilst on the way home from an afternoon trip to town, so i got fed up and decided to find all the lyrics so that she can sing the whole song properly...

I give you all my chocolate,
I give you my tic tac,
But when I wan a kit kat,
You never gimme back!

Oui, why u so like dat ah?Hey why u so like dat?
Why u so like dat ah?Hey why u so like dat?

I let you kopy all my sum,
Because you always blur,
But when I try to kopy back,
You always call the Sir!

Oui, why u so like dat ah?Hey why u so like dat?
Why u so like dat ah? Hey why u so like dat?

You tell me dat you don't like girl,
I also donno why,
But when you see a pretty girl,
Your voice go up damn high!

Oui, why u so like dat ah?Hey why u so like dat?
Why u so like dat ah?Hey why u so like dat!

- KopiKat Klan 1991

Cocktail Party at Fuglesangs Alle 28

We just had a wicked cocktail party on Saturday to celebrate all good things in life like sunshine in Denmark (at long last) and the PAP's "strong mandate" of 66.6%. Anyhows, here are the highlights before drunkedness and fatigue started setting in!

Princess & Shanti - Glamorous Chefs

Cocktail Party Participants

Dinner is served! Fresh burgers with unbelievably juicy patties, pickles, tomatoes and lettuce!

The 2 latecomers - Sssser & Anders (pronounced Ah-nus... i know it sounds wrong)

Dithe blending the first round of cocktails...

What too many strawberry daiquiris can do to one's vision

Higher state of consciousness in kitchen 2... notice Niels and the liquor bottle attached to his mouth... (-_-)

Well, after the drinks dried up, a bold (and somewhat silly) plan was hatched to take a cab to the town centre to dance the last hour away before all the clubs closed (it was 3am then). Probably turned out for the best that no cabs responded to our desperate calls for a ride... I mean seriously, what the heck were we thinking???

Mahathir Joke

Cannot resist lah... this was too good not to post... I miss local humour, and our favourite targets... hehe

Say Cheese (from talkingcock.com)
Three dead bodies turn up at the mortuary, all with very big smiles on their faces. The coroner calls the police to show them what has happened. A Detective Inspector is sent and is taken to the first body.

'Clinton, 60, died of heart failure whilst in bed with his mistress. Hence the enormous smile, Inspector,' says the Coroner.

The DI is taken to the second dead man. 'Suharto, 70, made a pile from government funds, and spent it all on whiskey. Died of alcohol poisoning, hence the smile.'Nothing unusual here', thinks the DI, and asks to be shown the last body.

Ah,' says the coroner. 'This is the most unusual one. Dr. Mahathir, 75, struck by lightning.' 'Why is he smiling then?' inquires the Inspector.To which the coroner replies, 'He thought he was having his picture taken.'

Making a Molehill out of a Mountain

I think Low Thia Kiang meant it the other way round but just to hear it is hilarious...

making a molehill out of a mountain

No disrespect but the opposition really cracks me up sometimes... just listen to the SDP Chairman address the media...

lol... enough politics...

Argh, the links to the videos don't work... just go straight to the CNA website then and select the following videos for viewing... i swear it will be worth your while. btw, the SDP chairman's profession is a lawyer... I would never have guessed that...

29 Apr
WP's Gomez admits he did not submit form to Elections Dept (Molehill out of a mountain)

27 Apr
Chee Soon Juan denies plans by SDP to oust him (SDP Chairman)

24 Apr
Ahead of deadline, SDP says it won't apologise to PM and MM (More of the SDP Chairman)

01:02:03 04/05/06

Interesting Fact.........On The 4th of May, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 - That won't ever happen again in our lifetime. In fact it will be approx 400 generations before it happens again - May the 4th be with you !!!

lol.