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Friday, July 15

t.o.w. the NKF fiasco

Ahh. Can it ever be clear?

Anyway. I'm freaking pissed at myself. My fucking com is fucked up such that whenever someone switches the user interface, the com will hang. So I stupidly left my com on while watching Joey and my dad (not that I'm blaming him) went to switch the user interface so my half-written entry was gone. URGH. I hate my com. But I guess its a blessing in disguise. That entry would have been the epitome of anger and hatred.

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But to sum up about what happened yesterday, I just don't understand how people can quarrel one minute and then just sit down and pretend nothing ever happened and become all loving again. It is an amazingly stupid show of pretence. Something I'm not prepared to participated in. Oh well. Whatever.

Anyway, I just downloaded Skype so I can talk to my sis when she is overseas. Haha. Its a really really cool program. Haha. Hmm, the world is really getting smaller and smaller. Its a real wonder. So add me on Skype if you have it! I'm ken0203.

Hmm. Was blog-hopping and I found timmo's blog. Its superly funny. Its the most entertaining blog I've ever been too. Hmm. Its damn weird lah, I don't talk to him nor say hi at all during school. This is not good, we are after all, team-mates. Hmm. I shall make it a point to be a little more proactive and add him on msn or something. Went bowling today with Zhiyong, Janice and Yanchen. Haha. I've always thought Yanchen a true blue singaporean so imagine my immense revelation when I found out shes from China. Hmm. Haha. Oh. I forgot to say we bowled with Brian and Yiling too. But you cannot blame me because they were almost non-existant. They came for one game, bowled and left. Tsk. They made us waited for damn long too, long enough for us to come up with designer dinner-tablepieces. Haha. Janice and myself made a bet on something and the wager was a nugget. But by the time Brian and Yiling came and the result of the bet made known, the nugget was freakishly cold and it seemed like I came off the winning wager worse. Oh yah, it was also damn cold in the alley. I was freezing my butt off. Hmm. A common expression yet I wonder how that could happen. Where does your butt detach? Do you just stand up and see an ass on the chair? Or do you look down and realise you no longer have a behind? Interesting.

AHHH. Stupid mixed signals. Then again, given the optimist that I am, they are probably just figments of my imagination. But after imagining so many good things happening to me and none of them coming close, I think its high time the tide changes. =) Maybe tommorow? Maybe never? I DON'T KNOW.

Oh. I wanted to blog about how I'm starting to like GP. Haha. I actually think LimYS is a good teacher. I mean its quite sad when you try so hard to be funny but no one gets you. Haha. At least I think she knows her stuff, she may not always put it across in a funny way that gets the lame asses laughing, but its quite intellectually-provoking. Shes a long way off LokeLF though. Haha. That said, GP lessons these days are getting more and more interesting. Like today she was discussing the NKF fiasco. A couple months back she was talking about the casino saga. So it's obvious shes making it a point to make sure we are well-informed. Good on her then. Hmm. To the NKF fiasco, while I don't agree with how the board spends the money, I don't think I can blame them entirely for doing so. I mean, if you have that much spare money and you have such a great CEO (so I read) then I guess it wouldnt harm too much to be paying him a little more. I mean, he deserves it if he is working day and night for the comfort of all kidney patients. And given how NKF is expanding its scope of care to the cancer patients and kids, I really don't see the crux here. But what bothers me is how they already have so much in reserves and yet are not only raising funds but upping the ante and pace on fundraiser events. Like, how many NKF shows are there a year? I sometimes wonder what Mediacorp artistes' real jobs are. To act in shows, host or to "risk their lives" at "dangerous stunts". Perhaps both. For after performing those dangerous stunts, they come out to say how hard they have been practicing and how much they care for and pity these patients. While we do note that they are putting in a lot of effort, lets not forget their actual day job. So yes! Another thing that bothers me is how the NKF is using KIDS to raise funds in a very mean way. I was a victim before so I know how this goes. It all starts in P4 (or maybe even earlier now) where a student is deemed to be responsible for monetary donations. As such, they are handed little pocket booklets with an envelope attached and they are then "encouraged" to raise as much funds as possible. They then pocket the booklet into their already weighted bag and trudge home. They then give it to their parents and ask them to help them with the donations. Family, friends, anyone. Who can resist that impish little grin on that cute kid's face? So with money-ladden envelopes, the kids trudge back to school, eager to show their "contributions" to society to the teacher that everyone aims to please. Once that initial step is done, YOU are done. From then on, based on that initial sum that you collected, the NKF then "encourages" you to raise $50 more each year. When you are in primary school, you are easy prey. In secondary school, they send emails and call you up to hound you and have sweet-sounding aunties asking you why you would not like to participate anymore. And so in order to avoid them, you agree to recieving another booklet this year and when you put down the reciever, you tell yourself this is the last time only to realise this is the 10th time this has occured. This is a Non-Kidding Fact . This is the Naive Kids Fund.

In order to protect my blog and much more importantly, my life, "the above is nothing but figments of my imagination and is here solely for entertainment purposes. any unintended defamation to any party is not part of the authors agenda."

Right. I'm about done. Tennis tommorow! I am a lark.


kenn thwacked an asshat munchkin' at 9:55 PM