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viernes, julio 15, 2005

[ 961. Blogging and its Issues ]

Today's uphill run was crraaaappp. =/ ok, well, after the recent excessive number of servicemen who perished, i guess some drastic measures such as cancelling all competitive events in today's uphill run has to be taken. Well, along with other measures (to which some i disagree with) that is now in place, i really hope nothing worse comes out man. Enough organisations is under enough scrutiny of the public eye. As if the general public has not enough to do.

Well, by the time we got to the top, it rained. Thank goodness for the walk, something that got me panting and sweating (finally) though i didn't run till the last portion. Hahahaha. Nonetheless, after messing around in the mess for another hour or two, we finally started on my recovery phase in two sub-phases. A two-man recce team, namely eric and myself went to check if the gate was unlocked. We went pass the open gate gladly and called the mainbody via commercial vhf comms. Nonetheless, somehow our dear boss got intercepted by big boss on the way down and decided to be a Woodlands United Socks Seller (interpret that yourself) and delayed his descent for about half an hour, short of calling us up again. When the prince finally got his arse to his car to release our bags, we were all too tired and just shared a cab back home.

Ok, enough of daily rants. Till now, this blog is somewhat like a ranting board to me instead of what i used to do with it. I'm getting lazier to even talk about current affairs, or even matters going on around me. Sometimes i just have much to say, but just plain lazy to type it down. Gosh, wonder what will ever happen to me once i step into this institution call the university.

Guess blogging, like journaling, requires its discipline. Just like how the dear mob spec takes pain in collecting all his mobstates from the various departments daily and religiously goes through every single detail in the documents, blogging is another form of art.... ok, maybe not art, but something else that requires such attention as well. Let's just take it as, it's not something that should be done shabbily.

Ok well. there's much furore over the nkf issue. Now let me add my two cents worth. Or rather, let me do what i always do: compile opinions that i've seen so far:

Some people said that mr durai was only exercising his rights and entitlements. Hence, he did no wrong. Ermm... these rights and entitlements were set down by the board of directors and i think i saw mr durai's name on the board as the secretary...?

Some people said that the someone who mentioned that the total annual income by mr durai was peanuts as compared to the amount he manages or even raised by nkf while nkf was under his charge. So i guess that means that 7-11 cashiers are entitled to a certain percentage of whatever is in the tills since they helped 7-11 to earn them...? Ok, that's just a blind parallel. But on a serious note, i guess what she said had certain sense in it. As a CEO of such an organisation, i guess he has indeed drawn a small amount in relative to other CEOs of other organisations in the global market of such a scale. Let's not talk in absolute terms, but think of it relatively to other corporations, then perhaps you think that it's not all dirty business after all.

Some people said that nkf should be more transparent in its handling. While i believe that certain things has been pretty vague to the general public, i for one has never heard that nkf was NOT a profit-making institution. No doubt, charity and business should never mix, and by mixing it you gonna get into some form of problems or another. But in the end... when you get too transparent, either you get people will start complaining that you are wasting too much public funds on such unnecessary things, or there are people who will start debating over some debatable issues and start making a hoo-haa like what we are always capable of doing.

Did anyone considered that what if nkf was ran by purely volunteers with no full time staff at all? is it going to attain the social status it has today as supposedly singapore's more successful charity? Perhaps not. And because of that, maybe tens or hundreds of kidney patients would have died over the past years, and more drained financially because of the absence of such an organisation.

Personally thinking, this issue is blown out of proportion. And if you looked at the cause of this whole saga carefully, things wouldn't be so ugly if our dear friend decides not to sue our friendly neighbourhood newspaper. And not to mention, getting free publicity (of at least 2 full pages DAILY). But what kind of publicity, you know it for yourself. This whole issue has even overshawdowed the ST 160th anniversary carhunting contest. Hahahaha. Welll... dammit. I didn't get all 35 letters. Haiz.

Enough of nkf issue. I think i should learn to be more of a team worker nowadays. Hahaha. Surprised? Actually not. Think i've been an irony all these while: i'm a sucker for company, yet i hate it when people come interfere with my work or what i'm doing. Let's just set the records straight: if i like your face and you as a person upon first impression, i will give the world to be your friend. But if you either piss me off the wrong way, or i simply (and unreasonably) don't like your face, just stay out of my sight. Even if you are nice to me, it won't work. Yeah. I'm pretty cool with most people, but i'm hard to get along with. Several friendships has changed over the months i guess. And many times i can't help but to feel that i'm at fault for the downhill turn of these friendships. Someone whom i got to know earlier this year in unit, somehow as we got to know each other better, realized that our idealogies, way we do things and etc are different. Result? Drifted apart. Especially after maple flag. Heck la.

There's this irritating ulcer, rather, few ULCERS in my mouth over the past weeks. In fact, ever since i got back from canada, ulcers has been invading my mouth incessantly. Under my tongue, on my lower lips... they are like on the left, then on the right then everywhere. They are driving me cashews. I mean, nuts. Argh.

ADSD COC parade is coming up soon. After a one year hiatus from parades, pretty surprised that my name came up, along with eric and aaron's. edward was no surprise. He should and he... oh well, never mind. Blog space is so precious that it should not be wasted on him. But then, the former three of us were the few left that hasn't kena any parades so far, so i guess it's only fair la huh. Nonetheless, it's pretty short: 5 days and the parade is over. So might as well la.

Nothing much else to update, except that now i'm using mom's laptop to DIALUP instead of using my broadband, i've been lazy to read blogs, especially graphic intensive ones. And as such, i won't bother uploading photos for the time being also. Just bear that in mind. Cheers.

Shannon left at 10:22 p. m..

gone.

will i be back?
i don't know.
maybe i've started elsewhere.
maybe never. again.

viernes, julio 15, 2005

[ 961. Blogging and its Issues ]

the guy

his wishes

his horizons

people.

tags

gone. will i be back? i don't know. maybe i've started elsewhere. maybe never. again.

viernes, julio 15, 2005

[ 961. Blogging and its Issues ]

the guy

his wishes

his horizons

people.

tags

gone.

will i be back?
i don't know.
maybe i've started elsewhere.
maybe never. again.