"... when uniforms, along with the no-makeup/no-dying-of-hair rules have been tossed out of the window.

You see girls limping up the road to school, because of shoes that look much better on a storefront than on an actual pair of human feet, for reasons of comfort. Girls inching forward uncomfortably because of skirts so short you wonder why they don’t just take them off instead. Girls limping up roads and inching forward uncomfortably because of shoes and skirts which don’t make any sense. Boys who think so highly of themselves they want to believe all these girls in uncomfortable shoes and skirts will want to shed them at their command.

It’s a circus in here." (August and Everything After)

At least there are no shrill, anorexic, chinese-speaking ah lians in SMU. I think.

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SMU conducts golf lessons. Wth?!

Conventional wisdom has it that there is an inverse relationship between equity and efficiency in an economy. Interestingly enough, though, the GINI coefficients of Japan, Denmark, Singapore and Brazil are 0.217, 0.247, 0.481 and 0.607 respectively (the lower the number, the more equality there is in that society).

Why do people like to wipe their faces with blue tracing paper (aka blotting paper) in public? They wouldn't dig their noses in public, I'm sure.

A girl brought a can of Nescafe coffee into the [NUS] lecture and wrote her name on it with liquid paper. Wth.


Chest challenged chicks ring in bigger breasts - "Hideto Tomabechi -- who first made headlines in Japan almost a decade ago after he cured brainwashed members of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult that unleashed deadly sarin gas on the Tokyo subway system -- claims to have developed a tune for ring tones that promises to increase the breast measurements of those who listen to it... 'I listened to the tune for a week expecting all the time that I was being duped... But, incredibly, my 87-centimeter bust grew to 89 centimeters! It was awesome!'"

Happy Tree Friends has released new episodes!: hard At Work (Workin' hard? Take a break!) and Wheelin and Dealin (Lifty and Shifty will steal your heart)

What is Troubled Times? - "Troubled Times is a group of volunteers helping each other prepare for the passage of the 12th Planet in 2003, and the resulting Pole Shift of the Earth."
I guess the 12th Planet got delayed by the Little Green Men