(because of the bad spelling and grammar, of course)
L'origine de Bert
Monday, March 12, 2012
This made me cringe
(because of the bad spelling and grammar, of course)
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A reason to read Pioneer Magazine
@POZboySG: I read Pioneer magazine not for its lame as hell contents, its because their pictures are homoerotic. Mmm
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Observations - 12th March 2012
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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If you have dua lumpah, you're gonna have tia kar when I plump myself down next to you on the seat.
You can't connect the dots looking backwards if you're dead.
Why does Kickapoo come in both caffine and no-caffeine versions? Packaged similarly to boot.
Somehow caffeine is most effective at night when I'm trying to sleep. (this dates from a different day)
Me: People who inspire me: Marquis de Sade, Leonardo da Vinci, Epicurus, Salman Rushdie, Socrates, Nietzsche, Gou Jian
Someone: Marquis de Sade? ;))). No shit.
Someone else: no, shit
"I think Gabriel's moobs are a good proxy for many slim Asian girls ;P And definitely more hilarious"
Moral clarity means you're blind to subtleties and complications.
Why is it generally alright (even praiseworthy) to dress up in the garb of another race or culture, but not to makeup your body and face to look like them (e.g. blackface)? (I asked this on Quora but wasn't satisfied with the answers)
The moment someone says "cisgender" or "kyriarchy", it's time to run away (even more so than "privilege"). (Someone: "it sounds like cyst-gender. ugh.")
What's the point of sending me an email if you call me 1 second later?
Not sure why people bother to lie in autoreplies. "Thank you for your email". Yeah right.
RT @Notorious_QRG: Feminists remember kiddies, are the ones who build 'safe spaces' where nasty patriarchy cant get them. And then 'invade' others' 'space'
"authentic relationships of love and friendship are only possible between individuals who do not depend on each other or stand in unequal power relations." (this is from Sweden, naturally)
Someone: "i am appalled to learn that the first 25 years of relationships of love with my parents were not authentic. no, this must be a lie."
RT: @FUCKIPEDIA: I just asked my little girl if she knew what happens to girls that don't eat their food.
She said "They turn in to supermodels."
Touché.
RT @lupcheong: My new ambition as a SG guy is not to be able to afford a flat with $1k salary; it's to have $97K to lose to a blackmail. (on this story)
RT @thewritertype It's outrageous how Google can now profit from exploiting all my most personal data. Who do they think they are, Facebook?
"Did you know that 54% of women would prefer to be hit by a truck than be fat?"
RT: @yongfook: @Xiaxue social media witch-hunt mentality. it's scary. we talk way more about the bad shit people do than their positive achievements.
"Whenever I get asked by a girl if they can punch my stomach because I have abs, I'm tempted to reply with: 'Can I touch your chest because you have boobs?'"
RT: @shanethevein: Fuck tweeting like no one is watching. Tweet like you're trying to get unfollowed.
RT @pingpingss: Being an expert in social media is like being an expert at taking the bread out of the refrigerator.
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If you have dua lumpah, you're gonna have tia kar when I plump myself down next to you on the seat.
You can't connect the dots looking backwards if you're dead.
Why does Kickapoo come in both caffine and no-caffeine versions? Packaged similarly to boot.
Somehow caffeine is most effective at night when I'm trying to sleep. (this dates from a different day)
Me: People who inspire me: Marquis de Sade, Leonardo da Vinci, Epicurus, Salman Rushdie, Socrates, Nietzsche, Gou Jian
Someone: Marquis de Sade? ;))). No shit.
Someone else: no, shit
"I think Gabriel's moobs are a good proxy for many slim Asian girls ;P And definitely more hilarious"
Moral clarity means you're blind to subtleties and complications.
Why is it generally alright (even praiseworthy) to dress up in the garb of another race or culture, but not to makeup your body and face to look like them (e.g. blackface)? (I asked this on Quora but wasn't satisfied with the answers)
The moment someone says "cisgender" or "kyriarchy", it's time to run away (even more so than "privilege"). (Someone: "it sounds like cyst-gender. ugh.")
What's the point of sending me an email if you call me 1 second later?
Not sure why people bother to lie in autoreplies. "Thank you for your email". Yeah right.
RT @Notorious_QRG: Feminists remember kiddies, are the ones who build 'safe spaces' where nasty patriarchy cant get them. And then 'invade' others' 'space'
"authentic relationships of love and friendship are only possible between individuals who do not depend on each other or stand in unequal power relations." (this is from Sweden, naturally)
Someone: "i am appalled to learn that the first 25 years of relationships of love with my parents were not authentic. no, this must be a lie."
RT: @FUCKIPEDIA: I just asked my little girl if she knew what happens to girls that don't eat their food.
She said "They turn in to supermodels."
Touché.
RT @lupcheong: My new ambition as a SG guy is not to be able to afford a flat with $1k salary; it's to have $97K to lose to a blackmail. (on this story)
RT @thewritertype It's outrageous how Google can now profit from exploiting all my most personal data. Who do they think they are, Facebook?
"Did you know that 54% of women would prefer to be hit by a truck than be fat?"
RT: @yongfook: @Xiaxue social media witch-hunt mentality. it's scary. we talk way more about the bad shit people do than their positive achievements.
"Whenever I get asked by a girl if they can punch my stomach because I have abs, I'm tempted to reply with: 'Can I touch your chest because you have boobs?'"
RT: @shanethevein: Fuck tweeting like no one is watching. Tweet like you're trying to get unfollowed.
RT @pingpingss: Being an expert in social media is like being an expert at taking the bread out of the refrigerator.
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Sunday, March 11, 2012
Australia 2011 - Day 7, Part 1 - Alice Springs Desert Park
"It is a wise father that knows his own child." - William Shakespeare
***
Australia 2011
Day 7 - 4th August - Alice Springs Desert Park (Part 1)
The previous day I'd been walking around the supermarket, and the guy a the counter remarked (when I chose a Schweppes brown cream soda - only the colour was different: the taste was the same) "you've been here for ages".
I said it was interesting walking around supermarkets, and he said "fair enough".
I noted my amusement at poppy seeds being illegal in Singapore, even in food, as well as their very strict alcohol policy. In other parts of Australia one could get alcohol off the shelf. I ask if it was because of the aborigines, and he admitted - almost shamefully - that this was why alcohol was so controlled.
In the morning we went to Anzac Hill.
Sunrise
"Lest We Forget" - War Memorial
The memorial contains the ashes of the guy who dedicated it - Rev Harry Griffiths.
Places they've been
If the UK deposes the Queen, will she come to Australia to live?
On Anzac Hill
"Alice Springs - Centre of the Australian Outback"
Landscape of Alice Springs
I didn't know they'd been to Vietnam - Australia was the US's bitch further back than I'd thought.
A very plain Alice Springs (in my notes I called it "damn ugly" but I've decided to upgrade it)
Green birds
Other bird
We then drove a short way to Alice Springs Desert Park, to learn more about (and see) the various terrains of the Outback.
"Look Lock Leave"
Another disgusting example of victim-blaming. Looks like Australia has a car theft culture too.
Map of Park
The visit opened with some movie on the landscape, which had a very impressive finisher:
Alice Springs Desert Park show - end
This is the funny tool that was demonstrated to us at Ayer's Rock
For some reason the translations of the legend on the map amused me
Australia has more lizards than anywhere in the world.
I was quite impressed by their molding the net around the tree.
Princess Parrot, Budgerigar. I think there should also be a Cinnamon Quail Thrush here, but I can't see it.
River Red Gums. When you see them you know it's wet, since they need the most water of all the trees in the desert park.
Frogs here burrow because it's hot and dry.
White faced heron
Red tailed black cockatoo
Walking through fauna area: this is a "Watering Hole"
Bird in water: White faced heron again
Desert rainbow fish
Signs of Underground Water
Dry rivers have water underneath
When the water rushes through rivers in the desert it leaves marks on trees, so you can see the level of the last flood.
Fruit Salad Bush. It can substitute for Vicks Vapour Rub. I can't imagine having Vicks in my salad. These Australians are strange.
A picture of "Lake Disappointment"
The name is awesome:
"Lake Disappointment was named by the explorer Frank Hann in 1897. Hann was in the area exploring the east Pilbara, around Rudall River. He noticed creeks in the area flowed inland, and followed them expecting to find a large fresh water lake. To his disappointment the lake turned out to be salt, and subsequently it got its name of Lake Disappointment"
Bourke's Parrot
Salt Lake
Black-faced woodswallow
Termites
Termite Mound
I looked at them but didn't see any
Spinifex - very hardy, very flammable
"Hello. I'm Alexis the Spinifex Hopping Mouse"
"Five Ways to Stay Alive"
"The Aboriginal person depicted in this photograph has recently passed away.
Family members, according to tradition, have asked for the image to be removed from public viewing."
This is probably why they don't like having photos taken of them. I can imagine that this is a large barrier making people reluctant to use photographs of aborigines in material for public consumption. Yet, this makes their culture less visible than it would otherwise be, and so perpetuates its marginalisation.
A more subtle grammatical error than usual: "Today, the larger animals are still hunted with rifles and vehicles rather than foot-walking, spears and boomerangs"
Some roads had "TCE" in their names. I just found out that means "terrace".
Australians like to abbreviate words. Breakfast becomes "brekkie", McDonald's becomes "Maccas" and lipstick becomes "lippy". There's something very infantile about this pattern of abbreviation, where long words are shortened into snappy slang, exhibiting clear and distinct patterns of repetition and/or diminution: mama, papa, gee-gee, moo-moo, nums nums and wee wee being examples of baby talk.
***
Australia 2011
Day 7 - 4th August - Alice Springs Desert Park (Part 1)
The previous day I'd been walking around the supermarket, and the guy a the counter remarked (when I chose a Schweppes brown cream soda - only the colour was different: the taste was the same) "you've been here for ages".
I said it was interesting walking around supermarkets, and he said "fair enough".
I noted my amusement at poppy seeds being illegal in Singapore, even in food, as well as their very strict alcohol policy. In other parts of Australia one could get alcohol off the shelf. I ask if it was because of the aborigines, and he admitted - almost shamefully - that this was why alcohol was so controlled.
In the morning we went to Anzac Hill.
Sunrise
"Lest We Forget" - War Memorial
The memorial contains the ashes of the guy who dedicated it - Rev Harry Griffiths.
Places they've been
If the UK deposes the Queen, will she come to Australia to live?
On Anzac Hill
"Alice Springs - Centre of the Australian Outback"
Landscape of Alice Springs
I didn't know they'd been to Vietnam - Australia was the US's bitch further back than I'd thought.
A very plain Alice Springs (in my notes I called it "damn ugly" but I've decided to upgrade it)
Green birds
Other bird
We then drove a short way to Alice Springs Desert Park, to learn more about (and see) the various terrains of the Outback.
"Look Lock Leave"
Another disgusting example of victim-blaming. Looks like Australia has a car theft culture too.
Map of Park
The visit opened with some movie on the landscape, which had a very impressive finisher:
Alice Springs Desert Park show - end
This is the funny tool that was demonstrated to us at Ayer's Rock
For some reason the translations of the legend on the map amused me
Australia has more lizards than anywhere in the world.
I was quite impressed by their molding the net around the tree.
Princess Parrot, Budgerigar. I think there should also be a Cinnamon Quail Thrush here, but I can't see it.
River Red Gums. When you see them you know it's wet, since they need the most water of all the trees in the desert park.
Frogs here burrow because it's hot and dry.
White faced heron
Red tailed black cockatoo
Walking through fauna area: this is a "Watering Hole"
Bird in water: White faced heron again
Desert rainbow fish
Signs of Underground Water
Dry rivers have water underneath
When the water rushes through rivers in the desert it leaves marks on trees, so you can see the level of the last flood.
Fruit Salad Bush. It can substitute for Vicks Vapour Rub. I can't imagine having Vicks in my salad. These Australians are strange.
A picture of "Lake Disappointment"
The name is awesome:
"Lake Disappointment was named by the explorer Frank Hann in 1897. Hann was in the area exploring the east Pilbara, around Rudall River. He noticed creeks in the area flowed inland, and followed them expecting to find a large fresh water lake. To his disappointment the lake turned out to be salt, and subsequently it got its name of Lake Disappointment"
Bourke's Parrot
Salt Lake
Black-faced woodswallow
Termites
Termite Mound
I looked at them but didn't see any
Spinifex - very hardy, very flammable
"Hello. I'm Alexis the Spinifex Hopping Mouse"
"Five Ways to Stay Alive"
"The Aboriginal person depicted in this photograph has recently passed away.
Family members, according to tradition, have asked for the image to be removed from public viewing."
This is probably why they don't like having photos taken of them. I can imagine that this is a large barrier making people reluctant to use photographs of aborigines in material for public consumption. Yet, this makes their culture less visible than it would otherwise be, and so perpetuates its marginalisation.
A more subtle grammatical error than usual: "Today, the larger animals are still hunted with rifles and vehicles rather than foot-walking, spears and boomerangs"
Some roads had "TCE" in their names. I just found out that means "terrace".
Australians like to abbreviate words. Breakfast becomes "brekkie", McDonald's becomes "Maccas" and lipstick becomes "lippy". There's something very infantile about this pattern of abbreviation, where long words are shortened into snappy slang, exhibiting clear and distinct patterns of repetition and/or diminution: mama, papa, gee-gee, moo-moo, nums nums and wee wee being examples of baby talk.
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