Wednesday, December 10, 2003 09:02 p.m.

and so should you. update links guys cos' i'm now at
http://alvin-.blogspot.com
:D

Sunday, December 7, 2003 11:15 p.m.

Drink plenty of water. No fried food, heaty nonsense.
Rest lots.
See a doctor if the symptoms ensue, or if you want a quick remedy.


Goodnight.

dont say a word
i know you feel the same
just give me a sign
say anything, say anything.

Saturday, December 6, 2003 11:58 p.m.

Tired! Sats was a horrible experience but an experience nonetheless. Hope I do well enough to be satisfied with my score -> don't need to go through it again.

Was seated at the frontmost corner of the hall at the No. 1 position because silly me put Alvin as surname.
The "4 letters of last name and initial your first name" looked something like ALVI L.
like wth. it'd better not be printed like that on my cert.

tired now goodnight.

Thursday, December 4, 2003 11:18 p.m.

Can you feel the cold tonight?
It sets in but it's alright
Darkness falls I'm letting go
All alone but I feel fine

Did I live it right?
I hope I lived it right..
The day that I die.

Thursday, December 4, 2003 09:41 p.m.

spend a great deal of time hanging out with friends today which is always a good thing.

ruggers. ah, they are just people you can count on for a good time. had training in the morning with blackburn's modified touch rugby and then a weights session.
slacked at the netball court just doing kicks and catches and stupid counter-attacking moves. missed ALL my catches today. confidence problem have to work on that.

went to ghim moh for lunch crap-crap-crap about rugby. then to alvin tan's house to SLACKK woo~. his house rox btw. raided his fridge watched david get whipped in winning eleven (ok he's not bad, better than me! but still lose hehe. mebbe cos he choose KOREA lolx.)

went to town to watch Love Actually, which actually is a really good show. Funny & Sweet story line. Not as unbelievable as Turn Left, Turn Right but v sweet how all the couples get together in the end. It also had it's fair share of funny scenes and totally hilarious ones and ridiculous ones. Brit humour.

So, pls go watch all.

Finally, here is a nice song recommended by TAN: Day that I Die by Good Charlotte.

Thursday, December 4, 2003 12:17 a.m.

Saturday, 22nd of February at 7.30pm (2003)

This is the riveting story about the battle for the presidency in Florida, made by Richard Ray Pérez and Joan Sekler. From the moments the polls opened in Florida, it was painfully clear that something was wrong. While the media seized on the controversy surrounding the poorly designed “butterfly ballot”, much larger civil rights abuses were overlooked. Focusing on election day, as well as events leading up to it, Unprecedented examines a suspicious pattern of irregularities, injustices and voter purges – all in a state governed by the winning candidate’s brother.

One of the first indications that something was wrong came early on election day. Thousands of African-Americans who had voted in previous elections discovered their names were missing from the voter rolls. Investigators later uncovered an elaborate strategy that purged thousands of Democratic voters from the rolls. These voters were disproportionately African-American. It appeared that Governor Jeb Bush, Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, and other Republican state officials ordered the manipulation of a list of former felons to include thousands of legitimate voters who had no criminal history. In Florida, ex-felony offenders lose their right to vote. The manipulation of this list denied thousands of legitimate voters of their franchise. In an election that was determined by 537 votes, these purged voters would have reversed the outcome.

The drama of the 2000 election had other chapters too. The day after the election, a startling picture emerged. George W Bush was ahead by a razor-thin margin. In addition, a disquieting number of ballots – 175,000 – were unread by counting machines. The normal procedure in such situations is to conduct a manual recount. However, no complete recount was ever conducted. Instead, there was a 36-day battle – among state officials, in the courts and in the streets. The Bush campaign was determined to stop any recount, while the Gore campaign petitioned for manual recounts in four counties. In one of these counties, Miami-Dade, Republican staffers from around the country staged an unruly protest. That protest intimidated election officials and they abandoned the recount.

Meanwhile, a remarkable courtroom drama played out. Attorneys for Al Gore appealed to the Florida Supreme Court, which eventually ordered a manual recount of the state’s votes. In turn, the Bush team went directly to the federal courts aiming ultimately for the US Supreme Court. In the end, the US Supreme Court overruled the Florida Court, halting the recount and casting doubt on the outcome of the 2000 presidential election.

A year later, a consortium of US media organisations published results of an exhaustive study of Florida’s 175,000 unread ballots. The consortium concluded that had all these ballots been counted, Al Gore would be the 43rd President of the United States.

haha.. no bush = no war = many problems the world is facing now = solved? no one will know?
just wondering what if.

Wednesday, December 3, 2003 05:36 p.m.

went to open the windows in the morning and to my surprise the house opposite mine was crawling with policemen.
there was even one guy dusting the windows for fingerprints.
apparently there had been a break in the night before. gah, idiot architects who construct their walls so low and windows with no grills.

Inviting trouble.

Sunday, November 30, 2003 11:44 a.m.

having a conversation online with a friend when he mysteriously brought this up:

can ya find me a chiobu.
dun need too tall.. but not short. frail pls... and long hair. dun need very chio.. can be really cute. and mus be able ta hold a conversation.. be sharp and witty. and be independent. preferably poetic and smart.

Ten dollars for his name.

Friday, November 28, 2003 10:36 p.m.

today was another day that I will just forget come a month later.
spent the morning lazing around and reading a bit of some magazines I have lying around the house
met mark at clark quay and went to help his band do some filming (MTV!) for an audition video tape.
they have new songs! comrade dave fans be alerted! :)

met up with yq and zy for master & commander, which as much as I would like to praise falls a bit short of my expectations, especially what everyone has made it out to be.
(like how revolutions was overhyped)
anyway, it's still a movie worth watching.

during the movie I was talking to zy a bit loudly so this grown up sitting to my left turned and said
"excuse me, do you have a problem".
at the moment I was stunned and pretty embarassed so I managed to say "no" and immediately shut up.
So on the way home I was thinking, what is the best way to shut this guy up (aka, which is the best way to answer: Excuse me, do you have a problem?)

some of the various options that came to my mind immediately. e.g. jump on the guy and beat him up, answer "No, but if you don't shut up I WILL have one" or "Yes." or "Ni Shuo Shen Me? Wo Ting Bu Dong Ni Zai Jiang Shen Me"..

what would YOU say to someone who tells you off like that? TAG PLS!!