Have you ever watched “The Mist”, the movie that is based on Stephen King’s novella? Well, I’m not a fan of horror movie. Not because I’m scared, but because I will end up hating the characters in horror films. Why? It’s because they always make the characters in horror movies very slow and stupid. For example, the most typical scenario they have in a horror movie is when the character knows there’s something or someone dangerous looking for them and they heard a noise, they will somehow inevitably try to see who or what is making that noise. Well, I think “The Mist” have too many typical horror movie scenarios. Although I like the story line, inevitably, I ended up hating the characters by the end of the movies. So I’ve compiled 50 things I learned from the movie, “The Mist”.

Warning!! What you’re about to read will contain a lot of spoilers. Make sure you’ve watched the movie first before reading the 50 points below. If you haven’t watched the movie, most likely you don’t know what I’m talking about. And if you take the following 50 points seriously, you seriously need to see a humor doctor.

1.       In time of disaster, stay close to the supermarket.

2.       When your enemy neighbor’s car got smashed up, tell him you’re sorry because it was a cheery car.

3.       Don’t live near a military base.

4.       When you see a lot of military personnel being mobilized after a freak storm, ignore them.

5.       Always park as close to the supermarket as possible. Just in case.

6.       A large man’s jacket is not good enough to cover your small child as a blanket; always go into the dark loading dock to find something better even though you know something freaky is going on.

7.       Don’t listen to your car mechanic when its not car related.

8.       If a kid is being dragged out into a killer mist by a tentacle you should at no point offer any form of assistance, merely sit back and let two other guys fail at saving him.

9.       Send a kid out to fix the generator, and if he dies that’s okay because he’s supposed to be stupid.

10.   When there is a giant monster attacking you, it doesn’t necessarily mean there will be Japanese people yelling Godzilla!

11.   After a monster devour a fifty pound bag of dog food, pile lots of dog food bags at the front door.

12.   It is important to file a report on employees drinking in the workplace under any circumstance.

13.   If you think there’s nothing outside that can harm you and it’s all a lie or joke, the best way to prove it is to stay inside the supermarket and seek to be rescued.

14.   If you poke a chopped off tentacle, it will turn into liquid.

15.   Short dorky guys with half-inch thick glasses are inexplicably much better shots than military personnel.

16.   When trapped in a supermarket with a religious freak, lock her in a room.

17.   The best way to psychologically traumatize your son is to bludgeon an otherworldly pterodactyl to death in front of him with a flaming mop.

18.   Some childproof lighters can be adult proof too and take a few nice minutes to light

19.   If you're being attacked by a swarm of creatures attracted to light, run around yelling “turn out the lights!" while turning on lights and starting fires.

20.   When an insect didn’t bite you when you’re not threatening it, can be interpreted as divine intervention.

21.   If you don’t know what to do in any circumstances, scream as loud as you can.

22.   The medicine aisle in the grocery store will have everything except what you need.

23.   It’s okay for the religious nut to accuse people of stealing food even though she didn't have a receipt for the bottle of milk she was drinking.

24.   If you’re a in a military and something went wrong, go AWOL in the supermarket and make out with the cashier girl.

25.   Being a teenager and making out in the back room will inevitably wind up getting you killed, just like in every Friday the 13th and Halloween movie featuring teenagers making out.

26.   Parallel universes are foggy.

27.   Never piss off an old lady with canned vegetables.

28.   Giant alien monsters only prefer the TOP half of a human, the bottom they leave for ground crawlers.

29.   Pharmacies sells comic book.

30.   When you go through all the risk to the pharmacy to get medications for the sick, the first thing to grab is the comic book.

31.   When you know aliens are out there hunting you and you hear weird noises, make sure you check it out before you start running.

32.   When you know aliens are looking for you and if you happen to walk into a room full of human beings wrapped in cobwebs, stick around and lean against it.

33.   You'll still be able to keep screaming even after alien insects are bursting out of your skin.

34.   When you see an alien spider the size of a Rottweiler trying to attack you from a few inches away, stay still and scream as loud as you can.

35.   When you see your friend about to be attack by an alien spider the size of a Rottweiler and he’s staying still while screaming as loud as he can, shoot the god damn spider.

36.   Getting sprayed with acid on your upper thigh is somehow fatal and will kill you in less than a minute.

37.   When you’re back at the supermarket, your friend who were about to be attacked by the alien spider the size of a Rottweiler just now will be a religious nut and will try to kill you.

38.   If your military buddies tell you they're going to hang themselves, take them seriously.

39.   If you’re in the military, it’s always your fault.

40.   If you tell the military personnel it’s his fault, he will cry.

41.   If you’re a religious nut and trapped in a supermarket, someone will shoot you in the head.

42.   When you see a giant monster behind your friend, don’t tell him to run but just look at him in horror.

43.   When your friend is looking at you in horror for something behind you that might have scared them, turn very slowly to see what it is.

44.   Once you're inside a Toyota Land Cruiser, monsters will stop trying to eat you.

45.   When there are aliens outside and you open the car door to reach the gun in front of the car, scream very loudly.

46.   Always hang around in the car first before starting the car to get away from the aliens.

47.   Drive very slowly in-front of the crowds that were trying to kill you.

48.   When you ran out of fuel, wait 5 minutes then shoot your son.

49.   Before you shoot your son, make sure he wakes up to see that his father has betrayed him.

50.   A military convoy is silent until you see them.

Ok that’s lame. It’s lame because we’re playing games which aren’t invented in Singapore. And that sucks because it just shows that Singapore just takes in whatever the outside is bringing in.

We need Singapore Olympic Games for Growing Youths (S.O.G.G.Y)!!

We need to have our very own Olympic. And Olympic that speaks for itself the true name of Singapore. Then we mutate this immune system into a virus that can attack other countries and people will play games invented in Singapore. That’s the goal. Infect other countries with the Singapore virus.

We need a game!!

No, we don’t need a game. We need quite a few games. Some of the games that I can think of which speaks the true name of Singapore:-

The Hawker Chop Seat Tissue Race

Participants, Dress Code & Equipments

1. Each participant will receive a brand of tissue paper, different from the other participant.
2. This is to distinguish who owns which tissue paper.
3. Both the male & female participants have to wear formal. Guys with tie.

Rules

In this game, athletes will compete against each other, armed with numerous packets of tissue paper. They will have to put tissue paper on the seat of the table at a designated hawker centre as quickly and as many as they can. The end result is the whole hawker centre’s seat will have 1 packet of tissue paper. Judges will then count, who placed the most tissue paper and the participant who managed to put the most packet of tissue paper throughout the hawker centre’s seat will win.

Risks Involved

Hawker centre can be quite slippery, sometimes with chicken bones from the hainanese ‘boneless’ chicken rice stall may be lying around. Participants will have to be careful of that.

The Text Book Relay

Participants, Dress Code & Equipments

1. One kid below the age of 12
2. One Mother
3. One Maid
4. Dress code is pretty much casual.
5. Maids wear their traditional maids’ uniform. (T-shirt, shorts and slippers)
6. The kids have to be in full school uniform. (Tucked in short sleeve shirt and shorts)
7. 2^nd hand text book of all primary school subjects will be dump inside random boxes. (2^nd Hand book store)

Rules

This is a more family oriented and team game because this involves the whole family (The dad is always working, so he’s not a part of the family anymore). Each team will be randomly issued a school timetable. To be fair, the ‘home’ will be a centralized designated place.

All 3 members of the team have to run to the bookstore and collect all textbook relevant to the subjects in their issued timetable. The mums have to pass the book to the maid so the maid can put it in the bag. The maids have to carry the bag to home. The mums then have to remove all the irrelevant books from today’s timetable. This means what’s left in the bag are the books which are for today’s class. The maid and the kid have to run to the school gate. The maids still have to carry the bag. Upon reaching the school gate, the maids have to pass the bag to the kid. The kid then have to run to the parade square to assemble for flag raising ceremony.

Which kid reach first get 50 points. All books collected are relevant to the subjects get 25 points. Only relevant books for today in the kid’s bag will get 25 points. Those who get the most points win.

The Taxi Race

Have this ever happened to you? You were driving on the left most lanes, listening to the radio in your car, whistling to the tune of the song, just one hand on the steering coz the other hand is holding a hand phone, then suddenly a taxi swerve into your lane without signaling then stop immediately to pick up a passenger!! Then you have to make sure you throw your hand phone on the passenger seat and not the floor, then emergency brake. This always happens I know. This is by far the most dangerous Singapore Olympic Games ever.

Equipments

Each participant will get to drive the classic Toyota Crown Comfort.

Rules

Participants will have to do as much traffic violation and collect as much demerit points (When you do a traffic violation in Singapore, you will get demerit points. If you ran out of demerit points, your license will be suspended) as they can without crashing while also be able to complete all the checkpoints that will be placed in the oddest places ever. This will test the ability of the participant how well they know the roads and point of interest.

The checkpoints location will be as follows:-

1. Race will start at Woodlands Checkpoint
2. Hot water spring at Gambas avenue
3. Chua Chu Kang Cemetery
4. Jurong Island
5. West Coast Park
6. Holland Village
7. Institute of mental health @ Woodbridge hospital
8. Punggol Point
9. Pasir Ris Park Costa Sands
10. Changi Village
11. Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal
12. Bedok Jetty
13. Geylang Lorong 22
14. Singapore Flyer
15. Mustapha Centre
16. Desker Road
17. Mandai Zoo
18. Singapore Turf Club
19. Back to Checkpoint

So what’s the conclusion this time?

No conclusion. Bye…

I've found out something. Before a terrorist actually becomes one, they always start with something. Probably they like to burst a balloon or shoot catapult when they were 5 years old, is a question mark but one thing I know for sure. Before someone actually becomes a terrorist, there are steps they will take. They will always starts with wrong teachings and then they become an extremist, finally, they will become a terrorist.

Brutal Truth
In case you want to know, wrong religious teaching or wrong religious teaching methods are almost everywhere. It doesn’t matter if they teach the right thing like, “God don’t want us to kill” but it does matter when it comes to the wrong teaching methods. The most common teaching methods, sadly enough are to inflict the fear in god. I bet a lot of you will be against me on this one because rationally, why do you have to fear your creator? Your mother gave birth to you. Should you be afraid of her or should you respect her? The infliction of fear on anyone towards anything is an act of creating weaknesses & flaws for a person.

Example Concept
You’re afraid of mouse. So I take a mouse, and dangle it in-front of you. I tell you to eat thai peppers (cili padi) or I’ll shove the mouse in your shirt. Would you eat it? There’s no answer to this, because it’s subjective to how tolerable a person is towards his/her fear. But unfortunately most people are intolerable towards their fear. Therefore, most people who’re afraid of mouse and experiencing this situation will eat the peppers. If you respect the creature, you can simply take it away from my hand and feed it a jar of peanuts.

Myth
Media has it that those suicide bombers are promised 72 virgins in heaven when they die for god. But the fact is, not a lot of people would want to blow themselves up just because they can have 72 virgins in heaven. So to put it rationally, it’s not rational at all.

The truth and root of it all is, they fear god. And by this means, they can easily be manipulated into doing these things.

Note
I’ve watched and received all sorts of videos, stories of horror and coincidental incidents claiming that it is all from God and I should pray to him and be afraid of him. This is both hypocritical and contradicting at the same time. If they believe in god, thus they believe in fate. If fate is upon us, then we can’t decide our fate. If we can’t decide our fate, why should we bother reading their ever so fateful stories?

A lot of these stories are being circulated in emails. Just ignore and delete them the next time you receive them. They who forward those emails are not in a position to decide your fate. Sometimes my instinct tells me that these stories are created by the extremist themselves or other religions so they can either reverse psychology you or inflict the fear of god on you and then sooner or later without realizing, you’ll be serving for the so call ‘Jihad’.

My 2 cents on Mujahideen in Iraq
Mujahideen has been portrait by the media as a terrorist. In my opinion, they’re not terrorists but they’re defenders of their religion and their land. The US army comes to their country and instead of saying hello, they start shooting and destroying mosques. So the Mujahideen instead of saying, “Welcome to Iraq” they start shooting too. It is a typical thing of what everyone does to protect their country. It’s a natural instinct, just the same as poking a hornet’s nest. They’re not terrorists; they’re just forcing America to go home to their lovely wife and kids. Leave Iraq alone. Let them be whatever. It’s their ‘fate’ anyway.

Disclaimer
My entry is by no way determined that I am choosing sides. I’ve tried my best to give an unbiased point of view with the knowledge, experience and sufficient research being made before posting so as not to portray false information.

Peace; No War

I may be 24 years old but I know how the world works.

Well, for most of you, you’re about to receive your so call 13th month bonus in right about next month. What’s the deal with 13th month bonus anyway? Do you really think it is a bonus? Why do you think some people prefer to receive weekly pay without 13th month bonus?

It’s very simple actually. The answer is that your 13th month bonus is not a bonus at all. It’s basically your 1 month pay. YES!! YOUR paycheck!! Why? If you can count properly, there are exactly 52 weeks in 1 year. Normally company pays you monthly. There are 12 months in a year. There are 4 weeks in a month. So 4 weeks multiply by 12 months, you get 48 weeks. So you’re paid for 48 weeks but the fact is that there are 52 weeks in a year.

So, where did your another 4 weeks/1 month pay goes? It goes into what they call it, your 13th month bonus.

To summarize, you’re actually underpaid for a whole 11 months!! Then give you back on the last month of the year.
SO!!! If you don’t get your 13th month bonus, you better have 96days of leave a year or find another job that pays you weekly.

Some people say beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Some of them believe that beauty is from the inside and not the outside. Well, to me that is just an excuse, which if you really look at people in the inside without a skin, they look uglier, red, bloodied and all. But honestly, the right alternative to put the phrase, “Beauty is from the inside” is, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”. Short and sweet.

Now, I wanna talk about beauty as what is define as “a pleasure to the eyes” or “eye candy”. Beauty really lies in the eyes of the beholder but what actually interprets that visual stimulation is the brain. Then your brain can stimulate all sorts of things like a dream or imagination. Sometimes when you imagine, it really can simulate the real thing. So my point is what is real? Is it something you can see, touch, smell or hear? In the end, it’s your brain who interprets it, not your senses.

A very good example is a phrase which I always use, “Beauty is just a light switch away”. I bet the clubbers are very well familiar with this. Everyone looks good in the club; I bet a lot will agree. They look even better when you’re tipsy and best when you’re drunk. To make them more beautiful than ever, the smoke machine does help a lot. The end result, you get angels everywhere, shaking their asses grinding at you, sweat smearing on your shirt, vomit everywhere and you thought it’s a foam party. Then you see the same person who you were grinding with, outside in the bright roadside lamp and you realize you were grinding with someone that looks like the bastard in the last horror movie you saw. I don’t know how you clubbers can live with that.

Mint mentioned about a book called, “Why men marry bitches”. I didn’t read it but she mentioned some of the points from the book. “Men see girls in skimpy clothes as short term”. No doubt I totally agree with that as I’ve never been mesmerized by any girl in skimpy clothing in my entire lifetime. They’re just a passing UFO where guys point to and say, “Hey!! Look”. That’s about it. In the end, you’ll find that most guys chose a decent girl to settle down with.

Studies have found that boobs are only useful to a guy for squeezing and it doesn’t play a huge part in the game call love. I mean what can 2 lumps of fats on your chest do other than bouncing around, being squeezed at and sucked by your rascals. Do you know that the girls are more fascinated in boobs talks than guys? Do you know that the girls are the one who made Pamela Anderson popular for her boob job? But when asked, the girl really thought that her boob plays a huge part in attracting a guy. Bah!! My only conclusion to this is that girls are too paranoid over how they look out of their own insecurities, which in actual fact are an annoyance to guys.

Hey ladies, keep looking pretty kay, don’t be ending up looking so slekey like the Malay girls I see these days after you read this post. Be presentable at least.  Flip flops are meant for the beach, not town. I’ll talk about it on the next entry.

Eversince I've been reading news about billionaires keeps popping out of nowhere and millionaires are as though it’s the 60s, I've wondered how they got there. And now I figured.

Are we too ignorant to think why there are millionaires and billionaires? Are we too ignorant to think why do we have to work to get money and in the end spend that money to eat instead of work to eat? Are we too ignorant to think why are banks are issuing so much credit cards and ATM cards and let you shop using that cards and lets you deposit money and coins using a machine that run 24hrs? If a bank has so much money, shouldn’t it be big enough to store all those money? What exactly is inflation and deflation?

Before I continue, let’s categorize the type of money we’re using to pay for our items using my own term. Let’s call the physical money you have in your wallet ‘Cash’ and let’s call the money you have in your bank ‘Money’. Simple enough? Ok let’s go.
There isn’t a starting point in explaining how money works, really because money does goes round but let’s just start with the paycheck you received.

The Scenario
You received $1000 cash from the company you’re working with. Now you have in your hand, $1000 legal tender cash. You deposit the $1000 note into a new bank call Bank A. You being the first customer of Bank A, Bank A now have $1000 in cash.
There is also another new bank; call Bank B. Bank B has $0 money.
A newly registered company named Industry A, customer of Bank A, needs $1,000,000 to start its business. Industry A went to Bank A to loan $1,000,000 worth of Money. Bank A only has $1000 cash. But Industry A wants it in a form of Money. So Bank A can freely loan the $1,000,000 to Industry A.
Some of the Money is used to pay the contractor called Sam who is a customer of Bank B. Sam’s paycheck is $2000 which is deposited into Bank B. Bank B now has $2000 worth of Money.
After sometime, Industry A pays off the $1,000,000 loan to Bank A. Bank A now has $1,001,000 worth of cash and money.

I can go on into how a bank depends on other banks, central banks and the government to make more Money. But reality checks here. We can safely say that 90% of the transactions happening in Singapore involve Money and not Cash. So, in simple term, “More debts more money”. If were to all withdraw all our savings from our banks, the banks won’t have enough cash. And if we are able to pay back our debts, the banks cannot make money.

Think about it. We’re slaves to the banks because the only people who can create money out of thin air are banks. We’re only able to earn Money which is also created by the banks. This is the reason why we have inflation. When there are low demands on loans, we’ll experience deflation.

Something for you to ponder….

27^th July 8:30 P.M
City Hall: Dinner, party, laugh…

My Birthday
28^th July 4:30 P.M
City Hall: On the grand piano

28^th July 10:00 P.M
CHIJMES: Dinner/Supper

28^th July 11:59 P.M
My grandfather passed away

29^th July 12:30 A.M
NUH: Watch him ‘sleep’

29^th July 3:30 A.M
Brought him home

29^th July 8:00 A.M
Shower him

29^th July 10:00 A.M
Put him to his final resting place

One minute I was having fun, another minute it overturned. I brought my grandpa home, I prayed for him, I showered him, I dressed him in white. Under the heavy rain, strong wind and mud, I climb down 6 feet into his final resting place, I held up my hand to reach him and put him down to rest. With my cold hands, I grasp the earth beside him and push it against his back to make him slanted to his right. I climbed up, shivering, looking down beneath saying,”I’m going to miss you grandpa. May you rest in heaven and have a better wife than you have now. May you have a better family than you have now, May you have a healthier life than you have now”. (Italic: Verse from Yasin)
It kept playing in my mind.

If this is a birthday gift from him, I am thankful; for I had gained the knowledge and experience that many of us couldn’t or didn’t have the chance to learn or experience.

It was a tragic but meaningful birthday for me. May you rest in peace, my beloved grandpa.
Eddy, 24 yrs old now.

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Good luck!

Congratulation to those who did successfully in the test I posted previously. I know it contains some corny questions and answers but the point is, the winner get something. And I’ve already fulfilled the prize for 1 winner. I am still waiting for others to confirm the date/time to claim the prize. Ok here’s what. Since I’ve only manage to spent about 50% of my paycheck for the past few months, I decided to give a physical gift to those who got above 90%. Email me your address and I’ll send it via SingPost.

Wati, I’m very disappointed. I was your buddy until you got married and you still manage to get below 90%. Well… I guess I can’t blame you for not knowing what’s hidden under my pillow, which surprisingly I found a lot of people got it right. Well, whatever was hidden under my pillow last time, it’s not there anymore after I went shopping for bed sheets, pillows and such. So that thing goes into my cupboard to show my grandsons in the future that I got a huge card and it almost look like a signboard.

Transformers are appearing in theatres soon. This is the only comic movie that I have interest to watch because back in 2005, after I watched the trailer, I was disappointed that it’s not going to be out in theatres until 2 yrs later. And now the wait is almost over. Actually you don’t need to wait if you want to catch the REAL Transformers. Just head down to

Changi Village!! There are a lot of Transformers waiting for you. I think most of them are AutoBaps. However, you can find a lot of Deceptioncons around if you look properly. They will transform into a horny monkey when they remove their scarf. Muahaha…

Talking about monkeys somehow reminds me of yesterday…. Mint, Azura, Zach… Yesterday was a blast!! Chalet confirm kay. Peace!