BP Oil Spill

I guess you have heard about the BP Oil Spill. I do not really know much about it except that BP is really taking a long time to clean up their mess. If I am not wrong, the oil spill started on April 22. It is now June 12, which means it has been going on for around one and a half month plus. According to online sources, scientist estimates around 200,000- 400,000 barrels of oil is spilled into the ocean everyday. Until 3 June, 1.76 million barrels of oil has been spilled into the Mexico Gulf. That is like soooo much until I can’t imagine how much it is. I really don’t get why they can’t just cover the leak up or something. I guess the problem’s not that simple.

There are TONS of horrible impacts this oil spill have caused. Firstly it is affecting the livelihood of fishermen. They are unable to fish as the oil can spoil their equipment. And even if it does not, THERE AREN’T EVEN ANY FISHES TO FISH UP COS THEY ARE ALL DEAD.

Secondly, the oil leak is at the gulf stream, which flows into the Alantic Ocean, pushing warm air and water up to Western Europe. Scientists have predicted that this current of water could stop and would make Iceland and Finland, and basically all of western Europe extremely cold. (source from yahoo! answers)
Bet you didn’t know that right?! hahahha.

Thirdly, the oil spill has affected many animals living at the Gulf. Animals like seabirds, pelicans and hermit crabs and like covered in the oil and dying! My heart goes out to those poor innocent creatures ):

Damn you BP.

Graduation blooper

So you may have heard about this incident at the recent Ngee Ann Graduation Ceremony where the emcee mispronounced a graduate’s name when he went on stage to collect his certificate. Not only did the emcee pronounce his name wrongly, the mispronounced name that the emcee said sounded like a hokkien vulgarity. This caused the audience to burst into laughter.  To top it all off, further attempts to pronounce the name correctly were in vain and the emcee ended with a ‘sorry’, followed by the next graduate’s name.

There was much hoo-ha caused by this incident after it happened. Many netizens were sorely unhappy and took it to Facebook and Youtube. There were multiple Youtube videos showing what happened and to date, the video with the highest number of views has garnered 67,040 views. There was even a Facebook group titled ‘Son Of Ganesan Deserves A Formal Apology’. I read the comments on the Youtube video and they are mostly against the emcee. Some comments even state that the mispronunciation was ‘obviously staged’ and the emcee did it on purpose.

I feel so sorry for the emcee. I strongly feel that he did not do it on purpose. Comeon, who would have the heart to ruin someone’s only and one Graduation Day? And it really sounded like a pretty honest mistake. I think the emcee must have been tongue tied or something. After all, there were many people in the audience and so many graduate’s names to read. One has the tendency to mispronouce words when one’s facing such a large audience. What aggravated the incident was the videos uploaded onto Youtube.  I feel that the person who uploaded it should remove it as it is causing much fury against the emcee. If not the circulation of the video, I would not have known about the incident.

There are so many people being so negative about this incident, but seriously if they each mind their own business it wouldn’t be such a big deal after all. The emcee made a mistake, apologised, and moved on. And people should move on too. Of course I agree that the ‘victim’ deserves an apology, but it’s really none of our business. If the ‘victim’ wants to take action against this emcee, so be it. People should shut up and back off.

School

This week marks the 4th week of my life in Ngee Ann Poly, and so far, life here has been great. Besides making new friends with people in my course, I have also made many friends outside my course.  The people here are generally friendly, and I haven’t really met and bitchy or mean people yet. My class consist of only 12 people. I think it’s really awesome that we do not have alot of people in the class because if we do, the class would definitely be split into cliques, and we would not be as bonded as we are now.

Poly life have not started being stressful yet. The homework given is pretty alright. In fact, it’s so much lighter as compared to secondary school. However despite having relatively little homework, I am still unable to complete most of them on time and I always end up burning midnight oil doing them (like now is a good example. It’s 2:21am). This is a reflection of my really horrible character. I enjoy procrastination and I lack time management skills. I’m the kind who leaves important stuff to do to the last minute and I’ll do the unimportant stuff first. This is a really bad habit that I have to change as soon as possible in order to keep up with my school work. Time management is a key factor to solving this problem I have.

I hope I’ll be able to get rid of this bad habit!

Sailing

Everytime I sail, it’s like eating that sex mentos candy – SO GOOD! The best part of my Ngee Ann life is sailing. I used to sail every Sunday when I was younger but gradually, those sailing sessions came to a halt as I had alot of activities (in secondary school) and my school did not offer sailing as a CCA. So when I entered Ngee Ann I decided to join sailing and relieve my passion for that sport.

The reason I love sailing so much is because it is the only sport that I’m good at. Like seriously, I think sailing is the only sport I’ll be good at in my entire life. I’m really bad at sports involving balls, and this equals to almost all sports, from basketball to volleyball. That’s why I enjoy sailing so much. It makes me feel good about myself. Who doesn’t enjoy doing something that person’s good at?

I’m really glad that Ngee Ann has sailing as a CCA because schools like Temesak Poly and Nanyang Poly does not offer it. Sailing’s still a rather unknown sport in Singapore, but after the Youth Olympic Games 2010, I think sailing will generate quite a buzz in the sporting world cos I’m sure Singapore sailors would be able to bring back at least a silver medal.

Sunday

Today I went to Bras Basah Complex. I tried the circle line from Bishan to Bras Basah for the first time because I wanted to try something new and I thought that Bras Basah circle line is somewhere near Bras Basah Complex but I was wrong! When I reached Bras Basah circle line I searched the mrt map for Bras Basah Complex and I realised that from the circle line to my destination was quite a far walk. So I exited the circle line from Queen’s Road and I headed towards what looked like a familiar road. After about 1 minute of walking I realised I was lost. I thought ‘Nevermind, at the most I’ll just cab.’ but it dawned upon me that I’m going to be spending a bomb on art materials and I would not be able to afford the luxury of a cab. So I continued walking and I saw Raffles City Shopping Centre. Hallelujah! I know how to walk to Bras Basah Complex from Raffles City thank God.

I swear Bras Basah Complex is the best shopping complex ever! Okay, best is relative soooo its my favourite shopping complex ever! There’s like countless good (not to mention cheap) book stores and arty farty shops and music stores that sell bad-ass guitars and stuff. SO AWESOME! Yeah I bought my art materials and crap and headed towards Peninsula Plaza to check out some stuff.

There’s this small road with a traffic light that you will have to cross to reach Peninsula Plaza but most of the time when there are no cars zooming across the road people would just jaywalk. But this time it was different! The crowd did not jaywalk even though it the road was wiped clean of cars. I too did not jaywalk as I would only jaywalk when other people does in order to lower the chance of a vehicle hitting me. I thought it was pretty strange. Then, a man jaywalked. I watched as he hurried across the road. When he reached the opposite side, he was approached by a guy dressed in a white uniform. I realised that he was a traffic police omg. That must be why nobody jaywalked except for the guy who got caught. Thank goodness I did not jaywalk too!

After my business and Peninsula Plaza was done, I took the mrt to Bishan. A couple of seconds after the door opens the announcement thing said “Doors closing” followed by the ‘tee tee tee teee’ and there was this guy coming down from the escalator and he wanted to catch the train so ran super fast and got into the mrt just before the doors closed fully. What the hell was he thinking? Can’t he wait for another 4 minutes for the next train? I could hear people around saying ‘Tsk tsk’ and shaking their heads. Aiyoh. He must really be in a rush to do something like that. What happens if the door closes and one of his limbs get stuck between the doors?

There was this one time where my guy friends were fooling around in the mrt and got a female friend’s bag stuck between the doors! It was hilarious but if it was her hand or other body parts it wouldn’t be very funny.

From the mrt I had to take a bus back home. I boarded bus number 52 and sat down somewhere at the front of the bus. A few stops later an old woman boarded the bus so I offered my sit to her but she kindly declined and sat at the back so nevermind I decided to stand for the rest of the journey and give others a chance to sit on the bus which was rather crowded. I stood in front of an Indian woman and then all of a sudden she pushed me from the back and said (very loudly) “Excuse me!” I must had leaned a little too far behind but I couldn’t feel it because I was carrying a backpack. Excuse me but WHAT THE HELL? ARE YOU FREAKING SERIOUS?! You don’t push people when they are standing too close to you. You tell them in a nice manner and then expect them to move furthur out infront. Oh my god. People in Singapore are rarely rude (in my opinion) and I was so suay to encounter such a rare species. What a bitch!

Okay but on a lighter note that incident made me blog about this because it made my day more interesting and opened my eyes to characters of people I have never experienced before.

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