2 eventful weeks

these 2 weeks have been rather eventful for me, at least that's what i think lah. from dear coming back from usa, our 3rd mth anniversary, floorball games with RH people, my parents knowing my current r/s status le, caroling events, christmas eve, her results release yesterday, to later my results' release.

while waiting for my results in anticipation, decided to update my dead blog after so long lols. been rather lazy to update my blog cuz i just dun feel like doing that and becuz i was rather busy lah.

busy with arranging for caroling for the choir and CME. been busy doing the IHG website, which has been done on my side, waiting for the SMC pple to reply. these 2 RH commitments were rather stressful but then i am glad i have survived thru it. just need to get the money from the shopping centres, as well as do some necessary updates or what for the IHG website.

our 3rd mth was rather cute, cuz we went to the zoo, i would nv have dreamt going to the zoo again until i become a parent lah haha. it has really changed a lot, from the last time i visited the zoo like more than 10 years ago lah.

floorball games were fun, and i sort of like them, cuz it's nice running about and it's rather shiok when i hit a goal in or i assisted in a goal made. shiok feel :P though my skills still suck now, floorball games are still fun to me and i will try to improve on them :P

christmas eve was planned more thoroughly by me, cuz dear always say i nv plan de but i just too lazy to plan stuff that may just change due to various situations. but i did plan for christmas eve :p though got a bit of changes, at least we weren't like "where to go huh" for the whole day :P mount faber was really beautiful, nice lightings, nice night view :)

my parents knowing of my r/s was rather coincidental. cuz me forgot to bring something before going out, i drove back with dear in my car, and coincidentally my mum was driving out of the junction. and she saw her :P so under this kinda external motivation, i plucked my courage to tell her when she asked me about it :) after that were all questions and questions about her and me, and i just answered lor haha.

yesterday, dear's results released liao. hmm she didn't do well, hmm and she regretted it and i know she will buck up and study hard next sem :) i will support her in whatever way necessary :) luckily, she wasn't real sad cuz she sort expected it though i think she didn't expect it to be so bad. she really impressed me with her strong character in facing this kinda situation :)

hmm 10 more minutes my results would be out liao haha, and i think i nothing to write le haha. just wait patiently now. and hope nothing goes real wrong :)

taxi fares

haha, yesterday comfort delgro announced the overhaul of the taxi fares. actually i dun think it is an overhaul lah, cuz the system doesn't change much, it's just an increase of surcharges, metre fares, basically increase of everything, except for taxi rental fees temporarily. although it doesn't really affect me, but then i was still attracted by this news yesterday, cuz i was once a taxi commuter :)

actually i think the rise in the fares is justified, as diesel prices really rose a lot, along with petrol prices which really rose a lot in the past few months. this kind of oil price increase, basically singapore can't do much about it, since we are merely importers. i guess next yr's inflation rate would hit a new high, and the government would have to do something about it, even though inflation is a natural side-effect when the economy is doing well, and interference by the government might have undesirable effects.

although i have nv studied economics before, i still know that economy and prices should be left to market forces which would result in the fairest equilibrium. all these years, taxi prices are manipulated by the comfort delgro, and i dun see any sense in their system. cuz the taxis simply do not appear at the right time at the right places especially during peak hours and nite hours.

i think to better distribute taxis around the island, it's best to do without all the surcharges, and taxi drivers with their experience would go wherever there are more passengers. with the help of technology, i think taxi drivers can also be informed where there are too many taxis waiting for passengers. in this way, they would go to other better places, rather than waiting in an empty car and waste time. without the surcharges, i believe long queues of taxis at the airports and no taxis at the certain hours would gradually disappear.

i think taxi companies should be fined more drastically when people complain or what, so that there would be more incentives to better distribute their fleet of taxis. cuz i think currently they are rather passive about adjusting taxi fares, improving the services of taxi drivers... as they have a stable income from the daily 90 bucks taxi rental fee from each of its drivers.

enough have been said, i am still waiting for a complete overhaul of the taxi fare system. that can come with a higher flag down rate, eliminating all surcharges, and maybe dynamic taxi rental fees. well, i am not in the position to say much, since there are a lot of internal logistics and problems which we as the public dun know. but then, the fare system definitely needs to be changed, cuz people are still having trouble getting taxis when they need them most.

moving house on 101207

i am moving house on 10th dec. that's on monday. really moved quite a lot of things. now i only have my speakers, lappie as well as some home clothes and wash-up items in my room le.

took some photos of my room, but then the furniture i haven't settled finish yet. still got a bookshelf, tv table, and a tv? which i haven't decided whether to buy not. settle finish other things first, i think these things not urgent lols. wait till cable tv set up by the technicians le, and also i set up the wireless network in my house le, then say :) also need to go buy family comp, my external hard disk, two 1gb lappie RAM.

hmm, rather tired le, gtg sleep le lols. tomorrow got to catch nba game featuring the recently hyped boston celtics le.

exams over...still busy

yeah man, exams are over! i think it ended quite beautifully yesterday :)

i think i sort of aced ee2006 and ee2005, cuz i could give answers that i am rather confident of. as for cs2102, ee2009, gek1505, i think i did quite well too, though not to the extent of acing them lols. hope i can achieve my sap 5 this sem :) ok, actually no need to think about it, cuz it's over and there's nothing i can do even if there's a slip...hope not...

exams are over, but then i am still quite busy. busy moving house. busy arranging the set-up of cable tv and broadband and telephone line in the new house. busy arranging for caroling stuff for RH. all in all, busy... but it's good to be busy at this time, otherwise i would miss her so much that i would get emo. it's not good to get emo :)

MOVING HOUSE:

wah i realise that i really have kept a lot of unnecessary stuff. eg are some spoilt electronic devices like camera and dictionaries, some information booklets from NUS, application booklets for JC, uni, and even secondary school... kaoz, but i have thrown them away yesterday. also thrown away some posters that i got when i bought CDs.

but i am keeping all those items that are mementos, such as letters for angel-mortal games in jc, graduation magazines, photos... so many things to keep... but i managed to keep all these in 2 big shoeboxes.

i got a lot of CDs too. i think more than 50 ba lols. stored them at one small corner of my cupboard.

i am also keeping my a'level notes, cuz they were my 宝贝. also kept my series of 武侠小说. also kept my o'level japanese materials :)

haven't bought a table to put my mini-hifi, to put some ornaments. also haven't bought a bookshelf...siao liao, so many uni books and files waiting for it...lols
got to find time go and buy, i think i go buy after 10th dec when we officially move in lols.

sianz, so many things to do, i think no time to watch tv liao lah. oh no...cannot lah... cuz i really long time nv had tv marathon le lols. hmm, at least now i can watch my nba games without worrying about whether there's enough time to revise not lols.

ok shall end it here. cuz i got other things to do :) that is to shift my bulky stuff to my new house...