what goes around, comes around.

Karma- the good or bad emanations felt to be generated by someone or something. The best form of retribution, or reward, one can get.

After talking to someone over MSN last night, I realised the power of karma. What goes around, will really come around one day.

Here I am, gloating over someone’s bad karma, while being very delighted with my own good karma. HAHA. Hey, I hope this won’t in turn be bad karma for me. Ok, eh good luck to those with bad karma. :s

Talking about karma, the good and bad, I hope another somebody will get his retribution.

About some many weeks ago, during AM peak hours, I was on my way to NUS and was waiting for a bus at a bus stop. A few meters ahead of the bus stop, stood a middle-aged man behaving oddly. He looked like he was trying to flag a cab while turning towards the bus stop occasionally with his arms extended towards us (those waiting for buses at the bus stop, about 10+ people). Something was wrong, yet nobody bother to make a move. After observing other people at the bus stop for a minute, I was a little irritated that nobody was giving him a damn. So I approached him, asking him what was wrong.

He kept asking me how much it will cost him to take a cab to SGH. I told him that I don’t know and asked him why. He said that he was here to look for his mom who lived around one bus stop ahead; he was intending to get some money from her to buy asthma inhaler. And he asked me what bus to take to SGH so I called my mom to ask her. I even missed one bus while accompanying him to try to get a cab. He showed me his wallet and told me he has only got $7 and the inhaler will cost him $17.I was worried that he might get an attack there and asked if he wanna get the ambulance but he repeatedly rejected the idea ‘cos “very expensive, no money”.

There was no way he could get a cab at peak hours along a bus lane. My watch was telling me that I would be running late for my first lesson, and I was really late. Upon seeing my bus for the second time, I “lent” him $20 and went off hurriedly. He told me he will return me the money the next day, even though I knew he wouldn’t but.. I just couldn’t do nothing.

So I gave him $20 and left.

I told my mom and she said that I’m stupid. While I argued with her that it was a life at stake. A few days later, she showed me a newspaper article saying that two aunties were conned by a man feigning asthmatic. Both happened to be colleagues and were conned on the same day, one gave $10 and the other gave $50.

Well, shame on the man to make use of people’s sympathy.

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My new principle of life: karma.

results

I did ok for my first semester in NUS, considering how slack I had been. If according to the  Bachelor’s Degree Classification criteria, it would be a Pass with Merit. Phew.

Know what? The module I hated the most was actually the best one I had done. Looks like the 20 MCQs had saved my ass big time.

Will work harder next semester.

(gonna turn 20 soon…)

dancing under the moon

Hello! It has been fun to not give a damn about studies (despite the release of results being in 23rd Dec’08) for the past weeks upon the completion of the examinations.

I like the nature of university education, that is, it goes by semesters; meaning that what I’ve learnt in this semester will not be that important in the subsequent semesters. This is very much unlike secondary school and JC where the contents are of accumulative nature. Facing organic chemistry for one day is bad enough for me, they kindly made it two years for me in JC. In contrast, in university, having to face the disgusting philosophy module for 1 semester (Aug to early Dec) was nasty but one good thing is that I need not deal with it anymore should I choose not to do so, which is of no doubt the case for me.

Anyway, December is certainly the month to watch movies. Disappointingly, I haven’t had enough time to catch all the movies I wanna watch.

What I’ve watched:

1. Four Christmases

You get so many Christmas-ish movies in the last month of the year, and this is an enjoyable one. I especially like the scene where the family was playing Taboo. Worth the dollars.

2. Sex Drive

Despite a poor 2-star review I read after watching this movie, I’m still going to recommend it to people who have a good sense of sexual humor. Well, it’s a M18 movie in Singapore but there were merely a less-than-1-minute scene of exposed titssssssssss, an about-1-minute scene of upskirt, a fake dick, some bed scenes with no exposure of privates and some usage of coarse language.

My favourite character in the Sex Drive,

Seth Green as Ezekial.

A light-hearted movie which you should spend a good 110 minutes to enjoy.

3. The Day The Earth Stood Still

It looks interesting, doesn’t it? Well, that’s how I got conned into watching this hyped up movie. It’s kinda dumb. And the silly scene of Keanu Reeves speaking Mandarin to a Chinese old man in an odd accent for about 2 minutes and then both started conversing in fluent English. So what’s with the Mandarin since both could converse in English? Just to flaunt his Mandarin? Well, at least it did sound like some proper Mandarin in a weird accent as compared to Robert Downey Jr’s downright nonsensical (albeit very funny) Mandarin in Tropic Thunder (just to add on to TT, Robert Downey Jr was conversing in Mandarin with Vietnamese. Ain’t their mother tongue Vietnamese? So why Mandarin? This only adds on to the humour of the movie, isn’t it? ).

Tata, more movies to come. Merry holidays!

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After for almost a year, my first NUS examination was quite an experience. It didn’t feel like the O’ levels nor A’ levels. Content wise was more than manageable, I was just too lazy for my own good. Thank god for the strictest ever disciplinarian I ever had.

So the first paper I had was 20 Philosophy MCQs. My least favourite subject/module.

There’s this Philosophy blog for this module, and after the paper, the lecturer posted some stuff about the paper which I had no interest to read or whatsoever. Instead, I found the comments far more intriguing.

Following this, my philosophy tutor sent an email, here’s an excerpt:

Boy, I wonder what’s with all these sucking up. Human nature, I guess. Oh wells.