carpe diem

I've been attending a customer interaction course the last 2 days, which would explain why you haven't been seeing me in the office (except after 5). Oh and I got the best trainee award! I haven't had any awards in the last 2 years, so I guess this is a happy occasion. As Forrest Gump says, "Life's like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get!" So, in the words of inspiration from the Dead Poet's Society, we've got to Carpe Diem (seize the day)!

I'll be in chinatown for Oktoberfest this saturday night, if anyone's interested in joining me for a pint or 2 drop me an sms. It'll be a little hot compared to Munchen but I guess we'll still feel the atmosphere. Which reminds me right now of the best foreign film I've watched in the past year, a German movie called "Das Wonder Von Bern". A lot of Germans think I'm mistaken for a swiss movie cos Bern is in Switzerland and the swiss speak German too! But trust me, it's a German movie. Who came up with this term "foreign film" anyway? Every movie we have here is really a "foreign film" from the US or HK or something yah? It was probably the Hollywood chaps who came up with that term. We can come up with something better.

Back to Munchen. A lesser known gem of Munchen that is not Oktoberfest, or that shopping district, or its churches, is the Munich Museum of Science and Technology. I can't describe it, and we chanced upon it accidentally. I read bout it in some travel guidebook, and i suggested we check it out tho it was only 2 hrs before closing. But I can tell you, that museum is absolutely amazing. You can't even imagine what I'm talking about. You would need 2 WEEKS to see and appreciate the whole place!!! Now that's what I call a real science museum!

Build your house on a rock!

Don't build your house on a sandy land
Don't build it too near the shore
Though it might look kinda nice
But you gotta build it twice
Oh you gotta build your house again!

You gotta build your house on a rock!
A firm foundation on a solid spot
Though the storms may come and go
But the peace of God you will know!

superplasticizer

I added another wikipedia entry. Boy, am I addicted to wikipedia or what?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superplasticizer

Pozzolanic ash

I'm trying to expand the "stub" in wikipedia for "pozzolanic ash" into a full article, so all you civil engineers out there please contribute!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozzolanic_ash

The most bizzare incident....

I witnessed the most bizarre incident on the bus today. Just one stop away from Tiong Bahru MRT station, 2 young kids and 4 middle-aged adults (parents, aunt and uncle I presume) got up the bus. One of the young kids was just over the 0.9m mark, and did not have a concession pass, so I suppose the driver asked his parents to pay the full fare. The mum was not too happy, and expressed her displeasure at the driver. What followed was the most bizarre thing....
The aunt suddenly started swearing hokkien vulgarities at the driver! And boy, not only was she shouting very loudly (the whole bus could hear), but the vocabulary she was using (which cannot be repeated here) was pretty intense! And she didn't stop till she got off at the MRT station. That middle-aged lady was insulting the Indian driver's parents and all, with language that I thought I would only hear in an army camp! And in front of their kids and all the other kids/office workers/ students etc on the bus too! Everyone was just staring at them the whole time!
So much for the ugly Singaporean.....