Boring post

Wah, I think I’m gona have a really bad sore throat. I mean, I’m having a bad sore throat now and it doesn’t feel like it’s gona get better, so there, it’ll get really bad, really soon.
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I always suspect that these open-concept karaoke halls have assisted the spread of flu virus in the 21st century. Here’s why: An infected person sings to the microphone and the saliva with the virus is passed on to subsequent mouths, which touch the microphone. I always get a sore throat after a K-session, especially when I’m a mic-hog. Well, you can’t blame me, Charles doesn’t sing (unless when he’s drunk), Keegan doesn’t sing when he’s drunk (and he gets drunk pretty fast), and the rest of the guys are more pool playing than song singing people.
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Anyway, there was a surprise guest last night, Yixian, a basket-baller turned pilot friend for ours. It was a pity Ah ming and Roland wasn’t around, it would have been so nice to talk about our basket ball days over beer. So much have changed ever since those rigorous training days, yet it seems so…stagnant at times…
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Life passes you by real quickly and too quietly if you ask me. At the end of everyday, I ask myself, “Have I fulfilled my purpose in life?” I never could answer this question…Hopefully one day, I can.

GST

So GST’s going up north along with civil servant’s pay rise. Coincidental? Maybe. Justifiable? Yes. Good timing? No.

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As much as I do not agree with everything the government does, I also do not oppose them for the sake of opposing, unlike many people. What is the point of A suggesting and B opposing while A opposes to everything B says. Success should be a collective effort of everyone and we could start by agreeing with the government, not opposing, let the opposition party keep them in check instead.

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Look around you, how far have we progressed? The government has done a fine job of leading us to where we are at now and boy, how ungrateful some people are. Even if the pay revision is not an effort rendered to retain local talents, I still think that our civil servants could do with higher salaries. Others may argue, hey, crimes’ low, economy is in order, most things are in place, so that leaves nothing much for the government to do but should it not be that good foundation has been laid way before we are at where we are now? In many cases, just because component X (GST) and component Y (salary) move along the same line, does not mean that they are correlated. It could be a reaction to a component Z (unknown). Although a GST hike may cause a backlash among the unhappy citizens, it is here to stay, get used to it. Still unhappy with the salary revision? Go join the civil service.