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EXPLORING THE POWER OF THE HUMAN VOICE: A CAPPELLA FEST! '08

Starring Key Elements, VoCollision, TAS Youth Voices, TAS Voices & Indonesia's hottest a cappella sensation: Jamaica Cafe!

Explore Jazz to Pop. HipHop to MandoPop, Reggaeand even Idonesian Dangdut and beat boxing in a cappella fashion.

Programme details: www.a-cappella.org.sg

Date: 30th & 31st July

Venue: ACS Barker (Mrs Lee Choon Guan Concert Hall)

Time: Matinee Shows for Primary School Students @ $15/- (70 mins)
Evening Shows for Sec schs and Above @ $20/- (120 mins)

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Available through: www.a-cappella.org.sg (or tell me in one wy or another)



MOVING ON.........

Tiring day, tiring week.... the whole onth is bloody tiring. Though this week kinda takes the cake, considering is my shift week, meaning I work full day on Fridays and halfdays on Saturdays. On my offweek, I work for half a day on the week's Friday and get the next day off. Add in the fact that I was grossly sick on Saturday night, all through Sunday to Tuesday, during which i was on medical leave. Tuesday was... screwed-up. Not sure if I should post the reason up here. I'd probably get sued.

I still remeber the doctor I visited on Monday though. That's a good thing, seeing as she was young and super sweet. And smokin wow. I mean hot.

And I wanna talk about people's MRT habits. I know some newspapers here have already done extensive coverage on that little facet of commuter life here(and in doing so becoming the butt of jokes for other international papers) but this is a topic that has not yet been covered by ME and is thus, not yet completely scrutinised.

First, the yellow lines indicating how commuters should stand aside while letting people alight first, you know, those weird drawings that resemble a pyramid with a sunroof with arrows indicating the direction sunlight should be travelling in, no longer work. Except on tourists. And even then, it's cuz they're scared they''s get fined. Or even worse, hanged. Sure, they worked once upon a time( the markings) but I guess the novelty has just....worn off. Our aim of being respectable, well mannered citizens is losing phenomenally to our desire for a seat to sleep on for the rest of the long, boring journey and the worst thing is...... some are not even genuinely sleeping! They just close their eyes in case someone who really needs the seat comes along so that 1) They'll not be shot dirty looks by other, more socially responsible people ("I sleeping what, how I know?"), 2)They'll have a legit excuse not to give up their seat ("I'm sleeping what.") ans 3)They'll save face (" If only I was awake, I would have given her the seat lah.") anf finally, the most important reason, 4) They'll get to keep their seat ( " I sleeping what, so of course I need the seat!").

Of course, everyone who knows me knows I really really really love to seat down myself so this might sound hypocritical but I do give my seat up sometimes. To those who really need it. To this list, i do not include children in between 4-8 years old however. They seem more content letting their parents chase them up and down the train. NOr do I offer middle aged aunties/uncles who waltz right up to you(sitting down) and whose facial expression changes from that of disappointment(from finding no seats) to that of one about to die if noone offers them a seat. Most of the times they're not even that old.

Then there are those difficult cases, which includes:

An old maid who dresses up like a young girl. You're scared of appearing rude by not offering a seat. On the other hand, you're scared of breaking the saying to her: You. Look. Old.

The woman whose bulging stomach has an indefinite roundness, but a roundness nontheless. Imagine the scene: "Have a seat miss, congrats on your baby." to which she says, "What baby?"

The uncle with the really white hair and lines on his face. But who is also muscular and looks perfectly capable of choke-slamming anyone who hints to him that he looks feeble.

The mother with the child who doesn't want to sit down.

The child with the mother who doesn't want to sit down.

But generally, it doesn't matter. Everyone's sleeping so they won't get seats anyway.....

And finally, my pet peeve: people who rush into MRTs, the moment the doors open. Especially those who have the nerve to click their bloody tongues at me while i give them their fully deserved shove on my way out. And it wasn't like i intended it to happen. Once, it got so bad, I had to elbow someone out of the way. The train was already crowded at the exit and the one space which everyone was using to slide through to the exit was also the one place this dastardly disgusting man decided to rush to from the outside. What did I do? I slid my left arm into the crack between him and another commuter, to his right(his back was to me). I said 'excuse me'. He tried to get past me, using his shoulder. The door was beeping so I sorta slid into the tiny space betweeen him and the other person and i pushed him, with my elbow, backwards to where i was originally standing. I heard the click of his tongue. I really wanted to raise my elbow to his face. But I got what I wanted. And I am too nice.

No wonder newspapers keep writing about this stuff. I bet it can fill up and entire book. I now I can keep on rambling forever but I wanna awatch some funny vids.

SO i guess i'll blog in again tmr or on sunday.


see if i have anything to type about.


In case you hadn't noticed, i talked abt the mrt for goodness sakes.

gives you a clue to what other dazzlingly exciting stuff i have in store for you.

hmmm.....

oh well.
gdnight.