Went out with my church cell group to a restaurant at The Treasury called Petals, where one of our cell group members is working as a trainee chef!
Good stuff, the food. After that we went to watch Click at the new Cathay place near Plaza Sing. The show was retarded enough to be funny, even hilarous (ie "In the news today, Michael Jackson became the first person to clone himself, and became the first person to sue himself, after becoming the first person to molest himself"- WTF!! HAHAHAHA). And it had sufficiently intensive sentimentality to drive home one or two simple and yet true messages, the important one (in my opinion) being: Family Comes First (over work). Cheesy and yet profound. How does Hollywood do it?
NDP is on.
I think the whole idea is bullcrap actually. I'm not going to launch into an anti-government tirade, because from a relativistic point of view our government isnt even near half as screwed up as it could be. Credit where its due; despite certain sinister autocratic tendencies, Old Confucian MMperor and his Dragon King son-successor have built themselves a system which compares favourably with the vast majority of the Third World miasma of chaos and poverty.
But as credit is given where it is due, criticism must also be granted where needed.
I think the NDP, along with the patriotic songs and cheesy sentimental vid-clips, should be scrapped and the money saved given to the handicapped and homeless people stuck on the island. The whole idea of using cheap sentimentality such as the NDP to arouse patriotic passions in the intellegentsia is ludicrous. It insults our mature, educated intelligence. And I do not take it kindly when we mature sentient adults are treated as mere babies to be absorbed and fascinated with sparkling displays of sound and light. We are not some toddler children who can be expected scream in immature excitement at the pretty bursting glows of fireworks or the
thunder-roar of F-16C/D fighter jets, and therefore feel a sense of nationalism. It's just as degrading as National Education. Stupid, blatantly propagandistic, and little better than what Hitler and Stalin and the rest of them tried to do at Nuremburg and Red Square.
No doubt it may sway the underopiniated, gullible masses, but I loathe to be exposed to such an insult of my thinking faculties.
On a brighter note, Arsenal have crushed some Croatian club called ZagbrebDinamoVaklebTrannsylvaniaVladDrakulorsomethinglikethat
3-0 AWAY on the qualifying campaign to the Champions League! Without King Henry and half the senior squad! Go Cesc Fabregas! Go Robin Van Persie! Go Johan Djhorou!
And Justin Hoyte can play left back too! With Gael Clichy, Hoyte, and Flamini, who needs Ashley Cole!?!?! Having said that I certainly hope he'll turn from his mercenary ways and pledge loyalty to Ashburton Grove. I hope he'll withstand the corrupting, warping, influences of Russian money and not turn Traitor.
If he does betray the Arsenal, though, his name will forever be blackened. And then Master Wenger had better get Gallas! No way should Pascal Cygan be allowed to play.
The new EPL season looks real exciting! COME ON ARSENAL! COME ON ARSENAL!
DOWN WITH CHELSEA!
DOWN WITH THE FALSE CHAMPIONS!
DEATH TO THE RUSSIAN CORRUPTOR!
COME ON ARSENAL!
