这个五月，伤痕累累

First it was Myanmar Cyclone, then Sichuan Earthquake...

老天爷，您在生气？
为什么？您真的忍心吗？

还是地球，您在生气吗？
也许这个地球根本不适合让我们住，从头我们就是不速之客。又自私，又爱破坏的不速之客。

心痛不如行动

Over the weekend and the Vesak holiday, I have been watching the various fund raising show by China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. All the different tv stations and celebrities stop their work and programs and came together to sing and raise $$$. No life-threathening stunts or anything fancy, just singing and picking up phones of donataion.

I commented to my bro-in-law, why I don't see Singapore doing such event? If in Taiwan, 3 competing media stations can come together for 3-4 hours to sing and raise fund, why Singapore with just one monopoly company haven't done anything? He replied, maybe because these countries are nearer to Sichuan? But I recalled back in Dec 2004, about 300,000 people died during the Indian Ocean Tsunami. Hong Kong and Taiwan had similar fund raising shows but I don't remember Singapore having a fund raising event for that. Isn't Thailand close to us?

Anyway even if it is $10 dollars, it will make a different. We have 4 million population in Singapore. $10 each = $40 million. You make a difference. We don't have to be there to make a difference.

Source : Channel NewsAsia
19 May 2008
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/348696/1/.html

More than 71,000 people dead, buried or missing in Sichuan

BEIJING - More than 71,000 people are dead, buried or missing in China's southwest
Sichuan province following last week's earthquake, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted the top provincial leader as saying Monday.

The number of people confirmed killed in the province as of late Sunday is 32,173, Sichuan Communist Party chief Liu Qibao said, according to Xinhua.

Another 9,509 people remained buried and 29,418 others were missing, Liu said.

Info from Singapore Red Cross
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China Earthquake Appeal

Where to donate

Members of the public who would like to contribute towards the Red Cross China Earthquake Appeal can make their donations through the following:

Cash/Walk-in Donations
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Walk-in donations can be made at the Singapore Red Cross Society, 15 Penang Lane, Singapore 238486.

Our collection hours are:
Mon - Fri: 9.30am - 5.45pm
Sat & Sun (17-18 May): 9.30am - 5pm
Vesak Day (19 May): 9.30am - 5pm

For more information, please call the Singapore Red Cross at 6334-9152/53 or email china.enquiry@redcross.org.sg.

Cheque Donations
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Cheque can be made payable to:
Singapore Red Cross Society

Please indicate behind the cheque:
1) Name, Organisation (if applicable), Mailing Address and Contact Numbers
2) For Red Cross China Earthquake Appeal

An official receipt (Donation is not tax deductible) will be issued.

Send the cheque to:
Singapore Red Cross Society
15 Penang Lane, Singapore 238486

*Singpost waives postage for cheque donations to Singapore Red Cross

UOB Internet Banking
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1) Login to UOB Personal Internet Banking
2) Click on "Bill Payment" on the left menu
3) Click on "Pay Bills" on the left menu
4) Click on "New Bill" on the main screen
5) Select "Red Cross China Earthquake" from the drop down menu of the payee corporations list
6) Enter telephone number as the Bill Reference Number
7) Enter the debiting account to debit donation
8) Enter the donation amount
9) Click on "Confirm" button to approve payment

UOB Cheque Donations

Donations by cheque can be dropped at the UOB's cheque deposit boxes.
Cheques should be crossed and made payable to "Red Cross - China Relief Fund".

DBS/POSB Fund Transfer
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1) Insert your ATM card and enter PIN. Select "More Services"
2) Select "Credit Card/Bill Payment"
3) Key in "99" Other Corporation
4) Key in "99" again
5) Key in "18" for Red Cross China Earthquake
6) Indicate your contact number as the Bill Reference Number.
7) Select account type
8) Enter donation amount
9) Press "Confirm" to complete transaction

DBS Internet Banking
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1) Log on to DBS iBanking,
2) Go to "Payment Services"
3) Under "Bill Payment",
4) Select "RedCross China Earthquake"
5) Indicate your contact number as the Consumer Reference Number

AXS Stations
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Members of the public can donate at all AXS stations islandwide.

Out of the Blue

It has been 4 years since 10th May 2004! I don't think you remember it but anyway...

Happy Anniversary!

Though things are no longer as before, our friendship will always remember special to me. You will

05/05/2008 TOTO 中奖号码

如果可以让你用半个寿命的时间来换明天TOTO中奖号码，你会答应吗？


我有很认真的想过。。。。 真的很诱人。真的很诱人。

World's biggest squid

虽然我本人很喜欢收看National Geo 和 Discovery，可是每每看到酱的新闻都会觉得有点难过。Initially 我本来有点生气，我以为都说是世界最大的还抓！！！！原来它是被发现被冰冻在深海的巨冰块里。。。

追究多点知识不是不好， 可是人类有时真的有点太自私，太恐怖了。常常都有相关的报道，渔夫特地出海捕抓这些罕见的生物。为了就是卖给scientists赚钱。No demand, then no supply. If there's a demand, of course people will supply.

我相信看了这篇新闻后，下次渔夫们如果出海时真的碰到另外一只gaint squid， 不管是死的是活的，他们必定把它抓回来。 By hook or by crook...

想到伤心~ （T^T)




Title : World's biggest squid reveals 'beach ball' eyes
Date : 30 April 2008 1345 hrs (SST)
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/344660/1/.html

WELLINGTON : The largest squid ever caught began to reveal its secrets Wednesday, including eyes the size of beach balls that one scientist said were likely the biggest ever known in the animal kingdom.

The 495-kilogram (1,090-pound) colossal squid -- accidentally caught by a fishing boat in Antarctic waters in February 2007 -- is slowly thawing under the fascinated gaze of a team of scientists at the Museum of New Zealand.

While the defrosting was taking longer than expected Wednesday, one of the earliest revelations were eyes measuring 27 centimetres (11 inches) across -- about 11 times the size of a human eye -- with lenses of 10 to 12 centimetres in diameter.

"We saw two of the most sensational eyes possible," Auckland University of Technology marine biologist Steve O'Shea said.

Those figures are based on the current collapsed state of the eyes.

If the squid were alive, said Professor Eric Warrant of the University of Lund in Sweden, the eyes would probably measure about 40 centimetres across, "about the size of a beach ball."

"These are without doubt the largest eyes that have ever been studied and probably among the largest eyes that have existed during the history of the animal kingdom," he wrote in a blog on the Wellington-based museum's website.

These would help the squid to locate prey in the dark of its habitat 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) or more below the surface of Antarctic waters.

The exact dimensions of the squid will not be determined until it is fully defrosted later Wednesday but it was believed to be eight metres (26 feet) or more in length.

Two long tentacles carry up to 25 rotating hooks each and eight arms each contain up to 19 hooks used to capture prey and bring it to its beaked mouth.

The sex of the squid was still to be determined, although it was thought likely to be a female, which grow larger than males.

But O'Shea and his colleagues believe that larger squid still lurk in the southern ocean depths.

The squid's lower beak measures around 40 centimetres across, while other beaks have been found -- usually in the stomach of predator sperm whales -- measuring up to 49 centimetres.

O'Shea said it is possible that colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) may grow to up to 750 kilograms but there was not yet enough information to be sure.

"When I said in 2003 that colossal squid could grow to 500 kilograms no one believed me, I was ridiculed, people laughed at me," he said.

The progress of the thawing is being shown live by webcams on the museum's website.

The scientist is also keeping a blog to update. Read it here

咿呀呀 by 石頭,Mayday

It rawls to have a Rocker for a father~


-From Down To Earth Singapore Concert 26th April 2008

咿呀呀


作詞：石頭
作曲：石頭


呀 咿呀呀 咿呀呀
寶貝說的話 咿呀呀
不要擔心 你很快就長大
很快你就會叫 媽媽

轉眼你已經一歲啦
寶貝還不會彈吉他
相信有一天
你也會大聲唱
哥哥爸爸真偉大

你的微笑是魔法
你的眼淚是我的慌張
你會有煩惱 也會有悲傷
有我在這裡 別怕

呀 咿呀呀 咿呀呀
寶貝說的話 咿呀呀
我會擔心 你很快就長大
很快就不會找 爸爸

你會愛上你的她
你會擁有也會失去呀
未來的路很遠很漫長
心痛的傷就讓它去吧

你的微笑是魔法
你的眼淚是我的慌張
你會有煩惱 也會有悲傷
有我在這裡 別怕
未來的路很遠很漫長
有我在這裡 別怕

Mayday Down To Earth 2008 Spore Concert

As you can see... I am still VERY awake at 4.46am in the morning!! Too high after the concert, I also suspect all the jasmine milk bubble tea I drank has something to do with it as well~ Super awake now.... (0_0|||)

If Mayday is not getting richer, then the sponsors are getting more generous!! The set-up super nicely done up! I must say this space-ship like bridge that connected the two walkway was the highlight! It even went up & down, damn grand!



And I think they hired a real good lighting expert this time. The lighting effect for the whole concert, especially the walk-ways were nicely designed and done-up





Btw, the ticket caused me $151. Usually I damn stingy, save and thrift like hell. But Mayday concert cannot miss. Don't ask me why? At 27 going 28 years old, I am still going for concerts, where I scream and jump while 5 men (strangers) are jamming away. If I accumulated all the money I spent on concerts, I think can go somewhere far for a nice holiday liao.

I think I am not the only crazy one. There were about 8,000 people present just now. Balance of males and females. See some uncles but most 16~40 years old. Everyone was dancing away. You will understand what I mean after you see this video.....

Mass LOVE


Mass 温柔 KTV


Die hard fan? 歌迷? I used to hate it when others label me with these. But now... I think I can't be bother. ha.... Who cares? Who cares to explain?

People spend hundreds, thousands or millions of dollars in search of happiness, but never find it. If spending $151 can give me 3 hours of happiness & hope, why not? You might say it is short-lived, but what in life isn't?

Happiness. Hope. Dream. Love.
All cannot be seen, heard, touched or bought.
They are what you make them to be.
They are what you believe them to be.

I don't want to forget this.
I want to remember.
To be happy, To dream and hope
Even at 27 years old. Or 57 years old. Or 107 years old.

Till I die. I will continue to dream & hope. RnR \m/

Caleb Singing "Happy Birthday"

26th April was Sis K's birthday....

Caleb can speak and sing so well now.... make my heart melt though it is not my birthday!

Boy, wish you grow up to be happy always

Little Stone

Everybody: Awww~ (^__^)

Daddy Stone wrote a song for Little Stone called 咿呀呀 Baby Let's Rock.... you can listen to it here

Mayday Last Jump @ Genting (19 April 2008)

It has been a long time since my last trip to Genting... I can't remember when.. I think 4-5 years ago. Not much changes... look pretty much the same!

But the memorable thing is... it is the FIRST TIME the 10 birdies went on a trip together! hahaha.... We had to wait like 6 years for this trip to happen.... so it was really kinda cool~


We took a coach on Fri night and reach Genting around 5.30am. We found out we could only check-in at 2pm. So we tried our very best to killed time... roam around, enjoyed the natural air~ I think everyone was damn tired... =__=


Of course, we went with a mission! Mayday Last Jump! Actually we will be attend the Singapore concert this coming weekend, but what the heck. The price was ok and it was a great chance for the 10 of us to go on a trip together.

I must say the officials were really strict (and rude) and didn't allowed us to stand up. Oh! Come on! Watch Mayday concert sitting down?!! You must be mad!! Anyway I think they soon gave up... haha.... everyone was standing loh! What can they do?
Maybe it was the size of the venue. Or maybe it was pretty enclosed. Or maybe it has been a while since Mayday was in Msia. The concert was like a GIANT KTV session!!! Kudos to Msian fans!! They sang along to almost all the songs, even those that were not so radio-friendly! It felt good~ d(^^)b Mayday Rawls!!! Malaysian Rawls!!



hehe... I like this shot the most. A sweeper auntie helped us took this. Though it is not well-taken, i think damn got feel~


To Birdieflock+cock!
To Mayday!
To Music & Friendship & Love & Dream

Rock on! And ever more