Monday, July 19, 2004

been a kewl day so far, by far more productive than i've ever had in weekends :P haha woke up early today, went to catch up on some reading, reading this book abt time, black holes, relativity and stuff,,, haha not the chim and mathematical stories of the physics theory. but a boook for the laymena nd some interesting ideas brought in a manner that the layman can catch and maybe even "smoke out" their friends and appear intelligent (haha thats not the purpose i borrowed the book, though thats a kewl after thought)
 
then changed up and went out to meet up with shiwei, dorlisa and jianfu, met up with them at k Box... lousy day to sing song though, throat still hurts from ne show.. think i sang like i was killing geese and ducks. haha amazing the 3 of them didn't cover their ears... haha... anyway was a cool meeting, at least managed to meet up after quite some some time. so it wasn't too bad, had fish and chip lunch at some steak house(!) at cine still, still can make it lah, considering its rather on the cheap side. stoned around abit, then left shiwei, shiyang and jian fu to meet up with chun wah and helmi... caught King Arthur, quite a good show, thought he storyline dun really follow the actual legends, guess thats why the movie trailers said that it was the "real story" before the legend was made. the theme was quite inspiring and helpless. helpless cos all the circumstances forced him to make decisions after decisions that cannot be helped.. guess thats wad many of us experience in our lives most of the time...
 
quite a good show overall, 3.5 out of 5 stars.pretty stingy at rating..
 
 
jus some thoughts on ne show... 
heard lots of comments from my nc friends, from my npcc and other friends, including some of whom happened to be the actors nad participants in the parade and the acts itself... comments ranged form good to the bad.. haha but well, everyboyd's entitled to their opinions...
was involved in the external operations of the show, particularly traffic flow part,,,yeah, heard comments on how bad was the entire ops, how ppl got delayed and stuff... sigh,,, thats so human nature, when things go right, nothing is mentioned, but when thingsgets screwed, comments floated everywhere... hey! not that these comments are wrong man, these are quite legitimate problems,, :) but not all knew the details of the big picture. not anbody's fault,..
 
yeah traffic was really problematic, especially entry part, but it was partly also due to closure of the nicholl highway man... every vehicle was trying to get in through 2 major junctions!! thats like 1200++ buses squeezing in through like 3 to 2 lanes of roads... well,,, not a really easy thing to handle sia...there are more stuff that can be commented and said, both in defence and opposite of the entire operation, but guess shouldn't be speaking too much,.. or... haha...
 
well as for the more jia lat dispersala nd return home part, really hv this to say, i was ont he ground at the scene and truely, there was nothing ANYBODY on the ground could like do to influence the situation, buses fort he participants were not arriving till like 11 plus, not because we dun allow entry as many said, but its really cos they only arrived around then to pick up the participants, and then some of the bus drivers actually said they dunno how to get to the schools and didn't pick up the kids to bring them back or stuff.... sigh... well,,, if anyboyd were on the ground it would also be at a helpless kinda klimbo, at least for my level (as a sector i/c :p)
 
yeah there were definitely bad points that happened through out the entire operation, hopefully these points willbe patched upa nd the NDP willbe a smooth success,,,considering it would really realy be an amazing feat cos nicholl highway(that all important highway) is closed and thus making plans even more challenging...
 
and one sad but real truth, i dun see any other organisation with the man power muscle to be able to activate thousands and thousands of people to plan the NDP, and all these while working and yet not paying any much extra other than what each servicemen supposed to be paid, working every weekend, and able to dedicate huge amount of manpower for every sector of operation from construction of the extra seatings to packing goodie bags to manning and regulating traffic... everything man... there are faults, but who or which ndp or parade or camp or stuff is without faults? haha... well, shit happens at times ya?
 
 haha,,, some of ya may say i'm defending the organisation, yeah i'm kinda defending it, but i also criticised it at times, but when i feel that the organisation is overly wronged and blamed for lots of stuff, i can't help but to say these :P haha... no hard feelings to anybody ya?? everybody has a right to their own opinions, i'm jus stating mine :)
 
well, been a long post and quite abit on the ne show,,, haha jus my personal opinions and nothing more, doesn't represent the organisation's views nor views of any other people in particular :) haha...
 
its been a long and happy day! :) haha hope to meet up with more of old friends na dall these old jc friends. miss those old jc days :) haha... well, at least i got like only 243 days to ORD!!!
WOO HOO HOOO!!!! hahaha
 
well, see ya all sometime soon :) haha was in a bloggin mood today i guess... haha wonder if anybody reads it :) oh well, it doesn't matter anyway :) haha
 
-gHimZ


ghimz posted at 9:00 PM
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