The 'Jalan Kayu Tracks'. If i were to hear it first time, i will think that there's a new jogging track in my old and dusty neighbourhood here. we're just so bad at naming things. but i have 'lived long enough' to know that it is a monthly newsletter for the... Jalan Kayu division? oh well, who bothers anyway. the funny thing about Singapore is that we try to make things look big when it is actually small.

take for example the National day period. you have these banners hanging from alternate lamposts along the roads for don't-know-whatever-reason-it-is, right? if it's to let the residents know which 'division' your in, i think the people responsible for this project have failed miserably. 'cause for some ignorant residents like me, i am still clueless for which side i'm in. don't blame me just yet. you see, from my apartment the only tar-layered floor that i can see is one 2-lane street that stretches quite a distance.

and from my apartment itself, i can see many of those baners hanging on the lamposts. the thing is, a few of them try to tell me that i'm in the 'Jalan Kayu' division while some others says that i'm in the 'Cheng San' division. what's the meaning of this? you expect to me to see which division has more banners or what? you think this is some kind of practice for an election process since i'm still uneligible for any voting issues right now? GET REAL! one street, many banners, now i'm left stranded on where do i really belong.

can someone address this problem here? especially that lonely figure who appears in a square box, in the front page of the 'Jalan Kayu Tracks'? i heard you're my MP right? why haven't i even see you even once? in person i mean. perhaps that's why you put your face in the newsletter every month, right? to show that you do exist. but you know what? i'm not convinced that you're my MP! don't try to cheat my feelings here! oh my, ooohhh my... my Bitch Fit is coming... i can just feel it go down my anus. oooppss!!! i kinda...yeah, that one.

moving on, i was revising till i drop dead and decided to take a break by sipping a cuo of hot Milo to rejuvenate myself. as i sat down on my couch and took my first sip of the drink, i found this 'Jalan Kayu Tracks' in front of me. (But i thought i've thrown it aside?) Oh god, please don't tell me that this is fated. nevertheless, i flipped through it. flip. flip. flip. throw. that's my routine if i receive this newsletter everytime. but somehow, this picture caught my napping attention.



it is self-explanatory, i should say. a typical propaganda from the government. (i'm already thinking of migrating here. just can bear to leave my friends and family. and my studies in SP.)
the picture shows citizens of Singapore taking their pledge with their... left hand across their chest!!! what the hell!!! here, here, here... take a look of the closer view. must see! must see! (for those who are squinting you eyes, here's a food for thought-click the picture.)


those marked with the red arrows are... i don't know where they come from! spare the little kid there please. perhaps she's on the learning curve just. but the other 2? oh my gosh! what a disgrace! after so long you've stayed in Singapore and after so many National Day Parades you've witnessed, this is how you show your respect for the country!

and ALAMAK! i simply can't believe this fact! this photographer, actually snapped this photo! whether it's becuse of these 3 'non-Singaporeans' acting patriotic or if it really is because of the social cohesion displayed that led him into taking this photo, only he himself will know. and the editor! how can you not notice this flaw!

if i were to say that they really aren't true Singaporeans, the most they could do is to stand in respect. but they followed throughout the pledge! worse still, using the wrong fist! i want to cry... no, it's more to laughing now. i hate to say this but if they are really, really, really Singaporeans, you should know the procedure right!!! AND YOU CAN SEE THIS BOY LEADING THE WHOLE CROWD IN FRONT OF YOU! okay lah, maybe it was because of mirror image. but wait! i'm not going to let you off so easilly.

YOU REALLY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THE PROCEDURE RIGHT! and the people around you, look at them! and goodness sake, how long has it been since you last took your the pledge? sigh. i have no more say for this issue anymore. all have been stated as above. enough of my ranting. i'm satisfied. i must stop before i turn into a maniac. i have to get back to mugging right now.

$30 million dollars to be spent to fight off dengue fever and its troop of Aedes mosquitoes. do you know that it only takes a few seconds, no money involved here, to tell someone that you need to place your RIGHT arm across your chest rather than you LEFT? this is what as the Malay saying goes, 'Gajah depan mata tak nampak, nyamuk seberang sungai nampak.' it is loosely translated as, ' you can't see and elephant in front of you but you can see the mosquito that is across the river'. go figure.

i apologise for the sudden lack of updates recently. for your information, i'm going through the 'Great Depression' period now, where i have to mug to pull up my grades. looking back, i should be grateful there's such a newsletter such as the 'Jalan Kayu Tracks'. it is really a source for me to destress. how weird can that sound? Hahaha! i don't know about the other 'divisions' but if you guys go receive these kinda newsletters, make an effort to AT LEAST look through them. (Now i sound as if i'm employed my the Government for the 'Propaganda' department.) No, i'm still jobless. My point is, perhaps you'll encounter an experience like what i had just gone through.

The experience is simply undescribable. It'll just make you go...

WAHAHAHAHAHA! WAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHA! HAHAH! HAHA! Hah! Ha..