The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 33,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 12 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
just taking a break from exam-mugging to share a site full of lolz that i had stumbled across. XD
lots of funny stuff in the politics section, if you are familiar with US politics.
here’s the link straight to the politics section: http://www.theonion.com/section/politics/
the rest of the site is funny too, of course. even the captions on the ads are satirical.
Tags: lolz
Workers’ Party pulls off an unprecedented win in a GRC; a capable minister gets sacrificed in the process; a vastly unpopular and undeserving candidate, now MP, gets paid a 5-digit salary to “learn the ropes” in parliament; the Returning Officer unwittingly becomes an overnight sensation thanks to the new media.
What now for us, the people? Our voting duties discharged and the excitement over, do we sit back to take a breather from our online and offline discussions about election issues and return to our apathetic attitudes towards public policy knowing that we had done well, we had done our part to strengthen democracy in this country, we had tried to make our voices heard through Facebook petitions, we had chosen to secure our lift upgrading and sheltered walkways, our futures safe because our world-class government is still in the driver’s seat?
Do we watch the representatives we had chosen to do their jobs for the next 5 years with our eyes wide shut?
While the embers of active citizenship still smolder in your bellies, commit yourself to remember the promises made by your representatives during their campaign for your trust and your vote: their promise to be your voice in parliament; to work towards a world class parliament; to bring to your neighbourhood long overdue upgrading works; to control the immigration floodgates; to make public housing affordable again; and perhaps most importantly the incumbent government promise to listen to you and work for you instead of the other way round.
Don’t forget that the whole point is to select those who could best represent us and who could work with us to build our nation.
That part is done. Now it is up to us play our part, to hold the victors accountable, to speak up when something is wrong, to stop whining on the sidelines and actively contribute in our own ways, so that by 2016 we will be able to judge for ourselves and vote with conviction, without the influence of impassioned speeches and thinly-veiled threats.
Tags: random
lately i noticed that some of my comrades at work seem to be having peanut butter sandwiches as snack quite regularly. reminded me of the period when i ate a lot of peanut butter between meals in order to gain weight. supermarket-variety peanut butter used to get a bad rep because of its trans-fat, sugar and sodium content but all that had since changed. relatively healthier versions of pb are now easily available.
i was in carrefour last weekend and bought myself some freshly-made pb, so devoid of additives that its shelf life is only a little over a month compared to the usual over-a-year of regular pb.
be warned that this wholesome-ish version of pb will not taste as creamy and sweet as your usual skippy pb, it’s like comparing refined white bread to wholemeal bread. ^^; friends who tried this gave mixed reviews: Kian, who loves the taste of wholemeal bread (and whom i thought prefered bland-tasting stuff) didn’t like it while Yang (a junk food lover) thought it tasted quite nice.
get it from carrefour, S$3.30 for a small cup (about 150gram?) in smooth, medium and crunchy versions.
Tags: food
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