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I remembered that i saw a picture that a guy proudly showed to everybody in a forum saying that he used merely Paint program that is pre-installed in Microsoft Windows. It is quite enough to make everybody to drop their jaws. Indeed, i am one of them.
With this inspiration i remembered from few years ago back, that is why i use less glamourous webpage design program, Microsoft Frontpage rather than powerful one like coldfusion. Simplicity tools are sufficient to encourage you to challenge to make use of this program to maximum potential of use.
One of two movies related The Romance of Three Kingdoms(San Guo Yan Yi) has been announced along with the list of confirmed actors and actresses who will be acting in this movie. It is said that this movie is heavily target at chinese and american audiences. Actually, i am inclined towards the second one which will be based on battle of chibi. However i will be watching both movies in cinema.
One local news swept local internet community. It read as a 20 years old National Serviceman took a rifle with live rounds left the camp without permission and was subsequently caught by police in 20 hours later at Orchard Cineleisure. It certainly pop my eyes out. Why AWOL especially when he has one month left to ORD?!?!?
The next day, some netizens bothered to CSI on this event and media followed it up. The possible proof was his former girlfriend who just broke with him recently after 4 years long relationship. It is very possible for such act. One thing is for sure pointing at his future which will be gone. He will be charged under Arm Act and his picture already splashed all over the media and local community. Like what i mention in previous blog entry, one thing can damage everything. It can be small thing and yet not knowing the nature of the cause, it can turn into big thing. What a pity!
Gabriel has been complained his work as a Navy officer. Worse of all, he signed 20 years bond with Navy which enable him to study in Singapore Polytechnics with $1k per month pay as he study while Navy paid his school fee. Fast forward to today, i asked him if he had second chance to sign the bond or not, he said that he would not sign it. But then the reason he signed is the issue of paying school fee. Arthur warned him that it was not wise one and he would regret. It seem to be true.
Indeed...Young people tend to miss out big picture where the future will be like while they only have looked small picture instead.
Scholarship bond?I ain't sign it if it come with condiitons attached. Such conditions can be burden if you are not top student in the first place. If i were top student having first class honour degree and was offered to master scholarship, i would accept as long as the conditions are very favourable provided that it is UK or US top university.
However best of all options is to work while study. There are some people doing something extraordinary. I am not refering to the mass people who are working as a promoter/salesperson in roadshow or any employee. I am refering least people who think of doing small scale and low cost business. I have heard some of them and they truly develop entrepreneurial spirit by doing so. Then it is best option to have because of a lot of benefits for you. Doing own business in day(afternoon-night) time and then study at night(morning). Incredible! There is huge learning process if anyone attempt to do this way.
Come to think of that. I used to have little entrepreneurial spirit when i was young selling EPL stickers that i don't have any use to stick on the book. Beside that, i even offered exchange and also sold the book to one same person at one time(Exchange:Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books to him and in return i get the three investigator books). I earned around more than $50 which is a lot to a kid like me.
Now economy stuff will start from here. Speaking of Singapore economy, i think it will grow nicely with sustained small increasement. Although there will be 1-2% inflation in most of products in Singapore provided that it is real as per the local news mentioned last week. It is quite timely that 2% increase for GST is to control inflation followed by increased length of time for ERP tax.
Oh ya, when i was walking around Orchard last Saturday night, i noticed that the traffic flow is getting better than before. Bloody hell, i remembered i sat in a bus travelling along Orchard Road 10 years ago. The traffic flow was so bad that it took almost 30 minutes or longer to get out of Orchard area due to congested area where two roads intersected each other somwhere near Takashimaya. The length of the road is so narrow that it is difficult to get out of that area as soon as possible. With introduction of tunnel at fort canning, new road layout between Dhoby Ghaut MRT station and City Hall MRT station and ERP certainly improve a lot on traffic flow.
More people will want to shop around. Demand is likely to increase since Business Times(tuesday edition) show that the manufacturing wages in Singapore is increasing faster than the inflation of production and young and elderly are getting more well-off to buy luxury goods.
Disclaimer: It is not known whether the report is accurate or not. Let just use them as our own convenient use.
Das Boot(German Movie 1981)
Synopsis:
Das Boot is one of the most gripping and authentic war movies ever made. Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, the film follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean in search of Allied vessels, taking turns as hunter and prey. There's very little plot, so the movie's power comes from both its riveting, epic battle scenes and its details of the boring hours spent waiting for orders or signs of the enemy. With the exception of one staunch Hitler Youth lieutenant, none of the crew is particularly loyal to the Nazis, and some are openly hostile toward their Fuhrer; this allows viewer sympathy with the men as they perform their laborious, monotonous duties in cramped, filthy quarters, or await death as depth charges explode all around the sub. Prochnow is excellent as the nerves-of-steel commander, and many of the supporting actors -- all German -- are solid as well, although the characterizations border on war movie clichés (the young crewman who has left behind his pregnant girlfriend, the Chief Engineer whose wife is seriously ill). The real star, however, is cinematographer Jost Vacano, who makes the sub's grimy, claustrophobic interior come to vivid life, as his camera follows the crew through hatches, up ladders, into bunks, and under pipes, creating a palpable sense of claustrophobia while injecting it with movement. Originally edited by writer/director Wolfgang Petersen as both a two-and-a-half hour theatrical release and a six-hour German miniseries, Das Boot was re-released in a restored version in 1997 with nearly one hour of added footage which made it even more suspenseful than before. Don Kaye, All Movie Guide
Opinion:
It is quite antique film. You will find plentiful of good comments about this movie from other people who have seen it. What they said are true. Seeing people being in submarine make you feel like as if you can see that their heads are instantly pounding inside as there were numerous bombs dropping into the sea exploding simultaneously! BOOM BOOM BOOM. Imagine that!Quite unique compared to other submarine-based films even though they are modern. No tactics and it is all just skills and character to get through horrible moments when being attacked by enemy. The ending is quite nice which is not so adrupt.
Rating:7/10
Bonsuses:1)Acting skills are so realistic 2)Director of this film had expose the emotions in ths film to all viewers.
Tony Del Piero wrote and posted at at 11:38 am
