No - (enuciate - 'nO), adverb, 1 syllable word. Say it, Chris, it's easy to say.

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Main Entry: 1no
Pronunciation: 'nO
Function: adverb
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English nA, from ne not + A always; akin to Old Norse & Old High German ne not, Latin ne-, Greek nE- -- more at AYE
1 a chiefly Scottish : NOT b -- used as a function word to express the negative of an alternative choice or possibility (shall we go out to dinner or no)
2 : in no respect or degree -- used in comparisons
3 : not so -- used to express negation, dissent, denial, or refusal (no, I'm not going)
4 -- used with a following adjective to imply a meaning expressed by the opposite positive statement (in no uncertain terms)
5 -- used as a function word to emphasize a following negative or to introduce a more emphatic, explicit, or comprehensive statement
6 -- used as an interjection to express surprise, doubt, or incredulity
7 -- used in combination with a verb to form a compound adjective (no-bake pie)

Chris. 'No' is a very simple word to use. Why can't you say 'No'?!

Please help me...

I've 25 tickets to sell, each costing 12 bucks. And if I don't finish selling them, I might have to absorb it. :(

Well, let me plug my event. :)

Business Bash @ Embassy!

Date - 13th MArch

Venue - Embassy (obviously ;))

Tixs at 12 bucks each

1 for 1 from 11 - 12!

Please help support my event! I really really need your help ya! :) Please help spread the word, I believe there is sth v enticing about business bashes. Or so I was told. Haha. Let me know if you want to buy tickets. I can be reached via hp or email or anything. Or leave a msg in the comments box! Thanks!

A very stressed Christine

An interesting lunch incident. I think. Maybe I just want to write something down.

(ie a cute guy incident that I wanted to write down. Ha ha.)

On Monday, I met the guys at Bizad for lunch, and went to buy lunch with Cher. While in the queue, Cher got talking to this guy friend, S whom we all (ie Me, Cher and Val) secretly thought was pretty cute in the intelligent guy-next-door-with-a-bad-streak kind of way. Haha.

So later Cher and I got our food, and was walking back to the round tables where our stuff are, and on the way, we saw S, and his other friend, B whom I thought was even cuter than S. (And Cher says given my track record in cute guys, I can't be believed, haha). Anyhow, when we walked past their table, and cause the 2 of them were sitting on the 4 person table, so S maybe thought we wanted to sit with them or so Cher says.

In the end we told them we were going to another table, so we walked to sit with our other friends. And I was like, 'Actually, I think I'd rather sit with S and B. :D', and Cher was like 'Me too!'. But still, we went to the table. And what do you know? There was no space! Haha. Apparently Steve came out of nowhere. Heh.

So what do we do? Sigh. Poor us had no where to sit, so we went to sit.... with S and B! :D:D Yeah. Like, we have no choice right? Hoho. Cher got to sit beside S and I get to sit beside B. B is really really cute. And when Cher intro-ed me, he put out his left hand to shake my hand? And I was quite disorientated for a while and was deliberating which hand to use. Haha. (I used my left hand, if you are interested. :D) I don't know. Maybe he's a scout or something. Or maybe that happened to be his free hand. I think it's the latter.

So... I didn't really join in the conversation as much, cause I was a little tired (was reading up stuff on Citizen Kane) and I didn't really know them anyway. Made small talk here and there. Was eating this roasted honey chicken thingy from Western, and I was peeling off the skin thingy,

** To be continued **

Anyway, a plug

Startup@Singapore is beginning, if you guys are interested, please go to this site. I've helped them co-organise CEO Unplugged and sadly couldn't work on the bigger Startup project due to time constrain (See below). But it should be fun to do it. Maybe next year.

I've been thinking

about that incident, and I've decided that after this semester, I'm going to be a volunteer.

This semester is still a little tight for me, cause I'm still in MC and will be working on 2 FOP projects, not to mention my committee's projects and then the Social Entrepreneurship Forum. So comparatively, I'll be really really free next semester. And the first thing I'm doing is to sign up as a volunteer.

Possibly a little too emotional. The world, after all, is a lonely one.

Okie, this is going to make me sound like a right basket case but what the heck,

I was coming home after going out with Cheryl on Saturday (Oh yeah, have to write a thank you letter to Mr. Ricky Sim for his invite to the Suntec City Foodcourt Opening. *Plug* The new Suntec Foodcourt has opened! Do go down and take a look! :D:D *End Plug*)

So I was at Jurong Interchange when I saw this elderly man (abt 50) walking with a walking clutch thing... It's not a walking stick, mind you, it's a clutch sort of thing. I don't know how to describe it either... it's got 4 'legs', or something like that. So you see, he was sort of handicapped and you could see that it is really really hard for him to walk. It's more like a struggle. And one can just imagine the pain and struggle everyday, just having to walk with that handicap.

So he was walking behind me after coming out of the EW train changing onto the NS line (ie the red line that goes to Woodlands) then stopped at the same 'carriage stop' as me. And he was just standing there waiting for the train when all of a sudden, he just stumbled and was frailing about. And at that moment when he was so helpless, what do you think happened?

Nothing much really. He straightened back didn't fall in the end. But that wasn't the point I am going to make.

As he was stumbling, nobody stood forward to help him. Some people just stood there and looked at him as he lost he was falling. Some of them didn't even look at him. Some jerks even moved backwards so that he won't touch them! Thinking of the incident again made me want to tear up again. I mean, if you'd been there. You'll have seen this guy pulling his wife out of the way, then throwing a suspicious glance to the poor old man. And that really pissed me off. That really really ticked me off.

Why are people so bad? I really can't think of anything else to describe it. Why are you so cruel? Why are you so unnatural? Isn't the natural reaction to in fact, try and reach out to steady the poor old man? Shouldn't that be what people should be doing? Why, do I see, then, that people are actually withdrawing away from him? Why aren't people helping him? What if he fell? What if he fell again and injured himself so badly he might never walk again? What if.

What if, that person was someone you love and cherish?

What if he'd been your husband/father/friend/brother?

Would you care?

I am sort of choking up now just thinking of that incident again. The cruelty of the people. The feigned ignorance. The nonchalance. The indifference. Why don't they have even a sense of sympathy. Why it isn't their first reaction to help the old man? Why? I don't understand it. I mean, normally, if you see someone falling down, be it a stranger, you would still help them right? I mean, discounting the fact that the person in question is handicapped. Would you help?

Sigh. People are bad. I hope I don't end up like them.

And all the bus ride home, I was biting my lips and trying like mad not to cry. And once I entered the house, Mum came forward and asked me how was my test that day (Managerial Accounting. *Update -- I got an A. Yay!) and I promptly burst into tears. Daddy was damn shocked. Later I recounted the whole thing to Mum. She says I did the best I could. In case I didn't say already, I reached out to help the old man, but he was a little out of my reach. I was walking forward to help him, when he steadied himself.

I don't know. Thinking of that old man later sitting in the train, with peering over his glasses and adjusting his watch the people around him shifted about, and paid no attention to him, it just breaks my heart.

The world, after all, is a lonely one.

Yo

I've inserted a commenting thingy. Tell me what you think :D

"If life gives you lemons, throw them back at life screaming 'I don't want your damn lemons!'"

Argh! You are a stupid loser! (aka Because I am great and you are a loser.)

Sorry, I needed somewhere to rant. Rest assured that this is not targeted at anyone of you (i.e ppl whom I knows reads my blog and I know will NEVER EVER do anything stupid like the following)

Stop bothering me if

1) You are too stupid to comprehend the phrase 'If the sky can crack, there must be some way back'. And don't cease to stop asking me questions even when I roll my eyes and tell you 'It means if the sky can crack, there must be some way back'. And if you find the need to continue to ask me, 'back to where'? please don't be too offended if I tell you 'whatever is above the sky' .

And then, don't act all innocent and ask me if I'm alright.

2) You find a need to comment on EVERYTHING I write, and question the validity of it and then insinuate that I'm wrong and I am nothing but a lousy person. In the big picture, I don't give a damn to what you think is right or wrong. This IS my blog, for crying out loud. I don't need you to tell me I've 1)posted a wrong opinion OR 2)Not lived my life the correct way etc. Access to my diary does NOT mean you can boss my around. Access to my diary means you can shower me with concern. *wry smile* And some of you did indeed do just that and I love you for it :D I respond well to constructive criticism, just not bossy criticism.

3) Thirdly, this is in general. I don't know who reads this so this is going to be quite implicit. (Don't worry, my friends whom I know reads, this is most definitely NOT about you) Okay, here goes.

Please don't think that just because you (specific someone) have power, you can choose to treat me like your minion. Because you are nothing but an ugly and unpleasant individual. You do not control me, and you most definitely will not if you are so unreasonable. I do not respect people who practice double standards and that's why I do not have an iota of respect for you.

Maybe that's why we've never really clicked. Because I don't deal well with losers.

That's it. I'm done ranting. Interested parties can find out more info from me. I'll be glad to dish the dirt.

Disgusting!

Yesterday, I did my first homework I ever did since I got into NUS. And this morning, the tutor did a mass mail and told us he is sick and won't be coming for tutorials today.

This must be a sign.

Sentosa! :D

Island hopped to Sentosa on Wednesday. Heh, for some recee-ing thing. Delvin rented the NUSSU van and drove us there. Yingyin, Val, Wendy, Weiherng and Kelvin were also there. Basically went there to check out some stuff, and make some plans. Sunset bay's all down for renovation...

Had dinner and then we went to watch the Musical Fountain Show. It's so pretty! It's absolutely beautiful and magical. The laser lights I've seen before, but it's the new kind of light that makes it so gorgeous cause it's like a real picture. And it's so breathtaking... the scale and the magnitude. I absolutely love it. Especially the unexpected bursts of fire that flew from the water... it's so strong, from where I was sitting, I could feel the heat.

I would really really recommend everyone to go see the musical fountain show at sentosa. Really blew me away.

Last thursday...

I forgot to bring my cellphone to school. It was horrendous. You never know how dependent you are on your hp until you actually live without it for a day. It totally disorientated me. I know... It sounds bimbotic, but I felt lost. Anyhow, abt 9 msgs and 4 missed calls all from different people after couple of hours. On the day that I forgot to bring my cell, everyone decides they needed to contact me.

Bleag.

*Last Friday's CS bash at Centro* Stupid Door bitch!

That was where lazy Christine stopped updating :D

Last friday was spent in school from 10hrs to 16hrs (with no breaks whatsoever... yuck) and then a meeting at 16hrs. Went home and slept till about 2030hrs when I changed and went out to meet Yantyng to go to the CS Bash at Centro. We happen to know Yifang... What's ironic was that at Management Science lecture this girl gave us some tickets to a bash at Centro... haha. I was like, maybe I should call Sam to cancel for tonight. Heh.

Anyhow, I met Tyng for the bash, went over and met Sam. Stupid door bitch didn't allow me to go in cause I was wearing flats. WTH? I wore that to Centro couple of times before. Anyhow, changed shoes with Huiyi, Sam's friend (also girlfriend of Jeremy), who initially was going to only switch shoes, but later, I saw the same doorbitch going into the club to drag ppl who switched shoes out. So I asked if she could switch with me until after the event, cause she's not going to the bash anymore. However, my shoes was giving her blisters (Oops... I forgot to apologise to her..) And we switched back. Have to take the chance la heh.

Later met Yantyng in the club and she said she was leaving, so offered to change shoes with me as we were abt the same size. And at that time, the door bitch was right in front of us... no doubt looking at our shoes *sniff* So Tyng was like 'Okay, be nonchalant... pretend that we are talking. Then later I'll walk out myself to spare the embarressment of being chased out by her' Haha... damn funny I tell you.

The bash was alright... didn't see a lot of people I know... Kelvin, Yonghui, Yifang, Fusheng and some guys from SA I remember... then met Jeremy on the train... And apparently Ricardo too. :) But it was fun. Spent the night with Sam's friends, Leonard, Baizheng and what's-his-name. And everywhere you turn there are guys. I am serious. It's like they've released an entire army camp of guys after 1 year in camp and told them the most happening club was Centro. Heh.

ANyway, didn't have to spent midnight cabfare cause Sam's friend Leonard drove us all home. A very nice guy. *wink

This made me cry.

Reliving the horrors of CAMP 22
Whole families killed in North Korean gas chambers, says defector

HIS allegations were startling. He said he saw an entire North Korean family being gassed to death.

Mr Kwon Hyok, a defector from the North and now living in South Korea, made these allegations in a documentary aired by the BBC last night.

Mr Kwon Hyok, 45, said he was head of security at prison camp 22 in Haengyong, in the north-eastern part of the country.

It is one of a network of prisons in North Korea modelled on the Soviet Union's Gulag, where hundreds of thousands of prisoners are held.


CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS

He told Ms Olenka Frenkiel, the reporter, how he witnessed chemical experiments being carried out on political prisoners. These took place in specially constructed chambers hidden within the camp.

He claimed that different gases are being tested there, including one called Vinyla, related to the North Korean artificial fibre, Vinalon.

In the documentary titled Access To Evil, he described the chambers - glass rooms within a room - sealed and with a ventilation shaft that pumps gas inside.

Above, there is a viewing gallery where North Korean scientists observe the death throes of their victims.

London's Daily Telegraph published details of the interview in which he said that the youngest victims are children, and the eldest are in their 60s.

They were selected by others and brought to the chamber, where they were stripped naked and given a medical check-up.

They had to be free of disease before entering the chamber.

Mr Kwon Hyok drew the layout for the reporter, explaining that individual victims stood around the edges of the chamber, while families were gathered in the centre, where they clung together.

'Even though they were dying,' he said, 'I saw the parents trying to save their children by giving them mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

'The most unforgettable scene I remember was when I watched an entire family being killed.

'They were put inside the chamber and I saw them all suffocate to death.

'The last person to die was the youngest son who was crying for his parents and eventually died.'

What were his feelings when he saw the children die?

The former prison chief said: 'I had no sympathy at all because I was taught to think that they were all enemies of our country and that all our country's problems were their fault.

'So I felt they deserved to die.'


In fact, most of the prisoners have not been charged with any crime, Mr Kwon Hyok said.

They are there because of the 'Heredity Rule'.

He said: 'In North Korea, political prisoners are those who say or do something against the dead President Kim Il-sung, or his son Kim Jong-il.

'But it also includes a wide network of next of kin.

'It's designed to root out the seeds of those classed as disloyal to North Korea.'

In prison, he added, 'there is a watchdog system in place between members of five different families.

'So, if I were caught trying to escape, then my family and the four neighbouring families are shot to death out of collective responsibility'.

Torture, he said, is routine.

'Prisoners were like pigs or dogs. You could kill them without caring whether they lived or died...'

'For the first three years' he explained 'you enjoy torturing people but then it wears off and someone else takes over.

'But most of the time, you do it because you enjoy it.'


Camp 22, he said, is 'surrounded by a 3,300-volt electric fence and, inside the fence, is a 10m moat with spikes sticking out to impale anyone attempting escape'.

He described various forms of torture such as water torture, hanging torture and box-room torture.

He also described how he ordered public executions in the camp, and not just of those who tried to escape, but of their entire families and the families of their neighbours.

The BBC reporter noted that Mr Kwon Hyok's words lacked emotion.

He appeared to feel no remorse and seemed proud that he had earned promotion in the army on the strength of his cold-blooded ruthlessness.

Today, he is one of about 4,000 North Koreans who have left their country and now live in South Korea's capital, Seoul.

The South Korean taxpayer pays for his upkeep and, in return, he advises the government in Seoul on how to deal with the new enemy, the North.

Taken from this site

So... tired!

Okay. Got stuff to update but am very very tired now.

Anyway, KPMG has just replied re the exhibition but since we are changing the focus of the exhibition now... they will not be so appropriate for the exhibition. This sounds weird, but I hope they will turn down the offer. The PR person said she was talking to some people in the office about it...