Sunburnt on Thursday, December 15, 2005
Today is my last day in Salso Chemicals. As usual, my superior, Irene Sim, thought that i was in secondary school. Someone of my physique with the status of an undergraduate seem so unfathomable. Whats so difficult to imagine huh. Alright, on a flattering note, i shan't grumble more.
For the past 2 days i was putting the christmas cards into the green envelopes, pasting the stamps, until i can remember the price of the stamps for all the country zone. Malaysia and Brunei = 40 cents, Singapore of coz 0.23, Korea,Taiwan, China and other asian countries 0.60 cents, New Zealand and Australia 0.70 cents. Europe, US and others 1.00 cents.
And i also learnt that nowadays typewriter can undo the errors! I always thought that u have to use a correction tape or liquid to erase ur errors. Now with one click, u can erase ur previous letter or the whole line.!
Irene saw me came going for and coming back from lunch in half an hour, and decide to reimburse me the half an hour for yesterday and today. Good.
Do you have any idea wat are Trans-fats?The oreo-making industry introduced it's very own trans-fat free oreo cookie, and asserted that these cookies tasted like the original! I am not really a chemical-savvy guy, but according to the TIME mag i read, apparently trans-fats are "formed when liquid oils are solidified by adding hydrogen, which also makes them resistant to rancidity and overheating". Why many ppl are now pushing for fast-food to go into making their food trans-fats free is because these fats have proven to increase the likelihood of our poor blood "tubes" being clogged since they boost the bad cholestrol.
It's interesting to note that Pizza Hut had always been trans-fat free, while the rest are striving to "transform" their food into trans-fat free. On the other hand, our Burger King was super inert and of coz indifferent towards the fuss. BK spokesman said that they feel that the trans-fats had never been an issue until recently when it was brought to a closer attention.
Well all that they could possible do is to scavenge for more alternative oils.
It's disturbing to see how the mainland ppl are reacting adversely and of coz violently towards Zhang Ziyi. I wun say she is a fantastic Ace actress, but then again, to have her own countrymen criticizing her as a traitor is so demoralising. I mean, what is wrong with 3 women playing important roles as geishas in the movie? Gong Li who played Hatsumomo, the obvious villain the whole film, couldn't get over the feeling of her character after her last scene in the movie. When the director Rob Marshall called for everybody to close shop and go home, Gong Li was still there, crying for hours. The director had never seen anything like this before...Michelle Yeoh said it was not fair, coz she can't cry..she can only cry off-camera. Haha too bad lor. That really tempted me all the more to want to catch this movie. What did the director do to make this movie more touching then any other director can do?
Looking on at the riots in australia really makes me not wanting to be a racist anymore haha. Looking on at those violent beating scenes and shouting over there helped me appreciate racial harmony in singapore. But like one of my pious muslim army fren always said, it's not really racial harmony that we are talking about in singapore. It's racial tolerance. Note the difference. Harmony is a stage when we actually appreciate other cultures, and we know about the culture and look at it from an appreciative point of view. Can we do that? Not really..
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