You wanted something new.... AND HERE IT IS!

Greetings to all you loyal readers of my blog . This post is going to be rather different from the usual ones, for this post would not be a rant, but rather about the updates of my blog as of 28 February 2010.

1. Blog Skin (duh)

So as all of you should have realised by now, I have decided to change my blogskin to something more eye-catching and special as compared to my boring default blogger blogskin last year. So what I looked out for was something special, practical, and of course decent colour coordination. What do I mean by practical? Well the blog skin must be able to fit my widgets and posts, and the font must be easy to be read and all that. However no blogskin is perfect, and mine is no exception. I would prefer the font size to be bigger, but any bigger the font would look weird with the blogskin. When editing the layout the settings are not as flexible as the default blogger blogskins, so I'm still on the lookout for better blogskins. Any recommendations?

2.Sidebar

I have also cleared many of the useless widgets that flooded my sidebar last year, and only kept the most essential ones, like a short about myself paragraph and web counter. With the "animal widget" craze going on in many of our class's blogs, I have also decided to try one, which is the virtual hamster widget I suppose you would have noticed by now.

3.Content

So last year's content was really random, sometimes it was about current affairs, sometimes random interesting facts or sometimes bits of my life I wanted to share. This year I'm trying to keep it more inclined towards rants about my life thus the new blog title.

So that's all the major changes on my blog as of now... so if you want to see MORE and BETTER changes then keep supporting my blog... 20 followers and some HUGE CHANGES will come out. Also if you click the "follow this blog" button a penguin will slide across your screen. Seriously.

Signing Off,

Kevan

CNY taken over by PSPs?

What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the words" Chinese New Year". Red packets? Lots of junk food? Or is it a time to gather with your loved ones? For me, whenever I think of this festive season, a scene of my family happily having the yearly reunion dinner will flow into my mind. Anyway, I know this is kind of late, but HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYBODY! It's the 7th day of the chinese new year, the birthday of all of mankind, so happy birthday to all the humans reading this.

So anyway I'm going to be ranting about my chinese new year. When I was a little kid, maybe around 5 years old, I seem to remember reunion dinner as a hearty affair, where the men would joke with each other over some alcohol, the ladies would giggle over gossip and daily affairs, the children would chase each other round the restaurant and even the maids would have light conversation with one another. To be put short it was an occasion to look forward to , an occasion for family members to catch up with another.

Sadly, I can't really say the same thing for now.

Now that many of my cousins are around the same age as me, and with the advancement of technology it was not entirely shocking to see almost everyone sitting around the dining table silently, not eating but playing handphone games, PSP games etc. (you get what i mean). Even my 4 year old cousin was using her pudgy fingers to try to level up in tetris. Of course being the eldest of all the cousins I just awkwardly munched on peanuts. 15 minutes later, unable to stand the awkward silence, I pushed my siblings towards a bunch of my cousins sitting together, tried to introduce them to each other (which was ironic considering the fact that they had know each other for at least 7 years or so) , and made a quick trip to the toilet(too many peanuts).So after roughly 10 minutes, I returned, expecting to see some form of socilaizing between the cousins, but all I saw was the whole bunch of them peering into a DS some idiot from another table. So much for that.

Chinese New Year- what does it really mean in this day and age. Does it mean anything more than eating free goodies and getting cash from red packets? Does it mean anything more than having an additional companion to play the X-Box 360? Does human contact really have to be compromised with the advancement of technology. Let me know your thoughts in the comments section.

By the way guys I really need more comments so that I can have greater interactive with my readers, and also so that I can improve on my future posts, so PLEASE COMMENT ON THE POSTS. I'm so desperate I'm gonna try reverse psychology, so please also DO NOT COMMENT ON THE POSTS. Hope it works!

Signing off,

Kevan

Singaporeans- no self initative?

Hi, its Kevan again and in this post I will be ranting about a particular incident that happened last year, that is etched so deep , SO DEEP , in my heart that I feel morally obliged to share this in my blog, because that's what bloggers do.. Oh Yeah.

So, you look at the title of this post, and think: "No wat, I do my classroom cleanliness duty without anyone prompting me, and I also do a heck a lot of self initiated ACE projects.?" No, this is not the type of self initiative I am talking is being dragged out from your comfort zone, thrown into a real-life situation, then doing the right thing without anyone pushing you. That is the type of situation I experienced last year.

It was 7+ at night, and I was on my weekly trip home from Japanese class in Ghim Moh. Squashed against a pole dead centre of the MRT carriage, I'm exhausted, hungry, and definitely annoyed by the fact that no one in the carriage has a heart to let this poor, Secondary 1 student, with a tortoise shell of a bag just have even 1/10 of a MRT seat. Yeah right, as if reading The New Paper upside down is all that interesting. So I'm just standing there, holding up my eyelids to stay awake, when a woman in front of me faints and collapses to the ground.

Yeah I know what you're thinking : " Gee what a great way to shock yourself awake", but its really a lot less comical then you probably think. She was a middle-aged, Indian woman, who had looked perfectly fine, other than looking rather pale, just before that, when suddenly her eyes rolled towards the back of her head, her legs buckled below her and she crumbled towards the ground. You would have thought that since the carriage was so packed someone who try to support her or something, but rather ironically the passengers around her kind of cleared a space for her to faint and her head to land on the ground with a dull and rather loud thud. I WOULD have at least tried to hold her up, if it wasn't for the fact that I was shell-shocked and being pushed back by the other people trying to get out of the way.

So you guys can probably guess what most people around her started doing. THAT'S RIGHT, they started crowding around the fainted woman, staring at her like the newest attraction at the zoo, with the occasional "tsk tsk" and "aiyoh" being heard. Here's the catch: NO ONE WENT TO GET HELP. Yup, no one bothered to use the emergency call button thingy to get help. No one even tried clearing space around the fainted woman to let her have some air. So after getting over my initial state of shock I , being the heroic and civic-minded gentlemen I was (and still am), dumped my heavy bag to the ground (no regrets there) and rushed over to the emergency call button thingy to call for help. So after a brief conversation with the female SMRT staff about what had happened and the carriage number and all the other details.

To my extreme relief, the Indian woman had already regained consciousness when I turned back to look at her. Except for her face looking rather pale and her rubbing the back of her head in pain (because she landed on it)she seemed perfectly fine. At the next station a SMRT staff in green promptly arrived to help her out of the train. At this juncture I would also like to commend SMRT'S efficiency in resolving the situation.

However, what I would NOT like to commend would be the lack of self initiative that was displayed on that day. What IF , the Indian woman's condition had been one which was potentially life threatening and required immediate medical attention. The consequences would have been unthinkable if everyone in the carriage was as unresponsive and irresponsible. It is also with greatest regret that I have to say that it is undeniable that such traits can be seen in 2o1 as well. The CNY decorations was just one of the many incidents where this has been seen. Though I myself have at times been irresponsible and just not bothered to help out, I really hope that there is just a little bit more self initiative coming from each and everyone of us. If each of us just puts our personal interest's aside once in a while, I'm sure that this world will certainly be a better place.

Signing off,

Kevan

Goodbye MSN!

SO lets face it, MSN's not gonna be all that popular 10 years down the road. So before the communication platform that dramatically increased my typing speed goes the way of friendster, I shall use this post to rant about the types of MSN users I'm sure we all have experienced before.

1.The Spammer

There's one in everyone of us. The dude that just keep's spamming your whole window with emoticons or "lol" and other stuff that don't make sense. Sound familiar?

2. The Slooooooowpoke

You are about to type a reply when you see the message :" xxx is typing". Out of pure courtesy you decide to wait for him/her to finish typing. 5 minutes go past and the other party types 3 words. And it certainly has nothing to do with slow typing.

3. Just Plain Random

You decided to use MSN to decide on details for the next gathering with a couple of friends. You ask: "So, where are we going for lunch" "Yayyyyyy club penguin rocks" At this juncture you ponder as to whether or not to refer your friend to the nearest mental institution, but nothing can cure randomness.