Skeptical: Chinese New Year

Photo credits: http://www.seenobjects.org/2005-02-09-chinese-new-year

A rather obtuse and skeptical take on the lunar new year,

• Spring Cleaning is just another way to make sure the Chinese clean their homes.
• Spring Cleaning= Dust-fest.
• Ang Paos (Red Packets) are rewards for kids who help in Spring Cleaning, much like how you get presents if you’ve been good all year round, at Christmas.
• Wearing black or dark colors doesn’t mean you’ll be unlucky, it just means you dislike dressing up in bright colors.
• Cutting/trimming/getting a new hair-do is spring cleaning yourself.
• Technically all you need to survive Chinese New Year is a new shirt (don’t even bother with jeans/pants) and a pair of oranges and you’re good to rock and roll.
• Don’t worry monsters are a thing of the past. That’s why we don’t need firecrackers.
• New year puns in text messages are awesome; eg,“Have a roaring new year” (with reference to the year of the Tiger).
• Chinese horoscopes (or horoscopes in general) usually aren’t accurate.
• Yusheng (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusheng) is the only good reason to mess things up during the New Year.

Take the above with a pinch of salt.

That being said, Chinese New Year is all about the family and showing appreciation, much like other festivals, which are pockets for quality family time. Also, it stresses on a good start to the new year!

Everyone should therefore, embrace the festival and appreciate the beauty and significance behind the customs involved.

Happy Chinese New Year to all readers.

Random Thought, Vol. 2

Just a quick update for all you readers out there.

Pass couple of days were somewhat, enjoyable yet tiring in itself. Late nights are still routine but obviously for different reasons this time (enjoyment purposes mainly).

The term's starting soon. Personally I can't wait, call me crazy.

No article tonight, readers, since I'm already spent for the day. I'll try posting tomorrow if possible. However, its time for a couple of random thoughts.

Random Thought:

- Lotus is a gay name
- My keyboard's freaking dirty
- My room smells like nothing
- Movie soundtracks are awesome
- My eyeballs are bigger than the webcam
- The "refresh" symbol on your internet browser looks like the recycling sign
- Horoscopes are scary
- Sleep is important to a person
- I haven't packed my bed since last night

Aside from that, I found something I intended to post awhile back, lingering in my cell.

Here it is...

Daily Bus Travel Timings (for a said week),

DAY1:
Start Time (ST), 0825
End Time (ET), 0855
Lesson Start, 0900

DAY2:
ST, 0935
ET, 0957
Lesson Start, 1010

DAY3:
ST, 0933
ET, 1003
Lesson Start, 1010

DAY4:
ST, 1142
ET, 1202
Lesson Start, 1200

DAY5:
ST, 0941
ET, 1005
Lesson Start, 1010

*The above statistics were in no way, falsely fabricated solely for the use of blog promotion. These were actual live statistics that are released at the sole discretion of the user and the owner of the blog.*

As seen, the average duration of my travel time's around 20-30minutes. Interesting. Transport costs are going way up. I should do a travel time VS travel cost statistic record soon. Hmm...

Oh well, its rather late (no it isn't, really), time to chill out for abit. Check back soon for updates and articles.

Cya'll later.

Mentions.

Blog readership's been growing rapidly throughout the pass weeks, a big thank you to all my readers. I'll keep the posts coming for sure and remember to tell your friends/family/peers/teachers/generally people you know, about metallic-stains.blogspot.com. I aim to attain an even higher readership!

I'm not intending to put a "tagboard" but comments and feedback are strongly encouraged and I personally value such responses via the means of the "post comments" link at the end of each post. This way, comments will be more specific and segmented for a particular post.

Okay, the main purpose for this post is basically to mention a couple of blogs that have so graciously "promoted" metallic-stains.blogspot.com. They are:

http://www.afrotoast.blogspot.com/
http://life-plain-and-sweet.blogspot.com/
http://www.candies-talk.blogspot.com/
http://stereo-invisible-tempo.blogspot.com/
http://cyberfazer.wordpress.com

and a couple of others that I can't remember, if any; Drop me a comment if I've missed out on the mention.

Through the bulk of the holidays and ironically, its revitalising but also leaves me helpless at times. My organizer for instance, stays largely empty; such contrasting differences to normal school days.

In a way, the holidays help for sure. As I've compensated up with my lack of sleep throughout the term.

I'm looking forward to the new term. Naturally it'll bring new challenges, new situations and of course, newer experiences. It'll be another interesting term and to the students in the course, we'll be one small step closer to our media careers.

A little AAR (After Action Review) on term 1 (though it might be a wee bit late for that):

- Gain brief media experiences and media basics
- Cultivated a different mindset for professionalism
- Made brilliant friends
- Experienced taxing working conditions (eg. ICA1 0662)
- Worked on personal time management

Obviously, term 1 was a fruitful term and certainly, the rest of the days would be as enriching.

So yea, that's all for the update. Remember, I would love to hear from you, my readers! Keep posting (if you're a blogger yourself) and stay golden!

Check back for frequent updates and articles!

Cya'll later.

To ALL my Readers out there, I NEED YOUR HELP!

Okay not so often that I do this but yea, I need help from you, my readers.

If you have an INTERESTING and UNIQUE hobby, please leave me a comment (the comment option) for this particular post.

You don't have to know me personally and as long as you reside locally (Singapore) and have a really out of the world hobby, I would like to know more.

A side-note, it'll be good if you are not camera shy and live in the central area of the island for convenient purposes.

More information will be released once I get the due feedback so please, my readers, SHARE YOUR HOBBIES WITH ME NOW. It would be good if you guys could leave either your email add in the comments or drop me an email at noodlegoat@hotmail.com

PLEASE MY READERS, I HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU.