*~Nothing much~*

Friday, December 30, 2005
 
談馬英九現象


李敖大師稱謝長廷是民進黨最聰明的人.

是不是最聰明,倒是不一定,但聰明卻肯定的.

民進黨在這次大選大敗後,謝長廷便宣稱要重視所謂的”馬英九現象”.

我覺得,聽謝長廷的這句話最值得玩味的就是”現象”這兩個字

什麼是”現象”?

台灣最近出現了很多的現象. 有許純美現象,有林志玲現象,有女F4現象….

這些現象有什麼共同點??

在剛出現時這些現象總是佔據了各大頭條…街頭巷尾人人都在討論…而且,這些現象也會”帶領”類似的現象出現. 許純美同時有那個帶頭套的傻女… 林志玲出來後,”一林”和”凱我”變成了大家都知道的公司....還有電視上忽然多了好多”名模”…

但是,一個現象,畢竟和很多大自然的現象如彩虹和海螫蜃樓一樣,雖然可以讓人感到興奮,吸引大家的注意,但是多半不能長久…當那股熱潮過了,新鮮感過了,人們就不會再對那些現象有興趣了.

所以,謝長廷非常真確的把”現象”二字放在馬英九後面.

這次泛藍大贏…好像泛藍前景一片看好…泛藍的整合與國民黨追隨馬主席走向改革路線似乎也沒啥反對的聲音了….

但是,這種想法不過是把問題想簡單了,把馬英九神化了.

馬英九,不過是台灣現有政治大環境裡面的一個齒輪.單靠他一個人,是不可能把台灣(國民黨)腐敗的政治現實做出巨大的改變.

一個齒輪,頂多可以把腐敗潰爛的速度放緩…而不能像超人一樣,飛上去把所有的事情轉回來.

馬英九號稱政治不沾鍋….但是,他也曾喝了高梁加紅酒,然後紅著臉跑到市議會去開會…他也在任內多次的更換高級市府主管…也有用人不當的時候, 也有處理危機不當的時候.

但是,過去那少說少錯的態度已經不管用了…既然當了黨主席,還能當個不沾鍋嗎?黨內的那些垃圾,那些小人,那些爛攤子他能不插手去處理嗎??

以前只會眨眼睛的連戰,當了主席後,不也要當個戰哥嗎?不也需要硬起來嗎?溫文儒雅的個性也要出來嗆聲撂狠話.

馬英九可以嗎?

還有3年才到總統大選,和民進黨內鬥連連相比,國民黨似乎好了太多了…但是這期間仍然充滿變數.馬英九要如何運用自己的政治智慧去解決國民黨諸多的問題,將會決定他會不會只是一個現象.

林志玲能夠撐到現在,靠的絕對不只是臉蛋和娃娃音.只有具備足夠的能力的人才能立足,屹立不倒.

即使是因為一些意外而倒下,無論是因為一匹馬或是”送淒利”,只要功力夠,絕對可以東山再起在攀高峰.

馬主席加油!!



Sunday, December 18, 2005
 
如果我是陳水扁...我不會找王金平來組閣.

找泛藍的人組閣...目的不外乎要分裂. 選王金平的好處,是可以有一個路線相同的人在那個位子.

但是,這樣只能加深綠色的力量,讓阿扁位子做的更安全,卻不能夠有效的分裂藍營.

WHY?

王金平在馬英九當選有保持低調不是沒有原因的. 王代表朝本土發展.但祖籍在湖南的馬英九卻代表了與中國互動的中國國民黨. 反對去中國化,反對通用,鼓勵西進...這些是走本土路線的王金平無法跟進的.現在的藍營將要走馬英九路線,王金平將會面臨邊緣化.

國民黨如果也搞所謂的本土路線,那陳水扁大可不必擔心了. 反對黨搞到跟執政黨路線相同...那何來的競爭力??那啥跟執政黨拼??? 如何去分割去區分??

當然,我們要假設馬英九是個有大腦的人... 那他要創出的新格局將不是那害國殃民的"本土路線"...而是讓台灣務實的面對中國...與對岸合作, 取得同榮的發展.

既然如此,陳水扁必須要把眼光拉遠...用王金平或其他綠系人馬,只可以取得近利...但無法降低08年過後,阿扁被鞭屍的可能性.

唯一可以降低被鞭屍的可能性的方法,就是放一顆藍棋在閣揆的位子.

人選: 宋楚瑜,蔣孝嚴,胡志強...

why?

放一個肉腳在那個位子,只會讓阿扁難看... 一個會做事的人,將可以把阿扁的政績提升.把握最後幾年的時間做一些政績出來...就像市民大道一樣. 讓人民看到除了弊案之外,真正有利於人民的東西.

所以要用能力夠的藍棋.

但這顆藍棋必須要是一顆定時炸彈... 要有能力把整個藍營炸爛.

它必須夠藍...至少在現階段要夠藍...才能安撫反對黨...讓新的閣揆能為阿扁作出政績.

但是,這顆炸彈,在養足了氣候後. 會把藍營炸翻...把馬英九下的棋打翻.

宋楚瑜,蔣孝嚴 和胡自強 就是這種炸彈

野心家... 牆頭草... 但馬英九卻也拿他們沒辦法...因為他們夠藍

也偽裝的夠藍...

只要他們一天不成氣候,就會繼續做一個忠心黨員,支持馬主席的領導...

但是,如果他們當了閣揆,作出了全國性的政績...取得了全民的肯定...

他們就不可能會乖乖的聽馬主席發號司令了

這樣,會讓藍營處於內鬥的狀態...

一個高人氣的不沾鍋市長 VS 一個高人氣的高政績閣揆

這樣的內耗... 就能夠讓阿扁和綠營的利.

老共不也是這樣子把大陸從國民黨鼻子底下拿走的嘛??

上述的三個人選,都是經驗豐富的窩裡反...騎牆派...

走過了李登輝,走過了連戰,到現在的馬英九...沒有一定的能耐和強烈的政治欲望是不可能的.

所以,如果阿扁眼光可以放的夠遠...這次的人事佈局就必定要朝這方面走...

可惜,連呂阿媽都說當權者 目光短淺...

雖然我不支持阿扁...但是...讓一個白痴到極點的人當我的總統...也蠻不是味道阿!!!


Monday, December 12, 2005
 
I say it now... the recent slump in Man Utd performance is all but a conspiracy to get rid of those damn yanks!!! let's keep FOOTBALL the way it should be played.

i.e. you use your damn feet to play with the bal!!!!

It is just a plan by Master Fergie to make Man Utd so lousy and unattractive to force those moneyface yanks to take their dirty hands away from the beautiful game!!!

So three cheers to the Man Utd slump!!! Relegation here we come!!!!


Sunday, November 27, 2005
 
remember this?





then now it is this....




oh wow.... the Malaysian police force must be tough as a nail... i think Hollywood now know where they should go look for the next silver screen tough guy after all those old man like Arnold and Sly finally retire. MUAHHAH

wonder why crime rate is not zero given such a tough police force around...

hmmmmmmmmmmmm



Friday, November 25, 2005
 
A mutiny is about to start. a group of angry, suppressed and fed up youth/adult is about to let the world hear their voice. using one of my favourite poem to describe how i feel for their action.

ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, –
The shrill, demented6 choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.


i guess their cause is honorable. and i feel for them. but, given my training and background in political science. their battle is lost even before it is lost since they are following the footstep of all those tat came before them, but failed just the same.

pity.


Friday, November 18, 2005
 

GO BLUE BEAT OSU!!!


PUCK THE FUCKEYE!!!


GO GOBLUE STATE BEAT PENN



ok.... but i think we will still lose. by a narrow margin. at least 3 touchdowns for each team. but still, it is the way they play that will matter and continue the legacy of the UM-OSU rivalry.

on another note, Roy Keane is finally leaving Manchester United. never been a fan of his. and he should have been gone a long time ago. nothing wrong with building a team around a player. but it is wrong to build a player that has not been able to perform to the best of his ability since 3 seasons ago and sits by the sideline coz of injury for half the season. so while Roy Keane has been part of the glorious days of Manchester United, his days with Man U were long over when he can no longer perform. i probably should say a thank you or wat not to him for sticking around so long.... but since he has stayed on longer than he should for so many years, i guess i'll just skip that.


Wednesday, November 09, 2005
 
Angel of Mine -- Monika


When I first saw you I already knew,
There was something inside of you,
Something I thought that I would never find,
Angel of mine.

I look at you, Lookin at me,
Now I know why they say the best things are free,
I'm gonna love you boy, you are so fine,
Angel of mine.

How you changed my world, you'll never know,
I'm different now, you helped me grow,
You came into my life sent from above,
When I lost all hope you showed me love,
I'm checkin for ya boy you're right on time,
Angel of mine

Nothing means more to me than what we share
No one in this whole world can ever compare
Last night the way you moved is still on my mind.
Angel of Mine

What you mean to me you'll never know
Deep inside I need to show,
You came into my life sent from above (Sent from above)
When I lost all hope, You showed me love (Boy you showed me love)
I'm checkin' for ya, boy you're right on time (Right on time)
Angel of Mine (angel of mine)

I never knew I could feel each moment
As if it were new,
Every breath that I take, the love that we make,
I only share it with you (you, you, you, you)
When I first saw you I already knew
There was something inside of you
Something I thought that I would never find,
Angel of Mine.

You came into my life sent from above (Came into my life yeah yeah yeah)
When I lost all hope you showed me love (boy you showed me love, uh huh)
Im checkin for ya, boy you're right on time (Boy you're right on time)
Angel of mine (angel of mine, oh mine)

How you changed my world, you'll never know,
I'm different now, you helped me grow,
I look at you lookin at me,
Now I know why they say the best things are free
I'm checkin for ya, boy you're right on time
Angel of mine.


Tuesday, October 25, 2005
 
day-dreaming...

if one million singapore dollar drop from the sky right now for me. guess how i am gonna use it? dammit man... i am gonna use it to buy TWO villas in Shanghai. each of them will be more than 300sq m. seriously... even though china is trying to cool off its property price coz it is super inflated... it doesn't mean that it is not a good idea to invest in real estate there. just that it won't be a good idea to borrow from the banks though.

come on... two top-tier villas that is like at the prime location for 500k Singapore... one 3 room HDB flat in singapore in my area is already like 300K... and if you talk about a private apt unit along orchard, it is gonna cost you more than 1million oledi... so forget abt villas. but in china, you can get that for 500k... how can you ever beat that? you just pay for them in cash, then rent them out. if i remember correctly, last time my friends rented a lousy apt unit in shanghai, it cost them about 800RMB... imagine renting the villas out for 20KRMB to the expats per month... that would be like getting 4% of interest from the bank every month. how shiok can it get??? got market or not you might ask? well... i would think there is, coz it is located just beside two international schools and a stone throw away from one of shanghai's largest shopping area. seriously... i think i would be under-charging. one of my mom's friend rented her private apt that is like quite near to orchard for 5K singapore dollar a month... 5K singapore... that is like 20K RMB... and hers is an apt... and it was snapped up like a week after she posted the ad... so i dun think a rent of 20K is gonna price myself out...

plus, it is not a case of the housing being too expensive for investors. it is essentially that the housing is out of reach for the locals... coz you get assholes like me that earn their money in USD or Singapore dollars... but invest them in chinese properties in RMB... so obviously, for local that are earning 3k RMB a month it is astronomically expensive, but to expats, it is seriously peanuts... hahahahahahaha

and you hold it for 2-3 years and you would have gotten the money back... wat kind of investment nowadays give you that kind of returns? and at the end, you have two freaking villas under your name!!! and oh yeah... i should mention it from the beginning... this villas i am tokking about are developed by singaporean developer... not some shaddy chinese ones that cheat your money by using lousy material for building... we are talking about top notch quality housing at a very very affordable price for foreigners and in the singaporean context.

to tell you the truth, i doubt that the shanghai property price is ever gonna drop... no way... as it grow bigger and develop ahead... it will become just like new york and other big cities... even if there are so much more undeveloped land in the rear of china... property price along the hot spot areas will remain hot and maintain its "cosmopolitan-value".

i pity the local chinese for rich fat assholes like me will always try to earn a quick buck or two at their expense.


Saturday, October 22, 2005
 
hmmm.... wat a coincidence... something interesting happened today that made me really want to blog abt it... and i saw the remark made by jebai below... interesting...

been busy with the obvious. was able to chat in office coz the company has its own IM system... so given that it has the same interface with MSN, i was able to chat with ppl while working last week... but dun think i will be able to do that any more starting from this coming week...

alot of things happened during work. alot alot of interesting things learned. but contract obligation forbid me to tok abt any of these things... and obviously as we all know... it is always the things tat we are not allowed to say that is often times the most interesting there is to say. MUAHAHAHAHAHA...

well, guess there is this one thing which i could say. When i was in US, i wanted to polish my skill in portfolio management. so i did trading on paper. everyweek, i would identify 5 different companies that i think will be great and monitor their performance for the following week to see if my predictions were correct. did tat for abt a month... was pretty good at it. but there was one company (won't tell you which one though...). i felt that the foundamentals abt that company were excellent. and it is obviously underrated like hell. most traders somehow just ignore the company and there wasn't much trading activities with regards to tat particular stock... so i got interested, and i tried to find out more abt the company. but guess wat, MSN, Yahoo and a couple of other sources i checked with gave me nothing on the company. no current news, i couldn't get any details on wat exactly the company was doing (i tot it is some kind of kodak like company... but it later turn out to be pharmaceutical...) so it was like this phantom stock with very little info on the company...

so basically, while undergoing thru the company's foundation training, i was introduced to our premium financial product and i did a search on tat company... omg... i was greeted with tons of news and infos on that company that i could never imagine. from where the CEO n Board members went to college, their company stats, company info and corporate strategy etc.... it was really really really comprehensive and just blew my mind away....

You can imagine how proud i felt to be in the company at tat point. and coz of this, i feel that we will be able to kick our competitors ass in no time. i was really like "WOW... holy shit..." when my cynical search turn out so much good stuff... and everyone were intimidated by my sudden "outburst"... hahahah

but yeah... the real stuff that i wanted to tok abt...

was waiting for the laundry today afternoon and decided to flip thru the channels... landed on TV2 of malaysia and they have a program tat was on the importance of MICES... basically attracting business tourists... coz of their high spending power n all tat... wat really struck me was the part with the head of tourism for malaysia... he was doing the standard interview which he was suppose to outline what the tourism board is suppose to do to attract these sugar daddys... and guess wat... the dude look like a kid caught without preparing for his hw... he was like "we have erm... erm... 3 broad goals... which are erm.... erm... erm... " and keep looking down on wat is obviously his precious notes....

i mean... he is just being asked what he is suppose to be doing.... it is not as if a high court judge is being asked these questions... or the interview took place very suddenly along the corridor... this just tell me that this guy is a moron that dun even noe his job well... come on lah... this is wat he is paid to do and yet he can't even speak of his job and wat he is suppose to do properly.... that to me, is just pathetic.

and it makes you wonder what this kind of officials are doing in the office? it is not just a situation in the malaysian govt... it is everywhere... you ask a dude a question that is relevant to his job. and yet he can't even tell you properly... doesn't it makes you wonder wat kind of nonsense he has been up to and would ask if he deserve his job? yeah... being seeing alot of such cases around... and the most glaring of such recent example also came from a malaysian girl i had training with. my trainer ask her, "after 3 mths at your job, could you share with us wat you do? and define for us this technical term which you are working on" and tat girl's reply was "oh i dunnoe... i just do wateva my boss give me to do..." and she said it as if there is nothing wrong with it and tat my trainer is being a moron.... omg... it is like asking an engineer working on RFID wat it means and he tell you he dunnoe.... or asking a chemist wat CO2 is and he dunnoe.... wtf... you have this kind of ppl sitting in positions doing nothing... and at the same time, so many ppl tat is having such a hard time looking for a job.... just think it is so unfair... but of course... sometimes, a person may be without a job simply coz he is lazy (or perhaps even a silly ajax/arsenal/anti man u fan...)... hmm... just so happened that i know one such person that lives in KL... MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


Thursday, September 22, 2005
 
ok... just so that it makes jebai happy, since he posted a pix of me on his site, i am writing a new post and tinkled a little with the site format, n updated links.


currently in Singapore now... not doing much... and i have made up my mind that from now on, this site will really start to honor its address by being truly Taiwantank. so i will try as much as i can, when i read some crap in Taiwan that i feel like blasting about, to put a post up here. Why Taiwan? well... coz Taiwanese govt hasn't started sueing Taiwanese Bloggers. MUAHAHAHAH.... not to mention i am safely hiding in Singapore, a country that has little love for Taiwan after our beloved Foreign Minister said what everyone knew all these while. MUAHAHAHAH

more to come.



Thursday, May 05, 2005
 
Graduation was last Saturday, 30th April. Just wanna say a big thank you to everyone that has helped me along the way so i could make it this "far"... long long loooong journey ahead of me, and uncertainties only seems to be growing more. but still, appreicate all the help and lessons that was offered to me thus far. Here are some photos for your viewing "pleasures"
















Wednesday, April 20, 2005
 
eh, so how ah? nowadays got fucked up piece of assholic shit motherfucker that goes around your blog and dig the skeletons outta your closet leh... wat is the point of doing this ah? some kind of blog-arazzi? like seriously, so yeah, a young man make some really fucked up remarks, and it was really really inappropriate to make such statement. but are singaporeans so narrow minded and so unforgiving? damn you lah, you got some nuthead minister and his boobs comments who is still enjoying his big fat minister level paycheck and you are calling for the head of a young man just because he made one silly remark in HIS OWN FUCKING PERSONAL SPACE? eh, can sue that mofo for violation of intellectual property rights or not ah? if those ppl think wat this young man wrote is something serious, then shouldn't these people email him or drop him a note asking for permission BEFORE they start cut n paste his work all over the place? oh, all these entries belongs to blogger, so i think blogger should sue the ass off these MOTHER FUCKERS!!! no, i am not angry coz it is a senior of mine that is kena the crap. i am angry coz so many ppl chose to cast the stone at another man when they are probably not so morally impeccable. oh yeah, so he is a goddam scholar, so you expect him to be perfect in every sense issit? plz lah... i bet when these ppl got their scholarships, CONFIRM got ppl tokking behind their back and say, wah lao eh, this kind of ppl oso can get scholarship, and basically challenge the scholar's legitimacy. so if so many ppl out there already have such low confidence and regards for scholar, then why suddenly everyone want these scholars to be so perfecto?!?! wat hypocracy eh? so fun to just fucked up someone else life and boo at ppl rite? FUCK YOU you silly small penis peanut brain losers. you wanna throw the stone at ppl and you dun even have the guts to do it and do it VIRTUALLY... hohoho... oh yeah... this entry damn vulgar, but oh well, i dun pretend to be a saint, but i noe that i am holier than thou. BITCH!!!


Sunday, April 17, 2005
 
Graduating soon. now currently looking for a blardy job. been really a frustrating task and tiring. think it is really a weird idea that i have to try so hard, figure how to sell and promote myself so i can hopefully get a job in some cubicle, get the chance to work my ass off so that some dude sitting in the corner office will be able to affort a vacation in the Bahamas or something. dun make much sense to me.


the past few months, i think i came to understand myself better. the combination of a job hunt and being in a relationship force you to look at yourself from a more objective manner. sometimes, just feel so blardy useless and worthless. i look at what i have done in the past. great work, so much efforts put in... but basically amounts up to nothing that is really worth tokking about. but can't say i really regret what i have done or doubt the decisions i made. i know i have done good. i know i have been true to myself each step of the way. i know alot of ppl hated me for acting the way i did. i know many ppl will think i am wasting my life way. i know if only i am a little more flexible and bend my own rules alittle, i could have done so much more that will help me more in my job hunt or so call getting ahead in life. yet, i really really dun care. i can try to avoid making ppl angry, but i can't avoid what i feel needs to be done. i can only pray that as i grow older and hopefully get wiser with more experience, that i be able to do what i need to do and avoid making so many ppl upset.


my relationship with my girlfriend is going thru a rough patch now. i am trying to understand what this relationship is all about. what does it mean to be serious? what is the point of two ppl being together? it seems that we have pretty different answers to questions like this. what do you do, when you realise that the person you love, has been changing herself to accomodate this relationship as much as you have, but she is actually reluctant and sadden by all these changes? what do you do, when you realise that everytime when you try to do something for the person you love and to show your love, you end up only hurting her and in turns hurt yourself also? what do you do, when you try so hard to create a common future path for the two of you, but the one you love tells you that she wants to remain as an individual? it is so so so easy to just give up if things dun work out. move on and see if there is someone else that will match what you want. just that unfortunately i don't believe in that... but things become really difficult if the one you are with is resisting changes deep down inside and feels that she has to force and sacrifice herself too much for the relationship that we have. takes the effort of both to do this. i am getting tired for what i have been doing and always getting blamed for hurting her.


been awhile since i blogged. my life now leaves me little time for nostalgic moments. life has became a battlefield that i have to fight so hard for my own survival, that i dun even have the time to mourn my fallen comrades or the lost of youth and innocence. sad. barely have the time to look forward and prepare for the future...



Thursday, February 10, 2005
 
Reposting a song that I have posted some time ago... dunnoe why... everytime i hear this song, feels as if this is THE song that've been playing in my head, the song that i've been searching for so long... and that now i finally found it... enjoy it my friends!


陳百強 一生何求

*冷暖那可休 回頭多少個秋
尋遍了卻偏失去 未盼卻在手
我得到沒有 沒法解釋得失錯漏
剛剛聽到望到便更改
不知那裡追究*

**一生何求 常判決放棄與擁有
耗盡我這一生 觸不到已跑開
一生何求 迷惘裡永遠看不透
沒料到我所失的竟已是我的所有**

Repeat *

一生何求 曾妥協也試過苦鬥
夢內每點繽紛 一消散那可收
一生何求 誰計較贊美與詛咒
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