pipi: December 2008

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Government should consider ban on cigarettes

Our government has already banned smoking in air-conditioned buildings including restaurants and workplaces, and had extended to hawker centres, air-conditioned karaoke lounges and nightclubs from July 2007. It also has raised the tax on cigarettes and packets bear shocking photos of the harmful effects of smoking.

The NEA smoking ban has extended further into many locations including like playgrounds, exercise areas, multi—storey, basement car parks, lift lobbies, non air—con shopping centres, and a distance of five metres from the property’s entrance or exit by January 2009. However, base on my point of view, I felt that our government should consider ban on cigarettes.

The facts : An example if our total population is 4,000,000, estimated 30% are smokers, that would be 1,200,000 are smokers. While the taxes on cigarettes are relatively more than 100%, assuming smokers would buy a pack of cigarettes daily, so simply by multiply the figures, and that will generate a huge sum of revenue profits for our government daily.

According to a recent article reported, it's shown that below 20% of our population smokes. However, i recalled during the times when i was in NS, 95% of my company were smokers. Smokers were mostly guys in the past, but nowadays, I can see that there are increasing of female smokers. So it is definitely more than 20%.

I assume that almost all smokers are aware of smoking would cause bad health and harm others. Basically, not all smokers are inconsiderate or bad people, they are ordinary Singapore fellow citizens too and have contributed in any ways to our society. Hence, there shouldn't be discrimination or criticism.

As far as the government concerns, government wants revenue, but on the other hand, has apply new restriction on smoking. That's really doesn't sound tally, it's also inappropriate. If that's the case, why not just simply ban selling of cigarettes, just like the old days banned the chewing gum. So it will solve smoking problems once and for all, and that would be no more troublesome, no more complains, no more restrictions, no more littering problems regarding cigarettes butts, etc. Which also means that no more revenue for the government. lol. :) peace

Thursday, December 25, 2008

my lovely pi pi & mi Xmas eve 8D

It was Xmas eve, My lovely pi pi & mi were off. My pi pi happened to see a TV program advertising about the newly revamped Liang Court with many new shops. So we decided to check it out.

Aw... it was disappointing, we found that it wasn't much as what the TV program mentioned. Indeed there are many new shops, with F&B, Furniture, Party World, Audio House, etc. But it's doesn't suit for our shopping impact.

We quickly left Liang Court and headed towards Suntec. On the way, we stop by at Peninsular shopping Centre, and mi in passing to look for any Converse shoes that fits my pi pi. Mi personally like this shopping mall, it is likewise with the old days in Far East Plaza. The appearance is old, but many fashionable shops inside. The building mainly cater for guys wear, shops are selling tee-shirts, Skinny jeans, Dickie's Bags, Converse, Nike, Adidas shoes, guitars, skateboarding, skate wear & etc many many.

Eventually, we happened to find a only pair of Converse shoe that was size 3 among all the shops. But the plum color of the shoe wasn't ideal for my pi pi, and furthermore the shape of the shoe was relatively awkward. It's just doesn't seem like Converse. So that's the case, we went on to suntec.

Then my pi pi & mi been to City Hall, City link and lastly we reached Suntec City. There is a Converse shop in Suntec, and perhaps it was my last chance to get a pair of converse for my pi pi before Xmas.

All these while, we had been to many converse shops around Singapore, and i thought that the results will be the same again, with no sizes for my lovely pi pi. To my surprise, phew, finally my pi pi Xmas present was fulfilled at last minute. My lovely pi pi picked the Converse Kid's All Star White/Neon Pink, and luckily they had size 3. Wow.. yeah. 8D

Yeah, my pi pi claimed that this is her first Converse shoe she had. Wow, luckily i manage to bought it for my pi pi. I'm happy for my pi pi. Love ya pi pi. 8D. Happy Xmas.

As the night was coming, we drop by to have our Xmas eve dinner at Suntec. We had agreed to have a special evening dinner on Xmas eve from our normally "money saving" dinner. Ha ha.. So we roamed around the Suntec fountain where there are many restaurants.

We had suggested to try out the new restaurants that we haven't been to. A few minutes later, we decided to have our dinner at Ichiban Boshi. It's a Japanese cuisine, sushi restaurant.

My lovely pi pi & mi picked 2 set meals. Mi chosen the Xmas set meal, beef with special sauce. grilled tofu, mushroom, squid with broccoli cheese, salmon don, chawanmushi and miso soup, log cake and mocktail. WOW !!!, my lovely pi chosen a cod fish set, comes with black pepper grill cod fish, miso soup, chawanmushi , mushroom rice, fruits. Yummy... 8D

Eventually, the food was great. My pi commented that the cod fish was very fresh and tasty. Ya, i agreed it was nice. Mine too, very tasty too. We share share our food we had, hehe.. Yeah. we really enjoyed our Xmas eve dinner. Haha ... 8D After dinner, we took a bus ride headed back home.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Mi want to buy converse shoe for my lovely pi pi Xmas present 8D

My lovely pi had been wearing this black low-top converse shoe for quite sometime.
It is wearing off soon. Since Xmas is around the corner, so mi intended to get a new pair of converse shoe for my lovely pi pi as a Xmas present.

During our off day, my pi pi & mi had gone to converse shops at orchard, tampines & bugis.
But my pi unable to find the size for her. All those converse shops we been, there is no size 3.
The only size 3 are the kids sizes.

my lovely pi eventually wanted to get red or black, but no sizes for her. The smallest size that they have is size 3.5. So my pi pi left with no options but to chose the converse kids.

However, largest size for kids is 3, but after my pi chosen the design, no size 3 available again. Hai ~

After all that, my lovely pi happened to see this Cupcakes Converse kids on the Internet (picture shown above). It has stated that size 3 available. This design was not found at any converse shops in Singapore.

Although it maybe troublesome to buy on the net, and furthermore it's shown available at US. It's also takes time to ship to Singapore and may not reach in time for my pi Xmas present.

However, i really wish i could get it for my lovely pi pi as a Xmas present. Anybody have any ideal that happen to see this design in Singapore ?? please inform mi as soon as possible. Many thanks.

If not, i gonna order this design through net. I suppose they would have size 3 for it. Wish mi luck.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Shoes thrown at Bush by Iraqi journalist

President Bush made an unannounced farewell trip to Iraq on Sunday. He and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki signed a ceremonial copy of a U.S.-Iraq security agreement.

A Iraqi journalist thrown shoes at President George W. Bush during a news conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008, in Baghdad. The man threw two shoes at Bush, one after another. Bush ducked both throws, and neither man was hit.

The journalist who flung a pair of shoes at Bush is a correspondent for Al-Baghdadia television in Iraq. Later, the president joked the shoes were a size 10. Bush got a size 10 reminder of his unpopularity which defines his presidency with the war invading Iraq in 2003.

Aww... unfortunately the shoes missed his face, lol. However, bush really deserves this.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Wah, my lovely pi is the biggest winner for every games 8D

Those computer very poor thing, we always bully them. lol, see the above pictures ? That is my lovely pi pi is the big winner. Computer pay my pi rent for landing on her hotels. lol. 8D

In fact, my pi is always the biggest winner for every games. Ha ha, very fun. Computers always kana bully by us. He he... 8D Yeah.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Recently my lovely pi pi & mi playing Monopoly @ pogo.com

Wah... recently my lovely pi pi & mi had been playing Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition Free @ Pogo.com. We didn't touch Maple since than.

After we back home from our work, we login Pogo.com to play Monopoly. Eventually, it is quite fun, and my pi pi & mi always play within the same table against computer.

He he... 8D, in fact, we always win and my pi pi is always the biggest winner for every games. We always bully bully computer, they always ended up last or bankrupt. Lol, ha ha... really very funny.