ang mo

super slack 2 days for me.. didnt noe dat a course in saf could be soooo enjoyable! haha imagine ending work at 11am for 2 days straight! woohoo!! and its back to scsc again. tis time not really lookin forward to it thou. cos (1) nscsc course starting liao = many many arrows and sai kang to do (2) jon is leaving the place. gonna be one less kaki in the gang next wk. tmr is gonna be officially his last day in scsc cos he'll be spending next wk on leave preparing for his year-long posting to brunei. wonder how tco is gonna survive w/o him ard. gonna be difficult.

went for my first theory lesson at bbdc today since i got half day off and i stopped by subway at the science park on the way back for dinner. the table beside mine had a local and a foreigner eating. after the ang mo finished his meal, he got up and picked up his tray along. the local looked puzzled and asked him to jus leave the tray on the table. now i dun noe if the rest of u guys noe this, but in western countries ppl are supposed to return their trays after their done eating. actually tis also applies to spore but most of us simply cant be bothered la. it got me thinking.. if a sporean left his tray on the table in a western country, wat would ppl tink of him? i mean we're so used to jus leaving the tray on the table cos it's our culture here but would the ppl in foreign countries noe?

also, i noe tis is a no-brainer, but i noticed that the ang mo understood every single word that the local said although the local spoke with a different accent. i tot abt music and realised it's the same thing. a single note can produce different sounds depending on the way the instrument is tuned and played. it's still the same note but it sounds different. then it got me tinking even further.. how radio stations like to edit songs and remove the solo bits. i always have the concept that solos are the other band members singing. jus like how the lead singer uses his vocals, the drummer, guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, etc would sing by playing a solo. the voice is but jus another musical instrument. i dun blame them thou.. they have to cater to the general audience.