The world's oldest profession

Letter in Economist - Mike Gallagher


Given that some countries have already nationalized the world's second-oldest profession (banking), why not nationalize the oldest? ... Governments could use the huge revenues that prostitution generates to bail out even more banks... As well as being the world's oldest profession, perhaps prostitution is the most honest, given the recent shenanigans by all those involved in the credit crunch. We are all civil servants now.

Fantasy - Earth Wind and Fire

Every man has a place
In his heart there's a space
And the world can't erase his fantasies
Take a ride in the sky
On our ship fantasise
All your dreams will come true right away

And we will live together
Until the twelfth of never
Our voices will ring forever as one

Every thought is a dream
Rushing by in a stream
Bringing life to your kingdom of doing
Take a ride in the sky
On our ship fantasise
All your dreams will come true miles away

Our voices will ring together
Until the twelfth of never
We all will love together as one

Come to see victory
In a land called fantasy
Loving life a new degree
Bring your mind to everlasting liberty

As one

Come to see victory
In a land called fantasy
Loving life for you and me
To behold to your soul is ecstasy
You will find other kind
That has been in search of you
Many lives have brought you to
Recognise it's your life now in review

As you stay for the play
Fantasy has in store for you
A glowing light will see you through
It's your day shining day
All your dreams come true

As you glide in your stride
With the wind as you fly away
Give a smile from your lips and say
Are you free yes I'm free
And I'm on my way

Despair

Koped from despair.com (they r actually v witty too! - if u like them despair.com sells calendars, posters etc etc)

Black button

2 fun youtubes

1. "I will derive" (We should get certain person to sing this in math class hahaha)



2. Organic Chemistry: 7 Clues from Obi-Wan

Go west / pet shop boys

Context: Critique of communism ("go west" from Russia?). Note space-time construct.

River systems!

Identify positivist, hermaneutic, and critical analysis!

Mad World

The Minature Earth





Mad World - Gary Jules




All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad world
[Mad World lyrics on http://www.metrolyrics.com]

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad World
Enlarging your world
Mad World.

Panoramas!

Koped from Wikimedia :-)

Posters :-)

Photo club


Debate


Science Club

Pics from perth & thailand

Orientation video for JRIC

We should all go on strike

It's the last day of the holidays... but i don't feel anything about going back to school tomorrow... cos it hasn't been any holiday at all.

And that's after false promises of a "no holiday homework policy"... I certainly second renyan's idea of a student's union (RIPB feedback seems to get ignored by upstairs).

We should fight for the French 35-hour work week, or at most double that (since we're kiasu Singaporeans)... i.e. a 70-hour work week, including all homework, projects etc (i.e. max 11.5 hours per day, excluding sunday, spent on school stuff).

Ok daydreaming over... i still have the chinese 读书报告 and 鹰的天空 to finish, 2cm of geog readings and an essay... and that's ignoring the stuff that is due after T3W1...

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On another note, here's a little introduction video i did for RI-BP science odyssey, which was basically a science competition we organised for primary schools. The storyline is a bit corny but the pri sch kids seemed to enjoy it. Haha

Competitions + Music

Hmmm... where should I start... Just finished the nat sci challenge and ijso (international olympiad) tests today. We got in for nsc, will be facing cat high and zhong hua in the 3rd quarters.

The NSC paper dunno why so much boliao questions (even "why is the dead sea salty" and maff. Then got some obscure bio words never even heard before. Then when they announce those who got in purposely give us heart attack: say announce in no order, then start announcing HC, AC, NUS, RGS.... in what we thought was descending order of scores, make us think we didn't get in, then announce us last.

IJSO paper of course more difficult than NSC - in fact it was harder than the IB prac papers. The bio again got some stuff never hear before, the physics about the same standard as the past year paper (i.e. hard but doable), and the chem quite good. But i already know my physics got a couple wrong.

Ok lah... praise the lord for NSC... and IJSO hope for the best loh.

Tomorrow is geog competitions. Switch track now. I'm reading Nagle at the moment, just realise how much stuff they cut out of RP syllabus... haiz...


Heart of worship

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus”
~ Philippians 4:6-7


Solitaire/ Clay Aiken

We, the Geog RA

Haha had quite a fun trip to Malacca for Geog RA (last sat/sun). Learnt quite a lot, and we played cards till 3+am...

Anyway, the more serious photos and stuff in another post. For today we have a photo collage of the faces in Geog RA, 1 pic per person taken in not-too-flattering ways. Sorry shingbo u didn't go so i dun have your pic...

Btw this is how NOT to do a photo essay or portrait photography, if any RIPC members are reading.

Geog RA quite sporting... There were no violent objections when i asked around :-) So very good. Anyway, if any violent objections, email me and i remove your pic.


Jeremy (looking spastic)


Ren Yan (looking cute)


Samuel (shy)


Marc (round face)


Wenjie (well-oiled head, according to pekpek)


NicChee (NicCheeky)


Daniel (looking fierce)


Manish (too many fishballs in mouth)


Yong sheng (i love chendol!)


Derwin (Blackjack! now i stone)


Yu Hsuen (meditating)


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Mr Yuen (Ooooo... the geography of food)


One big happy family


What happens every meal. We are singapore... singaporeans... CHIONG!


Hope you had a good laugh!
More photos from malacca coming up! Including: Black Earth Club episode I (Mrs Yak will shriek)