Anyone say ‘Cheeze’?

“15 June 2009

CRIMINAL lawyer Adrian Wee, from Characterist LLC, said it is not an offence to take photographs in public areas.

‘The owner of a private property, like a shopkeeper, is entitled to set any rule he wants on people entering his shop,’ said MrWee.

‘But in a public area, there is no law against photography.’

This means that even if a person takes pictures of the merchandise which are openly displayed in a public area, it is not an offence to do so.

In fact, the shop owner has no right to chase the photographer away as long as the photographer is on public ground.

‘Technically, the shopkeeper can only prevent the photographer from entering his shop, but they cannot stop someone from photographing from outside,’ he said.

‘Someone could be standing outside their shop and take pictures all day, and that would not be an offence.’

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If a photographer uses a zoom lens to shoot the interior of the shop, it is also not illegal.

The same goes for taking the pictures of the facades of buildings like the National Library Building and the Esplanade.

In fact taking pictures on private property is also not criminal in nature.

‘The person taking the pictures is only flouting the rules of the property set by the owner but this would render the person liable to be thrown out,’ he said.

But Mr Wee further elaborated, if a person has been thrown out of a private property and barred from entering, then to enter the property again would be trespassing which is a criminal offence.”

Technically speaking, that would mean I could take pictures of anyone or anything as long as I’m in a public area? Pretty scary if you were to ask me. Especially if I happened to have a rather misleading picture taken by a stomper at a weird timing, so to say the very least. But we do have the right to throw out the offender if they were in our premises, if we don’t like what they are doing?

NEAT.

Nah, I don’t think that will ever happen, not in a million years from where I’m coming from.

SIGH.

Quote of the day

“I understand what is love, yet i cannot explain it and somehow i don’t know what it is. Somehow i feel a bit afraid when i think of love, the many possible obstacles between me and the person i love, the possabilities of inevitable pain, of failure. But when im with him all these worries go away, when im doing something i love all worries go away, everything seems to shine when i let myself off any possible fear.

So we must brake off from any fear possible, it’s trully our only obstacle. We must also understand that what must end, will end. But what will be, it will always be, not matter what. We just have to always follow our heart, and believe that that person will wait for us no matter what, if not, then it wasn’t simply meant to be. Because true love will stand on its own and nothing will be able to break it” – anonymous

I know there is something known as google but I prefer to leave it the way I stumble upon it.

I just wish to be like her, all the time.

Love is very very abstract topic to begin with and there are times when one feels that they could be in it, but do they truely know what they feel in them is what they think it is? I don’t think I’ll touching on this subject in my blog, at least not for now when I’m not in my right frame of thoughts.

I’ll just leave it to you guys to interpret the quote in your own terms.

Are you part of the 66.6%?

“We have people who think that SGD$600, 000 is peanuts, spent $400,000 on a renaming exercise but ultimately keeping the same in the end and yet think that $300,000 is too much to save a baby’s life.

We are governed by people who are one of the world-highest paid ministers and yet they find that they are unable to cope with inflation and need a salary hike. Yes a million dollar salary per annum at least and they can’t cope with inflation. And yet they ask the citizen who earn an average of $40,000 per annum to cope with inflation.

We have a investment corporation that chose to invest our hard earned money into bank shares that tumbled at least 50% half a year later. We can’t seem to use the money to help the poor.

We have people governing the country who thinks that they are the only ones who are good enough to control the country.

And they think that the citizens are too expensive a workforce to employ and choose to import foreign labour that are cheaper. But we can’t choose to employ foreigners as ministers who most likely can be cheaper as well.

When we make mistakes, we are jailed, fined, caned. I might even be detained by their ISD just for starting this group or they might proceed to get me unemployed and stay unemployed in order to make me a bankrupt. But when they make a mistake, they just need to say “It’s an honest mistake, let’s move on.”

We have a world class education system with universities ranked among the top 50s in the world. And yet this system apparently is unable to train Singaporeans to understand the complex structure which our transport prices are derived from.

In fact, anything that is too complex to explain is termed as too complex for our understanding. One wonders whether it is the mental limitation of ours or the mental limitation of the person who is suppose to explain.

We have beggars among us that seem to be invisible, so invisible that someone need to ask an international magazine to show him where the beggars are.

Our world class transport system has fares that are apparently pegged to oil prices when oil prices increase but not pegged to oil prices when oil prices decrease.

What’s next?

We are UNIQUELY SINGAPORE.”

Kudos to Simon for voicing his thoughts, and I simply couldn’t agree more to it.

And this is probably what that makes us  Singaporean.

Should I weep?

Should I embrace it?

You decide.

No one’s Perfect

Or should I say no one can ever lead a perfect life; throughout their entire life span.

Shit happens to everyone. Good or bad. A person may seemingly have a life that everyone desires but just exactly how many of them are willing to put in the amount of effort and endure the hardship in order to get that kind of life? They just see the brighter side of the picture that’s all.

Breakups happen. Lost of friendships happen. Accidents happen. Time passes, along with the passing of friends and love ones. Failures occur. And the list goes on.

But for everything bad shit that comes smacking right in your face when you take a corner in life, you get the occasional good shit after making another turn.

A newly requited relationship. New found friends. A blessing in disguise. Memories that can’t be easily erased in your heart and you know to cherish them. Experience. etc.

I guess what I’m trying to convey in this post would be that life is very interesting; for everyone.

You can’t predict what is to or what’s not to come. Even if you have a goal and work towards it, things change, people change, the surroundings change, along with the entire situation. You just have to make the best out of it and live an enriching life, according to your standard but of course.

Its definitely not a surprise that somewhere down the road, someone (many many someones) in this world would have come to a same conclusion as me or what I’m currently blogging about.

It’s just that I would prefer to learn the hard way and enjoy that good/lousy experience myself.

I’ve turned almost a quarter of a century prior 4 days ago and I can’t really say that I’ve seen the whole world. But I can proudly say for myself that I’m really optimistic about what’s to come for the remaining of my life.

Why? I don’t know. How? I’m not quite sure either. What the fuck? Yes sir, what the fuck I’m not kidding you or anyone for that matter. Probably God? Hhmm..Yes probably God (I really hope its him).

For those that don’t believe in him, well..How about trying to believe in yourself for starters? If you can get so far in life at this stage of your time, what is another belief that you’re able to get a life you’ve always dreamed about? Remember, whatever that does not break you, literary makes you into the achieving person you want to be.

There are no hard and fast rules in living. You just live it. Make the best out of it and you’ll eventually see what I mean. Regardless of what can happen in it, smile and take courage for the fact that there is a tomorrow waiting ahead of you, to change your life that is.

Just do it.

Shit.

That sounds so NIKE.

Amen.

Days with my father

I hope that I still have time.

Time to care for my dad. Time to care for my mum. Time to tell them how much appreciate them. Time to think about them constantly in my heart. Time to retify the wrongs I’ve done to them. Time to let them be proud of me. Time to spend with them doing anything they want to. Time for them to nag at me. Time for them to be with me as well.

I hope I still have time.