because it's good?

what would you do if you were given 100 million dollars to spend? I for sure, would get some new clothes, new gadgets, invest, a sweet holiday or maybe…

1. donate a large fraction to a few deserving charity causes

2. improve housing condition for certain areas, with lifts on every floor in every block in sg

3. increase the cap from $10,000 to $100,000 to each school in singapore who needs funding to help poorer students or maybe just improve new facilities

4. i’ll build a semi-Smithsonian standard type of museum here

5. pump it into the finance industry. maybe hoping that that will improve the situation, if not by a lot, a bit at least

6. help out young and budding entrepreneurs with the capital needed to start their dream business, which hopefully, might create more job opportunities

7. funding for some medical research

8. help those who are needy yet sick with diseases such as cancer, kidney failure, - sickness that require expensive treatments

9. increase doctors’ and nurses’ pay - (seriously, with the long hours they pull in hospitals, it’s not justifiable)

10. possibly use that to offset the money needed for young married couples who are looking to buy their first home

11. to really start improving the arts scene here like how it has been constantly promised yet you don’t see anything really happening

12. improve tourism industry by building more interesting places, i.e. sprucing up little india, chinatown, kampong glam, etc, etc and not by building more malls

13. make our public transportation system even better

14. provide educational help, more scholarships

15. improve public pools. create more and proper soccer fields. build more sports halls and stuff.

and the list can go on.and on. and on.

BUT what i WOULDN’T do with 100 million dollars would be this.

Taken from CNA.com

ST Electronics clinches S$100m contract to provide combat system
By Tang See Kit, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 08 June 2009 2022 hrs

SINGAPORE: ST Electronics, the electronics arm of ST Engineering, has won a S$100 million project to provide the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) with the Advanced Combat Man System.

The project will start immediately and is expected to be completed by 2012.

The combat system is being jointly developed by the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), the SAF and ST Electronics.

The system is designed to provide advanced fighting capabilities to soldiers.

It is part of the SAF’s Third Generation Transformation and is in line with its goal to progressively provide tactical units with network capabilities.

Okkkkaaayy…

Call me an idealist, a dreamer or perhaps immature. but to spend a huge sum of money to “provide advanced fighting capabilities to soldiers” because it is “part of the SAF’s Third Generation Transformation and is in line with its goal to progressively provide tactical units with network capabilities,” is absolutely questionable.

What exactly is this Advanced Combat Man System? What do you exactly mean by “providing advanced fighting capabilities to soldiers”? What does it entail? And to progressively provide tactical units with network capabilities? Again, what in the world is it?

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mdir.

i mean why bother disseminating work when you and i know it won’t be done your bloody way. do it all by yourself why don’t you? seriously. that will save a hell lot of trouble for the both of us. me especially.

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mdir.

when i was young, i secretly hated school for the constant chiding and talk-down from adults. and i disliked that so much so that i couldn’t wait to be an adult because i believe, when you’re on the same level, such “immaturity” will NEVER happen.

boy was i wrong. like oh so very, very wrong.

what happened to discretion? what happened to respect? does everyone lose all sense of inter-respect the older they get? too bad for me, i live in a very patriarchal society where things like respect is a one-way street and very much, a top-down approach. not cool.

and to you. seriously. i don’t care whether you have achieved all those bullshits despite having a meagre, meaningless, lonely and hateful life. you’re nothing but a sad and bad joke. that’s all. and yes. no respect to you either.

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mdir.

one of the biggest questions i ask myself every single day is…what in the world is my fucken motivation to wake up and go to work.

before i drowned myself into full time work, i used to warn myself - never find a job that motivates me only when the bank account gets topped up. however, that is the sad truth now.

i miss waking up and be all excited to do what i’m supposed to do.

what’s your motivation bitches?

mdir

i have always respected villains and when i was young and watching cartoons (still do), i secretly root for the bad guys.

as weird as it (or me for that matter) may sound, i constantly question, what’s the worst that could happen when the bad guy wins because even in good times, there is sadness, so why can’t there be happiness during gloomy hours? so seriously yeah the bad guy wins and then wat? you’re not allowed to smile? think about it.

bad guys aren’t really that horrible. they are just way more determined in getting things done the exact way they want it to be and more than often, they are misunderstood.

cheers,

mdir

excuse me. i think you’re an idiot. but is there an even greater moron lurking inside?

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mdir

dear tumblr,

why do i visit you whenever i feel like crap? why are you letting me do this to you?

you’re so cool and i’m not. so fucken not.

world-championship-loser,

mdir.

i’ve made up my mind.

i want to go to these countries. mongolia, tibet, denmark and sweden.

and i shall do it all by myself.

mdir

sometimes i truly wonder…which is worse?

a bad student or a bad teacher?

someone who takes things as it is or someone who reads in too deep?

mdir

any length of freedom, short or long should be fully savoured. i’m getting my break for five days and how sweet will each moment be.

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mdir