2+2 = 400

From here

On PM Lee's statement that he would donate his S$600,000 pay increase to charity for the next 5 years -

With effect from 1 January 2005, Double tax deduction will be allowed for:
1. donations to name IPCs, IPC facilities, events or programmes,
2. donations to name facilities of approved beneficiaries (including artefacts and public sculptures) under any of the other approved donation programmes,
3. donations under any of the approved donation programme where the IPC or approved beneficiary acknowledgesthe donation by including the donor's name or logo in the IPC'scollaterals (e.g. banners, publications, advertisements).
(source: http://www.iras.gov.sg/ESVPortal/others/charities/charities_g1.4.1a_which+donations+are+tax-deductible.asp)

Calculations:
Current salary: S$3.1 mil (Taxable income: S$3.1 mil)
Increase by: S$600,000
Donation to charity: S$600,000
Double tax deduction allocated: S$1.2 mil
Previous Salary: S$2.5 mil (Taxable income: S$2.5 mil)
New Taxable Income: S$3.1 mil - S$1.2 mil = S$1.9 mil

Using a gross personal income tax at a 20% rate (for the income bracket of S$320,000 and above)

Gross income after tax previously, taxable income @ S$2.5 mil:
Total amt after tax: S$2 mil

With donation:
Gross income after tax, taxable income @ S$1.9 mil:
Gross income: S$3.1 mil
Donation to charity: S$0.6 mil
Tax to be paid: S$0.38 mil
Total amt after tax: S$2.12 mil

Without donation:
Gross income after tax, taxable income @$3.1 mil: S$2.48 mil
Gross income: S$3.1mil
Donation to charity: S$0
Tax to be paid: S$0.62mil
Total amt after tax: S$2.48mil

Net Difference with/without donation: S$360,000

Anyway.

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Positive breakout on 9 April, with a gap up to $1.6 mil. Likely to remain at $1.6 mil for a few years before trending even higher in 2012, following positive electorate news.
Exponential uptrend in the 2000-day Moving Average.
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(if you're still in the dark, go look up "MR4" on Google Singapore)

~x~x~x~

I didn't think I could handle any further cynicism after public law but as Cosby always said, "Never say -it couldn't get any worse, because it can"

We don't kiss and tell

After its first mention in writing, kissing didn't appear much in art or literature for a few hundred years. The Indian epic poem "Mahabharata" describes kissing on the lips as a sign of affection. The "Mahabharata" was passed down orally for several hundred years before being written down and standardized around 350 A.D. The Indian religious text "Vatsyayana Kamasutram," or the "Kama Sutra," also describes a variety of kisses. It was written in the 6th century A.D. Anthropologists who believe that kissing is a learned behavior theorize that the Greeks learned about it when Alexander the Great invaded India in 326 B.C

From here

Oh by all that's holy and the thousand wives of Krishna!
Now you know (with all the salicious innuendo imputed, complete with eyebrow waggling) why India's population is bursting at the seams.

We invented the first step in foreplay!!

I have less than 24hrs to my paper and..

You are at an all time low when

#1 you can successfully identify the meaning of ROTFLMAO at first glance

identity crisis

Vasud
Pantheon: Norse
Titles: -
Alternate Names/Spellings: -
Gender: Male
Vasud is a personification of the icy winds.
From here

I have a NORSE deity named after me. Or rather, I now share the same name with a male deity. Sweeeeeeeeet. Minus the male bit but how cool is that!! ( That is rhetoric because I can be a geek about things) So obviously, because studying is not a huge incentive, I went to do more research.

and this is what I discovered

Vasud Teutonic The icy wind. Father of Vindsual who is also the icy wind. These winds were set in motion of by the giant Hraesvelger

So two more people I can identify in my quest to discover my godly alter ego.

Vindsual Teutonic Icy wind who is the son of Vasud, the icy wind and the father of Winter, the eternal opponent of Summer

Hraesvelger Teutonic Winter God. He directs the icy winds of Vasud that cause discomfort and possibly death to mortals. He dresses in eagle feathers.

(From here )

Nice. My boss is sadist who's got quirky dress habits. On the other hand, my son doesn't seem to have made enough of a mark, seeing that he has to ride on my coattails.

And the website is called Sapphiremoon, so I wouldn't really say it inspires confidence in its credibility**, especially with its editor called Aeris Fiama. So as a good netizen, I decided to consult the great oracle of the internet and I wiki-ed my nickname. And I got a comprehensive list of Norse gods and goddess.

with no name called Vasud.
and therein ended my quest to find my godly attributes and Norse counterpart.

Yeah, its anticlimax and abrupt.
So go drink something, get a little tipsy and read this again.
It will seem really hilarious then.


**It sounds like it came into being via a pentagon, some candles and some mumblings. Then, Poof, one day it was on the internet.
Who needs html?

I'd like some red tape today please

Recently, I sent a letter to a gahmen body regarding the derelict horror movieisque place with 3 poles, a roof and some seats that is commonly referred to as a bus stop opposite the campus and this is the reply I received, slightly edited.


Dear Vasudha,

We would like to inform you that the mentioned bus stop is under the bus
shelter upgrading programme. However, as this bus stop is also being chosen
for design competition, upgrading programme will commence once the winning
design is implemented. Thus, the new bus stop is estimated to be ready in
2008.

Meanwhile, we are reviewing the adequacy of the lighting level of bus
shelters islandwide for the purpose of improving them. We seek your
patience in this matter.

We thank you for writing in.


So, *deep breath* let me get this straight, the good news is that you are finally seeing that a little more light, than the kerosene lamp that you call a street light, in a PUBLIC place is not a bad thing.

The bad news is, I have to stub my toe, squeeze in with hordes of people, get bitten by bugs that sit on that disgusting mouldy brick wall, get wet from the lashing rain because you think that the bus stop needs its artistic soul soothed?

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Look here, the bus stop before and the bus stop after on the same road, all have been modified so why is this bus stop so special that it has to be preserved, not even in the circa 1998 design but in the orange candy striper 80's style and why do I, (and when I say I, I mean We) have to put up with this TILL NEXT YEAR. Do you know how many long months there are in between april 2007 and whenever in 2008?

Since when has the winning desgin really mattered,
GET ON WITH IT ALREADY!

turn off #3982394832

The word "tink" is not English no matter how you may think it is so.

Its actually the random noise you hear when your teeth click when its not supposed to.
ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO CLICK BECAUSE THERE IS A 'h' in the word which names the action that your brain is supposed to be doing when processing thoughts, which obviously yours doesn't, because if you "tink", you're just bloody tinkering and not tHinking.

yeah, wait till you see I'm REALLY testy.

i was owned

Vasudha: I thought the document said to track changes!
Si Xuan: It did say "track changes". There was just the words "do not" in front of it.

count in buses now

There was a lot of things I discovered this week but the only thing that really stuck was
that every bus 48 is worth

2 171s
4 154s
3 67s
2 186s
2 151s
1 156
1 153

I feel so privileged to be taking such a valuable bus.
Seriously. Do you think I'm being sarcastic?

Post it my thoughts

Note to self.

If tutorial work is not done, do not msn in class and smile to yourself.

you will be caught because you would be asked a really simple question which you can't answer because you didn't attend said lecture either and you will just look stupid.

sighs. 19 days.

....

Jo: I've always liked the name Ariel
Jo: But if I named my kid that, I think she'll be super sad
Jo: What if people think she's named after the font?

memememe!

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Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™

So I did it twice because I wanted to choose more than one picture and the funny thing is, they all seem to be me too, at just different points in my life.

Hmm. =)

bloody hell and a pint of %$@@ with that

I was going to come on to blog about greater things but the events have been over shadowed by last night's match.

so please give me a moment to recover myself.

AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH


The only bloody thing the world cup has been good for is alliterations.

grah.

This world cup just got a little more painfully interesting.

heartbreak hotel

Dear Justin,

As much as I I love you and would completely do you in a heartbeat even if you were covered in goop and as much as I think you move the stars and the moons just by looking at them and completely spout nonsense like the above when I think about you and as much as I completely think you are so hot when you are dissing your ex lover in the song that you claim is not Britney but is really her and as much as I would never ever ever criticise you even if you did used to think you were actually Batman, I have to tell you that

'bleeded' is not a real word. Even if it rhymes with cheated.

xoxoxo

Vasudha

One of your 20,000 girlfriends round the world.

rant.grah

I HATE BEING SICK.

HATE HATE HATE.

HATE

Stoked by electrico

So, Last friday completely rocked because I went to see electrico LIVE. Ok fine, UCC ain't the best place to rock it out and the mosh pit was a disgrace and there were probably a grand total of 8 people actually moving to the bloody music but it was so hooooooot.

Okay, to be honest, as I confessed to Hani on the way there, about 7 p.m. that I wasn't really a fan of Electrico. I mean, I didn't even really like Runaway or Love in the new wave. I liked Little Girl but hey one song do not maketh a band. And at that point, after seeing her face, I wish I could have said " Gotcha!" because that's how dismayed she looked. But, they totally rock-eddddd sia!


The opening act was bad but to be fair, I think it was partially because the sound balance was really off but man, the girl was so try hard courtney love. All that emo head banging and body slinking and druggie voice was so over played, I rolled my eyes one too many times and gave myself a fever. I blame you, bad bad NUS band for making me sick. literally.


Thank god, they checked out the sound balance by the time Electrico came on and I was soul'd. (I really wish I could stop making bad puns but I can't =D) The minute they came on, David, who is so hot when he sings, told the rest of us to join the "moshers". Me and hani basically just went ballistic. We were hopping up and down, head banging, jiving and grooving and basically rocking it out at the mosh pit. The security guys were like asking everyone to leave and we were just like"foo" but we squashed ourselves right at the edge of the "mosh pit" and kept jumping up and down. I was so annoyed by the audience reaction though. I mean seriously, for god's sakes, you are at a rock concert, you paid money to listen to some music, not just sit around to upload some crank 2 minute clip on youtube. And IT WAS THEIR LAST CONCERT before they were going to tour USA. And I was like, all you manjan ahbengs and lians, in your stiletto heels and your spiky hair, let loose damn it! And you wise cracking mat underage boy behind me, you can only dream about being half as good as they guys up on stage. Okay, you don't have to go crazy and I apologise for all the toes I stepped on but SERIOUSLY, you guys were such a waste of space.

From what I remember, they played Little girl =)=)=) and We're not made in the USA, which he made us sing along too and it was so fun!!!! They also played Hello and Fever fly. I didn't particularly enjoy Fever fly and their more upbeat songs because I think they sound a little too 80's electropop, which safe to say, I'm really not a fan of. I prefer their more mellow and slow songs and I absolutely loved the David and William's acoustic version All the world!! I thought it was done so well, it was so sweet and intense plus David has the whole wash over you kinda smooth voice, it's so fluid. Like how hani has a thing for skinny manjan boys like Desmond, I have a thing for lead singers with a really hot voice, uh duh, yes David =D I also came up with a really bad bad bad pick up line which was prompted by something David said, which Hani marginally improved after rolling her eyes, which is something I can't really rememeber now ( I think this sentence has too many whiches that grammatically correct).

All in all, it was fantastic and I think it was rocking I went with Hani (whose informative and coherent fangirling version of events can be found here . I would have never thought that when I first saw them at Baybeats, they would have made it this big they have! So please please, buy their album!!

sick.

My body is going through some maintenence issues so I'll be off for a teeny bit.

In other news, google's beginning to scare me alot. I mean, like I'm going to become a conspiracy theorist kinda scared.

every girl needs a song of her own

Oh porn star , oh porn star, HAVE I found you a theme song.

I really want to publish it but it would defeat the purpose of keeping you anonymous.

but HAHAHA, trust me it fits your moniker.

count your blessings.excrutiangly slowly

This is the highlight of my day today.
sigh.

auld lang syn thereabouts

I dedicate this space in blogsphere to Meg, who is the only one who is capable of making me snort Milo up my nose despite being a whole block away.

thank you for setting my life back into perspective.
THERE ARE WORSE THINGS OUT THERE.


hahahahhahahahhaha

When you have lemons, make lemonade!

I think you get the idea.

*concept from Getty Images

The cow and shaan came back and as usual, we did the inanest things like the good ol' days!
(left to right)

Let your true colours shine through! Shaan and Shafa. What I was doing when they were cam ho-ing. Who says we can't take nice pictures. The redlight district and all its pleasures. WAFFLES. all six of us. Shaafa stole my icecweam =( Shaan wondering for the umpteenth time why we are friends. ( probably when we were belting out BSB )


What I really feel about Asha. Gau and I. Bengawan Solo (this is for all you Singapore deprieved individuals) Gau's love for the apple pie. The gotham boyssssss =D =D. Eastcoastpark. I never knew she was worth that much. Dinner at cafe iguana with shaan, Ina and us. Our friendship is that way. HL MILK. gau and asha.

And ....

Hey, vegetarians are human too! We get cravings.

life..

Nothing can make you feel like a right bastard more than someone else getting a set down you know you deserve.

I feel like such a super mega bitch.

sighs.

well, hey there

hope you all doing fine !

bloody hell and two pints of lager with that..

Okay, I know I should update but I'm swamped with lots of work that I am not doing, using Mozilla which is annoying me because my layout is all wonky, waiting for my laptop to appear faster than it would take, trying to reply emails and organise friends which I seem to have no time for and now that would make me seem ungrateful and itchy bitchy ( but I LOVE YOU ALL... REALLY...its not an afterthought) and in general trying to live my life without any semblence of any order which is how I have been living since the age of five and it has not really helped me in any way so I really don't know how I got where I am which is not that great a place to be which makes me sound ungrateful again but

Okay... Fine... YES

I am lazy.

THERE. HAPPY?

Hani is forcing me to blog.

This counts.

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Hani: Vasud damn what lor! Don't tell people that her laptop and desktop spoyr. Damn loser can? -___-;;

Everyone please smack Vasud's butt and sing Akon's "Smack That!".

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Hani sucks.

You can say whatever you want.

NOOOOOOO. Don't type whatever you want.

Hahahahahahaha.

(Info: Hani is typing whatever I am saying.)

Eeeeew.

That's it. What else do you want me to say?

Log-off now.

Hani: Okay. *whimper*