Night Owl Chatterboxes - Part XLV!

• SBS3625D

  5 Nov 07, 21:03

  Just heard on the news:
  
  76 cyclists caught cycling on expressway last year.
• sbst275

  5 Nov 07, 21:04

  Originally posted by SBS3625D:

  Just heard on the news:
  
  76 cyclists caught cycling on expressway last year.

  In the 1st place, it's a traffic law offence alrdy
• the Bear

  5 Nov 07, 21:04

  hmm... i think it's the intersection of Jalan Sultan and North Bridge Road...
  
  thing is, which one should we go to?
  
  there are two there.. but can one can see the other
  
  

  Originally posted by bluejuice:

  err that is which opposite? along beach road? along jln sultan rd?
  
  

• sbst275

  5 Nov 07, 21:05

  Textile Ctr is the one w/ a OCBC branch facing Nth Bridge Rd if I can remember la
• hisoka

  5 Nov 07, 21:06

  Originally posted by SBS3625D:

  Just heard on the news:
  
  76 cyclists caught cycling on expressway last year.

  76
  
  bad for cars though. but i wonder if some of them did it cos no much choice
• bluejuice

  5 Nov 07, 21:06

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  hmm... i think it's the intersection of Jalan Sultan and North Bridge Road...
  
  thing is, which one should we go to?
  
  there are two there.. but can one can see the other
  
  

  
  
  Tough..
  
  Give me one of the shop name please.. I'll google to find out the exact address and also need to know where to park etc...
• zoragirl

  5 Nov 07, 21:06

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  no.. it's at the North Bridge Road market.. very near my office..
  
  it's from a fishball noodle stall
  
  i ordered it because i happened to sit just in front of it... bad mistake.. took over 20 minutes to arrive
  
  

  is it worth waiting for 20mins ? nice ?
  i think army market one better
• zoragirl

  5 Nov 07, 21:08

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  Textile Ctr is the one w/ a OCBC branch facing Nth Bridge Rd if I can remember la

  hi hi
  
  u wanna join us this wed for dinner ?
• SBS3625D

  5 Nov 07, 21:09

  Invitation not extended to me.
• zoragirl

  5 Nov 07, 21:10

  Originally posted by elindra:

  Evening zora

  evening elindra....
  
  hows yr day?
• the Bear

  5 Nov 07, 21:11

  it's nan hua chong fish head steam boat
  
  best is look for Caesar's (the sword shop) at the ground floor of Textile Centre... there you can see it at the intersection
• the Bear

  5 Nov 07, 21:12

  yeah.. it's not worth the wait... but we're too lazy to move off.. it's a lunchtime thing.. mostly bunch of us get together to talk nonsense.. the one thing we usually order is Teh Halia
  
  

  Originally posted by zoragirl:

  is it worth waiting for 20mins ? nice ?
  i think army market one better

• fudgester

  5 Nov 07, 21:13

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  nah.. to many, it's just taking up space in their brain which will not earn them marks in school.. so they dismiss it and take pride in their ignorance
  
  i wish i could laugh at that... but hey.. look around in the forums, you will know..
  
  

  Hell, yeah.
  
  I've had people laugh at my reading of magazines and stuff.... they say that it's 'a waste of space' and that it would 'crowd out academic knowledge'.
  
  Crowding-out effect? Yeah, right.....
• ShrodingersCat

  5 Nov 07, 21:14

  Originally posted by hisoka:

  if you feel something is important you would go learn about/do it. if you don't then its probably a matter of you thinking its unimportant compared to other more important things *shrug*
  
  maybe i used the wrong words. take it as unimportant means less important and see if sounds ok

  Capital population or whatever - having some form of general knowledge is essential. that's my point.
  
  BUT General knowledge CAn be unimportant. To people who live in their own world and feel that their mini-world view is amputated from that of the rest of the world's.
  
  Sure, people like this exist. They think they their own interest is the only and most important motivation for doing most things.
  
  Then we go back to last night's topic about self-serving interest. Which I don't intend to.
  
  I accept that I have different views from you.
  
  Thank goodness.
  
  With this, I'm going to go for my bobochacha. and goodnite!
• SBS3625D

  5 Nov 07, 21:15

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  Hell, yeah.
  
  I've had people laugh at my reading of magazines and stuff.... they say that it's 'a waste of space' and that it would 'crowd out academic knowledge'.
  
  Crowding-out effect? Yeah, right.....

  I think it should be the other way.
  
  Academic stuff crowds out other things.
• the Bear

  5 Nov 07, 21:16

  i had to find this as this came to my mind..
  
  Euclid believed in the search for mathematical truth for its own sake and did not look for applications in his work. One story tells of a student who questioned him about the use of the mathematics he was learning. Upon completion of the lesson, Euclid turned to his slave and said. "Give the boy a penny since he desires to profit from all that he learns." The student was then expelled.
• the Bear

  5 Nov 07, 21:17

  goodnight shro-cat
  
  enjoy your bubor
  
  

  Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:

  Capital population or whatever - having some form of general knowledge is essential. that's my point.
  
  BUT General knowledge CAn be unimportant. To people who live in their own world and feel that their mini-world view is amputated from that of the rest of the world's.
  
  Sure, people like this exist. They think they their own interest is the only and most important motivation for doing most things.
  
  Then we go back to last night's topic about self-serving interest. Which I don't intend to.
  
  I accept that I have different views from you.
  
  Thank goodness.
  
  With this, I'm going to go for my bobochacha. and goodnite!

• av98m

  5 Nov 07, 21:17

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  Hell, yeah.
  
  I've had people laugh at my reading of magazines and stuff.... they say that it's 'a waste of space' and that it would 'crowd out academic knowledge'.
  
  Crowding-out effect? Yeah, right.....

  tell them your brain is far more spacious than
  theirs
• bluejuice

  5 Nov 07, 21:18

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  it's nan hua chong fish head steam boat
  
  best is look for Caesar's (the sword shop) at the ground floor of Textile Centre... there you can see it at the intersection

  okay I know where already...
  
  I will drop by if my appt finish early..
• the Bear

  5 Nov 07, 21:19

  i'll leave the car at the office and walk there on wednesday evening
  
  looking forward to it
• av98m

  5 Nov 07, 21:19

  I'll likely be late as I have to spend some time looking for the place
• hisoka

  5 Nov 07, 21:20

  Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:

  Capital population or whatever - having some form of general knowledge is essential. that's my point.
  
  BUT General knowledge CAn be unimportant. To people who live in their own world and feel that their mini-world view is amputated from that of the rest of the world's.
  
  Sure, people like this exist. They think they their own interest is the only and most important motivation for doing most things.
  
  Then we go back to last night's topic about self-serving interest. Which I don't intend to.
  
  I accept that I have different views from you.
  
  Thank goodness.
  
  With this, I'm going to go for my bobochacha. and goodnite!

  i never said general knowledge was unimportant.
  
  oh, some people exist that try to delude themselves about how noble they are to feel good about themselves.
  
  indeed thank goodness I have different views from you.
• the Bear

  5 Nov 07, 21:21

  please try not to be waylaid by little lane of vice very near there
  
  anyway, it's along the road where Zam Zam is.. and it's midway from Zam Zam and my office
  
  

  Originally posted by av98m:

  I'll likely be late as I have to spend some time looking for the place

• SBS3625D

  5 Nov 07, 21:21

  I'm hitting the sack, my headlights flickering liao.
• elindra

  5 Nov 07, 21:23

  It's sad that people think that general knowledge is useless