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Sunday, 11th April 2004

Posted By Lester Chan at 23:35 in Blog

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Had a Bh Chou Mee lunch with my parents at Marina Square followed by some drinks at NYDC.

Met up with XiuYu and HuiJuan for Passion Of Christ at GV Marina. The show is slightly more than 2 hours. I find the movie just average. No offense but I find it quite dramatic also. The makeup unit has done an excellent job. Regarding gory, I find it ok only, I have seen more gory film like Battle Royal and Kill Bill.

Had a chill out session at Millenia Walk. The ambiance at The Coffee Connection(TCC) was fantastic. And it was not crowded which makes it a great place to chill out. I gave them a treat because they could not make it for my birthday dinner.

Had dinner at NYDC again, and on our way there, we saw Mr Clarence Ng in Suntec. He said he saw me and was standing beside me during the UT2K4 competition in Sim Lim Square, didn’t notice that.

We did delicate a song and a message at the Fountain, but no idea whether the DJ played it as we can’t really hear/see it in NYDC. The computer system used for the delication sucks.

Thanks XiuYu and HuiJuan for the nice Dragonball figurine. I shall get all 4 of them soon.

On a side note, I find all these NKF show is bullshit. For every dollar you donate only $0.52 goes to the patient. On top of that you still need to pay 5% GST which is $0.25 and it goes to Singtel. Forum thread on this issue. If those artist are really that good in heart, why not take out half of their salary and donate instead. And NKF should really cut down on the advertisements and save the money for their patient instead.

11 Comments

jacq

Comment #1

09:59
Monday, 12th April 2004

my sentimentals too man!

ask all commoners lk us to donate, and yet those big heads lk ministers, singtels, etc, nvr make any sound….. and they still have to make money out from DONATIONS!

so wat’s the point in donating when wat u donate don go full amount to patients?

Bong

Comment #2

10:57
Monday, 12th April 2004

Yah, NKF show is getting meaningless..

sleepy

Comment #3

11:08
Monday, 12th April 2004

losing faith wif NKF… i really wonder where and what did they do to our money…

GaMerZ

Comment #4

11:14
Monday, 12th April 2004

agreed with all of you all. If you really have the heart, donate straight to the home of the patients if you know them personally.

Comment #5

14:13
Monday, 12th April 2004

is 52% or 5.2??? cos..i tot i heard 5.2%?

for 2000 patients….they gather about 10million every year…yet patient still have to pay…sucks. can fully subsidies liao i feel…

urbanfire

Comment #6

14:40
Monday, 12th April 2004

yeah agree, someone should suggest to them to stop all the advertising and save the money to help those people

GaMerZ

Comment #7

14:53
Monday, 12th April 2004

nope is 52% I think, 5.2% is way too little.

Means what ever amount you donate 1/2 will go to the patient only.

If I am not wrong they spend 15% on the money for advertising.

ray

Comment #8

17:09
Monday, 12th April 2004

It used to be a non-profit organisation, but than they had earn enough and they r now a coporation. How can a NON-PROFIT organisation have reserves of $189million? I nv even bother to donate to them, wad? $5+ for a call, service charge by Singtel etc etc. Prizes are the main attraction imo, do u tink the pple really care if sharon au slice off her fucking foot? shes daring and gutsy alright, but i dun tink donations comes with the risks of lives.

Btw, those enlisting soon…better get ur hair cut b4 going Tekong, u wont those officers to shave u bald! hehehe. They do not have skills.

GaMerZ

Comment #9