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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(if you're still in the dark, go look up "MR4" on Google Singapore)

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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.