The Ugly Singaporean Award

– that a little girl died because the clinic was closed for lunch break, and a Comfort cabby refused to pick them up upon learning the little girl’s condition. The taxi driver said he served only the Woodland area. (This heartless beast can forget about serving any other areas from now on! In fact, he should be banned from driving a cab, forever.)

The World This Week

– that Michael Moore once proclaimed that “I don’t own a single share of stock!”, and he’s right. He doesn’t own a single share. He owns tens of thousands of shares – including nearly 2,000 shares of Boeing, nearly 1,000 of Sonoco, more than 4,000 of Best Foods, more than 3,000 of Eli Lilly, more than 8,000 of Bank One and more than 2,000 of Halliburton, the company most vilified by Moore in ‘Fahrenheit 9/11.’ (What else can we expect from this liar?)

– that Dickhead Cheney’s ex-chief of staff, Mr Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, is expected to plead not guilty to charges that he lied and obstructed justice in the CIA leak probe when he is arraigned. Libby, who was charged with five felonies, is putting the finishing touches on a new legal and public relations team. It will argue in court and in public that he is guilty of nothing more than having a foggy memory and a hectic schedule, according to people close to him. (Selective amnesia, eh?)

– that while members of the U.S. Senate are suggesting once again that no WMDs have been found in Iraq, Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin reviews the major discoveries, including more than 1.7 tons of enriched uranium. (I have soap in my bathroom too and there’s hell a lot of nitrogen in the air. Wanna accuse me of converting my soap into nitro-glycerine? Frankly, to still argue that there’s WMD is as good as Comical Ali saying that there are no Americans in Baghdad when one can see American tanks rumbling behind him on the screen as he said so. I have just lost a lot of respect for Joseph Farah.)

– that ‘Flip-Flop’ Kerry said that science is under attack by right-wing ideologues and the Bush administration regime, citing their ‘rigid refusal to listen to what the Earth is trying to tell us’. Speaking at the dedication of a new brain research center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ‘Flip-Flop’ said attacks on science have resulted in ‘a shortsighted period in the American experience’ where ‘facts are ignored and obscured and distorted’. (Hey, leave Al Gore to this environment chatter, and go find a platform of your own, can ya? And talking about ignoring, obscuring and distorting facts, talk about how you end up inside Cambodia ordered by Nixon when he was still President-Elect, alright?)

– that small, mobile groups of youths hit Paris’ riot-shaken suburbs with waves of arson attacks, torching hundreds of cars, as unrest entered its second week and spread to other towns in France. In the eastern city of Dijon, teens apparently angered by a police crackdown on drug trafficking in their neighborhood set fire to five cars, said Paul Ronciere, the region’s top gover-min official. (It’s high time to put the army on the streets with orders to shoot to kill. These unbecoming youngsters ought to be taught a lesson in respecting law and order.)

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– that the rioting started Oct. 27, after youths were angered over the deaths of two teenagers – Bouna Traore, 15, and Zyed Benna, 17. They were electrocuted in a power substation where they hid, thinking police were chasing them. (Why do they run if they have committed no offence? These two bozos should get a ‘Natural Selection’ Award for getting eliminated by nature for their own stupidity.)

– that Nicolas Sarkozy, the French Interior Minister, pledged zero tolerance in the fight against urban violence as he visited a Paris suburb hit by five nights of rioting. In a sharp break from traditional French gover-min policies, he said that he would take a tough approach to the ‘hooligans…who make life impossible on our council estates’. (Shouldn’t that be the case already, the day before Monday, 31-10-2005?)

– that opponents of welfare cuts demonstrated against the proposed new German gover-min, which they fear will target social programs as it scrambles to plug a massive budget deficit. (And what welfare will they get when the country goes bankrupt? Oh, these losers don’t care even if it means their grandsons are paying for their welfare, right?)

– that these demonstrators converged on Berlin’s signature Brandenburg Gate with placards demanding politicians keep their ‘hands off wages and pensions’ and urging them to ‘fight unemployment, not the unemployed’. (The gover-min can’t do shit about unemployment if the unemployed makes no effort to become employed. So, be part of the unemployment fight by getting employed and stop thinking about welfare.)

– that John Howard’s Coward’s decision to go public on a specific terrorist threat may have been linked to reports of suspects filming potential targets in Melbourne. But the gover-min’s announcement that it would rush tough new anti-terrorism laws through Parliament may also have scared off the very people it was trying to catch, the opposition Labor Party suggested. (No wonder John Coward continued to win elections! His opponents are too kriffing dumb. Labour should by now figure out that the terrorists probably take this as the final obstacle before they go to hell ‘enter heaven’. Go look for a book called ‘Terrorists for Dummies’, alright? And by the way, when you finish the entire ‘For Dummies’ series, you will be the perfect dummy.)

– that Hugo Chavez threatened to share Venezuela’s U.S.-made F-16 fighters with Cuba and China, accusing the U.S. of making it difficult for his country to obtain spare parts for the aircraft. Chavez claimed the U.S. broke a contract to supply parts for Venezuela’s fleet of 21 F-16s and pressured other countries not to help maintain them. (Please do, Chavez. Maybe then we can have a countdown to see how fast you’ll end up joining Saddam.)

– that a ‘Palestinian’ cleric terrorist sympathiser from one of the most popular mosques in the Gaza Strip asked his congregation to pray for terrorist lea-duh Osama bin Laden and his deputy Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, explaining the global terror lea-duhs share the ‘Palestinian’ goals of destroying Israel and ending ‘American world domination’. “May Allah guard and bless Sheikh Shit Osama bin Laden and Sheikh Shit Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who are both leading the jihad against the Zionist entity and against American domination of the world. Pray for Sheikh Shit bin Laden and Sheikh Shit Zarqawi,” said Jamil Mutaweh, a lea-duh of the large Abu Dur Mosque in Khan Yunis. (And hopefully he has time to give thanks to his God when Israeli helicopters find this shithead on the receiving end of their weaponary too.)

– that the military wing of the Fatah party expressed solidarity with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks to ‘wipe Israel off the map’, and is currently the only ‘Palestinian’ terror group to reject a cease fire being quietly negotiated by Egypt. “We express our full support and solidarity with the Iranian President in which he frankly called to erase Israel from the map of the world. We support the Iranian President’s position vis-à-vis this illusion that is the state of Israel and we say that with the help of Allah this illusion will disappear,” stated a pamphlet distributed in Gaza by the SS [Schutzstaffeln] Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. (They can all stand together in hell.)

– that China reacted coolly to Japan’s Cabinet reshuffle, saying that it continued to value bilateral relations. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan declined to comment on the specific appointment of several hardliners to the new Japanese Cabinet, such as Mr Shinzo Abe who has vowed to continue visiting the controversial Yasukuni war shrine. (Just ignore the buggers and strengthen the economy and military to such a point that the Japanese will only be dumping more money to bankrupt its own economy and benefit the Americans.)

– that China has declared war on scams using mobile phone short messages that promise everything from fake cash prizes to sexual services and contract killings. The new campaign is an extension of a crackdown started last year on pornographic and subversive content and spam messages sent by mobile phones or through the Internet. The Ministry of Public Security would work with the Ministry of Information Industry and the China Banking Regulatory Commission to stamp out messages that dupe people into turning over personal account information and those that involve prostitution, gambling, contract murder, guns for sale, fake lotteries and more. (Too bad there isn’t a way to swindle the swindlers. That would be soooo poetic.)

– that in their quest for profits, Western companies are selling press-muzzling equipment to China, censoring their search engines or blog tools and even passing on information that may help reveal the identity of journalists critical of Beijing, media freedom groups have said. These companies, including French Group Thales, and US companies Cisco and Yahoo!, are being accused of looking the other way while their gover-mins are increasingly critical of curbs to freedom in China. (Freedom without responsibility is not freedom. Would these whining gover-mins be happy if some Chinese are spreading a message of hate against them using their blogs, and then a massive riot breaks out in China attacking one of their embassies?)

– that Japan’s new Foreign Minister Taro Aso Arsehole, who described his country’s ties with Washington as the world’s most important bilateral relationship, has made it clear that Tokyo’s ties with Asia are but a function of that link. In remarks made on TV, Arsehole virtually certified the perception that Japan under Junk-ichiro Konkz-umi, and probably after him, regards its links with Asia as of clearly lesser importance. (Is this even news? Wasn’t Japanese policies after the Meiji Restoration ‘to leave Asia for Europe’ or something to that effect? The Japanese have always been the most ‘un-Asian’ among Asians. And anyone who falls for that ‘Asian values’ bullshit probably heard about that crap during the Japanese occupation.)

– that Japan should exhaust all other options before allowing a woman to ascend its imperial throne, including reviving pre-war princely houses and the practice of royal concubines, said a cousin of Japan’s Emperor Akihito. An essay in a private newsletter by the 59-year-old Prince Tomohito suggested reviving former princely houses – which were abolished after World War II – to allow their male members to be eligible to succeed the throne, and also bringing back concubines to increase the chances of producing a male heir. (Don’t bother and let the Imperial house die. It’s the price it needs to pay for Hirohito’s and his predecessors’ numerous wars of aggression against Japan’s neighbours. After all, Hirohito did not pay with his life for his crimes against humanity.)

– that Chen Shui-bian has apologised to the public as a corruption scandal involving his longtime confidant threatens to hurt his political party in upcoming islandwide elections. The DPP also expelled Mr Chen Che-nan, the man at the centre of the scandal. (It’s high time the Taiwanese people see Chen and his party for what they really are and give them the boot in all future elections.)

– that Taiwanese authorities have threatened to revoke the licence of TVBS Cable News, which has attacked corruption scandals relentlessly in a daily prime-time talk show, on the grounds that the station’s foreign ownership exceeds the legal limit. Taiwanese law sets a 50% limit on foreign ownership of TV stations, and media ownership by mainland Chinese is especially sensitive. TVB Super Channel, or TVBS, says it is 47% owned by TVB – a television group based in Hong Kong. TVBS says the majority of its shares are Taiwanese-owned. (If TVBS was exposing the scandals of the opposition, will it get citations and medals for its ‘patriotic’ action?)

– that Chen Shui-bian pledged that none of Taiwan’s television outlets would be closed during his tenure. “I will not shut down any television stations during my term in office,” Chen said. Chen’s comments came after officials threatened to shut down TVB Super Channel (TVBS) for breaching laws governing foreign ownership of media outlets. TVBS has been under fire after it exposed details of a corruption probe into gover-min officials. (I suppose if TVBS is forced to close on its own accord, then Chen technically didn’t close it.)

– that 2 decommissioned Kidd-class U.S. destroyers purchased by Taiwan have departed for the island and will arrive next month, a television station reported. A 600-member Taiwanese crew set sail with the warships Keelung and Suao from Port Charleston, South Carolina, CTI cable station reported. Taiwan purchased four of the 8,000-tonne guided-missile ships equipped with Harpoon missiles, five-inch guns and anti-air warfare systems in 2001 for US$800 million. (No one pays a better price than Taiwan for scrap.)

– that KMT lea-duh Ma Ying-jeou says that the island’s reunification with mainland China would not be possible until Beijing reassesses its 1989 bloody crackdown on protests in Tiananmen Square. China has called the non-violent demonstrations a ‘counter-revolutionary riot’. Hundreds of protesters are believed to have been killed when military tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square to crush the June 3-4 student-led rally. (There’s much reassessment necessary in China. For e.g. The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.)

– that Vietnam described as a ‘historic fact’ a U.S. report that false intelligence given to the White House in 1964 led to the first major escalation of the Vietnam War. A U.S. historian has said that officials of the U.S. National Security Agency had provided erroneous intelligence to the White House about a clash between U.S. and North Vietnamese ships. Reacting to the report, Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Dung said: “Everybody knows that the Tonkin Gulf event in 1964 was created by the then-U.S. administration, using it as a reason to extend the war to the whole territory of Vietnam. This is a historic fact.” (Just wondering if the same things will be said about the ‘intelligence’ provided to the White House about Iraq before the war in 2003.)

– that many ethnic Chinese Indonesians have received anonymous text messages threatening them with brutal murders and rapes after the Hari Raya Aidilfitri holidays, raising fears of another major racial riot in the capital. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono expressed ‘deep concern’ over the messages sent from unregistered cellular pre-paid numbers and ordered security bodies to investigate. (And will any culprits be found or it’s just another of those investigations that is the equivalent of catching smoke?)

– that in the lengthy, vulgar text message, the Chinese Indonesians are accused of being ‘robbers of Indonesians’ money’ and ‘the number one enemies of the Muslims’. “The fuel prices went up because of the Chinese,” said part of the message, which blames the Chinese for the people’s suffering. It goes on to threaten the Chinese with death and rape after the Aidilfitri holidays and closes with ‘Allahu Akbar’, the Arabic phrase for ‘God is Great’. (Would have been more apt to close it with ‘Shaitan Akbar’, you blasted shitheads. And to look for the real ‘robbers of Indonesians’ money’, look no further than some of your very own Pribumi politicians, or your very own mouth frothing, rabis infected f*ckwits screaming religious murder.)

– that Malaysia’s gover-min has been accused of failing to act on evidence that licensed CD factories are producing pirated music, films and software. The country’s recording industry says pirated discs from 12 of the 44 factories licensed by the gover-min have been exported abroad. The suspect plants continue to operate despite complaints while illegal plants have been shut down, the industry says. (Soon, even our last source of pirated CDs in Johor Bahru will dry up.)

– that Malaysia is thought to be the world’s largest exporter of pirated discs. Pirated discs produced in Malaysia have been found across Europe, Asia, Latin America and, most recently, in South Africa. (The Chinese are smarter. They don’t make pirated CDs anymore. They just upload images to the net.)

Singapore This Week

– that a sordid picture of the sex trade in Batam – fuelled mainly by Singaporeans – has emerged from a recent survey of prostitutes working there. Some 43% of 733 women interviewed by a Batam-based NGO said they were forced into the trade or made to work under false pretences, many when they were in their mid-teens. More than nine in 10 came from other parts of Indonesia, mainly villages in East, Central and West Java. Many came to Batam on promises of well-paying jobs. Instead, they ended up with unwanted pregnancies and disease, exploited but afraid to leave. (Well, the Tali-PAP’s Machiavellian policy of placing ‘necessity above good’ have given us casinos. Perhaps it won’t be long they decide that they need to stem the outflow of money by setting up a few more Geylangs, say, one in the north and another in the west, just like NSmen get Bedok Fitness Conditioning Centre [FCC] in the East.)

– that in a letter from LOH CHOW KUANG, the PTC’s Secretary, in reply to the letter ‘Are bus operators taking commuters for a ride?’ it was mentioned that: “In practice, most commuters do not travel from one terminal to another. While the average one-way distance of trunk bus services is about 18km, the average travelling distance of bus passengers is only about one third of this.” (If that is the case, why not then do away with the stage-based fare system and implement a single fare system which can be based on adding the top fare and starting fare divided by two? Not only will it do away with the fare cheat problem, the bus companies can also reduce the number of validators needed per bus.)

– that ex-Regent Goh the index on International ranking on press freedom at face value, noted it was ‘a subjective measure computed through the prism of Western liberals’, pulled together from feedback mainly from 14 freedom of expression groups and 130 press correspondents. (Well, so who can say that rankings on how well Singapore is doing in certain aspects, e.g. corruption, economic freedom etc, which the Tali-PAP often used as evidence on how well it is running this country aren’t also ‘a subjective measure computed through the prism of certain blah blah blah’ har?)

– that even though there’s a number on the Ez-Link Itchy-Link card, it is unable to be used for stopping unauthorised usage if the card is lost. (The number is there for ‘bai swee’ – decorative purposes – one mah.)

– that an employer, SYN MEI LAN gave her maid all Sundays off, and even off-days on certain public holidays. She has also taken her maid along with the family on two trips to Malaysia and gave the maid a bonus of one month every 2 years. However, she was told that she is ‘spoiling the market’. (Well done, Ms Syn! Singapore remains in the good graces of God because there are people like you!! Those who tells Ms Syn that clearly don’t deserve a maid. What gives the losers the right to criticise Ms Syn simply because she’s outdoing them in treating her maid like a proper human being and not a slave? And what really is the ‘market’ huh? Taking erotic photos of one’s maids? F*cking them when the wife is away? Beating them and humiliating them in public? Make them sleep in the open on the floor? Some losers are just sooooo shameless.)

– that a CHIA HERN KENG wrote that ‘Laws shouldn’t be too far off global standards’ to the Stooge Times Forum page. He cited examples like a shoplifter who was jailed for 11 years, and a man who punched a lawyer in front of the judge sentence to 6 years. He argued that ‘the idea of law enforcement as a deterrence against crime also implies that it is meant to be corrective. Will putting a man to death do anything to correct his erroneous ways than, say, 15 years’ imprisonment?’ and ‘No human being is perfect in every way. Offences like fisticuffs can be committed by anyone out of impulse or provocation of the moment. There is such a thing called sudden ‘loss of self-control’. There is no need to be overly harsh in punishing such offenders.’ (I am all in for making the punishment fit the crime. However, how does one deal with a repeated shoplifter? Does Chia knows if the shoplifter was a repeated offender, or a first time offender? Or how does one know that the person who hammered the lawyer didn’t have a track record of violence? Personally, I have a track record of smashing things when I gets mad, can I argue on the grounds of sudden ‘loss of self-control’ when I one day decided to do some geographical adjustments to your face and give you an unsolicited dental operation?)

– that plans to provide commuters with real-time information on bus arrivals have flopped at least twice, but that is not stopping SBS Transit from trying again. The transport operator is looking for a system that can give its passengers current bus arrival and departure times, as well as information on bus routes, via the Internet, cellphone, personal digital assistant (PDA) and other channels, a spokesman said. (The first time they tried that, they lost 100 million. Then the LTA spent another 40.3 million on it. Please, stop this nonsense, and instead work on giving something more useful to commuters than this money wasting crap.)

– that the LTA state that average travel speeds on the northbound CTE have improved and now fall within the optimal range of 45-65kmh in one of its reply to the Stooge Times Forum on Oct 31. A reader, ROLAND KING, shatters that illusion by pointing out that ‘There is a daily tailback of cars waiting to exit the CTE onto the PIE before the new gantry; only after that does traffic on the CTE start to speed up.’ In fact, according the Mr King, an unscientifically timing of his journey along the 4km stretch prior to the new gantry on each workday in the last two weeks got him an average of seven minutes, which equates to 34kmh. (In reality, even without the gantry, traffic seems to pick up after the exit at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 1 too. I am surprised that no one who used that stretch of the CTE had mentioned this in their letters to the Stooge Time Forum. In fact, it is common that traffic slows down significantly before all ERP gantries.)

– that some clowns argued that it is not necessary to hang Nguyen Tuong Van, the Vietnamese Australian caught for trafficking heroin through Singapore because he did not intend the drugs to be sold here. They argue that ‘in the interest of Singapore’s relation with Australia – or the West, or the rest of the so-called ‘civilised world’, Singapore can either deport the guy or jail him for certain long period. (Will these jokers said a rapist shouldn’t be caned too simply because he didn’t rape their mothers, wives and sisters?)

Trivial, Jokes and Thoughts from Discussions

– that ‘genius’ LOW KIM SONG, frustrated at having missed winning the lottery simply because there was no time to place a bet, wrote to TODAY saying that ‘Singapore Pools has tried to offer better service to its customers. It could go further by providing alternative ways to place bets. Perhaps it could consider having legalised Internet betting, or allowing bets to be placed through the AXS stations.’ (How about GIRO deduction for your weekly ticket too? Charge to your credit card perhaps? How about allowing you to use your Itchy-Link card too? 命里有时终须有，命里无时莫强求。)

– that another ‘genius’ ANDREW LEE complained to the Stooge Times Forum that a cabby demanded that he pays the ERP charges if he wants to alight outside YMCA at No. 1 Orchard Road and when he refused, the cabby stopped 10 meters away at a junction near YMCA instead. The reason being that the cabby wanted to turn towards Selegie Road to avoid paying the ERP. Andrew thinks it is unfair that he pays for the ERP when he’s not going entering the Orchard area. (For your information, Andrew Lee, people alighting at the IBM Towers also pays the ERP despite having alighted before the ERP gantry. So, how’s your situation at YMCA different, in this case? Have a heart for the poor cabby lah. You wanna say people got money to pay high installments but don’t want to pay ERP, then why you got money to take cab don’t want to pay ERP also wor? Seems like 恶人先告状 – ‘the person in wrong sue first’ – is a very common place thingie in Singapore leh.)

– that a BAN LEONG, who is in Massachusetts, wrote a reply to ANDREW LEE on the Stooge Times Forum. One part of the reply reads: “This is not an example of bad service. It is an example of a demanding consumer who refuses to pay a fair price for service. Taxi drivers are having a hard time earning a living on our streets given the current glut of taxis. I hope that commuters can be a little more considerate and not be so self-centred and demanding. It seems to me that by identifying the taxi, Mr Lee is suggesting that Comfort should take action against the driver. I believe that no action is necessary. In fact, I would suggest that a response from the company is not required.” (It is a good thing to know that there are still reasonable people out there in the world who still got their heads screwed on tightly to their necks. The only response necessary from Comfort, and also the rest of the cab companies, is simply to add YMCA along with IBM Towers as a place where ERP charges are to be paid. This is to deal with those unreasonably calculative people.)

– that actor Bruce Willis wanted to serve his country as far back as the Gulf War. His friends laughed at him, telling him he was too old. So the star of ‘Die Hard’, ‘The Sixth Sense’, ‘Hostage’ and dozens of other movies, did the next best thing. He traveled to Iraq with his band, the Accelerators, to entertain troops with the USO. He is also planning to join returning troops at Fort Lewis in Washington state Nov. 5. (What a hero! IIRC, this is the same Bruce Willis who didn’t dare take a flight after 9-11, right? Or maybe I have mistaken you for a Puss Willie?)

– that the one thing that will invite the wrath of all other than teaching people to do the wrong things, is to give yourself the justification for not doing the right things. For e.g. You can turn a blind eye to a pregnant woman standing in front of you and not give your seat and tell yourself ‘Well, I paid too, and thus I don’t have an obligation to give up my seat./’ and probably no one can force you to, except to give you the dirty look. Or you can tell yourself, ‘There is no big deal using handicapped toilets.’ and all the handicapped person can do is scold you. But if you actually write a stupid letter to the press or post it on your own kriffing blog, then you are a freaking dumb idiot. (If that doesn’t make any sense to you, here’s an analogy: I found your wallet with $10,000 in it and I justify not returning it to you because I have a $10,000 debt. You probably will find it hard to be sympathetic to my plight. Or if I take that same $10,000 and give it to say, a charity for cancer patients, because I felt that those people needed it more than you, you will probably skin me alive too. It sometimes makes me freaking wonder what goes on in the brains of some, like xiasuay, for e.g.)

– that xiasuay remains unrepentant over her views on toilets for the handicapped.She defended her right to speak her mind: “There are a million views out there. Why do they want to change my one view to fit theirs?” (Look, not every million views out there get thousands of audience a day, geddit? Xiasuay should be reminded that she has ‘celebrity’ status. And guess what? Hitler would just be another cranky old kook if he has no audience.)

– that the best way to get back at the public transport companies for over-charging you is to buy their shares. (So, even when you aren’t over-charged, a little wee bit of that money comes back to you in the form of dividends every time someone else is overcharged and it went un-noticed.)

– that using the same principle, you should get the shares of those companies which will be investing in the casinos too, once the gover-min announce which of them will be running our casinos. (So, every time an gambling addict f*cks himself up in the casinos, you get a bit of that money he lost. In the event you ended up getting robbed by such an idiot – without getting killed – you can at least console yourself that the dividends you get from the casino companies will be paying for part of your damages. And if you never get robbed, then at least the idiots who end up ‘pok-kai’ will contribute a little to your own prosperity.)

– that Sony BMG, the record company part of the multinational corporation that makes laptops, TVs, movies and many other things, is in trouble this week thanks to a copy protection scheme it has used on a number of its CDs. The software, called Extended Copy Protection or XCP, hides itself on your hard drive using techniques normally reserved for viruses, worms and trojans, which use similar ‘rootkits’ to evade detection. And if you notice it is there and try to remove it you may stop your computer recognising its CD drive. (To install something onto my PC and then make it hard to remove is just plain rude. It is like a guest refusing to leave after being invited in, and above that, starts taking over a part of my home, and at his own liberty, inspect everything in the house.)

– thta family groups and educators in Queensland, Australia, who breathed a sigh of relief when a teacher who was discovered moonlighting at a brothel was dismissed and de-certified, are shocked to learn that education officials instead helped the woman change her identity and reassigned her to a new school. And all parties are shocked at reports the woman is still working as a prostitute. (The only to ‘get rid’ of her maybe to just set up a Institute of Prostitution, so she can both be a prostitute and teach at the same time. Like real.)

– that Jay Chou Chow [i.e. Stink in Hokkien] is using his song writing skills to deal with the paparazzi. In ‘November’s Chopin’, has written a song for them titled Si Mian Chu Ge. At a press conference to launch the album, he said: “This song is not about fruits but about a particular magazine. I hope they won’t get angry when they hear it.” He was presumably referring to Next magazine, which is a sister publication of tabloid Apple Daily. In August, Stink had apologised to the public for pointing his middle finger at a Next Magazine reporter. (Apple Daily definitely won’t get angry. They will just redouble their efforts to ensure you get all the ‘popularity’ Stink needs. Especially the negative ones. And I doubt Stink gives a flying damn as long as his album sells in spite of the negative popularity. Just like xiasuay wouldn’t give a damn what the world thinks about the pink shits she sprouts on her blog.)

– that at one point, Albert Einstein resorted to collecting cigarette butts from the streets to circumvent his doctor’s effort to stop him from smoking. (Well, obviously God didn’t play dice with Einstein’s life either. God ensured that Einstein wouldn’t miss the date He would have him recalled.)

– that a SHERANN TANG wrote a letter of complaint to Voices on Today that one of her friends was rejected entry on Ladies Night at Double O Bar on the grounds that she’s a ‘butch’. The reason being that she was dressed casually in jeans and a short-sleeve shirt. (Even a ‘butch’ is still a lady. Not to mention that, won’t ‘butches’ be hanging out in a lesbian bar instead? Abd whatever the hell defines a lady wearing jeans and short sleeves a ‘butch’? I think a lot of ladies in that kind of attire will be thoroughly offended.)

– that a few day later, ‘genius’ JANICE LEE wrote the following in her reply: “If a guest intends to attend a function at a club, it is only right that he or she abides by the policies set by the organisation. Since her friend should have been aware that Ladies’ Night is obviously a gimmick to promote heterosexual culture, she should not have bothered to be present, unless she is prepared to be chatted up by male patrons. So it’s really a non-issue. Don’t like the rules and policy, move on to the other 101 watering holes in the vicinity. Want the free drinks? Then play by the rules.” (Imagine this that one day Janice Lee comes upon a pub, and then she’s rejected for her looks! Would she not scream discrimination? If she has enough neurons to make a synapse, she would have realised that the matter is not about rules of the club, but a matter of discrimination! Because if it has been the rules then wouldn’t it be sufficient to say, “I am sorry the rules of Double O for Ladies Night is to be in a dress.” Janice Lee and Wendy Cheng aka xiasuay can team up and be Singapore’s ‘Moronic Blogging Twins’.)

– that a Hong Kong court sentenced a man to 3 months in prison in what is believed to be the first jailing for sharing movie files over the popular online BitTorrent network. In a stark warning to online file sharers worldwide, Chan Nai-ming, 38, an unemployed man who called himself ‘Big Crook’, was jailed for uploading three Hollywood movies onto the Web via the BitTorrent (BT) network. (He might have better luck doing it in mainland China.)

– that file-swapping company Grokster has agreed to stop distributing its peer-to-peer software and stop supporting its file-swapping network, following a $50 million legal settlement announced Monday with Hollywood studios and record labels. However, Morpheus parent StreamCast Networks, remains operating, and it has previously indicated that it would continue fighting the case in lower courts. Prior to this, the distributors of the WinMX software has taken their program offline and executives at Meta Machine, which distributes eDonkey, the most popular file-sharing program, have said they hope to reach a settlement with the music industry, and change their business into a licensed, industry-approved service. (Time to find a way to get access to the more ‘traditional’ P2P networks in China.)

– that fed-up actress, Kate Hudson, is leading the fightback against media obsession with ‘skinny’ stars. She is taking legal action against five publications for publishing pictures of her accompanied by articles suggesting that she was suffering from an eating disorder, which she denies. (‘Skinny’ Stars is so politically correct. The real term should be ‘Stick Insect’ and these stick insects are either an insult to their husbands, their fathers or society. It is as if one of those has ill-traeted them so much that they didn’t get enough to eat.)

– that Taiwanese boyband ‘Old Man Acting Like Boys’ Band F4 might be better off calling itself F3 from now on. Jerry Yen has struck out on his own, forming an artiste company to manage his projects. Website Sina.com reported that Yen and his staff were in Malaysia recently, where they gave away new namecards printed with the words StarJerry. That was the first sign that Yen has severed ties with F4 manager Angie Chai. (Didn’t it already say F4? Finish in 4 years. That’s what F4 means.)

The Ugly Singaporean Award

– that ‘genius’ CHIN YONG KIAT wrote to TALK on the SUNDAY TIMES: “No one is obliged to give up his seat to anyone on a bus. It is out of goodwill that people do so. Everyone pays a fare for the journey. The undergraduates in question were not given free rides. If Madam Yvonne Lee really wanted a confirmed seat, she should have taken a cab. Secondly, being an undergraduate myself, I can understand that some students may be too tired to offer their bus seats, especially after rushing out assignments or projects the night before. People should not expect that seats be automatically given to them just because they are carrying a child.” (Let us all give a round of applause to the Singapore Education System for creating such a fine specimen of a kriffing selfish heartless prick. Chin should be condemned to a life of standing on public transports, carrying a weight equal to the child Yvonne Lee is carrying and banned from cars and cabs for life! Otherwise, one of these days his future wife should be standing on the bus carrying his child and complaining to him about heartless undergrads not giving up their seats. And yes, I believe in poetic justice and excessive retribution.)

The World This Week

– that the long-term threat of an avian flu pandemic could be greatly reduced by a project to produce genetically modified chickens that can resist lethal strains of the virus. British scientists are genetically engineering chickens to protect them against the H5N1 virus that has devastated poultry farms in the Far East, with a view to replacing stocks with birds that are not susceptible to influenza. (Someone pointed out that this is something that probably nature could do on its own if we stop culling all the birds. And talking about bird flu and I recalled now that some are saying that dinosaurs are actually birds not lizards, I wonder if the dinos were actually wiped out by a prehistoric bird flu. And well, maybe they have dug up too many dinosaur bones that they released this old scourge back into the living world. Hiak! Hiak! Hiak!)

– that a radical animal rights activist shocked members of the U.S. Senate by advocating the murder of those conducting medical research. Jerry Vlasak, spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front, told the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works that killing medical researchers was ‘morally justified’ to save laboratory animals. (It is also ‘morally justified’ to exterminate this moron to save teh researchers. And no, I don’t think it is justified, I am just using the same shit values of a piece of shit on itself. I suppose it wouldn’t object to its own moral standards.)

– that the Bush administration regime has abandoned for the upcoming year its bid to research ‘bunker buster’ nuclear weapons, which Congress struck from the budget last year. The Pentagon will instead focus on developing a conventional deep-earth penetrating bomb, said Senator Pete Domenici, who chairs a Senate appropriations sub-committee overseeing nuclear weapons. (God spoke again to Warmonger Bush recently?)

– that Hurricane victims who wanted water had some difficultly finding it at a relief station in Clewiston. The volunteer group running a supply center doesn’t like the company that donated the water, so they decided not to give it to those in line for help. Twenty-two pallets of the canned water, distributed free by beer company Anheuser-Busch, bears the company’s label – and members of the Southern Baptist Convention refused to hand it out to those in need. (Water is water. Damn you Pharisees. It is not for you to question the holiness and righteousness of the donor, but if you really want to help then help to meet the needs of the needy people.)

– that Chevron joined the eye-popping profits parade of astronomical oil profits. The U.S. no. 2 oil company reported earnings of $3.6 billion. The totals only get bigger: Conoco Phillips made $3.8 billion, BP made $6.5 billion, Royal Dutch Shell made $9 billion and Exxon Mobil raked in a whopping $9.9 billion in just three months. All the oil profits is fuelling consumer outrage. (Well, it appears that prices of certain daily necessities shouldn’t be allowed to be determined by market forces.)

– that a conservative Canadian MP has discovered through documents obtained under Access to Information that Status of Women Canada has been funding anti-Christian bigotry and pro-abortion activism. However, in a startling exchange of correspondence, the Minister responsible for the funding neither offered to pull the funding nor to apologize to Christian Canadians for funding Pro-Choice Action network (pro-CAN) which defame them. Pro-CAN spokesperson Joyce Arthur is noted for using derogatory labels to describe individuals who are pro-life, saying their opposition to abortion, ‘comes primarily from religious justifications for oppressing women’ and a need to ‘maximize (the Catholic Church’s) membership levels to maintain their worldly influence and wealth’. Pro-CAN accuses pro-life Christians of being ‘religious fanatics’ who do ‘little or nothing for children once they are born’. She says pro-life Christians are ‘anti-woman and anti-child’, have views which are ‘uninformed, sexist, cruel’ and lack the ability to empathize which ‘breeds intolerance, hate crimes, and war’ Arthur says that the pro-lifer’s attitude towards women is like ‘the slaveholder’s attitude to blacks, and the Nazi’s attitude to Jews’. (This is so funny. That very last part describes Joyce Arthur’s attitude to Christians perfectly. In Singapore, we put such idiots to jail for SEDITION.)

– that Prince Charles will try to persuade Warmonger Bush and Americans of the merits of Islam this week because he thinks the U.S. has been too intolerant of the religion since September 11. (Is Richard the Lionhearted rolling in his grave already?)

– that four suspected terrorist youths were detained by Danish police in a Copenhagen surburb on suspicion of planning a suicide terror attack in Europe, are all of Middle Eastern Origin. “One of them has Danish nationality and the three others grew up in Denmark, but we do not yet know for sure whether they are naturalised Danes,” police spokesman Joern Bro said. He declined to give details of the planned attack, saying on that the network the four – aged between 16 and 20 – are suspected for belonging to had been planning an ‘imminent’ attack on a European Union capital. (It’s high time the EU consider reintroducing the death sentence for such lowlives.)

– that in the fatwa, titled ‘A Treatise on the Legal Status of Using Weapons of Mass Destruction against Infidels’, Sheikh Shit Nasir bin Hamid al Fahd rules that international law should not be taken into consideration while determining if America should be nuked. Islamic law, he says, overrides all man-made laws. To the question of whether a nuclear attack would violate the Islamic teaching that ‘the basic rule in killing is to do it in a good manner‘, al Fahd argues that this teaching means that one should only kill in a good manner ‘when one can’. He goes on to say that it is permissible in certain circumstances to kill women, children, and fellow Muslims for the sake of jihad. (It’s time to ‘terra-form’ this shithead’s mouth and whatever crap that makes up for brains in his dumb skull with radiation or some kind of acid.)

– that Iran’s president has defended his widely criticised call for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. Attending an anti-Israel rally in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his remarks were ‘just’ – and the criticism did not ‘have any validity’. (America wiped out Babylon, but Persia rose in its place. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad intends to provoke Israel into attacking his nuclear reactor. Perhaps he should be concerned that it might be his Revolutionary Guards and reactors that will be ‘wiped off the map’.)

– that Iran has vowed it has no intention to attack Israel and it will keep to its international engagements as laid out in the UN charter, the IRNA agency reported. “The Islamic republic of Iran is committed to its engagements based on the UN charter and has never resorted to, nor threatened to resort to force against another country,” the foreign ministry said in a statement quoted by the IRNA agency. However, the ministry expressed surprise that the Security Council did not condemn the threats of military action made against Tehran by the United States and Israel or the ‘crimes’ of the Israeli regime. (Well, they have never threatened to wipe anyone off the map, for starters.)

– that Mahmoud Abbas asked Warmonger Bush during his White House meeting to pressure Israel into releasing from prison the alleged architect of the 2000 intifada and founder of one of the most deadly Middle Eastern terror groups, a senior ‘Palestinian’ official involved with the talks told WND. “Abbas asked [Bush] for several things, including the freezing of Israeli settlement activity and to help with the release of our prisoners,” said the official, speaking just minutes after the conclusion of the White House meeting. “A special request was made for Israel to release [convicted terrorist Marwan] Barghouti.” (Israel should release him and then send the helicopters to give this criminal against humanity the ultimate in freedom of soul from body.)

– that Abu Carmel, a senior West Bank lea-duh of the terrorist Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, reportedly involved in the attack said the recent blast just north of Tel Aviv was ‘legitimate’ because all Israelis are ‘military targets, they are not civilians’. (An Israeli officer doing the same about the ‘Palestinians’ would face court martial and international condemnation but the scum who said this is viewed as a hero of his kind. That probably explain why the Israelis get more international support than these losers.)

– that Abu Carmel emphasized his group considers Jews living anywhere in Israel legitimate military targets. “Only the ‘Palestinians’, who get killed every day, are innocent civilians,” he said. (The only legitimate target now is Abu Carmel Camel.)

– that in retaliation to the recent attacks, Israel fired a rocket at two senior Islamic Jihad terrorists in northern Gaza, also reportedly killing four other Palestinians. Jihad pledged ‘harsh retaliation’. (Harsh retaliation against those who are defenseless. How about someone raping your 80 year-old grandmother because he can’t get back at you, you kriffing scumbags?)

– that Al-Jazeera, the Arab news service growing by leaps and bounds worldwide and spreading its reach into the western world, has a new name for suicide bombings – ‘Paradise Operations’. (One such operations should be conducted on Al-Jazeera right away to bring them paradise.)

– that an accredited Arabic-language translator spied the new phrase in the current issue of the Arabic-language news site. In a story about the Russian foreign minister criticizing the ‘Palestinian’ Authority for failing to combat terrorist movements, a paragraph reads: “Ariel Sharon ordered the defense minister Shaul Mofaz previously to undertake wide attacks on the movement of the Islamic Jihad, whose military wing yesterday undertook (am-ma-li-a al cha-deer-ra) operations of paradise, which killed five Israelis and injured tens of Israelis – or whoever was standing around.” Previously suicide bombings have been called ‘ammaliat in-ta-har-i-a’ – suicide operations. (They should be called for what they are – cowardly terrorist mass murder of innocents.)

– that Donald Rumsfool warned that the pace, scope and secretiveness of China’s military buildup has led other nations to question whether its intentions are peaceful. In a speech Rumsfool gave to students at a school that grooms future Communist Party lea-duhs, he laid out U.S. concerns about the lack of political openness in China. (Are American intentions peaceful when it has the ability to project its might to all parts of the world?)

– that Japan has agreed to the stationing of a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier there in 2008 when the conventionally powered USS Kitty Hawk is brought home for decommissioning, a U.S. navy official said. The Japanese gover-min notified the Diet of the move, according to the U.S. navy official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “We’re taking a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and putting it in Japan, and bringing back the Kitty Hawk in 2008 for decommissioning.” (Confuse us says: “To bark loudly, one needs a fierce master. Or the fox can stand in front of the tiger.”)

– that when asked to choose the most desirable place to mourn the dead, 42% of those polled picked the Yasukuni shrine, followed by 33% who opted for building a new national memorial. 17% said they would favour Yasukuni if top war criminals enshrined there were removed. (As if those who remained are saints and angels? How many of those actually died defending Japan and not invading some other places? All of those must be removed too.)

– that in the center of Pyongyang floats a commissioned vessel of the U.S. Navy. The USS Pueblo, a spy ship captured by the North in 1968, is moored on a bank of the Daedong River. Despite quiet U.S. moves in recent years to secure its return, the vessel still functions as tourist attraction, trophy and symbol of anti-American struggle. By no coincidence, the Pueblo is moored on the spot where the first Korean-American interaction took place. In 1866, an armed American steamer, the General Sherman, was destroyed on the Daedong with all hands aboard after it attempted to force trade with Korea. According to a modern tablet at the site, the man who led the attack was none other than the great-great-grandfather of the country’s late lea-duh, Kim Il-sung. (And Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan are all related to Kim Il-Sung too.)

– that chen Shui-bian faced a growing political storm as his former adviser, already the subject of a corruption probe, was found to have violated policy by visiting a casino during a foreign trip. The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has called a special session for today to discuss penalties for Mr Chen Che-nan – who is not related to the president – for gambling in South Korea, even as investigations continued into his role in a subway project. Prosecutors are investigating allegations that Mr Chen Che-nan used his influence as a presidential adviser to help the Hua Pan business firm improperly win licences to hire foreign workers for a subway project in the southern city of Kaohsiung. (It’s time to put an end to the disastrous 6 years under DPP rule.)

– that terrorists in the southern Thai province of Pattani attacked a Buddhist temple, hacking a 76-year-old monk to death, shooting two teenage helpers and setting fire to the bodies as well as part of the temple complex. The pre-dawn attack, involving about 20 terrorists who used assault rifles, knives and machetes, fireworks and petrol, was the first attack of its scale on a Buddhist temple – though not the first killing of a monk. (Whatever justification these criminals against humanity originally had, it no longer matters. They should be wiped out, indiscriminately.)

– that 3 girls have been beheaded and another badly injured as they walked to a Christian school in Indonesia. They were walking through a cocoa plantation near the city of Poso in central Sulawesi province when they were attacked. This is an area that has a long history of religious violence between Muslims and Christians. It is unclear what was behind the attack, but the girls attended a private Christian school and one of the heads was left outside a church leading to speculation that it might have had a religious motive. (The entire place should be cleansed with napalm to rid it of these religious bigots.)

Singapore This Week

– that Singapore is all ready to tackle any bird flu pandemic, with a rapid disease outbreak response system in place. ‘Khaw Bey’ Wan said the gover-min has upped preparations, including building up its stockpile of anti-viral medication. Having learnt from the SARS crisis, Khaw says the key to fighting avian flu is through international cooperation and gearing up for a major outbreak at home. (And let’s home there will be no need to test that ‘readiness’.)

– that Singapore is standing by its decision to hand down the death penalty to a convicted Australian drug trafficker as it sends a strong message to drug syndicates. “Our strict anti-drugs laws send a clear message to drug syndicates not to conduct their criminal activities in Singapore or through Singapore,” Singapore High Commissioner to Australia Joseph Koh said in a statement. (Standing firm on the rule of law, as far as criminals are concerned, regardless if they are local or foreign, is one of the few things I am proud of Singapore.)

– that the Public Transport Council Bill has been amended to give the council greater powers. This means it can direct transport operators to adjust fares and in the case of a downward revision, rebates will be given. (I don’t want no kriffing rebates. Just tell us to pay less.)

-that offenders caught underpaying or not paying the correct bus fare will have to pay a penalty of $20. If someone is caught abusing concessions for students and senior citizens, the penalty will be $50. Refuse to pay that, and you will face a $500 composite fine. The final legal recourse of a six-month jail term and $2,000 fine for repeat offenders remains only a remote possibility. (And what’s the penalty for the bus companies if the system screwed up?)

– that Yeo Cheow Tong Lam Cheow Kong told Parliament that the $9 million lost by public transport companies to fare cheats is an accurate figure. (Well done Singapore! We are a nation of cheats according to Lam Cheow here.)

– that Transitlink said that based on ticket inspections carried out by the public transport operators, an average of about 1.5 cases of fare evasion are detected on every bus trip checked on a trunk service. As there are 2,800 trunk buses making about 10 trips per bus per day, an average of 42,000 cases of fare evasion is derived. Compared against the total number of 2.3 million passenger trips made on trunk buses every day, this works out to be 1.8% of the trips. Given that the average amount of fare evaded is 60 cents per case, the annual figure works out to an estimated $9 million. (I learn that the word ass-timate estimate is now synonymous with average in the Singaporean context. If, there is an average of 1.5 cases of fare evasion for x number of checks, that means there’s an average of ‘some astronomical number’ of fare evasion based on this number of trunk buses, that number of trips et al. I have always consider that an estimate, not an average. So, there are 120 reported cases of wrong deductions a day. When that wasn’t taken as an average but as the real value of wrong deductions per day, don’t expect us to think of this blasted crappy system as fair.)

– that the high-profile dispute between Singapore Airlines and Air Line Pilots’ Association-Singapore (ALPA-S) has been cited as a violation of trade union rights by an international body. The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions’ (ICFTU) was also troubled by an amendment to the Trade Union Act that took away a union member’s right to have the final say in negotiations with the management. The criticisms appear in the confederation’s latest annual survey of 137 countries around the world. ICFTU noted in the report: “The amendment to the Trade Union Act … meant that union members no longer had the power to accept or reject collective agreements negotiated between their union representatives and the employer. (It is a joyous occasion to know that the only real union left has now been defanged / castrated and is far less a full tiger / man. But usually eunuchs [太监] matured damned fast. After all they are all little boys before castration, but after castration they are all grandpas [公公] already. [Note: In Imperial China, eunuchs are generally addressed as ‘公公’.])

– that Singapore has inched up seven spots in the 2005 World Press Freedom Index, released by international association Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF). The Republic is now ranked 140th out of 167 countries, one place behind the Philippines, and not very far away from North Korea, Nepal, China, Vietnam and Myanmar which are at the bottom of the rankings. RSF attributes Singapore’s low ranking to ‘the complete absence of independent newspapers, radio stations and TV stations, the application of prison sentences for press offences, media self-censorship and the opposition’s lack of access to the state media’. (It’s a miracle they even bothered to rate Singapore.)

– that it’s a double celebration with Deepavali and Hari Raya Puasa, but shopkeepers at the two main bazaars in Little India and Geylang Serai are not celebrating. They say overall business has dipped some 20% compared to last year, while many shoppers are also tightening their belts. Shopkeepers are keeping their fingers crossed that things will pick up with last-minute shoppers. (Despite the rosy picture of the economy painted by the media, stocks are down and people are tightening their belts. Which is the true representation of state of the economy?)

– that ‘genius’ MAYUR VORA complained that his son has only a week to prepare for NS because his A Levels will be over in end-November and his call-up is in early December. He argued that after studying so hard for two years, surely the students need a break of at least two weeks before the call-up. (Actually, after studying hard all these years, all these ‘golden jackfruits’ should be excuses from National Service, isn’t it? Let the un-educated and the poor do NS. Bah!)

Trivial, Jokes and Thoughts from Discussions

– that a Norway rat was set free on the tiny island of Motuhoropapa off the coast of New Zealand. For the next four weeks, conventional rat-trapping techniques were employed – snap traps, live traps and waxed devices – without success. After 10 weeks, the radio signal was lost. Then the researchers found rat feces on the island of Otata, 1,300 feet (400 meters) away across the open ocean. The DNA was a match, confirming a suspicion scientists had, that rats were good swimmers. The elusive creature had made the longest confirmed open-water crossing of any rodent in history. (Is that the rodent equivalent of swimming the English Channel?)

– that once there was someone who recommended spraying water on inconsiderate smokers who disobeyed the ban of no smoking in taxi queues, bus interchanges etc. (Actually, just use a flame thrower. If they light to light up so much, let’s light them up too.)

– that hundreds of people flocked to a village in central India on 20 October to see if an astrologer who forecast his own death would indeed die as predicted. But the 75-year-old man survived the day. Kunjilal Malviya, who lives south of the Madhya Pradesh state capital Bhopal, had been meditating in his house after announcing he would die between 0930-1130 GMT that day. (In ancient Israel, he would have died anyway, though he would have missed the timing by a little. The Israelites would have stoned the false prophet to death.)

– that Malviya’s prediction is not the first of its type by an Indian astrologer. But in the past, crowds have beaten up astrologers when their predicted demise failed to occur. (Maybe that’s what he was hoping for. Be beaten to death.)

– that issuing fines to those with expensive cars who parked illegally is insufficient to deter them. (Yep. First wheel clamp their cars. After which, impound their cars and have their cars sent to a pound in Jurong Island. Then have them go their personally to get it back and charge them $500 plus GST – for the trouble taken to tow the vehicle to the pound and for wheel clamping. If they want the car delivered back to them, charge them another $200 plus GST for the delivery, but they must first send the key to the traffic police HQ first. It will be returned based on schedule and it normally takes 3 days. And for everyday they don’t take their car back from the pound, charge them $50 plus GST for storage. If not collected within 90 days, the car will be auctioned off as scrap to Natsteel to pay for the charges incurred. Any shortfall will be billed to the owner, at an interest of 24% p.a. will be charged if the bill is not settled in 30 days. All these not including the fine for illegal parking. Offenders will also have their photos posted on the Internet for 90 days. That should teach them never to park illegally again.)

– that from mervkwok’s blog, it was reported that xiaxue xiasuay lost two endorsements, one from Kimage and the other from Voxy. It seems like xiasuay got too carried away with her assumed ‘goddess’ status and was alleged to have posted a potentially seditious piece that ‘Christians-are-stupid’, along with some disparaging remarks about KL, Malays and Arabs, and handicapped toilet users. This obviously incurred the wrath of several other bloggers. One of them was alleged to have sent an email to Kimage protesting this and Kimage promptly dropped her in a matter of 2.5 hours. (If it’s true, all hail Kimage for their efficiency.)

– that according to a friend who bothered reading her diatribe, he hasn’t read anything with racist or anti-religion nature when digging through xiasuay’s blog. Apparently it has been removed for good. Self preservation is obviously ‘the better part of valor’. (Or else it would be sedition. Seems like she wouldn’t be gloating about others ‘worshipping the ground she blog on’ for awhile. Heh.)

– that what she actually wrote two weeks ago on her blog was that the loos for handicapped people – bigger and equipped with a sink – were not just for the use of disabled people. Her blog entry also criticised a ‘rude’ disabled person in Ginza Plaza who had scolded a man for trying to use the loo for the handicapped. (There are certain stupid things that you can choose not to do, like not giving up your seats to old folks and pregnant ladies, but anyone who goes around telling people to do the same, justify their excuses of not doing it, or make noise about old folks or pregnant ladies being rude for demanding the seats, are not just plain inconsiderate, they are just simply dumb. They are losers.)

– that according to another friend who reads her blog diligently, xiasuay hasn’t lost either endorsements. This is what she sent to me, allegedly from the xiasuay blog: “Voxy will still be sponsoring my nails (I haven’t decided if I will go though), while Kimage hasn’t stopped the endorsement, but have just requested for the link to be taken down temporarily. (Yes, I misunderstood them too)”. (No need paiseh lah. Lost it means lost it. If not go sue SPH for misinforming the people lah.)

– that the SUNDAY TIMES reported that hair salon Kimage and nail studio Voxy pulled their ads from xiasuay’s blog this week, after receiving complaints from Netizens about her remarks on loos for the handicapped. Only T-shirt maker LocalBrand is staying. (So xiasuay says one thing and SUNDAY TIMES says another. After Davinder Singh ripped several new assholes for Durai, I am convinced that the papers are always telling the truth. Meanwhile, what the heck is LocalBrand? Some consumer action – to inform Localbrand of the consequences of endorsing bad role models – appeared to be necessary.)

These are some of the bloggers’ take on xiasuay’s stuck-up attitude: Peter Tan’s Blog Shaolin Tiger Kimberly Cun #1 Kimberly Cun #2 Kimberly Cun #3 Sandrapowderpuff #1 Sandrapowderpuff #2 Xialanxue Mooiness More links can be found on Peter Tan’s Blog Personally speaking, I must say these bloggers’ outburst are really justified. Man, if your friend opened someone else’s toilet door and got scolded, he deserved it. You should teach him to be careful. And if he comes out of a handicapped toilet and gets scolded, and you think why the handicap can’t wait like everyone else for a few minutes, then perhaps ask your friend why didn’t he wait the few minutes for the non-handicapped ones too. There’s a limit to bimbo-ness and acting cute but this time xiasuay is really stretching it and asking for it. In Cantonese we say, 抵死啊！！[Literally translated as: Deserve to die!]

– that Christopher Ng Wai Chung, 30, has a financial reserves that far exceed those of his peers. The figure is about $250,000, made up equally of cash and CPF savings, he says. He has arrived at this enviable position by saving and investing over the six years since he started work as an engineer. Cheered by that, he has written a book, Growing Your Tree Of Prosperity, which is an introduction to investing for newbie investors. (Dear Chris aka Modeus, some of your long lost friends, such as I, will be calling you very soon. Your number didn’t change hor? Considering the money you will be making from your book, I don’t think lunch at Fullerton about $250 will cost you lah hor? Not even 1% of your entire fortunre lah!! Oh yah, can you endorse my blog too?)