This news was up since last evening. It’s been more than 19 hours as I typed this mail, and so far there’s no news that this guy has been found.

I wondered just how the hell he escaped, and actually got far enough before it was even discovered that he’s gone! A mole, or a sympathizer? Is there some ‘Infernal Affairs’ going on here?

When I spoke to my boss this morning, he mentioned that he wouldn’t be surprise that this guy is already out of Singapore by means of a little speed boat, and he is now in fact, safe and hiding away in some remote, nearby Indonesian island sipping Teh Tarik already.

And then he mentioned that they should put him under watch by the army, since he’s a militant, which not only makes it a matter of national security, but a military one as well.

And to think of it, perhaps George Warmonger Bush and his goons has gotten it right, when he declared them as ‘enemy combatants’ and stick them away with the military in Guantanamo Bay. (Of course, I don’t agree with water boarding and the tortures.)

Singapore should have done the same like stick him on a small island that’s surrounded by 2 layers of electric fences, complete with military manned guard towers with machine guns and never should have kept him on the main island.

Now we have just become an International laughing stock and I wonder which 3 million dollar man will take the responsibility for this boo-boo. In fact, I suggest that if Mas Selamat is not caught – either dead or alive – in 3 days, the Minister of Internal Affairs should resign. If not, he should not get his pay at all until after the terrorist is apprehended. There should be no tolerance for the failure of these so-called top brains of the nation paid with top money. Such failures are unforgivable and unacceptable, even though it could be the fxxk up of a lowly watchman.

Incidentally, where is Dr. Chee when we need him? He should be the one making the call for the heads and blood of those who should take up some responsibility for this boo-boo.

And now to lighten things up, some ‘Mas Selamat the Limping Terrorist’ sayings. (They are probably as good as, if not better than ‘Achmed the Dead Terrorist’.)

I really haven’t been following the news closely lately. I must have focused too much of my attention coming up with the gossip piece on the matter of Edison Chen Eidpr0n Chantuk, drooling over the new version of ping.sg and following Obama’s progress in the Democrat primaries.

It has been almost a week since I started reading some of the blogs in my RSS and I noticed this piece on DK’s, where some Taiwanese were criticising our English accent, and our enunciation of English words on a variety show over there.

I am quite sure some people would felt really outraged, and have already retaliated by pointing out that either they probably aren’t as fluent in their English (i.e. England also not powderful). But in my opinion, what’s the use of pointing out the obvious? After all, that would leave us in the same boat as speakers of ‘lousy English’. It doesn’t matter that we vary in the degree of ‘lousiness’, but I simply cannot even understand why we need to even respond to defend ourselves in that matter. After all, most of us aren’t native speakers of English, nor is English our first language.

But what is even more amusing is that non of us realized that some Taiwanese has a very peculiar accent when speaking Mandarin too. For e.g. instead of saying 我很幸福 (‘wo hen xing fu’ – which means: I am very blessed), some times you hear 偶很姓胡 (‘ou hen xing hu’ – which is literally meaningless).

We watched some Taiwanese productions and generally we know there seems to be a common problem in Taiwan to mix up the ‘f’ pronunciation with ‘h’. For e.g. 饭 (‘fan’, which means rice), is pronounced as 唤 (‘huan’), and 福 (‘fu’) which is pronounced as 胡 (‘hu’). And I recalled that we used to joke about Stephanie Sun [孙燕姿] wanting her boyfriend to be of the surname 胡 (Hu), since she has a song called 我要的幸福 (‘Wo Yao De Xing Fu – The Happiness I wanted) which is mis-pronounced as 我要的姓胡 (I want the Hu guy).

Now, we don’t joke about such things on our variety shows, do we? Even though, in my personal opinion, we really had even more to joke about because of the fact that they can’t even speak something that’s supposed to be a native language properly. And this isn’t even the usual 十 (‘shi’, meaning 10) and 四 (‘si’, meaning 4) pronunciation problems we normally have.

Granted, they speak their native Taiwanese as a first language, but still they are a Chinese people and wouldn’t it be even more pathetic if you can’t speak Mandarin well? That would put them in the same league with this angmoh market research guy I know, who speaks Mandarin with a really funny accent.

This isn’t new so it isn’t news. But I have wanted to say this for a long time: The excuses given is a stinking load of droppings from a bull’s behind.

Let me try and explain with this analogy:

So, let’s consider this. The people who can afford going to Mt Alvernia or Mt Elizabeth technically aren’t interested in going to restructured hospitals anyway. How often are these people ‘abusing’ the heavily subsidised and improved Class B2 and C wards in the first place? I must ask, are there even figures to substantiate that there is an increase in the rich using the subsidised wards now to cause us to be concern about their ‘abuse’ of them later when they are improved? Besides, whether the rich uses those wards is not the main issue… the rich also pays more taxes so what logic is this to deny them subsidised wards should they even find it agreeable to use them in the first place? * ptui *

Furthermore, common sense will also tell you that should they managed to improve the ‘lesser wards’ to Class A standards, it will definitely come with a Class A price tag too. Or at least then they can justify that kind of price tag. But will they really cost so much or like our HDB prices, a figure is just pulled out of thin air and we are then asked to pay for it?

Now, the people who are going to stay at the ‘subsidised’ wards are people like you and I, who in most cases would prefer to keep it as cheap as possible because our money don’t come easy. And now here’s this stupid means testing that tells you – Oh, by our standards you made enough money, so stop being a burden to the state and go fend for yourselves. And suddenly, you discover you might as well have gone straight to the better wards right along.

Next, this gover-min always tells us that we don’t really have much poor people in this country. We also haven’t got people on the streets and we have a really small percentage of people below the poverty line. So who would really qualify for subsidies in the end, and are the subsidies even real or just ‘market subsidies’ because no one had a clue how the price came about?

Frankly, I am not surprised that in the end, even our hospital subsidies will go along the line of our HDB ones. That is, there will be an ‘astronomical, real and tangible’ subsidy in the books of the gover-min but we just wonder why the hell we are our asses off for our own medical bills, or that why we are paying a ridiculous sum of premium for our own health insurance.

Just pray hard no one rubs salt on the wound by telling you our restructured hospitals aren’t making money, and a ‘Health and Medical Council’ (HMC) is formed to rubber-stamp their annual demands for fee increments!

The following news came on the net yesterday and I suspect few would have notice amidst all the noise from the matter of Edison Chan EdiPORN Chantik.

I had told my friends that it is unlikely that Odex will win the appeal. No matter how solid their case is regarding how they get those IP addresses, the hard fact remains that Odex is just a sub-licensee and it simply has no legal rights to press the case.

But it certainly makes one ask if the previous two judges presiding over the SingNet and StarHub cases even examined the case in detail before their judgement. * sigh *

More reports here:

 – Internet service provider to turn in anime downloaders to studios
 – ISP Ordered to Reveal Identities of BitTorrent Anime Sharers
 – Pacnet ordered to turn over customer records

二零零七年六月一日、二日: 上万名厦门市民自发上街 『散步』，要求停建 PX 专案。迫于民间压力，十二月底，厦门政府最终宣布将 PX 项目迁址到远离人口密集区的漳州。

二零零八年一月十二日: 上海市民也走上街头，以 『散步』、 『购物』 方式游行，反对磁浮列车的扩建。游行队伍最多时达六、七千人。一日后，上海市委书记俞正声提到 『公共交通应考虑公益性』 对上海市民作出回应。

中国共产党政府并没有对以上两项公民运动使用了犹如镇压 1989 天安门学生运动的高压手段。以上的群众运动最后都是和平结束的。

二零零六年九月十六日： 新加坡民主党秘书长徐顺全计划在芳林公园的 『演说者角落』 举行集会，然后游行到国会和国际货币基金组织的会议所。抗议游行内容是新加坡政府限制言论自由和不断增加贫富差距，但是 30 几名警察组成了人墙阻止他和他的支持者离开公园直到徐顺全在九月十九日中午结束绝食离开芳林公园为止。

二零零七年十一月二十日: 新加坡民主党党员徐淑贞 (秘书长徐顺全的妹妹) 与友人陈先生企图进入香格里拉酒店亚细安峰会会场，遭到警方一擅闯 『禁区』 为由被强行压上一辆货车驱离现场。但是其他出现在 『禁区』 的人并没有受到警告或者警方的特别注意。

一个枪杆子出的政权，想不到比一个所谓民选的还要民主… 本爷的老爹说得没错，世间的事无奇不有，真的到一百岁都有新闻听。我个人是希望中国政府不是因为 2008 北京奥运会才企图改善其国际形象，而是会持续如此开明的对待人民的意见。不过就算这只是中国政府做秀而已，目前中国的人民的确是比在新加坡的人民还拥有更多的人权哦！呵呵…