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Google Earth: A Nimitz CVN in China

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A Chinese entertainment company has built a Nimitz class aircraft carrier. The vessel can be seen via Google Earth (31.10N,121.01E), west of Shanghai, at the Military Education Center of the 925 acre ‘Orient Green Boat After-School Camp for Youngsters’.

According to articles I found on the Internet, the carrier is about ¾ scale and has replicas of Chinese warplanes on the ‘flight deck’. It is actually a steel frame building constructed in the shape of a carrier. Inside are meeting rooms, and areas for the display of more military themed material.

Even if it was real it can’t do zilch unless the Chinese have gotten a real breakthrough in propulsion technology, such as the theoretical hyperdrive, which will lift this thing out of that sorry lake it’s moored in. In short, it has no practical use at all other than to humor analysts of U.S. intelligence looking at satellite photos, and serve as fodder for the fags – such as the Japanese hawks and the thrice-damned neocons of the U.S. – with their incessant ‘China Threat’ theories.

Or maybe, it’s just the Chinese attempting to hide a transformer robot from Cybertron in plain sight. Hiak hiak hiak…


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Submarine Cable Repair

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The following animation downloaded from Alcatel explains briefly how submarine cables are repaired, and it is no easy feat when you consider rough seas and bad weather.

Unfortunately, a lot of people obviously thought this could be fixed with the snap of their fingers, and expect it to be fixed quickly. So please, don’t be one of those fags and just live with the current World Wide Wait. Just wait patiently for the ships to get to the affected areas and get the cables fixed at the meantime.

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Why is church seeking donations door to door?

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Why is church seeking donations door to door?

RECENTLY, I was approached at home by a young teenager soliciting donations. He claimed to be from City Harvest Church.

I was surprised as, according to the church’s website, the church has total assets of $65,903,000 as of last year, a figure which has been increasing since 2003. Last year, it received $24 million in donations.

Why does the church require its members to go door to door to ask for donations?

Lim Shien Wei

According to the person who forwarded me this photo, it is taken inside City Harvest’s SunTec City Office, and I originally thought it was a library or someone else’s private ‘Study Room’

I have clearly no clue who took this photo and where so let me qualified by saying that the source and the authenticity is not verified.

The Chinese have an old saying: 树大招风, which literally translates as, when the tree is too big, it attracts the winds. And this is apparently the case for City Harvest, with erm.. 20000 members the last time I checked? (That was a long time ago anyway.)

First of all, let me point out that this teenager may or may not be a member of this church. After all, it is not unheard of shameless people who goes around soliciting money in the name of temples and gods, or charities, and they are complete frauds.

On the other hand, I am also aware that City Harvest is planning for a new building, and is raising funds for it from its congregation. I have come across an Internet forum in which teenagers, zealous and eager to contribute, are asking where they can get jobs during the holidays so they could also contribute as a testimony of their love and devotion to God.

Therefore it is also possible that one of these teenagers, might have went out to ask for donations on his own, without realising that permits are needed for this, and as a result raised the ire of this Lim person. (Personally, why didn’t Lim just call the church and ask is beyond me!!)

If this teenager belonged to the second group, then from all the postings on the Internet forum, I do personally felt that the church authority and the individual lea-duhs of their member cells, have clearly failed to make it very clear to these teens that their contribution, while definitely valued, is not needed.

Nostalgia: Old Singapore Photos

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These came through an email from a lady friend I knew from Asia FriendFinder and I thought I should share it with everyone, since they are photos of old Singapore, and a part of our common heritage.

Incidentally, when looking at the National Theatre photo and talking about it with another friend, we realised that all structures bearing the name ‘National’ (other than National Panasonic), is either demolished or getting demolished. The list: National Theatre, National Library, National Stadium. And we are trying to think if there’s anything else with the word ‘National’ in its name that’s gone or going.


Old Bus Stop
Bugis Street
Bugis Street

C K Tang
Clifford Pier
Clifford Pier

Collyer Quay
Collyer Quay
Collyer Quay

Collyer Quay
Empress Place
Lau Pat Sat

Raffles Place
Padang
Queen Elizabeth Walk

Singapore River
Singapore River
North Bridge Road

Sri Mariamman Temple
New Bridge Road
Outram Park

Van Kleef Aquarium
Queen Street

Merdeka Bridge
Hock Lam Street

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Tim Light: Singapore Through The Ages

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North Korea Nuke Test 10:35am

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The Kim Regime of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka North Korea / DPRK) has conducted a successful nuclear test at 10:35am local time today. This has been confirm by the U.S. Geological Service, which detected seismic activity of 4.2 on the Richter scale at the suspected Nuclear test site in North Korea.

China has denounced North Korea’s brazen disregard of international opposition and called upon the DPRK to return to the 6 party talks. Japan has called for new sanctions and the White House has called upon North Korea to end all such provocative action and has reaffirmed her vow to defend her allies in East Asia. Meantime, South Korea wants the UN to take up the matter of the North Korea’s nuclear tests.

DAMN YOU, NORTH KOREA!! DAMN YOU, KIM JONG IL!!

It’s not like our world isn’t messed up enough already!

Update:

Whether the DPRK has exploded a nuclear or neutron device remains debatable as estimate of the power of the DRPK explosion was equivalent to 550 tons of TNT, i.e. about 4.4% of the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Whatever the case is, I sincerely hoped that North Korea does not have possession of the bomb and this was just Kim Jong Il trying to pull a fast one on the Americans using a large amount of conventional explosives.
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