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?)