Friday, January 30, 2004

This was an e-mail i just got today :

Dear Sir/Madam,


We were informed that your credit card is used by another person or stolen. It could happen if you have been shopping on-line, and someone got your "Billing information" including your credit card number. To avoid and prevent any further fraud and billing mistakes and to refund your credit card, it is strongly recommended to proceed filling in the secure form on our site and applying for our Zero Liability program. Program is free and it will help us to confirm the fact of fraud and investigate this accident as soon as possible.

Sincerely yours, Visa Support Assistant, Alwin Desagun.


Apparently, i'm told by The New Paper, that sometimes this is true, and i should call up my credit card company to confirm whether my card really is missing. Well.. i guess i should, if i had a credit card in the first place.
Sperm whale explodes in Tainan City

A dead sperm whale being transported through Tainan City on its way to a research station suddenly exploded yesterday, splattering cars and shops with blood and guts.

Certified by authorities as the largest beached whale on record in Taiwan, the 17-meter 50-ton carcass was being transported by a flat-bed trailer-truck to a special research location after National Cheng Kung University officials and security guards refused to allow the whale on campus.

National Cheng Kung University marine biologist, professor Wang Chien-ping, was on the scene and said he had he instructed the truck driver to move the carcass so the whale could be used for educational purposes and an autopsy could be done.

The beached whale was found on along a stretch of coast in Yunlin County on Saturday.

"The animal was close to death when someone found it beached on shore on Saturday... Because of the natural decomposing process, a lot of gases accumulated, and when the pressure buildup was too great, the whale's belly just exploded and spilled blood and the innards on the street," Wang said.

The news also showed one section of the street along with several parked automobiles and pedestrian walkways covered in red with copious amounts of splattered whale blood.

Lying on the trailer-truck was the dead whale - underbelly exposed with a large elongated tear where the biological gaseous blowout took place. Besides the shocking red bloody mess, large piles of whale intestines and guts were strewn along the road, leaving an unpleasant and ghastly scene for startled residents.


I, for one, saw the photo of the sperm whale. It was ultra-gross, guts and blood everywhere. The sperm whale was bigger than the truck, with only chains tying it down. I'm surprised they didn't think that something like this may happen. Ah, well.

That's one sperm that won't be swimming anymore.

I bet the people had a whale of a time cleaning up the mess.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Watched t3h American Idol season 3 yesterday. I'm beginning to notice something different about this season as compared to the last two season. Simon Cowell is as brutal and blunt as ever, which is more than needed to straighten out the cocky ones who sing worse than me. But surprisingly, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson aren't sugar coating their words either! When they suck, Paula and Randy say they suck. When they're good, they actually give good comments! I'm impressed! These two have learnt a thing or two from Simon, but of course, no one can beat the Master at making people cry and pissed.

And one of those pissed was this negro guy in sunglasses and a suit. He came in, cocky as anything, and sang two notes. Only two notes. And Simon stopped him and told him to go. I guess i pity the poor guy. The whole day the auditions had been horrible, and they had only sent a handful of people through, and Simon was beginning to feel the pain. But i do feel bad for the man. He stormed off, ranting on how unfair it was that they didn't let him sing. That they are looking for the next Pop Star, not R&B.

What Simon said was "I'm sorry, you're not what we're looking for." And as much as i want to disagree after seeing the man only sing two notes, i have to agree with Simon. The contestents should know by now what kind of people they are looking for. I mean, look at the previous two winners. And Clay Aiken, most popular product of American Idol Pop singers. Ballads. Stuff like that. The black guy could sing, i have no doubt about it. But it was an R&B voice, singing an R&B song. You could hear it the moment he opened his mouth. Simon didn't waste any time in saying that he was not what he was looking for. in the end, the black guy was right. They weren't looking for an R&B singer or rapper. If he's good, he will make it on his own. But not on American Idol, where they're trying to find the next Clay and Ruben.

Of course, i loved the other contestents. The asian guy who talked bad, broken, cheena english had me laughing from the moment he opened his mouth for the interview outside. I couldn't stop laughing during the She Bangs song he sang, as he tried to shape his booty. The next Keith(the infamous guy who sang that Enrique Iglesius song) has been found, according to American Idol. And i totally agree. I love that guy.

Thursday, January 29, 2004

One of my favourite Confucious(how do you spell his name again) Says lines in Eight Days this week, for Ho Yeow Sun :

Plunging necklines are for people who play-play not people who pray pray

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Never have i thought that me commenting on nude photos/portraits would have that much of a response of the shoutbox. Kas has brought up an interesting point that i've never considered before. Posing nude for your other half as a show of love, trust and belief. I guess it could work that way, especially with married couples. What they do in their bedroom is their business, not mine(but hey, since when has that stopped me from commenting, eh?). So yeah. I guess nude pictures/portraits can be a good thing. Of course, when keeping the photos be very careful about it. Don't want anybody accidentally stumbling upon it in your drawers or on your computer! Then your private photo stash kinda becomes not-so-private anymore... it could become an over-exposed photo!

But i still stand by the opinion that if you're still boyfriend/girlfriend, its no good. I'm one of those old stick in the muds that still think that sex before marridge is so wrong... so there.

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Have you watched Cheaper by the Dozen? No, its not about some cheap pirated vcd vendor. Its about a family with 12 kids, who have to live with their father while their mom goes to promote her book Cheaper by the Dozen, and the chaos that happens. Now, the first time i heard about that show i was like... WOAH! Who in the right mind nowadays will have 12 kids? 12 little terrors? You gotta be CRAZY. then i read today's New Paper. This family had a lot of kids. Mr and Mrs Lim have been married for 27 years. These two are malaysians. And they have a lot of kids. Not 3 kids. Not 5 kids. Not 10 kids. Heck, not even 15 kids. These two people have 21 kids. did you hear me? TWENTY ONE KIDS!!!! Thats almost one every year! The poor woman has been in pain and uncomfortable for half her life! She has like spent half her life pregnant! She's utterly crazy! apparently she wanted to stop after 6 kids, but her husband didn't. The reason?

"I'm the only child, so i have to carry on my family line" Mr Lim said.

The family of 23 lives on Mr Lim's income of $800. When they have no money for rice, they eat tapioca for food. Mr Lim has not had enough. He wants 25 kids. 4 more kids to add on to his 21. He's crazy. cuckoo. psycho. off his rocker. Somebody save him.
Yesterday, i was watching Channel News Asia on TV Mobile. Thailand said that they are going to be sending 400 troops and 100 prisoners to help in the killing of the chickens in response to the bird flu. Now, my question is, how powerful are these chickens that they warrent the government sending 400 troops? How hard can it be to kill a FREAKIN CHICKEN???

This morning, on The Morning Express, they were talking about nudity. Posing for nude photos, to be exact. A few posts ago i talked about nude modelling for portraits. This is kinda the same thing i guess. People sms'd and called in. Apparently, in Singapore, many, many girls have posed for nude photos. 'Its Fun', they say. Its thrilling. its exciting. For some reason, no guys called through to say that they have posed for nude photos, or that it was ok. It was all girls. the story is usually the same. Either they did it for the thrill, or because their boyfriends wanted to take nude photos of them, and they thought it'd be fun, and exciting. Some people(all girls) said that if they took nude photos of themselves, and it was artistic, they would show it to their friends. Its 'Art', they all claimed. The common opinion is that people should be more open. Its ok. Nudity is fine.

Well, i don't think i need to say that i think that nude photos are a definite no-no. Read my previous post on nude modelling for my opinion. But my question is this :

Why is it that only girls enjoy posing nude?

Sunday, January 25, 2004

Raelene's post on the shoutbox has made me think a little.. there was a line, saying they are worse, in the previous post, talking about the women being 'worse' than the premiership players. After thinking long and hard, i've realised that a sin is a sin. No one sin is greater than the other. Premiership players were evil and horny. These women were greedy and shameless. They are both bad. So is my new opinion.
The New Paper again, my favourite source of news and gossip. This time on the cover of Sunday's edition of The New Paper, there is a girl. She is a nude model. As in, she models nude for portraits. She works for $25 an hour(not bad, eh?). Why does she do it? Its because she loves to. She finds it fun, fascinating and exciting. It has helped her self-esteem and ego, because many times people have complemented her body. But most of all, she admits, is that she loves the attention. She says that in this, she is always the centre of attention. So for that one hour, everyone will be looking at her, at her body. Works wonders for the ego. Shame? Nah, she says. Its art. But she says her parents don't know, as she knows they would object.

My take on it? Well, to each his own, but i would never, ever let my daughter(provided i get married) do nude modeling. The female body is an art form, i admit. And many times i admire the wonder of God's creation. Fully clothed. Except at the beach, but that's another story. But modelling nude is something totally out. Private parts are called private parts for a reason. They're private. Not for show. But i have to agree with her that the person doing the nude modelling will get a ton of attention. And, although i don't really understand it, i guess posing nude can be thrilling and exciting. But still, i'll stick with my opinion that posing nude is not really all that great.

Roasting. Roasting is what happens when multiple premiership players have sex with one or more women. If you have been a regular reader of my blog, you'll know that a while back i commented on the woman that was roasted and complained to the court. In the end there was no proof that the sex was not consensual, and her case was dismissed. Roasting, in my opinion, is disgraceful. The human anatomy is not meant to sex with multiple partners. Only two people at most can have proper sex. There are ways around it, but i'm not going to go into that. Its sad, the behavior of premiership players. A huge majority of them have admitted to roasting. These players, so beautiful and skillful on the football pitch, can be such beasts off it. Its sad. Of course, some women actually enjoy it, and actually want to be roasted by premiership players. They're gold diggers, looking for money and fame and to boast that they have shagged so and so of blah blah club. They are even worse. Sigh. Where is the morality nowadays, i ask you? Where?

And in other news..

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Friday, January 23, 2004

I have just finished watching the first episode of Americal Idol 3. Simon Cowell is as evil as evil can be, but, as everybody knows, the show won't be the same without the man. Interestingly enough, he only contradicted the other two's opinion once, in other words were overruled by Randy and Paula. And he does know his stuff. Anyway... there was this one girl. Now, my standard isn't very high. Many a time when the 3 of them celebrity judges say someone's singing sucks, i disagree. But this one girl. She comes in and she goes off tune for almost every single note. The judges say she can't sing. She disagree. I agree with the judges. I mean, even I could have sang as well as she did(and those that know me know how much i can't sing). She tells the judges that they're wrong. She tells them that they don't know talent when they see it. That the show sucks. When she goes out, her friend hugs her and says **** the show. She has talent, the friend says, and they judges can't see it. So her friend is saying how good she is and how lousy the show is etc etc etc and defending her and stuff. The woman who sang out of tune ended off with saying that one day she'll make someone a ton of money, including herself. Sigh. These deluded people. Somebody save them.

Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Usually when i talk about soccer, its about the Singapore soccer team losing to who knows who. But today, i'm going to talk about another soccer team. The American Samoa soccer team lost 11-0 to the Newzealand Olympic team. But what's so interesting about the American Samoa team losing? I mean, why should we care? Its not like they're england of anything.. well... Click Here

New Zealand would have been better served with a training session than the walkover gifted them by American Samoa at North Harbour Stadium tonight. Whilst the final score of 11-0 suggests a comprehensive victory, the reality was an attitude from American Samoa that bordered on unsportsmanlike behaviour.

From the kick off it was apparent the fight would not be a substantial one, the ball was delivered first kick to Tamati Williams in the New Zealand goal, quickly followed by the sight of 10 American Samoans joining their own keeper in the penalty area, ready to defend - or at least stand in the way.

The small crowd didn't know whether to laugh, boo or cry at the sight of American Samoa throwing in directly to New Zealand players or delaying at every possible opportunity, hoping the clock would move faster than the score. It was crazy stuff indeed and didn't do themselves nor Oceania any good with regards the strength of soccer in the region.


That has GOT to be the FUNNIEST football match in the history of football! Booting the ball to the New Zealand goalkeeper, then 10 player scuttling back to their own penalty box.

btw, what do you people think of me using smilies/emoticons in my posts?
Its been a while since i've talked about girl clothes. The last time i did it twas about bikinis, and what the point of them was(which, i realised, was indeed for attention). Today i was happily walking near my poly, when i saw a girl in a miniskirt. a short miniskirt. a VERY short miniskirt. it seemed to hover just a few cm off her crotch. It looked to be max 20 cm or something. wearing that skirt, all she had to do was sit down and she would expose herself. she can't do anything but stand around. that, of course, is assuming she would NOT want to explose herself. with a skirt THAT short, who knows man.

and yah. i did turn for a second look. it was a very short skirt. and i'm still a guy. so bleh.
An interesting case is in The New Paper today. A Ms Andrea Martin wanted to have more children. But her husband had already had a vasectomy, and could not oblige. So she paid a visit to the family doctor to seek advice on artificial insemination. Her doctor alledgedly offered to be the sperm donor, and asked if she wanted it done naturally or artificially.

"I didn't know what to expect that day, " she said.



So, the next day, she agreed to natural insemination. And so she and her doctor had sex on a mattress in his clinic, and he charged her for his service and time. It marked a series of several sexual encounters between them, she alledged. He had also apparently fathered two of her children, aged 7 and 9.

Ms Martin's former husband(note the word former) lodged a complain, explosing this relationship. Ms Martin testified that she had gone to the clinic believing she was to be inseminated artificially by sperm from an anonymous donor. She added that she was in total shock when Dr Hood(the family doctor) announced that he would be the sperm donor. They had sex, and she became pregnant. She gave birth to a child in 1994 and 1996, both of which she claims was fathered by Dr Hood. Dr Hood denied all charges against him, and denied that he had sex with Ms Martin between Novenber 1993 and October 1995 and fathered two of her children.

Ok... let me see if i get this straight. Ms Martin went to the clinic to be artificially inseminated. She was utterly shocked when he announced that he would be the donor. But even then, she agreed to have sex with Dr Hood, 'natural insemination'. After that, she went back several times. Each time, she paid him for his service and time. He even fathered two of her kids. And now he is in court denying all this, and facing charges of perjury, for alledgedly lying that he didn't have sex with her, as she and her ex-husband claimed in his complaint to the medical board.



Do you think Singaporeans are dependent on their parents, and are very greedy? Well, some spanish people are many times worse. A struggling invalid dad, who receives a pension of 980 euros a month, has been ordered to support his 25-year old engineering graduated son. His son, who has graduated from school and is currently doing unpaid work experience while he considers his options, has gone to court to sue his invalid father. The court ruled in favour of the graduate, working age son, and ordered the invalid 48 year old father to pay 225 euroes to his son as parents are suppossed to support their kids.

Another man, currently working as a fireman, was ordered by the court to pay for the upkeep of two of his working sons, one a notary, one of the highest paying jobs in the Spain. The sons had apparently gone to court to force their father to continue to support them. In Spain, the average age that a man leaves home is.. drumroll... 30 years old. For a woman, its 28 years. Apparently Singaporean kids aren't the only pampered ones around....
A lot of attention has been focused on Shankar(who was shankared a few months back) lately. But in the newspapers today, for the first time, the focus is on the Shankar's victim, the woman who shankared him. Apparently, she is having a lot of difficulty. I don't know her name, cos either i missed it in the news or she is still 'protected' as a victim. But she's not very protected, cos most people know who she is. in her office, her colleagues, especially the men, make lots of snide jokes about her. They go out of their way not to touch her at all. taxi drivers, uncles and strangers all seem to be on Shankar's side. They all condemn her, insult her, make remarks in her presence. Poor woman. Seriously. I'm not kidding. She doesn't deserve all this. Although i don't agree with one thing : she says she did not choose to be drunk. If you drink, you gonna get drunk. No doubts about it.

Monday, January 19, 2004

Sepp Blatter has created a whole lot of controversy yesterday in the newspapers. See, he has come out and requested that female soccer players wear less to sex up the sport, bringing up volleyball and tennis as examples. Sepp Blatter is the president of the FIFA, the football authority of the world. Expectedly, a ton of female football players slammed it, and him. They say that if they wanted to show off their body and show in a bikini, they would play beach volleyball. Volleyball players admit that they wear skimpy outfits to attract men to their sport. Vicky Botwright, a squash player, actually requested that she play the British Open in a sports bra and a thong. She was turned down, but proceeded to pose for photos in said thong in a squash court. Generally, many female sports have them wearing much, much less than the males, from rugby to tennis. And they admit that this does attract male attention to the sport, albeit not totally for their skill. But does soccer need that? People do watch female soccer for their skill. But if they did wear less, like rugby(honestly, which man would want to watch girls in one piece suits trying to tackle each other and grabbing the said suit?), more men would watch it. Is there anything wrong with that?

Well, i don't really care either way, cos i don't support woman's soccer, but if they did wear less, i may be tempted to watch them, just like i don't watch beach volleyball for the beach volleyball. hehe. although the sport may lose its respect, like beach volleyball isn't taken that seriously, although i don't doubt the skill.

Sunday, January 18, 2004

Sex. Oral sex, premarital sex, sex after marridge, kids. Its all over the papers today, Straits Times and New Paper.

In The New Paper there is an article that interviews the two extremes of teenagers about their opinion on oral sex.

Teenager 1 : 17 Year old boy, switches girlfriends every two months, has sex at least twice a month. He thinks that oral sex is ok, and that Singaporeans should be more open minded, and premarital sex is fine.

Teenager 2 : 17 Year old girl, conservative christian, most friends still virgin, virgin, plans to stay that way till marriage. She thinks that oral sex is disgusting, for goodness sake she thinks that normal(if there's such a thing) sex is disgusting.

Kinda typical, don't you think? What about my opinion?

Teenager(me) 3 : 19 year old boy, conservative christian, most friends still virgin, virgin, plans to stay that way till marriage. He thinks that oral sex is weird. Why would someone would want to have oral sex when having 'normal' sex would be so much better is beyond him. But what would he know, he's still a virgin. Does not think that sex is disgusting. But then, which guy would, he asks?

In the Straits Times, its all about kids. Looks like the government has again requested that the newspapers run articles on successful working mothers, stay-at-home fathers, reasons to have kids and reasons why people don't have kids and how to overcome them. The government is working hard, and i wonder if Singaporeans will be convinced by this and go out and have kids. Go home and have kids, i mean. not very good if people starting the process of having kids out in the open. But what interested me was the article about why singaporean women were afraid of being mothers. Apparently, Singaporean women want to be the 'best' mothers. But fear that they would not be able to may stop them from having kids. The average Singaporean woman is still traditional, and still believes that the best mother is the stay-at-home mother, taking care of the kids. But because of the Singapore education system and high standard of living does not make that possible. So they fear that by having to work, their kids will lose out on a full time mother. thus they don't want their kids to suffer that, and so they rather not have kids until they can stay at home.

Stay-at-home fathers are still very uncommon, with the man's ego still telling him that the man must bring home the bacon. The man should be the head of the house, and should be working, while the woman stays at home to mind the kids. Although the number is rising, it is still not significant enough. This is not helped by the fact that the average Singaporean woman would rather her man go out and work, while she stays at home and takes care of the kids. In fact, one in four women would rather their man work and they stay at home.

Now for my views. I am for kids, and if possible, in the future, if i ever find a girl and settle down, i would want to have at least one kid. But i don't believe in hiring a maid to take care of the kid. If anything, at least one person needs to stay at home to be a full-time home maker. Its neccessary in order that my kid grows in the way of the Lord and having a good example at all times.

Proverbs 22 : 6 B ring up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

But would i be willing to be a househusband? Stay at home, do housework, teach the kids, change diapers while my woman goes out to work? Well, to be honest, i'd rather not, cos the old male ego still says that i'd rather work and take care of my wife than the other way around. But when it comes down to it, if my future wife earns twice as much as me, it'll be utterly stupid for her to quit her job to take care of a kid while we suffer under my income.

But hye, i'm just fantasizing here, cos i don't even have a girlfriend yet. Sigh. One day i will, if God is willing.

Friday, January 16, 2004

There's a letter in LIFE today about Sex in the City. They say that the show does not get them to go out and have sex, even though she says later that the government should know that girls DO go out and have sex. So with or without the show, they'd do it anyway. And she also says that changing boyfriends and staggering home drunk does not make them bad girls. So..... what does that make them? Good girls?
In Barcelona, SPain, a man has been jailed for writing a book that gave instructions on how to beat one's wife without leaving makrs. In his book, Woman in Islam, he said that a wife could initially be scolded and then denied sex to discipline her. But if this did not work, Islamic law allowed for a wife to be beaten. Of course, the police didn't find that book very useful, nor funny, and he was jailed for 15 months and fined 2200 euroes.

Now, my question is this. Is denying sex to one's wife disciplining her, OR YOURSELF???!!!11

DISCLAIMER : I do NOT by any means condone wife beating. I do, however, like wife-beaters. The shirt, lah.

USA. The Land of Freedom. Where free speech is celebrated, and people are allowed to do as they wish.

Not anymore. After the colour coding of airline travelers due to 'risk', i.e. if you are colour coded red, you're not allowed to fly, to add on to a whole lot of other 'invation of privacy' issues implemented after 9/11, we've got the latest.

The US Senate Finance Committee has asked the Internal Revenue Service to turn over confidential tax and financial records, including donor lists on dozens of Muslim charities as part of an 'investigation' on terrorism funding. In other words, they're going through all the confidential details of Muslim charities, and shutting down all that have 'connections' to terrorist groups. And a list of all the donors. Because of this, many poor, law-abiding muslims no longer have any financial support. Innocent charities have been closed. It also makes you wonder why they requested a list of all the donors. What are they going to do with it?

This is not a fishing expedition targetting Muslims," one Senate aide said. "All the groups we are looking at are suspected of having some connections to terrorism or of doing propaganda for terrorists. We are not presuming anybody's guilty."

Yes. And it just so happens that 100% of them are Muslim charities. Apparently only Muslims can be terrorists. No one else can be terrorists. Just the Muslims.

USA, Land of the Free, my foot.

OOooO.... Did you know that there is a job in this world that allows employees to have sex on the job? No, its not the prostitutes. Its the police that are searching for evidence on vice actiities. Wow. Makes you wonder whether any of them will be abusing their job...

Thursday, January 15, 2004

There is a woman in The New Paper today. She is doing what Singaporeans do best. Complaining. And i totally agree with what she is complaining about. You see, she signed up for a plan with M1, and that plan entitles her to a free phone. However, when her phone arrived, there were 57 numbers already stored in phone. Which meant one thing : M1 gave her a second hand phone, something that's not supposed to happen. So, she goes down to the shop, and is told to go to another shop to voice her concerns. And she did.

This is where i stop agreeing with her. Upon reaching the shop, she talked to the manager. The manager understood, apologised and offered to give her a new phone. Understandable, right? But was she happy? No. That was not good enough for her. She demanded more. M1 offered her a free $30 hands free set. Was she happy? No. She demanded more. She wanted 50% off her 2 year M1 plan, and a handphone of another make of the same value. The manager went to discuss it with the higher ups. They said no. The woman wasn't happy, and left the shop. What did she tell The New Paper?

I never got a formal apology from M1, and until now i don't know whether the higher authorities have been informed of this matter. How can they do something like that? I want a formal explanation

What was M1's explanation? They said that its not possible that she was given a second hand phone. It was possible that after the phone was tested by the company, they may have forgotten to delete the contacts from the phone.

M1 had offered her a new phone, plus a free hands free set worth $30 bucks as a form of an apology. She wanted 50% of her two year plan. FIFTY PERCENT OFF. Tell me which phone company will accept that just because they gave their customer a 'second hand' phone?And when she didn't get that, she walked away. Right now, The New Paper reports, she's still using that same phone with the 57 contacts in it. She did not save any of her phone numbers in it, and instead uses a manual address book, because she does not want to store any numbers in her phone. She has not deleted any of the 57 contacts.

She is greedy. And stupid. Honestly. She could have walked away with a new phone, a new hands free set, but instead she's using the old phone with no hands free set, and wasted all her time going down. Somebody save us from the stupidity.

Wednesday, January 14, 2004

I was renting a movie the other day, and i noticed a movie title up for rent. Anna in Kung Fu Land. I didn't rent it, but that's not the point. The point is that just two weeks ago i saw that movie being advertised for the cinemas. so the movie went from big screen to small screen in two weeks. talk about fast. now why can't English movies go to VCD that fast too?

Tuesday, January 13, 2004

After every Charity Show, where celebrities do stupid 'dangerous' stunts to raise money for charity, there is always the obligatory complaint letter to the Straits Times. Complaining about the need for such stunts to raise charity. And this time, after the Ren Ci Charity Show, bu channel I and U, it was no different. The letter questions why the daredevil monk would risk his life for charity. Now, my view is this. There is a difference between these charity shows and other daredevils. One daredevil can swing from rooftop to rooftop with nothing but a stick and some string, but that's not what i'm talking about. Charity shows like that, i believe, will not risk the life of the celebrity involved. If that Darren person, who was by the way hanging upside down under some burning thing tied by a rope, was truely in danger, they would have lowered that thing, put out the fire and rescued him. The monk had stuff put on him, his pulse monitered by doctors for a reason. Safety. Charity Shows are safe. They have to be. Their respective TV stations can't risk losing, or even paralysing any of their stars. They never will.

Monday, January 12, 2004

Just to clarify the last post, i do know that Shankar was guilty. And what he did was wrong. It is wrong to bring a girl home when she's drunk. And its even more stupid to take off her clothes when she's drunk. HOWEVER, according to witnesses, the girl was flirting, and being very friendly to Shankar during the party. Thus, i realise, that my definition of Shankared is wrong.

New Definition :

Shankared : To make a move on a girl when she is giving signals, but have the tables turned when she decides she doesn't want 'it' anymore, and then you will FEEL IT!(the pain of the rotan, that is)
Glenn, Rod and The Flying Dutchman have coined a new term for the Singapore dictionary :

Shankered : To be falsely accused of molest, rape or outrage of modesty by a woman, when your intentions were by no means bad. e.g. My friend got shankered the other day at Zouk when he tried to make friends with a woman, and now he's going to be whacked by the rotan.

Saturday, January 10, 2004

Yesterday i got a tour of the Life Sciences lab. The Bio and Chem labs. I saw a lot of people there, in white lab coats. I also found out that i think that girls in white lab coats look darn cute. very, very cute. i would transfer to life sciences if not for the fact that i have already done two and a half years of IT. IT girls suck. They're ugly. They're nerdy. Like me. Therefore they don't look good. Life Sciences girls look good. very good in white lab coats. Business girls are always the best, though, when they were their formal wear for presentations with their short mini-skirts. But white lab coats on girls still look good to me.

Friday, January 09, 2004

I reported earlier, in November of 2003, about the alledged gang rape of a 17 year old girl. She claimed that 8 men from the Premier League gang raped her in a hotel room. She said that she had agreed to sex with one man, but not the rest, but they didn't care. However, later, she changed her story from 8 men to 4 men, and only 2 of them footballers, after being confronted with the evidence that the other 4 were not involved.

'Today, we have been informed by the CPS that there is insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction in this case.

'As such the four men arrested during the course of this investigation will face no further action by police in connection with this matter.'


The two footballers were let free, along with the party organiser and his friend. The girl was furious and devastated at this, and said she planned on prosecuting them privately.

Basically, the girl has just lost all her credibility. Who will believe her now? From claiming she was gang raped by 8 people, all 'famous premier league players, one of them an England international', to 4 premier league players, to 2 premier league players, party organiser and his friend. I find it hard to believe that after the rape, she could find it so easy to name all 8 premier league players, but not realise that only 2 of them actually were involved with her. And the 2 weren't even big stars. Just promising English players Titus Bramble and Carlton Cole. And now they're declared innocent, and will go on living their over-paid footballer lives, while the girl will live in shame after losing all her integrity, credibility and respect. I pity the girl.

Thursday, January 08, 2004

Guandong denies have second sars case. Its first sars case has left the hospital, and most of the people in quarentine have been released. Now, sars is a deadly disease, and i'm not surprised that people are afraid of it. The fact that it has no cure yet makes it even worse. But what i don't like is how over hyped it is. One case, and the WHO(world health organisation) has to come out and say that they are not making any travel advisories yet. One case, and they're killing thousands of civet cats, which are only RUMOURED to carry the sars virus. its not even proven yet. kinda makes you think what's so deadly about sars.

SARS, during its most deadly days, killed less than a thousand people. In fact, the infections were a few thousand only. As of September 2003, 8000 sars cases had been confirmed, and 774 people have died worldwide. I don't have the numbers, but i can tell you that 99% of asians have never contracted sars, and never will. There are so many other killers out there. why are we so concerned about this one? i'm not against the quarentine. by all means, quarentine people. A death is a death. but please, killing civet cats, getting all scared over ONE sars case is a little much.
Just heard One More Chance by Michael Jackson on Perfect 10. Yah, i listen to the radio during my lab practicals. I think Michael's talking about his court case in that song....

Wednesday, January 07, 2004

Singapore hardly makes international news. but when it does, its usually about our unusually tough laws on sex and other matters. For example, the Shankar Aiyar case has attracted attention on Reuters, enough, in fact, for it to be considred odd news. Then again, ang mos aren't really used to caning as a punishment, so i guess it could be that.

TV Presenter to Be Caned for Molesting Colleague

And for the first time, Singapore features TWICE on the same day on Reuter's Oddly Enough news page. Singapore has already featured twice on the topic of Oral Sex on Reuters. And Singapore features again on the same issue.

Singapore Says May Loosen Law on Oral Sex

Singapore is relaxing other laws such as rules on bungee-jumping, bar-top dancing and chewing gum in a bid to shake off its stuffy image and lure foreign professionals.

cool, eh? we have a rather stuffy image...
Shankar Aiya case has been decided. He is going to be whipped 4 times by the cane, and jailed for up to 16 months. I bet he regretted even getting in the taxi with that woman.

In Britain, they are developing something that will be able to identify criminals by their body odour. The opinion of the criminals on this is that it stinks. AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!111
You see, usually i blog a lot. Now that i'm back to school, i can't blog as much. Its not that i don't have much news to comment on nowadays, there's plenty. But finding the time(inbetween my slacking, watching rented movies, going to seminars) is not easy. Anyway, right now i'm studying Bioinformatics. It was my first choice. Was. I had asked to change to Internet and Mobile computing, but my request was not granted. It could be due to the fact that i am one of only 13 people who are taking Bioinformatics(there are 300+ people in my course. the rest of them are taking either Financial Informatics, Digital Entertainment or Internet and Mobile Computing) So now i have to study molecular biology, along with programming and accounting. But hey, it dun matter anyway. I still can work as something else in the future. Of course, the fact that for the first time in my poly life i have no idea what the teacher is doing, or what i have to do could be a problem in me scoring this semester.

A few days ago i saw something in the newspaper. it was about this guy, eason chen or something. he is doing a movie where there are 50 naked girls with him. Accoriding to him, the girls were doing everything naked, eating, reading etc. So he basically was on a set for hours at a time for days with 50 naked girls walking around. You know what he said? He said that he was getting tired of it. He said if you have your favorite food in front of you everyday, after a while you get tired. I tell you, you can't compare food to women!!! please, that guy is like the envy of almost every straight guy around. of course, i do not envy him. The moral values are all screwed up here. i would never want to put myself in the position where i'd have 50 naked babes walking around me.

*crosses fingers*

Britney Spears like got married. Britney Spears like got divorced. Britney spears thought that getting married was fun, a joke, something crazy to do. Britney Spears does not respect marridge. Britney Spears thinks she can make a joke out of marridge. Britney Spears is an idiot.

The Crocodile Hunter. I'm sure we all know him, and if we follow the news, we'd know that he's like... crazy. And we'd also know that he did a show with him 1 year old son. And that people all over the world are sending him hate mail, asking the media to take his show off the air, cos he's endangering his son. These people are just crazy. Please. He's THE CROCODILE HUNTER. He said, in an interview, that he would NEVER endanger the lives of his kids. He loves them, and he has 100% control over the croc. So the kid was never in danger. I say, go on, Crocodile Hunter! i believe in you! Of couse, if you kid gets eaten the next time you do that, i won't believe in you anymore.

Monday, January 05, 2004

shhh... don't tell anyone, but i'm blogging in class while my lecturer is talking something about what i can do in the future after choosing Bioinfornatics as my specialisation...

Thursday, January 01, 2004

Another year has come and gone
Nothing’s changed
I wasted another year
Doing the same old things
I want to break out of this
Turn my life around
I’m going to make a vow
To repent and turn to You

I’m crying out to You now
As I make my New Year’s vow
I’ll tell You I love You
And I’ll honor You somehow
Hear my promise to You in my New Year’s vow
I give You all of me
You’ll be all of my life
And I’ll never think twice
To do all that You have for me
In my New Year’s vow

Lord I’ll do my best to do all that I say
I’m not perfect but I know it’s okay
If I stumble You won’t condemn my shame
I’m going to make a vow to repent and turn to You

I’m crying out to You now
As I make my New Year’s vow
I’ll tell You I love You
And I’ll honor You somehow
Hear my promise to You in my New Year’s vow
I give You all of me
You’ll be all of my life
And I’ll never think twice
To do all that You have for me
In my New Year’s vow

It’s a new year this year is different
From the other ones

I’m crying out to you now
As I make my New Year’s vow
I’ll tell You I love You
And I’ll honor You somehow
Hear my promise to You in my New Year’s vow
I give you all of me
You’ll be all of my life
And I’ll never think twice
To do all that You have for me
In my New Year’s vow


Artiste - Kutless
Song - Vow