Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Ashamed of Singaporeans

The problem with working shift work is that blogging news always comes late. I wanted to blog about two things that make me ashamed of some of us Singaporeans. Its old news, but considering i had a busy sunday, was on duty on monday, and super tired after duty on tuesday, its comming in late. But better late than never, eh?

Anyway, for those of you who don't read the Newpaper, here are two big things that happened :

Hitler the Hero

Yes, sad but true. These kids actually hold Hitler up as a hero. Quotes, as you read from the article, are :

The group leader, a tanned and bespectacled 15-year-old girl, said: 'We like him.
'He led Germany and was very good, although he was evil.
'Don't you think he's very handsome?

'He started World War II, but it's okay, he's still our hero,' she added.
When asked if she felt embarrassed printing such a big picture of Hitler, she said: 'Not at all.'
'Of course he was cruel, but there was this other side of him.
'He was very determined in fighting and invading the other countries.
'He was very decisive.'

'It's difficult to think up cheers so I suggested Hitler because I had learnt about him in Sec 2.
'His name is short and therefore easy to remember.
'It also symbolises strength and loyalty, as people were very loyal to him.'
One student, who's taking history as an O-level subject, said that she had raised objections over choosing Hitler.
'I knew he was evil, but if the group wanted his name purely for leadership qualities, then I was okay with it.'

One student said: 'We substituted the group name into original cheers so before eating, we would shout things like 'Hitler Hitler is the best!'.'

When i read the article, i was shocked. Totally shocked. To the bone. These... kids... actually think that Hitler is an example of a good leader?

"Sure he's evil, but he was a good leader, so we admire him, and think he's great" is what they seem to be saying. of Hitler. Super war criminal and murderer. Of all the people to choose... they choose Hitler. And they even can imitate the Heil Hitler salute! Have these kids no sensitivity? Do they even think properly? I admit that the man was a charismatic leader who managed to unite Germany to war against the world, to some success. But to use him as an example of leadership? Do these kids REALLY want to be like hitler? They want to focus on his leadership. A leadership of leading a country to commit super duper cruelty. Like leadership and what he did can be seperated.

Man, if there were any jews nearby, they'd be beaten, and they'd deserve it, too!

"Sure he's evil, but he's a good leader. We admire him. Hitler Hitler he's the best"

Stupid kids... grrrr.... actually admiring Hitler... man.. ought to be smacked, the lot of them... I'm ashamed of them.

Part two of what makes me ashamed of some Singaporeans

$40,000 FIX-UP after HIV outcry

So there was a gay teacher in the school. So he was arrested for a sexual offence, and it came to light of his homosexuality. The school gave him a warning, after it was discovered that it was not a sexual offence, but a consensual act, and his partner only accused him after he reported his partner to the police for robbery. So he didn't even commit a sexual offence. He is NOT HIV positive.

Now, i do not condone homosexual behavior, i do think its not right. I don't have a phobia of them, either. If you're gay, that's your decision. I woudn't do it, but i'm not going to condemn you for it.

HOWEVER... when these... parents... discover that the man is gay, guess what they did? Yes, according to the article, they forced the school to take some drastic measures. The school fired him, yes, supossedly because he did not follow regulations, but i believe its bull. They fired him because of what the parents demanded. Some pulled their children out of the school. Others insisted on the teacher never being in the same room as their children. If that's not requesting for a firing, i don't know what is.

So the school fired the teacher. All's fine and dandy, right? Hoo-boy. No way. Not in Singapore. The parents insisted that anything and everything that the teacher touched had to be thrown away. The walls needed to be repainted. Chairs he sat on thrown away. Toilet seats replaced. Toys dumped. Utensils, ovens, cuboards... all into the trash.

So huge renovations, costing a total of 40k, were carried out to pacify these... parents.

And what does one have to say about it?

A parent, who only wanted to be known as Mrs Ong, 46, admitted she was being kiasu.

Her 8-year-old son is dyslexic. She said: 'In this day and age of mutating viruses, well, I am just a mum who is concerned for my child. I am a kiasu mother.

Yes.... prevention is better than cure. These parents are only concerned for their kids. Yes, yes. Its not enough, i guess, for them. Using the same logic, if we're going to throw away the things he's touched... Burn down the whole school, i say. Burn all the teachers, including the principle. I mean... seriously, they probably even touched the gay teacher! Man, what if anyone who has ever stepped into the building has AIDS because they may have been in the same room as the man! Burn them all! Burn the man's family... seriously, he may have spread AIDS to them by breathing the same air! How about we destroy the MRT line and build a new one while we're at it... He may have actually taken a train? What about buses? Replace them all! Who knows which bus he took! Burn his whole HDB block! Demolish it, for it has been contaminated! I don't think its enough yet... He's been all over Singapore... Why don't we just bomb the whole island so that the HIV virus is contained, hmm???

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Tofu = BAD BAD BAD

Soy isoflavone may damage fertility, finds new research

Yes... danger danger!!!! If you read through that whole mumbo jumbo, what its saying(which i also read in the straits times), is that if the woman eats plenty and plenty of the Soy, then when she wants to make the BOOM BOOM with the man and have a baby, then when the sperm reaches the eggs it may die because of the thingie in the soy which stops the sperm from 'docking'. in other words, egg got special shield thing that stop sperm from going in.

Kinda like the Death Star.

However, it also says that asian populations, which has long consumed soya-rich products, have no signs of this.

So its only the ang mo that are affected. We asians are too pro already. Nothing can stop our sperm. NOTHING!!!!!

Monday, June 20, 2005

The Blogger's Progress

There comes a time when all seems lost. When there is nothing to blog, nothing to say, no one reading my blog. Something needed to be done. So thus began...

THE BLOGGER'S PROGRESS


The Beginning

There came upon a time, in my blogging life when i realised that something was not right. Nothing was going right... i would open up blogger.com, click on the little plus sign that said create post... and stare at a blank page, not knowing what to read.

My blog was dying... i knew it. Give it a few more months... and it'll be dead. ka-put. No more readers. I needed to do something... to step out of my comfort zone and do something drastic. And so i set off on a quest... a quest to find out why. Where did i go wrong? Why am i losing readership, and why have i lost -THE PASSION- to blog? i needed to know. What is -THE SECRET- to blogging success?

So i turned on my computer... and searched the internet. I typed into the search bar this sentence : "What is The Secret to Blogging?"

Suddenly, the lights in my room started to flicker. Bzztr... bzzzt... Man, i was getting scared! My computer screen started to glow... then it freaking EXPLODED!!! Left in its place was a bright golden... face. It looked like David Hasselhoff. Then the face started to speak.

"It appears you have decided to search for -THE SECRET- to blogging." his voice reverberated around the room, echoing off my walls. "And as the Blogging Head, i have seen much potential in you, KaBaBoom. I have only one thing to say to you... Find the Big Four. Only then, will you be able to truely fulfill your blogging greatness. The first of the Big Four you will find in the Pink Shopping Mall where it both Rains and Snows ice cream. She will lead you on your quest."

So the blogging head was really a head... and i knew i had my direction in life. To find out -THE SECRET- of blogging, to fulfill my dream of being a succesful blog. That would be my sole reason for living now. Though it may take my life, i will not give up. For only to the determined shall success arrive.

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Tune in next time for The Journey to XiaXue's Mall!

Thursday, June 16, 2005

Double Post

EDIT - Double Post? Why the double post? Man, the internet can't be trusted, can it?

To Upkeep a Blog

Is practically impossible for me, considering how FREAKINGLY LAZY i am to update. Seriously. Other people cannot go past a week without blogging. Me, DEH, when i stop blogging it takes me forever to start again.

Which leads the designer of this blog to complain that i keep asking her to change my blog design, while i hardly update.

What to do. Lazy is lazy. Usually i talk about news that interests me. Like Michael Jackson managing to escape ALL of his accusations in court. The jury thought that he was innocent. I always thought so too, anyway. He weirds me out, but i doubt he's even remotely interested in doing anything sexual to those kids.

But, i don't really care about him anyway. Seriously, i never really liked his music anyway. What interested me was that there were actually people who camped outside with signs waiting for his verdict. As if he was the Pope or something. When the man/woman/child came out, they actually cried for him. I was like... eh? Its not like he's related to you or anything. What's the white/black man mean to them? That much? I don't know, and i'll probably never understand. But i doubted they'll send him to jail anyway. Its Michael Jackson. He'll probably die in jail, the kid that he is. He's not meant for a normal life.

Like Russel Crowe, who is still waiting for whether the man whom he threw his handphone at to say whether he accepts his apology. Which the man says he won't, and he actually wants justice done. What bullshit. He just wants more money from the big star and his 15 minutes of fame, like everybody else. Russel Crowe ain't going to jail. He's just going to be quite a few million poorer, like Michael Jackson after his previous accusers. Just wait, there's going to be an out of court settlement worth many many millions.

Russel Crowe, though, got very emotional on a talkshow saying how sorry he is and how wrong he was to throw a phone. I say he's just afraid to go to jail and get his visa taken away from him, thus banning him from hollywood.

Emotions, however, are a very strong thing. I'm not one to get very emotional. There are few people in the world that can affect me very strongly emotional, and they know who they are. I realise that emotions can block a whole lotta logic. The most rational person can become the worst person in the world when emotional. I found that even I, whom i thought was one of the least people in the world affected by emotions, can be so badly affected by them. Emotions cloud judgement like no tomorrow. When emotions come in the picture, an imperfect person can be viewed in a way that's totally different from who they really are. I learnt that the hard way.

Its a lesson learnt, really, that as long as i'm human, i'm still susceptible to emotional blinding. No matter what. So i gotta watch myself much more closely, to see that emotions don't get in the way of my logic.

On a lighter note, i went to sentosa and saw a nekkid woman sunbathing. Which would probably have been a good thing, except that she was old(looked over 35), ang mo, unchio, and i was there with another female. Probably, if the female wasn't there, i COULD have had a bigger reaction.

Reaction, man. Reaction. Not erection. Reaction. Deh. What erection. Not to say that i DON'T have those. My equipment's fine man. It is. I'm not overcompensating. I'm not saying this because there's something with it and i'm trying to convince myself that there's nothing wrong with it. Its fine. Really.

And don't go and comment "yeah right" in the comments box like you don't believe me. Don't make me prove it to ya'll! you don't want that! the girls will go OooOooo and the guys will be envious. i can't do that to you people.