Archive for May, 2006
May 31, 2006 at 5:00 pm · Filed under General
Just when I thought our friendship was over, Murphy and I are best friends again.
When the stock market took a beating over the last few weeks, I was happily observing from the sidelines…
Then yesterday, I decided that the time was right to bargain hunt and went in…
Guess what? Today the whole blardy world decided to sell their stocks…
Looks like I have to postpone the next dive trip liao… looks like Murphy and I are pals again…
Oh… next time you wanna short sell the market, just ask me to buy some stocks… guaranteed to work!
May 29, 2006 at 11:08 am · Filed under General
… everyone in the family agrees that the television set is spoilt and needs to be replaced, you buy a brand new TV set, and then realise that the old one is not really spoilt.
Well, that was what happened to yours truly…
Now there’s a brand new Sharp Aquos 32″ LCD television sitting in the living room. Right next to the old 29″ JVC CRT television which is still running pretty steadily…
All that had to be done was to change the extension chord which, was broken.
Oh well, at least we now have a nice TV set in the living room.
Anyone wants and old 29″ JVC CRT television set?
May 24, 2006 at 2:35 pm · Filed under General
Ian McKellen a homosexual actor known for his fight for gay rights, mentioned that X-men was a story “close to my heart”.
“As a gay man, some people think (homosexuality) ought to be cured and made normal again — an idea I find as offensive as saying to somebody they should have a cure for the colour of their skin, or a cure for their inborn race,” he said.
I find his argument totally warped. As warped as his sexual preference. It is a disease that ought to be cured, and they do have drugs to control it.
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed homosexuality from its diagnostic list of mental disorders in 1973, this was despite substantial protest (see Socarides, 1995).
The APA was strongly motivated by the desire to reduce the effects of social oppression. They were also under pressure from powerful gays in the community. This set the wheel in motion and one of the effect of the APA’s action was to add psychiatric authority to gay activists’ insistence that homosexuals as a group are as healthy as heterosexuals.
There you go, homosexuality was ‘normalised’ though some political bullshitting… This has discouraged the publication of research that suggests there may, in fact, be psychiatric problems associated with homosexuality.
There you go, homosexuality is not to be compared to with skin colour. It is a disorder that ought to be classified together with pedophilia, necrophilia and other sexual disorders.
Should a pedophile become powerful in the US, they’re probably gonna legalise child sex and ‘normalise’ pedophilia too!
May 24, 2006 at 9:21 am · Filed under General
Yup, the GE’s gone dead, like most previous GE… time to rip it apart and find out what killed it… nah… I’m no political analyst…
This was the title of yesterday’s forum organised by the NUSS. I attended it. Mainly because Uncle John’s review on the pre-election forum was good.
It was at best, an interesting forum. Hardly a post mortem, but nevertheless interesting.
There was Dr Catherine Lim, who needs no introduction, Miss Denise Phua a youngling of our ruling party, Mr Perry Tong and Dr Chee from the remaining opposition and A/P Ho Khai Leong, a political commentator (I didn’t know we have that till lastnight.)
Dr Lim told two short stories, Perry tried to summarise the WP’s rally in 10 minutes, Dr Chee complained that his pictures in the papers did not look good, and Denise tried to justify that 66.6% is a good mandate.
The audience, as it slowly dawned on me during the Q&A session was peppered with SDP hecklers. (I thought some of them looked familiar.)
I enjoyed Dr Lim’s stories on head versus heart. Very encouraging stories. Her message was that the political paradigm in Singapore is shifting. I am very encouraged by that message. It does not matter to me who rules Singapore, the paradigm is and has to shift. We have to be prepared for it.
Denise came closest to a post mortem of the GE. She tried to justify why 66.6% was a good mandate and what her party could have done to improve on the results. I am not impressed.
66.6% in not a good mandate, not in Singapore. She said that in a typical first world country, there will be a third that is pro-government, a third that is pro-opposition and a third swing voters. And since they won 66.6%, they’ve won the votes of the swing voters, hence a strong mandate.
Well, I am sad to say that this is not true in the context of Singapore.
We do not have a credible opposition in Singapore. So all I can say is, we saw more than 33% worth of protest votes. Okay, maybe among all these, we do have a few that truly believe that the opposition is credible, but I doubt there are many of them. Then there is the fear factor… you can say it doesn’t exist, but if you search yourself deep enough, you know that it is there. Not many can overcome this factor. It is a factor that will swing fence sitters anywhere.
Perry, I think he went to the wrong forum… there was no analysis whatsoever, yes, he chose to call this a post GE review, but then again, there was no review coming from him either.
Dr Chee, he painted a very bleak picture of the GE, told stories about how the SDP was harrassed by the gahmen officials and then tried to substantiate his whinings of an unfair election by quoting a survey from his Think Centre website.
Hey doc, only people who are not happy with the gahmen goes to your website. No credibility there, sorry. You’re not really photogenic either, so don’t complain that the press didn’t publish good pictures of you.
Prof Ho’s part… okay, sorry I needed to pee and missed a good part of it.
Then came the Q&A part. I don’t know if it was just me, but it seems that most questions were ruling party bashing questions and they seemed skewed towards the Dr Chee’s canp. It was like, he planted people in the audience to ask barbed questions… perhaps it was just me.
I left the forum entertained… it wasn’t a post mortem I expected, but well, I can’t ask for more. It was indeed entertaining.
May 16, 2006 at 1:49 pm · Filed under General
That the gahmen has reduced the number of people being sent to jail by 87%. These people who could not afford to pay the conservancy charges of their HDB (public housing) would have been jailed.
Being a really compassionate gahmen, they brain-stormed a way to help these group of poor chaps stay out of jail.
Cannot pay up right? Nehmind, we tell you wat, you pay by installment lor… see, donch say gahmen neh hepchu k?
It is fantastic how quickly the gahmen fulfil their election promises… this will surely help the new poor… stay out of jail.
It is a brilliant idea to keep these poor bastards out of jail. 87% reduction in jail birds means 87% reduction in the cost of keeping these jail birds alive.
Keeping them out so that they can also slog and pay their dues not only reduce prison operating cost but also help fill up the gahmen coffers.
Progress package must have emptied these coffers by quite a bit.
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