Archive for April, 2008
April 23, 2008 at 3:37 am · Filed under General
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said that public officers, including Ministers, should not be automatically removed or punished just because a lapse has occurred down the line. I tend to agree.
If this was any other third world countries, I would not expect anything less than a resignation (think Japan). I mean, people get killed for less (think India and China)!
We are Singapore, we have developed from third world to first! We must think like a first world country. Think US!
If the US President can stay on and become a double term President after the September 11 tragedy, then I don’t expect DPM Wong to get anything less!
Look, our escaped (unconvicted) terrorist did not even crap on our HDB void decks! Well, he did have some wierd fantasy about crashing a plane and also threw toilet paper out of a window but that is pretty harmless right? Where is he going to get the plane from?
For letting someone like this get away, I think say sorry can already.
The embarrassment that our neighbour managed to catch him twice while we let him escape is punishment enough.
In fact, I think we should give our DPM and everyone down the line a pay rise to motivate them further, so that they won’t feel so sorry and become depressed or something like that (life is already quite stressful). This way, they will be encouraged to work harder to ensure that grills are fitted onto our prison detention centre toilets.
I mean, isn’t it the case that if you’re a heavy tipper, you get better service in the restaurant?
April 18, 2008 at 4:58 am · Filed under General
It just happened again. I was hit this morning. On my hand while eating roti prata.
Normally, I would have lost all appetite and stopped eating but this is just happening too often.
I got up, washed my hand and carried on eating, half wondering if there was a splatter effect that could have caused some of the crap to be sprinkled onto my prata.
It never did happen to me before, but I think I am averaging about 3 to 4 a year, with near misses included. Personally, I think this is a statistical anomaly.
I need to know if I am alone on this.
April 11, 2008 at 11:17 am · Filed under General
There’s simply too much media attention over this shit that I figured I should give my two cents worth.
When the International Olympics Committee announced that China was going to host the games 8 years ago, the Chinese were not the only ones that went straight to work.
The Dalai Lama and his underlings very likely also started their own little preparation.
Let’s face it, the Chinese were caught with their pants down. They lost, Tibet won. The Chinese were never good with public relations and they still never learn. I would have thought that after so much bashing from the international media over the last few years, for the smallest of things, they would have learned to be a little bit more media savvy!
Israel is dropping precision guided weapons on civilians and the whole world is cheering them on!
With so much money in their reserves, all the Chinese needed to do was to take a little out, hire a spin doctor and make Tibet look evil. If they really wanted more oomph, they could hire a few Tibetans to blow themselves up too!
Look at the Maldives! As long as tourists have the Sun, Sand and Sea, they don’t really give a shit about how the people there really live. Public Relations! That is the key man! A pretty logo, extensive marketing, make your opponents look evil and keep the ugly bits out of sight. It works!
We all know that human rights are a figment of our imagination. You will have your rights when you are the majority.
Are the aborigines in Australia any better than the Tibetans? Remember how their babies were kidnapped? What about the native Indians in America? Do they seriously have rights? They are a minority now. They have the rights of a toilet paper. They are so poor, they don’t even get to leave their town. Out of sight, out of mind, no voice. What’s the difference?
Wait, I know what the Chinese should have done. Instead of helping the Tibetan economy, instead of building a high speed train to Tibet, they should have just used the money to build a wall around it. They will not be the first in recent times to do that anyway. Wall them up, starve them silly such that all they think about is food and not have the energy to make noise.
In other words, hire a PR company to justify the wall, build a wall and all problems are solved. Heck, why not pay a bit more for the ‘justify bomb attacks’ option too!
April 3, 2008 at 3:41 am · Filed under General
I was in the crapper last night when I heard a shrill scream… I found out later that my dog found this fruit bat with a torn wing.
After some contemplation, it was decided that we should keep it for a few days to see if it recovers. It is not likely to survive if it were to be released since one of the wing is torn.
I think the mother bat is around somewhere though, so we’ll leave the cage open tonight to see what happens.
Update: We decided to let it go last night. Tied the cage to the orchid stand and it was gone after a couple of hours.
To answer Huay’s question, we did put a slice of apple which it did not eat. So my brother hand fed it grapefruit juice through a syringe.
