24 Jan
There is a blog entry over at Mr. Brown titled “You know you are getting old, if during your NS days..”. Below are my reflections on each item, and as you can see, I answered positive to most of them, implying that I am getting old.
You were trained to use M16 and have no idea [...]
6 Apr
Over the years I have witnessed enough not to expect much from politicians, but I certainly didn’t expect Lee Kuan Yew to blame the Singapore people for fugitive Mas Selamat Kastari’s escape from prison. I can’t find the original Straistimes’ article, but it’s quoted in entirety by many Singaporeans’ blogs, two of which are [...]
15 Jul
It’s a beautiful world we live in:
An elderly woman, 60, collapses in a crowded shopping centre. She is seriously ill and needs to get to the hospital urgently.
Paramedics rush to the scene, place her on a stretcher, and get into a lift to take her downstairs to the ambulance.
But to the horror of the anxious [...]
1 Jul
This is from ex-Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed:
…(the) MIGs are given, are sold to us without any condition, if you feel like bombing Singapore, for example, the Russians are not going to object…
…But this great aircraft called F-18, which we bought from America, after buying it, after several months, I got to know that this [...]
25 Dec
I thought the NKF stories were over, but that’s just not the case. Some lines from the full article:
Two out of every three Singaporeans have contributed to NKF, including many lowly-paid workers who pledge monthly contributions from their pay.
They’ve become bitter and distrusting because they’ve just learned that only 10 cents of every S$1 [...]
8 Nov
Funny stuff. Shows the high level of discipline in army:
When we were out in the field for the 10 days (out of 18) we were at Shoalwater Bay, Central Queensland, the optimistic among us took out our mobile phones to check for any semblance of a GSM signal.
Not much luck until one day, somewhere [...]
10 Oct
Why can’t drivers just obey the traffic rules? Why can’t they just drive or park their cars the way they must have learned in order to get their driver licenses? Is that too much to ask for?
Well, apparently it is for this guy who illegally parked his car and caused a traffic jam [...]
13 Aug
About two days ago my manager sat with us during lunch. One of the things that came up during the conversations was Michael Fay. To get to the point, both my manager, whom I believe is American, and I agreed that the punishment was befitting of the crime. It’s interesting how today [...]
20 Jul
Found this folk song/poem on the net. It’s about the NKF saga (my post 1, post 2, post3).
有个杜莱真老兰
六十万元作无兰
被判不对还兰兰
样子不知西密兰
踢他出去干那兰
如今不敢再怪兰
名字改成真度兰
最好改行去甘兰
[via mrbrown.com]
14 Jul
As a result of the hoo-ha from previous days (my entries here and here), NKF board and CEO have resigned from their posts.
Now I am truly impressed (without quotes like in my prior post), I thought things would drag on for a while.
[update @ 2005-07-14T18:55:04] Here is a fun NKF inspired Internal Affairs (无间道) spoof.
[update [...]
