This evening I came home to see a police car parked two houses down. A little inquiry with neighbors revealed that there had been a break-in in the house across where the police car was parked. It might have been a insider’s job, so the theory went.
Safe world we live in, no?
Archive for the ‘The Bad’ Category
3 Sep
Neighborhood break-in
29 May
San Jose ATM skimming case gets closer
I watched on TV last night about the San Jose ATM skimming case. A lot of people’s money was stolen when they used their ATM cards at a San Jose Archo gas station. The ATMs there had been hacked to swipe the card info and PIN. The thieves then used a cloned [...]
18 May
Back from Asia
This morning I landed in SFO today after a 3-week stay in Asia. Compared to previous years, a lot has happened in the world while I was away from home (and a broadband connection to blog about it).
Firstly, the Taiwan diplomatic scandal broke news while I was in Taiwan for my 8-day tour. [...]
16 Apr
Virginia Tech massacre
I know that by now the Virginia Tech massacre is not news anymore, nor am I blogging about it as such. I am blogging about it because I want to record it here.
CNN.com’s special report
30 Dec
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrrior
New Zealand is a beautiful country, or so I have heard from friends and seen on film (The Lord of the Rings). While researching the country, I came across a Wikipedia link that caught my interest: Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. The title sounded like that of a espionage film, so I took [...]
23 Oct
Negative thoughts
A friend of mine in Singapore just got into a car accident. It was indirectly caused by an inconsiderate jerk who parked his car illegally. Worse yet, that guy even shouted at my friend and told him off.
Even though this shite didn’t happen to me directly, I couldn’t help but feel the anger [...]
2 Sep
Stiff-y Jiffy Lube
Watch this video and decide about Jiffy Lube yourself:
I have experienced this kind of scam before, though I have no proof of it. A few years back I used to bring my old second-hand car to Firestone Tire and Service Centers on El Camino for routine maintenance. Then one [...]
29 Aug
Local hit-and-run
I was driving home this evening when I heard over radio about the fatal hit-and-run incident at Fremont, CA. Little did I know at the time that the driver was also suspected of injuring 13 others in San Francisco. Apparently this guy just returned from Afghanistan and was claimed by his attorney and [...]
10 Aug
No liquid or gadgets as carry-ons
After thrwarting yesterday’s attempted terrorist attack in Britain, there are reports that you can no longer bring liquid, gel, and lotions aboard UK flights. In addition electronic gadgets need to be checked in instead of carried on.
In US carry-on gadgets are still allowed, for now.
It’s so unfair that billions and billions of people are [...]
15 Jul
“Cruel Lift Hogs”
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 [...]
