man got booked for trying to enforce "law"

This news seems to stirred up some local forums. The issues was that a police car was parked at an area that would be illegal for other vehicles. A couple saw this and parked their car behind the cop's car and went to look for the cops to reason with them. They even took photos of the car. Somehow the cop showed them a sign that says no parking except police and authorised vehicle. The cops then booked the couple's car that was behind the cop's car. The guy tried to reason with the cop and he raised his voice with a "controlled" tone. The cop according to the news article shouted back if he wants to shout at a policeman. So what does this show? Most netizens from forums seems to agree the couple had it coming. Why do the couple want to ask the police to remove their vehicle when they themselves park there too? They didn't even bother to check the sign boards. Even without sign boards, I wouldn't mind if the police have to park in the void deck if they are responding to an emergency. The police are there to ensure security around us. So do you expect them to spend 10 to 15 mins to look for a parking space and probably put their coupons too? And for the guy who raised his voice, you are lucky the cops didn't book you and additional offense.

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http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,187220,00.html

show biz wedding frown upon by fans

The wedding of Vivan Chow and her long time boyfriend Joe Nieh doesn't sits well for Vivan's fan, her friends and family as well the people who are watching from the world. How is it so? Vivan best known during the early 90s in some Hong Kong drama and movies as well as a singer for her sweet and youthful looks have been low key and together for almost 16 years, which was reported by some news articles. Joe was a DJ in Hong Kong, during the 16 years had "derailed" several times. He was always spotted by reporters with other ladies in his arms. Vivan was always forgiving however for the latest incident, she was going to marry Joe much to her fans, friends and family's disagreement. At least the fans showed it. Now Joe is controlling her handphone and no one can contact Vivan. So why did Vivan agree to the wedding? It would be unlikely that Joe would stop his "derailing" ways and into married life it would be a disaster for Vivan if it ever do happens. And if Vivan do broke up with Joe, most would agree that it would be easy to know someone much better than Joe. So I wonder if this is a case of love is blind or some show biz publicity stuns.

The Day The Earth Stood Still - My preview

If you watched the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still, I would say it is a good and entertaining show. What you read from newspaper about how bad it was, I would disagree. As an ordinary viewer, I do not care if the actors show good facial expression. What viewers want is consistent exciting scenes after scenes. It is definitely not boring. So what is the movie about? It is usually the normal alien invasion. But there is a sub plot. The alien explains that there is a united galactic federation of planets out there. So why Earth isn't one of them? That isn't the main reason. It was about Earth being heavily polluted that the Aliens are here to wipe out humans and their polluting activities to preserve the planet.

But I see a hidden message there. Humans who are given leadership in crisis have arrogant attitudes and would use violent to solve the problems and to show us who the boss is with their missiles. The Secretary of Defense, a lady who is the highest command in the country since their president and vice president had went into hiding. She wants the Alien to be interrogated instead of showing peace and being friendly to a guest entering visiting you. She would use missiles to attack the aliens. In the end, she had to leave it to the main characters to communicate to the alien while wasting away half the country. We sees these arrogant humans in movies all the time and it might happen to any real life leaders too.

Did you notice the giant alien guardian's model is similar to Amazo from the Justice League Animated cartoon?

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Alien Guardian - Gort

transfering money from the counter is safer

If you ever uses the ATM to do money transfer to some other accounts, you have to be super extra careful. If you transfered to a wrong account, it would usually be bye bye to your money. While you can lodge a report to the bank, it doesn't always work. The bank would have to get the affected account holder to approve before they can transfer out the money. So if the account holder doesn't approve, you have to lodge a police report or a magistrate complaint. All these takes time and will it be worth those money you just wrongly dumped there? So if you have to transfer money, make a trip to the bank to do it. Banks nowadays open longer hours and some banks are even open on weekend. It would be safe for your money to do it by the bank people behind the counter. If they made mistake they could rectify it without much excuses while a mistake done by yourself from a ATM would be dependable on the other wrong account holder to release the money.

not as good as then

Usually holiday season would have blockbuster movies on cinema but this time the there don't seems to have much good show. Either they are monster shows or teeny shows. Even cartoons are 3d-ish. Chinese show are crappy too. Why? The usual remake of other shows or they lack plot or those usual looking for love type. Look like DVDs again. :|

down TV's memory lane

Had watch that Channel 8 station anniversary show. It was great to see all those oldies again. Children shows at that time was kind of more interesting than shows of today. Partly because then there is only one channel and we will watch anything on that channel. Now you have many channel to select so if you have this show now I can switch to another channel. I still find that the artists and shows of those days are still much better in term of storyline. And they stopped producing martial arts show now. So it is sure showing a weakness that we can't produce those type of shows anymore.