flu outbreak

The flu outbreak will surely affect Singapore. With travellers still going or coming from those places it is a matter of time someone passed through the check points. This flu is a new variant so not much is known. Like the Sars few years back, this one seems to be more infectious. Hopefully this is not those kind of airborne kind. The name of the flu really shouldn't be called swine flu. Since the swine didn't start this. It occurs in Mexico so it should use the name of the place instead.

cats still bird catching

All the stray cats around us seems to be enjoying a laze in the sun waiting for munch time. They don't seems to go for rats or unable to catch birds. Not true. I manage to observe one cat that managed to get two birds. I didn't see how it does but do see it with its prize. The white cat, often seen at the bus stop where I waited for bus, along with some other cats. This white cat is a stand out because of its color. It would either mix alone with the people waiting for buses or loiter around the place and even hide in the nearby drain showing only its head looking at passer-by. Yesterday I saw it running along the drain, with a bird in its mouth. I did not expect few minutes later it ran through the same drain again and another bird. So this cat is not just outstanding because of its color but it could catch birds too.

strange water

Call it paranormal, but what I encountered is sure not normal. My office ceiling softboard was suddenly dripping water like a tap. We thought there is a leak from a pipe within. So we called in the maintenance people, which when they arrived the leak seems to have stopped. They opened up the ceiling board and found the place to be dry. There is no leak on any pipes, which is only small and use for the fire spray. So the mystery remains, where the water come from. 

flies problem

So people are still health cautious over outdoor eatery after the Rojak and the Steamboat episodes. Some points finger at the rat while others at the hygiene of the cooks and those handling of the food. An article from the Newpaper pointed out, what about the houseflies buzzing around? They are a few but enough to contaminate your food and drink when they make a rest stop on your stuff. Everyone scared of the rat but I would say the flies are more power than the rats as they do their thing anytime anywhere while people just ignore them. 

Jackie Chan blasting

Jackie had offended the chinese so as it was reported. So have anyone wondered why he said that? Looking at the polictical scene in Taiwan and nearby area, it was quite a mess. Some are critical while some do agree. People should look at the current scene and think of what Jackie said. Jackie may have put in the wrong words but the scene he said doesn't mean he made it up. So the west is now looking at all the chinese going red over the comments from Jackie. Well, some acts need to be cleaned up. For Jackie his speech. For the larger picture, it may be a long while.

eatery hazzard

Everyone have head of all the food poisoning around us. So it seems, eating out can be a hazzard. The rojak stall started the ball rolling, and out come the truth around us. The stall area, a temporary hawker area is a rat infested place. Had rojak not started anything no one will be doing anything. So just because he started it does not mean he should take the full blame. While people will say the rat issue have no link to the bateria that caused the rojak outbreak. Still this makes the authority open their eyes to the place around us. People only start to clean up their acts when something happen. Even as this is going on, I believe many others were being ignored until people start to voice out such as this being voiced on Stomp. Read it and you can see, food establishment seems to put business top on the list.

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/viewContent.jsp?id=66744

Life is possibly a game?

I just watched The Truman Show. You expect Jim Carey to start making jokes like all his other shows. No. This isn't a comedy. The story about Jim being born and raised in a tv reality show and being watched by the world all the time. In the end he managed to figured out something isn't right and found a way to escape. His determination to escape to find his real love, whom he met while she was part of the actress which Jim have no idea his life was merely a show. So here, is our life like a show too?

Knowing is only so so

The movie Knowing would be a good show if it isn't about end of the world and aliens. Something like those X-files stuff but once the story turns to the end of the world event it just doesn't end well. Moreever you have got aliens that stand around like Keanu Reeve in Matrix. So the story ends with a super flare from the sun that burns away all the planets, or only the inner planets. The aliens knows about it and have been selecting children to be taken away. While these type of end of the world is really the first of its kind instead of astroid or nuclear war that destroy the Earth. Perhaps the ending could be done in another fashion but for now I feel the end is bad.

local transport no improvement

It is no surprise that news report that bus operators got fined again for the usual lapsed in services. The usual long wait and over crowded complains. To solve such problems would usually be more buses on the road which will be more drivers. Currently they are using drivers from other countries. There have been people wrote to forums about communication issues with these drivers. So perhaps better pay for locals will improve for services. Until then slow crowded buses will be around.

Local internet radio is dead

Just when there is one that still hangs on, it is offline for internet radio, only the local stations. It won't kill internet radio, only the presences of local stations. Users can always tune to overseas channels or their mp3.  While the music elsewhere is always better, sometimes having a DJ providing some local news update and stuffs will be a plus.

April fool virus or joke?

April Fool day today and a virus is supposed to wreck havoc on many computers everywhere. That was a report from the papers. So what do you think? I think it is nothing much as compare to a normal virus. You do update your antivirus  software right? So if you caught the virus what does it mean? You are careless or over  confident and time to change your antivirus software. Sometimes it is no joke but then the best way to pass the day is to off the computer for the day. Not everyone will do that. :D