Philippines do the right thing and dump the clowns!

The Philippines crisis is getting worldwide anger because of their blunders. The police in action have been doing the moves all wrong. It all looks like a hollywood movie gone wrong except this is real. According to newspaper reports, they have policeman that posed like.... some kind of actor in a classic movie. Having live broadcast of what is unfolding in the bus. Hollywood have such plots too so to have this happening is slapping their own faces. The media should be taken to task for this too. Angering the hostage taker by arresting his family broke the camel's neck. And lastly why does a civilian have a M-16 rifle? Heads have to roll, particularly the chief of police and all those top police chiefs that talks. Media heads too for live reports that is making a problem more problem. And the president for showing a smiling face when there is nothing to be happy about. There is no use defending what is happening. You just need to face it and drop all those "clowns" involved. Clowns, not scapegoats.

cartoon to movie not a good cup of tea

Old classic cartoons are jumping into the movie world. It is fun to watch them in the movie but when the cartoons turns into realistic graphic and mix with real actors in a real environment it would be awful. In the good days we have seen Who Frame Roger Rabbit where a mix of cartoon  characters mix into the real world. It was watchable. Then that basketball movie with the Bugs Bunny I never watch that. But when it comes to Garfield it just be  painful. Maybe I am stuck in the old days but it just doesn't make sense. Do you need real actors to do it? Can't you just make a full movie animation instead? They are bringing in the Smurfs and Berenstain Bears too.... Smurfs will be harder since there is no real smurfs....

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-08-25-cartoonmovies25_ST_N.htm

disgruntled always goes terror

Manila standoff is the recent news on disgruntled ex-employee that goes on a rampages that led to lost of lives. Most cases occurs in the US since firearms can be owned or bought. But what shocked in this case here is that the terror was from an ex-cop. And more importantly is that he got firearm. Does officers get to own personal firearms or it can be purchased from somewhere where enforcement is not in place? So with a new government in Philippines, this is one black eye on them as well the police involved.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-23/hong-kong-leader-criticizes-handling-of-deadly-manila-standoff.html

better food finally only with a few remaining days.

YOG organiser finally rectify the food quality. Volunteers all agreed the food had improved. It was revealed that the organiser replaced the previous caterer to a better caterer that is also catering for other events like World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Somehow while everyone managed to get happy, it seems most were unhappy for most of the YOG event. It is only a few days left and it seems action was only taken when report of diarrhoea happened. The rectify is seen as a bit late but it is better than nothing been done.

http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/08/22/yog-volunteers-food-being-served-much-better-now/

empty seat in YOG event

YOG is a success so far but not so in term of the audiences. You could still see empty seats despite they announce a sold out. So why sold out if no one occupied the seats? So far netizens is pinning the blame on MOE as their "mass" purhase causes the empty seats. The students are no attending at all. Either they are busy studying for the coming exams or they are not interested. While MOE denied they are the cause, it is news they mass purchased and not much students as the audiences. While long queues out hoping for getting one of those empty seats, the organiser just wouldn't do anything. Not even when the minster want to rectify the problem. So what is the problem here? The problem here is lazy organiser that refuses to fill up the seats when there are long queues and empty seats and also MOE contribute to the system by mass purchase but never use the tickets. Don't deny it because it is your show and both system are link to the gov. So you can reply with reasons but no action taken mean you are still not solving anything. World class event but lazy system. And not to mention all the food issue and so far no mentioning of any improvements too.

YOG time to improve!

Another happening that gives YOG people behind it a black eye. It seems during the weekend some volunteers got diarrhoea after consuming meals. So out come the food standards again. Investigations shows that the hygiene standard are in order. So where does it goes wrong? I am sure people are talking about closing one eyes or both eyes to get over this black patch. So is this how volunteers are being treated? There is the complain of lousy food that doesn't taste good and now this food poisoning. Volunteers are our citizens and this is no way to treat them when they are proudly do this job for the country and not getting anymore form of payment other than transport and meal. The more the gov assures it is ok, people just got suspicious of the situation. I prefer to see action, not assurance. Assurance is just talk and no result it is just disappointment. The world is watching so it isn't just for the citizens.

The dams are the cause!

Flood disaster been happening in China. I think they should stop their dam activities at those large rivers. They already had some it is time to stop. It seems the dam just block up the rivers and before the dam could release the excess water everything just goes. It is like a burst of a blood vessel. In this case it is the river. The river brings water throughout the land and by putting a dam there they are restricting the other neighbors the usage of the water. China is good in many aspects and even overcome situations which seems to put China in a negative disadvantage but this is plain selfish which I say is just a warning to them for their selfishness of blocking the river. Nature will not allow anyone to own nature. Stop before more disasters strikes.

FIFA need (wants) money. Period.

During the World Cup 2010 Singaporeans have been complaining of the high cost for watching the matches as compared to neighboring countries. It seems when FIFA President Sepp Blatter came to Singapore, a reporter posed this costly question on why was Singapore being charged that high. As reported, he paused for 4 secs before asking his colleague to answer, whom have no answer too. He guaranteed to provide a response. The answer  he gave is that FIFA needs the money. He puts it as the footballing activities need the money. Ok, a fine piece of answer. Which provider that provides their entertainment doesn't needs money? But the real question is why or how did they came to the high cost for Singapore? It seems they have no wish to answer that. Either that they see the population on this small island nation as loaded or that they want to flex some muscles or somewhere along some long lines someone not in the right minded manage to influenced the decision.

http://www.tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,252090,00.html

Passing of cats' heroine

Read from the papers that the founder of the SPCA, Mrs Marjorie Doggett passed away. From the report, Mrs Dogget started the SPCA from scratch under her own strength and determination to help the stray cats in Singapore. It was her action to help these animals that started something that became into today's SPCA. Mrs Doggett also have 7 pet cats at home. So she is a cat person and all these happens because of her loves for cats. That would be the case but her action also helped other animals too. So today's people who still bullies cats or looked down on cats and their caretakers should be ashamed of themselves. And HDB should consider lifting the "ban" for cats staying in HDB. Some are already HDB's pets so like people who sometimes "fell", I am sure cats doesn't fall that often. People should change their thinking because this land is being shared with other living animals too and they have the right to roam among us.

Fake $50

If you haven't watch the news on TV, you probably haven't heard. There are fake $50 sing dollars in the market.... This news didn't appear on the English language papers from SPH. It did appear on the night papers Wanbao. Blame it on competition war between media corporations. The fake $50 according to reports is that the colour smudges with water and the and the silvery circle print on the notes doesn't shine as the real ones. So when you received $50 notes, make sure the silver shines, no smudges. There is no way to avoid it if you are caught in a peak hour but alert about it will be handy.

http://news.omy.sg/News/Local%2BNews/Story/OMYStory201008151551-176660.html

YOG started!

The YOG ceremony had passed. Well done to the staff and workers puting up the show. But then when the flags are coming down they have to go to ads several times. So whoever the flags not shown on TV due to the ads well, what would the TV station explain? I would say it is lack of respects. They didn't show ads while NDP is going on. And also I believe if it is YOG it should be youths going on stage. I saw the older athletics going down with the flags. I still don't agree with all these adults doing in a youth event. In any case, it certainly is history making for Singapore.

YOG food cannot make it

YOG is a global event and the people running it are using volunteers. Someone is not happy with the food given and even put up a photo of the pack of food. Many netizens agreed the food need to improve more. That food while some say is much better than the NS food, I would say NS food actually would be better than what was shown. This pack is dry food and some bean crud. The NS food would have soup and meat and vegetables. In any cases, both just cannot make it. For NS we got no choice, but for YOG, those being fed are volunteers. They are our own citizens. It isn't a one day event. These volunteers have to eat the same food everyday who can take it?And I doubt the caterer will do much "improve" since it is all boil down to profits.
http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/08/13/storm-over-food-for-yog-volunteers/

NDP, I think someone is fake.

NDP is over. However this year's NDP seems much boring than previous years. The parade of the nation's defense forces is magnificent. Just doesn't much like the idea of mixing the cadet corp with the NS Men or NS regulars. Anyway there is a singing segment which I find it fake. You probably should be able to figure out which segment. It doesn't look like the singer is live singing. Maybe I am wrong so you, if anyone is reading it should decide if is it live. Why I would see it as fake? The vocal sound so clean and so same as those MV that was repeatingly shown on TV and broadcast on radio all the time. In live singing, such as those in a concert, the notes and tone will be very different in a sense such as opening wide the mouth or even when you have to take a breathe the sounding should not be so clean and neat. It sound like the sound done in a studio. So it is my view. I guess if more people voice out much the same as my view then it certainly raised some concern, specially since it is NDP.

YOG torch runners are middle agers.....

Youth Olympic is sizzling in Singapore. Not just for the youths but for everyone. However they put in the YOUTH is to mean this event is to participate by youths only. So when the torch relay event list adults running for it, some people start to questions. Why adults run for this and not youths or young person? This question make sense to since it is YOUTH olympics. We don't see a youth running the torch relay or participate in the adult version of the Olympic. The minister explained that the running is for everyone. As the news report people disagreed, giving example, that in Star Studded events that meant for TV, you don't see an athlete going on stage to recieve or give awards. Yes this made sense. No matter how the minister explains it goes to show the organisers fail to take in common logic. It is a YOUTH event. Although the organisers are adults, it is all about the participants. YOUTH is the words. The blunders will be tagged although no one could make them change their minds.
http://news.omy.sg/News/Local%2BNews/Story/OMYStory201008041511-174060.html

the translated English version
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.omy.sg%2FNews%2FLocal%252BNews%2FStory%2FOMYStory201008041511-174060.html&sl=auto&tl=en

cosmic tantrum?

In case you didn't know it, there was a massive sun storm blowing towards Earth on Sunday. It hit Earth on about Wed. The sky over the north all lit up like weavery aurora. Usually it only affects places near the poles but now further down places people could see. Scientist are unable to pin point when and how a big one could happen that it could wrecks chaos on Earth. Such as disruption of communication and damaging of equipments. Are mankind ready for this big one? Something is definitely brewing. With all the wacky weathers and this solar storm, nearby space rocks, it seems something is massing.... perhaps the position in the cosmos have something to do. Or we could put it to global warming due to men's dirty works. Maybe it isn't that complicated. It could be years before you can see the result. Until then it could be too late.

Rock music dying?

Rock music is dying. I would say it is quite true. Unlike the 80s to the 90s, metal bands like Guns N Roses and Metallica blast the airwave with those familiar rock music, nowadays there isn't much. The bands exists but radio doesn't play them. Must be due to commercial reasons or people prefer pop instead. Even Bon Jovi whose heavy metal classic Bad Medicine seems to go towards pop. Maybe I am still stuck in the good old days where every songs are good regardless of rock or pop but I just can't seems to listen much to todays music, mainly teen singers or boybands. I will try to adapt, or I will just go back to my cassette collections.....

reading comics is worse than watching soap opera

I just finish the book Final Crisis from DC Comics. Very colourful pages and many characters. Mainly the main villain Darksied invading the Earth by squeezing their souls into the human body thus the human became a zombie or a shell being manipulate. A comics is supposed to show readers what is going on. Many times most happenings are being in words form which I do not quite get the true meaning or perhaps my English language isn't that great to understand. When Superman confronts Darksied, with Lex Luthor and his army of villains going to clash with Darksied's army, wordings again, describing Wonder Woman using her lasso on Darksied. The rest I am unable to digest. And the next scene is showing Superman confronting another super villains. No sight or Lex Luthor and his army nor any other super heroes. I do not see how soap opera can be in such confusions. But for a book, you could add in pages for more story details. I haven't read much on other comics. Maybe I will do, and hopefully on this title is confusing. Otherwise the pages are colourful.