Two days ago, a drama occurred along the Whitley Road Detention Centre when the leader of the terrorist cell, JI, escaped after he was allowed to go to the toilet. "Wow sounds easy..."
Despite more than 30hours of manhunt, up till now, he is still at large, on the run, despite having a limp on his leg. He must be real good, a chameleon I presume. Even though Singapore is such a small country, and jungles aren't plenty, he could still evade capture by the mass forces deployed to capture him. Is there a chance that he could have already escaped to another country? Or perhaps he is in disguise and walking among us?
This might be scary thought but it could happen, and residents are urged to be careful.
More information at: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/331726/1/.html
Friday 29 February 2008
Monday 25 February 2008
The time for Change
On March 2, Russians will choose a new president.
On March 8, Malaysians will go to the polls.
On March 22, Taiwanese will elect a new president.
On Nov 4, Americans will choose a new president.
S.Korea just sworn Lee Myung-Bak as the new president.
As well, Raul Castro has been named as the new president of Cuba.
This is really the time for changes around the world.
Let me end this post with an article by Fidel Castro:
" 'Change, change, change!' they shouted in unison," he wrote. "I agree. 'Change!' But in the United States. Cuba changed a while ago, and will continue on its dialectical course. We will never return to the past, say our people. 'Annexation, annexation, annexation!' the adversary responds. That's what he thinks, deep inside, when he talks about change."
Friday 22 February 2008
Thursday 21 February 2008
Hougang declaring independence
Well, some of you may get a shock when you read the title, but don't worry, it's not true...
You see, recently, Kosovo declares its independence from Serbia. And this was widely supported by 18 members of the EU, and the US, while Cyprus, Romania and Spain have done the wise and right thing by explicitly refusing recognition of this illegal move.
Well, think about it. If one day, example Hougang, gets tired of being part of Singapore and decides to declare independence from Singapore, what will be your reaction? Can you imagine trying to visit your grandparents in Hougang and having to pass through customs? Or having a whole new set of rules over there?
And the disgusting part is Uncle Sam supporting that move and putting in humanitarian peacekeepers to keep up that independence even though nobody thinks it is legal? How will you feel? Well it's certainly not a good feeling, even though Singaporeans might just ignore it and let the govt handle the matter.
Oh well, why don't the whole world come together and support say California breaking off from the United States of America next time...
You see, recently, Kosovo declares its independence from Serbia. And this was widely supported by 18 members of the EU, and the US, while Cyprus, Romania and Spain have done the wise and right thing by explicitly refusing recognition of this illegal move.
Well, think about it. If one day, example Hougang, gets tired of being part of Singapore and decides to declare independence from Singapore, what will be your reaction? Can you imagine trying to visit your grandparents in Hougang and having to pass through customs? Or having a whole new set of rules over there?
And the disgusting part is Uncle Sam supporting that move and putting in humanitarian peacekeepers to keep up that independence even though nobody thinks it is legal? How will you feel? Well it's certainly not a good feeling, even though Singaporeans might just ignore it and let the govt handle the matter.
Oh well, why don't the whole world come together and support say California breaking off from the United States of America next time...
Friday 15 February 2008
A funny remark
Well well, time flies! The Chinese New Year is here and gone, well almost. It's already into the second month of February.
Recently, I saw on the newspaper an article about the ERP charges entering the heartlands, and the transport minister was quizzed by another MP for the reason. Among one of his replies, he said that Singaporean drivers travel quite a lot compared to their counterparts in other big cities. He said that Singaporean drivers clock 21,000 km per year compared to L.A. (19,000+km) and Tokyo (15,000+km).
Well, Excuse me, but first of all, where did he get this statistic from?? What's the backing?
And if that's the case, that means on average, a driver will drive about the entire length of the PIE EVERYDAY FOR 500DAYS! And there ain't even 500days in a year! so everybody stays in jurong work in changi airport? or vice versa?
C'mon, most cars don't even travel that much, and Singapore ain't that big a country. Are you adding the distance covered by taxis? Well that shouldn't count since those are public transport. Hmm and I definitely think that Americans travel mmuch more than Singaporeans due to the distance between places in the BIG land of yankees. So I can't understand.
And he said the govt ain't trying to make money from ERP charges, but then the gantries continue to increase, and they remove road taxes (obviously you need to make money from somewhere else to cover the loss of road taxes). If you do a check, you can see how much they actually make from the ERP in a year. And most people actually believe that the number of cars are not actually going to decrease even with increased ERP charges, but they still increase the charges anyway.
This minister really needs to remove the blindfold from his eyes, go take a ride around the country on public transport and see how it works. I really can't see how he can go about talking so much about this and that without really coming down to the ground from his hot air balloon way up in the sky.
If there are angel and devils, then the angel would come in the form of the finance minister with his $1.8bn goodies for the people. It's really a good welcome for the bonuses and stuff that we're going to get after a bonanza year last year! Although I thought more could be distributed since the govt surplus was $6.45bn last year. But nonetheless, it still is a good thing for everyone.
Recently, I saw on the newspaper an article about the ERP charges entering the heartlands, and the transport minister was quizzed by another MP for the reason. Among one of his replies, he said that Singaporean drivers travel quite a lot compared to their counterparts in other big cities. He said that Singaporean drivers clock 21,000 km per year compared to L.A. (19,000+km) and Tokyo (15,000+km).
Well, Excuse me, but first of all, where did he get this statistic from?? What's the backing?
And if that's the case, that means on average, a driver will drive about the entire length of the PIE EVERYDAY FOR 500DAYS! And there ain't even 500days in a year! so everybody stays in jurong work in changi airport? or vice versa?
C'mon, most cars don't even travel that much, and Singapore ain't that big a country. Are you adding the distance covered by taxis? Well that shouldn't count since those are public transport. Hmm and I definitely think that Americans travel mmuch more than Singaporeans due to the distance between places in the BIG land of yankees. So I can't understand.
And he said the govt ain't trying to make money from ERP charges, but then the gantries continue to increase, and they remove road taxes (obviously you need to make money from somewhere else to cover the loss of road taxes). If you do a check, you can see how much they actually make from the ERP in a year. And most people actually believe that the number of cars are not actually going to decrease even with increased ERP charges, but they still increase the charges anyway.
This minister really needs to remove the blindfold from his eyes, go take a ride around the country on public transport and see how it works. I really can't see how he can go about talking so much about this and that without really coming down to the ground from his hot air balloon way up in the sky.
If there are angel and devils, then the angel would come in the form of the finance minister with his $1.8bn goodies for the people. It's really a good welcome for the bonuses and stuff that we're going to get after a bonanza year last year! Although I thought more could be distributed since the govt surplus was $6.45bn last year. But nonetheless, it still is a good thing for everyone.
Monday 4 February 2008
And they say we should take public transport...
Well the global theme right now is to go green right? Which means to cut down on Greenhouse gases by reducing private cars on the road and switch to public transport. Sounds like great. Brilliant. That's an ideal!
NOT!
If you have not taken the public transport in Singapore, then I say stick to the car. Although Singapore is such a small country, I always used to tell my foreign friends that I take a minimum of an hour to travel to school, sometimes when it gets bad, even 2hours. And they were shocked. They always thought that with the size of Singapore, travelling to anywhere should be a zip. Well that's true when you are driving a car. But the bus system really puts you down, down, down......
Haha, recently, NUS came up with a discussion forum www.nussu.org.sg/151 for people to contribute ideas on how to improve the bus 151 which travels from Hougang to NUS. It's really a forum where people complain about the punctuality & frequency of the bus. Plus the dumb terrain on the school compound makes it difficult to have a bendy-bus nor a double-decker. Oh wow, so the bus is always packed as it serves, just to list a few schools along its route, NUS, SIM, NP, HCI and NJC, and you can't even increase it's capacity?!
Last wed, I tried for the first time to take this bus to school, with the ignorance of a person doing something for the first time. I always thought the bus was rather swift when it travels from NUS to Hougang, so it should be the same the other way, what's more it's 11am, past the peak hour. Well, I was ghastly wrong. The bus took at least 20min to arrive which already made me wanted to head home, and the bus was pretty packed. That was not a good first time.
Now the government encourages citizens to take the public transport, and penalises car drivers by erecting ERP (Electronic Road Pricing) gantries on many many roads, and now the prices of fuel have gone up too. But then since the price of fuel increases, so does the price of public transport. Now what?
The LTC or whatever relevant department should seriously review the state of the bus system and improve it, BEFORE trying to encourage users to switch from private vehicles to public transport.
Well right now, I say, the better deal is to stick to driving a car to school which would take probably half an hour (of comfortable seating may I add) to more than an hour on public transport.
NOT!
If you have not taken the public transport in Singapore, then I say stick to the car. Although Singapore is such a small country, I always used to tell my foreign friends that I take a minimum of an hour to travel to school, sometimes when it gets bad, even 2hours. And they were shocked. They always thought that with the size of Singapore, travelling to anywhere should be a zip. Well that's true when you are driving a car. But the bus system really puts you down, down, down......
Haha, recently, NUS came up with a discussion forum www.nussu.org.sg/151 for people to contribute ideas on how to improve the bus 151 which travels from Hougang to NUS. It's really a forum where people complain about the punctuality & frequency of the bus. Plus the dumb terrain on the school compound makes it difficult to have a bendy-bus nor a double-decker. Oh wow, so the bus is always packed as it serves, just to list a few schools along its route, NUS, SIM, NP, HCI and NJC, and you can't even increase it's capacity?!
Last wed, I tried for the first time to take this bus to school, with the ignorance of a person doing something for the first time. I always thought the bus was rather swift when it travels from NUS to Hougang, so it should be the same the other way, what's more it's 11am, past the peak hour. Well, I was ghastly wrong. The bus took at least 20min to arrive which already made me wanted to head home, and the bus was pretty packed. That was not a good first time.
Now the government encourages citizens to take the public transport, and penalises car drivers by erecting ERP (Electronic Road Pricing) gantries on many many roads, and now the prices of fuel have gone up too. But then since the price of fuel increases, so does the price of public transport. Now what?
The LTC or whatever relevant department should seriously review the state of the bus system and improve it, BEFORE trying to encourage users to switch from private vehicles to public transport.
Well right now, I say, the better deal is to stick to driving a car to school which would take probably half an hour (of comfortable seating may I add) to more than an hour on public transport.
Fascination with Italia
Yes!!! It's fascination with Italia, and it's happening in U.K.!
First it was England, the "almighty" England, when she hired Fabio Capello as the coach of the Lions. Fabio, who has enjoyed great success with many big clubs such as Real Madrid and Roma, is going to face his first test when England plays Switzerland in an upcoming friendly.
Then it's the Irish! The F.A. of the Rep. of Ireland are looking for a new manager for their team, and the favourite choice is from......? Italy of course! Giovanni Trappatoni, a long time manager of the Italia national team, and also enjoyed a great spell in Fiorentina before they went down few seasons back, could be a good candidate to bring Ireland to success in coming competitions.
Watch out, the managers of Scotland & Wales!
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