Sunday 30 March 2008

Roddick def. Troicki Sony Ericsson Open 2008

A totally unbelievable and almost impossible shot produced by Roddick

Djokovic-Nadal 2008 losing racket winner

An amazing point by Djokovic after dropping his racket and still coming up with a winner!

Wednesday 19 March 2008

Watch out when you eat your next packet of prawn cracker!

Watch out when you eat your next packet of Nong Shim prawn cracker!


It was reported in the news yesterday that they discovered a rat's head in a bag of prawn crackers. Subsequently, the products are being pulled off shelves. So you gotta beware of what you eat.

It's really scary the foodstuff they product these days if you think about it. Recently there was the gyoza (dumplings) scare in Japan when they resulted in severe food poisoning for many people. Then there was Prima Deli in Singapore, where many people suffered severe food poisoning due to the existence of the salmonella bacteria in the food products. And then there are the many reports of fake eggs, fake milk powder produced in China, which are made of carcinogenic agents.

Gosh, the world is really turning unsafe. I think I will have to stick to eating safe things, such as shark's fin, bird's nest, abalone, caviar and truffles for my meals everyday...

And I will not be held to ransom to put up anyone's name on the next post just because of a pink pokka dot tie. So don't think about it!
Hi Jared, how are you doing?? :)

Thursday 13 March 2008

HK's Funniest Person 2007 - Vivek Mahbubani - Chinese

This Indian speaks Cantonese!
Damn right, it's funny, and he has the Russell Peters style.
Haha, check it out for yourself...

Tuesday 11 March 2008

Random ramblings

It's tuesday 10am! And I am supposed to be in school at 8am for my Micro III lecture, but I don't know why I'm still at home. Haha.
Well sort of evaluated that the lecture was not worth waking up at 6am and traveling more than an hour to school for. He mostly just repeats what is on the lecture notes, which I'm perfectly able to read on my own. The only thing interesting about him is he hails from the cold and not so developed part of Russia called Siberia, and speaks with a French accent which I like to imitate.
"You zee, zis is ze way we doo, ya.." - translated as "You see, this is the way way we do, ya"
Hahah

Glad to see comments on my chatbox from Daryl and Jay Shen. Hi to you guys.
It's great to hear than one of them has gotten my beautiful room D107 and the other is finally going to resign from the junior job at a Japanese restaurant which made him wash many many dishes a day. Oh well, miss you guys, and best of luck! I miss my pizza mates!

Friday 7 March 2008

Celebrating 100years of F.C. Internazionale





F.C. Internazionale celebrates its 100th birthday on 9 March 2008. One hundred years of passion, a sense of belonging that involves millions of people. I am so proud to be a fan of this great club since the past, for now, and into the future. I am sure all fans of Inter will be happy for the team as well, as they celebrate a century of beautiful Italian football, and enter the next with a wonderful team and management and fans like me. The pride of the Nerrazurri!

The world is painted BLACK and BLUE on the 9th of March!




Wednesday 5 March 2008

Election fever hotting up

It's mysterious that Mas Selamat is still at large after almost a week since his prison escape. Singapore is not such a big island, and the whole country is looking for him, from policemen to soldiers, to all residents who receive MMSs, posters and whatever forms of information, but he still eludes everyone. *Poof*

Well the Malaysian elections are definitely hotting up, with elections approaching on the 8th of March. Not that it has anything to do with me, but it's hard not to take notice due to the high coverage of this election in Singapore's media. There are daily coverages on the tv news, as well as in all forms of the newspapers. Somehow, I feel that the media coverage of the Malaysian election is even higher than Singapore's own elections couple of years back. I have analysed this, and derived few probable explanations for this result:

1. There are a large number of Malaysians in Singapore, and we want them to be in touch with their own countries. Also, the news reported that there are a large number of foreigners in Singapore now, and the majority of them are from across the causeway. And wanting to add on the list of hubs that we already are (e.g. medical hub, aviation hub, education hub, meeting and conventions hub, country with the most hub hub etc), this time foreign talents hub, we have to attract them by covering news of their country so they would feel at home here.

2. Another possible explanation is that competition was weak, meaning there was a lack of challenge from the opposition parties, which made the elections pretty one-sided, so there was no need to report much about it.

3. Due to the subdued nature of open political discussions, media reports of our own elections were hence, subdued as well.

4. It is cheaper to send our journalists to cover the elections in Malaysia than to send them to cover the one in USA. Hence we have such great coverage with all the journalists interviewing the many contenders for the many different seats. Also, it would be a good holiday for the journalists, to be able to take a break and travel to Malaysia on a company-paid trip.

For now, I would have to continue receiving coverage of the Malaysian elections through all the media coverage.