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“Terrorists don’t need to blow up trains or the stations. All they have to do is toy with the braking systems.” - A Stooge Times reader, who made the comment after noting how pack every train is.
Can that happen? Why not, because a d...
Obama wins historic Democratic nomination
Iron ManI didn’t exactly watch this on Vesak Day itself but have watched it like more than 2 weeks ago.I liked this movie as I have always been a fan of powered suits, even though I was never impressed by rich guy superheros like Batman, Ironman or even aliens like Superman. Personally speaking, my opinion ...
These were taken in the office. From the lift generator onwards, the pictures are taken when I was given a rare access to the roof top of my office tower.
I am quite surprised that the lift generators are really not very big, and they can actually hau...
The World This Week
- that Donald Rumsfool warned North Korea may pose a threat as a weapons seller to terrorists and that America would consider taking the nuclear warheads off intercontinental ballistic missiles [ICBMs] so they could be used again...
二零零七年六月一日、二日: 上万名厦门市民自发上街 『散步』，要求停建 PX 专案。迫于民间压力，十二月底，厦门政府最终宣布将 PX 项目迁址到远离人口密集区的漳州。二零零八年一月十二日: 上海市民也走上街头，以 『散步』、 『购物』 方式游行，反对磁浮列车的扩建。游行队伍最多时达六、七千人。一日后，上海市委书记俞正声提到 『公共交通应考虑公益性』 对上海市民作出回应。中国 …
Is the notice [top left corner] even necessary?
First of all, the pole already ensure that no trolley in deployed mode can get into the lift.
Even the building management allows people to hand carry the trolley in folded mode but in this case, doe...
I read with great amusement DK’s post on ‘HDB RAP VIDEO PRODUCTION’.Just why the fxxk are they spending this money when they claim they have been making a loss providing housing for Singaporeans? Would a stupid rap like this makes our stay in our pigeon holes which takes us a decade and a half (or ...
The World This Week
- that the Pentagon pledged to respect the rights of ‘war on terror’ suspects, as the U.S. Senate began looking into new ways to prosecute detainees at its Guantanamo Bay detention center. In a memo, Deputy Secretary ...
An earthquake of scale 7.8 hit Wenchuan prefecture (汶川县) in China’s Sichuan province (四川省) at 14:28 today. According to the news services in China, the tremors are felt as far as Sha …
If you are getting the feeling that the trains are getting more packed, it’s not an issue of personal perception, it’s real! Just take a look at the chart below.All you need to do is take a look at the figure ‘Growth in car kilometers operated (%)’ figure, and you will noticed that it has ...
Personal views on some movies I watched on the big screen or the desktop recently.
Got this off Chester’s when looking through my RSS feeds.There was a fracas recently about ping.sg having a virus and ping’s owner insistent statement that “You cannot get a vi …
Now now now… what do we have here?Doesn’t this look familiar?Yes! A DK’s Evil Twin emoticon on MSN Live Messenger!!!
Caught on bus 197 on my way to Parkway Parade at the bus stop after Bugis. Look at how these two jokers were sitting sideways so that they can get to view what’s on TV Mobile while obstructing the neighbouring seats. While some argue this is ...
The wonderful PTC has once again done its usual rubber stamping to approve the fare hike by ComfortDelgro, ostensibly to ‘assist’ cabbies in defraying the increase in cost they are bearing as a result of the rise in diesel prices… by passing the cost to us. According to the People’s Daily Straits Stooge Times, that ...
We were on the topic of what a successful business venture is on the ping.sg shoutbox, when we came upon the topic about how a business is defined as successful. I went on to talk about an ecology that the business will bring forth, for e.g. the Hong Kong Feng Yun comic series, where you ...
A canto-pop song written and sang by Sam Hui in the 1970s during the Oil Crisis. It used to be funny when I hear this song but these days with everything going up - except for my pay - it is no longer so.Apparently, someone had the same idea in HK and created this Youtube ...
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