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圣诞节前夕我和朋友在狮城大厦的电影院里看了 《投名状》。这部电影改篇编自张彻的 《刺马》。时代背景是讲述晚清太平天国作乱年间，败将庞青云 (李连杰饰) 死里逃生后，和山贼头子赵二虎 (刘德华饰) 和姜午阳 (金城武饰) 结为异姓兄弟后投靠清廷，成为清军中号称 《山字营》 的部队的故事。故事描述庞如何从落魄到飞黄腾达，也穿插了庞与赵的妻子莲生 (徐静蕾饰) 的奸情。也应如此， …
最近有一人在某购物中心看到了唱圣歌的教友后，在部落格上展开了谩骂。文中大概是说基督教 (和所有的一神宗教) 都是社会的毒瘤，希望群众不会被他们 ‘毒害′。随后当然会有不愤的教友口诛笔伐。其中，我提到了历史上以上帝之名犯的罪恶 - 如宗教迫害 - 虽然层出不穷，但是是否就应此否定基督教 (和其他宗教) 对提升人类社会也有一定的贡献？我虽然没说，但是我脑 …
I nominate the following as the Picture of the Year 2007.This happened in Taiwan and if I remembered correctly, they subsequently shot the crocodile to death, so the arm could be retrieved. (Too bad it wasn’t Chen Shui-bian’s)The arm was then rushed to the hospital and re-attached back to its owner. It was a ‘happy ...
I saw this comment on SimplyJean’s blog post.Chin | December 20th, 2007 at 4:22 amI work in a school where a high enough percentage of pupils who received the Financial Assistance Scheme have one of their parents who is a taxi driver. If I am one such driver, I would wait 7 minutes for the ...
Caught National Treasure: Book of Secrets at Bugis with Joyce (pinklittlefigure) after dinner at Sinma live Seafood at Geylang Lor 3.An exciting, action packed movie in which Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicholas Cage) looks to discover the truth behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and clear his family name, by uncovering the mystery within the 18 ...
One of the waitress in Glamor spilled 1/4 of the balance of our bottle of Wokka Saki and as a ‘punishment’ we got her to treat us to a steamboat dinner at 天下第一涮 in Geylang. (Wo …
Taxi drivers complain they have been hurting for the past 2 days... 'well done' everybody! Keep it up until Comfort Delgro and the public transport operators also whine.
My analysis on why Hady's victory at Asian Idoh is a foregone conclusion all along.
This must be the single hottest topic for the past 24hrs as it makes up 6 out of 10 of the top 10 posts on ping.sg. In fact, I think it has make a record on ping.sg itself as one post by h …
According to the Stooge Times: $ingapore'$ mini$ter$ and top civil servants $erpent$ will start the New Year with a pay increase, ranging from 4% to 21%. This is the second phase of an increase that was decided on in April. (Details at a glance, refer to the chart above.)Also in the same article: For instance, mini$ter$ at the entry grade of MR4 will get an average of 9 …
1937年 7月 7日，七七卢沟桥事件后，日本侵略军占领了北平 (现 北京) 和天津。日本皇军总部扬言 三个月内灭亡中国。面临日军沿平汉铁路南下夺取汉口，中国长江下游一切政治与经济命脉落入日军手中，并失去西撤建立大后方的基地的危机，蒋介石决定在上海开辟第二个战场。1937年 8月 13日开始，展开了淞沪会战。这场战役的主要是将日军主力由华北引到上海，诱迫日本把原本由北向南的 …
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 ...
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 would be a 10% to 49% (!!) more in overall fares.Well, it …
First, the message from our dear friend, Farinelli…Dearly beloved Pingsters!Hope you’re enjoying yourselves right now. Although it was tedious to do, I enjoyed Photoshopping the Magic cards you’re about to see, and I hope you will like it as well.I do apologise for the small resolution. I needed the basic frame of the cards so ...
First, the message from our dear friend, Farinelli...Dearly beloved Pingsters!Hope you're enjoying yourselves right now. Although it was tedious to do, I enjoyed Photoshopping the Magic cards you're about to see, and I hope you will like it as well.I do apologise for the small resolution. I needed the basic frame of the cards so I just pulled it off the official website and …
Our useless gover-min which believes that everything can be solved by raising the costs and passing it to the people who use the service is at it again. This time round, it is raising taxi fares. (Read about it here.)There will be an adjustment of the flag down rate by 30cts - i.e. normal cabs ...
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