Selections from mr brown's SNE 100
More gleanings from the wise words of
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Singapore National Education series #100.
I have also learned lately:
- That with Xbox Live, Microsoft's new online gaming service, you can select a gamertag or userID of your choice. Tempting choices include:
-leekuanyew (so your friends can boast that they just whooped Lee Kuan Yew's ass in Return to Castle Wolfenstein)
-wa_si_chow_angmoh (so that when play with Westerners online, they will be dissing themselves every time they call your name)
-hokkienexpletive_wa_eh_lao_bu (so that whoever calls your name online will be saying something rude about their mother)
-a_chao_ah_gua (so that when people lose to you, you have to say you have been beaten by a_chow_ah_gua)
- That military commanders need their Mercs and Audis to communicate their commanding presence to their troops.
If you need an easily identifable car to inform the troops their commander has arrived on site, wouldn't it be cheaper to paint a Land Rover pink and decorate it with Christmas lights? And if that is not enough, put bunny ears on it.
"The position of Mindef... was that there were practical reasons for allotting high-end models to some officers... Military commanders, it said, need the cars to rush back to camp or anywhere else in an emergency, and to make their presence felt among their men.
It said: 'An easily identifiable car helps to communicate the commander's presence. The presence of the car informs the troops that their commander is now with them even as they carry out their training and operational duties.'" -ST 11 May 2004.
- That not long after Singapore's Great Western Blackout, in a bid to keep up with us, Kuala Lumpur had a power blackout too, on the 19th of April. Anything Singapore can do, like have a power failure, Malaysia also boleh.
While Singapore's blackout happened in the dead of night in an ulu part of the island, KL had theirs during the morning rush hour, right smack in the city centre.
Singapore will have to work harder if they want to beat KL at having disasters. Damn, they're good.
- That government-linked building firm Synergy Construction has been wound up and is under investigation by CAD for "severe accounting irregularities". Synergy's majority shareholder is Jurong International, whose parent company is JTC Corporation.
Creditors are now angry because they extended generous credit terms to Synergy on the basis of the prestigious and reliable name of JTC. Synergy owes hundreds of creditors more than $40 million.
Hello, you think what? Government-linked company cannot pok-kai one ah?
You know the shit has hit the bulldozing machine when even Government-Linked construction companies are going under.
- That according to Reuters, Singapore's PM is known as Goh Chok. All hail our Prime Minister, PM Tong.
Stupid Angmohs. Cannot even get Asian names right.
"Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) looks on as his Singapore counterpart Goh Chok slips on the doorstep at Downing Street in London, May 11, 2004. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty"
- That North Korea has condemned the United States on human rights.
"More countries joined the international community during the last few days in condemning the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers and urging the punishment of the perpetrators.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday described the United States as "the world's worst human rights violator and a graveyard of human rights for its violation of international law and the Islamic ethics and culture."
It said the United States should settle all its human rights issues before acting as the "world judge of human rights."
You tell them, Great Leader Kim Jong Il (or better known as Lil' Kim).
- That a nursing mom was asked to leave the Esplanade premises because what she was doing, breast-feeding her kid, was deemed offensive to other members of the public.
I think the real reason was that the Esplanade, like our cinemas, do not allow patrons to bring in outside food.
Here's to 100 more SNEs!
