Life Sucks

Many nations have tried and failed to expand from their shores to conquer the rest of the world. Genghis Khan reached only China, the European fared better - dominating East Asia through some sort of alliance. Japan of course was a bit more ambitious and tried to do it by might. When they failed to win the world through their military, they set about doing it with their money. Central to all this? China. Yes in every single major world war that was fought or major conquest, China was inevitably the victim no 1. Japan occupied China in World War 2 and the 8 nations somehow indirectly controlled China during the tail end of the Ching dynasty. So was it any surprised that China retreated from the world and closed itself off? Was it to hide so that no other nations can come after them again? Well, it seems to me like what they did was to do a tactical retreat and regroup and look at them now - they have turned the table on the whole world and conquered it without firing a single bullet!...

Tanjong Katong Road after Dunman Road in the direction of East Coast Road was supposed to receive a new lease of life and become just as popular as its more illustrious cousins East Coast Road and Joo Chiat Road but somehow along the way, it ended up a bit lost I think. Like the other 2 streets, it comprises mainly food outlet but there are many more coffeeshops and food courts and a sprinkling of dedicated food outlets including a Donut Empire, Punggol Nasi Lemak, 3 pizza outlets (Pizza Hut, Dominoes & Canadian). In the day, the place is bustling with students from the schools nearby but at night, it is a tad quiet with hardly any pedestrians. I like this English looking condominium. It always reminds me of those houses in Hugh Grant's movies like Notting Hill; Love Actually and Bridget Jones. There is this supermarket which boast of premium foodstuff but comes with a weird name. Do they think beggar can afford to buy the stuff there? We wanted to have dinner...

It is not my habit to forward those junk email which friends send everyday but once in a while I get a nice one and so I will share it here: Be confounded and confused by the English Language. Something to ponder for the day......... Just think about it......very interesting. THE BEAUTY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE UNDONE We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice, Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice. If the plural of man is always called men, Then shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen? If I speak of my foot and show you my feet, And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth? Then one may be that, and three would be those, Yet hat in the plural would ...

Toh Puay San & Stanley Yeo, a DPP and a University Don has written a paper arguing their case for decriminalizing Physician Assisted Suicide(PAS). Now that is something new especially coming from people who are supposedly on the side of the gahmen (although they were writing in their own capacity). Singapore already has the Advance Medical Directive (AMD) so do we need the PAS? And then there is Euthanasia. Of course in Singapore and in most part of the world, euthanasia is illegal but what if we extend the debate beyond PAS to euthanasia? So what is the difference between these 3? In YourSingapore, AMD is where a person " sign a legal document in advance to inform the doctor treating (in the event said person become terminally ill and unconscious) that he/she do not want any extraordinary life-sustaining treatment to be used to prolong the life ." The tricky part here is the word 'extraordinary'. Just who decide what is extraordinary? And isn't the doc...

2010: A father asked his 5 year old daughter: "Where does egg comes from?" Daughter: Chicken, of course. Daddy: Actually it's from the mother hen Fast forward 2030: A father asked his 5 year old daughter: "Where does egg comes from?" Daughter: Supermarket, of course. Daddy: Actually it's from a chicken. The mother hen lays the egg. Daughter: What is a chicken????

No if you are expecting a tirade against the foreigners in Singapore, this is the wrong place for it. Although it is true that sometime I really free like a tourist in my own countries what with the babels in the trains and the different color on the streets, I recognised that these people have a very important role to play in our society as they keep the wheel moving. Without them, where will we find the cleaners, the construction workers, the cooks or even the sales staff? Should we really be scare of these foreigners? Remember our forefathers were once like them too. However, if we don't want to be beaten on home turf by them, we need to bear in mind this warning by Adam Khoo otherwise we better be afraid, be very afraid or else.......

M's boss gave this box of beautiful cupcakes. Cupcakes, most of the time, are nice to look at but really not that great to eat cause of the icing sugars on top but these lot are home make and not bad at all.