Is Singapore's GEP program flawed? Read and comment...
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/87153print.asp
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Monday, November 28, 2005
Name and preceding message deleted to hide identity of poor idiot who probably didn't even read this before s/he sent it to me (yes, gender withheld too)... Sigh...
WARNING, VIRUS ALERT:
If you receive an email message with a subject line of "Badtimes," delete it immediately WITHOUT reading it. This is the most dangerous virus yet developed.
It will rewrite your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any computer disks and cassette tapes that are even close to your computer (up to 20 feet).
It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream melts and your milk curdles. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, reprogram your ATM access code, screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play.
It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend your new phone number. It will program your phone autodial to call only your mother's number. It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous virus to be taken very seriously.
It will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink all your beer. It will hide your car keys when you are late for work and interfere with your car radio so that you hear only 1940's hits and static while stuck in traffic.
It will give you nightmares about circus midgets.
It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card.
It will seduce your grandmother. It does not even matter if she is dead, such is the power of "Badtimes;" it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear.
It will overwrite your word documents, changing all your active verbs to passive tense and incorporating undetectable misspellings which grossly change the interpretation of key sentences.
Badtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up and leave the hairdryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, and refill your skim milk carton with whole.
Badtimes is an evil virus conceived by evil people. It is your duty to help alert the world!
PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!
Thursday, November 24, 2005
This started as a comment but grew too long so I posted it instead
Gods... that is just so...
Honestly, I don't object to people wearing fur items. But *only* if it was due to necessity, and the animal was killed in a humane fashion, instantly, and that it was used in other ways as well (meat, for example, or bones for tools). There are ways to do so respectfully, and this was and still is practiced by many native peoples around the world.
This scenario, on the other hand, is not respectul. There is no respect for the life of the creatures. There is no necessity for the use of their fur. There is complete wastage of life, and horrendous cruelty to still-living creatures. And all in the name of fashion?!
Also, let me clarify my statement that seems to be misunderstood in your message. I know I mentioned before that animals did not feel sadness or misery. But I did not mean that such cruelty can be condoned because animals don't feel sadness or whatever. What I was trying to say at that time is that animals don't linger on the past. They don't feel sadness or misery as we know it, and though they do feel a sense of loss, they recover from it quickly. There is a natural cycle of things.
They do not feel sadness in this situation either (once again, not meant to condone the acts). They don't cry about their fate or anything. They just accept it and try to cope with it (and, as you can see, often fail at it judging by the number of animals in the videos that have gone insane).
I don't know if you totally condemn the use of fur, and our final outlooks might completely disagree with each other. But what I'm trying to say here is that though we have different outlooks on the issue, at least we agree on one thing here: the atrocities committed here must NOT be allowed. It goes against the natural cycle of things with only a trivial benefit (fashion). It is needlessly cruel and utterly wasteful.
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named "Ahmal." The other goes to a family in Spain; they name him "Juan." Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, "They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal."
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Blatant racial and sexual discrimination! How do they expect people to find work in Singapore like this?!
Bloody fuckers
Friday, November 18, 2005
Cool site for M&Ms: clicka click!!
all thanks to a potato...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
GoPets!!
pls let me know if anyone's joining! i want to see how the pet interacts with others! it looks damn cute..
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Sunday, November 06, 2005
Look who joined the Subaru car challenge.
For those who don't know, contestants basically place their hands on the Subaru car for as long as they can. 5 min toilet/water breaks are given every 6 hours or something like that. The last person who hasn't died of heat stroke or an exploded bladder gets the car. The only difference this year is that you have to enter the contest with a partner. So if your partner faints first, you're out! As we speak, it has been 1 day and 5 hours since the contest started...
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
I'm from Slytherin!
Hogwart's Sorting Hat Quiz
made by The Genki Gang
Actually I'm Ravenclaw (took it before), but feeling upset today... :P
Monday, October 31, 2005
I'm from Gryffindor!
Hogwart's Sorting Hat Quiz
made by The Genki Gang
I knew i was gona die young.... sigz. DONATIONS DONATIONS ? Dango ?
Saturday, October 29, 2005
73-year-old Singapore executioner can't retire because nobody wants to take his job.
http://singabloodypore.blogspot.com/2005/10/singapore-executioner-wants-out.html
Friday, October 28, 2005
Yet more exciting local animation news... Singapore Animation Studio Opens - First 3-D Animated Project Already Underway
October 26, 2005
It is personally a thrill for me, that even though I'm not actually working at EggStory Creative Productions, but to know that all this is happening at the offices up above me, it's like living in a village residing near some top secret weapons production base. Anyway bad analogies aside, here's the SCOOP from today's LIFE:
The Straits Time, Life!News (Pg 3)
Friday, October 28, 2005
KUNGFU FIGHTING
NICKSON FONG'S ANIMATED FLICK IS SLATED FOR RELEASE IN 2008. THE TRAILER WILL MAKE ITS DEBUT IN A TRADE SHOW IN THE UNITED STATES NEXT WEEK.
by SHERWIN LOH
Media Reporter
You can call it Animal-trix Reloaded.
Homegrown digital animator Nickson Fong is paying tribute to his Hollywood roots by modelling teaser illustrations for his first animated movie after those from the Matrix sequels.
Prior to returning to Singapore in 2003, he had worked on the digital effects of both blockbuster films with effects company ESC Entertainment.
His movie, tentatively titled Kungfu Gecko, follows a young gecko and his friends who are embroiled in a battle to save their kingdom.
Each teaser artwork reveals the body design of the major characters - the gecko, frog and praying mantis - without showing the character's face.
Teaser posters for the Matrix sequels revealed its new characters in a similar way.
In an exclusive peek for Life! to coincide with the launch of his company Egg Story Creative Production's website today, Fong, 35, also unveiled several posters and texture paintings.
They present a unique airbrush quality for the US$30 million (S$50 million) budgeted flick, which is slated for a summer 2008 release. The comapny is now raising money through several overseas investors.
Work on the eight-minutes trailer is almost complete. It will make its official premiere at next week's American Film Market (AFM) trade show in Santa Monica, California.
"Making the movie has been an amazing journey," says Fong, who flies off to the event next Tuesday, which also happens to be his birthday.
Aside from the animated film, Fong, through Egg Story, has also worked his digital magic on several local TV advertisments, including the one for the Republic of Singapore Navy where he makes a missile gunship transform into a robot.
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Thursday, October 27, 2005
Saturday, October 22, 2005
Thursday, October 20, 2005
these ads uh... just watch
http://www.dkbnews.com/flash/2005/movie01.swf
http://www.dkbnews.com/flash/2005/movie02.swf
Things U Should Nv Ask Ur Female Colleague
(im only a temp admin there.. for 3 mths only... =.=)
was out with the graphic guy & IT guy for lunch... 3 of us in the lift when out of nowhere, the graphic guy suddenly...
*below conversation in chinese
graphic guy: xiao mei! r u a virgin?!
me: huh?!
me: ..............
me: y should i tell u...
graphic guy: liao! tat means u r not! *laughs
IT guy: *laughs
me: ...............
me: i don have to announce to the whole world abt this..
graphic guy: no mah. if u r, u would admit it. u say like tat means u r not.
me: ........................................................ *refrain fr kickin his 'ahem'
who on earth ask girls these kind of questions!? other than cheeky perverts..
Monday, October 17, 2005
Choose your favourite design...
http://www.hardwarezone.com/microsite/define_edmw/
Sunday, October 16, 2005
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Aardman Animation goes up in flames, literally...
They should've protected their props with sprinklers at least...
ppl ppl ppl ppl.... ppl...ppl...peeeeee purrrrr
i would like to propose a gathering this christmas(yes the holiday where they r onli suppose to celebrate when there is winter).
tot eberyone would like to get together to celebrate since a yr has went by.
cheerios to the ORDians...tat includes me..heh
any form of suggestion is most welcome..keep em coming.
i was thinking of rounding the herd up at some rundown factory filled with smell of
POL n grease n we can start a camp fire or something with animal fats n old geezerz' pee pee..but then due to the law set to protect animal rights n some other laws tat i cannot be bothered to find out...
HOW ABOUT.
1)gathering @ one of our places to cook up dinner...mine is out...my mum will kill me if i plan to take over her kitchen.
2)dine somewhere fine n booze the whole night away.
3)dun think u guys club but tats another thing i had in mind...
Second thing...
think all of u should noe tat dav,jem n i are gonna run an online durian stall called
1 D3...hope tat u guys can help us out contact wise...3 of us r currently working hard to research on the bestest version of durians tat we can...nt to mention the amt of damages a necro or mesmer watever can cause.ahemz...aniwaes, damn i'm not good at blogging..
adios cowboys n gals.
Friday, October 14, 2005
Flash animation freelance project! Do a short animation abt 2 min with estimated 3 scenes for a friend's wedding couple, deadline in Dec. Token sum of $200 as payment. Pls reply asap if interested! My frioend actually asked me to do but u know my flash how lousy lah... want zai animation to show during the dinner one ok! Pls say yes!
