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Asian Idol? And the point is?
Bitched on: Monday, December 17, 2007 Time: 12/17/2007 03:18:00 PM
Reading the comments on Youtube about Hady winning Asian Idol is extremely disheartening.
I mean isn't the show all about promoting and celebrating Asian talents? Now it has become nothing butmean and pettyname calling.
Is it all necessary? Personally attacking Hady and his fans? Bringing politics and nationalism into the picture? Attacking Singaporeans as a whole? Using derogatory and other hate terms to put your points across...
Shame on you.
And isn't the equally immature exchange from the pro-Hady camp just as wrong? Lashing out against those in the opposing camp with snobbish retaliation. Stooping to their low and trading insults are never justifiable. Two wrongs do not make a right.
Shame on you.
Has Asian Idol bring more harm than good? Should we do away with it altogether? I agree with Twinnie. We should stop all these World Idol or Asian Idol competitions. They would just be bringing more animosity instead of bringing the countries closer. Shame on us for allowing racial lines, national boundaries and hatred to overshadow the competition.
Now, aside from the rampant political strife and natural disasters across Asia, we have this to add to our list of problems...
Bitched on: Saturday, September 15, 2007 Time: 9/15/2007 12:48:00 AM
This is getting too much!
First it was the image of the Monkey God in one tree. Then there were two. And then one more in another tree. Then there was the face of the Goddess of Mercy on another. And now there is the elephant face of Ganesh, a Hindu deity. Wah laooo.... This is causing stupid unnecessary pile-ups here all the time...
Inconsiderate stupid drivers stopping by the side of the road. Stupid gung-ho pedestrian walking on the road. Stupid stupid people... Jurong West is overwhelmed with all these stupid inconsiderate people.
Bitched on: Sunday, June 03, 2007 Time: 6/03/2007 09:51:00 PM
Have you had one of those like seriously impatient people pushing you from behind to get past you for just a brief moment?
The ones who invade your personal space. Elbowing you in your back. Or use some kind of props like an umbrella to push or jab the back of your legs.
And at the very same moment (ironically) scream, "Excuse me!!"
What's wrong with these people? So rude, and really impatient.
Sigh... Its frustrating to get my anger in check. I won't hesitate to turn around and give the stabber a piece of my mind; young or old, they get the 'glare' from me. Then, they would sheepishly (and now more timidly) excuse themselves again.
How about those who replace the words "Excuse me" with "Hello". Add that with a grunt and you have, "Eh hello?" That totally pisses me off. So rude.
And what is up with Singaporeans and the back of the bus or the centre of the train? Are there like demons there? Singaporeans are so scared to move their fat arses there...
Grrr... I need to calm my nerves. Obviously, I had had a bad day.
I realised that to call these youths 'retarded' would be an insult to those mentally retarded.
Morons? Idiots? Punks? Barbarians? Savages?
Why in the world are doing this? Its no laughing matter I can tell you that. Its life or death for God's sake. They savagely attack these people (usually many against one; or the victims are outnumbered). And the victims usually end up dead or have their face smashed in and every bones in their body made into powder.
And they claim its for honour and glory? What the flying f*ck?
Where is the honour in mass-beating a lone victim? And to film these savage and ruthless deeds to upload on video hosting websites for 'bragging rights'?
Hello? Haven't they heard of something called 'evidence'? How stupid is that?
What other reasons they give to do this? Pride? Herded mentality? Defend territory? Impress girls? Prove self worth?
Who the hell do they think they are? Spartans? (I admit that after watching 300, I kinda felt a little barbaric myself; that movie is such a 'guy' movie, simply awesome. And I wanted to kick me some Persian arse.)
Haven't they thought of the consequences if the guy becomes a vegetable or worst, die? They are looking at life imprisonment and caning and stuff. What, did they think that since there are so many of them, the life imprisonment term would be evenly shared amongst all of them?
Serving the jail term aside, who are they to savagely take away someone's life? Who's going to answer to the deceased parents? His loved ones and friends?
My sister and her hubby (then boyfriend) happened to see a gang of twenty or so skinheads beating a chub like a rag doll on the Padang late one night. To cut the long story short, my sister tried to call the police, the gang caught up with them, and beat up my brother-in-law (and yeah, he has bragging rights for that... hahaha).
So if anyone happens to see a pair of broken glasses on the Padang, please lemme know, cos my bro-in-law is looking for it.
Bitched on: Monday, April 30, 2007 Time: 4/30/2007 12:44:00 AM
Still on the topic of violent Singaporean youths, I stumbled onto this video while searching Youtube.com for more 'singapore-youths-fights'.
Remember the 'Bus Uncle' from Hong Kong? The one who cussed and swore at another passenger on the bus he was upset with? And you were secretly hoping that the abused guy would stop being such a wimp and get up to kick the moron where the sun don't shine...
What if that did happen? Is it justifiable? Well, maybe this 'uncle' deserves it too?
Blogger's Note: Video contains mild violence (duh) and vulgarities (double duh). Viewer's discretion is advised.
I don't condone violence. Neither do I condone any form of rudeness (in this case, aggression) against someone *much much* older (and more retarded).
Bitched on: Sunday, April 29, 2007 Time: 4/29/2007 11:12:00 PM
Read the NewPaper for the first time in weeks today. Its really trashy-over-sensationalized-tabloid crap. But a good read nonetheless. Haha...
The headlines caught my eyes: Singaporean youths and 'happy slappings' caught on video cam and then posted on Youtube.com (or something like that). What the fuc*ing hell? So I'm going to dedicate the next few blog entries to the future and pride of Singapore, our retarded youths.
Here's one of the videos which they mentioned in the report. It was hard to find and the original was removed (I think), so here:
Bitched on: Sunday, April 22, 2007 Time: 4/22/2007 08:31:00 PM
Miss Singapore Universe.
Yucks.
So not worth watching.
Update:
Jessica Tan won. No surprises there.
But I think the real winner should have been Christabel Campbell. In the question and answer round when asked which sport will Singapore win its first Olympic gold medal in, she answered,
"It depends if we're looking at local or foreign talent. We will win in whichever sport the Sports Association decides to import foreign talent for. Just look at table tennis.
But for local, I'd say sailing because at the Doha games, we did get (quite a few) gold medals, so that's our best bet."
Ditto. Give the girl a tiger.
Now, a girl who speaks her mind. That's hot.
Sigh... Why are my favourites always getting third place?
See here for more of the pictures from the Miss Singapore Universe pageant.
Bitched on: Saturday, April 14, 2007 Time: 4/14/2007 02:20:00 AM
That means 'the rice has turned to porridge' in Malay. What it means exactly is simply 'what is done, is done'. In other words, irreversible (not to be misread as Irreplaceable... to the left, to the left... ermm... digressed a bit there).
And I find it apt that the saying is in Malay too. Cause recently my dear twinnie received some flaks (again...) when she blogged about the poor parental guidance of Malay parents. And that will eventually result in juvenile delinquents and the cycle goes on. Then we try to 'handle' these delinquents and that would be too late. Bla bla bla...
Its not like its the first time we hear someone addressing that issue. Its undeniable no? Lousy parents bring up rotten children. As simple as that. And it would be hard to change these 'damaged goods'.
Her encounter with a wimpish Malay mother who was afraid to lay a finger on her misbehaving kid made her to make that statement.
But to generalise all Malays as bad parents? Hmmm... Now that's a sensitive and subjective issue. Its the few bad apples that will give the whole bunch a bad name. Plus, I don't see this issue as being unique to just the Malays. Singapore has truckloads of bad parents, across racial boundaries (no comments for other countries though).
But firstly, allow me to ask this question, 'what defines bad parenting?' Is it the lack of supervision of the kids in public places? Not disciplining their kids in public? Or is it more than that? Should we define with what's on the surface? With what we see? Or with what we ought to know?
Bad parents abuse their children, that we know. But that doesn't mean all the beating is bad and 'no beating' is good. Come on people, we need to smack them young ones' bottoms once in a while (non-sexually of course... you pervs).
So bad parents can be defined as parents who allow their kids to go astray, without disciplining their kids (doesn't necessary have to be publicly all the time). And these kids misbehave, obviously, with or without the parents presence.
A few weeks back I was aghast at the behaviour of two Malay youths (barely older than primary 1 schoolers). I was on the way to school, on the bus, and the bus was just about to turn around a bend, when out of the corner, these two boys prepared to dash across the road. The bus driver horned as a warning that made the boys stop in their tracks.
But instead of showing gratitude or even remorse, they showed animosity. With their fingers.
Yes, barely a metre tall (fine, I'm exaggerating) but waving their middle fingers high and proud, with a stream of vulgarities to boot. I was very appalled and downright disgusted.
If my son (in the future, I don't have one now; nor do I intend to have one now) were to flash his finger, I would cut it off with a chopper right there and then. And wash the filthy mouth of his with chillies and then a bar of soup.
In all seriousness, I would not hesitate to punish him right there and then: a spank or a slap. I will not have a problem disciplining my kids in public. In the first place, my kids will be so well behaved, they won't need public disciplining (*hmph*).
Spare the rod and spoil the child? No way.
If I need to, I would bring a cane every time we go out.
Just yesterday, I took a bus with the two siblings from hell (a Chinese boy and his younger sister). Oh my God. They were the epitome of rotten kids. Spoilt. Loud. And stubborn. It was a hellish bus ride with them. They sat on the same long rear seat with me.
They were pushing and shoving each other. Giggling loudly, singing loudly and talking loudly. LOUDLY. Even when I had the music in my Ipod turned to the max, they were still LOUD. Freaking loud. Especially the girl. She shouted for her father who was at the front part of the bus. And when I mean 'shout', I really mean 'shout'. Everyone (and I mean 'everyone') turned around to look at the little princess. The father must have been so proud of his little darling.
They kept jumping about on the seat on one end and I on the other end, had to endure the 'tremors' from the terror kids. And the little brats had their legs straightened against the back of the seats in front of them, which they kept kicking and shaking whenever they got overexcited.
The lady seated in front (whom I thought was the mother) kept turning around to scold the little brats. She finally decided to whack the legs of one of the brats in the end to prove her point. But, I realised that she wasn't the mother; when she alighted with me at my stop and left her 'kids' on the bus.
Now, a stranger discplining your kids? That's a bit too much, duncha think?
Another encounter with misbehaving kids also happened to me earlier that day. This time it involved a gang of misfits (no older than primary 3 schoolers). I was in the toilet cubicle doing my 'thang' when the cast of Little Rascals came in.
They began to repeatedly bang the door of the cublicle I was occupying. All the while laughing and threatening to break the door down. Why? Don't ask me. Stupid morons. I was this close to blowing up and (like what chimps would do when threatened, and this is a fact) throw some of my crap over the door.
Now that would have disciplined those rascals. These kids just need to learn their lessons the hard way.
Bitched on: Friday, February 16, 2007 Time: 2/16/2007 12:43:00 AM
Am I missing something or is this voice recording supposed to be funny?
My friends were pissing their pants off laughing (not literally, otherwise the studio would have stunk) but really, is it funny? Or just plain wrong?
The pranksters (assholes, I think; original, but assholes nevertheless) have clearly crossed the line; pissing off the waiter of some Indian Muslim restaurant.
I admit, I laughed a bit... a lot actually...and I'm ashamed... But I still don't understand what's so extremely funny about it?
Is it the guy's thick accent? Is it the persistent 'pork' joke? Or is it because of how the guy blew his top off?
Despite whatever reason, I just think its very racist, insensitive and extremely immature. What pleasures did they (the pranksters, and the people watching) get from this? These imbeciles recorded it, uploaded it onto Youtube; surely they want to be heard, and popularised.
Does this count as racism? Or harassment?
So I'm still wondering if this intolerable act is supposed to be funny. We're in Singapore, for God's sake...
In China, for example, the media (newspapers, tv, wadeva) is not showing any images of pigs (despite the coming lunar new year; 'year of the pig') so as not to offend the Muslim minority of the country. But we're not doing that in Singapore, are we?
In fact, we are laughing at that fact; making that sensitive issue a joke. Stop taking our religious harmony for granted, I say.
PS: Wishing Happy 'Pork' New Year to all my Chinese friends.
Bitched on: Friday, February 02, 2007 Time: 2/02/2007 10:28:00 PM
I was queueing up at the cashier when it was my turn to pay. I fumbled with my wallet to take out some notes when all my coins spilled out onto the floor of the aisle.
The middle-aged man behind me just stared at me, unbothered.
What? Just because I'm young doesn't mean I have 8 hands to pick up the coins right?
Would it have killed him to help or even attempt to bend over and pick up the coins? To make matters worst he squeezed past me to pay for his stuff. The nerves.
I stood up, feeling extremely pissed. So I physically blocked his way as I paid the cashier, unbothered too as he tried again to squeezed past me.
What? Now I can't use my 8 hands to block your way? You ass-wipe...
Bitched on: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 Time: 11/21/2006 12:42:00 AM
She has this huge mole on her face too!
I just can't get enough of all this elitist bull shit. Found another blog of a self proclaimed elitist (he said so himself).
"I am elitist. I believe those in the elite circles (no inverted commas) are better than those outside, not because they are naturally smarter, but generally because those who are there made it there on something, and they do deserve some recognition, more so than the general populace. So don't complain that the elite schools get more money etc. They actually deserve it."
This coming from a 17 or 16-years-old Raffles JC student.
"I get really annoyed when people go "Wah you from RJ ah. Must be damn smart lor" etc. When in actual fact we're really no different from the rest of you people. Except maybe for the fact that we do use our brains for something more useful. It's the mentality however, that people have about us, which we eventually accept for ourselves. So don't blame us for being elitist."
God.
He sounds like he has 'seen the world', doesn't he (for a 16-year-old)?
What a shame.
And he would be one those MPs or some CEOs or even your boss one day (touch wood).
Bitched on: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 Time: 11/15/2006 05:51:00 PM
Crap, its Wednesday again. I hate Wednesdays. Not because it doesn't have good TV shows ('cept Project Runway maybe); but because it has the worst show ever in the history of Channel 5 - "On the Finer Side".
The show really irks me like crazy. I mean, who wants to watch people (freaking rich people) splurge money like water? Bloody elitists, swimming in their parents' money; speaking in faux accents, working in their family company as undeserving CEOs or living in homes bigger than orphanages.
Might as well have an episode dedicated to how this people wipe their arses with thousand dollar bills in the loo. Argh!!!!
I'm not jealous or anything (God, its obvious I am), I just don't need to be reminded that I'm not as... 'privileged'! I want to swim in a pool of money (not figuratively but literally like Mr Scrouge McDuck) and I want to wipe my arse with money too!
Stupid Dick Lee. Please lah, if he wasn't born into that family, would he be enjoying his life like that? And Denise dear, you should go for 'mouth' reduction (if there is such a thing). Dumb ass show. They should really can it. Or better yet, show it after a TV show like My Life Story, Extraordinary People or some other shows showing underprivileged people in need of some charity help or people who work their arse off to get where they are now.
Now that would be a slap to all the rich folks' over-Botoxed faces.
Anyway, that's off my chest; here's what I really wanted to blog about. That case about that elitist brat 'berating' a middle class working Singaporean. Here's the summary:
"A teenage blogger has found herself in the soup after comments she made in her online journal were criticised by many Internet users for being insensitive and elitist.
Raffles Junior College student Wee Shu Min, a daughter of MP Wee Siew Kim, sparked a heated debate on the Internet when she derided another blogger, Mr Derek Wee, for his views on the anxieties of Singapore workers.
Miss Wee, a second-year student on RJC's Humanities Scholarship Programme, has since shut down her blog and apologised for her comments, though not directly to Mr Derek Wee.
Mr Wee, 35, a Singaporean who works for a multinational corporation, had written in his blog on Oct 12 that he was concerned about competition from foreign talent and the lack of job opportunities for older workers here.
He urged the Government to understand Singaporeans' plight.
Last Thursday, Miss Wee responded to him on her blog, calling him old and unmotivated and said he was overly reliant on the Government."
Aiyoh, what has Singapore produced? Whiny working-class Singaporeans and on the other scale, elitist scumbags?
So this is what she actually wrote on her (now-closed down) blog:
Thursday, October 19, 2006
mom's friend sent her some blog post by some bleeding stupid 40-year old singaporean called derek wee (WHY do all the idiots have my surname why?!) whining about how singapore is such an insecure place, how old ppl(ie, 40 and above) fear for their jobs, how the pool of foreign "talent" (dismissively chucked between inverted commas) is really a tsunami that will consume us all (no actually he didn't say that, he probably said Fouren Talern Bery Bad.), how the reason why no one wants kids is that they're a liability in this world of fragile ricebowls, how the government really needs to save us from inevitable doom but they aren't because they are stick-shoved-up-ass elites who have no idea how the world works, yadayadayadayada.
i am inclined - too much, perhaps - to dismiss such people as crackpots. stupid crackpots. the sadder class. too often singaporeans - both the neighborhood poor and the red-taloned socialites - kid themselves into believing that our society, like most others, is compartmentalized by breeding. ridiculous. we are a tyranny of the capable and the clever, and the only other class is the complement.
sad derek attracted more than 50 comments praising him for his poignant views, joining him in a chorus of complaints that climax at the accusation of lack of press freedom because his all-too-true views had been rejected by the straits times forum. while i tend to gripe about how we only have one functioning newspaper too, i think the main reason for its lack of publication was that his incensed diatribe was written in pathetic little scraps that passed off as sentences, with poor spelling and no grammar.
derek, derek, derek darling, how can you expect to have an iron ricebowl or a solid future if you cannot spell?
if you're not good enough, life will kick you in the balls. that's just how things go. there's no point in lambasting the government for making our society one that is, i quote, "far too survival of fittest". it's the same everywhere. yes discrimination exists, and it is sad, but most of the time if people would prefer hiring other people over you, it's because they're better. it's so sad when people like old derek lament the kind of world that singapore will be if we make it so uncertain. go be friggin communist, if uncertainty of success offends you so much - you will certainly be poor and miserable. unless you are an arm-twisting commie bully, which, given your whiny middle-class undereducated penchant, i doubt.
then again, it's easy for me to say. my future isn't certain but i guess right now it's a lot brighter than most people's. derek will read this and brand me as an 18-year old elite, one of the sinners who will inherit the country and run his stock to the gutter. go ahead. the world is about winners and losers. it's only sad when people who could be winners are marginalised and oppressed. is dear derek starving? has dear derek been denied an education? has dear derek been forced into child prostitution? has dear derek had his clan massacred by the government?
i should think not. dear derek is one of many wretched, undermotivated, overassuming leeches in our country, and in this world. one of those who would prefer to be unemployed and wax lyrical about how his myriad talents are being abandoned for the foreigner's, instead of earning a decent, stable living as a sales assistant. it's not even about being a road sweeper.
these ****bags don't want anything without "manager" and a name card.
please, get out of my elite uncaring face.
posted at 12:08 PM
And here's her public apology:
i apologise if i have distressed you with my tendency to rant. while i will not dispute some of the points you make in response to what i have written, i would like to bring to your attention the fact that the post in question was never meant to be a cogent response to the specific points raised in derek wee's article. it is, quite obviously, a rant in the heat of the moment. in addition, i don't believe that my blog has the wide readership of derek wee's, or even your own, and my intention was more to vent my own frustrations than public denouncement.
i'd also like to clarify my use of the word "elite". while i understand how misinterpretation may have arose, i intended to use it in irony, as a label that people assume i enjoy, and not one that i take particular pleasure in.
finally, i admit that i was harsher than i should have been, although the the crux of my belief in self-improvement and self-determination has not changed. once again, i apologise if my words have unintentionally offended you - i was under the rather naive impression that nobody reads my blog.
Too little to late for apologies. What's written has been written.
He might be a 'leech to the government', but you my dear, are a leech to your father. All the luxuries you have right now, are not yours. You didn't deserve it. You didn't work your arse off for it. You will inherit it from your dad (and your dad probably inherited it from his dad). Your future will be bright I'm sure, but not because you earned it, you inherited it.
I come from a 'middle class' family. My dad (and I have not one ounce of shame in me) is a blue collared worker. My mum is a housewife. Both of them are wonderful parents who have produced exceptional children (ehem..). My parents are, in your words, 'middle class undereducated' folks. Am I ashamed? Hell no. Its my Dad's humble paycheck that brought my sisters and I through school. You probably won't understand having an overpaid MP father.
As for me; I have worked my way up from a humble neighbourhood school to where I am now, university: Architecture, NUS mind you. I've never had any extra tuition like you privileged rich kids. My parents didn't help me with my studies cause they were not highly educated. I had to depend on myself, not even on my two now-successful sisters. I never had piano lessons or violin lessons or what have you. But I strived in my school's Drama and dance and choir. I learnt Art (drawing, painting) on my own and I am now bloody good at it.
My parents worked hard. And so did I.
I am articulate and confident. I have always been a leader in school and the Army; I am currently a committee member in my architecture society.
My friends think I come from a rich family or live in some landed property. But I don't.
Heck, what they think. Makes me prouder to say I am here not because of my parents' money but because of my own brains and natural talents.
And I am not ashamed to say that I aspire to be rich and successful, an 'elite' (like how you defined it) or a 'yuppie' even. Cause I want to break out of this 'middle class' circle. But yet, I will remember my humble beginnings when I do.
Like you've said, 'the world is about winners and losers'.
When I do make it, I will be the winner and you, my elite brat, will be the loser. Now please, get out of my working class (and soon to be an 'elite') uncaring face.
Latest Update: Some smart dude made this on Youtube with the computer game Sims. Kinda summed up the whole story.
Asian Idol? And the point is?
Bitched on: Monday, December 17, 2007 Time: 12/17/2007 03:18:00 PM
Reading the comments on Youtube about Hady winning Asian Idol is extremely disheartening.
I mean isn't the show all about promoting and celebrating Asian talents? Now it has become nothing butmean and pettyname calling.
Is it all necessary? Personally attacking Hady and his fans? Bringing politics and nationalism into the picture? Attacking Singaporeans as a whole? Using derogatory and other hate terms to put your points across...
Shame on you.
And isn't the equally immature exchange from the pro-Hady camp just as wrong? Lashing out against those in the opposing camp with snobbish retaliation. Stooping to their low and trading insults are never justifiable. Two wrongs do not make a right.
Shame on you.
Has Asian Idol bring more harm than good? Should we do away with it altogether? I agree with Twinnie. We should stop all these World Idol or Asian Idol competitions. They would just be bringing more animosity instead of bringing the countries closer. Shame on us for allowing racial lines, national boundaries and hatred to overshadow the competition.
Now, aside from the rampant political strife and natural disasters across Asia, we have this to add to our list of problems...
Bitched on: Saturday, September 15, 2007 Time: 9/15/2007 12:48:00 AM
This is getting too much!
First it was the image of the Monkey God in one tree. Then there were two. And then one more in another tree. Then there was the face of the Goddess of Mercy on another. And now there is the elephant face of Ganesh, a Hindu deity. Wah laooo.... This is causing stupid unnecessary pile-ups here all the time...
Inconsiderate stupid drivers stopping by the side of the road. Stupid gung-ho pedestrian walking on the road. Stupid stupid people... Jurong West is overwhelmed with all these stupid inconsiderate people.
Bitched on: Sunday, June 03, 2007 Time: 6/03/2007 09:51:00 PM
Have you had one of those like seriously impatient people pushing you from behind to get past you for just a brief moment?
The ones who invade your personal space. Elbowing you in your back. Or use some kind of props like an umbrella to push or jab the back of your legs.
And at the very same moment (ironically) scream, "Excuse me!!"
What's wrong with these people? So rude, and really impatient.
Sigh... Its frustrating to get my anger in check. I won't hesitate to turn around and give the stabber a piece of my mind; young or old, they get the 'glare' from me. Then, they would sheepishly (and now more timidly) excuse themselves again.
How about those who replace the words "Excuse me" with "Hello". Add that with a grunt and you have, "Eh hello?" That totally pisses me off. So rude.
And what is up with Singaporeans and the back of the bus or the centre of the train? Are there like demons there? Singaporeans are so scared to move their fat arses there...
Grrr... I need to calm my nerves. Obviously, I had had a bad day.
I realised that to call these youths 'retarded' would be an insult to those mentally retarded.
Morons? Idiots? Punks? Barbarians? Savages?
Why in the world are doing this? Its no laughing matter I can tell you that. Its life or death for God's sake. They savagely attack these people (usually many against one; or the victims are outnumbered). And the victims usually end up dead or have their face smashed in and every bones in their body made into powder.
And they claim its for honour and glory? What the flying f*ck?
Where is the honour in mass-beating a lone victim? And to film these savage and ruthless deeds to upload on video hosting websites for 'bragging rights'?
Hello? Haven't they heard of something called 'evidence'? How stupid is that?
What other reasons they give to do this? Pride? Herded mentality? Defend territory? Impress girls? Prove self worth?
Who the hell do they think they are? Spartans? (I admit that after watching 300, I kinda felt a little barbaric myself; that movie is such a 'guy' movie, simply awesome. And I wanted to kick me some Persian arse.)
Haven't they thought of the consequences if the guy becomes a vegetable or worst, die? They are looking at life imprisonment and caning and stuff. What, did they think that since there are so many of them, the life imprisonment term would be evenly shared amongst all of them?
Serving the jail term aside, who are they to savagely take away someone's life? Who's going to answer to the deceased parents? His loved ones and friends?
My sister and her hubby (then boyfriend) happened to see a gang of twenty or so skinheads beating a chub like a rag doll on the Padang late one night. To cut the long story short, my sister tried to call the police, the gang caught up with them, and beat up my brother-in-law (and yeah, he has bragging rights for that... hahaha).
So if anyone happens to see a pair of broken glasses on the Padang, please lemme know, cos my bro-in-law is looking for it.
Bitched on: Monday, April 30, 2007 Time: 4/30/2007 12:44:00 AM
Still on the topic of violent Singaporean youths, I stumbled onto this video while searching Youtube.com for more 'singapore-youths-fights'.
Remember the 'Bus Uncle' from Hong Kong? The one who cussed and swore at another passenger on the bus he was upset with? And you were secretly hoping that the abused guy would stop being such a wimp and get up to kick the moron where the sun don't shine...
What if that did happen? Is it justifiable? Well, maybe this 'uncle' deserves it too?
Blogger's Note: Video contains mild violence (duh) and vulgarities (double duh). Viewer's discretion is advised.
I don't condone violence. Neither do I condone any form of rudeness (in this case, aggression) against someone *much much* older (and more retarded).
Bitched on: Sunday, April 29, 2007 Time: 4/29/2007 11:12:00 PM
Read the NewPaper for the first time in weeks today. Its really trashy-over-sensationalized-tabloid crap. But a good read nonetheless. Haha...
The headlines caught my eyes: Singaporean youths and 'happy slappings' caught on video cam and then posted on Youtube.com (or something like that). What the fuc*ing hell? So I'm going to dedicate the next few blog entries to the future and pride of Singapore, our retarded youths.
Here's one of the videos which they mentioned in the report. It was hard to find and the original was removed (I think), so here:
Bitched on: Sunday, April 22, 2007 Time: 4/22/2007 08:31:00 PM
Miss Singapore Universe.
Yucks.
So not worth watching.
Update:
Jessica Tan won. No surprises there.
But I think the real winner should have been Christabel Campbell. In the question and answer round when asked which sport will Singapore win its first Olympic gold medal in, she answered,
"It depends if we're looking at local or foreign talent. We will win in whichever sport the Sports Association decides to import foreign talent for. Just look at table tennis.
But for local, I'd say sailing because at the Doha games, we did get (quite a few) gold medals, so that's our best bet."
Ditto. Give the girl a tiger.
Now, a girl who speaks her mind. That's hot.
Sigh... Why are my favourites always getting third place?
See here for more of the pictures from the Miss Singapore Universe pageant.
Bitched on: Saturday, April 14, 2007 Time: 4/14/2007 02:20:00 AM
That means 'the rice has turned to porridge' in Malay. What it means exactly is simply 'what is done, is done'. In other words, irreversible (not to be misread as Irreplaceable... to the left, to the left... ermm... digressed a bit there).
And I find it apt that the saying is in Malay too. Cause recently my dear twinnie received some flaks (again...) when she blogged about the poor parental guidance of Malay parents. And that will eventually result in juvenile delinquents and the cycle goes on. Then we try to 'handle' these delinquents and that would be too late. Bla bla bla...
Its not like its the first time we hear someone addressing that issue. Its undeniable no? Lousy parents bring up rotten children. As simple as that. And it would be hard to change these 'damaged goods'.
Her encounter with a wimpish Malay mother who was afraid to lay a finger on her misbehaving kid made her to make that statement.
But to generalise all Malays as bad parents? Hmmm... Now that's a sensitive and subjective issue. Its the few bad apples that will give the whole bunch a bad name. Plus, I don't see this issue as being unique to just the Malays. Singapore has truckloads of bad parents, across racial boundaries (no comments for other countries though).
But firstly, allow me to ask this question, 'what defines bad parenting?' Is it the lack of supervision of the kids in public places? Not disciplining their kids in public? Or is it more than that? Should we define with what's on the surface? With what we see? Or with what we ought to know?
Bad parents abuse their children, that we know. But that doesn't mean all the beating is bad and 'no beating' is good. Come on people, we need to smack them young ones' bottoms once in a while (non-sexually of course... you pervs).
So bad parents can be defined as parents who allow their kids to go astray, without disciplining their kids (doesn't necessary have to be publicly all the time). And these kids misbehave, obviously, with or without the parents presence.
A few weeks back I was aghast at the behaviour of two Malay youths (barely older than primary 1 schoolers). I was on the way to school, on the bus, and the bus was just about to turn around a bend, when out of the corner, these two boys prepared to dash across the road. The bus driver horned as a warning that made the boys stop in their tracks.
But instead of showing gratitude or even remorse, they showed animosity. With their fingers.
Yes, barely a metre tall (fine, I'm exaggerating) but waving their middle fingers high and proud, with a stream of vulgarities to boot. I was very appalled and downright disgusted.
If my son (in the future, I don't have one now; nor do I intend to have one now) were to flash his finger, I would cut it off with a chopper right there and then. And wash the filthy mouth of his with chillies and then a bar of soup.
In all seriousness, I would not hesitate to punish him right there and then: a spank or a slap. I will not have a problem disciplining my kids in public. In the first place, my kids will be so well behaved, they won't need public disciplining (*hmph*).
Spare the rod and spoil the child? No way.
If I need to, I would bring a cane every time we go out.
Just yesterday, I took a bus with the two siblings from hell (a Chinese boy and his younger sister). Oh my God. They were the epitome of rotten kids. Spoilt. Loud. And stubborn. It was a hellish bus ride with them. They sat on the same long rear seat with me.
They were pushing and shoving each other. Giggling loudly, singing loudly and talking loudly. LOUDLY. Even when I had the music in my Ipod turned to the max, they were still LOUD. Freaking loud. Especially the girl. She shouted for her father who was at the front part of the bus. And when I mean 'shout', I really mean 'shout'. Everyone (and I mean 'everyone') turned around to look at the little princess. The father must have been so proud of his little darling.
They kept jumping about on the seat on one end and I on the other end, had to endure the 'tremors' from the terror kids. And the little brats had their legs straightened against the back of the seats in front of them, which they kept kicking and shaking whenever they got overexcited.
The lady seated in front (whom I thought was the mother) kept turning around to scold the little brats. She finally decided to whack the legs of one of the brats in the end to prove her point. But, I realised that she wasn't the mother; when she alighted with me at my stop and left her 'kids' on the bus.
Now, a stranger discplining your kids? That's a bit too much, duncha think?
Another encounter with misbehaving kids also happened to me earlier that day. This time it involved a gang of misfits (no older than primary 3 schoolers). I was in the toilet cubicle doing my 'thang' when the cast of Little Rascals came in.
They began to repeatedly bang the door of the cublicle I was occupying. All the while laughing and threatening to break the door down. Why? Don't ask me. Stupid morons. I was this close to blowing up and (like what chimps would do when threatened, and this is a fact) throw some of my crap over the door.
Now that would have disciplined those rascals. These kids just need to learn their lessons the hard way.
Bitched on: Friday, February 16, 2007 Time: 2/16/2007 12:43:00 AM
Am I missing something or is this voice recording supposed to be funny?
My friends were pissing their pants off laughing (not literally, otherwise the studio would have stunk) but really, is it funny? Or just plain wrong?
The pranksters (assholes, I think; original, but assholes nevertheless) have clearly crossed the line; pissing off the waiter of some Indian Muslim restaurant.
I admit, I laughed a bit... a lot actually...and I'm ashamed... But I still don't understand what's so extremely funny about it?
Is it the guy's thick accent? Is it the persistent 'pork' joke? Or is it because of how the guy blew his top off?
Despite whatever reason, I just think its very racist, insensitive and extremely immature. What pleasures did they (the pranksters, and the people watching) get from this? These imbeciles recorded it, uploaded it onto Youtube; surely they want to be heard, and popularised.
Does this count as racism? Or harassment?
So I'm still wondering if this intolerable act is supposed to be funny. We're in Singapore, for God's sake...
In China, for example, the media (newspapers, tv, wadeva) is not showing any images of pigs (despite the coming lunar new year; 'year of the pig') so as not to offend the Muslim minority of the country. But we're not doing that in Singapore, are we?
In fact, we are laughing at that fact; making that sensitive issue a joke. Stop taking our religious harmony for granted, I say.
PS: Wishing Happy 'Pork' New Year to all my Chinese friends.
Bitched on: Friday, February 02, 2007 Time: 2/02/2007 10:28:00 PM
I was queueing up at the cashier when it was my turn to pay. I fumbled with my wallet to take out some notes when all my coins spilled out onto the floor of the aisle.
The middle-aged man behind me just stared at me, unbothered.
What? Just because I'm young doesn't mean I have 8 hands to pick up the coins right?
Would it have killed him to help or even attempt to bend over and pick up the coins? To make matters worst he squeezed past me to pay for his stuff. The nerves.
I stood up, feeling extremely pissed. So I physically blocked his way as I paid the cashier, unbothered too as he tried again to squeezed past me.
What? Now I can't use my 8 hands to block your way? You ass-wipe...
Bitched on: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 Time: 11/21/2006 12:42:00 AM
She has this huge mole on her face too!
I just can't get enough of all this elitist bull shit. Found another blog of a self proclaimed elitist (he said so himself).
"I am elitist. I believe those in the elite circles (no inverted commas) are better than those outside, not because they are naturally smarter, but generally because those who are there made it there on something, and they do deserve some recognition, more so than the general populace. So don't complain that the elite schools get more money etc. They actually deserve it."
This coming from a 17 or 16-years-old Raffles JC student.
"I get really annoyed when people go "Wah you from RJ ah. Must be damn smart lor" etc. When in actual fact we're really no different from the rest of you people. Except maybe for the fact that we do use our brains for something more useful. It's the mentality however, that people have about us, which we eventually accept for ourselves. So don't blame us for being elitist."
God.
He sounds like he has 'seen the world', doesn't he (for a 16-year-old)?
What a shame.
And he would be one those MPs or some CEOs or even your boss one day (touch wood).
Bitched on: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 Time: 11/15/2006 05:51:00 PM
Crap, its Wednesday again. I hate Wednesdays. Not because it doesn't have good TV shows ('cept Project Runway maybe); but because it has the worst show ever in the history of Channel 5 - "On the Finer Side".
The show really irks me like crazy. I mean, who wants to watch people (freaking rich people) splurge money like water? Bloody elitists, swimming in their parents' money; speaking in faux accents, working in their family company as undeserving CEOs or living in homes bigger than orphanages.
Might as well have an episode dedicated to how this people wipe their arses with thousand dollar bills in the loo. Argh!!!!
I'm not jealous or anything (God, its obvious I am), I just don't need to be reminded that I'm not as... 'privileged'! I want to swim in a pool of money (not figuratively but literally like Mr Scrouge McDuck) and I want to wipe my arse with money too!
Stupid Dick Lee. Please lah, if he wasn't born into that family, would he be enjoying his life like that? And Denise dear, you should go for 'mouth' reduction (if there is such a thing). Dumb ass show. They should really can it. Or better yet, show it after a TV show like My Life Story, Extraordinary People or some other shows showing underprivileged people in need of some charity help or people who work their arse off to get where they are now.
Now that would be a slap to all the rich folks' over-Botoxed faces.
Anyway, that's off my chest; here's what I really wanted to blog about. That case about that elitist brat 'berating' a middle class working Singaporean. Here's the summary:
"A teenage blogger has found herself in the soup after comments she made in her online journal were criticised by many Internet users for being insensitive and elitist.
Raffles Junior College student Wee Shu Min, a daughter of MP Wee Siew Kim, sparked a heated debate on the Internet when she derided another blogger, Mr Derek Wee, for his views on the anxieties of Singapore workers.
Miss Wee, a second-year student on RJC's Humanities Scholarship Programme, has since shut down her blog and apologised for her comments, though not directly to Mr Derek Wee.
Mr Wee, 35, a Singaporean who works for a multinational corporation, had written in his blog on Oct 12 that he was concerned about competition from foreign talent and the lack of job opportunities for older workers here.
He urged the Government to understand Singaporeans' plight.
Last Thursday, Miss Wee responded to him on her blog, calling him old and unmotivated and said he was overly reliant on the Government."
Aiyoh, what has Singapore produced? Whiny working-class Singaporeans and on the other scale, elitist scumbags?
So this is what she actually wrote on her (now-closed down) blog:
Thursday, October 19, 2006
mom's friend sent her some blog post by some bleeding stupid 40-year old singaporean called derek wee (WHY do all the idiots have my surname why?!) whining about how singapore is such an insecure place, how old ppl(ie, 40 and above) fear for their jobs, how the pool of foreign "talent" (dismissively chucked between inverted commas) is really a tsunami that will consume us all (no actually he didn't say that, he probably said Fouren Talern Bery Bad.), how the reason why no one wants kids is that they're a liability in this world of fragile ricebowls, how the government really needs to save us from inevitable doom but they aren't because they are stick-shoved-up-ass elites who have no idea how the world works, yadayadayadayada.
i am inclined - too much, perhaps - to dismiss such people as crackpots. stupid crackpots. the sadder class. too often singaporeans - both the neighborhood poor and the red-taloned socialites - kid themselves into believing that our society, like most others, is compartmentalized by breeding. ridiculous. we are a tyranny of the capable and the clever, and the only other class is the complement.
sad derek attracted more than 50 comments praising him for his poignant views, joining him in a chorus of complaints that climax at the accusation of lack of press freedom because his all-too-true views had been rejected by the straits times forum. while i tend to gripe about how we only have one functioning newspaper too, i think the main reason for its lack of publication was that his incensed diatribe was written in pathetic little scraps that passed off as sentences, with poor spelling and no grammar.
derek, derek, derek darling, how can you expect to have an iron ricebowl or a solid future if you cannot spell?
if you're not good enough, life will kick you in the balls. that's just how things go. there's no point in lambasting the government for making our society one that is, i quote, "far too survival of fittest". it's the same everywhere. yes discrimination exists, and it is sad, but most of the time if people would prefer hiring other people over you, it's because they're better. it's so sad when people like old derek lament the kind of world that singapore will be if we make it so uncertain. go be friggin communist, if uncertainty of success offends you so much - you will certainly be poor and miserable. unless you are an arm-twisting commie bully, which, given your whiny middle-class undereducated penchant, i doubt.
then again, it's easy for me to say. my future isn't certain but i guess right now it's a lot brighter than most people's. derek will read this and brand me as an 18-year old elite, one of the sinners who will inherit the country and run his stock to the gutter. go ahead. the world is about winners and losers. it's only sad when people who could be winners are marginalised and oppressed. is dear derek starving? has dear derek been denied an education? has dear derek been forced into child prostitution? has dear derek had his clan massacred by the government?
i should think not. dear derek is one of many wretched, undermotivated, overassuming leeches in our country, and in this world. one of those who would prefer to be unemployed and wax lyrical about how his myriad talents are being abandoned for the foreigner's, instead of earning a decent, stable living as a sales assistant. it's not even about being a road sweeper.
these ****bags don't want anything without "manager" and a name card.
please, get out of my elite uncaring face.
posted at 12:08 PM
And here's her public apology:
i apologise if i have distressed you with my tendency to rant. while i will not dispute some of the points you make in response to what i have written, i would like to bring to your attention the fact that the post in question was never meant to be a cogent response to the specific points raised in derek wee's article. it is, quite obviously, a rant in the heat of the moment. in addition, i don't believe that my blog has the wide readership of derek wee's, or even your own, and my intention was more to vent my own frustrations than public denouncement.
i'd also like to clarify my use of the word "elite". while i understand how misinterpretation may have arose, i intended to use it in irony, as a label that people assume i enjoy, and not one that i take particular pleasure in.
finally, i admit that i was harsher than i should have been, although the the crux of my belief in self-improvement and self-determination has not changed. once again, i apologise if my words have unintentionally offended you - i was under the rather naive impression that nobody reads my blog.
Too little to late for apologies. What's written has been written.
He might be a 'leech to the government', but you my dear, are a leech to your father. All the luxuries you have right now, are not yours. You didn't deserve it. You didn't work your arse off for it. You will inherit it from your dad (and your dad probably inherited it from his dad). Your future will be bright I'm sure, but not because you earned it, you inherited it.
I come from a 'middle class' family. My dad (and I have not one ounce of shame in me) is a blue collared worker. My mum is a housewife. Both of them are wonderful parents who have produced exceptional children (ehem..). My parents are, in your words, 'middle class undereducated' folks. Am I ashamed? Hell no. Its my Dad's humble paycheck that brought my sisters and I through school. You probably won't understand having an overpaid MP father.
As for me; I have worked my way up from a humble neighbourhood school to where I am now, university: Architecture, NUS mind you. I've never had any extra tuition like you privileged rich kids. My parents didn't help me with my studies cause they were not highly educated. I had to depend on myself, not even on my two now-successful sisters. I never had piano lessons or violin lessons or what have you. But I strived in my school's Drama and dance and choir. I learnt Art (drawing, painting) on my own and I am now bloody good at it.
My parents worked hard. And so did I.
I am articulate and confident. I have always been a leader in school and the Army; I am currently a committee member in my architecture society.
My friends think I come from a rich family or live in some landed property. But I don't.
Heck, what they think. Makes me prouder to say I am here not because of my parents' money but because of my own brains and natural talents.
And I am not ashamed to say that I aspire to be rich and successful, an 'elite' (like how you defined it) or a 'yuppie' even. Cause I want to break out of this 'middle class' circle. But yet, I will remember my humble beginnings when I do.
Like you've said, 'the world is about winners and losers'.
When I do make it, I will be the winner and you, my elite brat, will be the loser. Now please, get out of my working class (and soon to be an 'elite') uncaring face.
Latest Update: Some smart dude made this on Youtube with the computer game Sims. Kinda summed up the whole story.
This is getting too much! 
Wah laooo.... This is causing stupid unnecessary pile-ups here all the time...
Jessica Tan won. No surprises there.
She has this huge mole on her face too!
