Someone in his team did their research right.
PM Lee, take your cues. If OBAMA can do this for the Indians in America, you can do the same for 9% of your country’s population!!!
In light of some interesting revelations today, the video is apropos. In car veritas? Was it the air conditioning?
On that note, if I ever become as he describes, please ply me with bourbon cokes, and after I’m properly drunk, pleas hit me on the upside of my head. Thank You.
~deviousDiv
Husband and Wife are in court getting a divorce, and fighting for custody of their child.
Wife argues: “I brought the child into this world with pain and labour. She should be in my custody.”
Husband turns to Metaphor: “If I put a dollar in a vending machine and a Pepsi comes out. Whose Pepsi is it? the machine’s or mine?”
Wife jumped on the metaphor bandwagon: “Sir… the pot is mine … the milk is mine too … and to make yoghurt, all that’s needed are 2 drops of ‘extra fluid’. So really, to whom does the yoghurt belong to, me or the one who provided the two drops?”
Husband counter argued: “I put the paper in the typewriter, took the effort to punch the keys, ultimately whom does the letter belong to, me or the typewriter??”
At this point, the frustrated Judge said: “Had you hand written the letter, the custody issue would not have arisen….”
~deviousDiv
Date: Sep 13, 12.50PM
Called up the Sarpino’s restaurant at the Meridian hotel for a delivery, and the sales person instructed me to ‘come down and get it yourself’. When I said we’re busy and that’s why we want the delivery, his response was ‘So? We’re also busy.’
Finally when I asked him how long it will take, his answer was ‘I don’t know, I can call you back la’. His tone of voice was insulting, and it came across clearly that they didn’t value our business.
If this is the standard of service from Sarpinos, I predict the outlet will close by the end of this year. The outlet in question is at the Concorde Hotel (formerly known as the Le Meridian hotel). I never see more than 3 customers in there at any given time.
I am on the 4th floor of the hotel, and tied up with class presentations.
While I understand its acceptable to go down and get the pizza myself, I think its completely unacceptable for the service staff to give me, a customer, this type of attitude, especially since we are not getting this for free.
Sarpinos… shame on you!
~deviousDiv
I nearly missed my bus stop, and was making a last minute rush for the door.
The helpful guy sitting next to me yelled at the driver and pressed the bell on my behalf. How nice of him! I was feeling warm things about the kindness of strangers, and the human race yadda yadda…
Until he turned around, leered, and asked me, “can we exchange numbers?”
*expletive*
~deviousDiv
I got this piece of *&^%@#$% in my inbox, and it annoyed me intolerably. I find the writer’s illogical reasoning and conclusions very disturbing. And dangerous…
See what I mean:
- In 1978, Kamal’s Tamil movie “Sivappu Rojakal” was released. He played the role of a Psychopath killer (femicide). A year later, a guy named “Psycho Raman” was caught for brutally murdering people especially women.
- In 1992, his blockbuster movie “Devar Magan” was released. It’s a village based subject. The movie portrayed scenes of communal clashes. Exactly a year later in 1993, there were many communal clashes in southern districts.
- He used a word called ‘tsunami’ in his movie “Anbe Sivam”(2003) .The word ‘TSUNAMI’ was not known to many people before. In 2004, ‘tsunami’ stuck the east coast of our country and many people lost their lives.
- In his movie “Vettaiyadu Vilayadu “(2006) there are two characters called Ilamaran & Amudhan who played the roles of psychopath killers. After 3 months of release of the movie, the NOIDA serial killing came to light (Moninder & Sathish)
- In his latest movie “Dasavatharam” in 2008 he mentioned about a deadly virus, which spread via air, that may destroy the world. Now in 2009 we have the Swine Flu that spreads through air. And to be specific, in the movie Kamal develops a bio weapon and finds out the deadly effect of the virus in a lab in America. Now the first case of Swine Flu was detected in Mexico (America).
Its amazing how intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action like email forwarding. Equally amazing is the way sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies.
I say this because the header for the email was, “Amazing, and True… What is Kamal Hassan coming up with next?”
An extraordinarily illuminating,and, unfortunately, entertaining tale of naivete, and perpetuating hysteria, this email seeks to demonise (and maybe elevate to god-like status) of Kamal Hassan.
I was walking towards the Concorde Hotel just now to attend class, when I overheard some comments being passed about me in Tamil.
I turned around and there they were, three scruffy, unwashed ‘Anjacks’ (Tamil Gangster Youth), who probably have one brain cell between them.
Comments like ‘antha vangalachi’ (that north indian), ‘velaikaari’ (servant), ‘mamasan’ (pimp) all arose because they were trying to analyse why I would be walking down Orchard Rd with a backpack full of stuff.
At this point, I was so annoyed I wanted to punch one of them. I.did.not.appreciate.being.called.a.pimp.
However, I couldn’t be arsed to actually talk to these lower life-forms, so I just flipped them the bird and walked away.
My moment of triumph was dimmed about 10 microseconds later, when I realised these gangbangers could sic their gang on me.
Bugger, Bugger, Bugger!
~deviousDiv
PS: Does this mean I’ve been in my first official gangfight?
PPS: I think I’m going to start carrying an “aruval” (machette) around just in case.
Its official. I.HATE.KRAMAT LANE. Its up there with Orchard Rd and Geylang Rd.
One Word… TRAFFIC!
It was after class, I was bone-tired, I wanted to take a cab home… and there were plenty available.
They were also stuck. In the same position. For 15 minutes.
Thank god for the girls… who came up with the brilliant idea of walking to the next lane for a cab.
LTA, please take note.
- Can you INSTALL A BLEDDY TRAFFIC LIGHT AT THAT JUNCTION!!!
- And while I’m at it, how does levying $7 of ERP actually help the traffic situation?
- And can you also tell me why I have to pay $3 of ERP while going INTO the city in the evening Peak? People are leaving the City in the evening you noobs!
I took a taxi to class at 6.30 in the evening. (I had no choice, my class starts at 7pm). My base taxi fair (with the 35% evening surcharge) was just $10. My ERP charges were $7.
Is it any wonder that taxi drivers bitch about going into the City to look for business? Who wants to waste that kind of money on ERP when there’s no guarantee on getting customers.
~deviousDiv
Algae company LiveFuels has come up with what I think is the single most hare brained Algae biofuel business plan. They sincerely believe that getting Tilapia to eat the micro algae is the way around making expensive algal lipid extraction processes. They’re even talking about scaling that up for commercial production, raise fish to eat the algae and store it in their organs, and then kill the fish to get the oil. Here’s how LiveFuels justifies using fish:
Biomass concentration as nature intended it. Conventional machinery is unable to harvest microscopic algae from large volumes of water at low cost. To harvest algae, LiveFuels uses a natural mixture of oil-rich “algae grazers,” such as filter-feeding fish species, in place of expensive and energy-intensive mechanical equipment. This approach eliminates significant capital and operating costs, while providing a scalable system for harvesting large quantities of algae.
Currently, our research focuses on ecosystem and life cycle modeling in order to achieve the optimal growth of aquatic organisms.
How many Fish to a Barrel of Biofuel?
Lets ignore the ‘as nature intended it part’ and move on to the practical/ethical problem with all this.
Assuming LiveFuels works out technical kinks, and scales up…how many fish would we they need to raise ponds, and then kill, just to power our cars, buses and airplanes?
How many fish would be needed to make a barrel of oil? And we consume hundreds of millions of barrels of oil/day. Even if this was to make up 1% of daily oil consumption, we’re still looking at over 2 million barrels of fish algae oil/day.
This whole thing just strikes me as grossly unethical, not to mention absurd.
Killing Animals to Power Our Cars? Have We Lost the Plot? Forgive the PETA spiel here, but raising animals in factory farms is a gigantic environmental and ethical problem — there are simply better, more humane and environmental friendly, ways for humans to power their bodies.
Raising animals and slaughtering them for fuel so humans can avoid using their natural means of locomotion — or develop ways to power these devices that don’t involve killing millions of animals directly for fuel?
I’d go with the second one eh?
What’s to stop people from using Whale Blubber as a Biodiesel source next?
~deviousDiv
