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"A Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight was canceled Saturday morning (July 31) after the aircraft hit an Air China plane while departing from the Beijing Capital International Airport. Singapore-bound SQ803, which was a Boeing 777, was taxiing out to the runway when its right wing tip struck the tail of the Air China Boeing 737, an SIA spokesman told The Sunday Times Saturday. The accident took place at around 9am. But it was not until two hours later that all 248 passengers on board the SIA flight were told to disembark." Extracted from http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?id=13390&sec=1" I was also on the same SQ803 flight and was seated at 45H on the right side of the airplane to witness the actual situation. This is the second incident I have with SIA in
All I could say is that, this time I have a much better experience then the experience I have in 2006. SIA has indeed improved in handling such situation. Maybe I am more realistic this time round and maybe I could understand the many unknown not only to us as passengers but also to the airline as not all decisions are made by them. They will still need to get approval from engineering and flight safety authority.
I would however agree that the least SIA could do is to provide update hourly and have a station manager station in the hotel to answer any inquiry from the affected passengers. Best if SIA could provide options for affected passengers to have a day tour around the city so as to occupy them.
During my trip back home, I have spoken to other affected passengers, they have even gone to the
On the other hand, news report has reported that the accident is caused by pilot error due to poor visibility. As an eye witness, I agreed that it is due to pilot error. But to blame on poor visibility is hardly convincing to me. 1.1 km of visibility means you could see thing as far as 1.1km. The airplane is not taxiing on the runway at high speed. The pilot is sure to be able to see the parked airplane clearly while taxiing. I believe that it is pure misjudgment by the pilot.
The Uncovered
The couple, Jan Philip and Eng Kai Er, was finally charged in court for causing a stir by strolling down naked along Lorong Mambong at about 11pm on Jan 24 this year.
In the news, not much regarding the girl and boy was released. We were only told that the girl, Eng Kai Er is a university student in
Now, does it make you wonder how such a highly educated girl end up doing such brainless and shameless thing in public?
Does it make you wonder what type of scholars we have in
Does it make you wonder what happen to the moral standard in our selection of scholar?
Needless to say, under the casino government of the New Singapore, what is so big deal for a few naked girls walking around in the government if they could trade moral with economy?
What a sad situation for
On the other hand, The president of the Nepal Buddhist Council said that the claims by his supporters were not credible.
'We do not believe he is Buddha. He does not have Buddha's qualities,' said Mahiswor Raj Bajracharya, president of the Nepal Buddhist Council, a centre for Buddhist study and research in Kathmandu.
'He may have achieved great heights in meditation, but that alone does not make him a Buddha. A Buddha needs life experience, a young man who has not seen the world at all cannot be a Buddha,' said Mr Bajracharya.
According to the list of 10 prolific corporate fugitives in
- David Rasif, a 17-year legal veteran, disappeared in 2006 after allegedly stealing around S$12 million of his clients' money.
- Zulkifli Amin, a lawyer, skipped town in 2007 with $6 million of his clients' money.
Tan Cheng Yew, a prolific debater and prominent lawyer, went missing in 2003 for allegedly using $5.6 million of a client's trust fund to pay off debts chalked up at Australian casinos.
- Geoffrey Heng Guan Hong, a former SAF scholar and a high-flying lawyer, went missing in 1997 with $3.2 million collected from cheating clients in two property transactions.
- Fun Huay Yew, lawyer of 10 years' standing, went missing in 2003 after failing to return money of $635,000 held in trust.
- Lim Yee Kai, A lawyer of 10 years, went missing in 1998 after taking $413,129 of his client's money in 1997 to pay his credit-card bills, lend money to friends and pay for a trip to
And of course, the biggest liar among them found in the recent news is the former president of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian, who involved in money-laundering case of NT$1 billion and a lot other scandals.
Is this a surprise to you? Do you feel betrayed? The people that are most well trained in law are anything but lawless. The people with high talent and well educated that suppose to uphold the law and command our respect are nothing other than villains.
“Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, SIN is lawlessness. “(1st John 3:4)
Repent! Time to Repent!
SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one cow to your neighbor.
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The government took them and gives you 2 cans of milk.
FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The government took them and sells you the milk.
NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The government took them and shoots you.
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have 2 cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your cattle are proliferating and economy grows.
THE ANDERSEN MODEL
You have 2 cows.
You chop them off.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have 2 cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce similar amount of 4 cows' milk.
Then, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow died.
A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have 2 cows.
You go on strike, gather supporters, and blockade the road because you want to have 3 cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have 2 cows.
You redesign them so they can produce 20-fold of milk.
Then you create a cartoon profile of smart cow, called "Cowkemon" and sell it to the whole world.
A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have 2 cows.
You engineer them to live for more than 100 years, consume only one meal per month, and they can milk each other.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have 2 cows.
You don't know where they are.
You decide to have lunch instead.
A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have 2 cows.
You count them and dream how is it if you have 5 cows.
You count them again and dream how is it if you have 42 cows.
You count them again and find out that you only have 2 cows.
You stop counting and open a bottle of Vodka.
A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5,000 cows.
No one is yours.
You keep them safely and charge some administration fee to the owner.
A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have 2 cows.
You have 300 men to milk them.
You declare that there's no unemployment, and high value of milk production.
You arrest the journalist who reported the reality.
AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have 2 cows
You worship them.
BRITISH CORPORATION
You have 2 cows.
Both are mad cows.
IRAQ CORPORATION
Everybody thinks that you have number of cows.
You tell them that you have only one cow.
Nobody believes you, and then they start to bombard your area and invade your country.
You're still having no cow, but at least you're now a part of democracy.
NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have 2 cows.
The cow in the left looks so attractive.
AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have 2 cows.
The business looks promising.
You close your office and go for a beer to celebrate it.
INDONESIAN CORPORATION
You have 2 cows.
Both are stolen cows.
Then you sell them.
You put the money in an ill-defined non-budgeter account.
Then you use some of it to fund your political party campaign.
But you save the majority for your posterity.
MALAYSIAN CORPORATION
You have 2 cows.
Both you stole from
SINGAPORE CORPORATION
You have 2 cows
One cow with a limping left leg escaped.
The Indonesian captured it and refused to return until you send them the reminding cow.
The error is on the confusion of the words “Biannual” and “Biennial”.
In this news article, it stated that “The biannual Asian Aerospace was organized by Reed Exhibitions and …” At the end of the article, the writer stated: “I hope this venue won’t come alive just once in two years.”
We are so used to biweekly as every two weeks and bimonthly as every two months. We extrapolate that bi-annual should also mean every two years. However, this assumption is totally wrong. Biannual means twice every year! The correct word to use is BIENNIAL.
English is not my first language. I have spent most of my 3 years of Polytechnic education in the library with the company of a thick dictionary to check for words that are foreign to me. My pre-Polytechnic education is fully Chinese!
I do not expect our English journalist could make this mistake and the editor could not catch this mistake.
It is truly disappointed that our English standard is so low.
By the way, bimonthly could also mean twice a month according to Macmillan English Dictionary.
Isa 44:15 Man gets wood from trees for fuel.
He uses some of it to warm himself.
He starts a fire and bakes bread.
But he also uses some of it to make a god and worship it.
He makes a statue of a god and bows down to it.
Isa 44:16 He burns half of the wood in the fire.
He prepares a meal over it.
He cooks meat over it.
He eats until he is full.
He also warms himself. He says,
"Good! I'm getting warm.
The fire is nice and hot."
Isa 44:17 From the rest of the wood he makes a statue.
It becomes his god.
He bows down and worships it.
He prays to it. He says,
"Save me. You are my god."
Isa 44:18 People like that don't even know what they are doing.
Their eyes are shut so that they can't see the truth.
Their minds are closed so that they can't understand it.
Isa 44:19 No one even stops to think about this.
No one has any sense or understanding.
If anyone did, he would say,
"I used half of the wood for fuel.
I even baked bread over the fire.
I cooked meat. Then I ate it.
Should I now make a statue of a god
out of the wood that's left over?
Should I bow down to a block of wood?
The Lord would hate that."
Isa 44:20 That's as foolish as eating ashes!
The mind of someone like that
has led him down the wrong path.
He can't save himself.
He can't bring himself to say,
"This thing I'm holding in my right hand
isn't really a god at all."
This is a daily brightening wise words appeared in my calendar today. I like it.
Too many times, we have experts to tell us we are losers. We have too many negative feedbacks from the so call specialists that dismiss our ideas or aspiration as non sense or stupid.
Thomas Edison tested over 3000 filaments before he came up with a practical light bulb. If we give out so readily, we simply fulfill the prophesies of the naysayer.
Go, keep flying!
I read in amusement the local headline: “S'pore Revving Up - Casinos will help it shed its 'museum' image: PM” appeared in 11th Sept 2007 issue of Today.
During an interview with Bloomberg at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Sydney, our Casino Government head, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that SINGAPORE'S two casinos will help the island shed its
Since the construction boom in the 1970/80,
Under the leadership of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the Casino Government trades its morality with economic growth. It even toyed with the idea of accepting homosexuality as a personal choice and life style instead of a sin.
This Casino Government will bring destruction to itself and to
Time to repent before destruction comes at the door step!
I held high regards for people that choose not to eat food made from animals because of their compassion to the animals and that they could not bear to see the animals suffer during the killing process.
The same could not be said when vegetarians eat vegetarian food made to taste and look like typical non vegetarian food such as fried prawn, satay or chilli fish.
My mom used to be a strict vegetarian. During Chinese New Year celebration, I used to bring the whole extended family to a vegetarian restaurant for dinner. It is amusing to order vegetarian shark fin soup, vegetarian fried ikan bilis, vegetarian satay, vegetarian chilli fish and vegetarian fried prawn with mayonnaise. See the following photo of vegetarian Peking duck from Ling Zhi Vegetarian Restaurant, does it look like the real Peking duck?
This to me is hypocrisy. On one hand, they do not want to eat the animal but on the other hand would like to make the food taste like food made from animal. I especially despise vegetarians by religion choose to eat such vegetarian food.
This is for sure a personal choice. By I would not hold any regard for such person.
Reading the headline of the Jul 29th, 2007 Sunday Times regarding the first profiteering case uncovered for the GST hike make me extremely unhappy about the respond of the chairman of Committee Against Profiteering (CAP).
In the headline news, it is reported that "Minister of State for Trade and Industry Lee Yi Shyan, who chairs the committee, yesterday told reporters that a student care centre had been reprimanded for excessive fee increases. The centre, which Mr Lee declined to name, had announced to parents in its newsletter last month that, due to the GST hike from 5 to 7 per cent, it would be raising its fees from $270 to $280 'across our branches'."
It is further reported that "Mr Lee said he had written a letter to the centre, prompting the company to reverse its decision on the fees.
'We warned them severely...I signed the letter and issued it to them. We want to stop that kind of practice because clearly it's misleading,' he said."
I have been working with CAP since mid June on this case.
In the first email reply after I sent evident for the profiteering in the name of GST hike by Pro-Teach, CAP Secretariat in their email said that "We have referred your case to Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS). In response, IRAS has issued a warning letter to Pro-Teach Before and After School Care & Tuition Centre to not use GST increase as a reason for the increase in fees."
After Pro-Teach went ahead to collect the increased fee, I wrote an email on 3rd July to the CAP in respond: “Thanks you very much for your action. However, it does not seem that Pro-Teach cared much about the warning letter from IRAS. In the July Newsletter, Pro-Teach did not mention anything regarding the fee increase or clarify on its position on fee increased due to GST hike mentioned in the June Newsletter. They just collect the increased fee. Now for July, I am paying S$290 vs S$280 for my child's monthly fee. An increased of 3.57%. Thanks to our Government's 2% increase in GST.
The vice principal just told me verbally that due to the increase of GST, we are collecting $10 more each month from July.”
I have yet to receive feedback from CAP.
First, my unhappiness with the first action of CAP is clear. The warning letter from IRAS to Pro-Teach could be read between lines to mean: Stupid, don’t create trouble for the government. Use other reasons to increase your fee by all means – but not GST hike!
Now, by not disclosing the offender’s company name, the Minister of State, Mr Lee is sending a message to potential offenders: Don’t worry; I will not disclose your name to shame you or to make you look bad. If you ignore the warning letter from IRAS, I will send you my autograph. Hope you like it.
I would like to question the role of CAP. Are they protecting the consumer or are they acting as PR agency for business owners (by teaching owners how to properly package their price increase so as not to create complaints from customers)?
First of all, I would like to state that I have nothing against Pro-Teach otherwise I would not have continued to send my kid to them. This is to prevent speculation or misunderstanding.
Second, this is a very clear case of profiteering in the name of GST hike.
Profiteering is not easy to proof. However, for this case, it is crystal clear.
You could see from the news report that CAP has received 80 complaints but could only uncover 1 case up to now. Most business owners are very clever in packaging their price increase to other than GST hike.
My intention to bring out this case is to highlight to the government that: to the end consumer, the cost increase will be more than 2% although the GST only increased 2%. Imaging each supplier in the whole chain of supply increases 2% each, the end product will be a compound of many 2% increases. This I guess is what the government know fully but do not want the citizen to be told.
After School Care centre is not like a typical hawker stall where if you do not like the price increase, you could just walk off to other stall.
Firstly, the child has already built up bond with the teachers and classmates. New teachers will need time to understand the students learning habits.
Secondly, you pay registration fee and other fees (such as tuition materials that they collected for full half year and may not be refundable).
Hence, the parents are being locked in by the centre.
I look at this case especially since the centre is situated in the heartland where any increase in fee will affect the parents greatly. Most of the parents are not from well off families but need to send their kids to the centre since both parents are working.
I firmly believe that business owners should have social responsibilities. While making money for themselves, they should also take care of the society. Hence by increasing fee above the increase in GST is profiteering and irresponsible.
It is interesting to read the letter to Today on 27th Aug 2007 by Dr Tan Chek Wee on the topic “It's Cruel for Stalls to Display Live Seafood In 'Death Row' Tanks”. I do not know that whether the subject title is drafted by Dr Tan or by Today editor. Just by the title, I am speechless. My immediate reaction is: does the seafood care about whether they are in “Death Row” Tanks or “KIV” Tanks? Does the seafood have feeling on how their predators name the living environment? I think what the sea creatures more interested is whether the living environment their predators give them before killing them is comfortable for their survival instead of the name.
It is interesting to see a Dr spent time on considering how we should name the tanks for sea creature instead of spending time to improve the living condition of many fellow human beings in substandard living condition.
What is the priority our top talents in
Just to clarify, I am not an advocate for animal abuse. In fact, I think we should take care of the whole environment God entrusted to the Human race. However, they should be a priority on how we manage our resources.
Main PCB' - 5 connectors here on main PCB – 1 SIM card connector, 1 22 pos FFC/FPC connector (for Screen), 3 fine pitch connectors (16 pos, 24 pos, 14 pos)
Main PCB Back - two antenna connectors, 1x 16 pos connector, 1x 24 pos connector
Chassis - 5 internal connectors that attach to the main PCBs - two antenna cable connectors, three ribbon data cable connectors (24 pos, 16 pos, 14 pos).
Head set jack
1x 16 pos cable connector
1x 24 pos cable connector
1x external i/o connector
Please allow me to zone in to the mistake in this photo:
Now this confirm my worry if you still could not spot the mistake. The first character here is wrong. 义气风发 should be 意气风发 instead! The meaning of 意气风发 is high-spirited and vigorous. 义 means righteous. 义气 means personal loyalty. You do not combine 义气 with 风发. I suspected that the writer tried to put the Chinese name of Teck Ghee (德义) as the first word of these couplet (对联). This is a very common practice. Either the writer has forgotten the 义气风发 should be 意气风发 and made this mistake. Or he hope that his readers do not know much about Chinese and could not spot this mistake.
