Damn I have been so ignorant!

Singapore's current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong; son of ASEAN's most influential persona Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew earns S$ 3,870,000 (US$ 2,856,930) annually!!! He is the highest paid head of government in the world! Even the President of the World's Superpower (USA) earns US$400,000!!!

I always knew that fella was paid alot but NOT THIS MUCH!!!!

If that was not enough, I realised that the EX-President Late Mr. Ong Teng Cheong was not given a state funeral!! There I was thinking that all presidents receive a state funeral automatically! Then again there are some who say that Mr. Ong himself preferred not to have a State Funeral.

Hmmm......

Well I have to agree he was very much a People's man and got himself involved in issues that the government did not approve of. Then again, thanx to him we have the efficient MRT system :)
And he should have been given a State Funeral!!!

God's Chauffeur

After getting all of Pope Benedict's luggage loaded into the limo, (and he doesn't travel light), the driver notices the Pope is still standing on the curb.

"Excuse me, Your Holiness," says the driver, "Would you please take your seat so we can leave?"

"Well, to tell you the truth," says the Pope, "they never let me drive at the Vatican when I was a cardinal, and I'd really like to drive today."

"I'm sorry, Your Holiness, but I cannot let you do that. I'd lose my job! What if something should happen?" protests the driver, wishing he'd never gone to work that morning.

"Who's going to tell?" says the Pope with a smile?

Reluctantly, the driver gets in the back as the Pope climbs in behind the wheel. The driver quickly regrets his action when, after exiting the airport, the Pontiff floors it; accelerating the limo to 205 kph. (Remember, the Pope is German)

"Please slow down, Your Holiness!" pleads the worried driver, but the Pope keeps the pedal to the metal until they hear sirens.

"Oh Dear God, I'm going to lose my license and my job" moans the driver.

The Pope pulls over and rolls down the window as the cop approaches, but the cop takes one look at him, goes back to his motorcycle and gets on the radio.

"I need to talk to the Chief", he says to the dispatcher.

The chief gets on the radio and the cop tells him that he has stopped a limo going at 205 kph.

"So bust him," says the Chief.

"I don't think we want to do that. He is really important", replies the cop.

The Chief exclaimed, "All the more reason!"

"No, I mean really important," replied the cop with a little persistence.

The Chief then asked, "Who do you have there, the mayor?"

Cop: Bigger.

Chief: A senator?

Cop: Bigger.

Chief: The Prime Minister?

Cop: Bigger.

Well," said the Chief, "Who is it?"

Cop: I think it's God!

The Chief is even more puzzled and curious, "What makes you think it's God?"

Cop: His chauffeur is the Pope!

PS: LOL.....

Gang Rape Revenge Game??!!!

A computer game that lets players gang rape a mother and her two young daughters before forcing them to have an abortion is available to download in Australia, even though it is prohibited from being distributed here.

RapeLay was blacklisted on online shopping giants eBay and Amazon.com two weeks ago after several "as new" copies were listed by a seller specialising in hentai — sexually explicit Japanese animation.

The Japan-based maker of the 3D game, Illusion, also put a ban on its distribution outside of Japan.

But ninemsn has uncovered at least a dozen websites — including some linked to illegal file-sharing networks and others which are based in the US — offering the full version of the software to download.

One such site describes RapeLay as "a new type [of] molesting game with more beautiful 3D images."

"Reactions of heroines are more erotic than real … players can get the new excitement like never before."

According to reviews of the game, players are to hunt down a woman and her two daughters after being falsely accused of sexual assault.

The object of the game is to make all three female characters "sex slaves" without getting them pregnant.

If any of the virtual victims fall pregnant, players must force them to have an abortion or risk being thrown under a train and killed.

Descriptions of what players can do to their "prey" are too violent and graphic to write here.

Leading psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg has warned that some teenagers playing games like RapeLay may be prone to carrying out violent, copy-cat attacks.

"If the circumstances are right — say their psyche predisposes them to this behaviour — there's no question that they could be encouraged to do the same thing," Dr Carr-Gregg said.

The option to play RapeLay in multi-player mode — used mainly for the horrific gang-rape sequences — could have a dangerous bonding effect, he said.

"Playing [the game with others] would encourage a group mores and there's no question that this would normalise, sanitise and glamorise this type of behaviour," he said.

The game's distributor, Illusion, includes several other sex games in its plethora of titles, such as Battle Raper and Artificial Girl.

Like RapeLay, those games aren't meant for distribution outside of Japan, the company has said.

- ninemsn.au

I AM BEGINNING TO WONDER WHERE JAPANESE DRAW THEIR INSPIRATION FROM! PERHAPS A JAPANESE TERM FOR MORALITY IS NONEXISTENT!

THERE WAS A POINT IN TIME WHEN THE DOCUMENTARY BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE CLAIMED THAT VIOLENCE IN VIDEO GAMES WERE ONE OF THE REASONS FOR THE SHOOTINGS!

NOW...WHAT ARE THESE RECENT ENTRIES GONNA SHOCK US WITH?? (Perhaps nothing much since gang rapes are still prevalent with the absence of these games...but still.....)

Racists and Racism

This scene took place on a British Airways flight between Johannesburg, South Africa & London ..

A white woman, about 50 years old,was seated next to a black man. Very disturbed by this, she called the air hostess.

'You obviously do not see it then?' she asked. 'You placed me next to a black man. I did not agree to sit next to someone from such a repugnant group. Give me an alternative seat.'

'Be calm please,' the hostess replied.

'Almost all the places on this flight are taken.

I will go to see if another place is available.'

The hostess went away and then came back a few minutes later.

'Madam, it's just as I thought, there are no other available seats in Economy Class. I spoke to the captain,he informed me that there is also no seat in Business Class.

All the same, we still have one place in First Class.'

Before the woman could say anything, the hostess continued.

'It is not usual for our company to permit someone from Economy Class to sit in First Class. However, given the circumstances, the captain feels that it would be scandalous to make someone sit next to someone so disgusting.'

She turned to the black guy, and said, 'Therefore, Sir, if you would like to,please collect your hand luggage, a seat awaits you in First Class.'

At that moment, the other passengers, who'd been shocked by what they had just witnessed, stood up and applauded.

:)))))

Opium is cheaper than bottled water in Afghan?!

Is it because Opium is easily accessible?

Is it because taking opium has been cultivated among the family?

The situation seems to have taken a toll on young children, who are now addicts to opium. With the youngest being only 2 years old!

Before I came across the video, I never knew the existence of opium in Afghan or its usage amongst the citizens. Never did I thought that mothers would use opium on their children just so they could do their chores. Some of them do regret their actions (as mentioned in the video when they came to know of addiction to opium. Its funny how they were not aware of the addiction earlier; being users themselves.)

One of the things I heard about opium and Afghanistan is that in certain areas the profit from all that opium sales are used to fund terrorist groups. (Well the funding bit I don't know how true the information is)

Yes, they could. So they did.

So I am attending the Energy and Resources Institute climate conference in New Delhi, and during the afternoon session two young American women - along with one of their mothers - proposition me.

"Hey, Mr. Friedman," they say, "would you like to take a little spin around New Delhi in our car?"

Oh, I say, I've heard that line before. Ah, they say, but you haven't seen this car before. It's a plug-in electric car that is also powered by rooftop solar panels - and the two young women, recent Yale grads, had just driven it all over India in a "climate caravan" to highlight the solutions to global warming being developed by Indian companies, communities, campuses and innovators, as well as to inspire others to take action.

They ask me if I want to drive, but I have visions of being stopped by the cops and ending up in a New Delhi jail. Not to worry, they tell me. Indian cops have been stopping them all across India. First, they ask to see driver's licenses, then they inquire about how the green car's solar roof manages to provide 10 percent of its mileage - and then they try to buy the car.

We head off down Panchsheel Marg, one of New Delhi's main streets. The ladies want to show me something. The U.S. Embassy and the Chinese Embassy are both located on Panchsheel, directly across from each other. They asked me to check out the rooftops of each embassy. What do I notice? Let's see ... The U.S. Embassy's roof is loaded with antennae and listening gear. The Chinese Embassy's roof is loaded with ... new Chinese-made solar hot-water heaters.

You couldn't make this up.

But trying to do something about it was just one of many reasons my hosts, Caroline Howe, 23, a mechanical engineer on leave from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Alexis Ringwald, a Fulbright scholar in India and now a solar entrepreneur, joined with Kartikeya Singh, who was starting the Indian Youth Climate Network, or IYCN, to connect young climate leaders in India, a country coming under increasing global pressure to manage its carbon footprint.

"India is full of climate innovators, so spread out across this huge country that many people don't get to see that these solutions are working right now," said Howe. "We wanted to find a way to bring people together around existing solutions to inspire more action and more innovation. There's no time left to just talk about the problem."

Howe and Ringwald thought the best way to do that might be a climate solutions road tour, using modified electric cars from India's Reva Electric Car Co., whose CEO Ringwald knew. They persuaded him to donate three of his cars and to retrofit them with longer-life batteries that could travel 90 miles on a single six-hour charge - and to lay on a solar roof that would extend them farther.

Between Jan. 1 and Feb. 5, they drove the cars on a 2,100-mile trip from Chennai to New Delhi, stopping in 15 cities and dozens of villages, training Indian students to start their own climate action programs and filming 20 videos of India's top home-grown energy innovations. They also brought along a solar-powered band, plus a luggage truck that ran on plant oil extracted from jatropha and pongamia, plants locally grown on wasteland. A Bollywood dance group joined at different stops and a Czech who learned about their trip on YouTube hopped on with his truck that ran on vegetable-oil waste.

Deepa Gupta, 21, a co-founder of IYCN, told The Hindustan Times that the trip opened her eyes to just how many indigenous energy solutions were budding in India - "like organic farming in Andhra Pradesh, or using neem and garlic as pesticides, or the kind of recycling in slums, like Dharavi. We saw things already in place, like the Gadhia solar plant in Valsad, Gujarat, where steam is used for cooking and you can feed almost 50,000 people in one go." (See: www.indiaclimatesolutions.com.)

At Rajpipla, in Gujarat, when they stopped at a local prince's palace to recharge their cars, they discovered that his business was cultivating worms and selling them as eco-friendly alternatives to chemical fertilizers.

I met Howe and Ringwald after a tiring day, but I have to admit that as soon as they started telling me their story it really made me smile. After a year of watching adults engage in devastating recklessness in the financial markets and depressing fecklessness in the global climate talks, it's refreshing to know that the world keeps minting idealistic young people who are not waiting for governments to act, but are starting their own projects and driving innovation.

"Why did this tour happen?" asked Ringwald. "Why this mad, insane plan to travel across India in a caravan of solar electric cars and jatropha trucks with solar music, art, dance and a potent message for climate solutions? Well ... the world needs crazy ideas to change things, because the conventional way of thinking is not working anymore."

- Thoman L.Friedman. International Herald Tribune

My Friend

She started as a rebel.
Slashed her hand on several occasions.
Joined a Old Aged Home as a junior volunteer.
Later became a nurse in the same home.
When on to do further studies.
Returned to Join a hospital as a nurse.
Was in a on off relationship.
The relationship broke off permanently
Went on a solo trip to third world countries.
Returned to her homeland.
Tendered her resignation.
To become a nun.

Holiday in Iraq???

"I am a tourist" were his first words. The telephone line from Falluja was bad, but there could be no mistake. Possibly Iraq's, and certainly Falluja's, first Western leisure visitor was in town.

Not for long though. A guard at a checkpoint caught sight of Luca Marchio among the Iraqi passengers on a bus that was heading from Baghdad to the once-notorious - and still tense - western city and alerted his superiors.

Marchio, 33, a native of Como, Italy, soon found himself in the Falluja police headquarters surrounded by bewildered officers trying to make out why a Westerner would wander around their city without a translator or guards. Marchio may have worried the police, but his main concern was saving money.

In two telephone conversations with journalists, he brushed away concerns for his safety and offers of help. "I am a tourist," he said. "I want to see the most important cities in the country. That is the reason why I am here now.

"I want to see and understand the reality, because I have never been here before and I think every country in the world must be seen. I was looking for cheap accommodation here in Falluja, but the authorities explained to me that it was impossible because there are not any hotels here. They suggested a short tour and then go back to Baghdad."

- International Herald Tribune

Attorney and Stupidity

These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place.

ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?

WITNESS: No, I just lie there.

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ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?

WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.

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ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?

WITNESS: Yes.

ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?

WITNESS: I forget.

ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?

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ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?

WITNESS: He said, 'Where am I, Cathy?"

ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?

WITNESS: My name is Susan!

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ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo?

WITNESS: We both do.

ATTORNEY: Voodoo?

WITNESS: We do.

ATTORNEY: You do?

WITNESS: Yes, voodoo.
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ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?

WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?

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ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?

WITNESS: Uh, he's twenty
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ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?

WITNESS: Are you shittin' me?

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ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?

WITNESS: Yes.

ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?

WITNESS: Uh.... I was gettin' laid!

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ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?

WITNESS: Yes.

ATTORNEY: How many were boys?

WITNESS: None.

ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?

WITNESS: Are you shittin' me? Your Honour, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?

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ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?

WITNESS: By death.

ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?

WITNESS: Now whose death do you suppose terminated it?

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ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?

WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.

ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?

WITNESS: Guess.

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ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?

WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.

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ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?

WITNESS: All my autopsies are performed on dead people. Would you like to rephrase that?

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ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?

WITNESS: Oral.

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ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?

WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.

ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?

WITNESS: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy on him!

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ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?

WITNESS: Huh .... are you qualified to ask that question?

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And the best for last:
ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?

WITNESS: No.

ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?

WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.

ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?

WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.

Obama at the Alfalfa Dinner

"I had to engage in some of the toughest diplomacy of my life.
And that was just to keep my Blackberry.
I finally agreed to limit the number of people who could e-mail me. It's a very exclusive list.
How exclusive? Everyone look at the person sitting on your left.
Now look at the person sitting on your right.
None of you have my e-mail address."

PS: LOL....Way to go Obama ;)