Should Miss Singapore and her judges be disqualified?

I'm sure everyone has heard about the recent debate over Miss Ris Low's eligibility to hold the Miss Singapore title. In case you didn't knew, and from what i gathered reading the news,she committed a credit card fraud sometime back. What stunned me further was that, citing the Straits Times, there were 60 other offences that she might be charged with, and while being interviewed she mentioned that those offences were 'unintentional'!

Your offences committed were unintentional? You unintentionally used your customers' credit cards to buy things for yourself? I'm very curious to know what are the other 60 charges, you know?

Already suffering from a bout of critisms by local Singaporeans for her hilarious command of English, this latest piece of news, to me, is like swallowing a fishball without chewing it. Why are the authorities not reviewing the eligibility of her title yet?

To Miss Ris Low, nothing personal; Firstly, you don't even know how to pronounce 'bikini' properly. And as for your looks, I'm not saying that you are ugly. I'm rather amazed that it seems like you bagged the most number of awards.

Or secondly, there might be something questionable about the panel of judges, which I'll normally rule out given that they are the professionals, and their judgement shouldn't be biased. I myself didn't watch the whole Miss Singapore pageant so I guess I can't decide what was the factor that made you come in tops. Pity goes to the other contestants, I feel that some of them are rather pretty though. Can someone please launch an investigation into why the judges chose her? The numerous awards she won really looks too suspicious!

After watching the video clip of you in an interview, you can't imagine how many times I slapped my forehead man. I'd wish I was one of the judges, screaming out loud to remove you from the list of contestants!

What leopard preens, zip bra ('zebra' I presume). Maybe it's not about the pronounciation. I myself can't even pronounce 'restoration' properly, but 'prints' and 'zebra'? Or even the color 'Red'?? OMG. Making a fashion statement with such clothes and green pants? Can I request that you wear it and appear on TV for us all to see if it's nice before I make sacarstic remarks? I'm really Googling for such outfits now. Oh I got it.

Image from www.shoarns.com/ZebraGallery.html

Do I still need to upload the leopard one?

I'm sure many imbeciles out there will not be more forgiving in their critisms. The most I can say is, if I were you, I'd rather back out of this whole thing. At the same time, I'm not so sure if a probation is considered a criminal record or not, but committing so many counts of fraud at such a tender age might not be acceptable by many employers. Now that the matter has been blown to such a proportion, maybe it's better to stay low for awhile and do those things that are down-to-earth (but not anything to do with animals please).

Or unless like what the comment in the video said about the government sending you for English lessons, I wish you the best of luck before you go on stage to a global audience. And if you can land yourself in Africa, where the pageant is held at (OMG I keep thinking of the animals. No wonder you quote the Safari!), just don't throw our face, please!

LOL!

We can't deny that we are getting older, can we?

Some of the youngsters around me like to use the abbreviation 'LOL', which stands for Laugh(ing) out Loud.

My cousin Ah Ping booked a chalet the other day as my niece just turned 5, and I was asked to forward the location to my guy cousin Ah Xiang.

Hi, here's the details for Esther's party this sat - Costa Sands Resort
(Downtown East)
LIM HWEE PING, CHRISTINA
Room No : 1223
Bbq: 6-9pm. See ya! alan

His reply:
LOL! What block is it?

Duh! I mean, there's nothing wrong with that la, but I suppose my sms to him didn't had any hint of humour!

Kinda got irritating after awhile. Or those who like to put a '...' at the end of their sms. Ok sorry i'm just being cranky. Whatever.

Really bad day at work

Perhaps I shouldn't be complaining. It's just that some people are really getting on my nerves.

I had this office chair that was broken. The axis in the middle was jutting out from its frame and as a result, it scraped the carpet beneath whenever I moved around while sitting on it. This created a hairy (I beg your pardon ladies) vagina in the carpet and I was sexually astonished to notice the artificial human organ after some time. I've always thought that something got stuck in the wheels which made the chair hard to move about, but it wasn't so.




My colleagues must be well aware that the chair was faulty because I was complaining day in and out about it. Even the other chairs that were unoccupied had problems of their own: One of them macham like a rocking chair, the other extends vertically upwards when I have already adjusted it to its lowest, or worst, being creaky to the point of being intolerable. I totally can't stand working on such chairs.

Louis, being the helpful guy, witnessed my long-lived agony, and finally decided to trouble our maintenance guy by requesting for a new chair from him. This other colleague of mine overheard our loud conversation and she obviously knew I was getting a new chair. Let's call her Miss L.



Yes that's the state it's in now. So I took the unoccupied chair which likes to keep erecting, while waiting for my new one.

Today after emerging from a long meeting, I was walking back with Miss L to our seats when she suddenly exclaimed:

"Wa! New chair ah!"

So I told her the chair is mine, and I was about to swap it with Erectus when she grabbed hold of it and didn't wanted to let go.

I said: "What's wrong with you?"

"Who said the new chair is yours?" she retorted.

"Eh hello my chair is already broken, and I had to temporarily use Erectus leh."

This time, my boss came around and questioned what was the din about. Miss L kept saying that I have a new chair and she didn't wanted me to have it. I had to shout out loud that I requested for it and it's rightfully mine! And you know what she did? She stuck out her tongue at me!

For your info she just turned 33.

Blood boil at 200 degrees Celsius. Never mind, I chose to ignore her and started reading my new mails. I didn't even notice that she was going home for the day. Then I saw my web vendor's mail.

Alamak, it's going to be very hard to explain here but I can tell you, they are really brainless, and they are foreigners. I'm not saying that Singaporeans are smart but I knew many from their country who are really good programmers.

First of all, the project done by them did not meet my company's standards. Even when I tried to convince them to change some parts during the User Acceptance Test (UAT), they said it's not possible to make amendments as it's going to take up more time and manpower. Fine, I had to make do with what lousy suggestions they gave. In the end, I spot backend errors every single week, which all these shouldn't have happened!

All because their work quality is really slipshod. Very simple things which you would've expected them to anticipate beforehand, and do up the preventive measures, are not even implemented! That caused a whole load of trouble when I started to test the system further. You can say that I should have borrowed an eagle's eye while doing the testing but I can tell you, even my boss also feels that they are very unprofessional, as they do not bother about the small things, especially the English phrases found in the website!

And they charge exhorbitantly for any amendments that I request. Ok, it's partially our fault for omitting one small function (just to hide/unhide a button when we need it), but it costs $500, which is 1/4 of a whole project of $2000. Don't you think it's ridiculous?

I just feel that it's my bad luck after all. When I just came into this company, the website revamp had already been approved by an ex-staff who didn't had any prior IT knowledge. In the end, I had to fix all the loose ends that she committed. So much so that I did not have any authorizing power to ask the vendors to amend the many mistakes I found. In the end, the whole revamp to the original revamp dragged for almost a year, and new problems surface every week.

I'm almost giving up on the web vendor. Tomorrow I will try to contact their CEO for a good talk, regarding the working attitude of his staff. This has to come to an end, or else I'll be unable to concentrate on my upcoming data migration task.

I don't get it

Why can't you admit that you are incompetent? Do you know that it's really frustrating to find out programming bugs that were created by you, and asking you to resolve it? Can you please wake up your bloody ideas???

You tell me where to live lah?

Bring more foreigners in to replace our declining fertility rate? Do we still need to increase our population size?

I received news on Saturday from my kor that the Punggol Residences balloting result is out. Me and Dear frantically logged on to the Internet from our phones and was greeted by a 4 digit number: 2428!

OMG. There was a sudden urge to whack 10 bucks on 4D when I saw those numbers. Out of 615 4-room units, we were like pushed so far behind! Will they allocate us a unit at the void deck? Or even the carpark?

Sigh.

There has already been an online petition circulating to ask people to join forces and request the gahment to build more affordable housing for us commoners. I think I want to start a petition to request the gahment to chase all foreigners out of Singapore.

Or rather not chase those existing ones, just stop the new ones from coming in!!

Look at our country. With a size no bigger than a Mega Mcspicy, we are already being pushed to live in the outskirts of the island. Probably some of us have to shift to Pulau Ubin. I dread the day when a giant turtle has to ferry my family to and fro the mainland. Or better still, wade across the sea on an abandoned tyre like maybe what Mas Selamat is trying to do.

To add insult to injury, I had a gathering with my ex-Poly classmates, and one of them gleefully announced that he secured a 5-room ballot number, and his number is 66!

Sobs. I want to jump down my flat and then come back upstairs and jump down again, to make sure that I die.
Nah. 7th month liao. I shall not talk in this manner. I'll just down around 10 sleeping pills to ensure I have a good sleep and forget all my sorrows. Now where are them pills?

Up next- Punggol Spectra. Not sure whether are we able to apply for it while retaining our first timer's chances. It's a far flung development that's 2 LRT stops away from Punggol MRT.

Thinking out loud, Dear dreaded those super-crowded feeder buses. And I, dread these feeder LRTs! OMG!!

Future MRT/LRT Stations

You tell me, where to live lah??