Thursday, February 28, 2008, 7:02 PM
Mas Selamat bin Kastari Escapes!
Mas Selamat bin Kastari, allegedly the head of the Singapore branch of militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), escaped from the Internal Security Department's Whitley Road Detention Centre yesterday at 4.05pm. His family was suppose to be visiting him at that time, when he asked to be allowed to visit the washroom before the meeting, and then fled from the detention centre. A massive manhunt has been carried out today near the detention centre.Read more of this here: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/331477/1/.html
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http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_211363.html
If you do come across anyone who like this please call 999~
Thursday, February 7, 2008, 11:15 PM
Happy CNY!
Firstly I'll like to wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year. May all have a wealthy, healthy & prosperous year!
It's been quite a day this Chinese New Year. We started the morning with a walk at Bedok Reservoir. Here are some pictures I took:
Next we visit Mac Donald to get ourselves some breakfast and headed home....
...and so more pictures to cover up:
Rainbow on the floor
My dinner at grandparents house. FYI: It's not prison food!
Too lazy to type everything~ so tata~
Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 7:56 PM
New year rush
With the new year around the corner, the past 2 days of work has been ... nonstop running, nonstop answers, nonstop complains & nonstop trouble. With the festive season around the corner, last minute crowd for stocking up of new notes is a common phenomenon in most banks. I wouldn't want to elaborate. Writing my experience makes me remember what I had experienced throughout the whole day...so I'm not going to write about my day. Okay.. maybe it wasn't all that bad.With CNY around the corner, I'll like to wish everyone a happy lunar new year! Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Sunday, February 3, 2008, 11:37 PM
The nasty SMRT officer
I normally don't go out with my dad much but I did so today. We drove to Newton MRT station and parked at one of the free parking lot zone. It was pouring a little then so my father and I squeezed into my small little umbrella to get as much shelter as we can out of it. My right sleeves were a bit wet from the droplets of rain that managed to pass the shelter that my umbrella could provide. I knew I shouldn't have worn long sleeves. As my father visited the washroom, I headed down to the 7-eleven store to get myself a drink. Cashing out the chilled Heaven and Earth Green tea for the unreasonable price of $2, both my father and I proceeded to the MRT barrier to cross to the other side to take a train. Dying to quench my thirst, I opened the freshly bought bottle of green tea and took a sip, followed by a few mouthfuls while traveling down the escalator. We found a sit to rest ourselves till the train arrived. All was going quite fine until I notice a SMRT officer striding towards where I was residing."Maybe his just doing his routine rounds, it's not like his going to give me an earful" I thought. Sadly, the latter was already set in motion when I popped the cap of my bottle.
"Were you drinking that just now young man?" the officer asked.
"Yes, i just bought it at 7-eleven you see," I stammered.
The officer gave me an unsatisfactory look, sending shivers down my spine.
"There's people watching you..... there's people watching you," he warned before turning and disappearing to the other end of the station.
Later I realized that it was an offense to drink in the station and I could have been fined $500. Even though I was thankful that I did not have to pay that large sum of money, I just couldn't accept the way the SMRT officer's way of expressing himself.
"Hey young lad, I hope you know what you've just done could have burnt a hole in your pocket."
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"Hey boy, you were drinking that just now right? Its an offense. I'll let you of this time but next time I catch you I'll have to stick with the rules."
Wouldn't these be a nicer way to put things? There's people watching you- What type of warning is this? Even though its an offense to drink in a train station, I don't really see how drinking can actually affect other passengers. Unless you spill it on the floor or onto someone, drinking to quench thirst being an offense is quite unreasonable. If someone would die from just seeing me drink, then the warning would be reasonable. Ah what the heck.
Its already past "today", so this post is an entry for yesterday. Would like to type more on the details of my trip to Orchard Road but time doesn't permit. Hope I can forget my Monday blues with the upcoming CNY festive season.
signing off~