Monday, February 26, 2007

Alert! Alert!

Couple spotted commiting the sin of Kalwat ( or close proximity). Syariah police please be on the alert. Please refer to pictures of Said couple below. If spotted, do not hestitate to inflict the punishment of stoning the "dirty" couple naked in the public.

P.s. If u believe what i am writing, u seriously need to get out of the cave.



Sunday, February 18, 2007

Pics from Seoul, Korea

Hi ppl , some pics from my recent working trip to Seoul.

My private sanctuary, this is the courtyard where i smoked after my breakfast in the hotel every morning. It;s really very very tranquil and i have never seen anyone hanging around here, cos it;s cold..

Another pic of the courtyard.

Pic taken from the resturant which i had lunch often..

i liked this house very much!!!

taken from my hotel room. it;s snowing!!!!!!

Gun-nam area. Local architecture and life

Gun-nam, nice-looking resturant.

Taken from the office building in Seoul. U can see some areas with snow.
City scape as seen from my room.
Room service!!! this thing cost me $30 dollars!!!!
Pics from Isendon.. A place where there;s many arts and crafts for sale.. Nice place..

Last but not least, me me me..!!! (Due to privacy issue, identity of said-person has been protected) :)

invasion of the USB humping Dogs

These guys are back with a vengeance, and they brought their friends along.. See how they violate the USB hub....

Sunday, February 11, 2007

social dilema?

please read the below post carefully :-

"GRIEF-STRICKEN relatives of a brain-dead man on Tuesday begged that his organs not be taken - and then got into a tussle with hospital staff when their request was rejected.
They were praying for a miracle, hoping that Mr Sim Tee Hua, 43, would awake from his coma.
But the crane operator was declared brain dead at 6.20pm on Monday - four days after he collapsed at work last Thursday.
The cause of death: a stroke, or brain haemorrhage.
When doctors at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) said on Monday that they were going to remove his organs, the family requested that they wait for 24 hours - and the doctors agreed.
After that time was up, the family asked for another 24 hours, but doctors felt that a delay would make the organs unusable for transplant and went ahead with the operation.
Under the Human Organ Transplant Act (Hota) amended in July 2004, kidneys, livers, hearts and corneas suitable for transplant can be removed from all Singaporeans and permanent residents upon their death - unless they have opted out. Muslims are exempted because of religious reasons.
Mr Sim had not opted out of the programme, so his family was powerless to stop his organs from being removed.
But they tried their best.
Lianhe Wanbao reported that around 20 members of Mr Sim's family intervened when his body was being wheeled into the operating theatre at about 10.15pm on Tuesday. His mother and five other relatives went down on their knees to beg doctors to delay the operation for one more day.
But when their request was denied, emotions ran high and the police were called. An aunt tried to bite a police officer in the arm.
Nine police officers and about 10 hospital security staff members were involved in the three-hour confrontation before the matter was resolved peacefully and doctors performed the operation.
Mr Sim's sister, Ms Shen Qiu Xia, 45, told Lianhe Wanbao: 'We were actually prepared to accept that he was dead if his condition did not get better by Wednesday night.
'Although he was brain-dead, his body was still warm and my mother said that she felt he would awake from the coma.' She added that he had no previous major illnesses and that he had planned to marry a girlfriend in her 30s from China's Hainan island.
A Health Ministry spokesman told The Straits Times yesterday: 'Where possible, doctors will accommodate a family's request for a grace period as death is usually a difficult time for them. However, the transplant team will have to balance this with the need to save the lives of organ failure patients.'
Brain death is defined as a complete and irreversible cessation of brain activity. When this happens, a person can be declared dead even if the heart continues to beat due to life support measures.
The kidneys taken from Mr Sim's body were given to two patients. One, a 55-year-old man, was on the transplant waiting list for about six years. The other is a 49-year-old man who had been waiting for almost eight years.
Mr Sim's corneas will be transplanted in the next few days.
Largely due to the amendments to Hota, the number of patients awaiting a kidney transplant dropped from 673 in 2003 to 605 in mid-2006.
In the two years to July 2006, at least 130 people have received transplants under the revised Act.
Anyone who does not want his organs to be taken after his death can register with the Ministry of Health. The opt-out form can be obtained from all public hospitals and polyclinics or from the Organ Donor Registry at SGH."


what are your thought about this article? humane or inhumane? well for your info, if u did not sign the OPT-OUT form for the organ removal thingy, u might end up like Mr Sim.. Our great government, made this scheme that, by default, u agreed to donate your organ in the case if u are dead, unless u sign the opt-out form. And i believe lots of ppl are ignorant of this scheme, u agree? I feel that it's like making use of ppl's ignorance or the "i-am-busy-i'll-sign-the-form-another-day" attitude.

Yes, to donate your organ to others when u are totally dead is fine, but in this case, that person is not dead yet, heart still beating, his just in a COMA.. He might even be aware of his surroundings even though he cant react to it.. Just imagine yourself in his case.

please ppl, the opt-out form is here (the 3rd PDF file)http://www.moh.gov.sg/corp/systems/organ/hota/forms.do
please do not procrastinate and fill it up if u are uncomfortable about having your organs removed even though u might not be dead yet. For me, i am sure very very uncomfortable with it..

Thursday, February 1, 2007

Locals in Korea

Day 8 of my working trip. it;s been a few days since my last post.. Well i am still surviving, but still not enjoying a bit. Ok today i am goin to talk about locals in Korea, and i meant the Singaporean locals in Korea, or in short my fellow colleagues.. It;s not hard to notice ppl's quirks when u have to hang around them from morning till night at work. Lunch and dinner are with them. Breakfast is the onli meal i can stay away from them to have my own time alone, cos i chose to have it earlier than them. I went to Korea with 3 other colleagues, let;s call them A, B and C, just to give them some anonymity. :)

A is the manager-level guy of the group. Being more senior in age and position, he keeps himself away from all the lamenting from his fellow colleagues, including me. haha. When issues of sex were talked about(what else do u expect 4 lonely guys to talk about?), he will pretty much keep his comments to himself, but u can see the glimmer in his eyes how interested this topic is to him. haha..And i can see him trying hard to control his urge to visit a "girl" here. Well, he was given a namecard of some dubious services(in korean, dun understand, but it had a 100,000won priced service written in BOLD), which he showed to us days ago and he showed to us again just now It;s still in his pocket!!! ahha. Well he tries to stay optimistic when the project is almost down the drain, though u know his not feeling that way, cos as the project manager, his ass is on the line more than ours. To quote his favourite words, "Life goes on"

B is a tall guy, well his a malaysian, looks ok, but still unattached. Maybe what i am goin to write might be the reason behind it? yes, B talks loudly, very loudly. haha.. imagine being in a small eatery full of Koreans, and then this guy starts talking loudly, very loudly, in chinese, and yes, with the malaysian accent, and u know how awkward the situation is. I hate to stick out in a foreign country. i dunno about u, but i cannot take it lah.. haha

C is also malaysian, yah yah yah... But his accent is much worse than B. So i practically have to endure hours of malaysian chinese talk.. Maybe i might start to talk like that now without me realising it. If u hear any of that accent coming out of my mouth, please slap me.. Thank u very much, :) Anyway, the problem with C is not the accent, but his eating habits. he eats loudly!!!! 1 talks loudly, the other eats loudly.. phew... His those kind that dun close his mouth when he chews, and the resulting noise it creates, is unbearable. I can feel the angst in me growing everyday. But, as what i found out, there is always a cause and an effect, action vs. reaction. Cos last nite while we were having fried chicken for dinner at the small eatery(the one which B talks loudly in), i suddenly realised, because B talks so loudly, his voice drowns the eating sound of C. Amazing, i looked at his chewing mouth, yet i cant hear nothin! hahaha

anyway, we were joined by 2 fellow colleagues in office today, D and E. D is interesting as of now, and he was suggesting we go ski-ing this weekend. We shall see. E will be goin back to singapore (envy envy) tomorrow and he really needs a lip moisturiser badly. His been licking his lips the whole day (due to the dry weather) and it;s really looking like 2 pieces of taiwanese sausages by now.

Ok that;s all for now and it;s 12.06am here!!! dammit, personal time flies!!!