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Hope one day China and Japan can make funny and not get offended at each other ...
27 February 2014
27 February, 2014
26 February, 2014
The measure of a society
Of Dogs and Men in an Army camp [Link]
Col. Jessep: Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
Remembered there were also stray dogs roaming about our army camp, but they didn't bother any humans. One day, we heard loud bang and saw the AVA guys were "exterminating" the strays... we saw the dogs scuttle, sensing danger, they knew to run away from the AVA men. One of the AVA officer was armed with a twelfth gauge pump action and the other was carrying a long rod with a lasso contraption at the business end. We saw a stray mortally wounded lying on the ground... the AVA officer with the long rod hooked the lasso around the dog's neck and proceeded to strangle it... i think the dog also want to die quickly to end this suffering... i saw it's tongue sticking out and then it was done.
I don't think our battalion RSM or our CO or even the camp commandant has a hand in this at the time. I thought and assumed there were DXOs (Defence Executives - civilians employed by the defence ministry) deployed to our camp to handle camp grounds and building maintenance and such stuff, whom liaise with external agencies such as the AVA to handle this kind of problem ...
Times are a changing, senior officers and corporations/institutions need to be more social savvy.
26 February 2014
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Jack Nicholson powerful performance
Col. Jessep: Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.
Remembered there were also stray dogs roaming about our army camp, but they didn't bother any humans. One day, we heard loud bang and saw the AVA guys were "exterminating" the strays... we saw the dogs scuttle, sensing danger, they knew to run away from the AVA men. One of the AVA officer was armed with a twelfth gauge pump action and the other was carrying a long rod with a lasso contraption at the business end. We saw a stray mortally wounded lying on the ground... the AVA officer with the long rod hooked the lasso around the dog's neck and proceeded to strangle it... i think the dog also want to die quickly to end this suffering... i saw it's tongue sticking out and then it was done.
I don't think our battalion RSM or our CO or even the camp commandant has a hand in this at the time. I thought and assumed there were DXOs (Defence Executives - civilians employed by the defence ministry) deployed to our camp to handle camp grounds and building maintenance and such stuff, whom liaise with external agencies such as the AVA to handle this kind of problem ...
Times are a changing, senior officers and corporations/institutions need to be more social savvy.
Col. Jessep: [Judge dismisses the jury after Jessep's revelation on the stand about the Code Red] What is this? What's going on? I did my job, I'd do it again!
[stands up defiantly]
Col. Jessep: I'm gonna get on a plane and go on back to my base.
Judge Randolph: You're not going anywhere, Colonel. MP's... guard the Colonel!
[MPs take post]
Judge Randolph: Captain Ross?
Col. Jessep: What the hell is this?
Capt. Ross: Colonel Jessep, you have the right to remain silent. Any statement you make...
Col. Jessep: I'm being charged with a crime? Is that what this is? I'm being charged with a crime? This is funny. That's what this is. This is...
[turning to Kaffee and lunging at him]
Col. Jessep: ... I'm gonna rip the eyes out of your head and piss into your dead skull! You fucked with the wrong Marine!
Capt. Ross: Colonel Jessep! Do you understand these rights as I have just read them to you?
Col. Jessep: [contemptuously] You fuckin' people... you have no idea how to defend a nation. All you did was weaken a country today, Kaffee. That's all you did. You put people's lives in danger. Sweet dreams, son.
Kaffee: Don't call me son. I'm a lawyer, and an officer in the United States Navy, and you're under arrest you son of a bitch.
[glares at Jessep]
Kaffee: The witness is excused.
26 February 2014
24 February, 2014
i told you so ...
18:55
One year ago we were still hopeful, hoping hope against hope [Link]
Can we work something out, peacefully ? Can there be peace between us ?
Then what do you want from us ?
...
Rising China is like a growing child becoming a teenager - rebellious and beginning to see that he has physical strength and not afraid of his parents' house rules... the child will only grow stronger day by day, all the parents can do is to guide him, make sure he doesn't go astray, make sure as he grows into a mature and responsible man, he remembers the two guiding pillars - Human Rights and Democracy. Otherwise, human progress will be set back centuries and in its place will be coming dark ages, we, humanity has come a long way, hold fast and protect the spirit of the Magna Carta at all cost, otherwise the world will suffer ... [Link]
14 February, 2014
At last I.T. jobs are coming back ...
... to Singaporeans !
IAI setting up Cyber R & D centre in Singapore [Link]
Good job EDB ! Bring back the jobs, this will have "trickle down" ( the real kind of trickle down not your bankers kind of trickle down) effects for other sectors. Parents will be more willing to encourage their children to take Computer Science programmes again just like "old times" before the torrential avalanche of I.T. "out-sourcing" which killed a generation of hard working, studious, talented Singaporean I.T. graduates from the Polytechnics and Universities.
Not surprise if currently there is a "gap", i.e. a lot of I.T. trained "oldies" doing some other jobs in Singapore and starting to see many "youngsters" taking up I.T. courses in institutions and the "hollow" in between their age range.
This hollowing out of sinkie I.T. professionals are currently being filled by foreign workers...
I.T. jobs are good jobs, they are orders of magnitude better than casino jobs, if their parents can help it. It's not like you want your children to work in a casino, but for survival, you need to work, to put food on the table.
14 February 2014
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