::Homework Crapbox:: (2017)
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The ugly (ethically primitive or unevolved) Singaporean and/or Foreign Talent, again and again :
https://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/which-idiot-threw-these-obikes-water-lorong-halus-wetlands
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There's no pleasing everyone. With everything interconnected in some way directly or indirectly, there are bound to be far-reaching consequences not immediately obvious, no matter which route you take. Hindsight is 20/20, foresight is doing your best.
Jamie Oliver sparks fish fuss in Iceland
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/jamie-oliver-sparks-fish-fuss-iceland-051444374.html
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[Gaming] - Prey (2006)
The game's story is focused on Cherokee Domasi "Tommy" Tawodi as he, his girlfriend, and grandfather are abducted aboard an alien spaceship known as The Sphere as it consumes material, both inanimate and living, from Earth in order to sustain itself. Tommy's Cherokee past allows him to let his spirit roam freely at times, and gives Tommy an edge in his attempt to stop the Sphere.
Full Plot Story : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(2006_video_game)#Plot
Prey - Last boss and ending : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmn3u6XIybA
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Lee Bee Wah shares Lee Bee Wah’s post about an article that praises Lee Bee Wah.
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"I confess, actually I can't even afford a HDB flat..."
(*Kenny G abruptly stops playing 'Forever In Love' and facepalms*)
https://www.yahoo.com/style/emotional-wedding-moment-even-made-photographer-cry-151121076.html
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It's a good thing the 18 Chefs gang and the Soon Huat BKT gang are selling different food dishes, ie. not direct rivals.
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[Music] - Soundtrack of Korean Drama "3 Days"
In particular, check out track 5 at 15:37, a collaboration between Korean artistes Kim BoKyung (female singer) and Baechigi (male rapper).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IlmhQI6JLA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_(TV_series)
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Machiam cryptozoology, but not quite yet there.
‘River Monsters’ TV Show Hunts Down the Creatures That’s Been Stabbing Tourists
https://sg.style.yahoo.com/river-monsters-hunts-down-fish-stabbing-tourists-exclusive-222433510.html
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Not at all unexpected in (racial & religious tension riddled) Malaysia. Thank LKY (and PAP's racial & religious equality assured government policies) that this wouldn't happen in Singapore, due to genuine racial & religious harmony inculcated throughout the decades, something most Singaporeans still take for granted, until reminded by news reports of such incidences from Malaysia and Indonesia.
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/05/05/group-attacks-motorist-outside-johor-mosque/
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Necessity (or in corporate terms, sales competition and business survival) is the mother of all inventions and innovations. This is true for all industries, but most visibly the F&B industry.
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[Malaysia] - As the visitor comments below the article points out, politicians and NGOs have hijacked the religious issue for political agendas. Also at issue is the societal-cultural-religious-political divide between Sabah-Sarawak versus Peninsular Malaysia.
Notice that among the visitor comments, a visitor 'Vicky' seems to single-out and blame one specific NGO for Malaysia's worsening racial-religious disharmony, railing against this particular NGO across his multiple posts.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/sabah-uproar-over-islamic-version-kaamatan-festival-012000157.html
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[Singapore / Malaysia] - Sharp eyes on the part of the driver's, as well as making the effort to make a round trip again on the highway (most people won't even bother to stop, even if they know there's a cat there, who knows how many hours have the cat already been stuck there?), almost certainly saved the paralyzed-with-fear cat's life. How did the cat end up in the middle of the highway, anyway?
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[India] - A female student said Monday she was made to remove her bra in public by school authorities over exam cheating fears, minutes before sitting a crucial entrance test into a medical school.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/indian-student-made-remove-bra-over-exam-cheat-150610928.html
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From today's Straits Times 09 May 2017
Joseph Liow Chin Yong For The Straits Times
The writer is dean and professor of comparative and international politics at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at the Nanyang Technological University.
Political Islam's changing face in South-east Asia
With exclusivist sentiments seeping into the region's majority-Muslim countries, there is an urgent need to preserve pluralism
The challenge posed by polarisation is rendered all the more urgent because of the dearth of credible voices that have emerged to outrightly oppose and condemn such moves that threaten to fray the multi-religious fabric of South-east Asian society.
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/political-islams-changing-face-in-south-east-asia
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The rich and the super rich should contribute more in a tiered system, similar to taxes.
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North Korea claims plot reveals US state-sponsored terrorism
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/north-korea-claims-plot-reveals-112125182.html
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Modern Art = Hao Siao (hokkien)
A students left a pineapple at art exhibit as a joke and everyone really thought it was profound modern art
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/students-left-pineapple-art-exhibit-125918986.html
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"The Swimmers" (2014 Thai movie) remains one of the best Thai movies of all time, and also one of the best horror(+love) movies of all time, and also (by obvious logical extension) probably the best Thai horror(+love) movie of all time, and indeed is one of the best movies (across genres and nationalities) of all time.
If you can't find the movie online to watch for free, consider buying the DVD if you're into Thai movies, or horror(+love) movies, or just want to watch a really excellent movie.
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It's bad enough having a female actress named 'Angelababy', but to have a male actor named 'BabyJohn', that's level : facepalm.
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From a Japanese novel adapted to a movie :
A man was telling his buddy, a super-high IQ Sherlock-Holmes type, about something he heard earlier on the radio. "A listener called in to share something weird that he saw : a woman in a white dress carrying a red umbrella walked onto the street in the pouring rain, and placed the red umbrella down on the road, walked back to the pavement, and waited for a car to run over the umbrella, before picking it up and walking away in the rain. Don't you find it mysterious?". To which his super-high IQ Sherlock-Holmes buddy retorted, "Isn't it obvious? A murder has been committed." True enough, the police found a dead body the next day.
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China lawyer's wife seeks US asylum after brazen escape
Chen Guiqiu fled China on foot with her two daughters, only to end up in a Thai prison until US officials helped them sneak out dramatically through a back door. Now Chen is safe in Texas with her daughters, hoping to obtain US asylum after her extraordinary caper.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/china-lawyers-wife-seeks-us-asylum-brazen-escape-064035764.html
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[Nicaragua] - A pastor and several followers were sentenced on Tuesday to 30 years in prison for a fatal exorcism in a remote part of Nicaragua in which a 25 year old woman was thrown naked onto a fire and burnt alive as part of the religious exorcism.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/pastor-jailed-36-years-over-nicaragua-exorcism-death-224935263.html
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[Thailand] - Man punches woman in her face after she rejects his advances.
