::Homework Crapbox:: (2017)
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Investigations into the British woman found dead in Goa India last week, have concluded on how she died.
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Channel 5 is rescreening "Madam Secretary". As no English subtitles are included, here are the transcripts for those interested.
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It's like Hollywood (ie. producers, directors, scriptwriters) feels it has a social conscience or duty to tell everyone (and especially to guide young people who may be struggling with their own sexuality) that being LGBT is ok.
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Adele reportedly spotted a man called Chris crying as she belted out her hit ballad Hello and invited him and his partner Wade onstage. The unexpected meet and greet turned into a surprise proposal, as Wade used the opportunity to get down on one knee and pop the question to his boyfriend. Adele gave them both hugs as Chris said yes and insisted, "That wasn't planned... I had no idea."
https://sg.style.yahoo.com/adele-halts-show-scold-security-guard-033000986.html
On a related note, here is the Elton John report mentioned in the Adele article above : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3638222/Angry-Elton-John-launches-furious-rant-security-guards-stopped-fans-dancing-weekend-concert-leaving-stage-without-playing-encore.html
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Good investigative work by the Malaysian police.
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[Malaysia] - Pastor Joshua Hilmy and his wife have been missing since Nov 2016
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Such ignorant Singaporeans are a disgrace to Singapore.
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Singaporean secondary school student missing.
https://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/girl-went-missing-near-alexandra-road-please-help
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[Singapore] - There are idiots everywhere, whether they be cycling, driving, or walking.
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Mothership.sg reviews just how gay 'Beauty and the Beast' really is.
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So now, even the poor donkeys are in threat of extinction because of silly Chinese Medicine (which btw fares terribly compared to Western Medicine, corrupt as it may be).
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/chinas-demand-medicine-fuels-african-donkey-slaughter-033447059.html
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Man pesters woman to dance with him, slaps her when she refuses...
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Entertaining video. But just because some who claim to practice Aikido and/or QiGong are coconadens, it'll be fallacious to simplistically discredit all of Aikido and/or QiGong. Ultimately, you'll need MMA (ie. a mix of multiple martial arts) if you wish to excel at martial arts (increasingly so these days, where decades ago, most people just practice 1 martial art, these days almost everyone is into MMA, which is a good thing, as it should be), and if your repertoire of mixed martial art skills include Aikido and/or QiGong (to be precise, Nei Jia or Wai Jia martial arts that involve QiGong, including but not limited to Tai Ji, Ba Gua, Ba Ji, etc), in addition to the now-universally employed BJJ and MuayThai, then all the better for you. Afterall, as they say in the STEM and R&D industries (eg. illustrated by the design of all courses at SUTD, and increasingly so these days at all Universities including NUS, NTU and SMU as well), we need people proficient across multiple fields and disciplines, in order to innovate, create and evolve. Back in the Renaissance days, humanity could make significant progress in across multiple fields, precisely because the experts were deliberate polymaths.
Bullshit Aikido Masters versus Reality : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFdhoi3wRII
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David Cameron jokes: 'I don't have to listen any more to wiretaps of Donald Trump'
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/david-cameron-jokes-dont-listen-044024842.html
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Madam Secretary Season 1 Episode 3 "The Operative".
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Morality is an illusion (to be precise, moral absolutism is a delusion, a superior functionality would be moral relativism and moral consequentialism), only Ethics exist. And there will always be ethical dilemmas (or for those stuck in the idea of morality, moral dilemmas), for indeed this is the very nature of physical incarnation, one important modality from which the soul grows through tough decision making and the karma of the consequences.
In this episode, Madam Secretary in order to save the life of an American spy operative captured by the Pakistanis to be executed within 24 hours, wants her husband (a Uni lecturer) to give the Russian Foreign Minister's daughter an A grade for her Uni module, in exchange for the Russian government selling the Pakistani government military technology that they want, in exchange for the life of the American spy operative. Her husband, offended, says No Way, that's just unethical and immoral. See, that right there, is the myopia of moral absolutism. Choosing the path of greater good where it counts the most, that's the definition of good, of ethical good, of moral good (if you insist on morality). A man's life (and likely much more, indirectly) depends on it. No brainer here. Only moralistic fools will see it as a dilemma and struggle with such. At the end of the episode, Madam Secretary herself admits to her husband that she fears this job will end up corrupting and decaying her 'moral fiber' (*rolls eyes*), again, a myopic, silly and dysfunctional idea of morality. It's possible this job allows her to choose unethically, certainly, because that's the point of physical incarnation, to be afforded the opportunity to choose and live with the karma of your decisions. And if she (ie. anyone) so chooses to be increasingly unethical in her decisions, then that's her path, her choice, her karma. Karma considers simultaneously both intention and consequence, not either alone. Morality is a problematic delusion, it doesn't exist. Only ethics and cosmoethics exist, certainly, to which the closest functioning versions of morality to speak of (that makes any sense at all) would be moral relativism and moral consequentialism.
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“Shit, run. Other way! Shit, RUN!� - Assassin's Creed II
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"Someone in the world has a stroke every two seconds and they occurred 152,000 times in the UK in 2016, according to the Stroke Association."
Damn, it sure sucks to be that particular someone, to kena a stroke every 2 seconds... :(
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/news/deadly-spider-venom-could-stop-072600937.html
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Brazilian who fed abducted, tortured (non-stop for 6 days) and murdered girlfriend, then fed her body to dogs, now set free from prison, signed on as goalie with high pay : "I am not a bad guy, I just made a mistake, that's all."
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French celebrity chef loves Singapore food, but he says it's only because Singapore food tastes French!
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Gotham Season 2 Episode 10 is so damn spectacular, it makes you see Gotham in an entirely different light. Cunning deception by Bruce Wayne, and cunning MMA skills by Alfred the butler.
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Madam Secretary Season 1 Episode 4 :
China and Japan threaten to go to war over islands in the East China Sea. USA manages to broker a peace treaty between China and Japan, but at the last minute, a teenage China girl flees to China seeking political asylum (she is an outspoken online critic of China's human rights abuses). China demands that USA hand her over (for detention and torture), or China will refuse to sign the treaty, in which case Japan will declare war on China and USA will be legally obliged, as an ally, to be drawn into war with China. If you were Madam Secretary (who has to make the decision on behalf of the President of the USA, and no it's not Donald Trump, otherwise he'll just tweet insults about China, Japan and the teenage girl not being chio enough), how will you deal with this moral / ethical dilemma?
https://www.google.com.sg/#q=madam+secretary+season+1+episode+4
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[Malaysia] - Siti Kasim makes police report after receiving death threats. Also read the comments of Malaysians below article.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/siti-kasim-gets-death-threats-branded-destroyer-muslim-105300189.html
Interview with Siti Kasim : http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/10-things-about-siti-kasim-lawyer-and-activist
In a nutshell, she says that as a Malay Muslim, she is upset that Malaysian Islam is being influenced or 'corrupted' by Arabic Islam. Both the Sultan of Johor as well as Marina Mahathir, have both (separately) also echoed this lamentation in recent years.
Dr Norshahril Saat of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (Singapore government), an expert on the influence of Malaysian politics on Malaysian Islam, gives his analysis on the matter :
http://m.todayonline.com/world/asia/rising-conservatism-msianislam-not-just-arabisation
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[Video / Supernatural] - A woman works overtime alone at night in the office. A chair next to her moves on its own, then a water bottle next to her gets flung across the room. She hesitantly continues working, until the chair she's sitting on gets violently pulled back (you can see a shadowy figure behind her chair pulling it), which is the last straw, causing her to hurriedly leave the office.
