::Homework Crapbox:: (2017)
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Ho Kwon Ping's speech at The Straits Times Education Forum 2017, is more informative and less annoying than the "A lot of jobs are going to be lost. I think we've got to talk about this" SmartGen conference advertisement.
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/disruptive-change-and-the-singapore-dilemma
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With such l33t CSI skills, you'd think the millions of trolls all over the internet would collaborate to find a cure for cancer. Instead, trolling is more fun, evidently.
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/controversial-campaign-and-game-of-capture-the-flag
On 4chan, a site most recently associated with the alt-right movement, one user posted: "Challenge accepted. He Will Not Divide Us Season 3 is happening. Can we find where the flag is?"
Users were watching the stream continuously for clues, but they caught a break when celebrity gossip site TMZ reported that LaBeouf was seen at a diner in Greenville, Tennessee.
Immediately, users started confirming that the weather shown in the livestream matched the weather in a certain area.
Not only that, the trolls took the time to study planes flying over the flag, and cross-referred it to flight-tracking services.
These users also studied the constellation patterns behind the flag at night, in order to triangulate the location.
Having narrowed down the area, one user also left the comforts of his home to drive around the suspected location while honking his car horn, which was eventually heard on the livestream.
More about this on the internet : https://www.google.com.sg/#q=Shia+LaBeouf+capture+the+flag
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[Africa] - Militia fighters decapitate (chop off the head of) 40 police officers in Congo ambush
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Singaporean Chinese Muslim Kimberley-Ann Goh (part-timing as a Grab/Uber driver) kena bad experience from Indian nationals (ie. foreign-talents from India, who because of their screwed up unethical caste system, most of them look down upon Singaporeans of all races, including Singaporean Indians, thinking themselves 'up there' with Ang Mohs).
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Melissa Chen's update on Amos Yee has been reproduced on at least 6 websites and Facebook pages, excluding her own (oh btw, Melissa just adopted a soooooo cute puppy! Video on her Facebook page).
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[Video] - This could be you. Even in Sg. Let alone in My or any other country.
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Nadera Binte Abdul Aziz is on a dead serious mission to champion greater public awareness about mental health, in particular the state of mind of our super stressed youths in today's grades-obsessed society and their suffering from depression. She does it through Creating Smiles, a vehicle enacted to launch her set of talks and personal exhibitions, as well as live interviews with various media outlets.
http://www.domainofexperts.com/2017/03/conversing-with-angel-of-creating-smiles.html
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On the 25th March, today at 1.55pm, my sister was assaulted by a GrabTaxi driver while coming back home together with my mother & grandmother from Joo Chiat Complex. My sister booked GrabTaxi driver, Txx Sxxx Hxxx, Transcab Renault (SHC5433R) at 1.27pm. Throughout the trip the driver didn't talk, but started to show signs of temper when they got stuck at a traffic jam nearby Bedok Reservoir Road. He began to hurl vulgarities at my family telling them he is in a rush and all my sister asked him was, if he was in a rush why did he accept their booking (Grab can choose and accept riders by their destination), that agitated him and he punched my sister on her right neck and arm, grabbing her hand tight asking her to pay & get off this taxi. At this moment the taxi was just 1 bustop away from reaching my house. As all were ladies in the taxi, my mother got worried and paid the driver $15 (fare was $13.23) without receiving any change. They managed to walk home and later made a police report. Grab are now assisting us with this issue as well and suspended the driver's account for now. I'm extremely frustrated over this issue that happened to my family. I hope all my FB friends can share this post to alert others of this driver as he still can pick up passengers because it's a taxi. We didn't manage to get through Transcab.
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Wow, talk about Lamborghini fast. The Club fast to open, fast to shut down.
Tonino Lamborghini (son of supercar founder Ferruccio Lamborghini) is suing The Tonino Lamborghini Singapore Club for reputational damages, which opened on Oct 20 and shut down the next day, due to huge debts owed to multiple creditors.
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/lamborghini-scion-taking-legal-action-against-spore-club
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[USA] - Gangster abducts 8 women to pimp them out as his sex slaves in various strip clubs, but may not be convicted, as his lawyer claims in his defence/defense, "If they weren't willing, why didn't the women run away?" Ans : because he threatened to get his gang to kill them if they didn't do as he demanded (and besides, one did eventually run away, or at least call 911). This gangster's highly risky (to himself) modus operandi differs from most sex slave trafficking gangs who keep their sex slaves locked up on their own premises for customers to use on-the-spot. It's no wonder one of the girls managed to call 911 for help. Fortunately for these girls, this is one stupid gangster.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/man-caught-holding-eight-women-133039880.html
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Donald Trump printed out a $300,000,000,000.00, (ie. $300 billion) invoice and handed it to Angela Merkel.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-printed-made-300bn-132015850.html
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This shouldn't even qualify as an optical illusion. It's just awfully low resolution involving imperceptibly shallow contrast shading on a deliberately distracting background. And there's a simple trick to clearly seeing the face on this image. I figured it out within seconds (and no, it's not one of the useless suggestions provided on the Yahoo article), can you?
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As DAVE commented, "Its only sexual harassment if the woman doesn`t find the man attractive."
Sexual harassment? We used to call that 'welcome attention' from men, says female author Fay Weldon, risking the wrath of feminists.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/sexual-harassment-used-call-welcome-115220743.html
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12-year-old boy becomes India's 'youngest dad' after allegedly raping 16-year-old girl
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Pupils learn unexpected lesson on empathy over pot of meatball soup
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[Singapore] - JC student thinking of reporting his own grandma to the police for ill-treating their family maid
https://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/netizen-reports-own-family-members-maid-abuse
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The father should do genetic testing to confirm paternity, and once she's confirmed to be his daughter, he should be responsible and not abandon her.
HELP REUNITE VIETNAMESE DAUGHTER WITH HER SG FATHER
https://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/help-reunite-vietnamese-daughter-her-sg-father
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This Singaporean employer is stupidly risking her family's safety by not taking immediate action. If she knows the maid is deliberately making trouble to get fired, and doesn't fire her or report her, who knows what the maid will do next? (insert image of death tent)
https://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/maid-puts-detergent-sons-water-bottle-get-sent-back-home
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Talk about ingeniously re-applying a device to a completely different use. *thumbs up*
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Straits Times uploads pointless 20 second video of commuters taking train, confuses everyone, gets 50,000 views in 3 days
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Hunt is on for extinct Tasmanian tiger after sightings in Australia
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/scientists-hunt-extinct-tasmanian-tiger-191749399.html
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Too bad they didn't use the same Barry Allen from the TV series. Bruce Wayne's reply to Barry's query, "What's your superpower again?", is sooooooo true.
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Indonesian girl howls through circumcision as debate heats up
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/indonesian-girl-howls-circumcision-debate-heats-033425774.htmlThis is problematic in many ways. If a particular traditional act (religious or otherwise) is clearly unethical and no longer appropriate (due to advancing medical knowledge about the negative consequences, unknown centuries ago), then it becomes a fallacy to use the name of religion, any religion, to continue justifying the act. Furthermore, and more to the point, different Islamic authorities have opposing views on the matter, which is to say, it's fallacious to insist, "my religion requires it", because that isn't true. The problem is that cultural traditions and religious requirements are too often erroneously mixed up together.
There is no requirement for FGM in the Qur'an. There is no consensus whether the hadiths support or forbid FGM. Different schools of Islamic jurisprudence have expressed different views on FGM. Fatwas in favor of FGM have been issued in many Islamic countries, while some fatwas forbid FGM, and some ambivalent fatwas have also been issued that leave the choice to the parents. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_on_female_genital_mutilation
On the adverse medical consequences and psychological trauma of FGM :
When the pain subsides, it is far from all better. The girls in the classroom don't know that removing part of their clitoris not only endangers their health but reflects deep-rooted archaic attitudes that women do not have the right to control their own sexuality. The physical risks alone include infection, haemorrhage, scarring, urinary and reproductive problems, and death. When Yarsi University researchers interviewed girls aged 15-18 for their 2010 study, they found many were emotionally traumatised when they learned their genitals had been cut during childhood. They experienced problems such as depression, self-loathing, loss of interest in sex and a compulsive need to urinate. - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/nov/18/female-genital-mutilation-circumcision-Indonesia
Debate within Indonesia has been heating up in recent times, with activists and even a major Muslim organisation arguing against female circumcision, saying it violates a woman's right to do as she wishes with her body. "There are no verses in the Koran that require or allow female circumcision," Khorirah Ali, a member of the government-backed national commission on violence against women, told AFP. The country's second-biggest Muslim organisation, Muhammadiyah, discourages its followers from partaking in circumcision but the largest, Nahdlatul Ulama, and the country's top Islamic authority the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) are still in favour. The issue is a hot potato and the government has flip-flopped in recent years. In 2006, the health ministry banned doctors from carrying out female circumcision, saying there was no medical benefit -- but the MUI hit back with a fatwa saying that women who undergo the procedure would be considered 'noble'. -
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/indonesian-girl-howls-circumcision-debate-heats-033425774.html -
Malaysian actress Cheryl Tan, who plays a lecturer from a fictitious Singapore University in MediaCorp TV series "Faculty", is an impressively and genuinely talented singer, in addition to her (stage and TV) acting chops.
http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/stage-actress-plays-bad-girl-in-tv-debutCheryl sings "On My Own" in Les Miserables :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9qhLS9390ECheryl sings "September Song" (written by Kurt Weill) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRokHRAuAPI -
For the record, Angela Lee was born in Canada (ie. citizenship) and raised in Hawaii (ie. permanent residence), with Korean blood (mother) and Singaporean blood (father), but her ONE Championship contract is officially for representing Singapore in her MMA fights, and her family relatives she most closely associates and interacts with are from the Singaporean side. But she doesn't want to be called Canadian or American or Korean or Singaporean, she only wants to be called World MMA Champion.
https://onefc.com/world-champions/angela-lee/
https://evolve-mma.com/instructors/angela-lee/
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/teen-mma-sensation-angela/2063944.html
