Dam the barrage

On March 28, 2005 · 29 Comments · In Living

For a slow Mon­day morning:

Some com­puter pro­gram says Mr Miyagi writes this blog like a pop-novelist. Nabeh, I high-brow ok?

The folks at SquareBrain.net have given sev­eral blogs a whirl on the machine, and have given them some sort of rank­ing. I dunno how those rank­ings work. A bit like how NUS is the 18th ranked uni in the wurl.

You will find this totally unre­lated, but it’s funny how there are so many things one doesn’t notice about Sin­ga­pore until one’s friend comes back from over­seas, and asks, ‘what on earth is a marina bar­rage?’, and one tells them, ‘erm, is like a dam, to catch water, pump sea­wa­ter out, make it fresh­wa­ter, and peo­ple can play water­sports’.

That was my best para­phrase of all the CNA reports about the barrage.

Then she asked more press­ing ques­tions, like, ‘Do you remem­ber them ever men­tion­ing any­thing about a bar­rage? How come all of a sud­den got bar­rage? How come no dis­cus­sion, no debate, noth­ing?‘

My best analy­sis about why it was like that was, ‘Cos it’s not like it’s a casino or the gays cause aids issue, so it doesn’t con­cern us socially, so no need to ask who got awarded the ten­der to design and build the thing lah, who runs the thing lah, y’know?‘

Then my friend took out her cam­era to show me really nice pic­tures of the places she’s vis­ited on her long stint abroad.


More scin­til­lat­ing man­ner of writ­ing, can?

Surf stop: Air

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing a copy of: You Ain’t Livin’ Till You’re Lovin’ (with Tammi Ter­rell) — Mar­vin Gaye — The Very Best of Mar­vin Gaye, of which I have the orig­i­nal CD and there­fore didn’t steal music.
 
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  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/2766369 shi­anux

    Mr Miyagi:
    [joke]
    I wish to notify you that I am report­ing you to the Com­pe­ti­tion Com­mis­sion of Sin­ga­pore, on the basis that there are rea­son­able grounds for sus­pect­ing that a pro­hi­bi­tion under s 47(2)(b) and © of the Com­pe­ti­tion Act 2004 has been infringed.

    47(2)(b) — Abuse of dom­i­nant posi­tion in a mar­ket by lim­it­ing pro­duc­tion, mar­kets or tech­ni­cal devel­op­ment to the prej­u­dice of consumers;

    i.e. main­tain­ing a monop­oly over chiobus in Sin­ga­pore by exploit­ing your con­nec­tions with other chiobus, thereby lim­it­ing the oppor­tu­ni­ties of other men to get to know the chiobus.

    47(2)(b) — Abuse of dom­i­nant posi­tion in a mar­ket by apply­ing dis­sim­i­lar con­di­tions to equiv­a­lent trans­ac­tions with other trad­ing par­ties, thereby plac­ing them at a com­pet­i­tive disadvantage;

    i.e. appear­ing as a all-round nice guy to other blokes, but appear­ing as a super suave, lady-killer type man to chiobus, thereby plac­ing other guys at a com­pet­i­tive disadvantage.

    You should con­tact a legal advi­sor as soon as pos­si­ble so that you have access to legal advice on your next course of action.
    [/joke]

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/2766369 shi­anux

    Mr Miyagi:
    [joke]
    I wish to notify you that I am report­ing you to the Com­pe­ti­tion Com­mis­sion of Sin­ga­pore, on the basis that there are rea­son­able grounds for sus­pect­ing that a pro­hi­bi­tion under s 47(2)(b) and © of the Com­pe­ti­tion Act 2004 has been infringed.

    47(2)(b) — Abuse of dom­i­nant posi­tion in a mar­ket by lim­it­ing pro­duc­tion, mar­kets or tech­ni­cal devel­op­ment to the prej­u­dice of consumers;

    i.e. main­tain­ing a monop­oly over chiobus in Sin­ga­pore by exploit­ing your con­nec­tions with other chiobus, thereby lim­it­ing the oppor­tu­ni­ties of other men to get to know the chiobus.

    47(2)(b) — Abuse of dom­i­nant posi­tion in a mar­ket by apply­ing dis­sim­i­lar con­di­tions to equiv­a­lent trans­ac­tions with other trad­ing par­ties, thereby plac­ing them at a com­pet­i­tive disadvantage;

    i.e. appear­ing as a all-round nice guy to other blokes, but appear­ing as a super suave, lady-killer type man to chiobus, thereby plac­ing other guys at a com­pet­i­tive disadvantage.

    You should con­tact a legal advi­sor as soon as pos­si­ble so that you have access to legal advice on your next course of action.
    [/joke]

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5859955 lancer­lord

    Wah farnie lawyer sia! Don’t play play.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5859955 lancer­lord

    Wah farnie lawyer sia! Don’t play play.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    Er.. pic­ture is totally unre­lated to blog post.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    Er.. pic­ture is totally unre­lated to blog post.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/3583948 aGent X

    lucky got no writ of sum­mons from the red army! :)

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/3583948 aGent X

    lucky got no writ of sum­mons from the red army! :)

  • http://www.squarebrain.net/ Ray

    I believe there is cer­tain infor­ma­tion miss­ing from your entry, namely:

    Miyagi-san, you still won!

    Still can scold, tsk tsk.

  • http://www.squarebrain.net/ Ray

    I believe there is cer­tain infor­ma­tion miss­ing from your entry, namely:

    Miyagi-san, you still won!

    Still can scold, tsk tsk.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5111909 mb

    Nabez, my blog is Reader’s Digest.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5111909 mb

    Nabez, my blog is Reader’s Digest.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/4030403 Acid­Flask

    Dammit shi­anux, you are way out­side your area of juris­dic­tion! Stay right where you are, you quit­ting koala-hugger, or else the Mighty Magi­cian will come by and ham­tam you. He is a lawyer too ok? ;-P

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/4030403 Acid­Flask

    Dammit shi­anux, you are way out­side your area of juris­dic­tion! Stay right where you are, you quit­ting koala-hugger, or else the Mighty Magi­cian will come by and ham­tam you. He is a lawyer too ok? ;-P

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/2766369 shi­anux

    lol.

    I’m just abit miffed, how come for a guy who oth­ers sug­gest look gay (look only!), Miyagi seems to know a sig­nif­i­cantly large num­ber of hot chicks as com­pared to the aver­age Sin­ga­porean guy.

    How he do it man, must have some sort of secret power…

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/2766369 shi­anux

    lol.

    I’m just abit miffed, how come for a guy who oth­ers sug­gest look gay (look only!), Miyagi seems to know a sig­nif­i­cantly large num­ber of hot chicks as com­pared to the aver­age Sin­ga­porean guy.

    How he do it man, must have some sort of secret power…

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/2766369 shi­anux

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  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/2766369 shi­anux

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  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5296178 Vic­nan

    Eh! No fair! I con­vinced her to put up that pic; I inspired that post!

    *sulk*

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/5296178 Vic­nan

    Eh! No fair! I con­vinced her to put up that pic; I inspired that post!

    *sulk*

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    mb: Reader’s Digest no good meh? Inside got a lot of jokes leh.

    Shi­anux: I’m just a lucky dude, dude. No secret power.

    Vic­nan: Stay tuned.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    mb: Reader’s Digest no good meh? Inside got a lot of jokes leh.

    Shi­anux: I’m just a lucky dude, dude. No secret power.

    Vic­nan: Stay tuned.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/7661567 stoned.nerd

    tasty..

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/7661567 stoned.nerd

    tasty..

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/7467853 [ dolls ][ don’t ][ die ]

    Do you know that many chiobus? Don’t you just find us from other people’s blogs? :) Thanks for the fea­ture I guess.

    Vic­nan, it’s always you. Haha…

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/7467853 [ dolls ][ don’t ][ die ]

    Do you know that many chiobus? Don’t you just find us from other people’s blogs? :) Thanks for the fea­ture I guess.

    Vic­nan, it’s always you. Haha…

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    I’d like to say I don’t know that many chiobus, but my chiobu friends would cry foul, all 57 of them.

  • http://www.blogger.com/profile/1700143 Mr Miyagi

    I’d like to say I don’t know that many chiobus, but my chiobu friends would cry foul, all 57 of them.

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