TODAY: Open Season — Wives to cabs

Before I cus­tom­ar­ily paste today’s TODAY arti­cle, here’s a post I found about my writ­ing for TODAY:

think mr miyagi has a damn sim­ple job. he’s this guy who writes bout what other ppl wrote in their blogs. add a few com­ments.… and TADA! fin­ish one arti­cle. hey. i do the job for you cans! i’m in need of cash alrights. just need to go GOOGLE.COM and search for stuffs like… “bad-mouthing of min­is­ters” or “sin­ga­pore blogs” or “pres­i­dent elec­tion” and WAH-LA! all he does is “copy and paste” what they say.. lit­er­ally copy and paste. haha. oh wells. he looks com­i­cal though. the car­toon ver­sion of him right smack in the mid­dle of the page. ah. oh wells. if i fail my A lvl (CHOY!) think i’ll scout for his job and break his rice­bowl. =D * beams *

Tolong! Please don’t fail your ‘A’ lev­els. I need this rice­bowl. (Won’t one lah, you RGS — Hwa Chong type! You just mightn’t do all that well for G.P. if you wrote like that, though.)

Today’s “copy and paste” TODAY: Open Sea­son — Wives to cabs

Blog­gers are a diverse bunch of peo­ple and they’ll pon­tif­i­cate on any topic under the sun, as some high­lights from past week’s post­ings show…

BLOG IT IF…

… you swal­lowed a bit­ter pill (or “if you feel bit­ter about your ex-spouse get­ting all your money”):

Today reader Der­rick Tan fol­lowed a recent “Voices” debate about wifely duties, mar­riage and divorce laws in Sin­ga­pore, and decided he had some­thing to add to the argument.

His blog, titled “Men’s answer to fem­i­nism”, (www.menspeak.blogspot.com), has only one entry. But some of the com­ments left there are as long as the post itself.

Com­menter victeoh, who by the length of his com­ment, should really have his own blog, argues for a Fam­ily Char­ter to super­sede what he thinks is an out­moded Women’s Char­ter because of its incon­gru­ence with the usual empha­sis on a “3-generation fam­ily”.

He writes: “Because of my ex-wife’s objec­tion, my par­ents did not get their access rights (to their grand­chil­dren) legally … In Sin­ga­pore, a 3-generation fam­ily is encour­aged but strangely under the Women’s Char­ter, mar­riage is like a con­tract between 2 per­sons only and grand­par­ents are not a party to it, and there­fore, the Court can­not rule on grandparent’s access.”

victeoh also argues that the Women’s Char­ter is unfair to men, espe­cially in the area of main­te­nance enti­tle­ments for ex-spouses.

“Wives get a main­te­nance even if she has high qual­i­fi­ca­tions (such as my ex-wife who has a Master’s degree) and high income (such as my ex-wife who qual­i­fied eas­ily for a plat­inum card) … This is the case even if the break­down in mar­riage is due to, say, adul­tery by the wife! Such dis­crim­i­na­tion must be reviewed.“

…you see a taxi dri­ver doing some­thing, er, inter­est­ing

Expat Cal­i­forn­ian blog­ger “BMA” usu­ally takes phonecam pic­tures of the food he eats and then posts them on his blog, “The Trav­el­ling Hun­gry­boy” (www.eatbma.blogspot.com).

What he saw on one road jour­ney here was far from food-related, but too good to pass up: A Sin­ga­porean taxi dri­ver with his win­dow wound down, and “his head out of the win­dow with nail clip­pers at a red light, cut­ting his nails so that they could fall onto the pave­ment”. BMA laments about how he keeps run­ning into these “nasty cab dri­vers”, with an ear­lier entry titled “Nos­tril Man Sur­faces”, com­plete with a phonecam shot of a taxi dri­ver doing some­thing with his nostrils.

Curi­ous? Go read it.

More on taxi dri­vers. Mark, 25, runs a blog called “The Taxi Man Says”, (www.taximansingapore.blogspot.com), which “is a humourous look at some of the amaz­ing sto­ries that taxi dri­vers like to give me in Sin­ga­pore”.

Amaz­ing sto­ries include one about a taxi dri­ver giv­ing Mark his expla­na­tion for the pres­ence of sev­eral items of women’s under­gar­ments in the back seat:

“Yeah. Wah lau. Thees lady ah. She says she was hot and took off her panties. Ha ha ha ha! [insert deranged taxi dri­ver evil laugh here]

“These drunk lady they do any­thing. Just leave them there. Heh heh heh hooo haa haa haa [cackle].”

… you have exams com­ing

If your par­ents tell you to stop blog­ging and con­cen­trate on study­ing, here’s the best response:

You have to blog for your exams, or at least, study blogs for exams.

Raf­fles Junior Col­lege stu­dent Melvin Tiong (www.runawaygetlost.blogspot.com) blogs about his Gen­eral Paper ques­tion about blogs, which he thinks is the “nicest GP ques­tion ever to have writ­ten about. Very much dif­fer­ent from all the stan­dard types of ques­tions and issues”.

Another group of stu­dents writes and draws about their expe­ri­ences at school.

The Stu­dents’ Sketch­pad (www.studentssketchpad.blogspot.com) is a series of very well done “web­comic” sketches about schools and the edu­ca­tion sys­tem in Singapore.

And how “blog­ging accounts for 10 per cent of pro­mos (pro­mo­tional exams) results” in a “cer­tain junior col­lege” involved in “a cer­tain well-known online blog­ging com­pe­ti­tion”.

Don’t stu­dents get rapped on the knuck­les for doo­dling while study­ing anymore?

Mr Miyagi, a.k.a. Ben­jamin Lee, has been enter­tain­ing blog read­ers for a year at www.miyagi.sg and believes taxi dri­vers should have their own National Day Parade con­tin­gent.