What a present!

- from The Straits Times, 2 Feb 2009

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On Ageing

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Mind your own business

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The evil of eating contests

Just a week after I questioned why people would go stuff themselves silly with food, The Straits Times reported the death of a Taiwanese who died after eating two steamed buns in one minute. His winning: S$90. What a shame! Perhaps the world should sit up and ban senseless eating contests. I mean, what do [...]

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Why do that?

Read in the Straits Times of 18 Oct 2008 (Sat).
Restaurant chef Brad Sciullo chomped his way through a 7kg burger, which came with a further 2.3kg of toppings, in four hours and 39 minutes earlier this week in Clearfield, Pennsylvania.
What a feat but I think it’s insane to do that. For completing the challenge in [...]

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Tattoos

Mind Your Body today (supplement of the Straits Times that comes out every Tuesday) highlights people whose body are covered with tattoos. It’s a wonder why people would want to subject themselves to the excruciating pain of getting a tattoo.
I watched on TV a couple of nights ago when people said they won’t want to [...]

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Sad Trees

This news clip is interesting. I’m thinking: perhaps the tree in question was sad that it was cut down; or the tree was unhappy for the sorry ecological state of the earth?

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No children after 9/11?

A question came to my mind after I read what Maggie Cheung (Hong Kong actress) said about having children: Shouldn’t 9/11 be the reason for us to want to bring children to the world, and to ensure that we educate them on living life harmoniously and peacefully with everyone, regardless of race, language or [...]

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Big men must cry

What struck me in this newspaper report was Ching Cheong’s confession that he cried. Yes, big man do cry, and I think big men must cry. Ching Cheong, a Straits Times Chief China Correspondent, was arrested by the China authorities in 2005 and accused of spying for Taiwan. He has just been released (no doubt [...]

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poor children … poor parents

TODAY has an article “CDAC offers bridge to P1″ this day. It says that the Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC) has launched a bridging programme to prepare pre-schoolers for primary school. The bridging programme is conducted over four weeks during the November-December school holidays and the six-year-olds will be taught basic English literacy and numerical [...]

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