Archive for the ‘Gossips’ Category

SPH Reporter Doesn’t Know How To Read Graph?

Oct 8, 2008 Funny News, Gossips, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs

Something I read from EDMW looks interesting (click to enlarge):
LTA annual report

Oct 8, 2008
Car owners drove less last year
LTA annual report shows traffic on expressways eased, cars achieved better mileage

By Christopher Tan
RISING fuel prices helped put the brakes on driving in Singapore last year, new Government data suggests.
The average car owner covered 20,840km last year, about 1 per cent less than in 2006, said the Land Transport Authority (LTA). Based on Singapore’s car population of about 500,000, that works out to a cumulative cutback of 116.5 million km.

This came as pump prices jumped almost 50 cents a litre - or roughly one third - between January and December last year.

The numbers were contained in the LTA’s 2007 annual report, which The Straits Times received yesterday. The report also revealed that Singapore’s expressways flowed more freely than they did the year before.

Just over 97 per cent of expressways experienced average speeds of above 45kmh during the morning rush hour in January this year, up from 93 per cent in the same month last year. In the evenings, 97 per cent of expressways hit the 45kmh range, a slight improvement over the previous year.

But conditions on main roads were not as rosy, with the percentage of streets that saw speeds over 20kmh falling slightly to 97 per cent during the morning peak period and 94 per cent in the evening.

Meanwhile, Singapore drivers seem to be getting better mileage.

The average small car (with an engine of up to 1,600cc) consumed 9.6 litres per 100km last year, while big cars (above 1,600cc) used 12 litres per 100km. These were the best economy figures recorded in recent years.

The LTA’s road-building programme has been picking up speed in recent years too, according to its annual report.

Last year, 718 km of new lanes were added, the most in five years and double the length built in 2003.

Observers reckon that may explain why traffic remained relatively free-flowing despite a record 6.5 per cent increase in vehicles last year, bringing the total to more than 851,000.

A further $54 billion worth of projects are planned over the next 10 to 15 years as part of the Land Transport Master Plan - Singapore’s roadmap to a commuter-centred system that will see new MRT lines, more bus services and an expanded road network.

LTA chairman Michael Lim said the authority will engage the private sector in the ambitious roll-out.

‘We have already begun to reach out to regional companies and professionals who are keen to participate in Singapore’s land transport infrastructure expansion,’ he said, without giving details.

For the financial year ended March 2008, the LTA posted a net surplus of $37 million, down from $44 million the previous year. This was largely on the back of higher operating expenditure and a dip in government grants.

Source1, Source2

Like what the forummer said, the graph’s legend said “less than 45kmh”, but the article said “above 45kmh”. Same goes to the other paragraph. I am confused. Is it the reporter don’t know how to read graph? Or something is wrong with the graph itself?

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YB Lim, Wireless@Penang Is Not Something NEW

Oct 6, 2008 Funny News, Gossips, Malaysia, Stupid Stuffs

I feel like laughing when I read this:

PENANG: No wireless project if it’s proven bad for health
By Audrey Dermawan

2008/10/05

Penang will not continue with the free Wireless@Penang broadband project if there is scientific proof to show that the health of the people will be adversely affected Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the state government was prepared to widen its consultations to include holding public forums with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and members of the public who were uneasy about the health risks posed by the use of free wireless connections to the Internet.
“Public consultation is a continuing process even after a project is announced.
“We believe in accountability. We are open to cancelling the free wireless project, which is aimed at providing free WiFi connection to the entire state within 24 months, if NGOs or any party can show incontrovertible evidence that there are harmful health risks,” he said in a statement today.

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YB Lim, I thought you guys like and admire the style of Singapore government’s administration very much? Don’t you ever hear of Wireless@SG? People here have been enjoying free wireless connection for over 1 year already! Just book an air ticket and fly here to consult the experts here, hold forum for what? By the way, remember to book economy class.

Sibeh talk cock, if there is any health risk, you think the nation famous of kiasu and kiasi will allow?

Sorry to any fans of Mr Lim. Seriously, the more I saw him talk, in charge of Penang, the more I feel that he is becoming NATO, No Action Talk Only.

Relevant news on The Star: Penang to continue study on health effects of WiFi

Relevant news on The Star: Penang’s WiFi forum

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Singtel Claimed “ForMalu 1″ Photo Fake, STOMPer Comes Back With More Proof

Oct 6, 2008 Gossips, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs

I don’t like this kind of culture. Whenever people point out a little mistakes/errors that some big corporates may have committed, instead of admitting the mistakes and improving from there, most of the time those corporates will deny, and push the mistakes to other parties. For example, like the SMRT’s reply to STOMPer case. The latest one is the “ForMalu 1” case, emailed to STOMP by a STOMPer.

Check out the following Singtel’s reply to STOMP when enquired:
Stencil for F1 logo correct, misspelling at booth ‘highly improbable’: Singtel

obviously someone is also not happy with this kind of response from such big, global organization, so he comes up with his proof to confirm that “ForMalu 1″ error IS REAL.
For’Malu’ error is real, I have proof, says STOMPer

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Counterfeit China Microchips Used In US Defense System

Oct 6, 2008 Gossips, Terrible Stuffs

Nowadays, any possibility that we are able to live without MIC (made in China) products? Or to be exact, counterfeit/poisonous MIC products?

And, we thought US defense system must be damn strict about the equipments, components, parts that to be used? LOL……

The American military faces a growing threat of potentially fatal equipment failure—and even foreign espionage—because of counterfeit computer components used in warplanes, ships, and communication networks. Fake microchips flow from unruly bazaars in rural China to dubious kitchen-table brokers in the U.S. and into complex weapons. Senior Pentagon officials publicly play down the danger, but government documents, as well as interviews with insiders, suggest possible connections between phony parts and breakdowns.

Much of that pollution emanates from the Chinese hinterlands. BusinessWeek tracked counterfeit military components used in gear made by BAE Systems to traders in Shenzhen, China. The traders typically obtain supplies from recycled-chip emporiums such as the Guiyu Electronics Market outside the city of Shantou in southeastern China. The garbage-strewn streets of Guiyu reek of burning plastic as workers in back rooms and open yards strip chips from old PC circuit boards. The components, typically less than an inch long, are cleaned in the nearby Lianjiang River and then sold from the cramped premises of businesses such as Jinlong Electronics Trade Center.

A sign for Jinlong Electronics advertises in Chinese that it sells “military” circuitry, meaning chips that are more durable than commercial components and able to function at extreme temperatures. But proprietor Lu Weilong admits that his wares are counterfeit. His employees sand off the markings on used commercial chips and relabel them as military. Everyone in Guiyu does this, he says: “The dates [on the chips] are 100% fake, because the products pulled off the computer boards are from the ’80s and ’90s, [while] customers demand products from after 2000.”

Dangerous Fakes

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Britney Spears’ 6 Months Sex Ban

Oct 6, 2008 Celebrities, Funny News, Gossips

Seriously, possible or not? How are they going to make sure that? Anyway, masturbation considered sex?

Britney Spears is getting back to her fabulous best and her parents are determined not to let anything interrupt her recovery.

So determined, in fact, that they’ve slapped a 6-month sex ban on their daughter – fearing that, with her notoriously bad taste in men, another relationship could disrupt her delicate stability once again.

Britney Spears’ 6-month sex ban

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Teacher In The Day, Prostitute At Night

Oct 4, 2008 Around the Word, Funny News, Gossips

This is an interesting case. It happens in New Zealand, a new, 30-year-old, primary school teacher is moonlighting as a prostitute. Prostitution is legal in New Zealand. The principal was alerted by a parent.

The teacher has apparently defended her situation to her principal, saying that what she did in her own time was of no concern to him, that it was a private matter, and that prostitution was now lawful and legitimate work. She told him her moonlighting job was not affecting her performance as a teacher.

She apparently told the principal he had no right to be the “moral police”.

Read the following links for more details. It will be interesting to know how they are going to resolve the situation, in a win-win way. And, I wonder how that parent came to know about the teacher’s part-time job? By being her customer? Muahahahaha.But, I do agree with the teacher that the principal had no right to be the “moral police”.

By day a teacher … by night a prostitute
Teacher is also a prostitute

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