An ecard for everyone. This is most intriguing.

Thanks to them, a fantasy of mine has come true.

(For some reason it doesn't support Firefox. Damnit.)

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Someone:


Quote for the day: Do you notice how in Indian movies the characters always dance around trees? One day curiosity got me and i asked my indian friend, "hey, why do indians like to dance around trees???" He thought for a moment. "Why do chinese like to fly from tree to tree???"

if sylvester wins, an ah beng will represent singapore on world idol. if olinda wins, then a butch will represent us. if taufik wins, then a mat yoyo will go up on stage. whatever the case, simon cowell is sure to criticize. haiz.

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More fan mail:


"I don't know how to put this in text....

is it: ooooohhhh, nah, ewwwwuuuuuuhhhh. nah, gads--you're a freak.... nah...

nothing really can describe the disgust one feels viewing (even momentarily) your site.

what really sucks is you get off on people trashing you; you feed on it. It makes me wonder what you possibly have endured in your life as a child/adult to make you this way.

Explore it, if you dare... you might just eventually figure out why you hate yourself so, so much.

Good luck in your mission...."

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Re: "I must say that I was absolutely appalled by A/Prof Tan Seow Hon's
article when I read it in the Straits Times. Utter bollocks."

You might wish to read another article by A/P Tan.

Larger issues at stake in unnatural sex debate - "

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Interesting view on the new copyright laws they're going to enforce:

"i can say that this stupid copyright law will cause pirated shops to boom in biz again and distribute of wealth back to e ah bengs instead of the ISP companies

e point i'm trying to make is e absolute futility of this law to root out piracy
it juz causes e GDP to go down since more flow of income to illegal sales
haha....so much for FTA....what an irony"

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"Women especially say it is important to get to know someone before having sex with them. The workplace gives a woman the opportunity to observe a man - how he handles people above him and below him, his competence, his temper, his ethics, values, habits. For most women, it works a lot better than bars. Overall, 35 million Americans report some kind of 'social-sexual' experience on their jobs each week. More than 80 percent of all workers say they've had such an experience on their job. When it works, we call it a wedding and the woman's picture is in the paper; when it doesn't, we call it a lawsuit and the man's picture is in the paper." (Linda LeMoncheck and James P Sterba, Sexual Harassment: Issues and Answers)

Source: * Chara's * w i n d o w *

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A review of Ninja Storm that's spot on:


We all have our guilty pleasures: series or movies we take joy in but are hesitant to tell even other fans about. Some people have tapes of the complete series of MISFITS OF SCIENCE hidden away in their homes. Others can't get through a week without tuning in for at least one episode of DIGIMON. For me, it's a horrible, terrible fascination with POWER RANGERS. No matter how dumb the premise, no matter how atrocious the scripts, no matter how silly the monsters, I can be counted on to watch at least four or five episodes per season. After eleven seasons, that adds up to a lot of dumb premises, atrocious scripts, and silly monsters. Latent masochism, perhaps?

I can be counted on to watch the whole season.

Lothor, a former ninja who was banished from Earth, returns and fights the Sensei one on one, resulting in the Sensei getting stuck in the form of (wait for it) a guinea pig (voiced by Grant McFarland). (Yup, someone's been reading TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, it seems.)... A typical Power Rangers series ensues.

Actually the guinea pig Sensei was in Hurricanger, so you can't blame the Americans for this one.

Or perhaps not... Although the writers go a bit too overboard to establish the kids as completely average teenagers and not the overachievers that previous Rangers have been - most notably shoving the word "dude" into the kids' dialogue every chance they get - the fact is that these kids actually act pretty normal.... This incarnation of POWER RANGERS doesn't take itself quite so seriously, either. True, the bon mots tossed out during the fight scenes are just as dire as they ever were, but there are a few self-referential bits of genuine humor scattered throughout each episode that let us know the series' writers are just as aware as we are of how silly the whole affair can be. To top it all off, we have Cam, a character who has the unique pleasure in a POWER RANGERS series of expressing just how pathetic he thinks this newest batch of heroes really is... It's also interesting to hear Dustin referring to Power Rangers as if they were an urban legend, and then taking a "Bill and Ted" sort of glee in discovering that he's going to be one. It's a nice new approach to an old formula.

I suppose the "self-referential bits of genuine humour" come from the Disney touch. PRNS does feel substnatially different from previous seasons.

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Possibly the most fun to be had on the disc is in the third episode, "Beauty and the Beach," in which an evil copy of Tori is made by the SMOTW™ [Silly-Monster-O'-The-Week], the Copybot, and the guys must figure out who's the real one and who's the fake. Sally Martin proves in this episode that Jason Chan's not the only real actor on the show - her performance as the evil Tori is pretty hilarious.

I still find Tori's accent annoying, especially when she's morphed. The accent coach didn't do his job very well. Or maybe he did it too well. Nonetheless I think Tori is #3 after Kimberly and Ashley.


The reviewer didn't mention the extensive CG. I miss the old skool zord summoning/transformation sequences! Damn cost cutting measures...