"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." - H. L. Mencken

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Hilarious:

Dogbert: I invented an external anti-depressant. When I'm in a bad mood I just apply it to other people. *sprays Dilbert* It used to be called pepper spray.

Dilbert: GAAA!


Too bad it's illegal in Singapore!

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Someone's nickname: "Friends are like bras; close to the heart and there for support."

I was reading some pseudo-slash the other day; it's so annoying when fanfiction descends into pure slash, but the fic I was reading deals with bonds of brotherhood (between blood brothers as well as best friends) without creating romantic entanglements between the male protagonists. On the other hand, it's comparatively easy to make 2 men romance each other (just as it is to claim that hobbits are gay).

It seems the term "agaration" is not quite correct. The right word in Malay for estimation is "agak". "Agakation" doesn't quite have the same ring, though. So Singaporeans are bad not only at English and Chinese, but Malay as well.

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"I recall being challenged to do something when I wrote about the Straits Times and editorial integrity a while back. It came down to this - you can either choose to acknowledge blogging about these issues as "doing something" or you can choose not to.

As for the specific issue about standing for an election, I call it for what it is - a "straw man" argument. The chances of winning an election -and- effecting real change even if you do are slim to none. I fail to see why an election is the ONLY venue of effecting political change. It's certainly not the case in the US."