"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising." - Lord Northcliffe

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MFTTW on Robin Chee Ming Feng: as a holder of several scholarships myself, I think I'll go run around naked now.

Me: No one wants to see you naked

MFTTW: I can think of at least 1 person.

Me: Yah your gynae

MFTTW: That's 1 more than no. of ppl who want to see you naked.


Someone: i just got out from xinjiang
hohoho

nearly got raped by uyghurs
but i generally felt damn scared all the time

Me: tell them you not PRC lor
the hans are quite riotous also

...

I love PRC propaganda

Someone: yeah
it's powerful

i felt it in xinjiang
the news were just simply not reporting how serious the situation was

Me: it's so deluded

yah lor. china is full of lies
and people believe the lies

Someone: no
the people know
they know they don't know much

Me: (local people, anyway)

Someone: oh yeah
they love CPC if you don't know

and i think CPC is good too if you think otherwise
to be able to feed a fucking 1.3 billion is no feat
1.3billion people

Me: india manages to feed a nation of 1.1 billion

Someone: they're poor

Me: much of china is poor also

Someone: tell me they're experiencing growth more than 5% every year

no you're wrong
china is so rich at the inner lands now
xinjiang is doing fucking well too

Me: india had a real growth rate of 9% in 2007

Someone: uhhhhhhh.

Me: well there're lots of poor people in china still
no wonder all come to singapore to be prostitutes
hurr hurr

Someone: i think democracy isn't for a nation that is mostly uneducated
i think the CPC is doing a good job after being here really
voters don't know how to exercise votes

Me: well there're lots of protests in china

Someone: yeah but they don't whack them down like authoritatian regimes do they?
they just cover up

Me: they whack on a small scale

Someone: i think they do well seriously

Me: they learn from singapore
don't send in a tank
send in a policeman

Someone: i don't know what you have against the CPC
i think you don't like no freedom of speech and things like that

Me: and killing your own people
and persecuting dissidents
and covering up
and giving the world SARS
brainwashing your own people
etc etc

Someone: uhhh
seriously

would you actually think an open democratic western style regime will do chiina good?
it won't you know
the rural don't know what's voting, they only know how to farm

Me: it's a false dichotomy

you need proper democratic institutions lah
just elections alone don't work

Someone: i think democratic institutions will only bring more harm

china will gradually move to be more open
there is no need for people to push

Me: in the long run we're all dead
democratic institutions doesn't mean only voting

it's other things like accountability, free press, etc
honest courts etc

Someone: YES PRECISELY

china does not need free press!
nor accountability!

what they do now
it brings order

there're far too many people in the country

Me: err. even the communist party is moving to increase accountability

Someone: yes because of pressure from inside
don't see how the CPC moving to increase accountability means they need it


Someone else: i dont care about all these talk about capitalism you know

i really dont care about social causes anymore

i feel so...blah about things like that
i think it's so pointless sometimes
i mean...you go to conference and you realise that almost none of them are going to make any difference anyway

Me: well ultimately life is meaningless

Someone else: yeah, and i'm going to stop doing what is "conventionally right/noble" and just do what makes me happy and i think i'll find more meaning this way


Frigid Girl: what does he wank to?
images of her?

so if he doesn't wank to images to her is he being unfaithful?
if he does, is he being disrespectful

hAhAHAHAha
he can't wi n


Someone on the placebo effect: maybe it's like:
my relationship with him doesnt work
but we should think it does
so that it does
hahahaha

Me: placebo is a process or product you think won't work which you try or use and then works
in your case it's the whole relationship which shouldn't work

Someone: is there a term for the relationship then? :P

Me: "screwed up"


Someone else: eh pls
guys all the same
at the beginning treat u like queen
at the end either treat u as equal or as slave


MFTTW: Watching anthony bourdain in chile. Chilean food looks
like Malaysian food.

the hawker centre looks like the m'sian type
and the colors of their food also similar... gravy and brown earthy tones