Yahoo speaks Latin

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Interestingly, this is not part of the standard Lorem Ipsum text but is unique to Yahoo.

According to Google Translate, the lines mean:

"Now owned vehicles lay. Click here to sad old age and spanned, and the dwell of the disease.

Also available is amazing. However, the vehicle or freight costs, travel agencies.

To-morrow, antioxidants, protein element of the game, but, the author of the likelihood of the environment itself, not the pillow.

Microwave or targeted therapy. For it's a bit of real estate in front of the immune system."

Profile writing FAIL!



"Featured Delegate Profile: Singapore - Valerie Lim
Written by Woman of the Earth

Name: VALERIE LIM
Age: 24 years old
Height: 179 cm
Weight: 158 kg
Body: 34-26-36 in
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Occupation: Behavioral Therapist
Birthplace: Singapore"


One thing I've always wondered: if your profile describes your hair colour and you change it, is the profile amended?

"There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them." - Emile Chartier

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Slatkin is coming to Singapore and as usual the Esplanade site is unhelpful about the program, so in order to find out if I should stump up $60, I Googled and found his upcoming performances page.



"Thursday, October 2, 2008
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Shanghai, China
Steven Isserlis, cello
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
WALTON: Cello Concerto
ELGAR: Symphony No. 1

Sunday, October 5, 2008
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Macau, China
BERNSTEIN: Candide Overture
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 in D major

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Taipei, China
COPLAND: Appalachian Spring Suite
MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 in D major

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Taichung, China
Repertoire to be announced

Friday, October 10, 2008
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Singapore, China
WALTON: Henry V
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No. 6
ELGAR: Enigma Variations"


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


The programme is quite varied.

The orchestra members are either rotating or they have been having a lot of fun at rehearsals.

A friend noted: "one fixed must come from china man written"

Either natural language translation software still has a looong way way to go, or HK's standard of English transcends even my most pessimistic expectations.

Latest dumb HK name: "Dreaming". A guy. An acquaintance who runs her own firm said upon beholding his CV she asked him in for an interview just to find out whether he chose his own name, and if so, did he know what it meant. When the answers to both were in the affirmative, she told him: "There's the reason why you haven't gotten a job since graduation."

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Trying to find a hotbed of Singaporean films, one of our number typed "film.sg" into the URL bar.

To register a SG domain name, you need to be a Singaporean resident with a real address in Singapore. So we did a trace on SGNIC, the results of which are:

Registrar: Vooju Pte Ltd
Registrant: Expert Creations

Domain Name: film.sg
Creation Date: 06-01-2005 07:00:07
Expiration Date: 06-01-2008 00:00:00
Domain Status: Active

Owner/Main Contact:

Name: Expert Creations(SGNIC-ORGEX172867)
Registered Address(line1): 336 w fairview blvd.
Registered Address(line2):
Registered Address(line3):
Registered Country: United States
Registered Postalcode: 90302

Mailing Address(line1): 336 w fairview blvd.
Mailing Address(line2):
Mailing Address(line3):
Mailing Country: United States
Mailing Postalcode: 90302


Administrative Contact:

Name: Expert Creations(SGNIC-ORGEX172868)
Registered Address(line1): 95 singapore rd.
Registered Address(line2):
Registered Address(line3):
Registered Country: Singapore
Registered Postalcode: 98273

Mailing Address(line1): 95 singapore rd.
Mailing Address(line2):
Mailing Address(line3):
Mailing Country: Singapore
Mailing Postalcode: 98273

Technical Contact:

Name: Expert Creations(SGNIC-ORGEX172867)
Registered Address(line1): 336 w fairview blvd.
Registered Address(line2):
Registered Address(line3):
Registered Country: United States
Registered Postalcode: 90302

Mailing Address(line1): 336 w fairview blvd.
Mailing Address(line2):
Mailing Address(line3):
Mailing Country: United States
Mailing Postalcode: 90302

Telephone: 310-672-6223
Facsimile:
Pager / Mobile Number: na

EMAIL: richard@expertcreations.com

Billing Contact:

Name: Expert Creations(SGNIC-ORGEX172867)
Registered Address(line1): 336 w fairview blvd.
Registered Address(line2):
Registered Address(line3):
Registered Country: United States
Registered Postalcode: 90302

Mailing Address(line1): 336 w fairview blvd.
Mailing Address(line2):
Mailing Address(line3):
Mailing Country: United States
Mailing Postalcode: 90302


Name Servers:
ns1.bnmq.com
ns2.bnmq.com


Normally they're quite strict on this, so there're 2 possibilities:

1) Someone got shoddy and heads will roll (and knuckles dusted)
2) This is part of some elaborate social engineering ploy to get Singaporeans to procreate.

"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." - Robert Heinlein

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The 17th European Union Film Festival

It is good to see that unlike last year, Belgian is not a language anymore. I don't know about Austrian, since there aren't any films from Austria.

I was browsing through the list of films (none of which I can watch anyway, since I'll be in the US for most of May - which also means I'll be missing another opera [Die Walküre]), and made a shocking discovery:



"THE ALZHEIMER CASE (DE ZAAK ALZHEIMER) (M18)
Directed by Erik Van Looy, Belgium, 2003, 120 minutes
Drama – French – English subtitles

Synopsis:
When a key civil servant is murdered, the Antwerp police force puts its top crime investigators, Vincke (Koen de Bouw) and Verstruyft (Werner De Smedt), on the case. The trail leads to hitman Angelo Ledda (Jan Decleir). Showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, Ledda finds it increasingly difficult to carry out assignments. When he discovers that he is being used in a political power game, he decides to bite the hand that feeds him. Vincke and Verstruyft have a hard time trying to disentangle the web of intrigue, settlements and networks, in order to prevent further killings."


Damnit. The Wallonese have managed to make the Flemish speak French too...

Nexus 2007 FAQ

"4) What does your logo stand for?

The box is supposed to stand for the Pandora box, like opening up a world of possibilities. As for inside the box, what you can see is just the tip of the ice berg. Meaning, there are unlimited possibilities in business and technology, and we are so far only witnessing a very small part of it."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I can see why the Internet is Pandora's box for Singapore. Web 2.0 gives every citizen the power to create and propagate seditious content, undoing 40 years of nation building and inciting race riots, leading to the collapse of this country.

Yet, the saving grace is that wholesome, healthy content can still be spread online. Ergo laudable initiatives such as STOMP.


For those who don't get it:

Pandora's Box-The Myth

"According to Edith Hamilton in Mythology the source of all misfortune was Pandora's curiosity. "The gods presented her with a box into which each had put something harmful, and forbade her ever to open it. Then they sent her to Epimetheus, who took her gladly although Prometheus had warned him never to accept anything from Zeus. He took her, and afterward when that dangerous thing, a woman, was his, he understood how good his brother's advice had been. For Pandora, like all women, was possessed of a lively curiosity. She had to know what was in the box. One day she lifted the lid­and out flew plagues innumerable, sorrow and mischief for mankind. In terror Pandora clapped the lid down, but too late. One good thing, however, was there­Hope. It was the only good the casket had held among the many evils, and it remains to this day mankind's sole comfort in misfortune."

About the NUS Architecture Course



"Admission Requirements

The general requirements for admission to the rational University of Singapore are:"


Credits for bringing it to my notice: miss taupok

The 16th European Union Film Festival; 13-23 October 2006

Heads are going to roll for this!

Addendum: Clarification: the second last column is titled "Language"