Whirlwind tour of USA

Have abit of time before flying back to New York, right now sitting at the airport of Austin in Texas. Having alot of thoughts along this trip but didn't bring a USB cable to upload my pics from my DSLR..so have been delaying my posts. I could do a novel without the pictures,but a picture could paint a thousand words. Anyway I have been to so many states,i hope my memory serves me well when i finally head home this weekend. NYC, Penn, NJ, Philly, Boston, DC, Austin, Phoenix, Tucson... What a rush!

Support local gamers

Olympics is finally over..pretty much nothing else to watch..
Just wondering if we can cheer on foreign sport talents and spending good taxpayers $ on them. Why can't we garner enough support and funding for our local gamers?

As Cybergames gather much attention from all over the world, Singapore isn't ready to mature the sport to a higher level. Maybe Cybergames is yet to be considered a sport. I find Cybergames akin to Chess, mind-boggling and intense. Chess today is a recognized sport of the International Olympic Committee. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in clubs, online, by correspondence, in tournaments and informally which to me, sounds like what gaming has evolved into.

An online fund-raising campaign has been started to enable Singapore's top cyber-athletes compete in the upcoming GrandFinals of the World Cyber Games (WCG) '08 in Cologne, Germany. This fund-raising campaign is crucial after gamers were stranded without sponsorship even though they qualified at the National Finals to represent Singapore. Three of these Singaporean champions are even medal hopefuls in Cologne.
So why can't our government extend support to these guys even as we fund foreign sport talents to constantly fly our flags for overseas events? Maybe because playing games are still not considered a sport? Or there isn't enough commercial viability?Show your support by clicking on the link on the right side of my blog.

Wifi on a bus

On my way to DC right now. Taking the Bolt bus,which has free wifi and a witty bus driver with a microphone,that's making the ride interesting and holding me back from taking my ishuffle out. Just wondering in what century will Singapore ever get to that level of service?



The skies are turning blue right now and we just sang happy birthday to fellow bus passenger Esther,who just turned 18. Perfect skies for photography and a perfect way to start a morning with a bus full of happy people to the capital, blogging snapping pics on my Nokia N95.

Happy National Day

Happy National Day! It so happens, coincidentally that for the past 4 years, I have been overseas during the National Day period. It's not because I am becoming less patriotic, but the fact that it has always been work that takes me away.

Anyhow, I notice this year that besides the blogs covering the Japanese-advertisement-copycat-National-Day-MTV and the frequent fly-by aerial displays, I almost forgotten it was National Day. I seem to see a lack of National Flags hanging out on homes this year despite it being the last week before National Day.

Perhaps the town councils ran out of funds from tightened government budget cuts arising from the increased bank buying expenditure overseas. Last I heard we lost USD$14 billion dollars in these "long term" investments - enough ERP collection for 7 years! I wonder if that explains why we have more ERP gantries popping all over the island despite calls for control of the spiraling inflation.

Or maybe perhaps because our "repressed obedient' citizens have once again heeded the call of our world class government to tighten our belts and forgo meagre wage increases which may have allowed them to display patriotism over worries whether they can afford to put rice on the dinner table. Maybe that is no need for Jurong GRC by-elections to reassert PAP ranks - just go about counting National Flags on HDB blocks should give some rough indication how farked Singapore is today.

Have a great 43rd Birthday Singapore, I am trying hard to remember it in New York because the American flag is being flown everywhere and everyday...wondering if it's because we have been too repressed with the fact that we can only hang up the flags during National Day and this time round, too many issues at hand resulting in a forgetful nation? With this I leave a quote from Benjamin Franklin, which I saw in a statue somewhere in New York which left me an impression: "He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither."

Birth rate up - Thanks to foreign talent

Singapore birth rate has increased - all thanks to foreign wives! A total of 16,232 babies were born in Singapore between January and May this year, with about 25 percent having foreign fathers and about 36 percent with foreign mothers.
Back to my previous post on Singaporean women, and why we should look towards foreign brides than give in to the demanding Singaporean women. Looks like many have and they seem to be more fertile as well! Being objective, I guess that's because the foreign brides would probably not have to work as hard as the Singaporean career minded women. And also because foreign brides would tend to be much younger.

Found this news report on youtube and seriously the Vietnamese mail order brides actually look quite pretty and demure!




So enticing, and I have no qualms about such foreign imports into Singapore!

Good luck Slingers! Till Sep...off to the Big Apple!

Ok be going to the Big Apple for at least a month...be back some time in Sep.
Till then, I wish all my friends well, and thanks for the well wishes and the meetups and gatherings before leaving to the unknown. Hope I get some good rest and great pictures ahead.

Anyway more news about the Slingers and who got me excited most besides Darren Ng, is Jason..and since there was a clause stating : "This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed". I will just leave a link here. So go read up for Filipino Ballers out there, and make Jason stay in Slingers! - Slingers stint up to Castro.