Missing those yummy butter pork ribs

I just had a very satisfying lunch a few hours ago and I'm still missing one of the dishes as it was so good and delicious that I couldn't keep my mind off of it.

That particular dish is none other than butter pork ribs. Here's a picture of it on which I found on the web:




Just the look of the dish makes my mouth drools. Those creamy powder that you see on the pork ribs are actually the butter powder. The butter is slowly cooked until it turns into this powdery substance. Amazing, isn't it?

The taste of the butter pork ribs is quite milky and yet crisp. I just don't know how to put it into words. You have to taste it to know how delicious this dish is. Oh, it's at Blk 116 Commonwealth road.

I went with my colleagues to this zi char stall just to savour this dish. Of course, we did ordered other dishes to complement our lunch. Initially I was very surprised when my colleagues asked me out for lunch. Normally they like to hang out by themselves so I often have my lunch alone.

It was during the lunch that it was announced that this was a welcome lunch for our newest executive. In my heart, I was thinking about the unfairness again in my dept. We had a new admin colleague joining us last month yet till to date, no one had actually bothered to give her a welcome lunch. I don't know if the fact that she's a muslim plays a part because there's very limited muslim food choices here so if we were to have a lunch for her, it would be tough to find a halal stall.

Yet we would never know because we never bother to try. Then here comes this new executive and he was promptly given a welcome lunch within a week. *sighs*

That's the reality here in my dept. They look kindly upon excutives but they outright ignore admins. Sadly enough, I belong to the admin group and so gets outcast along with the rest of the admins. This situation only happens for my dept. In other dept, you can see that the executives mingle well with their admin staff.

It's truly depressing to work for this kind of dept where rank disparity plays such a big part. I hope I can leave this world of oppression soon otherwise I might lose my sanity.

Farewell, Ms Lo Hwei Yen

Finally, we have gotten more information about the Singaporean woman who was tragically killed in Mumbai's worst terrorist attack in recent years.

Her name is Lo Hwei Yen, who was a lawyer and was in Mumbai to give a conference talk. Cause of death is listed as: 'Fracture of skull with abdominal injury. Firearm injury.'

A Mumbai senior hotel executive at the Oberoi Trident confirmed that she sustained gunshots to her head and abdomen. It is a cold way of killing.

These terrorists really stop at nothing to ensure they got what they wanted. Which was nothing compared to the loss of human lives. Everything makes no sense in these terrorists' minds. They are probably just as normal as the boy who lives next door. Underneath the exterior lies a mind so shocking that it defies the very existence of humanity.

It is very hard for anyone to accept that their loved one is gone. Just like that. To add salt to the wound, it was a tragic end to a vivacious life. That can't be right. I mean, based on news report, this woman is so lively and so cheerful that she deserve a better fate than this. Life shouldn't ended in this way for her.

She had just gotten hitched and her career was going on so wonderfully. Yet death's jaw snatched her away from life's hand in a snap of a second. There can be no satisfactory answer for this.

C'mon, is there a reason to start a war over trivial matters like race? Why does violence become a necessary negotiation weapon for these terrorists? All the commoners will suffer for nothing. Poor Michael. His life with Hwei Yen had just barely started and now he's all left alone. Thankfully, the strength of family love still keeps him going and I hope he will stand strong and live life once more, this time without his beloved Hwei Yen.

I don't know all these people and I only got their names from newspapers reports. Yet because we all share the same thing that ties us together: our home country, Singapore. Because of that, we are one big family and we give each other support when in times of need. At life's bleakest hour, we rose to the occasion and unite as one family, one heart.

No matter what life has to offer in the future, Singapore will unite and stand behind Michael for we will never condone terrorism. Ever.

Singaporean Died in Mumbai Terrorist Attack

It was reported on the news that one Singaporean had been killed in Mumbai's recent terrorist attack on Tuesday.

Initially the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had confirmed in earlier reports that the female Singaporean was unharmed as of yesterday. But at 9.35pm news tonight, the situation had turned for the worst.

Circumstances surrounding her death is still unknown at the moment though her family members had already flown to Mumbai. All we know is that she died a tragic death.

I don't know what all these terrorists are thinking but its totally unforgivable that they took lives away so cruelly. Besides, they were targeting the British and the Americans, what has a Singaporean got to do with anything? The Singaporean probably has the dubious honour of being the first Singaporean to die in a terrorist attack. *sighs*

The main issue that comes to mind is that why the Mumbai authorities couldn't save the hostages earlier? Unless their technology is not advanced enough to take on the terrorists? What could be the reason for Mumbai's failure to contain the situation and the losses?

Even right till now, the situation in Mumbai has not improved. But I don't care about that. I only know that Singapore citizens are not significant enough for India to get involved. Unless we get a satisfactory answer from India's government on their rescue operation failure, we will never have a peace of mind.

The losses are simply not tolerable. Not especially India should have been on the lookout for such terrorist attacks ever since their elections started. This breach of security is a serious issue that needs to be investigated and put in check.

As for the female Singaporean Chinese woman, I can only say that she happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. No one could have predicted that she would come to harm. Not like this. This barbarian way of the terrorists.

We should stand up to terrorism and not allow it to ruin our lives. Every single one of us must do our part to be proactive in preventing terror attacks. Terror attacks are such a lame and cruel way to destroy humanity. What is this world coming to?

I may not be able to do much but at least I can help to spread the message around. We are all human beings, is there a need to treat each other so hostile? Hmmm, actually I am sort of a hypocrite when it comes to equality. I don't have a single good impression of the China people but that does not mean we should launch a terror attack on China.

We should resolve issues through diplomatic talks, not through violence. What does violence acheive in the end? Only more loss of innocent human lives. These terrorists are probably brainwashed to the point where they regards humanity as nothing more than pawns in their games. Stupid, mindless games, I might add.

Besides the disaster in Mumbai, Thailand is also facing its own domestic problems with its people going all out on the streets to wage protests against the current government. Negative news are all the new staples for current affairs news these days.

When will it ever end? We might never have a satisfactory answer at all. Such is the downfall of humanity.

Unless, my own Twinkies comes along and takes me away with him, to live in eternal vampire happiness. Heehee!!! My very own Edward Cullen! Ok, I'm disgressing here.

We need to have more light-hearted moments in our lives. Otherwise we will remain gloomy and life will be something that we DON'T look forward to. That would be so depressing.

Now I'm off to my lala land, together with my Edward, to find light-hearted happiness! Tada!

Ha! A Retard Reads My Blog?

I am very amused to log in to my blog and found a guy who calls himself retard posting on my cbox. So far, I have very little responses gathered in my cbox, so it's quite fun to see this retard posting about nonsense.

Well, billovee is a CHEAPSKATE guy. Freebies are given freely and willingly by the IT fair vendors. No one actually goes around comparing freebies instead of pricing. No matter what the freebies are, the most important thing is that your buying focus is on the main IT product, in my case a MSI Wind.

My Wind doesn't come with any freebies but I don't go round demanding people to give me freebies either. That's just plain shameless. If the product doesn't come with freebies then it's fine by me. My main focus is the Wind, not the freebies.

But if the vendors are offering the freebies themselves without the consumer asking for them, then that's ok too. It take 2 hands to clap. If the vendors don't want to give any freebies, then no matter how much the consumer demands, they would get nothing. If the vendors are willing to give based on their own initiative, then the consumers will get a good deal.

In fact, the price of the freebies is probably calculated into the selling price or is probably not worth much. In life, you don't hanker after things that you can't afford. There is no such thing as free lunch in this world. Everything comes with a price. You want cheapskate products with lots of freebies? Go to China. Everything is cheapo there. And probably poisonous too.

Hmmm... I think this retard guy is either billovee himself or just plain retard. Didn't I wrote about my experience at the recent Comex 2008? I don't even need to ask the vendors for freebies at the kiosk. All I did was to ask about the main products and they offered the freebies willingly. I don't have to be thick-skinned and demand for freebies before I make my purchases.

Still, everybody has their own opinions and no one will be fully convinced by the other party. This retard/billovee has his own view but so do I.

Plus this is my blog so I can and shall write whatever I feel is right. And billovee can't do anything about it. Other than being a online pest. Wahahaha!!!

53,000 Children Affected by China's Tainted Milk

According to this report from Telegraph, 53,000 children has been affected by the tainted milk powder from several local dairy companies, two noticeable big brands being Sanlu and Yili.

That's an astonishing number of babies that could be facing a bleak future with failing kidneys. As it turned out, people questioned why checks were not conducted to ensure that the baby products passed stringent health tests.

Now it appears that China has this special exemption granted to major domestic brand names from any product testing. I think this is mostly likely due to corrupted officials taking money from the big companies' top executives. Corruption is a well-known and well-accepted practice in many parts of China, especially for rural areas where the poor are often exploited.

It remains to be seen how the Chinese government intends to clear this scandal, which has already eroded whatever good image that was created during the Beijing Olympics. The scandal is simply too big-scaled for the Chinese government to contain. After all the glory comes disaster.

As each day goes by, more negative news reports come out of China as well as its surrounding neighbours. It is a nightmare that no government wants to wake up to.

Whatever the situation is, stay away from China products infinitely is the only best way out. Especially if it concerns food and health.

Stay away from CHINA.

Bad, Bad China!

It's been a common knowledge that China-made products are usually belong to a group of inferior products and that's the main reason why the cost price for these products are so low.

Now it's getting even worse. Lately, there have been lots of news about tainted milk products causing 4 babies deaths in China and left thousands of babies inflicted with kidney stones. Things are from bad to worse and in Singapore, China dairy products are totally removed from stores' shelves as per AVA's directive.

No one knows who's exactly in the fault. The manufacturer? The cow farmers? Or the middlemen? No matter what, in just the short few weeks after the euphoric high of the Beijing Olympics, all consumer confidence has been effectively destroyed in the tainted milk scandal and it's yet to be over.

More and more China products are getting pulled off the shelves and the latest product is Nespray's milk powder. The food scandal is going way bigger than that of the tainted canned luncheon meat earlier this year.

The tainted milk had apparently been contaminated with a harmful chemical, melamine, which makes milk appear to contain more protein than it actually does.

China people are always unscrupulous in their quest for wealth and fame and in this case, it's no different. The only consequence is that they gain wealth at the expense of babies' health and they are not feeling guilty over it. This goes to show how horrible the true characters of the China people are.

On one hand, they appear to be gracious host and open up to the world. Yet on the other hand, they are selling poisoned food back to the same world. There's a saying which goes like this, ingrate bites the hand that feed it. This is certainly the scary truth here in China's food scandal.

Moral values do not exist in the China people's lives. They know no shame and humanity. Only greed, money and fame matters the most to them. All these disgusting behaviour only results in scandals such as this tainted milk.

In fact, the best thing is to NEVER, EVER buy any China products, be it food or clothings or accessories or even toothpaste for they can prove to be harmful to your health.

For me, I totally condemn anything that comes from China, especially food as that could mean death in a second.

So, do not ever buy China products again. They are DANGEROUS. And that goes for their people as well.

Ruthless Lee Bee Wah!

I had the misfortune of coming across a very unpleasant news in the newspapers today.

It was reported that the manager and the coach of Team Singapore Table Tennis had been sacked, days just before they were due to return to Singapore to celebrate their victory at winning the Olympic silver medal in Beijing.

This decision was revealed to be made by the President of Table Tennis Association, Lee Bee Wah, who had just been at the post for around a month.

This damn woman had blamed the defeat of Singapore's top paddler Gao Ning to a Croatian player on the coach as well as the manager. Just because the actual coach for Gao Ning, Chen Jian, had fallen sick, and there was no one else by his side during the match doesn't mean that the coach had to be dismissed in such a way.

At the very least, she should investigate the cause of the problem and then meted out punishment accordingly. However, no checks seemed to have been conducted before the public dismissal of the coach and manager. That is a very bad example for the rest of Singapore to learn from.

It shows that there is zero tolerance for mistakes committed in this society, which had prided itself as a modern city with open thinking concept.

I don't really know who this Lee Bee Wah is but judging from the news reports, she appears to be a very harsh woman and that reflects badly on the majority of women here. The table tennis team had not yet returned to Singapore and their homes when they were slapped with such depressing news. No matter what, they did helped Singapore to clinch a silver medal to do us proud. Isn't that enough to redeem them at the very least?

Is there a high standard being set for the sports arena in Singapore? If so, it should be reviewed immediately lest future young players are discouraged by such cruel standards. I doubt the sports stars of China are subjected to such torture and humiliation, in public no less.

In addition, it was obvious that the coach's and the manager's feelings weren't taken into consideration. There they were in Beijing, anticipating their return to Singapore to celebrate their team's win at the Olympics Games. Then all of a sudden, the earth came crashing down on them, bearing terrible tidings for them from home. No more celebrations. No more jobs. No more glory. Everything's gone. Oh how fickle-minded fate can turn out to be.

They are supposed to return home as heroes. Now they are returning home with disgrace. Is that their reward for bringing the silver medal to Singaporeans? Don't they deserve a properly conducted and thorough investigation for this? Don't they deserve an explanation for this?

If not, then the whole of Singapore deserve a thorough and proper explanation from Lee Bee Wah. Just because she's the MP for Ang Mo Kio doesn't mean that she can dismiss her responsibility with a "let's move on" statement in the press. I doubt that is the way Lee Hsien Loong would want his charge to behave.

Let's hope the tide will turn in this saga and for Singapore to advance forward on to great success, with a great team in tow.

Shameless People on Internet

It's been quite some time ever since that fateful posting from a certain netizen called billovee, whose post about getting a free 6-cell battery from Corbell received numerous flames from the hardwarezone community.

Now, he's back with yet another ridiculous post which can even be construed as slander, if things were to get extremely bad. I have put his post below:




This guy is so adamant about getting his 6-cell battery that he has no qualms about destroying both Corbell's and Digital Life's integrity just to get his wish granted.

Bribery is a serious crime in Singapore and if this matter were to get reported to CASE, it could result in a terrible press coverage for both Corbell and Digital Life, even if they are eventually found to be innocent of any charges.

This billovee is super shameless and he has certainly made many netizens feel utterly disgusted at his behaviour. There is no such thing as free lunch in this world, don't he understand this very basic human concept?

All I can say is that this guy has no shame and moral in his life teachings.

Used battery or not, it's up to Corbell's discretion on whether they want to issue any free batteries to anybody who bought the MSI Wind. I say, if the guy is so adamant about getting his 6-cell battery, then he should sell off his Wind and get a Asus EEE Pc, which currently offers a 6-cell battery in the 1000H series.

In any case, I hope this guy stops showing up at the forum to create a din because it's not going to do anybody any good at all.

Shameless indeed.

Ugly Singaporeans on Internet Forums

I have experienced a first-hand incident whereby a netizen shamelessly asked for freebies in a popular local forum. This is what the fella requested from a local computer vendor in the forum:




This billovee shamelessly asked the vendor to give him a free 6-cell wind battery just because he started the preorder listing for the MSI Wind. Come on. Get a life. There is no free lunch in this world. Everything you ask for comes with a price. A simple start up on a preorder list doesn'twarrant as a valid reason to get a freebie. It's not as though you are the only person that can come up with such a list.

This guy's face is super thick loh. He doesn't understand the actual meaning of Corbell's reply. This is a disgrace on the Internet world. Look at what he wrote in reply to Corbell's initial rejection:



People already give an answer to the question posed but why can't this guy's head absorb it? It's a shame, really. Ugly scenes could have been avoided but too bad this guy DEMANDS for his free battery. And so many responses from other netizens came fast and furious:


















So many responses in a short period of time. At least there are smarter people out there to teach billovee the meaning of shame. I also wrote a post in response to his smirk remarks.



This is because he had written remarks that were so shameless and witless that I felt that I had to make known my points too. Look, if it were that easy to get freebies, everybody in the world wouldn't be busy working anymore. Instead people would just go out to the street and demand for free food, free drinks, free clothes... just because they boasted that they had started off the preorder list first. Or so they claimed.

In life, nothing is ever that easy. Unless the guy gets a lot of support in his "quest" for that freebie, otherwise he can forget about getting anything at all.

So, billovee.... SHUT UP, STOP DREAMING.