My boyfriend told me about this today. Although I’m only Singaporean by nationality, I am so proud to have such a shrewd prime minister.

“With satellite TV and the internet, events are also magnified across a global listening board. The world is now their stage. We see this in the protests that have erupted during the Olympic torch relay. The Olympics is China’s coming out party, to celebrate its progress and opening up to the world. They sent the Olympic torch overseas in what is described as a “journey of harmony”. But not surprisingly, China’s opponents see this as a golden opportunity to make their point. So as the torch travels the world, it has faced challenges at virtually every stop so far. Vivid TV images of demonstrators waving banners, scuffling with police, and making concerted assaults to snuff out the flame are beamed live around the world, achieving an asymmetrical prominence, and so influencing public opinion against China and the Games.”

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I feel shameful when logging into Wordpress, I haven’t touched the site for ages, but it’s a meme tagged by Melle! I have to do it.

Random Facts Meme!

1. I love Apple Pie: If there’s apple pie or anything with pomme on the menu, that’s what I’m getting. I think it started when my primary school handed out McDonald’s apple pies on the last day of school when I was six.

2. Since I was five I wanted to be an interior designer: now I’m studying accounting and finance. I guess I’m just a coward in pursuing dreams.

3. I am scared to tell people my bad dreams for fear they will come true: Sorry Melle for using your sentence.

4. I could have Pret sandwiches everyday for a week: that’s when I was working in Hong Kong, maybe it was partly to escape my mom’s evil homemade sandwiches. Plus this was because they had this weekly special featuring bacon, spinach, egg + mayo and sundried tomatoes.

5. I watched Moulin Rouge 11 times: I don’t have to explain myself .

6. I can redeem a NDS using my air mileage membership: My record was taking the plane 12 times in one summer. I really like trains much more.

7. The only anime I finished watching is Fullmetal Alchemist: and watched it 4 times. I like the Getbackers too … but it’s not very well known I think.

8. Cooking is my thing to do to relax: if I could take nice pictures of food, I would have been spamming my blog with my cooking long ago.

9. I still haven’t upgraded my Wordpress: I don’t have time to fix times if it screws up … meaning I’ve make a new layout real soon.

10. Deviantart is very free porn website: I don’t know if that came out correctly or not but what I really meant to say was I love looking at the creations on that website so much!!!!!!!!!! However I want to mention my new found love: Etsy … I just love the paper goods, I wish we were back to snail mail times …

Tagging: Crystal, Louise, Chris, Amanda, Joyce (you guys don’t kill me, I’m just curious *innocent look*) …. what happened to your site Louise?!!?!!!!

Finally I’m announcing Hiatus.