::Homework Crapbox:: (2017)
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China on Trump's Twitter outburst : "No comments."
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/china-muted-trumps-twitter-barrage-110528601.html
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[India] - The family were sure that they could gain amnesty by honestly declaring their staggering hidden wealth, but the government is sure it has to be dishonest money, and so the family is now under serious criminal investigation.
https://www.google.com.sg/#q=India%27s+tax+mystery:+Why+did+one+family+declare+%2429+billion
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2 polyglots enjoy conversing to each other across multiple languages. See if you can figure out the language they're speaking, without looking at the answer at the bottom right of the screen.
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[China] - 14 year old girl runs back into burning home to try to save her semi-crippled father (who was actually already safely out of the house), and ended up being burnt so badly that both her hands now need to be amputated. And her family cannot afford her expensive medical bills, hope she gets enough donations.
http://www.tnp.sg/news/world/teen-badly-burnt-looking-dad-burning-house
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[North Korea / Malaysia] - North Korea has sent hundreds of thousands of its citizens to work in many countries around the world as slaves, with almost all of their pay sent back to Kim Jong Un's government (how do you think he is able to live like a billionaire while his people are starving to death). You may be surprised to know that Malaysia is among the many countries with North Korean slaves. MediaCorp's "Undercover Asia" featured this "North Korean slaves in Malaysia" issue in today's episode.
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By accident, of course. Trump doesn't bother with little details like thinking.
Read the visitor comments below the article.
JIM commented : It was by accident, trump had no idea what he was doing, he is completely unaware of international affairs, his only concern was getting business related ties in Taiwan, he didn't bother thinking about anything else.
Robot.Bass posted : He is causing international problems already and he hasn't even taken office yet.
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Respect to these Bangla border guards, who could get into a lot of trouble for their act of compassion.
When Bangladeshi border guards stopped them, she began to weep.
"I told them I have no one to protect me there," she says, and told them: "'Look at my baby! He will die if I go back there.'" After that, they let her pass.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/now-bangladesh-rohingya-describe-rape-murder-myanmar-165215502.html
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The driver showed them the fare, which was S$5.20. This sent the two young women into panic mode, as they did not have cash or credit on them.
How can 2 young Singaporean women (who are certainly not poor, they can afford to take Uber taxis) have no money with them at all when they're outside? And the fare isn't $52, it's just $5.20 and they can't pay it between the both of them?
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The best Ultima series summary review ever.
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Top 3 movies of Dec 2016
Rogue 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC9abcLLQpI
https://www.gv.com.sg/GVMovieDetails#/movie/5841Assassin's Creed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4haJD6W136c
https://www.gv.com.sg/GVMovieDetails#/movie/5842Passengers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BWWWQzTpNU
https://www.gv.com.sg/GVMovieDetails#/movie/5844 -
The power of social media. This little girl represents all the little children who are innocent victims of a war they did not ask for.
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Do Singaporeans realize that burning joss papers and joss sticks generates airborne carcinogens, in the same way as smoking cigarettes causes cancer? It's up to you to follow your own religious beliefs, but it's bad ethics and bad karma to cause harm to others.
Burning joss papers and joss sticks in HDB corridors is like forcing your neighbours to smoke carcinogenic cigarettes, and large scale burning during 7th month festivals is like forcing all other Singaporeans of other religions to smoke carcinogenic cigarettes.
And here's the irony : no Chinese deity or Buddha ever instructed their followers to burn joss papers and joss sticks.
It may be acceptable cultural practice back then, when there was no medical science to speak of, but today when medical science has clearly shown this activity's carcinogenic properties, you'd think humans would be intelligent enough and ethical enough to evolve their cultural practices to minimize harm to others and to themselves.
2016 case : Sg man with China wife vs Singaporean aunties (joss paper smokers)http://theindependent.sg/video-of-prc-scolding-locals-for-burning-joss-papers-goes-viral/
2015 case : Elderly Singaporean couple (joss sticks smokers) vs Young Singaporean couple with baby (helpless innocent victim)
http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/caught-camera-neighbours-lash-out-each-other-over-joss-sticks -
Mahathir shakes his head sadly, "Najib is stoking racial tensions between Malays and Chinese, he will ruin Malaysia!"
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The power of social media, yo. Good for that overworked & underpaid Bangladeshi cleaner, first cruelly mocked by a condescending Saudi "this foreign worker only deserves to stare at our rubbish, not at our expensive jewellery!", then subsequently contacted and commiserated by more compassionate Saudis (after they learn of it on social media).
https://www.google.com.sg/#q=bangladeshi+cleaner+saudi+arabia+jewellery&tbm=nws
Although, this incident might spark off an epidemic of more overworked & underpaid workers staring into jewellery shops to try their luck. But it's still sad that foreign workers around the world are overworked & underpaid. In contrast, fat lazy bankers, politicians and CEOs are underworked & overpaid. And not to mention the unfariness of inheritable wealth of families like the Rothschilds, etc. Welcome to physical incarnation, yo.
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A polish grandfather puts effort to learn a 2nd language for the sake of meeting his grandson.
Although this viral ad is fiction, but for sure there are many such grandpas around the world, who would do anything for the love of their grandchildren.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU5Rnd-HM6A&feature=youtu.be
Singaporeans don't appreciate enough the wisdom of LKY in enabling Singaporeans to be effectively bilingual. Just knowing English and Chinese / Malay / etc, already opens you up to 2 vast cultural worlds. Imagine the vast cultural enrichment you would experience if you put the effort to learn a 3rd language (not dialect), such as a Romance language (eg. Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc).
Polyglots open up multiple cultural worlds for themselves, which is why learning an additional language is not only the most useful skill to take up, but also works and enhances your brain power like no other skill can.
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Also, if you're in the tourism industry, it helps to boost your profits, as this polyglot (who speaks 18 different languages) demonstrates :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EofeijzDkH4Man Speaks 25 Languages (with English subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vtaIwn88hQAmerican Speaks 46 Languages (with English subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfr9P_yYnt8Top 10 Difficult Languages to Learn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEmAGJac7Is -
[Video] - Man punches Kangaroo in the face
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/man-punches-kangaroo-face-rescue-055726297.html
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Stephen Hawking got this right.
The internet and the platforms that it makes possible allow very small groups of individuals to make enormous profits while employing very few people (eg. Facebook, Google, etc). This is inevitable, it is technological progress, but it is also socially destructive.
We need to put this alongside the financial crash, which brought home to people that a very few individuals working in the financial sector (eg. Wall Street bankers) can accrue huge rewards and that the rest of us underwrite that success and pick up the bill when their greed leads us astray.
So taken together we are living in a world of widening, not diminishing, financial inequality (ie. worsening Gini coefficient), in which many people can see not just their standard of living, but their ability to earn a living at all, disappearing. It is no wonder then that they are searching for a new deal, which Trump and Brexit might have appeared to represent.
https://www.unlimited.world/unlimited/this-is-the-most-dangerous-time-for-our-planet
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An American stuntman has died after being beaten up by Singaporean gangsters. Here's the thing : if you read the full story, you'll realize that this involves a series of 3 violent altercations (mostly between Ang Mohs and local Malays), and the American stuntman who died just happened to be a passerby (ie. he wasn't even a direct participant in the 3 fights). Over 20 people (including women from both sides) directly involved in the 3 fights didn't die, but this American stuntman passerby died, wrong place at wrong time.
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/fatal-row-rioter-gets-30-months-and-six-strokes
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American woman shares her experience of her stay inside Singapore Changi Prison.
https://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/american-prisoner-tells-what-its-spore-womens-prison
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In addition to the Top 3 movies of Dec 2016, ie. "Rogue 1", "Assassin's Creed" and "Passengers", here are 2 more noteworthy movies that you can consider watching : a serious (critics say depressing) Singaporean movie "Yellow Bird" about a local Indian man and a China girl, both facing racial discrimination in Singaporean society, who find an unlikely friendship with each other, and "Museum", a Japanese detective movie featuring gory murders.
Yellow Bird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgvnWtWEsCY
https://www.gv.com.sg/GVMovieDetails#/movie/5871/cinema/114Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Km8WTRsnw
https://www.gv.com.sg/GVMovieDetails#/movie/3397/cinema/60Rogue 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC9abcLLQpI
https://www.gv.com.sg/GVMovieDetails#/movie/5841Assassin's Creed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4haJD6W136c
https://www.gv.com.sg/GVMovieDetails#/movie/5842Passengers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BWWWQzTpNU
https://www.gv.com.sg/GVMovieDetails#/movie/5844 -
[Video Interviews] - What North Korean Defectors Think Of North Korea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyqUw0WYwoc
They shared a true case of a Korean man who stole a bit of public property rope to sell for money to buy a bit of food for his starving family, and when he got caught and arrested, the government executed him and forced his family members to watch. Such cases are common, they say. Watch the video for more of such true incidents in North Korea.
