YOG started!

The YOG ceremony had passed. Well done to the staff and workers puting up the show. But then when the flags are coming down they have to go to ads several times. So whoever the flags not shown on TV due to the ads well, what would the TV station explain? I would say it is lack of respects. They didn't show ads while NDP is going on. And also I believe if it is YOG it should be youths going on stage. I saw the older athletics going down with the flags. I still don't agree with all these adults doing in a youth event. In any case, it certainly is history making for Singapore.

YOG food cannot make it

YOG is a global event and the people running it are using volunteers. Someone is not happy with the food given and even put up a photo of the pack of food. Many netizens agreed the food need to improve more. That food while some say is much better than the NS food, I would say NS food actually would be better than what was shown. This pack is dry food and some bean crud. The NS food would have soup and meat and vegetables. In any cases, both just cannot make it. For NS we got no choice, but for YOG, those being fed are volunteers. They are our own citizens. It isn't a one day event. These volunteers have to eat the same food everyday who can take it?And I doubt the caterer will do much "improve" since it is all boil down to profits.
http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/08/13/storm-over-food-for-yog-volunteers/

NDP, I think someone is fake.

NDP is over. However this year's NDP seems much boring than previous years. The parade of the nation's defense forces is magnificent. Just doesn't much like the idea of mixing the cadet corp with the NS Men or NS regulars. Anyway there is a singing segment which I find it fake. You probably should be able to figure out which segment. It doesn't look like the singer is live singing. Maybe I am wrong so you, if anyone is reading it should decide if is it live. Why I would see it as fake? The vocal sound so clean and so same as those MV that was repeatingly shown on TV and broadcast on radio all the time. In live singing, such as those in a concert, the notes and tone will be very different in a sense such as opening wide the mouth or even when you have to take a breathe the sounding should not be so clean and neat. It sound like the sound done in a studio. So it is my view. I guess if more people voice out much the same as my view then it certainly raised some concern, specially since it is NDP.

YOG torch runners are middle agers.....

Youth Olympic is sizzling in Singapore. Not just for the youths but for everyone. However they put in the YOUTH is to mean this event is to participate by youths only. So when the torch relay event list adults running for it, some people start to questions. Why adults run for this and not youths or young person? This question make sense to since it is YOUTH olympics. We don't see a youth running the torch relay or participate in the adult version of the Olympic. The minister explained that the running is for everyone. As the news report people disagreed, giving example, that in Star Studded events that meant for TV, you don't see an athlete going on stage to recieve or give awards. Yes this made sense. No matter how the minister explains it goes to show the organisers fail to take in common logic. It is a YOUTH event. Although the organisers are adults, it is all about the participants. YOUTH is the words. The blunders will be tagged although no one could make them change their minds.
http://news.omy.sg/News/Local%2BNews/Story/OMYStory201008041511-174060.html

the translated English version
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.omy.sg%2FNews%2FLocal%252BNews%2FStory%2FOMYStory201008041511-174060.html&sl=auto&tl=en

cosmic tantrum?

In case you didn't know it, there was a massive sun storm blowing towards Earth on Sunday. It hit Earth on about Wed. The sky over the north all lit up like weavery aurora. Usually it only affects places near the poles but now further down places people could see. Scientist are unable to pin point when and how a big one could happen that it could wrecks chaos on Earth. Such as disruption of communication and damaging of equipments. Are mankind ready for this big one? Something is definitely brewing. With all the wacky weathers and this solar storm, nearby space rocks, it seems something is massing.... perhaps the position in the cosmos have something to do. Or we could put it to global warming due to men's dirty works. Maybe it isn't that complicated. It could be years before you can see the result. Until then it could be too late.

Rock music dying?

Rock music is dying. I would say it is quite true. Unlike the 80s to the 90s, metal bands like Guns N Roses and Metallica blast the airwave with those familiar rock music, nowadays there isn't much. The bands exists but radio doesn't play them. Must be due to commercial reasons or people prefer pop instead. Even Bon Jovi whose heavy metal classic Bad Medicine seems to go towards pop. Maybe I am still stuck in the good old days where every songs are good regardless of rock or pop but I just can't seems to listen much to todays music, mainly teen singers or boybands. I will try to adapt, or I will just go back to my cassette collections.....

reading comics is worse than watching soap opera

I just finish the book Final Crisis from DC Comics. Very colourful pages and many characters. Mainly the main villain Darksied invading the Earth by squeezing their souls into the human body thus the human became a zombie or a shell being manipulate. A comics is supposed to show readers what is going on. Many times most happenings are being in words form which I do not quite get the true meaning or perhaps my English language isn't that great to understand. When Superman confronts Darksied, with Lex Luthor and his army of villains going to clash with Darksied's army, wordings again, describing Wonder Woman using her lasso on Darksied. The rest I am unable to digest. And the next scene is showing Superman confronting another super villains. No sight or Lex Luthor and his army nor any other super heroes. I do not see how soap opera can be in such confusions. But for a book, you could add in pages for more story details. I haven't read much on other comics. Maybe I will do, and hopefully on this title is confusing. Otherwise the pages are colourful.