HD Moon
Sep
30
Tonight’s moon is extra round with extra pixels. I think its the blu-ray version.
Cecilia Sue’s roller coaster statements
Sep
27
In the corruption case of the year, ex CNB chief Ng Boon Gay is charged on 4 counts of obtaining sexual gratification between June and December 2011. All 4 counts were for fellatio.
IT executive Cecilia Sue Siew Nang stepped up in court today to give her side of the story. It turned out to be full of inconsistencies with her earlier statements when the case first started, and also ran contradictory to SMSes retrieved that she’d allegedly sent to Ng Boon Gay.
In an 8.5 hr interrogation, she’d flipped her statements, initially saying she had a liking for him, but then turning around to say it was purely a business case.
Sultry Seductress or Totally Misunderstood Texts?
The contents of a few SMSes purported sent from Cecilia to Ng also surfaced in court and read out. The messages were:
“Do you DIY?”
“I could have three hours with you. We had fun.”
“M U”
“You ignore me how how how”
Do these smses tell a lurid tale of seduction for contracts? Or were they simply misunderstood? They could easily mean very different things NOT in a sexual context.
For instance, “Do you DIY” could be her asking Ng if he could fix plumbing by himself. Maybe she had a plumbing issue she needed help with? “I could have three hours with you. We had fun.” could simply have been referring to a casual meeting previously where Ng was entertaining her with his stand-up comic routine he was practicing as a career change plan?
“M U” (where we construe as “Miss U”) could mean an innocent “Mail U”, as in “I mailed you the contract. Please take a look”.
And lastly, “You ignore me how how how” could be tied back to the very first message of “Do you DIY”. Her sink may have burst, and she’s in a panicky state of mind.
A 5th Tryst?
Aside from the 4 counts of fellatio charge, early statements also revealed that she’d told CPIB officers that they’d had sex at an apartment in Great World City in 2009. However, in court today, she reneged on that fact, saying it was not true, and that the statement had been given under stress.
Seems like she is a highly unreliable witness, or she has stuff to hide, or maybe she’s just schizophrenic.
Either way, it makes for terribly entertaining news in boring SG.
Stay tuned for more as the hearing continues…
Sources:
Asiaone: I felt fear and was unwilling
Cathay Pacific mile high masturbation, TW news style
Sep
22
With news like these, who needs entertainment?
NMA.tv (Next Media Animation), is a Taipei based news site famous for using animation in its news reporting. Started in September 2009. NMA is part of Next Media Limited, a news conglomerate including the popular Apple Daily newspapers in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
NMA came into the global spotlight when they reported the Tiger Woods infidelity and Jetblue flight attendant incidents.
Since then, there’s been no turning back. Collectively, their youtube channel has garnered over 61,000,000 video views, and over 42,000 subscribers.
In fact, they are now so popular its even been spoofed in The Simpsons! Check out this hilarious clip below:
With 61,000,000 views to date, they MUST be doing something right! Will the next wave of news reporting come in animation style?
Yahoo faking search query volume?
Sep
21
Is Yahoo trying to boost its own search volume by adding queries as links to their news articles?
I was reading the article “Singapore, the next Silicon Valley for Social Innovation?” when i noticed a number of links, which is normal in an article. What wasn’t normal though, was that instead of linking directly to the organisation or event, it linked to a yahoo search query on the event/organisation.
What. The. Fuck?
Well done, Yahoo. You have successfully inflated your search volumes, and pissed me off. What a lame way to fake numbers.
Have you had the same encounter?
Resident Evil: Retribution
Sep
18
With every release of the Resident Evil series, we have come to expect one thing, and one thing only. Balls-out zombie ass-kicking by Milla Jovovich.
Forget story. Forget character development. Park your brain at home, and watch Milla Jovovich as Alice move from point A to point B whilst dispatching zombies with athletic grace and parading the tightest outfits ever made (probably something to do with aero-dynamics of zombie killing).
The “story” of Resident Evil: Retribution picks up where Afterlife left off, with Alice and a bunch of survivors on the Arcadia, facing a brain-washed Jill Valentine and an army of Umbrella Corp minions’ impending aerial attack.
After a very cool slo-mo reverse action sequence and an alternate reality-clone scenario, we find out that original Alice had been captured by Umbrella in that attack, and is being housed in a remote testing facility underwater in Russia. She breaks out of her cell with the help of Albert Wesker and Ada Wong, who reveals that the Red Queen had fully taken control of Umbrella and bent on destroying what’s left of humanity.
Wesker, realising that he is also considered “what’s left of humanity”, wisely defects to Team Alice and now wants to play good.
The underground facility is a sprawling testing ground for infection rates, and houses several replicas of towns such as Racoon City, New York, Tokyo and Moscow (thereby ensuring the cast gets to go on a paid holiday to said locales). Alice and Ada now needs to move to the different locales to rendezvous with an extraction team before escaping.
This sets the action in motion, allowing various action set-pieces in the different locations (and enabling the tagline “Evil goes Global”)
This sequel features an upgrade of the zombies to “intelligent” zombies able to drive vehicles and operate machine guns. While i’m not keen on super-powered Alice and hyper-intelligent zombies (which is why I thought the 3rd movie Extinction to be the worst in the series thus far) , the ending frame teasing the possible finale does seem pretty awesome and promising.
After 5 movies spanning 10 years, its good to see Milla still kicking ass and looking good.
Rating: 7/10 (Actually 6, but +1 for bringing back the hospital paper-towel outfit)
Umbrella Corp sure has a titillating fashion sense
Play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon on Google
Sep
14
Google’s search algorithm is so powerful, you can now play Six degrees of Kevin Bacon on it.
Look.
How fun.
I wonder which actors are higher up in numbers? I’d have thought local actress Fann would have been obscure enough.
Let’s take a look at mediacorp’s first macho uber leading man hunk Li Nanxing.
Erm… oh well, at least he has a wiki entry!
Go play on Google’s homepage! Just type in actor’s name followed by the phrase “bacon number”.
I love Google.
New iPhone? Its faster! Better! Shinier!
Sep
14
This is what happens when you tell rabid apple fans that the new iPhone5 has arrived, and then you hand them the iPhone 4, and ask them how they feel about it.
Brainwashed! Either that or… Americans.
The Bourne Legacy
Sep
13
The Bourne Legacy spends a lot of time setting up the shared universe, and the implications and consequences of the events surrounding the previous 3 Bourne films in this installment.
So much so that it almost overshadows the action in this one.
The Bourne Legacy focuses on a parallel program called Operation Outcome, headed by Eric Byer (Edward Norton). The program aims to enhance the physical and mental abilities of their field agents through ingestion of pills.
As Operation Blackbriar and Treadstone Project gets increasingly out in the open, Eric decides to burn the operation to the ground, and remove all traces of it. As a result, all personnel exposed to Operation Outcome are killed with the exception of Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) and geneticist Dr Marta Shearing (Rachel Weisz), coincidentally the most beautiful scientist in the entire program (Seriously, how does Rachel Weisz manage being 42 and amazingly beautiful at the same time?? Look.).
The real bond girl
Then, Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz spend the rest of the movie dodging bad guys as foreplay.
Not as tight as the original trilogy, but still plenty watchable.
Rating: 6/10