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Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 02:10 PM in Random Rants | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
All the undercover TV guy does is ask for a complaint form to file a complaint against a police officer. And the intimidating reactions from the cops in the South Florida police stations he visits are astounding.
Watch some of the videos. They also have transcripts of some of the conversations.
One Sergeant who was seen in one of the videos tried to get temporary injunction in court, to stop the TV station from airing his story. The judge denied the injunction.
Excerpt:
CBS4 News found that, in police departments across Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, large and small, it was virtually impossible to walk in the door, and walk out with a complaint form.
The I-Team conducted an extensive hidden camera test, carried out by a police abuse watchdog group called the Police Complaint Center. Remarkably, of 38 different police stations tested around South Florida, all but three had no police complaint forms...
In the I-team’s undercover investigation, there was one incident in which our tester went in to file a complaint. After several times asking for a form, being told "you're not leaving without a form," he was asked to leave and actually walked off the property, to the point where the officer reached for his gun, put his hand on his gun and said, "Take a step closer, and see what happens.".
Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 at 08:14 PM in Random Rants | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
mr brown and Miyagi on handphone stars, singapore idol stars, and the aeroplane stars of Asian Aerospace.
Audio file for the mrbrown show 27 Feb 2006: shooting stars
(MP3, Filesize: 7.7mb, Time: 00:20:37)
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Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 at 05:17 AM in Podcasts and Videos | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
They don't call it the Terrible Twos for nothing. And Isaac has been displaying it with capital "T"s. Being down with a nasty cough for 3 weeks did not help either, though for most part, he was his usual cheery self.. He was almost getting better last week until he helped himself to a box of chocolates on the dining table, and downed 5 pieces before his silent ninja ways were discovered.
So the weekends have been a little chaotic, with our temperamental two-year-old son driving us up the wall. It also broke the heart of Celia, our maid, to see this little fella refuse to eat much, the sickness affecting his appetite. At least he was drinking his milk. Dehydration almost aways means a trip to and a stay at KK Hospital for him and me, if it comes to that. Drips suck. So thank goodness he still drank.
The two girls are fine, except Faith had a brief runny nose. While Ning worked on getting the rascal boy to sleep, Mommy and I played with the girls. Joy likes company. She has been very quick with the smiles, and always greets our faces with a big grin and a gurgle or two. Faith was bouncing on our bed like it was a trampoline, and we had to stop her before she jumped on Joy.
Then for a brief moment, they were lying side by side, looking at Mommy making faces. I don't know when Faith will be able to talk to her little sister. But she knows this little baby is a part of her family and that's a good start.
Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 10:52 PM in Musings | Permalink | Comments (13) | TrackBack (0)
So many desserts, so little time.
And the evening was surprisingly cool and breezy, which made our al fresco table (the inside ones were all taken) quite pleasant.
It was also fun to people watch, with some folk dressed to party on a Friday night. We both tittered at one particular lady who had a very tight dress on, to show off her rather ample curves. She kept standing with her chest out, her back in a permanent arch. Her face reminded me of a Pablo Francisco joke I heard in the morning, from a video of his standup routine, the one about spaghetti and shit. The man is a comic genius.
We ordered as light a main meal as we could so we would have room for dessert. Too bad they ran out of the banana pizza.
Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 at 10:39 PM in Musings | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack (0)
Latest TODAY column: An email letter to parents.
Excerpt:
From: Ministry of Education for Normal Children
Re: Change in policy with regards to school fees
Dear parents,
I hope this letter finds you well. I write to you to explain some changes to current school policy.
With the exception of those with children in the Elite Self-Sufficient Autonomously Independent School Scheme (which are allowed to charge higher fees), most of you have been paying the same school fees for your children all this while.
We wish to inform you that, with immediate effect, all children studying in mainstream schools will pay school fees according to the new means testing scheme.
FYI, there is currently an online petition called "Concerns Over Reduction Of Subsidies For Special Needs Children", started by a parent with a special needs child. Go lend your support and sign it.
Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 at 11:56 AM in Musings, Popular | Permalink | Comments (16) | TrackBack (0)
She was a good girl from an uptown school. He was a bruddah from Brooklyn-Harlem Secondary Skool (Singapore's first Hip Hop skool) in the mean streets of Simei...
So when this Chinese bruddah farts, does his shirt flap up too? If he has to take a leak, does he unzip his pants or unbutton the bottom of his shirt?
Luckily, there is no Baggy Pants Law against it.
I'd try low-slung baggy pants, but my belly would spoil the look and I don't like tripping and falling very much.
Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 11:22 AM in Gallery | Permalink | Comments (21) | TrackBack (0)
mr brown and Mr Miyagi interview the tired but sporting guys from the upcoming play, Army Daze! Sebastian Tan, Hossan Leong, Robin Goh and Vernon A are our guests.
Audio file for the mrbrown show 22 Feb 2006: Army Daze
(MP3, Filesize: 7.7mb, Time: 00:21:15)
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Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 10:24 PM in Podcasts and Videos | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Update: Do not link to the videos please. Thanks.
From the Straits Times, 22 Feb 2006, about the NYP sex video scandal:
Poly student in homemade sex video gets counselling
Teachers in other schools say many teens use phones to capture made photos, sex clips
One of the boy's girlfriends, also a student at the (secondary) school, was not ashamed of her (nude) photos being circulated.
"She was proud of it. She said it was artistic."
Veteran youth counseller Carol Ballhetchet said: "The new technology makes it all very easy and with celebrity bloggers revealing it all, it has become acceptable, even cool."
Give. Me. A. Freakin. Break.
Sure, before bloggers took their clothes off on their blogs, people were all conservative and there were no other places where young people could be influenced by the glamorization and normalization of this exhibitionist behaviour.
Television, movies, pop music, and barely-legal men's magazines, none of that had any influence on kids thinking that filming themselves in the buff/having sex is acceptable and cool. Sure.
Damn those naked celebrity bloggers!
Here is a old Boingboing/Yahoo piece on the Cam Girl phenomenon, which has interesting parallels to this situation. And incidentally, as some of us have noticed, "Tammy NYP" is now number one search item on Technorati.com.
Even an American "religious" blog has something to say about it... before someone gets upset by this Even More Latter Day Saints blog, it is a parody, ok?.
We are going grober people!
Blogs covering this include Metafilter, and those from Germany, Spain, Ohio, California, and even an Advice-giving deer.
And we will probably be seeing a lot less babies named Tammy in the months to come.
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Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 11:15 AM in Musings | Permalink | Comments (27) | TrackBack (5)
The talented Tracker from Howard Forums compiled this collection of Nokia ringtones which are actually remixed versions of the standard Nokia ringtone.
Each of the tones in this set come in three formats: AAC, MP3 and OGG. Use whichever one your phone supports. The Series 60 supports AAC and the filesize for AAC is the smallest, so you may want to use that format.
Do save it on your memory card if you want to save space on your mobile phone.
I liked them so much, I did a little remixing of the remix myself. I took one of them and added Isaac singing his ABC song, with Apple's Garageband.
Download the ringtones here (winrar archive).
via Mobile Diva Darla Mack
Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 05:11 PM in Random Rants | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
Update 2: Tuesday. 12.19am, 21st Feb 2006. The server is 80% up, so the shows should be semi-available now. With better availability in a few hours time.
Update 1: Monday, 7.40pm SGT, 20th Feb 2006. My podcast host is having some post-system-upgrade issues, so the shows will not be available until they sort it out. Will keep you guys posted, and we are sorry for the inconvenience.
mr brown and Mr Miyagi get interviewed by Mediacorp news for their views on the impact of blogs and podcasts on the elections. What they did not show you were the juicy silly bits behind the scenes. And Miyagi discovers the text version of our interview mashes up both our quotes and attributes them all to him (one more guy and we can be a trinity liao).
Gayle Goh has a small transcript, er, containing my, uh, Channel 5, umm, one-liner (that was one line out of 20 minutes, ah well).
Please note that this video requires Quicktime and it is a large file.
Video file for the mrbrown show (video) 19 Feb 2006: Show 2, CNA interview
(Quicktime Movie, Filesize: 33.7mb, Time: 00:05:11)
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Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 at 08:12 PM in Podcasts and Videos | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0)
It's bad enough one looks fatter on tv, then chao Miyagi go and take a shot of me off his widescreen TV. Thanks ah.
Miyagi was slightly miffed that the Channel 5 news only had my bit (actually his exact words were "How come don't have me, nabeh."). Because both of us got interviewed by CNA last week for our views on the iimpact of blogs and podcasts on the coming elections.
Later he told me they used his bit for Singapore Tonight on CNA. Eh, how come don't have me, nabeh.
Watch for an upcoming video podcast of the interview, the mrbrown video show: Number 2. A behind-the-scenes look at our little news adventure. It is a hoot.
P.S. The wife tittered when she saw my TV photo, and said, "You look so ugly heheh".
Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 11:11 PM in Musings | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (1)
Latest TODAY column: The age of loitering.
Excerpt:
THE police have announced that teens below 17 years old found loitering in public places after 11pm will have their particulars taken and their parents informed.
This controversial measure was decided on because more and more youth are involved in crime and becoming victims of crime.
Now, this does not mean the Government doesn't want our youth to be more enterprising, more rugged and more independent. It just means you should be more enterprising, more rugged and more independent before 11pm.
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 at 03:14 PM in Musings | Permalink | Comments (23) | TrackBack (0)
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 at 12:07 PM in Gallery | Permalink | Comments (13) | TrackBack (0)
According to tinkertailor, Google is going to come out with a payment system to compete with Paypal and it is going to be called... Gbuy.
I shall refrain from the obvious Hokkien jokes that tinkertailor could not help sharing, because I am more cultured than he is.
What next? Google does an Ebay and calls it Gbay?
Buy on Gbay, pay with Gbuy!
Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 at 01:26 PM in Random Rants | Permalink | Comments (38) | TrackBack (1)
She said, "You shouldn't have, I really didn't need another watch."
She said, "By getting me this, we are falling into their trap of crass commercialism."
She said, "I thought we agreed we wouldn't buy stuff for each other on Valentine's Day."
But she smiled anyway, took it out of the heart-shaped box, and put it against her wrist.
(Thanks for the help, Mingo, you are a real friend and dude. I really needed a second opinion and the wife always said she trusted your taste better than mine. Heheh. And for once, I found some use for MMS to send images of the watches I shortlisted. Miyagi, I heard, went the flowers route and helped increase the GDP of some rose-growing nation. 99 roses, ok? He so lomantic one.)
Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 at 01:40 AM in Musings | Permalink | Comments (10) | TrackBack (0)
Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 at 03:48 PM in Gallery | Permalink | Comments (14) | TrackBack (0)
Papa loves to take my photos. So sometimes, I smile for him.
Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 at 07:54 PM in Gallery | Permalink | Comments (28) | TrackBack (0)
Wah, the mrbrown show is considered Uniquely Singapore leh!
But chao turtle, how come got Miyagi's blog and not mine? Har? Har? Where is the Comprain Dept?
Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 at 06:46 PM in Random Rants | Permalink | Comments (10) | TrackBack (0)
You haven't lived till you have flushed your nostrils by sticking a syringe of sodium bicarbonate water up one nostril, holding your breath, and pumping the stinging liquid out the other nostril.
Three times each nostril. Three times a day. Fun and laughter for all.
Though I must add, nothing clears the nose of allergy-induced mucus better than this method.
Please hor, not to be attempted without doctor's instructions, ok?
Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 at 12:49 PM in Gallery | Permalink | Comments (28) | TrackBack (0)
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