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News: Singapore to get pandas from China

noreply@blogspirit.com (mashie) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:09:09 +0800

I guess we're good enough friends now with China to receive a pair of pandas, wonder if they'll get any incentives to have babies :)

Fat adidas instructor/spokeperson?

noreply@blogspirit.com (mashie) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:49:35 +0800

I'm one of those silly consumers who wants to be lied to. Like, "if you use this product, you will become such and such." Or "if you sign up for this program, you can such and such." "Look at me, I used this, and here are the results..."

Hence my surprise when I saw this picture of a gym instructor on an adidas roadshow, the woman wearing a mike and in the orange tank top. She was fat! Ok she wasn't overweight, but I always imagined that if you were going to be a fitness instructor (or even pretend to be…

News: Youtube blocked in China

noreply@blogspirit.com (mashie) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:54:16 +0800

Tried to load a video link from youtube this morning. Don't work. Realized the powers-that-be have gone and cut off access to youtube. WHY WHY WHY???? argh.

Lovebyte

noreply@blogspirit.com (mashie) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:33:25 +0800

So some of you may know that Singapore has these government-related dating services. It's supposed to be for the good of society you know, encourage marriage, likely have more kids. And if marry of same intellect, then maybe good genetic base for smarter kids.

Anyway, the government knows if your marital status. And they do try. Like so.

My dad emailed me the other that I had received a letter from the newly combined entity that was SDU and SDS (those government-related dating services). He even went as far as to email me the website, my userID and password as well…

Opinion: Why I'm Quitting Facebook

noreply@blogspirit.com (mashie) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:02:06 +0800

This is for Jukebox who still hasn't gotten into Facebook. This is also for myself as I wonder why I'm still on Facebook.

Click here to read article.

"Tell God that he is very very very good"

noreply@blogspirit.com (mashie) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:52:35 +0800

It's rare to see miracles attributed to Papa and publicly announced too. How marvelous!

Teenage virtual worlds

noreply@blogspirit.com (mashie) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:27:25 +0800

For once as part of my work I actually get to test games. I always thought that would be cool. Except that I seem to have to do this after office hours because that's when most of the players come in to play.

I'm trying to find out more about teenage/kid virtual worlds. Like Club Penguin, Habbo in the states. In China, like Club Mole and Club Fish.

The concept with these virtual worlds is that you enter them as an avatar, and then you just walk around exploring the various scenes available, play games (either vs the system or against…

News: Restricted internet freedom for Beijing Olympics

noreply@blogspirit.com (mashie) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:03:16 +0800

Honestly, I wasn't surprised this was going to happen – that the original intention to have unrestricted internet access in China during the Olympics was an incredible notion and would soon be overturned.

I must admit though, that I don't know what the big deal is. Perhaps it's because I come from a country where the press serves the government and there’s censorship, so you could say I'm already used to such "oppression" and "limited rights". But I don't feel particularly oppressed, ignorant or feel that my rights have been violated.

I can see why China feels that it must control…

News: Name change

noreply@blogspirit.com (mashie) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:02:39 +0800

Ok, sorry if I seem insensitive, but this girl's name is really funny.
But it was so bad that I support her for fighting for a name change.
She won by the way.

Perspective: Marriage - an unsettling experience

noreply@blogspirit.com (mashie) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:35:00 +0800

I guess it's kinda clichéd for me to put up an article like this – that marriage isn't for everyone and everyone shouldn't feel like they need to get married.

The article says, "There is... a commonly held notion that to get married is to 'settle down', in contrast to being unmarried suggesting that the latter is to be saddled with an 'unsettled' state of life."

A friend and I were talking yesterday a bit about settling down and I think this quote describes pretty well how we felt. I've always thought that marriage is very hard work and a big…