Years ago, Singapore boasted one of the countries that seldom and almost zero accounts of flooding. Meticulous studies and research to prevent flooding was made and it worked nicely for decades. Singapore was almost flood free. Almost as certain parts of Singapore still faces slight flooding.

Boon Lay Way, where the old Boon Lay Secondary School used to be, always faced the problem of flooding at the side gate. It was a major to trudge through the ankle deep water just to get out from the gate and to the bus stop. It was even terrible when you have school the next day and the only pair of shoes  you have were those wet ones you wore in the flood.

However I didn’t expect an important place like Orchard Road to be facing a terrible flash flood. So who should we put the blame of the recent flash floods? Will it be the unpredictable weather or the construction works on the Marina Barrage that affected the main water flow of the main river in Singapore or the ever on going land reclamation project at every known Singapore owned islands?

In my opinion, it would be all of them. I wonder if the geologist in Singapore has done any studies of the movement of the earth. Constant digging through the earth for tunnels and other purposes, land reclamation and the lacking of widening of the main water flow such as the rivers and canals  may perhaps be the factor of the flash floods in Singapore.

But is Singapore sinking? I am not sure about that. Unless there is a major earthquake (touch wood!) it may perhaps move Singapore like what it did to some countries after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

Coral reefs were destroyed, some land were pushed upwards from the sea while some land sank. I can’t really remembered what was the title of the documentary but I clearly remembered how much land the quake had pushed out from the sea.

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While Kuala Lumpur is having major upgrading especially in the public transport sector, some parts of Malaysia still lacks solely on public transport. With a state that is as busy as Kuala Lumpur and Melaka, Johor is sadly lacking in the public transport.

There are no MRT or LRT that can ferry the locals from a city to their main city. Johor itself is huge. The beautiful land stretches from Johor Bahru to Rompin to Segamat and to Muar. An MRT should be made to ferry commuters to their workplaces especially the badly congested areas like the main city, Johor Bahru.

The Pasir Gudang highway and the Skudai highway itself is a major headache for motorcyclists. Every peak hours it is always in a jam. The title of worse traffic jam has to be given to the Pasir Gudang Highway. It only has 2 lane for both sides of the traffic and it becomes a quicksand when there is a heavy rain because the drains are all clogged up! It is even a bumper-to-bumper crawl after the peak hours.

The government should also think of other states if they wish to improve the public transport system. It is not fair to concentrate on the main capital city itself when the money they use is contributed by the tax payers, who came from all states and cities.

They could build an MRT route with Johor Bahru (Jln Wong Ah Fook) as their main point and then branches out with Gelang Patah as the West Point, Masai as the East Point, Kulai as North Point and Tampoi as the Central Point where commuters can change platforms to get to another part of the MRT line.

From there, the government could make a central bus station and coax the public bus operators to branch off their buses to other parts in the city. While the government is at it, they should have an audit of the public buses. Most of them are not in a good condition. Being stuffed in a bus with faulty air-con while the driver puffs away on his cigarette is a vomiting experience.

Some of them only have two working bells and trying to reach for the bell while being crammed like sardines in a can is a frustrating event. Plus, most of the buses carries more than they can carry.

I myself have the experience of the driver packing all of the commuters in the dingy bus that with unclosed doors and rounding corners at top speed nearly flew me out of the bus. If the bus is full, the driver should consider the passengers lives and not overloading their capacity to the point of the doors not being able to close.

No harm in losing 3 or so passengers while they drive safely. Forking out thousands for medical bills, summons and claims and bearing the deaths of many passengers should never be the option.

Years have battered me,
Years have matured me,
Years have molded me,
And years have made me wiser.

The heart is beating,
The heart is crying,
The heart is praying,
Yet no one hears it.

My soul is crying,
The rain shadows the cries,
My soul is wrecking,
Slowly oh but slowly falling.

As usual, this post is influenced by the madness of the papers that had been flagging down blogs that have been trying to promote racist and inciting of hate towards religions. The media sure make it looks like there are no rules on blogging at all whereas there are plenty. I do not support racist or any manner/form of hate towards anyone or anything or any organisation whatsoever. Therefore I’m creating an all out awareness to bloggers who simply sits on their bum and think that it’s a free world out there on the internet with freedom of speech.

Firstly and most importantly, there are no such thing as freedom of speech on the internet. Don’t think that whatever you type/express/rant about cannot be traced down by the authorities should you ever piqued their attention. No parties would ever want to mess with the men in blue especially when they start coming out with warrants and court orders. Take note that every web hosters, blog hosters, domain owners and anything that corresponds to them would do everything in their power to comply with the men in blue.

Next, let’s take a deeper look at some Terms of Service or Blogging Etiquette of some well known web publishing blogging services. In Blogger.com, it is clearly stated that they do not tolerate Pornography & Obscenity, Hateful Content, Violent Content, Copyright, Private & Confidential Information, Impersonation, Unlawful Use of Service, Spam-Malicious-Codes & Virus. Taking a copy and paste action, the meanings of the above are as follows:-

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PORNOGRAPHY AND OBSCENITY:

• Pornography and Obscenity: Image and video content that contains nudity, sexually graphic material, or material that is otherwise deemed explicit by Google should be made private. Otherwise, we may put such content behind an interstitial.
• Pedophilia, Incest and Bestiality: Users may not publish written, image or video content that promotes pedophilia, incest and bestiality.
• Commercial Pornography: We do not allow content that exists for the primary purpose of monetizing porn content or driving traffic to a monetized pornography site.
• Child Pornography: Google has a zero-tolerance policy against child pornography, and we will terminate and report to the appropriate authorities any user who publishes or distributes child pornography.

HATEFUL CONTENT: Users may not publish material that promotes hate toward groups based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity.

VIOLENT CONTENT: Users may not publish direct threats of violence against any person or group of people.

COPYRIGHT: It is our policy to respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement. More information about our copyright procedures can be found here.

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: We do not allow the unauthorized publishing of people’s private and confidential information, such as credit card numbers, Social Security Numbers, and driver’s and other license numbers.

IMPERSONATION: We do not allow impersonation of others through our services in a manner that is intended to or does mislead or confuse others.

UNLAWFUL USE OF SERVICES: Our products and services should not be used for unlawful purposes or for promotion of dangerous and illegal activities. Your account may be terminated and you may be reported to the appropriate authorities.

SPAM, MALICIOUS CODES AND VIRUSES: We do not allow spamming or transmitting malware and viruses.

”

Blogger.com is not the only one that has the Blogging Etiquette in their Terms of Service. In fact WordPress.com, Livejournal.com and many others have that rules in their service. They will not hesitate to terminate your service should the blogger insist of doing otherwise.

Furthermore, if your content should attract the wrong attention of any government authorities from whichever countries, then you’d find yourself being hauled up in not the most friendly way. Even though as a blogger, we have the so called ‘power’ to express our discontentment with whatsoever party, we do not have the ‘power’ at all. We are still governed by rules and regulations. So don’t start blabbering your anger away should any parties decide that they had enough of your nonsense and pull you out into court.

So bloggers, do your part in being wiser, read the Terms of Service before you start your writings and end up on the wrong side of the law.

Craving for blood? Extra sensitive to sunlight, acute hearing, extremely good eyesight and incredibly gothic. Those are what people these days would categorise the legendary bloodsucking devil, vampire. Vampire, Vampyre or Dracula has been a mythical bedtime story that many parents would use as an easy ticket to make their children sleep.

Too bad for these creatures, I would always and will forever label them as low blood count mentally disturbed freaks. There are no such thing as a vampire, no matter how much the media has tried to get people to believe in. During the oldern days where there isn’t a high tech medical research center, people would always blame all the plagues and unexplainable on the underworld creatures.

During the oldern days, sickness like Tuberculosis would always be labelled as the Vampire’s Kissed victim or Consumption. Why labelled as the Vampire Kissed? This is because Tuberculosis is a disease that consume the body from within with fever, bloody cough, chills, night sweats, appetite and weight loss, pale and extreme fatigue. Thus, many uneducated and desperate people would blame the unexplained deaths and sickness as the work of the Vampire.

But how to explain the acute hearing, eyesight and extremely good physique? Let’s head back a few centuries to where fierce warriors roam and the law and order wasn’t fully established. During that time, men and some parts of the world even women had to be in a good physique to enable themselve to defend and fight for their property and obtain more treasures from their enemies. They had to constantly keep training to maintain their abilities as warriors and fighters.

Furthermore, in some parts of the world, food was difficult to obtain and to store. In accordance to the rate of pollution and monstrous technology that we are facing now, it’s no surprise that we can no longer hear, see and even live as long as our ancestors. Luckily for me, I was able to treasure my time spent with my great-grandparents who were still alive and healthy until they passed away when I was 9years old. My old great grandad was 105 and great grandmom was 98.

What about fangs or canine teeth? Since I happen to have a real authentic pair of fangs with no denture glues whatsoever and a firm DNA in my teeth, I can explain this weird phenomena. A normal gum is usually able to cope with all the correct number of teeth that will grow throughout our lives. Unfortunately, for some cases and in this case mix blood race like me, our gums are too small to properly and comfortably allow our teeth to grow in the correct manner (alteration of eruption).

Thus, when the teeth forces its way to grow out, it creates an overcrowding and forms a strange tooth/teeth that somehow resembles of fangs or canine fangs. In anyway, these pair of fangs irritate and cause a discomfort to its owner mainly when we accidentally bump our mouth on anything. I’m not sure about other people’s teeth but mine is sharp enough to cut into my lips. Luckily over the years, it became blunt but it does once in a while cut into my lips when trauma is impacted on it.

Until I see with my own eyes a being that moves as fast as speeding bullet, lives on blood, gorgeously sexy and good physique records, I will never even want to spare a thought that vampires exist. Let’s just stick to only Queen of the Damn; Lestat looks cute, does he not?

Click Click Tap Tap..

Bleary and slightly red eyes squinted to the screen as she continued to finish the last sets of documents. If the crazy boss of hers had not hollered through the office in the afternoon, scattering the stacks of notes on her nearby computer desks, she would have long ago packed her items and trudge back home.
11.32pm

Groaning loudly, she thumped her head on her desk, the seventh time in the evening. Reaching out to her left, she grabbed onto her coffee mug and chugged down the black liquid. Shuddering at the taste of cold coffee, she continued on with her work.

“What are you doing?”

Alice snapped to attention, looking around for the source of the voice. Shaking her head at the thought of the imagination playing tricks on her, she went back to work.

“Uh.. What are doing?”

This time is was a deep, throaty voice that asked. Blinking her eyes to clear her eyesight, she stood up and surveyed the office. True to her prediction, there was no one in the office except her.

“As if anyone would be crazy enough to work til the ungodly hours,” she muttered to herself as she once again sat in her chair.

“Why is she talking to herself? Spongebob, I think she is crazy,” The throaty voice commented again although it ended on a whispering note.

This time, instead of her usual Microsoft Words staring back at her, a new figure that suspiciously looked like a pink starfish and a yellow sponge in a pair of pants waved at her. Eyes shot open, Alice screamed in disbelief as she scrambled away from her desk.

“See, I told you she’s crazy Spongebob.”

“She’s not crazy. I think we surprised her Patrick.” The squeaky nasal voice commented from the yellow sponge figure.

“Oh my god, oh my god… OH MY GOD!” Alice could feel panic bubbling out as she continued to stare at the smiling figures on her LCD monitor. Rubbing her eyes and slapping herself a few times to make sure she wasn’t dreaming, she returned her look to her monitor. The figures were still there, grinning like half simpletons while the starfish disgustingly dig his nose.

Scrambling, she pressed on the off button on her screen but to no avail. The creatures were still there. “I am going crazy. This is not happening! I did not just imagine that!!”

“I am sorry we scare you. I am Spongebob and this is Patrick.”

If her eyes were to grow anymore larger, Alice feared her eyes will pop out from its socket. “You even have names for yourself?!”

Alice watched in morbid fascination as the pink starfish scoot to his friend, raised his hand.. err limb to cover his face as he attempt to whisper. It would have worked if he had not whispered very loudly.

“Hey! I am not crazy!” Alice exclaimed.

In response to her, the dorky looking starfish drooled dumbly as he crudely scratched his backside. “Yes you are!”

“I am not going to stand this. You two freaks are just a figment of my imagination! As your master, I demand that you stop whatever things you are doing and disappear” Gritting her teeth in irritation, she turn on her LCD monitor and proceeded to finish her work.

Maybe Fate hated her or have a great time making her into Her chew toy because not after two minutes in her work, the yellow sponge suddenly poofed into her screen and proceeded to steal her mouse cursor. She could feel her jaw drop in astonishment as his other friend appeared and began kicking all of her letters, making them look as if they were just jumbled jibberish words. Not to mention leaving trails of drool along the way.

“What are you two doing?” The urge to scream was there but she silently congratulated herself not to give in. Good heavens, these two are the best description for idiots!

“I am catching Jellyfish!” The Sponge remarked.

“I am kicking the corals.. Uh!! What are corals Spongebob?”

“Stop it! Stop it both of you!! You are destroying my work!!” At this point, Alice was beyond caring. Angrily, she slammed her hand onto her mouse and proceeded to steal her cursor back. Giggling evilly when she finally managed to get her cursor back, she clicked onto her Display Panel and changed her cursor to a hungry crocodile cartoon.

Clicking back to her desktop, she gleefully allowed her Croc cursor tail down a screaming Sponge, laughing loudly when she saw her Croc taking a bite of his pants. Opening her previous Microsoft Words, Alice cackled maniacally as she taps her BackSpace button with a vengeance. Her slightly red eyes followed in sadistic pleasure as the pink overgrown Starfish squealed like a girl, trying to run away from her BackSpace.

“Alice have you… What in the world happen to you?” The deep timbre voice of her boss shook Alice awake.

Cracking her eyes open, she slowly pulled herself from her desk. Her joints and muscles screamed in protest as she struggled to pull herself aright. Rubbing her eyes from sleep, she managed a smile as she passed the contract listings to her boss.

“I’m going home. I’m taking three days off. If you have a problem with the documents, tell Spongebob and Patrick about it.”

Mr Johnson watched as his secretary dragged her bedraggled form to the exit of the office. Flipping through his documents, his eyebrows shot to his hairlines. On every page as footnotes, there were drawings of a yellow sponge in drawers and a pink colored starfish with pins strategically placed on its form.

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That was originally written by me on a spontaneous inspiration of the day. Took me only 30mins to finish the weird wired brain cells of mine. Hehehe…

No stealing of my stories darlings!!

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