Healthy Eating?

I almost never read about eating less, much less than most of us are already doing. It is always choosing healthier options from the foods to their preparation.

All the advice in the world is useless when one eats too much.

Facebook calling: Please come back

I somehow knew this would come. I have no time to blog, much less for Facebook which I mostly use for reading news and following some news makers and experts.

Some friends distract me with their show offs. It is an air brushed life, I know them too well to know how made up it is.

It is not bad as a birthday reminder but I do not send them birthday greetings over Facebook, instead I use another Facebook property: Whatsapp.

I think the going is going to get tougher for Facebook. Many will discover the hard way it is often a waste of time and it would be a tough challenge for Facebook to keep them.

Google products are more useful and in fact indispensable. Can't imagine how I can get by without Gmail, Google, and Maps. Chrome is also for now the most sensible web browser as well. YouTube often makes sense as well.

I almost forgot Android. That is the soul of my phone.

One box of Bak Kwa and two mandarins

I supposed every Chinese in the office got this and two mandarins yesterday. The meat is seem to be vacuum packed, two slices to a bag and eight packets adding up to 800g. The company got it from Kay Lee, which I supposed was bought by Aztech isn't it?

Well I just google and found this.

Indeed by the Roast Meat guys. 

Principal Richard Lim

I enjoyed working with this principal many years ago. How time have passed both of heads are now full of gray hair! 

He was unlike any other principals I have met, very open minded and innovative. I didn't realized how different he was until I had to work with his successor, who was a good fellow as well but more in the mold of a government servant. 

First Yu Sheng in the Dog Year

Had our first Yu Sheng this afternoon as usual at Ichiban Sushi.

I think they have upped the price from $28 last year t o$29.80 this year. On the other hand quality has gone up. We will be having this many times before the new year is over.

CHC: Won the legal but lost the moral case

I went over the five points, reviewed the comments and obviously we have to agree with the judges judgement on this matter. Now Parliament must act to update the law on this matter. The public will ask why just like the floods, we are being reactive and not proactive. That it is very hard to be proactive and easy to be reactive is not an argument many people here are willing to accept when government leaders are so highly paid.

Shanmugam and his ministerial colleagues should not have bothered to appeal and instead should have gone ahead to change the law through parliamentary action. That would be the takeaway for any reasonable person reading how the five judges thought.

In this town people think the government is proactive about protecting and promoting wealth and the rich but reactive about our needs and worries. This is but only the latest in a long line of examples. Think MRT, floodings, pedophilia, human trafficking, road accidents and hospital beds.

We are not lawyers and why should we be? At the end of the day lots of people go away with the perception albeit unfairly that there is one law for the rich and another for the rest of us. This is bad and clumsy politics. The lack of accountability creates falling standards.

Sure the government will fix this one between section 406 and 409. What about other laws? That we would get to learn about another time when the moral equivalent of the CHC case appears.

Khong Hee and gang now serve a much shorter sentence. They will worship and praise God in their huge cavern over this. That is the second insult.

Update: Feb 6 8:20 am

For 40 years, the law was that directors will face severe penalties for Criminal Breach of Trust (CBT). There were several cases where this was confirmed.

That is practically alluding to had the case been not a church but a business organization, the five would have been sentenced differently. The government expected that but it did not happen. Why? Well what is the difference between a church and a company which caused the judges to view this differently. On the other hand the public by and large is with the government on this matter.

Trump and meaning of words

China is probably among the first to learn how to discount Trump's vocabulary. Only someone like Trump would no recognize the irony of a "beautiful war". No war is beautiful, not even when nobody dies because the loser will still have many indirect deaths. Just ask the Russians who were defeated in the Cold War.

'beautiful future' eh? With beautiful claws and sharp teeth.

Only an idiot says there is such a thing as "beautiful, clean coal"