Happy Birthday, Singapore!

Today, Singapore celebrates its 44th National Day. This year also marks 50 years of self-governance for Singapore.

In its 44 years of nation building, the island-state has grown from strength to strength. Today, as one of the four Asian tigers, Singapore is well positioned to advance itself together with the rise of China and India in the coming years.

I wish Singapore prosperity and progress, and that it remains young and vibrant forever.

Happy Birthday, Singapore!

Collapse of the New World Order?

I join the international community with my deepest condolences to families and friends of the victims of the Mumbai terrorist attack.

Hairy Butter

I find a recent piece of news that Hollywood studio Warner Bros has filed a lawsuit against the maker of Bollywood film Hari Puttar awfully amusing. As a Harry Potter fan (not a great one, but still a fan), I too think "Harry Potter" has some influence on the title "Hari Puttar", although its Indian producers denied it completely.

On the other hand, in the wake of infants falling ill and dying after consuming toxic milk formula from China, I like to share a nice little story, Hairy Butter:

A long time ago in ancient Singapore, where the British once ruled.

One day, Ahmad came home from school and found hair in his butter. So, he ran to Ah Seng. "Seng, Seng, see, dun know why got hair in my butter."

Ah Seng was woke up from his afternoon nap, and reluctantly said, "How I know, let's go ask Adam lah!".

So, the two of them came to Adam's house and told him about the butter.

After listening to the story, Adam said, "I am the smartest in class. And, I think we should go ask the cow."

And the three came to the farm where the cow was. Adam went to the cow and asked, "tell us, cow, why is there hair in the butter?"

The cow replied, "moo...".

"Oh," Ah Seng said, "the cow says we should talk to the cat."

"Ah Seng's right," said Ahmad.

And so, the boys came to the cat, and asked, "tell us, cat, why is there hair in the butter?"

The cat replied, "meow...", wagged its tail and ran away.

"Why don't we ask the dog?" said Adam again.

"Let's go," said Ahmad.

So, they came to the dog and asked, "tell us, Bobby, why is there hair in the butter?"

Bobby lay still on the ground without moving.

"Bobby is sick," said Ah Seng.

"No, he is hungry," said Adam, as he patted Bobby.

Then, Bobby stood up and shook its head. And another hair fell onto the butter.

"Oh..." the boys said together, "it was Bobby."

Moral of the story: Eat clean, stay healthy.