Imagine yourself being stuck in a lift when the light suddenly flickers off. I am sure you will find that a most unsettling experience. When the light comes on again, you see a creepy little child with a pale face and scraggly hair, dressed like the ghost girl from The Ring and holding a doll. How would you react? Some ...
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Old Man Gets Sexually Harassed By Sexy Colleagues
A Singapore video entitled Old Man Gets Sexually Harassed By Sexy Colleagues has gone viral, garnering over 2 million views since it was uploaded to YouTube on November 18. The video stars 53-year-old Toh Kia Hing as a Hokkien-speaking uncle who gave up what most men would consider a dream job – massaging models – to take up an office ...
Read More »Grand Canyon Photo Prank Goes Viral
How would you react if your daughter texts you a photo showing her falling into Grand Canyon? I am sure you will be terrified just like Rebecca Busch of Westmont, Illinois. Fortunately for Rebecca, the photo was just a prank played on her by her 22-year-old daughter Samantha Busch. The overprotective Rebecca was already nervous about her daughter Samantha’s trip ...
Read More »Capuchin Monkeys Demand Equal Pay
Human beings expect to receive equal pay for equal work. Any perceived inequality in pay by an aggrieved party will often lead to protest in some form or other. This attitude towards equal pay is best exemplified by the workers in the “Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard” (Matt.20: 1-16): “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner ...
Read More »Ah Boys To Men 新兵正傳
Where making movies in Singapore is concerned, you can bank on Jack Neo. His latest movie Ah Boys to Men (新兵正傳) has broken local box-office records by earning more than $1.5 million over its opening weekend, in the process beating the James Bond movie Skyfall, which was in its second week of release. The coming-of-age film about youths stepping out ...
Read More »Albert Einstein Was Correct About Technology
An email about a quote by Albert Einstein has gone viral, generating much discussion online. This is the quote that was supposed to be attributed to Einstein: “I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.” The email contains these photos that offer proof that Einstein was right about ...
Read More »Dancer In The Dark – What An Astounding Performance by Bjork!
I first watched Dancer in the Dark about ten years ago when I was working in Brunei. It is such a powerful movie that it has remained etched in my memory as one of the best movies I have ever watched. Forget about Hollywood. This is a movie in a class of its own. I have been trying a get ...
Read More »Ai Weiwei Does Gangnam Style His Way – The Grass Mud Horse (Cao Ni Ma) Style
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has officially hopped on the Gangnam Style bandwagon with his version titled Grass Mud Horse Style, a jibe aimed at China’s communist regime The video clip, posted on October 24 to Chinese sites such as “Tudou”, features the hefty 55-year-old artist showing off his moves with a cohort of associates in his Beijing courtyard studio ...
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