Which Sex is the Better Driver?

In my journey from home to office and back I tend to bump into some terrible drivers who are either careless, couldn't be bothered type or those learner or lady drivers.

Sometimes, I would stereotyped lady drivers that they are the terrible ones when they couldn't decide where they wanted to go or when they decide to do it, they did it there and then without signalling or expected you to stop for them. When some of these events happened, I tend to think - "it must be a lady driver".

A lady friend of mine was more than happy to send the following photos:-1) Car park exit (for Tanglin Shopping Centre) from right hand side of the picture.
2) The exit is on the left of the picture where the black coloured was.
3) The driver of the white car turned right after leaving the car park.
The main thing my lady friend wanted to highlight in these photos - the driver was a MAN!
Tags: Sex, Driver, Lady Driver, Tanglin Shopping Centre, Singapore

Scouting Around for Video Shooting

In wrapping one of the dramas' video shootings, we were scounting around Taman Desa's pasar malam. A pasar malam is like a night market which is held weekly at a designated place in a particular residential area.

In this scene, we were trying to show the teenage girl's parents running all over the place looking for their girl who left home.

We were waiting for the right number of people to appear at the pasar malam and then show the parents on their toes, sticking their heads up, here and there, in the sea of people.

The mom (Susan) in black t-shirt and dad (Ritchie) first person on the right were just lingering around that spot while waiting for the crowd. Thank God yesterday night's weather was perfect.








While walking around, I saw this stall selling clothings and this big banner was hanging on the side of his van. A Liverpool banner!!!!!!!!!! Hello uncle, where's the Man Utd's banner??? I didn't ask about the price ..... if Man Utd's banner, I would have asked.

After the pasar malam scene, we went to a nearby food court. A continuance of the parents looking high and low. They ran towards a curry mee stall, whom the owner is known to the parents and enquired whether the stall owner has seen their daughter.

Yeah, I got the lady stall owner to be part of the drama. Later our cameraman and myself ordered 2 bowls of her curry mee (you call this a bribe or in support of her helpfulness?)

Guess this scene would make my church members baffled as to how did you get the food court people to participate. That's the fun part.
Tags: Christmas, Christmas Drama, Pasar Malam, Food Court, Curry Mee, Liverpool, Man Utd

Explosion in My Blog

Noticed that my blog posting on John Arne Riise's Payslip has gotten lots of readers from Europe accessing my blog owing to them being curious on seeing his payslip. Normally, blog readers from United Kingdom would be less than 3% of the total daily visitors but on Friday itself, the percentage jumped aggressively out of a total of 600++ visitors.
Tags: United Kingdom, Europe, John Arne Riise, John Arne Riise's Payslip, Payslip

How Dangerous is Your Work?

Which do you rank as the most dangerous?

Tags: Work, Occupation, Profession, Danger

Birthday Presents

A wife mentioned to her husband that for her birthday, she would like something that accelerates from 0 to 100 in four seconds.

She was expecting something like this........ ....

But her husband presented her with something very different...

The husband is now in a critical but stable condition in ICU!

Tags: Birthday, Porsche, Weighing Machine, Funny, Humour

John Arne Riise's Payslip

Just as I was reading Reds to probe internet leak of Riise's wage slip - Soccernet about Liverpool's John Arne Riise's payslip, an email came in attached with a photo of that same payslip. How co-incidental. He received a gross income of £139,634.62 for the month of Aug 2006 [assuming it was so as the date of that payslip was dated 1 Sept 2006 - of which £120,000 (for monthly salary), £250 (point bonus), £4,000 (appearance) £15,384.62 (2006/07 Champions League salary increase)].

And he paid £55,508.28 under the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system, a staggering 39.7% of his gross income. Next, I will show Steven Gerrard's payslip............

Reading: John Arne Riise angry at public payslip - Liverpool Pies
Tags: Liverpool, Payslip, John Arne Riise, Pay As You Earn, PAYE, Steven Gerrard

Spiralling Food Prices

Mitigating steps/procedures are being taken by respective countries in combating against spiralling food prices which don't seem to have a ceiling price now. What I have blogged earlier on Foreseeable Increase in Daily Expenses will cause further increase if it materialise.

* Russia plans this week to impose Soviet-style price controls on a range of foodstuff to soften the blow ahead of parliamentary elections in December.

The government has signed an agreement with major food retail chains and producers to freeze prices on staples such as milk, eggs, sour cream, bread, sunflower oil, sugar and salt. They have also introduced export duties on wheat and barley.

* Ukraine is considering export quotas on wheat, corn and barley.

* China has released stockpiles of pork and is considering doing the same for vegetable oil and grain.

* Bangladesh, Jordan and Egypt, which suffered 'bread intifada riots' in the 1970s, are raising subsidies or slashing import tariffs.

* Argentina, where inflation this year is expected to be 8 per cent to 10 per cent, the government has struck accords with dozens of companies to control prices.

* Italy - Italian authorities opened an investigation into pasta manufacturers over alleged price fixing. Italian pasta makers have increased prices this year - expected to surge by 20 per cent by autumn - as durum wheat used for making the trademark Italian food nearly doubled in price.

* Japan - the government is also monitoring food prices. Marudai Food said two weeks ago it will raise the prices of its ham and sausages, following rivals Nippon Meat Packers and Itoham Foods. Instant noodle makers Nissin Food Products, House Foods and Sanyo Foods have also announced price increases last quarter.

And the oil price has hit a historic high of US$96 per barrel on 31 Oct 2007. Will the target price of US$100 per barrel materialise by year end, earlier than estimated?

Reading: UN warns of food inflation effects - Financial Times
Tags: Food Price, Food Inflation, Economics, Price Fixing, Export Quotas, Stockpiles, Import Tariffs, Export Duties