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Police said vice squad officers were conducting surveillance on Grafton Street in the Billings Square area in response to citizen complaints of street-level drug dealing.
Officers saw a Honda Pilot driven by Felix Carpio, 48, of 218 Ingleside Ave. Police said they followed the Honda to Elm Street, where it stopped after a man approached on foot. The man appeared nervous and was looking around before he got in the Honda, which then made a few turns on side streets and then came to a stop. Officers, believing a drug deal had just taken place, approached the Honda and saw the two men frantically moving around.
According to police, in plain view on the back floor of the Honda was a gram of heroin. In the same area, another officer saw a small pill bottle containing 28 half-grams of heroin.
Police said officers told Mr .Carpio they had knowledge of two addresses he had, and said a search warrant would be obtained to search them. Police said Mr. Carpio lives at 218 Ingleside, but also kept a �stash house� at 86 Brooks St., police said.
The search of 86 Brooks St. produced three bags of heroin totaling 150 grams, packaging materials, notes, grinders, masks, and other drug paraphernalia, police said. The search of 218 Ingleside Ave. produced packaging materials and $1,255 in cash.
Mr. Carpio also had default warrants for various drug offenses under the names Octavio Guerrero and Edwin Luna, police said. He was arrested and charged with possession of heroin with intent to distribute, heroin distribution, trafficking in 100 to 199 grams of heroin, and conspiracy to violate a drug law.
The other man in the Honda, Jason Taylor, 34, of 27 West St., was also arrested and charged with possession of heroin, knowingly being present where heroin is kept, and conspiracy to violate drug laws.


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Cathedral of the Holy Family in Pago Pago
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Veterans Memorial Stadium (Pago Pago)
Veterans Memorial Stadium is a football stadium located in Pago Pago Park, in Pago Pago, American Samoa. The 10,000 capacity venue is one of the smallest stadiums in Oceania, and serves as American Samoa's national stadium. It is the home venue of the American Samoa national football team, hosting all of their home games. It is currently used mostly for matches in various football codes, such as soccer, rugby league, and the territory's most popular code, American football.
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Tutuila is the largest and the main island of American Samoa in the archipelago of Samoan Islands. It is the third largest island in the Samoan Islands chain of the Central Pacific located roughly 4,000 kilometers northeast of Brisbane, Australia and over 1,200 kilometers northeast of Fiji. It contains a large, natural harbor, Pago Pago Harbor, where Pago Pago, the capital of American Samoa is situated. Pago Pago International Airport is also located on Tutuila island.
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Pago Pago
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Crown Lanta Resort & Spa nested on an impressive elevated private 14 rai peninsula throne with two splendid private beaches. Where guests can enjoy the spectacular atmosphere. With 83 superb rooms in 6 different styles of guest rooms and residences which are designed in modern Thai style. The room features with full bathroom amenities, hair dryer, rain shower, In-room safety box, High-speed Wi-Fi and Internet connections throughout, complimentary coffee/tea making facilities and fridge. We also proudly present our restaurants and bars; The Peak, International cuisines for watching sunset, The Cliff, Seafood restaurant overlooking the private bay and The pool Bar, Light snack and cocktails.
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Aug 22, 2016
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This was our 4th stay at the Crown Lanta and we absolutely love the resort. Very peaceful, great rooms with great bathrooms, great food, an awesome buffet breakfast, really nice views and fantastic and friendly staff that always make you feel welcome and like a VIP. Thanks again Crown Lanta!
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We are upgraded to Deluxe Garcebo room. The room is clean and spacious. We love the beautiful view.The service is very good. The breakfast is good .We can say that It s a perfect hotel for us in Lanta island Will come again.
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Stayed in sunset villa with great view of sunset and Phi Phi. Nice room, overall good service. Very good food on all restaurants, barbeque dinners by the pool were fabtastic. Only downside is the hotel is expensive, still ok value for money.
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Everything was perfect for us, me and my son. Had room with direct pool-access that we enjoyed very much. Breakfast very good and perfect located so we could see Phi Phi Island. Service and staff was nice and very helpful. We definitely will stay here again!
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perfect location . very nice rooms
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nice lobby staff,nice room and nice hotel environmewnt,provide free shuttle to downtown,it s very convenient for custom,very quiet,this is not peak season,very few people live hotel, almost every day raining,I will come again next time
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Due to the short transfer from pier it is very conveniently located, with a wonderful garden und two pools. The direct pool-access rooms are perfect, the very hilly resort requires some mobility but adds a little sportivity to the stay. Food was of good standard, the breakfast oppulent with a big variety. Spa treatments are of high quality with very friendly staff.
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Just 1 thing is bad, internet cost 10 dollar for one day.
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The pool access room is fabulous, although there was some mould odour. We once changed the room, but it did not disappear totally, but the second room was definitely stinking less.
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Om det var Chefen eller Hotell Direktören vet jag inte. (Ej Thailändare) Men det var den värsta översittare mot personalen jag sett. I Sverige en STOR GRIS jätte otrevlig. Men personalen i övrigt var mycket bra
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Lovely hotel with good amenities on beautiful site. Food in restaurant was excellent. Friendly staff. 2 good swimming pools and small private beach. Pool areas need more umbrellas as not enough for number of chairs. Beach would be perfect if kept cleaner. Leaves and debris spoiled it slightly.
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Crown Lanta poised majestically on an impressive elevated private 14 rai peninsula throne, boasting two gorgeous private beaches, is a palace of refined architecture and unsurpassed hospitality.
83 personal oasis of sensually calm and artistically stylish accommodations are offered, ranging from the simply delightful, yet sophisticatedly integrated, lavish immediate poolside access, Thai designer apartment style, to the opulence of a strikingly imposing hilltop 235 sq.m. Grand Villa with private domain, pool and cinematic alfresco living plateau.
Inspired by the Modern Thai design, there are six distinct styles of guest rooms and residences, each creating sensual living spaces with a naturally modern twist.
:: Deluxe Pool View (Gazebo) - 21 Units ::
Size of room: 50 sq.m. The rooms feature with one bedroom, one bathroom with rain shower, living area. Guest can relax at their own private balcony.
:: Deluxe Pool Access - 21 Units ::
Size of room: 50 sq.m. The rooms feature with one bedroom, one bathroom with rain shower, living area. Guest can relax at the room's living area and access directly to swimming pool.
:: Deluxe Sea View (Elegance) - 28 Units ::
Size of room: 50 sq.m. The room feature with one bedroom, one bathroom with rain shower, living area, Guest can relax at their own private balcony.
Room with a choice of lower and upper pool view.
:: Ocean Private Pool Villa - 12 Units ::
The rooms feature king size bed and bathroom with rainfall shower and bathtub, Rooms open out to your private pool, and the panoramic view or Phi Phi island.
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Size of room: 235 sq.m. The only one private ultimate room, perched atop the island, the unique Honeymoon Suite offers a breathtaking view of the Andaman Coast and the neighboring island. Guests can enjoy both sunrise and sunset from this sensually setting at the island's peak. The room features a master bedroom with king size bed, second bedroom with king size bed, two bathrooms, two separate living area, dining area, private swimming pool, and outdoor living area.
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Lanta Yai, a very special and unique blessing from the mother of nature which made this magical tropical island paradise. A breathtaking vista of shimmering sun drenched aquamarine, tantalizingly decorated with lush palm laced islets of intoxicatingly exotic beauty. And all this, serenely secreted within the realm of mortal reach gazing out on the beautiful panorama of Phi Phi Island, mesmerizingly sculpting the dramatic horizon.
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Is repentance a gift or something we muster up?
Repentance is a gift. First of all, repentance unto salvation is the counterpart of faith. They never are apart. Saving faith is faith in Jesus Christ as the Savior from sin! (Luke 13:3, 5) Saving faith is a gift from God (Ephesians 2:8-9); otherwise we could boast in the "good work" of faith. Verse 10 goes on to say that we're "created in Christ Jesus unto good works ..." God alone is the Creator.
In addition, the writer of Hebrews says of those who have experienced a work of the Spirit and then fall away, "It is impossible ... to renew them again unto repentance." Why impossible? Because God gives repentance. This is a passage dealing with the sin unto death—against the Holy Spirit—which Jesus refers to in Matthew 12:31-32. And lest one should infer from the Hebrews passage that it is possible to be saved and then eternally lost, see verses 7-9 in which the writer expresses his confidence that his readers have not apostasized, but are saved.
Those verses are a condensed version of our Lord's parable of the sower in Matthew 13; only seed falling in good soil can bear fruit. And, as to true apostates, John tells us in 1 John 2:18-19 that "They" (antichrists such as Judas Iscariot) went out from the apostolic fellowship because "they were not of us."
So repentance is a gift of God's grace. Jesus said in John 6:44, "No one can [is able to] come to me except the Father draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day" (meaning that those whom the Father draws to Christ will attain to the resurrection of the just).
I hope that completes the picture from the Scriptures. Please feel free to return if this isn't sufficiently clear.
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Cook the Book: Applesauce with Bourbon, Sour Cherries, and Hazelnuts
If you read the previous post, you'll know that this week's Cook the Book entry, How to Pick a Peach, by Russ Parsons, is all about where the foods in the produce aisle come from, when they're at their best, and how to pick the best example of whatever it is you're in the market for. Applesauce with Bourbon, Sour Cherries, and Hazelnuts, One of the recipes that go along with the chapter on apples follows, but first a couple tips from Parsons:
- How to choose: All apples should be smooth-skinned and deeply colored. Yellow apples should be golden, and striped apples should have a background color that is nearly golden. Apples should be heavy for their size and firm to the touch.
- How to store: Apples should be kept as close to 32 degrees and with as much humidity as possible. Store them in an open or perforated plastic bag to retain moisture without collecting water. Put the bag in the crisper drawer of the refrigerator.
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In a small bowl, cover the cherries with the bourbon and set aside to plump while you prepare the rest of the dish.
Place the diced apples and water in a medium saucepan over medium low heat. Cover and cook until the apples are tender enough to smash with the back of a spoon, 15 to 20 minutes.
Add the butter. Using a wooden spoon or heavy whisk, beat just enough to smash the apples into a thick, chunky sauce. Stir in the cherries and bourbon and continue cooking until the raw alcohol smell of the bourbon has burned off, about 5 minutes. Stir in the hazelnuts and serve.
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It's time for restaurant critics to stop pretending they're anonymous
This week, New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells sets his sights on Daniel, the Upper East Side stalwart of luxurious French cuisine. Four years ago, then-critic Frank Bruni gave Daniel four stars; Wells docks a star, citing "elaborate, multipart compositions that didn't fully reward the attention they demanded," "a proliferation of dollhouse garnishes," and, most memorably, "radicchio so bitter I wanted to slap it." Wells also mentions another problem, one that reviewers usually pretend doesn't exist: The fact that he was "repeatedly" recognized at Daniel, and that it affected the service he received.
"While the service can be among the best in the city, with a supreme attentiveness softened by a surprising warmth and even chattiness, it is not always that way for everyone," Wells writes. He proceeds to detail the discrepancies between the six-course meal he was served and the six-course meal a nonfamous Times colleague was served the very same evening: Wells got two amuse bouches, wine top-offs, and a finger bowl his anonymous co-worker did not. Furthermore:
My servers were solicitous: Was this course, or that one, or that one, prepared to your liking? Was the pacing of the meal satisfactory? Could we interest you in a cheese course? Would you like your espresso with dessert, or after? Finally, as I neared the revolving door on East 65th Street: Can we help you find a cab tonight?
My colleague wasn't asked any of those questions.
Wells isn't the first Times restaurant critic to acknowledge the fact that upscale restaurants treat critics better than Average Joes. Ruth Reichl made a splash in 1993 when she visited Le Cirque both as "the unknown diner" (in disguise) and as "a most favored patron" (as herself). And, though Wells used a proxy instead of going the considerably sillier route of donning a wig and makeup, Wells' conclusion is very similar to Reichl's 20 years ago. Here's Reichl:
[N]obody goes to Le Cirque just to eat. People go for the experience of being in a great restaurant. Sometimes they get it; sometimes they don't. It all depends on who they are.
And here's Wells:
And while the service can be among the best in the city, with a supreme attentiveness softened by a surprising warmth and even chattiness, it is not always that way for everyone.
(Coincidentally, Daniel Boulud, the proprietor of Daniel, was the executive chef at Le Cirque until shortly before Reichl visited in 1993, and Daniel is on the same block of East 65th Street as Le Cirque's original location.)
Of course, the fact that restaurants serving $195 tasting menus sometimes treat famous customers better than nonfamous customers isn't exactly the most important civil rights issue of our time. But Wells performs a public service in acknowledging that the treatment he receives at New York restaurants is sometimes, if not often, much better than the treatment tourists get because his servers know exactly what he looks like. And how couldn't they? In a social media age, you'd have to avoid having your picture taken your entire adult life to be an effectively anonymous critic. Like Wells, Sam Sifton, the Times critic between Bruni and Wells, had used a headshot on the Times website up until the moment of his appointment. The food blog Eater makes a point of scouring the Web for pictures of major restaurant critics as soon as they're appointed.
And yet restaurant critics on the whole perpetuate the charade of anonymity. (Wells' Twitter avatar is currently the Muppet Statler.) It's great for Wells to acknowledge the truth about 21st-century restaurant criticism, but it would be better for him to go one step further, do away with the whole pretense of being an everyman, and go public with his real face. Wells should by all means continue to enlist nonfamous to get a sense of how restaurants treat the masses, but it's time for him to stop pretending he blends in with the masses. As far as elite restaurateurs are concerned, he doesn't.


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Destiny pre-order page hides references to PC, Wii U, and Vita
Bungie's next game, Destiny, is currently only announced for PS3 and Xbox 360. But, with monolithic publisher Activision behind it, surely more platforms are forthcoming?
Gamnesia (via Gamespot) looked through the source code of Destiny's official pre-order page and found references to numerous platforms in addition to PS3 and Xbox 360.
Bungie COO Pete Parsons strongly hinted at the possibility of a PC version of Destiny, telling Penny Arcade Report that "from the ground up, from the very beginning, we have made sure that [Destiny] can be on multiple platforms."
"Imagine the group of people we have upstairs," Parsons said, after being grilled about a PC version. "Imagine the games they like to play, and that I like to play."
Of course, the appearance of these platforms could be standard practice for Activision, who may have injected a multiplatform template into the page's code. Still, considering how the publisher's biggest games end up on every platform imaginable, it seems likely that Destiny will appear on many more systems than just PS3 and Xbox 360.


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The Sun
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As well as this virtually constant outpouring, the Sun also generates energy from magnetic activity. Varying over an 11-year period, the activity can be roughly tracked by the number of dark blemishes that appear on the Sun's surface. Magnetic explosions called solar flares often accompany these sunspots. The most recent peak in the Sun's cycle of activity occurred in mid-2000 with a second peak at the end of 2001.
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Amazon's brilliant plan to pay you crazy money for your iPad 2
It's been three days since Tim Cook unveiled the new iPad, but you're still stuck with your trusty old iPad 2. You're keen to get rid of it so you can buy the new one, but you forgot to log in to one of those buy-back sites before Wednesday's launch. Predictably, the announcement sent trade-in values plummeting—before the launch, some of these sites were offering close to $300 for your entry-level iPad 2 (the 16GB Wi-Fi model), provided it was in "good" condition. Now they're willing to part with far less: As of Saturday morning, if you've got a well-cared-for iPad 2, NextWorth will give you $241 for it. BuyBackMac is offering $224. eBay's Instant Sale will net you $200. And Gazelle, the most popular of the buy-back sites, will only part with $185.
Sure, if you're hurting for cash to subsidize your early adopter lifestyle, $200 is nothing to scoff at. But if I were you, I'd skip by all of these sites and instead log in to Amazon. As of right now, its trade-in service is offering $288 for a 16GB Wi-Fi iPad 2 that has "normal wear," and up to $320 for one in "like new" condition. Indeed, Amazon Trade-In's lowest offer for an iPad 2 is $236, about what others are offering for "good" models. If your tablet isn't water-damaged and is at least in working condition, you'll get that baseline amount. (Correction: I originally, boneheadedly, quoted higher prices for the 3G model; I've changed all the prices and math in this piece to reflect the actual prices for the Wi-Fi model.)
What's going on here? Considering that Apple is selling new iPad 2s for $399, how can Amazon afford to shell out up to $320 for your old one? What's it doing with all the iPads it's buying? Is Jeff Bezos running a charity?
Nope. There's one catch to Amazon's trade-in program, and it's brilliant. While other sites will give you cash for your old goods, Amazon will only give you store credit. Thus, the "extra" money you get from Amazon compared to other trade-in services isn't a total loss for Bezos. All that cash will be plowed back into Amazon's own business. Depending on what you buy with your newfound wealth, the company may be making a nice profit on the deal.
To see why Amazon's trade-in service is so clever, let's try to think through the economics of an iPad trade. Say Amazon gives you $320 for your iPad 2. A company spokeswoman says that when people send in their gadgets, the company farms out the devices to a variety of third-party merchants, who then inspect, erase, and package device for reselling. (The company says it does not harvest your devices for parts.) Where do these merchants resell your iPad? On Amazon, of course!
At the moment, good-quality used iPad 2s are selling for about $360 on Amazon. (That's higher than the $335-or-so that used iPad 2s are selling for on eBay, but Amazon's customers may be OK paying extra for the convenience of skipping the auction process.) Amazon doesn't get to keep that full resale amount; it's got to split it with the third-party seller, and the company doesn't disclose the terms by which it distributes trade-in revenue to its merchants.
We can assume, though, that the split will be highly in Amazon's favor, since it has done most of the work to get the deal: It procured your iPad, it paid for shipping, and it's handling all the resales on its own site. Let's assume that Amazon gets to keep 85 percent of the resale price—so let's say it gets $306 on an iPad it sells for $360. This means that after giving you $320 for your iPad 2 and then reselling it, the company is out $14.
Remember, though, that Amazon didn't pay you cash. It only loses $14 if you spend all the store-credit in your account. If you don't spend it—which sounds unlikely, except that Americans leave billions of dollars of gift card money unused every year— Amazon doesn't lose anything on your old iPad.
And if you do spend it, you'll spend it buying stuff from Amazon, which means that it keeps some of the money for itself. How much Amazon keeps depends on what you buy with your trade-in money. The company's margins are notoriously low, so it's not a whole lot: If you spend your $320 on a wide range of goods, Amazon will likely net 1 to 5 percent in profit, so somewhere between $3.20 and $16. So now the $14 it's "lost" on your trade-in shrinks to $10 -- and, perhaps, a profit of $2.
There's a chance, though, that Amazon could get even luckier on you. If you use your trade-in money to buy a device or service that keeps you locked to the company for a long time, Amazon might end up making more money on you over time.
What kind of purchase would yield that sunny scenario? There are a couple obvious ones—purchases that might be especially appealing to the sort of early adopters who trade in their old iPads to buy new ones: If you use your trade-in cash to buy a Kindle or subscribe to Amazon Prime, Amazon wins. Each of these services are long-term revenue generators for the firm. After people get Kindles, they start buying ebooks at a ferocious rate—and, of course, they can only get them through Amazon.
Prime, meanwhile, changes how people think about shopping; after joining Prime, people look to Amazon as the first place to buy everything. One analysis says that after joining prime, the amount of money that a customer spends at Amazon jumps from $400 per year to $900 per year. Thus if Amazon loses a small amount on a trade-in now but gets you addicted for the next decade, you're the chump, not Bezos.
It's true that not all trade-ins will turn out so well for Amazon. If the price of old iPads drop significantly between your trade-in and the eventual resale—or if Amazon pays slightly more to third-party resellers than I'm assuming—then it could be losing a lot more on the deal. But Amazon has always been willing to risk a lot in the short term for long-term value. Or, as Bezos once put it, "We are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time."
That's its plan here. At first, Amazon's high-dollar trade-in prices look like generosity. But by using the release of a new iPad to lock in new customers for itself, Amazon may be riding its rivals' coattails to a long-term victory. Clever, clever Bezos.


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Friday, July 22, 2005
Fuck, London kena bomb again, and Marina got new name
I call Jennice, and she said she is ok. So I am not so worried now. She said, this English people sibei zhai, got bomb explode still never panic and migrate. I think if Singapore kena bombs, people sure fly to Australia or US one, especially those got money people (the poor people no money to go overseas, so have to stay in Singapore to fight, or have to swim to Batam or JB).
Be poor in Singapore is damn fucked up, I think. Less and less job for you, and then can only sit and see the rich people make more and more money. How to catch up? No wonder the police say got more crime. No wonder so many people hear the NKF story also get so angry.
Last night I went Marina and sat one taxi (my baobei car was in the workshop) the driver tell me now harder and harder to make money. Drive all day also cannot cover the rental.
I said, not bad what, now they make the booking more expensive (cheebye), and the meter jump faster in the jam (cheebye again), you sure make more money like this.
Mana uuuu, he said, that money mostly go to the see-lang taxi company one. We taxi driver get what? Get lan ah.
I feel damn sorry for him, poor people can only be taxi driver, road sweeper (now got new name but same job), and other job that those educated people don't want to do. I give him the money, I told him no need to give me change.
At Marina I go to play snooker and bowling. Not bad, there got a few chio bu to beoh. But I play snooker try not to see too many girls, or else cannot reach the table to shoot, because my horse kena block me. Hahahahahaha!!!!
The new Marina is quite nice, but they still got the renovation so I keep getting lost. Damn toolan, man. Quickly finish the stupid renovation can or not?
I walk past the cinema there, I think is Golden Village one, and I saw they have big big sign say cannot eat outside food. Fuck their motherbackside man. The ticket already more and more expensive, now you want people to go and buy your expensive popcorn and lan cheow hotdog some more?
No wonder people buy the pirate DVD!!!
Last time, when we go see show, we can bring any food we like. The most we buy the kachang puteh from the indian man there. Ok, the cinema last time don't have so nice seats as now, a lot of them is wooden bench type, and sometimes even no aircon and also got cockroach and rat watch movie with you.
But fuck lah, nowadays they earn our ticket money not enough, have to make us pay $6.50 for some hotdog and a coke. Your hotdog is use sharks fin to make one ah? Cheebye.
I only like the new cinema with the two seats together one. That kind can sit with girl and do all kind of fun thing for two hours, sometimes three hours, because some director like to make their movie longer and longer (as if movie more longer already can win Golden Horse award..... Golden Horse, hahaha, that one I sure win one).
But if the price of going to see show get more expensive, may as well I take the money go to Hotel 81 to get one room for half day, got aircon, got bed, plus can watch the JB pirate DVD movie, still cheaper. Watch finish play finish still can use the nice toilet take bath together. Shiok.
I also read today the newspaper that they wanted to change the Marina Bay name. Gahmen call some overseas new name expert people to think of new names. You know how much they pay these fuckers? $400,000!!!!
And you know what is the name they choose in the end?
KNNBCCB!!! Spend $400,000 of Singapore people's money, and in the end come out this kind of fuck thing? Marina Bay change name to Marina Bay!!!
Waaah, you so clever lor. Think and think and think and come up this new old name.
Marina Chow Chee Bay lah!
Must be this overseas ang moh advertising company know how to make the Gahmen give them money to come up this kind of fucked up idea, still can say well done. If is only local company, sure kena fuck by Gahmen for this idea.
Ang moh can be very smart, gong wei sibei kiang (mouth very clever).
Make you suck his cock already you will still give him money and say thank you for letting me suck your cock sir, want me to suck another time?
Singaporean must learn from them, or else our country will not be so rich.
Next time want to choose name, I help you. Rockson Choose Name Company will charge you less. $4000 can already. What is your old name? Ang Mo Kio Central? No problem, I choose for you new name, wait, I am thinking and doing researching..... your new name is...... Ang Mo Kio Central!
You like or not? Thank you, $4000 please.
Lan cheow, ok?
160 comments:
lols u r jus funny can?
- Friday, July 22, 2005 1:18:00 PM
Way to go Rockson!Awesome!always love your blogs!!!:)U r finally back!I missed u!and your blogs!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 1:26:00 PM
- The FABtastic One said...
wah you're sooooo funny! haha
and because of your NKF entry, i got to see the word "cheebye" printed on the papers. haha!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 1:28:00 PM
Sporeans too poor to pay utilities bill, they cut off their water and electricity forcing these people to use candles and poising a fire hazard to everyone ! Instead, spent $400000 of taxpayers' money for this fucking name-changing shit ! Really CHAO CHEEBYE !
- Friday, July 22, 2005 1:34:00 PM
urmm u sure ey change from Marina Bay - Marina Bay??? or am i seeing the wrong thing?? sure anot like that ey also pae $400 000?? ey realli so cum lan meh?? o'lame mother fucker!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 1:51:00 PM
wah! beh saio how siao man! you are good ok but your horse got 2 leg or 5 leg one, tell us leh!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 1:52:00 PM
- AnDers said...
can i name u the male version of 'xiaxue'? haha...
after NKF, now we need to get the IRAS to check on STB. $400k to change a name? (I can change my own name for 400k/100 = 4000 times?) hahaha....
- Friday, July 22, 2005 1:54:00 PM
Well, at least it's a good thing they didn't change to any bombastic name. "Marina Bay" is good enough! But the fact that they spent $400000 to choose a name at all?! Even giving the money to Durai would be better. =P
- Friday, July 22, 2005 1:58:00 PM
why you spell lan jiao as lan cheow? after reading all your entries, i felt this obligation inside me as a fellow ah beng to tell you that educated ah bengs who know how to use the interneck spell the man penis as as lan jiao. in case you don't know what penis is, it is the man's bird bird or more commonly know as ku ku jiao.
great blog you've got going.
- Friday, July 22, 2005 2:03:00 PM
This is kan phua funny.
ive bookmarked your site to read in the future!!!!!!
*from someone female, 23, designer and people cannot imagine like this kind of tok kok one.*
- Friday, July 22, 2005 2:08:00 PM
You never fail to make mi luff... and i always anticipate for yr new updates...
- Friday, July 22, 2005 2:11:00 PM
Ha ha ha! Your style of writing is really colloquail and funny, though I wonder if you're masquerading as an "ah beng" or truly one.
Great stuff!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 2:34:00 PM
aiyah, this week i wait and wait and wait so long for your blog....wait from monday to friday (today) then finally get some luffs.
- Friday, July 22, 2005 2:56:00 PM
Crap. Another lame entry.
- Friday, July 22, 2005 3:00:00 PM
- fcukling said...
hahaha my freaking gosh you're damn witty for a beng. link you okay?
- Friday, July 22, 2005 3:05:00 PM
Rockson writes like an ah beng, but I don't think he is. Then again, I hate the term ah beng, ah lian.. those who use it.. why? u so high class is it?! N.B.
- Friday, July 22, 2005 3:07:00 PM
- Mark said...
Steady lar... Rock on man. Continue with your writings, everybody like a little vulgarity to spice up their lives if we live so politically correct all the time where is the fun?
- Friday, July 22, 2005 3:29:00 PM
- Cockroach said...
Notice u like to mention ur "horse" alot. Are u some kind of online flasher?? Ur horse joke make me suspect u dun have much, thats y u need to keep talking about it.
- Friday, July 22, 2005 3:57:00 PM
hahahaha *hic....hic* hahahaha. that was really really funny!! i love reading it!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 4:03:00 PM
Whiner. Complain complain complain. Another typical Singaporean.
- Friday, July 22, 2005 4:22:00 PM
- sÞ¡ηηєє said...
This post is definitely one of the hilarious one I read!! Didn't waste my time camping here to read new post! AHAHAH *thumbs up*
- Friday, July 22, 2005 4:31:00 PM
Grow up!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 4:37:00 PM
- felix30 said...
lols .... i always enjoy ur posting.
- Friday, July 22, 2005 4:43:00 PM
- The Fat One said...
you sibeh ho ah you.bo beh zao!
funny blog you have.
keep it up!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 4:43:00 PM
wakakaz... funniez...
- Friday, July 22, 2005 4:52:00 PM
seems like you have to use vulgarities to get people to read your blog huh
- Friday, July 22, 2005 5:22:00 PM
- Lunnie Toon said...
this Anonymous guy that has no seeds tell u to "Grow up!"...obviously...he hasnt seen ur horse...
lan cheow, okie...haha...he can go ride his pony somewhere..no nd come read ur blog..
all those no seeds anonymous guys telling u to shut up...xiao...who invite them to come read?? lan cheow, okie. shit..i am addicted liaoz...
Rockson, you need to go push for a place in Pah-li-ment...the garmen needs you...and ur lan cheow....oops...
- Friday, July 22, 2005 5:30:00 PM
- Chloe Lynn said...
You'll be the one and onli ah beng I'll love.
I think not ah lian also will let you convert to one.
Steady la!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 5:34:00 PM
Good one, Rock. Really makes you wonder what kind of island we're living on, eh?
To all the guys who like to post stuff claiming that the blog is 'lame', 'boring', 'vulgar', etc... all I can say is: "Dun like issit? GO AWAY LAH! Siow people, dun like still must hang around ah? Internet so big, u got no where to go issit?"
- Friday, July 22, 2005 5:38:00 PM
nice blog there rockson and yea. wtf is the gahment thinking. 2/3 peanut gone. asswipes.
- Friday, July 22, 2005 6:14:00 PM
Your chee bye blog, is fuccccking funny, ok? who dont like this lan cheow's blog, please FUCK OFF!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 6:15:00 PM
- Mr.doodpar said...
stilll sooo s'porean..Rockson!!!... ur post still rulz ah! si bei ON ah!!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 6:31:00 PM
- fabz said...
wa lau...u are damn funny sia...esp the naming of marina bay part...lol
- Friday, July 22, 2005 6:34:00 PM
hahahahahah, knn, rockson, you're just damn funny lah!!!!! lol!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 6:35:00 PM
U r Funny !!!! and down to earth !!! and unpretentious !!!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 6:42:00 PM
typical singapoean. Coward...
- Friday, July 22, 2005 6:48:00 PM
Rockson, your blog need to change to Cheebye blog, cause soo many Cheebye and kan inside. Many time i read many time i kena kan. Kan and kan kanikan.
For the terrorist attack, they deserved it, they use more powerful bomb to attack iraq civillian. Because i'm not Ang Moh cock sucker. They talk big, cock big, chee bye big, all big. Ang
oh soowhat, also got one lanchow.
Gahmen also Ang Moh suckers clever to fuck and suck singaporean people only.But kena kahcheng backside fuck by Ang Moh.
- Friday, July 22, 2005 6:55:00 PM
- weisianz said...
i agree totally sia.. dun noe wat the farking government doing.. take old name and giving as new name.. wtf..
- Friday, July 22, 2005 7:03:00 PM
sian la.. go sue gahmen la. like nkf, pattern all the same. use our money for other people. tio kan la... work so hard here also no use. kenna chopped at the head only.
- Friday, July 22, 2005 7:12:00 PM
- your shalafi said...
Eh rockson, can post more often anot?? hahahaa...ur blog rocks la. As the saying goes. "Buay sia lan buay dua han."
- Friday, July 22, 2005 7:20:00 PM
i agree man, in singapore no money very jialat one....everything so expensive..machiam like pruposely build for the rich only...and the poor are like slaves...now i understand why communisim last time so popular coz all these lanjiao rich ppl who jus treat poor ppl like dirt( actually no money anywhere the same lah)
- Friday, July 22, 2005 7:28:00 PM
everyone's addicted to you and spouting expletives!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 8:40:00 PM
lol... a hilarious entry. you are almost the same as XiaXue with all those expletives!!
Anyway, I enjoyed your posts... rock on!!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 8:52:00 PM
- Lupin Tan said...
Rockson ==> I got to take my hat off for you. Really enjoy your way of presentation. And you really prove that you are up to date in the news.
BTW Marina Bay had been named "Marina Bay" for branding purposes. Like we locals brand Esplanade as the "Liew Lian"
And yes $40 K is a bit steep. STB please wake up lah
- Friday, July 22, 2005 9:16:00 PM
Saying that Rockson is the male equivalent of XX is an insult to Rocky ! He rocks a thousand times more than that immature twerp !
- Friday, July 22, 2005 9:30:00 PM
if lim beh choose name, it will be
Marina's Bye
- Friday, July 22, 2005 9:38:00 PM
Marina's Bye Bye
- Friday, July 22, 2005 9:39:00 PM
hei man, i love ur blog full of chao cheebye!So funny!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 9:54:00 PM
You're the MAN, damn CB funny! Your blog had rock my office. Now everywhere talking about the "CheeBye Peanut" instead of "peanut".
Keep it up! Ma-ri CB name cost 400K. ha.ha.ha.ha...
- Friday, July 22, 2005 10:00:00 PM
- tiramisuboy said...
well said ..rockson!you and your horse rock man!.wah liao...that 400k can donate to NKF better...STB don't know think wat fuck! wake up your idea lah...haiz..
keep it up rockson.... you are my blog hero...better than xiaxue and spg gal!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 10:16:00 PM
Why dont know happy to fuck the gahment, spend money only give Ang Moh change simple name, Chee Bye, Lampar.
Better change the Merlion, Singaporean stupid, where got lion pissing at mouth, is it another Ang Moh idea. Pissing at lanchow, merlion no lanchow meh.
- Friday, July 22, 2005 10:34:00 PM
Hmph! NKF got scandal, we can cancel donations.
But gahmen fiasco, how we cancel tax payments?!?!
But thanks, Rockson! You made me laugh!
- Friday, July 22, 2005 10:46:00 PM
- Friday, July 22, 2005 11:58:00 PM
Dear Rockson,
I'm a Singaporean Expat in London. In fact I have now lived in the UK for 12 years. Your articles are wonderful and insightful and whilst the Singaporean government is trying to get everyone to speak English. Your articles remind my why Singlish is a beautiful language. Not everything can be expressed in English so zhun like in Singlish. Keep writing!
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:22:00 AM
you msy sound crude but you hsve your points.Keep it UP! I mean your blogs...not your horse!
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:29:00 AM
Rockson, you rock, man! Vulgar or not, you have good insight. Keep up the good work!
Gahmen listen to ang moh becos ang moh tua ki, mah.... They will listen and maybe even pay you if your horse is bigger!
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:33:00 AM
hi, i like your bogs.make me laugh my heart out everytime... make my day! keep up it,man (i mean you not your horse). not many people can write like you.
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:34:00 AM
- blueapple said...
Marina Bay change to Marina Bay?? Lame shit. $400k some more!!
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:35:00 AM
u Si bei Chee bye leh, ur blog shld be rated NC 16.. haha.. anyway, singaporeans shld learn frm u..if not singapore nt enuff creative ppl like you.. all these vulgarites are just vulgar. but i guess these are wad real singaporeans say thou. so, ROCKSON~!
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:51:00 AM
- ashfireball said...
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:04:00 AM
- jyh said...
Lol, your crazy blog. maybe can set to something like Nc16 or so, if not those kid come in and see den jia lat.
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:05:00 AM
- Fr0g said...
Ur blog never fail to make my day!
Keep it UP! Really Funni!
Singapore MADE type of blog! Well DONE!
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:31:00 AM
oi brudder still waiting leh wanna compare my elephant n ur horse...
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:59:00 AM
rockson, u ROCK my world.
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 2:10:00 AM
you're so funny. you can be a high class ah beng.
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 2:11:00 AM
This blog makes a good literature reference for those who want to polish up their singlish.... and vulgarities
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 3:04:00 AM
lol... funny
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 3:12:00 AM
- Midnight said...
Hi Rockson,
You're so good in Singlish. I bet that you will get a distinction if school offers paper on Singlish. What about General Papers in Singlish. You will definitely score! The grader will has a good laugh.
Can you set up a registry for people like me to suggest topic for you to blog? Actually, I would love to see you blog about "Sex education in Singapore". Ranging from primary to secondary to college level. I guess we need not sex education in university because students are already pretty good at that level.
For example, how should primary school teacher conduct lessons. What are the things that she should be careful of (if not, it will backfire).
It will be nice if you can shed some views. I know that I am asking too much but I really wish to hear a Beng's view on this.
Take it easy.
Take care of your baobei horse. sorry I meant car.
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 5:50:00 AM
- Trée said...
Good stuff--keep it coming.
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 6:18:00 AM
I miss lawrence where is he?
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 8:04:00 AM
- BabeThePig said...
Rockson! You're my idol! lol
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 8:34:00 AM
- Kelvin said...
Hmmm, this post reveals Rockson not likely to be some young punk in his twenties. Being able to experience those old cinemas with their lousy seats and rats and cockroaches, I guess he must be in his mid 30s, approaching 40 even!
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 9:15:00 AM
It's a fake. It's a put on. Read carefully.
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 9:20:00 AM
Come on Rockson, just a hand full of peanut for the new name....no big 'horse' lar.... hahaha
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 9:27:00 AM
Wah lau, you big name is also shown in the IOL - South Africa's site ....
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 9:33:00 AM
- darkscarlette said...
u are farking farnee... esp ur posts on gahman issues! i think ur awesome dude!!
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 10:04:00 AM
chow chee bye i think you've lost it man! this post ain't that funny anymore :(
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 10:04:00 AM
This is a one-joke blog. It's got one vulgar running joke that goes on and on and on. First time, it's funny. After subsequently entries, it gets stale very quickly. WEAK!
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 10:10:00 AM
- jacob said...
You really have a way with words Rockson!! I enjoy reading them!! Cheers!!
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 10:25:00 AM
- Von Nei Nei said...
Xqqqqqqqqqq me rockson!!!!!!!!!!!
yest we go cheong at orchid load also gena pass over wor by the service crew for white skin orangs becuz i think they think that the ang mohs dua keee lor. Chee bye leh. Tsk. N we paid so much for suck fark service n fark food tsk. Cunt ni na!
Suck my nei nei blog understand or not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stupid racist singaporeans!
Na bei.
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 10:33:00 AM
- momobeibei said...
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- Saturday, July 23, 2005 11:28:00 AM
- momobeibei said...
jus gotta read your blog n u r so damn cute.. keep up the good work ya.. Cheerios..
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 11:31:00 AM
Did anybody notice that all the negative comments come from "anonymous" posters? Anonymous + negative comments = coward.
Rockson, you have more fans than you know and a testimony to your success is the present of jeaolousy.
Rock on, Rockson! Looking forward to your next entry!
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 11:46:00 AM
I luv the way you fuck the government,media etc..Its describe my feelings and thinking.I hope you can do me a favor by fucking the goverment or the AVA.This CB ava very damm extra.our pet trade is so restricted and limited species.Now even want to take away kampong chickens,next time must go zoo to see chicken liao!I really don wat to say about these fuckers.But i know you can fuck them here jia lak...Hope to read ur post about this issue very soon!
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:13:00 PM
Don't be so mad to those terrorists. People have to take responsibility on the crime their government did to other countries, since they vote their policies in democratic way.
You send your army to Irac, killing their teens, children and women, what to do expects? Fight face to face to your heavily armed "International Troops"?
U.S. and British always claim they are standing for the "world's interests", "global peace", but acctually their action is for "U.S./British interests".
So just use your head instead of your horse to get a conclusion.
I am not justifying their terrorism against innocent ppl, but British ppl sure should re-evaluate their own policy on other contries.
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:51:00 PM
- Jankliciouz said...
hahahaha! You are damn funny lar!!
xoxo Jank
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:18:00 PM
- *ling said...
No wonder you've got such a huge following. Li sibei funny leh!
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:32:00 PM
hey fuck u lah , u think your cock very big ? u think funny ? suck my cock lah , ka ni lau bu chow cb (means fuck
your mother's smelly vagina )
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 3:08:00 PM
Got people also toolan we talk about gahmen things, this people also maybe work for gahment mah,like Durai, got many many money eating people money, got mercilis, somemore free. Cheebye also free.Family all happy life.
Maybe scared already people know, worried no work somemore kena donate, Cheebye donate buy condom better.
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 3:11:00 PM
Hey Lang Jiao Lang,
Do you know RENCI CEO getting 15K a month !?
Go and check the newspaper.. NEW PAPER and TODAY.
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 4:35:00 PM
hey lang jiao lang.
u think u very smart is it ? go and visit geylang, since you mentioned you always visiting geylang those women is it easy to earn 15 k per month or not . if not ask them why they have to become chicken , just ask them these 2 questions , they will give you answer of nkf ceo salary
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 5:46:00 PM
Some bugger above says that RENCI CEO get 15K per month and that this is published in New Paper?
But I have checked through new paper (the online copy, that is), and cannot find such thing.
Please give us a web link if you want to make such accusation (because it will remain an accusation unless you can substantiate it)
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 5:57:00 PM
- Flatfeet said...
I like ya blog..will drop by more often since I am staying overseas.Reading ya blog makes me feels like home..thank u very muchie.
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 9:53:00 PM
- Flatfeet said...
i like ya blog.Makes me feel like home especially leaving overseas. Thanks very muchie.
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 9:54:00 PM
you are so funny! can i marry you?
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 11:28:00 PM
Your blog's is damn funnny!! Your blog has been BookMarked! haha!
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 11:42:00 PM
hahaha eh rockson i think ya make a good writer for talkingcock.com sia..they should have a section for u like mebbe rockson ga li kong hahaha
- Saturday, July 23, 2005 11:42:00 PM
Rockson is damn funny! I have a feeling that he is not a real ah beng, but wo xi huan!
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 12:22:00 AM
- Da Froggie said...
eh....u sibeh steady leh! I see u berry up!
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 12:48:00 AM
- charinef said...
hey shark,i dont know u r ah beng leh.....
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 1:01:00 AM
Farking hilarious lor
Keep it going - the funniest blog I've read in ages. And pointedly correct too. :)
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 3:46:00 AM
- sharon said...
i like your blog very much.
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 4:41:00 AM
last time my teacher ask me question. i dunno. then i gei kiak say "only smarties got the answer". then kena detention class. now i think u are the real smarties pants in the singapore. U are BBC level commentry of singapore world. The most difficult world. Rock and roll son!
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 4:49:00 AM
Rockson, sometimes you also talk cock by condemning the terrorist, Bush and Blair are the CheeBye real backstabber terrorist.When Iran and Iraq confrontation Bush help Iraq to kill D Iranian. But after Kuwait Invasion they sanction Iraq for 10yrs, how many 100K people & children die due 2starvation & disease.CheeBye Backstabber.10yrs, not enough.Make the people angry.
The terrorist is not an army, they arr civilian too, who got phd, degree and happy family, they willing to sacrifice their life 2free their contry, what they demand is britons out from Iraq.Blair dun want, after cannot suck Bush Cock.
They lie to all the country iraq got WMD, Cheebye where got, Singapore also suck Bush cock, act smart say yes bend your head from behind kena ass poke.They bomb Iraq with illegal weapons, radioactive & cluster bomb.One day we also kena Backstab.
Lucky we are Chinese, or else chialak, now they want to make trouble with China, if they attack China, what we want to say, who terrorist. Bohpien suck again Bush cock.
Sometime U talk never use your brain but use your horse only brother.
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 6:01:00 AM
I don't mind if they change the name to Singapore Bay or Lions Bay..
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 8:33:00 AM
U r very funny huh?! Haha. Make my day ar. Today Sunday... but ur article make me happy. Good good!
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 8:49:00 AM
Rockson you are so funny, when Singapore attack by the terrorist you can run with your Baobei car what, or shoot them with your long big horse.
And What big deal with AngMoh, because we singaporean are materialistic, want the best from others.AngMoh we treat them standard mah, they contribute alot by invent this and that include my lousy PC always hang.
But remenber the Arab also contribute the world oil for your Baobei to run, but we neglect that.
Rockson no matter what i like your story..gracious...Amigo.
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 10:24:00 AM
kaoz! i tell u lah, the taxi driver bluff u 1 loh. They kept saying no $ 2 cover this n the most common 1 is cannot cover the rent. Wat bullshit! if cannot cover the rent they long time ago eat grass n stay void deck loh! They haf all sorts of reasons 2 make them look pityful man! Juz think, they wld hide their taxis b4 the midnite charge comes out n tats 1 of the many stunts they like 2 pull. dun b conned by them. n nice work by the gahmen! $400,000 for a "name-change". well-done! well-done!! so wats the next money-sucking policy 4 them?
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 10:46:00 AM
eh rockson u sound like colin goh leh. u sure u not ah beng lawyer ah? ur england very powderful.
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 10:50:00 AM
- Christopher Trottier said...
I'm glad to see I'm not alone about my feelings on terrorists.
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 11:58:00 AM
You are FAMOUS OVERNIGHT! And you've only started blogging in May. How did u get soooo many people to read your blog man??? I'm impressed....
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 12:47:00 PM
if you ever make it to parliament and speak the same way, I will tune in every night
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 12:58:00 PM
u used 'chee bye', 'lan cheow', 'KNNBCCB', 'fuck'...so often...nothing new...can b more original???
Be an unique ah beng...
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 1:39:00 PM
I think the name change is by URA, not STB leh. Better clarify first or later kena sue. Not good.
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 1:53:00 PM
u rock la(cheebye)
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 3:00:00 PM
i prefer "MariNABEH". short and sweet.
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 5:28:00 PM
heard of libel?
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 6:09:00 PM
KNNBCCB... so hilarious sia.. lan cheow ok??!
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 6:41:00 PM
- ❤叶湘倫與路小雨❤ said...
Mr Rockson, ever since my cousin's husband told me about yr blog, i make sure i logged on every 2 days to check for new entries...so funni!!! I even post yr blog url in my bulletin board in friendster...hope u dun mind!! :P
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 6:46:00 PM
chee bye gahmen hor gao kan !
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 8:53:00 PM
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 10:43:00 PM
i dunno whether to laff or cry man... such KNNBCCB thing you can also say until so farnie... if only the terrorists got such warped sense of humour they won't bomb the innocent liao... at least they dun have mother fucker gahment who pay less than a peanut to change name..
btw spend half of my cab fare in the stupid parade rehersal jam yesterday... sibeh toolan
- Sunday, July 24, 2005 11:48:00 PM
knn! because of you i laugh at my computer screen and now my mother think i siao.
- Monday, July 25, 2005 1:35:00 AM
ya blog indeed is mothur farking hilarious yet factfully true to every sense... respect u! rock on!
- Monday, July 25, 2005 1:45:00 AM
- BBBBBBB said...
Really lah hor. Cab drivers have it quite hard. My familee is liddat oso. T_T
- Monday, July 25, 2005 10:46:00 AM
KNN! please make most post can? ccb must wait a few days till u update each time wan
- Monday, July 25, 2005 10:53:00 AM
Rockson, u should post ur picture so everyone can see how handsome are u :)
- Monday, July 25, 2005 11:26:00 AM
- ron said...
Why dun u post a pic of u and ur horse.. do a SPG/Kenny Sia on ur blog.. hahaha
Btw... u make my boring office hours a tad more interesting!
- Monday, July 25, 2005 2:38:00 PM
The Gahmen is like this. They spend the people's money which they forcefully take. They can do anything with our money. We are just under Iron Rule and cannot open our mouth, else kenna sue. NKF boss getting 600,000 is a big issue, But the government spending 400000 in a few days for a stupid name is not a big issue. What the fuck man. The new CEO's pay will also not be revealed. And the Gahmen says that to have good people, you must pay them good money. 599,999 is how much the new CEO is going to get. Most of which is our fucking money again.
- Monday, July 25, 2005 3:10:00 PM
KNN, 400k for some CB ang mohs to cum Singapore to change name do nothing. Hope their LJ kena chop off!
Rockson, you rock!
- Monday, July 25, 2005 4:20:00 PM
- jayhollic*bel said...
ur entry totally made me fall off my chair and yup i couldnt agree no more abt the 400K marina bay name thingy. u 4000? i more economical, 400 can le
- Monday, July 25, 2005 5:33:00 PM
- scuderia.kevingoh said...
rockson u totally rock.
please post more often, singaporeans really need to read blogs like yours, and not some xiaxue's or kenny's.
you are The ONE.
- Monday, July 25, 2005 11:11:00 PM
what kind of blogger are u..delete away pple's comments..good one u keep and bad one u delete... I look down on u
- Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:16:00 AM
U really funny lah! I enjoyed reading thru ur posts!
- Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:01:00 PM
i agree with wat scuderia.denchua said...
knn u give it like it is, fuck other blogs, they just talk about how fucked up they are or how many people they fuck so many pple read,...but yours is the best commentary of current affairs in singawhore...
fucking funny man...
- Tuesday, July 26, 2005 2:10:00 PM
Their stupidity had cost them 400 THOUSAND dollars, just to prove that they were 'clever' to get the right name all along ...
CHEEBYE !!! I'm speechless.
What next? Pay another 400K reading tea leafs predicting the result for the next election?
- Wednesday, July 27, 2005 1:53:00 PM
- Hot Ma Ma said...
i kena the marina cinema thing too!! worst still, the stupid boy actually mark me liao, then when the lights are turned down, he come and say 'excuse me, you're not allowed to bring outside food into this cinema. please collect from outside later.' PUI! he think he can get promotion for doing that. kanasai!
- Wednesday, July 27, 2005 2:47:00 PM
- Oreo said...
Ang Mo Lan Jiao Tao KI lay (don't believe go ask SPG)...
Kong simi Lan Jiao, Sin kar Po lang also "yes sir yes sir".
400K niah mah...Sin Kar Po lang simi boon bor, wu $$$$ niah! Money not a problem.
Buay song ki Geylang find Russia CokCokKay song song lah.
- Wednesday, July 27, 2005 6:28:00 PM
- Oreo said...
I stop going Sillima liao..
Cannot find my durian puff inside eat, I ban them liao..
Eng Eng go JB buy pirated DVD....one piece $1.20..Yu Pe, Yu Qi, Yu Tao Lap Neh!
- Wednesday, July 27, 2005 6:31:00 PM
Of course this is what happens when the government isnot properly elected what. no need to answer to anyone. answer only to the ang mo lan
- Wednesday, July 27, 2005 10:18:00 PM
hahaha thumbs up man!
- Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:49:00 AM
- ND said...
Rockson, you're the most down-to-earth, insightful, and fucking hilarious S'porean blogger I've read in a long time.
Not like some of that pseudo-intellectual, self-aggrandizing, cheebye bullshit I see everywhere nowadays. hehe
If I was a cha bor I would have your babies, but since I am not I will just tell all my cha bor friends about your blog...and The Horse.
Post again please!
- Thursday, July 28, 2005 2:20:00 PM
Rockson Durai makes u famous! TTS COOL! HAHAH!! I LOVE YOUR BLOG, BETTER THAN WATCHING STEPHEN CHOW MOVIE!
- Thursday, July 28, 2005 2:33:00 PM
taxi driver dun earn so little as u tot lah. can take home at least 2k-3k/mth. if chiong more can earn up to 4k.
- Friday, July 29, 2005 2:17:00 AM
you are fucking beng man!
they say you're funny and I'll agree, but this doesn't change the fact that its not funny to be a beng these days. HAHA!
- Friday, July 29, 2005 7:31:00 AM
- Oreo said...
Taxi driver make 2-3K a month? Fuck you understand!
Chiong can make 4K? Fuck you until you climax ok?
NB, nowadays you can make 1.5K from Taxi, you can laugh until your cock fall off liao ok!
If 2-3K a month for taxi driver, all NTU and NUS should start providing driving degree course because Xin Jiao degree holder also got the most 1.6K a month niah!
- Friday, July 29, 2005 9:45:00 AM
Yellow outside, white inside lor...
- Sunday, July 31, 2005 2:12:00 PM
pls dun criticize this guy whose being juz plain straightforward.
true, many people view singaporeans as a corwardly bunch who do not dare to speak up, and we complain too much. however, has anyone stopped to think about the reason for us doing so? the government is a single-party dominated institution, and there are no checks and balances against the PAP.
one may argue that our government is "clean", "not corrupted", and perhaps thinks about how to improve the lives of citizens.
however, i have to mention a point - why are poor citizen's utilities supplies being cut off? this is plain ridiculous. instead of helping the poor, so much money is being given to MPs as salaries.
P.S. u rawk!!! continue your knnbccbing!
- Tuesday, August 02, 2005 8:26:00 PM
nabeh... $400,000 can go the whole of geylang, many rounds some more. fucking tulanz man. ccb
- Thursday, August 04, 2005 2:24:00 PM
fuck you all pretentious losers who's against rockson, he rocks and you know it, i cannot tahan these self-righteous motherfuckers posting their lame and negative comments on someone as real as rockson
you losers sound as if you kena raped by your father or something hahahahaaa!!!!
wat to go rockson!!!
- Friday, August 05, 2005 6:23:00 AM
bludder lockson, you are my ow xiang (idol). one day when i grows up, i want to be chow ah beng like you. lock on lockson
- Saturday, August 06, 2005 11:14:00 AM
lol u r so damn funny man this is like the first time ive read this kind of blog its so straight forward yet it can fully express how u r feeling
- Tuesday, August 09, 2005 11:48:00 PM
rockson you rawk man!
- Wednesday, August 10, 2005 12:49:00 AM
wad taxi driver is poor?fuck u cheebye kia..dun suan taxi driver=poor k..
- Friday, August 12, 2005 12:38:00 AM
Nice and uber farnie blog ya have there! ^^ Looking forward to more of ya posts.
I tink Rockson is not an ah beng at all. You're probably a top student in some school, someone smart and intelligent.
There's perfect english in the blog, with singlish as an addition...and which ah beng will read newspaper one? lol
Well done nevertheless. Great creativity. U can publish a book manz! way to go!
- Monday, August 15, 2005 2:31:00 PM
if lao lee or sio lee noes abt this how would they react...
heard that this yr ndp when sio lee reach padang, say hi to everyone who is beside lao lee e.g ah teo chee hian la, etc except lao lee...treating him as transparent..keke
- Tuesday, August 23, 2005 4:08:00 PM
Wah you really make me want to go home gam lan ah!
*deepthroat and rotflmao*
- Friday, August 26, 2005 1:00:00 AM
Hey man, i think you're really very smart. Hehehz... Just to encourage you n if your blog ever runs into any problems with lawsuits n crap then Singapore must really be a sad place to live in.
Cheerios to Freedom!
Rock on...
- Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:27:00 PM
haha i agree with u. government wasted our hard earned money.. that WE singaporeans pay on them. haha.
- Friday, September 23, 2005 6:45:00 PM
Damn funny lah, brother!
- Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:56:00 AM


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Voters approve two Adirondack land proposals
November 6, 2013
By the Adirondack Daily Enterprise staff and the Associated Press
New York voters approved both Adirondack propositions Tuesday, a relief for Raquette Lake land owners and an Essex County mining company.
In Proposition 5, an Adirondack mineral company asked the state to let it expand its Essex County pit mine onto 200 acres of state-owned land in exchange for 1,500 acres elsewhere.
NYCO Minerals Inc. says it will restore the 200 acres and return it to the state in about 10 years, after it mines the wollastonite, a mineral used in ceramics, plastics and paints. The company will also give the state at least $1 million worth of land to add to the Forest Preserve.
Proposition 4 will give up the state's claim to the property of 216 private and public landowners in the Hamilton County hamlet of Raquette Lake. The landowners have been vexed with disputed property titles since the 1800s, when a series of clerical errors left it unclear if the state or the landowners had title.
Under Proposition 4, the state will release its claim to the parcels in return for undeveloped land elsewhere, with the landowners paying fees to cover the new acquisition. The parcels include private homes, businesses, a school, firehouse, waste transfer station and marina.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is expected to ask the state Legislature target the historic Marion River Carry for acquisition. It's part of a canoe route that connects Raquette Lake and Blue Mountain Lake in the central Adirondacks.
Proposition 5 had strong support locally, where the company employs about 100 people, but it split environmental groups. Proposition 4 saw near-unanimous support.
Protect supported Proposition 4 and thanked New Yorkers for voting for it.
The Adirondack Council supported the mining proposition, saying the 1,500 acres are worth far more ecologically and recreationally than the 200 acres. It also supported Proposition 4.
"We are grateful that the voters approved these two Constitutional Amendments authorizing land swaps involving the 'forever wild' Adirondack Forest Preserve," council Executive Director Willie Janeway said in a press release. "It shows that voters value the environmental and economic benefits of the state's 6-million-acre Adirondack Park. They share our vision of an Adirondack Park that works best when its wild character is protected and its small towns and hamlets are vibrant and alive."
The Sierra Club and Protect the Adirondacks said the mining proposition would set a bad precedent, arguing that it would weaken the forever wild clause of the state Constitution. Protect issued a press release this morning thanking all the voters in New York who voted against it, and saying it was the most closely contested proposition in decades and calling it a split decision "in practical terms."
State Sen. Betty Little, a proponent of both amendments, issued a statement today saying she was gratified and happy they both passed.
"Amending the state Constitution is not an easy process, by design, and both amendments reflected a very thorough and balanced approach that will help our economy and result in better recreational access important to tourism and protective of the environment," said Little, a Republican from Queensbury.
"Yesterday's approvals were the culmination of great team work among many local, state, environmental and business leaders and partners, so credit goes to many but especially to those in Raquette Lake and the towns of Lewis and Willsboro who had so much at stake and persevered."


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Credit where it's due, some of these instructions come from the Ubuntu community and help pages.
Don't blame me if you mess your hard drives up, your computer explodes, or your dog runs off and marries a cat.
Step 1: Prepare hard drive. For me, this was just a case of shrinking my windows partition from within Windows disk management to ensure I had some space to install Mint.
Step 2: Download the latest Mint iso. Note that it has to be a 64bit version to work with EFI.
Step 3: Burn the iso to a USB stick. There are loads of tools to do it, but the one I used when it worked for me was PenDriveLinux. Choose to format during the process, this ensures it goes on as Fat32.
Step 4: Reboot the PC and go into the BIOS/setup. The button to do this varies between manufacturers, for me it was F2. Once in the setup, find the BIOS option which should currently say UEFI, and change it to BIOS/Legacy Support. Not all motherboards support this, if yours doesn't, the rest of this how-to won't work for you, sorry.
While you're in the setup, disable Secure Boot if you can. For me, and other Lenovo owners, you may find you have to set an Admin password before the option becomes available.
Change the boot order in your setup to ensure it boots from USB before Hard Drive.
Save and exit the BIOS/setup.
Step 5: If you're still with me, and it's worked so far, you should find your computer booting into Mint from the USB stick. Choose to boot into Mint from the main menu.
Step 6: Once Mint loads to the desktop, double click the 'Install Mint' link on the desktop. There are loads of guides out there (and on here) for installing Mint, so I won't go into too much detail here, but for reference, I chose the following options.
- From the install options, choose 'something else'.
- I chose the Free space from the list of partitions, then 'Add'ed a 4GB Swap partition, and finally used the rest of the free space as a / partition.
- Completed the rest of the install as normal.
Providing this works up to this point, you now have a working install (in BIOS mode), and a working Windows 8 install (EFI mode). Now we need to convert the BIOS install to an EFI one so we can just keep the computer in EFI mode and not have to swap between them.
Step 8: We need to install boot-repair now. Ensure you're connected to the internet and then open a terminal and type the following commands:
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
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sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
Step 9: In boot-repair, click 'Advanced Options', and then the 'Grub location' tab.
Step 10: You should see a separate /boot/efi partiton. Make sure the correct one is ticked and selected.
If you aren't sure which is your EFI partition, open another terminal and enter:
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sudo parted /dev/sda print
(assuming your drive is on sda of course)
You should see which is which on the list this creates.
Step 11: Click 'Apply' in boot-repair. It takes a while to complete the process, and partway through will give you some commands to remove and re-install GRUB. Follow the instructions to the letter until the process completes.
Step 12: Reboot, go back into the bios and change the bios mode back to UEFI. Save and exit and you should now find yourself with a GRUB menu within EFI. Both the Mint and Windows options should work.
Well, if you made it this far, and were as lucky as me, you should now have a working Mint EFI install to go along with the Windows one. No need to go changing the bios mode every time you want to boot into a different OS.
If you have any questions, please ask away, but bear in mind that I'm new to EFI and new to Mint. I'll answer as best I can
All I've got left to do now is install something like rEFInd to hopefully replace the very plain grub menu.


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