Tuesday, 7 September 2010

Why e-Cigarettes must be made Legal

Some of the reasons cited for banning the use of e-cigarettes include,


That it does not wean a person off nicotine but maintains the addiction.

That it is not a legitimate smoking-cessation device.

That it can serve as an introduction to smoking cigarettes.

That it is not as healthy as claimed by its manufacturers.
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Monday, 6 September 2010

Secularism allows different communities to sustain own traditions, says Lee. Ed says..

"I am encouraged to see that although the Malays in Radin Mas are a minority, they are able to produce the nice performances which shows that they are keeping their culture, language, customs alive, which is a sign that we are respecting each other's space, cultural space, religious space, personal space," noted MM Lee. - source

Sometimes I have to wonder after this bloke’s brand of ‘secularism’.
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Miss Singapore World, an Indian? It’s about time!


Frankly, i was getting tired of seeing yellow-skinned, relatively small-nosed, quite-bridgeless females hogging the limelight in the sexploitative arena of ‘beauty’ pagents. Nothing wrong with being yellow-skinned, relative small-nosed, and quite bridgeless of course. But i’m the sort of bloke who likes a real spicy-enough-to-make-your-head-sweat sambal(Malay word for a spicy chilli dish) to go with my hor fun(chinese noodle dish). Beauty is in difference and not indifferent to difference.

In defence of Ministerial Pay-Hikes


As a country is moved from its potential collectively empathetic nature to a self-absorbed, self-interested, and materialistic one - that is stage 1 - it is rational to peg the salaries of ministers to that of the private sector. If not, the government, that hopes to instill in a people that amount of self-absorption that it takes to be apathetic enough for a self-aggrandizing government to enjoy political longevity, will be undone in spirit.

Just 4 Laughs



"The point of discussing race ought not to be to get people to take up arms against each other, but to engender in them the appreciation of the value of linking arms in equal respect and appreciation as opposed to simple 'tolerance', of each other.

It is only those whom are comfortably advantaged by the status quo, or whom are accustomed to it by way of strategies formulated to get around the discomfort of being marginalised, whom shun this issue."


- a2ed

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