PM Lee renews call to young Singaporeans to play their part in country's future

PM Singaporean Lee

In Few days ago, Adrian Yap went for the PM Dialogue as the representative spokeperson to touch on the disabililty issue. I am glad that I have managed to raise this issue directly to PM Lee and in the extract below, PM Lee replied that he feels that the needs of the disability shld be looked into.



Mr Lee also assured the disabled that their needs would be looked into.

He said one recent step was to have English subtitles during his National Day Message telecast on TV for the hearing impaired.

And he believes such subtitling could be extended to news bulletins as well.

He said: "If you watch the Taiwanese or Chinese news bulletins, for Chinese, they will have Chinese subtitles because all over China, people speak the same words in different ways. So you need to read the subtitle to know what he is saying.

"We ought to be able to do that for our news bulletin too, at least the English one which is technically less difficult to do.

"I think we have asked MediaCorp to look at it and I am hopeful they will be able to work something out and that would be helpful. For the movies, it may be harder, probably the DVD is the best solution."

Subtitling for the news is in the works and details will be announced at a later date.

Red durians found at Sabah, Malaysia

In summer of 2003 at Singapore! we ate the durian at my parent in law s house.

Durian found from Sabah, Malaysia last year. It was really rare!!!!


Hmm.. amazingly red??!! Looks like Sabah wild durians? Sarawak’s version is not that red, more on dark golden orange side. It’s smaller in size, less mushy and not that sweet. Seasonally rare.

My wife and son love to eat the durian, but I dont really eat durian very often. If the durian is warm, and really smelly badly! I dont like the durian warm, but I like to eat cold durian when you put the cold ref. When you are visiting southeast asia. I suggest you to try to eat the durian.. in USA, they dont grow around the America.

"Chasing Freedom"

(Last night, Mohan and I were watching Movie called Chasing Freedom. It was good movie)

"Chasing Freedom, tells the story of a
young Afghan woman (played by Layla Alizada) who is persecuted by the Taliban
for running a school for young girls and the pro bono attorney (played by Juliette Lewis) who reluctantly takes on her asylum case
after the woman is detained when she
arrives at a U.S. airport in search of refuge.

The film was inspired by a real asylum case handled by a team of dedicated pro bono attorneys for the Human Rights First at Debevoise and Plimpton. It is a sobering depiction of the nearly insurmountable obstacles that asylum seekers face when they arrive in the U.S.

For information on the Chasing Freedom Campaign, a national effort aimed at raising public awareness about asylum and detention, please contact projects@activevoice.net or visit the Active Voice website at http://www.activevoice.net/Chasing_Freedom.shtml. Check the Court TV website for screening dates and updates about the movie at http://www.courttv.com/movie/.

An Cool America Cap!

I brough this cool hat at the GAP. It was USD $6.99 and sale for 4.99. Then I brought only 3.51 dollars! My friends looked at my hat, and can tell they like my hat. I do really love to wear this hat!I hopeully that Singapore cap will selling the Singapore flag cap at GAP during next summer time!

My new digital Camera

Last week, I bought this digital Camera at www.target.com and cost only 117.00 dollars It was ok-ok because I would able to afford to buy my own digital Camera to shown my wife, son and Singaporean friends. I took the photos at Alabama School for the Deaf for their homecoming. I will update photo from Alabama School for the Deaf very sooner.

Waves were pretty awesome!

11:00 am....you can see it looks fun, fun, fun. Kind of backing off at times, but a lot of the early morning lump is gone as it looks cleaner at mid morning. The first several pics in the slide show were from earlier, around 8 am and the last several are from around 10:30 am. Photos are really glassy and longer ride! I caught about 20 times for two hours from 10am to noon time!

War of the Mannings!!!!

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, left, walks off the field with brother, Peyton Manning, quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts after the Colts beat the Giants 26-21 in NFL football action at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

I watched this games last night at my work while I watched the boys in same time. The games were really good! I enjoyed that games! After the games were over, Peyton Manning said, " I love my brother" go Mannings!

St.Auggie, Gabe Kling!

I have had seen Gabe King for long time since when he was 12 years old. he beated me in contest, and he was working with me at Cafe Inguana in 1995, I have had meeting him at Pier for pretty often, and we usually hang shake eachother and chatting a bit. He tend to be smile anyone! St. Augustine's Gabe Kling officially became the first WCT qualifier from North Florida, and the first Floridian since Damien Hobgood in 2000 to make the tour. Upon return home last night, a group of his close friends gathered to surprise him in his front yard with a heavy champagne dousing. Gabe soaked it all in, literally, the whole time sporting an ear-to-ear grin that he'll wear for months to come. Congratulations Gabe, Job well done!

Mickey at Marina? from Channel Asia

SINGAPORE: One month before the four bidders for the Sentosa integrated resort (IR) put their cards on the table, comes a stunner: The winner could face a theme park rival, right here in Singapore. Mickey Mouse - who has spurned the advances of Johor - could come to town.

According to market talk, US-based operator Walt Disney has been in discussions with the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) on a possible theme park in Marina East. The site in question is an empty plot of land beside the new 18-hole Marina Bay Golf Course at Tanjong Rhu, operated by a unit of NTUC Club, Lianhe Zaobao reported yesterday.

While some areas around the golf course have been marked for development - such as for the 30 ha Marina East Garden - the use of this plot of land "has not been decided yet", said the Urban Redevelopment Authority. Although Disney and STB would neither confirm nor deny the rumours, a source told Today that negotiations have been progressing well.

"The talks went further than they have ever gone before," he said.

In the 1990s, Singapore almost had its own Disneyland in the Seletar area, but the deal fell through because Disney wanted a huge 300 ha chunk of land - over four times bigger than its Tokyo attraction - but was not prepared to fork out its own money.

Disney eventually went to Hong Kong because its Government owned 57 per cent of the whole operation. On why Disney may bite this time, the source said: "Disney could be emboldened by the plans for the Marina area, including the IR there, and agree to come since so much is being done to attract tourists."

It remains to be seen whether the government offers to take a stake in the project, how large the park will be and how the proposal affects the Sentosa IR aspirants. Genting, for instance, is counting on rival park operator Universal Studios as its trump card for the Sentosa race, while Kerzner International is likely to operate its own water-based theme park. Said Mr Sean Monaghan, an analyst at Merrill Lynch: "The viability of the Sentosa theme park will be dependent on the kind of competition it would face. Just five weeks before submission, it would be difficult for the government to announce anything major that will affect their plans."

Still, if Disney is successfully wooed, the head-on competition here could prove interesting, he said.

"If Singapore adopts the Hong Kong Disneyland model, then the private investors in Sentosa IR will effectively be in competition with the government," he added. According to reports, it's believed that the Singapore Disneyland - if it goes through - would be of the same scale as the 70ha Tokyo theme park.

This small scale, and Singapore's hot weather, could lead to Disney adopting a new generation of indoor theme parks that its CEO Robert Iger floated last year in a Wall Street Journal report.

He said there were "three or four entities in the world, locations with money, that are looking for site-based entertainment" - full rides and shows within a building.

"I'll call them theme parks but they won't necessarily be along the same lines as parks we've built before ... In the next year to two years ... we will commit to creating a new concept or some entity outside the US," he said then. Analysts pointed out he could be hinting at Singapore.

STB declined to confirm anything yesterday but said that it was always on the lookout for major tourism projects, beyond the two IRs. It said it maintains a "healthy dialogue" with key players, but did not identify anybody. A Disney spokesperson added that Singapore continued to be a good market but it had nothing to announce.

Whether Mickey Mouse will cause unhappiness among the Sentosa bidders remains to be seen, as three of the quartet - Genting, Kerzner and Harrah's Entertainment - remained tight-lipped when asked to comment. The fourth, Eighth Wonder, hailed Disney as the "undisputed global leader" in the theme park industry, taking a dig at Genting's tie-up with Universal.

Mr Nicholas Mak, a director of consultancy and research at Knight Frank, is more sanguine about the potential tussle between rival theme park operators.

He said: "Look at Gold Coast. It has three theme parks, yet each of them is different. Without these parks, Gold Coast is just a small town with nice beaches. So why not two in Singapore? This will really make the whole place more exciting." - TODAY

BIGGEST PAH for captional in Singapore!!!!!

FYI: The American people got a Closed captional silver machine in 1978. I think, There had only provided about 5 channels show. how do I know about this? I saw this CC machine, when I was a kid.
A lot of An American people was really trilliing that George Bush Sr, who was Signature for ADA laws and he was president from 1988 to 1995.(George Bush JR is sucker now)haaha.When the ADA law passed in 1990 then, the CC required to do almost of all Channels TV showing. In few years ago, Sucker Bush Jr cut the budget for Closed Capttional for around 10 thousand dollars;however, The government cannot cut Closed Captional at the education purpose Tv show: discovery, animal plant, and kids education show to Deafies people. mostly American people got angry about this for cut the 10 thousand dollars. Anyway, There have a lot of provide for Deafies people to enternment to watch TV and movie. In movie, they have open Captional for deaf people in special time. The open Captial for deaf people is: www.insightcinema.org I do really happy for Adrian to do working hard for better service for Deafies Singaporean. I cannot wait to see our TV turn CC or subtitle on this coming summer. I am sure that my wife will happy to watch TV often due to her love to hear the news on the TV. I will taken photos of NEWEST CC at Singapore on this summer. My point is that If there is set up the subtitle or Close captional for deafies Singaporean peoople on Sept 25... You must say "thank you to Adrian Yap to doing this for your own country!!!!!!!

from Adrian Yap: I got the good news from my friend that MDA will provide captioning services for certain programmes at certain time slots. It is definitely a biggest breakthrough in the deaf history in Singapore where many deaf are at their disadvantage when they watch the English news. Currently, there are no captions being provided simultaneously with the newscasters and there is no way for the deaf and hard-of-hearing to catch the newscasters reading the news. For years, we have been fighting for the news to be incorporated with the subtitles but many a times, our request for the captioning has been flatly rejected due to the small population of the deaf and lack of fund to provide captioning service.

If you wanted to get more info about an America Closed Captional web site is
www.ncicap.org Have a enjoying to learn about USA CC smile!

Who is Edison Chen?

Edison Chen was born on October 7th, 1980.
Raised in Vancouver and NYC he has now moved to Hong Kong and currently works in Asian Cinema, Music and Fashion.
He owns a lifestyle company named CLOT, which works with labels and artists from all around the world gathering them all together in unison in the Greater Asian region, although they are based in the Hong Kong region.
Seemingly this is the first venture of this sort of cause in Hong Kong. GOOGLE him if u don't know him.
He is just a normal everyday guy like you, but only his job is to entertain

I like this photos with ads. he said, SAMSUNG NV3
here is the best seller of KOREA's DC of the past year from SAMSUNG
it has got a PMP, MP3 player, got 15x ZOOM, SHAKE RESISTANT, and a nice 2.5 inch LCD screen
there is a whole series of the camera NV3, NV7, NV10
check it out online if u need and check out the rest of the series here

shocking to hear that OZ Steve killed!

Ayers Rock~!

Australian Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray blow to the chest while filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef. I was sitting at my chair for watching tv in my room. I saw the news said " Croc Hunter killed" then I read stories about him. I was shocking to hear that he died. I know he would be carefully to do with dangerous animals, and an interesting to hear about the dangerous animals. I had been watching him on the T.V.(at OZ) while I was in Singapore. Because My families live in OZ. that s why I like to see the Aussie people on the T.V. hopeully to do peace with him!

Playing the Singapore flag with my son!

He was really excited to see me on camfrog and wanted to see me, so we communication eachtoher for playing at the mini Singaporean flag. He was really smiling at me and playing with me. I do really miss him a lot!