Club 30's "Kill the Boredom Demon" Jive Pad 147th Edition
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the devastation in Japan is very sad..
i hope the death toll doesn't increase but.... i hope it doesn't increase much...
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It is really terrible
So many deaths in so many places worldwide from earthquakes
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one of my jap friend is giving regular updates on fb ..... he's got no gas, and part of the subway is flooded, but fine.
I think the differences between societies is telling. In japan there's no looting, no widespread public disorder, and the death toll, considering the magnitude of the earthquake, surprisingly low. In china or pakistan or peru the death toll shoots up to the tens of thousands very quickly ..... in japan it's still in the hundreds ......
a very prepared and disciplined people, the nips ....
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Originally posted by Fatum:
one of my jap friend is giving regular updates on fb ..... he's got no gas, and part of the subway is flooded, but fine.
I think the differences between societies is telling. In japan there's no looting, no widespread public disorder, and the death toll, considering the magnitude of the earthquake, surprisingly low. In china or pakistan or peru the death toll shoots up to the tens of thousands very quickly ..... in japan it's still in the hundreds ......
a very prepared and disciplined people, the nips ....
I agree with you. Such a disaster and the causalty compare to the scale is relatively very small. They show us how professional they are dealing with crisis like this.... Now I pray for the everyone who is living in japan for their safety.... -
To add if this happen in tokyo, i think the death toll might not be in thousands....but maybe in millions. Scary....
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afternoon
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i'm going to IT show and contribute to the economy tomorrow.. I suddenly got the urge to spend, don't know why.. Already clicked a few stuffs from Amazon but...
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Originally posted by stellazio:
i'm going to IT show and contribute to the economy tomorrow.. I suddenly got the urge to spend, don't know why.. Already clicked a few stuffs from Amazon but...
You could put that urge to good use by gifting me an Olympus PEN.
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morning
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In any case
PAP Times published parts of Dr M's book.
Seems he tak boleh tahan seeing Johor's water sold cheap to us. But now those water can just flow out to the sea.
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Malaysia boleh!
Now at Ipoh they want to build e sewage plant in e CBD area
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Originally posted by Fatum:
one of my jap friend is giving regular updates on fb ..... he's got no gas, and part of the subway is flooded, but fine.
I think the differences between societies is telling. In japan there's no looting, no widespread public disorder, and the death toll, considering the magnitude of the earthquake, surprisingly low. In china or pakistan or peru the death toll shoots up to the tens of thousands very quickly ..... in japan it's still in the hundreds ......
a very prepared and disciplined people, the nips ....
yeah. its their culture to try not to be knn lang.
in contrast, being knn lang is an integral part of sg culture. thank goodness we're relatively sheltered from natural disasters.
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From Mr Brown:
In other words:
'A tragedy has struck Japan! This is a great time for you to hawk your wares on our channel! Call our sales representatives now!'
Someone from Mediacorp's marketing department is asking for an ass kicking.....
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Morning everyone... sick and in the office >___<
Anyone notice if my email is sending out junks???
@Fudgey: Mediacorp -______-
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Originally posted by fudgester:
From Mr Brown:
In other words:
'A tragedy has struck Japan! This is a great time for you to hawk your wares on our channel! Call our sales representatives now!'
Someone from Mediacorp's marketing department is asking for an ass kicking.....
That effectively demonstrates AV's assertion about KNN lang.
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how about the one where Lau Lee's son personally pens a condolence to China over the earthquake there but is just part of the "Singapore Leaders sends condolences" to Japan...
pardon me PM but your slip is showing...
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To be fair, MediaCorp did release an apology, but even that seems half-baked.
I refer you guys to Apology from MediaCorp.
I quote:
'.....We apologize unreservedly if we had been seen to be insensitive to the gravity of the situation.'
At the very least, that is poor grammar. At the very worst, they're not really sorry after all.
That's because the words 'if we had been seen' changes the whole meaning of the statement. I see it as:
'..... We're sorry if you see us as being insensitive to the tragedy.'
Why can't they just say, like,'What we did was wrong, and we're sorry for that'?
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Originally posted by fudgester:
To be fair, MediaCorp did release an apology, but even that seems half-baked.
I refer you guys to Apology from MediaCorp.
I quote:
'.....We apologize unreservedly if we had been seen to be insensitive to the gravity of the situation.'
At the very least, that is poor grammar. At the very worst, they're not really sorry after all.
That's because the words 'if we had been seen' changes the whole meaning of the statement. I see it as:
'..... We're sorry if you see us as being insensitive to the tragedy.'
Why can't they just say, like,'What we did was wrong, and we're sorry for that'?
They'll never admit that they're wrong. The chances of getting a letter from Nigeria that is genuine are higher than that.
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Originally posted by fudgester:
To be fair, MediaCorp did release an apology, but even that seems half-baked.
I refer you guys to Apology from MediaCorp.
I quote:
'.....We apologize unreservedly if we had been seen to be insensitive to the gravity of the situation.'
At the very least, that is poor grammar. At the very worst, they're not really sorry after all.
That's because the words 'if we had been seen' changes the whole meaning of the statement. I see it as:
'..... We're sorry if you see us as being insensitive to the tragedy.'
Why can't they just say, like,'What we did was wrong, and we're sorry for that'?
they learnt from WKS... "This should have never happened. I'm sorry that it has"
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Originally posted by fudgester:
To be fair, MediaCorp did release an apology, but even that seems half-baked.
I refer you guys to Apology from MediaCorp.
I quote:
'.....We apologize unreservedly if we had been seen to be insensitive to the gravity of the situation.'
At the very least, that is poor grammar. At the very worst, they're not really sorry after all.
That's because the words 'if we had been seen' changes the whole meaning of the statement. I see it as:
'..... We're sorry if you see us as being insensitive to the tragedy.'
Why can't they just say, like,'What we did was wrong, and we're sorry for that'?
Wow tsk tsk
Mediacrap....what do you expect
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got a sore throat.. i think it's from this idiot who kept coughing in the bus on saturday...
asshole kept coughing every time he spoke and he carried on a long conversation with his friend and kept coughing after each sentence..
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morning
it's e school holiday.
In any case, it isn't just from MediaCorp. Today's paper reported there was an insensitive comic strip over the earthquake upnorth
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Originally posted by sbst275:
morning
it's e school holiday.
In any case, it isn't just from MediaCorp. Today's paper reported there was an insensitive comic strip over the earthquake upnorth
fuck lah.. look at this shit...
each disaster unearths the vermin which live under rocks
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gia si lang.
Now I'm keeping my fingers crossed over the nuclear reactor
