I was catching up on my daily local news, and it never fails to crack me up as always. Only in Singapore eh, where the media is retarded, and our MP and netizens are jokers sia.
Banned from camera phone
A 25-YEAR-OLD man who took upskirt videos of five women was given a chance on Monday and placed on 24 months’ probation.
But Gary Huang Kunjie, who is suffering from paraphilia, will not be allowed from using a cellphone with camera features.
His parents will supervise him in his use of Internet to better manage his access to pornography and access to cameras and video cameras. They also signed a $5,000 bond to ensure his good behaviour.
Huang will follow up with psychiatric and psychological treatment as required. Community Court judge Soh Tze Bian will review his case in six months.
Huang, a polytechnic graduate, had earlier admitted to using his mobile phone to take a digital upskirt photograph of a 29-year-old woman’s underwear in a lift at a block of flats in Yishun on Jan 14 last year.
He was caught in the act when the woman happened to turn around. Her husband called the police. The phone was found to have 94 upskirt video clips of unknown women in lifts at unknown locations.
The offence is punishable with a jail term of up to one year or fine or with both.
This Gary guy sounds like any typical Singapore men. I would like to think we all have some sort of paraphilia issues or abnormal sexual fixation, but this dude took it to the extreme man!
94 upskirt video clips! My god that’s a fine run of secretly recording such upskirts before he was caught in the act. I do hope he’s not a ‘sharer’; uploading and sharing his recordings for the world to see.
Record tourist arrivals
VISITOR arrivals to Singapore hit a new record in May, chalking up a 30.3 per cent growth to reach 946,000 from a year ago.
This is the highest ever jump recorded in the month of May, and the sixth consecutive month of record visitor arrivals for the booming tourism sector.
Fourteen of the top 15 markets registered positive year-on-year growth in May this, with tourists from Indonesia, India, Malaysia, China and Australia making up the top five groups, accounting for 55 per cent of the total tourists, said the Singapore Tourism Board in a statement on Monday.
Tourists from Hong Kong, Malaysia and Taiwan registered their highest growth of over 47 per cent each.
Visitor days , estimated at 3.8 million days, jumped by 24.1 per cent from a year earlier.
The new influx of tourists pushed hotel room revenue to an estimated $164 million, up by 45.2 per cent from a year ago. Average Occupancy Rate also rose by 17.1 per cent over May 2009 to reach 85 per cent last month.
The average room rate went up by 13.4 per cent to reach about $209, with hotels in the mid-tier recorded the largest growth of 24.5 per cent to reach $168 in May.
The real reason behind such a high surge in visitors to Singapore is of course our casinos. That’s the bottomline, and the media is putting the spin on the article as if Singapore has suddenly become a tourist/business paradise.
With the influx of visitors, expect casino related crimes and vices to follow suit. I don’t really understand the rationale behind gambling and never will. Singapore elites are already dirt-rich, and now they’ll be even more stinking dirt-rich, leeching money from gamblers.
S’pore can’t be flood-free
IT IS not realistic to expect Singapore to be completely flood-free given its tropical climate but the Government will continue to implement new drainage works to prevent widespread floods, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday.
In his first comments since the two flash floods this month, he said it would any attempt to wipe flood flooding her here would be very costly, requring huge spending and tracts of land.
‘If you are going to do that, you will need huge tracts of land put aside for huge monsoon drains, which will be empty most of the time, (and) the infrastructure will cost a lot of money and it is not worth it,’ he said at the opening of the new facilities at Lower Seletar Reservoir.
A more realistic objective, he added, is to prevent widespread and prolonged flooding, and limit the risk to lives and damage to property.
Assuring Singaporeans that the Government ‘will continue to implement new drainage works, to improve the design of the drainage systems and deal with more intense storms’, PM Lee said: ‘But I don’t think it is possible in Singapore to expect the place to be completely free of floods,’ he said, as heavy downpours are very much part of the climate for an ‘island in the tropics’.
He also stressed the need to have contingency plans for unusually heavy rain to ensure swift response in pinpointing the problem areas, dealing with them and ‘putting them right’, and ensuring that the massive floods of the scale that wreaked havoc in Orchard Road, Thomson Road, Bukit Timah and Tanjong Katong would not happen again.
‘We have to learn from these episodes, do post-mortems, find out what happened, and upgrade our infrastructure and systems,’ he said.
You’ve got to be kidding me right. With all the taxes that goes into the pockets of our highest paid ministers in the world, there should be more assurances in fact.
I’d say why not we all not pay our taxes, pool all that money, hire some engineers, and use the cash to elevate tiny Singapore a couple of centimeters off from the sea level :p
