It was from this young balding fellow's blog which I followed from time to time.
Frankly, I dun think it was funny. It was a joke in very taste and simply showed his immaturity. I think it's sick of him to make such a joke just so he can prank his friends.
I am not sure if he even have a brother in real life.
A few friends emailed and called him to verify the truth. After all, who would joke about a death in the family.
A friend from Australia even made a long distance call to check on him.
He has since deleted that post after he incurred the wrath of the people around him.
Stupid!
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This is what he wrote on 1st april morning.
Hi my brother passed away this morning after he was sent to TTS where the doctors could not rescue him and his heart stopped. Wake ceremony will be arranged by Bishan Crematorium. I do not know his frds so pls contact me at my mobile.
This has got to be the hottest video of the moment.
It's a a spoof of the spoof within the spoof. This video is about 10 mins 30 secs long.
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New Paper 31 Aug 2008
Tropic madness
We round up the Internet sites or videos that people are talking about
What's the noise?
Rain Of Madness is a 30-minute fake 'making-of' mockumentary of the feature film Tropic Thunder, about a group of actors making a war film.
This send-up of Hollywood war movies and its stereotypes stars Robert Downey Jr, Ben Stiller and Jack Black.
Rain Of Madness uses all the styles of a behind-the-scenes segment in a DVD extra feature and 'chronicles' the insanity of Tropic Thunder's fictitious cast and crew and their struggle to finish the film.
Essentially, this is a spoof of the spoof within the spoof. It has hilarious pseudo-interviews with the cast and crew, including some bizarre moments with Downey Jr.
Rain Of Madness was shot in Hawaii using the same locations as Tropic Thunder.
It is directed by the latter's co-writer Justin Theroux, who stars in the mockumentary as German documentary producer/narrator Jan Jürgen.
Paramount put Rain Of Madness online alongside Tropic Thunder as part of its Internet viral marketing for the film.
What we say:
It sucked that we could not download the film as it was available only on the US iTunes site, so we turned to other video-sharing sites as well as the mockumentary's website.
Who would have thought Hollywood could take the mickey out of itself and do it well?
Film buffs would recognise this as a send-up of the 1991 documentary Heart Of Darkness, which chronicled the making of Francis Ford Coppola's problem-plagued 1979 epic war film Apocalypse Now, starring Martin Sheen and the late Marlon Brando.
I do hope Rain Of Madness does make it as an extra feature on the Tropic Thunder DVD release.
What people say:
'If you thought Tropic Thunder was funny, you have GOT to check out the documentary showing the making of the film - Rain Of Madness.' - be experiment.com
'A twisted and well-done riff that manages to add to the value of the existing film while deserving a life of its own.' - chud.com
Damned. I found out about the paper plane work shop too late. I would have like to join the workshop, but it was already full.
Flying paper plane has been a late, new found interest of mine.
It all started 2 years or so, back when I entered a contest to win a car. The criteria to get into the final few contestants was to fly a self folded paper plane from a certain distance of about 3-4 m? into one of the front windows of the car.
I did not have any experience of folding a paper air plane. It was not one of the stuff I did during my childhood.
The paper plane I folded that day failed miserably. It flew a very short distance before it nosedived into the ground, far far away from the car.
It was embarrassing, not to mention humiliating cos there were about 20-30 or more other people watching at that time. And out of about a few hundred people, I think only about a dozen people managed to fly their paper planes into the car window that day. Only one walked away with the car as prize.
And back home, plagued by embarrassment, I did a search online and found some great ways to fold paper planes, so that they can fly more accurately and longer.
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New Paper 30 Aug 2008
His paper plane can fly for 30 minutes
Defence agency brings US expert here for workshop
By Andre Yeo
ALL he needs is a piece of cardboard to create his own wind to keep his paper plane flying for up to half an hour. Another works like a boomerang and flies back to him.
Mr John Collins, 47, has been designing and making paper planes for 35 years. He has written two books on the subject, been featured on CNN and the Discovery Channel, and held numerous workshops in the US.
Now, even military people take notice.
DSO National Laboratories, Singapore's defence research and development agency, which is organising a flying machine competition with the Science Centre, felt he was the right person to pique the public's interest in aerodynamics.
And so, Mr Collins has been conducting paper plane workshops for the public - all fully booked - at the Science Centre since 23 Aug. He is returning to the US tomorrow after one last workshop.
Mr Collins, a producer at an independent TV station in California, told The New Paper that he developed an interest in paper planes when he was 6, and in origami when he was10.
He said he was amazed at what could be done with a rectangular piece of paper. 'It's an economy of resource,' he said. 'That you can use a piece of paper and make something so complex and beautiful.'
He said a crowd favourite was usually the Follow Foil, where a plane made out of phone book paper is kept flying, with him walking behind and holding a piece of cardboard beneath it. Air travelling over the cardboard helps keep the plane flying.
He has managed to keep one flying for half an hour.
Another favourite is the Tumbling Wing, which he invented. A piece of tissue paper, used in wrapping gifts, is folded in such a way that, as it descends to the ground, he can push air towards it with his hands and keep it flying.
His mind is constantly thinking of new designs and it's not uncommon to have 20 planes scattered all over his California home.
Ironically, his wife, Suzanne, 58, is a freelance organiser who helps people get rid of clutter. Luckily for him, she understands his passion for paper planes.
He said: 'It drives her crazy sometimes. Once, I had to take 1,600 planes with me to an exhibition and they were all over the house. 'It drove her nuts. She is the organiser and I am the disorganiser.'
They have a 23-year-old son, Sean.
Mr Cheong Siew Ann, 39, assistant professor at the Nanyang Technological University's school of physical and mathematical sciences, was at the workshop with his 31/2-year-old son, Ernest.
Amazed
Mr Cheong seemed to be enjoying himself as he joined Ernest and at least 60 other children in watching Mr Collins' planes take flight. He said he and Ernest had looked up paper planes on YouTube when they learnt of the workshop through the Science Centre, where they are members.
He said he was amazed at what Mr Collins was able to do with a piece of paper.
'I found the Follow Foil the most interesting,' Said Mr Cheong. 'Usually, when people make paper planes, they don't need any tools (to make them fly). 'He used a piece of cardboard to make it fly for a long time.'
Marjorie Lee, 11, who was there with her father and brother, was also intrigued by the Follow Foil. She said: 'I had never thought it was possible to do something like that.'
That's what lawyer Adrian Tan, who wrote the popular '80s novel The Teenage Textbook, told students at a convocation at NTU recently.
Here are some excerpts:
YOU may be very happy to know that Singapore is currently ranked as the country with the third highest life expectancy. We are behind Andorra and Japan, and tied with San Marino.
It seems quite clear why people in those countries, and ours, live so long. We share one thing in common: our football teams are all hopeless. There's very little danger of any of our citizens having their pulses raised by watching us play in the World Cup.
Spectators are more likely to be lulled into a gentle and restful nap. That's why our life expectancies are so long.
Singaporeans have a life expectancy of 81.8 years. Singapore men live to an average of 79.21 years, while Singapore women live more than five years longer, probably to take into account the additional time they need to spend in the bathroom...
I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy. After all, it's calculated based on an average. And you never, ever want to expect being average.
Revisit those expectations. You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that, as graduates, you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.
That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.
If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself. You will be living your life according to boundaries set by average people. I have nothing against average people. But no one should aspire to be them. And you don't need years of education by the best minds in Singapore to prepare you to be average.
What you should prepare for is mess. Life's a mess. You are not entitled to expect anything from it. Life is not fair. Everything does not balance out in the end. Life happens, and you have no control over it...
Don't expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live. Your life is over as of today...
What does this mean for you? It is good that your life is over.
Since your life is over, you are free. Let me tell you the many wonderful things that you can do when you are free.
# DO NOT WORK
THE most important is this: do not work.
Work is anything that you are compelled to do. By its very nature, it is undesirable. Work kills.
The Japanese have a term 'karoshi', which means death from overwork. That's the most dramatic form of how work can kill.
But it can also kill you in more subtle ways. If you work, then day by day, bit by bit, your soul is chipped away, disintegrating until there's nothing left. A rock has been ground into sand and dust.
There's a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. Or people who are employed to do something morally distasteful, or even plain criminal.
Such people justify their actions by telling you they are 'making a living'. No, they're not. They're dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful...
Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.
Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself...
Find that pursuit that will energise you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. Wake up and know exactly what you want to do and why you want to do it.
If you don't, you are working.
# BE WARY OF THE TRUTH
MOST of you will end up in activities which involve communication. To those of you I have a second message: be wary of the truth.
I'm not asking you to speak it, or write it, for there are times when it is dangerous or impossible to do those things. The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth.
Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. There is also great skill. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence.
In order to be wary of the truth, you must first know it. That requires great frankness to yourself. Never fool the person in the mirror.
I have told you that your life is over, that you should not work, and that you should avoid telling the truth. I now say this to you: be hated.
# BE HATED
IT'S not as easy as it sounds.
Do you know anyone who hates you? Yet every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many.
That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to a cross.
One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it's often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one's own convictions.
It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role.
There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.
Popularity is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong.
# FALL IN LOVE
THE other side of the coin is this: fall in love.
I didn't say 'be loved'. That requires too much compromise. If one changes one's looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone.
Rather, I exhort you to love another human being. It may seem odd for me to tell you this. You may expect it to happen naturally, without deliberation. That is false.
Modern society is anti-love. We've taken a microscope to everyone to bring out their flaws and shortcomings.
It is far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work - the only kind of work that I find palatable.
Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way...
Despite popular culture, love doesn't happen by chance, at first sight, across a crowded dance floor. It grows slowly, sinking roots first before branching and blossoming...
You will find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.
Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don't, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.
Well, was Martin Bashir trying to be funny or just drunk? Was he speaking from his heart?
If he was, he was not politically correct. But he would forever be remembered for those words he said.
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The New Paper 08 Aug 2008
Veteran newscaster raises hackles during speech on ethnicity
US TV presenter rapped for 'Asian babes' remark
HE was supposed to give a speech that championed the cause of minority groups.
But instead, British newsman Martin Bashir did the exact opposite by referring to his audience of American journalist as 'Asian babes', making a lewd comment, then shooting a sexually suggestive jibe at his female co-worker, reported the British press.
The 45-year-old broadcast journalist, who became a household name in 1995 by interviewing Princess Diana, had been invited to give a speech at a 25 Jul banquet in Chicago organised by the Asian American Journalists' Association (AAJA).
The topic: tackling the issue of cultural identity and how differences in race and ethnicity should be seen as an asset, not an obstacle, in the industry.
But during his speech, Bashir, who currently works for US network ABC, quipped that he'd 'never been around so many Asian babes in my life'.
He added 'In fact, I'm happy that the podium covers me from the waist down.'
If that wasn't bad enough, he proceeded to make sexually suggestive comments to his ABC colleague JuJu Chang, an Emmy Award-winning correspondent, who was standing nearby, reported the Daily Mail.
Turning his attention to her dress, he told the audience that, like a good speech, it was 'long enough to cover the important parts and short enough to keep you interested'.
Some members of the audience began to boo, while Ms Chang, who is Bashir's co-presenter on ABC's 20/20 news programme, retorted: 'See what I have to put up with?'
The ensuing furore forced Bashir's employer to issue an apology for the comments.
ABC spokesman Jerry Scheider said in a statement: 'This kind of remark has no place in any setting and Martin knows that and is truly sorry for his serious error in judgment.'
Bashir himself also wrote to the AAJA to offer a grovelling apology. 'Upon reflection, it was a tasteless remark that I now bitterly regret,' he wrote.
'I am grateful to you for the opportunity to address those present, and hope that the continuing work of the organisation will not be harmed or undermined by my moment of stupidity.' The apology was also published in the latest issue of the New York magazine.
Chang was forgiving of her colleague, saying that it was a 'ridiculous joke', and that 'he has since apologised to me for his boorishness.'
The president of the AAJA, Jeanne Mariani-Belding, said on Monday: 'I appreciate the point he was trying to make. But could his speech have been in better taste? I would say so.'
Born in South London in 1963 to Pakistani migrants, Bashir rose to fame in the UK with his Panorama interview with Princess Diana, and went on to make a controversial documentary with Michael Jackson, Living with Michael Jackson, for ITV's Tonight in 2003.
Four years ago, he was poached by ABC with a £500,000-a-year deal ($1.35million). After working on ABC's 20/20 current affairs show, he was given the role of co-anchor on the popular Nightline programme.
In June, Bashir revealed he had been diagnosed with a brain tumour but vowed to 'get on with his life'. According to reports, he currently does not need treatment as the tumour is not affecting his well-being.
He now lives in New York with his wife Debbie and their two children.
Anyone is interested in Pussy in a can? Stop thinking dirty.
Pussy is unique. It is made with a blend of fresh white grape juice from Southern Italy, pressed Mexican limes and lightly carbonated water. These are then mixed with Grenadilla and Lychee flavours, infused with six selected botanical herbs.
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