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The Chinese New Year is coming! What are your plans for the super doubled weekend? If any of you would like to drop by my place, feel free to tell me and you will most definitely be welcomed.*

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So everybody knows about the Edison-Gillian-Bobo thing I suppose. If you don't, Google is your best friend. I'm not going to question their intelligence or whatever regarding this because whenever somebody does something it is for a reason. And also because I love scandals. More please!

Then yesterday morning I had a laugh - well, a slight chuckle - when I saw the headlines on today's New Paper. Taiwanese celebs were on a popular TV show and they started making fun of Singaporeans' English.

I mean, come on. The Taiwanese? If it was, you know, at least a generally English speaking country I wouldn't really say anything but come on. We're talking about a country that has English teachers with worse standards than normal students. And most of them who actually speak the language do it like they were possessed by an American.

It's like me making fun of, say, Ronald Susilo for his badminton. Sure, he may not be the best in the world and every athlete has some pretty awkward positions they go into but hey. He'll whoop my ass in the court any day.

You know, they can't even speak it right, they can't freaking spell the words on TV right (and apparently nobody cares), and they dare to do this shit? You know the last time something like that happened on the newspaper was an episode of House, which is an awesome show by the way, where Dr. House said something about Singapore that, alleged by "furious Singaporeans", made it sound like the country was filled with sex-crazy nuts.

It is not. However, I don't have to rave all over some local forum about it. But this one is just insulting. That's all I'm saying.

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I've been into American politics recently, well for a long time actually, because I think it affects the world and not just the US who ends up as the next president.

I'll admit that I've been on Digg for a very long while now and the internet is filled with Ron Paul supporters, but I like him because of his arguments. He makes sense. I can see that he really woke many people up with his points that really make people go "why didn't i think of that?"

But despite his popularity online, it hasn't been translating into support in the primaries. It's a process of getting the citizens to vote who they think in each party (Republican and Democrat) should represent theirs for the election.

Now I remember not like Democrats back some years ago because of some of them and their stands on video games. It was the usual crazy argument that games were causing everything bad in society, and it was a major turnoff.

Recently I've seen the results of the voting (called caucuses) and it generally favours John McCain for the Republicans and Barack Obama for the Democrats.

And because of the Ron Paul activism online I've seen how crappy the other Republican candidates are, like those stupid smirks when Ron Paul starts talking about how the war never should have happened and the idea of staying in Iraq as suggested by McCain was a load of bullshit.

And now because of Obama's wins in various states there has been an increase in news about him and the many endorsements he is getting from various newspapers and websites, and I came across this video:



I'm sorry if I bored you or maybe you had lost interest somewhere in the middle. I still think it's important who the next leader of the US turns out to be. The war has torn the economy apart, and that in turn affects economies all over the world. The rise of China is a bitch because I'm Chinese and I know how Chinese people can really make people hate them for being such bitches.

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*Visitors, by entering my residence, agree to the following terms: People who hate me and people I hate are excluded. People under those lists are under my discretion. Subject to availability, will only be available when I'm home. There might be a lack of service because I am a lousy host or because I'm on my computer. All visitors are welcome to try out the Wii as long as 1)they promise to not spoil anything and 2)not scream each time they do something. Failure to comply will result in application of a Grade-B noogie (one grade lower for females) to the head of the offender. Repeat offenses warrant noogies of higher grade (A or S) to a maximum punishment of tickling his/her weakest spot until incapacitated and of course being banned from the Wii. Visitors are also welcome to try out other pieces of equipment, if they dare to ask me and if I agree. Visitors who criticise my wall of Jay Chou posters or my new Marvel Heroes bedsheets will receive a Grade-A noogie on the head and be forcefully extracted from my room and offenders will be banned from entering.