Noon. That's when the sun is hottest. Also when I decided I couldn't just stay in bed anymore.

I went down for lunch. Then I came back and just slept again. Somehow. I woke up again at 4, I think. 5.

So I played on the com for a while. Tomorrow's Chemistry, I'm so relaxed, if you can't bear it, kill me. So after that I went down to get dinner for everyone, and then finally I got to read today's New Paper. Edwin Yeo had a funny today... I'm typing it out.

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Edwin Yeo

Here's next year's news today

Having been the best predictor for the past three English Premier League weekends, I have decided to apply my vast psychic powers in other areas.

Looking into my crystal ball, I have predicted the news stories which will make headlines in 2005. Allow me to bring you next year's news today.

1) In an escalating price war between budget airlines, Tiger Airways anounced that for the promotional period of one month, they will pay travellers to take their flight to Bangkok.

"We're always looking for new ways to benefit our customers. Our research showed that after our competitors lowered their fares to Bangkok for one cent, the only way we could beat that was to pay our customers," said a spokesman.

The flights, however, will not come with the usual services such as in-flight movies, food, water, cabin crew and pilots.

2) After hearing from the Ministry of National Development, town councils decided to put up nails, sorry, they're more like little studs, up on basketball poles.

This is to prevent kids playing football on basketball courts.

Said a town council member: "We have put up signs saying no football for close to 20 years, and still people are playing football on basketball courts. Something had to be done."

3) A locally-published book tops the bestseller charts for 23 weeks. The Nila Utama Code, written by Mr. D Brown, shook the tiny garden state when he claimed that the Merlion was, in fact, a fish and that the name was a anagram for Reno Lim, who he claimed was the real founder of Ah Bengs in Singapore.

4) New television company MediaCorp TV Holdings Ltd announced a merger with Starhub Cable TV in what is described as a win-win-win situation.

Negotiators of both parties said that this had to done as Starhub Cable TV was bleeding because of its annual negotiations with ESPN, who, this year, on top of wanting a price increase for live telecasts of EPL matches, also wanted broadband connections for their computers which really downloaded stuff at 3000kbps.

When Starhub highlighted that their broadband connections ARE 3000kbps, ESPN said: "We don't mean a potential speed which we can only see if no one in entire Ang Mo Kio is logged on at any moment."

5) The US has arrested another key man in Saddam Hussein's regime - Tongkat Ali. Said CIA officials: "He's the brother of Chemical Ali and was responsible for the rise in male testostorone everywhere."

6) Four new hurricanes are tearing through out garden city, although those affected are mostly the idle in Singapore.

Hurricanes Ken, Douglas, Florence and Dick are particularly destructive and, according to one forum writer, rude.

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There you go. Hope you enjoyed as it as much as I did.

Have a great one!