No, I am not kidding you. In Singapore, you can get away with murder if you are NOT a Singaporean and the victim is. Please read the following article here.

Basically what happened is that a Chinese National who works in a kitchen stabbed his supervisor with a kitchen knief (and he died) but the judge decided that the Chinese National was “not responsible” for his action because he had a “moderate depressive episode” and he was “provoked” by his supervisor. So I guess next time if my supervisor shouts at me, I will have to respond by stabbing him and then shout “We Singaporeans are not easily bullied”. Oh but wait, I am a Singaporean, probably will get life in prison or be hanged by the state. Plus my boss is probably one of those powerful elites.

Of course there are cases which there were killings with provocation but seriously, this happened in a big open workplace not some dark corner in Singapore. The supervisor didn’t really provoke the kitchen helper as claimed by the judge, he probably was overworked or stressed, just like everyone else in Singapore. And I am pretty sure the kitchen helper was also overworked and stressed. My boss shouts at me every time, but I didn’t take my pen and stab him in the eye because I am angry. Some of my co-workers are very nasty, I didn’t stab them with my stapler because I have a “moderate depressive episode”. Come on, even the defense lawyer had asked for 6 years for the sentence, but the judge gave him 4 years. There is something fishy. Even the fishes in the sea knows that this is very fishy. And shouldn’t this be a hate crime as well  since the kitchen helper has expressed hatred against the supervisor?

So, now I am asking everyone in other countries to come to Singapore and start stabbing Singaporeans. Or if you want something less extreme, just go around and beat up some poor Singaporean, especially those without money. In Singapore, if you assault someone, it is NOT a criminal offence (except to rich govt officials). They need to fork out a huge sum of money before they can even prosecute you. Woohooo! Avoid rich/elite people (you can spot an elite because he wears white and can travel to anywhere in Singapore within 20 minutes) because they got connections. Best thing, if that Singaporean hit you back, you can get a knife and stab him to death and shout ” We xxxxians are not easily bullied, bitch!” You get only 4 years or less if you are well-behaved in prison! 4 years for the thrill of killing a Singaporean? What more could you ask for? Or you can just fly back to your home country and forget all about it. No Singapore government official will care at all. After all, the dead are just useless and talentless Singaporeans. Our lives are not worth much after all. Nice country right? Come and enjoy! We all love being stabbed and beaten.

Oh by the way, you shouldn’t shout at any government officials. If you do that, the police will invite you down for a very long talk. This may be considered as “criminal intimidation” and you could be jailed up to 7 years for this hideous crime. Yes, that’s 7 years in prison for shouting at the government officials.

It’s been a long time since I have made fun of Google and I thought it’s about time we did something to show how good Google actually is. If you have used Google to do your searches, you will realize that Google differentiates between paid(or sponsored) listings and organic search results. So, let’s say you search for the term “fish oil” and you then be directed to a page where you can see all the results. However the first “result” is a sponsored link and you can easily notice it as a sponsored link by the words “sponsored link“. The rest of the results are from organic search. And on the left hand side, you will see more links, these are also sponsored links. They are just advertisements.

Why do you think that Google is doing this? Why do they want to differentiate between organic searches and advertisement links? Well, because Google has integrity. Really, they do. I am not making this up. As you can read from their editorial “Why we sell advertising, not search results“, you will understand more about this. “Honest G” doesn’t want to contaiminate their search results with advertisements (unlike other search engines). They definitely don’t want to “bias” their results on how much someone is willing to pay. The organic search rankings is based on a number of factors, none of which has anything to do with how much you are willing to pay Honest G. Of course, that doesn’t stop you from paying others money to get good results from Google. We call these group of people Google’s children or SEOers. Hey, no one can say Honest G is a miser anymore, can they? They are sure spreading a lot of their love around.

But in all seriousness, I still think that Google’s search engine is the best out there. Yahoo’s search results is okay, but still nothing compared to Google. Let’s not talk about MSN or Live. I had hoped for great things to come from Google, but alas, Google has failed miserably in everything else, except GMail. But even that, other email providers have caught up wth Google. So sad.