Below is an article taken from today. All i can comment is these pple arte lucky.. in fact blessed to do their BMT at 2013 when they are almost 30.. doing the SOC & IPPT.. Thank Heavens for sacrificial pple like these. But then again. They might be downgraded to Pes C or Pes E due to certain sporting injuries (When they can participate in a sport but not in Total Defence.) so it might work out still.. Then again, who knows.
All the Best, Sailors..
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EVEN NS CAN WAIT FOR OLYMPIC GOLD
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Tan Yo-Hinn
yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg
National Service can wait, studies will be put on hold and careers on the
backburner. Instead, 22 athletes will train full-time with just one
objective in mind: An Olympic medal.
The plan - called Project 0812 to indicate Singapore's ambitions for the
Games in 2008 and 2012 - was revealed to an amazed gathering yesterday.
Never before has Singapore pursued Olympic dreams with such single-minded
fervour.
Three of the athletes identified as part of the project - sailors Teo Wee
Chin, Terence Koh and Maximilian Soh - are due to start National Service.
This could be deferred as Singapore's sporting gurus want them to spend
the next 18 months - leading up to the Beijing Olympics - on non-stop
training and nearly 20 overseas stints.
"The relevant ministries are working together to sort the deferment issue
out, and it should be positive," said Mr Ng Ser Miang, Project 0812 head
and vice-president of the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC).
Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean, the SNOC chief, was also present at the
press conference to flag off this historic initiative.
Money will not be an issue. The Singapore Totalisator Board and the
Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) are pumping $7
million into the dream. The idea is to ensure that the athletes who have
the potential to win a medal at Beijing 2008 or London 2012 should get the
finest support possible. Neither time nor resources should stand in the
way.
The athletes are willing to make their share of sacrifices too. Eleven of
them will put their studies on hold until the Beijing Olympics end.
Ten of them are sailors - including Roy Tay who is at Deakins University,
Koh Seng Leong from Singapore Management University, Benjamin Tan who was
planning to enter the Nanyang Technological University and their
colleagues, Chung Pei Ming, Toh Liying, Loh Man Yi, Xu Yuanzhen, Deborah
Ong, Colin Cheng and Victoria Chan.
Shooter Vanessa Yong is in the same boat.
"All the athletes will train full-time from now until the 2008 Olympic
Games," said Mr Ng.
At 40, shooter Lee Wung Yew is the oldest of the 22 athletes selected for
the project. And the two-time Sportsman of the Year (1989, 1997) is set to
spend all of March training under renowned Italian coach Marcello Dradi in
Bologna.
Today understands that an arrangement is being worked out by the MCYS and
Ministry of Education to enable Lee, a physical education teacher at
Innova Junior College, to go on paid-leave totalling nearly $60,000 over
the next 18 months leading up to the Beijing Olympics next year.
Said Lee: "If all goes to plan, it will allow me to feel at ease and not
worry about anything else and just focus fully on my shooting."
The other seven athletes identified for the project are already full-time
sportspersons.
Defence Minister Teo said that the idea was to build on the success that
Singapore had achieved at the Asian and Commonwealth Games and take sports
to the next level. "That's what this project is about," he said.
Sailor Teo, 19, who is hoping to get his NS stint deferred told Today:
"I'm delighted and honoured as not everyone has this opportunity to be
part of Project 0812."
Among those missing out is swimmer Tao Li, the Asian Games gold medallist.
"The benchmark is Olympic medal standards, not Olympic qualifying
standards," said Mr Teo.
January 25, 2007
Gotten this in my one of my forum threads today.
Very crappy but must read till the end hokays...
Written by an indian, Hence the ang mo
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This is a true story of a young college girl who past away last month.
Her name is Priya.
she was hit by a lorry.
She have a boy friend named Shankar.
Both of them are true lovers. They always hang on the phone. U can never see her without her handphone.
She spends 3/4 of the day talking with shankar. Priya's family knows about their relationship. Shankar is very close with Priya's family. (just imagine their love) .
Before she passed away she always told her frens "If I pass away please burn me with my handphone"
she also said the same thing to her parents.
After her death, ppl cant carry her coffin. i was there. a lot of them tried to do so but still cant, everybody including me, had tried to carry the coffin, the result is still the same.
Eventually, they called their neighbour, a "bomoh" from thailand (pak Darin), who is a fren of her father.
he took a sit and started speaking to himself slowly. after a few minutes, he said "this girl misses something here". then her frens told Darin bout her intentions to burn her with her phone. He then opened the coffin and place her phone and SIM card inside the casket. after that they tried to carry the coffin. It could be moved and they carried it into the van easily. all of us were shocked. (can u feel the fear. i'm shaking at this moment)
Priya's parents didnt inform Shankar that Priya had passed away. (pity Shankar). after 2 weeks Shankar called Priya's mom. Shankar :...."Auntie, I'm coming home 2day. cook something nice for me. Dont tell Priya that i'm coming home 2day. i wanna suprise her." Her mother replied....."u come home first, i wanna tell u something very important." after he came to shah alam, they told him the truth about Priya.
Shankar thinks that they were playing a fool. he was laughing and said "dont try to fool me. tell Priya to come out. i have a gift for her.pls stop this nonsense". then they show him the original death certificate to him. they gave him proof to make him believe.(Shankar started to sweat) ......
He said... "its not true. we spoke yesterday. she still calls me.
Shankar was shaking. suddenly, shankar's phone rang. "see this is from Priya. see this..." he showed the phone to priya's family. all of them told him to answer.he talked using the loudspeaker mode. all of them heard his conversation.
Loud and clear. no cross lines, no humming. it is the actual voice of Priya & there is no way others could use her simcard since it is nailed inside the coffin they were so shocked and asked for pak darin's help again.
pak darin brought his master (Tok Chen) to solve this matter. he & Darin worked for 5 hours. than they discovered one thing...
M1 has the best coverage ... 99.9%
Very crappy but must read till the end hokays...
Written by an indian, Hence the ang mo
=======
This is a true story of a young college girl who past away last month.
Her name is Priya.
she was hit by a lorry.
She have a boy friend named Shankar.
Both of them are true lovers. They always hang on the phone. U can never see her without her handphone.
She spends 3/4 of the day talking with shankar. Priya's family knows about their relationship. Shankar is very close with Priya's family. (just imagine their love) .
Before she passed away she always told her frens "If I pass away please burn me with my handphone"
she also said the same thing to her parents.
After her death, ppl cant carry her coffin. i was there. a lot of them tried to do so but still cant, everybody including me, had tried to carry the coffin, the result is still the same.
Eventually, they called their neighbour, a "bomoh" from thailand (pak Darin), who is a fren of her father.
he took a sit and started speaking to himself slowly. after a few minutes, he said "this girl misses something here". then her frens told Darin bout her intentions to burn her with her phone. He then opened the coffin and place her phone and SIM card inside the casket. after that they tried to carry the coffin. It could be moved and they carried it into the van easily. all of us were shocked. (can u feel the fear. i'm shaking at this moment)
Priya's parents didnt inform Shankar that Priya had passed away. (pity Shankar). after 2 weeks Shankar called Priya's mom. Shankar :...."Auntie, I'm coming home 2day. cook something nice for me. Dont tell Priya that i'm coming home 2day. i wanna suprise her." Her mother replied....."u come home first, i wanna tell u something very important." after he came to shah alam, they told him the truth about Priya.
Shankar thinks that they were playing a fool. he was laughing and said "dont try to fool me. tell Priya to come out. i have a gift for her.pls stop this nonsense". then they show him the original death certificate to him. they gave him proof to make him believe.(Shankar started to sweat) ......
He said... "its not true. we spoke yesterday. she still calls me.
Shankar was shaking. suddenly, shankar's phone rang. "see this is from Priya. see this..." he showed the phone to priya's family. all of them told him to answer.he talked using the loudspeaker mode. all of them heard his conversation.
Loud and clear. no cross lines, no humming. it is the actual voice of Priya & there is no way others could use her simcard since it is nailed inside the coffin they were so shocked and asked for pak darin's help again.
pak darin brought his master (Tok Chen) to solve this matter. he & Darin worked for 5 hours. than they discovered one thing...
M1 has the best coverage ... 99.9%
January 23, 2007
Have you guys heard of this?
AEROPLANE BLONDE.
One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a 'black box'.
SALAD DODGER.
An excellent phrase for an overweight person.
SWAMP-DONKEY
A deeply unattractive person.
TESTICULATING.
Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.
BLAMESTORMING.
Sitting round in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failure & who was responsible.
SEAGULL MANAGER.
A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, & then leaves.
ASSMOSIS.
The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.
SALMON DAY.
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.
CUBE FARM.
An office filled with cubicles.
PRAIRIE DOGGING.
When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. (This also applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)
SITCOMs.
Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into parents & they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the Kids or start a "home business".
SINBAD.
Single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE.
The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
ADMINISPHERE.
The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file.
Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" - needless paperwork & processes.
GOING FOR A McSHIT.
Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you're just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you'll buy their food afterwards is known as a McShit with Lies.
404.
Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found" meaning that the requested document could not be located.
AUSSIE KISS.
Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.
OH - NO SECOND.
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. You've hit 'reply all').
GREYHOUND.
A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.
JOHNNY-NO-STARS.
A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who works in burger restaurants. The 'no-stars' comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of Training.
MILLENNIUM DOMES.
The contents of a Wonderbra, I.e. Extremely impressive when viewed from the Outside, but there's actually nothing in there worth seeing.
MONKEY BATH.
A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo! Oo! Oo! Aa! Aa! Aa!".
MYSTERY BUS.
The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you're in the Toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.
MYSTERY TAXI.
The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a 10-Pinter in your b
Instead.
BEER COAT.
The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise At
3:00am.
BEER COMPASS.
The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after booze cruise even though you're too drunk to remember where you live, how you got here & where you've come from.
BREAKING THE SEAL.
Your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of drinking. After breaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the toilet will be required every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the night.
TART FUEL.
Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.
PICASSO BUM.
A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she's got 4 Buttocks.
AEROPLANE BLONDE.
One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a 'black box'.
SALAD DODGER.
An excellent phrase for an overweight person.
SWAMP-DONKEY
A deeply unattractive person.
TESTICULATING.
Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.
BLAMESTORMING.
Sitting round in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failure & who was responsible.
SEAGULL MANAGER.
A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, & then leaves.
ASSMOSIS.
The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.
SALMON DAY.
The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.
CUBE FARM.
An office filled with cubicles.
PRAIRIE DOGGING.
When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. (This also applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)
SITCOMs.
Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into parents & they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the Kids or start a "home business".
SINBAD.
Single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE.
The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
ADMINISPHERE.
The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file.
Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" - needless paperwork & processes.
GOING FOR A McSHIT.
Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you're just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you'll buy their food afterwards is known as a McShit with Lies.
404.
Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found" meaning that the requested document could not be located.
AUSSIE KISS.
Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.
OH - NO SECOND.
That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. You've hit 'reply all').
GREYHOUND.
A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.
JOHNNY-NO-STARS.
A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who works in burger restaurants. The 'no-stars' comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of Training.
MILLENNIUM DOMES.
The contents of a Wonderbra, I.e. Extremely impressive when viewed from the Outside, but there's actually nothing in there worth seeing.
MONKEY BATH.
A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo! Oo! Oo! Aa! Aa! Aa!".
MYSTERY BUS.
The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you're in the Toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.
MYSTERY TAXI.
The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a 10-Pinter in your b
Instead.
BEER COAT.
The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise At
3:00am.
BEER COMPASS.
The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after booze cruise even though you're too drunk to remember where you live, how you got here & where you've come from.
BREAKING THE SEAL.
Your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of drinking. After breaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the toilet will be required every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the night.
TART FUEL.
Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.
PICASSO BUM.
A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she's got 4 Buttocks.
Go Dutch !!
Does anyone know where the phrase "to go Dutch" originates from?
It refers to a "Dutch treat."
DUTCH TREAT - "When you're invited to a 'Dutch treat' or a 'Dutch luncheon,' the host expects each guest to pay his own way." From the "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins, New York, 1977). Mr. and Mrs. Morris call "Dutch treat" a derogatory phrase.
"Probably no nationality has come in for so consistent a torrent of verbal abuse from the English as their neighbors across the channel the Dutch...It was not always thus. Until well after Shakespeare's time, the Dutch were usually well regarded in all literary references by British authors." From "I Hear America Talking" by Stuart Berg Flexner (Von Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, 1976).
"In the 17th century the English-Dutch hostility over control of the seas and disputed parts of the New World was intense.The anti-Dutch tradition of early English settlers persisted and gives (America) such terms as.'Dutch treat,' 1887; 'go Dutch,' 1931, no treat at all, each person paying for his own meal or ticket." From the "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Fact on File, New York, 1997). "The Dutch people have been so offended by the English language over the past three centuries that in 1934 their government decided to drop the word 'Dutch' and use 'Netherlands' whenever possible." The section on "Dutch" lists three columns of phrases using the word.
* Re: Go Dutch = Dutch treat John Bull 18/March/04 (3)
Hee.. was researching on this 2 words for fun.. found this to be the most apt definition for the 2 words.
This Valentine's, are you going Dutch ??
It refers to a "Dutch treat."
DUTCH TREAT - "When you're invited to a 'Dutch treat' or a 'Dutch luncheon,' the host expects each guest to pay his own way." From the "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins, New York, 1977). Mr. and Mrs. Morris call "Dutch treat" a derogatory phrase.
"Probably no nationality has come in for so consistent a torrent of verbal abuse from the English as their neighbors across the channel the Dutch...It was not always thus. Until well after Shakespeare's time, the Dutch were usually well regarded in all literary references by British authors." From "I Hear America Talking" by Stuart Berg Flexner (Von Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, 1976).
"In the 17th century the English-Dutch hostility over control of the seas and disputed parts of the New World was intense.The anti-Dutch tradition of early English settlers persisted and gives (America) such terms as.'Dutch treat,' 1887; 'go Dutch,' 1931, no treat at all, each person paying for his own meal or ticket." From the "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Fact on File, New York, 1997). "The Dutch people have been so offended by the English language over the past three centuries that in 1934 their government decided to drop the word 'Dutch' and use 'Netherlands' whenever possible." The section on "Dutch" lists three columns of phrases using the word.
* Re: Go Dutch = Dutch treat John Bull 18/March/04 (3)
Hee.. was researching on this 2 words for fun.. found this to be the most apt definition for the 2 words.
This Valentine's, are you going Dutch ??
January 22, 2007
I read this line in the newspaper today, “ When you’re too Hungry, too Angry, too Lonely or too Tired; HALT “ . thought that it is a good article to expand abit more.. though some part is from there.. more or less based on watever parts of my mind remembers...
HALT simply asks us to Stop what you’re doing and attend to yourself.
If you haben been eaten, pls go and eat something. Eating is a big thing in our mental weather.
Forget abt that diet.
Forget abt that jian-fei plan
Juz go binge on something
If you’re too lonely, drop that book or PSP or Nintendo. Call a fren, meet up for coffee reconnect with the pple who truly cares for u.
If you’re tired, you need to zzzz. Of coz it is abit tough to do it along the orchard road stretch. But if u desperately need to zz somewhere.. feel free to call me.. I got some nice little quiet places in orchard road where I know you can sleep comfortably.. waahahhahaa
The next 1 ish a toughie…
If you’re angry, it tends to escalate and grow beyond control. And any (I really mean any) little or minute thing can trigger off a bomb blast bigger than any WMD.
It happen to me a couple of time last year (considering it is on 22 days into 2007).
In short.. remember HALT. It will definitely help u to be a better person
HALT simply asks us to Stop what you’re doing and attend to yourself.
If you haben been eaten, pls go and eat something. Eating is a big thing in our mental weather.
Forget abt that diet.
Forget abt that jian-fei plan
Juz go binge on something
If you’re too lonely, drop that book or PSP or Nintendo. Call a fren, meet up for coffee reconnect with the pple who truly cares for u.
If you’re tired, you need to zzzz. Of coz it is abit tough to do it along the orchard road stretch. But if u desperately need to zz somewhere.. feel free to call me.. I got some nice little quiet places in orchard road where I know you can sleep comfortably.. waahahhahaa
The next 1 ish a toughie…
If you’re angry, it tends to escalate and grow beyond control. And any (I really mean any) little or minute thing can trigger off a bomb blast bigger than any WMD.
It happen to me a couple of time last year (considering it is on 22 days into 2007).
In short.. remember HALT. It will definitely help u to be a better person
Scheduleof Firewerkz in Singapore During CNY
Singapore River Hongbao 2007 will be held from the 16 Feb to 4
March. Avoid Marina sq & Esplanade area at all costs
Below is the schedule of the firework displays for seven days:
The Opening Ceremony
16 Feb (Fri)
9:15 to 9:30 p.m.
Duration of Firewerkz: 3 mins
17 Feb (Sat)
Eve of CNY @ 9:00 p.m.
Duration of Firewerkz: 5- 8 mins
18 Feb (Sun)
1st Day of CNY @ 9:00 p.m.
Duration of Firewerkz: 5- 8 mins
19 Feb (Mon)
2nd Day of CNY @ 9:00 p.m.
Duration of Firewerkz: 5- 8 mins
24 Feb (Sat)
Time: 9:00 p.m.
Duration: 5- 8 mins
25 Feb (Sun)
Time: 9:00 p.m.
Duration: 5- 8 mins
4 Mar (Sun)
15th day of CNY @ 9:00 p.m.
Duration of Firewerkz: 5- 8 mins
Please let your family members, friends and visitors know about the firework
displays.
March. Avoid Marina sq & Esplanade area at all costs
Below is the schedule of the firework displays for seven days:
The Opening Ceremony
16 Feb (Fri)
9:15 to 9:30 p.m.
Duration of Firewerkz: 3 mins
17 Feb (Sat)
Eve of CNY @ 9:00 p.m.
Duration of Firewerkz: 5- 8 mins
18 Feb (Sun)
1st Day of CNY @ 9:00 p.m.
Duration of Firewerkz: 5- 8 mins
19 Feb (Mon)
2nd Day of CNY @ 9:00 p.m.
Duration of Firewerkz: 5- 8 mins
24 Feb (Sat)
Time: 9:00 p.m.
Duration: 5- 8 mins
25 Feb (Sun)
Time: 9:00 p.m.
Duration: 5- 8 mins
4 Mar (Sun)
15th day of CNY @ 9:00 p.m.
Duration of Firewerkz: 5- 8 mins
Please let your family members, friends and visitors know about the firework
displays.
January 21, 2007
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