Love this to bits. :D
Ok next! In complete contrast, something quite horrifying that happened in Singapore lately.
Has all the elements of a drama. Society that's currently quite xenophobic, especially towards those from China at the moment, with a mini-election over the horizon. Rich China immigrant with a Ferrari dashes a red light, smashing into a cab. Kills the Singaporean cab driver, who is sole bread winner of a family with 3 children, as well as the Japanese passenger. The China immigrant also dies. As a side act, somebody robbed the dying Japanese lady after the crash.
Articles in Stomp. Original incident. Family and friends of the immigrant says this. Other opinions, here, here and here.
I wanna write a short reflection on the incident.
1. The Farrari driver is clearly in the wrong. He reached the junction 4 seconds after the red light came on. There is absolutely no excuse for his actions. He simply and clearly did not intend to stop. And no, don't even say the taxi driver wasn't careful. In his shoes, anybody else would also have died. The current system works because every driver trusts other drivers to follow the traffic rules. Additionally, the cab driver had no room to maneuver. So NO! The accident is in no way the fault of the cab driver, and responsibility rests solely on the Farrari driver's shoulders.
2. As one can see, the articles written on Stomp and TemasekTimes are completely biased (ie tends to wards raising a hoo-ha and anti-government respectively) and are of low quality. It worries me, cuz these two sites actually get a lot of traffic, and irresponsible reporting often leads to a lot of other bad shit. Not to mention the amount of critical thinking in the comments is really disturbing as well.
Why are they bad you ask? You want examples you say?
Count the number comments that bring in the Nationality and social status of the Farrari driver as a basis to insult him. How are these factors even relevant to his crime? Do only rich people cause traffic accidents? Do only China immigrants cause such traffic accidents? By all means accuse and rage, but kindly rage objectively, and factually.
Stomp titles their article such that it implies that the Farrari driver's family is rebellious and unremorseful for the actions of the Farrari driver, when it actuality, the family members are only protesting the irrelevant insults and untruths projected on the Farrari driver. Further, the family of the Farrari driver also experienced a loss. The Farrari driver was dear to them as well. They would naturally be upset. Can they not protest? And wrong though the Farrari driver may be, it doesn't give us the right as observers to insult and "add charges" that are clearly irrelevant to begin with.
I can't even bother with the temasektimes... sigh.
3. Immigrants are not the enemy. They are people as well, and people who've had to leave their homes to make a living. Stop placing emphasis on irrelevant things and instead spend time on bettering one self.
4. Singaporeans are a loo...ong way off from being a gracious society. Sigh at the comments... and good lord for someone to even conceive stealing when the Japanese woman was dying -.-
Alright, after that bit of black stuff, I wanna rescue this post, so...
Cutie bomb!! XD
Ok back to IU!
IU's new album's been released! She's got a super long MV this time! It's nearly half and hr >.< keke
At the End of Each Day
Full MV
There's so much footage here of IU cuteness haha. Like it ttm :D
Song only MV :)
The song's really nice! It has the same feel as Good Day, and is really energising for me. Listening to it non-stop already :)
Just one question. WHO IS THE GUY!!!? (Rumor has it~~ It's just manager oppa XD)
I actually want to end this post already, but I'll give a bonus for this post! Delved into it kinda late but, it's still something crazy that happened. :)
Not subbed by me, just something I found. 23rd April episode of KBS Hello. The crazy stuff starts at around 6 mins.
[ENG] H3LL0 Part 1/6 by shiningsalamanders
[ENG] H3LL0 Part 2/6 by shiningsalamanders
[ENG] H3LL0 Part 3/6 by shiningsalamanders
Are you like that as well? :D
Cheers,
Ray
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