is it just me or is the news just getting really really disturbing?

these just heard on Channel News Asia...

"given Singapore's success in banning chewing gum, Asian health ministries in the region are looking at Singapore to take the lead in banning smoking altogether in 10 years time"

goodness... this is disturbing... our Core Competency is not timber, mining, biotechnology or Corss Stitch even... its BANNING THINGS!!!

I wonder how this is going to transpire though...

I can just picture the war cry now (think Braveheart or rather BraveLung):

"Come on guys! If we can ban chewing gum WE CAN BAN ANYTHING!!!!"

Meanwhile in the background the token inflated figureheads oops... mascots do their thing.

Sharity Elephant pulls a terminator and slices open his chest to show the real reason why he got decommisioned other than the fact that he was pink and kinda gay...

LUNG CANCER!! scary right?

Knowing the immensely talented pool of costume designers in Singapore though, the lung cancer will somehow strangely look like a Mcflurry mixed with ketchup and bbq sauce got split on his chest during lunch...

Next headline:

"Sharity Elephant eaten to death by fat children in Famine Camp, obesity in schools banned"

wtf.... we can ban anything my ass...

Anyway, the other piece of news that was quite disturbing...another IPC/charity in trouble apparently.

"Society for the Visually Handicapped has its IPC status lifted until it improves its governance... Spokesperson for the Ministry says " bet they didn't see that one coming".

ok... the second part was false. If you laughed though, you are burning in hell together with me. That said, singapore is fast becoming the land of impossible standards. Pri One kids now have to write compositions, I remember that in Pri One, having a kid next to me who was TOILET TRAINED was a big deal already... and you tell me they now flush too... wah... Anyway I couldn't help but think how unreasonable these people were: Corporate Governance? blind already how to do paperwork?

the evening news is just really really disturbing...

leave the world behind

Just caught Quidam on a rainy saturday afternoon. I love Cirque, it just screams pure and simple... come in here and leave the outside world behind. Pity the prices are out of this world too though... 250 bucks for a paper mache mask for instance. Cirque is also not a place to go to feel good about being fat and unfit. Everyone there is in such great shape its... well... surreal... for lack of a better word. Perhaps that is exactly why we call it escapism.

So there i was fat and unfit in a crowd of similarly unfit people munching on an overpriced hotdog in a seat that my pri school cousin couldn't fit into, gazing in awe at the antics of a group of majorly talented fit people. Anything wrong with the picture? Maybe that is where the fat skinny divide will end up. Slim people will belong in the circuses and fat people will belong on the stands which are nearer to the hotdog stalls. I knew there was something freaky about being slim.