When oil runs out in 40 years

This is what the experts said. The mineral oil reserves inside mother earth will run out in 40 years. When it happens, it will, you cannot run away from this date, anything that needs energy will kaput or will cost a bomb. In the next 40 years, some jokers wanted to stuff this island with 10m bodies, all hungry and consuming food and energy but not producing anything. Look around us, what are we producing, what is our economy doing? More shops and more shopping malls, more food courts and eating outlets. We are basically a nation that eats and consumes without producing them.
 
What will happen when oil runs out in 40 years if we have 10m bodies here? Yes, we can house them in smart homes, beautiful homes that depend on electricity and oil to function. Even the shops and food outlets need energy and oil or they will have to close down, as simple as that.
 
The desperadoes were thinking of nuclear energy until their brains got short circuited by Fukushima. You cannot live with a nuclear bomb under your bed. Nuclear energy is out of question now. Can we then hope for a cheap alternative source of energy that may not happen in 40 years while jokers continue to pump more bodies into this island and hoping for the best? The problem by then will be 10m in size, not 5m. Can we live with a 10m problem or do we want to live with a 10m problem when we can avoid it by stopping this crazy rush to the cliff?
 
What is the solution when oil runs out and you have 10m people to feed? They told you it can be done architecturally, but how to oil and lubricate the needs of 10m people?

Kiddy Stock Exchange

Parents should be happy with a stock exchange for the kids where the premium shares cost 5 cents a share and the happy go lucky shares cost 1cent per share. And to make trading cheaper and easier on the pockets of kids, the board lot should be 100 so that 1 board lot of a 1 cent happy go lucky stock will cost $1 and $5 for the premium stocks. The kids would be very happy to play in such a stock exchange.
 
The grandpa and grandma could play fund managers. Premium funds like LOL Fund will comprise of 100 premium stocks at 5 cent value per share. For the adventurous, a FBN Fund can be set up for the 1 cent and below stocks. A BS Fund will be for the ‘in betweens’ 2 cents and 3 cents stocks. Investors can come up with $500 to invest in the premium LOL Fund. You can’t invest in anything cheaper for premium quality stocks. The not so rich mama and papa can invest in the FBN Fund for a $100 minimum outlay. Of course the initial outlay for the BS Fund should be $300.
 
At these affordable initial outlays, the mama and papa can use the angpow money of their children to invest for their future. Imagine after 10 or 20 years the value of the investments could be 10 or 20 times. Actually every grandpa and grandma could be a self appointed fund manager to manage the savings of their grand children. It is so cheap to invest and very low risk some. No commission charges, no fund manager fee too.
 
By the way, FBN Fund stands for Fly By Night Fund. Make your guess for BS
Fund and LOL Fund. But for a Kiddy Stock Exchange, it is all just for a bit of fun. The grandpa and grandma fund managers can call themselves specialist fund managers and print their gold gilded cards to pass around too. Stylo ya.
It is all masak masak lah, kid’s play.

What is provocative action? - Another piece of western crap for the daft

In a Bloomberg article titled, ‘Why Sri Lanka should remain in China’s embrace’ in the Today paper yesterday, the editor wrote and commented on the reasons why Sri Lanka should continue to receive financial aid and infrastructure development from China but not without sneaking a little comment to plant a negative idea in the heads of the readers. And I quote, ‘And needless provocative actions – such as the docking of Chinese submarines at Sri Lankan ports, which Mr Rajapaksa allowed – should ceased.’
 
How provocative is the docking of a couple of submarines in Sri Lankan port? The Americans have several ships docked in Changi. Provocative? The Americans have military bases in Japan and South Korea. Not provocative? The Americans flew spy planes along the coast of China. Not provocative? The Americans flew nuclear armed B 52 bombers heading straight towards China mainland. Not provocative? The American bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. Not provocative?
 
The Americans conduct regular wargames simulating an attack on North Korea near the North Korean border. Not provocative? The Americans hacked and brought down the North Korean’s computer system. Not provocative.
 
The Indians conducting wargames in East China Sea with Japan and the Americans, not provocative? The Indians conducting wargames with the Vietnamese in South China Seas, not provocative?
 
What do you think is provocative action?

The court the new arbiter of legal fees

We have seen what happened to the Dr Susan Lim’s case when the claims for legal fees were slashed by the court on several occasions from millions to a mere $100k or roughly 10% of the original claims. And we have seen the latest in Roy’s case when the claim for $50k or thereabout been sliced to $29l.
 
And all the claims by the lawyers are perfectly legal. So a plaintiff can engage the most expensive lawyer on earth, or in Singapore, and claim against the defendant in a dispute theoretically could be no more than $1000 and claiming hundreds of thousands or millions. A very wealthy person could inflict heavy financial damages against a small guy to bankrupt him by abusing the legal system, theoretically.
 
Over billing is no crime. And the poor judges would have to play the role of a non interested party, impartial, to determine what the court thinks is the right and decent sum. And there is nothing wrong at all on the part of the outrageous claims by a lawyer. No rebuke, no reprimand, no dressing down. It is just a normal legal process. Lawyers can simply bill like Susan Lim case and let the court to do the necessary.
 
Is this how things should work?

The ‘Messiah’ has come

Where is the Messiah, the people asked. But the Messiah has come and you charged him and hung him. Nobody will want to believe the Messiah has come, even if the Messiah is standing right in front of him. Many are still looking for a Messiah riding down a beam of light from the sky, in a white horse with angels blowing their trumpets and strumming the harps.
 
The ‘Messiah’ may not have been born in a manger, but equally poor in today’s standard. There were no 3 wise men to offer him gold and incense. The angels did not appear to announce his coming. But he came. He came to spread the good news. He stood on the mound and spoke to thousands. He came to tell his truths. He will heal the sick and save the poor.
 
those who believe will know him and welcome the good news. Many have ears but did not hear, have eyes but could not see. Like the historical Messiah, he is charged and found guilty and will be hung on the stake. He will be at the stake alone. He is being accused for spreading lies, spreading false messages. His believers will cower in the distance. And the Pharisees will party to celebrate the triumph over the ‘Messiah’.
 
Will the ‘Messiah’ rise again on the third day? Will the ‘Messiah’ say that on his second coming, he will judge to separate the good from the evil, and he will judge them fairly? And then there will be a new heaven and a new paradise.
 
My apologies, but I just can’t help telling this story. It just dawns on me that the ‘Messiah’ has come. Go forth and spread the good news to all things.