Boeing 737 Max could still be flying

The deadly Boeing 737 Max could still be flying if the users stupidly listened to the American FAA. After pushing out the unsafe anti stalling software system as safe, and not owning up that it was the cause of the Indonesian Lion Air crash, it was still adamant that the aircraft was safe after the second crash of the Ethiopian Airline. It took another aviation agency, China Aviation Authority, to declare the aircraft unsafe and grounded all Boeing 7373 Max in China that the rest of the world realised something was seriously wrong. Despite of this, American FAA still refused to ground the Boeing 737 Max and was very unhappy that China did so.

Today, after some preliminary investigation, Boeing's CEO has officially admitted that the two crashes ending with more than 300 passengers and crew dead were due to the flawed software. Airline operators and passengers should be grateful to China's CAA for upsetting the Americans by calling for the grounding of these aircraft. If not, how many more crashes could have happened, how many more people would die flying the 737 Max?

Some responsible Americans are calling for independent checks and certifications of airworthiness of commercial aircraft. It is unacceptable for the aircraft manufacturers to self check and certify their own aircraft.  The American FAA is still in a state of denial, that there would need tens of thousands of men to do the checking and the cost would be prohibitive. So, back to square one with Boeing conducting their own checks and certifications?

Why don't the American FAA said it would take 1000 man years to do job if they are supposed to do it, then it would be more real and difficult to be landed with this responsibility and continue to do as per normal?

How reliable and trustworthy is the American FAA? Are they blinded by their American interest to allow this fiasco to continue because it involved American aircraft manufacturers? Is this another sign of the decline of the American Empire, the downing of Boeing? With so many aircraft grounded, so many orders cancelled, so many lawsuits and claims waiting in a long queue outside the American courts, does Boeing have enough money to pay or waiting to be saved by the American govt and taxpayers' money? Would Boeing be filing for bankruptcy?

Our SMTFA team at the Singapore Masters 2019

We started on a hot Sat morning and were perspiring like hell. The late showing up of our captain, Jason Wong, added to the tension as events were starting and all our number bibs were with him. No bib no race! This was unusual as captain was always the earliest to turn up, this time he was picking up a few runners, so cannot blame him. Karen was sweating away as her 5000m event was ticking away. I think she did get her number bib in time for the race.

We swiped all the 4 x 100m relays except for one when our best, the 45-49 men team raced against world masters champion Japan. We were leading by 15m at least in the last leg but their last runner, claimed to have broke the 10s mark caught up to beat Takayuki, our Japanese runner by a nose.

There were several other photo finished races. I lost my silver in the 60m dash to Salam whose nose was a big longer. He clocked 9.53s and mine was 9.54s. The gold went to Tang Weng Fei, ex national hurdler clocking 9.13s.

Charles Ang also lost his 200m silver by a whisker. He blamed it on the fact that he could have won if only he had put on a bra.

We had the cheap thrill of beating a 65 year old ex Olympian from India who participated in the Moscow Olympic and has a PB of 10.5s for the 100m. Myself and my team mate, Salam, both 69 going 70, out ran him in the 60m dash. Nice feeling.

We are still counting the medal tally and tomorrow is another day of excitement. The weather after lunch was much cooler, saved by a short downpour. And yes, lightning warning came on and the events were halted for an hour.

Fatimah Lateef was the Guest of Honour and gave a short speech about how great it was to run in the masters and all the politically correct words, about how good it was to be healthy and still able to run around in the stadium instead of being bedridden and sickness ridden. It is no joke and quite amazing to see so many seniors running around happily like children in the expanse of the stadium. Do not squander away your health, take good care of it, or you would be paying heavily trying to get it back in vain.

Big question, when would the govt give due recognition to the masters athletes for keeping themselves fit and running for the glory of the country? More than 10 countries took part in this Meet, Taiwan, Hongkong, Japan, India, Sri Lankan, Philippines, Brunei, Poland, Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia were all here.

Today is the final day and I will be running in the 100m this afternoon.

Singapore/SEA Masters Meet at Gombak Stadium on Sat/Sun

Hi,

I will be running in this meet tomorrow at Gombak, 9am for 60m dash and 3pm for 4x100m relay. Sunday I will be running in the 100m dash at 2pm.

I will be at Gombak for the whole Sat so unable to post. Will post again in the evening or on Sunday.

Cheers.

Protecting children from fake news - end results

This problem of fake news if not stopped in its path would snowball into crisis proportion given the kiasu, kiasi and kia chenghu mentality of parents. Children are most vulnerable to fake news though our daft sinkie adults are not spare either. The combination of daft sinkie adults as parents and the need to protect their equally daft children would like lead to many measures being taken to keep the children safe and sound.

The best way to insulate the children from fake news trauma is to keep them inside a bubble, carefully guarded by the parents. The how to do this is purely technical. Where can the fake news come from other than by words of mouth? TV, media, internet particularly google, blogs, facebook, emails and of course mobile phones like twitters and sms.

Daft parents are likely to keep their children away from these sources of fake news. The children would likely be carefully guided,guarded, restricted only to programmes that the parents approved, and all the mobile devices and laptops would be confiscated and only permitted to use under the watchful eyes of the adults. Properly implemented, the children would be very safe, reading only school textbooks and approved material by the parents, no TV, no radio, limited access to the internet and mobile devices.

The children will grow up like living in safe heavens, singing hymns and citing poetry, unaware of all the evils of fake news in the world, very safe and very sound. It is like children kept inside a bubble free from bacteria and viruses. No need immunization, very healthy as long as they are inside the bubble.

These children will grow up in their own sanitized world of purity, innocence and honesty, no fake news or unsavoury things to distract them from their way of life. The presence of wildlife will not be their problem. They would believe the wildlife would be just as goody goody as them. Everything they see and touch would be real and the truth, no lying, no cheating, no bluffing, no fakes.

Below is a picture of the 4 monkeys to represent our sanitized children of the future, free from fake news. They would not know there is such thing called fake news. I would not know how they would take it when faced with fake news.

Pic copied from Wikipedia.

Arrogant cowboys still behaving like they owned the world

Saw a streamer on CNA that said, 'American courts ordered Chinese banks to hand over trade documents with North Korea'. So, American courts have authority over Chinese banks and can order Chinese banks to do what they wanted? If these Chinese banks are operating in the USA perhaps they could, but if the banks are operating elsewhere, in China or other countries, what authority do the American courts have on them?

This is similar to the Meng Wanchou incident. The Americans imposed sanctions on Iran and no one can trade with Iran and they would arrest anyone, non Americans, for violating their sanctions inn other parts of the world.

Another dirty trick of the Americans is to legislate laws on relations with other countries like the Taiwan Act which says they would defend Taiwan if attacked. So they are legally bounded by their laws to defend Taiwan if China wants to take back Taiwan and claimed that they respect rule of law, or rule of outlaws!

Other countries, especially China and Russia, should also legislate laws to protect countries against an American attack and make it their legal rights to come to their defence. It then becomes their countries' laws and they are rule of law countries, like the silly Canadians.

A third trick is to go around signing military alliances to allow them to interfere in the relations of other countries as if they are the Empire and the allies are American colonies.The Americans will defend them if attacked, and part of the treaty would be to buy American weapons, and cannot buy other weapons and also to pay protection money. Don't buy American weapons, too expensive, cannot, at least must buy a few pieces but must cost big sums of money to pay the American gangsters for the protection.

When would the world denounce and break away from the stranglehold of the Evil American Empire? China should show the middle finger to the Americans for ordering their banks to obey the American courts. This kind of American hooliganism must be stopped, sooner or later.

At this very moment, this Evil Empire is planning to attack Iran and invade Venezuela and thinks this is normal, their right to start wars with other countries.

On another note, any international students that want a complete education, including experiencing shooting and killing, sign up with an American university. Experiencing the horrors of violence and being killed and running away from gun attacks are part and parcel of American education in a country that thrives on war and violence. It is in their culture, a nation of warmongers.

Any more shit political leaders dare to praise the Americans as a peaceful country, a peace loving people? These shits much have their heads checked.