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China covered up milk scare to protect Olympics.

AVA has instructed importers and retailers to withdraw all Malaysia—made Julie’s brand of biscuits from the shelves

Nissin Cup noodles from Japan recalled -- due to insecticide contamination. LATEST.

Looks like nothing much can be eaten these days. Used to think that it was just products from China but seems like other countries are catching up. Milk, chocolate candy, biscuits & now...CUP NOODLES. now that's serious... cup noodles are definitely one of the essential items in an NSF's bunk cupboard haha... how to pass 5 days in camp w/o them hais.... well other brands will do i suppose...Nissin Tom Yam has been my favourite for the past 3 months though.

Was reading an article about capitalism & the global financial turmoil in the Economist in camp and I was thinking... the recent string of food product scares are definitely a direct consequence of capitalism and profit maximisation... the economic concepts widely acknowledged, practiced and taught in the developed world for years. Well...we do learn about limitations and costs of capitalism but have been taught that its benefits greatly outweigh its costs. After all that has happened around the world in recent months, I feel that perhaps the negative impacts of capitalism are underrated. Human lives are lost, young infants develop kidney stones and all these covered up to create a mirage of prosperity & granduer at the Olympics. Economically sound, ethically unsound, i would say. Looks like SARS lesson hadnt been learnt apparently...

Oh well... 2008 is coming to a close, & my silbings start their December Hols. Yes yes today's their last day of school.... argh... how i miss student life... with all the student discounts/meals/holidays & of course classmates & friends. 12 Months & 15 days to ORD! Lets all hope for a better 2009 ahead!

goodness...almost felt like an Auspicium Melioris Aevi ending.... oh well read that RJ & RI are merging to well...RI. dun really know how i feel about it myself, but it didnt feel like much of a difference to me i suppose....

They don't make songs like these anymore.

'If' by Bread

If a picture paints a thousand words,
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show the you I've come to know.
If a face could launch a thousand ships,
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you,
You're all that's left me too.
And when my love for life is running dry,
You come and pour yourself on me.

If a man could be two places at one time,
I'd be with you.
Tomorrow and today, beside you all the way.
If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die,
I'd spend the end with you.
And when the world was through,
Then one by one the stars would all go out,
Then you and I would simply fly away

No. Instead they make songs like 'Dangerous' by Akon and Kardinal. That song is the worst song I've ever heard. In fact it's so bad I love to sing it. Because I know how I ruin songs when I sing it. Thing is that song can't be ruined. It's too bad. It's too dangerous. HAHAHA. Ok pardon me.