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Now that I’m officially a prominent blogger – surely being the only blogger to have sunk a ship makes me at least as prominent as Yamamoto or Dewey (I sunk a registered ship, mind you, not some anyhow sampan) – I’ve realised that, soon, PR companies will start handing me ang-paos (for luck) to say nice things about their products.

I’ve decided to start the ball rolling by writing about the good experiences I’ve had with entirely random things. The PR companies will thus know that I am capable of showcasing their product – whatever it may be – in a favourable light.

Hypothetically, a favourable review from someone who has publicly confessed to being open to “incentives” might, instead, cast the company as being one that pays people to say good things about them. This could be terribly negative, even scandalous, should the bacteriosphere decide to pick up on it and harp endlessly about the lack of ethics of such a company. In such a hypothetical, totally unexpected scenario, I suppose, theoretically, seeing as you can’t exactly sue someone for saying good things about you, the companies involved might want to – oh, I don’t know – pay that someone to stop. Strictly hypothetically, of course. Even more strictly hypothetically, that amount had better be generous, generous enough to get an otherwise upright person to participate in such morally questionable behaviour as being paid not to blog, and generous enough for that someone not to blog about not blogging about it (the infinite regression of this theoretical situation – the “buying silence on buying silence loop” – gives you a vague idea of the kind of generosity involved).

River HongBao 2009

The River HongBao 2009 was the best event I have never attended!!!

It was totally awesome. It was held on the Floating Platform. The Floating Platform was developed by Singaporean scientists, to make the most out of Singapore’s limited land. Because Singapore is a tiny little red dot, a veritable red nano, land is very important to the Island City (“nano” means so small that conventional microscopes cannot detect it, it’s sort of the reverse of “googol”).

The floating platform was thus created to make “land”. Larger than a soccer field, it floats 6.75m in the air, and is tethered to the Singapore Flyer.

When we arrived at the Floating Platform, we were greeted by friendly “greeters” – beautiful young women dressed in traditional Chinese clothing. They wished us well as we ascending the 88 steps to the platform itself. It was very crowded.

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Traditional Chinese Girl

There was a huge statue to the God of Affairs of the Home (Jia Si Shen), who is especially venerated by Chinese during the Lunar New Year. All Chinese dutifully kow-towed to him three times as they walked passed the 16m-tall statue, with the more fervent kissing his feet.

The fearful note that, should the God be angry with you, you will be visited by a mischievous imp, a bearded fellow in a sarong who limps about, climbing through toilet windows!


God of Affairs of the Home
(Artist’s Impression)

Of course, I did not want to invite bad luck, and I kissed his feet many many times and told him how handsome he looked and how grateful I was that he looked out for all our needs this past year, keeping us safe from terrorists, investing our monies wisely to protect us from recession and keeping us in milk1 and honey.

After we had genuflected to the God, we made our way to the Grand Stand. Now that I’m a legal entity, I was allowed to take a seat with real people (wow), and me and my companion managed to get a seat with a good view. The show was about to start!

It was the best show that I have ever seen! It was spectacular!

The show was directed by renowned director Zhang Yimou, and he did a marvellous job.

Here are some pictures I took of that day.

Yao Ming Tiananmen Gate Beijing 2008 Olympics torch relay.

Drummers at the Swimming Competitions

I feel so lucky and blessed to have been able to not attend the River HongBao 2009! And I look forward to not attending the next one!

On a mildly related note, this is the first line of Mr Wong Kan Seng’s bio on cabinet.gov.sg.

Born and raised in Singapore since 1946, Mr Wong Kan Seng…

Turns out, before 1946, Mr Wong was born and raised elsewhere. This, to me, is a matter of grave concern (or, possibly, cradle concern). Perhaps Mr Wong might like to address exactly where else had he been born or raised?

Or is this simply an example of the supermortal status of Mr Wong, who is but the current incarnation of a long line of Buddhist Masters?

If so, does he have a reincarnation license?

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