hsbc women's champions - the hole swears

he came for michelle wie...
and she didn't disappoint him. on hole 17, her t-shot went into the big hole - bunker, she got so frustrated, threw her driver on the ground, and flared up ," f u c k!" at the end, she hit home +22, 2nd last of the field, with singapore's participant hogging the last place.

taiwan's yani made a -9 for her final score, missed the play-off by one stroke. the 4-way play-off was among china's feng shanshan, koreans na yong choi and jenny shin, and american angela stanford, who clinched the title after some very tense moments.

he was especially impressed with the performance of the 19-yera-old rookie jenny shin, who played precise golf all round except one mistake in her final hole. the petite lady with a calm mind and smiling face was good in all departments of the game. she lost because the hole was a bit small.

you would ask why small hole begets a loser?

simple - surely big holes beget all the experience.

who and who

finally, he got promoted.

not so much of his boss effort, by by himself.

the boss just brot him near to his boss, and let him show himself infront of him.

- the road to success is not who you are, but who you know.

do-gooders - are they?

Dear Editor
With reference the letter "Envoys state their case on Syria", I was quite perplexed to see the two envoys voiced out their protests on the editorial of ST, trying to state that indeed, their heads of state and the other heads of state who supported the UN security Council Resolution on Syria were do-gooders with no hidden agenda.
If so, please enlighten people like me on:
1. Why no word of censure and sanctions in the UN from these do-gooders on Bahrain when the regime suppressed the riots brutally with fatalities with the help of foreign troops.

2. Why no word of censure and sanctions in the UN from these do-gooders when some of the gulf countries' treatment of women is far below any human right norms?

3. "People should be in no doubt that we will do everything necessary to restore order to the streets and to make them safe for the law abiding," "This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted and defeated." Who spoke these words? None other than Mr Cameron after the London riot. What did he mean when he said, "do everything necessary... it has to be confronted and defeated...."? If the rioting escalated, would he then resort to more brutal means(even send in the commandoes, the army) to squelch the riots? And when other countries did what they thought was necessary to bring in the rioters, they were being labored as a REGIME suppressing its "innocent" people. Is there a tinge of double-standardness and hypocrisy in these different discourses?

4. The latest Koran burning incidence in Afghanistan has also incurred fatality on the parts of the innocent Afghans, the voices of censure of the insensitive act and the subsequent use of force to control the riots were feeble at best. Why?

The world is not just black and white - that I know very well. I was surprised these two gentlemen from Europe still thought that we were living in the world of yester-year, where the West exerted ideological and materialistic dominance over the East; whatever the West proposed, counted. And I was more surprised that they couldn't even restrain their urge to stamp their superiority on a local newspaper's opinion piece over a controversial(at least in this part of the world)current-affair issue. Are they expecting to be invited to write the editorial of our newspaper?

Thanks,



THE editorial ('Syria veto: No heroes, no villains'; Feb 8) described the deep international concern over the 'pogrom' in Syria. But it also accused those who castigated Russia and China, for vetoing the proposed UN Security Council Resolution, of false indignation, and went on to refer to our two countries, along with the United States, as 'self-proclaimed do-gooders'.


The resolution supported Arab League efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria and called for an immediate end to all violence. It did not impose any sanctions, nor did it authorise military action. There was nothing in the draft to warrant Russia and China's veto.


Russia and China faced a simple choice: Would they support Syrians and the Arab League or not? They decided not to, and instead sided with the Syrian regime and its brutal suppression of Syrians.


Our efforts, and those of the vast majority of the international community, to bring an end to the violence will continue. On Feb 16, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to back the Arab League's plan for a Syrian-led solution. The resolution, which explicitly endorsed the Arab League Plan, was co-sponsored by 72 countries and supported by 137 assembly members, including Singapore. Only 12 voted against.


This sent a clear signal of the international community's condemnation of the Syrian regime's actions and intention to hold to account those responsible for the ongoing atrocities. The message is unambiguous. The killing must stop immediately.


The chances of it happening are lessened by accusing those who are seeking to achieve it of false motives which only gives succour to those in the Syrian regime responsible for these acts.

Antony Phillipson


British High Commissioner, Singapore

Olivier Caron


Ambassador of France to Singapore

bishan park - a river

a river was born, out of a longkang. he witness the birth and celebrate it in the dawn of the hour. when birds herald the joy of the day and traffic drumming up the activties. when the first daylight peels open the veil of the day and shimmering water flow beckons the joggers....

friends, you are so fortunate to be that early bird who wakes up from a sweet dream, into another...

to school - yesterday

to school
to shcool
she goes
bag on back
thinking of recess
what a joy
to continue
playing the
hopscotch

air show - drone pilot

estimated wrongly the time taken to reach the airshow, was late for 45 minutes when he arrived, only managed to see one or two air show demos. many people, queues everywhere, for bus, for entrance, for taking pictures with the people attending to the exhibits, for food and drinks. not much different from the last couple of times which he attended. he heard a small kid asked his father, "pa, i want to be a pilot when i grow up, where to learn how to drive an airplane?" "fighter plane or passenger plane?" "fighter plane, of course." "then you join the military air force." "how to join?" "eh... you first join the army." "how?" "when you are 19, you will join army, if you are good, they will let you join the air force." "hmmm... i'm good. i can fly the fighter plane with no problem." "you can?" "yes, i play air-battle in my computer everyday.