well , love is blind:D.

Newspaper article 2

Friday, June 26, 2009

E headline : 13 killed in Baghdad market bombing

BAGHDAD: Iraq's main motorcycle market was hit on Friday by a bombing that killed 13 people and wounded more than 50, just four days before US soldiers pull out of cities, towns and villages nationwide.

Defence and interior ministry officials confirmed the toll and said the bomb went off in the capital's Nahdha district around 9 am (0600 GMT), as people gathered at the market on the Muslim day of rest.

The blast was the latest in a string of attacks to hit the conflict-torn nation in the run-up to Tuesday's withdrawal of American troops from Iraq's urban areas.

"People burned and bodies were thrown everywhere," said Omar Hashem, 34, covered in blood, who was accompanying a friend planning to sell a motorcycle when the explosion happened.

"At first we ran away but we returned to help the victims. Blood and body parts covered dozens of motorcycles that were completely destroyed."

Bike trader Maytham Abdelamir, 23, crying, said: "There was a huge shockwave. I saw so many people burned; others were thrown in the air. My friend was killed."

Officials from two Baghdad hospitals told AFP 54 people had been wounded.

On Thursday, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had moved to reassure Iraqis that his security forces were able to protect the population after a massive bomb killed dozens the previous day.

Wednesday's attack in a market in the Shiite district of Sadr City in northeast Baghdad was one of the deadliest this year, killing at least 62 people and wounding about 150.

"We assure you of Iraqi forces' readiness for the mission, despite some security violations, and we assure you that we are now more stable and steady," Maliki said.

He appealed to Iraqis to inform the army and police of any potential attacks, to ensure that the country did not return to the sectarian violence that blighted it throughout 2006 and 2007.

The flare-up of violence was part of "a plan that aims to awaken sectarianism, create chaos, abort the political process and prevent Iraqi people from standing on their own feet," he said.

The White House has insisted that President Barack Obama is not reconsidering his decision to withdraw troops from Iraq's urban areas.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the top US commander in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, had told Obama the Tuesday deadline would be honoured.

Asked whether Obama had any second thoughts about the pullback, or whether he had approached the Iraqi government about a change in arrangements, Gibbs said "No, no."

However, in the face of persistent violence in Mosul, commanders revealed on Thursday that a deal has been reached for US troops to stay on in some areas of Iraq's main northern city in a non-combat role.

"The Iraqi government has agreed on the stay of some non-combat troops," said Major General Robert Caslen, the senior US officer in northern Iraq.

"They will support Iraqi forces in anything they want, and they will be in five districts only, working with Iraqis."

The latest attacks mean that June's death toll from violence will top the 155 Iraqis killed in May.

A June 20 truck bombing near the northern oil city of Kirkuk killed 72 people and wounded more than 200, the deadliest attack in 16 months.

On June 10, a car bombing in the largely peaceful southern province of Dhi Qar killed 19 people.

Happy B-day --- birthday girl !

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Shandy !
you are now certified one year older then me :DD
HAPPYBIRTHDAY:D

Newspaper article 1

Monday, June 22, 2009

E headline : schools to re-open as scheduled despite H1N1 situation

Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan has said schools will re-open and the Asian Youth Games and National Day celebrations will carry on.

But recently-returned students who have travelled to affected countries will stay at home for one week before joining their classmates when schools re-open on Monday.

The Ministry of Education (MOE) will provide more details soon, added Mr Khaw.

The health minister was speaking at a news conference on Monday to give an update on the latest developments on the Influenza A(H1N1)situation.

Mr Khaw said that overall, life must continue as normally as possible with targeted control measures.

One of them would be to close a school when a significant cluster is found so as to break the transmission or to isolate a competing team from other athletes as was done with the Filipino and the Hong Kong football players.

Mr Khaw also revealed that the scientific committee, chaired by the Director of Medical Services, is effectively evaluating the characteristics and the genome of the virus.

The committee has determined that the H1N1 virus in Singapore remains identical with that in North America.

Hence, the consensus view was that the virus remains moderate-risk and Singaporeans need not panic over the development that there is now community spread in the country.

Mr Khaw is confident that almost all infected cases will be able to recover fully and that Tamiflu and Relenza remain effective against the disease.

He, however, added: "But I thought I should explain that moderate risk does not mean no death. Just like the seasonal flu, there will be some deaths. That's why we need to target the high-risk patients, especially those with underlying medical conditions and to render the best chance of a full recovery. And that is why we need to allow our hospitals to be able to focus on the high-risk cases and not be distracted or overwhelmed by hundreds of mild cases."

Among those in the high risk include pregnant mothers, people with asthma, those on kidney dialysis or on chemotherapy.

The Health Ministry intends to advise these groups of patients with direct mailers of what they can do to protect themselves.

On its part, the Health Ministry is also gearing up all its polyclinics and a few hundred general practitioners to treat suspected H1N1 cases in Singapore.

Giving details of measures to tackle a wider community spread of the influenza, Mr Khaw explained that these will be called Pandemic Preparedness Clinics or PPCs and they can be recognised by their decal to handle walk-in suspect cases.

These clinics will only refer some categories of high-risk suspect patients to public hospitals.

Mr Khaw said the Health Ministry would publicise to Singaporeans where these clinics are so they know where to seek advice.

He explained: "When the local bio-surveillance data confirms significant community spread and we need to move from containment to full mitigation, we will signal to the public to use these PPCs instead of going to the hospitals if their flu conditions are mild. And this may happen over the next few days."

The Health Minister also revealed that the government would secure adequate supplies of the H1N1 vaccine for the population.

Besides the existing supply contract with the vaccine manufacturer, Mr Khaw said the ministry is also in active negotiations with other vaccine manufacturers. The aim is to diversify the supply of H1N1 vaccines.

Concluding, Mr Khaw said that last week has been eventful in the development of the outbreak in Singapore and the ministry expects this development.

That's because June would be challenging, given the large number of travellers returning from their holidays.

But the seven-week head start in battling the virus has been extremely useful, Mr Khaw said, to allow the government to gear up its system for the community spread phase of the outbreak.

His advice to Singaporeans: just carry on with your lives normally but keep up the high standard of personal hygiene.
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Omgawd. this is bad man. and we have PSLE this year .Argh. worst of all many of my friends gotta get quarantine. Gahhhhxz.

anzi

Zaaah:D

No more supplementary class luhs . So sad.
and then there is this vote which ask us to vote whether to extend the school hollies. argh. it isn;t nice though .
well don;t know whether if i can get in SSS.
sssss.
new blogskin. i wanna change my blog address though .
shitty.
i have finished 7 books by this week . Yahss.
Bleak.the best is the ways to live forever and accidently fabulous.
i read it over and over again. Freaky right. i know.
anyway . nothing to say ler lah
ooh reply tagges.

Guihui:D : it nearly went dead though. i am just kidding :D
ZhouQuan : yup . going to . thank you for the tags.
Joyy : okay . i will relink you asap:D
♥, Shuet Hwei : ooh thanks ya:D

Back from indonesia !:D

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Wahh ! my blog . soo .... 'quiet'! :D isn't a good thing though soo . nevermind.

lets start with my happy days at indonesia !

the first day
ring! woke up at 6am . a quick wash up then i drag my feets to harbourfront.
board the ship at 8am . Early horh? i slept on the ship man .
reach there . my aunt then take us to my grandma's house.
Got a warm greeting from aunties ,uncles , nephew and on and on.
i was suprise that i got two more nephews! all of them are male .
and all of them are cute! the oldest is three years old which is call Jovett
and then then second oldest is call Rufferd then the smallest is called Gerrit
all of them are ADORABLE in their own ways !
then i went to my 4th aunt salon which is not far away . Went for rebonding my hair . my brother went there to rebond his fringe and my sister went there for softening.
quite nice luhs.after rebonding, i went back my grandma's house , my 1st aunt dont know who i am man !

the second day
Did not really did much luhs , except playing with my nephews.
and yah , rufferd , broke his record of wetting his pant that day . he wet a total of six times in the afternoon! omg .terrifying? ooh and i play lots of billard . my ahma's house have 3 billard table .

the third day
Went to my cousin , cindy's house. they are loaded man . her mother own the supermarket shop and save at balai ! her house very fun ! play here , play there , play everywhere!sat on a honda too . How exciting , i mean really its very scary.

the last day
Took loads of picture of my ahma's house and picture of the people there. it was very sad to leave them man . it was fun staying there. i miss them a hell lot! aiyo cant talk luh , gotta go tution.

and to the PARTICULARPERSON : its you who won't let the matter rest , not me . if you want to continue like this its your problem not mine. still think its my fault ? IDC. cause its you who teach me this.

Freakish.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

wahhhhhhhx .whhezzzz. Mum said that maybe going to indonesia lehhs.
then the Singapore sport school that day lehhs .
ARGH D: . how ? eeeks .

Anyways , currently in love with selena Gomez and Demi lovato songs.
:DD
la la land rocks , but this is real , this is me nicer :DD
WEEEEHS.
do finish almost all my maths home work and chinese . left with --> english.
zzz.
how ? dont know what to do.... i am hopeless
okay , maybe not.
ahahx.
nothing more to write then .
Buhbyes :D
ohh REPLY TAGGES:D

I N E Z (: : yup ? unexpected ?
MH : okay babe . relax , i am here:D
sayyhui : mama , sorry , that outing was last minute. paisei D: will make up one for you:)
I N E Z : yup . and i love the blue mons very damn much :D real cute man:)
kinderjoy: oh okay:D

Shhhessss,

Monday, June 8, 2009

ayh , i've been studying for more than two hours now .... zzz.
my mum said that i have to study three hours to watch Monster vs aliens
soo tiring:(.
ate roti prata --> yummylicious!
naw blogging this post .
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title : its very dangerous to play with er shaver. totally scary.
i play with it a few days ago .
with gillette foam. play until it scrub to hard against my skin and.....
so , xiao hai zi men , dont play with shaver !
:DD

you know what ? reality sucks.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

In my view , i find humans realistic. REALISTIC.
darn. darn , darn , darn.
friends go weird too , but only sometimes.
when people cross by a rumour about his/her friend , they rather believe in e rumour .
totally suucky right. i know .
thats what causes Friendships problems.
declarations ;
people live in a realistic place , lead a realistic life.
they believe the rumour and started , you know , spreading it.{ even if the rumour is about his/her friend} .
and when they know about the rumours, are fake . they started feeling a bit of guilty and don't know how to save this friendship . And , sometimes , this people will start to say sorry to them .
i know, cause i was one of them too . for one time.
and i find myself very you know guilty .
its sad too know that i have passerbys to spam my blog too. but i know that what they heard is different from the real facts.
soo , its not really their fault :P
please dont feel offended, cause i am making a example. okay, i am not saying about you guys:D
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and you know what ? i got into the 3rd selection of the singapore sports school.
muackks :D i am damn happy :)