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Hi, Any ideas where i can watch or buy old episode of the entertainment show city beat hosted by wang jian fu? That time no youtube leh..keke thanks.

-> isn't the sentence is too light ? -> how to judge between beating red light and not able to keep a proper lookout even with witness April 18, 2009 Shin Min editor gets a day's jail, $2k fine 1 1/2-year jail term for dangerous driving reduced upon appeal By Selina Lum IT WAS a day of twists and turns for a newspaper editor in the High Court yesterday as she saw her 1 1/2-year jail term slashed to a day and her $12,000 fine reduced to $2,000. Lim Hong Eng, the 56-year-old executive editor of Shin Min Daily News, was in court to hear the outcome of the appeal against her sentence for knocking down and injuring a motorcyclist and killing his female pillion rider. The appeal against her conviction was rejected, but the 1 1/2-year jail term dealt by a lower court was cut to a day's jail and a $12,000 fine on two charges. Then, later in the morning, defence lawyers and the prosecutor ran some checks and realised there had been a sentencing error in one of the two charges. The mistake was for the charge of causing death by dangerous driving, for which she was jailed a day and fined $10,000. The Road Traffic Act does not make a provision for a fine for this offence, only jail time. So it was back to court after the lunch hour. Justice Choo Han Teck set aside the $10,000 fine but did not increase the jail term, saying: 'In the circumstances, it will not be right to increase the custodial sentence to the detriment of the accused.' He made it clear, however, that this was a one-off case and was not to be used as a sentencing precedent. Lim will thus only have to go to jail for a day for the charge of causing death by dangerous driving, and pay a $2,000 fine for the other charge. Her counsel Subhas Anandan later told reporters that his client will donate $10,000 to charity. Lim was driving along Whitley Road towards Orchard Road on Dec 24, 2006 when she crashed into a motorcycle travelling down Dunearn Road. The motorcyclist was flung off the bike, as was his pillion rider, an Indonesian maid, who later died from her injuries. Lim ran up two charges - that of causing death by dangerous driving and of causing grievous hurt by a rash act. She contested both. Eyewitness testimony suggested she ran a red light, but she insisted she did not know that the lights were against her. Convicted after a four-day trial and given 1 1/2 years in jail, she appealed. Mr Anandan argued at the appeal that she did not know the lights were red and that she had not intended to beat them. Yesterday, Justice Choo, in rejecting Lim's appeal against her conviction, said the driver's intention was relevant only when it came to sentencing, and that the lower court was right to find her guilty of causing death by dangerous driving. He also noted that even the prosecution conceded that Lim did not intend to ignore the lights. The trial judge had found that her mistake lay in her failure to keep a proper lookout, which did not merit a harsh jail term. As for the charge of causing grievous hurt by a rash act, Justice Choo said Lim's conduct was more negligent than rash, so he amended the charge, as suggested by the prosecution, to one of dangerous driving.

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Was travelling along commonwealth ave west towards clementi. Turning right towards clementi road. The go straight light turned red. Green arrow came on. Took the go straight/turn right lane. Signal on. crossed stop line. Red light camera flashed once. very bright blue flash.. even after flash, green arrow not even flashing yet. So still can go. So do i need to prepare an appeal letter liao? Maybe my wheel touch the sensor or something. Anyone experience before this?

""The layoffs, equivalent to about 18 percent of its workforce, came even as the company chalked up its sixth consecutive year of record sales and revenues in 2008."" http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090126/tts-...ll-972e412.html why so many years of good profit can't even help those companies weather the storm which began less then six months ago...is this just an overdo trying to prepare for the worst which yet to come? Or something had gone wrong with the accounting for the past six years? Or over expansion of business without expecting this bad time to come so all this company are actually living on credit?

Wtf were you doing man? Luckily I could brake in time or else i will hit your damn car.. Were you dreaming or what? My side was green for quite long already and you were stationery at the junction. Suddenly, you moved forward.. Fortunately also, there werent any cars behind me other than a taxi at the next lane, he too was also shocked at your action. If you are drunk, dont drive, if you are sleepy, get enough rest.

Last evening around 7.45pm when I was on my way back home this bloody cabby beat the red light during heavy downpour!!! I came from Jalan Boon Lay towards the direction of Jurong Pt, this cab came from opposite direction and cheong red lights even after my lights had turned green for a good 1-2 sec. As it was raining very heavily I did not move off immediately after it turned green if not i would had involved in an accident.

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I'm not sure whether have this been discuss before.... can't find any thread. For those junction with right turning pocket, and there's a lane cater for right turning as well as go straight, if the straight going light already turn red and green right turning arrow is on, those car who is on this lane go straight, will it trigger the camera? (of course provided opposite direction no car turning left as well, else I dare not imagine the consequences )

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Can we win another Olympic medal since Tan Howe Liang lifted silver in 1960? Feng Tianwei, 21 as underdog beat World no. 1 Zhang Yining. She was from China junior squad 3 years ago and trained with the best in China. 2000, in bronze showdown, Jing lost. 2004, another bronze showdown, Jiawei lost in the Athens. Now we got the best ever chance in 2008....

from stomp. self explanatory. http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/viewPost6646.aspx

source: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,...,145791,00.html? THE high-tech anti-theft devices in his Mercedes-Benz were supposed to foil car thieves. Click to see larger image Mr Low Tek Chai, who was married, had three children. But that wasn't enough to save the life of a a Malaysian limousine driver yesterday. Mr Low Tek Chai, 46, was bashed to death in Kuala Lumpur by three men who became furious after their attempt to steal the vehicle was thwarted by the 'smart' car. At 5.40am yesterday, Mr Low drove his limousine to a Jalan Gombak petrol station to pump petrol, reported the New Straits Times. A Proton Perdana then stopped at the pump beside his. Sentul deputy OCPD Supt Zainuddin Ahmad told reporters: 'Three men in their late 20s got out of the Proton. 'Suddenly, one of them attacked the victim repeatedly, causing him to bleed and fall to the ground.' 'The attacker then drove off with the victim's dark blue Mercedes while the other two suspects fled in the Proton Perdana.' STUCK After about 50m, the limousine stopped, thanks to its anti-theft device, reported China Press. The doors locked and the man inside had to smash a window screen to get out. Click to see larger image The limousine he drove that day. -- Pictures: CHINA PRESS The men were unable to re-start the car because a special microchip and the car owner's fingerprint were needed to do so. DRAGGED HIM BACK They then went back to the petrol station and dragged the near-unconscious Mr Low - whom they had left lying in a pool of blood on the ground - back to the Merc. They tried to make him deactivate the anti-theft device, but they were unsuccessful. Enraged, they started hitting Mr Low again and carried on until he was dead, reported China Press. They then pushed his body into the back seat and left. Witnesses said that the entire incident took about three minutes and that no one had helped Mr Low because the robbers were armed. Click to see larger image The blood-stained scene at the Kuala Lumpur petrol pump where Mr Low was set upon and beaten. Mr Low, who was married with three childern - two sons and a daughter - worked for a private firm driving people to and from KL International Airport. His wife, with relatives by her side, was at the mortuary yesterday morning to identify his body. She told China Press that her husband had left the house for work at about 5am and that she got a phone call about his death not long after. Supt Zainuddin said that the police had closed-circuit TV recordings of the incident, but the footage was not clear. He also said that the police had classified the case as murder and were investigating whether the motive was revenge.

http://www.mycarforum.com/forum/General_C1...ANOT_P1593742-2 Ref to post #39 ... Apparently It Can, as claimed!!!

15 year old Toyota Soarer. Parked outside on the street, washed only at "Carlovers". Brush swirls were obvious. I gave him some advice but not much he can do as he can't wash at home. Also plenty of etched watermarks, bird bomb etchings and even clearcoat failure. What we did: Wash and rinsed Clay (goodbye to an entire clay bar) I advised the owner that I would have to polish quite aggressively to remove all the scratches and swirls but with the cc failure it wasn't necessarily a good idea. He said to go ahead anyway, if he needs to re-paint then he might as well find out sooner rather than later. So ... SSR3 w/ Edge Yellow @ 1200rpms (rotary) SSR2.5 w/ W-8006 on the orbital #21 OCW PB Trim Restorer on trim Mothers FX spray wax on wheels 4* UPPS on exterior glass Looks like sanding marks on the bootlid and lack of gloss: Hood shot in the sun: Immediately after polishing steps, flake is popping now: Another before, oxidised paint and headlights: After polishing steps, SSR2.5 w/ 4" foam pad on drill attachment for the headlights, paint depth and clarity is much better: All done. #21 for protection and OCW for added depth and wetness: Was the first time I'd used the Edge pads. I still think they're costly but it was worth it. Being perfectly centered everytime, controlling the rotary was like a dream.

Read from the latest Wheels mag. Seems like the 1.8L Optra edge out the Altis 1.8 in the "Thailand Car of the year 1.8" The author mention that the Optra weak link is the brakes (as usual), and the Yokohama tyres...

Mazda RX-8 v VW Golf R32 ew new cars have laid it on the line as frankly as the Mazda RX-8. It's tempting to think of it as a cautious diffuser of ideas, meticulously smudging the lines between saloon and coupe, purist sports car and executive smoothie. Its pitch smacks of contrived ambiguity. But it might just be one of the great doubt-free zones of recent times. If you buy an RX-8 you're not buying some bogus genre-bender, the reasoning goes, but an alternative mindset. Leave the ludicrous attribute-fusing to the 'motro' and oh-so 'spafe' Nissan Micra, the RX-8 really is radical: aesthetically, conceptually and propulsively. And that's a stroke of genius straight off. The RX-8 isn't just the world's only rotary-engined car, it has no direct rivals at all. Does this make it an outcast? In a sense it does. But it also means it will be gatecrashing some of the best parties in town. Few BMW 325i drivers can have given a thought to what it would take to get them inside a Mazda showroom. They will now. Audi TT owners, too. And aspiring Nissan 350Z pilots. Even the hardcore hot hatch brigade. The RX-8 isn't mucho-macho, but how can you ignore 228bhp at 8200rpm, a 9400rpm red-line, a shape that makes even the Alfa 147 GTA's look straight-laced, and backward opening rear doors with more kerbside theatre than a row of Merc SLs in hood stow mode? You can't. And, at