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is this a sign that battery about to die? happen to my ody twice. or some sort of auto self regulating mechanism when car is too hot

I have to SALUTE this lady. This is not the first time she is voicing her concern towards those managing our country. 3 CHEERS TO YOU Ms CATHERINE LIM. http://sg.news.yahoo.com/pap-is-incapable-...herine-lim.html

pretty amazing but sad animal story. ----- Mother bear kills cub and then itself Friday, Aug 05, 2011 The Chinese media has reported on an extraordinary account of a mother bear saving her cub from a life of torture by strangling it and then killing itself. The bears were kept in a farm located in a remote area in the North-West of China. The bears on the farm had their gall bladders milked daily for 'bear bile,' which is used as a remedy in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It was reported that the bears are kept in tiny cages known as 'crush cages', as the bears have no room to manoeuvre and are literally crushed. The bile is harvested by making a permanent hole or fistula in the bears' abdomen and gall bladder. As the hole is never closed, the animals are suspect to various infections and diseases including tumours, cancers and death from peritonitis. The bears are fitted with an iron vest, as they often try to kill themselves by hitting their stomach as they are unable to bear the pain. A person who was on the farm in place of a friend witnessed the procedures and told Reminbao.com that they were inhumane. The witness also claimed that a mother bear broke out its cage when it heard its cub howl in fear before a worker punctured its stomach to milk the bile. The workers ran away in fear when they saw the mother bear rushing to its cub's side. Unable to free the cub from its restraints, the mother hugged the cub and eventually strangled it. It then dropped the cub and ran head-first into a wall, killing itself. Many TCM practitioners have denounced the use of bear bile in their treatment as there are cheaper herbs and synthetics that can be used in its place. Bear bile is traditionally used to remove 'heat' from the body as well as treat high fever, liver ailments and sore eyes.

http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews...510-277985.html By Karen W Lim SINGAPORE's outgoing Foreign Minister called for a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday 11am to receive questions from the media for the first time since his electoral loss. George Yeo thanked the press for waiting a couple of days for him to rest before meeting him. #sgelection #singapore Regrets? "I wish I had a mandate from the people of Aljunied to be a strong advocate of transformation of the PAP. But I don't," said George Yeo. Self-reflection within the People's Action Party? The PAP should take a hard look at itself.. Soul searching, and why was there this resentment against the govt: George Yeo. #sgelection On Singapore's youths Many young ppl have stepped forward to help me. It is not good that so many of them feel alienated from the Singapore they love: George Yeo Win back Aljunied? George Yeo: "Many asked me to stay on to win back Aljunied in five years. I told them it is better for a younger person to take on the task. ...I'm already 57 years old and would be 62 by then", said George Yeo at a press con now. #sgelection #singapore

http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=3204580 http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._5521627_n.jpg fakeMOE: PAP trying to ride on the popularity of fake parody accounts, e.g. us, this #SGElections? http://t.co/9X8BWIY Seriously #sgfail. #sgedu ETA: Jane Ngoh who was the third "person" to post http://i54.tinypic.com/4s0fbd.png Jane Zhang: Zhang Liang Ying 张靓颖 http://i54.tinypic.com/v4v76w.png Jian Lnew, the fourth "person" to post http://i56.tinypic.com/14y07k0.png http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_O6_UTsKpb2...52813%2529.jpg Alexandra Chiang, the seventh "person" to post http://i52.tinypic.com/208czk8.png http://i54.tinypic.com/2z729ti.png Just in case fakeMOE's image gets removed, view the pic below:

More fast-food joints offer healthier choices, says HPB By Satish Cheney, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 04 August 2008 2131 hrs SINGAPORE: The Health Promotion Board (HPB) said on Monday that more fast-food joints in Singapore have come up with healthier offerings as part of its Healthier Dining Programme. So far, 73 restaurant outlets have come onboard, including Subway and Saybons outlets. The HPB said these healthier options are generally lower in fat and salt, and serve generous portions of fruits and vegetables. This initiative rose out of concern that Singaporeans are spending more on fast-food, according to the 2003 Household Expenditure Data. The HPB said the data also showed that cooked food budget for each Singapore family has doubled between 1982 and 2002. - CNA/yb http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stori...364859/1/.html after the national day beedeo fiasco, this is the next ultimate wayang. 太丢人现眼， 用别人的屁股当金贴在脸皮。 dun they know subway has been advocators of nutritional food for donkey years before their shameless food programme was even set up??? so will they next say they invented fastfood just like koreans invented curry?

wasn't sure to put this in motorsports or anywhere else but i reckon it shld belong here long article but the gist is in RED -------------------------------------------------------- Me and my passport MARCH 18, 2008 BY JOE SAWARD http://www.grandprix.com/gt/gt20132.html My passport is a bit beaten up. It has done 10 years of hard labour, and has been to almost as many exciting places as I have. Every page is filled with stamps and visas, which is impressive in these days of Europe "sans frontieres". The photograph of me looks like me, but I was just a little skinnier then, without as much grey hair. The old passport runs out in May, and it was looking forward to having its corners clipped and to living quietly in retirement in a drawer with its predecessors. Its only job in the future is to act as a reminder of the things that we did together along the way; a prompter for memories of the good times. Thinking back, I seem to recall that my passport's immediate predecessor had its career cruelly cut short when some officious diplomatic twerp refused to issue a visa because there was no page left unsullied. The country concerned would only put its precious visa stickers on virgin passport pages. And so I had to get a new passport ahead of schedule. I reckon that I have done pretty everything one can do wrong when travelling. I had been to the wrong airport on the right day, the right airport on the wrong day. I had even done the wrong airport on the wrong day. I once left my entire suitcase behind when setting off to a Grand Prix. I have forgotten everything at one time or another: toothpaste, underwear, sunglasses, you name it. On one famous occasion I even managed to leave a press room in the middle of the night after a race, without taking my computer. I have also forgotten to take the address of the hotel at which I am staying. I thought I had done it all. My piece de resistance was to have bumped MYSELF off an aeroplane. It really is very simple. You just buy a ticket for a plane and then forget you have done it. Later you try to buy another and discover that there are no seats left. You have to book a different flight the day before you want to travel. All that is then left to do is to discover as the plane takes off that you have a ticket for the flight that you wanted to be on but can now never use. Brilliant. What is there left to do? When I leave home, I chant my little mantra: "Tickets, passport, money, racing pass". If one has those four items, everything else is replaceable. And yet, after the Australian GP, I discovered that my education is not yet complete. I was bound for Singapore with an invitation from the organisers of the forthcoming Grand Prix to visit the city and see the track. The Singapore government had figured out that that it might capture a few F1 journalists on their way through from Australia to Kuala Lumpur, and that we could do some promotional work for them. Why not? The problem was that some passports are more valid than others. In George Orwell's "Animal Farm" the ruling pigs decide that "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" and, apparently, this is true of passports as well. A valid passport in Singapore is only really valid if it has more than six months to go before retirement. If there is under six months to go "on the clock", they will not let you in. That made me laugh when they told me the news at Melbourne's tunefully-named Tullamarine Airport. I explained to the Singapore Girl behind the desk that it was a self-defeating policy to invite someone to your country and then not let them in, but she was "only following orders" and so the plane went off without me. What the hell, I thought, it is all good column material. If they don't want free promotion, I am not going to fight them. So I spent the rest of the day enjoying the delights of the British Consulate, which was very efficient. Six hours after my interview with Singapore Airlines I had a new passport, had had a decent lunch and a bit of a snooze, and I was only waiting for Europe to wake up to find a flight to get me to Kuala Lumpur in time for the big event. Singapore was history. With a day to think about it all, I concluded that the journalists who travel the world with F1, often paying their own bills, are little more than promotional men for the racing. We do it because we love it, not because we make vast profits. What keeps us going (apart from the fact that most of our friends inhabit this mobile village) is that we have a passion for the sport. We want to see it become as successful as is possible. We want it to be fair and, more than anything, we want the world to look at F1 in a positive way. Sometimes that means that we must criticise. We write things that appear to be negative, but really we are trying to make it better. Things do not change if people say nothing. People do not always agree on what is good and bad for the sport. We all believe different things and sometimes those beliefs are in conflict with one another. But let us not forget that it is the passion that binds us all together. The other day I was asked to make a speech about Formula 1 to some erudite folk in Melbourne. I thought about it long and hard and concluded that, when one boils it all down, those of us who join the F1 trails are doing what every kid dreams of doing. We run away and we join the circus. There are lions and there are clowns, but it's the greatest show on earth, sprinkling its pixie dust wherever it goes.

The new Toyota Camry beside its predecessor. Against the likes of the Honda Accord (Euro version), Subaru Legacy and Mazda 6. If u ask me, the Camry looks pretty beefed up against its competitors - muscular even. But that's because the pictured new Camry is kitted. Expect the one landing our shores to be a little more understated. But it'd be bigger and more muscular than before nonetheless.

My gearstick snaps back to neutral on 4 occasions. Only happens when I am in 4th gear. Any gives?

Hi all - I recently came across some possibly troubling news (or rumour) that VW Asia is considering increasing the price of the lesser known VAG members with the hope of cutting down the cited competition with the Bora (Word is that for every Toledo sold, VW looses out selling a Bora, which, IMHO, for a market like S'pore, is crap as the two compete against different competitors). Anyone out there able to confirm this ? It's be very sad for Toledo hopefuls like myself, tho', if this turns out to be true.....