Rockmelons bounce
Discovery of the day: Rockmelons bounce.
I bought a delicious looking rockmelon home today, and 2 steps after getting off the car, it slipped from my fingers and bounced about 5 happy bounces on the pavement and into the bushes.
*sigh*
On Jack Chick’s The Little Bride
Couple charged under Sedition Act
The Straits Times
April 15, 2008By Elena Chong, Court Correspondent
A COUPLE were charged on Tuesday with distributing a seditious publication to two others.
Ong Kian Cheong, 49, and Dorothy Chan Hien Leng, 44, are alleged to have distributed The Little Bride, an evangelistic material, to Sembawang resident Irwan Ariffin last Oct 19.
They are also said to have distributed the same publication to one Madam Farharti Ahmad at her home in Woodlands on March 6 last year .
It is not clear why they face the Sedition Act and the Undesirable Publication Act when the publication is the same.
Ong, who works in a telecommunications company, and his wife, a bank employee, were represented by Mr Selva K. Naidu.
The police prosecutor sought an adjournment of the case pending a Health Sciences Authority on handwriting specimen.
The couple were freed on $10,000 bail each. Their passports were impounded.
The case will be mentioned on April 29.
Under the Sedition Act, the maximum penalty is a $5,000 fine and/or a jail term of up to three years.
The maximum penalty under the Undesirable Publication Act is a fine of up to $5,000 and/or up to 12 months.
Before you go thinking, “Oooh, harsh”, read this: (I’m linking to another blog because the original site is no longer accessible in Singapore, for obvious reasons)
I don’t know what this guy was thinking, with his ugly drawings, and less than flattering portrayals of Muslims. I’m not heavily inclined towards either religion, but I recognise a fallacy when I see one. “Poisoning the well,” as Polly called it.
On Chocolate Cakes and a birthday
You know what I like about chocolate cakes? You can’t go wrong with them.
On A Hat Full of Sky
I almost never step into a library without first heading for the ‘P’ for Pratchett section. I’ve been reading Pratchett ever since I was in secondary school, and I’ve always wondered why I haven’t found a fellow Pratchett fan who adores his books the way I do.
Anyway, I picked up this book because if features Granny Weatherwax, which surprised me, because I thought I’ve read everything Pratchett had to say about Weatherwax.
It turned out to be mildly disappointing (but still worth a read, because a Pratchett book is always worth reading) because it was more of a regular quirky fantasy story than his usual wit and obscure humour. The storyline was simple and clean, and contained none of the grandeur nor detail of his usual discworld descriptions.
I wondered if I was starting to lose touch with his brand of humour, and ran a search for the title. It turns out that this book was targeted at a younger audience, hence the simplicity in his writing.
These are dark times, and I badly need a strong dose of Pratchett humour to pull me through.
On Cod at a secret garden
I love cod, and it’s been a long time since I’ve had such a large succulent piece of cod on my platter.
The Kah Kia Kiwi 