LOL... love Mr Brown's sense of irony... darn funny...

I suspect most of us have this belief that earthquakes will never hit Singapore, because the Government will never allow it.

If an earthquake wanted to hit us, it would have to apply at the relevant Government agency and the agency will decide whether to approve the earthquake.

For instance, the earthquake's application may be rejected if it promotes alternative lifestyles that are against the public interest.

Question 1: Do you plan to promote alternative lifestyles that are against Penal Code 377?

Question 2: Do you plan to introduce casino gambling to the country but in a controlled manner, as part of an integrated resort?

Question 3: Do you plan to just destroy a few buildings?

If the earthquake answers "Yes" to Question 1, it would have no chance in heck to come to Singapore and shake things up, not even if it plans to have a charity concert and it is only planning to rock Sentosa.

If it answers "Yes" to Questions 2 and 3, maybe still can appeal.

In fact, if the earthquake wanted to apply to hit Singapore, it would probably have to apply online, with its own SingPass ... if it can get through the server congestion, that is.

I can imagine Singaporean parents telling their kids: "Don't worry, the Gahmen — gatekeepers of all that is true and moral — is on top of it, even earthquake also cannot befall us one.

"Just wait for the Gahmen to tell us what to do, the TV sure have one. We are not lemmings, okay? People run doesn't mean we need to run too."

Read more on TODAYonline.

Lemmings? Eh... dun pray-pray talk about lemmings... Of 1356 suicides between 2000 & 2003, only 56 are associated with gamblers. And of 100 Singaporeans, only 2 will be addicted gamblers. So there's only a 2% risk of a social problem as there's not much gamblers or a gambling problem, thus there'll be not much lemming-issue either... :P

At least 3 colleagues have asked what happened to me yesterday. Haha. Nice to know I've been missed. Was away yet again yesterday (there's a whole slew of trainings, briefings, meetings this couple of weeks) for training on one of the new systems. Module was on conversion/commutation of posts. One cluster colleague was grousing why bother to train us on this system when the posts are being outsourced anyways. Heh. But was telling him, it's these new systems that cost a few million dollars to write, a few more million to train people, then more millions spent trying to fix the bugs, discounting the time and blood we sweat TRYING to use the system that probably cause the powers above to have not enough funds and thus have to cut costs on the manpower side and thus embark on the HR-catch-solution-of-the-moment to outsource. :P OOPS! sorry, BEST source, I mean.

There's been way way way too much unsolicited thoughts on it through the mass-mails. I shall not add on to it here. Shall spend the time deleting all the idiotic emails from my inbox instead. SIGH.