If anyone hasn't seen the recent post on STOMP that disclosed several Singaporeans who've bought degrees from a 'diploma mill', here's the link.

Unable to curb my curiousity, I've goggled for some of the people and came up with a few distressing links. Let me first say that this could all be wrong and that the people I've googled and found could have worked hard for their degrees, PhDs, Masters etc - in which case I sincerely apologise - this is in no way meant to be defamatory or to injure your reputation in any way. Furthermore, I acknowledge that the people in question could already have good degrees but for whatever reasons (though this does not provide justification) decided to skip the arduous process of working for a PhD or MA or BA/BS and decided to buy one instead.

Consider this a musing of whether or not the distress of economics has compromised our values and morals to the extent where we would build a life around a lie - much more insidiously, if we would build other peoples' lives around our lie to have them believe we are who they think we are.


Ramachandran Appaswamy

Ramasamy, Ra Arjunan

Yeo Chin Thiam

Sunny Tew

Chai Cheng Sheng - Really?

PRAC

Power Rangers - Cool!. I like it especial when they get their multi-coloured asses kicked.

Killer?

Re : to Reader's Digest Advertisement showing a duckling with the words "Killer", superimposed, on its front :

No one made you eat them.

Awesome

I'm pretty sure there's a market for posters like this.

Polar Bear

But none quite as cute as Katou Rosa. MENAHMENAH! Bwahahahaha!

Stomp

The 3 resident chiou bus from Stomp.com.sg who blog and phail utterly when it comes to giving informed opinions about stuff. But who cares, they look good.

On the left we have barbie beauty (plastic as well har har!) Dawn Yeo/Yang/Yohoho and on the right we have the twins May and Sue aka Choy aka whatever-name-shes-given-on-the-chinese-version-of-the-commercial.

Notice how I strategically cut away the woman's (Xiaxue) pic on the left, mainly because it's a bit of an eyesore. Not sure why she's so popular, but to all extents of my nigh non-existant objectivity, I feel she's just a fat, airhead SPG. (she admitted the SPG part herself)

Johnny Menahmenah

I used to love Sesame Street.

Now I just think it's fucking psycho.

Credit : from http://www.somethingawful.com/

Resign

Here at Kerio15, the Ghetto for Kerio's mind, we provide you with not just crass, low bitrate pictures, we also provide you with classy entertainment in the form of cheap fart jokes and badly written letters.

Consider this resignation letter :

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Dear Sir

After much thought and no small amount of soul-searching, I have come to the conclusion that I must resign forthwith. It's not that I'm unhappy with my role as Chief De-beaker at (Company Name) but I feel that recently my role has outgrown my capacity to ignore the plight of these poor penguins.

I remember as a child watching, captivated for hours, the penguins at Bob Snarts Family Circus, Maidstone. Spellbound by their unfettered enthusiasm and dogged determination as the big cannon fired them into the safety net time after time, it struck me that I would one day work with these beautiful yet durable creatures.

Of course, when I heard of a vacancy at (Company Name) I jumped at the opportunity to fulfil my dream. I suppose I should have expected something by the fact that you are a food company, but it never occurred to me that penguins would suffer by my own hand.

It's bad enough that the public has been hoodwinked to the extent that they actually believe that McRon's Chicken Fryer is made from real chickens. Bad enough again that 90% of the British public have unwittingly eaten penguin at one time or another. But for me to assist in the cover up of such lies is no longer tolerable. No longer can I look myself in the mirror content in the knowledge that I hold the coveted "De-beaker of the Year" trophy, with over 9,000 'guins snagged in my two-month reign.

So here it ends. My story goes public and you go bankrupt. I can only hope that my example will be a "beakon" to fellow workers in this filthy industry to expose and denounce these murderous practices.

Having said that, I would stay for another £20 a week.

Yours
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From : http://www.i-resign.com/uk/home/

Faye

People who watch Cowboy Bebop are usually surprised to know that Faye is Singaporean.

Well, fyi - Faye is actually not Singaporean.

I present the evidence here :

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"Do I make you hot, baby?"

Women in Singapore are not as hot as Faye. Take it from me, I live there.