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Friday, December 09, 2005

Van Nguyen: Why the Controversy?

Alright, I decided to add onto this Van Nguyen thing.
You may or may not know who he his. If you're an Australian, you would have to know, because it's been all over the news.
He's a drug-smuggler. He was caught (unfortunately) by the Singaporean police. Now, I say unfortunately not because I bought heroin from him, but because the Singaporean police are very harsh. Van Nguyen was an Australian citizen, so he would've been treated to a fair trial if he had been caught here.
So this Van Nguyen guy gets caught by one of the cruelest nations when it comes to criminals, and drug trafficking is a serious offense in Singapore. The trial he gets goes like this.

Speaker: Mr. Van Nguyen has been caught smuggling drugs.
Judge: Die.

So the other day Van Nguyen was hung at the Changi prison. Many mourners from his Vietnamese family attended a funeral service the day after.
However,
During his time in prison, waiting to be hung, Australia was in uproar. The government tried a prisoner-exchange with the Singaporeans, but it was declined. All over the radio, and the television, and in the newspapers, there were people spewing that Van Nguyen was to be hung.
Hello? Are we talking about the same person? He was caught committing a serious crime, which is one of the major contributing factors to our country's decline. If he was willing to do the crime, he must be willing to do the time. All the people at his funeral are just bullshitting when they say he was a good person. He imported/exported drugs, for Christ's sake! You're not a good person if you commit to that business.
Honestly, I can't see why everyone has a problem with him dying. It's his fault, he should've sorted it out himself.

Thursday, December 08, 2005

First Post

Some idiots may post stupid things like "Hai, welcome to my blog lolz11!". I don't believe in that. Forget warm welcomes. Let's face it. You're here because you were intrigued, or you were mis-directed. Nobody really cares about how welcome you are to this blog, it's the Internet. Privacy is taboo.

So John Lennon's been dead for 25 years. As a member of today's youth, I have no idea who he was. So as is typical of my generation, I'm going to go and download one of his songs, and see if I like it.

Nope, not really. That makes today just like any other day. Except we lost our dog. Found him at 11pm at some ladies house. I think she wanted to keep him.
Listening to Triple M right now, an Australian radio station. If you're ever in Australia, tune into 105.1
I heard Fiji get it too, not sure what the frequency is there though. This guy called 'Spoonman' is on right now. Very opinionated. I like how he speaks. His mannerism earns him my respect, so I've placed him right up there with Maddox.

X3: Reunion is coming out. To be honest, I didn't like X2: The Threat much. It didn't captivate me as games such as Starcraft or Quake 3 and other classics do. It may have been because I didn't have a joystick, and found the keyboard controls hard to manage on such a versatile game, but with my new desktop arriving at the end of Jan. I think I'll buy one, along with a new copy of X3.

Saw the trailer of X-Men 3 today. They've ruined Beast forever. I was looking forward to seeing Kelsey Grammer, as I'm a long time fan of Frasier, but it's not his fault. The makeup homo's ruined him. I think my feelings are partially represented here: www.penny-arcade.com/comic.php
I encourage everyone to read PA by the way. Penny Arcade is one of the best webcomics I've ever read, I've been reading it since the beginning.
Another bit of web-media I've been enthralled in is Red vs Blue. I'm thoroughly considering a sponsorship so I can get all the episodes early. If you don't know what I'm talking about, Google Red vs Blue, you worthless piece of - sorry, got a bit carried away. Seriously though, if you don't know what Red vs Blue is, you've been living in an Internet cardboard box.

That's all I can think of for now. Remember kids, drugs only ruin your life.