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Why I liked Advertlets?
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What if Harry Potter decided to lodge a complaint against the Ministry of Magic? How would the complain letter looked like?

I was blog jumping the other day and came across this interesting article. Maybe this would be how it looked liked.

Harry Potter and the Letter of Complaint
Business Times - off the cuff

By JAMIE EE
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TO: The Ministry of Magic, Department of the Dark Arts.

CC: All in Hogwarts; All in centaur colony in the Dark Forest; All the giants (at least the ones who can read English).

Re: A complaint about the quality control of Wizarding Officers

Dear Sirs and All,

I am about to disrupt my education at Hogwarts in order to find the Deathly Hallows and launch into a fight to the finish with You-Know-Who, so this may well be my last e-mail sent to you, depending on my fate, which will not be known until tomorrow morning at Borders at 7:01 am. Hopefully, I will come away with only a stern warning.

I am using this last opportunity to issue a letter of complaint about the quality of officers in the wizarding department, especially over the control of He-Who- Must-Not-Be-Named, who has gone missing for 14 years and whose method of transportation during those incidents has yet to be ascertained. Some say he travels by portkey, but others say he uses a Mitsubishi Lancer.

Anyway, I have reported many times that he has gone missing - and sometimes I think he does it to annoy me because he always sneaks back and tries to kill me - but the officials in charge do not seem to want to do anything about it.

In fact, they do not even want to find him and seem to me to be almost afraid of bringing him to justice. This leads some to believe that he is a half-blood princeling who is able to come and go whenever he pleases.

Unfortunately, because I have brought this issue to light, I am accused of being a tattle-tale taking full advantage of the fact that I am Hogwarts principal Dumbledore’s favourite student ever.

Because of their ill-feeling towards my perceived hallowed status, they have run gleeful stories about me in the Daily Prophet, implying that I am a hoity-toity smug know-it-all. I feel that this is not fair, especially considering that I am being named while You-Know-Who remains blissfully unexposed. He is a danger to us, and threatens the very foundation upon which our society is built on.

He wants power, which in itself is really not a bad thing if you ask me, but he does it in a rather sneaky way which reminds me of other developing countries which-shall- not-be-named, but that’s another story.

So, you leave me no choice but to go after him on my own, on my Nimbus 2000 broomstick. And when I find him I am going to take him down, even if it leads to the death of more than two people whose identities again will not be known until after tomorrow.

Of course, all this leads to the inevitable question of what happens to me. Will I be killed? Will I kill You-Know-Who before he gets a chance to run off without permission again? Because I really feel like killing him. Will he take my car this time? Will my loyal followers be killed too? Will I ride off into the sunset on the back of a centaur? Will I return many years later, appointed to the wizards’ council? Will I spend my retirement years investigating letters of complaint like this?

Be patient. Come this time tomorrow, all will be revealed. Chances are the anticipation will be more exciting than the actual result but never mind. I’m not complaining.

Sincerely yours,

Harry Potter

Interesting right? Wish I had this talent in writing.

Found this video on Youtube. Quite interesting in its own way. It never fail to amuse me how talented people will be when it comes to complaining about something.

Some parts are kind of racist and vulgar. If you think you would be offended then please do not start the video.

This reminds me another video by Hossan Leong - Talking Cock in Parliment. They are both doing the same thing. The only difference, 1 with style the other, with ah beng style.

Enjoy the show.

It's tough to make a living in Singapore without having to live from pay cheque to pay cheque. As I was surfing teeming's blog, I came across this blog entry.

This guy, Pedro Sardinha is offering USD$2 for posting his free ebook "Your Easy List". It's so simple to earn that USD$2. Just visit his blog entry for instructions.

Since I got a free ebook to read and some extra USD$2 for fries, might as well share it with everyone. Personally, I had not read the book. Maybe I should sit down and read it after I finish reading the last book on Harry Potter.

Here's the url for the ebook =>

http://www.pedrosardinha.com/download/youreasylist_report.pdf

So guys/gals, do take a look!

Sorry Guys/Gals,

I'm still in the proccess of updating my blog's template. Everything is haywired at the moment. Will get it done when I get home from work tomorrow.

The final installment of the popular game Resident Evil is finally here. It's going to be release on 21 Sept 07 in the US first. It's going to be on the cinema on 11th October 2007 for Singapore. From the trailer I don't think it's going to be as good as the previous two movies. I just hope this final installment will have a ending.



Synopsis
Alice, now in hiding in the Nevada desert, once again joins forces with Carlos Olivera and L.J., along with new survivors Claire, K-Mart and Nurse Betty to try to eliminate the deadly virus that threatens to make every human being undead...and to seek justice. Since being captured by the Umbrella Corporation, Alice has been subjected to biogenic experimentation and becomes genetically altered, with super-human strengths, senses and dexterity. These skills, and more, will be needed if anyone is to remain alive.

P/S: Resource comes from Yahoo and Youtube

A leopard will never change it's spot. How true this was.

When Taiwan frees 11,000 prisoners under clemency order, how many of them could stay free of crimes? No doubt it's to ease the overcrowding in prison but were they ready to be accepted back to the society? After being jailed for so long were they ready to accept the changes in the society?

Apparently not. 200 of the 11,000 was send back to jail a day after their released. Guess they weren't quite ready for it yet.

Nearly half of the 11,000 were jailed for drug related crimes, followed by theft and fraud. Instead of setting them free, jailing them at home might be a better solution. Their movements were restricted. Mixing with their old associates were limited.

Time and time again, this saying had being proven to be the truth. No matter what ever promise they had taken, a leopard would never change it's spots. They would go back to their old ways after a day or two. Just like someone I know.

Whenever I turn on the radio or read the newspapers, there's bound to be reports of traffic accidents somewhere in Singapore. People were risking their lives whenever they travel. This made me wonder if road users knew what to do when a traffic accident happened?

It was a taboo topic not taught in the driving center. Even if the instructor did go through, the topic was not covered in detail. More time was spend teaching me how to recognise that road sign.

After I got my first bike, the insurance company did send me a big stack of papers to read through. This topic was being touched on but how many of us really did read through all that? It's a huge stack!

Here's a summary which I found it useful. The article was taken from The Automobile Association of Singapore. Basically it sums up everything.

Having lived through a traffic accident, knowing what to do really made a difference.

Advice from the doctor sure helps. Resting your tired mind not only recharge your body it also takes away negative feelings installed from bitches on the street.

Maybe I should take an apple today. Doctor's advice, "An apple a day keeps the bitch out of your life."

Experience tells me how cunning and evil human beings are. I had a first hand experience today. Without even finding out if the rumors were true, all the big guns started pointing at me.

The helpful became the victim. Even your own girlfriend wasn't on your side. Don't dwell on it. Don't start a fucking war with her "friends". I'm trying very hard not to behave like a 5 year old here. "You friend me then cannot friend her."

How I wished I was a 5 year old right now. All negative feeling would be gone tomorrow. Focus on my "real" problems.

I'm piss. The last time I was that pissed off was when some bastard stole from my bike. My whole body was shivering as I'm typing this. All the good for nothing people standing by watching the 'free' show as the wolves in skirt took this opportunity to tear me apart.

I always reminded myself that words of hypocrites weren't going to hurt me. My skin was like an armour of steel. My ears only hear words that I wished to hear. But it's always the action of those dear to me hurt me the most. I expected alot from my friends but the higher the expectation the more disappointed I was each time.

My wrath knows no bounds and burns to the depths of hell.

With the adjustment to our Goods and Services Tax, the first price hike I can think of is petrol. There's no way the drivers/riders can escape from that increase. The discount from the petrol giants are cap. All my hair are either turning white or are dropping off from the higher living cost in Singapore.

To add salt to the wound, cigarettes are getting expensive as well. A pack of 20 sticks cost $11 plus. With the smoking ban in public places. It sure make sense to stop puffing altogether. You are just burning your money away and times are getting harder right now.

$2 can only get you a burger from McDonald's nowadays. Hard to find a bowl of noodles which cost $2 in a hawker center.

1st July had come and go. What did it mean for people living in the little red dot?

It's the day where new government policies come into effect. I'm really surprise as well. It didn't occur to me that there's so many new "rules and regulations" that's coming into effect yesterday until I read it from the newspapers. Here's a 'few' of them which I think affects the major population here.

1) The Goods and Services Tax goes up from 5 percent to 7 percent.

2) The 1 percent cess on hotel and restaurant bills will be scrapped.

3) People who signed up by June 25 for their GST credits and senior citizens bonuses' will get the money. The credits are meant to offset the GST increase.

4) The smoking ban - already in force at hawker centres and restaurants will extend to nightspots.

5) Employers will put in an extra 1.5 percentage points into workers' Central Provident Fund (CPF) accounts, bringing their contribution to 14.5 percent. This increase is only for employees who earn more than $1500 a month, or who are 53 years old or younger.

6) CPF members who turn 55 will need to set aside a minimum of $99,600 in their retirement account, up from the current $94,600.

7) Half a percentage point more of CPF contributions will go into Medisave. This ranges from 6.5 percent to 9 percent with older people paying more. There is a cap of $33,000 for Medisave. Any excess will be paid back into the Ordinary Account.

8) Legal aid will be accessible to more poor people as the Ministry of Law lowers the income threshold for people to get help. Also, the director of Legal Aid will have greater flexibility to give help to applicants, especially if there are exceptional circumstances.

9) Needy children helped by The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund will get more each month. Primary school pupils will be given $35 a month instead of $30, while secondary school students will get $60 a month instead of $50. They will also be allowed to stay on the assistance scheme for up to two years, up from one year now.

10) Domestic postage rates will be increased by one cent to account for the GST increase. The domestic postage rate for standard mail (stamped and franked) up to 20g will be revised from 25 cents to 26 cents. For up to 40g, it will be revised from 31 cents to 32 cents.

11) NETS will be increasing it's administive fees from the current 0.3% - 0.55% to 1.5% - 1.9% This move have got the consumers worrying that they will have to fork out more for using NETS.

12) Allowance for our NSmen will be increase by $50. That means a recruit with a monthly allowance of $350 will be increase to $400. A Lieutenant with a monthly allowance if $1050 will be increase to $1100.

13) Starhub Cable TV is revising it's pay tv prices. I have to fork out $4 more for the basic group and extra $10 to watch my favourite team in action over at sports channel. With the GST increase, it sure hurts.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. There are still a few more which I didn't mention. With all the "adjustments" I think our little red dot will really "outshine" our neighbours.