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The Chinese communist party’s 60th year celebration (military parade) in high definition. The video is just amazing. Surreal. Whatever random adjectives. Suddenly Singapore’s National Day Parade seems less interesting. I mean look at the order they have. Everybody’s height is like the same! 首都各界庆祝中华人民共和国成立60周年大会 [720HD] 六十周年国庆大阅兵播放列表：

【六十周年国庆大阅兵 720HD】胡锦涛主席检阅三军受阅部队（高清视频）

“Greetings, comrades!”
“Greetings, commander!”
“Good work, comrades!”
“Serve the people!”

If you can’t understand Mandarin, Chinese president Hu Jintao (胡锦涛) goes around shouting something along the lines of “Greetings comrades! Comrades you have done well!”.

And watch in slo-mo and beautiful colors:

China’s 60th Anniversary national day – timelapse and slow motion – 7D and 5DmkII

The parade in Tiananmen Square to mark the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China – as seen in timelapse and slow-motion.

You know what happens when you don’t do your homework. For 10 year old Chao Qun Zheng, it was his cheek ripped off. He says, “She ripped and twisted my cheeks with both her hands and then she lifted me off the ground.” This incurred the 10 year old 52 stitches. And the teacher picked up the cheek skin and put it back on his face and instruct the kid to go home.

Angry Teacher Rips Student’s Cheek Off

On December 18th, 2008, a 10 year-old 5th grader named Chao Qun Zheng went to his elementary school in HeNan, China.

When his teacher, Guo, found out that young Zheng had not completed his homework, she flipped out.

“She was very angry at the time,” he said. “She ripped and twisted my cheeks with both her hands and then she lifted me off the ground.”

The teacher held the boy up until one of his cheeks actually ripped off and the boy was bleeding profusely.

Without hesitation the teacher reached down and picked up Zheng’s cheek skin, put it on his face, and instructed the boy go home immediately.

When the parents saw Zheng, they immediately took him to the hospital where it took 52 stitches to have his cheek sewn back on. (Source: Weird Asian News)

What cruelty.

I recently ate these 2 food that contains mild contents of melamine. I ate Julie’s Wheat Crackers and Julie’s Peanut Butter sandwich biscuit. They contain 0.7 to 0.26 ppm and 4.9 ppm to 23.4 ppm respectively. They won’t kill an adult but it sure doesn’t feel too good after I read that.

(Julie’s Wheat Crackers.)

(Julie’s Peanut Butter sandwich biscuit.)

I generally feel that no one should be panicking like my mom. She thinks the world is going to end one day due to poisons in food. I corrected her by announcing, “the world will not end due to food poisoning; we’ll just poison our environment and we all die anyway.” I smirked. She gave me a confused look. “Well,” I sighed, “never mind.”

Here’s some information disseminated by the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore:

What is melamine?

Melamine is a chemical rich in nitrogen that is used in making plastics, glues and whiteboards. It was implicated in the recent cases of contaminated milk and milk products from China.

Are milk and milk products in Singapore safe?

Milk and milk products sold in Singapore are safe for consumption.

AVA has suspended the import and sale of all milk and milk products from China since 19 September 2008. Retailers and importers have been instructed to recall these products and these products will be withheld from sale.

Local food manufacturers have also been instructed to cease the use of milk and milk products from China as ingredients. Consignments which have newly arrived or are on the way will also be withheld from sale.

Why is it that only the “Julie’s” brand of biscuits have been recalled?

As a precautionary measure, all “Julie’s” brand biscuits are required to be withdrawn from sale. This is because 12 of the 17 affected biscuits that were just detected are “Julie’s” brand of biscuits. (Source: AVA Singapore, PDF file)

Well anyway, if you do have one of these Julie’s biscuit, you are advise not to consume it, to see a full list of food that contain melamine, click on Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore’s the PDF link.

It’s been an awful weekend for me couple of days ago. I had spicy food on Saturday evening and my sore throat gotten worse.

So on the same evening, my mom bought this Chinese super-secret herbal tea prepared by the Chinese medicine hall that supposed to eliminate streptococci (okay maybe that’s just my imagination). I drank the whole bottle and felt like I was floating. It’s like one of those Willy Wonka chocolate experience gone awry.

At 9 in the evening, I was feeling really dizzy to the point I couldn’t walk straight and my tummy felt like it’s a washing machine tumbling turning all the food all over. I vomited a little and figured I should probably get to a doctor.

I went there with help. My mom was apologetic the entire journey despite my constant reassurance that it’s really no one’s fault here. The doctor went on a five minute lament on how these Chinese medicine contain so much impurities and are not advisable for consumption. I couldn’t even register what he says, he just went on and on as my head felt dizzy. He even added the dairy products incident and – erm he just hates China.

We left and my mom daren’t let me consume these Chinese medicine again.

I probably had food poisoning. I am okay now. On a brighter note, my sore throat seemed to disappear along with the food poisoning too.

• Singapore lost Table Tennis against China, it was a good match though. #
• Singapore lost but our table tennis playing still join in and sing China national anthem yay! #

Same data for the Olympics, different way of presentation:

From Sina and CNN.

At Sina Olympic front page:

At CNN Sports Illustrated:

Singapore news site, Channel NewsAsia:

Singapore rather covers Thaksin in the front page. That’s because we haven’t won any medals yet. Channel NewsAsia Beijing Olympic site talks about the Olympic spirit, the dance and some Olympic history.

Olympics is coming soon.

(Olympic torch at Samsung.)