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![]() SINGAPORE (AFP) - – A Singaporean man has gone on trial charged with murdering his 23-month-old daughter in a fit of rage after he caught her playing with his cigarettes, court officials said Tuesday. Sallehan Allaudin, 26, is accused of fatally beating his daughter Nikie in January ahead of her second birthday, causing her to die of a ruptured vein. If convicted, he could face death by hanging. The High Court was told Monday that Sallehan, who had just returned home with his wife with a present for Nikie, went berserk after seeing the toddler had torn up and scattered his cigarettes, the Straits Times reported Tuesday. Sallehan has pleaded not guilty to the charge. His wife, Rozanah Mohamed Yusoff, 24, used a mannequin to show the court how Sallehan allegedly kicked and stomped on their daughter in the kitchen, the newspaper said. The couple, who have two younger daughters, called for an ambulance when Nikie started bleeding from the nose, but she died of her injuries, according to the report. "I did not go into the kitchen to stop my husband as I thought that was the way he wanted to discipline Nikie," the wife was quoted as saying by the newspaper. I think it is still safer not to smoke, it depletes yr health, and u may die due to smoking! another news: Witnesses reported seeing passengers jump from the bus as it ploughed through the busy streets, pushing several cars along at a time. Nineteen cars were crushed by the end of the drama and four people left in hospital. One commuter's brush with death is captured on camera in agonising detail. At first he is pictured walking calmly across a busy street in front of several cars which appear to have stopped at lights. But the man - dressed in a smart dark suit and with a briefcase - quickens his pace slightly as a large bus looms at the top of the picture. Then, with the bus showing no signs of slowing down, he breaks into a panic-fuelled dash to the other side. The speeding bus crashes into the line of cars and misses the pedestrian by inches, before continuing on at breakneck speed. More video footage - filmed in the Russian city of Perm - shows a junction functioning peacefully with cars and trucks sharing the highway. But then, from the right, two cars appear at high speed - followed by the out-of-control bus which is pushing them along. Photographs taken later show the bus finally at rest after mounting a raised plaza in the city centre. The wreckage of other vehicles can be seen strewn nearby. Other pictures show forlorn motorists standing next to their battered cars in the street The clip was filmed on Monday and has been posted onto the video-sharing website YouTube. nothing to say bout this. another news! MANILA - Facebook users beware. Psychologists are now probing a new kind of addiction called Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD). Psychologist Dr. Michael Fenichel, who has published numerous writings on FAD online, describes it as a situation in which Facebook usage "overtakes" daily activities like waking up, getting dressed, using the telephone, or checking e-mail. "The amazing thing is that, like cellphones, nobody seems to notice the vast amount of time and energy - at work, at home, and now while on the move - people are devoting to Facebook. It has become a given," Fenichel writes in an online post titled "Facebook Addiction Disorder- A New Challenge?" FAD could be classified under the more broad "internet addiction disorder" or internet overuse. Academic papers have already posed theories on internet addiction and social networking addiction, and even less, cellphone addiction. "Like most activities, moderation and integration are key. Those that may seriously label and treat FAD as a behavioral addiction will clearly need to use context in determining if a behavior has become demonstrably harmful to overall social, work, or face-to-face interpersonal efficacy," Fenichel added. You are a Facebook addict if... According to Joanna Lipari, a clinical psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles who was interviewed for a CNN report, here are some signs that you are addicted to Facebook: 1. You lose sleep over Facebook. When using Facebook becomes a compulsion and you spend entire nights logged on to the site, causing you to become tired the next day. 2. You spend more than an hour a day on Facebook. Lipari said it is difficult to define how much is too much when it comes to Facebook usage, but that an average person need only spend half an hour on the site. 3. You become obsessed with old loves or exes you reconnect with on Facebook. 4. You ignore work in favor of Facebook. This means you do not do your job in order to sneak time on Facebook. 5. The thought of getting off Facebook leaves you in cold sweat. If you try going a day without Facebook and it causes you stress and anxiety, this means you need help. According to the same report by Elizabeth Cohen, Senior CNN Medical Correspondent, Facebook addiction is not yet an actual medical diagnosis. However, the report notes that several therapists in the United States have noticed a rise in the number of clients who get hooked on social networking, to the point of social dysfunction. Facebook fun Facebook, launched by the world's youngest billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, has over 300 million users worldwide, half of whom log on to the site every day. Further, about 2 billion photos and 14 million videos are uploaded on various Facebook pages a month and about 6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook a day, worldwide. According to Willis Wee, founder of the social media and marketing blog Penn-Olson.com, this is twice as much time that people spend on Google. The global social networking website allows users to post and share content (like photos, links, videos, and notes), play casual games and applications, and interact with friends and family through messaging and chat. abs-cbnNEWS.com. With reports from CNN.com. lol. sometimes, even if u rlly wanna communicate with ppl u dunno, it is still safer not to under some circumstances. another news again.. Local actor Mark Lee recently traveled to India to film the new Channel U variety programme, Singapore Flavours. He was originally supposed to head to England but due to a clash in schedules, he had to swap destinations with actor Chen Hanwei. The comedian jokingly commented, "I am such an 'in' person, am I suitable to go to India? Chen Hanwei's so tanned - he should be going to India instead!" His experience in India turned out pleasing. He shared that Singaporean cuisine is very popular and well-received in India. He also discovered that the owner of the restaurant where they filmed is a fan of Singaporean food and plans to open a hawker center in India. The restaurant owner even invited Mark to be a shareholder of his new food and beverage business venture. The businessman was born in India, but has family roots in China, and belongs to the fourth generation of his family business. He currently runs six different eateries and the production team visited his three-storey restaurant which includes a wine bar and karaoke lounge. Being a big fan of Singaporean delicacies, he hopes to open a hawker center in India and sell authentic Singapore fanfare. "He specifically wanted Singaporeans as cooks and asked me to help him look for people. He even said that he'll give me 30% of shares but I told him to 'call me when you're in Singapore. I will introduce them to you. Forget about the 30% shares,'" said Mark. Mark reckons that the popularity of Singaporean food came about from the large influx of Indian workers in Singapore who brought back recipes of our local delights to share with their fellow countrymen. When the host was asked to compare between the local delights available in Singapore and India, he shared that the rice grains used in the Hainanese chicken rice in India belongs to the Indian long-grain rice and revealed that roti prata is non-existent in India. nothing to say bout this too. i bet enuff of news for now? lol. FireLibra(Copyright 2007) back to top? |
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![]() Avril Lavigne has filed for divorce from estranged husband Deryck Whibley, citing ''irreconcilable differences'' for the end of their three-year marriage. Avril Lavigne has filed for divorce from estranged husband Deryck Whibley. The 'Girlfriend' singer took action to officially end her three-year marriage to the Sum 41 star at a Los Angeles court last Friday (09.10.09), citing 'irreconcilable differences'. She is asking for a ruling to block Deryck from receiving spousal support. Avril split from Deryck in September but insisted their break-up was amicable. The 25-year-old star wrote on her blog: 'Deryck and I have been together for six-and-a-half years. We have been friends since I was 17, started dating when I was 19, and married when I was 21. I am grateful for our time together, and I am grateful and blessed for our remaining friendship. 'I admire Deryck and have a great amount of respect for him. He is the most amazing person I know, and I love him with all my heart. Deryck and I are separating and moving forward on a positive note.' Before the split, Avril was reportedly seen flirting with oil heir Brandon Davis after spending a month partying on his yacht in the South of France. However, sources close to Avril insist she and Brandon are 'not involved romantically' and are 'just friends'. well. is there a possibility where a baby hit by a train and dragged 30metres can survive? well. it can! here is some news. KOLKATA (AFP) - – A newborn baby has escaped unhurt after being delivered in the toilet of a moving Indian train and then falling onto the tracks, reports said Thursday. Rinku Debu Ray, 28, suddenly went into labour late Tuesday while on board an express train that was passing through the state of West Bengal. According to the Times of India and Hindustan Times, Ray delivered the baby in the toilet of her carriage and the newborn infant slipped through the discharge chute and onto the tracks below. The distraught Ray immediately jumped from the train, prompting passengers to pull the emergency cord in the belief that she was trying to commit suicide. "We got off the train and started looking for my wife," husband Bhola Ray, 33, told the Hindustan Times. "After an hour, we found Rinku sitting beside the track with the baby in her lap," he said. Mother and child reboarded the train and were taken to the nearest station and then to hospital, where doctors pronounced them both in good health. "This was a miracle," station manager Shyama Prasad Mukherjee told the Times of India. In a similar incident in February 2008, a baby girl, born prematurely, fell through a train carriage toilet in the western state of Gujarat. She was found on the tracks two hours later, not only alive but almost completely unharmed. Miracles do happen, but not every time. so just be careful! lol. FireLibra(Copyright 2007) back to top? |
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![]() SINGAPORE: The first thing her son did when he came out from the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) maths paper on Thursday this week was to gesture as if he was "slitting his throat". "One look at his face and I thought ’oh no’. I could see that he felt he was condemned," said Mrs Karen Sng. "When he was telling me about how he couldn’t answer some of the questions, he got very emotional and started crying. He said his hopes of getting (an) A* are dashed." Not for the first time, parents are up in arms over the PSLE Mathematics paper, which some have described as "unbelievably tough" this year. As recently as two years ago, the PSLE Mathematics paper had also caused a similar uproar. The reason for Thursday’s tough paper, opined the seven parents whom MediaCorp spoke to, was because Primary 6 students were allowed to use calculators while solving Paper 2 for the first time. Paper 2 makes up 60 per cent of the entire paper and consists of 18 questions. Said Mrs Vivian Weng: "I think the setters feel it’ll be faster for them to compute with a calculator. So the problems they set are much more complex; there are more values, more steps. But it’s unfair because this is the first time they can do so and they do not know what to expect!" These parents’ children are studying in both neighbourhood and "top" schools. In response to MediaCorp’s queries, the Education Ministry said this year’s paper was "comparable" to those of previous years. "There is no change in syllabus, question types or number of questions," a spokesperson said. "The introduction of the use of calculators does not have any bearing on the difficulty of paper. The use of calculators has been introduced into the primary maths curriculum so as to enhance the teaching and learning of maths by expanding the repertoire of learning activities, to achieve a better balance between the time and effort spent developing problem solving skills and computation skills. Calculators can also help to reduce computational errors." But the parents MediaCorp spoke to said students were apparently so stumped that many — even top students who have regularly aced past school examinations — broke down in tears in right after the paper. Private maths tutor Josephine Tan whose son studies at Anglo—Chinese School (Junior), said he told her that "many A* students in the top class... couldn’t finish all the questions". According to posts on an online forum for parents, one example of the problem sums given was: "Jim bought some chocolates and gave half of it to Ken. Ken bought some sweets and gave half of it to Jim. Jim ate 12 sweets and Ken ate 18 chocolates. The ratio of Jim’s sweets to chocolates became 1:7 and the ratio of Ken’s sweets to chocolates became 1:4. How many sweets did Ken buy?" Mrs Tan said: "They have spent months revising and preparing, but it’s so much tougher than they expected. It really put a big dent on students’ morale." Another common gripe: There was not enough time for them to complete the paper. A private tutor, who declined to be named, told MediaCorp she concurred with parents’ opinions. "This year’s paper demanded more from students. It required them to read and understand more complex questions, and go through more steps, so time constraints would have been a concern," the 28—year—old said. However, the parents’ fear of poor grades for their children may be unfounded since they will be compared against the entire cohort’s performance. And the answer to the question? 68. hmmm. finished typing. haha FireLibra(Copyright 2007) back to top? |