God Hates the World? Get Over It!

The following post is meant as a personal reflection of the Samurai’s views and is not intended as an attack on any religion in particular.
The Samurai has rarely touched on religion in these posts, because to him his beliefs are very personal and private. But today, he feels like expounding some of the feelings he [...]

Commandment No. 2: Beware the Hall of Mirrors

In the famous fight scene above, Bruce Lee must defeat the evil Mr Han (Shek Kin), but in order to do so, he must stop hitting at images that throw him off the scent of his real enemy.
Are there illusory images that we too, waste our time and effort chasing after, [...]

No Place I’d Rather Be: The Most Unoriginal NDP Song Ever?

Is it just me or does this year’s NDP song by Kit Chan with music and lyrics by Jimmy Yeh, “There’s No Place I’d Rather Be” seem to plagiarized directly from the classic standard “You Belong To Me”, not to mention the one hit wonder “I’ve Never Been To Me”?
This must be the most unoriginal [...]

The Real Lessons of Abdul Basheer Abdul Kader

The internet is abuzz over why former university lecturer Abdul Basheer Abdul Kader, growing up in one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities, could ever come to embracing self-radicalisation and militant Islamic Jihadism. Indeed, why the educated and cosmopolitan are instead self-radicalizing and turning to radical Islamic Jihad may be the single most damning statement [...]

MORE REAL CHINESE CAPTAINS: THE ZHENGS

Few Chinese-educated Singaporeans may be aware of this, but one of the heroes you were taught to love in Primary School was in fact, a pirate known as Koxinga. I refer to the Chinese patriot Zheng Chenggong, or “Lord of the Imperial Surname” (Guo Xing Ye, which was where the term Koxinga was derived.) History [...]

MEET THE REAL “CHINESE CAPTAINS”

Fake Chinese Captain.

Real Chinese Captain, Chung Cheng Kwee of Penang.
Apparently it has come to that the People’s Republic of China has decided to censor 15 minutes of “Pirates of the Carribean 3″ due to perceived slightings of the Chinese, and removed the reference to Singapore as a den of pirates.
Now here’s a wake [...]

The Zen of Paris

Major news networks wonder why they are covering Paris Hilton as furiously as they are, despite the fact that as they all agree: Paris Hilton has a contribution to humanity whose net worth is about 0.1. I hate to say this, but it strikes me as utterly disingenuous that they have just said the precise [...]

What Global Conversation?

Anne Applebaum expresses an utter lack of understanding about the nature of the internet and its role here.
 Most of all, though, the world’s divided attention proves once again that global Internet access and global television have not created anything resembling a global conversation. On the contrary, the BBC fights hard for its viewers, so it [...]

MONKEYS AND THE MOON

Having been abroad for a while, the Samurai returning to Singapore feels like he is living in a kind of dream. Everywhere he turns he sees burgeoning, blossoming wealth. He has gone to Vivocity for the first time, and was impressed by the size, and utter ostentatiousness of the mall. He is struck by the [...]

MILITARY NUTTERY: GAY BOMB?

This is so hilarious.
(CBS 5) BERKELEY A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.
 Since we all know that the greatest warriors in all of History [...]