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Different universe. It's like comparing Spiderman and Darth Vader. This thread is restricted to the world of Jin Yong's novels.

The PAP keeps harping this false choice: either we pack Singapore with 3 million foreigners or we allow 0 foreigners. Who ever said anything about totally rejecting foreigners? Anyway it was Lee Kuan Yew who screwed up the country with his completely idiotic eugenics and birth control...

Re: SHAMELESS 1 Cuntry, 2 Systems In Action Again! I don't think it has much to do with his being a foreigner but more because (1) he's white, (2) he's wealthy, (3) he operates the type of outfits where he gets to rub shoulders with the rich and powerful regularly. But yes you're entirely...

Oops. Didn't see this. Another possible candidate is Dongfang Bubai. If you allow for characters that didn't actually appear in the novels, there's also Dugu Qiubai and the eunuch who wrote Kui Hua Bao Dian.

If you talk about a character that actually appeared in the novel, its probably the anonymous Shaolin custodian monk in Tian Long Ba Bu.

Of course he took liberties with the details. After all, he writes sword fighting novels. You can't compare him to historical novelists like Gao Yang. But "never" is an overstatement. It is true that Qiu Chuji was invited to visit Genghis Khan. If you bother to read the footnotes in She Diao...

Nope. The Mongols formed an alliance with Song to fight the Jurchens — these were the ancestors of Manchurians who later founded the Qing Dynasty. At that time the Khitan Empire had long been annihilated by an earlier alliance between Song and Jurchens. The only Khitans mentioned in She...

If it's as simple as that, Singapore would have the world's fastest super computer. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/technology/28compute.html The Chinese system follows that model by linking thousands upon thousands of chips made by the American companies Intel and Nvidia. But the secret...

Geez, it's amazing how little history S'poreans know. Tian Long Ba Bu was set in the Northern Song dynasty. How could one tell? Among other things, the series devoted hundreds of pages to the Khitan Empire. Even Daozong emperor (i.e. Yelu Hongji, 1032–1101), was himself a substantial...

That's a fake piece of garbage written by some shameless prick looking to profit from Jin Yong's success. Can't you tell the difference? It's like asking why you can't find a fake China-made jPhone in the Apple Store.

That's just basic PR. As a politician, you have to pretend to be concerned even when you don't really give a damn. And when the cameras are rolling, you better make sure that you have the right expression on your face. Land of smiles or not, Abhisit's expression in the picture is bad PR.

I'll bet you that it was Hong Chuan or his followers who started this fengshui mentor shit. The kopi sohs and taxi uncles will be really impressed and therefore more likely to give generous alms. There is an unbelievable number of suckers in S'pore who will fall for such superstitious nonsense...

I suppose what every kopitiam ah soh and cab driver know for a fact must be the absolute truth. I had always thought that the Singapore Mint was responsible for the dollar coin's design while the URA was responsible for urban architectural issues. But thanks to your inside information, I now...

Why don't you ask Chee Soon Juan? He has requested on numerous occasions to debate LKY in public but LKY has always chosen to hide under that wooden table in his office, trembling with his face wrapped up in that persian rug. The inevitable happened when he sued CSJ and had to appear in court...

And how did you find out? I suppose LKY invited you to Istana and confided his fears and beliefs to you over a cup of tea? Or did you hear it from a kopi kia who heard it from a cab driver who heard it from his cousin who heard it from a fortune teller trying to ply his trade?

Fortune tellers, feng shui masters, spiritual mediums, etc — i.e. those who rely on Chinese superstitions to make a living — spread and kept this rumor alive to give themselves credibility. LKY may be a piece of shit but he sure ain't a complete idiot.

Baey Yam Keng learnt the wrong lesson. The main reason British bus conductors, security guards, and brick layers do their work with pride and are treated with respect is because they get paid just as much as white collar workers. Unlike their counterparts in S'pore, these blue collar workers do...

Going by the Westminster system, it is indeed the case that the MP's primary responsibility is to represent his constituency in the parliament. Stuff like removing graffiti in the elevators or cleaning up dog poop on the pavements usually fall under the purview of the municipal government...

You should at least try to understand what is going on instead of blindly taking sides. China is buying up foreign currencies and foreign debts to drive down the value of the RMB. What China is doing is hurting every country in the world, including Singapore. Chinese exports are kept...

Delusional nonsense. The US is unique in that its foreign debt is denominated in its own currency. It never needs to default. Worse come to worse, the treasury can print as much US dollars as China wants to inflate away the debt. It is China that would be left holding the bag.