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Patinya

Well Fumier, what do you think? Personally, I think Saori is more sharp than Patinya, and I don't mean just the picture quality...

Note: Only popup images.

Warning: Link contains nudity. Click only if you are above 21.

Acia - Cynthia

This one is for our reader Brian David Phillips. Click for popup image or album.

Warning: Link contains nudity. Click only if you are above 21.

Doing Business In China - Sequel

"One of your partners from Hong Kong [make a wild guess here] alongside another factory owner went to Gary's [Taiwanese business partner's] house for dinner last night and we have recorded their entire conversation. It does not bode well for you and your investments, as they are now planning to swindle you out as well" says the overly enthusiastic Tom Cruise reincarnate Mr. Lai from mainland China.

Mr. Lai, a university graduate and with excellent English skills, is the owner of yet another [small] security firm in Guangdong that is under my personal payroll, and their team has this weird habit of following entrepreneurs where ever they go. Now why would they be following Gary since January 27, 2004 is beyond me but I am impressed by whoever it was who had the foresight to plant miniature yet powerful FM transmitter bugs with one month battery capacity under Gary's sofa and dinning table...

Jane Fang

Reader Anonymous wants a close up face of Jane Fang. Well, here it is... Click for popup image or album.

Apparently, Jane does not like to put on clothes...

Warning: Link contains nudity. Click only if you are above 21.

Hiroko

Wild and sexy... Click for popup image or album.

Warning: Link contains nudity. Click only if you are above 21.

Election 2004

Left click on the picture to enlarge [link opens in same window] Democratic Contenders Attack Bush on Iraq, Terrorism, Trade and Economy

credits: News link via The New York Times. Link requires free registration. Opens in new window.

Model Of The Month

Well, our January competition of Asian Models closes on coming Sunday, February 1, 2004 at midnight [Hong Kong time].

So far throughout this month, only Jane Fang carries the highest votes (49).

During this week, it seems that Chinatsu is picking up quite impressive votes (35). But she still needs 15 votes [as of now] to win over Jane Fang.

With only two days left, it is difficult to predict whether Jane or Chinatsu will be the final winner of the month and therefore Model of the Month.

C'mon guys, the decision is up to you. Hurry up on your votes and since you can only vote once in 24 hours, you might want your friends to help out.

Note: Link opens in new window.

Mai

Cute but young. Click for popup image or album.

Warning: Link contains nudity. Click only if you are above 21.

Ohshiro

Nice legs. Click for popup image or album.

Warning: Link contains nudity. Click only if you are above 21.

Daily Circus - 300104

Our sympathy goes to Donald Tsang, Cheif Secretary for Administration in Hong Kong.

With regards to his upcoming visit to Beijing, he is now taken to task by Hong Kong's most outspoken Emily Lau, who insists that Tsang must tell truth.

It seems that Lau believes Tsang must be a spoilt child who could go to Beijing and tell lies. Why else would she take on a motherly role and reprimand him before he has even gone there?

We recommend that Lau calm down. Perhaps via regular yogic meditations...

It must be extremely challenging for Hong Kong's most experienced civil servant who occupies the second highest ranking position in administration, to be treated like a handyman by his boss.

For once, let the poor soul say whatever he wants to say. Who knows, it could turn out to be good and productive for Hong Kong.

Credits:

News link via The Standard who still have the courtesy to post free online news as opposed to their outdated competition. Link opens in new window.

Disclaimer:

All views and opinion expressed by Ah Bo are his own. See Lai does not take any responsibility for the accuracy of the content, and the views expressed by Ah Bo. See Lai and See Lai's editor cannot be hold responsible in any form or way.

Saori

Perhaps, the best picture of the month... Click for popup image or album.

Warning: Link contains nudity. Click only if you are above 21.

WHO - Slaughter Chicken

WHO: Poultry Slaughter Will Slow Bird Flu

Credits:

News link and picture via Yahoo! News. Picture reedited by Ah Bo. Links open in new window.

Pupe

If she isn't sexy, I don't know what she is... click for popup image or album.

Warning: Link contains nudity. Click only if you are above 21.

BlogShares Is Back!

For all of you who were disappointed when BlogShares closed late last year, well, it is back.

Phil at Flying Chair should be very happy about this news. Not only because he holds a lot of blog's shares but also because he was/is a premium [paid] member at BlogShares.

Unfortunately, BlogShares still reflect 2003 valuations and this is unfair to See Lai as we have grown tremendously since. Or at least we convince ourselves that we have. The funny part is that it shows three different reports for See Lai valued at 0.90$, 37.9$, and 80.2$ per share. We are sure the latter is the correct report. Beware of extremely slow loading pages.

Nonetheless, this also means that all transactions, valuation, passwords, etc. still remain in BlogShares database, though screwed up [as they did on the day when BlogShares went off the air].

So folks, happy speculating and this time it better be rewarding...

Update:

They report that they are fixing a lot of bugs. So don't be happy or depressed if you see yourself over-valued or under-valued. And yes, all pages on their site load very slowly.

Life Of Brian

Welcome Brian David Phillips and Life of Brian in our Asian Blogs [right side bar].

Brian is an American living in Taiwan and well, he is many things but over and above all he is also a certified hypnotist.

Now why don't you visit his blog to experience the Internet hypnosis? Lots of fun stuff there to keep you laughing.

Amika

Damn! Why am I sitting here and not with her? Click for popup image or album.

Warning: Link contains nudity. Click only if you are above 21.

Miyuki

Left click on the picture to see the album

And The Internet Sex Prayer.

Life Is A Bitch...

No, it is not what you think. This is a new trend in Taiwan called the Knife Massage Therapy. And we thought only Japan introduced odd concepts to Asia!

What if the masseur loses control? Game Over?

Credits:

News link and original picture via Channelnewsasia. Picture edited by Ah Bo. News link opens in new window.

Disclaimer:

See Lai does not take any responsibility for the accuracy of the content, and the views expressed in the link or article. We at See Lai do not recommend such massage. And we do not take any responsibility while emphasizing that such massage should not be tried upon by anyone. Please refer to the linked article for details. See Lai and See Lai's editor cannot be hold responsible in any form or way.

Ayumi

Left click on the picture to see the album

And The Internet Sex Prayer.

Daily Circus - 290104

This man, Michael DeGoyler, speaks reason. His views about politics in and about Hong Kong are what we totally agree with. We recommend that you click the link and read him.

That is all for today's Daily Circus.

Credits:

News link via The Standard who still have the courtesy to post free online news as opposed to their outdated competition. Link opens in new window.

Disclaimer:

All views and opinion expressed by Ah Bo are his own. See Lai does not take any responsibility for the accuracy of the content, and the views expressed by Ah Bo. See Lai and See Lai's editor cannot be hold responsible in any form or way.

Doing Business In China

The events in this post transpired two days ago when my Taiwanese partner, Gary, invited me and my Hong Kong partner, Raymond for dinner at his house in Dongguan.

Upon receiving the invitation, we were already scared as Gary is a man who can hardly control his language after too many drinks. But I got even more scared when Gary announced that he himself would cook the Taiwanese dishes for my pleasure!

It wasn't until we settled down for dinner in his cozy apartment that I realized his purpose of inviting us was to throw out Luke, our Chinese business partner. Throw out for good that is, from our factory by purchasing his shares or rather hoodwinking him.

And suddenly I realized that Gary was treading dangerous territory. For while Luke believes that our factory is his part time pleasure, his main occupation is a very decorated position in the Guangdong police force.

Links

Damn, even I am getting tired of writing "opens in new window" or "opens in same window".

I thought of doing that [just for today] as many readers feel frustrated when links open in other windows. And I was trying to be accomodating. However, reading all the posts back, I find such comments annoying.

And so I propose a very simple solution. If I link to our site = See Lai, then the link opens in the same window. If not, then it opens in a new window.

There, now I feel much better...

Forked Tongue

Welcome Richard and his new Hong Kong blog - Forked Tongue in our Asian Blogs [right side bar].

Richard has just started blogging, but his writing is funny, inspiring, and we predict he is going to be someone like Hemlock pretty soon.

For fun and lots of laughter, why not visit his blog? [link above - opens in new window].

Akane

Left click on the picture to see the album [opens in same window]

And The Internet Sex Prayer [opens in new window].

Japan Tourism

Japan plans to promote a tourism video where even the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr. Junichiro Koizumi, plays his part:

"Hello, I'm Junichiro Koizumi. I wish to welcome people from around the world to visit Japan. Tradition. Technology. We will welcome you with a hearty "yokoso" and smile,"

Had we not known that "yokoso" means welcome in Japanese, we would have misunderstood "yokoso" to be some leggy bikini-clad girl waiting with her arms wide open.

However, the above misunderstanding may not be the scary part of the campaign. It gets even more scarier when Transport Ministry officials say:

they hope it'll be screened on most international flights and television commercials overseas, as they are confident the charismatic Mr Koizumi will draw in the visitors.

We wish we could share their enthusiasm. But, we believe that the last thing fatigued and exhausted travelers would want to see is someone who looks like this.

Should they instead show See Lai's photo albums on all international flights and overseas television, we guarantee that herds of [mostly male] tourists will swarm Japan and their target of millions of tourists by 2010 could be achieved as soon as next week!

News link and picture via Channelnewsasia [opens in new window]

Disclaimer:

See Lai does not take any responsibility for the accuracy of the content, and the views expressed by the author. See Lai and See Lai's editor cannot be hold responsible in any form or way.

Kumiko

Left click on the picture to see the album [opens in same window]

And The Internet Sex Prayer [opens in new window].

Daily Circus - 280104

The supreme Hong Kong blogger, Hemlock opines his views on problems with local news publication. Though, his selection of words are more to the point than See Lai, who also shares similar opinions:

Email the South China Morning Post to suggest that they produce a daily four-page insert devoted entirely to avian flu, SARS, dengue fever and all the other plagues whose main victims are newspaper readers, struck down with virulent attacks of boredom.

Read his entire diary via the link above [opens in new window].

Nevertheless, local publications do not take heed. Sounding like yet another sinister episode of X Files, and pretending to be local equivalents of Agent Mulder and Scully [SCMP and The Standard], they report things like this [opens in new window]:

He [Trevor Ellis] said the H5N2 vaccine can target various H5-specific strains of the virus. Ellis said the H5N2 vaccine can achieve flock immunity of more than 80 per cent, which is sufficient to protect treated farms against considerable H5N1 virus exposure from wild birds and infections emanating from untreated chicken farms and poultry markets.

We at See Lai have often been condemned for our syntax and grammar and our horrible composition of English language. Yet, we ourselves need to read the above paragraph more than three times to make any sense of it.

If we are understanding clearly, untreated chicken from poultry markets will fly back to "treated farms" and infect the treated ones? Have we lost it or have they? And why did our mother and teacher lie to us when they told us chicken cannot fly? Is Trevor pulling our legs or the reporter's grammar and syntax?

I know, I know, we are becoming as horrible as local publications and just ranting about Armageddon privy diseases. But then, what else could we comment on?

Licence threat for live stall operators? [opens in new window]

Yes, yesterday we reported about pigs dressed up like John Travolta, so repeating this news today is boring.

Democracy gulf 'too wide for a solution'? [opens in new window]

Good morning Shiu Sin-por, so were you sleeping since 1997?

And the usual crap about local policies just helping property developers and cartels without giving a damn to people of Hong Kong.

In case you missed the joke, Hong Kong is world's freest economy of the world. Yes, freest, as long as you are a cartel or friends with the baboon-esque CEO of this town.

In disgust, we throw away the newspapers and resume our dart targeting practice on pictures of farts across the wall.

We can be bothered no more...

Credits:

All news links via The Standard who still have the courtesy to post free online news as opposed to their outdated competition.

Disclaimer:

All views and opinion expressed by Ah Bo are his own. See Lai does not take any responsibility for the accuracy of the content, and the views expressed by Ah Bo. See Lai and See Lai's editor cannot be hold responsible in any form or way.

Yuu

Left click on the picture to see the album [opens in same window]

And The Internet Sex Prayer [opens in new window].

On Hong Kong Property

Finally, someone with common sense gives a very clear assessment about Hong Kong and its property for short, medium, and long term. Bank warns against 'unrealistic' property prices [link opens in new window].

We think both Gladys Tang [the reporter] and top brass at Bank of China Hong Kong [BOCHK] must be reading local blogs and following opinions and discussions on local property.

A wild guess suggests that both the aforementioned must be regular readers at Ordinary Gweilo, The Gweilo Diaries, and our own site - See Lai to mention a few [links open in new window].

Meanwhile, we await Ah Bo with his views on today's performance of Daily Circus.

See Lai's opinion regarding Hong Kong property can be found here [link opens in same window].

Airborne Combat Engineer

Welcome David Driskell from Airborne Combat Engineer in our Blog List [bottom - right side bar].

David is a 1970 veteran of the legendary 307th Airborne Engr Btn, 82nd Airborne Div, 18th Airborne Corp. For those of you looking for guns and ammo and wanting to blast Iraq or whatever, his blog is the place to go.

Tomomi Kuribayashi

Left click on the picture to see the album

And The Internet Sex Prayer.

Note: This picture specially selected for Okio

Almighty

Left click on the picture to enlarge

Picture credit: Ah Bo and friends. Feel free to use as long as you credit Ah Bo, About.Com, and this site.

No Blogwatch?

QQ, a perceived flunky of Dr. George Adams, seems to have a change of heart. For this week the painfully embarrassing [to us or to them?] Blogwatch is mysteriously missing.

Does this mean that NTSCMP is now regaining its original [1997] fame and becoming a friend?

Keep it up doctor and soon we will buy you drinks while our eyes are filled with tears [of appreciation].

P.s.: Notice that now NTSCMP is a dotcom site rather than a free blog [Ha ha, we love the word blog].

Sakura

Left click on the picture to see the album

And The Internet Sex Prayer.

Warning:

Not suitable for aggregators.

Daily Circus - 270104

The congregation of chicken celebrate while holding placards and banners of "Thank You See Lai". And they have every reason to celebrate, as after reading yesterday's plight of chicken sympathetic local readers decide to spare the chicken!

Retail chicken sales plummeted about 30 per cent in Hong Kong yesterday, despite the absence of bird flu in the territory.

Pigs on the other hand, also smarten up. Freshly bathed, clean shaved, and dressed in their best, they easily manage to avoid Foot and Mouth disease!

And believe it or not, the above two news stories are top stories in Hong Kong [media].

Sometimes we think we should donate money to old ladies dragging trash on the street. But, we are hopelessly stone hearted and cannot resist our temptation to instead purchase newspapers on the streets.

Credits:

All news links via The Standard who still have the courtesy to post free online news as opposed to their outdated competition.

Disclaimer:

All views and opinion expressed by Ah Bo are his own. See Lai does not take any responsibility for the accuracy of the content, and the views expressed by Ah Bo. See Lai and See Lai's editor cannot be hold responsible in any form or way.

Living In China

First of all, sorry for the lack of posts since yesterday as I was traveling in China.

Well, talking about China, there is an aggregator that goes by the name of Living in China which basically is a good service that provides feeds of all local blogs [meaning blogs in China].

Anyway, one fine day [about two months ago], a friend told me that my blog was already being aggregated over there. I was really surprised. Because I did not receive any email that I was being aggregated and neither was I informed. Needless to say that I did not even ask them to aggregate me.

As some of you are already aware, prior to Chinese New Year, a local blogger [again] started attacking some of us with discriminatory words and sentences at her blog. Frankly, we are too tired to drag that anymore.

However, coincidentally or otherwise, soon after her post, two expat bloggers based in Hong Kong - Conrad at Gweilo Diaries as well as yours truly and this site - See Lai were suddenly dropped from the Living in China aggregator.

Normally, we wouldn't have cared if we were dropped, because we did not ask or request to be added in their aggregator in the first place.

However, considering that only Conrad's site and this site was dropped, we became suspicious. Suspicious because only Conrad and my site has girlie pictures.

Everything that transpired after that can be found here.

At this stage, while we already mark our girlie pics under "Girlie" category, there is nothing much we are going to do about the issue. Girlie pics will continue at See Lai and if Living in China feels fit, they can [again] drop us for good from their aggregator.

In any case, thanks goes to Richard at Peking Duck, Phil at Flying Chair, and everyone else who supported us and our rights to do whatever we please to do at our paid blogs and sites.

That is all. Normal posting will resume later today.

Kitty

Left click on the picture to see the album

And The Internet Sex Prayer to help you out with Girlie pics.

Loretta

Left click on the picture to see the album

And The Internet Sex Prayer to help you out with Girlie pics.

Daily Circus - 260104

"We are destined to suffer nature's wrath" says the depressed chicken leader. "Now we will be mercilessly executed, scores of us, at the hands of professional terminators in the central slaughterhouse."

Tears roll down from the eyes of flocks of chicken sitting in their cages in local wet markets. Some even hide their face under their wings in an attempt to avoid the upcoming catastrophe.

"And" continues the chicken leader, "we will be wrapped in plastic after execution and our dead bodies will be thrown into deep freezers until someone pays 26 dollars and 50 cents to take us to their kitchen."

"We didn't mind being vaccinated, but must we be deprived of our freshness?" The leader clears his throat and continues "Speak after me... Down with [excuses for] cartel-ism, down with [excuses for] cartel-ism..." [Fade]

Meanwhile, boastful celebrations continue with successful policy of vaccination.

So we have zero cases and the vaccination policy works. Right? Then is there a need for a central slaughterhouse? Would that make any difference? We think not. Especially after the food fiasco at many chain outlets in Hong Kong.

But, in a city where even people's ambitions are frozen or at least doubts exist that they are frozen, why should anyone care about the plight of chicken?

Credits:

All news links via The Standard who still have the courtesy to post free online news as opposed to their outdated competition.

Disclaimer:

All views and opinion expressed by Ah Bo are his own. See Lai does not take any responsibility for the accuracy of the content, and the views expressed by Ah Bo. See Lai and See Lai's editor cannot be hold responsible in any form or way.

Model of the Week

Winner: Third Week - January, 2004

Srikalaew - Total Votes (24)

C'mon guys, so few votes? You can vote everday throughout the week. Polls for each week close at midnight on Sunday when the winner of the week is declared. And at the end of the month we will tally which country's model won [during that month] with the highest votes throughout the week.

Until now Jane Fang is winning with 49 votes [highest in January]. Needless to say that Kunya is sad about Thailand losing. Even to Taiwan!

Who would have thought Taiwan would take over Thailand and even Japan?!?

What Really Happened On Mars?

Spirit rover doesn't give a damn about anything anymore. Sex On Mars.

Check out our entire series about landing on Mars

Warning: Links contain nudity. Do not click if you are under 21.

Picture credit: Courtesy of Ah Bo. Feel free to use it as long as you credit Ah Bo and this site.

Kim

Left click on the picture to see the album

Miss Chinese Pageant 2004 - More Pictures

Important Update Over Here

Here is yet another picture of the winners:

Left click on the picture to enlarge

Note:

Please excuse the poor quality of this picture. We lifted it off Xinhuanet News where the quality was even more horrible. More pictures coming up...

Site News

I have trimmed down the image size and renamed Girlie album to Asian Women. All Girlie posts have been re-edited and cleaned up.

More site maintenance will carry on over few days. In case of any problems, do not hesitate to email. Now go click the Asian Women album on left side bar and see if the images are OK.

Note: This post will be deleted within two days

Mayu

Left click on the picture to see the album

Advertising In Hong Kong

Have you ever seen a piss poor article orchestrating cartel and government vested interests in brainwashing its people? No?

Then see it over here.

Unsurprisingly, the local media thought it wise to print the above in it's Top Stories section!

In our opinion, the local government is so desperate to dance at the whims of the property/real estate developers and agents that it has decided to keep boosting the unrewarding property speculation.

Any CEO will tell you that hard selling strategies to market sub-standard products will only result in negative effects on other products.

And the alarming numbers of negative equity holders in Hong Kong reflects just that result.

Link via - The Standard

Disclaimer:

All views and opinion expressed by Ah Bo are his own. See Lai does not take any responsibility for the accuracy of the content, and the views expressed by Ah Bo. See Lai and See Lai's editor cannot be hold responsible in any form or way.

Civet Cats And SARS

Say No To SARS!

"Although many vendors in the markets swore they had never gotten sick despite being in contact for years with the animals, a study by universities in Shenzhen and Hong Kong suggests otherwise. Not only did the study show that 70% of civet cats were SARS coronavirus carriers but some 40% of wildlife dealers had antibodies for the disease."

Read the entire article that now links SARS to Civets and other wild animals.

The article also mentions a 32 year old journalist, who was in contact with no other animal except a mouse!

Was it a pet mouse or his dinner? In any case, he is now confirmed with SARS.

Read our previous reports on Civets and SARS

Credits:

Article research - Courtesy of Ah Bo.

Disclaimer:

All views and opinion expressed by Ah Bo are his own. See Lai does not take any responsibility for the accuracy of the content, and the views expressed by Ah Bo. See Lai and See Lai's editor cannot be hold responsible in any form or way.

Suki

Left click on the picture to see the album

Meanwhile, final two days before polls close for the Model of the Week Looks like Srikalaew is winning.

Shin Shin

Welcome ShinShin from Malaysia in our Asian Blogs [right side bar].

Shin Shin has listed most Hong Kong bloggers at his site and See Lai is under "Ah Bo" at the top.

He has many languages going on at his blog including English, Malay, and [perhaps] Islamic. Some posts over there discuss the political and other issues of Malaysia and yes, he also has girlies.

Good News Or Bad News?

See Lai has exceeded its 5 Gigabyte bandwidth [which a geek friend of mine tells me is quite a lot] for this month and I am just using 20% of hard disk storage of 200 MB. Damn!

But, thanks to all of you who visit daily and even to the newcomers adding up everyday. Without your support the bandwidth wouldn't have peaked through the roof.

However, during the next two days if you get a message - "Bandwidth exceeded", do not be surprised. After two days, I think the new month rolls over [for this site], so I believe the site should be accessible and should be OK.

I will see if I can increase my bandwidth, which looks doubtful as right now am already on the topmost package of Typepad [Pro] which provides 5 Gigabytes per month.

Looks like time for me to move out of Typepad and into a huge server with huge bandwidth. Suggestions anyone?

In the meantime, scroll down for girlie pics and have fun.

Travel Itch

Welcome yet another Korean blog - Travelitch in our Asian Blogs [right side bar].

It has interesting views and posts about life in Korea and elsewhere and Elizabeth Briel, the author of the blog, writes nicely.

Note:

All those who want their blogs to be added to our links section, send an email to us and after the review of your blog, you will be added.

Sun Lin Fai Lok

Happy New Year

Update:

The picture above is not the picture discussed in the comments of this post. Out of respect for J and Charle's wish[es] we have deleted the obscene pictures [including from the album] we had posted before. We apologize and agree that we were wrong. Cheers!

It Is The Tradition

For more funny images, and The Great Hong Kong Sex Novel click here [scroll down at the link to see many funny pictures and the sex novel].

To understand the "red pocket money" and Chinese New Year tradition, click here.

State Of The Union - Summary

"The values we try to live by never change, and they are instilled in us by fundamental institutions, such as families and schools and religious congregations"

Kyoko

Left click on the picture to see the album

Meanwhile, cat fight starts at the polls

Daily Circus - 210104

Is history repeating itself?

A defensive hole at a border checkpoint was exposed when a mainland visitor did not reveal his ill-health and was allowed to cross into the SAR. He then checked into the Miramar Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui and hours later the 33-year-old man was admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital yesterday and kept in isolation after he displayed Sars-like symptoms.

Last year, it was a similar story when a mainland Chinese man went to a hotel and was allegedly the first visitor with SARS in Hong Kong.

When will our administrations realize that simple forms asking questions like "Have you had contact with people with SARS in the past 10 days?" and "Please mark before the symptom if you have any - i) Fever ii) Cough, Shortness of breath, Breathing difficulty", will not help stop SARS at the borders.

How many sane people crossing any immigration border in this world are going to cry out loud "Yes, I have SARS like symptoms!".

And when will the duffers stop being naive in kidding themselves?

Even doctors who probably watch too much CNN and idolize Bush - The Terror Boy need to smarten up and understand that the sudden flu-like symptoms amongst the hospital staff are not biological terror attacks!?!

Apart from the above, we regret that today's newspapers have nothing special worth commenting. The same property hard sell, and other repetitive news fill in the pages today.

After so many Daily Circus[es] we clearly understand now. There are only 12 news stories in Hong Kong that get printed and reprinted in different grammar and syntax form.

The only qualities or qualifications required to be a news publication in Hong Kong seems to be the ability to be imaginative enough to rewrite these 12 news stories in different form and format for 365 days.

Bravo!

Credits:

All news links via The Standard who still have the courtesy to post free online news as opposed to their outdated competition.

Disclaimer:

All views and opinion expressed by Ah Bo are his own. See Lai does not take any responsibility for the accuracy of the content, and the views expressed by Ah Bo. See Lai and See Lai's editor cannot be hold responsible in any form or way.

Bush's State Of The Union Speech

Working from Camp David, Condoleezza Rice, Mr. Bush's national security adviser, is engrossed in editing the final draft of Mr. Bush's State of the Union address. But will it help Bush?

We think not. In spite of all the claptrap he intends to deliver to the world and the American people, he faces an audience who have completely lost faith and trust in him.

Reelection is and should be the main focus of his tonight's speech and previews suggest that Bush's braggadocio throughout all his years of presidency may be toned down or could even be missing.

Of particular concern will be his views on what he terms "axis of evil" or specific regimes of Middle East nations. While Bush believes that he has been the only president who contributed more to human rights than any other president in the nation's history, his enemies and allies disagree.

Had his policy on terrorism or what some believe an outright invasion of countries under the yet to be proved Weapons of Mass Destruction accusation been effective then he would not be facing impressively large number of Americans who are simply fed up of all his rantings.

Even his proposals of partial Social Security privatization will prove to be nothing more than claptrap. In case it isn't claptrap then one wonders where the financing for such expensive initiatives will come from? If past is any guide for the future, then the expensive Medicare benefit will perhaps explain Bush's visionary thinking and alert the American audience that Bush's proposals are empty promises that will deliver nothing.

Despite trying hard to avoid the term "axis of evil", we anticipate that tonight Bush will most certainly touch on Middle East alongside references to North Korea, and other countries. He will perhaps cite his policy on terrorism and terrorists and he may even cite US-VISIT as one of the major accomplishment of his success in the war against the terrorists.

But even that will be unimpressive as his American audience is more concerned about matters at home and primarily the economy, for which he can possibly have no specific answer.

Froatio alongside dodging, could then be the only summarization of his tonight's State of the Union address. And we believe it will be.

And if you ask that will he win the next presidential race? Of all the people Al Gore will definitely tell you that "Yes, he will".

Credits:

Article research - Courtesy of Ah Bo.

Disclaimer:

All views and opinion expressed by Ah Bo are his own. See Lai does not take any responsibility for the accuracy of the content, and the views expressed by Ah Bo. See Lai and See Lai's editor cannot be hold responsible in any form or way.

Akiko

Left click on the picture to see the album

Year Of The Monkey - Feng Shui

Wood will defeat metal. Yessiree...

The Feng Shui Masters have spoken!

"I'm not that optimistic about the economy. Although growth will be steady and companies will enjoy a slight rise in profits, firms will not be overly keen to expand meaning many people will stay jobless," said Ma.

We don't need Feng Shui t