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Had wanted to post something about the weekend. Felt it was really meaningful and stuff.

But didn’t have the time, plus was super shagged when I got home. Think I might try to draft it out in camp in paper before typing it out over the next weekend. Hmmm…

As you can see, I can’t really type much from camp. Bah. What’s the use of having a computer with Internet when the men are not allowed to use it?

So unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll probably know that the prime news for quite a long while now has been the Haitian Earthquake 2010.

Just a brief, first hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake sometime last week. And then many frequent aftershocks as well, some hitting 6.0 on the Ritcher scale. (Did I spell it right?)

Anyhow, the main story is that it’s somewhat the biggest catastrophe of Haiti’s human history, estimating death toll at 100,000 to 200,000 people. Buildings have been flattened, bodies decomposing everywhere, no medical aid.

Flattened buildings everywhere.

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The Haitian government has also been moving homeless people out of the affected capital of Port-au-Prince to Port Jeremie too.

But I mean, look at how crowded the ferries are. Dangerously overcrowded.

But eventually, these people are going to need homes too

Anyhow, CityCare has been arranging and sending teams of doctors, nurses and disaster relief workers over there to help out in anyway possible, largely on the medical side though. It’s a great work that they’re doing there, reaching out to them, showing them love and concern while treating their injuries and such.

Many of you are probably wondering how you can help the people there, either through giving or prayers. Contact your own local Red Cross Society or Mercy Relief for more information. For Singaporean folks, especially those who want to go over and help, CityCare is looking for trained doctors and nurses. Do email haitirelief@citycare.org for more information.

Ah yes. I’ve finally got this ridiculous thing working.

After over a year of messed up settings, and transfer of ownership and stuff like that. I’ve FINALLY got it working.

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So now, I’m running a standalone blog on a separate server.

Running WordPress of course. Blogger gives me too much headaches, can’t make sense out of Livejournal. And MT just seems too, complicated?

Okay awesome. So now I can blog with a properly working blog platform, simple but presentable theme.

Not to mention I can now connect my blog to Facebook! Notice that nice “share” button at the top of every post? Now you can share stuff from here to your Facebook Profile too!

Cool eh? Okay I’ll try to make posts a little less wordy and more photos and stuff like that. That would be mean more action from my camera, which unfortunately for now, I only get to use it on weekends.

Oh another thing.

iUnspoken.com is accessible on iPhone / iPod Touch too! Check it out.

Cool stuff eh? iPhone theme for mobile browsing.

To save your bandwidth, it doesn’t load the full entries on the main page. Just the post names. You gotta click on “Read This Post”, thus loading only what you want to read.

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This is what you’ll see after you click on it.

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And guess what

It goes landscape too! LOL.

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And your comments page

Oh yea, I added that nice CAPTCHA code thing. In case bots decide to flood my page with nonsense.

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And oh ya, you can also post this to Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Del.icio.us, Technorati, Newsvine, Reddit, etc etc. all from your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Think it should work well for Blackberries too.

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Anyhow, for desktop users, everything should appear nicely now. No more conflicting HTML codes and stuff like that.

And for comments, you can either just comment directly, or you can connect to the various social networking websites to input your identity too!

You can use all of the above to sign in! Cool eh?

Though it would be quite redundant if you already could just enter your name and email directly, but hey, it’s an option. Haha

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Awesome.

Anyhow, it’s gonna take a while before I transfer all the previous blog posts and media content over to this new blog. Previous server seemed to have forgotten where are all my photos and stuff like that. So gotta figure that part out. Might take a while though.

I’ll try to blog more this year. It’s not like I haven’t been blogging this year though, just that I’ve been blogging somewhere for private eyes only. Too much emotion and feelings for a blog to handle I reckon. Haha.

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Okay, so enjoy this new blog, visit more, comment more, and don’t forget to click Nuffnang on your way out!

P.S. If I forgot to add anyone to the blogroll, do send me an email ya?

rogerisnow@gmail.com

I know my postings for 2009 has been nothing but… Nothing basically.
Haven’t been posting anything worth noticing for a while now.

But it’s not that I haven’t been converting my brain activity into digitally readable files.
It’s just that they have been posted into a “close-friends” only environment.
If you’re able to find it……

But one thing though, really appreciative for the close friends that I had and have stayed with me throughout 2009, throughout all the difficult times and what not.
Even when they have their own problems to deal with , they were still there for me.
Really appreciate them.
Even if it’s only a couple of them.

Apparently, in Singapore, if a man rapes his wife, it’s not considered as rape under the eyes of the law.
Which basically means, it’s marital rape immunity.

But there shouldn’t be any. A rape is a rape. It doesn’t matter what the relationship between the perpetrator and victim is – spouses, lovers, friends, colleagues, acquaintances or worse, strangers. As long as there’s enough evidence of force being used, the rapist should be convicted.

Help those who are in need. There’s an ongoing petition at notorape.com, to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, urging for a complete repeal of the two instances of marital rape immunity in the Penal Code. Namely, Sections 375(4) and 376A(5).

Remember, sexual violence by any person, against any person, is criminal violence.
Help those who are in distress, you might know one yourself.
It’s disturbing, distressing for victims and their loved ones. Let’s all help, however minute that effort might be.

Do visit notorape.com for FAQs, downloadable materials like posters and flyers. Help shed light on this issue by spreading the word around to your friends, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc etc.

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Edited 17/01/10: I have no idea what happened to this campaign. It only had less than 4000 people signing the petition in the end. And frankly, it’s as though the whole campaign quietly dissolved. Oh wells, at least there were people who showed their support.