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Moral of the story: Elites, created by the artificial infusion of rights, are parasitical to the society they live in, and cause said society to work harder to feed them. Hmmm, why does that sound so white and familiar.

aiyooo.... so long ago tai ji u still ji jiw wai wai... limpeh hoot other ATB jiuhu bu until forget who is who already... please laa.... live the moment laa... still crying over spilled milk... this milk spilled so long ago... the ants eat the milk on the floor and is already great grandfather now... u still jjww... atb go home, buy house and move on already la... u young boy should have young ideas.... dont jjww like ah soh..... 2021 H2 already... 2022 coming soon... move on la....

i found full time job already... less time to post here... maybe evening or weekend... Good luck with u job search... pretty sure your dream job will come soon.

i also wish my laopeh got this money give me to burn. https://www.mingtiandi.com/real-estate/finance-real-estate/cdl-agrees-to-buy-51-of-chinas-sincere-property-group/ CDL STRIKES DEAL TO ACQUIRE 51% STAKE IN MAINLAND DEVELOPER FOR RMB 4.39B “Our strategic partnership with Sincere Property marks a major milestone in CDL’s history and represents a game-changing investment for us,” Sherman Kwek, Group Chief Executive Officer at CDL said in a statement. He added that, “This deal will transform the Group’s scale and firmly establish CDL as a major player in China’s property sector.” and fast forward 1 yr......... Singapore property dynasty sees woes piling in China unit https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/singapore-property-dynasty-sees-woes-piling-china-unit CDL faces turnaround after China debacle https://www.theedgesingapore.com/news/company-news/cdl-faces-turnaround-after-china-debacle

China where got so easy to do biz. even our govt also never hear much investment in recent years. they rather dump it in India .

A parasite gives its hosts the appearance of youth, and an unmatched social power in the colony. By Katherine J. Wu Deep in the forests of Germany, nestled neatly into the hollowed-out shells of acorns, live a smattering of ants who have stumbled upon a fountain of youth. They are born workers, but do not do much work. Their days are spent lollygagging about the nest, where their siblings shower them with gifts of food. They seem to elude the ravages of old age, retaining a durably adolescent physique, their outer shells soft and their hue distinctively tawny. Their scent, too, seems to shift, wafting out an alluring perfume that endears them to others. While their sisters, who have nearly identical genomes, perish within months of being born, these death-defying insects live on for years and years and years. They are Temnothorax ants, and their elixirs of life are the tapeworms that teem within their bellies—parasites that paradoxically prolong the life of their host at a strange and terrible cost. A few such life-lengthening partnerships have been documented between microbes and insects such as wasps, beetles, and mosquitoes. But what these ants experience is more extreme than anything that’s come before, says Susanne Foitzik, an entomologist at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, in Germany, who studies the ants and their tapeworms. Infected Temnothorax ants live at least three times longer than their siblings, and perhaps much more, she and her colleagues report in a study published today in Royal Society Open Science. No one is yet sure when the insects’ longevity tops out, but the answer is probably in excess of a decade, approaching or even matching that of ant queens, who can survive up to 20 years. “Some other parasites do extend life spans,” Shelley Adamo, a parasite expert at Dalhousie University, in Nova Scotia, who was not involved in the study, told me. “But not like this.” Under typical circumstances, Temnothorax ants live as most other ants do. They reside in communities ruled by a single fertile queen attended by a legion of workers whose professional lives take a predictable trajectory. They first tend the queen’s eggs as nurses, then graduate into foraging roles that take them outside the nest. Apart from the whole freaky parasite thing, “they are pretty boring,” Foitzik told me. Normalcy goes out the door, however, when Temnothorax larvae ingest tapeworm-egg-infested bird feces trucked in by foragers. The parasites hatch and set up permanent residence in the young ants’ abdomens, where they can access a steady stream of nutrients. In return, they offer their host an unconventional renter’s fee: an extra-long life span that Foitzik and her colleagues managed to record in real time. The researchers spent three years monitoring dozens of Temnothorax colonies in the lab, comparing the fates of workers who’d fallen prey to the parasites and those who remained infection-free. By the end of their experiment, almost every single one of the hundreds of worm-free workers had, unsurprisingly, died. But more than half the parasitized workers were still kicking—about the same proportion as the colonies’ ultra-long-lived queens. “That was amazing to see,” Biplabendu Das, an ant biologist and parasite expert at the University of Central Florida, who wasn’t involved in the study, told me. And despite their old age, the ants’ bodies still bore the hallmarks of youth. They were difficult to distinguish from uninfected nurses, who are usually the most juvenile members of the colony’s working class. The tapeworm-laden ants didn’t just outlive their siblings, the team found. They were coddled while they did it. They spent their days lounging in their nest, performing none of the tasks expected of workers. They were groomed, fed, and carried by their siblings, often receiving more attention than even the queen—unheard of in a typical ant society—and gave absolutely nothing in return. The deal the ants have cut with their parasites seems, at first pass, pretty cushy. Foitzik told me that her team couldn’t find any overt downsides to life as an infected ant, a finding that appears to shatter the standard paradigm of parasitism. Even the colonies as a whole remained largely intact. Workers continued to work; queens continued to lay eggs. The threads that held each Temnothorax society together seemed unmussed. Only when the researchers took a closer look did that tapestry begin to unravel. The uninfected workers in parasitized colonies, they realized, were laboring harder. Strained by the additional burden of their wormed-up nestmates, they seemed to be shunting care away from their queen. They were dying sooner than they might have if the colonies had remained parasite-free. At the community level, the ants were exhibiting signs of stress, and the parasite’s true tax was, at last, starting to show. “The cost is in the division of labor,” Das said. The worms were tapping into not just “individual [ant] physiology, but also social interactions,” Farrah Bashey-Visser, a parasitologist at Indiana University who wasn’t involved in the study, told me. Scientists think of social insects not as single bugs, but as interlaced parts of a giant “superorganism,” Manuela Ramalho, an ant biologist at Cornell University, who wasn’t involved in the study, told me. When one individual acts, others around it react; in a colony, no ant can truly act alone. Parasites of these communities automatically extend their reach to multiple animals at once, a rippling mind-control effect that spreads and amplifies the consequences of infection. Although the tapeworms had infected only a fraction of the Temnothorax workers, they were puppeteering the entire society. That altered existence might play directly into the parasite’s hands. Tapeworms of these species can’t mature into adults and produce eggs until their ant host is consumed by a bird—a fate that insects in full possession of their faculties try to avoid. But ants who spend all their time lazing around the house make for easy prey; hosts who are pampered and long-lived have a high chance of surviving until they’re eaten. The worm’s most ingenious move might play out in some ants’ final moments, as they trade their natural fear of intruders for a dollop of ennui. When Foitzik and her students crack open infected Temnothorax colonies, the parasitized workers do little more than stare expectantly skyward. “Everyone else is just taking the larvae and running,” Foitzik said. “The infected workers are just like, Oh, what’s going on?” Down to the molecular level, the parasite is pulling the strings. Sara Beros, Foitzik’s former doctoral student and the paper’s first author, told me she has split open Temnothorax abdomens and counted up to 70 tapeworms inside. From there, the worms can unleash a slurry of proteins and chemicals that futz with the ant’s core physiology, likely impacting their host’s hormones, immune system, and genes. What they achieve appears to be a rough pantomime of how ant queens attain their mind-boggling life span, a feat humans still don’t understand. (The tapeworms’ grasp of ant aging is far more advanced than ours.) The parasites are effectively flash-freezing their host into a preserved state—one that will up their own chances of survival, and help guarantee that their species lives on. The worms’ MO is subtle and ingenious. They are agents not of disaster, but of an insidious social sickness that sets reality only slightly, barely perceptibly, askew. Infected workers get a taste of invincibility and status, swaddling themselves in youth and the benefits it brings. They also form resource sinks that sap the energy of those around them. They become echoes of the microorganisms they harbor. They are, in the end, parasites themselves. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/05/ant-tapeworm/618919/

There a reason why some say. Wealth cannot last 3 generation

@The_King kor kor, is the lady ur friend?????

What is that? Empty plate? You eat empty plate is it

And the generations after him are likely going to bankrupt the family fortune. 富不过三代.

Glad that @meng.huat has moved on after being dumped rike trash by atb Hope chiu can continue to contribute to dis Winning Thread and regain chiur status as a Core Member of My Winning Team.

the prawns looks super not fresh... if feed my luohan fish... my fish also hiam... DKG still post until machiam some 5 star restoran....

tiongland was a much easier place to do biz back in the 1990s since the country still under various sanctions becos of 1989. i wouldnt touch india either becos of the redtapes and inconsistent policies. or else why u think the tatas, ambanis and mittals all shift their domicile to either uk or netherlands?????

pai kar kia at most ruin his own family. bo ability crown prince is ruin whole country. just be thxful that the surrounding neighbors either have a laosaing pm or a lame-duck president.

@HarrisY Your tapeworm jskm

Next time I treat chiu kym? By dat I mean chiu lick those plates after I jiak finish the sushi wahaha song boh

actually sherman is not the first and also not the last. in sherman's defence, his bolehsian cousin is not much smarter. theres a reason why his fellow bidders do not want to raise the offer price https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/hong-leong-confirms-us12b-acquisition-columbia-asia-hospitals https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/sime-darby-still-considering-spinoff-healthcare-unit

worse is he cry like a DKG when their finish their 6 months contract... and jjww to your friend about his ex-staff....

What started as a cry for help by Malaysians during rolling lockdowns and galloping Covid-19 infections has come to epitomize the descent of their once-proud nation. The Southeast Asian country lost its status as a role model for the developing world some time ago. Now, it may be relegated to the lane of also-rans that shone during the heyday of globalization but failed to capitalize on a strong start. Malaysians in distress have taken to waving the white flag from windows and driveways. At the most basic level, it’s surrender and a plea for assistance: food, a bit of cash to help pay the rent. Thanks to social media, the banners have taken on an emblematic life of their own. Not quite a movement; people have no hope, and not much desire, to overthrow the government, and it isn't clear these days that there’s one to topple. It’s more of a shorthand for discontent at the atrophying state and troubled economy. The country’s prime ministers were once given grudging credit for stable leadership, albeit with authoritarian traits. However, lawmakers have proven breathtakingly unable to coalesce around a figure or program to guide Malaysia through this plight. The nation is beset by multiple crises — social, economic and political — fed and worsened by each other. It may only be a slight exaggeration to invoke the dreaded label of a failed state. Civic life is suffering from numerous misadventures. The latest twist in a saga that’s been running since at least early 2020 came in the small hours of Thursday. The United Malays National Organization, the party that led Malaysia from independence until losing power in 2018 in the aftermath of the 1Malaysia Development Bhd. scandal, declared it will leave the ramshackle coalition presided over by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and urged him to quit. That may not be the end of the machinations; UMNO itself is split between a group that wants to reclaim its dominant position and lawmakers willing to keep nice cabinet posts that Muhyiddin has given them. There isn’t an easy way out of this mess. Malaysia’s travails go beyond any one person. No prospective leader appears to have sufficient support in parliament, let alone a mandate from the population of 32 million, to replace the weak prime minister and provide stable administration. An election is supposed to be held once the pandemic subsides, a determination that’s hard to quantify. The monarchy, rotated among hereditary sultans of nine states, is being forced to leave the ceremonial shadows to referee, something that the royal households appear less than comfortable doing. So, the surrender flag captures the end of a strutting, can-do mentality, or “boleh.” Citizens are stepping in where authorities have failed as the pandemic has delivered seemingly endless misery. Southeast Asia has been rocked by the delta variant. On Thursday, Malaysia added almost 9,000 Covid cases. Only a bit more than 8% of Malaysians have received both vaccine shots, as of Monday. Some of the strictest lockdowns have been in Kuala Lumpur and the nearby commercial powerhouse of Selangor state, and taken a toll. At their worst, factories have been shut, public transportation has run on a skeleton schedule, and the military has manned road blocks.Some measures have been eased, but large parts of the country remain shuttered. Asia, writ large, is in the midst of a strong economic upswing. However, that recovery has yet to fully visit Southeast Asia, a region of more than 650 million people. In its last World Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund forecast growth in Malaysia of 6.5% this year. Gross domestic product plummeted by more than 5% in 2020, the worst performance since the Asian financial crisis in 1998. To meet such a bullish projection or even get close to it, the second half of 2021 needs to be stellar. Further interest rate cuts and fiscal outlays are almost assured. But whatever the numbers say, many Malaysians aren’t close to feeling the benefit. Even rubber glove makers are worried; they appealed to authorities this week to lower Covid restrictions and let them continue to produce. The last decades of the 20th century offered a different route. During Mahathir Mohamad’s premiership from 1981 to 2003, Malaysia was an emerging-market icon. The country grew rapidly with relatively low inflation and stable budgets. Mahathir loved to poke at the West, but he opened markets and privatized state companies. He resisted aid from the IMF and challenged orthodoxy by imposing capital controls and fixing the exchange rate during the Asian crisis. Contrary to predictions that the efforts would fail, they shored up Malaysia. But it started to go wrong. Boondoggles like an ostentatious new airport and the soaring twin towers funded by state oil giant Petronas suggested waste. One of Mahathir’s successors, Najib Razak, bungled the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in front of the world’s cameras. Najib led UMNO to defeat in 2018 and has been convicted of corruption related to1MDB. Mahathir’s return at the helm of an opposition bloc offered a brief moment of renewal. But he couldn’t give up on political wheeling and dealing — even well into his 90s — and opened the door for Muhyiddin to edge him out of office. Longstanding ethnic and religious fault lines have been worsened in recent years by an urban-rural divide and a generation gap that no political organization has come to grips with. The credibility of the ruling class will keep eroding the longer it takes to vaccinate against Covid and for a recovery to take hold. The current intrigues sadly seem far removed from the daily needs of business, finance and even putting food on the table. No country can continue on this course indefinitely and be a model for anything other than dysfunction https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-07-08/malaysia-raises-the-white-flag-on-the-road-to-failed-statehood

amdk writer dont know what is failed state??? failed state is like this, ok????? bolehsia is considered as state with laosai PM, ok???????

wahaha jin song sia

@Chestnutthis video for you

her road tax also expired... got money drive lambo... no money pay road tax.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — An arrogant lilac Lamborghini driver in Singapore failed to see her own poor parking skills and instead chastised a Honda car owner for making it hard to park her sports car. The pastel-hued luxury car owner took to Instagram to vent her frustration, blaming the situation on the grey Honda parked next to her. In her searing post, she claimed the Honda driver was jealous and had parked in such a manner on purpose whilst mocking the car owner’s financial position. The image she uploaded visibly shows the Honda was parked within the designated parking space and it was the lilac Lamborghini that had crossed over the white line. “This Honda owner is not only poor in finance but also poor in EQ that’s why he purposely parked like this,” she wrote. EQ or emotional intelligence refers to the ability of understanding, using and managing one’s emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively and empathise with others. The Lamborghini driver threatened to create trouble for the Honda owner whom she called a “psycho” in her post. “If you think I cannot open the door, you are wrong, man. “You will see what are the troubles I created for you then,” she said. The snapshot of her Instagram Stories post was posted on the Facebook group SG Road Vigilante which received 2,700 shares and over 700 comments at the time of writing. Social media users were outraged over the Lamborghini owner’s harsh words and inability to admit her own mistake. “Can’t even park within her lot. Don’t know who’s poor in EQ though,” one person commented. “Honda parking looks perfectly fine,” read another comment. “I think you parked over his white line, you must be a bad driver,” one user exclaimed. The Lamborghini owner was also discovered to be driving with an expired road tax. “I thought you’re rich, how come you never renew your road tax? Even poor people know how to renew their road taxes,” a Facebook user replied. A screenshot of a road tax validity check was shared on the Facebook group showing the Gallardo LP550-2 SMT model’s road tax had expired on June 27. According to Singapore’s Land Transport Authority, driving a vehicle with an expired road tax is an offence punishable by a fine of up to SG$2,000 (RM6,200).

Caught it... Not bad...

Cash out, John wick style of store his gold, act normal. Move to safe country like Japan so no one know me. I don't want get killed before I spend the money. The only person that know I got the money is me, myself and i

if so, then our kor kor must potong

Pai Kar Cai is it

Dat distant family aunty ish estranged from us liao I onli noe abt her from her FB wahaha

auntie got join the dinner party?? ransack her room for panties

Go my slum kia unker's haus at Frankel slum jiak wan lor

Nowadays i still prefer go tpy to eat.

theres a reason why many bee kok enterprise lived long after the founding owners passed on. at first, Towkay Robert wanted to keep wilmar running under the family blood but faced stiff resistance from their bee kok partners. https://investors.adm.com/news/news-details/2020/ADM-Completes-Previously-Announced-Secondary-Block-Trade-of-a-Portion-of-Wilmar-Ownership/default.aspx#:~:text=ADM will retain at least a 20 percent equity investment in Wilmar. but he seems to come around after the many examples he saw liao. https://www.wilmar-international.com/about-us/leadership

His face look like he about to go crazy I

Sorry, I work alone. I see her as someone who take.my content away

Sushiro is jhj... u no order clam miso soup to lim on cool day?? thank chiu... is not gojek... but i will work harder... KGK xdd dream jod not easy to find... i paiseh to intro him... later he hiam lai hiam qu...

gxgx to kor kor on finding job as senior manager in go jek. maybe kor kor can help our kgk xdd here to find job in ur dept as assistant pa or something.

+1

On a lighter side to this pandemic, this is funny

SINGAPORE: Police on Friday (Jul 9) said a 30-year-old man was arrested for his involvement in a suspected case of armed robbery at a moneylender along Bukit Batok Street 31. The authorities were alerted to the incident on Thursday at about 7.13pm, said police, with preliminary investigations revealing that the suspect is believed to have acted alone and fled the scene with about S$22,000 in cash. The suspect had allegedly showed a woman working in the unit a handwritten note saying "this is a robbery”, police said. “The suspect had also allegedly indicated that he had a knife with him in his bag,” police said. “The victim complied with the suspect’s instructions and handed over to him cash amounting to about S$22,000. The suspect subsequently fled the scene with the money.” The authorities said the robbery lasted a few minutes, after which the victim called the police. A handwritten note from the suspect used in the robbery at a commercial unit along Bukit Batok Street 31 on Jul 8, 2021. (Photo: Jeremy Long) The suspect, said police, had taken “proactive steps” to conceal his identity by covering his features and avoiding leaving any evidence at the crime scene. Police said the suspect was arrested within 11 hours of the incident at Lorong 8 Geylang, following “extensive investigations” and footage from police cameras. More than 50 officers from the Jurong Police Division, Criminal Investigation Department, Police Intelligence Department, Police Operations and Command Centre, and the Public Transport Security Command were involved in the manhunt. Image from police camera showing the suspect after the robbery. {Image: Singapore Police Force) “Cash amounting to about S$18,506, two handwritten notes and a bag were also recovered following the arrest,” police said. “Efforts are ongoing to recover the rest of the loot and the knife allegedly used during the robbery.” Investigations are ongoing. The man will be charged on Saturday with armed robbery. If convicted for armed robbery committed between 7pm and 7am, he could be jailed between three years and 14 years, and given a minimum of 12 strokes of the cane. If a deadly weapon is used, he could be given not less than 12 additional strokes of the cane. Cash amounting to S$18,506, two handwritten notes and a bag recovered by the police following the arrest of the suspect on Jul 9, 2021. (Photo: Jeremy Long) Source: CNA/vc(rw)

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