nick’s (n)-line life

Over the past few months there have been posters all over the HKU campus advertising for the CBL China International Law School. I must say that at first, I thought the idea was rather neat. Here’s their blurb:
English speaking students get the opportunity to study Chinese and International business law during the three-week course. No [...]

Yep, after much build-up, today is the big day in Singapore:
IBN Live — Polls opened at 0000 GMT at more than 400 voting stations and were to close 12 hours later. By late morning, one-fifth of the 1.2 million registered voters had cast their compulsory votes, the elections department said.

The Contenders:

and the currently ruling PAP:

Results [...]

This year’s local elections are now wrapped up and the results are as follows:

Councils
Councillors

Party

Net +/-
Total
Net +/-
Total

Conservative

12
67
250
1568

Labour

-18
24
-254
1064

Liberal Democrat

1
13
18
781

Residents Association

0
0
-8
21

Green

0
0
14
20

British National Party

0
0
13
13

Liberal

0
0
-1
9

Independent (…) Health Concern

0
0
1
5

SALT

0
0
0
3

UK Independence Party

0
0
0
1

Others

 0
0
-33
94

No Overall Control

 5
59
-
-

The real winners were the Conservatives, with the Lib Dems holding their own, and labour falling flat on its face. The BBC have published a  very useful Interactive election [...]

Fresh Creations are running their favourite sexist ads and I thought I’d run a couple of my favourite comedy ads:

and moving on…

Augh, crude comedy is a fine art.

I haven’t posted for a while as I’ve been wrapped up with my dissertation deadline. Happily this is now all wrapped up and, despite word deciding it was going to loose 4 hours of my work on the morning of hand-in day, it seems to have ended happily. Now it’s just a question of finals [...]

Looks like a lot has been going on in Singapore this week:
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore’s government dissolved parliament on Thursday and called an election for May 6, a poll that will be the first real test of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s leadership. [ Via SingaBloodyPore ]
As a country approaches a general election one [...]

Discussion of the Kanamara Festival, Japan ["The Penis Festival"]