An Open Letter: SHARING THE BURDEN OF MOTHER DEAR

LET'S KEEP IT SIMPLE SIS.

Firstly you think that just because i agreed to pay 50% of dear mother's medical and household "outgoings" it's a done deal.

You know why you silly lame cow? How to calculate? Okay, Okay, it's the bright new world, one can pin any bits of cost on any body or any country. the United Arabian Emirates want Israel back. Argentina would love to welcome the people of the Falklands home. and so on.

I digress.

Ya, I saw your detailed bill which notes down to a thermo pot of $99.90. Brilliant work.

Here's my partial bill to you:

1. At least 5 years of loan payments to mum's house. Let's say $500 a month. That's 60 x 500 = $30,000. You owe me $15,000 for starters. And we are not even counting the yearly assessment and quit rent payments.

2. That air con you've been enjoying? $1,200. You owe me another $600.

3. You were not at Dad's funeral. so you saved yourself an air flight. But I had to make the journey. Can we share my mileage and toll costs with you? I had to fetch the grand daughter too. Does that count?

4. All the incident medical fess for mum's back pain - let's say $2,000. You owe me another $1,000. Can i charge the petrol to take her there? Never mind, I'll absorb that.

5. That cordless phone you asked me to buy? You never did pay me the 50% right? $275. So, please cough up another $137,50.

6. All the Chinese New Year celebration foodies. Let's say a miserable $300 a year. 30+ years, that'll be $9,000. Another $4,500 for me. Yay.

7. Transportation costs during the CNY period. No need to count lah. Free.

8. Cleaning cobwebs just now. $150. That's $75 for me. Oh, you mopped the house so minus $50. I watered the plants, so $10 back to me.

Getting kinda silly isn't it?

Look, you are single. No dependents. You da big sista, you pay for every thing lah.


What you gonna do if I don't contribute a single red cent? Sue me?


So sorry lah for calling you a lame cow and a calculating bitch. I'm a loser. And you're a fucking righteous winner goody goody. And I'll go straight to hell. So what?


Actually I was wrong: you are not a lame cow; you are a dumb ox. Me is a horny monkey with a red-hot ass on fire with a chicken-backside motor mouth.


So like that lah.


You have a nice gay life with your partner you hear?

I gotta go and play my part as a loser...

Tropical fish used in drug smuggling operation

Published: Dr Heok Hee Ng Monday 27 February 2012, 11:24 am

Copyright © Practical Fishkeeping

Thousands of aquarium fish have been killed as unwitting pawns in a drug smuggling operation that was foiled.

Olaf Urlik and Norbert Jarzabek, both originally from Poland, have been jailed for 11 years each after they were found guilty of trying to smuggle 17 kg of cocaine, worth an estimated £1.6m at wholesale, from Colombia into the UK.

The cocaine was dissolved in bags of fluid and stored within larger bags of a live tropical fish consignment. More than 16,000 fish perished in the attempt, with the survivors now recuperating at the ZSL London Zoo.

In a trial run carried out in April last year, the two men left a similar number of tropical fish to die after they collected a previous consignment at Heathrow and abandoned the fish to die in a lock up garage in Islington, London.

Confident that they would succeed after this rehearsal, the two men plotted for the cocaine to be hidden in a similar shipment of 25 boxes of live tropical fish arriving in July. Unbeknown to them, officials from the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) were aware of their plot and, together with the UK Border Agency, scanned the shipment, where they found cocaine in 10 of the boxes.

After leaving the shipment at the airport for two days, the two men collected the fish and drove to a flat in Nottingham, where police arrested them 90 minutes after their arrival.

The long period of neglect had caused many of the fish to perish from a lack of oxygen, and only 41 were still alive at that point. SOCA contacted experts at ZSL London Zoo to look after the survivors, although seven more fish died subsequently.

The 34 survivors, including catfish, arowana, tetras and stingrays, will remain at the zoo.

According to Gerry Smyth from SOCA: "These two were exceptionally callous. They used living creatures as a test run and then effectively as packaging for their drugs, seeing only the profits they would make. SOCA is grateful to the expert teams at ZSL London Zoo who helped us out in this very unusual case."

"Despite the awful way that they came about being here, we are pleased to say that the fish are now thriving at ZSL London Zoo’s Aquarium. When we first got the fish, most of them were drastically underweight, and they’d been living in cold, dirty water for days," added Rachel Jones from the ZSL London Zoo.

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