okay, there's apparently lots of eye-opening news.

erm, the whole world has been asking me about the stabbing, but i don't know anything more than what you read on the papers! =X and i don't know what to comment... hmmm. the cabbie kept asking me who's fault i think it was, but don't know anything how to comment! =X ah well~ let's wait and see. hai. so sad.

and our dear merlion. HMMMM!

With reference to this...

Mr Anton Johannson, 23, from Sweden, was disappointed that he could not capture the Merlion 'in action'' on camera. It had stopped spouting water. But when told of the lightning strike, he cheered up: 'Now we have a story to tell people!''
(http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_344820.html)

...random convo:

A: "the merlion very sad leh! kena blasted a hole in the head liao, people still keep laughing about it!"
B: "ya! imagine the tourist go back to his country and ppl ask him, "so! what interesting infrastructure did u see in singapore?" "ohhh, i saw the merlion! but it got struck by lightning.."
C: "ya! and i saw the ferris wheel too, but it stopped moving!"