of good rendition of robyn's "call your girlfriend" by swedish group erato

Erato - Call Your Girlfriend: Three members from the Swedish all-female vocal group Erato sings Call Your Girlfriend. Originally by Robyn, it is now performed by Ebba Lovisa Andersson, Amanda Wikström and Petra Brohäll.


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Members of Erato: Carolina Sandström, Petra Brohäll, Ebba Körlof Sundberg, Sophie Rosvall, Ida Lindgren, Ebba Lovisa, Ulrika Skoog, Amanda Wikström, Nina Sidenö, Sarah Östberg

of wikileaks' julian assange arrested over rape claim

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange arrested over rape claim: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange surrender himself to British police after Sweden issued a warrant for his arrest over allegations of sex crimes.

Assange, whose WikiLeaks website is at the center of a row over the release of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, was arrested under a European Arrest Warrant.

Swedish prosecutors want to question the 39-year-old Australian about allegations including rape. He denies the allegations.

WikiLeaks, which has provoked fury in Washington with its publications, vowed it would continue making public details of the 250,000 secret U.S. documents it had obtained.

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of retired sia jumbo turned hostel a hit with guests

Retired SIA jumbo turned hostel a hit with guests: The Jumbo Hostel has been around for quite a while. The hostel situated in the Stockholm-Arlanda airport was originally built for Singapore Airlines and even flew for Pan Am. It was last operated by Transjet, a now bankrupt Swedish airline.





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of holland village nude couple charged. girl is singaporean eng kai er.

Nude couple charged: The naked girl charged is Singaporean Eng Kai Er, 24, a university student in Sweden, were charged. Guy is Jan Philip, 21, a Swedish student on exchange programme.


Jan Philip (far left) and Eng Kai Er are accused of appearing nude in public at Holland Village at about 11pm on Jan 24

A COUPLE who caused a stir by strolling down naked along Lorong Mambong earlier this year were charged in court on Thursday. Jan Philip, 21, a Swedish student on exchange programme, and Eng Kai Er, 24, a university student in Sweden, are accused of appearing nude in public at Holland Village at about 11pm on Jan 24. Both were clad in black suits when they appeared before District Judge Shaiffudin Saruwan. Their lawyer, Mr William Chan, asked for an adjournment to write in to the Attorney-General's Chambers. If convicted, both may be fined up to $2,000 and/or jailed for up to three months. As Philip is a foreigner, he was offered bail of $5,000 but Eng, a Singaporean, need not post bail. Philip's passport was impounded. They will be back in court on April 30.

Some says Singaporean girl is an A*Star scholar studying in Stockholm and a skater.

Click here to see the photos (NSFW) of the couple taken at Holland Village.

Update: Nude woman identifed as Singaporean A*STAR scholar

The woman is Singaporean Eng Kai Er, 24, who is studying at a Swedish university, and the man, a Swedish student on exchange here in Singapore, is Jan Philip, 21. Eng, described as a petite woman with short hair, is an A*Star (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) scholarship holder. She was also a member of Mensa, an association whose members are defined by their high IQs. According to the A*Star website, she is pursuing a PhD in infection biology at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. During her teen years, Eng represented Singapore as a competitive ice skater in Skate Asia, the largest ice-skating competition outside the United States.

of beer bottle domino

Caféen? Domino: Cool video. Falling dominoes using beer bottles by a group of Swedish guys.


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of shoe hurled at israeli ambassador in stockholm

Shoe Hurled at Israeli Ambassador in Stockholm: The Israeli ambassador to Sweden was hurled a shoe during a discussion at a university in the Swedish capital city of Stockholm.

Footage recorded by a cell phone shows that a person in the crowd threw a shoe at Ambassador Benjamin Dagan at the seminar about Israel's upcoming elections.


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of meteor hits sweden (video)

Swedish Meteorball: Meteor over south of Sweden, 17th of January 2009. Filmed by Roger Svensson.

I’m getting reports (here (with pictures) and here (translated through Google) and here (also translated)) that a pretty big fireball was seen over Sweden last night. A video showed up on YouTube and it’s impressive.

This meteor may have actually dropped debris all the way to the ground (I doubt it hit intact, but instead disintegrated high in the atmosphere). Despite how bright these events are, tracing just where a meteorite impacted can be difficult, so the more observers the better. If you saw this event, report it to the International Meteor Organization! You might help scientists understand this object better, and it might even lead to finding meteorites, as it did in Canada in November.

Click on image to watch the video

Other links:
- Roger fångade meteoren på film (Roger caught the meteor on film)
- Ljusfenomen över NV-Skåne (Light Phenomena of NV-Skåne)

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of the 50 most beautiful women of the 2008 beijing olympics

The 50 Most Beautiful Women of the 2008 Beijing Olympics

It looks like hot athletic women are dominating the Olympics this year. Here are the sexy world class girls that made our ‘50 Most Beautiful Women’ list.

Ayumi Morita – Japan

The list:

50. Dara Torres – United States
49. Yelena Soboleva – Russia
48. Katerina Bad’urova – Czech Republic
47. Venus Williams – United States
46. Cat Osterman – United States
45. Bronte Barratt – Australia
44. Gro Hammerseng – Norway
43. Serena Williams – United States
42. Veronica Campbell-Brown – Jamaica
41. Katy Livingston – Great Britain
40. Ayumi Morita – Japan
39. Annabelle Orme – United States
38. Diana Lopez – United States
37. Sanya Richards – United States
36. Chantelle Newbery – Australia
35. Jessica Ennis – Great Britain
34. Elizabeth Beisel – United States
33. Agnes Szavay – Hungary
32. Almudena Cid – Spain
31. Leisel Jones – Australia
30. Britta Steffen – Germany
29. Ana Ivanovic – Serbia
28. Christine Arron – France
27. Ricarda Lisk – Germany
26. Sophie Edington – Australia
25. Katerina Emmons – Czech Republic
24. Kelly Sotherton – Great Britain
23. MeLisa Barber – United States
22. Charlotte Craig – United States
21. Marta – Brazil
20. Naide Gomes – Portugal
19. Yelena Isinbayeva – Russia
18. Sue Bird – United States
17. Jenny Adams – United States
16. Luciana Aymar – Argentina
15. Margherita Granbassi – Italy
14. Heather Mitts – United States
13. Natalie Coughlin – United States
12. Susanna Kallur – Sweden
11. Allyson Felix – United States
10. Tatiana Golovin – France
9. Stephanie Rice – Australia
8. Victoria Pendleton – Great Britain
7. Lauren Jackson – Australia
6. Jelena Jankovic – Serbia
5. Amanda Beard – United States
4. Alona Bondarenko – Ukraine
3. Rita Dravucz – Hungary
2. Maria Sharapova – Russia
1. Alexandra Orlando – Canada

Alona Bondarenko – Ukraine

of ntu student writes e-mail expressing opinion on the drop in education standards

SGFRAG posted an email written by an NTU student sent to the NTU Chief Planning Officer, Mr Chan Kwong Lok. In the email, the student commented on the drop in education standard at NTU and questioned the need to charge additional fees for students attempting special terms.

Dear Chan Kwong Lok,

I writing this email to you to express my personal opinion in an informal and frank manner.

Firstly, I feel that there isn’t a need to charge additional fees for students attempting special terms. The cost of $500 for a Singapore citizen is extremely high given the economic conditions now (cost of inflation and so on). OAS claims that it is for the provision of higher quality of education in NTU. If a fee needs to be charged, can it be made lower and more affordable?

Here are some queries that I have with regards to the above issue
Why is it that only that minor in entreprenuership is not covered?
What about other minor programmes?
Why must students taking special term be penalised economically?

and enquiries to new “real estate” developments in NTU.
Why is it that the prices of food in the new food court so high?
Why are we bringing in outlets like old chang kee and sakae sushi when our own library expansion project is delayed?

I have been in NTU for 1 academic year and I personally feel the quality of education rendered to me is of low quality. Basically, I am struggling to learn over here and most of my lectures could barely be understood. I came from Ngee Ann Polytechnic before joining NTU and I can proudly say that the quality of education is much better there.

Here are my opinions on the quality of education here at NTU;
Hands on training is minimal (Most of the lab sessions are conducted by PHD students (most of them) have serious communication problems with the students) and the main method of assessment lies on examinations; clearly the real world has little relation to examinations as key performance indicators.

How is NTU going to train world class engineers? When will Singapore’s level of technological innovation match Germany or Sweden? When will a true born Singaporean win a Nobel Prize? Basically, content is just taught through and no effort is made to teach the actual concept. Everyday, we are drilled with the concept of examinations and we are end up as mindless drones to the entire system. The intellectual and EQ connection between the students and most of the professors are virtually non-existent. My mentor is also non-existent, he doesn’t appear in any of the meet the mentor session, so much about nuturing talent.

I really hope that NTU can adopt a more practical and less exam oriented curriculum with more focus to the side of professional development. For a start, we should try to introduce the small class/seminar system so that the students can learn better and there will be a better intellectual stimulus between the professors and the students.

To highlight how much standing we have lost.
Take a look at the times world ranking of universities. In 2007 ranking of technological institutions, NTU was ranked 25th, as compared to NUS (10th position). What happened? Aren’t we supposed to be the premier technological institution in Singapore? As such, NTU really needs to rethink its management policies and working culture if we are going to further our standing.

To prove my point, lets look at some of the illogical things being done on our campus
1. Why is it that every time it rains, why does the sheltered areas get wet? Why is it that rain shelters in NTU mysteriously start from no where and end out in some awkward location?
2. Take a look at one our internal campus bus service, it has a NTU advertisement on the bus promoting some ecocity concept. Yet the bus is emitting greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels. As a suggestion to boost our public image and point, why not operate a bus (with the ecocity advertisement) based on the EURO IV emissions standards?

If NTU can’t even provide the basic needs for its students, than seriously the university should conduct a complete shakedown on its operating procedures and policies.

That is all I have to say for now. As you are the registrar of this university, it is up to you bring these issues up to Prof A and Prof B for further discussion. I am all but just a undergraduate.. (I am seriously sick and tired of going to feedback here and there to my school, that is why I chose to write to you).I am sure you are able to find many undergraduates facing the same issues as me.

On a final note, I have discussed many of these ideas with my peers. Many of them (most have resigned to this fate) have said that my ideas are too “revolutionary” and one man can’t change the system in NTU. Well I am going to try… and I hope that things can really change for the better in NTU.

Yours sincerely,
X

of sweden's latest pop sensation - lykke li

Likke Li's "Little Bit": Lykke Li's music video for her latest song "Little Bit". Lykke Li is sweden's latest pop sensation. Critics have indicated that she is one singer that is going to make it big. -


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Click here for Lykke Li's MySpace blog.

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of iran protests over swedish muhammad cartoon

Iran protests over Swedish Muhammad cartoon: Iran summoned a Swedish diplomat to its foreign ministry on Monday to protest against a cartoon in a Swedish newspaper depicting the head of Prophet Muhammad on a dog's body. The cartoon was drawn by Swedish artist Lars Vilks, whose series of drawings of the prophet as a dog have sparked a controversy in Sweden. Several art galleries refused to display the sketches amid fears of angry reactions from Muslims. -

Click here for Lars Vilks official website. Direct links to the 2 drawings here and here.

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