SIMTech staff has died after he was involved in a boating accident in Agatti island

SINGAPORE: A Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) staff has died after he was involved in a boating accident in Agatti island, off India, on Monday.

Mr Yong Kian Fei was on vacation when the incident happened.

While it is not fully known how the accident occurred, Mr Yong and his colleague, research engineer Desmond Ho, were believed to be attending a wedding on the island.

Thirty-two-year-old Mr Ho was injured during the accident and was sent to a local hospital. He is said to be in stable condition.

An A*STAR spokesperson said it was making arrangements for him to return to Singapore last night.

A Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) spokesperson said Wednesday that its consulate general in Chennai is aware of the incident and is in contact with the families of both Singaporeans.

MFA will also provide the families with all the necessary consulate assistance they might need.

A SIMTech supervisor has accompanied Mr Yong's family members to India and is helping the family to make arrangements to repatriate Mr Yong's body back to Singapore.

Agatti island is situated about 459km off Kochi and is a popular beach resort destination due to its blue lagoons and coral reefs.

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K-ON ep 11 – Teen yuri drama, inanimate objects join the fight for attention and the stage is set.

Let the yuri show begin!

Subs took rather long today…  Screencaps have been around for at least a day, rather funspoiling when I can’t watch the raw thing, PLUS screencaps with SOME sort of subs to make what the characters say evident is many times better than raw screencaps.  So yeah, I had to wait for the subs >_<  Not many episodes to go (actually there’s just one more) so let’s all enjoy whatever yuri we can get.  :P *drums* *fanfare* I give you yet ANOTHER episode full of yuri, along with a number of surprises.
In episode 11 the fun starts almost immediately.The girls are discussing their imminent performance in the auditorium and talk about last year’s performance, the one were Mio exposed her inner world to all her fans.  Well not really but it was close.  We DID get stripes after all

I thought they fixed Azunyan some episodes ago... Or is that an excuse for more private lessons?

Mio doesn’t like it but people have not forgotten her live show last year.  And since we’re talking about showing Azusa the ropes, what’s better than a DVD with Mio at her best performance?

Nutcase-sensei, should you really be showing your students stuff like that?

Azusa has reached Ecchi level 4! Azusa gains 3 Pervert Points! Azusa can pick a new Ero Ability!

Aftermath... Azusa has advanced in her quest for pleasure.

Tissues are right there girls, help yourselves

Anyway, after all the lustful individuals are done watching Mio’s debut, it appears Ritsu has once again forgotten to submit the Auditorium usage application.  It turns out they also need to supply a group name so they start coming up with ideas, not successfully if I may add, although one can only appreciate the irony of them…

Is there even HALF a person in that club who's not a complete lech?

And we come to one of the main topics of the episode (yes, besides yuri and all that).  Yui, being Yui, wasn’t maintaining her guitar for a year so the strain was becoming obvious (not sounding as good, strings were getting rusty, etc).  And no, you don’t explain ALL that to Yui in one go, Azusa, cause her lazy processor cannot comprehend more than one new concept per day.
So anyway, the girls decide to visit the music store and have Yui’s guitar inspected and fixed.  Mio comments on the stores not having instruments for left-handed people but she’s extremely happy when she finds out it’s a special left-handed sales day.  Leaving shyMoe to her left-handed instrumental heaven, Yui and Azusa visit the shop’s counter where ONE of the extremely few males in K-ON resides.

Guy : Hmm... kinda small... Yui : So THAT'S how it looks like!

Seeing Yui interested, Azusa tries to strike up a convo with the guy but I suppose being inexperienced hurts there.

Nice one, Azusa! Let's see how Yui picks up from there!

Only Yui can take something normal and make it utterly insane, perverted and hot. Watch carefully, Azusa. This is how a pro works.

Yui eventually gets her guitar fixed without realizing she has to pay for it, we get some “Mugi-sama” scenes as she saves Yui again (woot! another TWO whole guys in K-ON! It’s not an urban legend!), then Ritsu tried to drag shyMoe out of the store and there’s where the yuri drama begins.

Clouds in the horizon... and some moe Ritsu footage

Not sure what’s shyMoe’s problem there, I mean Ritsu’s always playing so there’s no point getting pissed like that.  To make matters worse, the company splits because Yui promised to meet with Nodoka and shyMoe wants to tag along.  Ritsu doesn’t like that, so they end up spying on the other three after all.  Yuri jealousy is evident.

Declaration of ownership! "Back off! She's mine!"

Things aren’t better afterwards, with shyMoe and Nodoka spending lunchtime together all the time and Ritsu trying to push her way between them.  Nodoka seems like the unwilling participant in this yuri triangle.  Anyway, it gets even worse, as Ritsu teases shyMoe to no end and shyMoe gets pissed.  Yuri emo drama ensues.

Ohoho, Ritsu revealed her true feelings. Pity, I kinda liked her with Yui, they think alike.

Oh? So what's all that about then? Trying out tsundere moe cause you missed the attention?!

Ero Azunyan willing to give her everything to the group again... "Sa-wan has taught you well".

She does manage something though and they start practicing a bit but Ritsu’s performance sounds weird.

Emo?? Nah, can't be... Yandere?! Is it Yandere?!! It is, isn't it?!! Yuri Yandere!! Nodoka is doomed!

Ritsu drops the practice and leaves, and no one sees her for some days afterwards.

Well... Some people are REALLY into it in that school...

Anyway, back to the music club, with Ritsu missing, there’s obviously going to be a problem with the live performance.  Not that everyone seems to care much about it, going emo over Ritsu’s strange absence.  Nutcase-sensei however understood the situation perfectly.

Well... Now that I think about it... *nosebleed* RitsuxMio works, too.

Nutcase-sensei warns that in any other case, Ritsu may descend to the realm of delinquents and heavy metal.  Yui, who’s natural at a number of things, picks up the vital information instantly.

... So, let me get this straight... You're both saying that Ritsu and Mio were going out? Ah, good, cause I wasn't 100% sure they were dating. Thanks for clarifying the matter.

So wait, does that mean YuixRitsu was just a vacation affair…? Is Ritsu trying to start a harem? Since she’s already going out with Mio, is AzusaxYui going canon? What about Mugi? Damn… this episode puts many complicated issues on the table…  And that’s not all…

Careful, Mio! There's another one who's after Ritsu here.

The meeting leads to nowhere.  Trsundere-shyMoe tries to find Ritsu at school and we finally learn that Ritsu hasn’t been coming to the club because she’s absent due to sickness.  So shyMoe goes to pay her a visit.

"Mio! Don't leave me! I love you! Yui was just a passing thing!! T-T"

Using weak, pleading eyes attack.

Aaaw... Mio loves Ritsu, too...

Yes, it- what?! How did YOU get here?!

Anyway, try to forget you saw TransMomoko from Shangri-la and let’s move on.  Shortly afterwards the other three girls drop by for a visit, too.

Yui is Yui. Yui owns everything in K-ON. And I thought we all left the jealousy thing behind...

Ritsu finally recovered thanks to the combined power of deep yuri love or something along these lines and the girls are ready for their performance.  Of course, no one submitted the Auditorium application AGAIN, although at least Ritsu has an excuse now.  Nodoka pleads the student council with Ritsu and manages to get one more day to submit the application.  And finally, the yuri triangle is resolved.

Ritsu finally approves Nodoka...

So that's what you were up to! Good thinking! Now you can keep shyMoe AND expand your harem without anyone objecting.

They are having problem with the name again, so Nutcase-sensei takes the matter into her hands and just signs them up.  So everything, from Yui’s now-naughty guitar named GITA~ to the complicated yuri polygons have been resolved.  Time for a group pic to celebrate this happy occurrence.

Yui, stupid people don't catch a cold... But then, it was Ritsu first so this must be a unique kind of cold.

I think I’ve said it before… I’m not really into K-ON emo episodes.  At least this one was better than the other cause it was kinda funny even around the supposed teen drama and the RitsuxMio bed scenes were rather touching.  While there were many things to pick up in this episode, as well as Yui’s brain overheating, it didn’t FEEL as fun as, say, the last beach episode, although many will just disagree on episode 10 being good and stuff.  This episode felt something between Azusa’s episode and a normal K-ON episode.  I suppose I do rank it higher than the emo-Azusa ep, but it always feels weird watching emo teen drama in K-ON.  In the end it was K-ON alright but I kinda miss the old pure light-hearted K-ON days.  I know teen life is full of emo drama so sometimes you can’t escape from a bit of that even if you want to.  Anyway, I guess it was a good episode overall.  The yuri was there, ero guitar and tissues were there, even actual GUYS were there, which is a K-ON commodity.  Not that I care about them, they just make the setting feel a bit more realistic.  Yui ruled in yet another episode and, yes, I’m rather Yui-biased as you may have noticed
Next ep is apparently Yui catching a cold for good and her timing is terribly bad as the performance is around the corner, so we’ll just have to wait and see what she’ll do.  Please, God, let this be a non-emo episode… For those who might not know already… this is it…  the mother of all episodes…

The End approaches

PS If you notice changes when you refresh, it’s just me editing typos and fixing grammar :p  Yes, 4am is a bad time to review stuff
PS2 Remind me never to review episodes at 4am in the morning… I decide on something and I end up writing something completelly different >_>

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