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Over my latest phone call home, my mum told me about the new ERP gantries that came up near our family home back in Singapore. She told me that yes, they made some mention on the news about new gantries going up on Bukit Timah Road and the ECP, but she made a very valid ...
I was woken up by this morning’s earthquake.I don’t live in a part of the earth frequented by such natural phenomena, so it was more exciting than worrying. It was as if my bed were set on vibrate mode for about two minutes, and a horde of excited children were stampeding in the apartment above ...
If your native language is not English, please consider enlisting the help of an English-speaking colleague in preparing the text. - Physical Review and Physical Review Letters: Tips for A …
I was out for lunch and saw a guy sitting down with a friend and a burger. In gleeful tones, he exclaimed to his lunch:I’m gonna turn you into poop!
Via Lancerlord:The folk behind Million Blog List are trying to figure out how long it’s gonna take to sign up 1,000,000 blogs at their wiki.I just added myself at #135. Lancerlord’s at #134.If you feel so compelled to join, go right ahead.
Overheard on the bus home yesterday:“So he walks up to him and says, I got more control over yo’ life than you and he says how’s that, and he says, I’m letting you breathe, ain’t I?”That’s somehow very Zen.
This public service announcement applies to students on F-1 visas graduating with a degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics at an accredited US institution.Effective immediately, the US government will allow extensions of certain recent F-1 graduates currently on the OPT program. The extension will allow for a total of 29 months on OPT.ReferenceUS Dept. ...
freshbrainz.com reports that Doctor Andy Ho, Senior Writer at the Straits Times, has finally made a factual error so severe that it has prompted an angry and severe rebuttal from a wronged party.This, of course, is not the first time that Andy Ho’s vacuous writing has drawn flak from readers. Other bloggers have taking him ...
Sovereign wealth funds have emerged in recent months as the world’s power brokers. They have used their tremendous wealth to make big cross-border investments and prop up some of Wall Stre …
“Now of course, PM Lee Hsien Loong will not use A-level grades as his sole selection criterion [for his successor]. But the fact that he uses A-level grades as a selection criterion at all is quite shocking.” - Mr WangThanks to chiao for the heads-up to this article in the Financial Times (London) discussing the ...
Thanks lancerlord for discovering this Rueters site:acidflask will kill us all!Eh, mine got picture leh!
Here’s an interesting example of how a poorly implemented pseudorandom number generator cost a game show over $110,237 in 1984.See also this Wikipedia article.So remember, kiddies - always seed the RNG, even with something simple like RANDOMIZE TIMER.
In 1998, the 5 ‘C’s were:CarsCashCondominium ownershipCountry club membershipCredit cardsIn 2008, the 5 ‘C’s are turning out to be:Censorship [1] [2]China [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]Credibility crisis [1] [2]Collective sales (i.e. en-bloc) [1] [2] [3] [4]Complacency [1] [2]Other honorable mentions:Caning cock-up, or corporal punishmentCashcards [1] [2]Cash …
If you have five minutes to spare for something whimsical, try signing up for the British Airways Executive Club.I didn’t know Encik was a title. Or, for that matter, Dipl. Ing.Would you like peerage with that, Wing Commander?
澄怀屏尘虑 － 仙昌A tranquil mind rids itself of mundane worriesIronically, translating these five characters into English took a good half-hour of fretting over the nuances of expression.If anyon …
I recently watched Catherine Lim’s speech “Singapore: An Inconvenient Truth” on her blog and was thinking over some of the things she had said. So I decided it would be useful to have a transcript of it to look over, since I prefer reading to listening, and there are some details in it that are ...
So apparently there’s this virus/meme going around the M$N pipes that tells you “you look like shit in this pic :S”.This is immediately followed by a link to the site msngallery dot gigacities dot net. If you click on it, it downloads a Windows or MSDOS executable that apparently spams everyone with a similar link.If ...
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