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Recently, I had a conversation with my brother. He had an issue with some of the posts I was writing.Bro: Stop blogging on minister pay hike, taxi fare hike, ERP hike, food hike, … You are playing with fire. You know, Mr Brown? The bak chor mee video clip?Me: Mr Brown, sure. He is famous. ...
According to ST, SGH is clearing an entire surgical ward for the future doctors exams. Is there really such a need?“At the Singapore General Hospital, surgeons will stop doing non-emergency operations a couple of days before exam day, in order to clear out an entire surgical ward.”And for the sake of future doctors exams, expect ...
I inherited my first laptop pretty early, around ten years ago. It had a 486 intel chip at that time. At that time, pagers were still the in thing, while handphones were called da-ge-da, as they were huge like bricks. And, being the early days of laptop, laptops were really expensive. I fear losing ...
The price of rice in friendly supermarket has increase by around 10% recently, while export price of Thai rice has doubled based on last year’s price. The general mass feeling is to buy more rice, as the feeling is that rice price will only increase. No matter how much rice our minister shows us in ...
According to Reuters, TodayOnline and TheOnlineCitizen, Singapore media regulator (MDA) seized the political film “One Nation under Lee” and is investigating the screening of it to an audience of 70 at the Tulip Room in the Peninsular Excelsior Hotel.With this investigation, Singapore made it to international news, and the political film, “One Nation Under …
According to ST, “BOSTON - PEOPLE who got old, stale blood during surgery were 30 per cent more likely to die than people who got fresh blood, US researchers reported on Wednesday. Two weeks seemed the be the cutoff, with older blood causing more complications, the researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.” ...
I always remember a quote, “It takes a village to raise a child”. In a distance past, the society exists as villages, in which everyone knows each other, and every adult takes the share responsibility of teaching values, cultures and correcting any child of any wrong doings.Fast forward to the society at current time.We have ...
Yesterday (Sat), while waiting for queue number, I end up watching a show that runs from 7pm to 9pm. The story was that the Prince was in love with this girl and wanted to marry the girl. However, the Empress objected due to political reasons, as a Master Bai, offered to weaken the fief in ...
With the Chinese New holiday, most are busy (holidaying, visiting relatives and friends and partying), with fewer people reading the newspaper. You know, according to Reuters, some 77 percent of the population, are fleeing their Chinese New Year (CNY) in droves to holiday oversea.Interestingly, we have the ST article “Longer you stay on busy roads, ...
Ohhh. Yesterday, was the last 2007 home game for Singapore Slingers. Thanks, courtesy of Nicholas, I was again invited to the match with a close up view. It was such a close and excited ga …
According to Chicago Tribute, The University of Illinois trustees agreed to build the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in partnership with Singapore’s government. The deal is that Singapore government will provide a grant of $50 million.Smells similar in a sense to the deal with Australia’s University of New South Wales. Hope they don’t make the same ...
According to International Herald Tribune, World Bank Managing Director Juan Jose Daboub says that tightly-controlled Singapore needs to loosen up restrictions to allow innovation so that it can remain competitive in the long-term.He made his point by the illustration, “in United States, you can do a U-turn anywhere except where a sign forbids it, while ...
I just received notification from my host that the server that this site is on will be under maintenance from 11am-2pm (or even longer) on 7th Jun 2008. Sorry for the short notice.
Quote from ST article, “72 hours into the search”“But the irreverent nature that is a hallmark of Internet postings came to the fore time and again.One wag used a little ‘electrickery’ and put up a poster: Based on the hit TV series Prison Break, it featured a picture of Mas Selamat digitally grafted onto the ...
Today, I took a breather and hop onto a bus to Orchard in the evening. I was wondering how will Orchard library look and feel after it’s closure/moving on. You know, somehow the emot …
This year, the outlook of the economy for the commoners look dim. The cost of living has increased with various hike in food price, housing pricing, GST, and ERP. However, salary will have not hike in order for Singapore to stay competition. So, with such an outlook, commoners will tighten their pockets. Go for cheaper ...
According to The Washington Post, Bloomberg has launched a Mobile Application suite of investment tools and services with SingTel. SingTel customers can look forward to the ability to “create a personalized portfolio to track the performance of their shares and stock exchange indices”.Nice handy tool for investors.
Singapore is listed under USA Visa Waiver Programme. As such, to enjoy visa waiver, the Singapore passport holders do not need a visa if their passport fulfill one of the following 3 conditions (listed in Section A), and do not fall into any of the conditions (listed in Section B).Section AIf the passport was issued ...
Now, the next Slingers home match on 13-Feb-2008 will be the season’s final match, where the $1 million shot will be held. (You can get your tickets here.) If you are wondering what is this million dollar shot, let me give you as short overview. Singapore Slingers has holding a contest, named million dollar shot, ...
FAST easySafe is the only hardware cryptography product available in the market with unique features. It protects all sensitive information in your computer, external hard disk, USB flash drive, SD card and etc.Although the design is compliant to FIPS 140-2 standard with PKI technology, FAST easySafe, as its name implies, is rather easy to deploy ...
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