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Hah hah. Received this professional discount offer. This time round, it is $29.70 for 1 year (22 issues) of Forbes Asia magazine. The cover price is $220, with 86.5% discount! Any ideas on whether what I should do with the offer?
S$30 million dollars of inheritance from elderly widow and property millionaire, Mrs Golda Bechal is given to a couple Mr and Mrs Man Kim Sing with non-blood relations.Mr Man first knew Mr …
The last standing warrior in the recent taxi operators’ decision to raise taxi fare, has succumbed and will docilely follow the pricing of the dominant taxi operator (ComfortDelgo), whom started this round of taxi fare raise.From March 1, the flagdown rate of these 100-plus taxi, will be $2.80. The fare will be increase in units ...
It happened in our very familiar environment, the bus which almost everyone of us had to take daily. I was happily seating on the bus on my day downtown. At China Town area, an not-too-old old man broaded the bus and take a seat opposite me.He gave me a [friendly?] smile.I was thinking, another one, ...
An interesting article in New Scientist reported that people suffering from a newly coined bizarre disease, which is not officially a disease reports the following symptoms1) Found tiny fiberous material of blue, red and black growing in lesions on skin.2) The fiberous lesions are itchy and gives a biting and crawling sensation3) Suffer from chronic ...
It is really shocking to read that a Secondary One student, drown during school physical education (PE) class. According to the school principal, there were 58 students, and they were accompanied by 4 PE teachers and Singapore Sports Council-registered swimming instructors.Disbelieve, anger and shock. How could drowning occur under the charge of 4 adults, and ...
I think many of us are very interested to follow the news regarding Ren Ci. So, I have compiled a number of links from the news. From Straits Times. ST Nov 7, 2007 (Free)Ren Ci under inves …
I saved the best video of the Singapore Slingers vs West Sydney Razorbacks here.Oh my god! I will not comment for this video. It is just too good.Get the Flash Player to see this player.var s0 = new …
In the long drawn witch-hunting by Odex (the Singapore anime distributor), the High Court ruled that PacNet has to reveal the identities of alleged anime downloaders.This “reversal” of decision, is due to the addition of the six Japanese anime studios as co-plaintiffs whose copyright were infringed. These six studios, being the copyright owner of the ...
Interestingly, I found three articles on folded bicycle on train.In this first ST article titled “Allow folded bikes on buses and trains” on 12 Dec 2007, we have Mrs Ng Lai Yien speaking out on-behalf of her 15-year-old nephew, that officers at MRT stations had been stopping her newphew and friends from bringing their dismentled ...
iPhone in Singapore are taken off the shelves both in Sim Lim Square and online. Apparently, Apple has sent email to retailers in Singapore that threatened to make them liable for S$1,000 per firmware-unlocked iPhone sold.Why is there a need to firmware-unlocked iPhone?Apple’s marketing strategy is to locked each of the iPhone to a particular ...
She’s coming. Me, Bimbo? No flat = No Wedding. HDB housing available, but can’t I get a flat? Going, going, gone. Darling, I don’t love you anymore. Keeping in steps. More S’pore couples divorcing earlier.Where did the above came from? Click more to know.
No. No. I am not referring to the ones that happened in Johor Barhu. Not those a few years ago that scared off most Singaporeans from their usual JB shopping. Not those that even Malaysians are weary of that none of them carries handbag.Yes! It is happening in Singapore. And it just happened again on ...
Oh! w00t! w00t! w00t!w00t is crowded the word of the year by US dictionary Merriam-Webster!And w00t! Making money is among the top goals of Singaporean according to a recent OCBC Bank-commissioned survey.Minister Pay hike!Civil service salary components hike!ERP fee hike!Taxi fare hike!School bus fare hike!School fees and hostel fee hike!Cost of living hike!Property price …
This is our new City Hall that has been renovated…This is our not-so-new New Town…
Yes. What is the Slingers basket ball match without the Slingers girls? Here is a sneak preview of the Slingers girls!Get the Flash Player to see this player.var s0 = new …
It is Slingers basket ball times! Courtesy of Nicholas (Thanks!), I was again invited to an interesting basket ball match at Singapore Indoor Stadium. Here is a sneak preview of the match.Get the Flash Player to see this player.var s10 = new …
USA, effective from yesterday, banned packing loose lithium batteries (those not installed in electronic devices) from checked baggage, and limit loose lithium batteries to two spare lithium batteries per traveller in carry-on bags.So, if you need a spare lithium battery for your laptop, another one for your camera, and one more for your handphone, you ...
Transsexual! Ops, did I mentioned a taboo word? Males are spotted with the female “part”, while some female are spotted with look-alike male “parts”. Really, they have been spotted in this world. Truely. Spotted on earth, and not in the game ‘Second Life’. So, would you like to know where to find them?
NetworkWorldAsia reported that a malicious SymbianOS worm (identified as SymbOS/Beselo.A!worm) is actively spreading on Symbian S60 enabled devices which include Nokia 6600, 6630, 6680, 7610, N70 and N72 handsets.This malware is disguised as picture or music files such as Beauty.jpg, Sex.mp2 or Love.rm, and is able to infect the handset, as SymbianOS file system recognises ...
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