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Just sharing a story I saw on the Web…So this guy, Patrick Moberg, from New York, spots the girl of his dreams while waiting for a subway; love at first sight if you will. He’s 21 and a designer for Vimeo (a startup, think Youtube in high-res). Said guy quickly makes a sketch of her ...
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There I said it. If you watched it last night then do drop a note and tell me what you thought. Will update with youtube links once they are up.Briefly, LGE opened with a flurry of accusations, touching on 5-6 “land scandals”. As the night went on though they focused on one particular scandal, the ...
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You may recall that some time back the government tried to spin on their rating in the Global Competitiveness Report, claiming that we were “eighth” among nations with a population of above 20mil - conveniently excluding Singapore of course. We had actually fallen two places. (Hey Pak Lah, isn’t it even MORE OF A SHAME ...
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Going down to KL this weekend and thought I’d leave you guys with this (if I haven’t told you about this already).I don’t usually care much for blogger drama but this case feels a little different somehow.It started with a post by a Singaporean blogger, Jean, titled “Help needed: I was molested by a friend ...
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TM has launched its new High Speed Broadband (HSBB), branded as UniFi recently. Press coverage can be found here.The UniFi page was initially accessible on launch (albeit with the typical error found on all government sites, accessing it without the “www.” wouldn’t work.But later the page was updated to be more “Flash”- y:However it seems that …
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Blackberry’s foray into the tablet market has been long overdue . RIM’s previous touchscreen offerings have been mediocre at best (I’m looking at you, BB Torch!) and you wouldn’t be faulted for wondering if RIM is merely jumping on the bandwagon. In a rapidly growing tablet field, what does the Playbook have to offer? I ...Related posts:Why Smartphones …
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In the Sarawak elections a few months back, my uncle Michael Teo stood for the Senadin seat and (in)famously lost by 58 votes out of nearly 15,000 cast (The Bernama article linked conveniently forgets to mention that there were 186 spoilt votes and that the BN candidate snagged 1,100 postal votes). The EC denied a ...Related posts:T’gganu BN Youth – Umrah holiday …
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Call me the product of a childhood in church or a bookcase full of romance. But at this age I still find myself feeling like a ship lost in a stormy ocean when I hear about people I know cheating, fooling around, or hooking up as fubus. Happiness is all that matters, people say. And ...Related posts:Christian LoveBeen coming across quite a few Christians, at church and …
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I grew up reading the iconic Lat comics, with their romantic, stylized depictions of kampung and pekan life. No Malaysian artist has resonated with the public quite like him. So when I heard of Lat Kampung Boy: A Musical, I just had to round up friends to go, managing to get decent seats at the ...Related posts:February Reviews (2007)An Inconvenient Truth I nearly passed over …
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I grew up reading the iconic Lat comics, with their romantic, stylized depictions of kampung and pekan life. No Malaysian artist has resonated with the public quite like him. So when I heard of Lat Kampung Boy: A Musical, I just had to round up friends to go, managing to get decent seats at the ...Related posts:February Reviews (2007)An Inconvenient Truth I nearly passed over …
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