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Nov 18 09 // Rants
This is a blog post inspired in part by this Plurk, and also a conversation overheard on the MRT. The rest is based on my personal experience.
First, let me recap the conversation overheard on the MRT a few weeks ago. ...
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Nov 13 09 // Rants
The first seven 'gender-war related' comments are also known as 'The collection of Drunken Men Talk'.
1. When a man agrees with everything a woman says, he simply wants to fxxk her. :P (Incidentally, that is also true when you ...
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Nov 03 09 // Rants
I 'have been a PC' since my first PC/AT Compatible in 1987, and I have witness its progress from DOS to Windows and from Windows running on DOS to Windows 7 today. Back then, installing a new peripheral is a ...
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Nov 01 09 // Rants
Fellow blogger Chillycraps heard the following nonsense during his daily commute a few days ago.
China 没有 economics,
China 没有 civil engineering,
China 没有 mechanical engineering
When I asked Chillycraps on Windows Live Messenger where he heard those comments from, I was surprised that ...
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Oct 17 09 // Rants
I read with amusement the news of Australian mother Claire Davidson being reported to police by a school support worker for disciplining her child with a wooden spoon. Ms Davidson said she grew up with a wooden spoon in the ...
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Oct 15 09 // Rants
While it maybe true that violent crimes in Singapore such as robbery involving firearms or deaths, or exchange of gunfire in public is almost non-existent, it appears to me that the general low crime rate here has given Singapore citizens ...
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Oct 10 09 // Rants
According to news reports, S$230 million in baby bonuses were handed out by the Singaporean government gahmen in 2008, yet there appears to be no corresponding rise in the number of Singaporean babies born. Singapore’s National Population Secretariat statistics revealed ...
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Oct 07 09 // Humor, Movies
Monty Python's Life of Brian is an old comedy released in 1979. I was introduced to it by a friend when we were chatting over drinks in a pub after I quoted some lines from Monty Python and the Holy ...
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Oct 05 09 // Rants
1st October 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China and it was celebrated with massive parade before Tian-anmen, Beijing. This 4-week old video on Youtube about patriotic Chinese girls of the post-80 generation training for the ...
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Sep 30 09 // Rants
The one and only time I was told about a Miss Singapore who couldn't speak proper English, it was by my Secondary 3 English teacher who was then giving us a scolding over the bad English composition we wrote. That ...
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Sep 25 09 // Info
The link to the video was sent to me via email in Facebook via a Facebook group called "In Memory of B Jeyaretnam". It was an interview between JB Jeyaratnam and FEER editor Hugo Restall in 2008. The video ...
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Sep 22 09 // Info, Personal, Photos
This is my first visit and I arrive on Wednesday (16-Sep) to a... rainy Phuket. It was quite a turn off and all of us were quite disappointed, since the main objective was the sun and the nice beaches there. ...
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Sep 13 09 // Info, Photos
I went back a second time and spent another $20 on this exhibition, this time with my 'apprentice' chillycraps and my mei xinyun. The reason being I wanted to take better photographs of the exhibits this time. (Read my write ...
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Sep 10 09 // Info
As a result of the acquisition and re-alignment of the business by the new owner, part of the business in Tokyo folded and the remaining staff were relocated to the owner's office there. Tokyo's function as the regional HQ is ...
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Sep 07 09 // Info, Photos
I went to the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition last Friday (4th Sep). There weren't much of the scrolls I see except some fragments and personally I would say it would be better called the 'History of the Bible Exhibition' instead.
After ...
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Sep 06 09 // Info
I attended yet another "Young NTUC's Coffeeshop Talk" on 3rd September. This is the second I attended, with the first one more than 6 months ago. The guest of honor this time is Ms Grace Fu (Senior Minister of ...
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Aug 30 09 // Personal, Photos
It has almost been a year since the acquisition of my employer by another company, but only lately has it caused me to feel quite down. The relocation under one roof is almost completed and thus we are getting less ...
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Aug 25 09 // Rants
I would have written something about this letter when my friend sent it to me earlier had I not been bothered by work and some personal matters. Here's the letter in question:
Thanks, being a PR is good enough
August 20, 2009 ...
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Aug 19 09 // Rants
This is a translated excerpt of the Prime Minister's Baby Lee's National Day Rally speech (Mandarin):
We Asians pay great attention to filial piety This is a traditional virtue & we must maintain this. Although the government has a duty to ...
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Aug 12 09 // Rants
This is a post inspired by Erniesurn's blog post and a consolidation of my comments on his blog.
It has been 44 years since our expulsion from the Federation of Malaysia. Singapore has come a long way since then, and on ...
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Jul 28 09 // Rants
Sometimes I read statements like the following with some amusement (see below):
I have said this before, and I will repeat it here: my involvement in AWARE was in my personal capacity and not as an NMP, and in any case ...
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Jul 24 09 // Rants
We were soldiers once... and young.
While there are few of us who served our National Service (NS) with pride, we doggedly do for our nation what is required of us (the 2 / 2.5 years full time + regular 'reservists' ...
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Jul 21 09 // Rants
WARNING: Opinions expressed in this post WILL BE offensive to some.
A friend showed me a petition on "No To Rape" addressed to our Prime Mini$ter.
The intention behind this is certainly noble, and indeed I am against men with a high ...
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Jul 20 09 // Rants
Some friends were discussing on Twitter the recent decision by SMRT to reinforce no drinking / eating regulation on their trains. I believe this is enforced not just on the trains, but also the station platforms, and all of the ...
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Jul 16 09 // Rants
This is NOT yet another post to bash tweet.sg for the recent decision the owner has made.
My mei nicole brought to my the attention this blog post on tweet.sg. For those who have no clue what tweet.sg is, it is ...
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