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I was rather surprised to see this Adsense advertisement on my site. The ad title was “Apple Travel Laptop”, but it was a Sony VAIO advertisement. I immediately wondered, what has Sony got to do with Apple? Sony ...
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I’ve been wanting to say this for the longest time. Since receiving this mass email this morning, I thought it might as well be now. SOME NUS STUDENTS ARE REALLY VERY STUPID! Does it make sense to leave a notebook out there ...
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Table tennis wins over the National Day Rally. The live telecast of Singapore’s National Day Rally is postponed to the next day, because the timing clashes with the live telecast of the finals of the Olympics women’s ...
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Our government is trying to encourage businesses to employ senior citizens. Not so much as to prefer senior citizens, but so long as they are suitably qualified for the job, age should not be seen as a discriminating factor. ...
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Did you read today’s Straits Times? As I was reading this article, I thought to myself, isn’t this the ultimate solution to the perennial problem of manpower shortages to staff our army? This could be a great way to ...
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I was quite surprised today, while browsing through my own blog, to find an advertisement for the SAF. How curious that the contents of my blog could have been deemed suitable for the placement of an army advertisement. How odd, ...
| Lifestyle & Family
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This is the Chinese meal I had at Florida Mall last week. Looks nice, and good sized portions (possibly due to the fact that it was closing time). But did it taste nice? Actually, I thought it was not wonderful at all. I ...
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I like to eat all kinds of food. When I travel overseas, I have no compulsion to have to find Chinese food, or any familiar Singapore food. Oddly enough, this time in Orlando, I found myself eating a few meals of Chinese (the US ...
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I’ve always found it rather amusing, even hilarious, to listen in on computer sales people trying to make sense of technology to the non-PC literate consumer. For example, this afternoon I was just overhearing a customer ...
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I had lunch at Sun Asian Bistro with a big bunch of colleagues a couple of days ago. It’s the restaurant down at NUS Staff Club. Some of my colleagues had actually been there twice already (it’s a new restaurant, so ...
