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Follow The Golden Dragon 2007-05-20 02:33:46 What’s China going to do with its stash of more than $600 billion in foreign reserves? Buy gold, of course. - Source Read more:Golden
, Dragon
90-Day Warranty + Chop 2007-05-20 02:13:48 Warranty
clause are extending to medical services! Next time you see a doctor and don’t recover in time, you can exchange yourself for another healthy one. Wrong, i mean you can exchange your medications for new medications! Wrong, i mean you can go for new operations when the old one don’t work. - Source
Remove your tattoos cheaply 2007-05-20 02:07:02 It’s expensive to remove tattoos, but not anymore! The tattoo removal programme, jointly run by Tentera Diraja Mosque and Eden Medical Aesthetics, was launched last July. Those who want their tattoos removed do so with a 50 per cent subsidy, but they have to agree to go for counselling. The cost of removal varies according to the tattoo size. It can cost from a few hundred dollars to thousands. - Source
Obesity may make you stupid 2007-05-20 02:03:02 This report suggest that new parents today should stop dreaming about having babies that are “white white fat fat”, unless you want them to grow up becoming more stupid than the rest. Then again Professor Ho is saying that it’s basically people that are condemning these fat kids that’s why they are becoming stupid. Now if you think you’re fat you maybe fat, if others say you’re fat, it means you’re really fat!
FA Cup final: Chelsea vs Man United 2007-05-19 11:52:36 Chelsea have a number of injury worries going into Saturday’s final. Andriy Shevchenko and Michael Ballack are definitely out, having taken themselves off for respective hernia and ankle operations, but how much of a negative impact that will actually have on the team is up for debate.
Of more concern is the fitness of centre-back Ricardo Carvalho, who has been one of the Blues’ best players this season. The Portuguese has damaged knee ligaments and has only a ‘one percent’ chance of playing according to manager Jose Mourinho, who must decide whether to play defender Khalid Boulahrouz or midfielder Michael Essien alongside skipper John Terry at the heart of the defence.
Boulahrouz has proven something of a liability this season and Essien has been drafted in as an emergency centre-back on previous occasions, but the latter option deprives Chelsea’s midfield of one of their most effective operators.
Winger Arjen Robben may be able to play some part in the f Read more:Chelsea
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China’s markets - A bubble waiting for burst 2007-05-19 10:08:47 Valuations for the China
’s markets have soared to precarious heights over the past year. Investors should exercise caution when investing in these markets. Remember whatever goes up will come down, whatever comes down will go up!
Source
9 workplace myths 2007-05-19 09:58:50 1. You’ll be happier if you have a job you like.
The correlation between your happiness and your job is overrated. The most important factors, by far, are your optimism levels and your personal relationships. If you are a pessimist, a great job can’t overcome that. (Think of the jerks at the top.) And if you have great friends and family, you can probably be happy even if you hate your job (imagine a garbage collector who’s in love).
2. Job-hopping will hurt you.
Job hopping is one of the best ways to maintain passion and personal growth in your caeers. And here’s some good news for hoppers: Most people will have eight jobs between the time they are eighteen and thirty. This means most young workers are job hopping. So hiring managers have no choice but to hire job hoppers. Ride this wave and try a lot of jobs out yourself.
3. The glass ceiling still exists.
The glass ceiling is over, not because people crashed through, but because people are not looking up. Life above the glas
big boys toys 2007-05-19 09:42:15 Looks really realistic right? Too bad they have no feelings, can’t move, don’t talk. Imagine playing with something that feels like a log! But hey, some real women also behaves like a log during sex.
Source
Work Holiday Programme (WHP) 2007-05-19 06:26:32 Coming Dec 1, foreign visitors on vacation to get jobs here will be allowed in Singapore for 6 months! It sounds also like foreign visitors to get jobs here while on vacation can stay for 6 months. Good incentive for those that overstay to work here! Read more:Holiday
, Programme
Bid for your NDP tickets 2007-05-19 05:44:00 Today you can start to bid for your NDP tickets. To apply via the telephone, the number to call is 1900 112 4242 to apply for tickets to NDP Preview 2007 and 1900 112 4243 for tickets to NDP on Aug 9, 2007. To apply via SMS, send a text message beginning with “NDP” for the actual parade or “PREVIEW” for the preview show and NRIC number to 42422 for two tickets, 42424 for four tickets, and 42426 for six tickets. Bidding begins on May 19 and ends May 28.
Speed Reading 2007-05-22 17:04:40 In today’s Information Age, reading is now a prerequisite for success in life. In fact, many presidents, including Kennedy, have required their staff to take speed reading lessons.
Brian Tracy, a best-selling author, points out that just 1 hour per day of reading will make you an international expert in your chosen field within 7 years.
If you’re looking to increase your learning rate while decreasing your effort, speed reading is a method you should consider studying. By simply learning how to process information at a more rapid rate, you’re not only going to be able to move through books more quickly, but you will also be able to comprehend and process more of what you have read. Speed
reading is an excellent skill that can be used in your workplace, your home life, as well as your personal hobbies.
The Brain’s Power
Speed reading actually began as part of military training to identify enemy war planes. Pilots used a pacing tool called a tachistoscope that flashed images befo Read more:Reading
, Speed Reading
Why We Procrastinate 2007-05-22 11:17:35 Have you ever spent time thinking about a task you need to tackle but keep putting off, then spend time telling yourself you just must get started and wondering when you will start it, and then feeling guilty because you are working on other tasks instead. Yet this one keeps hanging over your head. If this sounds familiar, you may be one of the many people who procrastinate, and procrastination is probably the biggest time waster.
Putting off the inevitable, sometimes until a deadline is staring you in the face, causes the highest stress level, and results in managing time by crises. There are many reasons why people procrastinate. For some it happens occasionally under specific circumstances, and for others, it is a way of life. Here we will explore a few of the reasons behind why people procrastinate.
1. Poor work habits. These people procrastinate on everything. They are so far behind that they are constantly trying to keep up with yesterday. Boy, talk about high stress!! Their resp
Interesting ways to die 2007-05-22 10:35:43 20. Alex Mijtus, 36 years old, was killed by his wife, armed with a 20 inch long vibrator. Mrs Mijtus had had enough of her husband’s strange sex practices and one night during a prolonged period of “fun” she snapped, pushing all 20 inches of the vibrator into Alex’s anus until it ruptured several internal organs and caused severe bleeding.
19. Debby Mills-Newbroughton, 99 years old, was killed as she crossed the road. She was to turn 100 the next day but, crossing the road with her daughter to go to her own birthday party, her wheel chair was hit by the truck delivering her birthday cake.
18. Peter Stone, 42 years old, was murdered by his eight year old daughter, who he had just sent to her room with no dinner. Young Samantha Stone felt that if she couldn’t have dinner no one should, and she promptly inserted 72 rat poison tablets into her father’s coffee as he prepared dinner. The victim took one sip pnd promptly collapsed (Samantha Stone was given
Your Passport lifespan is getting shorter 2007-05-22 09:56:08
Source - Even your new passport’s lifespan is getting shorter
. Soon you can only use your passport for only 6 years, after which you have to change another new one. How to save trees like that? Read more:Passport
Profit capping on F1 2007-05-21 18:00:18 Source - Smart government, they set a “secret” profit cap on F1 and will take any extra revenue to themselves. Seriously speaking why would i bother to put up a show so great when i know that i can only earn the first $X,XXX,XXX (I dont know how many digits) and that the rest goes to somebody else?
Tanglin Mall going for a facelift 2007-05-21 17:55:57
Source - Tanglin Mall is finally going for a facelift
. My impression of this mall is..
1. It’s so right at the start of orchard road that unless i’m driving up from Holland road i wouldn’t bother about going there.
2. They only have antiques and not so popular stores in there.
3. More angmohs like to go there.
Dengue Hotspots 2007-05-21 17:38:46 TOP clusters as at May 18:
# Jalan Songket/Hougang Street 21 (Blocks 220, 221, 222)/Aroozoo Avenue/Surin Avenue/Jalan Samarinda/ Jalan Mastuli/Jalan Pelikat.
# Balestier Road/Martaban Road/Pegu Road/Minbu Road/Mandalay Road/Jalan Ampas.
# Guillemard Road/Lorong 16 Geylang/Lorong 18 Geylang.
# Jalan Senang/Senang Crescent.
A cluster is defined as two or more dengue cases that occur within 14 days and not more than 150m from each other.
SOURCE: NEA Read more:Dengue
, Hotspots
Sibeh cute 2007-05-20 18:33:28 A cute pic to start off your sucky monday!
Lipton Tea Wacky Uses 2007-05-20 18:32:55 Deodorize your feet. Boil three or four Lipton Flo-Thru Tea Bags in one quart of water for ten minutes. Add enough cold water to make a comfortable soak. Soak your feet for twenty to thirty minutes, then dry and apply food powder. Do this twice a day until odor is under control. Then continue twice a week to keep odor under control. Tannin, which can be found in tea, is a drying agent.
Dye graying white fabrics. If Clorox bleach won’t whiten a graying white garment, soak the item in hot, strong brewed Lipton Tea until it is a shade darker than you desire. Then rinse in cold water and let dry.
Highlight brown hair. Rinse red or brown hair with brewed Lipton Tea for golden highlights.
Relieve sunburn pain. Pat your sunburn with wet Lipton Flo-Thru Tea Bags.
Accelerate the germination of grass seeds. Mix two tablespoons of cold, strong brewed Lipton Tea into each pound of seed, cover, and set in the refrigerator for five days. Before sowing, spread the seed to dry for a day or two o
10 Signs You Have Grown Up 2007-05-24 18:14:38 1. You think of the consequences before you act.
2. You find it hard to spend as you know that earning money is not that easy as spending money.
3. You realise that time is precious and you do not have much left.
4. You get the idea that things you done 1 year ago feel extremely retarded to you now.
5. You start getting wedding invites.
6. When you meet up with friends, the topics goes like this “Last time”, “In the past” , ” Remember that time when we…”.
7. You suddenly ask yourself what is the meaning/purpose of your life.
8. You can do something you do not like everyday even when there is no one pushing you to do it.
9. You see other kids and you ask either 1) How old they are, 2) Where they are studying.
10. You forgot what it is like to be a kid and how irrating adults can be when they all ask the same questions.
Source Read more:Grown
Great Singapore Sale starts today 2007-05-24 17:58:31
In case you have been living in the cave, let me tell you that the GreatSingapore
Sale 2007 starts today, so get really to shop, shop and shop.
Sun Ho’s Fans Cheated in Votes 2007-05-23 17:28:52
Her fans rigged the Taiwan’s Golden Melody “Most popular female singer award” by creating multiple nick to vote. It was traced to just a few IP address and up to 10k votes deleted. - Source Read more:Votes
Champions League Final - AC Milan vs Liverpool 2007-05-23 09:17:52 ChampionsLeagueFinal
AC Milan
vs Liverpool
Nothing bigger:
The biggest match of the season anywhere in the world, as Italian giants AC Milan take on England’s most successful team throughout history and 2005 winners Liverpool. This is going to be one hell of a tussle, and whatever the outcome, viewers everywhere are promised top quality football from two footballing sides - that means no boring defensive “football” like that of Chelsea, and certainly no messy, unorganised football like that of Bayern Munich this season.
United demolition:
It is no surprise that AC Milan come into this match as favourites to win in regular time. AC Milan have been immensely impressive in Europe this season, as they prevented an all-English final by totally destroying Manchester United at the San Siro. Manchester United’s hope of going to Italy and getting a mere draw to qualify evaporated as early as the end of the first half, when Kaka and Seedorf capped Milan’s total d Read more:Champions League
UNSW Asia closes down barely just 3 months 2007-05-23 09:03:36
What a flop this is! Just barely 3 months, this university had to close down because of “financial difficulties”. Poor UNSW grads-to-be now have to consider joining the rest to go SIM.
- With the new campus already built, they can develop it into the next old changi hospital!
- Our “Education Hub” status can be called Education Pub. Tiger beer?
- Someone picked the wrong choice even after considering other universities in Europe, the United States and Australia. Read more:Asia
Christopher Lee decides to go to Jail 2007-05-28 18:09:23 SINGAPORE : Actor Christopher
Lee will be starting his jail term for drink driving from Monday, after deciding not to appeal for a lighter sentence. Lee was sentenced to 4 weeks’ jail earlier this month on charges related to drink driving. -CNA
More Foreigners in Singapore, especially Indians 2007-05-28 18:04:48 Foreigners galore - Visitor impressions with the large increase of foreigners, especially Indians
, in Singapore
. By suria.
May 27, 2007
Random notes on Singapore
(This article on Singapore was published in 3quarksdaily)
It is true that changes are afoot in a nation that – after the Asian Financial Crisis, and the terror caused by the spread of SARs – realised its government could never offer it complete protection.
The bargain for freedom from want in return for silent cooperation was not legitimately struck.
It was based on the false notion that Singapore was a nation in charge of its own destiny rather than a small sliver of land, smaller than the dot that represents it on the global map.
It made me think of my last trip to Singapore, a couple of months back. Every time I visit Singapore, I am surprised by the pace of change. I, in my nostalgia, try to seek out places I knew from before, and am constantly reminded that I am oh-so-outdated.
But this time, I was struck by the numbe
Third Singapore soldier dies 2007-05-28 18:00:33 A THIRD Singapore
Armed Forces soldier
has died following the crash of a Taiwanese jet fighter into a storeroom on the island on May 11.
Lance Corporal Calvin Chow Han Min’s death came more than two weeks after he was flown back here for treatment at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH).
The 19-year-old full-time national serviceman had burns over half his body and respiratory burns from smoke inhalation following the crash of a Taiwanese F-5F fighter jet into a storeroom he was in.
Two other Singapore soldiers who were with him - Corporal Isz Sazli bin Sapari, 19, and Private Fan Yao Jin, 23 - died at the scene. -ST
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