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Does 'Not Unhappy' = Happy?
With all the internet chatter among Singaporeans on how train commuters have to constantly enjoy the whiffs emanating from fellow passengers' armpits on a regular basis - so much so that one can...
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Study Finds Older Men Have Stupid Children: New Insult Is Born
11 Mar 2009 - Medical News Today reports that a study (quoted below) has discovered a link between the age of the father and the intelligence of the child. The study concludes that the older the...
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New And Old Citizens The Same?
Don't be mistaken that there has been nothing to write over the past month that I've been missing. On the contrary, it was frustrating to see so much happen yet not have the time to pen down my...
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Man Utd One Game Short of Maximum for Season
Yesterday, Man Utd beat Arsenal 3-1 to reach the finals of the Champions League Competition. And with it winning all the other possible trophies save the FA Cup, it would have played a total of 66...
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Uniquely Singapore: One Low IQ Boy vs Two Low EQ MPs
It's a bad time for Singapore and Singaporeans, no doubt; everybody's tightening their belts - not to mention those who have no metaphorical belts to tighten in the first place. And just to break the...
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Man-in-the-street Paying Back Temasek Losses?
I called my friend when news broke that civil servants will not be receiving their mid-year bonus and asked him how he was coping. He replied half-jokingly that it was to be expected because the...
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Reading Between the Lines of Local News
I know, I know.... I promised to be more regular and frequent in updating my thoughts here, but projects keep falling on my lap - again, this is not a bad thing and I'm grateful to be...
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Joke of the Day - Asking Sales Staff to Put Heart into Work
MyPaper published an article yesterday by 'uncle' Geoff Tan who must be either disillusioned or has a mischievous streak. 'Uncle' Tan called on sales staff in Singapore to put heart into their work,...
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Ferguson is a Smooth Operator Indeed
Whilst reading the news on ESPN Soccernet today, I realised something interesting. David Beckham was a home-grown Manchester United player who was sold to Real Madrid for US$41 million and, at the...
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Want to be High-Class, Don't Make Silly Spelling Mistakes NUSS
The other day I received an unsolicited mailer from NUSS (National University of Singapore Society) offering a discount on their Graduate Club membership. First of all, I have no idea why they would...
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What an Elaborate Way to Keep us in the Dark, Temasek
Frankly, it has been super-annoying to make sense of the latest figures from Temasek. A lot of questions and head-scratching has been going on and honestly, I just wanted to ignore all the crap and...
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Straits Times and its Stupid Polls
As usual, another pointless straw poll was conducted and reported in the Straits Times today entitled 'Foreigners welcome, say teens' which comprised asking 100 random (one hopes) youngsters a few...
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ST's Word of the Day: Refridgerators
I chanced upon a good article entitled Wacky ideas to go greenpenned by Ms Ho Ai Li, the Taiwan Correspondent to the Straits Times, that discussed the environmental sensitivity of the Taiwanese as...
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ST's Typos Get Grander
I just came back after a week in Phuket to an interesting email from a buddy showing an abysmal error right in the top-middle of Saturday's front page. Unlike previous errors which occurred primarily...
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The Evolution of a Straits Times Headline
Recently, there has been some furor over our Minitor's (i.e. short for Minister Mentor) comments:"The size of China makes it impossible for the rest of Asia, including Japan and India, to match it in...
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Why Changing Headlines is Bad...
Recently, the Head of Editorial Systems at SPH remarked in an ST blog post that some bloggers "jump up and down ... when an SPH website changes a headline". Well, although I don't have the habit of...
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NTUC: Union or Members’ Club?
Ttrade unionOrganization whose membership consists of workers and union leaders, and whose principal purposes are to (1) negotiate wages and working condition terms, (2) regulate relations between...
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First Attempt at Creating a Comic Strip
Discovered a good piece of software today called Bitstrips that facilitates creating comic strips online - including unique characters, and started playing around with. Well, here's introducing the...
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Comic Strips That Make You Think (Hopefully)
Bear with me as I perfect my material and please offer your valued feedback, thanks...
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Article on Speak Good English Not Walking The Talk
It's always interesting to spot mistakes, but priceless when the context makes them so much worse...source: Straits Timesadvice[ədˈvais] (noun)suggestions to a person about what he should do...
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