Stallone vs The Reds
There were three big huge Hollywood actors in the mid 80s, and whichever movie they appeared in, it’d be a big hit at the box office, even if the movie was a turkey. The three were Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis,
Month: May 2008
What I really wanted to be
Truth to tell, I didn’t always want to be a teacher. Heck, growing up with a family where nearly every person on my maternal side was a language teacher, I wanted to be anything but a teacher. Why I eventually
7.9
I was talking to Matt yesterday and somewhere along our on/off conversation the topic got into the state of toilets in Singapore. He said Singapore rocks, and I said Singapore is probably the only country in the world that regularly
Unknown callers
An email with an attachment just landed in Outlook at work titled Phone Scams: Crime Prevention Outreach to Schools. Reading off the forward list, the email has gone quite quite a long way before it finally reached staff. I suspect
Car parking
Here’s another letter that was written to the forum page at The Straits Times just a couple days ago. Sections of the letter are below (edited to save space, but full letter in the link). May 14, 2008 Insert graciousness
Paid by the hour
There was an interesting letter by a Huang Qiao Ying to The Straits Times recently about property agent commissions. Truth to tell, it’s one of the best forum letters I’ve read in the last year. Here’re some snippets of it:
GTA IV = education (!)
Well, after completing a review of Civilization IV as an education game alongside a colleague at work for the other blog I write for, I was asked to consider writing another educational game review, but this time for GTA IV.
Fumoffu!
My earliest exposure to Japanese anime and cartoon was when I was in Primary 3 in 1980. There was a TV series running on the then SBC channel 5. Starblazers ran on the Monday 7 pm evening slot, and was
"Oldies"
While 98% of the music CDs are all classical or motion picture soundtracks, I wasn’t always a big classical music listener. In fact – like every one else around me when I was teenager – I listened to a lot
Gold farmers
Here’s an interesting bit of news for MMOG researchers, watchers, and players. Source is here. Chengdu’s Shuangliu county has arrested two virtual item and currency traders, surnamed Li and Zhang, focused on tapping out The9’s (Nasdaq: NCTY) licensed MMORPG World
Mad about Corn
I enjoy a wide variety of vegetables and corn is one of my favourites. I can still remember my first corn on a cob as a small kid while living in a kampong with houses on stilts and occasional visits
"How Do I Live"
Here’s a reposting of Trisha Underwood’s “How do I Live” post that got lost the other day. Interestingly, two artistes – LeAnn Rimes and Trisha Underwood- recorded the same music separately, but the movie producers decided to go with the
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