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Michael Moore Should Have Come with Us to Cuba
‘Hasta la Victoria Siempre’. Michael Moore is now under investigation for having visited Cuba for his recent film SiCKO (this film does for the US health system what Fahrenheit 9/11 did for Mr Bush and Bowling for Columbine did for…
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Violence on TV Mobile
I was travelling on SBS Transit bus number 97 from Alexandra to my office in Jurong East yesterday morning (8:30am) when I was really shocked to see something that I think should have been censored but shown on the small…
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Friends on Land, Friends on Water
Yesterday was a busy Sunday for our family. At 8:45am Noe took his regular lesson at Marsden Swim School. Unlike him, he was not too happy in the water yesterday. Maybe because he did not have enough breakfast and there…
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Lifehacking – Domestic Waste Management
For a developed country like singapore, public consciousness of waste management is not as progressive as developed western countries. Sure Singapore is a clean country, but that’s because people are paid to keep everything clean rather than a deeply rooted…
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Borat Sagdiyev – Борат Сагдиев
My brother Yodhi introduced me to Borat. I wished I had known him earlier as he embodies the aura of most decent men on earth. Borat Sagdiyev (Cyrillic: Борат Сагдиев) (“born” July 30, 1979) is a Kazakh journalist that you…
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Thaksin and His Sins
I was just about to fall asleep in Shanghai’s Yangtze Hotel (11pm on 19th September) when CNN broke the news about Thai military tanks patrolling all over the city of Bangkok. I immediately turned the volume up to see what…
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Yuhui’s Explanation on Online Auction in Singapore (eBay)
I cannot agree more with Yuhui on the importance of educating the online auction participants on the benefits of sticking to the rules. Even my wife and I have been puzzled by this for quite some time, too. Yuhui wrote:…
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Rani and Noe are Harvard Bound
This morning I took Rani and Noe to Changi Airport to fly to Boston for a week. This will be the first trans-pacific travel for Noe and also the first long-haul trip with a young toddler for Rani (yup, Noe…
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Oil is Expensive but Human Lives are Cheap?
Each coffin represents a single person killed in the on-going conflict between Israel and Lebanon. Created by Moiz Syed.
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Space Invaders Brings back Vivid Childhood Memory
Space Invaders was the first video game that I ever played in an arcade. My father used to take us (Anggi, Indi and Yodhi) to Mayestik (Majestic) in South Jakarta during on weekends in the early 1980s. He gave us…
