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iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing a copy of: What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? — Harry Con­nick Jr. — When My Heart Finds Christ­mas, of which I have the orig­i­nal CD and there­fore didn’t steal music. You’re meant to make res­o­lu­tions on New Year’s Eve for the new year. Last New Year’s Eve, I made …

Some cor­po­ra­tions, really big ones, like Pfizer, Amazon.com, Cit­i­group, Cisco Sys­tems, Bristol-Myers Squibb, have ral­lied in response to the tsunami dis­as­ter by donat­ing gen­er­ously. Over here, our very own very big quasi-corporation, NTUC, ‘expresses her deep­est heart­felt con­do­lences to the fam­i­lies of vic­tims affected by last Sunday’s tsunami that struck many parts of Asia, fol­low­ing …

There were odd bits of human­i­tar­ian activ­ity here amidst the end of year shop­ping mad­ness. A cou­ple of friends have been online urg­ing peo­ple to drop off dona­tions at col­lec­tion cen­tres around Sin­ga­pore. The gov­ern­ment has sent a DART team, two Chi­nooks, with sev­eral Super Pumas on standby for Thai­land and Indone­sia, and has said …

As I write, the toll has climbed to over 50,000. Cheh Zhai Meen says if you have DBS inter­net bank­ing, you can make your con­tri­bu­tions payable to RED CROSS TIDAL WAVES ASIA. Thanks for leav­ing that com­ment. While it doesn’t seem appro­pri­ate to appor­tion blame in an event such as this, I’m of sim­i­lar sen­ti­ment …

From Myrick, a link with use­ful con­tact details here.

If you want to help, here’s one of the ways you can. (And from Myrick, some more ways you might be able to help, at the Acorn). Sin­ga­pore Red Cross Press Release: Human­i­tar­ian Assis­tance To The Vic­tims of the Bay of Ben­gal Earth­quake and Tidal Waves The Sin­ga­pore Red Cross Soci­ety in response to the call …

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iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing a copy of: I Go To Extremes — Billy Joel — Great­est Hits Vol. III, of which I have the orig­i­nal CD and there­fore didn’t steal music. So I spent Christ­mas Eve at home with the fam­ily. Then I went out. Lat and his Lot (not their real names) had decided on …

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing a copy of: What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? — Harry Con­nick Jr. — When My Heart Finds Christ­mas, of which I have the orig­i­nal CD and there­fore didn’t steal music. A quick click on my archives, and I find that there’s not much dif­fer­ence from last Christ­mas. Only this …

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing a copy of: Star­man — David Bowie — Best of David Bowie: 1969–1974, of which I have the orig­i­nal CD and there­fore didn’t steal music. I have one of those annoy­ing eye­lid twitch­ing thing going on. It means someone’s think­ing of you, I’m told. What the heow? If you’re think­ing of me, call …