Month: March 2014
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1 Million kg Challenge: Not A Good Start
So I went to the 1 Million kg Challenge launch at Ngee Ann City’s Civic Plaza on Saturday, signed myself up for the challenge by pledging to lose 3kg in three weeks. It was a massive event, with exercise stations and sustenance stations where you could presumably learn about what kind of exercise was suitable…
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Posting Raindrops
Prime Minister gratefully posts a picture of rain: The Acting Minister For Manpower posts a picture of rain: And the Member of Parliament for Tampines posts a picture of himself:
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1 Million kg Challenge
We’re into the third month of the new year, and while I’m glad I didn’t make any health-related resolutions to break, I haven’t done anything for my health apart from an alcohol fast that ended when I went on holiday last month (walau, Hokkaido is home to many first class breweries, can?) But that’s going…
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Incentives To Wean You Off Cheapsourcing
At the last management council meeting of the last year at my condo, we were presented with a request by the cleaning company for a 20% contract fee hike. The managing agent then presented us with three other quotes that hovered around the old fee mark. We opted to terminate the incumbent and go with…
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Don’t Eat Cheese And Don’t Drive
That’s the message I got out of the response to the EIU’s ranking of Singapore as the most expensive city in the world for expats. I’m a local, and so I shouldn’t be eating cheese (we’re mostly lactose intolerant anyway), watching movies from Gold Class cinema seats, buying Cat A theatre tickets, taking a taxi,…