The shopping’s virtual but the money’s real

On January 17, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Advertorial

Many young par­ents would agree with us that the prices of baby prod­ucts in Sin­ga­pore are sim­ply ridicu­lous. We’re pay­ing through our noses for things like swad­dling blan­kets — my mom vis­ited my sister’s fam­ily in Toronto and came back with a whole stack, at C$2 per blan­ket. Guess how much they were sell­ing the […]

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Christmas Chocolate Giveaway

On December 16, 2009 · 53 Comments · In Advertorial, Eating

OK, not exactly choco­late, but Willie Harcourt-Cooze’s Willie’s Choco­late Fac­tory Cook­book.

Five of them, in fact. And to qual­ify for a chance at get­ting one of these books absolutely gratis, all you have to do is leave a com­ment (remem­ber to put your email in the email box so I can contact […]

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Advertorial: Citibank mobile services

On October 28, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Advertorial

There will always be the last minute, spur of the moment, mid­dle of nowhere trans­ac­tions we will need to per­form, away from the con­ve­nience of our office / home computer.

Say for instance, you were over­seas, or in a loca­tion with­out free wifi, and with­out easy access […]

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Tyrepac — tyres delivered to your doorstep (and fixed on your car)

On October 22, 2009 · 3 Comments · In Advertorial

Dis­clo­sure:
Tyrepac spon­sored a set of tyres for the pur­poses of this blog post.


I love dri­ving, but car maintenance […]

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Advertorial: Tyrepac 3-day tyre sale

On August 14, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Advertorial

I was recently pointed to Tyrepac by an old acquain­tance who works there, and it’s the first online tyre shop I’ve seen. They’re cur­rently oper­a­tional in Sin­ga­pore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China and Korea.

If you need tyres, you sim­ply go to the site, pick your car make and model, and a selec­tion of the […]

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Advertorial: POSB Everyday Champions 2009

On March 6, 2009 · 3 Comments · In Advertorial

The inau­gural POSB Every­day Cham­pi­ons awards was held on 26th Feb­ru­ary 2009 at St Regis.

Out of over 3,000 nom­i­nees (no, I didn’t nom­i­nate Coach Frank because of res­i­dency issues), 57 were win­ners on the night, and among them was […]

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Advertorial: Unwrap the joy of Christmas at Pizza Hut

On December 5, 2008 · 8 Comments · In Advertorial

  

OK, so the title gives the game away, but wait, I have a funny Pizza Hut story to tell.

OK, so I’ve told it before, but what the heck, it’s the sea­son for giv­ing and tak­ing, so you all should just sit back and take it because […]

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Advertorial: Unwrapping soon

On November 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Advertorial

Reces­sion or not, it is time we made lists for Christ­mas giving.

Shop­ping moves the econ­omy, like it or not, so we’ll be doing our bit if we bought some things for friends and loved ones.

Plus, it’s always nice to be sur­prised when you unwrap your prezzies on Christ­mas morn­ing — which […]

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Advertorial: SSC POSB Everyday Champions

On November 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Advertorial

I’ve been asked to write about either a per­son or an orga­ni­za­tion that inspires or sup­ports or encour­ages par­tic­i­pa­tion in sports.

I can think of a hand­ful of peo­ple I know who have been influ­en­tial, although not in the way we’re accus­tomed to see­ing, in pro­mot­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion, and to a cer­tain extent, excel­lence in […]

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Advertorial: born again adidas

On August 15, 2008 · 19 Comments · In Advertorial

So, adi­das thought up this idea, called born again adi­das, of get­ting peo­ple to trade-in their old sports shoes for a pair of new ones, and I was told that they’d have col­lec­tion points at var­i­ous adi­das retail­ers across the island, and I was curi­ous enough to agree […]

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