Year: 2003
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Free money
Free Money I received a letter from CPF Board telling me about my allotment of ERS (Economic Restructuring Shares) and NSS (New Singapore Shares), both initiatives of the government to help the lower income group tide over the economic downturn. At first I chucked it aside without reading it properly, thinking the money would stay…
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Real Christmas trees
I’ve been warned that ginseng tea can be addictive. My dad told me and so did HT. They said, no wonder my eyeballs looked like they’ve been popping out of my skull the past few days. Christmas is well on it’s way, and at home, nothing is more indicative of the festive season than my…
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Ginseng tea
Ginseng tea It’s 4.38am and I’m sitting in my thinking chair, thinking. I’m actually very tired, but made the mistake of drinking a bottle of shop-brewed (as opposed to home brewed and canned) ginseng tea. Works better than coffee. So potent you get a headache, and you can’t help but concentrate on work. Good for…
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Festival of the moon
I was awakened at about 4am by the sound of an explosion on the TV which I had left on when I fell asleep. It was a repeat newscast of the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad. I was a little disturbed by the story of how the UN special envoy had died a…
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Bastard driver nearly kill me
Bastard driver nearly kill me Earlier this evening, viagra decease I went out to the village to buy cigarettes and drinks. As I walked back along the pavement to the car park, decease a black Honda driven by a provisional license holder carrying a bunch of idiots shot up the street from behind me at…