Year: 2014
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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,…
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Two Kumars
I’m spending a lot of time writing Kumar’s (and several others’) script for Happy Ever Laughter 2014, and I’ve been explaining to Kai what I’ve been doing at work as well. Then we came home one day, and as we were driving past the guard house, our night guard, whose name is also Kumar, waved…