Category: People
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Randall Tan Runs To Fight Cancer
Our good friend Randall is running his second 10km race (The Pocari Sweat Run) this Sunday to raise funds for the Singapore Cancer Society. Please support him if you can wake up early enough to cheer him on, or simply show your support by donating to the cause he’s running for. Randall’s set a target…
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Vote Nadya for Most Responsible Celebrity
Our friend and collaborator Nadya Hutagalung has been nominated for Green Awards’ Most Responsible Celebrity – alongside luminaries as George Clooney and Vivienne Westwood. She gets our vote on a personal note because she and her husband were instrumental in turning our lives towards green-consciousness. About 90% of all of Kai’s baby things were given…
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When You Wake Up From The Singapore Dream
A month ago I was asked by this client if I wanted to be involved with a campaign for a retirement financial product. I was reluctant, until they told me of the story of Mr Leong, a former taxi driver and uni graduate. Mr Leong’s former assumptions of life, health, family and retirement haven’t panned…
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Miss World Pans Asians By Favouring Pan-Asians
Miss World Singapore, the pageant that gave Singapore the Boomzbalicious Ris Low in 2009, is looking for contestants who are “pan-Asian looking” for their 2012 event in the hope they’ll do better at the world Miss World. Apparently, the organizers say that previous years’ editions favored girls who answered questions well, “but the formula hasn’t…
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When Quando Fails No Matter How Many Times You Say It
I was inspired by this video I saw on FB the other day about nursing home patients who reacted very positively to music from their era and decided to try it out on my father who is convalescing in hospital. The trouble with doing that was that my father was never known to like music…