Tag: Travel
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Damn cool can?
Force of habit. It’s not a wireless remote but you’ll see quite a few people pointing it at the screen On SIA flights with the video thingie, you can stop and start and fast forward your movies. Which is good when you watch something until 5 minutes to the end of the movie and the…
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Flight delayed “due to technical requirements”
Flight delay face “Due to technical requirements”? “Eh, Joe, you got put the wings back on the plane or not? It’s a technical requirement you know? Or else cannot fly leh!” It’s worse when you’ve lined up at the boarding gate and gotten your hand carry triple checked for two strange pipe-like objects (microphone stands),…
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Mari kita bomb dia!
It’s comforting to know that no matter how objectionable one finds one’s country’s senior statesmen’s statements, the neighbouring country’s senior statesmen always manage to trump ours. …(the) MIGs are given, are sold to us without any condition, if you feel like bombing Singapore, for example, the Russians are not going to object… …But this great…
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The Da Vinci Trail: HMS Dreadnought
Now that it’s three weeks out from the release of the movie, the buzz surrounding the Code has been understandably high. (I don’t care – I’m adding to it). I read today that some English judge recently inserted his own secret code (I don’t care if that doesn’t sound right) into one of his judgements,…
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The Da Vinci Trail: Lincoln Cathedral
If you’ve read Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code, you’d have realised that the Lincoln Cathedral is not featured anywhere in the book. (So people tell me, because I haven’t read the book). It is apparently, however, featured in the movie. But not to worry, you worry-wart Da Vinci Code fans, the Lincoln Cathedral was simply…