Month: April 2005
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Travel ambassadors: public housing estate of origin
My friend who travels a lot to far flung places like Tonga and Vanuatu meets a lot of far flung people who don’t meet Singaporeans very often. As you’d imagine, the conversation would go something like: Where you from? Japan? No, no. Singapore. Ah, you speak English too. Yes, some form of. I met some…
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Medium of instruction
There’s been a spate of ‘how to blog’ blog posts lately, and it looks like I’ll have to chip in because people, they are waiting for me to say something. But before I could, mr ‘lightning with the phone messaging’ brown sent me this: When you blog, young master, you must remember to include many…
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Heap it on!
As if the week isn’t heavy enough: I get an SAF 100 (reservist call-up notice) today. Nowsaday very high-tech. Got an SMS asking me to log-in to check call-up notice. Then click on call-up notice. Then see Javascript error. Then email administrator for details. Then wait. I think they’ll send paper notice. Sian 1/2! Surf…
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Gigglesnort
No, I am not pimping chiobu. I just like looking at them and pictures of them, and thought I might share ’em with youse, y’know? I’m having one of those work crisis weeks which are getting too frequent for my liking, hence the short snippets here instead of Really Good Blog Posts. I’m reading short…
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Customer service you cannot refuse
Like the Cowboy said, there’s a lot of anger going round these days, and today, there was none more angry than my friend George (not her real name). George has been exchanging words with the people at Casa Italy, from whom he ordered a sofa in a particular shade of red, more than a month…