Month: July 2007
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Connected cleaners
If you’ve ever wondered if Singapore was really such a hi-tech connected country with hi-tech connected people, wonder no further. On the Emerald Hill Group’s website’s “Work for us” section, there are openings for ‘Cleaners’ to work at their various outlets on Emerald Hill. So confident are they that people who usually seek employment as…
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Lining the queue
Photo by Luangmai Tonight after a work meeting, Naomi and I popped by the Holland Village Cold Storage because our fridge was bordering on empty. Because she was still suffering from the pain of two prolapsed discs in her lower back, we were hoping to make this a quick grocery run, but for some strange…
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MacBook Pro
I know my wife loves me very much because she notices every little thing about me. Things that I sometimes keep to myself. Like eyeing and secretly yearning for a new computer to replace my Powerbook G4 12″. Taking the trouble of crafting carefully placed questions like in a normal conversation, about Apple computers and…
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The Sea-Monkey Diaries, Part Nine
We are now proud, um, owners of parents of new baby sea-monkeys. And the mother sea-monkey is preggers again, and if this goes on – where she’s the only child-bearing sea-monkey, she’ll soon be the mother of all sea-monkeys! In our house. In their tank. Yes. We don’t have a powerful enough camera to record…
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Some more mocking names
A Catholic school in Australia has refused entry to a five year old boy because his surname is ‘Hell’. Link More mocking names