Tag: Christmas
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Useful Christmas Gifts #5: Walking With Dinosaurs
When he heard there was a show called Walking With Dinosaurs, a wiseacre I know said, “Hey, isn’t that when you join the entourage of a PAP MP election walkabout?” I didn’t have much high hopes for it to be an entertainment highlight of our weekend either, but if you were to have seen our…
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Useful Christmas Gifts #4: Something From Apple
Let’s face it. You’re gonna be either buying or considering buying an Apple product this Christmas, either for yourself or for someone else. Epicentre, the premium Apple reseller, is making it more fun with an in-house personal shopper who’s gonna help you buy more stuff and then you’ll go home and curse him later. Santa/Personal…
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Useful Christmas Gifts #3: Singapore’s Greatest Disasters
This collection of short stories is written by Malcolm Oei. Set to some of Singapore’s most notorious events like the Nicoll Highway collapse, the Bukit Ho Swee fire and the SQ hijack, they are made all the more compelling by the fact that we have a piss poor reputation of investigative journalism. You’ll want to…
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Useful Christmas Gifts #2: Tickets to Crazy Christmas 2010
You can buy some Christmas cheer, especially when you’ve got a show starring Singapore’s best musical, dance and acting talents. I’ve been fortunate enough to be a little bit involved in Dream Academy’s Crazy Christmas 2010, and at every rehearsal, I’ve been treated to a melange of music, singing and dancing that turned every humdrum…
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Useful Christmas Gifts #1: Frozen Sausage Stylus for iPhone/iPad
If you’ve got friends and family in colder climes, you might want to think about sending this gift their way, because apparently when it gets too cold to go gloveless, it might get a little difficult to operate a touch screen device like an iPhone or iPad. So, people in Korea have been buying frozen…