Tag: Singapore
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Who wants to be a superhero?
Captain Obvious We’ve had Survivor (1997 – yes, that old!), Big Brother (1999), Fear Factor (2001), American Idol (2002), America’s Next Top Model (2003), Beauty and the Geek (2005 – a favourite), amongst many, many others. Granted, the format’s nowhere near new, but there are now so many “reality” tv shows that the makers of…
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Faring well
No it’s not pissing down, it’s a performance. A couple of ‘landmarks’ bid good bye this week – the National Stadium, which I dare say has more sentimental value than the other ‘landmark’, the Musical Fountain on Sentosa, Singapore’s Last Resort Island. Channelnewsasia reports that ‘it staged it’s final two performances to a sell-out crowd’.…
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Quake III
Help me! I’m ‘experiencing’ vomiting! And it’s not mine! We really don’t know how lucky we are sometimes. An earthquake happens in Sumatra and all we ‘experience’ is: “headaches, and dizziness, vomiting” And this makes the news on CNA because the next closest thing to a natural disaster that we’re ‘experiencing’ is this: “SINGAPORE: Up…
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Quake II
I just have to put this here. My Dad just called to see if I had fallen out of bed because of the quake, and says that he was taking his customary walk when the quake struck, and for several moments, thought he had forgotten to take his Parkinson’s medicine. Technorati Tags: earthquake, Indonesia, Singapore
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Quake!
OK, I just woke up because my mother just called me to tell me that there was an earthquake. Don’t panic. Everything is ok. OK? The picture frame on the floor was caused by our cat, Jake, and not the quake. OK? Yahoo! Singapore News says that some people were running, screaming from office towers…