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How does one define how rich one is? Some measure with the amount of cash you have, others measure by number of tangible assets or what investments are in your basket, and a certain few may judge based on your personal outlook (from the car you [...]
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Guys wind down the driver side window put their right hand out of the car as if “clutching” the side of the door? OR resting their elbow on the window frame and grasping the top of the frame with their hand?
Some cars are patched up like Frankenstein? i.e. bonnet, door, back door, spoilers, bumpers all [...]
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Part 1 – Supermarket Scenario
You know the market price of common household items like toilet paper, detergent and dishwashing liquid
You compare prices of these common household items at Giant, Carrefour and Tesco
You collect coupons to buy these common household items at a discounted price
You lookout for promotions in newspaper ads and go on said days [...]
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Two weekends ago I woke up at 5 a.m. to join my two friends Kah Jeng and Kok Chiang to Putrajaya hoping to see the sunrise and take lovely photos in the Botanical Gardens. Not only did we not get there before sunrise, it was so damn hazy and gray, t’was really a bad day [...]
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Ok, not any video. Just a selection of spasso photos put together with iMovie (oh, i heart iMovie). Last weekend during our retreat to PD, my sis-in-law and 2 cousins wanted me to take photos of them “performing” what was inspired by the totally ah-beng, la-la and si-hum site called asianposes.com
They successfully managed to output [...]
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My boss passed me some leads this morning for our Bangkok conference in October. As I was sifting through the stack of business cards, I came across this one:
Try saying it quickly 3 times! I wonder if he (I think this one’s a he) ever has enough boxes on those forms when filling out his [...]
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If your truck broke down? You find a branch with some twigs and leaves stuck to it and you cucuk it wherever you can find a place to cucuk it. That’s the universal sign for “my truck has broken down”. Use it with cars, buses, vans, anything you fancy.
If your car broke down in the [...]
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Come Monday I’ll be in Jakarta for business trip part 3 of 6 for 2009. I’m happy ‘cos
Jakarta is just 2 hours by plane
I’m staying only for 4 nights
The kek lapis rawks
Super Cheapo DVDs (according to Peanut’s mom—Mangga2 rite???)
I realised [...]
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I’d like to share here an article written by Jenni Russell that appeared in The Guardian.
Friendship has been given a special status in our society. It is contrasted with all those relationships over which we have so little control; the families we can’t change, the neighbours who irritate us, the colleagues we have to put [...]
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Work went pretty OK in Dakar, getting things done was a challenge, everyone assumes you speak French, every time the Senegalese say yes it actually means no, you face the same breakfast buffet spread 6 days in a row, and you OD on baguettes and butter at every meal. Let’s just say I’m glad it’s [...]
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