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http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/viewPost6889.aspx win liaoz lor... machiam chor tai dee. chut diamond 2. next time use gun, confirm is 2 of Spade.

mr showoff blardee-meh putin without baring it all, insanepoly display his renoma :cheers: steady phun phweet phweet

Today i got an itching feeling to pump my spare Tyre. The car was bought new 5 years, and i never touch the spare Tyre. Who does anyway? Took out everything from the boot, lift up the cover and took a look at the spare. Press the rubber, it's damm soft. haul out the entire Tyre and start pumping. The machine read just 40 kpa when i inserted the nozzle into the valve! Imagine i got a Tyre puncture and i had to use the spare Tyre. No way i can drive with a 40 kpa Tyre...... So don't forget your spare, especially you go into msia frequently........

http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/eat-drink-man-woman-16/gpgt-who-left-his-matador-roadside-4847204.html Someone misplaced their new year fireworks..... Think they are duds I guess.

will like to try how it taste like, maybe like otah

Just a reminder...

Forget First World hype Former civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow tells Susan Long why Singapore should just aim to be a solid "second-upper" city. The Straits Times, 12 Jan 2013 RETIRED senior civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow's worry for Singapore today is that it has begun to believe its own propaganda that it has arrived as a First World city. "It's a complete delusion on our part to think that we can become a First World city such as New York, London and Tokyo," says the 75-year-old adjunct professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. "As a 'little red dot', we suffer from inherent limitations of space, size of population, depth of talent pools and political influence." While being a First World city may be beyond it, he says Singapore should focus on being a solid "second-upper" city. "It's more pragmatic to position ourselves as the best in class of the world's second-tier international cities, such as Zurich, Boston, Sydney and Tel Aviv. These are all cities with populations of five million to six million of well-educated people and they compete on knowledge." Increasingly, he says, the differentiator for successful cities is "not cheap labour but competent labour". Singapore's Achilles heel, as he sees it, is that over the past decade, it chose to pump in cheap foreign labour instead of drilling down to the unglamorous task of improving productivity, skilling up its workers for higher- level jobs and improving standards of schools. "Productivity is low because we went for imported cheap labour and now we're stuck in a time warp. We can compete only in industries of low technology. This time around, I hope the Cabinet has the political courage to push this through," says the former permanent secretary in the Prime Minister's Office and the Finance, Trade and Industry, National Development and Communications ministries before he retired from the elite Administrative Service in 1999. He recently stepped down from the boards of Singapore Press Holdings and United Overseas Bank. Although Singapore's official unemployment rate is at a low of 2 per cent, the pro-chancellor of the National University of Singapore, who helps give out about 9,000 degree scrolls a year, notes there lurks "disguised unemployment and underemployment". "How many and what kind of quality jobs can we provide for school leavers a year?" he asks. "In the 1950s, they became hawkers. Today, we have hundreds of young graduates becoming property agents or relationship managers selling esoteric products." He fears also that Singapore has lost the knack of asking the right questions. "We often start with the answers we want and ask the questions to support it." For example, in discussions on the "right" size of Singapore's population, he charges that the authorities mainly debated how to create a higher-density city with more high-rise flats and condominiums to cater to more people. "That's only a physical constraint, not an economic constraint." He says the right parameters to frame the question instead are: "Can we sustain the economic livelihoods of five or six million people? Surely, the size of the population is as much as you can sustain the economy of Singapore. "Asking the right questions today is the most important factor for Singapore's future sustainability. If you ask the wrong questions, you're in trouble." What weighs heavily on his mind these days is what kind of Singapore his three grandchildren, aged 15 to 21, will live in years from now. "I want them to live in a Singapore where they can hold their heads high, be of value to the rest of the world to earn their living and not have to kowtow to others," declares the first- generation Singaporean born to a court interpreter and washerwoman from Hainan. He lost his father at age nine to tuberculosis, attended Serangoon English School and St Andrew's Secondary, then applied for a job as a postal clerk. But a medical check-up showed he had contracted early-stage tuberculosis and was unfit for work. As a default, he continued studying, and won an open bursary to the University of Malaya, where he scored a first in economics. In 1959, he started life as an Economic Development Board officer, earning a reputation for being both a "thinker and a doer". At 35, he became Singapore's youngest permanent secretary in 1972. After his retirement, he was appointed chairman of the Singapore Economic Development Board, Development Bank of Singapore, Central Provident Fund, and Housing Board. Since then, he has refused to fade into the sunset and has spoken up - often critically - about his worries for the future of Singapore and the People's Action Party. He concedes: "People think I'm a fool... I'm no longer in a position to change things but ideas can change societies. It is my duty as a Singaporean to leave behind ideas for the younger generation." He admits it hurts when ex-colleagues say: "Tong Dow, why are you still stirring the mud?" Or when they accuse him of "playing the old gramophone record". "The politest has been: 'Why didn't you say all these when you were still in the civil service?'" For the record, he says he dissented on policies back then, such as the certificate of entitlement balloting system, which he believes has irrevocably raised Singapore's key production costs. These days, he speaks at universities and think-tanks about six times a year and is busy compiling his fourth book. He also golfs and spends time with his retired schoolteacher wife. The best way is to view Singapore, he suggests, as a work in progress. One of his dearly departed friends, Mr Roop Vaswani, a Sindhi merchant, always told him: "It's best to be climbing up a mountain to success and never to arrive. The moment you reach the summit, the only way is down." He sums up: "Likewise, in Singapore, we should not believe that we're already First World. Or that we have arrived at the pinnacle."

In another year or so, we can forget about traffic jams, here's the reason..... CNA report : Flying car cleared for takeoff Posted: 03 April 2012 1246 hrs WASHINGTON: Drivers hoping to slip the surly -- and traffic congested -- bonds of Earth moved a step closer to realizing their dream, as a US firm said it had successfully tested a street-legal plane. Massachusetts-based firm Terrafugia said their production prototype "Transition" car-plane had completed an eight-minute test flight, clearing the way for it to hit the market within a year. "With this flight, the team demonstrated an ability to accomplish what had been called an impossible dream," said founder Carl Dietrich. The two-seater craft, which has the rounded features of a Fiat 500 and collapsible wings, is on presale for $279,000 and some 100 vehicles have already been ordered. While many companies have successfully built a flying car, none have succeeded in producing more than a handful of models. But things have changed since the clunky Curtiss Autoplane hopped and spluttered into action in the early 1900s. New materials and computer-aided design mean today's flying cars are cheaper and lighter to build. They also look more like "Blade Runner" than "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". The successful test flight has given hope to aficionados that this staple of science fiction is a step closer to reality. "Is it going to be like the Jetsons with everyone driving one in five years? No," admitted Winfield Keller, vice president of The International Flying Car Association, a trade group. "But we are getting to the point where 10, maybe 15 years from now that the people owning and operating (them) will be everyday people." In the meantime, manufacturers hope they can build something that appeals to border security agencies, the police or the military, as well as hobbyists. Terrafugia is targeting pilots looking for a bit more flexibility and fewer hangar fees. Spanning 90 inches (2.3m) the same as a car, it fits into a normal-sized garage, before unfurling a 26-foot (8m) wingspan. The Transition, they say, offers unparalleled freedom of movement, with a range of 490 miles (787 kilometres) and without the need to check bags. But to take advantage, would-be owners will need to have both a driver's and pilot's licence -- with a minimum of 20 hours of flying time. The craft needs 2,500 feet (762 metres) of runway for takeoff, meaning pulling onto the shoulder and escaping the traffic is not really an option. "The Transition Street-Legal Airplane is now a significant step closer to being a commercial reality," the company said. At least two other companies are racing to bring an autoplane to the market. Dutch company PAL-V has tested a prototype gyrocopter-style car. It hopes to now build a full production prototype and to have the first deliveries by 2014. California-based Moller International has built a personal vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, although it requires a little more training to operate. - AFP/al so what kind of COE & Licence required for this car ????

I think the writer is over-sensitive and barking up the wrong tree. The 3 years and 8 months under the barbaric rule of Imperial Japan was the darkest period in our short history and the act of the school teacher to illustrate this painful history to his students is nothing short of admiration. We should in fact encourage more of such acts to make our children realise why we need to have national service and that the peace which we all enjoy now does not come at a easy price. Besdies, I believe both young Israelites and Germans are taught in schools about the horrors of Holocaust and the evil Nazi empire respectively as part of a very important passage in their lives. We have, however, heard occasionally that some Japanese today still tried to white-wash the attrocities committed by their ancestors during WWII and even claim some like the massacre of Nanking residents did not happen. Being a victim of the atomic bomb twice does not mean they can ignore what happened to innocent people who died at their hands or suffered under their inhuman acts. I believe many of us do not bear any grudge against the Japanese today and are sympathetic to what happened to them because of the tsunami. Many of us also chip in in terms of donations and some even went there to help them. Like many before us have said, we can forgive but not forget. From ST Forum: http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/...ory_781977.html Let's not remain stuck in teaching a one-sided view of a cruel Japan Published on Mar 27, 2012 IN THE month when the world falls silent to mark the first anniversary of the devastating Tohoku earthquake, I was shocked to read of a Chung Cheng High School teacher's insensitive portrayal of a Japanese soldier as one who wields a sword, is cruel and one-dimensional ('Japanese soldier bursts in... to teach history'; Sunday). As a reminder of Singapore's vulnerability even when it was part of the powerful British empire, the 31/2 year nightmare of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore during World War II remains a core focus of our national education syllabus. However creative the teacher's intention, his simplistic vilification of the Japanese risks a mistreatment of history and disrespect to other societies that run counter to efforts of cultivating a progressive education culture. Beyond the need to take our national security seriously, it is time for schools to consider crafting more balanced and broader perspectives about the Japanese Occupation. These should include examining how ordinary Japanese were also victims of Japanese militarism, and how the country was able to stoically and collectively face huge challenges in pulling itself together - be it from the nuclear rubble of Hiroshima and Nagasaki left by American atomic bombs in 1945, or the debris from Sendai deposited by the receding waves of last year's tsunami. For a long time, we have taught the young about the worst in mankind in the shape of the stereotypical Japanese imperial officer of World War II. Perhaps it may be beneficial for students to learn about the more positive images of Japan in the national education curriculum. I am reminded of a photograph taken during the aftermath of the earthquake showing ordinary Japanese calmly buying groceries at a makeshift convenience store amid the wreckage of the tsunami. For me, it revealed the best of Japan and the best of humanity, one that Singaporeans should work towards, bringing out the best in themselves and in Singapore. Liew Kai Khiun

10 Million Hong Pao Draw tomorrow Friday, 03/02/2012 .......... Closed at 9pm. ....... Huat Ah ........

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the room rates will kill you $350 per room per night at Hotel 81 during F1 AsiaOne | Wed, Sep 21 2011 SINGAPORE - With the Formula One (F1) just around the corner, even non-track side hotels stand to be big winners here, charging almost double their usual room rates. Rooms at Hotel 81's branches at Bencoolen and Bugis, located near to the track, are going for about $350 a night on Friday, Saturday and Sunday - about twice the regular $159 weekend rate. The lowest-tier hotels in Geylang, for example, now cost $130 per night, up from $80, reported The Straits Times (ST). There is typically a room rate hike during race weekend as hotels have to pay a F1 tax with those by the track having to fork out 30 per cent of the price of each room they fill, while those away from it pay 20 per cent. The night race for F1 will take place in Singapore on Sept 23-24 for the fourth consecutive year. According to ST, hotels tend to benefit as their room rates go up by more than the tax amount and many of them expect occupancy rates to be high, if not fully booked over the three days of the grand prix. Hotels like Marina Mandarin Singapore, which is by the track, is charging $750 for premier rooms, up from about $400 normally. The hotel is currently 95 per cent booked for race weekend, and expects a full house. At The Fullerton Hotel, which is already almost fully booked, rates start at $1,000 a night for at least three nights. As for Marina Bay Sands, rooms are going for at least $2,000 for three nights. Even hotels located at Orchard Road are charging higher prices. Rooms at Royal Plaza on Scotts cost $580 per night, up from $360 on a typical weekend. The hotel is 71 per cent full between Thursday and Sunday, General manager Patrick Fiat told ST. It is the same story at Fairmont Singapore, Swissotel The Stamford, Pan Pacific Singapore and the Millennium and Copthorne hotels.

Went to the Drive A Formula Car Experience on 28th December in Sepang.Have no words to describe how much fun I had driving a Formula Race Car. Event was perfectly organized and went like clock work.The team is incredible good. They should have more pics on their Facebook page

Of the years and years of pain. Of the failures to perform. Of the duty to take care of its citizens first. No we must never forget, instead we must do the right thing and correct what has gone wrong.

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for nissan latio.......

http://divaasia.com/article/5156 what an idiot this hubby is....he expects his wife (already divorce) to forget the whole issue...this guy really dreaming, pls go back to your mum and drink milk better.....

just watch the show from 8pm-9pm. hosted by taiwanese zhen guo chen. participants are alamak, mark lee and one fat girl. really lousy show. the taiwanese version by harlem yu is much better. the local version absolutely

Oh noooooooo.... Liverfool has forgetten how to win a game be it winning the EPL league title ................... Its seem that they had enjoyed too much after Boxing Day match until that they don't know how to shoot on sight ... They are back to their old habits of too much passing and dribbling into the penatly box. The strikers totally don't click at all.... Although I am a Fool fan, only one word to sum it up : "You Better Walk Alone" ..... LiverFOOL can kiss goodbye to winning anything this season if they continue to scrabble at the Board room level. No doubt from this stage onward, ManU will win the EPL title again . Pool will meet ManU at OT next weekend and with home ground advantage, ManU will humble LiverFool as they (Fool) forget how to win. ESPN Soccernet report: Liverpool miss out on top spot after conceding late goal Everton stopped Liverpool in their tracks at Anfield with a 1-1 draw thanks to a late Tim Cahill equaliser that prevented their bitter rivals reclaiming the Premier League leadership. LIVERPOOL 1-1 EVERTON - REACTION Benitez denies pressure is getting to Liverpool Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez insisted that his side are not wilting under the pressure of a title fight, despite their failure to beat neighbours Everton at Anfield on Monday night. The Reds had looked on course to collect the three points that would have moved them above Manchester United and back to the Premier League summit after Steven Gerrard's 35-yard drive after 68 minutes. But a late equaliser from Tim Cahill, who headed home unmarked at the near post from a Mikel Arteta free-kick, meant Benitez's side remain behind their north-west rivals on goal difference having also played a game extra. Despite that the Liverpool boss still maintained: ''The players believe they can challenge for the title.''

Home > Breaking News > Tech and Science > Story Aug 28, 2008 Sex lubricant popular acne cure Number One Plus, a water-based lubricant produced by health organisation Population Services International (PSI), is an excellent cure for acne, 29-year-old vendor Tep Kemyoeurn told AFP. -- PHOTO: AFP PHNOM PENH - A CONDOM lubricant designed for sex workers and gay men has become a popular acne cure among female Cambodians, women in the capital and local media said on Thursday. Number One Plus, a water-based lubricant produced by health organisation Population Services International (PSI), is an excellent cure for acne, 29-year-old vendor Tep Kemyoeurn told AFP. 'After I used it for three days, all of my acne dried up and went away,' she said. 'Many people believe in it,' she added. Khen Vanny, 29, from Phnom Penh, told AFP that women of all ages have taken to using the lubricant to get rid of spots. 'It is very effective. Some people don't believe in it but people who do really get a good result,' she said, adding: 'My youngest sister and my aunt use it too.' Another woman told Khmer-language Kampuchea Thmey newspaper that she had used many kinds of medicine to treat acne but none had worked. 'After that my friends, who work at garment factories in Phnom Penh, advised me to apply the lubricant from Number One Plus condoms on my face every night,' she told the paper. 'And just within three to four nights, the acne on my face gradually and then totally disappeared,' she added. A vendor near a factory in the coastal city of Sihanoukville told the newspaper that she sold packets of Number One Plus lubricant for 500 riels (17 Singapore cents) to many women every day. The paper urged experts to conduct research about the phenomenon. PSI were not immediately available for comment on the apparent cosmetic benefits of their product. -- AFP http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking...ry_272799.html __________________

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1336956/how_...ct_an_air_horn/ I think work better if u use Apollo brand condom.

TEN hair salons at a Bedok Reservoir neighbourhood centre had hardly any business yesterday: A new kid on the block was pulling in those who needed a haircut - and those who did not - by offering them for just $2.80. Business was brisk at Snip Avenue, one among the row of shops at the foot of Block 631, Bedok Reservoir Road. Customers came from as far afield as Sengkang and Yishun for the bargain, which does not come with a pre-cut shampoo. Polytechnic student Jeff Lim, 18, who lives in Woodlands and usually pays $10 for his monthly haircut, said he was sceptical about the quality of cut at first. 'But the hairstylists are all very beautiful, so the haircuts here can't be that bad,' he reasoned. He had to wait 40 minutes for his turn, but it was well worth it, he said, emerging from the shop sporting the layered look he asked for, 'like the singers in 5566', the Taiwanese boyband. His uncle William Tan, 43, a project executive who lives in Katong, was another happy customer who now thinks he may stop going to Johor Baru for his monthly haircut. 'At $2.80, it's even cheaper than in Malaysia,' he said. Then there were others in the queue who were at first drawn by the bargain price, but ended up going for more than just a haircut. Customer service officer Eva Md Yussuf, 38, was taking her daughter for a walk when the advertisements outside the salon caught her eye. She got her five-year-old daughter a haircut and also put herself through the works - highlights and a treatment - and ended up spending $90.80, several cuts above $2.80. She said: 'I was attracted by the $2.80 haircut, but I thought I'd try the other services as well since I'm here.' She is exactly the kind of customer that Snip Avenue boss Jimmy Tan wants. 'When a customer is happy with the haircut, sometimes, he would go for other services like perms and highlights too,' said the 50-year-old, whose first outlet in Tampines opened last June with haircuts priced at $6.80. His other outlets in Bedok North, Serangoon Central and Yishun charge either $3.80 or $4.80. When asked how he sustained the business, he said: 'The profit margin is not high now, but the concept is to have many outlets and, hopefully, the mass volume can cover the cost.' His many outlets and the fact that the one in Bedok Reservoir is still in the game after eight months is a possible indication that his business idea is working. The traffic he gets probably more than makes up for his low takings from each head. The Bedok Reservoir outlet tends to about 85 on weekdays and over 100 on weekends. The six hairstylists work 10 hours a day at a steady clip, with few breaks. Asked how her job was, stylist Maggie Chong, 22, had only one word to describe it: 'Tiring.' Theirs is a happy problem which the other salons - charging between $10 and $13 for a haircut - do not share. Mrs J. Lee, 36, who charges $10 for a haircut, reckons her earnings have been crimped by at least half. She spent most of yesterday watching television and chatting with her two stylists. She does not intend to lower her prices though. Said Mrs Lee: 'How am I going to lower my price and fight with them? What if they decide to cut for free one day?'

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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/04/23/g...diet/index.html Study shows bananas make baby boys LONDON, England (CNN) -- Women can influence the gender of their child with what they eat before they conceive, according to new research that lends scientific support to age-old superstitions about pregnancy. The discovery shows higher calorie intake prior to conception can significantly increase the chances of having a son while women on restricted diets are more likely to produce daughters. Scientists at Britain's Oxford and Exeter Universities, who studied eating habits of 740 women during their first-time pregnancies, say that their findings seem to back certain traditional links between diet and gender while disproving others. "We were able to confirm the old wives' tale that eating bananas and so having a high potassium intake was associated with having a boy, as was a high sodium intake," research leader Fiona Mathews, a specialist in mammalian biology at Exeter University, told the Guardian newspaper. "But the old take about drinking a lot of milk to have a girl doesn't seem to hold up. In fact, more calcium meant they were again more likely to have a boy." Mathews said the study pointed to a simple technique to influencing the chances of a male birth: Eating a bowl of cereal for breakfast. "If you want a boy, eat a healthy diet with a high calorie intake, including breakfast," she told New Scientist magazine. "Of women eating cereals daily, 59 percent had boys, compared with only 43 percent who bore boys in the group eating less than a bowlful per week." The researchers said that a higher calorie intake prior to conception can increase the chances of having a son from ten to 11 boys in ever 20 births, according to the study published in the Proceeding of the Royal Society B. They said it could explain why male births in richer countries are experiencing a slight reduction. E-mail to a friend http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/04/23/g...diet/index.html Donut = gurl?