FREE S$44 Expedia vouchers up for grabs

Specially for readers of mrbiao.com, I have 10 voucher codes for use on http://www.expedia.co.uk, which will give you GBP 20 (~ S$44) off your hotel or flight/hotel booking.
Only valid for new Expedia.co.uk members, and one code per account only.
No minimum booking required, so you can potentially get a hotel for cheap or even free (haven’t [...]

$100k donations for NUS student stricken with cancer within days

Some time last week I received an email about this PRC girl in her final year at NUS needing donations because she is currently stricken with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
I have to admit that I was a little skeptical at first, wondering whether this is a genuine case of hardship. It has since emerged that [...]

Campus tragedy in Singapore

From ChannelNewsAsia: A Nanyang Technological University (NTU) spokesman had confirmed that a final year student from the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering stabbed a professor Monday morning.
The professor at the engineering faculty was in his office when the student stabbed him with a knife in the back.
Prof Chan Kap Luk, a Singaporean and in [...]

3 Singapore hotels in TripAdvisor’s 2009 Top 10 Dirtiest Hotels

Singapore’s tourism officials usually market our island-state as a “clean and green” place. However, 3 Singapore hotels have been given the dubious honour of being in the Top 10 list of dirtiest hotels in Asia Pacific by TripAdvisor.

I’m not really surprised, because Singapore is not as “clean and green” as it claims to be. [...]

Google calculator

Wow.

Budget airlines – AirAsia’s the best

Since budget flights came into existence in Asia, I’ve taken dozens of flights on AirAsia, Tiger Airways and Jetstar. Out of these three, my favourite is actually AirAsia. Actually in terms of comfort and service Jetstar is the best, but it is a bit on the expensive side.
It is not difficult to see why AirAsia [...]

mrbiao.com is 3 years old

mrbiao.com is now 3 years old. Seeing that blogging about societal matters don’t seem to help improve anything, and that Google Adsense has only yielded him US$30 over the years… mrbiao is contemplating turning this into a food blog (um, of NUS canteen food and normal coffeeshop fare?). Hmmm.

Is the world coming to an end?

One cannot help but wonder if the world is coming to an end soon. At least, it does seem that way to a skeptic like me.
What with the widespread food scare, unending inflation, pending global recession, mega earthquake in Sichuan earlier this year, and global warming getting worse.
I wonder if I will be able to [...]

$90 million from taxpayers funds to show off

While the common man on the street is fretting about the ongoing economic crises and graduating students like myself are worrying about our career prospects in times of economic uncertainty, the Singapore Government had a great weekend to cap its $90 million spending spree for the F1 Grand Prix in Singapore.
No doubt that the event [...]

I need a breakthrough

I so badly need a breakthrough in my life. I know I have what it takes to accomplish things… and I have accomplished things in the past, but nowadays nobody is giving a hoot or giving me any opportunities to prove myself.
It doesn’t help that professors usually think they are the best around and that [...]