Miscellaneous
Making a well-thought career plan
Until recently, I’ve always had the ambition to ‘make it big’ in business one day – I couldn’t wait till the day when I finally graduate and can start my forage into the business world to begin building my own business empire.
My idea of success in life was, I suppose, rather typical – several million [...]
Singapore Power’s less-than-stellar billing track record
I used the term ‘less-than-stellar’ instead of ‘poor’ only because there is no definitive benchmark for ‘poor’ – in the unlikely circumstance that SP decides to take issue and nitpick on my comments…
Channel NewsAsia reported that some consumers complained of a 50% spike in their electricity bills for the month of June. When contacted, Singapore [...]
Quotable quotes
Masterpiece of sarcasm
From The Straits Times: Get China girl instead (ST Life, 14 June)
Miss Shenise Wong’s dress is bad enough but her hairdo is even worse.
Although she is 26, she looks old for her age. She stands no chance against the other younger contestants.
I would suggest that, next time, the organizer should get a young, [...]
Eyes like hawks
This is so funny
On the Tibet situation
I’ve been reading up a fair bit on the Tibetan situation these few days, and it seems that foreign media as well as the general public sympathetic to Tibet tend to generalize the situation as China’s fault.
I’m not saying it’s not – it could be, or not – nobody really knows the real situation besides [...]
What champagne is really made of
“Here’s to champagne, the drink divine
That makes us forget all our troubles
It’s made of a dollar’s worth of wine
And thirty dollars worth of bubbles”
Cultural faux pas (Day 30 in Vancouver)
I committed a faux pas today. I was craving for wonton noodles and since I wasn’t able to get my fix yesterday due to the stupid fire alarm at the SUB, I decided to go to Chinatown today to walk around a bit and have my noodles at a well known chain of Chinese food [...]
Australia issues travel warning against Canada
This caught my attention today. Quite laughable. I’ve never heard of earthquakes in this part of BC… not sure about elsewhere, but heck… Australia’s quite crazy – I remember they had a history of issuing travel warnings for the slightest matters.
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gFY7RoDOJgR8VycbDmKBsHpdvXtg
Extract:
As Canadian tourism officials prepare to launch a new campaign next week to promote Canada [...]
