Posts tagged 2012

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Posted 11 months ago

Seen At The Singapore Arts Festival

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Posted 1 year ago

Where Everyone Knows Your Name

Okay.
I wonder how people have been ordering their coffees in the UK.

After all, we have all that name-calling (based on what they can scribble or spell on your plastic cup/mug) in Singapore for ages.
Starbucks UK seems to have caught up with the practice but are we making a mistake of substituting am erican ‘faux’ culture for friendliness?

You don’t get summoned to the serving counter by your name in a restaurant and you certainly don’t get ordered to appear by name at McDonald’s.  So what makes it any more friendly in Starbucks if they shout out your name on a beverage? 
Isn’t all that name calling so that they don’t make a mess of your order and to re-confirm that they had made the right beverage for you? 

Are we deceiving ourselves  that it’s rea lly american if everyone knows your name?
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Posted 1 year ago

Get “It”?

This is really a bad idea. 

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Posted 1 year ago

So What’s So Great About Women

8 March is International Women’s Day 
So should we (as men) be patting the women on the back for a job well done? That would sound condescending. 

Given that women outnumber men as part of the human population on earth, it must be a matter of time before society levels out the inequality and make them more if not just as imporant as men.
Hopefully one hears the trilling of glass ceilings shattering everywhere.

Meanwhile, don’t just pay lip services to the women around you.
Help to clean the dishes, will you?   
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Posted 1 year ago

Ninjas and Grandma

Seriously.
A maths word problem for grade 3 with ninjas and grandma killing them?

An unfortunate maths teacher in Washington DC assigned such word problems to his students and ended up being fired.
It was purportedly word problems taken from a website  which claimed to use Singapore mathematics worksheets.

I wish I had such maths problem when I was young!
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Posted 1 year ago

Optimum Temperature

Hmmm.
Not a happy camper. The Ferrero Rocher bought during Chinese New Year is tasting ‘flat’.

Flipped the box to the back and it reads that it needs to be kept at the temperature of 18-22 degrees Celsius.
The ambient temperature in Singapore is around 28-31 degrees Celsius.

How on earth do we attain 18-22 ?
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Posted 1 year ago

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Irritating or vice versa

Honestly.
What were people expecting from a movie adapted from a highly irritating book (in my opinion)?

How was the movie going to be shaped by a precocious kid who is on a quest?
Is it any wonder that the movie “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” just grates the nerves and end up incredibly loud and extremely irritating.

It comes across as being smarty pants and as the common consensus seems to be, manipulative 
And yes, I feel like slapping the kid in the movie.
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Posted 1 year ago

1984 in 2012

It’s been awhile but I am re-discovering 1984 via the Planetbook website which allows you to download ebooks of such classics as 1984 as well as The Great Gatsby as well as Sense and Sensibility.
I miss the sensual feel of flipping the pages of the odd book but I guess we all have to move on.

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Posted 1 year ago

Dual Purpose Donuts

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Spotted these donuts at the airport during the Lunar New Year period which read out the word “Lucky” in chinese character.

I wonder if the manager realised he could have capitalised on them during Christmas as well if he rotated them 90 degrees anti-clockwise and end up with “Ho Ho Ho”?
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Posted 1 year ago

Why Adele Makes You Cry

It’s great to know that Adele won every categories she was nominated in for the Grammys, all 6 of it.
But Wall Street Journal came up with a great article as to why we blabber like inconsolable babies when we listen to certain love/sad songs, including “Someone Like You”. 

Now excuse me while I put the song on ‘repeat’ and weep my heart out (again and again) over Valentine’s Day.