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Aggressive Bicyclists Are Disregarding Laws And Endangering Pedestrians
This evening while my wife and I were walking to the hawker for dinner, we were almost run down by a bicyclist. We had stopped at the cross walk in front of Loyang Secondary School in Pasir Ris and waited for the pedestrian light to change to green. When it did, we glanced quickly right…
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LTA Trying To Scam Singaporeans’ Money?
The Park-a-Lot Lite app, developed by local developer NiiDees, has removed its live parking data feature which displayed which carparks had vacant lots, following a notice from the LTA. via zdnet asia Park-a-Lot Lite is an iPhone app that was previously able to pull data from the LTA’s website, which then showed Singaporean drivers, through…
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Book Review: Atlantis by David Gibbins
As the title suggests, this book deals with the legend of Atlantis and the chain of events that lead up to its fictional discovery by Jack Howard and his colleagues from IMU. Jack Howard and IMU are both fictional and play a role in quite a few of David Gibbins’ books, all dealing with archaeology…
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Blood Trail Leading Through Downtown East and E-Hub (Pictures)
My wife and I were in Downtown East tonight when we noticed this trail of blood leading past the entrance to Sakura. At first, I thought that perhaps some poor girl was having an unfortunate night, but then I realized it was way too much blood for that. The trail led to the door going…
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Singapore’s Native Cat Breed
Meet the Singapura: Singapura is the original name of Singapore, and is also the name still used for Singapore in the Malay language. But… did you know that there’s also a cat breed called the Singapura? This cat breed was discovered here in Singapore in the 70s and originated from cross-breeding between community cats. The…
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Chingay Fiesta Tampines 2010 Floats
My wife and I went to Tampines 1 last night to have dinner at Manpuku. There’s a stall there called Hokkaido Aoba Ramen that’s really, really good! We always get the Sho-yu Cha-shu Ramen and a side of wafu gyoza. Anyhow, on the way in we noticed that the field by Tampines 1 and the…
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Haagen-Dazs Boutique Ice Cream Stores in Singapore
Singapore was the first place I got to sit down at a fancy restaurant that was designed just for the purpose of serving ice cream, like the Haagen-Dazs restaurants that are so common here in Singapore. There are, of course, places like this in the US, but they’re mostly in major cities like New York…
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Book Review: The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
The Templar Legacy is a book by Steve Berry that details an adventure involving American agents, holdouts of the centuries old Templar brotherhood and the quest for the Great Devise. The Great Devise is a factual cache of treasure and knowledge that was hidden away from the French King, Phillip IV, during The Great Purge…
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Smart and Contemporary Cat
Meet the Smart and Contemporary Cat: This cat used to hang out in the business area in Tampines and he looks sort of like he’s wearing a black suit. We don’t know if he had a name and we didn’t really give him one. We just always called him Smart and Contemporary Cat. My wife…
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Malay Wedding Reception
In October of last year I had the opportunity to go to a Singaporean Chinese wedding reception and I was really impressed. The food was incredible. Everyone was dressed well. It was formal and elegant. It was also a sharp contrast to the Malay wedding reception we went to. Not in a bad way of…
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