Archive for August, 2008
Sigh. My eyeballs are in overdrive today. In this world there are the collectivists, the individualists and the pure delusional. Came across this other article on the Internet about table-tennis. The last paragraph took the cake. "Still, we’ll never appreciate table tennis like the Chinese do. We’ll never chant and ooh and ahh when the […]
There’s been a furore over China’s handling of the Olympics opening. By now, everyone knows that a little girl lip-synched, and 28 out of 29 footprints seen on TV were digital images because the hazy skies prevented the real footprint fireworks from being captured. Beijing’s critics have jumped at these examples to criticise China. They […]
I’m in this group on Facebook called "I Secretly Want To Punch Slow Walking People In The Back Of The Head". My goodness… you should see the comments left on the group’s Wall. Everyone hates people who walk slowly and wishes to slap them or punch them. And you know what? I totally agree with […]
IRAS is efficient! I just got a call from them saying they’re looking into it. So far, they confirmed that Comfort Taxis includes it in the receipt. So either Premier Taxis is slow, or the cabbie is recalcitrant. Either way, the diesel surcharge forms part of taxable income hence they’ll probe more. See! This is […]
Time and again I have encountered dishonest taxi drivers who display the "on call" sign even though they have not been booked in advance by passengers. But the driver I met tonight takes the cake. Not only did he dishonestly show the "on call" sign (he was waiting at the taxi stand with the sign […]
Two videos I uploaded after waiting for a very very long time. Sigh… the quality dropped after the upload… stupid youtube.. sigh… the sound’s a little poorer than videos captured using my nokia N82… but on my pc, the visual’s actually much better.
Managed to catch the FIR concert on 8/8/2008 courtesy of ASA Tours (and my lovely mom and aunts who bought expensive tour packages from them). :P The concert was fantastic – a high octane performance and good audience interaction. I was impressed with Faye… she could sing with a steady voice even when there were […]
Sends search engines my way? Sigh. Before I got hit by the stupid spam hijack thingy, this blog was rated pretty high on google’s search engines. Type "uptowngal" and the first hit would be this blog. Now… this blog has gone completely under the radar. I was told that google removed all the blogs / […]
Today is Iceman’s birthday… but the poor chap had to go to office extra early thanks to some heartless doctor who wanted a meeting at 7:30am. Good grief. Which normal human being turns up at office before 10am? (Ok, I’m exaggerating here). Anyway, Happy Birthday Sayang!! *Hugs*
Two of my colleagues resigned this week. One’s from my department and the other is from Booze Queen’s department. The guy from my department resigned to pursue his dream of being an entrepreneur. Nothing wrong with that except he doesn’t want to tell Bigmac what his plans are because he feels Bigmac will "poke holes" […]
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