What I despise most is people who can't see their own failings. When something fucks up, all they can see is how the other party involved was at fault. How the other party didn't do enough, didn't keep up to their side of the bargain... never once taking a moment to introspect and consider that partly, the 'blame' is to be shared ( Read more... )

My tuition students are getting a laptop for Christmas, but they have to shop for it themselves. Unfortunately, there is no one to help them -- so I offered! But I know nothing about laptops... So please help ( Read more... )

S-Man's post was hilarious. If can find this type of job, please let me know. If I made $4m a year, I wouldn't even need to be corrupt! But maybe that just proves how I'm not ambitious enough...

And this takes the cake as the best forum letter EVER.
Stop diseases, ban parties like ZoukOut ( Read more... )

On the shopping list:
- New bookshelves, 2m tall, 3m wide. Lots of bookshelves!
- Chest of drawers.
- Shoe Cabinet.
- New bedside table.
- Full length mirror.
- Make up lighting.

The plan is to have the drawers and shoe cabinet and full-length mirror line the side of my room, and place my trinkets and makeup on top of the drawers and shoe cabinet.

I'm ( Read more... )

Love these dresses, very fashion-forward and definitely not what your average girl on Orchard Road will wear, but unfortunately, they're overpriced by my standards. FEP does spoil a girl! When you get awesome dresses that people stop to ask you where you got them from at $30+, anything more than $50 is over-priced.

Ditto for these dresses. Perfect ( Read more... )

This is so sad...

November 29, 2007,  9:43 pm Helicopter Parenting Turns Deadly

Tags: lori drew, megan meier, teen suicide

Megan Meier, a 13-year-old from Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, killed herself last year after an online relationship she believed she was having with a cute 16-year-old boy named Josh went very sour. What she didn’t know - ( Read more... )

I am CRAZY about Chanel now. Love it! But hate the limited range at Taka (or so it seems). I refuse to believe that's all the bags they have! But I've been having trouble finding Chanel pr0n online. So please help girls! Where can I go for Chanel bags and accessories?!

Old, but interesting.

Pasta monster gets academic attention
Flying Spaghetti Monster gets laughs but also raises serious questions

By Justin Pope
The Associated Press
updated 1:30 p.m. ET Nov. 16, 2007
When some of the world's leading religious scholars gather in San Diego this weekend, pasta will be on the intellectual menu. They'll be talking about a ( Read more... )

Taken from YR:

What the hell is this?! What is the "GENERAL INTEREST" in making one
person's body forcibly sexually available to another?!?!?!?!?

http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Online%2BStory/STIStory_166104.html

I REFER to the article, 'Rape is rape, so husbands should not have
immunity" by Dr Andy Ho (ST, Oct 2).

To remove bias, 'rape' here ( Read more... )

Singaporeans really need to read this book.

Book review below:

August 26, 2007 The Devil Sells Prada

By CAROLINE WEBER

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DELUXE

How Luxury Lost Its Luster.

By Dana Thomas.

Illustrated. 375 pp. The Penguin Press. $27.95.

“Luxury,” Socrates once declared, “is artificial poverty.” I’m not poor, ( Read more... )