You know you've gotten a good deal when a return air ticket (including taxes and fuel surcharge) to Bangkok costs as much as a return coach ticket to KL.

Of course, there are conditions attached though....

Inspired by the "A Dollar a day for food" project (and also the recession), i decided to try out whether it was possible to survive on $10 a day on a typical working day.

MRT ride from Sembawang to CCK        - $1.37
Breakfast (Bee Hoon + Hash Brown)      - $1.30
Lunch (Fish Bee hoon+Watermelon)      - $3.20
MRT ride from JE to Somerset for gym   - $1. ( Read more... )

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As my sister, brother-in-law and nephew are staying with me for the time being, I was shocked to find that my bro-in-law actually wears smaller sized pants than me.

I commented to my mum

Me:  Shawn (my brother-in-law) 这么高大.他裤的腰围才30号。我还需要穿32号
Mom: aiyah,  他上面大。你是整身都大
Me: !!!!

Thanks to a company Team building event, I won vouchers to come back to Forest Adventure with close friends.
The date was set way in advance so that the key players could make it.
I also have to thank whoever is up there for granting us an absolutely goregeous bright and sunny day.

Introducing the key players

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I'm featured in my company's latest in-house publication !

This is for nominating a fellow collegue for doing a great job:

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Some time in August, HR sent out an email about a tagline contest.
$200 worth of vouchers was offered as prize. Decided to give it a try.

conditions were:

1.
Tag line MUST be short & catchy; concise & relevant & easy to remember.
2.
Tag line MUST reflect what makes us proud as an employee of xxx reflective of the People’s culture in xxx

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Since i had nothing to do in the mornin, i went for a walk around the neighbourhood.

Noticed a number of changes

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With swimming over, I turned my attention to Gymnastics (Artistic).
Finals of the following 3 events tonight

1) Men's vault
This might as well be called the European championships as all 8 finalists came from Europe.
It was won by some Polish guy but this guy caught my attention.

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The highlight for most Singaporeans today would be the table tennis finals between S'pore and China.
To me, the so called Singapore team might as well be called China Team B. (I watched the Gymnastics finals instead during the time the match was played and i was not disappointed)

The highlight for me was, no surprises here, swimming.

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