ParkourSG said

Amazing stuff! Wonder why the bystanders are so disinterested?

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Little Red Ants Creative Studio said:

http://www.vimeo.com/7043799

For the victims of the earthquake in Sumatra and Typhoon Morakot in The Philippines, Little Red Ants Creative Studio has come together to create a pro bono video appeal to ask for aid to be given to Mercy Relief, the Singapore Red Cross and other humanitarian agencies. While they work tirelessly to help those worst hit by the disasters, we believe in doing our own small part to garner even more support for their activities.

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To everyone who graciously gave their time and effort to make this video possible, we thank you.

For more details about this multimedia project, email contact@littleredants.com.sg

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anonymouse 6 said:

In an apparent effort to wipe out the accounts of gold farmers, asiasoft decides to block anyone with large recent transactions..

apparently their criteria of large was so low, it resulted in thousands of blocked players

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "topical, players have no rights in singapore, whether legal or not. we are completely at the descretion of tyrants and fools"

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avalon said:

Recently, we rescued 2 factory puppies from my neighbourhood and after taking care of them, we went about finding new loving homes for the pups...But something horrible happened. We found on 88db.com that the same boy-pup, Dane, was being posted for SALE... he even claims he paid $4k for the dog. This is NOT TRUE. He paid an adoption fee of $350...I made a mystery shopper's call this morning..It is the SAME GUY. He spoke with the same funny PRC accent and had the same voice.

Recommended by avalon: "This PRC mofo claimed to be offering a good home for this rescued puppy and now puts him up for sale."

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YoungFamilies said:

Parenting is a task fraught with challenges and one challenge that most parents can relate to is losing their cool. When that happens, the natural instict is to shout, scream and reach for the cane. "Parents resort to assertive methods when they've lost control of the situation," explains Elly Sim, director of Jan & Elly English Language School who holds a Bachelor of Science in Child Development and Psychology. "It's their way of struggling to gain power over the child"

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "Is using a cane on your child wrong? Most Singaporeans you ask will say no...but most Americans will say yes. Who's right?"

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Cheng Ding An said:

If you knew Dollah Kassim, maybe you would know what a gracious, soft spoken, big hearted man he was.

If you knew Dollah Kassim, maybe you would have known an entire generation of legendary

footballers who fought and won something simply astounding, but are now lost and forgotten

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CNNGo said:

43. Most complex coffee ordering procedure ever
Everyday, in kopitiams (local coffee shops) all over Singapore, coffee stall attendants with bellows for lungs yell out drink orders in the most perplexing code this side of the Causeway. "Kopi-o peng gao jit bua" means one iced thick coffee without milk and less sugar, while "teh-si siew dai sua" means two cups of tea with condensed milk and less sugar. Don't bother, most Singaporeans just place their drink orders in plain ol' indecipherable Singlish.

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mianbaochaoren said:

Golden Village movie promotion available to PRCs only: "buy 3 The Message tickets and get 1 FREE! For People Republic of China citizens only."

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "How come there isn't such a deal during OUR own national day?

Being discriminated in favour of PRCs in my country is like seeing "IRISH NEED NOT APPLY" signs in Ireland."

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AC Fishing said:

they come after you even if you are using artificial bait aka lures and do catch and release everytime you fished in the reservoir.

Ya ya i know some of you will just say they go after you becos you are fishing at a non designated fishing area , alright i understand it is their job to catch us lol but we catch and release anglers are not doing much of damage compared to those foreign worker.

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Seah Chiang Nee said:

AN ELECTRONICS firm that advertised last week for a “preferably non-Singaporean” engineer has added fuel to a worsening controversy in this migrant city.

It particularly stipulated that “permanent residents are welcome” to apply for this “mid-career job (salary negotiable)”.

A copy of the advertisement found its way onto the web.

Applicants should have a diploma or a relevant trade certificate, with 3-5 years’ work experience, and “preferably non-Singaporean (PR welcome),” it added. ...

The foreigners, hungrier and without family responsibility here, generally work longer hours for less pay – something that married Singaporeans with a home mortgage to pay cannot possibly match.

A small industry has risen to recruit them in large numbers – as indicated by a recruitment agency, with this advertisement: “Do you find it difficult and expensive to hire local staff? Why not consider hiring foreign talents?”

Claiming it was licensed by the Manpower Ministry, the agency said that it had recruited thousands of workers from China, India, Vietnam and Malaysia for Singapore firms in the past five years.

Recommended by at82: "Now we know where we stand. Singaporeans are now below foreigners."

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Decade said:

Ladies and Gentleman... Presenting for the very first time in Singapore.... The Google Trike.

What trike?

Google trike... According to Google; This mechanical masterpiece comprises 3 bicycle wheels, a mounted Street View camera and a specially decorated box containing image collecting gadgetry.

And if you need to know more about it. Google it.

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BigBert's Fotoblog said:

Singtel has been wrongly charging its customer(s) for wrong price plans. I have been charged for a 300MB plan when I have signed up for a 1GB plan. They took few days to resolve it instead of pacifying me and still made me hold e line while they checked.

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "An embarrassing case of Singtel not doing its due diligence and honoring its agreements"

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Singapore Fountain Pen said:

The man seen in posters and in the run's official site took part in the race too. His name is Hanniel Choong, a heroin user in a previous life, whose self-imposed mission was to break his personal best of 48 minutes as he celebrates his 48th birthday. I was among those who cheered while he got on stage during the awarding ceremony as the announcers exclaimed "mission accomplished!"

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New York Times said:

At a forum this month with Singapore’s most powerful man, Lee Kuan Yew, the former prime minister whose current title is minister mentor, she asked provocatively whether he would send in the army in the very unlikely event that the P.A.P. lost an election. (His long and intricate answer was that there were other ways to control an opposition government.)

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The Miami Herald said:

While U.S. and Latin American currencies portray images of national independence heroes, Singapore's 2-dollar bill -- the most widely circulated since there is no smaller denomination -- shows students in a classroom listening to a professor, with a university in the background. Underneath, there is just one word, ``Education.''

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "I can't believe it took an American to point that out to me..."

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Forbes has released a list of 40 of Singapore richest person. Ng Teng Fong is at no 1 with $8 billion.

The total wealth of Singapore's 40 richest has jumped 20%.

Singapore is emerging from its deepest recession since the island became an independent nation in 1965. Though the economy may shrink up to 6% this year, there are signs that the worst is over. GDP expanded in the second quarter for the first time in a year. Exports and manufacturing were up in July, and property prices and sales are picking up. The country's main stock index has jumped almost 90% since its March low.

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Vr-Zone said:

Comex 2009 is now officially open until this Sunday. With booths and mega bargains extending from first floor to the sixth in the convention halls (yes, every floor has something going on).

Do you have what it takes to join the rest of the crowd in finding your best bargain for the gadgets and hardware?

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Tong Hsien Hui said:

I don’t expect these media giants in Singapore to change their philosophies anytime soon. They lack the hunger and urgency brought about by a highly competitive environment, and to a certain extent, the luddites in senior management probably wouldn’t be comfortable in such a fast paced media environment.

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "Why Singapore's newspapers aren't full tilt into new media"

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Oikono said:

So what is wrong with how Chinese was taught? There was too much focus on memorization, at the expense of discussions. Too much ancient (and sterilized) materials were emphasized, at the expense of contemporary issues. Why not pair banal stories of Yue Fei with materials on modern Chinese nationalism? Why not talk about Li Bai in the larger scheme of how Chinese poetry evolved? Language training in my school was divorced from the deeper discussions of Chinese culture, politics and society that could have motivated me.

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "Can chinese be made more interesting? MOE should be rethinking its approach!"

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Aspiring Mangaka & Writers Club said:

There is an undeniable thrill to seeing your own work in print; your name on the spine of a book on the shelf of a bookstore or library. Which is why suckers like me spend a few k’s to get our literary vomit immortalized. Well, if immortality includes silverfish, spiderwebs and a bunch of dead trees.

A few years ago I went through the self-publishing route and quickly found out that in Singapore at least, it’s insanely hard to sell leisure fiction—that is, fiction which was written for the sake of the story and not because someone was trying to push an agenda or tell their chicken soup story. Singaporeans JUST DON’T READ! I could tell some stories about that…later.

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