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Attention! Now Hear This!


2007
07.29

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 Than Shwe & Lee Hsien Loong

Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar Senior General Than Shwe and Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore Mr Lee Hsien Loong (Photograph credit: Myanmar Government)

The state of Singapore’s Fourth Estate:

Thousands bonded at Inter-Racial Inter-Religious Harmony Nite (Channel NewsAsia, 29 July)

Punggol East residents forge stronger ties and friendship (Channel NewsAsia, 29 July)

Fans mob Taiwanese pop group S.H.E at MediaCorp event (Channel NewsAsia, 29 July)

The state of Myanmar’s Fourth Estate:

Senior General Than Shwe sends message of felicitations to Peru (New Light of Myanmar, 28 July)

Minister inspects diesel locomotive shed (Mahlwagon) (New Light of Myanmar, 29 July)

Work Proficiency Course No 31 of Internal Revenue Dept concludes (New Light of Myanmar, 28 July)

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Windows Live Writer


2006
08.24

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Microsoft’s new beta app for its “Live” scheme of things, Windows Live Writer, lets you to update your blog from your desktop. So this is the first post — let’s see how it works.

It supports, among others, custom installations of WordPress, and sports Windows Live Local map integration. Just to sample the functions, below should be a road map of Singapore “live” from Microsoft’s servers. I’m rather thrilled to notice that Bill Gates in his infinite wisdom has seen proper to move the Padang from its customary location opposite of the City Hall to Zion Road quite facing the Great World City. Unless, of course, he is referring to the River Valley Nasi Padang shop that serves exquisite, err, nasi padang at only slightly inflated prices.

Update: It seems Mr. Gates’ cartographic knowledge leaves quite a bit to be desired: if you click on the image above, you will be transported to the heart of the Riau Archipelago, Indonesia, — famous for its Singaporean-owned industries, gambling, and, ahem, nightlife, to put it euphemistically.

Moving along, a picture from 1984 that got added an elegant photo paper frame and automatically uploaded to my WordPress image folder up in my server.

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PAP


2006
05.07

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Pardon me for being stupid but how does 66 per cent of the popular vote translate to 98 per cent of the seats won in the Singapore parliament?

For further, see, for example, the BBC.

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Interim Monster


2006
04.12

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Anagrams of “minister mentor”: innermost merit, or interim monster?

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Degrees of separation


2005
10.28

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Samples from a list of missing persons from the Singapore Straits Times, 21 February 1901:

Bessie Dora Bowen, née Saunderson, last heard of at Brisbane, Australia, about 40 years ago. Sister Mary Musgrave Bowen, née Robertson, seeks. Address from herself or daughter, Mary Thelluson, or son Arthur.

John Maidens, worked on a sugar plantation in Brisbane five years ago. Mother asks.

John Metheringham, of Nottingham, was at Brighton in 1876; supposed to have gone to Australia on a merchant vessel. Mother and sister inquire.

Julia Myneskie, seeks relatives. She says — “I was left when six weeks old with my nurse, Mrs. Woodford, during the revolution in Poland in 1852.”

More from Terry Foenander’s page.

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