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Entries from December 2008

What a Fruitful Year that Ends with a Bang: My Sister’s Wedding

December 31st, 2008 · 19 Comments · Memorable Events - good or bad, Reflection

Out of over 7,000 photos taken with my barely 2 months old camera, if I could pick one picture as my Nikon moment, this is it.  Friends of mine perhaps rarely see this look of mine that is ecstatically happy.  And indeed I was and more, overwhelmed with emotion.  I passed my camera to my [...]

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Year 2008 Movie Awards - The Nominations by the Movie Review Squad

December 30th, 2008 · 18 Comments · Announcement

47 movies, 47 blog entries, in 1 year - 14 awards our Movie Review Squad has dreamed up with, and here are our nominations.  I don’t even want to start calculating how much money three of us have contributed to our favorite Cathay Cineplexes.  And if you see any bizarre conflict within the list of nominations, [...]

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Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett’s Omaha by Jeff Matthews - A Highly Readable, Well Balanced Travelogue That Will Get You Thinking

December 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Book Reviews, Non-Fiction

As someone who has close to zero prior knowledge on the phenomenon of Warren Buffett, hedge fund manager and financial blogger Jeff Matthews has done a marvelous job in painting a holistic picture of a world according to Warren Buffett.  Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett’s Omaha is highly assessable.  Supported by close to 90 quotations from various [...]

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Second Batch of Photos from Our Bandung Trip - Cafe Sierra at the Peak and Our Last Day of the Trip

December 26th, 2008 · 9 Comments · My Hobbies, Photography, Travel Blog

OK.  This photo of the waitress at Bambu Desa looks lovely.  The authentic Indonesian food from the lovely city of Bandung is lovely too.  Now before I get into that, here comes the second batch of our selected photo collection.
If you notice from the previous batch, I have reversed the order of the batches because [...]

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We Celebrated Christmas Eve the Twilight Way

December 25th, 2008 · 14 Comments · Movie Reviews, Romance

Wow.  How Kristen Stewart has grown up from the 12 years old Panic Room diabetes into one fine young actress who is in love with … a vampire.  Twilight watched like a mix of my favorite TV series Buffy and Felicity.  Add that with the cool rock numbers by Linkin Park, Muse, Paramore, and more [...]

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First Batch of Photos from Our Bandung Trip - A Teaser and More to Come

December 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments · My Hobbies, Photography

I know I have been slow in publishing the photos from my trips and now that I am heading to Hong Kong in less than 72 hours’ time, it’s a high time to release the first batch of … erm … teaser. Recently, I have added a telephoto zoom lens into my collection. [...]

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So This is What the Spanish Exam at Las Lilas School Beginner 2 is Like

December 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments · Linguistic, My Hobbies

Oh dear me, the Spanish Exam for Beginner 2 was mind blowing.  I dragged myself out of the bed just hours before the exam, having a fever of 38°C.  Oops, that was no good.  My body ached (still does) and I have these non-work related appointments coming into my mobile phone’s Gmail application as I [...]

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Nokia N96 Test Drive Episode 4 - Satellites Watch Me Jog

December 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Diary

The Nokia N96 is without doubt more than just a phone and yesterday, I took it for a jog, with the satellites behind me.  I have stopped jogging for more than a year after I have hurt my knees at the Mount Kinabalu.  It is hard to describe the fear of not being able to [...]

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The Day the Earth Stood Still Was the Day We Returned from Our Bandung Trip

December 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Fantasy & Sci-fi, Movie Reviews

This morning, minutes before we checked out of the hotel from Jakarta and to catch a plane back to Singapore, two of our Movie Review Squad members were busy booking our movie tickets via the free wi-fi network provided at the hotel lobby while the third one was on the 10th floor busy catching up with [...]

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If There is One Thing I Can Change On How Singapore Retail Market Operates … OK, Make it 10

December 17th, 2008 · 16 Comments · I See I Write

I love my country but not certain aspects of our retail market.  I am not an economist, just a layman consumer on the ground.  My everyday observation as such.
Recently I bought a camera.  If you are to buy the exact same one I have at a major chain store, you would have to pay 25% [...]

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