It was just for his head.
I had a MRI once at NUH for my knee. The bill for that was S$450.
It seems I was wrong. Dry water does exist!
Dry water is made of 95 percent water surrounded by modified silica (sand).
So I'm guessing it means we're talking about extremely porous grains of sand, kind of like activated charcoal, except the pores are filled with water vapour.
Tobacco water is made by boiling tobacco in water. It is an insecticide.
So how does nailing a person improve his/her work efficiency? This I will never figure out.
Barbaric people. This totally fits many of the reviews I've read about airports in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. They're proof that just because someone is rich doesn't mean he/she is a better person.
Also, Singaporean maid abusers are weak!
A music video extracted from a children's show and turned into something entirely different.
Pokerface. With Christopher Walken and Cartman.
Pokerface. The other original version, by Cartman.
The funniest of the three videos that made the first Pokerface video above.
A frickin FIRE TORNADO!!
Just when I thought I've seen everything.
Ok, so far Uncharted Waters Online is a little boring like all MMOs. It's again the grinding. In other MMOs the grind is about clicking the same skills in a loop like a bot. In UWO it's travelling in your preferred trade route over and over again to make money. Of course it's not that simple because prices fluctuate according to demand and your investment in the towns, but generally speaking it's just a loop of trading, travelling and resupplying.
The problem is that pirating just isn't profitable enough for players at this point. Either they can't attack players (PvP) in areas that aren't classified as "open sea" or our "Escape" skill makes merchants go just too fast for them. I don't know which, and maybe both are true.
It's not exciting anymore since I don't even have to watch my ship in long distance voyages because my new galliot is too fast for all the AI pirates near Italy, France and southern Spain. In the future when Open Beta begins there will probably be more players and therefore more fun.
Things will probably be more interesting when I make enough to get a better ship that can handle the pirates near Istanbul so that I can explore the Middle East and eventually circumnavigate Africa and check out Asia. The Americas and Australia are in the game too but they're too far for the little ships that newbies can afford. They will be reachable once we can pay for a galleas or galleon.
Anyway this game is not totally historically accurate. For example we see Nostradamus (1503-1566), Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and Shakespeare (1564-1616) in the game even though they lived in different times that overlap only by a little. In addition, slaves don't exist in the game even though slave-trading was an important factor that contributed to the Golden Age of the Dutch (a playable nationality) between 17th and 18th century.
It is going to be great for players who can reach the Orient first because if the game is historically accurate enough, silk from China is going to make them filthy rich.
This kind of supports what I said before about the Chinese Mainlanders trying to play with the Singaporean real estate markets. They're already here and trying to control the prices while certain restrictions set by the government (instead of laws which was my guess) are thwarting their efforts.
Well, this is just a conclusion derived from hearsay from a very rich uncle and some news articles. This article mentions nothing about guys from the PRC.
But this article mentions a few measures that clearly are part of an attempt to reduce demand. Interesting.
From what I've heard from Americans, they find Macau to be the Asian clone of Las Vegas. They're practically identical, according to them. Like I've said before, now is a good time to visit Macau because with the inflow of cash from the rest of China cut off, I don't think the casinos will continue to grow. On the other hand, if they advertise themselves as hard as Singapore does around the world, who knows?
I think this following sentence just described most of my life.
That’s because among my peers, I still see many students’ lives and dreams being dictated by examinations and the need to be successful – not to be “great” in their respective field of passion — but merely as an avenue to secure that cushy high-paying job later on in life. And because that I sometimes feel that is still the be-all and end-all of Singapore education, I feel we don’t do enough to nurture our children’s dreams.
But I have no dream! What could my parents nurture??
Being ”great” doesn’t necessarily mean being famous but rather that a person is motivated and nurtured by his passion instead of a fat monthly pay cheque, or the kind of car you drive, or the kind of home you live in.
The ultimate employee works for passion only and does not need to be paid.
Most might say the sad reality of Singapore education is to enable one to secure a stable job that will allow one to pay a never-ending cycle of bills, but does that really nurture our dream, our soul? Is that what we really dreamed of as a child — to merely “settle”?
No, dude. Sometimes we need to go to Malaysia, too, to pretend to be rich.
And he sees what I see.
Instead, in Singapore, I still feel that the sole aim of education is to graduate from university by 23 or 24 and become a lawyer, banker or doctor.
I lost the game. Had to insert extra tokens and restart this stage.
And the majority of the comments below the article are whines. Most of them just can't face reality or maybe they just don't like it. For example, when it comes to retrenchment, obviously employers are going to fire the older ones first. They have higher salaries and they're closer to retirement. It sucks but c'mon, someone has to suffer. Just suck it up and deal with it. Easier said than done? That's only because you weren't prepared, and that's your fault.
In case you get annoyed and start think wishing that I'll be retrenched in the future, I'm already prepared in my own way.
The other one is about hiring foreigners. Is there so much to discuss? The main problem here is that they all misunderstand the situation, that's all.
I was surprised when I received an SMS today that wished me a happy birthday. Apparently I'm not hermit-like enough.
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