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Art by a 4 year old
Thursday, September 30, 2004 6:07 AM

I can't believe this is for real.Well, art is art I suppose.

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Singapore lottery
Thursday, September 30, 2004 1:27 AM

The jackpot for the Singapore lottery game Toto is at 2.8 million Singapore dollars. That's a heck of a lot of money!I am going to go buy a bunch of lottery tickets and hope for the best."To play TOTO, choose at least six numbers from 1 to 45 and

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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
Tuesday, September 28, 2004 2:01 PM

Wishing you all well on this day. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!Eat a moon cake and have a pleasant day!I should probably be out looking at the full moon right now. Wonder if I can see it from my window. I went to bed at 4 am and woke up

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Young and Gay in Real America
Monday, September 27, 2004 4:15 AM

The Sunday edition of the Washington Post has a very interesting story of what it's like to be young and gay in America.Washington Post staff followed a 17 year old student, Michael Shackelford, as we went about his life in rural Oklahoma.It's a good

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Vacation days
Saturday, September 25, 2004 8:15 PM

Apparently I have 38 vacation days that I should try to use up (well, at least whittle it down to 15 days since that is the max I can carry over into 2005). Any suggestions on what I could do?Take all of November and December off (and probably get

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Singapore Permanent Resident
Thursday, September 23, 2004 6:06 PM

I applied to be a Singapore Permanent Resident today.Guess I may be around here for the long term - assuming the government approves my application.

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SP2 is still coming...
Thursday, September 23, 2004 4:06 AM

Okay, so a lot of you may not have gotten Windows XP SP2 yet... waiting and waiting for it via automatic updates.Microsoft will be pushing it out faster - so for those of you who don't have it yet, should be even easier to get."Microsoft to step up SP2

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Parking simulator
Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:20 AM

A fun little parking game that I found via Serena Yeoh's blog. Serena is one of the Malaysia MVPs.

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Singapore insomnia
Tuesday, September 21, 2004 8:34 PM

It's good to be back in Singapore and from the recent trips. No trips scheduled in the near future so I can settle in for awhile and get back into the routine of eating my regular nasi lemak and chicken rice. And, of course, my habit of not

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Come visit Singapore
Tuesday, September 21, 2004 5:03 AM

Conde Nast poll: Travellers have rated Singapore the world's best city to visit(Caveat: This poll was completed by only readers of the British edition of Conde Nast magazine)Other awards:Safest in the worldBest airport in the worldIt's nice to be back

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MVP Game
Thursday, September 16, 2004 7:38 PM

A little game that we have here at Malaysia TechEd. On this card are photos of Microsoft MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals) and Regional Directors. They are here all week doing presentations and walking around TechEd. Attendees who see

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New MSDN web site for Visual Studio 2005 Beta
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 7:29 AM

Junfeng Zhang mentions there is a new MSDN site for Visual Studio 2005. From Junfeng's site:"Now you can use "http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/<namespace>.aspx" to get the documents for a particular namespace. For example, I reference

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Singapore fights a declining birth rate
Saturday, September 11, 2004 7:42 PM

Washington Post has an article about how Singapore is trying to boost its birth rate."That is the quandary Singapore faces as it tries to boost its anemic birthrate. The government, fearing that the tiny, prosperous city-state will shrink into oblivion,

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Classic sounds
Saturday, September 11, 2004 4:55 AM

Call yourself a fan of classic video games? Take this audio quiz and see if you can recognize the sound effects from some 1980's games.

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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Friday, September 10, 2004 8:51 PM

I read in the Straits Times today an article that talked about how time really does seem to pass faster when you're having fun. Perhaps that is why it is now 4:45 in the morning and I'm awake, blogging.I'm trying to make the most out of the time

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Corn milk
Tuesday, September 07, 2004 4:26 AM

Update on the beverages in the Thai office.I am trying out the corn milk right now. It tastes like the corn juice you find in canned corn. It's like drinking straight from a can of corn, but diluting it a bit with water so the flavor isn't

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Student
Monday, September 06, 2004 4:29 PM

Can I please be a college student again? Any year, freshman - senior. All were great. And now I bet would be even more fun.

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Drinks in the Bangkok office
Monday, September 06, 2004 12:42 PM

Welcome to Microsoft Thailand. What's in the refrigerator?Guava juice, corn milk, yogurt drink, Chinese Pear Juice with Pear Meat...I am having the Chinese pear juice. It's quite nice.Perhaps tomorrow I'll try the corn juice.We don't have

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Rouge
Saturday, September 04, 2004 7:47 PM

So it's 3:45 am, I'm sitting here eating my Fried Kway Teow (kind of like fried noodles) and watching some MTV Asia. Tomorrow I gotta pack in the morning and then I head to Bangkok for a few days.In the background, on TV, some singer named "Joss

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Windows Media Player 10 has released
Thursday, September 02, 2004 3:13 PM

Just made available for download. Windows Media Player 10. Get it now!

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Fable has gone gold
Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:49 AM

Fable has gone gold and will be in stores September 14.I have been waiting for this Xbox role playing game for a long time. Let's hope it lives up to the hype.I wonder if the Japanese will like this game... perhaps it's the game that will turn Xbox

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The day has come
Wednesday, September 01, 2004 1:48 PM

The day has come...I'm sitting here watching a Singaporean-Chinese TV Drama. It's in Mandarin and I can't understand a word, so I have to read the sub-titles.But oh my, it's fascinating."The Ties that Bind" - on every night at 9 pm.Is it strange

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China tour groups in Europe
Wednesday, September 01, 2004 4:51 AM

Finally, private tour groups from China are able to visit 27 European countries."France, which saw between 300,000 and 400,000 Chinese tourists last year, expects the number to double to between 600,000 and 800,000 by next year and top one million in

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OneNote in Education
Wednesday, September 01, 2004 3:53 AM

A press release about OneNote - which I agree is a super cool application. I wish I used it more in Tablet mode. I haven't taken the time to organize my notes in OneNote properly yet, but I see a lot of good potential for this application.If

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