“Salaries for political appointments – ministers, ministers of state and parliamentary secretaries – are estimated to be $58.28 million, or 8.8 per cent higher than last year.”
Via TODAYonline (Committed to going green, Teo Xuanwei, 23 Feb 2010) .
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Do you remember the inspirational Dr Cai Mingjie – PhD researcher turned taxi driver in uniquely Singapore style?
Well, great news for fans of Dr Cai. His first book, “Diary of a Taxi Driver” will be published and available from next month. You can pre-order a copy of Dr Cai’s book from his blog now. If you do so, you will get a special autographed copy, priced at $19.90 (no GST) per copy with free delivery via Singpost mail in Singapore (international readers will have to wait till book is available on Amazon.com).
All the best Dr Cai. May your book sales cross a million copies. 🙂
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For our Chinese New Year reunion dinner this year, my family headed down to Pu Tien Restaurant (莆田菜馆) at Kitchener Road again like last year. The restaurant serves Heng Hwa (兴化) cuisine, which btw, is my dialect group.
This year, Pu Tien offered on their CNY menu, the Hakka-originated, Cantonese-modified luxurious delight – Poon Choi or Pen Cai. It’s basically a stewed pot filled with vegetable and lots of goodies like abalone, scallops, dried oysters, sea cucumbers and braised pork.
Eating a bowl of Pen Cai alone was filling enough for the evening. Yummy.
Here are the photos taken this evening:
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Via Brand Channel. Goojjie and YouTubeCN are China copycats of Google and YouTube. Check out their homepages – they look almost identical as the real deal.
These surfaced to patch the potential market gap if Google really pulls out of China as it has threatened to do so some weeks back.
You really have to hand it to the Chinese for their extreme form of entrepreneurship.
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Last Thursday, the omy.sg crew headed down to the Singapore Flyer for a Singapore Flight ride together, followed by dinner at Hibiki restaurant.
It’s a great way to usher in the new year with my colleagues, getting a bird’s eye view of the Singapore cityscape from the greatest vantage point. The dinner was a delight too, so was the exciting lucky draw prepared by our bosses, Chim Kang and Kuan Fung.
The omy.sg team will like to thank the management of Singapore Flyer and Hibiki restaurant for facilitating our dinner gathering. Thank you and may your businesses grow from strength to strength together with omy.sg as we continue to grow in 2010 to serve our users and advertisers better.
The Singapore Flyer has set up a special Auspicious Trail for the Chinese New Year festive period. You can find out more about this trail via their official website, as well as more information on their prosperity “Lo Hei” flight.
Alternatively, you can also try your hands at winning a Singapore Flyer Sky Dining Flight for Two, worth $249 in value, as well as a Prosperity “Lo Hei” Flight for Four, worth over $288 in value each, by simply playing the Singapore Flyer Auspicious Trail Giveaway game, in collaboration with omy.sg.
For doubly abundance, participants who complete the registration and take part in the interactive Singapore Flyer Auspicious Trail demo will also enjoy 20% OFF online purchase of Singapore Flyer flight tickets. 🙂
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Spotted this giant billboard of Mr Mah Bow Tan at his Tampines GRC constituency:
Note how the billboard has been “strategically” (not sure if it was intentional or purely coincidental) placed such that it seems Mr Mah’s upper body is super imposed onto the lower body of the giant God of Fortune (财神爷) statue behind him.
A fitting tribute to Mr Mah indeed – given that his Chinese name, “宝山” can be literally translated as “treasure mountain”. Also, Mr Mah has helped the Singapore government made considerable fortune through his COE policy as Transport Minister and now, his BTO, DBSS housing policies as the National Development Minister. 🙂
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Happy Chinese New Year. 🙂
Here’s a funny music video by a Malaysian boy called BobbyABao to spread the cheers. Enjoy:
I wonder what Lady Gaga will say if she sees this video.
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