Pinoy in Singapore

With oil prices hitting an all time high, airlines are thinking up ways to compensate.  Tiger airways is now charging $5 for checked in luggage.  I wonder if Cebu Pacific will do the same. I hope somebody finds a good alternative to oil soon.  The world can’t possibly rely on a single resource and be [...]

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Charice Pempengco is just awesome! Imagine at her young age, she’s been given so many standing ovations, she’s guested on Oprah, now she’s performed at David Foster and Friends with other world-class big singers like Josh Groban, Michael Buble, Andrea Bocelli among others. It’s just amazing! And it’s really nice that she’s proud to let [...]

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I just got back from Bangkok and I still think the Philippines deserves a spot in the top destinations in Asia. But I have a new found appreciation for the city of Bangkok and I now understand why it would place 10th. Maybe because this time I wasn’t on a package tour and we stayed [...]

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This is a sequel to my previous entry about getting yourself condo cultured. It’s another really serious circular from our beloved estate managers that I find kinda funny because of the way it’s stated. Here’s an excerpt:

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Like the IT show during 1st quarter of the year, the PC show has lots of cool gadgets at bargain prices.  This was where we bought my mom’s laptop last year. THE PC SHOW 2008 Start Date : 12 June 2008 End Date : 15 June 2008 Description : The PC Show, Singapore’s Longest-running and [...]

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The Great Singapore Sale 2008 official site is up. Check it out to maximize your shopping privileges during the sale.

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Yesterday, I was planning on cooking pumpkin soup for dinner but pumpkin soup needs to be simmered for some time so that the pumpkin would be soft enough to puree. At the same time I had to go back to the mall and have the shirts I recently bought for my dad changed to a [...]

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This is one piece of news that disturbs me. Not because the 42 year old HIV positive man and the 16 year old boy performed indecent acts on each other in a public place without the man disclosing that he was HIV positive. I might be watching too much House and CSI or I’m missing [...]

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Mr. Tsiken has actually been convincing me for so long to buy the iRobot. His office buddy swears by it. But I never really saw the value of it because it was Mr. Tsiken’s job to do the vacuuming so I thought he was just trying to get out of his cleaning chores. These babies [...]

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Singapore ranked 79th in the Top 100 World Destinations and 4th in the Top 25 Destinations for Asia according to the choices of members from TripAdvisor.com. One member described Singapore as: A land of diverse cultures and traditions, yet everything complements one another, making for a city that seems perfectly in balance. .. and I [...]

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Cleaning is the one chore I dread the most… ok, maybe it’s tied with ironing clothes but it all started with our air conditioning units. We wanted to do a maintenance service for the air conditioning units at home to make sure that they were still efficiently running and not just running up the electric [...]

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