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BookCrossing

July 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Last week I volunteered for a book crossing activity at the Central Lending Library.  I didn’t really have any idea what book crossing was about.  I thought we were going to cross out old books from the library’s inventory.
It turns out bookcrossing as defined in the Concise Oxford English dictionary is the practice of leaving [...]

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Genius of Photography on National Geographic

July 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A few months back, National Geographic aired a 6-episode series entitled the Genius of Photography featuring the greatest photographers in the world.
And for those like me who weren’t able to catch all the episodes, they are re-airing the series again on Saturdays 11 pm. Unfortunately, next Saturday will already be airing Episode 4 so those [...]

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5 Secret things about Me: The Disclosure Meme

June 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Edwin just tagged me in his disclosure entry and reading his made me think this is interesting because I found out we had more things in common than I thought.

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Cleanliness is next to Godliness

May 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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 [...]

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A Review of Osim iEcologi

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

One thing I noticed when we moved to Singapore is that most people don’t bring in their shoes inside their houses. Though we don’t leave our shoes outside the door like our neighbors do, we followed the practice of not using shoes inside the house. Instead, we have a collection of bedroom slippers [...]

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What once was lost, now is found

March 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Just yesterday I wrote about Mr. Tsiken’s lost wallet and what do you know, he got it back - cash and all!  We are so relieved because it’s such a hassle when you lose credit cards and what more when you lose your employment pass.   What are the odds?  Prayers really work (and the Secret works [...]

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Our friendly neighborhood police officers

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Yesterday was my 10th year anniversary with Mr. Tsiken but instead of celebrating, we were a little depressed because Mr. Tsiken lost his wallet.  In it was 2 credit cards, his driver’s license, employment pass and S$300.00. 
We didn’t really know what to do, so after much research and asking around,

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