Woopy! Family+Business Dinner at Traders Hotel (By Shangri-La)

Yoz Readers!
Today actually went to The Traders Hotel with my family, yeh whole family. Not really something special or big deal, but well other then special occasion, we don really go out together, as we can consider as “BIG” Family, total size of 7 inclusive of my parent (2 younger bros, and 2 younger sis).
My [...]

An hour trip to Malaysia and back to SG!

Hellox guys! Today really quiet happening haha, on 12noon I went to Malaysia, and at first though that gonna be rotting and slacking over at Msia as can save some $$$$! Cheap Foods and Cheap Movie! But who know, the bloody City Square is really so darm bored…Meet my cousin Kelvin outside the CitySquare’ Macd [...]

Happy Chinese New Year! Fireworks at Malaysia worth $1000+

Hey guys, long time never touch on the blog already, you guy must be waiting impatiently right now i guess?
No worry man, right now gonna present you a Video taken at Malaysia (My Msia’ House), and I hope you all enjoy the Video!
Part One Video (Blast 1)

Crazy Fireworks Blast 2

Part Two Video (Small Version)

This year the cny [...]

Arcane Brilliance: Arcanapalooza

Each week Arcane Brilliance drops at a 100% rate from your computer screen. It can be equipped in any slot, and doesn’t bind to your character in any way, shape or form. It can be disenchanted into whatever you want, and sells to merchants for a million gold. It is of legendary quality. When equipped, [...]

Ready Check: Guide to Naxxramas (Sapphiron)

Ready Check is a weekly column focusing on successful raiding for the serious raider. Hardcore or casual, ZA or Sunwell Plateau, everyone can get in on the action and down some bosses. This week, we’re heading to Sapphiron and Kel’Thuzad to visit a few old friends, complete Naxxramas, and wonder to ourselves why everyone on [...]

Additional S$150m given to SPUR programme to help retrain professionals

An additional S$150m has been earmarked for the training of professionals under the Skills Programme for Upgrading and Resilience (SPUR).
The additional money brings SPUR’s operating fund to S$750 million over the next two years. This was announced in Budget 2009.
SPUR was set up to help Singaporeans upgrade their skills so that they can stay employed [...]

PM Lee urges S’poreans to pull together to weather crisis

The Year of the Ox will be a challenging one for Singapore – with growth expected to be negative for the whole year.
But calling on Singaporeans not to be despondent, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, in his Lunar New Year message, said the country has the strengths to outlast this recession.
And for all the government [...]

Obama vows new era of openness, freezes pay of top staff

President Barack Obama Wednesday vowed to forge a new era of government openness and froze the pay of top staff earning more than 100,000 dollars to show Americans their leaders could also tighten their belts amid economic crisis.
“For a long time now there’s been too much secrecy in this city,” said Obama who was elected [...]

Obama takes on daunting crises on Day One

President Barack Obama Wednesday walked into the Oval Office to confront economic and foreign crises swirling around the United States and swiftly launched a round of Middle East telephone diplomacy after retaking the oath of office.
Obama retook the oath in the Map Room of the White House from Chief Justice John Roberts one day after [...]

Barack Obama sworn in as 44th US president

Barack Obama took the oath of office to become the first African-American president in US history on Tuesday, proclaiming America had chosen “hope over fear” and must unite in a “new era of responsibility” to triumph over its multiple crises.
Witnessed by a huge crowd of more than two million people in an unprecedented endorsement of [...]

Ask a Lore Nerd: Hail to the king

Welcome to Ask a Lore Nerd, where each week blogger and columnist Alex Ziebart answers your questions about the lore and history of the World of Warcraft. Ask your questions in the comments section below, and we’ll try to answer it in a future edition.
Welcome back! This week we’re mostly tilted toward Scourge questions, whereas [...]

Spiritual Guidance: Easy pre-Naxx gear for Holy priests

Every Sunday (usually), Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Eliah is filling in for Matt Low today. This week we’ll take a look at some easy gear to help get you started at 80.
Naxxramas and heroic dungeons are where a lot of the players are spending their time nowadays. [...]

Lichborne: Gearing up to tank Naxxramas

Welcome to Lichborne, The weekly Death Knight column, where your host is recruiting only the most pro critters for his raiding team.

So by now, I’m sure many of you Death Knights have managed to follow our last tanking gear guide and have put together a pretty decent tank set that’s gotten them through a few [...]

All the World’s a Stage: So you still want to be a Shaman

This installment of All the World’s a Stage is the twenty-first in a series of roleplaying guides in which we find out all the background information you need to roleplay a particular race or class well, without embarrassing yourself.
There’s something about shamans that gets us thinking and talking. Whether it’s something as simple [...]

NKorea says may retain nukes, raises border tensions with Seoul

North Korea said Saturday it may keep its nuclear weapons and threatened confrontation with South Korea, staking out a tough position three days before US President-elect Barack Obama takes office.
Pyongyang’s foreign ministry said it would retain its atomic weaponry as long as it feels under nuclear threat from Washington.
Hours later, its military called for an [...]

MPs continue normal routine of activities despite last week’s attack

Grassroots leaders are more watchful nowadays for tell-tale signs of anyone behaving suspiciously at events attended by their Members of Parliament, according to MPs at various community activities on Saturday.
Yio Chu Kang MP Seng Han Thong was attacked last Sunday by a disgruntled former cabbie who has since been charged with voluntarily causing grievous hurt.
Mr [...]

Two S’porean men in multi-million-dollar Australian heroin bust

Two Singaporean men were apprehended in a Sydney taxi with a suitcase containing heroin worth A$4.5 million (US$3 million), Australian authorities said Saturday.
The pair, aged 34 and 41, were arrested after police flagged down a taxi in which they were passengers on Friday morning, crime agencies said.
“Officers searched the taxi and uncovered a suitcase which [...]

Israeli halts Gaza offensive

Israel held its fire in Gaza Sunday after declaring a unilateral ceasefire in its 22-day onslaught which has killed more than 1,200 Palestinians and levelled vast swathes of the Hamas-run enclave.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had said after a meeting of his security cabinet he was calling an immediate end to offensive operations but added [...]

PM Lee pumps S$500,000 into endowment fund

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has created two more education awards under an endowment fund which he set up last year.
This brings the total to four awards, with Mr Lee contributing an additional S$500,000 towards this endowment fund.
Mr Lee said Thursday the amount comes from the salary increase of S$1,040,000 he had received last year [...]

Osama bin Laden calls for holy war to stop Israeli offensive in Gaza

Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden demanded a holy war against Israel in revenge for its deadly Gaza offensive in his first recorded statement in eight months, a US-based monitoring service said on Wednesday.
In the 22-minute audio recording entitled “A Call for Jihad to Stop Aggression Against Gaza,” Bin Laden called for a holy war to [...]

Public feedback sought on amendments to Medical Registration Act

The Health Ministry (MOH) is conducting a six-week public consultation exercise from January 14 to February 25 to get feedback on proposed amendments to the Medical Registration Act.
The Medical Registration Act governs the registration of medical practitioners and regulates their conduct and ethics. Among the proposed changes are harsher penalties for errant doctors and [...]

Nine dead, 200,000 displaced by floods in Philippines

Philippines: Nine people have died and nearly 200,000 have been displaced in flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains across the Philippines, relief agency officials said Wednesday.
Nine other people were missing, while two others have been injured, the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) said.
The tail-end of a cold front sweeping through the country’s eastern [...]

Results of the 2008 Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education (Ordinary Level) Examination

Results of the 2008 Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education (Ordinary Level) Examination

1The Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level (GCE O-Level) Examination is conducted jointly by the University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) and the Ministry of Education (MOE).
2There were 36,640 school candidates in the 2008 O-Level Examination. [...]

Nearly 250 still missing in Indonesian ferry sinking

Almost 250 people remain missing and are feared dead more than 24 hours after a ferry sank in a heavy storm off Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, the transport minister said Monday.
“Up to this morning, 18 people have been rescued alive, passengers and crew. Some 249 are still missing,” Jusman Syafii Djamal told AFP.
“We have intensified the [...]

Man charged in court over attack on MP

The man alleged to have attacked Member of Parliament Seng Han Thong has been charged in court.
70-year-old Ong Kah Chua was charged with voluntarily causing grievous hurt by pouring out a bottle of thinner and torching it, injuring Mr Seng and temple chairman Aw Chui Seng.
Ong has been remanded at the Institute of Mental Health, [...]

Obama pledges major bailout changes

President-elect Barack Obama vowed changes to a much-criticized 700-billion-dollar bank bailout programme as Democratic leaders Sunday demanded stricter conditions before more funds are freed up.
Democratic senators, emerging from talks with Obama’s top economic advisers, said the administration of President George W. Bush was expected soon to ask Congress to release the mammoth fund’s remaining 350 [...]

Ready Check: Guide to Naxxramas

Ready Check is a weekly column focusing on successful raiding for the serious raider. Hardcore or casual, ZA or Sunwell Plateau, everyone can get in on the action and down some bosses. This week, we unwisely decide to give the column to Allison “Oops, I forgot my frost resist” Robert. Not that you actually need [...]

The Queue: Spreading the space plague

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft.

A bad case of space cancer put me out of commission for the last few days, and for that I apologize. In addition to my apology, I blame the pandas. They caused me [...]

Lichborne: One more round of Death Knight changes in 3.0.8

Welcome to Lichborne. Your host is inflicted with the space plague this week, but has done his best to write for you people anyway, so be grateful, you hear?
We’ve covered 3.0.8 pretty extensively, between Mike Sacco’s coverage of the initial round of changes and our week before last discussion, but the devs weren’t done yet. [...]

Spiritual Guidance: 3.0.8 for Priests

Every Sunday (usually), Spiritual Guidance will offer practical insight for priests of the holy profession. Your host is Matt Low, the grand poobah of World of Matticus and a founder of PlusHeal, a new healing community for all restorative classes. Today Matticus looks at the upcoming 3.08 patch.
I thought we’d be getting the 3.0.8 patch [...]

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