Monthly Archives: December 2009

No E-cards Please!

Posted on 31/12/2009 by Lohcifer

I received the following greeting recently – one line of greeting and the rest of it the usual junk: Connie, CS & Lindy wish you a Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year. Please consider our environment before printing … Continue reading →

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Showing Appreciation

Posted on 30/12/2009 by Lohcifer

As a book lover, I share my books with close friends. But sometimes you give a book to someone and it goes into a bottomless pit – not a pip squeak from the person. Not even a word of thanks. … Continue reading →

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No Flip Flopping Please!

Posted on 29/12/2009 by Lohcifer

Zachary Boyd, 19, was asleep when enemy fighters attacked his base in the Korengal Valley in Kunar province, Afghanistan. He had enough time to put on is helmet and body amour but had to dispense with his uniform before joining … Continue reading →

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Childhood Regressive Therapy Killed Her

Posted on 28/12/2009 by Lohcifer

An Australian woman who stripped naked and leapt to her death from an office window in front of horrified co-workers was suffering intense psychosis triggered by a self-help course. The coroner’s findings last month come four years after 34-year-old Rebekah … Continue reading →

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Stealing my Thunder eh?

Posted on 27/12/2009 by Lohcifer

At LinkedIn, I saw someone claiming to do the job I used to do. Talk about padding of CVs! What’s ironical is that this someone is in my network of contacts! Someone who claimed to be doing the job I … Continue reading →

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Female Toilet Cleaners

Posted on 26/12/2009 by Lohcifer

My friend Cornelius gets very upset when he sees female toilet cleaners in the male toilet. Once when I was also in the toilet, I saw this old, shriveled, tiny little lady toilet cleaner in the gents, mopping the floor … Continue reading →

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Get Real!

Posted on 25/12/2009 by Lohcifer

Merry Christmas! The “Hackintosh” – a PC that has been reconfigured to run Macintosh software – is starting to catch on among Singaporeans. It may not look like a Mac but it works like one and costs a few thousand … Continue reading →

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Talking Cock

Posted on 24/12/2009 by Lohcifer

Our Malaysian friends are at it again – talking cock, that is. A government-backed campaign to popularize a well-known Chinese soup by making a version that avoids pork and fulfills Islamic dietary rules provoked criticism recently by Malaysian activities who … Continue reading →

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Linwood Barclay

Posted on 23/12/2009 by Lohcifer

If you haven’t read Linwood Barclay’s books you don’t know what you are missing. Linwood Barclay was born in the US but moved to Canada when he was only four years old. In 1981, he joined the Toronto Star, Canada’s … Continue reading →

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Royal Caribbean – Close, but No Cigar!

Posted on 22/12/2009 by Lohcifer

December 14, traveler’s log: I sat in my Balcony Stateroom Suite aboard Royal Caribbean’s Legend of the Sea and wondered how I was going to last four days of this. I was on the cruise ship’s Singapore-Port Kelang-Phuket-Singapore cruise and … Continue reading →

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