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This is our last episode of this season! We're taking a season break and will be back 1st of June 2007. Meantime, do listen to seewhatshow.com and wtfshow.com. We will also be airing some of the old faves so here and there, so you can revisit those during this break. Thanks!
Though you might have a small problem aiming. But when your Jordanian friend brings his personal stash of ma'asel, it will be rude not to smoke his sheesha.
This blend is called The Two Apples, mixed with green and red apples. And no, you can't buy this stuff here in Singapore. Good good stuff.
Thank goodness we only do this when he visits, and it's like once a year.
On Monday, April 23 2007, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences screened Star Wars as part of their Great to Be Nominated series. Before the start of the show, they showed this special clip as a message of warning to members in the audience.
Discovered by MrTanMerv, this Lenovo N-series starts at $192,012.45. For that price, the laptop had better be able to run your home nuclear power plant, make coffee, AND give you a full body massage, man.
You can see this at the IBM site. Ask them if add blinking lights must pay extra or not.
You know you have reached a level of obsession with DOTA when one of you creates a magnetic board with photos of the players so you can decide the team-ups.
怎样分 or ZYF is the Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne war cry in our office. Just so you know, I am infamous for being First Blood in the office games. No, not the one who kills first. The one who kena killed first. But I am working on it, so these days, I have gone from First Blood to being killed second.
Warning: NSFW. Not for kids. Contains sexual language.
We should get our own Public Access tv channel, man. We're missing out on hilarious gems like this.
Citizen broadcaster Alexyss Tylor hosts a talk show with her mom, about Vagina Power and Penis Power. And from the looks of it, she's talking from personal experience. You can visit her websites here and here (this is down, I think)
The whole clip is full of great quotes like:
"If you wanna earn yo man, you gotta learn yo man."
"She insane, her mind ain't good because the penis done ejaculated in her brain."
"Some men, they have so much heat and intensity in their penis, that you can feel it radiating through their clothes, just to touch the penis, it's on fire, like fire underneath their skin!"
Bizarre stuff. Watch it before it gets removed again from Youtube.
The 8 Days page says: "Bagdad anyone? Have a History book handy while you're doing leg lifts. Log on to www.sammyboy.com to get a crash course in current affairs if you have to."
Er, dear 8 Days, methinks you are talking about Sam's Alfresco Coffee Shop. The only current affairs that sammyboy.com covers is the sex kind, especially the commercial sex kind.
Mr Wang shares insights on how people are allegedly measured for promotion and bonuses in the civil service. Fascinating information and the comments following the piece from ex-civil servants (and people who disagree strongly, like Kway Teow Man) are just as illuminating. How true is it? Would love to know. Excerpts from mr wang's post, and two of his commenters below.
If you do badly in school, and then you join the civil service, you will have a low CEP score. Even if you subsequently produce the most utterly outstanding performance year after year after year, you will still get promoted very slowly, if at all.
That's because your potential has been assessed to be low, and CEP is a measure of your inherent, long-term qualities which can't change.
In contrast, suppose a PSC scholar performs quite badly year after year after year. He will not get good bonuses, because bonuses are linked to performance. However, since his CEP score is high, he will still get promoted year after year after year. That's because CEP is a measure of his inherent, long-term qualities which can't change.
Thus how much career success you can achieve in the civil service, by the age of 45 or 50, has already been determined. It was determined when you were 22 or 24 years, at the time you first joined the civil service, on your very first day at work. Sorry, before your first day at work.
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