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It's the first day of the Year of the Rat and we're all taking turns to wish our parents a blessed New Year.
We grown-up children just served our customary tea to our parents and our kids are lining up, from oldest to youngest, to get their red packets from grandpa and grandma.
Happy New Year to one and all!
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16 new ERP gantries and new rates! Time to sing our song of praise! mrbrownshow.com!
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We were riding down a fairly downhill portion of the Eastern park connector network on Saturday, and I told everyone to control their descent but the wife hit 30kmh and fell down.
She didn't break anything, but got some cuts and bruises on her face, both palms, both hands, both knees, left shoulder and right elbow.
She sat up and asked me to take a photo of her, so she could see how badly her face got hit, and even remembered to smile.
She did not cry, did not complain, did not flinch, and even got worried that the rest of our party would not continue riding.
Then the tough cookie said to me, as we went back to in cab to see our family doctor to get her wounds cleaned and dressed, "Next time I go down that slope, I will know better."
I raised one eyebrow, and gave her a look that said "Still got NEXT TIME? Wah you the can."
In fact, she was more upset that she could not finish the Eastern Loop.
"Just as I was enjoying myself, breezing downhill, had to fall, aiyah."
I was pale with worry and she just took it all in her stride.
Back home, Joy saw mommy's injuries and said, "Mommy, pain pain ah?"
Yes, my wife replied.
"Wah 'appen?" asked the 2-year-old.
Mommy fell down riding bicycle, Joy-Joy, replied the wife.
And to our surprise, Joy offered to blow on her wounds to make it better.
Where do kids pick up these things?
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Spotted by SPUG forummers on the Straits Times site, this article:
Jan 31, 2008
6 in 10 new jobs go to foreigners
By Goh Chin Lian
SIX in ten jobs created last year went to foreigners, the first time in at least six years that their share was larger than locals.
This comes at a time when job creation is at a record high, and unemployment and retrenchment at record lows...
...was changed to:
Jan 31, 2008
S'pore adds record number of jobs in 2007, a third filled by foreigners
By Goh Chin Lian
BOOSTED by a strong economy, Singapore created a record-busting number of jobs last year - with a third of them going to foreigners because there were just not enough locals to fill them.
Amid strong hiring in the services sector, unemployment also fell to a 10-year, prompting employers to turn to foreigners for six in ten of these jobs, up from five in ten the previous year...
(Underlining done by me)
Must be type too fast, then type salah. So have to change. Like change from a simple headline about the high number of jobs going to foreigners, to a rah-rah headline reminding everyone we had a record number of jobs in 2007.
I still don't know how 6-in-10 equals one third though. But I dropped C Maths at A Levels, so I missed out on the Singapore Mainstream Media Math module.
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