Police spend £20,000 on cardboard officers

According to the Telegraph: It was billed as the latest police tactic to combat crime and now the idea has taken off nationwide. Police figures show that forces across the country have spent more than £20,000 on the flat-pack PCs. West Midlands police said it had ordered 80 cardboard constables at a cost of just [...]

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ROFL

196 North Vista Sec students suspended for breaking school rules: STOMPer According to Stomp: STOMPer Kris said he was assaulted by youths at East Coast Beach on May 5 for telling them to stop playing with water bombs. He said he was fishing with a friend by the beach behind a MacDonald’s outlet there at [...]

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Finally, someone spoke up…

They should have seen this coming actually. As a tour guide at HippoTours, we were asked to say that the Singapore Flyer was down for SCHEDULED maintenance should anyone question us. I knew something was amiss when I first received the memorandum from the office within 5 hours of the incident. You can imagine how [...]

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China-Poison-Milk-Powder incident

Disclaimer: All the below are written by me with reference to the web, and should be taken with a pinch of salt. It might not reflect the actual situation and anyone who is in better position is welcomed to correct me to make this report more reliable. It’s a little too late to blog about [...]

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YAYNESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

CONGRATULATIONS! SINGAPORE TABLE TENNIS WOMEN’S TEAM GETS INTO FINALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Team USA at the Olympics: Gymnastics

Congratulations Shawn and Nastia for clinching the Gold and Silver medals in the Women’s Individual All-round Finals! Two more medals bagged into Team USA! **** Anyway, Melvin (Bondevia) wrote a very interesting post about twits that uses vulgarities like full-stops. Click! Yeah, I’ve finally found someone who thinks like myself. Why must people resort to [...]

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Singapore at the Olympics: Table Tennis

13th August 2008 Men’s: Singapore v.s. Canada Women’s: Singapore v.s. USA Starhub: Channel 604 – 0955hrs (live) Mediacorp: Channel 5 – 1200hrs Last chance to get a medal…

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Singapore at the Olympics: Badminton

Singapore lost to Malaysia. Well, it’s not Susilo’s fault. Lee Choong Wei is just too strong. Go Singapore! P.S. I want to learn how to play PROFESSIONAL badminton!

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Papaya Dance

Have you ever heard of the Papaya Dance? It’s currently stirring up a worldwide craze (Not sure about Singapore though). The dance started off from the Philippines although the music was composed by the Polish. The dance is so popular that it even puts the revered Macarena dance into danger of falling into obscurity. Well, [...]

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Plants get sunburn?, too

30th July 2008 TODAYonline FRESNO (California) — Just like how people damage their skin in the sun, produce can also get nasty burns. That’s why farmers are increasingly applying sunscreen to their crops to prevent skin blistering, heat stress and blemishes. Sunspots on a Granny Smith apple can mean the difference between the lowest price [...]

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