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What's so great about FACE?

What Face Mean To The Chinese An American, a Japanese and a Chinese went for a hike one day. It was very hot. They were sweating and exhausted. When they came upon a small lake, they took off all their clothes and jumped into the water, since it was fairly secluded. Feeling refreshed, the trio decided to pick a few berries while enjoying their " freedom. " As they were crossing an open area, suddenly a group of ladies from town appeared. Unable to get to their clothes in time, the American and the Japanese quickly used their hands to cover their privates. But the Chinese covered his face while they ran for cover. After the ladies had left and the men got their clothes back on. The American and the Japanese asked the Chinese why he covered his face rather than his private part. The Chinese replied, " I don't know about you, but in my country, it's the face that people recognize. "

Good English Cool!

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/ Random Rants Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Good English Cool! In a recent newspaper interview on the Speak Good English Movement, Professor Koh Tai Ann, Chairman of the movement, said: "We would need workers who can communicate with not only the non-Singaporeans among us but all the visitors we are attracting to Singapore — tourists, those who come for conventions, meetings and so on. It would so ironic if we find many Singaporeans' English not suitable and we have to bring in foreign workers to work in these industries who can speak better English than we do." Dunno whether correct or not but a Sammyboy forum chap made some corrections to the quote, in the spirit of good Englishing: We would need workers who can communicate not only with not only (poor sequence) the (article unnecessary) non-Singaporeans among us but all (all is hyperbole) also the visitors we are attracting attract (present tense is used since article suggest future rather

Mosquito ring tone?

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Recently the NY Times had ran a story about the Mosquito ring tone, a high-pitch ring tone kids have been programming their mobiles to use during class - but inaudible to the teacher. Allegedly inaudible to adults, this 17Khz ringtone has become popular among teens looking to be able to send and receive text messages surreptitiously in class. Are you too old to hear it? Try it out: The mosquito ringtone . Source>> The Mosquito Ring Tone: This Adult Can Hear It!

Classic "Out-Of-Office" E-Mail Auto-Replies

1: I am currently out at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position. 2: I'm not really out of the office. I'm just ignoring you. 3: You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn't have received anything at all. 4: Sorry to have missed you but I am at the doctors having my brain removed so that I may be promoted to management 5: I will be unable to delete all the unread, worthless emails you send me until I return from vacation on 4/18. Please be patient and your mail will be deleted in the order it was received. 6: Thank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged $5.99 for the first ten words and $1.99 for each additional word in your message. 7: The e-mail server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this message. Please restart your computer and try sending again (The beauty of this is that when you return, you can see how many in-duh-vidua

How to make a Woman happy?

TO MAKE A WOMEN HAPPY....A MAN ONLY NEEDS TO BE : 1. a friend 2. a companion 3. a lover 4. a brother 5. a father 6. a master 7. a chef 8. an electrician 9. a carpenter 10. a plumber 11. a mechanic 12. a decorator 13. a stylist 14. a sexologist 15. a gynecologist 16. a psychologist 17. a pest exterminator 18. a psychiatrist 19. a healer 20. a good listener 21. an organizer 22. a good father 23. very clean 24. sympathetic 25. athletic 26. warm 27. attentive 28. gallant 29. intelligent 30. funny 31. creative 32. tender 33. strong 34. understanding 35. tolerant 36. prudent 37. ambitious 38. capable 39. courageous 40. determined 41. true 42. dependable 43. passionate WITHOUT FORGETTING TO : 44. give her compliments regularly 45. love shopping 46. be honest 47. be very rich 48. not stress her out 49. not look at other girls AND AT THE SAME TIME, YOU MUST ALSO : 50. give her lots of attention, but expect little yourself 51. give her lots of time, especially time for herself 52. give her lots

RO water filter - Water Demonstration - Is it Safe?

This is my personal experience, if anyone show you an experiement whereby using a electrode probe, so call water analyser by the saleman, emmersed into cup of tap water, and subsequent the tap water turn reddish, kind of dirty..... They will start telling you how dirty is our water...and convincing you to buy their RO water filter. Below is the technical explanations, which I have gotten the permission from Public Utilities Board (PUB) to share amongst my family and fellow friends. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For your information, during an electrolysis demonstration, a device (one shiny rod and one black rod) is emmersed into a beaker of PUB water. When a power supply source is applied, an eletrolysis reaction takes place causing reddish brown precipitates to form. The presence of ions such as H+, OH-, Ca2+,Cl-, SO4- & F- in PUB water contributed to its inherent conductivity. Hence, a current passed through it would cause chemical reaction to occur a