Next time anyone say Singaporeans are kiasu, I’ll shaft this article into their face.

Walmart worker trampled to death by shoppers

There are different ways of dying, but this is uncalled for.

It shall remain a rumor until otherwise confirmed. But here it is… Google laying off 10,000 jobs. So the 10,000 jobs are labelled as “temporary operational expenses”.

From my point of view: outsourced. Lawyers of Google are figuring how not to get caught. Haha, crazy. Apparently Google has taken job rotation to the max. moving workers from job to job every few months! I can’t help but remember …. “Do less evil” ……

Article also mentioned that Google will have “traditionally” lavish holiday bashes, parties with giant ice sculptures and VR entertainment. Not bad. But I’m sure it’s pretty much restricted to the HQ campus. Google Singapore…. maybe a dinner and dance in some hotel like the rest. But this year, cut down on these lavish bashes to…. group volunteering outings and casual dinner parties. LOL. Big difference.

For those “foreigners” struggling to talk to Singaporeans in Singlish, or those who thought they knew Singlish, but are actually on the lower levels of fluency. Here on wikipedia is a Singlish Dictionary to help. It’s pretty good, encompassing my favourite phrases like Ah Tiong, Kum Lan, Lan Jiao, Nah Bei and many more. Though they could include a lot more like, ASGM, SMLJ, KSML. To practice your Singlish to a high level, go to Eat Drink Man Woman forum. The most interesting term I’ve learnt recently is “transformer”, referring to transvestite. More than meets the eye. Usage would be: “I think she’s a transformer”, or “I think she’s autobot”.

For those planning grad trip, and always wanted to go to Europe and is generally a risk taker, it’s your chance now.

AirAsia has… SGD $254 from Kuala Lumpur to London tickets!

Goes to London Stansted Airport. I’ve been there before, very nice airport. You can either head down to London city or simply transit to Ryan Air to other European destinations! Not sure about KL airport though. As long as it doesn’t lose baggage like London’s Heathrow, it’s good.

I’m not sure about budget airlines for such a long distance, but what the heck, it’s an option.

Scientists under 20 years old

Hope some of you will find it inspiring after reading.

I especially liked what Philip Streich said, “I really credit my parents’ support for allowing me to try home schooling. If I had been in the regular school system, I doubt any of this would have developed.” I cannot agree more.

GM considering bankruptcy.

So the rich has decided not to use their brain, and chose to take their whatever millions that’s left and run off. I saw, the Fed rejection has forced the true colors of GM to reveal. Even if they had given the money to GM, GM will still fail because of people like these at the top.

In other news, Citigroup shares dived to below $4. Considering sale of the entire Citigroup.

Just when I saw Leon having a mickey mouse mp3 player where the controls are the round ears, I saw this.

Creative Zen Moo

Probably inspired by the China tainted milk scandals.

Ford and GM asking for bail out money

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Flying in with private jets to ask for money is simply unacceptable.

But this shows how the rich lived, and will always live. Suck it up.

As for the new Gmail themes…. I simply chose a simple one, that looks like the original anyway. lol. And I don’t see any Chrome news lately, seemed to have just vanished. They also killed some virtual world thing which I’ve never heard of, nor participated. I certainly hope they don’t suddenly close my Gmail account like they suddenly killed this thing, with no explanation. Probably Google knows the huge power they have, and thus need “Do less evil” to remind them of that.

I’m trying out this “print and scanner server” concept. My printer is those All In one function, with copier, scanner and printer all rolled in one. I can easily share the printer on the home network, but scanning is a bitch, as the computer attached to it is the only one accessing the scanner. My laptop is always moving around (school and home), no one else can scan once it’s gone. And installing the software on every single laptop in the house is not an option. Therefore I took out the oldest laptop (Fujitsu pentium 3 mobile), tried UltraVNC and TightVNC on it. Both worked except for one big problem. 2 other laptops can connect to it, but all the 3 will be looking at EXACTLY THE SAME SCREEN! How stupid is that? So it’s back to the good old (although lacking in security) Windows Remote Desktop. Perfect!! Now everyone can just remote connect to it, scan the thing, and save it to the shared drives. I even use the old laptop as my Bittorrent server, saving files directly to my NAS as always. On the power saving part, I tried putting on standby when idle, and waking up for remote connections, or print jobs. But doesn’t work. Still testing the whole concept, so far so good. Nothing like the good old Windows Remote Desktop.

DBS cuts 900 jobs. NTUC kpkb, say should seek other alternative.

Now, NOL cuts 1000.

Citigroup cuts 53,000.