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TR Emeritus the old Temasek Review revamped with a new brand and new name is BACK! Temasek Review is a socio-political website commentary which has a strong following among netizens and Temasek Review is famous for its somehow critical tone against establishment before it closed down its domain.

Year 2009 has seen the worst of the economic crises in decades. Banks and financial institutions collapsed, companies went bust, and these were followed by the myriads of retrenchments and cost cutting exercises, which translates to pay cuts and zero bonuses. Corporate calendars have become a rare breed on the back of this bleak economic calendar. In the past, employees are keenly anticipative of the sleek and compact organizers, diaries as well as calendars they receive pro bono from their companies this time of the year. Today, there seems to be a silent consensus that the company bosses owe no obligation to their charges when it comes to free calendars. This consensus is due to the expectation that companies need to cut cost in this economy on the mend. So if you are like me without the coveted calendars for the coming 2010, do not fret, here is some good news I would like to share with you. Go to this site: http://www.homelifeweekly.com/calendars/free-printable-calendar-2010/ whic...

The folks at Google have done it once again! Yes, the folks who bring you Google Earth has released the version of Street View for Singapore just very recently! With Google Streetview Singapore, one can take a virtual tour of the whole island of Singapore and take in the sights of Singapore streets on one's mobile phones, desktop or laptop with an internet connection! Some months ago, the folks at Google appeared in Singapore and take high resolutions of the streets of Singapore with their video vans. A very high percentage of roads in Singapore are covered, save for some roads which have safety, military implications. The whole of Singapore is now mapped out together with many other countries on one's computer and mobile phone! Google has tried its best to blur out images of people caught in their Streetview. In the past, photos of people who have got out of brothels or were in compromising positions were captured, to the ire of them. Google has since started blurring images o...

I can hardly wait for this year's National Day Parade! Kudos to the NDP organizing committe for leveraging on social media such as blogs to engage Singaporeans in celebrating the 44th birthday! This is the way to go man, as Singaporeans become more and more cyber-savvy and interact more and more on social media such as blogs, facebooks etc. This year's NDP will be going to be a great success as there is alreay so much buzz that is generated on the ground due to the many innovative concepts used in this year's parade. Blog is one feature and there will be more innovative concepts and highlights....I heard of some really innovative inaugural concepts too but keeping mum here. If you want to find out, 9th Aug 09 is the day to catch the highlights! If you have not get the tickets for the grand party yet after application, do not fret yet, who knows the NDP team may be calling you in the coming days to inform you to collect the tickets. If really cannot get the tickets, the...

Many bloggers want more than the simpler templates that are provided in blogger or wordpress blogs. They want more professional templates with more exciting and enriching features as well as blog templates which utilize fully the limited space in the blogspot blog. With internet, everything is now quite possible and the good news is that you will no longer be confined to just using a few templates that Blogger or Wordpress have on offer for you. You can choose from the hundreds of blogger templates residing in the cybersphere, one website which I stumbled on today is this and http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com/ Hope you find this post useful!

There are hundreds of Singapore property websites residing in the blogosphere, but there is only a handful of credible property websites that offers flat seekers, buyers or sellers, prospective landlords or tenants the information they require fast and convenient. So imagine my utmost delight when I come across this singapore property website today: ST701. There is a raft of valuable information that is so readily available on the website which I believe will cater to the differing needs of all users. While navigating the many useful features of this great website, I even learnt of a property seminar which seems interesting and pertinent to what I am looking for now.. hehe, I will sign up for it soon! I am amazed that ST701 has such a comprehensive website on all things related to singapore property, singapore real estate, singapore hdb, etc. This is one singapore real estate which I will visit often to get the latest information on the property market in Singapore!

Wonder what are the top 100 websites visited by Singaporeans? The result is here . As I scanned through this list of top 100 websites, I find it not surprising that the top 10 sites in Singapore are websites of search engines, social networking platforms of the western countries. Singaporeans are also addicts of news and sports… luckily porn is not rated that highly on the list. So what are the most visited Singapore websites? Topping the list is DBS, followed by Singapore Pools’, Singnet, Streetdirectory, Ebay, Sammyboy, Hardwarezone, NUS, Channelnewsasia….. the list seems to attest to the fact money seems to be in the mind of many Singaporeans and that many of us are fanatics of handphones and IT gadget.

If you have large powerpoint presentation slides to email to friends.. those of sizes exceeding 1 or 2 MB, it may be easier to explore other methods rather than jamming your friends' inbox.. to their indignation. I have learnt of this website which could be useful for sending your presentation slides to your friends for viewing.. instead of the huge files.. just send the URL!

I learnt of this fun and interesting quiz website which I believe you will like it too! Enjoy!

I stumbled upon this great website which offers an intriguing array of powerpoint presentation templates for a variety of presentation. The collection featured is certainly more interesting than the one provided by Microsoft Office package! See which of these powerpoint slides is to your preferences and liking, hope you find these handy!

Just recently, I have learnt of a website called Blog Vertise which enables bloggers to earn revenue from their blogs by writing on the topics/ websites/ products that the administrators of Blog Vertise assigns to them. Sound interesting to bloggers, I believe!

I have come across this website which is a gem of a website, a boon to those preparing for the GMAT. On the website are dozens of practices for the verbal section, the more difficult section for Singaporean candidates as opposite to the numerical section. I wish those taking the GMAT could find this website useful for their preparation, else one could turn to the public libraries too to borrow the voluminous tomes of practice books.

Have come to know of the following URL for watching for free great Hollywood movies: http://www.davidmovie.com/

Come across this website which offers oodles of movies, games, music and drama absolutely free of charge! One can even watch 'L' on this website: http://www.crunchyroll.com/ stay tuned to this blog for more great sites.

Have a special dream? This dream may convey some lucky numbers for you to buy 4D. Another nice URL for 4D fans

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When one talks about Horoscope, the first things that come into the mind will be the Western Zodiac (Cancer, Gemini, Capricon, Aquarius, etc) and if one is Chinese, the Chinese Zodiac of the 12 animals and thus there appears to exist 12 horoscopes for the Chinese based on the 12 animal years. However, for the Chinese, to be more specified, the lunar calendar has a sixty year cycle. In the Chinese horoscope, the five basic elements of Metal, Water, Wood, Fire and Earth, which make up all matter, are combined with the twelve animal signs of Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Lamb, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig to form the sixty year cycle. One's Chinese horoscope is based on which lunar year in this sixty year cycle one was born, and thus one can fall into one of the 60 more specified horoscope. Example, if one is born in 1996 and 2008, (after the lunar month), one is a 'rat' according to the Chinese Zodiac, but since 1996 and 2008 are the year of the fire and earth...