The Story of a Collar

Please scroll all the way down for the moral of the story. Note the highlighted word. Title : NTUC launches month-long "Power of U" campaign By : Date : 25 April 2010 1639 hrs (SST) URL : http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1052461/1/.html SINGAPORE : Unionists and their families celebrated May Day with a slew of attractive offers and deals. The labour movement launched its month-long "Power of U" campaign at the Ang Mo Kio Hub on Sunday. The aim is to reach out and connect with its 541,000 members of all collars and ages. They can enjoy savings on retail offers, professional development courses and recreational deals throughout the month of May. Some of these deals include savings of up to 67 per cent on selected courses offered by NTUC LearningHub, 50 per cent off admission tickets to the Singapore Night Safari, 15 per cent off petrol at Caltex, S$4.90 Cathay Cineplex movie tickets and S$4.90 Wild Wild Wet admission tickets. A Grand Lucky Draw will be conducted on May 30 to round up the campaign. Members can look forward to a chance to win an NTUC Income GrowthLink Policy worth S$25,000. And for the first time, NTUC will issue instant membership cards to those who sign-up at road shows, thereby allowing them to enjoy the offers immediately. One group the labour movement is targeting is the professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs), whose numbers have grown. Heng Chee How, deputy secretary-general, NTUC, said: "It is very clear that for our type of economy, the part that is considered PMET is growing. "So for the union movement, we are targeting the parts that are growing as well, both in terms of the level and the types of industries, so we are also going for new industries. "If you look at union membership worldwide, the general trend has been one of decline. But our trend has been one of increase. And even though last year we have had a very difficult year with retrenchment, we still see a growth in our membership and that puts us on a steady track of our one million membership goal in 2015." - CNA/ms Copyright © 2008 MediaCorp Pte Ltd Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1052461/1/.html Moral of the story: We are all slaves in Singapore, regardless of race, language or religion. (But hey, I don't qualify for a collar!)

Are food staffs edible?

Check this out... I have decided not to highlight what's so *funny*... have a look and see if you can spot it. (Well, the title is a plain giveaway already. :P)

dNeero Flash Embed V2 Test

From dNeero: We're starting to roll out a new flash embed widget and need your help. We'll do a few tests and then we'll do a few convos asking for your feedback on V2. Thanks for the help.

Proof of Payment for Wordlinx

How rare it is to receive good news from PTC sites nowadays. Here's one. I finally managed to reach the U$10 minimum for Wordlinx. It took a jolly long time but the speed of payment is incredible - it's instant. The moment I clicked to cash out, I got paid instantly. See above screenshot for proof. If you are wondering why it is $9.50, that's because the Wordlinx processing fee is 5% of the total amount. They claim it's for PayPal... anyhow, they have another option which is for you to pay the fee direct to PayPal. According to their explanation (they link their explanation to a source that is currently a defunct website), the fee for this option would be more than 50 cents (more than 5% of this $10 example) and they would need 30 long days to process it (instead of instantaneous). Geez, it's only a few cents. If they want to take it, I rather give it to them than wait 30 days. Who knows what will happen within these 30 days? :P Oh yea, here's my affiliate link http://www.wordlinx.com/gate/index.php?r=11714 . May your generosity return to you 8 folds! ^^

What Is It About Perfumes?

What is it about perfumes that make people willing to open their wallets to spend considerable sums of money? I guess as with all things, we each have our own motivation. For me, it would be largely two things. One would be to smell ALLURING (lolz) and the second would be to put myself in a good mood. The first reason is self explanatory and as for the second... when you keep smelling something you find nice, you feel uplifted. If you point a pistol at me and ask me to tell you exactly what I like or dislike, I still might not be able to satisfy you. Likes and dislikes are often very hard to pinpoint - you need to be faced with something and you will instinctively know whether you love it or you hate it. Generally, I like scents that are unique and which linger but must not be overpowering. I have encountered people who frequently spray a HECK OF A LOT of perfume on themselves day in day out. At first sniff, it may be a nice smell (and they might have spent a bomb on it). But too much simply ruins the smell and after being OVERPOWERED each time, you begin to actually HATE the smell. I know it has happened to me. So make sure that when you spray perfume, keep the amount decently reasonable. :P As for what scents I do not like, I generally prefer to keep food on the dining table. That means if the perfume smells of food, that is a big NO for me. And if I may digress, this extends to other toiletry items like soap or even toothpaste. I do not have any particular brand of perfume that I like. When I walk around departmental stores, I tend to be OVERPOWERED and that puts me off. I guess when competitors are all trying to sell the same category of products in the same place, the only logical thing for them would be to turn up the intensity of the smell... I half suspect that the promoters' sense of smell are all long ruined already. Poor them! Anyway if you are intending to check out new perfumes, there is a new perfume blog that has just been launched. Since you are spending good money on a tiny bottle, reading some reviews or chit-chatting with perfume lovers sure wouldn't hurt. :-) * This is a sponsored post.

Gmail Returns to Stone Age

I thought this is funny. This is basically a return to stone age for Gmail. Labels are one of the main features Gmail tries to wow the world by. And now, someone in Google decides to turn it off for netbooks. Take an example. It's like a salesman who tried his best to sell a lady an organic chicken based on how great organic stuffs are and how nutritious chicken meat is. When the lady was finally wowed over and bought the chicken, the salesman gentlemanly reminded the lady that, "Don't forget you are vegetarian!" --- Source: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-in-labs-hide-labels-see-subject.html Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:14 PM Posted by Christopher Semturs, Software Engineer Some time ago I bought a netbook. It's perfect in terms of portability, weight and space usage, but the natural drawback is the size of the screen. It's so small that sometimes I find it hard to read the subjects of emails in my inbox. It looks something like this: Now, there are some ways to work around this, like using Google Chrome's full screen mode, but I wanted a way to do more. So I created a new Gmail Labs feature called "Remove Labels from Subjects" that automatically hides the labels from messages in your inbox, leaving plenty of space for the messages' subjects. To turn it on, just go to the Labs tab under Settings and look for the following icon: Enjoy the new screen real estate and tell us what you think!

Visual Talking -- Put Images Where Your Mouth Is!

A Visual Talking contest ... $1,500 total ... we want you to win!! Mark Grace, founder of Visual Talking, thanks all dNeero-ites for their suggestions and comments. Because of you, Visual Talking has redesigned their site and added features. They're not done, so please keep those suggestions and comments coming. The main purpose of this convo is build up the inventory of standard sentences - these are sentences that we use often - think of those texting abbreviations like OMG, LOL, CMON, WU?, GAL. We'd like you to create standard sentences ... create as many as you wish. And to encourage you to do that, we are going to run a contest. We'll choose the top 20 standard sentences in each category (Greetings, Questions, Answers, Love, Action), and then run another convo in which you'll choose your favorite sentences. The top five in each category will share a $300 purse ($150, $75, $35, $25, $15) ... and you may win in multiple categories!! How do we choose the top 20? It's up to you ... your answer to question 7 below will help determine the five criteria our judges will use.

Get in Line

This is another joke from Joke of the Day which I think is real neat. :-) A crowded flight is cancelled, and a frazzled agent must rebook a long line of inconvenienced travelers by herself. Suddenly, an angry passenger pushes to the front and demands to be on the next flight, first class. The agent replies, "I'm sorry, sir. I'll be happy to try to help you, but I've got to help these folks first." The passenger screams, "Do you have ANY idea who I am?" The gate agent grabs her public address microphone, "May I have your attention, please? We have a passenger here WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him find his identity, please come to gate 17." The man grits his teeth, "Screw you." She replies, "I'm sorry, sir, but you'll have to stand in line for that, too."