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1. The strange I be

You prolly have asked yourself: “Is there any sentence that contains ‘I be’?”. Yes there is. Consider this awkward uncertainty sentence:

He recommends that I be calm under recession.

If you doubt that I have removed the “must” from “I must be”, think twice.

2. The “by I” error

You won’t find this sentence weird:

The challenging task was overcome by Jason and I.

But consider this:

The challenging task was overcome partly by Jason, and mostly by I.

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Let’s welcome WordPress 2.7 Coltrane!

In Singapore , the majority of us live in Highly Dangerous Buildings (HDB),
And most people have already got used to Paying and Paying (PAP).
Not only do you have to pay, you Pay Until Bankrupt (PUB).
If that’s not enough, somebody still Purposely Wants to Dig (PWD) and get more from you.

So what more can you do when you are in the Money Only Environment (MOE)?
With the current Mad Accounting System (MAS), you are forced to Pay the Sum Ahead (PSA) ;
Which will leave some people Permanently Owing Some Banks (POSB) ;
And forced to live on the Loan Techniques Always (LTA) system.

When you fall sick and happen to be admitted to a Money Operating Hospital (MOH),
You might be able to use your Cash Prior to Funeral (CPF) fund.
If you are out of luck, you may meet doctors who Never Use Heart (NUH) to treat you;
And you will be Sure to Give up Hope (SGH).

To help ease the traffic, motorists have to pay Cash On Expressway! (COE).
If that doesn’t help, they can always Eternally Raise Prices (ERP) on the road.
If you don’t own a car, you can always make a Mad Rush to the Train (MRT), OR get squashed in a bus Side By Side (SBS).

Lastly, under all these pressures, there are not many places we can relax, not even the good old place we used to go because it has become So Expensive and Nothing To See Actually (SENTOSA)!!!

source: Talking Cock

Dưới đây là bảng tổng kết thi đua về thành tích chơi game của ngxtri trong thời gian 26 năm vừa qua:

1) 8 tuổi đến 12 tuổi (lớp 3 đến lớp 7):

Năm 1990, máy vi đê ô game Famicom xuất hiện ở Quy Nhơn gây xôn xao cư dân mạng. Giá cho thuê là 200 đồng/15 phút. Với 15 phút thì chỉ đủ chơi 2 màn Contra, còn với 500 đồng thì đã có thể ăn một tô bún giò :P

In 1867, Alfred Nobel patented the world’s first dynamite. It was great, until the World War I made full use of it in 1914.
In 1925, Thomas Midgley Jr. invented leaded petrol and CFC’s. The world was excited with the mass production of air-con, until in 1970 James Lovelock looked up the sky and noticed the Ozone hole…

In 2001, Apple released the first iPod. This is their concept (picture taken from wired.com)

Steve Jobs announced it as a product with a 5 GB hard drive that “puts 1,000 songs in your pocket”. Meaning, if you purchase each song from iTunes for 1$ , Steve Jobs will “pull 1,000$ out of your pocket”.

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My own piano!

It’s been in my wishlist since I was 7 years old. During my 2nd grade, my father took me to a church where a nun taught me piano. At first it was boring and repetitive playing with the 7 notes. But after I finished “Claire de la lune” things got a bit more interesting. I still recall how nice it was playing piano in a quiet sanctum..

And here it is:

Tự cổ chí kim (từ xưa đến nay), tiếng Hoa được đồn đại là rất khó học, mỗi ngày một người trung bình (cao 1m65 nặng 70kg) chỉ học được 5-10 chữ tiếng Hoa là giỏi; sau 1 năm thì sẽ biết được 3000 từ, đủ để hỏi đường và gọi món ăn.

Riêng người Việt Nam chúng ta, nhờ có lợi thế là biết nhiều chữ Hán, cho nên một ngày vừa học vừa chơi cũng có thể nhớ được 30 chữ Hoa dạng phiên âm.

Tam Thiên Tự (tránh nhầm với Tam Tự Kinh), là một cuốn sách (hay bài đồng dao??) giúp người Việt học tiếng Hán dễ dàng:

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update: Opera 9.62 was officially released!

About Firefox 3.0: It reminds me of Yahoo Messenger 9.0! Look at all ‘enhancements’ made from YM 8.1 to YM 9.0. None of them is big enough to make version jump. For Firefox3, the situation is even worse when 90% of my existing extension are no longer compatible!!
Opera was humble when making a move from 9.28 to 9.50. Firefox was boasting. Yahoo was lying.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0882978/

When the long-waited movie was released in Singapore yesterday, 03 April 2008, FAPAC (Ấp Bắc) team eagerly went to Cathay Cinepleisure Orchard to “deflower” it :8 . (Disclaimer: the word “deflower” was coined by Trần Minh and excitedly exploited by Nguyễn Quốc Sử, not me)

This review may contain spoilers. Viewer discretion is advised..

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