- December 20th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
I’ve been away for a while and hope to make a comeback in 2010 with more rigorous articles on health and our environment. Sometimes its too sad to write anything because it seems that nothing…
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- December 19th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
And another year comes to a close, marked by the remembrance of the birth of Jesus, which if you think about it is really fitting. It calls us to stop from our harried city lives and to enjoy the tr…
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- December 10th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: TLE Travels Asia
Sea Lions have always been considered deadly predators given their size and agility in the water. Their mouths can be twice as large as that of a grizzly bear! And until now, most of the footage we ha…
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
As the Copenhagen talks on climate change have seven days to go to reach a consensus, countries have yet to agree on funding, let alone, execution. Currency speculator turned philanthropist George Sor…
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- December 6th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: TLE Travels Asia
The picture below is of the beautiful seaside resort of El Nido in Palawan, Philippines. It is about 420 kilometers southwest of Manila, and about 238 kilometers northeast of Puerto Princesa, Palaw…
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
It’s that time of year for prognosticators to come out of the woodwork. And why not? It’s an artificial milestone that many look forward to hurdling, hoping that a “new” year…
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- December 3rd, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: TLE Travels Asia
It’s been a few years since I was last in New Zealand and while I don’t even remember taking a picture of this cow, it struck me anyway, just as it did the first time (although not a last…
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- November 30th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: TLE Travels Asia
Once upon a time it was a dream … a grand dream that was actually slowly shaping into the most colossal of all engineering undertakings. It was so fantastical that a lot of people thought the p…
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- November 29th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
Every six months I quietly trudge to the dentist’s office because I have done it since I was a kid. My teeth are in fairly good health, with only one adult cavity over the years and so its a p…
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- November 23rd, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
Sterling Seagrave makes the case in his book, The Soong Dynasty, that T.V. Soong, was at one point in history possibly the richest man in the world. As a Harvard man, T.V. Soong (sitting on the floor…
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- November 17th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
Although this NYT article asks the general public to get tested for breast cancer only after 50 instead of the general guideline of 40, I think there’s enough evidence to show that mammograms do…
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- November 12th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
It is an understatement to say that Beijing is cold these days. After seven years of travelling here every Fall season, we’ve never experienced snow. In fact, the capital has not seen snow thi…
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- November 5th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
Before you think the freak cold snap that brought several inches of snow into Beijing on November 1 is yet another sign of Global Warming, check with the local authorities first. Very proudly, as the…
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- October 29th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
The answer to this question is “of course not!”. And yet, there are enough incensed members of society given voice by the newspapers who are angry about the influx of immigrants to Singap…
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- October 28th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
If ad man Rory Sutherland had to answer this question, he would most definitely say, “absolutely”. In fact, he posits, with great humour, that there is so much in the world that could be…
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
Finally the old guard is catching up with alternative medicine. In a recent New York Times article (Oct 26, 2009), Dr. Barnett Kramer associate director for disease prevention at the National Inst…
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- October 23rd, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
I am not a runner. I never have been and I doubt that I ever will be. But I was convinced by a friend yet again to buy a new pair of running shoes. Not just any pair mind you, but the kind that w…
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
Getting it Done Registering your company should be the least of your worries when you’re just starting out. Nevertheless, the paperwork has to be done and its best to get it squared away proper…
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- October 22nd, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: TLE Travels Asia
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (US essayist & poet, 1803 – 1882) Was filing through my old photos…
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- October 21st, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
Our choices make us who we are- and our food choices make our bodies what they are. Which dish do you find yourself picking when its time to make a decision for lunch or dinner? Do you gravitate t…
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- October 15th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
It’s getting earlier and earlier … but I guess we all need to get into the holiday (re:spending) mood. I took this picture this afternoon and had to check my calendar to make sure that it…
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
It doesn’t seem right, turning on our computers, wasting precious resources, to write about not wasting precious resources on this Blog Action Day. But let’s face it, we’ll be wasti…
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- October 13th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: TLE Travels Asia
Related Posts:Training it in ChinaZhang Gong's Works of ArtTiger Woods Philosophy on why Tomorrow is GreatOn Top of the WorldCan you guess what those little critters are?
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
For too long a time business became about the expedient. Thankfully, aside from the fact that we are now more careful about what we do to the environment, we are also putting design and function ahea…
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- October 8th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
It’s hard to resist this plate of food, especially when you’re the one who ordered it. You can almost hear the arteries clogging as you chomp down but thank goodness there’s some…
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- October 7th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
Taking the Local, Global! For one week: 16 – 22 November 2009, millions of young people (defined as age 30 and below) around the world will gather to generate ideas, innovation, and hopefully t…
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- October 6th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
Given the fact that both Starhub and M1 refuse to agree to the onerous terms Apple is levelling on them so that they can sell the iPhone, perhaps its time the larger community give Google’s Andr…
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- October 1st, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: TLE Travels Asia
Who would have thought that the same apples that keep doctors away would keep the art lovers coming? Here is a gorgeous painting of apples in Kivik, Sweden where the town of Kivik held the first annua…
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
Finally, a way to flip through pages like you would a magazine instead of waiting for pages to load on a screen. Google Lab’s Fast Flip allows readers to read newspapers and magazines such as T…
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- September 28th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: TLE Travels Asia
Singapore Conservation Fund’s (WRSCF’s) first-ever fundraising charity bazaar! Dates: 3 and 4 October Venues: Jurong Bird Park and Singapore Zoo respectively. At Singapore Zoo, celebrity WRSCF Amb…
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- September 27th, 2009
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eggmag has joined the discussion: Devastating Floods in Manila
- September 26th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
UPDATE: Donate to Red Cross Singapore- Mercy Relief will end on 30 October. Afternoon (Saturday) Underpass is filled with water Rushing waters 9:40AM (Sunday) Waters have receded Donate to the Re…
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- September 25th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
It took us a long time to decide but we finally did. We’re buying the most recommended running shoes by our friends who are runners. Drum roll. Asics! Yep, they’ve always been my f…
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- September 22nd, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
A friend was wondering how much the Singapore government made (through The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) vehicle) when it sold nearly half its shares in Citigroup. Apparently, q…
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
I don’t think this is an easy question to answer. I’m not a doctor but I do have close friends who are. Some of them make a decent living while others make obscene amounts. It’…
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- September 21st, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
It’s not right … no one should be doing what I have been doing. Nope, I’m not taking drugs, but I have been reading about celebrities who have died doing so- not just recently, but…
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- September 18th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
GENERAL INFORMATION (Ask your financial adviser for more details about what an insurance company covers and about term life insurance quotes in general.) Life insurance gives you and your family fina…
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- September 15th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
Yet another significant individual has passed away this year- Patrick Swayze who has been battling pancreatic cancer and miraculously fighting pass the 6 months that his doctor’s gave him (diagn…
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- September 12th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: TLE Travels Asia
According to this article in the New York Times, Jennifer Hall-Massey knows not to drink the tap water in her home near Charleston, W.Va because although it may quench your immediate thirst, it will a…
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- September 4th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
Software Engineer Robert Goldman, CEO of Vascular Designs showed how the catheter works. It is a long very thin teal colored tube that is attached to three plungers. When Inserted into a blood vessel…
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- August 26th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
It’s not even the end of 2009 yet and so many iconic people have passed away. With the passing of both Eunice and Ted Kennedy, it also signals the end of an era where ideals of country before s…
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
I don’t know if you see what I see … but I think it happens to the best of us, especially when our job has to do with tasting food and being in a kitchen all day. Below we have juxtaposed…
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- August 24th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: TLE Travels Asia
There’s been a lot of talk that F1 isn’t going to be much of a tour for the racing circuit anymore come 2010 but Singapore is stuck with having to promote it. Singtel, one of the biggest…
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- August 19th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
Did you know that Singaporeans throw away 566 tonnes of wet rubbish every year? That’s right, that’s a heck of a lot of rubbish. And what’s worse is that we’re completely una…
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- August 15th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new blog review on: My Caddy
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eggmag has added My Caddy to their favorite blogs.
Aside from being outside where we really belong (instead of these concrete edifices), the challenge of the golf game is life long. You can always play any sport and reach a peak and know that no matter how lousy you feel that day, you'll play ok. W
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- August 12th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: For Entrepreneurs Only
Charles Ponzi is the most famous scammer in the Western world, but what he did, Asians, in particular, the Chinese, have been doing forever. And yet, every generation, every pool of people, will have…
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- August 11th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
You may not know that the veins on your legs are starting to bunch up and are going to start causing you pain in the near future. In the picture below, a pair of healthy legs versus a tired and worn…
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- August 8th, 2009
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eggmag has posted a new entry on: Good For You
I really don’t think this wall clock will make anyone “not smoke”. Just looking at it makes me want to put up a cigarette and I don’t even smoke or remotely like it. At fir…
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