Recent content by Maximuz

I am normally a lurker but these, I cannot ignore: GST fake one ah? COE fake one ah? ERP fake one ah? HDB stamps fake one ah? Income tax fake one ah? Hunkee tax fake one? Alcohol tax fake one ah? Foreign worker levy fake one ah? FUCK YOU KNN So the government flushing the taxpayers' money...

TYVM UltimaOnline, I will have a read-through =)

Can you share the link with me? I tried to PM but got the following error: "Oops! We ran into some problems. You may not start a conversation with the following recipients: UltimaOnline." Thanks :)

Unless you are interested in a watch's mechanisms (chronograph, tourbillon, co-axial escapement, etc), and are intrigued by the engineering genius behind mechanical watches, nobody should buy a watch above $300 really. And don't forget about servicing costs too, as Sam pointed out. That said...

It's dying. Let's put it this way -- when I joined this forum as a young boy in 1999 (Delphi days), I was also playing a text-based online game at the same time, and thought it would last forever. Turned out I was one of the last holdouts and I saw with my own eyes how the playerbase went from...

Typical Singaporean... No looks no personality but no sense of shame or self-reflection on why a man is still with her. Even her son is complaining and is likely to become estranged, with a domineering mother like that. If her husband goes before her, even a dog won't love her.

Low earth orbit nia no big deal. Same distinction as being the first customer in a newly-opened McDonald's. Far more likely to actually go into deep space with the ah neh vimana or merkaba or even astral projection, than with NASA.

Good point. I have no factual evidence but I hear of people dying all the time in public hospitals, while those in private ones are kept alive for as long as possible. The monetary incentive is pretty clear if you look at the public/private divide.

Hinduism: I've met Hindus from India who give no thought about eating beef. Buddhism: No where in the sutras did the teaching says "do not eat beef" Taoism: No where in the classical texts (Dao De Ching and my favourite, I-Ching) does it says NOT TO EAT BEEF I understand the narrative in "The...

I actually agree with sweetiepie's uncle's thesis :) Maybe we are the one and same person! xD

I feel sorry for the maid. Rich bitch had it coming and it was time to go at her age anyway, it was a good life. Even her final act (steel tray shot) was an act of provocation -- and which also dragged a young life into 18 years of incarceration. If anything, the maid's family should be given...

Many years ago, I met Fann Wong once, before she was famous. I was in Primary 6 to be exact and when we got into the same elevator (HDB block, I was going to a home tutor) I was already enchanted by the few seconds I've seen of her as we were getting in. When I saw we were going to the same...

This is correct. This is also correct. If all the sheep does is bleat (FoS), you think the lion cares?

Have to agree. Thum Pingtjin is a first-rate scholar but a third-rate mind, whose work is often expository rather than insightful. Should've given him a miss, really. Chua Beng Huat, the papers of whom I had to read quite a bit in my studies, is a top-rate academic but a disgusting pig of an...

I was in a class of forty-one in Primary 1 -- I remember clearly cos my results were 40th, and wondered who was the idiot in last place. Then I thought about: - The Nordic education system where the job is respected and pays better than the private sector. Also, in either Finland or Iceland...