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10 Economical Gift Exchange Presents!

Yours Truly — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:57:29 +0000

You would probably have noticed that things are a little quiet around here. Yes that’s because most of us are busy with overseas holidays and the like. Why?

Because we’ve come to the season of the HO HO HOs! The season of perpetual jingling of bells everywhere you go! The season of mega year-end [...]

10 Important Birthdays In Singapore’s Timeline

Yours Truly — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:09:30 +0000

As today is the birthday of the undeniably vivacious but yet demure Yours Truly, a fabulous idea was born of Yours Truly’s mind. Why not a list of birthdays of the important and pivotal figures and events in Singapore’s history?

So what is exactly a birthday? Merriam-Webster defines it as,

1 a : the day of a [...]

10 Least Known Museums in Singapore

Yours Truly — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:02:55 +0000

Contrary to popular misconceptions, the museum or more correctly the Musaeum in Alexandria, which was attached to the infamous Library, was not the first museum ever in the world. Generally the earliest museums were attributed to Plato though there was not enough evidence to substantiate the claim.

The word museum is derived from the [...]

10 Ways To Propose… Singaporean Style

Yours Truly — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:12:20 +0000

Marriage is simply a union between two people in love. Traditionally the word alludes to heterosexual couples, with most homosexual couples preferring the term partnership.

The earliest documented marital laws dated back to at least Mesopotamian times, and we can draw forth a conjecture that along with it the concept of a marriage proposal also evolved [...]

Top 10 Things Singaporeans Do At McDonald’s

Yours Truly — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:59:21 +0000

The concept of fast food, despite its many modern connotations, is not a recent invention at all. The very concept of it is very much tied to urban development; thus it is not too far-fetched to make the assumption that fast food probably arose during antiquity and in areas where the first cities [...]

Top 10 Harry Potter Spells that Singaporeans would like to use daily

Yours Truly — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:10:45 +0000

Ever wondered how life would be if we lived in the wondrous world of Harry Potter? A world in which anything and every thing is possible. A world of fantastic spells and charms… of broomsticks and carpets… of potions and magical creatures.

Think of the various improvements, as well as the havoc we could reek, [...]

10 Singaporean Deadly Sins – “Got fine or not?”

Yours Truly — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:43:59 +0000

There is no definite date for the exact origin of religion, though there is credible evidence that religious behaviour was already in place in the Middle Paleolithic era. It also means that for it to have existed in the Middle Paleolithic ages it must have started and evolved possibly in the Lower Paleolithic period.

As [...]

Top 10 Boring Dates

Yours Truly — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:26:33 +0000

We have all dated before; some more than the rest of course. With the veritable sea of people that we meet everyday in person and in our cyber interactions, the average person would have probably dated at least 10 times.

So what constitute as a date? Merriam-Webster defines a date as

“: an appointment to meet [...]

Top 10 Typical MRT Commuters

Yours Truly — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:28:55 +0000

Since the inception of life on this planet, every organism seemed to have an inborn instinct to travel. Some species travel for migratory purposes for better pastures while others travel within reasonable distances for the same reason.

Likewise we homo sapiens, much like any other life on Earth, travel like our fauna counterparts. Traveling these days [...]