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The “I am a PC” campaign seems to be beating the “Mac vs PC” campaign.

Here’s the Tron Guy with his PC story.

Check out this parody of Britney’s latest music video, Womanizer.

The Singapore blogosphere is currently posting about the potential lost of SGD12 million due to investment in Lehman Brother funds by two Singapore town councils.

Most of the bloggers are peeved at how the authorities are trying to reassure their consituents that the lost of SGD12million neglible as it makes up only 0.6% of available funds.

A month ago, Singaporeans were already warned that the town councils’ investment might be affected by the credit crisis in the US and the lost is not significant.

Wrote  May Wong for ChannelNews Asia in Oct 2008,

Although some of the town councils have purchased Lehman Brothers-linked products, the investments are minimal.

“Maybe a couple of percentage out of the total investment portfolio (were used in those investments), so the exposure will not affect the overall investment portfolio or the sinking funds per se. There’s definitely no fear that any of the PAP town councils’ sinking funds will be wiped out. All the supporting PAP town councils’ sinking funds are in safe hands,” assured Dr Teo Ho Pin, Coordinating Chairman of the 14 PAP Town Councils. He is also the mayor of North West District.

Though its reassuring to know that the town councils still have funds in them, the problem lies in how the town councils are communicating that losing SGD12million is no big deal.

It is when you do the maths.

Both  Holland-Bukit Panjang and Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Councils charges Service & Conservancy charge to maintain living conditions in these estates. These charges are determined by the size of the flat you live in.

Assuming that there are 1000 units of 1 room flats in both estate. The residents in these 1-room flats have to pay a monthly subsidize Service & Conservancy charge of SGD18.50. The monthly income collected from these residents adds up to SGD37,000 a month.

Say the SGD12million was used to help pay for the Service & Conservancy charges, the town councils can afford for these residents not to pay this charges for  the next 324 months or for the next 27 years!

It was announced today that Singapore town councils of Holland-Bukit Panjang and Pasir Ris- Punggol risk losing SGD12million in bad investments in Lehman-related structured products.

It is quite interesting, but not surprising, how it was emphasize that this potential lost is only 0.6% of the 35% that town councils are allowed to invest.

Wrote Dominique Loh  for ChannelNews Asia,

Holland-Bukit Panjang and Pasir Ris-Punggol town councils have invested a total of S$12 million in DBS High Notes, Lehman Brothers’ Minibond Notes and Merrill Lynch’s Jubilee Series 3.

That is about 0.6 per cent of the total funds available for investments.

Senior Minister of State for National Development and Education Grace Fu gave this update in Parliament on Monday.

This blogger wonders what just 0.6% of the SGD12million (72 000) means to a poor family leaving in the area.

In July 08, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong told the residents of Hougang held opposition ward to carefully examine the town council funds of the opposition.

Said Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong,

Amongst the things you can do, I suggest you study the annual accounts of the town council to ensure that the funds are properly used. Check whether the arrears for S & C charges are piling up, and eating into their reserves. Make sure that enough money is put aside for cyclical maintenance. In your walkabouts, check on the estate maintenance. If Mr Low has done a good job, give him credit for it. If there are deficiencies, point them out to the residents. In short, play the role of an effective opposition in Hougang.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes (Who watches the watchmen)?

Question: How do you thank a blogger for being a passionate fan of your client’s cartoon, so passionate that she blogs about the event the moment she got invited to the day of her event?

Answer: You invite her to the premier of the cartoon series first movie.

How do you piss the blogger?

First you call the blogger just hours before the movie to inform her that there are no tickets for her because she is on the waiting list.

Next, you call the blogger to inform her that tickets were actually available but it was already taken by another person of the same name. You even ensure the blogger that the identity of the ticket collector was verified.

Then, do a bit of mix up and get another person to call the blogger, explain it was a miscommunication and there are actually tickets for her.

Finally, when the blogger goes to the premier and collect tickets, warn her that they would have to confiscate the ticket if the “real” person came to collect the ticket.

What a bang up, wait, this blogger means cock up.

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A bit of weekend entertainment as Pat Law noticed a small typo in the Straits Times.

From Pat Law,

Las Vegas Sands is currently building the casino in Singapore’s Marina Bay area but its auditor has raised concern over the casino’s ability to continue.

Wrote Michael Nol for Bloomberg,

Las Vegas Sands Corp. plunged in New York trading after saying it may be in default of some loans if it can’t raise capital, threatening its ability to keep operating “as a going concern.”

Las Vegas Sands dropped $2.51, or 22 percent, to $9.15 at 9:44 a.m. before the start of New York Stock Exchange composite trading.

The casino company said in a regulatory filing today that it doesn’t expect to meet a maximum leverage ratio covenant in the fourth quarter. That would trigger defaults that might force the company to suspend development projects and “raise a substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.”

Hope they don’t just leave the incompleted casinos at Marina Bay in the middle of the construction. It will be an eye sore to the Singapore Eye.

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Are Democrats Night Elves and Republican Dwarfs?

If you are a mommy or daddy blogger, Nuffnang is looking for you for advertorials.

Wrote the Nuffnang email,

We are calling out to all Mummy & Daddy Bloggers out there!

1) Exclusive Offer

We are exclusively looking for parent bloggers with kids of 5 to 9 years old to do an advertorial for an upcoming campaign by M1!

If you fall within this category, please email your Blog URL and subject your email title as “M1 Parents” to mummybloggers@nuffnang.com by 30 October 2008, Thursday, 4pm!

______________________________________________________________________________

2) If you are a parent blogger & do not fall under the above critera,

We still welcome YOU to submit in your details to us as well.

You can stand a chance to be selected for advertorials , in which you will be given advertorial fee based on your blog traffic.

On top of that, relevant banner ads will be placed on your blog too!

Let us take notice of your blog and grow money out of it!

Hurry up and let us know!

Email your Blog URL, Name and Contact Number to mummybloggers@nuffnang.com

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Questex today announced the launch of SearchSMBAsia.com new look and feel.

Content director, Allan Tan, is on a lookout for contributed articles on the following topics from experts in the vendor community. PR interested can contact Allan at atan(at)questexasia.com.

Business & IT Portal for Asia’s SMB and SME | Search SMB Asia via kwout

Business software for the midmarket

Business intelligence (BI) for the midmarket

CRM for the midmarket

ERP for the midmarket

Web 2.0 technology for the midmarket

CIO careers and staffing for the midmarket

CIO and IT salaries for the midmarket

IT staff development and retention for the midmarket

IT training and certification for the midmarket

Compliance management for the midmarket

Compliance strategies for the midmarket

Contracts and legal issues

HIPAA compliance for the midmarket

IT auditing for the midmarket

Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance

Data centers and infrastructure

Application development for the midmarket

Data storage for the midmarket

Desktops and laptops for the midmarket

Email and messaging for the midmarket

Enterprise application integration (EAI)

Green computing

LANs and wireless LANs for the midmarket

Legacy systems integration

Mobile technology for the midmarket

Open source midmarket software

Operating systems for the midmarket

Remote connectivity for the midmarket

SOA and Web services for the midmarket

SaaS for the midmarket

Server management for the midmarket

Systems management for the midmarket

Virtualization for the midmarket

VoIP and unified messaging for the midmarket

IT and business management for the midmarket

Business performance management

Business process management

Contract negotiations and legal issues

IT Service Management for the midmarket

IT and business alignment for the midmarket

IT project management for the midmarket

IT spending and budgeting for the midmarket

Leadership and strategy for the midmarket

Outsourcing for the midmarket

ROI for the midmarket

Vendor selection and management for the midmarket

Security and risk management for the midmarket

Data privacy for the midmarket

Disaster recovery planning and business continuity

Information security management for the midmarket

Risk management for the midmarket

Security tools for the midmarket

Its a bad 2008 for print publications.

It was announced earlier that Mediacorp Publishing will be shutting down Vanilla magazine for women.

Now SPH Magazine announced the shutting down of Maxim Singapore with the last issue in December 2008.

Wrote the SPH press release,

The publisher, a wholly owned subsidiary of media giant Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH), has announced that it will no longer publish lad mag Maxim in Singapore after its December issue.

… Mr Allen Loh, SPH Magazines’ Managing Director, adds: "To reach out to the modern male reader, and connect our advertisers to this group of very discerning audience, SPH Magazines will now focus our efforts and resources on titles like Men’s Health, as well as interest-specific men’s magazines within our stable, such as Torque, Golf Digest Singapore and HWM Singapore."

A look at back at 2004 saw a rather different quote from Mr David Tay, then managing director of SPH magazine.

Wrote Jennifer Whitehead of Brand Republic in 2004,

David Tay, managing director of SPH Magazines, said: "Singapore is a great and expanding magazine market, where the men’s magazine segment has been relatively neglected. With the changing habits, lifestyle and internationalisation of the average male Singaporean, it’s an opportune time for such a magazine here, especially since the name Maxim is already on everybody’s lips."

 

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Canon has launched a Powershot E! contest with Nuffnang and its babes.

Visitors to contest site can vote for the best photo scrap book and stand a chance to win a Canon Powershot E1 and a Selphy CP160 Canon Photo Printer.

The contest site is at http://www.nuffnang.com.sg/canon-3. But before you go there, here’s this blogger’s view on the photos and layout by the blogger babes.

Roaring Queen :] via kwout

At the time of writing this blog, Roaring Queen has the lowest votes. This is not surprising as none of her photos showed any scrap book effect. In fact, this scary photo of her is the best she could offer. Roaring Queen has failed to do show the fun using the new Canon Powershot E1.

T h y ‘ D o w a g e r via kwout

Thy-Dowager is second from bottom.  She is one of the few who focused on the camera’s digital macro effect. This photo showed both her ability to shoot a lizard that most often move very fast and her scrap book effect.

THE MIRACLE SEASON | more than just words via kwout

The only problem this blogger have with Ice-angel is that some of the photos posted might not be from the Canon Powershot E1 and she doesn’t clarify them. None the less, Ice-Angel done a good job in her layout of her photos.

I’m Dangerous <3 via kwout

Of all the bloggers babe, Underage-girl has taken the effort to pair each feature of the Canon Powershot E1 with a photo. This gives readers a good photo understanding of what the camera can do for them. This blogger babe should go work for a online gadget review magazine!

Ohsofickle: Canon Powershot E1 via kwout

If Oh-So-Fickle doesn’t win this popularity contest, Canon should have at least this the official blog for the Canon Powershot E1 as the lay-out meets the scrapbook effect to the T.  This blogger is currently second.

Xiaxue.blogspot.com - Everyone’s reading it via kwout

No surprise that the current leader of this voting contest is Xiaxue. Her pimping of Sony, who also does digital cameras, will not go down well with the sponsors. The link to view her scrapbook at the

Nuffnang contest does not link to her post on the contest. Coincidence?

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