Project Eyeball, 25 August 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Friday, August 25, 2000 80 CENTS
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      136 1 Hot LINKS Serving food with a dash of flash A champion duckchopper who doesn’t mind blindfolds on the job, a dancing prata man, and a sculptor. There are many food servers in Singapore who know that a meal tastes better with some showmanship added. See Pages 25,26 Need more proof
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      202 1 Petrol companies, explain yourselves New economy trend: lob hopping James Ong (right), 31, is a consultant for Microsoft. In the past 11 years, he’s held six jobs and has had salary jumps of more than seven times. Ong is but one of a new generation of workers: Young and not
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      78 2 KRANDEL Newton from Dallas, Texas, calls himself the Original Butt Sketch artist and is close to drawing his 100,000th bottom 13 years after giving up his engineering job. He says: “Every butt has a different personality. I get my kicks off how people react to this some are proud
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      Lock icon Volvo recalls II6,000 cars
      213 2 S80‚ V70 AFFECTED Wires COLOGNE Swedish car maker Volvo is recalling 116,000 of its SBO sedans worldwide because it has detected problems with the front wheel suspension, announced Volvo Deutschland yesterday. The recall action affected models built last and this year, Volvo Deutschland said in a
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      Lock icon Look into fuel prices
      739 2  -  Pump prices up 18% over 12 months By Jeanette Pang jeanette@sph.com.sg AND what well-done frogs we have turned out to be. The average working professional who drives to work and shuttles the family about on weekends, using 150 litres of petrol a month, is now paying
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        Lock icon Hopping mad
        879 3  -  Changing jobs often is seen as the in-thing these days By Denyse Yeo And Sue-Ann Chia denyse@sph.com.sg sueann@sph.com.sg AND so we’ve arrived. At an age of job promiscuity in which life-long employment in one company is as outmoded as a chastity belt. The in-thing: Job-hopping. Or job mobility,
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      Lock icon LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP
      205 3 5 Always plan ahead. It’s knowing what you want for both the short and long term that will help keep your head up, says one human-resource consultant. What are your long-term goals? What are your short-term aims? How far are you in achieving them? J/m Give
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      Lock icon Sex and infertility
      663 4  -  Chances of catching chlamydia-which can wreck fertility-increase the more you sleep around By Lim Puay Leng puayleng@sph.com.sg GET this straight: the more you sleep around, the greater your chances of becoming infertile. Eight per cent of infertile women in Singapore suffer from chlamydia, among the more common
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      Lock icon Fajar’s budding scientists
      438 4  -  SCHOOL WINS COMPETTTION By Kim-Kyna Tan kimkyna@sph.Com.sg BUDDING scientists of Fajar Secondary School know what it means to reap what they sow. Under their green thumbs, the school’s aquaponics plant has produced bountiful harvests of cherry tomatoes and lettuce. This combination of hydroponics and aqua culture is
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      Lock icon Easier to own a HDB flat now
      330 6  -  Govt eases home-ownership rules By Ng Hwee Koon hweekoon@sph.com.sg SOME 76,000 more lower-income families will be able to own a HDB flat or get a bigger one. The Government is relaxing home-ownership rules to make it easier for this lot of Singaporeans to
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      Lock icon Shap’s plan for more homes to more people
      239 6 THE Special Housing Assistance Programme (Shap) for lower income families includes: The three-room buy-back scheme. The HDB buys back threeroom flats from the resale market and sells them at subsidised rates to first- and second-time flat owners, and. to lessees of two-room
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      Lock icon Merge RI and JC, say old boys
      513 6  -  BUILDING LIFE-LONG BONDS By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg IT WAS one of those times when the occasion was more special than the dinner itself. After all, it’s not every day that Raffles alumni get to discuss a merging of Raffles Institution and Junior
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    • Local LOG
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        80 8 Bid to stem exodus to SPH FOLLOWING the exodus of staff from the Media Corp Group to SPH Media Works, the national broadcaster is now offer- ing bonuses to its employees. According to Shin Min Daily News, the catch is that they have to sign
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        Lock icon Don’t mess with us!
        40 8 A special operations officer apprehends the enemy in a mock exercise demonstrating the defence capabilities of the Home Team at the Home Team National Service Training Visit held at the Civil Defence Academy yesterday. Mike Lee
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        Lock icon Fulfilling start to debate series
        108 8 THOSE who went to Action Theatre and Arts Central’s debate series battle@waterloo: Fighting For Art’s Sake didn’t go away hungry. Last night’s opener had a team applauded to victory when it bribed the audience with food and drink. It was opposing the motion, “Starving artists
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        Lock icon ‘Weekend workdays becoming norm’
        94 8 EMPLOYERS will warm up to the idea of five-day work weeks if their staff agree to include Saturdays and Sundays as workdays. After all, said Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) president Stephen Lee, weekend work days are becoming the norm as more businesses begin to run
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        Lock icon Bukit Timah Plaza gets water again
        95 8 THE water supply to Bukit Timah Plaza, which was cut after it was contaminated by sewage, has been fully restored. The Environment Ministry and Public Utilities Board also began checks on buildings over 25-years-old yesterday, to ensure that their water and sanitary systems are
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Close call at HK airport
        153 8 AFP HONG KONG A Boeing 747 cargo plane aborted its landing at Hong Kong’s international airport after another plane was seen preparing to take off from the same runway, a spokesman said yesterday. The Civil Aviation Department spokesman said that the “missed approach” incident at
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        Lock icon 6 men nabbed after Belfast violence
        143 8 Reuters BELFAST Northern Irish police arrested six men yesterday in the Shankill Road area of Belfast after a man was gunned down overnight in a vicious turf war between Protestant guerilla groups. The latest victim, believed to have been a Protestant, was shot in
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        Lock icon Smartcards for S’pore-Johor trips
        98 8 AP KUALA LUMPUR Frequent travellers from Malaysia to Singapore won’t have to go through cumbersome border immigration checks after smartcards are issued to them by the end of the year. Immigration Director-General Aseh Che Mat said yesterday that the system, to be installed at the Causeway
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        Lock icon SM Lee to get Integrity Medal
        110 8 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew is to receive a medal for his efforts to rid Singapore of corruption during his time as Prime Minister, reports said yesterday. The Kuala Lumpur Society for Transparency and Integrity, the Malaysian chapter of Transparency International,
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        Lock icon Repair of Dr M’s home almost done
        81 8 AP KUALA LUMPUR A project worth RM5.2 million to renovate the birthplace of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad in northern Malaysia would be completed later this year, a government minister said yesterday. The project to beautify the area around Mahathir’s ancestral
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      Lock icon All 143 die in Gulf Air disaster
      403 9 Cairo-bound flight crashes off Bahrain Wires CAIRO Sobbing family members, their eyes bloodshot from a night of waiting, collapsed in anguish yesterday as names of their loved ones were listed as victims of the Gulf Air crash that killed all 143 passengers and
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      Lock icon Opposition rattled by Gus Dur’s Cabinet line-up
      356 9 RUMOURS THAT MEGAWATI MAY QUIT Reuters JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid came under mounting pressure yesterday over his new Cabinet, which has been dubbed “all the president’s men” because most key appointments have been handed to people close to the frail Muslim cleric.
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      83 11 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS STEngg 19,534,000 250.0 Parkway Lab 14,776,000 84.0 Medi-Rad 12,472,000 62.0 Top 3 Gainers CENTS V- PacCent 2320 90 4.0 Chartered 1500 70 4.9 CMShekou 100HKS 420 20 5.0 Total number of gainers: 102 Top 3 Losers CENTS SIA200 1740 -130
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      Lock icon Will you be mine?
      62 11 Longing is written all over the face of seven-year-old Tsubasa Araki, seen at the display of the Qamecube, at Nintendo Space World 2000 in Makuhari yesterday. Nintendo, the last of Japans big game-machine makers to enter the market for next-generation consoles, plans to sell Qamecube from
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      Lock icon Property counters stay unusually bouyant
      449 11  -  Index up almost 10% in past two weeks Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg THE Hungry Ghosts Festival ends on Monday, marking the close of a month-long lull in property sales in Singapore. Strange though it may sound, it was anything but a dull month for property counters
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: www.asiastockwatch.com
      137 11  -  Francis Kan TIRED of running up against a stonewall at dime-a-dozen finance portals loaded with meaningless data you can’t understand? Well, perhaps it’s time to surf on down to asiastockwatch.com. Panpac Media’s online offering provides a wealth of information on all things finance-related from
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    • Eyeball SAYS
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        Lock icon Help those who want kids to have them
        619 13 MINISTER Lim Boon Heng’s comments about infertility being a peripheral issue must have saddened, but surely not surprised, many childless couples unable to conceive. After all, they already feel marginalised on so many levels. They stand on the edge of well-meaning social
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        Lock icon Speak out, ‘silent sufferers’
        229 13 ‘Give us help, plead the infertile’ (Aug 23) I AM happy to see so many of us “the silent sufferers” coming forward to speak out on the issue. I am thinking of putting all these issues discussed so far into a formal letter to the authorities
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      Lock icon Poly grads just as analytical
      904 15 ‘Poly no enough, so grads seek degrees’ (Aug 23) I WAS one of the many poly graduates who went on to pursue my university education immediately after completing national service. I guess the main dissatisfaction of poly graduates is how they are continued to be
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      Lock icon Men don’t deliver
      510 16  -  By Valerie Strauss Washington Post SO A male friend tells me on the phone, his excitement melting the wires: “Guess what? We’re pregnant!” What I say: “How nice.” What I think: “No, you’re not. Your wife is.” Call me a stickler. But the notion of male involvement
      – Washington Post; Paul Eric Roca  -  510 words
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      148 5 Presenting the all-new iMac. >(■l Now from $1,388 Introducing the most beautiful iMac models ever in their luscious new colours Indigo, Ruby, Sage, Graphite and Snow. Still the best and simplest computer for the Internet, the new iMac delivers blazing speed, and introduces a dearly amazing new keyboard and mouse.
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      69 6 Too much detail for you to handle? Not to worry, you can call HDB at the following numbers or wait till Sept 1, when special counters will be set up at six HDB branches to advise the public on the SHAP. Resale enquiry line: 1800-*****41 Sales enquiry line: 1800-*****21 Rental
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      493 7 Canon It has the Introducing The Beautiful CanoScan N-Series Beauty At Work Inspired by CanoScan's awardwinning designs, the quiet, compact, lightweight N-Series will turn any workspace into a showplace. And with the world's smallest footprint, they take up less of your desktop than any other scanner. world’s smallest footprint Easy
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      167 12 TAC PRNEQ-0172-2000 AND MOTOROLA ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF MOTOROLA, INC. MOTOROLA, INC. 2000 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. RCcampu'A6iBB WEB w/o WIRES™ 3 concept. 7> >0 e, o A A. Qj U C O KJ GO <v ft 4 4 a, o m m -t--af ’S, >o m mss* JM It's all
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      34 13 Join our chat tomorrow from 11 am on the topic Infertility: Is It Peripheral?, at http^/eyebalLasial. com.sg/chat Join our discussions at any time on this and other marriage and babies issues at http://eyeforum.asial. com.sg
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      169 16 NEC Monitors V w:i PCWE PC V 9 ICOC UMIOK ttWRIIS venoms awamts Imagination. Sol uti ons. The complete range of LCD CRT monitors follows the tradition of quality and reliability set by previous generations of NEC award-winning monitors to give you peace of mind. NEC monitors are designed for
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      Lock icon Getting your money s worth
      767 17 Those who cant afford broadband and are stuck with pedestrian dial-up modems can still enjoy free services. But can these freebies stand up to their subscription siblings? EUGENE WEE (eugenew@sph.com.sg) logs on and finds out if you re... F YOU are still paying a monthly
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      Lock icon Palms will give hotel hand with check-ins
      388 17 TECHNOLOGY MAKING LIFE EASIER The New York Times THEY won’t beam fresh towels up, but Palm hand-helds that can send and receive infrared signals will soon function as check-in desks and even room keys for travellers who stay at some hotels. The system
      – The New York Times; Law Kian Yan  -  388 words
    • Tech FILES
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        Lock icon No such thing as free porn
        68 18 FREE porn? Think again. The US Federal Trade Commission has sued the owners of several adult sites for fleecing visitors. The sites had stated that visitors’ credit-card numbers were needed only to prove that they were of legal age —a common practice on the
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        Lock icon amazon.com will start selling cars
        88 18 JEFF Bezos, Amazon.com’s CEO once said he would sell anything. True to his word, the company announced yesterday that it would add cars to the repertoire of products. The service will give US shoppers the chance to compare features from hundreds of models. They will
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        Lock icon Sony pledges to stop Napster
        52 18 THE vice-president of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Steve Heckler, has threatened to block Napster if the Recording Industry Association of America’s efforts to shut down the site do not succeed. Sony, according to Heckler, will block Napster at cable companies, ISPs and even individual users’ PCs,
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        Lock icon Clip-ped sounds
        43 18 AFP Sony’s Vaio Music Clip MCP11W stores up to two hours of digital music downloaded via the Net into its built-in 64 MB memory. Weighing 60g, it is waterproof. It goes on sale in Japan next month for 35,000 yen (S$562).
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      • Article
        Lock icon Intel: Pentium 4 notebooks planned
        100 18 Wires IT WAS reported by theregister.co.uk that Intel is at work on Pentium 4 chips for notebooks, although a ship date, or roadmap, is still unavailable. Meantime, laptop junkies can look forward to 800MhZ versions of Intel’s Pentium 111 notebook chips arriving this year, with
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      Lock icon Siemens’35 series ups style quotient
      429 18  - Siemens’ 35 series ups style quotient Models gain curvy look without sacrificing quality By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg WE’VE all heard the story of the ugly duckling who grew up to be a beautiful swan. The creators of the chunky Siemens 525 must have heard the hisses: They’ve tossed in loads
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      Lock icon Now showing on the Web
      827 20 Local cinema chains are making their presence felt on the Web. Does this mean that local movie fans can throw away their newspaper movie listings and wave goodbye to ticket queues? ‘Almost but not quite 5 is the answer from YVONME MM (yvonne@sph.com.sg), who gives
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      47 18 Want to know how to soup up your 56K modem? Log on to http^/eyebalLasiaLcom.sg to learn how to tweak your dialup modem for maximum performance. You can also find the detailed results of our ISP showdown there and links to test your modem’s speed on the Internet.
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Inter humbled by Swedes
      364 21 MILAN- Inter Milan manager Marcello Lippi has discovered that an expensively assembled team does not necessarily win matches. The Italian giants failed to reach the Champions’ League stage of the European Cup when they were eliminated by modest Swedish side Helsingborg. Inter missed a penalty and
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      Lock icon Redknapp blasts ref
      544 21  -  West Ham’s manager says sending off players at random is ruining the game By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg LOOKS like it’s open season on referees. First, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger took potshots at Graham Poll. Now West Ham’s Harry Redknapp is taking aim at Rob Styles. The West
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      Lock icon Herbert wants to switch to US racing
      503 22 Jaguar driver may join Paul Newman’s ChampCar team Wires LONDON Johnny Herbert is trying to follow fellow Brit Nigel Mansell’s path by teaming up with movie star Paul Newman in the United States. Herbert, 35, has already announced that he is to leave
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      Lock icon Players want more picks
      578 22 EUROPEAN RYDER CUP TEAM Wires GLENEAGLES (Scotland) It may be laziness or a genuine concern for the well-being of Europe’s Ryder Cup squad. Either way, Europe’s top players want to do less to qualify. European captain Sam Torrance has said he would ask for more than
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      Lock icon Tribute to Marino
      69 23 Former Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino (left) singing along in a tribute paid to him by former Buffalo Bilb quarterback Jim Kelly and Hootie and the Blowfish lead singer Darius Rucker on Wednesday. It was a sell-out crowd at Pro Player Stadium in Miami. Marino, who played
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      Lock icon Elliott on comeback trail
      333 23  -  Spurs star says he is fit By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg SEAN Elliott hasn’t quite decided if he will return to play another season with the San Antonio Spurs. But if he does, he will add another remarkable chapter to his career, following his recovery from organ-transplant
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    • Cheers & JEERS
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        Lock icon Whiners, take a cue from Cullen
        628 24  -  Too many moaning windbags play louder off the pitch than on it By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg CHEERS OF LATE, there is just too much noise coming from sport. Players whine and managers whinge as they try to shift the blame on each other when
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        Lock icon Olympics double bill
        42 24 Identical twins Alvin (left) and Calvin Harrison of Salinas, California, currently training in the Qold Coast, Australia, will run in the 400 metres and also participate in the 4x400 metre relay at the Sydney Olympics starting next month. AP
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    • Time OUT
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        Lock icon Banks thinks Ravens will fly high
        340 24  -  By Gordon Forbes USA Today OWINGS MILLS (Maryland) Outside the Baltimore dressing room, a replica of the Vince Lombardi Super Bowl trophy gleams in the hallway lights. Tony Banks, the Ravens’ sixth starting quarterback since 1996, won’t come right out and stamp his team
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      42 22 The steering wheel is one of the most complex components of a modern Formula One car. Visit http://www.planetfl.com for a rundown of all the gadgetry that goes into a steering wheel. Also click on httpV/eyebalL asial.com.sg for a profile of Mika Salo.
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      19 23 Visit eyeball.asial.com.sg for more on Sean Elliott. Also check out www.nba. com/spurs/ for more on Elliott and his teammates.
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon Gods of Cookery
      900 25 Some of Singapore's most famous hawkers ought to he in show business, discovers ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg). N THAT rib-tickling Hong Kong comedy Gods Of Cookery, Stephen Chow made us gap and salivate at his culinary prowess. And if the grapevine is to be believed, Jim Carrey might
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    • Food
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        Lock icon HAWKER’S PICK
        154 28 DUCK a la satay anyone? Well, the fowl is fast becoming a popular choice at many satay stalls. At least four satay stalls three, six, 13 and 16 at Lau Pa Sat have duck to offer, thanks to RR Food Supplies, which manufactures and supplies the halal satay.
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        Lock icon Get your money’s worth at Wall St Cafe
        450 28  -  Angelica Tan WE’RE talking about the cafe at Amara Hotel, that is. The refurbished eatery now serves an affordable DIY appetiser buffet with soup, greens, bread, sushi, cold platters and desert. Appetisers also include marinated beef with peanut sauce, salmon with sweet
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        1057 29 Marina-Suntec s new Time Square at Millennia Walk, coupled with City Link Mall's host of swish hotels, has transformed the area into a haven of gastronomic delights. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) gives you the ABCs of dining heaven. ALFRESCO 1 fresco possibilities abound. The link bridge
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        Lock icon Nails and noodles
        501 30 Food seems to be getting into every business these days, whether it be a boutique ora furniture shop. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) discovers another of the breed, a nail room where you can enjoy a manicure and choose from a scrumptious menu at the same time. THESE days,
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        Lock icon CABBY’S CHOICE
        250 30 CABBY’ S CHOICE Sin Elm Hua Fish Head Noodles Recommended by cabby Wong Yat Kay Blk 555, Ang Mo Kio Ave 10 Open: 10 am to 8 pm. Closed on alternate Wednesdays CABBY Wong Yat Kay likes the fish noodles so much, he eats here at least three times a
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    • Music
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        Lock icon Classic rockers
        470 31 Classical Chinese instruments meet heavy metal in ChthoniC’s music. The result, says TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg), is sublime. OF YOUR idea of underground rock is any music heard on the MRT, maybe you should give ChthoniC a try. That’s because ChthoniC is not just any metal band. And
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        Lock icon Each’s Trax axed
        435 31  - Each’ s Trax axed By June Wan junewan@sph.com.sg ZACH’S Trax axed. Yep, it rhymes and you heard it right. And yes, local bands, you can all start committing metaphysical suicide. Your songs will get even less airplay now. As Astreal guitarist William de Silva, 25, put it, “At least he
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        Lock icon The Stoner Age
        607 32 It ’s time for stoners to get out of the closet and proclaim themselves. RONALD RAJ AN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg) plugs into an emerging genre of deafening sounds and comes out convinced that it’s indeed music. T’S the new stone age now. Before you jump the gun, let me
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        Lock icon Hauntingly different
        1409 33 POP ROCK LITTLE KIX Mansun-Little Kix(EMI) ATTEMPTING a follow-up to an epic as staggering as Mansun’s 1998 album Six is bound to invite a case of the post-magnum opus blues. Cleverly, the British foursome have opted for an alternative approach that invalidates comparisons with its illustrious predecessor. In
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        Lock icon CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
        229 33  -  Led Zeppelin-Led Zeppelin II (Atlantic) Eugene Wee IN THEIR 1969 debut album, Led Zeppelin gave the Blues something it really needed, balls. Barely 10 months later, Robert Plant and company took the fusion one step further in their sophomore album and added pure animal sex
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          93 34 The pair hopes to cover If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful, first recorded by old-timers Whitney Houston and Jermaine Jackson. Don got his big break when he provided vocals for I Will Still Love You, the only duet on Britney’s debut album, Baby One More Time. With
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          52 34 WORD has it that the solo album of Blur’s lead singer, Damon Albarn, will be produced by hip-hop star Dan The Automator and that the two have already collaborated on Dan’s album, Deltron 30/30. However, the Blur camp insists that “there’s not going to be a
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          110 34  -  YEARS after his suicide, grunge legend Kurt Cobain is still haunting fans literally. British barmaid Gemma Franks, 24, claims to be the victim of an “e-parition”. She said: “I had been looking at an Internet site that featured Kurt Cobain. I shut the computer down and left the
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      668 35 Tube Talk Movies Kingpin 7.30 pm«TCS 5 A sharp social satire or a crass lowbrow comedy? You decide. This film showcases some of the worst hair ever seen in movie history. Roy Munson (a very bald Woody Harrelson) is a former bowling champ who loses a hand and is reduced
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    81 36 We’ve just seen the latest offerings from Siemens and are pleasantly pleased. Read our review and check out the great Eyeball handphone shootout, where 16 of the latest models are ranked, rated, and dissected for style and performance. http://eyeball.asial.com.sg/ Eyeball/Tech Chefs in action. They’re local, they’re deft, and
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    276 36 All work and no play makes us an unhappening crowd. Eyeball narrows down five things not to miss next week. Catch video highlights of The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, find yourself a date at China Jump, or catch a controversial play by the Singaporean Repertory Theatre. All
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      119 36 Let ns know what yon think Today’s polls, and where to vote: Are referees too liberal with red cards? http://eveball.asial.com.sg/ Eveball/Sports Would you give up your paid Internet access service for a free service? http://eyeball.asial.com.sg/ Eyeball/Tech URLs Roadmap to the Internet, from stories in the newspaper: Fajar Secondary School, this
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