Project Eyeball, 6 October 2000

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    • 165 1 Hot LINKS Overcoming separation can be an adventure Khoo Swee Chiow climbs mountains. His wife, Tok Wee Leng, is an avid Eco-Challenge participant. They’re often separated by thousands of kilometres and other challenges, but these adventurers have found away to make marriage work. See Page 4 Do you scream for
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    • 273 1 -tfj /»■> H ri Dominic Ong Brigitte Ow (left) and Cheryl Cordiero are two of the pageant contestants now complaining. Now women complain FINE IN SINGAPORE... For once, Singaporeans managed to avoid complaining about something. And it was probably something they should have bitched about— Indian-born New Zealandbased academic Dr
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  • News & Views
    • 176 2 A BRITISH government job scheme for the unemployed is helping a 24-year-old woman train to be... a Britney Spears impersonator. Debbie Lancaster has received study packs and backing CDs through the “New Deal” programme, and is even hoping to get a sound system and the teen pop queen’s trademark
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    • 826 2  -  Pageant winners air grievances in wake of Manhunt accusations By Serene Goh sereneg@sph.com.sg THE men have come forward with their accusations. Now the women are going public with their allegations. After reading complaints of sexual impropriety and mistreatment made by several Manhunt International 2000 contestants in Eyeball yesterday,
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    • Ground ZERO
      • 831 3  -  It’s human nature, say some; it’s a bad habit, say others By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg DO SINGAPOREANS complain too much? Of course they do, declared India-born New Zealand-based academic Dr Raj Vasil. You are, he said, “a nation of moaners”. And surprise, surprise, instead of bemoaning
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    • 858 4  -  Separation part of life for adventurers By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg BETWEEN the two of them, they have conquered several mountains and won adventure-sport titles. Every now and then, they conquer separation, too, to keep their marriage a success. Even now, mountaineer Khoo Swee Chiow is off climbing
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    • 456 5 HANGING OUT mohamed sultan WHEN it comes to music and drinks, there’s no such thing as too many. Witness the mushrooming of ORCHARD LEND us your ears if you are a hardcore lifestyle shopper: Home couture is no longer that haute! Taking the place of crystal
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    • 43 6 Palestinians flinging Molotov cocktails and stones at Israeli policemen near Arab East Jerusalem yesterday. It was the seventh successive day of violence in the West Bank and Qaza Strip. At least 58 people have been killed in street battles. Reuters
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    • 727 6  -  Lawyers and other professionals may soon have to attend upgrading courses By G Sivakkumaran gsiva@sph.com.sg PROFESSIONALS like lawyers and insurance agents may have to go back to the classroom to keep their licences intact. Soon enough. Right now, the Law Society is “looking into implementing
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    • 74 8 Mr Jamal hin Ramli, 40, an assistant operations manager at a cleaning service company, applying an anti-bacterial treatment for hand, foot and mouth disease at a PAP Kindergarten at Blk 335, Serangoon Ave 3 yesterday. Due to the outbreak of hand, mouth and
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    • 254 8 Tg Pagar residents to hold trial district meeting RESIDENTS of Tanjong Pagar are getting together tomorrow to talk about what they can do for their community. And among the 300 faces attending Singapore’s,, first trial district meeting will be a Caucasian one. Samuel Coflesh, a
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    • Local LOG
      • 157 8 THE owner of a flowerpot which fell and killed a girl in April will plead guilty on Nov 16, yesterday’s pre-trial conference on the case concluded. Annie Lim, 59, allegedly placed flowerpots on the balcony ledge of her 22nd-floor flat at Block 54, Kent
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      • 149 8 ROBUST, if not record full-year profits. That is what Singapore Press Holdings is expected to announce after the stock market closes this evening, say analysts. According to Barra Global Estimates, the media group ought to see profits of more than $4OO million for the year ended
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      • 129 8 LEE Fong Seng, principal of Raffles Junior College, retires this year after 13 years at the helm of Singapore’s top junior college. RJC staff will give him a send-off today. Under his leadership, the college recently scored No 1 (again) in the annual JC rankings
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      • 72 8 HELP is on the way for lower income families whose children have been hospitalised for hand, foot and mouth disease. Singapore’s largest insurer, American International Assurance (AIA), is offering $20,000 to help subsidise the medical expenses of families with a monthly household income of less than $2,000.
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      • 133 8 PIRATES with pistols and knives attacked an Indonesian-registered cargo ship off Singapore on Sunday, tying up and gagging the crew before making off with cash and valuables. The gang of 21 also tried to hijack the ship, but it was unable to move as the
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    • 383 10 Worker was fired for having a stud on her tongue Reuters LOS ANGELES No need to be tongue-tied at work any longer, even if you sport a stud on your tongue. Mary Haudenshield, 29, found this out after she hauled her employer, Oakwood Worldwide -a US
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    • 551 10 PROTOTYPE DEBACLE AP NEW YORK Nasa has spent four years and about US$l billion (551.74 billion) developing a replacement for the space shuttle, with nothing to show for it but a half-built prototype sitting in a California hangar. The X-33 spacecraft was supposed
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    • 210 11 Gas Dur reminds military of its duty Wires JAKARTA Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid marked Indonesia’s 55th armed forced day yesterday by reminding the country’s military that its duty is to serve the nation, not its power holders. “All this time the TNI has
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    • World WIDE
      • 90 11 Reuters COPENHAGEN A Danish clinic which treats people suffering from gambling and Internet addiction has begun helping mobile phone Short Message Services (SMS) addicts. One of the clinic’s first such patients was a 25-year-old chauffeur who spent several hours per day e-chatting. He sent an average
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      • 110 11 AP KUALA LUMPUR Government officials in Malacca are hoping to fire a high school teacher who allegedly insulted Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad in front of his students. Mohamed Ali Rustam, the state’s chief minister, urged the education ministry to investigate the 52-year-old teacher
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      • 104 11 AP CAGAYAN DE ORO More than 600 Muslim rebels surrendered yesterday before Philippine President Joseph Estrada, who urged other rebels to resume peace talks with the government. Estrada stood on a grandstand as the 609 former members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front,
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      • 71 11 AFP JAKARTA Prosecutors yesterday lodged an appeal against the dismissal of the multi-million dollar corruption case brought against former President Suharto. The appeal was submitted to the South Jakarta district court by the chief prosecutor Muchtar Arifin. Suharto will be given two weeks to counter appeal.
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    • 209 13 AFP SUZUKA These days you can buy almost anything in an online auction even a complete Formula One race car, minus the engine, though. For the first time, motor-racing fanatics will get a chance to buy the Prost APO 3, driven by
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    • Article, Illustration
      103 13 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active l-i VOLUME CENTS 1'. City 2k HK$ 26,934,000 4.4 l|: I ii PacCent 23,399,000 173.0 i NOL 9,019,000 163.0 f Top 3 Gainers 1 CENTS i I DBS 2040 60 3.0 j SIA200 1710 40 2.4 OCBC 1160 30 2.7 Total number
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    • 511 13  -  But only in the short term, say analysts. Tech sector still good for long run By Francis Kan francisk@sph.com.sg IF YOU are looking for a piece of quick action, get a piece of property. Better still, get a property stock. If analysts are to be believed, property
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    • 153 13  -  Francis Kan uobgroup.com UOB, one of the Big Four local banks launched yesterday a dedicated online banking portal as part of its “Touch, Click and Mortar” strategy, which combines physical branches, ATMs and the Internet. The site is actually a revamp of UOB’s existing website,
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    • 933 15 You gotta know when to hold ’em. You gotta know when to fold ’em. Two CEOs of big Net firms share insights into when to exit gracefully, and when to keep on keeping on. And two Singaporeans tell how they got dotburned, yet kept their chins up.
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    • 374 15  -  Steven Ng EYEBALL had to call over two dozen people before we found four willing to speak. Two backed out at the last minute. The remaining two did it only if they stayed anonymous and money wasn’t mentioned. Being a dotcom burn-out is still a
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    • Tech FILES
      • 145 16 AP WASHINGTON US anti-smoking groups said on Wednesday they want RJ Reynolds Tobacco to stop test-marketing its experimental cigarette after an independent study found that Eclipse, touted as safer than ordinary cigarettes, posesses many of the same health risks. The company refused, saying its
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      • 127 16 AP MORGANTOWN (West Virginia) Scientists at the US National Energy Technology Laboratory are studying ways to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and lock it up so it can no longer contribute to global warming. Their ideas? Permanently store the greenhouse gas inside certain
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      • 158 16 AFP LOS ANGELES-A new observatory that will enable US scientists to observe the details of stars with unprecedented clarity was dedicated on Wednesday, the US National Science Foundation has announced. The observatory’s six telescopes will enable scientists to view details 200 times finer than is
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      • 121 16 NYT GLENAYRE and Novatel have both announced Springboard modules for Handspring Visor PDAs that allow a user to be connected with e-mailund information from the Web all the time. Springboard modules are small devices that can be added to Visor PDAs to add extra
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      • 120 16 AP SPRINGFIELD (Massachusetts) Lingering radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear accident makes wheat plants in the area around the Ukrainian power complex mutate much faster than expected, researchers say. Their study hints that radiation, including the sun’s ultraviolet rays penetrating Earth’s depleted ozone layer, may push crops
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    • 445 16 Launch of first manned spacecraft planned soon Ap BEIJING China’s budding space programme plans to explore the moon for commercially useful resources. And it hopes one day to take part in an international expedition to Mars, members of the secretive programme said on
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    • Eyeball SAYS
      • 571 18 IT’S too bad that an “international” event held in Singapore isn’t always of “international” standard. So that its “international” participants have to go home with some unflattering accounts of this country, which wants to bill itself as an international convention centre. We’re referring, of course, to
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    • 392 18 ‘MPs meeting the people online possible, but shouldn’t replace iace-to-face sessions’ (Oct 5) BE GENUINE ONLINE THERE are many reasons why meeting the MPs online increases accountability of the MP. The obvious reason is that constituents can log onto the website at any time
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    • 1691 20  -  By Denyse Yeo denyse@sph.com.sg By Ven Subramanian venka t@sph. com.sg By John Lui johnlui@sph.com.sg May our whining tribe increase SO PEOPLE say we’re a bunch of boring moaners, gripers and complainers. So what? I say it’s our God-given right as spoilt Singaporeans born into a
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      166 20 IF YOU think Singaporeans moan too much, you are not alone. In fact, you are in elite company. Dr Raj Vasil, a New Zealand-based political scientist who has taught Southeast Asian politics for the past 45 years, thinks so too. He should know what he’s talking about. He’s
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 28 2 (food morning! Partly cloudy. Showers with thunder in the afternoon mainly over northern, eastern and western Singapore. High: 31C I Low: 24C Tides: 5.30AM/2.0M 3.48PM/2.3M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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    • 208 19 YOUNG PARENTS OCTOBER 2000 555.00/RM6.50 n i miracle SE HOW YOLR BABY GROVES O r\ Mai aging the age vour m l a What \ou neeo to knew. Keisha Marie Cover Baby of the Year! 118 PRIZES IN GREAT GIVEAWAYS.,. PLUS! 'CHILDREN’S DAY TREAT FDR TOP 50 BASIES Your essential
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    • 206 21 b Jf mi ,||ljf Win a Free Trip (with Grandstand Seat) to the Malaysian FI Grand Prix this month! Misssed out on our recent Eyeball-Shell “Go Kart with Michael Schumacher” promotion? Fret not! Project Eyeball will be giving readers a chance to win an ALL-EXPENSES PAID TRIP* worth $2,500 (Grandstand
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  • EyeSport
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      591 23  -  Athletics chief says Susanthika Jayasinghe could be a huge asset By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg IT WILL be a big coup if Sri Lanka’s ace athlete Susanthika Jayasinghe ever represents the Republic in an international competition. Singapore Amateur Athletic Association president Loh Lin Kok said yesterday that having an
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    • 512 23  -  WORLD CUP QUALIFIER By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg GERMAN striker Carsten Jancker slammed Tony Adams’ return to England’s line-up for this weekend’s World Cup qualifier at Wembley, by saying “I’ll scrap him all the way. I have no fear of him”. Such audacity and disrespect! Does
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    • Sport IN SHORT
      • 115 24 AFP HONG KONG Britain’s top tennis player Tim Henman can take another step towards a possible end to his two-year title drought with a quarter-final victory today over Michael Chang at the U *****,000 (*****,500) Hong Kong Open. Henman, seeded second, will be playing the wildly popular Chinese-American
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      • 80 24  -  Xinhua SANTIAGO Chilean national team coach Nelson Acosta said that star forward Marcelo Salas is doubtful for a World Cup qualifying game against Ecuador on Sunday due to his recent injury, local reports said on Wednesday. “I hope that I can talk with Salas so I know if
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      • 89 24  -  Xinhua ABU DHABI South Korea had a sour start to its Asian Cup campaign as the country lost 4-3 to the United Arab Emirates in a penalty shoot-out on Wednesday at a four-nation friendly tournament in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The tournament serves as a
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      • 86 25 AFP MELBOURNE-Cathy Freeman was almost robbed of her place in Olympic history by a cold that confined her to bed in the lead-up to her 400 m race, the gold medal winner revealed yesterday. Freeman feared she might miss her race because of illness, which threatened to worsen
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      • 115 25 AFP CALIFORNIA Two-time defending World Series champions the New York Yankees finally snapped out of its losing slide on Wednesday to beat the Oakland Athletics 4-0 in the second game of its American League Division Series. The Yankees came into the game on an eight-game losing streak
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      • 55 25 Reuters SYDNEY-A member of Samoa’s Olympic team was granted bail yesterday after being charged with sexually assaulting a woman outside a Sydney bar. Heavyweight boxer Pauga Lalau, 25, was charged on Tuesday and ordered to appear again in court on Oct 19. He was detained at the
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    • 983 24  -  Foxes now lead the Premiership pack By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg LEICESTER City is not the most fashionable club in England, let alone around the world. But it sure is basking in the limelight at the moment, leading the Premiership for at least
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    • 200 25  -  John Crean IN ITS main summing up of the Olympics, the Sydney Morning Herald chose to deride others with sweeping, and stunning, generalisations: Seoul was great, but they had to “bus in schoolchildren” to fill stadiums. In Atlanta, “Americans only cheered for Americans”. During the
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    • 703 25  -  By John Crean eyesport@sph.com.sg THE sound of back-slapping has been deafening Down Under. Juan Antonio Samaranch said the two words all Australia was waiting for- the Sydney Olympics was the “best ever”. Never mind that Samaranch had hung the same gold medal around the necks of Seoul and
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    • Cheers & JEERS
      • 616 26  -  18-year-old Joe Cole receives his first England call-up By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg CHEERS JOE COLE SKILL and finesse get one into the limelight. And West Ham’s Joe Cole definitely has them as well as the confidence and brash to take him all the way to the top.
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    • Time OUT
      • 492 26  -  NEW YORK GIANTS GO DOWN By Gordon Forbes AT ALCORN State, Steve McNair made 400-yard games seem routine and almost every play an adventure in an anything-goes offence. Five years later, McNair is still playing the kind of instinctive football that was very
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  • Unwind
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      971 27 Imagine that John Lennon is alive. It’s easy if you try. TOH BEE PING (beeping@sph.com.sg) finds a legend who would have turned 60 on Monday immortalised by his wired-generation fans. JOHN Lennon lives. I know he does because I spoke with him two days ago. No, he wasn’t doing
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    • Music
      • 768 28 POP ROCK WARNING Green Day (Reprise) THE punk trio’s first release since 1997’s disappointing Nimrod sees the darlings of power pop wondering what to do next. After all, what is central to the nature of punk music is its very transience. Groups like Clash and the
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      • 205 28  -  Ronald Rajan CLOUDS Joni Mitchell (Reprise) HAVING previously worked as a model and having shown an early aptitude for the arts, Joni Mitchell entered Toronto’s Yorktown folk scene and started playing in coffee-bars. Discovered by the notorious David Crosby (of Crosby Stills and Nash fame)
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      • 669 29 R&B SOUL GREATEST HITS The Pretenders (Warner Music) ONE of the first ladies of rock, Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde soldiered on through the deaths of original members Pete Farndon and James Honeyman-Scott; she fashioned for herself a remarkable career in the process. Several familiar numbers pepper this
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      • 133 29  -  June Wan LEAN MEAN BOOGIE BY THE HOT BISCUIT BAND www.audioload.com Time: 3 min 22 sec THE opening, with its slow wandering whininess, envisions a Wim Wenders Paris, Texas, landscape. But this soon segues into a laidback country blues rock feast that has made the Hot
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      • Music NOTES
        • 66 29 METAL muthas are making their presence felt on screen. First, Kiss bassist Gene Simmons is producing a sitcom for VHI in the US called Smash, about a fallen rap star running a struggling record label. Next, Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson has scripted for a movie, The Chemical
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        • 90 29 RICKY Martin has turned to religion to help him cope with fame. He says a visit to India completely changed his outlook on life and that embracing Buddhism is the best thing he’s done in ages to help him cope with the pressures of stardom. “I
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        • 56 29 THE new Underworld album, to be released next year, will be “more rock n’ roll”, programmer Rick Smith revealed to Sonicnet. The band has started work on their new studio album, the follow-up to the acclaimed Beaucoup Fish. Smith also revealed that the band may play live in
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        • 65 29  -  June Wan THIS could be the gig of the year, if it does happen. Speculation is rife that Madonna is likely to play at the Brixton Academy in London next month, her first British gig in seven years, as part of a short world tour. It’s also
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    • Food
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        528 32 Still in the era of Walls and ice potong? How about trying Chubby Hubby and wasabi? ANGELICA TA3X(tanaw@sph.com.sg) takes you to a whole new world of ice cream. T SEEMS like only yesterday that Baskin Robbins came to town and painted our palates with its gamut of
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      • 196 32 WHEN you’re next tucking into a mound of chocolate ice cream, or a chilly bowl of ice kacang think about how long people have been eating the sweet concoction. The origins of ice cream dates way back to even before the invention of the refrigerator. It
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      • 295 33 When you get your hands on a frosty cone, do you bite in straight away, or give it a good long lick? How you eat your ice cream says a lot about you. BITE: You always have your will. Most of the time, you are
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      • 444 33 You may have missed the Qerman knees-up, but you can still celebrate Oktoberfest a litte closer to home, says ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg). OKTOBERFEST began on Oct 12, 1810, to celebrate the marriage of Germany’s Crown Prince Ludwig, later to become King Ludwig I, to Princess Therese
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      • Article, Illustration
        624 34 So you vo been searching for Philip Lee, the chef who once served up the finest of French cuisine at Les Amis? Stop hunting he now calls the shots at Savoir. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) tucks into his specialities. E’VE found him, W faithful gastronomic followers of Chef Philip
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      • Pick of the EATS
        • 73 34 FAMOUS heads of states, athletes and celebs Chef Carmelo Gulleta has cooked for them all. Now the celebrated chef comes to tease our tastebuds with his innovative Italian cooking at Grand Hyatt’s Pete Place. His culinary repertoire includes, among others, fine egg noodle in cream of scallop and
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        • 116 34 TURKS will be invading the Mandarin Singapore on Sunday. For the fourth year running, the hotel will be holding “A Turkish Affair” food and cultural extravaganza. There’ll be stunning dancers and musicians, a gold calligrapher and a carpet weaver. And to take care of hungry appetites are a
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        • 110 34 AT JOAQUIM Buffet Restaurant (at the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre), Vietnamese fare will be the highlights from now till Oct 11. Diners will be treated to dishes like marinated lotus stem salad with prawns, banana blossom salad with roasted duck and beef noodles, among many others.
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        • 85 34  -  Angelica Tan Yet Con Chicken Rice and Restaurant 25, Purvis Street Opens: 11 am to 9.30 pm daily Tel: 337 6819 REMNANTS of old world charm can still be found on the now modish Purvis Street. One of these is the antiquated Yet Con Chicken Rice, a modest
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    • 94 27 Give these Lennon places a chance The world pays tribute to John Lennon on his birth and death anniversaries. Read about these activities, and more facts and fictions on the legend at: http;//eyeball.asiaLcom.sg Then visit these sites: http:/Avww.triumphpc.com /john-lennon Artificial intelligence lets you chat with John, or a computer, eerily
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    • 37 29 Yes, heavy metal is alive in Singapore. Last Saturday, fans witnessed a show of strength from several homegrown acts at the Myx Metal Assault 2 concert. Log on to http://www.eyeball.asial.com.sg to read Eyeball’s review of the gig.
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  • Tube Talk
    • 229 35 THINGS you can’t say with a Hallmark: “Looking back over the years that we’ve been together, I can’t help but wonder: What the [bleep] was I thinking?” “Congratulations on your wedding day! Too bad no one likes your wife.” “How could two people as beautiful as you
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 409 35 Movies Ever After 3 pm Star Movies 58 A unique take on the Cinderella story. Danielle, a feisty beauty, has more than enough charm and allure to win over the heart of a prince. The obstacles in her way are her air-headed stepsisters and a conniving stepmother. Masterfully directed and
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  • The Back Page
    • 279 36 Wires MILAN— Actors Roberto De Niro and Sophia Loren and singer Phil Collins flew into Milan to catch Giorgio Armani’s spring/summer women’s 2001 collection, as well as to toast the opening of the designer’s superstore on Wednesday. The celebrity-studded audience the Duchess of York,
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    • Making HEADLINES
      • 128 36  -  Dominic Ong FIRST rule of thumb if you’re an usher at an event where VIPS are expected memorise the faces of the important guests. Or you’ll wind up like the poor soul at Goldman Sachs’ official opening at Raffles Link, who’s probably looking for a deep hole
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      • 60 36 SINGER Mariah Carey (below) is to step into the corsets of comics’ sexiest superhero Wonder Woman. Mariah, who has insured her body for U 5511.25 million (5519.6 million), has been offered the part played in the 1970 s by Lynda Carter. Meanwhile, Mariah is almost ready
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