Project Eyeball, 18 December 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Monday, December 18, 2000 80 CENTS
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      489 1 START’EM YOUNG Our young scribes want art in their lives earlier, rather than later. Art may not build skyscrapers, but it teaches what life is about. See Pages 12-13 Catherine Lim, the elegant doyenne of Singapore fiction, continues to fight against the victimisation of women in the real and literary
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      203 2 THEIR Yorkshire Bank account was closed because the bank said it was32p (550.82) overdrawn. But members of an antique rifle society called The Cock, Ball, Nipple and Touchhole Club are riled. They think their account was shut down because of their naughty name. For your information, cock, ball, nipple
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      42 2 Inuka, a polar bear born and bred in Singapore, celebrated his ioth birthday at the Singapore Zoological Gardens yesterday. As a birthday treat, the 450-kg juvenile was given two huge ice sculptures filled with fruits and salmon. The Straits Times
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      252 2 Ranked near bottom of new index SINGAPORE may be an economic power house, but when it comes to Mother Nature, a new environmental performance index has ranked the Republic near the bottom ninth worst among 158 countries, according to a report in a special edition of
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Unemployment to fall further
        110 2 GOOD news for those looking to change jobs next year. After reporting lower jobless figures for September, the Government expects the unemployment rate to fall further in 2001. Yet, Manpower Minister Lee Boon Yang, speaking at a community function at Jalan Besar GRC, warned that the
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        Lock icon Face-lift for Upper Changi food centre
        164 2 IT’S a breath of fresh air, literally. Tenants and customers of the Block 207 food centre on New Upper Changi Road listed ventilation as a main advantage of the newly renovated building, which was officially opened by Speaker of Parliament Tan Soo Khoon yesterday.
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        120 2 SOME 573 families received an early Hari Raya cash present yesterday from the Tabung Amal Aidilfitri (TAA) financial grant. This latest payout concludes the charitable organisation’s major assistance programme to 2,177 families. Set up in 1992, the annual charity drive is held during Ramadan to raise
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        Lock icon Needy students get refurbished PCs
        107 2 INFORMATION technology shouldn’t be limited to those who can afford it. So 20 needy students received refurbished personal computers yesterday from the Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAC). The self-help group launched the PC Reuse Scheme in August in collaboration with volunteer group Enable2ooo. The PCs
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      283 3 psar Rescue workers began damage assessment, following Alabama’s worst tornado in 70 years, in which 10 people died and dozens were injured. VATICAN CITY Police fired tear gas on protesters outside St Peter’s Square after Pope John Paul II held a widely criticised meeting with an Joerg Haider,
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      237 3 New Secretary of State warns US foes Wires CRAWFORD (Texas) Retired Artny Gen Colin L Powell, told American foes that “we Will meet them, we will match them, we will contend with them”, and accepted President-elect Ceorge W Bush’s nomination yesterday to be the nation’s 65th
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      Lock icon A little miracle
      50 3 An unidentified girl being carried by a rescuer after a tornado ripped through her mobile home on Saturday in Alabama. The child was awake and talking when she was found among the rubble. The tornado killed to people and injured over 30 others in the US. AP
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      Lock icon Rupiah trade irks Gus Dur
      118 3 Reuters BANGKOK Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, also known as Gus Dur, said he had spoken to Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew about stopping commercial banks in the island state speculating in the beleaguered rupiah. But Lee told him the central bank had no authority
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Fighting the PAP for cyber-turf
        1507 4  -  But top priority for opposition parties still walk-abouts, dialogue with residents By Sue-Ann Chia AND G Sivakkumaran sueann@sph.com.sg gsiva@sph.com.sg THE National Solidarity Party (NSP) usually relies on its newsletter, which comes out every quarter, to publicise its political efforts among the voting population. But until
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      Lock icon Parties’game plan for Generation Met
      787 5  -  Bong Fortin/Mik Zarzuela What the five major political parties of Singapore have up their sleeves to win young, cyber-savvy Singaporeans over to their causes. Young PAP (www.youngpap.org.sg) YP chairman Lim said the YP21 website will be used to instill a greater political awareness among members.
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    • Singapore
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        839 6  -  SilkAir crash victims’ families want more answers By Leong Pik Yin pikyin@sph.com.sg THE same evidence, but starkly contrasting conclusions. It’s no wonder the families of those who died in the Silk Air MIIBS crash, who attended the third anniversary service at the Choa Chu Kang memorial
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        438 6  -  SOSAD WEBSITE By Thao Hua thaoth@sph.com.sg IT’S A little-known website tucked away in a corner of cyberspace. But it has brought together many of the friends and relatives of the victims of the tragic SQOO6 and Silk Air MIIBS disasters. Created by a family member
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    • I The World
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        987 7 Lawyer who spread girlfriend’s message could lose job LONDON When 26-year-old British public relations executive Claire Swire tapped out a saucy compliment to her boyfriend, who worked just across the city, she had no inkling that her e-mail would be read by an estimated 10 million
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        Lock icon 52% say boyfriend should be fired
        355 7 INTERNET POLL LONDON Internet enthusiasts went to the “polls” yesterday to decide if Bradley Chait, Britain’s newest and bluest cad, should keep his job after betraying his girlfriend’s intimate thoughts. Early results indicated a relatively close ballot. Visitors to http://www.drink.to /yum -a website set
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        794 9 Website sparks e-mail campaign to snatch the presidency from Bush WASHINGTON Members of the US Electoral College, who will today vote in state capitals for the new US president, have been targeted in a massive e-mail campaign to break ranks and vote for Al Gore. Under the
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        Lock icon One call equals two golf strokes
        372 9 CELLPHONE BAN SYDNEY Mobile: a doublebogey word on the golf course. There can be no mulligan for using your mobile. A golf club in Australia has asked players to penalise themselves if their mobile phone rings on the course. The club has told golfers
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        37 10 This spectacular Hubble Space Telescope close-up shows a view of an aurora that’s glowing eerily on Jupiter. Auroras are curtains of light caused by electrons racing along the planet’s magnetic field into the atmosphere. AFP
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        521 10  -  SCV already has 99 per cent of Singapore wired By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg JUST how many things can one cable do? Singapore Cable Vision’s cable network is not only used to carry cable TV shows, it also pipes regular channels like 5, 8
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        Lock icon Making full use of that cable modem
        312 10  -  FIVE HOURS A DAY Andrew Chin IT SEEMS that Singaporeans are avid cable modem users. A survey by Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) shows that each subscriber household uses an average of 150 hours a month, or a mindboggling five hours a day. According
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        Lock icon 7 deadly sins come to life
        455 11 Bloomberg spends $2.56m on party LONDON Want to party with your colleagues on a 7-m-wide bed in a lust room? What about stuffing your bosses’ faces with truffles in a roomful of gluttony? If “Yes, yes, yes!” is your answer, then take a leaf
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        Lock icon Car rights
        38 11 The Zhonghua (China) sedan on display at the Gold-Cup Auto-Making Company in Shenyang, capital of north-east China’s Liaoning province, on Saturday. This car is the first that China owns the complete intellectual property rights to. AP
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        Lock icon Banks, small tech stocks look to Fed meeting for a sign
        429 11 WAITING FOR GREENSPAN Reuters ONCE again, the local market is holding its breath waiting to hear what Alan Greenspan has to say. Analysts say banks and smaller technology stocks here could find support this week from takeover speculation and
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        119 11  -  Nicholas Yong ONLY technical chart gurus will want to visit this site. StocksPickAsia applies computerised methods to scan Asian stock markets, such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia and throw up a daily stock-pick list based on “alpha”. What’s a stock’s alpha? According to
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      • Generation NEXT
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          Lock icon Arts: Let’s start the ball rolling
          690 12  -  By Jeannette Lim Shu-shan teens@eyeball.com.sg Teens in the Marine Parade constituency will join in a series of forums in March to talk about the arts, community involvement, the green movement, and the digital divide. Called Community Expression@Marine Parade, the event is aimed at getting
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        Lock icon It doesn’t have to be elitist and boring
        251 12 ‘Arts to the heartlanders’ (Web, Dec 15) IT’S time to develop the arts if we’re to have a vibrant world-class city, says our teen columnist Jeannette Lim. Eyeball readers respond to her views: WORLD-CLASS ACTS WHAT I’d like to see is more
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        Lock icon Making theatre relevant – start ’em young
        405 13  - Making theatre relevant start ’em young By Fayen Wong teens@eyeball.com.sg IT’S difficult to draw a person into theatre after years of estrangement, especially when it is seen as an exclusive art form. For a start, theatre is often v iewed as pretentious, presenting s imple events in incomprehensible fashion. Take
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      • Wry TECH
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          489 13  -  By John Lui johnlui@sph.com.sg I’LL bet the people in charge of promoting IT here were both pleased and horrified to read that bookies are using handheld computers Singapore is an intelligent island! Our crooks aren’t too shabby either! Nobody should be surprised by this. Anyone who’s
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        Lock icon TO TRUST OR NOT TO TRUST
        84 13 DO YOU trust local websites to respect your privacy when you register with them? 22% Yes, I give them the genuine article because I trust them. 22% It depends on the size of the company: The bigger the firm, the more likely I am
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      50 2 Departments: Enquiries 730-5800 eyenews@sph.com.sg Local News 730-5806 local@eyeball.com.sg Foreign News 730-5461 world@eyeball.com.sg Business News 730-5461 biz@eyeball.com.sg Eye Sport 730-5833 sports@eyeball.com.sg Unwind 730-5844 leisu.re@eyeball.com.sg Tech 730-5817 tech@eyeball.com.sg Online Edition 730-5811 Archives 730-5726 stlib@cyberway.com.sg Subscripdon hodine 749-2577 Fax 746-1925 Snail Mail Project Eyeball News Centre, Level 6 82, Genting Lane Singapore *****7
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      24 2 (food morning! Showers in the late afternoon and early evening over most areas High: 31C I Low: 24C Tides: 5.11AM/2.6M 4.15PM/2.7M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      45 4 Would you visit an opposition party website to find out more about them? Yes No Do you think that the opposition parties would be able to reach out to more Singaporeans and sway them over to their cause? Why? Tell us your answer at http://eyeball-asial.com.sg-
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      32 6 What do you think of the report? Tell us at http^/eyeforam. asiaLconusg Other sites to post messages about SQOO6 and MI185: http:// www.pprune.org/ übb/NonCGI/Foruml/ HTML/*****0-4.html http://www.airsafetv forum.com/ cgi-bin/ forum.cgi http://www.airsafety online.com/chat/ index.cgi
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      71 7 X Do you even care who Claire Swire is? Some websites which do: http:/ /www.fortunecitv.co. uk/safaripark/ porton/81/ Claire Swire.html A tribute to Swire, where they are also running a poll on whether Chait should be fired. http:// www.thisislondon. co.uk/dynamic/news/ top story.html? in review text id=*****6 How another Claire Swire, who
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      44 8 There's always something in our Home pages for you to chew o Edited by Warren Ferrybnde who does not let go once he sink his teeth into exciting news. In one of our five handy sections. *> SUP "sb MvStraitsTiines Call 388 3838 for subscription
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      52 9 For more on the post-election scenario, visit these sites: http://www.cnn.com/ interactive/allpolitics/ 0012/electors/frameset. exclude.html FAQs on the American electoral college. http://www.time.com/ time/nation/ article/ 0.8599.*****.00html Is Bush really Mr Unifier? http:// www. Washington post.com/wp-dvn/ articles/a!*****000decl6.html Bush, a baseball fan, shouldn’t savour his extra innings victory for too long because he’s unpopular in
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      39 10 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF TOE INTERNET 11-23 YOU'RB KifPVIUGI VOES IT WORK? H£y, GUYG. SO Me OF My OAUJUI-ATIOMS ARE OFF... BUT p fit. GBT THBRB /sort of. IT'S STIU. Vsuooy. OUST ©IVg MS TIME. Luoy HI T, ci ©SWZ3
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      89 11 http://www.thesun.co.uk A woman’s guide to spotting usually inoffensive men who mutate into creeps at year-end parties, such as: Mistletoe Mike That mild-mannered colleague who suddenly reveals fetishistic behaviour after two glasses of Buck’s Fizz. Gadget Gary He’s the guy who will offer you a ride home on his micro-scooter. Spotty
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      351 14 3 What a wonderful gift we have received- Kishen words can never describe the state we were in upon receiving the gift from you, Lord. Thank you! Durairajoo T. ifß. Sudha When we gaze into your lovely eyes, Nothing in this world is more precious than you, Along with your
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      271 15 Hi, I'm Syarifah Syahirah I was bom on 24 May 2000. Come see me amuse my sister Syafiqah by balancing my drools! Alt irSaira Thank the Lord for this little smiley face and would like to share this joy with family andfriends. Alain Sharon 9 Thank You, God, for such
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Houllier eyes Keane
        100 16 LIVERPOOL manager Gerard Houllier is looking at Inter Milan misfit Robbie Keane as a long-term option for the club, and if he does land the Irishman, Michael Owen or Robbie Fowler could find themselves on the chopping block, according to soccernet.com. While Fowler, who has struggled with
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        Lock icon James lashes out
        94 16 ASTON Villa goalkeeper David James, 30, shocked fans last week when he revealed his disappointment with the team management for not releasing the money needed to attract top players to the club. He added that manager John Gregory was unable to lift the team to the next
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        Lock icon Sugar to sell stake
        56 16 IT’LL be a Christmas to remember for Tottenham Hotspur fans this year. According to reports, club chairman Alan Sugar is to sell his 40 per cent stake in the club. Sugar, a computer magnate, has been under fire for failing to provide the finances to attract
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        71 17 BUENOS AIRES-At least six people were injured by rubber bullets and one person was stabbed after Argentine police broke up a riot during a first division soccer match on Saturday. The trouble started after supporters of Racing Club, disappointed by their team’s 2-0 deficit with just five minutes
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        Lock icon Unlucky again
        83 17 AP BANGALORE It didn’t prove to be third-time lucky for home favourites Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, as they went down to the fifth-seeded pair of Don Johnson and Piet Norval Paes (left) and Bhupathi, playing their third final in four years, again ended as runners-up. 7-6,6-3,6-4 in
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      Lock icon Liverpool stuns United
      570 16  -  Shot in arm for Reds despite off-colour Owen By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg IT TOOK Liverpool 94 minutes to finally close the chapter on Manchester United’s two-year unbeaten record at Old Trafford. While the Reds’ TO win over their arch-rivals was hardly accomplished in a convincing fashion, Danny
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      62 17 “IF I had more time I might ask Kobe (Bryant) about his game, about his mental makeup of the game. He’s a 22 year-old kid... You don’t know what’s going on in a kid’s mind out there.” Phil Jackson, commenting on Bryant’s poor performance against the
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      497 17 Pippen backs Jordan’s claim AP CHICAGO Scottie Pippen feels former teammate Michael Jordan hit the nail on the head when he said last week that it would have been eight championships for the Chicago Bulls if the management had had the foresight to keep the team together. Jordan,
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        Lock icon Barrichello wants to be champ too
        544 17  -  By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg RUBENS BARRICHELLO will be turning the heat on teammate Michael Schumacher when the season flags off next year. Barrichello said that he is determined not to play second fiddle to the current world champion. The pint-sized Brazilian also added that
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon The doctors are in
      1013 18 The exhausted lifesavers of ER, Chicago Hope and Third Watch may be emotional wrecks, but these resuscitated medical dramas seem healthier than ever. JEANMARIE TAN (leanm@sph.com.sg) finds out whether such television remedies are just what the QP ordered. CALL it a medic alert. Doctors and paramedics
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        Lock icon PROGNOSIS: HIGHLY ADDICTIVE
        409 19 A COVEN of well-endowed witches and a courtroom of loud-mouthed lawyers have already infected the small screen. Now, the medical-drama epidemic has struck. With ER, Chicago Hope and Third Watch already on the table, would any other doctor programme be DOA? Eyeball sifts through the panacea and
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      • TV TATTLE
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          75 20 SARAH Jessica Parker may play a saucy journalist in HBO’s Sex And The City, but when it comes to real life, she’s quite modest. In her new movie, State And Main, Mrs Matthew Broderick refuses to bare her breasts. In fact, she always carries a no-birthday suit clause
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          Lock icon Malcolm the Movie
          68 20 FOX’S popular comedy, Malcolm In The Middle, may be about a small fry and his suburban family, but the show is about to be super-sized. Get ready for Malcolm the movie! Although no deals are in place, a production rep said it’s likely that Malcolm’s stars will
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          62 20 ELLEN DeGeneres, perhaps the world’s most famous lesbian, will make a February sweeps appearance on NBC’s Emmy-winning gay farce Will Grace. The actress and comedienne, who made history in 1997 when her TV character on Ellen came out of the closet, will play a nun in the episode.
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          93 20  -  Siti Hadijah MANY a detractor has predicted that Spin City will do a belly flop upon the departure of Michael J Fox, who is afflicted with Parkinson’s disease. Surprise, surprise. The ratings have actually improved since reformed bad boy Charlie Sheen took over. Jeffrey Katzenberg, one of the
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      • Eyeballing Television
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          Lock icon A TV Christmas
          727 20 Even though swaying palms and gs-degree heat dominate our December, we are bombarded by the archetypal accoutrements of Christmas. JEANMARIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) hazards that its essence may be gleaned from a most unexpected source: television. ISCLAIMER: Tis the season for more cheers than jeers in TV-land. So
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    • Books
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        725 22 Four local authors ponder the meaning of Christmas in a special Eyeball series. This week, FELIX CHEONG (pedas@eyeball.com.sg) tells the tale of an insomniac grappling with his identity on Christmas Eve. TONIGHT, everything looks brighter, sweeter, clearer. When nothing matters and nothing distracts, you part the crowd like a
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        517 23 READING Catherine Lim’s new e-novella, the words Charles Dickens kept popping up in my head. For the simple fact that Dickens used to publish his novels in daily instalments in newspapers. This made for a cliffhanger ending after each episodes to whet appetites. In
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        660 23 Singaporean storyteller Catherine Lim, known for her tales of women and superstition, has produced a new e-novella. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) talks to her about today's changing roles for women. R CATHERINE LIM’S voice has a warm lilt. The high-profile former linguistics academic turned full-time writer had been
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      • Book MARKS
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          185 24 THAT the Dyraocks Singapore Literature Prize this year went to Rex Shelley was no surprise. Shelley made his way to the stage to receive a cobalt-blue slab of pottery for A River Of Roses, a portrait of four generations of the Eurasian Rosario family. Cheesy jokes were the
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          Lock icon McEnroe’s memoirs
          97 24  -  Clara Chow TRUE to his temperamental nature, the ageing bad boy of tennis John McEnroe may decide to do a tell-all and come out with his autobiography after all. The tennis legend is reportedly in negotiations with publishers again. Attempts at sealing a publishing deal failed last year
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        Lock icon Fanning de Sade’s flames
        994 24 THE FAN-MAKER’S INQUISITION Rikki Ducornet (Ballantine) $28.84, Borders NCE in a while, you’ll encounter a book as fantastic as a griffin: with a head of a storyteller as sensible and tender as Scheherazade; a body of sensuous prose reminiscent of Oscar Wilde’s Salome; and a tail
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        340 24  -  Clara Chow THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING Milan Kundera (Faber) It’s about: Broad themes of love, sex and friendship are given deft strokes of colour by Czech writer Milan Kundera’s lyrical prose. Tomas falls in love with Teresa, who appears at his train station with a suitcase
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        914 25 MERRICK Anne Rice (Alfred A Knopf) $39.66 (hardcover), Borders PEW thoughts are more chilling than that of Anne Rice, out there somewhere, writing erotica under a pseudonym. Except, perhaps, that she has succeeded in conjuring so rich a culture involving wildly handsome blood-suckers. In the latest
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          140 26 ANG LEE’S Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has opened to such rave reviews and the incessant rings of cash registers at the box office in the US that its star, Chow Yun-Fat, has been asked to grace next February’s Golden Globes Award as a presenter. It won’t be his
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          58 26 RUMOURS are rife that 40-something Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia may be on the way to becoming a mother for a second time. Eagle-eyed reporters in Hong Kong spotted a slightly pudgy Lin having tea with friends. And what gave it away was that she was seen caressing her
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          63 26 LOUIS Koo never forgets kindness. The hot-shot Hong Kong actor may have parted ways with long-time girlfriend, actress Wong Yi Ying. But reports have it that he’s still paying her rent and the bill for her supplementary credit card. It seems it’s his way of repaying her for
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          Lock icon One night stands
          79 26  -  Tan Dawn Wei SHE may tout a squeaky clean lifestyle, but Taiwanese Heavenly Queen A-Mei definitely didn’t seem too averse to the idea of one-night stands, when reporters asked her. “There are the spiritual one-night stands and the physical one-night stands,” she said. “Spiritual ones can happen
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        535 26 Wild child Karen Mok talks to TAN DAWN wait (dawntan@sph.com.sg) about hot kisses, bared butts and exposed thighs. EXY on stage, S sedate off it. Karen Mok’s overpowering persona of the wild child, the dare-devil, the seductive sparkler has found a permanent place in the memory of many
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        Lock icon Coco reduces fans to tears
        347 26  -  By Clara Chow clarac@sph.com.sg FROM the moment Coco Lee appeared on stage in last Friday’s concert at Suntec City, she shimmied expertly, earning undying respect for her pelvic gyrations. We counted no less than seven costume changes including those sleight-of-hands, when she ripped velcroed skirts
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      49 20 SHOWS AT A GLANCE Ally Mcßeal: Dec 20,9 pm Blackadder’s Christmas Carol: Dec 22,9 pm The Simpsons: Dec 24,7 pm 3rd Rock From The Sun: Dec 24,7.30 pm Charlotte Church special: Dec 25,4 pm That 70s Show: Dec 25,8 pm Dharma Greg: Dec 25,9 pm Frasier: Dec 25,9.30 pm
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      176 21 m Baby Bonus Get a chance to have a free birth announcement ad and win $5OO worth of prizes I Simply send us a non-returnable photograph of your baby (below I year old) and a birth announcement message of not more than 30 words. Selected entries will be published for
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      424 27 From the world of sports “This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria...! saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing.” Pat Glenn, weightlifting commentator “This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.” Ted Walsh, horse-racing commentator “He’s pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling
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      539 27 9 x S- i.,:. «■>-■■■ W- A heartbroken Kelso writes a song for Jackie, with predictable results, in That 70s Show. bomb in the area, some aliens arrive to gain control of it. Needless to say, there’s a healthy dose of action and suspense. Bulworth 9 pm Star Movies 58
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      201 28 Minister’s giving Madonna Ritchie toliet rolls as gift THE minister who is to marry Madonna and Guy Ritchie is to give the couple a twin pack of toilet rolls. The Rev Susan Rrown said it was a symbolic gift she liked to give to all couples she married. The toilet
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      169 28 TWO burglars who tried to ransack the Rome hotel room where Cameron Diaz (below) was staying got more than they bargained for. Diaz walked in just as the crooks were about to make off with two leather jackets and a laptop. But instead of resorting to
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      194 28 SINGER Jennifer Lopez (above) has notched up the craziest demands in the history of Top Of The Pops. She shocked BBC staff with her list of requirements before miming two songs for seven minutes. At a shoot for a January edition of
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        114 28 LOVESTRUCK British television presenter Chris Evans has given Billie Piper (below) a £105,000 (*****,000) Ferrari after a three-day romance. He decorated the silver 360 Modena with balloons and roses, drove it to Piper’s West London flat to surprise her then found out she
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        105 28 Wires ALLY Mcßeal star Calista Flockhart is recovering from dehydration and exhaustion after fainting on the show set. Her publicist has said her thin physique had nothing to do with her collapse. “It was dehydration and exhaustion one thing had nothing to do with the other,” said Mciiiißa Kates...Anne
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