Weekend East, 2 May 1991

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  • 18 1 WEEKEND east YOUR WEEKLY FAMILY NEWSPAPER Thursday/Sunday, May 2, 1991 MCI (P) No. 210/10/90 V 01.6 No. 17
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  • 662 1  -  Tenants not happy with $1,000 each compensation By ELAINE TAN A DEVELOPER is planning to turn the former Ocean Food Centre and the adjacent row of old shophouses in Siglap into a high-rise block of offices and apartments. Hume Taipan International Pte
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  • 130 1 HOUSEWIFE Mrs Loren Benny, of Kampung Übi, can make a child’s birthday wish really come alive. And the best part is he or she gets to slurp it all up. Her theme cakes include Wonderland, which comes with a locomotive that moves, railway tracks, Sesame Street characters,
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 243 1 ujuv unn* Pet parrot put on trial: Page 8 -«T Nikon Holiday Special... See below. INSIDE r i Our What’s-Her-Line girl is on the Back Page FUNNYLINES and UVE LETTERS PAGE 6 Nikon HOLIDAY SPECIAL Slip the world's slimmest 3-way camera into your pocket before you leave home and bring
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  • Community news
    • 307 2  -  Complex says staff should stay within department store By LINCOLN TAN SHOPPERS at Parkway Parade Shopping Centre are not happy with the aggressive sales approach of a book club. The sales representatives. on a membership drive for the Bookworm Club privilege card, were also
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    • 134 2 FORTY Japanese trainee teachers were in in town last week to find out how child-care centres and kindergartens in Singapore operated. Aged between 17 and 18 years, they were from Musashi-No Junior College in Japan One of the child-care centres they visited
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 706 2 RENOVATION id? Trendy Fashion to make you the centre of attraction! (H W INTERNATIONAL (PTE) LTD 5000 F Marine Parade Road #Ol-26 Laguna ParkS (1544) Tel: *****68 H holesaler A Retailer of Ladies Fashion A Singapore Dress Business Hours: Mon Sat: Vum f>pm You Know What Is A Deluxe Car
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 188 3 s urya Speaks Of Her Weightlohh Experience From Trirriline Figure Control Centre... After the birth of my first baby, my weight went up to 68kg which was far too high for my height and frame size. I took up certain programmes at Trimline and just after 6 weeks I lost
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  • 186 4  -  OUR WHAT’S-HER-LINE GIRL: DID YOU GUESS RIGHT? By ALEX LIM BOBILIA keeps hundreds of people fit by making them move to the rhythm of music. Gasping in time to the beat of the music, with muscles stretching, they follow their full-time freelance aerobics instructress
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  • 360 4 What’s On COMMUNITY CLUBS Marine Parade (344-7577): Learn Chinese restaurant cooking in 12 sessions, starting on Saturday, from 3 to 5 pm. I Fee: $4B (non-mem-ber). $45 (member). Learn to speak basic Japanese in 12 sessions, starting on May 7, from 7.30 to 9.30 pm. Fee:
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 427 4 SPECIAL DESIGN FURNITURE MADE TO ORDER Buy/Sell Restore Antique Furniture Wholesale Retail Are Wehome Display Cabinet sm Carved Dragon Legs Table Coffee Shop Table Dressing Table Coffee Shop Chair *<* WING MEE FURNITURE/ No. 20, Lor. Singapore 1027.\ behind Mala> (Holland Village Tel: 468-9705,468-6512 layan Bankingr*" 5D Hong Kong Special
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 704 5 Newsman tiw«/U NEWSMAN GROUP 100 ORCHARD ROAD #O2-39 MERIDIEN SHOPPING CENTRE TEL: *****22 (20 lines) Branches: INTER TRAVEL 390, Victoria Street #Ol 38 Golden Landmark T«l: *****33 TA6I4 #BI-34 Parkway Parade Te1:*****90 SCAN TOURS VISTA HOLIDAYS 1 Coleman Street 165 Tanjong Pagar Road #BI -07 The Adelphi #O2-22 Amara Hotel
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  • 26 6 ONE FOR THE ALBUM... Lim Loo See (left), 26, took this picture with her sister Ching Szu, 17, in 1988. This contribution wins $3O.
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  • WEEKEND east FUNNYLINES
    • 103 6 I WENT with my three-year-old sister to McDonald’s. I ordered french fries and orange juice for her and we sat in a corner near a group of teenagers. My sister started eating the fries and asked me if I wanted some. I nodded. She told
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    • 58 6 ONE night, my parents and I went with my five-year-old sister to the NTIJC Fairprice Co-opera-tive supermarket to buy our groceries. My father said: “We have to buy rock sugar and toilet roll.” My little sister, who heard that, said: “What? Rock and roll!” We all
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  • Live Letters to The Editor
    • 100 6 BUS fares and the price of concession stamps increased last year because of the Gulf War. Now that it’s over, could the bus companies reduce their fares? Also, I take Bus Service No 10 home I usually reach the Tampines
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    • 52 6 LAST year, I went to India for a holiday. While walking through the streets of Madras, I passed by a coffee shop and saw a huge sign with these words: "Man wanted to make sweetmeats. People with diabetes and tooth disease only need to apply. OBSERVER,
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    • 26 6 I HOPE SBS will operate a bus service plying Geylang Road, Sims Avenue, Tanjong Katong Road and Marine Parade Road. HOPEFUL, Singapore 1334
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 463 6 11' h BEDOK CENTRE ELECTRICAL CO. SsJmm Blk 214 Bedok Town Centre #Ol-163 Tel: *****32/3 dD PIONEER S-D1 3-Way Speaker System in Aligned Tweeter Design Aligned Tweeter Design For precise some imaging 20cm cone woofer. 6 6cm cone tweeter and piezo supertweeter Round corner front baffle. For lower diffraction and
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    • 95 6 2 n m (li A' $2O for the best letter WRITE to WEEKENDaaaI it you hove a point to raiae. We will pay $2O for the best letter and $5 for any other letter published. The letters should be short and to the point Ideally, they should not exceed 150
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 361 7 FULLY GUARANTEED WEIGHT LOSS INCH LOSS PROGRAMMES Proper Nutritional counselling NO SIDE EFFECT Now, you can enjoy Beneficial Body Contouring at room temperature! Yes, no cold turkey wraps or uncomfortable thermal treatment which result in skin dehydration. Yet, you SAVE both money and time. Here's living proof that our weight
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  • Feature
    • 366 8  -  Neighbour claims Jokko’s jabbering upset his family By STEVE PLFAMANN National Enquirer A SQUAWK over a pet parrot recently triggered Norway’s strangest trial in years the bird was charged with contributing to a neighbour's heart attack “I’ll have your parrot killed if necessary,”
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    • 346 9  -  By PHIL DOURADO Na- tional Enquirer JAMES HARRIES runs a booming antique store and a successful flower shop that nets him about US$l,OOO (551,770) a week not bad j since he’s only 12 years old! The small business whiz oversees five adult employees, has
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  • 148 8 MEMBERS of Marine Parade Community Club will soon be able to spend the day reading at a mini-li-brary, dine in the open and sing the night away at the club’s karaoke lounge A spokeswoman for the People’s Association said that the club
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  • 90 8 AMATEUR bands will have a chance to show their talent at the Amateur Malay Pop Band Competition to be held later this month. The contest is organised by the Kampung Übi Community Centre and the People’s Association in conjunction with Malay Cultural Month Auditions will
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 45 8 t Article* printed in this issue of WEEKENDeast from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER are copyrighted O 1991 by National Enquirer, Inc, Lantana, Florida *****. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any manner and any language without the prior written permission of National Enquirer, Inc, is expressedly prohibited
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    • 17 8 PPSP Spot anything newsy neighbourhood? in your Call News Desk 740 our 1214 740 199 on or
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 314 9 "S* >1 PARKWAY HEALTH CENTRE No. 80. MARINE PARADE ROAD #0402 4TH STOREY, PARKWAY PARADE SINGAPORE 1544 TEL: 440-9090 440-9091 Come and relax in our newly renovated and cosy health centre. Let our young and charming masseuses ease away your tired muscles. s Business Mrs: 10.00 am -11.00 pm Services
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  • 218 10/11 THE once neglected western end of Sentosa has been turned recently into a beach paradise. Siloso beach, which was a deserted place with a few coconut trees, now has golden sands and swaying palm trees. Attractive ornamental and flowering trees plus more than 300
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  • Page 10/11 Advertisements
    • 331 10/11 Wk V&**' i«« s ■tatw %oo» W e 4 Cuts of U.S Grain-fed Chilled Beef Hand Selected Premium Quality Beef Vacuum- Sealed Deservingly Branded Gold Label Air-Flown A complete meal including Soup of the Day, a choice of the 4 favourite beef cuts with cither black pepper, sambal or v
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    • 107 10/11 m Catch the Cuatro Calientes at the Bugis Lounge Yes Singapore welcomes back the sizzling four piece band the Cuatro Calientes all the way from the Philippines The Bugis Lounge plays host to these professionals who will charm you with their repertoire of songs And they can smg in fourteen
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  • FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT SPECIAL FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT
    • 496 12  -  By ELAINE TAN IF YOU come from a family of chefs, what do you think you will eventually become? A chef, of course! That’s exactly what 38-year-old Mr Sae Sia Hang Khim did. He is the head chef at Siamese Fins Restaurant at Craig Road.
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    • 421 13  -  By CELINE TEO RECORDS and compact discs from independent recording companies are appealing to more Singaporeans. These smaller independent labels such as Charly, See-for-miles, Swinging Pig and Oh Boy carry titles that are often overlooked by the big five Warner Music, Electrical and Musical Industries (EMI),
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    • 387 14  -  By LINCOLN TAN IT’S boom time for food outlets in the East. Restaurants are reporting brisk business, having an increase of up to 30 per cent in sales. Restaurant managers and owners attribute it to the end of the Gulf War, and because people
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    • 416 15  -  By CELINE TEO PETITE but powerful that’s how you would describe Anne Marie Luayon and the voice she posseses. She is with the group The Selection, performing at The Mermaid, Sea View Hotel. Even though the stage in the lounge looked unsightly with exposed wires and power points,
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    • 101 15 ORDER mouth-wa-tering cakes and pastries for a special occasion or have a slice for tea. The selection of cakes, includes champagne torte, a cham-pagne-flavoured hazelnut sponge cake with milk chocolate garnish, and mango sour sop cake, with mango cream and sour sop puree, topped with fresh mangoes.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 373 12 Mother’s Day Set Menu Promotion at $lBB.OO for 10 persons Mun Hutng Cold Dish Shark's Fins with Crab Roe Barb eque Chicken with Plum Sauce St earned Sliced Pom/ret Fried Prau’n with Chilli Sauce White Cabhage Fried unh Mushrooms Ham Claypot Duck with Sea Cucumber Fried Hokkien Noodles Sweet Yam
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 78 13 ICHINAIOwJ AN EXTRA VALUE ADDED TO YOUR MEAL. FOR NOTHING. L Turcuna yPalace t From March 18 to May 31, we will be giving away one deluxe Poached Chicken* with ginseng added to every table of 4 or more diners. How’s that for value? ♦Not valid with dian xin orders
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    • 452 13 YOU CAN: Buy or sell a house/flat get a new job take up driving lessons sell your car look for car pools, etc... Read and advertise in our Classifieds! Call: *****52/ *****00 WEEKENDeast (former 00 sl* r r DI-TANJONG KATONG CAFE RESTAURANT Bfk 845 Geylang Road #Ol-02 Tamong Katong Complex
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 126 14 S 6, !C Lp •5 O e> ?rs <9 £s@Rr SIA Group Sports Club 24 Turnhouse Road Singapore 1750 —A TO OPEN pUBU c Jv.« For reservation: 5^2.1270 Managed by: Hung Su'd Catering Service Western Set Lunch Only 556.00 nett There trill be no Oriental food on every Monday Lunch
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous

  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 349 15 Seafood And Tobanyaki Restaurant At 1000 East Coast Park. Kukup Central Park Seafood W' e have renovated our premises to provide diners with a more comfortable setting in exclusive surroundings. Four new chefs are dishing out famous seafood offerings, from Chinese Sweet and Sour Fish. Drunken Prawns or Sharkfin's soup
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  • MOTHER & CHILD
    • 638 16  - Anne Harding teacher, friend, and confidante By ELAINE TAN PATRICK’S father was killed in an industrial accident. FIONA was a victim of child abuse. CHRISTOPHER lost his self-confidence when he met with an accident that disfigured his face. All three were emotionally crippled because of their personal mishaps. Had it
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    • 364 16 HELP your child to read and spell during his early years with a new educational tool. Former management consultant, Mr Yap Wee Meng of Changi Garden, took one-and-a-half years to research and develop the tool “Learn to read the phonetic way”. Learning to
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 322 16 If you have problems with your child, Mr* Anno Harding'* oddro** is: City of Sheffield Hospital and Homo Education Service, 16 Northumberland Road, Sheffield SlO 2TT, the United Kingdom. FACES DE BEAUTY CENTRE The Beauty Specialists for Tropical Skin Member of British Association of Beauty Therapy Faculty of Physiatrics London
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 732 18 Classified Ad Bank 3-a Child-Care Centres 8 Domestic Help Available 12-a Situations Vacant v* v 0 iV V V f I 4 INSFIELD SP PUtY 6 DCVfLOPMCMT COfTJtf V V /A Good Child Care Centre V Near Your Home OUR CENTRE PROVIDES Trained Experienced Staff > Exciting Stimulating Programmes >
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 1376 19 Classified Ad Bank 13 Education/Instruction PARKWAY EDUCATION MV specialise w Mathematics Please reserve a place for yourself now! Please register before 8 Mav 1991 NEW CLASSES Courses at affordable fees: Mathematics (Pri 1- Pri 6) $2O Mathematics (Syll D) (Sec 1- Sec 4) $25 Additional Mathematics (Sec 3 Sec 4)
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  • 234 20  -  By ELAINE TAN THE quiet elegance of simple styles spiced with dashes of the newest colours are some of spring's strongest points. Indispensible classics tailored for the working woman who splurges on lush fabrics in updated designs, Italian designer Paola Riboni’s Spring/Summer 1991 collection is a melange of
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 233 20 20 •v. S' U WEEKEi i WHA T’S HER LINE? Picture by ALEX LIM BOBILIA believes in helping others stay healthy and fit. What does she do? Is she... 1. A College of Physical Education lecturer? 2. A dietician with a hospital? 3. A student health-care officer? 4. An aerobics
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