Weekend East, 11 October 1996

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  • 18 1 WEEKEND east FREE WITH THE STRAITS TIMES EVERY FRIDAY W«tffc*073/10/95 Vol 11 No. 40 Friday, October 11, 1996
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 243 1 88 INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD iiJiti j'Jil j'Jf!i!/ iJUTSL THE BEST HOTEL IN GEYLANG IS NOW OPEN Week Day Rate $68 Weekday After Mid-Night Check-in Rate $50 Walk-in Rate fr. $25 12 Geytang Lorong 10 Singapore *****5 TEL: *****88 (10 LINES) FAX: *****88 YOUR WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ft i;/ j t/Mi (If
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  • NEWS
    • 258 2  -  By BALVINDER SANDHU THEY are the youths of today, but could very possibly be the players of tomorrow. The Tampines Rovers’ under-16 team is taking part in the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) Youth Tournament, and has done quite well, currently positioned at the middle
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    • 276 4  -  Ambulance: Patients must sign letter By ANDRE YEO AN AMBULANCE driver rushing a patient to a hospital’s A&E department drove him to an ATM first because the patient did not have enough money. The patient, Mr Gregory Tan, 31, of Pasir Ris
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    • 659 4 HENG-GREF Medical Supplies and Services provides 24-hour worldwide medical assistance services including evacuation and repatriation. It has a group of experienced doctors and staff nurses and also sell and rent out medical equipment such as oxygen cylinders. It has 16
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    • 269 5 NATIONAL ENQUIRER IT WAS everybody’s fantasy come true! Tanya Tokevich and her boyfriend were sitting in a bar in earfy July when a guy showed her a handful of rings. “It was obvious they were all fake,” said Tanya, a 21-year-old waitress from Vancouver,
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 80 2 MOTOGARD MOTOGARD SERVICE CEIMTRE PTE LTD Blk 9006, Tampines St. 93, #Ol -212, S’pore *****0 (off Tampines Ave 1— Behind SAFRA) Tel: 783 2332 Fax: 781 8702 100% FULLY SYNTHETIC OIL CAR SERVICING AT AM UNBEATABLE PRICE OF $69 1. ELF 100% synthetic oil 4 litres 2. Original eng. oil
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    • 114 2 GOOD NEWS!!! Revival of Fellowships of Businessmen, Professionals and Workers in The Market Place by The Happiest People On Earth ALL ARE WELCOME Coming Meeting: Monday, October 14,1996 7.30 p.m. Penthouse, 18th Storey Sea View Hotel (next to Cold Storage Katong) Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International (Singapore) 2 Finlay
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 335 3 Shop And Save Anytime Anyday NESLAC Growing Up Milk Powder Honey/Vanilla 2kg 18.50 Je low assist «KM JENTAL Low Lactose Low Fat Milk Powder Ikg 9.85 LADY GENERAL FuUcream Sweetened Condensed Milk 397 g 3 FOR 2.65 A JUffCEN CENEIt f f MILO BfAGGI Chilli Sauce 340 g 1.05 EACH
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 200 4 Eavesdropper If you have any story ideas or stories to share, call Andre at 740-2266 or Pearlin at 740-1212, or fax us at 745-1022. WEEKENT+ Published by Focus Publishing Ud A Subsidary of Singapore Press Holdings Ltd H J ATTENTION! BLKB2I TAMPINES ST. 81 #Ol-212 SINGAPORE *****1 TEL: *****13 OPENING
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    • 101 4 tflPPY PAlACf MAKE YOUR KIDS LOOK UKE KINGS QUEENS AT KIDDY PALACE!!! We have everything clothes, shoes, hats, socks, strollers, baby products, toys and much more! They won't want to leave the Palace! At Kiddy Palace, we'll make your kids feel like royalties! ■■■M BS m >\ MM KIDDY PALACE
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 100 5 —I ALTR N Certified Microsoft training with ALTRON. PART-TIME CLASSES* OTHER DATES ARE ALSO, AVAII ALTRON Certificates of Attendance are awarded to those with 75% attendance ALTRON Certificates of Attendance and Proficiency are awarded to those with 75% attendance and also pass the Proficiency Test. NETS ACCEPTEO/COURSES SUBJECT TO CHANCE
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    • 395 5 •O Award Undw WMm FumMUng (Singapore) Pte Ud PnnctisJ Dmtntx/lof WORLD WINDOW FASHfON THIS IS THE LOOK SOLD* 90 COUNTRIES J OVERALL SiT TOP SALES ■H AWARD (IM2 1995) £3; <■! 335 T I Trw took w km mMm A vary WflK A 4 Hyw to today «mr Add sty*
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  • WEEKENDPEOPLE
    • 548 6  -  He was looking forward to going to Germany... By ANDRE YEO STUDENT Neo Aik Ann was disappointed when told he would be going to Phnom Penh in Cambodia for his overseas job attachment. But he came back grateful. The Ngee Ann Polytechnic student from
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 264 6 OVR ANNVAL SALE IS ON! 20% 70% You nual Cordially Invited To Thru new arrivals... irSflHp low as under $lO 1 (THECOTTOMftGE It's our AriUltal Sale time a] We've bestowed our entire range i from JadPrds to lots of for as I Not to es includes various furriKhing works interior
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    • 178 6 Free CD poach High Power 20W x 4 Pre-Amp OUT x 1 SSIR Tuner with 18FM/6AM Presets 1 -Bit D/A Converter and 8 Times Oversampling Digital Filter (Bfs) Loudness XR-C3OO High Power 30W x 4 Pre-Amp OUT x 1 SSIR-EX Tuner with 18FM/6MW/12SW Presets Full Logic Cassette Deck CD/MD Changer
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  • 508 7 Terror at 1,200 metres above ground NATIONAL ENQUIRER WHEN a plane’s landing gear developed a mechanical fault, passenger Brian Howson got out to Fix it even though he was 1,220 m (4,000 ft) above the ground! With two other passengers holding his feet,
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 279 7 "Mary Chia's Fat Displacement System has worked for me. Ms. Mary Chia (Founder of Mary Chia Beauty 6> Slimming Saloon) Before 85kg Ms. Mary Chia (I'ounder of Mary Chia Beauty Slimming Saloon) After 58kg Ifl V r > 1 m lill&SiSNlllI Ms. Mary Chia (Founder of Mary Chia Beauty Slimming
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 258 8 NATIONAL ENQUIRER IN THE hit movie, “The First Wives Club”, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler play spurned spouses who seek revenge on their former hubbies for dumping them. Now meet the REAL “First Wives Club” celebrity spouses who untied the knot
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    • 81 8 Time married: 3 years, 5 months Settlement: $l5B million Dollars per year of marriage: $47 million Spielberg raked in a fortune with blockbuster movies such as “ET” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” during his romance with Amy, a fact which did not go
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    • 65 8 Time married: 3 years, 3 months Settlement: $2B million Dollars per year of marriage: $8.7 million When a photographer caught The Boss on an Italian veranda with back-up singer and secret bedmate Patti Scialfa, it was too late for Springsteen. Phillips filed for divorce
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    • 66 8 Time married: 31 years Settlement: $35 million Dollars per year of marriage: $1,136,000 Maggie had two children with Clint Eastwood during the couple’s long -by Hollywood standards marriage. “Dirty Hany” dumped Maggie in 1978 for his much-younger girlfriend Sondra Locke who’s now locked in
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    • 66 8 Time married: 16 years, 9 months Settlement: $56 million Dollars per year of marriage: $3.4 million College sweethearts Cindy and Kevin wed in 1978 and had three children. Then one of Tinsel Town’s best marriages soured after Kevin hit it big with “Dances With
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    • 37 9 Time married: 10 years Settlement: $l7 million Dollars per year of marriage: $1.7 million Sasha was there during Sly’s lean pre“Rocky” years and bore him two sons following their 1974 marriage.
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    • 41 9 Time married: 7 years Settlement: She paid him $105,750 Dollars per year of marriage: He got $15,106 A judge ordered her to cough up $105,750 to end her marriage to director Gus Trikonis in 1976.
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    • 228 9 Network execs fear rerun of nightmare KELSEY GRAMMER cheated death when he smashed up his Dodge Viper sports car in Los Angeles then was arrested on drunk-dri-ving charges. “Frasier” executives are worried that the star’s alcohol-abuse problems have returned. “He’s one lucky man the
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 185 8 PROBLEM WITH SUN RAIN? Call the specialist with over 30 years experience in Awning industry. P.V.C. ROLLER BLINDS suitable for HUDC, HDB Maisonette Balconies. a? J .V: oor) pc. At Blk 6004, *Ol-2118 Bedok Industrial Park C Bedok Reservoir Road. Singapore *****3 Showroom: 2 Jurong East St 21 *O3-163 IMM
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    • 131 8 EZZI Clotheslines that are neat, non-rusting, user-friendly and beautiful. i EZZI RETRACTABLE Pull out lines for use. Lines can extend up to 7.2 metres. Many installation options: Walls, picket fences, ground posts. EZZI FOLDDOWN Fold up for washdays. Sits flushed to wall when not in use. Wall-mount or ground-mount. V
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 28 9 f m 6 -i Available D Upholstered settees Curtains Bedlinens MADQUIo FURNISHING studio 80 Marine Parade Road #O3-48 Parkway Parade Singapore *****9 Tel: 348 9270/1 Fax: 345 0732
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    • 298 9 IS TH€ft€ ANYTHING YOU UIANT TO FIX Nippon win r c rji* fM'iiUOmU i *&fW"\A"Comeoverioyowneight superstore and we shall fix it. TIAN S€NG HARDWARE AND PAINT €NT(APAIS€ Anything you need from tiny screws to sledgehammers, brushes and paints, keys and locks, keys duplications, locksmith services, electrical accessories and plumbing materials,Bosch
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  • PEOPLE IN THE STREET
    • 76 10 A model sits with her legs spread open. Another, also legs wide apart, has a bucket of popcorn between them. Luckily, they both had pants on. But were the models in the advertisements going too far? Do Singaporeans find these ads provocative? Reporters
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    • 229 11 and what the women think... “It’s not a nice pose for a model and unnecessary. It’s not professional at all.” Hotel assistant manager Izac Zaide (left), 35, Bishan. “They are provocative... Being a parent, I won't allow my daughter to sit in this position." Clerk, Ramli
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 303 10 maiijiut Where good food abounds INTERNATIONAL from 24th to the end of every month. Enjoy popular cuisines from around the world at the Bali Hut Adult Lunch sls* Dinner sl6* Child Lunch s9* Dinner slo* HIGH TEA BUFFET Sills. Suns A: Holidays 3pm lo 3pm \«liill-SI0*/ C'hild-SH* Teochew Porridge Claypot
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 78 11 Jot Qmmtions...ym ‘Trusted ‘Partner in Marriage Special Wedding Package 1 Weekday;: from Ss26o* Weekends from Ss2Bo* to prevailing govt, taxes inel. GST With Qur Compliment; (For 20 table* and above) Freeflow of Soh Drink; 1 Bottle of Champagne Deluxe Honeymoon Room Invitation Card; Mini Fruitcakes SgJO additional per taMr far
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    • 431 11 BEDOK CENTRE ELECTRICAL CO. BLK 214 BEDOK TOWN CENTRE #Ol-163 TEL:*****32/3 XV-315P Projector New Brilliance in an Ultra-Portable, Multi-system LCD Video Projector Ultra-Compact and Lightweight Advanced 3.6'(9cm) Single LCD Panel with 100, 386 pixels 330-Lux Picture Brightness 350-Line Horizontal resolution Flexible Picture Size from 30' to 100' Multi-System Compatibility Built-in
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  • FILM
    • 372 12  - Golf pro hits it big through sheer luck By NGIAU CHEAN FEI “TIN CUP” is an “incredible” film. By that I don’t mean “great”. The film simply ignores credibility in telling its overblown golfer fantasy. The story pits Kevin Costner against Don Johnson in this golfers’ tale. Though not bad,
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    • 165 12 FILM European Union 6th Film Festival Tomorrow till Oct 20. Golden Village Marina, Marina Leisureplex. Tickets at $8. For bookings, call *****88. The festival features films from 10 countries, including Italy, Sweden, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. MUSIC “SSO Subscription Series” Oct 18 and 19 at 8.15 pm.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 153 12 CALTEX r** r* J Accident Insurance Claim Advice Use of car while your accident car is being repaired, subject to availability 24 hrs Towing service to our workshop. HOTLINE NO 747 7870 Car Collection Delivery for auto services SPECIALISE IN 1. Accident repair 2. Panel Beating, Welding 3. Spraypainting 4.
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    • 222 12 f Ferry. TU Ma/atfgia. Co***ctieK RRYLINK BON Malacca Escapade 3 Days 2 Nights Includes: Return coach transfer Singapore Malacca Superior/Studio suite room (twin sharing) Set/Buffet breakfast Half day tour Departure: Every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. I i < Adult: $lBO p.p (twin sharing) Child: $6B p.p Deearu Golden 3each Deepavall
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  • WEEKENDFOOD
    • 467 13  -  By PEARLIN SIOW CONTRARY to popular belief, Thai food doesn’t have to be spicy. This restaurant serves a good mixture of real Thai food that suits those who can take spicy food and those who can’t. For starters, try the unusual but appetising crispy
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    • 105 13 INDULGE in chocolate without taking in more calories than you need to. Richfields chocolate, a “lite” chocolate, claims to contain 33 per cent less calories than your regular bar. Sugar and some of the fat are replaced with litesse, a low-energy bulking agent developed for the
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    • 590 14  -  Put your favourite sauces, toppings on dough and pop it into oven By CELINE TAN BEING kiasu does not pay when it conies to making pizza. Pile up the ingredients as high as you can and it may not turn out as well as you want
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    • 484 15  -  Grab a friend and take your pick from over 70 dishes at eat-all-you-can By PEARLIN SIOW FOR $2O, you can stuff yourself silly with this eat-all-you-can Cantonese buffet. Back by popular demand at Hai Xiang Restaurant, the a la carte lunch buffet (minimum
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    • 77 15 SAVOUR the goodness of fish cooked in a variety of ways. Take your pick from halibut, turbot and salmon dishes which will be served at Concorde Hotel Singapore’s Xin Cuisine Chinese Restaurant till the end of next month. The East-meets-West recipes include roiled up salmon and halibut fillet
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 172 13 sa rv^ tr* >- M a =r>^ ?6i >l7 %{fi& rl *2 Katong Park Hotel ROYAL s Chef's Recommendation Sze Chuan Style's Set Lunch $24.00 (3 dishes 1 soup inclusive (for 2 persons) v of crayfish in black pepper) >• »/*2. Tasty Fish-Head Bee Hoon $lO.OO 3. Famous Haifpnese Chicken
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    • 82 13 pi i wMsaxxxxxxam COWAY VILLAGE RESTAURANT Special Promotion 500 g Prawns 550 g Pomfret Peking Duck (2 styles) V Free Roast > "2 Suckling Pig TIM SUM For sBB.oo++ f x Wl l JTr Monday To Friday Dining in Dinners Only We cater for Company Functions Birthday Functions and Wedding
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 161 14 f Office Ocono/ny cse/ jSancA i* 3 id Tim Sum Variety Crispy Spring Chicken Sweet Sour Fish Sizzling Black Pepper Prawn Baby Cabbage With Oyster Sauce C Cfi Steam Rice i *r Today’s desserts. for 5 person ■M/a/ Hong Kong Tim Sum For Lunch Only dlk D€N SEAFOOD RESTAURANT 257
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 649 16 m f TEL YOUR GUIDE TO BETTER" BUYS <£ SERVICES 740 II 52 FAX 74 5 I 022 20 CHILD CARE CENTRES 5s ai zJI WE TH E BY Eton (A Member of Wefheby Group) 51, Broadrick Road, Singapore *****1, Tel: 346 6922. Fax: 346 6522. WE'RE OPEN FOR 1997
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 770 17 »'V* 1 f ...,v Wmm YOUR GUIDE TO BETTER BUYS SERVICES TEL 740 1152 FAX 745 1022 22 DOMESTIC HELP (C *****1) We have own 18 Training Centres throughout Indonesia Philippines Sri Lanka i 500 NEW 810 D/XT/XS WEEKLY Christian Buddhist Catholic Muslim Atheist Plus Points: Strict training Good work
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 812 18 J YOUR GUIDE TO BETTER BUYS <£ SERVICES TEL 740 1152 FAX 745 1022 78 TUITION 78 TUITION PARKWAY EDUCATION We specialise in Mathematics Please reserve a place for yourself nowl SPECIAL HOLIDAY PROGRAMMES Please register before 15 Nov 1996 PARKWAY EDUCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE (Registered with Ministry of Education) 1
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 1611 19 CLASSIFIED AD BANK 90 POSITIONS VACANT 101 RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS 103 INTRODUCERS/PARTY ORGANISERS 103 INTRODUCERS/ PARTY ORGANISERS MUSIC PLAZA PTE LTD I (A) RETAIL EXECUTIVES You will assist the Showroom Head ui managing a group of sales personnel m achieving the sales targets of our music showrooms. You will be responsible
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
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