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I literally enjoyed a day of Malaysian hospitality yesterday. That’s the reason why I did not post anything. Woke up at 5.30am to have golf at Horizon Hills. The new maze of flyovers and viaducts still posed a serious problem to unwary drivers. My partner driver has driven in many many times and still can get lost quite... 

Singapore Who would have thought it, Yale and Singapore share a common ancestry. Ishaan Tharoor tells us (TIME, 15 Oct 2012, "Illiberal Arts") that an East India Company employee, Elihu Yale, donated the equivalent of £562 in kind to an obscure college in Connecticut to help build the school that now carries his name. The other... 

Hi fellow readers, A Chap went to a public library during lunchtime today (3 Oct). He found a table with three seats, two of which was obviously empty. There was one book with one pencil case on the table. So he sat at the table and started doing his work. Forty-five minutes later, a teen speaking with a PRC accent, challenged...