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I’m bilingual. Sometimes, I switched my Windows input language to Chinese when I was sending out emails in Chinese, and often so I forgot to switch it back to English before I typed some URLs in my browser to visit another site, and that, resulting funny string of Chinese text in my browser’s address bar. [...]

Dear clients, partners and friends in Singapore,
Some of you may already knew that I’ll be moving out of Singapore in about two weeks time, I’m going to China for good. This notice is to make it official.
First of all this is not a sudden decision, I have planned on it for quite a while; no [...]

This modem became useless after I switched to Singnet’s ADSL. This is not the actual photo (I had to take one from internet as I was too lazy to take out my camera again). But there’s hardly any wear and tear as all it did was sit around the corner.
I bought this for: S$99. Now [...]

Keeps about 24 CDs, it’s still good and such a waste to be thrown away, so I’m giving it away.
Be the first person who responses to this blog post and you can have this CD rack.

The author needs no introduction. This is yet another book which I did not finish as halfway reading throough, I found a better coach — He who comes from above :) but then again, you can always start with this.
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538 pages. Published in 2001.
I bought this for: S$16.90. Now I’m selling for: S$6.

I can’t remember where/when did I buy this from, or who did I “borrow” it from, but this is not a bad reference book if you are thinking of writing one. The contents however, maybe a bit outdated as it was written in 1997. That’s why I’m giving it away.
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410 pages. Published in 1997.
I’m [...]

I bought this book out of impulse after listened to the author’s speech in one of those rah rah shows. Then I realized I couldn’t make much sense out of the book, maybe it’s because the book was written for people who have PhD (and I didn’t mean permanent head damage). Anyway, you can give [...]

I can’t really tell how useful is this book because I didn’t really pick up speed reading eventually, maybe I need to read it again and read it slowly in order to learn the technique…
Anyway, this is written by the same gentleman who invented mind mapping technique.
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223 pages. Published in 2000.
I bought this for: [...]

My housemate passed this to me when he was moving out of Singapore back to Germany. Now I’m going to pass it on to someone.
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2006 edition
I’m giving it away to first person who responses to this blog post.

If you have enjoyed the movie (directed by Ridley Scott), you will love the book more. Some of the scenes in the movie were made up in order to increase blockbuster sales, if you want something more real, read the book.
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570 pages. Published in 1999.
I bought this for: S$16.38. Now I’m selling for: S$5.