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ieatishootipost blogs Singapore’s best food: Bukit Merah View Carrot Cake: The Last Bastion of Tradition!

Bukit Merah View Carrot Cake
Bukit Merah View Food Court
Blk 115 Bukit Merah View
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7am to 2pm, 6pm to 1am daily

Free Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Tiberian Sun (plus the Firestorm expansion) full downloads released by EA Games!!

A welcome promotional by EA on the eve-ish of C&C4: Tiberian Twilight, the only price you have to pay to get your hands on C&C, Red Alert and Tiberian Sun (plus the Firestorm expansion) is to take the time to burn/extract some ISOs.

Command & Conquer Classics Download

How would u know if u are with the right person? Here’s the answer.

EVERY relationship has a cycle. In the beginning, you fell in love with your other half. You anticipated their call, wanted their touch, and liked their idiosyncrasies.

Falling in love with your boyfriend wasn’t hard. In fact, it was a completely natural and spontaneous experience. You didn’t have to DO anything. That’s why it’s called “falling” in love… Because it’s happening TO YOU.

People in love sometimes say, “I was swept of my feet.” Think about the imagery of that expression. It implies that you were just standing there; doing nothing, and then something came along and happened TO YOU.

Falling in love is easy. It’s a passive and spontaneous experience. But after a few years of relationship, the euphoria of love fades. It’s the natural cycle of EVERY relationship. Slowly but surely, phone calls become a bother (if they come at all), touch is not always welcome (when it happens), and your spouse’s idiosyncrasies, instead of being cute, drive you nuts.

The symptoms of this stage vary with every relationship, but if you think about it, you will notice a dramatic difference between the initial stage when you were in love and a much duller or even angry subsequent stage.

At this point, you and/or your boyfriend might start asking, “Am I with the right person?” And as you and your spouse reflect on the euphoria of the love you once had, you may begin to desire that experience with someone else. This is when relationships breakdown. People blame their other half for their unhappiness and look outside their relationship for fulfillment.

Fulfillment outside the relationship comes in all shapes and sizes. Infidelity is the most obvious. But sometimes people turn to work, church, a hobby, a friendship, excessive TV, or abusive substances. But the answer to this dilemma does NOT lie outside your relationship. It lies within it. I’m not saying that you couldn’t fall in love with someone else. You could. And TEMPORARILY you’d feel better. But you’d be in the same situation a few years later. Because (listen carefully to this):

THE KEY TO SUCCEEDING IN A RELATIONSHIP IS NOT FINDING THE RIGHT PERSON; IT’S LEARNING TO LOVE THE PERSON YOU FOUND.

SUSTAINING love is not a passive or spontaneous experience. It’ll NEVER just happen to you. You can’t “find” LASTING love. You have to “make” it day in and day out. That’s why we have the _expression “the labor of love.” Because it takes time, effort, and energy. And most importantly, it takes WISDOM. You have to know WHAT TO DO to make your relationship work.

Make no mistake about it. Love is NOT a mystery. There are specific things you can do (with or without your boyfriend) to succeed with your love life. Just as there are physical laws of the universe (such as gravity), there are also laws for relationships. Just as the right diet and exercise program makes you physically stronger, certain habits in your relationship WILL make it stronger. It’s a direct cause and effect. If you know and apply the laws, the results are predictable… you can “make” love.

Love in relationships are indeed a “decision”… Not just a feeling.

Source: Public Domain

This article discusses two approaches to getting noticed at work:

How To Rise Fast At Work: A True Story – Forbes.com

Do you have too many friends on facebook that you don’t know? Now you can remove them simply by visiting their profiles. I wrote a Greasemonkey script that will help you do exactly that, and another that helps you add instead of delete.

What is Greasemonkey?

Greasemonkey allows you to customize the way a webpage displays on Firefox using small bits of JavaScript. Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org.
- http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox add-on that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to HTML web page content on the DOMContentLoaded event, which happens immediately after it is loaded in the browser (also known as augmented browsing). As Greasemonkey scripts are persistent, the changes made to the web pages are executed every time the page is opened, making them effectively permanent for the user running the script.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey

Where to get Greasemonkey?

http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

Get the two scripts!

Script to auto delete friends:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/61122

Script to auto add friends:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/61660

Warning!
Don’t forget to disable the scripts when you are not using them, or else you will accidentally delete your real friends, or add people you don’t know!!!

There are certain ways to start brainstorming ideas for names. For the examples below, we are going to imagine we are brainstorming a name for a Financial Consulting Company.

1) Firstly, we can use common words like A/One/The/Your/Our/Pro/Best/Only/etc. with words that are associated with the goals/visions of your company, like trust/plan/group/etc.

Examples using two common words, One/The:

One:
OneSource
OneDream
OneFuture
OneTrust
OnePlan
OneGroup
OneFuture
OneGuide
OneWay
etc…

The:
TheSource
TheDream
TheFuture
TheTrust
ThePlan
TheGroup
TheFuture
TheGuide
TheWay
etc…

2) Second method is to use words that are associated with the goals/visions of your company, but this time we remove or replace one or two letters of the word to make it ‘cool’ and ‘unique’.

Examples:

achieve – Achiev, AchievX
premier – Primere, Premira, Promier
insurance – Sureance
assurance – Asurance, Asure

3) Use words associated with the goals/visions of your company, but this time in pairs (no use of the more common words). First brainstorm a list of words.

Words from the first example:
Source, Dream, Future, Trust, Plan, Group, Future, Guide, Way, Money, etc.

Examples:
WayTrust
MoneySource
FutureDream
etc… (you need a lot of words for this exercise, so make sure you brainstorm at least 50-80 words first!)

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Out of words?

You can use Google Sets to help you come up with other similar words from those you provide.
http://labs.google.com/sets

Another way is to use a thesauraus. Here is an online one:
http://thesaurus.reference.com

Logos Bible Software is celebrating the launch of their new online Bible by giving away 72 ultra-premium print Bibles at a rate of 12 per month for six months. The Bible giveaway is being held at Bible.Logos.com and you can get up to five different entries each month! After you enter, be sure to check out Logos and see how it can revolutionize your Bible study.

Restaurant City Tips:
  1. Visit all your friends restaurants to get more ingredients. If your friends don’t play, invite them!
  2. You get a free item everyday when you log into the game. You also get a free item by doing the daily quiz. It is important to get them correct as they are easy. Quiz answers here.
  3. Do not trade any of these items away. they are SUPER RARE!!!
    • PRAWN
    • ONION
    • SALAD
    • FLOUR
    • POTATO

    and also try not to use any of these items because you will find it hard to level up those dishes

  4. Try to level up only one dish from each of the three categories, before you start on the rest. Don’t waste items on other dishes. Higher level means more exp when you serve them to customers. If you don’t have the required items, visit your friends and trade!
  5. Try to follow this layout for more experience
    http://restaurantcity-tips.blogspot.com/search/label/Restaurant%20Layouts
  6. Don’t waste money on expensive stoves! They all cook at the same speed!
    Soda machines and other whatnots are also for show. They don’t do anything. The only thing you may need in the future is arcade machines, to prevent your pop from decreasing. Even then you only need at most 8.
  7. Although the game say you need toilets, you don’t have to get them, and you will still get the same amount of money and experience. Furthermore, they are also unsightly and needs someone to be a cleaner. (Why waste manpower when you can get more cooks so you can earn money and experience faster)
  8. Try to keep the game minimized when not in use as it takes up about 50-70% CPU (it may lag when the game has been running for an hour+)

Other Resources:

What are the levels and upgrades available?
What do all the icons the customers show mean?
Why do some of my customers have red circles with stars around their feet?
How do you move floor tiles and wallpapers?
What happens when my employees’ health decreases?
How do I stop my Popularity going down when I am not using the game?
What is Popularity and what is the maximum Popularity you can achieve?
How do I learn and level up dishes?
What is the advantage of leveling up a particular dish?
Restaurant City Plate Designs

Play RC

Large Text File Viewer v5.1 – 367KB

  • Have you ever felt frustrated when you just want to look at the content of a large text file but it takes forever for Notepad or Word to open it?
  • This program was designed for viewing large (>1GB) text files.
  • It uses little memory and is able to open a gigabyte file instantly.
  • Background file indexing makes browsing even faster.
  • It opens files that are currently being written by other programs, and automatically checks and reads the files if new contents have been appended.
  • It supports view split. The user may split the view either horizontally or vertically, and have each side show different portion of the same file.
  • It allows the user to perform high-speed complex text search by means of plain text or regular expression. The regular expression syntax is slightly different from the standard ones. Please click here for details.
  • The regular expressions for finding the following items have been provided as preset for the convenience of the users:  quoted string, hexadecimal integer, floating-point number, date of any format, time of any format, domestic phone number (US & Canada), social security number, IP address, email address, http address, ftp address
  • For CSV (Comma Separated Value) files, when the user hovers the mouse over any field in the file, a hint automatically  appears with the field name.
  • No additional DLL (such as MFC or VB) is required.
  • No installation is needed.
  • The executable is only 568KB!

Website: http://www.swiftgear.com/ltfviewer/features.html
Screenshots: http://www.swiftgear.com/ltfviewer/screenshots.html
Download: http://www.swiftgear.com/ltfviewer/LTFViewr.zip

Dorgem v2.1 – 410KB
Dorgem is a webcam capture application for Windows 9x and up. Any Video for Windows compatible webcam (or other digital camera) is supported.It has unlimited storage events that can put the captured image on an FTP site as well as a local disk, all with their own time interval. It can put a unlimited texts and bitmaps on the captured image before the image is stored. Although it is a little difficult to configure, there is no other program that does it as well as this one.

Dorgem supports an unlimited number of simultaneous cameras. It has a built-in webserver for still images and can be used as security camera because of its motion detection.

Requirements:

  • Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP. It has not been tested on Windows NT 4.
  • Video for Windows compatible webcam/camera.
  • The FTP storage is based upon WinInet, therefore you need Internet Explorer to be installed on your machine.

Website & Screenshots: http://dorgem.sourceforge.net
Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dorgem/dorgem210.exe

If anyone is interested, try my new word game (of course it’s free!):
WordScramble
http://www.samliew.com/Resources/Downloads/Programs/WordScramble/wordscramble.php

Try also:
Set Game

http://www.samliew.com/Resources/Downloads/Programs/SetGame/index.html

DISC Profiling (free personality test)
http://www.samliew.com/DISC/
Sample report (depending on your input. everyone is unique!)
What is DISC?

Ever wondered why we have to pray when God already knows everything (all-knowing) and can do anything (all-powerful) to help us?

  • we pray to deepen our relationship with God.
  • we pray to remind ourselves of our place of humility, to remind ourselves that God is God, and we are not.
  • we long for connection (we want to talk with someone who loves us)
  • prayer encourages our faith and dependence on God.
  • sometimes, we don’t know God’s will for us until we pray and ask