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I usually smoke Marlboro Light. It is the dominating brand in USA. The taste is good and smooth. Once join their mailing list, you will receive coupons and promotions regularly. I once won a grand dartboard set from Marlboro. British brand Dunhill Light is not popular at USA. In Singapore, Marlboro Light is also among the top brands. Dunhill Light is in the same category. Both are SGD 11 a pack. Once I tried Dunhill Light, I love it better. I think they put some flavor ingredients inside. The taste is even more smooth. The box design is more classy, with an initial D on the box. Even better, the filter is charcoaled. Now I feel Marlboro Light is just too strong. Why I smoke? I will write about it in another blog.

I bought this book at Carrefour book sale event. It costs SGD 8. The book tells a humorous and interesting IT history. So many look-like-stupid lessons have revisited themselves again and again in this area. How bleeding fast things evolve or get obsolete in this area! Just around 30 years, many things sound like Jurassic epic. I remembered when I was at college, around early 90's, our lab bought a couple of 386 PCs. They are just amazing box. We played the DOOM and some RPG games, enjoyed the first porn pictures, and really did not much on projects.

© Disney Disney on Ice show, for the very first time, comes to Singapore this weekend. I heard about this show when I was at LA. Since the Anaheim Disneyland is just 30 minutes drive, really no need to watch this ice show. We watched the show on Saturday noon in Singapore Indoor Stadium. The front and more expensive seats ($49+) are almost sold out. The back seats are 30-40% sold. The show is fantastic! Almost all the famous characters from Disney are played on the stage, i.e. on the ice. Mickey gangs, Nemo, Princess, Lion King, Mulan, Pinocchio, Aladdin, etc. The costume, light and sound are first class. Lots of young faces in audience, it is a fun event for kids.

1 Bill Gates, US, worth $50bn (IT) 2 Warren Buffett, US, $42bn (finance) 3 Carlos Slim Helu, Mexico, $30bn (telecoms) 4 Ingvar Kamprad, Sweden, $28bn (retail) 5 Lakshmi Mittal, India, $23.5bn (steel) 6 Paul Allen, US, $22bn (IT/investment) 7 Bernard Arnault, France, $21.5bn (luxury goods) 8 Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Alsaud, Saudi Arabia, $20bn (investment) 9 Kenneth Thomson, Canada, $19.6bn (publishing) 10 Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong, $18.8bn (diversified investment) Source: Forbes

The largest IT/consumer show in Singapore, is on March 9 - 12, daily from 12:00PM to 9:00PM. Famous consumer IT brands are all there. HP, Levono, Apple, Canon, AMD, Samsung, Dell, Creative, to name a few. It is very crowded, just like a big sale fair. It is a good opportunity to shop for bargain, although the price is not crazy low. If you don't have anything in mind to buy, you will soon get lost and feel dazzling. The promotion girls are very sexy. Xbox 360 is shown for the first time here. Also the Intel based Apple MacBook.

I am reading the Starbucks book - Pour Your Heart into It. The author CEO Howard Schultz told a fine story of Starbucks. The story is inspiring. Rooted from Seattle, Starbucks becomes a symbol of American life style around the world, hip and trendy. In China, a cup of expensive Starbucks coffee serves as a token of middle-class elites. Keep in mind, China is a tea country, there is no such custom to drink coffee. Surprisingly, there are so many Starbucks in Singapore. In such a small island, 36 stores are all over the land. Singaporean has a long tradition to drink coffee. There are many other coffer shops, chained stores or mom-pop stalls. There are not too much hypes for Starbucks. PS: The Startbucks logo is changed subtly. Some dirty minded people think the original logo is too lusty, and reminds them certain sexy pose.

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