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There are public hospitals, private hospitals and community clinics. Since Singapore is a country with strong government leadership, public hospitals are not bad at all. Name a few, such as National University Hospital near NUS/Clementi, KK Women and Children Hospital in City, they are all very clean, modern, and very visitor/patient friendly. Community clinics are located within communities, or some multifunctional malls. Generally speaking, community clinic is cheaper than Hospital. The waiting queue is shorter, but the doctors in community clinic are just so so. Once I saw a doctor post his diploma - bachelor in Medicine, Master in Computing. How is computing related to medicine? Some doctors don't even have bachelor degree.

The winner does have a very very typical face structure in this SEA area. Well, I think the girl in blue dress looks better.

Powerpoint .ppt file can be printed out in different modes, one is handout mode. The handout layout is somehow very limited. Click View > Master > Handout Master, there are several options to customize. What if I want to print out 4-slides-in-one page handout without any border? This is a very handy addin - Handout Wizard .

Rumor floating around was Oracle to buy JBoss. The fact is out today - RedHat to buy JBoss . It make more sense. Both are successful open source rooted companies. Another rumor is Oracle to buy MySql. Let's see what happens.

For new release of blockbuster movies, such as King Kong, Fearless, the price is SGD 26.90. Not cheap for a disc. Singapore has done a fantastic job on anti piracy. The second-hand or used DVD circulating market is very limited, not like in US, Ebay, Amazon and lots of local stores to buy/sell used DVD. DVD rental is also not well adopted. It faces the challenge from the much bigger and more loose DVD market in Malaysia and China. The price there is much cheaper, and easy access to good quality DVD piracy copy. Travellers may sneak in some cheap DVD. Even the DVD/CD stores see the profit. Don't know how they bring in the DVD/CD released in China market. Usually the price is half than its Singapore release. Don't worry, not the latest release. This part is still well protected.

It is good to have such a place honoring the Chinese heritage. The garden is nearby MRT station. The garden is just so so. It is in the same level as a rich Chinese village's garden, but far behind the China famous gardens. such as Summer Palace, Suzhou Garden. The admission is free, and no food and drink shops inside are open. It looks nice on the photo, right? It is just too hot and too many insects to enjoy.

For foreigner and Singapore PR, NTU staff housing is probably the first and the best place to live for new NTU employee. NTU is located east end of Singapore island. It has two entrances - one PIE off Jalan Bahar, one PIE off pioneer North. The staff housing has several locations. One is in the middle of campus, near the academic buildings and Nanyang Lake (or NTU Lake something). Don't get fooled. You won't see a large clean lake as in your head. The lake is just a muddy puddle. Nearby there are big red ants, which are not afraid of people, but take human being as prey. Be careful! Along the lake, there are dozens of 4 or 5-storey buildings. Also some nice houses. The houses look really nice, and of course no available. Another locations is between Jalan Bahar and pioneer North, along the Nanyang Crescent. It has Nanyang Heights, Nanyang Meadows, Nanyang View and etc. The Heights and Meadows are apartment buildings. Nanyang View has condo-alike houses. The rent is not so much