Cocoa Break

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I’ve always thought that Singaporeans are the type that can’t be bothered about the well being of others but I was proven wrong today. I wasn’t aware of a small hole in the left pocket of my trousers and aparrently coins had been dropping out of it almost every minute or so eversince I was standing on the bus service 285 as I was on the way to work.

There was a very well dressed middle aged man that picked up the coins around me and tapped on my shoulder and gave them to me and told me of my hole in the pocket. Well I was kinda embarrased but I would have done the same thing too. 

I would imagine that typical Singaporeans would pretend not to see the money around me and when I finally move off from the spot I was standing at, they will pick the coins up, keep it for themselves, go over to the canteen with a huge smile on their face and get themselves a cup of coffee or tea before heading to their office and thinking how lucky they were to have gotten a free drink early in the morning.

Anyhow, I am happy to have bumped into a nice Singaporean today.

Looking forward for a good day,

Deen Yusoff

It has been quite sometime since I watched a good comedy at the cinema and I read many reviews online on how disappointing this “Get Smart” movie was but I beg to differ. I enjoyed the show though I prefer Jim Carrey’s “Liar Liar” and “Bruce Almighty” better.

Steve Carrell did a great job as Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway (Agent 99) is just hot.  It is more of a situational comedy then scripted comedy so don’t expect brilliant jokes from the guy’s mouth. Steve Carrell is a good enough reason to watch the show as I personally think that he pulled it off quite well.

Well, I am not gonna tell you guys the story here. Go watch it yourself.

Had a good laugh,

Deen Yusoff

20th June 2008.

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A day of Artsy Futsy fun. After 3 days of wait just to spend a day together, we decided to go to a museum. Well…it was my idea actually. Unwillingly she agreed, just to make me happy. I just wanted to go because I get to visit the Museums for free! ;D NUS bought unlimited entries for the Students to a few of the Museums in Singapore till end of April 2009. Wonderful isn’t it!So we met up and visited the nearest museum to Raffles Place SMRT station right after the Muslims’ Sabbath (Most of you would know it better as Muslim Friday Prayers. *ZIPS*).
Well anyway, we paid a visit to the Asian Civilisations Musuem. It looks great on the net and seems to have a lot of things to see inside.We started off with the Austronesian (South East Asian) history, moved up to Chinese, then to the Western Asia and finally ended with Indian Subcontinent. Somehow the cultures of Austronesian’s were presented to be adaptations of Indians and Arabs and nothing much were their own origins. I was hoping to see the native Animism and evidences to prove of their native culture before seeing the presentations of adapted Indian culture and lifestyle but I was disappointed in this section.
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