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Seventh Heaven at I12 Katong Mall was looking to reward its Facebook Fans and have launched the Seventh Heaven Fan Club powered by PayPal. Fans of Seventh Heaven get 15% off when they pay with pay with PayPal at the outlet. Fans who are Seventh Heaven cardholders get an additional 20% off. To join the Seventh Heaven Fan Club, click here . Once you have liked Seventh Heaven Fan Club, all you need to do is register your mobile number and link your PayPal account. When you are ready to pay at Seventh Heaven, just give your cashier your mobile number to complete the payment process with PayPal. Now you have your deserts and eat it too.

Stomp, the online citizen portal for The Singapore Press Holdings, has admitted that a photo showing the MRT moving with its doors open is a fake.  Interestingly, the online citizen who posted the photo was found to be Stomp's own content producer. She is now an ex-content producer as Stomp has sacked her for lying that she took the photo, found to be a fake and from an unknown Twitter post. Wrote The Straits Times ,  STOMP would like to apologise for the posting on June 20, supposedly showing an SMRT train that left Lakeside station with one set of doors open. The report, submitted by a STOMP content producer, has been found to be fabricated. The content producer, Ms Samantha Ann Francis, had submitted the photo to STOMP, claiming that she had taken it when she was at Lakeside MRT Station at 10.15pm on June 19. Following investigations by our staff, Ms Francis has admitted that she had in fact taken the photo off a posting on Twitter. The original tweet has si...

A girl, which social media described as the Ah Lian of the week, gave up her seat on the MRT to an Auntie, and instead of being thanked, this Ah Lian was screamed at. (Video of fight after the lyrics.) So I dedicated this lyrics to that unknown Ah Lian.. Sung to the tune of Carly Ray Jepsen "Call Me Baby" and lots of Singlish.  I threw my ass of my seat,  Don't ask me, you never say. I looked at you scared you fall, and now you scold me everytime... I trade my sit just to stand,  MRT seats very ex siah.. I wasn't looking for this,  but now you're in my face. Your stare was scary, Yellow shirt, with saliva spitting. Hot train, air con not blowing,  Why you think you can shout at me.... {Chorus}  Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy,  But here is my seating,  why scold me, Auntie? It's hard to look right,  at you Auntie, but here is my seating,  why scold me, Auntie? An...

The screenshot below is spreading its round on Facebook today. Screenshot taken by a Facebook user. It seems the Egyptian kidnappers, after throwing punches at the kidnapped Singaporean, were "kind" enough to bring their hostage to dessert. instead of dumping him in the desert. The hostage, Vincent Toh, was leading a tour group in Egypt and "volunteered" to be taken hostage when his group was attacked by armed men .

The New York Times has discovered the designer who made the iconic soy sauce bottle. Wrote The New York Times , "It took three years for Ekuan and his team to arrive at the dispenser’s transparent teardrop shape. More than 100 prototypes were tested in the making of its innovative, dripless spout (based on a teapot’s, but inverted). The design proved to be an ideal ambassador. With its imperial red cap and industrial materials (glass and plastic), it helped timeless Japanese design values — elegance, simplicity and supreme functionality — infiltrate kitchens around the world." Something you can score in Trivial Pursuit. 

I came across this via Twitter about morning show host asking to explain the Internet. Email was also known as Internet address. Today, the Internet is so prevalent that we have it even in out mobile phone. My son, today, expects the Internet to be there whenever he touches the iPad. This is so he can watch his favourite Transformer video on Youtube. We have come so far, Internet...

On the rare occasion of reading The Straits Times on a Saturday, I came across this rather amusing news of how an ATM was stolen from the Malaysia Subang train station in 3 minutes.  It has been shared on Facebook and retweeted on Twitter couple of times, so I decided to put it up in the blog here for immortality or as long as Google keeps blogspot alive.  One friend commented, "And it was done in 3 minutes! How on earth could they do that? A simple ATM transaction would take longer than that."  My reply was that the bank should hire the thieves to speed up the transaction time.