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Really cool songs are usually not big commercial successes or chart toppers. There has to be something with the melody and/or lyrics that makes it special.First on my list has to be Lou Reed, his drug laced, brash lyrics and mind numbing bass line and melody make this in a class of its own. Just to prove that punk bands also can come up with gems,...

You are in a room in a social setting with a few people and there is a pink elephant in the room as well. How long can you carry on before you start talking about the pink elephant? In local financial markets, the pink elephant is the results of the upcoming elections. What if? My...

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Because he is the triumph of mind over body...  because he is faster than the rest of us .... because he is cocky and cool and he can afford to be .... because he is human and yet superhuman at the same time ... because he is just like us with faults and all and yet he is a...

The strength of the human spirit always confounds me. Determination and focus. Its not that we can do all things, but we certainly can do most things we put our minds to. Naturally people will say "well, I really really want to be rich", can I do that? I don't think that will happen to everyone even if you have the best teacher or motivational coaches,...

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We have had some teething problem early on as we did not expect more than 1,000 trial users would jam our system in the first week. As promised, effective IMMEDIATELY, the load and response time would be cut down from the usual 4-10 seconds per click to less than 2 seconds.How -...

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Saturday, 10 November 2012 06:34S'pore - thanks to Malaysia's Dr M, our water industry is now worth $ 9 BILLION!Written by  mevotexFresh water has always been a precious resource to Singapore. Being a tiny island with high urban population constrained by its land size, modern...

Paid and trial subscribers are entitled to register for our complimentary Masterclass in order to better use and be familiarized with our system. Kindly contact us to reserve your seat.Masterclass will also be held from time to time, please revisit our website regularly for...

Greece's international lenders failed for the second week running to agree how to get the country's debt down to a sustainable level and will have a third go at resolving their most intractable problem in six days' time. After nearly 12 hours of talks through the night during...

Had to wake up at the god forsaken hour of 6am this morning to get ready to catch the 8am flight on Firefly to Penang. Doing 3 Masterclasses today, all at Paragon Gurney, which is a very nice place really.So what to do, early mah, go for breakie at Lam Heng coffeeshop @ Macalister...

There are certain songs that you keep going back to, maybe they are not so popular now, heck, some were not even that popular then ... but these songs meant a lot to me. I never tire of hearing them, trouble is finding them, locating or even trying to download them properly in the first place.There are songs that define a generation, I guess these...

I always tell people they need to go and travel every now and then. When you pluck yourself away from your 'box', you see a lot of things differently. Life is not how long you live but how well you live. Soon we will all be dead, if we are lucky, some will suffer prolonged effects of ageing or sickness, and you wonder why.I used to be a lot more cynical...

Back to the grindstone recharged. Due to good demand, we are now making our way to other cities. If you are in Penang and Ipoh, we will be there over the next few days. There is even a Mandarin Masterclass session in Penang.www.murasaki.co Paid and trial subscribers are entitled...