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I mentioned in my earlier posts about my neighbors who are doing extensive house renovations. Last count is six houses that are under going renovations. All of them belong to new owners. Previous owners have decided to upgrade their homes to bigger and better houses.
Two new neighbors have moved in to our neighborhood and we [...]

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My friend just had chicken pox. In fact, she is still ’spotty’ as how she describes herself. We had an interesting online chat about our common experiences on chicken pox.
One of the main difference is the medication. I had my chicken pox twenty years ago. That time, never even heard of any medication for chciken [...]

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Television in my home is already more than 10 years old. Miraculously it survived a lightning strike and a power surge. The service center was able to repair it on both occasions or else, it will be in the junk yard. Since it’s already so old and the prices of plasma and LCD televisions are [...]

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Last week, my friend’s house was broken in by some thieves at about 8PM. Fortunately, my friend was still not back yet and her family was not at home. She was still on the way back from office. Luckily for her, the thieves realized the neighbors noticed their presence in my friend’s house. They quickly [...]

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School vacation has started. Some kids have gone off for vacation with their family. For me, my kid is staying at home. We will only bring her for a short vacation in Bandung around Christmas. To keep her occupied, I decided to hire a tutor to spend time with her twice a week to keep [...]

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Last week, on the 10th Nov, my family and I attended my school teacher’s supposedly surprise birthday party. Somehow, I knew about his birthday and it did not come as a surpise to me. The party was attended by his former students nearby. His daughter gave him a big surprised by coming home from Australia [...]

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I was impressed when I visited my friend’s house in Los Angeles. I have known him since we were in school. He has recently bought this house and just moved in a few months ago. His house was very nicely decorated with artifacts he bought from his trips all over the world.
The lightings in his [...]

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The phone will ring and ring and then when I pick up the receiver, I will hear an unfamiliar voice on the end. Usually, the conversation will go like this.
He : “Can I speak to Mr Leslie Ho”
Me : “Yes, I am”
He : “How are you doing today, sir?”
Me : “Very well. How about you?”
He [...]

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Mobile phones are so common nowadays. Everyone carries a mobile phone. Even school kids have them too. Mobile phones are not only used a phone, they have so many features due to convergence of technologies. Today, mobile phones have features like phone, SMS, MMS, video phone, email, GPS, PDA, etc, etc. One simply cannot live [...]

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I used to hear a lot of discussions about how much authority a person should have in order for them to carry out their job without any interruption from their managers. They want the freedom to act. They know they have the responsibility to deliver results. All these discussions will always end up with one [...]

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