Bashes include Party On, Singapore, at Downtown East, featuring performances by Wendi Koh and Anita Sarawak; and one at Suntec City, organised by Paradise Media, which features DJs Steve Lawler and Dave Angel.
Getting too old for such things perhaps.
It's great to clear leave! However, I'm not totally switched off from work... so got warned by Eliss not to touch my work.
Have been spending more time with my family, and learning more about the past. Didn't know that we had so many problems. Guess every home indeed has story difficult to tell, and I'm not going to whine about it.
If you are planning to go over the Causeway and grab some cheap bargains, be aware of those things that you wished but can't bring in. I went in yesterday, but I didn't see anyone using the equipment. So, it's up to you.
The $22,000 fibrescope, which has a miniature camera at its tip, lets ICA officers probe even the tiniest spaces in vehicles.
Linked to a computer monitor, the instrument can spot small quantities of illegal drugs or pirated DVDs hidden inside car doors.
It can even peer into holes no larger than the head of a screw.
Between July and October this year, the fibrescope helped them find 14,000 pirated discs and 148 cartons of cigarettes stashed in car doors.
SNEAKY STUFF
• Guns and sex toys: Between July and September, the ICA's Air Cargo Command found 116 items of controlled and prohibited goods, including 20 lighters shaped like rifles, 15 gun replicas, 37 gun accessories and a stun gun. During a routine X-ray screening in August of incoming parcels, an air parcel from Thailand marked 'Trading and Food Samples' turned out to hold a pornographic magazine, a gun replica and 20 obscene VCDs and DVDs.
In July, 264 sex toys were found in a parcel marked 'plastic products'.
• Fishy cigarettes: On Oct 25, 250 cartons of cigarettes worth $22,000 were found in a lorry at the Tuas Checkpoint.
The driver's cargo clearance permit said he was carrying fresh snakehead fish fillets and the driver was very reluctant to unload his cargo. The cigarettes were found in black plastic bags.
• Vodka surprise: A total of 47,088 bottles of Russian Starorusskaya vodka worth about $1.4 million were seized at the Tanjong Pagar Scanning Station. Smugglers tried to pass them off as 'cartons of fruit juice'.
So, you better think twice. Unless you look like a nerd or someone that no one will ever dream of as a smuggler of any sort.
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