tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42345151841433543542011-04-21T15:45:33.227-07:00"IT takes only a minute to get your coffee from the counter, but it took years to grow the beans and the skills to make it possible, IT takes only a minute to meet a new friend, but it will take years to understand them and add value to their lives" "@~Kin Onn~@"thecoffeespeaker-kin onnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17426196529328124842noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4234515184143354354.post-39342650058253357762007-05-20T11:13:00.000-07:002007-05-20T11:37:36.639-07:00

This is a true story:there was once a reputable stock broker who reside in New York who just started his small family with his loving wife.On a trip to a business meeting, his plane crashed and he suffered 90% body skin burn damage. His skin just keep tearing and dropping off while in the hospital ICU, imagine the physical torture of it. When his families and friends came to visit him, he didn't

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1916- German chancellor Bethmann Hollweg described Britain's war aim as " our existence as a nation is to be crushed," he told the Reichstag, "militarily defenceless, economically crushed and boycotted by the world, condemned to lasting sickness that is the Germany which England wants to see her at her feet. Britain wanted to see france weakened by being bled to death, to have all the allies

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in early 1848, in london, a 29 year old German philosopher Karl Marx, along with his 27 year old textile-manufacturer friend Friedrich Engels published the pamphlets later famously known as the Communist Manifesto. Days later, revolutions broke first in France, removing the French monarchy, and later in some other parts in Europe.."a dictator is there to control the revolution; a revolution is

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Can our world handle all the natural disasters in the world?If government bodies don't do enough now to reduce effects causing climate change, which has been proven to be a major cause of all these 'natural' disaster..this may happen..If you don't like to listen to prediction..don't carry on readingIf you disapprove with my prediction..send me a commentsIf you take things too personal and read it

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A few years back, a US representative for a global warming conference was slapped with a cake on his face by a female pro-environmental protestor. She lamented that although the US was the highest producer of green house gases, they didn't do anything about it and yet pushed the blame to small developing countries. That incident, shown on the evening local chinese tv news, interested me..and

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1-when u meet him, tell him you are pregnant, but don't know whose one2-when she gets off your car at the entrance of the restaurant, kick her out and drive off3-if she order seafood spagetti for dinner, don't hesitate to "kaput" all the mussels, oysters and prawns from her plate4-treat her to a $2 plate chicken rice at the dirtiest kopitiam available5-say your father only earn "peanuts" pay6-

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story:John returns home after a tired day at work. The first thing he saw and heard was Mary sitting by the phone speaking angrily to the other line. John then bathe and get changed. After coming out from the bathroom, he could still see Mary on the phone. Mary was complaining to her friends how demanding and rude her manager is...not giving her any compensation for OT, scolding her infront of

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When you meet someone you love and who loves you also,Both of you fell in love,You perform at your best to impress the other partner,and you accepted his/her flaws as he/she accepted yours also,But why would our local divorce rates are going up when people accepted each other flaws, from the beginning at least?YOU MUST WATCH the movie THE BREAKUP.Nope i not a Jennifer aniston fan, or a serious

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a small snacks for you...it's just a "superstitious" thingy so please don't take it too seriously okayi gain these few knowledge about horoscope from a few years of "Vegging" in front of the TV, especially Mtv chinese and taiwan variety shows... viewers discretion is advised...PGAries:Aries guys are a very emotional and passionate lot. When during breakups or bad quarrels with partners, most of

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No matter where you go, there will always be a different mix of people you will encounter...none of them alone is perfect, cause no one is...the 1st person you will see...is Johnhe is a guy with thick spectacles, wearing plain clothes and carry "secondary schoool era" bags on his back everywhere he went. He will loiter around the school computer labs, computer stores and comic stores. His

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a sms text received from my former teacher on Teacher's Day 2005 :" Hi kinonn, i have left teaching in BVPS a few months ago, i have now started my own business career, Please HELP me tell the rest of the 6B class of 98 and all the best to you guys".i read and re-read the whole message a few times, maybe up to the 5th...just trying to make some sense out of it.Every Teacher's Day since i

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PART ONEBREWING COFFEEmy mom send me to learn swimming when i was in Kindergarden year One. That time with me in the swimming class was my elder cousin and 2 distant relative. Our instructor was from China, and he was the one who pushed my head in the water for what seems like minutes. He told my worried mum that if i can't get over the fear of water at this age, it will be harder for me to

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on my first trip to Starbucks months ago, i ordered a cup of doppio espresso.for the benefit of some who may not have drank it before or even heard of it, the drink refers toa double shot of strong black coffee made by forcing steam through the ground coffee beans.i place it gently on a table, cause it looks so pathetically little that i don't wish to waste any of it due to overspilling.i brought

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