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		<title>Good Service, Bad Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drummonds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A common topic of discussion on which I have written before is the strange and disappointing nature of customer service in Singapore.  Examples abound.  But let me just give one mini-example to set the stage. To get a Singapore driver&#8217;s license I had to register for classes online.  The webpage registration failed.  But not before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying a Phone in Singapore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 03:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drummonds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the Samsung Galaxy Note I purchased a few weeks ago.  It was not an easy product to buy.  Despite its general &#8220;First Worldness&#8221;, there are a whole bunch of things that Singapore has not yet figured out.  You cannot use any ATMs in Singapore except for the one that issued your ATM card. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cebu Pacific Air: Worst Airline Ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 13:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drummonds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I returned home from a blissful five days in Boracay in the Philippines.  The trip was perfect, bookended a painful travel experience on Cebu Pacific Air.  A few years ago I lost my patience with the crap to which budget airlines subject us. I am now prepared and financially comfortable with parting with S$50 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BlackBerry v. Android</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drummonds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been griping about my BlackBerry for years now.  How did it come to this?  How did the little magical device with the unidimenstional scrolling wheel capture my heart and show me the wonders of constant communication?  How did the company that makes the BlackBerry so totally fuck up their ownership of the market? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weird Creatures In My Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drummonds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past two weeks I found two strange creatures in my apartment.  One I carried in from the grocery store, although it traveled all the way from New Zealand.  And the other is a native of Singapore that let itself in during the night.  Take a look at these pictures. This past weekend I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indirect Language in Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drummonds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May of 2010, my first week in Singapore, my manager PB* gave me a friendly warning about communication in Asia.  &#8221;Be indirect,&#8221; he said.  I have been pondering that thought and occasionally writing about it for a year and a half.  A couple weeks ago PB sat down with me to discuss a variety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Life Without Driving</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drummonds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been 16 months since I moved to Singapore. One of the unexpected benefits of this move is the loss of a car. It is a joy to live in a town where I can walk to grocery stores, malls, restaurants, and public transportation that will take me nearly everywhere else. Half a year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Is This Sexy Woman?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drummonds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 7 September I tweeted about a need for a password management tool. Craig Waters responded by re-tweet (RT) with text that included the word iPhone. That keyword was picked up by a spammer, iphone_hills, whose RT included my Twitter name. The image used by iphone_hills used caught my attention and reminded me of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forfeiting US Citizenship</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drummonds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I spent an hour at the US Embassy here in Singapore.  I am requesting their help replacing a lost social security card.  Where mine went in the decades that have passed since I last saw it I do not know.  But I need a replacement for some tax documents.  While I was in the embassy, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communication in Asia</title>
		<link>http://www.e-scott.net/blog/?p=433&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=communication-in-asia</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drummonds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Facebook friend recommended to me Malcom Gladwell&#8217;s Outliers, a book I finished on a flight to Korea last week.  This is the second of Gladwell&#8217;s books I have read and I enjoyed it just as much as the first, The Tipping Point.  One part of Outliers, a discussion on Asian communication, seems to offer [...]]]></description>
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