FORTUNE magazine ran an article, “Look who pays for the bailout” in its November 10 issue about how high earners, not rich yet (HENRY) must starve themselves of luxuries to become wealthy. The writers of the article believe that it’s not fair that HENRYs pay a high amount of tax because they are hard working… Read More »
Apparently CrackBerry addicts have a difficult choice to make in life. According to a post on Gulliver, Economist’s business-travel blog, 35% of BlackBerry users who responded to a survey conducted for Sheraton Hotels & Resorts “would pick their BlackBerry over their significant other if they absolutely had to choose one to live without”. More worryingly:… Read More »
Check this out: Hotflops, a manufacturer of flip-flops, has come up with new designs that feature a grape-like bunch of miniature faces, fashioned in the likeness of US presidential hopefuls, Barack Obama and John McCain, whom as we all know, have flip-flopped on many issues. The sandals, known as electionflops, are only available for purchase… Read More »
Do you know it costs US$4,000 to process and recycle 1 ton of plastic bags, which can then be sold on the commodities market for only US$32? So it’s a good thing that governments around the world are taking a concerted effort to ban the use of plastic bags. Here in Shenzhen, many supermarkets are… Read More »
I know a hundred ways to die I’ve often thought I’d try one: Lie down beneath a motor truck Some day when standing by one. Or throw myself from off a bridge – Except such things must be So hard upon the scavengers And men that clean the sea. I know some poison I could… Read More »
Giving new meaning to “on the move”…