<TABLE id=msgUN border=0 cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD id=msgUNsubj vAlign=top>154th die die will feature FTrash in their leeports!
Coffeeshop Chit Chat - neh who never serve NS get PR want to
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Subscribe </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=msgtable cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="96%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=msg vAlign=top><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgbfr1 width="1%"> </TD><TD><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgF width="1%" noWrap align=right>From: </TD><TD class=msgFname width="68%" noWrap>madmansg <NOBR></NOBR> </TD><TD class=msgDate width="30%" noWrap align=right>3:23 pm </TD></TR><TR class=msghead><TD class=msgT height=20 width="1%" noWrap align=right>To: </TD><TD class=msgTname width="68%" noWrap>ALL <NOBR></NOBR></TD><TD class=msgNum noWrap align=right> (1 of 2) </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgleft rowSpan=4 width="1%"> </TD><TD class=wintiny noWrap align=right>19717.1 </TD></TR><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>bring entire family over. chee bye. We sg males really con into doing NS for nothing.
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He queues 3 hours for sale because...
By Elysa Chen
August 24, 2009 Print Ready Email Article
IT WAS 4am, but Mr Vijayaraghavan Guruswamy, 35, was already up.
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EARLY BIRD: Mr Vijay was there at 6.30am, three hours before the doors opened.
All because the technician wanted to get the best books for his 9-year-old son in India on the first day of the National Library Board's (NLB) annual book sale.
Despite his 90-minute journey from Bukit Panjang to the Singapore Expo, Mr Vijay was in line by 6.30am yesterday - three hours before the doors to the exhibition hall were set to open.
Grinning broadly when The New Paper on Sunday approached him while he was carefully arranging the 30 books which he had selected, Mr Vijay said: 'I want to get the maximum (number of) books for my child, who is in India.
'They are a present for him when he comes to Singapore in April next year.'
It has been a long separation for father and son, as Mr Vijay has been working in Singapore for the last 10 years. But their wait is finally over, as Mr Vijay recently got his permanent resident status, and is making arrangements for his wife and son to live here with him.
For the past decade, Mr Vijay got to see his family for only two months every year, when they flew to Singapore to visit him.
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Mr Vijay, who visits the Bukit Panjang library twice a month to borrow books on computers, said he enjoys reading and wants to encourage his son to read as well.
He was one of the 25,000 visitors who flocked to the 10th library book sale yesterday to lay their hands on some 400,000 used books and magazines at prices ranging from $1 to $5. The sale ends today.
A spokesman for the NLB said: 'The event is held every year in our continuing efforts to update the collections at the public libraries.'
This year, easy-listening music was also played to enhance the shopping experience, he added.
Many shoppers came with luggage and trolleys as each person is allowed a maximum of 60 items.
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BOOKISH TYPES: 400,000 used books and magazines were on sale for as low as $1. TNP PICTURES: CHOO CHWEE HUA
Dinosaurs
There was also Julian Chan, 4, who was perched on the shoulders of his police officer dad James Chan, 44, in search of books about 'dinosaurs, especially the T-Rex, and art'.
Others, like a 59-year-old man who wanted to be known only as Mr Tan, and his family, even had a strategy: They would target certain sections before meeting up to make payment.
Mr Tan, who has been going to the book sale for the past three years, made a beeline for the health section, his wife headed for the gardening section while his two daughters, aged 21 and 23, searched for books in the adult fiction section.
Miss Jacqueline Ho, 43, an administrator at a kindergarten, came to the sale despite her concerns about contracting the H1N1 virus with the large crowd at the exhibition hall.
Miss Ho, who was wearing a mask, said: 'It's a once-a-year event, so even though I'm a little afraid, the books are worth i
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Coffeeshop Chit Chat - neh who never serve NS get PR want to
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00 visitors
He queues 3 hours for sale because...
By Elysa Chen
August 24, 2009 Print Ready Email Article
IT WAS 4am, but Mr Vijayaraghavan Guruswamy, 35, was already up.
Click to see larger image
EARLY BIRD: Mr Vijay was there at 6.30am, three hours before the doors opened.
All because the technician wanted to get the best books for his 9-year-old son in India on the first day of the National Library Board's (NLB) annual book sale.
Despite his 90-minute journey from Bukit Panjang to the Singapore Expo, Mr Vijay was in line by 6.30am yesterday - three hours before the doors to the exhibition hall were set to open.
Grinning broadly when The New Paper on Sunday approached him while he was carefully arranging the 30 books which he had selected, Mr Vijay said: 'I want to get the maximum (number of) books for my child, who is in India.
'They are a present for him when he comes to Singapore in April next year.'
It has been a long separation for father and son, as Mr Vijay has been working in Singapore for the last 10 years. But their wait is finally over, as Mr Vijay recently got his permanent resident status, and is making arrangements for his wife and son to live here with him.
For the past decade, Mr Vijay got to see his family for only two months every year, when they flew to Singapore to visit him.
Click to see larger image
Mr Vijay, who visits the Bukit Panjang library twice a month to borrow books on computers, said he enjoys reading and wants to encourage his son to read as well.
He was one of the 25,000 visitors who flocked to the 10th library book sale yesterday to lay their hands on some 400,000 used books and magazines at prices ranging from $1 to $5. The sale ends today.
A spokesman for the NLB said: 'The event is held every year in our continuing efforts to update the collections at the public libraries.'
This year, easy-listening music was also played to enhance the shopping experience, he added.
Many shoppers came with luggage and trolleys as each person is allowed a maximum of 60 items.
Click to see larger image
BOOKISH TYPES: 400,000 used books and magazines were on sale for as low as $1. TNP PICTURES: CHOO CHWEE HUA
Dinosaurs
There was also Julian Chan, 4, who was perched on the shoulders of his police officer dad James Chan, 44, in search of books about 'dinosaurs, especially the T-Rex, and art'.
Others, like a 59-year-old man who wanted to be known only as Mr Tan, and his family, even had a strategy: They would target certain sections before meeting up to make payment.
Mr Tan, who has been going to the book sale for the past three years, made a beeline for the health section, his wife headed for the gardening section while his two daughters, aged 21 and 23, searched for books in the adult fiction section.
Miss Jacqueline Ho, 43, an administrator at a kindergarten, came to the sale despite her concerns about contracting the H1N1 virus with the large crowd at the exhibition hall.
Miss Ho, who was wearing a mask, said: 'It's a once-a-year event, so even though I'm a little afraid, the books are worth i
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