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Plain old trucks are usually dirty looking or just look rusty. Being a port city, it seems right to assume that we will have container trucks moving around all the time. A company in Germany actually started a competition for the be graphical art design applied on a truck. I was quite dumbfounded when I came across the article. It cracks me up quite a bit too. Here are some designs that I took a personal liking. I supposed things look a lot better after the artists takes on the truck drivers. Enjoy the designs!

I was looking through my picture collection when I came across this advertisement that is just too humorous not to share. I first saw this bus-stop shelter ad a year ago, and it has since been one of my favourite advertisements of all time.

*For overseas readers who are not sure what the heck is Mahjong, read HERE.

Fossil Watches will be having its Private Sales at Suntec City Convention Centre on the 8th of December (Saturday) from 12 noon to 8pm. Do drop by Meeting Rooms 208 and 209 for this event.

Click HERE for the invite!

Would you eat such a ‘delicacy’?

Shopping online at blog shops is popular at the moment, so is buying products from well known American brands. I was looking around some local based blog shops browsing for some Christmas shopping ideas. However, I discovered something rather alarming. When one buys something from a blog shop or a spree based in the United States, one will have to pay in greenbacks and thus, there is always the matter of currency conversion. The one I saw at PrettyDolls is a rate not seen in Singapore for quite a while. The exchange rate stated there is US$1 = S$1.60. As someone who work and deal in US dollars regularly, I would say it is hard to swallow even though it is stated that the rate is to cover shipping and other costs. The actual current exchange rate, according to XE, is US$1 = S$1.449 at this very moment. I believe that it is high time PrettyDolls revise their rates soon to match up to the market forces. MDS Collections, a online store that Cyrene reviewed last month, is operating on live rates from what I can see. That is a route that I approve. Edynae has a slightly better rate compared to PrettyDolls. It is still a some way from the live rates but I feel that it is quite acceptable.

Here’s a list of rates I managed to find on short notice:

• PrettyDolls: US$1 = S$1.60
• MDS Collections: Live Rates
• Edynae: US$1.53 = S$1.53
• The Secret Closet: Live Rates by Oanda
• Spree Organizer: US$1 = S$1.485