Angie's Junkyard*

Come on Maxis, you can do better than that!

Movies to look out for in the next month or two:

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Valkyrie
• The Pink Panther 2
• Street Fighter, The Legend of Chun Li
• Seven Pounds
• Sex Drive
• Revolutionary Road
• Confessions of a Shopperholic

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Wanna earn a top salary for lazing around a beautiful tropical island for six months including a free airfare from the winner’s home country to Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef?

The “island caretaker” will be expected to stroll the white sands, snorkel the reef, take care of “a few minor tasks” — and report to a global audience via weekly blogs, photo diaries and video updates.

The successful applicant, who will stay rent-free in a three-bedroom beach home complete with plunge pool and golf buggy, must be a good swimmer, excellent communicator and be able to speak and write English.

Applications are open until February 22nd. Eleven shortlisted candidates will be flown to Hamilton Island in early May for the final selection process and the six month contract will commence on the first of July

Job-seekers can apply on Islandreefjob.com

The Singapore Government has organised an online contest in which you stand to win a five day/four night trip to the Lion City.

To enter the Your Singapore Experience contest, participants must log on to www.your-singapore-experience.sg and take a virtual tour of the island nation and answer eight interactive multiple choice questions.

The virtual tour will include stops at local food centres and the downtown area where hidden clues can be found.

After that, contestants will be required to write about why they would like to visit Singapore in 100 words or less.

On top of a four-star hotel stay for two, daily breakfast and airport transfer, the winner along with his/her partner will be entitled to select the places to visit and meet two prominent Singaporean personalities.

The contest runs until April 5, 2009 and the winner must complete the travel between June 1 and July 15, 2009.

Some of the practical issues which you will need to consider before you decide to start working in the UK. To work legally you need the correct type of visa, and you need to be paying taxes on your earnings (both National Insurance and income tax).

In the 2008/9 tax year, the National Insurance tax rate paid by workers is:

• 0% for the first £105 per week

• 11% on income up to £770 per week

• And additional 1% on any income above £770 per week

Where as the income tax bands are as follows:

• 0% on the first £5,435 (your personal allowance, equivalent to about £105 per week, or £453 per month)

• 20% (the basic rate) on the next £36,000 (equivalent to about £692 per week, or £3,000 per month)

• 40% (the higher rate) on any income above this.

So think twice before you decide to work in the UK. For more information about tax in the UK see the HM Revenue & Customs site: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk.

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World Happenings that I can recall at the top of my mind to sum up 2008.

* The 2008 Summer Olympics took place in Beijing, China
* Barack Obama became the first African-American President
* 69,000 killed in Chengdu earth quake, China
* Never ending war in the middle east
* Bombings in India
* Price of petroleum hit $100 per barrel
* Lehman Brothers declared bankrupt
* Stock markets around the world plunge
* Bill Gates steps down
* Political crisis in Thailand
* Iphone 3G release
* Cholera crisis in zimbabwe.. *and the list goes on and on and on*

As I typed out those events one by one, I was moved by it all. The good and the bad. My heart is filled with sadness and hope for the world. May we all have a better start to this year!

the third-generation Honda City compact sedan was launched a couple of weeks ago. its got style, its classy, its practical and its fuel efficient.

the City rolls in at RM84,980 for the Grade S and RM89,980 for the Grade E.

the Grade E comes with additional paddle shifters, rear reclining seats with an underseat tray and 16-inch sport alloy wheels. totally meant for me!

i want!!! thank you daddy! lol.