Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tips. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

How to Ride a Taxi Free in Singapore

The taxi companies in Singapore have this customer friendly policy that if the taxi driver cannot make changes for the big note you paid, you have the right NOT to pay. Usually you can only get 50 dollar notes from ATM machines, so little chance a drive cannot find changes for such a "small" note. However, although rarely used, a 1000 dollar note can be obtained from a bank counter... Now, you know how...

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

走遍全球

我是在欢欢家吃火锅(离开洛桑前的farewell party)听他们讲欧洲旅游的事情的时候知道这套书的。当时竹子姐姐说 他们去西班牙的事情,去之前看了这本书上面说那边抢钱骗人的几种手段和对策,其中一种和他们后来遭遇到的一模一样。说是在电梯里面,门快要开之前会有人故 意洒下一把硬币,弯下腰去捡而把要抢的人堵在电梯里面。他们遇到了同样的事情,竹子姐姐警惕性高,在电梯门关上之前一个人挤了出去,留下可怜的继勇哥和另 外一个同去的男同志,被后面的无数只手抢了包。想想如果大家都看过这个书,就可以避免这样的悲剧,出去玩之前有所准备,也就不会坏了兴致。那套书细致的程 度,到乘坐交通工具做哪一边可以看到比较好的景色都有。问了下书的名字,在心里面默念100遍,记下来,以后一定要买一套收藏 :-D

Friday, October 22, 2004

如有必要

正如zz所言,blogger,甚至是任何一个blog,似乎都缺少一个分类的功能。所以为了分类,就只能创建多个风格各异的blog,然后link起来。这样做似乎比较浪费宝贵的命名空间,就像wildcat和wildcatty已经被人用了,无奈之下只能用了这个wildwildcat -- 一只更加疯的猫。疯字的斜音是“风”,就当是自己或是朋友们风行的gallary吧。