UK and Europe are currently facing the cold front. To captured our current condition, I've taken the above shot on Saturday (04 Feb 2012).

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If you love shopping you will like Manchester Arndale. After the riots that spread from London in August 2011, many places around Manchester have setup different activities to show their love for the place. The UK's largest inner-city shopping centre - Manchester Arndale - has also started its Love Manchester Arndale wall - A colourful display of post-it notes.

Missing out being in Singapore during the current General Elections (GE), I viewed most of it over the Web. However, depending on where you get our information about the GE, the information covered varies. So I've decided to tabulate the past 7 seven days (28 April to 04 May) online articles by the 4 mainstream Singapore media Websites -- The Straits Times, Channel News Asia, Yahoo Singapore and AsiaOne.

The compilation was based on articles published from the party’s perspective. If an article covers more than one party’s perspective, an article count will be given to all parties involved.

I realized that the media coverage do vary quite a bit when comparing The Straits Times (ST) and Channel News Asia (CNA) coverage. Articles covering parties such as Singapore People's Party (SPP) and Workers' Party (WP) doubles in CNA. The results suggest that if want broader and in depth coverage of the general election, CNA, Yahoo Singapore and AsiaOne are better.

Recently on MSN Travel, Tamara Hinson published an article listing the 10 cleanest cities in the world. The 10 cities include:

1. Edinburgh, Scotland
2. Minneapolis, US
3. Oslo, Norway
4. Ottawa, Canada
5. Singapore
6. Dublin, Ireland
7. Calgary, Canada
8. Stockholm, Sweden
9. Philadelphia, US
10. Truro, Cornwall, England

Proud to be a Singaporean, my country is in the list! However I found this list uncertain. Breaking down this information, 9 out of 10 countries are from both Europe and North America. What about Japan? Have Tamera miss Japan out? I'm very sure Japan is known by many as one of the cleanest place on earth. May be a more detailed list including, probably, the top 50 cities should be provided to explain how the judging was conducted.

Bad weather, airport closure, warning against non-essential travel and you are due to travel soon(just like me). We have all seen these news surfacing almost daily. So how should you be prepared?

We all have heard of the horrible stories of someone stuck over night at the airport, and you don't want to find yourself in that situation. Should I carry along some snacks just in case I'm stuck in that situation(touch wood I hope not)? If I am travelling alone how can I protect myself as well as my belongings when I need to take a nap? Should I carry more cash? What else should I pack to be ready for that journey. Well let's hope it will not happen to me.