Looking for some souvenirs for yourself and your beloved ones?
Close to the conference venue, the Pagoda street opposite the Chinatown MRT (subway) station offers a variety of souvenir shops that you will want to explore. Generally speaking, the shop owners don’t mind if you haggle a bit. And the lines of shops will lead [...]
Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Long
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It’s great !!! SIGIR’08 is held at the same time as the durian (IPA: [ˈd(j)ʊriən, -ɑn]) season; a fruit that is unique only in this South East Asia region. Many love this fruit and even revere it as “The King of Fruits”. Many others misunderstand and loathe it so much for its “unique” odor. I [...]
Posted on July 19th, 2008 by hendrase
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Dear all, SIGIR is now in full swing. We’d like to invite yourself to blogging about SIGIR 2008 and linking back to here, through your comments and posts here.
We’ve created a generic user “sigir2008″ (with the SIGIR 2008 wireless internet password – ie “inS******2008″) to allow *you* to write up your own blog post. Please [...]
Posted on July 18th, 2008 by admin
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A couple of short tips based on others’ questions.
1. Clothes to wear. Singapore’s unofficial uniform is t-shirt-bermudas-sandals (Bermudas are the same as “shorts”). There was a recent Straits Times article on this a few week’s ago. You can go practically anywhere in this outfit. However, for dressing up and going out, [...]
Posted on July 16th, 2008 by admin
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It is interesting to note that there is a company set up to perform walking tours in Singapore in not so touristy places. It appears to me that the places mentioned in their tour itineraries seem to be good places to consider. Personally, I do not really recommend paying the fee to join their tours, [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Yee Fan
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