Interesting Tidbits
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. - John Dewey Headline in a local paper: Singapore in the hunt for MICE.Just as I was wondering when that interesting country got invaded by these rat-faced rodents, I read the article further down and realized that....yes....MICE is an acronym..for Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions.LOL....Now,it becomes clear. The place is being developed further, efforts to shake off it's staid image are being made in dead earnest. The logic being, the MICE visitors usually spend two to three times more than the leisure tourists,probably coz they are there on an allowance, company expenses,etc... ------------------- Another interesting article in the same paper talks about whether James Bond 007 has lost his golden gun,err,touch. With former Bond Pierce Brosnan going on record to say that the whole idea of James Bond is 'fraudulent'(What do they say about sour grapes, which is what this is all ab...