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The Lighter
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your part and be a tourism ambassador for this country you currently
call home. In Visit Indonesia Year, join the Culture and Tourism
Board’s efforts and get your foreign friends excited about coming to
see more than just
Bali.
Buy
your tickets to next
month’s Java Jazz Festival (7-9 March). True to tradition, the popular
jazz concert event, now in its third year, assembles another
spectacular line-up that’s pure music gold. Al Jarreau, Incognito,
Earth, Wind and Fire, Lee Ritenour, Greg Adams, Lenny Castro and The
Manhattan Transfer are just a handful of the acts on this year’s
stellar guest list.
 Put
a little effort into
Valentine’s Day this year and do something – anything – that
doesn’t take a couple of minutes to plan. If you can’t bring yourself
to shell out for presents, overpriced flowers or a nice dinner, at
least resolve to do the following. Guys, pick up after yourselves on
that day and ladies, lay off the nagging for one day.
 Score
major brownie points
and surprise your mate with a romantic hotel stay. The St Regis
Jakarta won’t be ready until 2011, but here’s an idea: preview its
offerings at the newly opened St Regis Singapore instead! The 5-star
luxury hotel, located on the city’s famous shopping stretch, Orchard
Road, is guaranteed to pull out all the romantic stops for your
Valentine. If you prefer something closer to home, check out new kid
on the Bali
block, the Anantara in Seminyak Bali, scheduled to open this month.
Steel
yourself to find out
what fortunes or pitfalls lie ahead. As Chinese New Year preparations
and celebrations get underway, take a leaf from the millions of
Chinese around the world who will find out – to varying degrees – how
their fortunes will pan out in the Year of the Rat. Seek out your
Chinese horoscope at
www.proastro.com.
 Root
for your favorite
stars and movies of the past year when the 81st Academy
Awards are held on February 24. Catch the over-effusive thank you
speeches, the upsets and the fashion delights and disasters of the
night on Star World.
 Go
high-tech with your reading. Book retailer Amazon’s Kindle (US$399) is
making headlines as one of top gadgets of last year. Packing 256mb of
internal memory in its 6-inch, 289g frame, the portable e-book reader,
which also plays MP3s, allows bookworms to purchase and download
e-books from Amazon’s selection of 90,000 e-books and digital versions
of top dailies.
+ Chan Hse May
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