The lat­est drama to grip Sin­ga­pore, once again, had an ele­ment of adventure-in-the-tropics. It involved a hith­erto sat­is­fied cit­i­zen of our isle doing what she was sup­posed to do: be a sat­is­fied cit­i­zen. She just sud­denly went berserk, flew her coop and headed hel­ter skel­ter for free­dom. Trag­i­cally, folk who do this seldom […]

I only just realised that the two dis­pensers in the shower stalls, one marked “Mois­tur­iz­ing Sham­poo” and the other “Shower Gel”, dis­pense the same thing. (I swapped, using the gel to sham­poo and the sham­poo to shower, and like I sus­pected, no dis­cernible difference).

Because I pay only a measly $800 a year for membership, […]

I’ve just come home from sup­per insti­gated by a friend who’s recently returned from Aus­tralia after hav­ing com­pleted his fly­ing stud­ies there. He’s still very much get­ting reac­quainted with local food, and to our detri­ment, has been egging us on to eat out with him every other night.

Gain­fully unem­ployed because of his unfor­tu­nate dis­tinc­tion of […]

Post Script

We did lose grandma’s grave, and only dis­cov­ered that last year.

I found the nail­clip­per. Relief is at hand.

My father once told me never to clip nails at night. He said it in such a tone I mis­took it for a super­sti­tion. Like “never point at the moon (or your ears will fall off)”. Yes. Huh? Most of my friends have never heard of this one […]

I can’t sleep. I am aware I have a tongue.

I’m very glad I bought “A Short His­tory of Nearly Every­thing”, because it’s the most inter­est­ing book I ‘ve read in a while. I’d have said it was ‘unput­down­able’, but it isn’t, because it is quite heavy. Not only will you become quite […]

It’s Mon­day, but I think I had a good day at the office, fol­lowed by a good hour and a half at the gym, fol­lowed by a good din­ner cooked by, of all peo­ple, my mother.
She had been hav­ing a bad run with cabin fever set­ting in good and […]

Funny how the google ad ban­ner is blank at this point. I know I must have been damned gor­blok not to realise the google ban­ner shows ads based on key­words their search engine finds on the page.

Yes­ter­day it adver­tised for pest con­trol products here.

And just now when I was brows­ing someone’s blog, and found that […]

I don’t know what to write about!

Not that much has hap­pened over the week­end, and the things that did occur are hardly note­wor­thy. I did spend an inor­di­nate amount of time fid­dling with putting some bells and whis­tles on the page, so maybe that’s why noth­ing else happened.

There are still ants on and […]

This after­noon, I reverse-parked the tank against shrub­bery grow­ing on the fence at Chatsworth School, and twenty colonies of ants decided today was a good day for an exo­dus, and the tank looked like the Promised Land. Three hours later, there are sev­eral black masses (which l for­tu­nately man­aged to pick out against the dark […]