Asia Blog Awards 2004:

Best HK Blog

Best Main­land China Blog

Best Korea Blog

Best Tai­wan Blog

Best Sin­ga­pore Blog

Best Malaysia Blog

Best Thai Blog

Best Indone­sia Blog

Best Japan Blog

Best Philip­pines Blog

Best India Blog

Best […]

From the Syd­ney Morn­ing Her­ald:

At Banda Aceh air­port yes­ter­day a Ger­man air offi­cer was try­ing to find out who could arrange slots for aero­planes car­ry­ing a field hos­pi­tal, while Aus­tralian and US air force per­son­nel began build­ing a tem­po­rary ply­wood air traf­fic con­trol tower that has no radar.

Banda Aceh’s air traf­fic control […]

Maybe I’ve had as good a chuckle as when I read the quote ‘If Eng­lish was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for you’, but Xiaxue’s lat­est get-back at one of her detrac­tors, in her own inim­itable way (don’t argue ok, I say inim­itable means inim­itable) has got […]

So the first work week of the year rolls on, and at least some of us got off to a colour­ful start. Should get me some Ger­man house­mates. Then again, bet­ter not. I’m still recov­er­ing from my flat­mates from five years ago.

But yes, I’ve been a busy man this week, so […]

Saman­tha, Sam for short, called me as I was com­plet­ing my pre­vi­ous blog entry, and imme­di­ately launched into a tirade about me chang­ing my phone number.

“I had your num­ber mem­o­rized for the past two years, now I have to scroll down to check if it’s the right per­son I’m call­ing, can you change back […]

I’ve always told my non-NS or for­eign friends that the Sin­ga­pore Armed Forces are good at organ­is­ing stuff, and they’re doing a ster­ling job at the moment at tsunami dis­as­ter sites in Thai­land and Indone­sia. Of course, if you’ve watched the news, so are the armed forces of the

This is an excel­lent mantra:

“I didn’t come here to think. I came here for you to think, then tell me what to think.”

Oh, but there are peo­ple who think. Or rather, peo­ple who have been taught to think, and think that a blog is all about bal­anced viewpoints […]

This is one pro­posed regional hub I sup­port, when pre­vi­ously I would’ve backed a push to cap the num­ber of hubs (hub­cap, ged­dit, geddit?):

Sin­ga­pore offers to be UN regional dis­as­ter coordination hub

SINGAPORE : Sin­ga­pore has offered to be the United Nations’ regional tsunami dis­as­ter coor­di­na­tion cen­tre, extend­ing its offer of […]

I tried telling Steve that the New Year isn’t going to be as bleak as he thought it would be, and he went, ‘Oh yeah? That’s what you said last year (2003), and look what happened?’.

Then he tells me how mis­er­ably stu­pid he thinks he’s been, because he waited […]

iTunes’ party shuf­fle is play­ing a copy of: Love Comes Tum­bling — U2 — B-Sides 1980–1990, of which I have the orig­i­nal CD and there­fore didn’t steal music.

My all-time favourite sports jour­nal­ist has a round-up of the best sport­ing moments of 2004 in his col­umn ‘The Fitz Files’, in […]