Monthly Archives: December 2005

Try ecto. It’s rilly, rilly good

I like being able to com­pose blog posts even when I’m not online — though that’s quite sel­dom. And while you could use any old text edi­tor or word proces­sor to com­pose and for­mat your posts, you’d still have to do a bit of cut­ting, past­ing or click­ing here and there. So I’ve been using blog­ging

Even Hay Mee Men get the blues

The work­ing days between Christ­mas and New Year’s is either called ‘Noth­ing Week’, or ‘Non­sense Week’ by some of my more unfor­tu­nate friends. Those who have to work, that is. (Those who are on vaca­tion — Nabeh, fark orf!) If you haven’t already expe­ri­enced it, you’d have dis­cov­ered these past days that work has been really, like,

Good tidings to you

There was a thun­der­storm and a lit­tle bit of flood­ing at Hol­land Vil­lage, enough to make walk­ing to the super­mar­ket too dif­fi­cult. But thank­fully, there were other places to shop at, and Christ­mas Eve din­ner was saved. After the rain, the feast Mr Miyagi’s Christ­mas Menu: Pump­kin + Beet­root = Soup Fil­let Steak with Aubergine and Aspara­gus with Miso

O Christmas Tree

Some time ago, I spent Christ­mas Eve in Lon­don, cook­ing a din­ner of grilled salmon on pasta, fol­lowed by a dessert of cher­ries and then a bot­tle of Scotch. It snowed that night, and quite heav­ily too. I woke up Christ­mas morn­ing to take out the trash and fell on my back­side on the iced-over

Season’s Greetings II

Веселое Рождество С Новым годом More Soviet–Space-Age era New Year cards found here. Tech­no­rati Tags: Christ­mas, soviet

Oi! Sleeping Beauty!

We three queens of Ori­ent are…” It is a Christ­mas tra­di­tion to be a part of a pan­tomime. (No, really. The Chrissie Panto is a big part of Straits cul­ture). So I went and watched Wild Rice’s ‘Oi! Sleep­ing Beauty! The Wake-Up Musi­cal’ and enjoyed it tremen­dously, as I did the last time I watched their

Season’s greetings

Mr Miyagi’s Christ­mas Minute Video Card (.mov file, 1min, 2.1Mb) Sub­scribe to Mul­ti­me­dia Miyagi’s Feed: (RSS / iTunes) Tech­no­rati Tags: Christ­mas, pod­cast, sin­ga­pore, videoblog

TODAY: NKF: The big buzz

Online com­mu­nity reac­tions range from amuse­ment to out­rage IN JULY, just after the National Kid­ney Foun­da­tion (NKF) scan­dal broke, some­one started a blog called “Jus­tice For NKF Donors” (justice4nkfdonors.blogspot.com) detail­ing key points in the inves­ti­ga­tion into the man­age­ment of the char­ity organ­i­sa­tion. At time of writ­ing, that blog had not yet been updated with reac­tions

If you asked me

I’d tell you who is just as cul­pa­ble. Your friendly neigh­bour­hood broad­caster. For accept­ing NKF monies to pro­duce toopid char­ity shows. (I don’t blame any of the artistes, such as Tay Ping Hui, who are on a con­tract with our friendly neigh­bour­hood broad­caster and as a result, are oblig­ated to walk on wires wear­ing only

Very nonsense

The lat­est in wire­less gam­ing They still sell this, the most non­sen­si­cal game in the uni­verse: Hun­gry Hun­gry Hip­pos! Four plas­tic hip­pos eat­ing mar­bles. the clas­sic mar­ble munch­ing game, is viewed by many so-called experts as ‘a board game for young chil­dren.’ We beg to dif­fer, as those stuffy old ency­clo­pe­dia writ­ers obvi­ously haven’t played