Poppy seeds are banned?

On February 28, 2006 · 16 Comments · In Eating

‘There’s no more poppy seeds in any bak­ery in Sin­ga­pore because the police will inves­ti­gate… you know? You know what poppy is used for?’

So the fella behind the counter at the Orchard Tow­ers’ Jason’s Supermarket’s Hie­s­tand Swiss Bakery’s (hooray for Apos­tro­phy Man!) kiosk told me when I asked for […]

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Mr Miyagi puts it rather squarely

On February 24, 2006 · 4 Comments · In Media

Blog­gers are self-serving, unless of course there’s a greater com­mu­nity need where it will serve the blog­ger him­self to actu­ally help out, I don’t think blog­gers will go out of their way unless they have a real altru­is­tic nature about them lah.

Yes, I said that to Jermyn Chow, the Straits Times Inter­ac­tive reporter who […]

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Bursting at the seams

On February 24, 2006 · 21 Comments · In The Ingterneck

If you were to check the sta­tis­tics for your own blog or web­site, and depend­ing on whether you had writ­ten about the lat­est thing on the inter­net, you might find some­thing like this:

Which may lead to your host­ing provider writ­ing you some­thing like this:

Hello I am writ­ing to let […]

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Rainbow Connection

On February 24, 2006 · 5 Comments · In Living


Secret Video taken near NYP

I really don’t mind buskers. But in a coun­try where you have to audi­tion before some National Arts Coun­cil panel in order to get a licence to busk, you’d some­times won­der who sits on that panel, and whether, as […]

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Vale, Sinnathamby Rajaratnam

On February 23, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In People

1915 — 2006

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Army Daze: Total Recall

On February 23, 2006 · 4 Comments · In Army / National Service

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TODAY: Living in glass houses

On February 22, 2006 · 29 Comments · In Laws of our land

Remem­ber, you shot it on your hand­phone – don’t cry if that inti­mate snap becomes pub­lic domain viewing

THIS is not new: A cou­ple record­ing them­selves hav­ing sex on video, promptly los­ing the record­ing and then reel­ing in hor­ror as it is flashed all over the Inter­net. Think Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst, […]

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Airshow parking

On February 21, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Living


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We are one

On February 19, 2006 · 7 Comments · In Laws of our land

Funny how the Chan­nel Newsa­sia text ver­sion of the inter­view man­ages to mash up quotes from mr brown and myself, then attribute them only to me. (Yes, we are doing a lot of things together, but we’re just friends, ok? Not even […]

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Don’t say we nair warn you hor?

On February 18, 2006 · 11 Comments · In Laws of our land


“This is not what I meant by video­con­fer­enc­ing!” — mr brown on 5 and Mr Miyagi on CNA

mr brown and myself were inter­viewed by Medi­a­corp news last week and our seg­ments were screened tonight sep­a­rately on Ch 5 and CNA respec­tively. We were asked our […]

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