Monthly Archives: February 2006

Poppy seeds are banned?

‘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 buns with poppy seeds on them. Is …

February 28, 2006 – 12:05 am | By | Posted in Eating | Tagged , | View Comments

Mr Miyagi puts it rather squarely

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 …

February 24, 2006 – 9:19 pm | By | Posted in Media | Tagged , | View Comments

Bursting at the seams

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 you know that I had to …

February 24, 2006 – 11:13 am | By | Posted in The Ingterneck | Tagged | View Comments

Rainbow Connection

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 part of the National Envi­ron­men­tal Agency’s char­ter, if the use of ampli­fiers …

February 24, 2006 – 12:12 am | By | Posted in Living | Tagged | View Comments

Vale, Sinnathamby Rajaratnam

1915 — 2006

February 23, 2006 – 11:02 am | By | Posted in People | Tagged | View Comments

Army Daze: Total Recall

February 23, 2006 – 3:46 am | By | Posted in Army / National Service | Tagged , | View Comments

TODAY: Living in glass houses

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, think Paris Hilton. …

February 22, 2006 – 12:41 pm | By | Posted in Laws of our land | Tagged , , | View Comments

Airshow parking

Tech­no­rati Tags: air­show, Asian Aero­space, singapore

February 21, 2006 – 7:47 pm | By | Posted in Living | View Comments

We are one

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 a Broke­back Hill here.) We also spoke about pod­cast­ing and how much fun we’re …

February 19, 2006 – 9:42 pm | By | Posted in Laws of our land | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Don’t say we nair warn you hor?

“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 views as regards blog­ging and pod­cast­ing about the upcom­ing Gen­eral …

February 18, 2006 – 10:56 pm | By | Posted in Laws of our land | Tagged | View Comments