T-shirts can be hazardous at work

On February 10, 2006 · 10 Comments · In Living

I didn’t bring a change of shirt to teach class on Wednes­day, so I taught in my work t-shirt — one of those with a funky slo­gan on it.

One of the kids in the class — a nine-year old, read the slo­gan and asked:

“How do you “do people”?

I went ‘har?’ a […]

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Congratulations, Hossan

On February 9, 2006 · 2 Comments · In Living

2006 Life! The­atre Awards Best Sup­port­ing Actor nom­i­na­tion for ‘What Big Bombs You Have’.

How come you get lomi­lated for some play I didn’t even hear about?

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What would you put your good fortune towards?

On February 9, 2006 · 14 Comments · In Living

Have you seen the queues at the bet­ting shops? Nuts!

But maybe later I’ll go to the one down­stairs of my office and get me some tick­ets at a chance to win one of them ‘Hong­bao Jack­pot’ things. If I win, I’ll either take my for­tune to buy pop­corn at the cin­ema, or buy a […]

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TODAY: Blogging and the elections

On February 8, 2006 · 2 Comments · In The Ingterneck

Will blog­gers fall foul of ‘elec­tion advertising?’

Who’s step­ping down? Who’s mov­ing up? Who’s being moved to another ward?

Yes, we’re talk­ing about the com­ing Gen­eral Elections.

Are blog­gers talk­ing about it? You bet! Should they talk about it? We’ll see.

Read more at TODAY­on­line [pdf][txt]

Tech­no­rati […]

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Sing a song, buy some roses, Valentine’s Day is nigh

On February 8, 2006 · 4 Comments · In Living

You’ll notice on my side­bar sev­eral small adver­tise­ments, one of which is for a gift voucher com­pany that is offer­ing spe­cial Valentine’s Day pack­ages. I met up with the blokes who run the com­pany, and they told me sev­eral inter­est­ing things about the Valentine’s Day retail (sucker) busi­ness. I’ll be shar­ing these […]

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The very bearable lightness of Beng

On February 5, 2006 · 15 Comments · In Living

You must, you must, you must watch Broad­way Beng. Spare $35 — $50 and an hour and a half of either Mon­day or Tues­day night, and let Sebas­t­ian Tan make you laugh till your sides hurt.

It is odd, this ‘con­cept’ — as Sebas­t­ian calls the idea […]

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I are not allowed to study English

On February 5, 2006 · 3 Comments · In Living



No study­ing allowed — that are how we train staff…

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You spam me, I ridicule you

On February 4, 2006 · 7 Comments · In The Ingterneck

I know it’s hard try­ing to mar­ket your ser­vices, and some­times you’ll stop at noth­ing to prop­a­gate infor­ma­tion about your own company.

But if you send me unso­licited email, speow my com­pany name wrongly and show that your grammar’s nosso good…

I laugh at you lor. Loud loud.

Hahaha.

Nabeh. […]

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And how things change

On February 3, 2006 · 8 Comments · In Living, The Ingterneck

I’ve just man­aged to migrate (or ’cause to migrate’) all my old posts from the blogspot site to here. As expected, I made a big mess, and there are uncat­e­go­rized dupli­cate posts ollovuh the place.

It’s easy to tear your hair out over these lit­tle things, and […]

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Being forced to dress up for the occasion is not always a good thing

On February 3, 2006 · 4 Comments · In At home, Living

iTunes is play­ing an <a href=“http://www.ipos.gov.sg/main/index.html” onclick=“javascript:_gaq.push([’_trackEvent’,‘outbound-article’,‘http://www.ipos.gov.sg’]);urchinTracker(“/outbound/www.ipos.gov.sg’);” onclick=“javascript:_gaq.push([’_trackEvent’,‘outbound-article’,‘http://www.ipos.gov.sg’]);urchinTracker(“/outbound/www.ipos.gov.sg’);”>illegal copy of Don’t Let The Green Grass Fool You from the album “Ran­dom Tracks” by <a href=“http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Wilson Pickett%22″ […]

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