Monthly Archives: March 2006

Question 24

I’ve been told I don’t answer ques­tions. Not by keep­ing silent, but by say­ing some­thing totally unre­lated (and infu­ri­at­ing). Exem­pli Gra­tia: Q: What is your favourite colour? A: OK. I’ve just realised my over­whelm­ing ten­dency to do this qual­i­fies me for a job at one of our nation’s finest cor­po­ra­tions. You know? The one that …

March 30, 2006 – 5:43 pm | By | Posted in The Ingterneck | Tagged | View Comments

Climate of fear no more!

miyagi.sg — for answers to all the ques­tions you were afraid to ask So there’s a cou­ple in Sin­ga­pore who want to spice up their sex life by sup­ple­ment­ing it with some equip­ment, and what do they do? Google the ques­tion, ‘are we allowed to buy sex toy’. Allow Mr Miyagi to inform all and sundry that …

March 30, 2006 – 2:09 am | By | Posted in The Ingterneck | Tagged | View Comments

TODAY: Vigilante justice, blogger-style

Have com­puter will con­demn – poor car park­ers be warned YOU’RE look­ing for a park­ing space at Sun­tec City and there it is — a red Sub­aru parked across two lots. Makes your blood boil, doesn’t it? Now, you can take a pic­ture of the offend­ing car and send it to Park­ing Idiots in Sin­ga­pore (parkingidiots.blogspot.com), …

March 29, 2006 – 10:41 am | By | Posted in The Ingterneck | Tagged | View Comments

Promoting criminal activity should be criminal

March 28, 2006 – 1:28 am | By | Posted in Laws of our land | Tagged | View Comments

Podcast: wonders of singapore 1, katong

Katong is a much vaunted sub­urb. The peo­ple who live out here and here­abouts are dead proud of the area and are so blase about its many lit­tle quirks that they pre­tend that it’s noth­ing out of the ordi­nary when some­one from any other, less inter­est­ing, part of Sin­ga­pore say some­thing along the lines of …

March 27, 2006 – 6:26 pm | By | Posted in Places | Tagged , | View Comments

Congratulations, Mark & Bea

25 March 2006: Mark Rich­mond & Beat­rice Chia, Fairy Point, Singapore.

March 27, 2006 – 3:00 am | By | Posted in People | Tagged | View Comments

Gotta love this ingterneck II!

Some­one feels a lit­tle low, per­haps, and googles the term ‘Things that make me smile’. And it is very grat­i­fy­ing to see one post from this blog pop up in the results. Although I hope if that per­son clicked through, he or she felt bet­ter. Or else. Oh shit. Damn. OK. Not my fault. You …

March 26, 2006 – 3:36 am | By | Posted in The Ingterneck | Tagged | View Comments

The Banned Wagon

It can be dif­fi­cult liv­ing in a place where your per­sonal life is gov­erned by, well, just gov­erned. And by per­sonal life, I mean, things that you do in your pri­vate sphere that won’t harm other peo­ple, and by that, I mean, it fol­lows that it wouldn’t, or shouldn’t, by any means, be a crime. Now, …

March 25, 2006 – 1:36 am | By | Posted in Laws of our land | Tagged | View Comments

Gotta love this ingterneck!

Link­ing here and there can be fun!

March 24, 2006 – 8:47 pm | By | Posted in The Ingterneck | Tagged | View Comments

Sing me a song, yellow piano man

There are some songs whose lyrics I often mess up and my friends don’t tell me I’ve messed them up, just so they get a good laugh every time I sing it. But of course, even­tu­ally I find out Billy Joel didn’t ask the ‘Yel­low Piano Man’ to sing him a song; and The Black Crowes …

March 24, 2006 – 11:39 am | By | Posted in Living | Tagged | View Comments