Magic Hay Mee Fundoshi

On April 22, 2006 · 8 Comments · In Eating

So mrbrown is on a road trip to bring you new and excit­ing sto­ries about the Land-of-the-Crooked-Bridge-Builder-Wannabe-Then-Change-Mind (Malaysia), and I’m stuck here in Sin­ga­pore cov­er­ing new and excit­ing devel­op­ments, three at a time, about the elections.


One more week to try the moody […]

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Singapore Armed Forces Veterans’ League, you suck!

On April 21, 2006 · 32 Comments · In Army / National Service

OK, so I’m say­ing that only because I nearly made a mon­key of myself.

Last night, my mother called me and asked, ‘hey, what is this Sin­ga­pore Armed Forces Vet­er­ans’ League?’, to which I replied with my usual con­fi­dent blus­ter, “No such thing!”, which got Mum all worked up:

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Good house hunting

On April 20, 2006 · 12 Comments · In Living

For the last month, I’ve had a friend who’s a hous­ing agent help­ing us look for a place to rent. She’s hav­ing it tough, mak­ing appoint­ments only for me to break them because ‘something’s come up’, and because ‘yeee, I don’t like the place’.

But like buy­ing a car, rent­ing an apart­ment is rocket science […]

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Podcast: Jedi election special

On April 20, 2006 · 6 Comments · In Podcast

A long time ago (in 1977), I watched Star Wars at Odeon Cin­ema with my brother and sis­ter. It was the first movie we went and watched with­out adult supervision.

See lah, now can take all the non­sense and put together a podcast.

In case you get too excited, this pod­cast does not […]

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Damn you, foreign talent!

On April 19, 2006 · 3 Comments · In Living


And what’s wrong with local cricket? — From the sell­ers of Live Bites!


There’s that unmis­tak­able swag­ger that makes them more attrac­tive

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TODAY: Out of the classroom…

On April 19, 2006 · 8 Comments · In The Ingterneck

… and onto the Web – how GP teach­ers engage students

AT the blog “The Gen­eral Paper” (generalpaper.wordpress.com), Vic­to­ria Junior Col­lege (www.vjc.moe.edu.sg) teacher Hoe Gim Yau points stu­dents to Inter­net arti­cles rel­e­vant to the A level Gen­eral Paper (GP) sub­ject, telling them that […]

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What’s eating Doctor Cow

On April 18, 2006 · 2 Comments · In Eating


If it’s tasty, say Mmm­m­m­m­mmm, not Mooooooo…

“Emer­gency — pag­ing Dr. Cow — Emer­gency
Doc­tor
I’ve got this feel­ing
Deep inside of me
deep inside of me.
I just can’t con­trol my feet
When I hear the beat

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War’s over, dude!

On April 18, 2006 · 5 Comments · In Living, Places


Win­ner Col­lec­tion Items, Roxy Square, Katong


“Do not for­get the unfor­get­table! Do not for­give the unforgivable!”

It’s 1.50pm and ‘Win­ner Col­lec­tion Items’ at Roxy Square’s still not open. It’s a shop chock-full of old photo-prints and other col­lectibles which may not inter­est everyone […]

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Menotti doesn’t serve water

On April 15, 2006 · 24 Comments · In Eating

Well, they’re not the only estab­lish­ment with the no-plain-water pol­icy, I’m sure.

But woe betide the ones I patro­n­ise that don’t serve me a free glass of water after I’ve had a lob­ster lin­guine and a dou­ble espresso. To hell with your Panna sparkling mineral […]

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Singapore Dreaming

On April 14, 2006 · 4 Comments · In Media


Pres­i­dent Nathan say good!

Usu­ally, when you watch a Singapore-made film, you watch it as if you’d look at a school project, appre­ci­at­ing the effort put into the project.

Colin Goh & his wife Yen Yen’s Sin­ga­pore Dream­ing didn’t quite afford the […]

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