We’d trade in slaves if we could

On April 14, 2006 · 22 Comments · In Places


5-day weeks are for civil ser­vants. Other kinds of ser­vants aren’t so lucky.

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Just stick your hand in

On April 13, 2006 · 7 Comments · In Living


From the sell­ers of ‘Frog Pieces’…

It is most expen­sive to be bit­ten by a Jumbo Super­worm, at $4 a go.

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TODAY: Beauty, brains and cups

On April 12, 2006 · 12 Comments · In The Ingterneck

Blog­gers take their turn as judges of the Miss Sin­ga­pore Uni­verse contest

THE “authors’ note” on Sin­ga­pore Beauty (singaporebeauty.com) states that the blog is a col­lec­tion of ugly hap­pen­ings in Sin­ga­pore, because “Sin­ga­pore is not only beau­ti­ful, it is ugly at the same time”.

I am not sure if that […]

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Chopped frog

On April 11, 2006 · 14 Comments · In Living


Sign at acquar­ium on East Coast Road

I asked if they were cheaper whole, but he wouldn’t enter­tain me. Maybe they were pre-chopped and bagged already.

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WTF! Show Previews: Switch Campaign spoof

On April 9, 2006 · 17 Comments · In Podcast

Really, we’re just fans of Apple’s ‘Switch’ cam­paign, and we’re not tying any hous­ing issue to any elec­toral thinga­ma­jig par­lia­men­tarary mandatory.

Don’t say we nair warn you har, the fella in Par­lia­ment already say, Elec­tion Time can­not pod­cast elec­tion thing. Sim­ple. Just remember, […]

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Spam scam alert

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

Please do not open any email titled ‘Check it out’ from me or your any of your acquain­tances. It’s a spam scam, and this is how it works:

The body con­tains the text: “Sign up so we can play http://followhere01.com/go.asp?id=1&sourceid=&friend=SomeName”.

And any stu­pid idiots that receive that email (and I am your […]

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10pm, Zion Road

On April 8, 2006 · 6 Comments · In Eating


101 ways to pass the time

It’s just past 10pm at the slip road off Zion Road, and I want to think that the Uncle sit­ting at the cof­fee shop giv­ing a run­ning com­men­tary on the scene on the road is just passing time.

The cof­fee shop’s empty save for the […]

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Mmmm donuts…

On April 8, 2006 · 40 Comments · In Eating, Places

I’m still won­der­ing why Sin­ga­porean taste­buds never got used to Dunkin’ Donuts, while multi-millionaires have been made out of their (dunkin donuts’, not taste­buds’) fran­chisees in Indone­sia and Malaysia.

They are good donuts, you know? And you can get them on sev­eral North South High­way (PLUS) pit-stops between here […]

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Time flies (Happy Belated Birthday)

On April 7, 2006 · 7 Comments · In The Ingterneck

And I for­got last Sun­day was the 2nd anniver­sary of this here blog. Yay. Happy Birth­day, Curiosa Felicitas!

What I said last year
What I said the year before

Surf stop: Flickr Pho­tos April 2005

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TODAY: What’s all the podding fuss about?

On April 5, 2006 · 13 Comments · In The Ingterneck

Meta: It was a busy news day yes­ter­day, at least for mrbrown and myself, when news­rooms in Sin­ga­pore and abroad began work­ing on the Balaji-No-Podcast state­ment story. Good thing I’ve got free incom­ing calls on my mobile. I also found it funny that I had to tell some reporters to keep it […]

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