Monthly Archives: June 2006

Mari kita bomb dia!

It’s com­fort­ing to know that no mat­ter how objec­tion­able one finds one’s country’s senior statesmen’s state­ments, the neigh­bour­ing country’s senior states­men always man­age to trump ours. …(the) MIGs are given, are sold to us with­out any con­di­tion, if you feel like bomb­ing Sin­ga­pore, for exam­ple, the Rus­sians are not going to object… …But this great air­craft

Materials engineering breakthrough

A metal detec­tor made from ‘mobile phone cum’ would pique your inter­est wouldn’t it? Espe­cially if news of which is seen sit­ting innocu­ously on Chan­nel Newsasia’s main page, egging you to click through: Tech­no­rati Tags: singapore

Podcast: Resident Smilers

You are a World Bank and IMF del­e­gate. You arrive at your meet­ing venue, greeted by 4 mil­lion smil­ing cit­i­zens. You greet them back, they keep smil­ing. You ignore them, they keep smil­ing.… something’s not right. This mrbrown show is spon­sored by yearbook.com.sg, Singapore’s very own “School Reunions” site. Pod­cast: the mrbrown show 30 June 2006:

More Engrish is mean more authentic!

Kong-Kong Cook W. Bean Cured Sauce! He never have to see doc­tor again! And fire the bean curd skin while we’re at it! And if that doesn’t work, go for Elancyl’s ‘new’ Lipo Reducer! No more non-specific flat stom­achs for me! Tech­no­rati Tags: sin­ga­pore, singlish

TODAY: TODAY hacked, it’s on your phone

‘Hack­ers’ use RSS to sati­ate their appetites for news-on-demand I’VE writ­ten about RSS feeds and how blog­gers use them to “syn­di­cate” their con­tent for read­ers, who don’t have to actu­ally visit their sites to get their updates. I’d attempt to explain RSS (which stands for Really Sim­ple Syn­di­ca­tion), but I think it’s bet­ter left to

Podcast: Guaranteed Risk-free Career

SM Goh recently said that Group Rep­re­sen­ta­tion Con­stituen­cies, or GRCs, play a role in con­vinc­ing able and suc­cess­ful young Sin­ga­pore­ans to risk their careers for pol­i­tics. But this does not mean that GRC stands for Guar­an­teed Risk-free Career, lah. This mrbrown show is spon­sored by yearbook.com.sg, Singapore’s very own “School Reunions” site. Pod­cast: the mrbrown

MPs’ behaviour hard to stomach

Pan­de­mo­nium broke out in Taiwan’s par­lia­ment when deputies attacked a woman col­league for snatch­ing and try­ing to eat a proposal

Flickr Bits & Pieces

Use­ful Flickr tools for blog­gers: Link

Gays, free ice cream, and Taufik

There was an “I Love Chil­dren Fam­ily Car­ni­val 2006″ at the East Coast Park on Sun­day. There were also radio adver­tise­ment spots, in which a lit­tle girl is heard to tell Mummy that “there’ll be gays, free ice cream and clowns”, and that “Sin­ga­pore Idol Tau­fik will be there too”. So, in cel­e­bra­tion of “National (We

It’s not so hairy

If you fol­low mrbrown and get a hair­cut with him, be pre­pared to be the only non-teenagers in the salon besides the hair­dressers. Be also pre­pared that your hair­cut will be quite radical-looking. Com­ments on the hair­cut included ‘Cock-Star Super­nova’, ‘Drag­onball’ and ‘Sonic the Hedged Hog’. The name of the place is ‘It’s Hairy!’, which