Monthly Archives: August 2006

Let’s do it

What was going through my mind when my wife and I exchanged vows? A lot. I was wracked with nerves. So much that I stum­bled on my words, as did the beau­ti­ful bride before me as we clutched each other’s hands so tightly we left nail marks on each other’s knuck­les. It was only two …

August 31, 2006 – 12:12 pm | By | Posted in Living | Tagged | View Comments

Weekend gone to the dogs

Doggy takes a cat nap Bat­tling to stay awake and alert because of a flu is not a good way to spend a week­end. So it was good that there was some­thing to do to ame­lio­rate the mug­gi­ness. There’s this soci­ety called ‘Action for Sin­ga­pore Dogs’ that takes in stray and aban­doned dogs and fos­ters them …

August 29, 2006 – 10:59 am | By | Posted in Laws of our land, Living | Tagged | View Comments

No shit, Sherlock!

How about the relent­less bar­rage of infor­ma­tion in our local papers about how impor­tant for­eign tal­ents are, and how happy the ones who are already here are? No? Doesn’t get your goat? Then read about how our Apache pilots find train­ing in Sin­ga­pore so dif­fer­ent from the Ari­zona desert: … And where you call the …

August 27, 2006 – 12:00 am | By | Posted in Living | Tagged | View Comments

Separated at birth

Jimmy Neu­tron: Boy Genius Joakim Gomez: Sin­ga­pore Idol Contestant

August 26, 2006 – 12:01 am | By | Posted in Media | Tagged | View Comments

How I use my Nokia N73

Note: The Nokia N73 was very kindly given to me and a few other blog­gers to use and pro­vide feed­back The macro set­tings are the best I’ve seen on any phone I was only kid­ding about the phone cam­era not being able to take pic­tures of fire­works, but thank you all who have offered use­ful infor­ma­tion …

August 25, 2006 – 2:07 pm | By | Posted in Toys | Tagged | View Comments

In Parliament tonight

Join us in Par­lia­ment. One night only. (You think they’d let us stay any longer? Siao!) Tech­no­rati Tags: Mr Miyagi, mrbrown, Nation­al­Day, NDP06, pod­cast, pod­cast­ing, singapore

August 24, 2006 – 2:19 pm | By | Posted in Media | Tagged | View Comments

Your English also temporary out of service lah!

The Speak Good Eng­lish Cam­paign may be work­ing. But the Write Eng­lish Just As Good one hasn’t been launched yet, which explains this sign at Changi Air­port Ter­mi­nal One: COMPUTER SYSTEM IS TEMPORARY OUT OF SERVICE. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCED CAUSED I’m not even going to ask why there’s a semi-permanent plac­ard that announces com­puter break­downs. …

August 23, 2006 – 4:58 pm | By | Posted in Places | Tagged | View Comments

The biggest day of our lives so far

Thanks for your well-wishes and con­grat­u­la­tions, if you’ve made any. Me and my wife, wife! Yes, wife! … …me and my wife are recov­er­ing from the wed­ding, and we’ll be return­ing to work in the morn­ing. But oh what a Sun­day, and oh, what a wed­ding! Friends and fam­ily alike know that this was a ‘sim­ple …

August 23, 2006 – 12:04 am | By | Posted in Living | Tagged | View Comments

Many miles to go

And many more cof­fee breaks on the way I’m hav­ing a week like no other doing stuff for the wed­ding cer­e­monies. Like doing last minute arrange­ments with florists, last minute arrange­ments with the cater­ers, and last minute arrange­ments with the pho­tog­ra­phers. I read some­where that a day’s lack of sleep can cause your IQ to drop …

August 15, 2006 – 12:47 am | By | Posted in Eating | Tagged | View Comments

Nearly driving into the sea

South Stack, North Wales About ten years ago, I got lost try­ing to get to my cousins’ farm­house in North Wales and nearly drove all the way into the sea. ‘It’s called Fferam Bai­ley, Benny, you can’t miss it’, said my uncle who was try­ing to give me direc­tions as I drove north­west from Lon­don. Por­ing through …

August 14, 2006 – 1:01 am | By | Posted in Places | Tagged | View Comments