Bless the squire and his relations

On October 31, 2006 · 32 Comments · In The Ingterneck

Once, when I was in junior col­lege, the dis­ci­pline mas­ter rep­ri­manded a school­mate for hav­ing his shirt tucked out while school was still in ses­sion. He said to the errant boy, “How dare you walk around with your shirt tucked out like that? What do you think this is? Your grandfather’s […]

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Kids say the darndest things

On October 30, 2006 · 9 Comments · In The Ingterneck

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Thanks to lifts, my face is planted

On October 30, 2006 · 8 Comments · In Living

Maybe, just maybe, Clar­ins Sin­ga­pore’s mar­ket­ing peo­ple have got­ten it wrong by get­ting Fiona Xie to be their new face.

A friend of ours was shop­ping for facial prod­ucts, and Clar­ins was on of the options she was con­sid­er­ing before she stepped out to shop, but when […]

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Hearty Halloween

On October 29, 2006 · 5 Comments · In Eating, Living

There are many Sin­ga­pore­ans who can­not pro­nounce the word ‘pump­kin’. But Naomi and I love a good pump­kin soup, and there are sev­eral restau­rants here that serve a really good bowl, even if the wait­ing staff repeats your order, telling you that you’ve ordered two ‘Pungkim Shoop’

Pic­ture via

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Mr Miyagi can catch fly with chopstick, can do anything

On October 28, 2006 · 2 Comments · In Living

If you’re not too busy this week­end, try hyp­no­tis­ing some flies to, um, do stuff.

Or you could try this.

Or not.

iTunes is play­ing an ille­gal copy of The Spi­der and the Fly from the album “Michael: Music from the Motion Pic­ture” by

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Dawn of realisation

On October 27, 2006 · 2 Comments · In Eating

For more than four years, I’ve been buy­ing my take­away cof­fees from the Impe­r­ial Cafe & Pub on McCal­lum Street, and it’s only just now that I realised why the tables and chairs are placed so that patrons who dine in get to face McCal­lum Street and the silver-grey office block […]

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Lye, Jake Lye

On October 27, 2006 · 2 Comments · In People

Con­grat­u­la­tions are in order to Diana “Get Real” Ser and James “Vir­tual Real­ity Man” Lye on the birth of their son, Jake.

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Viva Vivo City

On October 26, 2006 · 13 Comments · In Living

I have seen the future of retail in Sin­ga­pore and it is big. And looks like any other mall in the U.S. or Aus­tralia. Or Malaysia. Or Tai­wan. Or Thai­land. Or every other coun­try in the world I’ve been to.

But no, just because it’s big doesn’t mean Vivo City is soul­less. It’s got […]

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As regards the mrbrown show

On October 25, 2006 · 129 Comments · In Media, Podcast

To Terry, Kor­m­man­dos, Anni­brow, James and every­one else who’ve noticed and emailed me lately ask­ing why I haven’t been heard on the mrbrown show. Thanks for asking.

Well, I haven’t been on the mrbrown show for a few weeks now because […]

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In case of emergency, break glass, take key, unlock cabinet, take out fire extinguisher, and, hey, where da fire go?

On October 24, 2006 · 2 Comments · In Living

Because our friendly bank tells us to look out for, among other things, sus­pi­cious objects attached to the card slot of their ATMs which may be used to ‘skim’ your ATM card details, me and my wife noticed this cab­i­net attached (or merely adja­cent) to the ATM I was with­draw­ing our […]

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