Monthly Archives: October 2006

Bless the squire and his relations

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 school?” My school­mate thought

Kids say the darndest things

Xiaxue? But good job, girl, for get­ting Insane Poly­gons Police of which I have the orig­i­nal CD. Tech­no­rati Tags: <a href=“http://www.technorati.com/tag/wee shu min” rel=“tag” onclick=“javascript:_gaq.push([’_trackEvent’,‘outbound-article’,‘www.technorati.com’]);urchinTracker(“/outbound/www.technorati.com’);”>wee shu min, <a href=“http://www.technorati.com/tag/Singapore” rel=“tag” onclick=“javascript:_gaq.push([’_trackEvent’,‘outbound-article’,‘www.technorati.com’]);urchinTracker(“/outbound/www.technorati.com’);”>Singapore

Thanks to lifts, my face is planted

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 she saw the new face of Clar­ins adorn­ing their

Hearty Halloween

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 Bits and Pieces iTunes is play­ing

Mr Miyagi can catch fly with chopstick, can do anything

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 James Cotton/Kenny Wayne Shep­herd of which I have the orig­i­nal CD. Tech­no­rati Tags:

Dawn of realisation

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 across it. When a

Lye, Jake Lye

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

Viva Vivo City

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 a Gap.

As regards the mrbrown show

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 it’s time to move on to other things. But it’s been a great year

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

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 din­ner money from. Above the