Monthly Archives: March 2007

There’s always time for a good nap

Jake ZZZ Some nights I sit at my desk try­ing to type up some­thing for an arti­cle, or look­ing for non­sense news online, I turn and see Jake lying on the chair behind me. He’s pretty con­tent to sleep near me most days, and he’s been a real sweetie with every­one lately. And that has

Beware the Dizziness Centre

I’d like to see the Dizzi­ness Doc­tor please That’s for when your head’s still spin­ning from dis­cov­er­ing that your friendly neigh­bour­hood 7-Eleven, which is sup­posed to be open 24 hours — wasn’t one of their taglines ‘always close but never closed’? — isn’t open 24 hours: Tau­fik was really dis­ap­pointed he could only sell Slurpees* 13

Faring well

No it’s not piss­ing down, it’s a per­for­mance. A cou­ple of ‘land­marks’ bid good bye this week — the National Sta­dium, which I dare say has more sen­ti­men­tal value than the other ‘land­mark’, the Musi­cal Foun­tain on Sen­tosa, Singapore’s Last Resort Island. Chan­nel­newsa­sia reports that ‘it staged it’s final two per­for­mances to a sell-out crowd’.

Non sequitur shopping

Unbreak­able… But if bro­ken, con­sid­ered sold Unbeat­able, orig­i­nal logic Tech­no­rati Tags: Singapore

Seat gurus

I dis­cov­ered, via SMH, this use­ful guide to air­line cabin seat­ing for many air­lines. Tells you which seats to avoid on which air­craft types on which air­lines. Use­ful only if you travel a lot lah. Which I don’t. But nice to know these things any­way, y’know? (Another guide: seatexpert.com) Tech­no­rati Tags: travel, airlines

How Ricky Martins, Bae Yong Joons and Jackie Chans are made

First they dig out the plant mate­r­ial from here: Then they put them in here: Then they put them here: Then they put them here: Then voila! Hey, presto, instant has-been stars: Don’t blame me, ‘cos that’s the only way to inter­pret the dis­plays at the Botanic Gar­dens’ orchid cul­ti­va­tion depart­ment thingie after you’ve had your first 2km+ run

What weddings are about

Ours — Style Wed­dings March 2007 I’ve men­tioned pre­vi­ously about the record num­ber of wed­dings we’ve attended the past year, and how each of them was beau­ti­ful in their own way — which is like say­ing noth­ing, really, if you think about it. But I know there’d be some among you who’d know what I mean when

Quake III

Help me! I’m ‘expe­ri­enc­ing’ vom­it­ing! And it’s not mine! We really don’t know how lucky we are some­times. An earth­quake hap­pens in Suma­tra and all we ‘expe­ri­ence’ is: “headaches, and dizzi­ness, vom­it­ing” And this makes the news on CNA because the next clos­est thing to a nat­ural dis­as­ter that we’re ‘expe­ri­enc­ing’ is this: “SINGAPORE: Up to 20 cars

Quake II

I just have to put this here. My Dad just called to see if I had fallen out of bed because of the quake, and says that he was tak­ing his cus­tom­ary walk when the quake struck, and for sev­eral moments, thought he had for­got­ten to take his Parkinson’s med­i­cine. Tech­no­rati Tags: earth­quake, Indone­sia, Singapore

Quake!

OK, I just woke up because my mother just called me to tell me that there was an earth­quake. Don’t panic. Every­thing is ok. OK? The pic­ture frame on the floor was caused by our cat, Jake, and not the quake. OK? Yahoo! Sin­ga­pore News says that some peo­ple were run­ning, scream­ing from office tow­ers