Monthly Archives: April 2007

Go Aussie!

”—Reli­gion—” by kinginex­ile No, really. Enough already! Go! Con­grat­u­la­tions on your fourth Cricket World Cup, and your third in a row, even though the grand final ended in a farce, and the real action was where the Lankans watched from home. Tech­no­rati Tags: aus­tralia, cricket world cup, sin­ga­pore, Sport, Sri Lanka

Separate pots

Today’s Spe­cial: Melt­ing Pot I’m think­ing that if we must remain cos­mopoli­tan, then we’d bet­ter do away with the damn Hua Yu Cool cam­paigns, or at least, match that with Bahasa Bagus and Tamil Ter­rific cam­paigns. Else we’re quite damned to becom­ing a mostly Chi­nese chau­vin­is­tic soci­ety with no respect for our cos­mopoli­tan her­itage. I say

24 hours of Flickr

If you’re a Flickr user, you prob­a­bly already know about this. How about we all par­tic­i­pate — and see what 24 hours on 5th May in Sin­ga­pore looks like? Excerpt from Flickr: …To cel­e­brate this global com­mu­nity, we invite you to join us in 24 Hours of Flickr, a day-long global photo project. On May 5

If I can dream

Last night, I watched (sev­eral times because on Star World, they repeat pro­grams all day long — negat­ing the need for a smart tv set top box but that’s another story alto­gether) one of the most breath­tak­ing things I’ve watched on tele­vi­sion: the duet on Amer­i­can Idol between Elvis Pres­ley and Celine Dion, the clip

Eating well

I’ve decided to ask some of my friends to come over for din­ner more often instead of ‘infect­ing the heart­land with their idio­syn­crasies’. I believe I’m quite a handy cook, and tonight, I made these dishes: Mr Miyagi’s Any­howly Din­ner Menu: Bruschetta ala Saw How It Was Made The Other Day On The Telly Salad of

Damn you creative people and your idiosyncrasies!

Your, you know, idio­syn­crasies, are going to infect the heart­land! “Even­tu­ally I can­not put a fin­ger on it. But I would say if this is the way the world is going and Sin­ga­pore is part of that inter­con­nected world and I think it is, then I see no option for Sin­ga­pore but to be part

Painting flavours

There’s a lit­tle Japan­ese restau­rant on Sen­tosa whose name is an insti­tu­tion in Sin­ga­pore, and we were for­tu­nate enough to be invited there to eat our­selves to death last Sat­ur­day night. It was by far the best Japan­ese food I have ever tasted in my life. I know Japan­ese food is sup­posed to be del­i­cate and

Do not what?

Do not slap? Do not give high-fives? Do not use your hand? Do not wave? Do not stop? Any­thing but five? What? Tech­no­rati Tags: sin­ga­pore, signs

Partial recall

While idly on the ingter­neck a cou­ple of morn­ings ago, we decided to see if the cat food we buy for Jake was on the recalled brands list. So we googled, and got on to the USFDA’s web­site, and to our shock and hor­ror, the list was like, damn long lor! A quick scroll down the

BYOB’s yer uncle

This Bring Your Own Bag Day thing has got­ten quite a few peo­ple in a tizzy. I didn’t know of it until a friend men­tioned that he was charged 10c per plas­tic bag when he went shop­ping. He claims it isn’t unrea­son­able, given that, ‘in Tai­wan, you buy any­thing in the 7-Eleven also have to