Month: July 2007

  • Birthday parade

    Just when I thought it was a fantastic enough week with birthday gifts galore from Naomi, she went and organised a huge parade on the bay which concluded with a fireworks display over the water. There were marching contingents, helicopters, speedboats and parachutists, and we saw all this from the comfort of a nice dining…

  • More time plumbing

    If you’re not having a good day, or even if you’re having a good day, this file is double guaranteed to put a smile on your dial. Try not to listen to it while you’re driving or operating machinery that might take your fingers off if you didn’t pay attention. Then again, ‘there’s nothing that…

  • Men’s Health: Man2Man: I Quit!

    Originally published in Men’s Health (July 2007) A few weeks ago I had a very bad dream. I was walking back home from Holland Village, just a stone’s throw from where I live. It was getting dark, and it was a bit drizzly, and between the knuckles of my index and middle fingers of my…

  • Uncommon courtesy

    Escalator – by Mr Wabu This evening, Naomi and I went to the airport with her Mum so that we could dine at the only Popeye’s Chicken & Biscuits Famous Fried Chicken Restaurant in Singapore. Oh, and for Naomi’s Mum to catch a flight. On the way up the escalator to the restaurant and observation…

  • It’s good to be a kaypoh nation

    Asleep in car – by Andwar Earlier tonight we went out to Holland Village for a bite and to take a short break from work. At 11:45 p.m., parking wasn’t hard to find. We parked next to a car that had its engine running and its sole occupant motionless in the driver’s seat. We didn’t…