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 room …
July 31, 2007 – 10:16 pm
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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 …
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 left …
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 …
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 think …
If you’ve ever wondered if Singapore was really such a hi-tech connected country with hi-tech connected people, wonder no further. On the Emerald Hill Group’s website’s “Work for us” section, there are openings for ‘Cleaners’ to work at their various outlets on Emerald Hill. So confident are they that people who usually seek employment as …
Photo by Luangmai Tonight after a work meeting, Naomi and I popped by the Holland Village Cold Storage because our fridge was bordering on empty. Because she was still suffering from the pain of two prolapsed discs in her lower back, we were hoping to make this a quick grocery run, but for some strange …
I know my wife loves me very much because she notices every little thing about me. Things that I sometimes keep to myself. Like eyeing and secretly yearning for a new computer to replace my Powerbook G4 12″. Taking the trouble of crafting carefully placed questions like in a normal conversation, about Apple computers and …
A Catholic school in Australia has refused entry to a five year old boy because his surname is ‘Hell’. Link More mocking names