Monthly Archives: August 2007

Icee

In space, no one can hear your brain freeze Does any­one know where Icee can be bought in Sin­ga­pore? 7–11 used to sell them, and I thought I blogged about it, but Naomi reminded me I had merely talked about Slurpee, which is like a poorer cousin that Tau­fik sells. What hap­pened? Has the Incon­ve­nient Truth

Singapore Flyers

I read in the Sun­day Times that tick­ets for a ride on the yet to be com­pleted Sin­ga­pore Flyer… ok, let me rephrase that, because that sounds like you can ride on an incom­plete Sin­ga­pore Flyer, and your guide for the day might say some­thing like, “Sorry sir, as you can see, the Sin­ga­pore Flyer is

B’ERP

Photo by Peeb1 That’s the sound the gantries make after they’ve automag­i­cally deducted your cash money from your cash card. B’ERP. And there’re more of them, these hun­gry gates of automagic cash money deduc­tioninger­ing, announced the LTA, mak­ers of these gantries, today. This comes a day after the nation’s gantry mak­ers announced that COEs (automagic

Irene Ang in the V-Conference

Not every press con­fer­ence gives out a swag that con­tains panties, and I’m happy to be asso­ci­ated with one that is. Thank you Tri­umph. OK, now that you’ve closed the bra company’s win­dow, read on… That’s a pic­ture of Mr Y K Foo, free­lance pho­tog­ra­pher snap­ping for Women’s Weekly, hold­ing up one such panty with glee.

Be right back

Be right back. Incom­mu­ni­cado for good reason.

Every cigarette tells a tale

Every pic­ture tells a story. Some tell more than oth­ers. Espe­cially when there’s a blog­ger involved. Mr Miyagi’s intre­pid oper­a­tives dis­cov­ered this dis­carded cig­a­rette butt at a mall that wasn’t quite a butt, but more a lit cig­a­rette that was dis­carded after maybe one puff or none at all. What a scoop! A case of bla­tant

Football

Tot­ten­ham Hotspur’s 1980/81 team anthem with glee, then scared myself a lit­tle bit because I still remem­bered a lot of the lyrics: Ricardo “Ricky” Villa. And they wreaked havoc in the first divi­sion in ’81 and 82, when they also won the F.A. Cup back to back. Which was a very big thing in those

Mr Loh’s national song

As I rushed to find a wire­less hotspot to sit down at and email urgent work to a client, I heard a famil­iar tune in one of our great city’s many under­passes, and so decided to trace the source. But when I got to it, the busker had just fin­ished his har­mon­ica ren­di­tion of one

Bear Force One

The road ahead isn’t straight“ Photo by Bekah Stargaz­ing Some­times, things don’t go to plan, and even when you want to hang out and have a pic­nic or some­thing, it gets can­celled. Could be the weather, could be any­thing. So, for the dis­ap­pointed fel­low cit­i­zens out there, here’s a happy music video to put a

The big and small of it

No boss, never bluff you one, the cup is so small only” Naomi and I always order dou­ble espres­sos when we need our cof­fee (except when we’re at Caffe Bevi­amo Tan­glin Mall, because Eleen Cai makes a mean latte), and appar­ently, there are many Sin­ga­pore­ans who send their cof­fees back when they realise a dou­ble espresso