Monthly Archives: October 2007

$1b plant made using living cells?

October 30, 2007 – 11:29 pm | By | Posted in Media | Tagged , , , , , | View Comments

The good oil on bad fats

FredAr­mitage I now think that peo­ple who are eas­ily con­fused (like myself) are less likely to eat health­ily given the amount of infor­ma­tion now avail­able to us about sat­u­rated, unsat­u­rated, monoun­sat­u­rated, polyun­sat­u­rated, hydro­genated, par­tially hydro­genated fats and four-room HDB flats. Naomi and I try spo­rad­i­cally to eat health­ily, and because we are such ingterneck-savvy peo­ple, we’ve …

October 29, 2007 – 6:27 pm | By | Posted in Eating, Living | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

The middle sexes

So, there’s this debate that went on in Par­lia­ment where the out­come was never going to be sur­pris­ing, even if it took even the Prime Minister’s take on the mat­ter to set­tle the issue and put us all on the straight and nar­row. Most unfor­tu­nately though, some of my clos­est friends will remain law-breakers and …

October 25, 2007 – 6:19 pm | By | Posted in Laws of our land | Tagged , , , , , | View Comments

Quake again

Something’s not quite right if we keep expe­ri­enc­ing tremors, right? Right? Earth­quake details

October 25, 2007 – 5:52 am | By | Posted in Living, Places | Tagged , , , | View Comments

Harmonious balance

“Matilda’s Acupunc­ture Ses­sion” — Photo by Mark Hillary I learned a few things over the past few days, which by the way, have been great. For those of you who’ve been ask­ing after Naomi, she’s doing very, very well at home, but more about that later. One of Naomi’s cousins who she doesn’t get to see very …

October 23, 2007 – 12:38 am | By | Posted in Living | View Comments

Third-best seller is not the same as third bestseller

If not for Alan Greenspan and some fella named ” Look­ing at the list, and know­ing how lit­tle I know about money and the econ­omy, I think I’m going to write some­thing about baked goods. Tech­no­rati Tags: <a href=“http://www.technorati.com/tag/NS40” onclick=“javascript:_gaq.push([’_trackEvent’,‘outbound-article’,‘www.technorati.com’]);urchinTracker(“/outbound/www.technorati.com’);” rel=“tag”>NS40

October 18, 2007 – 1:30 pm | By | Posted in Army / National Service, Living | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

It’s all good news if you yodel it

It is really, really good to be home. But there were some things we did at the hos­pi­tal that we wouldn’t nor­mally do at home — watch a lot of Chan­nel 5. Not hav­ing watched Chan­nel 5 or any other local chan­nel for a while now, we were amazed to dis­cover that the nightly news now is …

October 14, 2007 – 12:37 pm | By | Posted in Living | View Comments

Repeal s377A

I’d think of some­thing funny to write about any­thing, but this isn’t one of the times that war­rants any non­sense. I cut and paste for you an open let­ter to the Prime Min­is­ter which I hope you will read, then click on the link to the repeal377a.com site, and then add your name to the …

October 9, 2007 – 11:15 pm | By | Posted in Laws of our land | Tagged , | View Comments

The difference between nice and polite

It is dif­fi­cult to like hos­pi­tals, and gov­ern­ment gen­eral hos­pi­tals are even more unlik­able because of their labyrinthine nature. You could walk for hours and end up in the same place and then ask some­one in uni­form where a par­tic­u­lar ward is when it just so hap­pens you’re stand­ing right next to the ward you …

October 3, 2007 – 10:37 pm | By | Posted in Living, People, Places | Tagged , | View Comments