Spain should be the country with the tourist board tagline we wear so proudly. OK, not so proudly, but with a befuddled expression and lips mouthing a “har?” (Only joking, don’t take my link off your page) As I was saying, Spain. She doesn’t have words to her national anthem. How bizarre. Imagine if we …
January 20, 2008 – 2:32 pm
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Naomi and I are pleased to announce that it works! The signal works. Earlier tonight, an MPV driver was barrelling down the ECP, along with his MPV of course, but without the MPV’s headlights on. Fortuitously, I was barrelling down the ECP on the outside lane close enough to him to pull alongside safely and …
January 19, 2008 – 4:27 am
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Picture: New Zealand Herald Sometime in August 1991, my kayaking partner and I tried to keep a watch out on the horizon for any sign of landfall as we sought to reach Tioman Island in Pahang State by kayak. It was the twelfth day of our trip, and we’d just endured what we felt was …
Now, where did we keep the parking coupons? Cos we’re gonna be here for awhile… — Photo by Telstar Logistics Singapore Airlines now holds the record for the first Airbus A380 to be stuck on a grass verge. None were hurt, except for Singapore Airlines, who also suffered the ignominy of having this piece of …
January 12, 2008 – 3:21 am
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Now you can paralyze would-be assailants to your own beat! The
Unfortunate name for a condom, given the local variation in pronouncing certain words: Technorati Tags: condom, name, engrish, singlish, singapore, 7–11, <a href=“http://www.technorati.com/tag/it” onclick=“javascript:_gaq.push([’_trackEvent’,‘outbound-article’,‘www.technorati.com’]);“s a store and more” rel=“tag”>it’s a store and more, branding
January 8, 2008 – 3:35 pm
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Photo by ohad* The other day while driving home, Naomi asked me what the universal sign for “your headlights are not on, please turn them on because it’s nighttime and you’re being a complete idiot if you don’t turn them on right away”? was. I told Naomi that I didn’t know, but that I had …
January 7, 2008 – 12:00 am
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Photo by @Dmateur Chinese New Year must be near if “Boy falls while performing lion dance on poles”. I laughed out loud, and kept laughing until I stopped. OK, I know it’s bad to laugh at the misfortune of others, but a headline like that is funny in so many ways. Not least, because it’s …
January 6, 2008 – 1:46 am
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I don’t know what a “laissez-faire attitude towards weight” means. Does it mean the government doesn’t care whether you’re fat or not? Or does it mean that you shouldn’t interfere with the weight of others? These are the first of the difficult issues of the new year one finds in one’s nation’s premier news media …
January 4, 2008 – 1:20 am
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I wished a total stranger Happy New Year in Mandarin, even though he had just crashed into the front passenger door of my car right after he rode his bicycle on the pavement against the flow of traffic that was on the road outside the entrance to my apartment blocks. In response, he said, “対ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·æ–°å¹´å¿«ä¹å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·å¯¾ä¸èµ·” …