Monthly Archives: February 2008

All stops pulled out in search for fugitive

View Larger Map Don’t spec­u­late how he escaped, the author­i­ties say ‘all stops are being pulled’ to rein in accused ter­ror mas­ter­mind Mas Sela­mat Kas­tari. Says Chan­nel­newsa­sia: “With the tight secu­rity pres­ence, Sin­ga­pore­ans are gen­er­ally con­fi­dent this cri­sis will soon be resolved.” Add to that, “and the jams at the cause­way will soon clear up”. At

Idol time

If there is one thing that will pry us away from doing what­ever it is we do, it’s Amer­i­can Idol. Why? One word: David Archuleta! Two words: Awe­some! Imag­ine Beyond words: Best Audi­tion ever! And I am telling you, you’re going to love me!: Singing to Sea­son 1 con­tes­tants at eleven years! Holy Crap, he’s bet­ter

I’m f***ing Matt Damon / Ben Affleck

Truth be told, I fell asleep watch­ing the Oscars on Oscar Night (known in Sin­ga­pore as “Why Does It Have To Be On A Mon­day Morn­ing”) before a sin­gle award was pre­sented. Also not present at the party was Jimmy Kim­mel of

Buyer beware

If you kept pet insects and for some rea­son, had to go to this super­mar­ket to get pet sup­plies, you’d have to be really care­ful what you put in your trol­ley, else you might just end up going home and com­mit­ting insec­ti­cide. OK, maybe not that funny, but the sign­board indi­cat­ing what the shelves on

Priority Banking

If you’ve had the oppor­tu­nity to go to a bank in the flesh as opposed to doing it via tele­phone bank­ing or cyber-forex, you’d prob­a­bly have had the chance to lis­ten to a bank teller telling you about their lat­est finan­cial prod­ucts that come with some free gift that start from as low as $9

Your clothes, give them to me now

photo by kandy­jaxx Tak­ing an enforced break from work­ing on a script because Mac needs to go to the toi­let at least twice a day, I went down­stairs past mid­night, and walked through the base­ment carpark where a faulty floures­cent light was flick­er­ing. For a brief minute, I was spooked, because you know how in

Did the earth move for you?

Richter Scale of Love” photo by ___Q___ Over the past year there’ve been more tremors felt in Sin­ga­pore than I remem­ber in the last decade. And there might be an expla­na­tion for this, accord­ing to a mem­ber of the Israeli Knes­set. Shlomo Benizri MK, a mem­ber of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, claims that earth­quakes are

Super-seize me

Willard Scott as the first Ronald McDon­ald In Japan, Ronald McDon­ald is known as Don­ald McDon­ald. Name and other vari­a­tions aside, he’s prob­a­bly the most famous clown on the planet. While doing research (yeah right) on a job we were doing, we came across sev­eral bits of trivia which were quite funny. Like the time

And China will rise some more

Never in my thirty some­thing years of being Chi­nese have I expe­ri­enced such a surge in every­thing Chi­nese. On the 2nd day of the New Year, Naomi and I went and vis­ited her Mum, as is decreed by the Keep­ers of Chi­nese Cus­tom (on the First Day, you visit with the husband’s fam­ily, on the

Malaysia Can

An “Oh Shit” Moment, KL, Malaysia As we were walk­ing the 8 min­utes (as stated pre­cisely in our hotel’s infor­ma­tion pam­phlet) back from Suria KLCC, we saw a motor­cy­cle make a U-turn sim­ply by going over the divider. Naomi, who gets stressed by any­thing mov­ing on the roads, sim­ply sighed and said “Wah, Malaysia really