All stops pulled out in search for fugitive

On February 29, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Laws of our land, Media, People

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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

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Idol time

On February 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Media

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 […]

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I’m f***ing Matt Damon / Ben Affleck

On February 26, 2008 · 12 Comments · In Media, People, The Ingterneck

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

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Buyer beware

On February 26, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Living

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 […]

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Priority Banking

On February 25, 2008 · 10 Comments · In Places

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 […]

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Your clothes, give them to me now

On February 24, 2008 · 4 Comments · In At home


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 […]

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Did the earth move for you?

On February 22, 2008 · 4 Comments · In Laws of our land, People, Places


“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 […]

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Super-seize me

On February 19, 2008 · 7 Comments · In Eating, Media

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 […]

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And China will rise some more

On February 10, 2008 · 6 Comments · In Eating, Living, Places

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 […]

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Malaysia Can

On February 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In People, Places


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 […]

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