Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! Dear Blog, Yes, it is time to move on to other things, put things in perspective and focus on the big picture. There have been so much negative news lately that I imagine Singaporeans would be quite disheartened if they were to continue talking about them. So kudos to my colleagues for …
Here’s an idea for saving energy: turn off the ERP gantries When I read the headline, I thought, “oh no, they’re gonna use the ERP method of reducing consumption”, and then I read on and found out they’re using the lucky draw method instead. Much better than my parents’ day when they used coin-operated heaters …
April 26, 2008 – 11:21 pm
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Tagged climate change, electricity, energy, environment, ERP, global warming, Local news, NEA, power, singaporean
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Wine Garage Flickr Set We don’t drink, so we might never have gone to the Wine Garage for a meal if not for our friend telling us how awesome the food was. We like awesome food because they taste good. Chef Travis Masiero smokes his own bacon. No, really. Who in this day and age smokes …
Image from mooncostumes.com The torch relay bypassed Singapore probably because protests are only to be held indoors, with a licence, in designated areas. I dunno. Then there’s news that the Youth Olympics might be a Games without medals or records. That is the sucks! Might as well not have athletes. I mean, they even give out …
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! “Never die before is it?” That’s what my mother and other older relatives used to say to me, my siblings and other cousins who had been naughty. That used to puzzle me a bit. Not too much, because I was more concerned with the immediate pain associated with a slap or a …
Dear Blog, Lam Pin Min beat me to it again. I was just about to post this up, and I log on and find that he’s beaten all of us to the blog again. Well done, colleague. Speaking of colleagues, we are all colleagues in this team, whether or not we are in Cabinet. And …
April 23, 2008 – 10:24 pm
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Tagged bathroom window, COI, ISD, JI, Local news, mas selamat kastari, MP, p65, Parliament, singaporean, three quotes
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Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! If this is true, then it really, really sucks. Apparently there’s an “artist” called Guillermo Vargas who took a stray dog off the street and displayed it starving to death. And called it an art piece. From The Guardian: The Costa Rican has been called an animal abuser, killer and worse over …
Reuters’ headline for the topic of the week goes below the belt: “Singapore says militant escaped without trousers” (via I.Z. Reloaded). They’ve said that the dude’s a master of disguise, and the first suspicious character that came to mind was “Singa The Courtesy Lion”. The resemblance is uncanny. Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! Maybe rednano should try scare tactics. Localisation could have saved the lives of two people in Turkey (via Gizmodo): The surreal mistake happened because the ex-husband’s cellphone didn’t have an specific character from the Turkish alphabet: the letter “ı” or closed i. While “i” is available in all phones in Turkey—where …
Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! So the report is out, and our apartment’s security guard intimated that there were some areas of Singapore where apartment security was stricter, and where security guards like him were instructed to always take down particulars of visitors and their vehicles and not let anyone who didn’t oblige with their particulars …