Month: April 2008

  • Secret blog of a P65 MP: Part 6

    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…

  • NEA to reduce energy consumption in households

    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…

  • Wine Garage

    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…

  • No torch, no medals, no records, no nothing…

    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…

  • Never die before is it?

    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…