Monthly Archives: July 2008

Would you like fries with that?

Hope­fully I’m wrong, but I get the feel­ing that the cur­rent regime to encour­age the use of less harm­ful fuels either isn’t work­ing, or doesn’t exist at all. Just look at the num­ber of CNG refu­el­ing sta­tions on the island. The NEA’s job seems to be to just “hope to cre­ate the crit­i­cal mass of …

July 30, 2008 – 12:18 pm | By | Posted in Laws of our land, Living | Tagged , | View Comments

Oh please I hope we don’t have to call Cassino Koh

So, Loyal Reader Lin­coln tells me about this “mobile porn shop” going around Sin­ga­pore, and I have to ask, “is it legal?” He tells me he’s not sure, and says, “I’ll show you a pic­ture”, and shows me a photo on his SE P1i, which clearly shows a car that has noth­ing to do with …

July 29, 2008 – 1:40 pm | By | Posted in Living | Tagged , | View Comments

Gladiatorial drama

I don’t know what every­one else did on Sat­ur­day between 6 and 8pm, but we watched what was arguably the best rugby match since 2000. I’m usu­ally loathe to blog about sport and sport­ing events, but, my word, this match… the drama… the col­li­sions… the tries… and I don’t care if I’m writ­ing like some illit­er­ate …

July 28, 2008 – 11:10 pm | By | Posted in Living | Tagged , | View Comments

Advertorial: Dove GoFresh

It’s a pity my stay-in reservist days are over (right, MINDEF?), because this Dove GoFresh Shower Gel would’ve come in real handy. I might have men­tioned in many Army story-tellings about how my reservist mates, when we’re done with field train­ing, come back to bar­racks all mud­died and sweaty and how we con­tem­plate with great antic­i­pa­tion …

July 28, 2008 – 4:56 pm | By | Posted in Advertorial | Tagged | View Comments

Contemplating potatoes

July 27, 2008 – 3:17 am | By | Posted in At home, Eating | Tagged | View Comments

Biometric phone

No lah, it isn’t really. It’s just that the N78’s shiny black sur­face col­lects a lot of smudges and fin­ger­prints, and that if there were a bunch of N78’s lying around with their dis­plays turned off, I’d still be able to pick mine out by the shape and size of my fin­ger smudges. As with …

July 25, 2008 – 10:57 pm | By | Posted in Toys | Tagged , , , | View Comments

The Krups is back

As if in def­er­ence to my birth­day this week, the Krups was fixed and col­lected this week with­out much fan­fare. It’s much qui­eter than before, and we’ve since had two espres­sos each with­out the thing break­ing down. Hooray.

July 25, 2008 – 6:22 pm | By | Posted in At home, Toys | Tagged , | View Comments

Unfortunate headline

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

July 24, 2008 – 7:33 pm | By | Posted in Media | Tagged , | View Comments

Happy Birthday to me indeed

I think I’m pretty easy to please as far as birth­day presents are con­cerned. Just buy a really expen­sive com­puter and acces­sories from the same brand, and voila, Naomi (and the rest of the world) doesn’t see me for a few days because I’m holed up “set­ting it up”: iMac!… No, I Mac… The… Dog. Made in …

July 24, 2008 – 5:21 am | By | Posted in At home, Toys | Tagged , , | View Comments

BRB, setting this up…

Hang on… set­ting up birth­day present from Naomi.

July 22, 2008 – 2:44 pm | By | Posted in At home, Toys | Tagged , , | View Comments